Wei Jing held Ah Xi and turned into a fork in the road. He noticed that there was a small wooden board beside the fork in the road with the words "No. 4 branch of 23rd Street" written on it. It turned out that the entire underground market was complex and huge, and every street entrance was marked with attention. Understand the number as identification.
Wei Jing wandered around the No. 4 branch road. There were fewer people here and there seemed to be more residents. Some houses had children squatting and playing outside their broken doors. Only a few businesses operate coldly.
Wei Jing put Ah Xi down and let him hobble away. Wei Jing felt a little guilty. He had escaped to the underground lake to avoid breaking into the Tianmen, but he had caused trouble in a random way. He saw that branch road No. 4 was quite quiet, so he thought he might as well find an empty house and hide in it. On the third or fifth day, when Ah Xi's leg injury was completely healed, he returned to Xiaoyuan Village.
On a long and winding road, there is a dilapidated herbal tea shop, just like the previous busy streets. Most of the stone walls of the passage where the shops are doing business are hollowed out, with the remaining two beams supporting them so that they can be seen by passing customers. What's for sale in the store.
I saw the first few tables in the shop were crooked, and a few customers were sitting or standing, all with cups of tea in their hands.
Wei Jing walked for a while and felt thirsty. He walked into the herbal tea shop and found a corner table to sit down. After a long time, no shop assistant came to entertain him, so he asked the two elderly men at the table next to him: "You two Grandpa, who’s the boss here?”
"Boss?" A skinny, red-faced, drunken old man glanced at Wei Jing and said, "You brat, we are chatting. Please stop interrupting. There is no boss here. Everyone is here." It’s the boss!”
Wei Jingzheng found it strange that another old man with a kinder appearance next to the drunken old man burped and said with a smile: "Young man, are you new here? There is no boss in this shabby rest house. You are thirsty." Go get yourself a cup of tea."
"So strange?" Wei Jing saw that the two old men still had two pots of wine, a pair of chopsticks, and a plate of fried peanuts on the table, and asked, "If there was no boss, how did the two grandfathers get the food and wine on the table?"
The kind old man replied: "I brought it from home. Two old men were chatting and drinking in this free shop."
Wei Jing nodded and walked to the table with several large teapots. Seeing that the cups on the table were quite dirty, he took out his own kettle, filled some tea, and returned to the table to drink.
"Grandpa, are there any free rooms around here?" Wei Jing asked the kinder-looking old man.
"Didn't you hear me to stop interrupting?" The skinny old man slammed the table and shouted angrily.
"Why are you so drunk? This is the first time for a young boy to come here. If you don't understand, just ask." The kind old man shouted, and casually replied to Wei Jing: "Go in, there are a few empty rooms at the end of the alley. Do you want to Live here?"
"I'm only staying for a few days. My dog is lame and I have to let it recover." Wei Jing replied.
A group of children outside were making noises and shouting, "Aunt Zhang is back! Aunt Zhang is back!"
Wei Jing looked outside and saw a tall woman, carrying a thick leg of cattle, entering the house diagonally opposite the rest house. The lights inside were dimly lit. It turned out to be a butcher's shop.
The exterior walls of the butcher shop were not demolished, but the windows were remodeled. Aunt Zhang, as the children called her, hung hooks on the top crossbar of the window. Wei Jing felt strange, stretched his neck very long, and looked into the window from a distance. I saw Aunt Zhang standing by the window, holding a heavy kitchen knife and cutting and chopping. The beef leg suddenly turned into pieces of meat. She then hung the meat on the window hook one by one, and soon there were children. Or nearby neighbors brought money to buy it. Aunt Zhang took the money at will and divided the beef without a scale.
"Auntie, how do you sell this beef?" Wei Jing also approached and asked, roughly sizing up Aunt Zhang under the dim light of the small oil lamp. Aunt Zhang is about forty or fifty years old. She looks even stronger than many men up close. If you look closely, you can see that there is a long scar on her right eye socket. She is holding a meat cleaver in her hand with a jet black blade. It's wide and thick to the point of exaggeration.
Aunt Zhang was lazily leaning against the window, absently wiping her greasy hands and kitchen knife with a cloth, and replied casually: "How to sell it? Just sell it like this. How much do you want?"
Wei Jing took out a few copper coins, placed them on the protruding window sill, and said, "Auntie, just weigh the amount of meat for me. My dog is lame and hasn't eaten anything good for several days." , I want it to be patched up.”
Aunt Zhang gave Wei Jing a sideways look and chopped with her kitchen knife, startling Wei Jing.
Wei Jing came back to his senses and was even more surprised when he saw Aunt Zhang throwing a large piece of meat on the window sill. The piece of meat was very large, enough for two grown men to have a full meal.
"Ah, it's too much. I just want some. Ah Xi can't eat so much!" Wei Jing waved his hands repeatedly. Aunt Zhang had a puzzled look on her face and took the meat back and cut it into half. Wei Jing still thought it was too much and cut it into half again. Wei Jing then took the meat away with a grateful face and returned to the resting house to say hello loudly: "Ah, Ah. Congratulations! Come on, I've met a kind-hearted person."
Ah Xi had been wandering with Wei Jing for many days. He and Wei Jing ate some leftovers and dry food on weekdays. They had been hungry for many days without even chewing a bone. When they smelled this large piece of beef, their tails waggled like windmills. He grinned and gnawed randomly, eating very happily.
"Ah, that brat is indeed here!" After a commotion, Wei Jing looked up and saw that standing outside the rest house was Pan Yuan from the Field Mouse Gang, leading a dozen men behind him, blocking the rest house completely.
"Oops!" Wei Jing was stunned for a moment before he remembered that he had not seen a dog since he entered the underground and came to the lake. Although Wei Jing ran fast enough, the Field Mouse Gang asked everyone they met along the way if they had seen a young man holding a dog, and they found the No. 4 branch of 23rd Street.
"You are so brave, you dare to tease me!" Pan Yuan rubbed his cheek, which still had some bruises caused by Wei Jing's kick. Pan Yuan rubbed and rubbed until he reached the sore spot, groaned, and then cursed angrily: "You won't beat him to death yet!"
Several members of the Field Mouse Gang immediately broke into the resting house to capture Wei Jing. Wei Jing dodged left and right in the resting room, circling around the table, regretting that although he was very clever, he always got into trouble for talking about good things--this was just as good as Gongsun Yao. When thinking of Gongsun Yao, Wei Jing felt a little nostalgic. After all, Gongsun Yao was very skilled and could deal with troubles, unlike himself who could only run away.
Wei Jing circled around a few times and suddenly stopped and turned around. A member of the gang behind him was at a loss for a moment. Wei Jing hit him in the face with his fist. This sudden carbine attack was stolen from Na Yebei Xiaolu. The teacher is here.
"Hey, it's so shameless for several adults to bully a child!" Two old men on the side, the kinder one started talking.
"I want you to get into trouble!" A member of the Field Mouse Gang heard this, turned around and slapped the kind old man in the face.
The skinny old man opposite the kind old man, even though he was drunk and his eyes were narrowed to a thin line, at this moment, he suddenly stretched out his hand, and the chopsticks in his hand were stabbed into the palms of the Vole Gang who were beating people.
"Ah!" The beating gang members screamed strangely, covering their hands and jumping away. The amiable old man's expression also changed. He stretched out his hand and sent another member of the gang next to him, knocking him upside down.
"These two old guys are in trouble, Fan Jun! Where is Fan Jun?" Pan Yuan exclaimed loudly. Several followers replied: "Fan Jun was still eating grilled squid on skewers a few streets back and didn't follow us!"
"Call him quickly, tell him there are powerful guys waiting for him to deal with!" Pan Yuan roared, commanding the rest of the gang, shouting: "Don't be stunned, let's deal with them together!"
When Pan Yuan shouted, the other gang members behind him all squeezed into the resting room which was not very spacious.
When Wei Jing saw the enemy approaching, he grabbed it with his big hands and instinctively used the monastic capture technique. He kidnapped two gang members one after another. The skinny old man let out a sigh and stabbed one of the gang members in the armpit with his chopsticks.
The kind old man also noticed Wei Jing's skills and pulled the skinny old man to the corner. He also saw Wei Jing jumping up and down on the edge of the table, pushing, pulling, kicking, and knocking down one of the gang members.
"Old Xu, did you see clearly what the kid did?" The skinny old man opened his eyes wide and pushed the old man beside him called "Old Xu".
Lao Xu spread his hands and scratched his head: "I probably learned it from anywhere."
A member of the gang raised a chair to hit two old men. The skinny old man, with his quick eyes and quick hands, shot out his chopsticks and hit the other member of the group on the wrist. The members of the group immediately lost their strength and the chair hit him on the head, causing him to fall. All fours in the air.
At this time, three more gangsters pounced on Wei Jing, grabbing and beating him. Axi bit one of them in the confusion, but his tail was stepped on a few times, and he hid under the small table and ran around.
