The four-story and old earth-tile houses, just like the people living there, have a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and are intertwined. People coming out of the crowded alleys are either shabby people or shiny people.
Across the street are two-story shops with uniform yellow walls and black tiles.
Right in the middle is the butcher shop. If Zhu Daqiu fails to learn butchering, the butcher will ask him to sell the remaining meat.
His business is very bad. On the one hand, it is because it is very strange. There is a sign in front of the butcher shop: only one pound is sold; on the other hand, most people are reluctant to buy it; rich people are not interested in it.
Diagonally opposite the wall of Luo's busy restaurant, a drunken old man with a beard sat there choking. His whole body was bulging, he took out his tobacco bag, grabbed a handful of tobacco from the bone bag, stuffed it into the pot, rubbed it with his fingers and lit it.
A slim woman, wearing a water-patterned dress and a cherry blossom red hat. The eyebrows are long and curved, and the earlobes are white and thick. She has a pretty face and red lips, like a rich girl. She looks left and right as if she has never seen a street like this before. It seems very ostentatious.
Zhu Daqiu is observing these two people. On the other side, a young man walked quickly and stood in front of the butcher shop.
"This dear fellow doesn't look like a meat seller."
Thick black hair, plump and dark face, under the light, there is a dynamic beauty. His eyes were filled with an indescribable wildness.
"Then tell me, what am I doing now?"
Zhu Daqiu inserted the meat cleaver into the mutton bone.
"I want to get to know you, I'll take care of you."
The young man took out a roll of money from his coat pocket and put it on the chopping board. "This is about ten thousand yuan. It should be more than enough to buy your meat."
Zhu Daqiu thought: This person is so generous.
"I want all this meat! Money is not an issue!"
A woman rushed over and said, grabbing a wad of money from the white bag and slapping it on the chopping board, "This money is thicker than his, so of course it's more than him!"
This was the rich lady who was shopping. Zhu Daqiu seemed to have heard this nagging voice.
"Everything should be done on a first-come, first-served basis. I believe this dear friend is not a money-minded person."
"When buying something, doesn't it go to the one with the highest price?"
She was so generous that she hung the bag around Zhu Daqiu's neck, "There is enough money here to buy the shop!"
This woman is Xi Hengqin, the double-faced leader, and she is bound to win. She didn't feel like she had such power when she was in charge of a group of people.
The other person is naturally Luan Huishi. The two locked eyes with each other for a while.
There are people around, so it's hard to take action directly. Their goal is here, and there is no way they can back down.
The magnetic field emitted by the two people made the dust in the sunlight more chaotic.
Zhu Daqiu is stunned, what is going on?
"Only one pound of meat is sold here, and the money sold is not mine. You—"
"Shut up!"
The two said in unison, each taking a step back. Xi Hengqin stretched out his arms, Luan Huishi stepped horizontally with his left foot and bowed his right leg forward.
The two sides were at war with each other, and both planned to trick Zhu Daqiu into a private place to communicate slowly. Now that a competitor has been discovered, no one wants to give in.
"You two people with ulterior motives, don't stop me from doing business!"
Zhu Daqiu knew as soon as he saw the two people's postures that they were coming to find him. It turned out that the double-faced leader looked like this, but now that he has lost his ability, he pretended not to recognize him for now.
The two of them didn't make a move, but they grabbed Zhu Daqiu's wrist with the same intention, trying to take him away first.
I wish Daqiu recognized their motives, but they were too fast and their painful wrists were about to be pinched off.
"Stop it, you two, you are not smart enough to take advantage of others' danger! I have no power to fight back now, are you two fools?"
The two of them were shocked. Zhu Daqiu really didn't have the strength to resist, but he didn't want to let go of his wrist - this was a fat sheep!
Two forces rushed from behind, and they were extremely fast. The two immediately let go and turned around to catch each other, only to receive air.
Zhu Zaixu immediately put his hands behind his back, as if nothing had happened. He glanced at the meat stall and said:
"Zhu Yi, you haven't sold any meat for so long?"
Zhu Daqiu nodded while blowing his wrist that was caught.
Xi Hengqin didn't care who the other party was, and said: "Zhu Yi, you can't escape! With this money, I will buy you a pound of meat every day!"
"Me too."
Luan Huishi deliberately chose another direction to leave.
Zhu Zaixu teased: "I didn't expect that even though you are like this, you are still a piece of fine meat - go ask Luo Busan to collect the meat and let him do charity."
"What should I do with so much money?"
"Did those two troublemakers take away a pound of meat?"
"No."
"They are buying you as a person, not meat - give Qiyu the money and make her happy for a few days. You don't have much time left anyway."
Zhu Zaixu just took two steps and glanced at the old man smoking. The old man raised his head and blew out three consecutive smoke rings.
"Maybe you can live a few more days."
Zhu Zaixu strode away quickly.
Zhu Daqiu stuffed all the money into a white bag and asked Luo to come and pull the meat. As soon as the shop was closed, Qi Yu came.
"I became a primary school teacher!"
She announced excitedly, Zhu Daqiu couldn't be happier at all.
"Where did you buy such an exquisite and beautiful bag?"
"I earned it from selling meat. Two idiot rich men came here. They saw that I was a talented person and was excellent at cutting meat. They got excited and gave me the money! Haha."
Zhu Daqiu smiled melancholy, put the bag in Qiyu's hand, and said: "Take this money, take your mother and leave here. Find your brother and leave this country."
May the big ball wander aimlessly. Qi Yu opened the bag and found it was full of hundred-dollar bills, which made his heart beat loudly with fright. Close it immediately and follow Zhu Daqiu.
"Now I don't want to leave here. This place is getting better and better. A godmother has come. She runs a public welfare school, regularly distributes food to the poor every week, cares for the old and weak, and provides psychological counseling to the persecuted."
"Whatever you want. Use this money to live a good life. From now on, you will pretend that you don't know me, and I have never seen you."
Zhu Daqiu was heartbroken while suppressing the salty water in his eyes.
"If you don't like it here, let's leave here together. There's no need to say such heartless words."
Qiyu thought he was in a bad mood because he had suffered a lot for the money.
"Go and get ready. I want to be quiet."
Zhu Daqiu knew that he couldn't leave, so he asked her to spend the money first. Then she would have to leave if she didn't want to.
"Don't run around. I'll leave the money at my aunt's house first, and I'll take you to a place."
Zhu Daqiu unknowingly came to the road in Liukuang District and met a group of ragged people.
The leader is a short, fat man who looks honest, with hair neatly covering his ears and eyebrows.
In his hand was a big iron ball with a round belly and four legs. He kept turning his legs. He is another "Ghost Gate" Liu Xingcun.
May the big ball get aside immediately. At the end is Zhou Ji, paying tribute to Zhu Daqiu with a smile.
"What are you doing?"
"Brothers, we have changed from evil to good. Now take them with us and accept the compassionate care of Our Lady."
Zhu Daqiu was puzzled and looked at the distant volcanoes. Under the setting sun, the rising smoke is like the past that cannot be dissipated.
For the first time, he felt his own insignificance.
"Come with me, Fu Jieguo's prison is always empty for you."
Xi Hengqin stood quietly behind Zhu Daqiu.
