"Let's go. I don't know who leaked our identity. Standing here, we have to delay the boatman's work. Buddy, let's go ashore."
Zhang Xiaobao looked at the boats that were spontaneously guarding by the side. He didn't want to waste other people's time, so he held an umbrella and called the guy who rowed the boat.
"Okay, little gongzi, we'll go up now." The guy rowed the boat to the shore, and the surrounding boats also followed the movement of drawing a circle with the boat as the center. Just as the handle said, the existence of Zhang Xiaobao and Zhuangzi was not only related to themselves, but also to many people. Nothing must happen to the people of the two families.
When Wang Juan and Zhang Xiaobao came to the shore, the heavens seemed to be cooperating with them. The rain that was not too heavy just now fell down, and a mist immediately rose on the shore and in the river.
A gust of wind blew. Zhang Xiaobao had no choice but to stand the umbrella on the ground. He and Wang Juan firmly held the umbrella with four small hands. In order to be able to block the rain, the two of them held a large umbrella with a diameter of 1.5 meters. They were short, and the umbrella handle was long. The advantage of this was that the rain that fell on the ground around them could only splash a little on their bodies.
"Xiao Bao, are you cold? It's so cool. " Wang Juan felt the water vapor blowing and asked Zhang Xiaobao. She stood facing the wind, and Zhang Xiaobao's back was facing the wind. A lot of the fine rain was blocked by Zhang Xiaobao.
"It's cold, how can it not be cold? Even if it's cold, we have to endure it. I'm used to it. There's an umbrella here. When the wind is a little less, we'll go to our barbecue shop to eat something and change our clothes." Zhang Xiaobao shivered.
"Xiao Bao, do all men like to protect women?" Wang Juan didn't have any good ideas. She could only hug Zhang Xiaobao.
"Not all men like to be protected by women. I think that men who are willing to protect women are generally stronger. It's his right to say what he wants, and it's his duty to protect women. When you want to get something, you have to give."
Zhang Xiaobao thought about it and analyzed rationally.
"What about you?"
"I'm also more domineering, but I still listen to your opinions. After all, sometimes, you're more professional in some matters. I feel that you're also a domineering person. I don't know if it's because of your family or the department you were in."
As Zhang Xiaobao spoke, he tightened the muscles in his abdomen. The advantage of this was that the stomach area of his body was always warm. Through his mental self-control, he made the muscles in the other parts of his body relax. Otherwise, if he had goosebumps, it would cause his body to consume more heat. The function of goosebumps was to reduce heat dissipation, but if all parts of the body were to tighten, it would increase the consumption of energy.
"Didn't you ask someone to investigate my situation? Why didn't you find out anything about my family? "Wang Juan asked with a smile.
"I didn't find out. That kid didn't know much. He only knew about your original learning and training. He couldn't find out anything about your family. I found a deputy minister to investigate you, but he only found out your name and the name of your family. He didn't know anything else. Therefore, I know that your family is definitely not ordinary.
I guess that your grandfather or grandfather, which is also your grandfather, will have soldiers standing guard at the door of a certain house. You are indeed very lucky. It's not that your family is powerful, but that you have a family. Eh? The wind is weak? "
Zhang Xiaobao felt a little regretful when he thought of the time when he asked someone to investigate who would come to catch him. The time was too short. If he had one more day, he would have been able to find out. Unfortunately, when he came back, Wang Juan's reaction was too fast. When he was talking, he found that he was not so cold anymore.
Wang Juan smiled. "Not cold? Do you know why? This is the power of people's hearts. Don't always think about my family. Well, you guessed right. There are people standing guard at my grandfather's and grandfather's houses, but your vigilance is too low. Didn't you hear anything? Look back. "
Zhang Xiaobao was not low vigilance. He was so cold that he put all his attention on adjusting his body. When he heard that, he turned his head to look back. Even though he was used to many things, he couldn't control himself at this moment. His eyes turned red.
Behind him stood hundreds of people who worked at the dock. They just stood there, one close to the other. They didn't have straw raincoats or bamboo hats on their heads. They formed a square formation that was twenty meters long and five to six meters wide. The wind that blew from there couldn't break through this human wall at all.
"I really didn't hear any footsteps. How did they come?" Zhang Xiaobao took a deep breath, blinked his eyes, and returned to his calm appearance.
"I came softly. The summer insects also fell silent for me. Silence is the footsteps in the rain. The wind crumbles outside the human wall." Wang Juan said a nondescript poem.
Zhang Xiaobao understood and nodded. "From tomorrow, no, from today onwards, set up a buffet for all the people working at the dock. They can eat as much as they want at three copper coins for two meals. Drink according to the cost. In order to continue squeezing their surplus value, let them advertise our shops here or Between the Clouds and the Water. Make them custom-made clothes with our logo. We can't let them take advantage of us."
"Xiao Bao, you're really a good person. You're giving yourself an evil excuse for doing good things. Unfortunately, the river here freezes when winter comes, and they have nothing to do."
Wang Juan rubbed her eyes on Zhang Xiaobao's shoulder. She was also touched. She and Zhang Xiaobao were only children of Zhuangzi, but because she did something that she felt should be done, she got such a result in exchange. Perhaps even County Magistrate Cheng wouldn't be able to enjoy such treatment.
If these workers were the soldiers before she and Zhang Xiaobao came here, she believed that it might be possible. However, these people didn't have such strong discipline, and they didn't have such a high level of awareness. Everything came from the bottom of their hearts. In fact, these people thought the same as Zhang Xiaobao and her in the beginning.
If you're good to me, I'll be good to you. Her family's life was better than before, so she had to protect this benefit. She and Zhang Xiaobao just gave an order not to charge any extra fees for the dockworkers. It was unlike other dockworkers who had to pay extra every day to allow them to work.
"Why don't they have anything to do? In winter, they can dig holes. After two days, when there are fewer boats, they can dig holes. Hire them to work and dig big holes. They have to be connected to each other. Put up a shelf on top and cover it with soil. Or just let them dig a cellar, a bigger cellar. "
At this moment, Zhang Xiaobao really wanted to find something for them to do. He couldn't let them waste a winter's time.
Wang Juan thought for a moment and said, "Do you let them dig a cellar to store some vegetables or something? Then they have to work now, but there's a lot of work at the docks. "
"Absolutely not. There's no need to care about the vegetables. Digging a cellar is to put ice. When the water in the river freezes in winter, put it in the cellar and take it out next summer. We don't expect them to eat it. We just want them to help with something or put an ice basin next to others when they eat.
This is all money, and saltpeter is not cheap. When County Magistrate Cheng has something to do in the capital in the future, we can use boats to transport the ice over. Since we've decided to train him, we have to prepare a follow-up for him. We have to let him understand that he still has a huge team behind him. "
Zhang Xiaobao's mind was agile. In an instant, he thought of a way to continue to let people have things to do. He told Wang Juan.
"Yes, he's not fighting alone. At this moment … Haha, I won't joke around. After digging a cellar and storing ice, what are they going to do? Liangpi won't be easy to sell in winter, right? Pancakes are still okay. "
"When we're done, it will be almost spring. Those who have land at home can go and farm. Those who don't can be organized to help others farm. We can also provide some mountain vegetables. It's not that they don't want to work, it's just that they lack an organization. I plan to connect everyone in Sanshui County with Zhuangzi in the next few years. Whoever dares to touch Zhuangzi is equivalent to touching a county's people.
Liangpi is easy to deal with. We can't just sell it and change it to spicy skewers. There seems to be too little spicy food. Spicy food is also fine. It's easy to make the tools. Don't think that we don't have much profit. In the end, people can even copy our products. Our brand can be established. When we mention spicy skewers, the first people think of are Zhang Family and Wang Family. "
Zhang Xiaobao would never think of doing such a profitable thing in the past. Now that the environment had changed, he had to think carefully about letting people recognize the two Zhuangzi in their lives.
"Okay, you can decide on these things. What do we do now? Just stand here and wait for the rain to stop? "Wang Juan admitted that she wasn't as good as Zhang Xiaobao when it came to making money.
"We can't just stand here and wait. Let's go to the barbeque shop. Otherwise, people will catch a cold." Zhang Xiaobao glanced at the people who were standing there to block the wind and rain. He and Wang Juan grabbed the umbrella and walked to their shop.
When the two of them moved, the others followed. No one spoke. They walked in silence. As they got closer, their pace became the same.
As a result, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan walked on the side. On the other side, there was a uniform sound from the direction of the wind. The sound of splashing water resonated with the crowd. People in the distance could hear the rumbling sound.
As they walked all the way to the Zhang family's barbeque shop, the surrounding shops and pedestrians who were taking shelter from the rain all stared at the group in shock. Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan stood out even more under the umbrella.
When they arrived at the entrance of the barbeque shop, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan held the umbrella and looked back at the kind people. They wanted to say something, but they found that any words would be useless at this time. The two of them looked at each other and directly turned to enter the shop. They didn't look back at those people.
The shop wasn't small. The windows were low, and there was rain outside. The people eating in the shop clearly saw that so many people had sent the two children here and tacitly turned around and left.
Therefore, when Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan looked around to find a place, many people couldn't help but stand up.
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