starry night
The frost is cold and the dew is heavy, and the magpies fly south
Beside the old and thick city walls, a butcher's shop was lit by candlelight.
Seven or eight rough men were busy.
One by one, the fat pigs were restrained and bled, and sharp howls continued to penetrate the night sky. The stench filled the air, making people dizzy.
A fat and muscular middle-aged man in a short coat, holding a purple clay pot, sitting cross-legged and drinking tea, looking at the thin young man in front of him leisurely.
He's skinny and his clothes are full of patches!
Due to long-term malnutrition, his face became haggard and pale.
His fingers were also covered in calluses, clearly suffering greatly.
However, the young man's eyes were very clear and deep, with a hint of calmness and competence, which made people feel comfortable with him.
The middle-aged man put down the teapot and asked casually: "Are you the grandson of Old Wei Tou? What is your name?"
"Reporting to the eldest master, junior Wei Hong." The young man's eyes were clear and he replied in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "I am 16 years old this year and I know a few words. My grandfather is the old Wei who works in Anlefang. He often mentions your reputation, so I want this junior to have a meal with you."
"Reputation fart!" The middle-aged man spit out a mouthful of tea foam, and his expression softened slightly: "You don't have to shout like a big shot. I am now the stall master of this butcher shop. If you are not afraid of hardship, Eating from you is a way to repay my grandfather's kindness."
"Thank you, stall owner." Wei Hong smiled.
The middle-aged man continued: "Our butcher shop doesn't have any rules. It's just a lot of dirty and tiring work. From now on, we will start work at 3 a.m. and finish at 3:00 a.m. in the afternoon. We will take care of breakfast and lunch."
"Must be responsible for cleaning the inside and outside of the yard, pig pens and latrines, helping to slaughter pigs, boiling water and adding firewood, cleaning the pig water channels. If there is time, must go to various restaurants to deliver goods, and help in the kitchen."
"Moreover, there is no salary during the internship, and rewards are only given on holidays. Do you remember this?"
Wei Hong silently nodded in agreement.
He doesn't really care about the salary.
Since he traveled to this world of immortality, he has relied on his grandfather, growing up in the slums of the capital of the gods of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and at the same time awakening in a mysterious system.
This system lives by sucking the life out of everything.
As long as Wei Hong kills humans and animals with his own hands, he can absorb a ray of vitality from the other party, thereby continuously increasing his vitality and lifespan without any side effects or upper limits.
If he were an ordinary person, he would probably be tempted to kill people everywhere to become stronger.
But Wei Hong knew that this was a dangerous world. There were immortal cultivators who went to heaven and earth, warriors who smashed mountains and oceans with their fists, and there was no shortage of strange evil spirits that could harm human lives.
Those who kill will always be killed!
How can you walk along a river without getting your shoes wet?
Therefore, Wei Hong resolutely abandoned this way of killing people to become stronger, and then asked his grandfather to find a job as an apprentice butcher in a pork shop and become stronger as soon as possible.
"Big stall, when can I start killing pigs?" Wei Hong asked curiously, looking at the pork with a little excitement.
This is the experience package!
"You haven't learned to walk yet, and you want to run away?" Zhu Sihai, a middle-aged man, sneered angrily: "Killing pigs is a technical job. Only after passing the three-year apprenticeship assessment can you have the chance to become a swordsman. Take your time. Learn it."
"Three years?"
"It doesn't take long." Zhu Sihai patted his shoulder and comforted him: "Our butcher shop is affiliated with the Hutou Gang, and apprentices also have the opportunity to practice basic stacking skills. If you study hard and practice hard, your arm strength will increase greatly. There is nothing wrong with being a swordsman, and there is even a chance to join the Hutou Gang."
Wei Hong's eyes lit up again when he heard this!
It is not easy to find immortals and ask questions these days, after all, the immortal cultivation sect is mysterious and difficult to find. Although the imperial family of the Great Zhou Dynasty has immortal cultivators as their worshippers, not everyone can access it.
Therefore, practicing pencak silat becomes a way out for ordinary people.
If the average person wants to go to a martial arts gym to practice martial arts, he or she must pay a monthly school fee of at least 12 to 80 taels.
Now you can learn martial arts by joining a butcher shop, which is definitely a pleasant surprise.
"Do it well." Zhu Sihai continued to draw the pie: "Although our pig butcher is dirty and tired, at least there is no shortage of meat to eat. I don't know how many people envy you. I will do it well." Waiting for you to make your body stronger and practice martial arts. It is also a good way out."
"Thank you, shop owner." Wei Hong thanked him.
He knew that Zhu Sihai was not lying.
Butcher apprenticeship is an interesting job, and definitely not something that just anyone can do if they want to.
If grandpa had no relationship with the other party, he would not need to become an apprentice.
"Yes!" Zhu Sihai nodded in satisfaction, then raised his hand to call a simple and honest young man with bulging muscles, as strong as a brown bear, wearing a linen jacket, and warned: "Li Daniu, this is a new disciple." Wei "Hong, take him with you."
"Good!"
The young man nodded angrily.
He turned around, found a broom and handed it to Wei Hong, and said: "Brother Wei, please follow me to clean up the blood on the floor first. We will do all the housework in the shop. Everyone can do some things. If there is nothing, we will just walk around. "Cleaning, we must help at any time if someone asks, understand?"
"Okay, thank you, Brother Li." Wei Hong thanked him.
"Why are you so polite?" Li Daniu scratched his head and reminded in a low voice: "Just call me Daniu. I just came here two and a half years before you. Now only the two of us are apprentices in the butcher shop. Whatever I do later, you will follow me.
After a while, the two of them started to get busy.
Cleaning the pigsty, rinsing off the blood, shaving the pigs' fur, cleaning the pigs' intestines, boiling water and watching the fire, all sorts of trivial things happened one after another, so busy that their feet didn't touch the ground.
Wei Hong and Li Daniu are now under the butcher shop.
The feeling of working hard and hard without getting paid is not something outsiders can appreciate!
Moreover, due to lack of food all year round, Wei Hong's body became thin and weak. After working hard, he sweated profusely, his hands and feet were weak, and his face was very pale.
"Brother Wei, take it easy." Li Daniu reminded in a low voice: "Look how thin you are, there is no need to work too hard, otherwise you will have to lie down from exhaustion."
Wei Hong laughed out loud, this guy was quite interesting.
On the surface, he looks honest and upright, but in fact he knows how to cheat and play tricks.
"It's okay, I can survive."
Wei Hong gritted his teeth and continued to fetch water from the well in the yard to clean himself.
No matter in his previous life or in this life, he was a low-level person who had suffered a lot.
Now that he had the chance to stand out, how could he hold back?
Thinking of his leaky house in the slums, and his grandfather who was almost sixty years old and struggling to raise him, Wei Hong felt endless strength in his heart, and he didn't care even though his hands had been strangled by bloodstains or ropes.
"I want to be stronger!"
"I want to eat!"
"I want my grandfather to live a good life!"
The young man's face gradually became firmer.
There was no trace of fatigue in the pair of clear eyes, only hopeful energy!