CH 36.1

"Then I'll go buy it, and I'll put the leftover vegetables on the side of the stall. If someone buys it, sell it cheap. If someone comes to buy the meat, you can give it some as a gift."

"Okay."

Zhang Fangyuan watched the people went away before looking away. He peddled for a while, and there were no customers in the market by almost noon.

The poultry market was still a little far away, Zhang Fangyuan felt that Xu He wouldn’t come back for a while, so he took the lunch for the two of them, and asked the cook to warm it up at the restaurant where he often ate. He lifted his foot and headed towards Dongshi.

"Brother Zhang! I haven't seen you for a long time~ Are you here to find me?"

Zhang Fangyuan just entered through the back door of Yunliang Pavilion with his front foot, and a woman with heavy makeup, a sweet voice like a water snake, and a fan in her hand entangled him on his back foot. He didn't even lift his eyes, and he pushed the woman who was trying to lean on him away: "Where's An San'er?" 

The woman gave a coquettish cry when she was pushed away, as if she had long been used to Zhang Fangyuan's rudeness, she changed her sweet voice: "An San'er, Brother Zhang is looking for you! "

Hearing the sound, a short man came out quickly. At first glance, he looked like a mouse, but when he walked out, you could feel that he was shrewd man.

"Brother Zhang, I haven't seen you since you didn't work here. Nowadays, I don't know where to find you, so what is the arrangement for finding me today??"

Zhang Fangyuan led the man went to the side, in fact, he had no plan to come to a place like a brothel after he reformed himself, but he encountered difficulties in life and had to bow his head.

"You used to secretly give me some of the things sold under the overpass."

"Huh?"

Zhang Fangyuan slapped the man's head with a slap: "Ah, what, hurry up, come all the way here."

"Yes, yes, yes." An San'er covered his head, not daring to be presumptuous to Zhang Fangyuan, he hurriedly unbuttoned his collar, and opened his coat, inside there were no less than ten pockets, and inside the pockets there were all kinds of books: "Which one do you want, Brother Zhang?"

Zhang Fangyuan glanced at it, touched the tip of his nose in embarrassment, reached out and picked up the cover that looked lively.

"Is this good?"

"It's very good. The best seller under the overpass, this one even the coquettish girl named Jiuniang, asked for a copy."

"... ..."

Zhang Fangyuan didn't turn opem the book when he heard the words, and threw it back into An San'er's arms. Even Jiuniang wanted to read this thing, so can normal people read it?

"Is there any for ge’er?"

An San'er didn't know where he said something wrong, and hurriedly hugged the book that was thrown over: "Brother Zhang agreed on this one earlier."

"This is excellent, there are only two left." An San'er smiled wretchedly, He lowered his voice: "It's all pictures, the best selling!”

Zhang Fangyuan took a quick glance, his ears burned, he hurriedly stuffed the book into his sleeve, and then took out some money for the book to An San'er: "Just do it."

"Brother likes it so just take it, what kind of money can you give me?"

An San'er was used to Zhang Fangyuan's momentum of smashing the table when he was in charge of the building, and suddenly saw him with such a good attitude, he was flattered, and the money seemed to be hot.

"I'll give it for you, why are there so many nonsense. Let's go!" After saying that, Zhang Fangyuan ignored An San'er's confused face, and strode out of Yunliang Pavilion.

"Brother Zhang is a bit weird today."

The coquettish woman leaning on the railing in the distance sneered: "

Is there a time when he is not weird? Anyway, this old lady is the number one card in Yunliang Pavilion. Which man is not obsessed with me, but he sees me like hiding from the god of plague. Looking strong, but it’s probably not good"

"Jiuniang, you dare to say this behind Brother Zhang's back."

The woman rolled her eyes and said, “I'm not going to buy your best things.”

When Xu He returned to the meat market with two pairs of chickens and two pairs of ducklings, Zhang Fangyuan was not at the stall, he put the little things in order, and threw some leaves of the wild vegetables for them to eat, it was not so noisy if the little things were eating, he hesitated whether to go to Zhang Fangyuan, but the man carried the food box back.

"Bought it back?"

Zhang Fangyuan glanced at it. There were two roosters, two hens, and ducks. The little ge’er could pick and choose, and the match was quite good.

"Why did you only buy these few, you can buy more."

Xu He said, "It's not worth buying too much, and you can incubate yourself when the chickens and ducks grow up and lay eggs."

"That's a lot of trouble."

Xu He said: "I will take care of it when the time comes, so I won't trouble you."

The two opened the food box next to them, and the smell of hot fried meat caused the butcher next to him to turn his head frequently. Although the food was not as delicious as when it was just out of the pot, but now they were hungry and the taste was still delicious.

"When I go to heat up the dishes, even the chefs in the restaurant say that you cook this dish very well, so we might as well open a restaurant in the future."

Xu He still had a little confidence in his skills, even Liu Xianglan, who almost never said good things about him, praised his craftsmanship a few times, but Xu Shaochun was unhappy later, so she didn't say anything more.

"Okay, then don't waste money on weekdays, save some money earlier, let's set up a shop and make a restaurant."

With rice in his mouth, Zhang Fangyuan looked at Xu He with a smile and said nothing.

In the afternoon, the business at the stalls was not very good. How much meat was sold in a day was almost depended on  the morning market. Three customers came in the whole afternoon, and Xu He used his cattail fan to lightly chase away the flies that were trying to fly over. The meat market smelled very strong, and it was even more offensive in summer.