Volume 18: The Third Master's Sword Chapter 424: The Manure Carrier
"Crash."
Old Gong poured bucket after bucket of manure water into the large barrel, then took out a long iron spoon and began scraping along the barrel wall until the barrel became relatively clean, then he put away the tools .
"Xiaoyun, come here, hand me the leaf you are holding!"
Xiaoyun immediately handed over a large bag of leaves in her arms. Lao Gong took out a dozen leaves and densely spread them on the iron spoon, trying to cover the surface as much as possible to cover the dirt. Finally, he put it into a cloth bag around his waist.
After finishing everything, Old Gong put the bucket back on his back, put the lid on, weighed it, and said with a smile, "It's really heavy after not coming here for three days. Okay, you walk behind me, and if anything goes wrong with my bucket, remember to remind me!"
Xiaoyun responded: "Okay!"
So the two of them walked out of the house and returned along the same path.
Nothing happened along the way, but all the people from the Liu Mansion who saw them covered their mouths and noses, with looks of disgust and displeasure on their faces, as if they had encountered something unlucky.
Old Gong just smiled at them happily, he was already used to it.
"Miss Liu, it stinks here, let's go!"
While walking on a small stone path, the two suddenly ran into a handsome young man with a sword and a pretty girl in a red fur coat and green clothes.
Although the lid of the dung bucket was tightly closed, some smell could still be avoided. The young man had a keen nose and smelled it immediately.
Old Gong still smiled at them.
There was nothing else he could do except this method.
Unexpectedly, the young man was even more furious when he saw this: "This abominable idiot, while stinking me up with his dirt, he was smiling at me at the same time. Is he laughing at me?"
Old Gong hurriedly explained: "No, no, don't be angry! I...I will leave right away, right away."
He pulled Xiaoyun, quickened his pace, and left in a hurry.
The person called Miss Liu was a little unhappy and said angrily: "Li Anzi, the people from your Hainan faction are fragrant and clean, only the people from our Liu Mansion stink, so why don't you follow me?"
Li Anzi was a little anxious and said defensively: "Ms. Liu, of course I didn't mean that?"
His face flushed red, and he obviously didn't know how to please the girl.
Miss Liu got even more angry and said, "That's not what you meant. What else do you mean? Also, don't call me Miss Liu anymore. Call me Miss Chou!"
After saying this, the beautiful girl stomped away in anger.
Li Anzi gritted his teeth, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, he glared at Lao Gong and Xiao Yun fiercely, cursing at them, and then hurriedly chased after them.
Old Gong and Xiao Yun walked faster, passed the door again, and saw the two servants guarding the door.
"Brother Zhang, please open the door for us again."
The two servants were not in a good mood towards Old Gong and the other two because they had been scolded before.
"Hurry up, this is such a hassle!"
They opened the door coldly, saw the two off, and then slammed the door shut.
After walking out of the door and another half a mile, Old Gong smiled bitterly and said, "Xiao Yun, we have offended someone this time."
Xiaoyun still nodded: "Yeah."
Old Gong didn't care whether Xiaoyun could understand what he was saying, but he continued to mutter: "First, we offended Miss Liu Rushui and Miss Liu Rushui, and then the two servants were scolded, and they also blamed us..."
"Next time you come here, you must be careful and talk less and do more."
As Old Gong and his companion walked, they knocked on doors on the street, waiting for people from nearby houses to hand over buckets of manure water, and then poured all the manure water into the large bucket on their backs.
In the end, the buckets on their backs became very heavy. Old Gong wiped the sweat off his face and walked out of the city with Xiaoyun.
Old Gong said, "Fortunately, except for the Liu family who got a little upset, everything else is fine. Next time when you go to the Liu family, you must be careful and put on a smile, understand?"
He had said this countless times on the road.
Maybe he had nothing else to say except this sentence, so he could only repeat .
It can be seen that Old Gong doesn’t have many opportunities to speak on weekdays, probably because not many people are willing to talk to him.
"The Liu family is not only the largest family in Liuquan City, so you must not offend them. Even if you are beaten and kicked, you must try your best to endure it..."
Old Gong began to repeat the words over and over again to Xiaoyun.
Xiaoyun, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke up and said, "I understand."
Old Gong looked at Xiaoyun in surprise and asked, "You understand? What do you understand?"
Xiaoyun said: "I know we can't afford to offend the Liu family."
"You also know that we porters are the lowest class of people in the city. Everyone can be rude to us, so we have to try our best to be patient."
"I also understand that the reason why the gatekeepers gave us a bad look was because they couldn't afford to offend the housekeeper, but they could afford to offend the porters."
Xiaoyun said a lot in one breath, maybe he didn't want to listen to Lao Gong's nagging anymore.
The surprise on Old Gong's face became even more intense. He opened his mouth wide, almost unable to speak.
——Only then did he realize that the young man in front of him was sometimes stupid and foolish, but sometimes very smart.
Old Gong cleared his throat and said seriously: "Let me ask you another question. If you can tell me the reason, that would be amazing."
"Do you know who the two people we ran into are and what their relationship is?"
Xiaoyun stopped talking again and just kept walking forward silently.
Old Gong smiled and said, "It seems that you are still a little bit behind after all."
He was just about to tell Xiaoyun the gossip he had heard from somewhere else, but Xiaoyun had already sighed.
"Even a blind man can see that. Li Anzi from the Hainan Sword School is Liu Rushui's admirer. Although Miss Liu Rushui may not like him, she will definitely marry him in the end."
Old Gong suddenly swallowed his words back. What he wanted to say was what he had just heard in the teahouse yesterday: the Hainan Sword Sect had come west this time and had proposed a marriage to the Liu family.
——Old Gong suddenly couldn't see through Xiaoyun in front of him. Maybe it was just like what Xiaoyun said, he just forgot too many things.
The sun sets and the west wind blows across the street.
The two gradually walked to the city gate.
Old Gong's steps became heavier, and he seemed to have aged ten years. He said with emotion: "Let's go faster. We have to be back before dark."
Xiaoyun looked up at him, with an indescribable strange emotion in her eyes, so she said one word with force: "Okay!"
There were few people coming and going at the city gate, and the vendors avoided the dung buckets and closed their stalls.
Old Gong stepped out of the city gate and forced a smile: "We carry all the manure from the South District and the good manure from Liu Mansion. If we sell it to those manure collectors outside the city, they will definitely give us a good price."
For some reason, he did not sound very happy when he said this. Instead, his voice became weak, as if he was exhausted and had difficulty in cheering up.
After a day of looking at people's faces, a day of walking, a day of carrying manure, and a day of talking, he must be tired.
