As the sun sets in the west, the sunset reflects the splendid sea. A group of seagulls fly slowly by, leaving behind a string of "cooing" sounds, and it begins to fall into the night.
Ships and sailboats were moored quietly at the port at this time. Many sailors had already left the ship and went ashore to have fun in the town. The dock coolies who had worked hard all day also paid their wages and gathered in groups. He left, his tired figure could not hide his expectation, the next stop was either a pub or home.
"Only twelve copper coins? Manager Jino, did you remember correctly?", "Old ghost, I obviously moved hundreds of times today, it can't be just this little!", "Yes! And me."
In front of the checkout counter at the entrance of Qingfeng Warehouse, coolies lined up in a long queue. Zha Jun and the others at the front were making a lot of noise and performing the same tricks they do almost every day. As expected, Old Jino's roar immediately sounded: "Don't make any noise." It¡¯s gone!¡± He didn¡¯t explain anything and continued to yell: ¡°If you are not satisfied, you don¡¯t have to come tomorrow, get out! Next one!¡± Over the past decades, when has ¡°Qingfengcang¡¯s Keno¡± failed to record its accounts?
"Okay, okay!" Zha Jun and others glared at Jino with resentful eyes for a while, then turned around and left while clenching their money bags, continuing to curse: "That old guy must have deducted our money.", "Sooner or later, feed him. Just a piece of shit.", "Old pig and dog, old and immortal!" When passing by Xin Lie, they slowed down and glanced at him several times. After walking for a while, the indignant curses started again: "Everyone has been killed! That guy has moved all the eggs, let¡¯s move some eggs!¡±, ¡°Tomorrow we¡¯ll start packing three bags at a time.¡±, ¡°That bastard is quite powerful.¡±¡
"Xin Lie, you moved 236 bags of rice today."
Soon, there were only a few people left in the team. Jino looked at the account book, grabbed a handful of copper coins from the money plate, counted 23 coins, and handed them to Xin Lie with a pleasant expression, "Put the six packs back and count them until tomorrow. This is your wages for today."
After experiencing a round of inflation in the past few years, and in recent years, we have had good weather. Dongrao¡¯s commodity prices and currency ratios are relatively stable. For example, the most popular hard currency, gold, silver and copper, is worth 700 copper coins. Silver, ten silvers and one gold.
The rule of Qingfeng Warehouse for many years has been "100 packages per day in peak season, half a hundred packages per day in off-season. If there is less, money will be deducted, if there is more, money will be added." The rule is 1 copper coin for every 10 packages. Do more during the peak season and fill in the off-season. On average, if one hundred packages are completed every day, a coolie can earn about 3,600 copper coins per year, which is equivalent to 5 taels of silver. According to the price of 500 copper coins per stone and meter in recent years, he can barely support a family of three.
And if you pass the assessment, the admission fee to the Giant Rock Warrior Academy is 1 tael of gold, plus travel expenses, living expenses and other miscellaneous budgets, it will cost about 2 taels of gold, or 14,000 copper coins.
Over the past few years, Xin Lie has been working hard every day, working multiple jobs, scrimping on food and clothing, and picking wild fruits in his spare time to fill his stomach. He is close to saving enough to reach this goal!
"Thank you." Under the envious eyes of several coolies, Xin Lie put the 23 copper coins into a coarse cloth purse, tightened the mouth of the bag, and gently tossed it to catch it. The heavy feeling made him smile, and he felt I am getting closer and closer to that day, so great!
"Do you still want to work in the tavern?" Old Jino asked softly. Xin Lie looked up at the beautiful sunset, and his tiredness disappeared little by little, "Yes."
Although Good Town is a port town, it is most famous for its grains and vegetables. Of course, the coastal civilians throughout Dongrao like to cultivate fields. Farmers depend on the weather for food, and they will still go hungry even if they lose their harvest; but fishermen work with them every day. With the ever-changing sea as my companion, I often go out to sea in the morning and never come back at night. Therefore, Good Town is rich in agricultural products, and "Gude Wine" is also famous far and wide. Due to the popular tourist source brought by trade, there are many entertainment venues in the town such as pubs, gambling houses, and brothels.
"Liquor - we sell wine, our wheat and rice wine is delicious! All warriors love to drink it!"
When the lights come on, shouts of soliciting customers come and go. East Street, which is called "Ruffian Street" by the villagers, is very lively. There are several high-end pubs on South Street, and East Street is a bitter area.
"Kiss me, here! No, it's here" The sailors hugged the seductive women and laughed and played in the street. The dock coolies walked into the bathhouse wearing only shorts. There were also drunk men who were thrown out of the pub and lay on the street, their eyes blurred by intoxication. Half-open and half-closed, he shouted crazily: "I'm rich, I'm rich!" In the corner of the alley not far away, a sloppy homeless man was sleeping soundly among the debris, muttering in his sleep: "I'm from the Qi family. People, if you make me angry, you are finished"
¡°Wow, wow¡ª¡ª¡±, ¡°Yeah¡ª¡ª!¡±, ¡°Beat him to death!¡±¡
Peng, Peng! In Zhang Kai's tavern, the light of the oil lamp flickered on and off, accompanied by the crazy shouts of the crowd and the muffled sound of fists hitting their noses. Blood sprayed everywhere on the wall, overlapping with old dark red blood stains.
"Fight! Fight! Fight!" The crowd's roar became more and more fanatical, and the screams of "Oh!" came from the corner of the tavern, causing the guests who were drinking and chatting at the wooden tables to turn their heads and look at what was going on there.There was a boxing match among the coolies at the dock, and the atmosphere in the whole tavern was already boiling.
"Death!!" Another heavy punch, and in the arena surrounded by the audience, a tall and thin coolie was beaten to the floor. The man standing with a heavy back and a ferocious look on his face was none other than Cha Jun! "Wow!" The red-faced crowd shouted loudly again. Zha Jun quickly leaned over, grabbed the tall and thin coolie's hair and pulled it back hard, causing veins to appear on the back of his hand!
The coolie¡¯s face was distorted in pain, and he spurted out tears, nosebleeds, and saliva. He cried and begged for mercy: "I lost, let me go! I lost!"
Although this villain can't work at full strength and can only get through another day, after all, he has moved sacks from morning to night. He still has such physical fitness and strength. It is really not easy. This is why he can be a gangster in Qingfeng Warehouse. head.
"Trash!" Before he finished speaking, Zha Jun grabbed the coolie's head and knocked it hard on the floor, Peng¡ª¡ª! The tall and thin coolie fainted immediately. Zha Jun took the money bag from his waist and kicked him in the waist. The coolie was kicked and rolled to the corner, letting out a feeble moan of pain.
"Woohoo¡ª¡ª", "Okay!" Everyone waved their arms and cheered, and several minions from Qingfengcang even walked up to him with a smile and spit on the tall and thin coolie. Cha Jun was simply the God of War!
Ding, ding, ding, Zha Jun poured a dozen copper coins into his purse, glanced back and forth between several wine tables with a pair of evil eyes, and shouted: "Who's going to fight?!"
No one responded for a while, and several sailors turned a deaf ear and just drank. Zha Jun turned to look at the bar, narrowed his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "Xin Lie, little girl, do you dare to come?"
Now everyone's eyes were turned to the young bartender, who was silently wiping the wine bowl and said without raising his head: "Save it." Zha Jun clenched his fists, and several coolies started talking. He laughed and shouted: "He doesn't even dare to touch a woman's butt, how dare he come to box!", "That's not necessarily true, I think he just likes men, Cha Jun, you have to be careful!", "No need, he just likes it!" Being fucked in the ass.", "Hahaha!"
The crowd kept hurling insults and insults, but to their disappointment, Xin Lie ignored them.
As for boxing and gambling, Xin Lie didn't want to get involved. Manager Geno's words were still in his ears, "If you want to be a warrior, if you want to be stronger than them, then you have to be different from them." He took a deep breath and continued his work. .
"Xin Lie, let's do this!" Zha Jun thought for a while and shouted: "I'll put all the money in, more than a hundred copper coins! You only have to put in ten copper coins. If you win, it's all yours; if you lose, it's all yours. Mine." As he spoke, he threw the bulging money bag to the ground with a clang.
Zha Jun knew that in Xin Lie's ears, the clanging sound of money sounded better than the sound of a woman's sex; he had lost face in the warehouse during the day, and if he wanted to get it back, beating Xin Lie would be the best way. ! Boxing cannot be won by strength, and besides, Xin Lie must have been exhausted after moving all the cargo for a day If it weren't for the many rules at the dock, and if that old ghost wasn't in the way, he would have been beaten to death long ago!
However, Xin Lie still ignored his temptation and just wiped the wine bowl as usual. The tavern immediately burst into boos, and everyone gave thumbs up, provoking and insulting him again.
"What a fool!", "He still wants to be a warrior!", "Oh, a warrior who doesn't dare to fight, haha!"
"Are you considered a warrior!?" Under the ridicule of the crowd, seeing Xin Lie's face unchanged, Zha Jun roared, but could not relieve the tightness in his chest and shouted: "Xin Lie, pull him down! You guys Has anyone heard of coolies becoming warriors? Huh?"
Of course not. In fact, they don't even know what warriors are like. There are several warriors stationed or staying overnight in the official residence area of ??the town all year round. There are warriors on the big ships, but they can only be seen from a distance. Occasionally, you can hear a few words from sailors who know little about it, such as civilian warriors, famous warriors Anyway, warriors will not come to the East Street; and here, warriors are not a topic that people like to talk about, far less than prostitutes popular.
But they knew that everyone in the dock gave Manager Jino of Qingfeng Warehouse some respect, but that old man was nothing in front of a warrior. It was another world, a world completely different from theirs.
"Warrior? The fucking warrior is here, I'll beat him to the ground too!" Zha Jun raised his arms, looked around and shouted, everyone was shouting crazily: "Zha Jun! Cha Jun! Cha Jun! " Saying this in front of a warrior will cause trouble; who cares now? Zha Jun, who was so excited that his hair stood on end, pointed at Xin Lie and yelled again: "He is just a trash, a fool, and he will die like this -!"
His fists suddenly clenched, Xin Lie raised his head and glared at him, a surge of anger quickly swallowed up his rapidly beating heart. He slowly put down the wine bowl and was about to take a step out.
"Interesting." At this moment, a sudden explosion sounded in the tavern.The words were very soft, but they almost covered all the loud shouts. Everyone turned their eyes and saw the only guest at the corner wine table smiling. He was wearing a huge black cloak, covering his whole body. His tall figure had strong lines. Under his crisp short hair, a young man With a heroic face, he raised the wine bowl, took a sip, and said, "You guys are really interesting, but a little noisy."
"Who are you?" Zha Jun's voice was cold, and everyone had a fierce look on their faces. A foreigner who looked like he was in his early twenties was probably a shitty sailor of some ship, so he was a piece of cake!
"I'm just a passerby, but you have affected my drinking mood." After the man said this, he stood up slowly, and the black cloak parted to reveal a corner. Suddenly everyone was stunned. A silver sword hilt Slanting out from the man's waist, flowing white light loomed, warrior, he is a warrior!
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Xin Lie over there was also stunned, a warrior, a real warrior! The blood all over his body seemed to be burning. That person was just a few meters away!
"Who just said that the warrior should be knocked down?"
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