The next morning, Douzi took a few older children to put on clean clothes and tied her hair with a cloth strap. Although the clothes were torn, they looked clean and comfortable. When Douzi and the others left, Li Zhang specifically told him not to forget his instructions yesterday. After all, this was related to their next plan to make money. Douzi also patted his chest and promised that Li Zhang would not be disappointed.

Douzi left with a few older children, and Li Zhang was not idle either. Instead, he directed the children left behind to pull a broken cart in the yard. The so-called cart is actually a flat car body with two wheels on it, and there are two shelves in front as shafts. They can be pulled by people or cattle and horses, so they are also called shelves.

The cart in Li Zhang's family is a bit special because it is used to pull corpses. After all, this is a charity village. If there are unclaimed corpses in the yamen, Li Zhang's gambling father needs to be pulled back and stored temporarily. If unclaimed for a long time, he will be buried on the cemetery. Sometimes he has to act as a coroner. Of course, the yamen will give him some rewards, which is also one of the main sources of wealth in Li Zhang's family.

However, Li Zhang's gambling father was too lazy, especially since he was not at home all year round for the past two years, and he could not find anyone if he had any trouble in the yamen. If he had not had an acquaintance in the yamen, he might have lost this errand and he would not even be able to live in the charity village by then.

The cart that pulled the body was broken long ago, and Li Zhang's father was too lazy to repair it, so he kept throwing it into the yard and was in the wind and rain. It now looked even more worn. However, after Li Zhang checked it, he found that the problem was not big. The main reason was that there was a piece of missing from the truck axle below, and just add a piece of wood nail to it. As for the nails, it was ready-made. After all, this is a charity village, and there are still a few nails for nailing the coffin.

Li Zhang was unable to move, so he could only command a few children to help, but these children were too weak and sometimes they couldn't understand Li Zhang's words. As a result, a group of people tinkered with each other for more than a day before repairing the cart.

When Douzi came back in the evening, he still brought back a bucket of leftovers. However, compared to yesterday, the bucket of leftovers today was less, but it was much cleaner. A few young people were hungry for a day. They immediately wanted to eat the leftovers, but they were pushed away by Douzi.

"Ugly, pour all the food in the house into the pot and cook it into porridge. Let's make some things together first, don't move these leftovers!" Li Zhang said at this time to the oldest girl next to him. The girl is as handsome as a person, she looks really ugly, with dark skin, small eyes, big mouth, and thick skeleton. She looks more like a boy when she suddenly looks like a boy.

The ugly lady agreed and immediately took a few girls to the kitchen to cook. At this time, Li'er came to Li Zhang anxiously and whispered: "Brother, our family doesn't have much food. If we eat them all today, what should we do in the future?"

Although Li Zhang is the boss of these orphans, he has no obligation to support them. In fact, he and these orphans have always been in a state of warmth. With the benefits, everyone will get one in proportion. If they use up the portion of their own, don’t think that others will help you.

"It's okay, I already have a way to make money. We will have hot pancakes tomorrow!" Li Zhang said with a smile that made Li'er feel at ease.

"Li'er, don't worry. My brother has told me that I will definitely buy you a white and soft cake tomorrow!" Douzi also came over and said, yesterday Li Zhang told him how to make money. Although he didn't understand very much, he had confidence in Li Zhang.

Out of trust in Li Zhang and Douzi, Li Er finally felt relieved and ran to help the ugly girl and the others cook together. There was not much food at home, so she could only make a pot of millet soup like water. A few little guys complained very much. After all, the leftovers next to her were much better than millet soup, but Li Zhang did not allow them to eat it. However, they complained, Li Zhang was their boss after all, so he didn't dare to say much.

In the early morning of the next day, Li Zhang woke Douzi and a few older children, and then directed them to load the things into the car. He was originally inconvenient, but considering that Douzi and the others were too young and it was his first time doing business today, Li Zhang decided to go with him, so he got in the car and asked Douzi and the others to push him away from the charity village.

Although Li Zhang lived in Kaifeng Prefecture, it was not in Kaifeng City, but in the western suburbs outside Kaifeng City. After all, the Yizhuang thing could not be in the city, otherwise no one would want to live in it. However, Kaifeng City is now a large population and the city cannot live in it at all, so it is very prosperous outside the city, and there are all large and small towns everywhere.

Two or three miles north of Yizhuang, there is the Bian River that crosses Kaifeng City. There is a dock on this section of the river, and many goods entering and leaving Kaifeng will be docked and traded here, so a lively town has gradually formed here, called Bianhe Town, which is also the main activity range of Li Zhang and the orphans.

Li Zhang and his group came straight to the dock. It was not dawn, but there were many people gathered on the dock. Most of them were carrying large bags of coolies at the dock. When it dawn, there would be people coming to pick up people to load and unload goods. The wages were paid every day, and they also made a living by relying on this.

Niu Da shrank his neck and came to the open space by the dock. There were already many coolies like him gathered here. Niu Da's surname is also strong like a cow. To put it in the words of a head, he was born to eat this bowl of rice. Others can only carry one hemp bag at a time, but he can carry two hemp bags at a time. Coolie is calculated by the amount, so he naturally earns more than others.

However, Niu Dachang is tall and has a big horse, and her appetite is equal to two, so she has been poor for a few years. She has eaten when she has worked, but she has eaten when she has no work. Even supporting herself is a problem, let alone saving money to get married.

Spring is just beginning now, and it is the busiest time of the river transportation. Niu Da is not worried about having no work. Now he is holding the ten cents in his arms and thinking about how to spend it. This ten cents is his daily meal. He must be full in the morning, otherwise he will not be able to work for a while. He can eat four or five pancakes on the dock at one dime, and he also has to add a bowl of pickled vegetables soup. After all, they are doing physical work, and they have no strength to do without salt. However, the price of salt has increased, and Lao Wang, who sells pickled vegetables soup, also raises the price. A bowl costs two cents, which is simply too unintentional.

"Cook cake~, freshly steamed cook cake!" Just as Niu Da cursed Lao Wang in his heart, he suddenly heard a familiar hawking sound, which cheered up the coolies waiting to work. The surname of this cook cake seller Liu, known as Cook cake Liu, was not only delicious, but also full of weight. Most of the coolies on the dock like to buy a few cook cakes in the morning, which is so hungry.

As soon as the shouts of Cooking Biao Liu came out, Niu Da and his gang of coolies immediately gathered up. The big and soft Cooking Biao cost two cents, and two others could eat enough, but Niu Da had to eat four or five.

"What's so fragrant?" Just as Niu Da and his group were buying pancakes, they suddenly smelled a strange fragrance. Then they heard a child's crisp hawking: "Well, a large spoon per cent, and there are vegetables and meat!"

Niu Da and others thought it was a child making a fuss. They didn’t know what the slicing was, but it was impossible for a penny to have vegetables and meat. After all, Lao Wang’s pickle soup costs two cents a bowl.

However, they soon saw a few worn-out but very clean children shouting hard at the right back of the stall of the pancake Liu. Behind them, a big pot was mounted on a simple stove made of bricks. The pot was filled with hot steam, emitting a strange fragrance, which was the smell they just smelled.
Chapter completed!