tall and rhubarb

Lao Tan got a bargain and sold all the goods. Thinking that he would go home tomorrow, he was very happy, and enthusiastically said that he would help Gao Chang move the sugar cane to the boat. Gao Chang planned to take a look at other things. If you don't want to buy anything, you should go back to the boat early, after all, the smell of this place is really not very pleasant.

At this time, another group of people came to their small market. The one who led the way was wearing work clothes just like Ah Hai, but the guests he brought were a few white foreigners, and they were dressed brightly. big client.

"Da Luo, ask me if these guests want sheep!" In an inconspicuous corner of the room, there was an old man sitting all the time. When Gao Chang and the others came in, he only slightly He stood up and took a look, then sat back in disappointment. He didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, and he didn't even come here when Lao Tan was dividing the sugarcane. Go up and ask.

"I said Uncle Tara, he is from country E, and he has to buy cloth from us." This man named Da Luo seemed to be familiar with the old man, knowing that what the old man wanted was cloth.

"Don't worry about it, maybe they are willing to exchange the cloth they bought for my sheep." The old man waved his hand and directly refuted Da Luo's words. In the eyes of southerners like them, they are a little domineering.

"Okay, okay." Da Luo seemed to understand the old man's temper better. Although he was a bit troublesome, he still asked the e-country people for him. After chatting a few words, Da Luo told Tara The old man spread his hands: "No, people say that the wild goats are now a disaster in country E."

"But my sheep are not wild goats. My sheep are very docile. When they give birth to lambs, they can be milked." Uncle Tara said anxiously.

"People say no more." Da Luo shook his head, looking a little impatient.

"Ask again for me, ask again, if they still say no, then forget it." Uncle Tara begged.

Da Luo nodded his head, did not answer his words, and asked the customer a few more questions, but those foreigners seemed to have no intention of buying, and kept shaking their heads.

"No." Da Luo shook his head, said something to Tara, and led the guests to the side.

Seeing the old man sitting back by the wall in frustration, Gao Chang turned his head and asked Ah Hai: "How long has this old man been here?" It may not be easy for ordinary people to change cloth these days.

"Hey, it's been more than two months. Their family entrusted someone to urge him several times, but he insisted on not going back. The old man is very stubborn." Ah Hai is in a good mood at the moment. He just earned 65 slices of snake meat, of which Hand in half, and the remaining half belongs to him. These dried meats can be exchanged for dozens of catties of grain, which is enough for the whole family to eat several meals with their stomachs open.

"What is he changing the cloth for?" Looking at the old man's appearance, he doesn't seem like someone who likes to do business.

"His family's two granddaughters are almost getting married, and they don't have decent clothes, so the old man took a few sheep and took the train here, saying that he wanted to exchange some bolts of cloth for the back of his granddaughter's wedding dress." Speaking of Well, Ah Hai is also a little bit embarrassed, but he just sighed, not taking it to heart, there is no way, everyone’s life is like this these days, if they want to sigh and complain all day, then they can’t survive .

"That's not all, look at the three sheep over there, don't they have to eat grass every day, and they can't find grass here, so they have to ask their family to consign hay over again and again. This consignment requires freight, basically The first thing is to use rations to pay for it, and I think his family is almost forced to do nothing." After Lao Tan finished speaking, he shook his head too, how many girls and boys can wear decent clothes these days?It's not all about the end of the day.

"What do you know?" A middle-aged man with an older grade next to him seemed to dislike listening to Lao Tan's words. He sighed and said, "It's not easy for him, he's a pitiful person." .”

A few people were a little bored by this sound, Gao Chang took a rough look, and it seemed that there was nothing to change, so he took the bamboo cage of meat floss left on Rhubarb's back, brought the sugar cane he had exchanged, and shared with Old Qin Ahai. The four of them left the abandoned Internet cafe together.

After coming out, Gao Chang asked them both: "Does Master Tara still have a story?"

"I heard that when he was young, his family was poor, and his wife couldn't wear decent clothes when she got married. Since then, he has been obsessed with it. When he died, he still insisted that when the girls in the family get married, they must Let them wear decent wedding dresses. Tara, the old stubborn donkey, only listens to his wife alone, and it doesn't matter what others say. No, in order to change a few bolts of cloth, one person stays in this place for more than two It's been a month, and I refuse to go back."

This group of people stayed in the same room day and night, and they had no other entertainment except talking when they were free. They all knew their respective situations very well. Uncle Tara was considered a celebrity, and his deeds were often People took it out and said.

"It's good to be his girl." Gao Chang said with a smile.

"Isn't it? You said that what people want to live in this life, when they die, everything is empty. As for the two girls in his family, no matter how hard the future is, just think about what Master Tara has done for them now." Is there something sweet in my heart, isn’t it?” Ah Hai also felt a little bit emotional, he left his hometown to make a living by himself, as long as he thought about his wife and children at home, he could suffer all kinds of hardships, and his heart was the same.

"According to what you said, what Master Tara did is quite right?" Lao Tan somewhat disagreed with Gao Chang and Ah Hai's statement.

"Hey, who can tell if this is right or wrong." Ah Hai smiled and shook his head. He admired Uncle Tara's courage and determination, but if this person was his father, he would really have a headache.

Afterwards, Ah Hai and Lao Tan asked Gao Chang how much jerky and meat floss they had on board, and asked him what else he wanted to exchange, obviously wanting to use their connections in this city to get more jerky in Gao Chang's hand The meat floss is sold to the plateau.Gao Chang thought for a while, and told them that he also wanted some iron pots, porcelain bowls, and clay pots. If he could get iron, he would also want it. Their small place has no technology or tools, so it’s okay to want to make alloys or something. Too likely, blacksmithing is still achievable.

Ah Hai and the others said that no one can get iron now, and it is useless to find connections in the army. All these metal weapons have been controlled, and the governments of various countries still have exchange trades, so no one else can get their hands on them.Therefore, iron pots are probably more difficult to get. They have a solution for porcelain bowls and clay pots. They should be able to scrape together some in the past two days, and then I will find Gao Chang to look at them.

After moving the things to the boat, Gao Chang asked Ah Hai again: "Do you know the one named Da Luo just now?"

"I know, we live at the same wharf, we all know each other very well." Of course Ah Hai knew why Gao Chang asked this, isn't it just those e-country people, his experience told him that it would never hurt to do more errands for clients .

Not long after Gao Chang and the others returned to the boat, Bai Bao also came back, his face was not very good, it seemed that things were not going well.

"What's the situation?" Gao Chang asked him.

Bai Bao shook his head: "Not good, you can't get ammunition and weapons, and you can't get metal, and it's hard to get even diesel."

"Then your trip has been in vain." Gao Chang knew that Bai Bao's goal was these three things.

"Hmph, it's not in vain. If we don't come here, one day they will fight, and we will be kept in the dark." Bai Bao usually listens to the radio. The society is out of touch, and Bai Bao basically listens to it for a while every day.

Naturally, he would not believe everything on the radio, he had his own judgment, and he would extract useful information through some clues.But what he didn't expect was that the talk about this and that on the radio was very lively, and it didn't involve war at all, but in the real society, swords were already on the verge of breaking out.Presumably, there are many people in other places like him, immersed in the world of broadcasting, thinking they are smart in making such and such judgments, but they don't know that they have been completely deceived.

"I didn't tell them that we had cloth on board, but I said that we had dried meat floss and crab shell powder. The prices offered there were not ideal. I asked about the blue light. These people are very dark. We have a boat Nothing can replace a few of their lights."

Speaking of it, the price is not cheaper than the two lamps that Professor Kong gave them. Thinking about it, I know that Professor Kong brought the two lamps to them to earn extra money, and the selling price must be higher than the one he bought himself. The price was much higher. If his retail price was counted, he should be able to buy the wholesale price at this port, but the reality is not what they expected.

"I met a few people from e-country today. I heard that our country can't produce blue lights at all. They are all imported from e-country." It's over.

"I've also heard that tomorrow night I'm going to visit those e-country people, his grandma's. Even if this business is done, [-]% of the tax will be deducted." That's [-]%. The piles of cloth and jerky were about to be taken away by people, and Bai Bao felt very upset. He had always taken other people's money for nothing, but now he was transferred.

In the evening of the next day, Gao Chang found Ah Hai and asked him to help contact Da Luo's customers. In less than an hour, they were invited to the boat by the e-country people.The boats of these e-country people are very magnificent. If Gao Chang and his boat are of villa class, this one is of manor class. This shows the gap.

Although these E country people are all wearing military uniforms, their boats are decorated quite extravagantly. Among them is a young man with a head of 1.9 meters, who seems to be the leader of this group of people. He seems to have a good temperament, but the question is, why is he always staring at Rhubarb?

"Hi, my name is August." The man stretched out his slender and beautiful right hand, with a just right smile on his face, his eyes sparkling with electricity, his Chinese is not standard, but his voice is good.

Da Huang gave him a serious look, and then extended his right hand: "Hi, my name is Sawyer, and I'm married."