novelden Chapter 140 Don’t reveal your wealth
Chapter 140 Don’t reveal your wealth
Chapter 140: Don’t Show Your Wealth
Qiu Huoming agreed with this.
Those three guys were so enthusiastic. They looked like farmers, but their speech was different. Especially Huang Chao, he could make the dead seem alive.
Gu Xiaoran nodded, "Don't worry, uncle, we still have this precautionary mentality."
Qiu Huoming looked at the remaining meat bun and egg and brought them to Mou Jinshan, "Uncle Mou, there are more. You can eat them together."
Mou Jinshan looked at Qiu Huoming's clear eyes and actually felt moved. Food was very precious in those days, especially for people who had experienced that difficult period.
This child was actually willing to give him the remaining food, which made him feel better about Qiu Huoming.
In addition, he was indeed not full, so he took it immediately and said, "Okay, I'll accept it."
After he finished eating, Qiu Huoming stood up and said, "Gu Xiaoran, do you want to go to the restaurant? I heard that the braised pork ribs and four-happiness meatballs on this ship are delicious..."
Gu Xiaoran sat up from the bed and said, "Okay."
She turned her head and looked at Mou Jinshan, "Uncle, let's go together."
Mou Jinshan touched his already full stomach and said resentfully, "Forget it, you guys go ahead."
The restaurant was at the stern on the second floor. Qiu Huoming and Gu Xiaoran went down the stairs one after another.
It was time for dinner, and fortunately the first group of people who had finished their meal were already leaving, but there was still a long line that stretched from the restaurant to the door.
"There are too many people!" Qiu Huoming said this, but he still stood at the end of the line.
Several windows of the restaurant were open, and the breeze from the river brought in the slightly warm scent of the river water. Although the wind was strong, it didn't feel that hot.
Gu Xiaoran's hair fluttered, and she tucked her messy hair behind her ears. The restaurant was much cleaner than she had imagined, and the line inside moved quite quickly, and it was soon their turn.
Qiu Huoming paid the bill, holding a plate in each hand, which contained pork chops and meatballs. Gu Xiaoran held two bowls of rice. As the two were looking for a seat, they heard a familiar voice shouting, "Xiao Qiu, come here!"
The person who was speaking was Xiao Li. He, his wife Xiao Chen, and Huang Chao were sitting at a large round table. After he extended his hand to greet them, he immediately stood up and quickly pulled over two stools from the table next to him that they had just left.
"Let's go and join in the fun?" Qiu Huoming looked helpless. There was no way to avoid it.
"I don't care. Let's go." Gu Xiaoran walked over with him.
Xiao Li cleared two clean areas on the round table. Qiu Huoming and Gu Xiaoran put down their plates and found that they had already eaten most of the food.
"Wow, big chops, they were all gone when we ordered just now. You are so lucky, brother." Huang Chao said in Mandarin with a local accent.
"Then Uncle Huang, would you like one?" Qiu Huoming replied with a smile as he picked up the bowl of rice.
"I'm full and can't eat anymore." Huang Chao touched his stomach.
Xiao Li was picking his teeth with a toothpick. "Everything on this ship is good, except that the fare is too expensive. I couldn't buy a fourth-class ticket, and the fifth-class ticket is too bad..."
His wife Xiao Chen drank some water from the bowl and echoed: "Fortunately, on our way back, Uncle Huang and the others can give us a ride..."
Qiu Huoming glanced at Huang Chao when he heard this, "Uncle Huang has a car? Then why do you still take the boat?"
Huang Chao's expression was as usual, but the face of He Liu next to him showed a trace of embarrassment.
"My friends are in Shenhai, they have been doing business there for a long time..."
Ma Sixi suddenly stood up and said, "We're done eating. Let's make room for the little brother. Let's go up..."
"Haha, haha, let's go up first." Huang Chao stood up with a smile.
He looked at Xiao Li and the others across from him, "Do you want to go together?"
Xiao Li hesitated for a while, but nodded, "Okay, let's go."
After they left, a waiter came to the table soon and quickly cleaned up the mess on the table. After a while, several more passengers came to sit at the table.
"This Brother Li probably wants to ask us about buying things in Shenhai." Qiu Huoming took a bite of the meatball and said with relish.
"It's not easy to get married." Gu Xiaoran sighed.
"Nine times out of ten, they are using marriage as an excuse to see the world." Qiu Huoming thought that this was probably a bit similar to the travel marriages of later generations.
Uncle Huang and his men look weird."
Qiu Huoming glanced at Gu Xiaoran. You have to trust women's intuition.
"Indeed, it's probably some business that is not presentable." Qiu Huoming took a big mouthful of rice and ate it relishing the aroma. The dishes on the boat actually tasted average, but they were generous with the amount of oil and salt, and went very well with rice.
After they finished their lunch, they planned to go back.
The restaurant on the second floor was bustling with people, and at this moment, I saw several diners wandering around looking for seats.
You are not allowed to take food out of the restaurant. There are special people checking at the exit. I heard that some diners used to steal the dishes and chopsticks after eating. This is why it happened. Now everyone has to be checked after eating.
The plates and bowls in the restaurant are all custom-made and can be easily distinguished.
Qiu Huoming and Gu Xiaoran came with empty hands, and the staff took one look and let them go.
After leaving the restaurant, Qiu Huoming went straight downstairs and wandered around the deck on the first floor. Today was his first day on the ship, and he was afraid that he would not be in the mood after tonight.
The sun on the deck at noon was so strong that the two men could not walk for long before they started walking back dizzy.
"Go back and have some rest." Gu Xiaoran said as he rubbed his waist at the stairs.
"Well, by the way, let's see where the bathhouse is. Take a bath before going to bed at night." Qiu Huoming said as he went upstairs.
Meeting a man in uniform along the road, Qiu Huoming immediately stopped him, "Comrade, where is the bathing place?"
"It's in the middle of the ship..." The staff member said this and hurried downstairs.
When they reached the third floor, the two of them walked around along the railing. There was a bathhouse in the middle of the boat, with a toilet next to it, and a hot water room at the very edge. Several passengers were holding empty water bottles, bending over to get hot water.
After checking the terrain, the two men began to walk back.
It was hot, so everyone's cabin doors were basically open.
When they walked back into the cabin, Mou Jinshan was leaning on the bed, flipping through the flyers he got on the ship, yawning out of boredom.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I saw them come in.
"I'm going to the bathroom." Mou Jinshan said and walked out.
Except for Xiao Chen, the few people who were in the restaurant before have not returned yet. They probably went out to have a cigarette after dinner.
Xiao Chen was washing the towel in front of the sink in the cabin. After washing, he hung it directly on the rope next to him.
Qiu Huoming took back his backpack and guitar. Gu Xiaoran took off his shoes and climbed onto the upper bunk.
"Student Gu, if you find it inconvenient, how about we switch?"
"No need. I've never slept on the upper bunk. It's okay to give it a try." Gu Xiaoran was agile and climbed up quickly. She lay on the bed and stuck her head out.
"Qiu Huoming, since you brought a guitar, why don't you play a song for me?"
"Okay, if you have money, give me a reward. If you don't have money, just give me applause." Qiu Huoming lowered his head and opened the outer packaging of the guitar.
Sitting on the bed, he propped up the guitar with his legs, plucked a few notes and tuned it for a while.
Xiao Chen on the opposite side also became interested.
"Xiao Qiu, you can do this too. This thing must be very expensive, right?"
"It was given to me by someone else. I don't know how much it cost." Qiu Huoming tuned the strings of his guitar, looked up at Gu Xiaoran and asked, "Come on, now is the song request session."
"Let's sing 'On the Other Side of the Water'. We are right on the river." Gu Xiaoran said, lying on the bed with his hands on his chin.
A glissando sounded, and the prelude of "ding ding dong dong" echoed in the cabin.
"The grass is green and the mist is white. There is a beautiful woman on the other side of the water.
Green grass, misty white, a beautiful woman lives by the water
I want to swim upstream and snuggle up to her
Unfortunately, there are dangerous rapids ahead, and the road ahead is long and far..."
Qiu Huoming's voice was more mature than before, already having some of the richness of an adult. Gu Xiaoran was clapping the beat on the upper bunk and singing along softly.
Xiao Chen sat on the edge of the bed, listening intently.
Several passengers from the next cabin came in after hearing the noise and looked out the door.
After solving his personal problems, Mou Jinshan walked back with ease. As soon as he turned to his cabin, he heard the sound of singing.
Several passengers were already standing outside their cabin, talking among themselves.
"I've heard this song before. There's a coffee shop in Shenhai that plays it every day..."
"You've been to a coffee shop before, isn't that too capital..."
"Don't talk nonsense. The people are the masters of the country. This coffee shop is also a food store. It sells Shenhai brand coffee. The coffee is very bitter, but fragrant. You can smell it from a long distance..."
At that time, people were still very cautious about drinking coffee, and they would use the names of "food stores" and "beverage stores" to secretly let the greedy customers come to taste it.
Through the door, he saw Qiu Huo Ming sitting on his bed, a bunk away from Gu Xiaoran. He was relieved and simply stood at the door, enjoying the river breeze and stretching his muscles.
He leaned on the railing and lowered his head to see Xiao Li, Huang Chao and others on the deck below, each holding a cigarette and talking about something.
Another piece of music sounded in the cabin.
There was no singing this time. This was a song he had heard before, but he couldn't remember the name. The sound of the piano seemed to roll over his heart, making him stand there in a daze for a moment.
In the cabin, the song Qiu Huoming played was the famous guitar piece: "The Romance of Love". The guitar in his hand was originally a classical guitar, as folk guitar was not yet popular at that time.
This classical guitar piece is a piece that almost every guitar learner must learn. It has a beautiful melody and is not difficult.
However, Qiu Huoming used rolling fingers in this song, and the originally melodious music immediately became a little urgent, like the sound of a pipa.
There were several cheers from outside.
Only then did Qiu Huoming realize that many people had gathered at the door of his cabin.
After the song ended, he simply put away his guitar.
It's not good to be too ostentatious.
Gu Xiaoran was still feeling unsatisfied on the upper bunk, but Xiao Chen across from her stood up. She took out two peaches from the cloth bag hanging at the end of the bed and said, "Have a peach. I brought these from home."
Without waiting for Qiu Huoming and Gu Xiaoran to refuse, she had already placed the peach on the stool next to them.
"Just wash it and you can eat it. It's very crispy."
"Well, thank you, Sister Chen." Qiu Huoming was not polite. He took two peaches and went to the sink. He washed the peaches, shook them a few times to get rid of the water, and walked back quickly.
He handed one to Gu Xiaoran on the upper bunk and took a bite of the other one himself.
"It's really crispy." The taste of this peach is not bad. It's a little bit worse than the peaches of 'Sophora japonica', but it's still pretty good.
"If you like it, I have more in my bag. They're not expensive, so feel free to eat them." Xiao Chen seems to be a slow-warm person, but now you can tell she's still very enthusiastic.
"Sister Chen, why don't you take a boat on your way back? Why do you have to take Uncle Huang's car?"
"It was your brother Li who insisted on doing this. He said we have a lot of stuff and it would be a good idea to get a ride."
"You live in Anqi, which is in the north. It wouldn't be convenient for them to go back to the south, right?"
Just as Xiao Chen was about to reply, Huang Chao's accented voice came from the door, "Comrade Mou, why don't you come in?"
"Let's get some fresh air. We've been stuffy for the whole morning. Comrade Huang, you guys are still addicted to smoking!" said Mou Jinshan.
"This is the only hobby I have left. If I don't smoke for a day, I feel anxious..." Huang Chao's words resonated with several passengers next to him.
"Yes, you can smoke less during meals, but you can't smoke less. A few years ago, you had to use cigarette coupons to buy cigarettes, and even if you had money, it didn't work. I had to find several people to get a pack of cigarettes. Now it's good, I can smoke whenever I want..."
Several passengers started chatting and the conversation became lively.
After a while, Xiao Li walked in first.
His wife scolded him, "It takes you so long to smoke a cigarette. You didn't even hear Xiaoqiu playing the guitar just now. It was so beautiful."
Xiao Li smiled and replied, "Then let Xiao Qiu play another song."
Qiu Huoming pointed outside with his mouth, "Many people are resting at this time. If you want to listen, please listen in the afternoon."
“This guitar must cost a lot of money, right?”
They are indeed a family, even the questions they ask are so similar.
This time Qiu Huoming didn't need to answer, Xiao Chen explained for him, "It was given to me by someone else. It was the first time I heard him play the piano. I was stunned. I've never heard anything so beautiful."
Xiao Li didn't take it seriously, "Then I'll listen to it when I wake up, and you can take a rest too."
"You go to sleep, I'll talk to you later." Xiao Chen looked up at him.
Xiao Li took off his shoes and climbed directly to the upper bunk. He lay down, turned over, covered his stomach with a thin sheet, and soon he started snoring.
Only then did Xiao Chen remember what Qiu Huoming had asked just now.
She thought for a moment and replied, "They said they wanted to buy some mountain products from us..."
Qiu Huoming frowned. Anqi Prefecture has been one of the important ports on the Yangtze River since ancient times. It produces a lot of aquatic products and also mountain products. However, compared with the continuous Guangsai, these mountain products are not worth mentioning.
"An Qi doesn't have any mountain products?" Qiu Huoming said suspiciously.
Xiao Chen is young and doesn’t seem to be someone who goes out often. He was stunned when he was asked this question. “We just have some wild fungus and other things…”
Her delicate brows also frowned.
"Well, Sister Chen, um, um, when you go out, don't show your wealth to others!" Qiu Huo said it so clearly, if she still didn't understand, he would not bother to persuade her anymore.
The noisy noise at the door gradually died down, and soon Mou Jinshan strode in.
Huang Chao and the others followed behind him, and it seemed that they all went back to the cabin to rest.
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