"These are the last few places. After you move in, I won't cram people in anymore. Young students, will you move in?"
This is what the person in charge of the guest house asked Luo Xuan.
at the same time,
Behind Luo Xuan, a question also sounded, "Can you guys live here?"
When Zhang Xiaoli and Peng Yong turned around, they saw that it was Xu Daliang and his classmates who they met on the long-distance bus.
I saw that they were also covered in snow and water mixed with mud, looking depressed and miserable.
"I can't stand it any longer."
Luo Xuan glanced at the thin figure waving towards him outside the door of the guest house's registration room.
Then he said, "Xiaoli, Peng Yong, let's go."
Standing behind Xu Daliang, a female student said worriedly, "This student, you have to think about it. We have also found about 10 guest houses, and they are full everywhere."
"Fang Juan!"
Xu Daliang said with dissatisfaction, "Let's talk about the simple things and the deep things. Don't talk nonsense about some things."
This guy!
They were afraid that if Luo Xuan agreed to move in, they would have no place to stay.
Exiting the door of the guest house,
Peng Yong smiled faintly, "Xu Daliang is a man who speaks classic quotations, and his words must be high-end and popular slogans.
He seems to be very righteous and kind-hearted. But this person is definitely not worth dating."
"There are often guys who shout slogans loudly and have high-pitched voices. Stay away from him. That's right."
Luo Xuan chuckled, "Human nature is the most untestable thing. No matter how good your daily interactions are, only when you encounter a conflict of interest can you see a person's true face."
He waved to the thin figure hiding behind the telephone pole, looking over here.
"Child, come here."
Luo Xuan smiled and said to the little boy, "You asked me to come out. What's the matter?"
The little boy looked around from behind the telephone pole with a little fear.
Then, with a slight nervousness, he stared at the door of the guest house and waved to Luo Xuan, "Come here, I don't dare to go there."
Luo Xuan stepped forward, "Tell me, how many people can live in your home?"
The little boy looked surprised, "How did you know that I'm here to solicit business?"
Luo Xuan smiled slightly, "You don't know me. You saw me checking in for a room in the guest house, and then you asked me to come out.
Apart from soliciting business, you’re not here to treat me to dinner, are you?”
"You can't say you're soliciting business!"
The little boy's worn cotton-padded jacket was very thin, and he was shivering all over as he stood in the cold wind.
But at this time, the expression on the little boy's face was very serious, "It has to be a staycation. If anyone asks, just say you are my second uncle."
The little boy pointed at Zhang Xiaoli, "She is my second mirror. This big brother, he is my third dad."
Remember, if anyone asks, you must say this."
Zhang Xiaoli was puzzled, "What does this mean? And what are three mirrors?"
The little boy replied, "The third mirror is the wife of the third uncle. Now the 'anti-private squad' is investigating closely.
It would be troublesome if they saw my home, took guests back privately, and conducted profit-making business activities."
"Oh, I see."
Zhang Xiaoli suddenly realized, "Okay! If I meet someone and ask, just say I am your or something. Three mirrors?"
Luo Xuan patted her, "It's really useless if you encounter that kind of thing.
You and I both pack big and small bags, and we speak with foreign accents. Do you think we can be fooled?"
Peng Yong asked, "What should we do? It's so cold now. If we stand on the street all night, we won't freeze into popsicles?"
Luo Xuan said, "Actually, it's not that difficult. Just give them 3 yuan in private. Can't we still solve it?"
All of a sudden,
It was the little boy's turn to be in trouble.
I saw his sad face, almost crying, "Well, I won't make much money by taking you home to stay overnight. If I give them another 3 yuan, I'll lose it!"
"How can it be so suitable that we just happen to meet them?"
Luo Xuan comforted the little boy, "Let's do this. If we meet them, the 3 yuan will be mine, and we will calculate the cost of staying at your house separately."
Hearing this, the little boy burst into tears and smiled, "Okay, okay, no regrets!"
Then, under the leadership of the little boy,
Everyone walked through the streets and alleys, one foot deep and one foot shallow, until they came to an alley almost made of cave dwellings.
The little boy turned his head and looked behind him, observing carefully for a moment.
Then he took out the key, walked to a small courtyard, opened the lock hanging above, and brought Luo Xuan and the others into the courtyard.
Entering the small courtyard,
What came into view was the three-hole kiln lined up.
The yard is very small, and the dry yellow grass on the wall is shivering in the cold wind.
Although this yard is small,
But there were quite a lot of miscellaneous things accumulated: tattered wicker baskets, various pieces of paper picked up, and thin iron sheets from rusty cars.
Others don’t want it anymore, old iron barrels and scrap stoves
Luo Xuan even saw a concrete pillar in a corner!
The steel bars inside the cement pier are exposed, like an octopus with its teeth and claws.
Those tattered wicker frames may have been picked up by the little boy to use as firewood.
As for the abandoned iron sheet stove, it was most likely a little boy who wanted to remove the outer layer of iron sheet.
Used to sell for money.
In the corner of the small courtyard, there are also some dead tree trunks of different sizes piled up.
Come to think of it,
It was the fuel that the family used to make fires for cooking and heating.
Although there are many coal mines in Saibei.
But little boys like this belong to ordinary families with urban resident registration and live in the city.
They simply couldn't bear to spend money and bought coal to burn.
Everyone usually runs to the mountains and picks up some dead branches; or picks up some rotten wooden boards at the construction site.
Come back and chop wood for the fire.
The poorest residents living in cities and towns may not actually have a better life than those poor households in the production team.
After all, if you live in a rural area, if there is no food to eat.
You can also go to your own private plot, pick up a handful of rotten vegetable leaves, etc., and make do with it.
Wait until everyone enters the house.
There were no lights in the cave dwelling, and the darkness made it difficult to see the environment inside.
There are no lights in the house, that's all.
But the temperature in this house is also very low. It simply cannot give people the feeling of going home.
Everyone just felt that the room was not much warmer than the outside.
Maybe it's this family,
They are reluctant to burn the stove too brightly, but as a minimum, ensure that the stove does not go out and does not freeze to death as a standard.
As a result, the temperature in the room is so low that it still makes people feel a little stiff.
Just when Luo Xuan and Zhang Xiaoli were a little dissatisfied with this.
A woman's voice came from the cave inside, "Dandan, are you back?"
The little boy nodded, "Mom, I brought back three guests."
Empress is in Saibei, which means grandma.
"呲——"
The little boy fumbled for a match and lit the kerosene lamp in the cave outside.
This move led to
The woman in the back room complained: "Dandan, what are you doing making a match? There is firewood in the stove inside. If you bring a kerosene lamp in to borrow a fire, wouldn't that be enough? Oh, it's another waste of a match."
The little boy stuck out his tongue in the dim light, "I brought back three guests today. And they seem quite generous.
So when I was happy, I forgot about it. Hey, my dear, my sister hasn’t come back yet?”
"not yet."
The woman fumbled to put on her clothes, and then raised the curtain between the two holes of the cave.
He walked out slowly and asked, "Did you close the curtains tightly?"
The little boy pointed to the window, "Don't worry, ma'am, I covered it tightly with sacks. I will make sure that you can't see the lights in our house from the outside."
The woman looked at Luo Xuan and Zhang Xiaoli, and then asked, "Dandan, have you agreed on the price with the guests?"
The little boy shook his head, "Well, I saw people from the Anti-Private Brigade wandering around the street earlier. I was scared and worried about running into trouble.
So after I met the guest, I took it home directly without having time to say anything else."
The woman nodded, "Then you can tell me quietly now! Don't dare to let people outside hear the noise in the house."
This guy was called Dandan by his grandma.
Luo Xuan still doesn't know his name.
Just because the word "Dandan" is very common here.
It is a nickname given to the younger members of the family by family members; it is not even a nickname.
The little boy turned around,
He made an offer to Luo Xuan: "This uncle will stay at our house for one night for 1 yuan and 50 cents per person. Hot water will be provided, but no food will be provided.
If you want to eat, it depends on what you want to eat.
Should it be steamed yellow steamed buns or steamed glutinous rice buns? It depends on what you eat. We will discuss the price in detail at that time. Uncle, what do you think?"
Luo Xuan put down his luggage.
Then he gave the little boy a gentle blow and said, "Boy, you are dishonest."
The little boy rubbed his head, "Why am I being dishonest? I saw a lot of people at the guest house, so I raised the price. It's more expensive than here!"
previously,
The little boy was worried that he would meet someone from the anti-private group, so he said that if he handed them 3 yuan, the little boy's family would have to pay compensation.
From his words, Luo Xuan had already heard that the little boy went out to attract customers to stay in the privacy of his home.
Their psychological price is not more than 1 yuan per person!
on the other hand:
If the amount exceeds 1 yuan per person, even if he encounters an anti-smuggling team, the little boy will be forced to hand over 3 yuan to the other party.
His family is still making money, and they won’t lose money.
When Luoxuan arrived, Peng Yong put his luggage away.
Sitting on the edge of the Kang,
Luo Xuan said to the little boy, "Now you just quote us a price honestly. Don't treat us like people who don't know the market and bully us."
"1 yuan 2?"
The little boy tentatively said, "In our house, you can sleep well.
If it's in a guest house, you can only sit there for one night."
Luo Xuan stared at him, "We'll talk about it after we think about it."
The little boy blushed and said, "Uncle, how about you give me a price?"
Luo Xuan glared at him, "Usually, when the county is full of tourists, you can quote me how much it costs to go out to attract tourists.
Don't make me go out and find someone from the anti-private team."
"No, no, no, no."
The old woman spoke up, "It's not easy for you people who are away from home. My mother, Dandan, died early. His father went to the coal mines to suffer, and he only came back for a few days of rest on New Year's Eve at the end of the year."
"Let's see, it's still the market price, 8 cents per person."
The old woman is actually not very old, she is only in her early 40s this year.
But she already has a 7-year-old grandson and a 6-year-old granddaughter.
I just heard her say, "The kang in our outer room can usually sleep five people. Tonight, I don't think I can sleep enough."
Our family will charge you 80 cents per person and let you sleep in peace, do you think this is okay, comrade?"
"OK."
Luo Xuan took out the money and said, "Auntie, can you get us some food? I'll give you more money."
The woman first carefully accepted the 2 yuan and 40 cents that Luo Xuan handed over.
Then asked what to eat?
Luo Xuan thought for a while, "Steam rice, stew mutton, and have goat meat."
"ah?!"
The woman and the little boy both exclaimed, "These are things that the public servants in the city can only afford to eat occasionally. How can we afford them?"
Luo Xuan took out 10 yuan and handed it over.
"Let's go figure it out."
The old woman took the money and said, "It's just that our family hasn't bought rice or mutton in a few years, so the price is a bit worrying."
Luo Xuan asked her if the money was enough?
The woman nodded, "It's definitely enough. It's just how much it will cost in the end. I don't know how much it will cost."
Luo Xuan smiled slightly and said, "There is no need for change. Just spend it according to the money. We don't eat much, and the remaining rice and meat belong to your family."
According to the woman’s thoughts:
She was planning to tell them, for example, what kind of food they would eat.
If the cost is 2 yuan, then the woman will ask Luo Xuan to give her 50 cents of charcoal money as a labor fee.
Unexpected!
Now Luo Xuan took action and actually gave her 10 yuan!
A full 10 yuan!
The price of polished rice at the grain station is 1 cents and 9 cents per catty.
Even if the woman did not use her own food book or food stamps, she would go directly to the frog market to buy them.
Or if you move it to the neighbor's house, the rice will not exceed 3.8 cents per kilogram.
With the remaining money, I went to the frog market to buy local mutton, which cost 93 cents per catty.
If you go to the food station market and use meat stamps to buy mutton, it is only 5 cents per pound.
Even Luo Xuan and the others are good eaters and have a huge appetite.
The old woman went to buy rice and mutton. According to the highest price, she bought 5 kilograms of rice and 5 kilograms of mutton.
It should be enough to satisfy them and have a nice meal, right?
Calculating it this way,
The total money spent was actually only 6 yuan, 5 cents and 5 cents.
Just for this meal, the old woman can earn a full 3 yuan, 45 cents!
not to mention,
The old lady also knows that people from the south probably don’t have as much appetite as the people from Saibei.
Three people can eat 5 pounds of mutton in one meal.
This is not surprising.
But with 5 kilograms of rice, there is still some left, right?
If calculated this way,
For this meal, the old woman will earn no less than 4 yuan.
Yeah, it’s so beautiful just thinking about it!
The woman couldn't help but put on her shabby coat and went out to collect rice and mutton.
The little boy quickly made a fire.
The Kangs in Saibei are all connected to the stove.
That is to say, when cooking, the fireworks in the chimney will travel along the aisle inside the kang path.
Thus,
By the time the rice is cooked, the kang is hot.
"Uncle, just now I asked you for 1 yuan and 20 cents for accommodation, but you didn't give it. You only gave me 80 cents."
The little boy was boiling water,
While asking Luo Xuan, "But why were you so generous when you paid for my mother-in-law's food just now?"
Luo Xuan smiled and said, "You kid, you heard me say before that if you meet someone who is against private interests, I will pay the 3 yuan for you.
You little guy, you saw that I was generous, so you started to raise the price for me."
Luo Xuan said, "The reason I'm not willing to give you that much money is because I don't want to get used to your problem!"
"As for asking your empress to sell rice and mutton, I'm willing to give her more money. That's just a sign of affection.
I don’t want you to overcharge my accommodation fee. This is my duty.”
After listening, the little boy sat on the small stool and thought deeply.
at this time
Only a soft knock on the courtyard door was heard.
Then the kiln door was pushed open, and the leader walked in, a heartbreakingly thin little girl, with runny nose and tears on her face that had frozen into ice.
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