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There were a few spring thunders last night, and a little cold rain sprinkled early this morning.

The spring cold is precipitous, and it seems to freeze out people's snot.

The streets are bleak and deserted, and passers-by occasionally pedestrians are also necking their necks and hands, all of them in a hurry.

The drizzle is falling, there is already some mud in front of the shop, this day, I am afraid that there is no business, but Liu Dayou still got up early in the morning and set up the preserved fruit stalls in the shop, which are all winter and spring fruits, pears, apples and whatever.

Uncle Zhang, the old man in the shop, helped, and sprinkled some water on the fruits in the stall to make the fruits look more fragrant and attractive.

The two were busy, looking at the stalls, there were no guests for the time being, Liu Dayou went to the tea shop next to him to buy two freshly released steamed buns, as well as two steamed buns, and took them back hot.

Then the buns were let Uncle Zhang eat, and he ate the steamed buns himself.

"Alas, young master, you are just the time to grow your body, you should eat more meat."

Uncle Zhang said helplessly, the young master is kind to people, and the same is true for his old fellow.

It's a pity that the old lady went out a few years ago, and since then there has been no news, her whereabouts are unknown, and her life and death are unknown.

All kinds of news came, some said that they had been rebellious, and some said that they had encountered bandits, but they had not even been able to find their bones.

In the past few years, there are only two of them left in the shop, and all parties are openly and secretly, and I don't know how many people have beaten the idea of this preserved fruit shop, and it is difficult to maintain.

"Uncle Zhang, it's okay."

Liu Dayou smiled, giving people a very warm feeling, but his eyes looked at the Lian General Administration Diagonally opposite, and he didn't know what kind of look he had in his eyes.

Uncle Zhang looked at the past and looked forward to it: "I don't know if the lords in the agency will come to buy preserved fruits today, if you can buy dozens of catties every day, then our preserved fruit shop business will be fine." ”

Liu Dayou has just turned 18 years old this year, is five feet tall, and is slightly thin, but he has a kind face, a smile on his face from time to time, and he is a warm-hearted person.

The original location of his preserved fruit shop was very ordinary, on this side of West Street, there have always been no guests, even if there are guests, they also buy more than half a catty, but dozens of steps away from the diagonal opposite the new Lian General Administration of the General Administration, the preserved fruit shop has a trend of developing towards the prosperous shop.

Especially after Master Yang settled in two days ago, he had to consume dozens of catties of preserved fruits every day, and the business of the preserved fruit shop suddenly improved.

Not only that, but the butcher shop and vegetable shop in this area have also risen, and the turnover has increased significantly.

The tea shop next door to him is also full of people these days, mainly because there are too many people in Suining City who pay attention to the General Administration of Lian.

Although it is inconvenient for the main family to come forward, there are people running below staring, this tea shop is located just right, and you can eat, drink and sit in the shop, so all kinds of people flow here.

Although Mr. Yang has refused to see guests in the department in the past two days, except for yesterday's visit by Mr. Zhou, the supervisor of Zhou, Mr. Yang also personally sent out the door, and the rest of the people who visited received gifts, and basically disappeared, but all kinds of news still came.

For example, on the 18th, Master Yang accompanied by five ironclad guards, accompanied by Master Deng, walked around the city wall, and then in the afternoon, five artillery pieces were pulled to the barracks.

For example, on the 19th, there was also news that Master Yang sent an ironclad escort to the north bank.

The doorman sometimes comes out, although others basically don't answer three questions when asked, with a mysterious smile on his face, but the red envelope is in place, and occasionally reveals a few idle words, all of which are quickly spread in the ears of people with hearts.

This situation occurred in a short period of time after the construction of the General Administration of Training, and barracks were built after the department, and at least 500 strong men would settle in.

Yesterday, Liu Dayou had already heard Uncle Ni, the owner of the tea shop next to him, say that someone had offered him a price the day before yesterday and was willing to buy it at a premium of three times.

"I wonder if the agency will come to buy preserved fruits today...... The master of the General Administration of Lian is also kind, real money, no credit......"

Uncle Zhang babbled again, and suddenly his face changed, and he scolded: "It's these plague grandsons again." ”

Liu Dayou's face also changed, and he saw a few people who looked like sticks coming in the drizzle, stepping on the mud one by one, mixed with the sparse residual snow, scolding and scolding.

Liu Dayou knows them, these are the famous sticks and green skins in Suining City, rampant in the market, doing all kinds of evil, goodness is targeted by them, and they have to peel off their skins if they don't die.

It is said that with the development of commerce in the Ming Dynasty, the power of the green skin singles in the market has also swelled and become rampant, all kinds of ugliness and evils, and with the powerful, gentry, and local bullies as the backers, they have their own organizations, orders, and territories.

Whenever they encounter a case of human life, they regard it as a strange thing, or pretend to be a relative of the deceased, or forcibly give false testimony, extort the victim's food, drink and property, and be kind to the family of the victim, and there are countless people who have been ruined by them.

There are also special beatings for people, using rods, firewood, and mallets, etc., as weapons, so as not to injure people, and they have a special trick of beating people, or hit the ribs in the chest, or hit the lower back and lower abdomen, and the wounded have a time limit, or they die in March, May, or October, and they are wanton and forceful.

Then there is robbery, robbing property is one, the most important thing is robbing people, every time you meet a weak, old or sick person, you will rob it and hide it in the secret room, and then find a rich family to provoke trouble, and kill the person hiding in the secret room, and blame the rich family for doing it.

Then, under the guise of demanding human lives and repaying blood debts, hundreds of party members and rabble wanderers were gathered, and they first went to their homes to loot them, and then Ming went to the court, and the more virtuous the rich family, the more victimized.

Finally, there is cheating, blackmail, and scoundrels, which are often used by small groups of individual sticks, and putting one's wife out to engage in immortal jumping is just an idle method, which is outrageous and refers to human trafficking.

In particular, the beggars in various places deceived and abducted young girls, and used fruit cakes to build medicine, and the young girls ate them, and they were dumb and speechless, that is, they were hugged into the boat, and he went to the floating boat, and no one could trace them. When the young girl grows up, the beautiful one is promiscuous, and she sells it for a high price.

The ugly ones are blind, or their fingers are cut off, and they teach beggars to beg, and they beg for what they beg, and they beat and curse them, and they lose their conscience.

As for the sale of counterfeit silver, the sale of counterfeit medicines, counterfeit wine, and other despicable acts, they also abound.

There are also a few groups of people in Suining, robbing with sticks, adding fists and kicks for no reason, staring at outsiders, or poor and helpless people, deceiving and abducting young girls, taking orders and beating people, and making ends meet.

Suining folks suffered deeply.

It's just that these people have quite a backstage, the third class of the government servants, and many of them have backers, especially the leaders of the fast class, and even Wei Kungang, who has an unclear relationship with these people.

Because of this, these people have been at ease in Suining, and the people's resentment is boiling, so they throw out a few peripheral substitute ghosts, and the backbone is not damaged.

Seeing these sticks, the pedestrians avoided one after another, and these people came over proudly, all with small hats and short coats, caged sleeves, and walking swaying and swinging.

Only the first one was gorgeously dressed, wearing a green robe, a folded scarf, and a rather large ear warmer, almost covering half of his face.

Seeing them approaching, Uncle Zhang scolded in a low voice, lowered his head in a panic, and the sticks dangled in front of the preserved fruit shop, and a stick with a blue face and a plaster on his right cheek saw Liu Dayou and glared at him unkindly.

Liu Dayou watched them swing to the tea shop next to him, and the boss Uncle Ni saw these people, his face turned green, these people sat for a long time, only gave a little money, or even didn't give money, so that he couldn't get his capital back, how is this good?

But there was no choice but to beckon these sticks to take a seat.

The green-robed man at the head looked at the restless guests in the shop, and said lightly: "Old Ni, your tea shop is doing a good business." ”

The boss Ni Shuqiang said with a smile: "Geng Ye said that he was joking, and it was all up to the neighbors to raise him. ”

The green-robed man said lightly: "Okay, let's have a bowl of tofu brain, a few more steamed buns, and a plate of salt beans." ”

The rest of the people were screaming like sticks, some wanted tofu brains, some wanted powder, and the table was slammed.

Seeing them making trouble, the surrounding guests were even more uneasy, many people checked out in advance and left, and the boss Uncle Ni secretly complained, if this continues, his tea shop business will be greatly affected.

However, there was no choice but to put on a happy face and serve bowls of hot tofu brains and steaming steamed buns.

The sticks in the public gobbled up, and they all ate non-stop, full of praise.

It is said that Suining tofu is quite famous, and there is outstanding powder skin, fried in winter to make soup, quite palatable, salt beans are also quite famous, men, women and children are all loved, there is a local saying: pancakes roll salt beans, three meals a day is not enough.

The tofu brain in this shop is particularly outstanding, and many people are willing to come to West Street to eat it.

And Suining is a small place, they extort all day long, and they are often hungry, eating hot tofu brains and buns at this time, which are all happy.

Only the green-robed man ate slowly, and from time to time he looked at the Lian General Administration on the opposite side.

Uncle Ni, the owner of the tea shop, has been worried, but fortunately, these sticks didn't stay in the tea shop for long today, and after the salt beans were eaten, the green-robed man got up.

Then he took out some copper coins, which made Uncle Ni bitter, these copper coins, I am afraid that less than 30% of the rice cost will be in good condition.

But he didn't dare to say anything, he only nodded and said, "Thank you Geng Ye for rewarding, Geng Ye go slowly." ”

The green-robed man Geng Ye hummed lightly, originally according to his style, he didn't give him the thirty percent of the meal, but last night he heard the rumors, and Master Yang of the General Administration of Lian called the tofu brain in this shop for breakfast yesterday, and he was quite appreciative.

When the news came, Geng Ye kept his mind and didn't dare to overdo it, lest the owner of the tea shop have a relationship with the General Administration of Lian in the future.

Liu Dayou took care of the stalls, and saw them stepping on the mud again, and the drizzle was sprinkled one after another, and he heard a few of their discussions: "Geng Ye, just watch like this every day?" ”

Geng Ye said: "If you don't look at what you can do, Xia Ye ordered to come down, we are mixed on the street, just listen carefully." ”

He said lightly: "It's just to listen to idle things, and we don't mix with anything else...... How many people are sitting in the tea shop now? ”

A stick was shocked: "Xia Bantou? Oh...... I heard that Xia Ye is very important to Master Wei, could it be that the person who ordered it? ”

Geng Ye frowned, the stick didn't dare to say any more, they passed by the preserved fruit shop speechlessly, the stick with a pale face and a plaster on his right cheek was sandwiched among the crowd, he glanced at Liu Dayou coldly, and suddenly stepped forward.

He took a pear from the stall and handed it to the green-robed man: "Master Geng, eat pears." ”

The green-robed man took it lightly, and took one of the sticks with the plaster on his cheeks.

He took a big bite and said vaguely, "I'll eat it too." ”

Seeing him take the pear, the people came forward with a grin, and they all took a pear, and I took an apple.

Seeing that they were leaving, Uncle Zhang couldn't help but say, "Alas,...... I didn't give any money. ”

Liu Dayou was about to hold him, but the sticks were already sneering and standing, the figure flashed, and the sticks with plasters were already bullied, and a heavy slap was coming.

Liu Dayou hurriedly blocked it, and the heavy slap hit him in the face, and there was a loud "snap", Liu Dayou only felt that the corners of his mouth were sweet and his head was buzzing.

The surrounding neighbors were all surprised, and Uncle Zhang screamed even more, he shook his hand again and again, and said in a trembling voice: "No, don't want money, you can go, I just ask you not to beat my young master......"

The stick with the plaster stood with a sneer, he looked at Liu Dayou coldly, pointed his finger at his chest and said, "Master wants to give money for eating pears?" ”

Liu Dayou gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "No." ”

The stick with the plaster said: "The master eats your pears because he looks up to you, isn't it?" ”

Liu Dayou said in a low voice: "Yes." ”

The stick with the plaster slapped him again, and it hit Liu Dayou on the other side of his face, and a trace of blood flowed down the corner of Liu Dayou's mouth.

The surrounding neighbors trembled in their hearts, and Uncle Zhang's old tears flowed down all of a sudden, and he began to cry.

He knelt down in the muddy water, and begged with tears: "Please, don't beat my young master." ”

Uncle Ni, the owner of the tea shop, gritted his teeth and looked at it, thinking hatefully: "In this world, why is there no one to clean up these green skins?" ”

The plastered stick just yelled, "Isn't it? I didn't hear it. ”

Liu Dayou raised his voice and said, "Yes." ”

The plaster sticks showed a satisfied expression, he patted Liu Dayou's face and scolded: "You chicken." ”

Biting the pear, he walked away with a smile, and the green-robed man Geng Ye kept looking at it lightly, and then said, "Let's go." ”

The people laughed and left, and Liu Dayou and the two stood up with each other, extremely desolate.

Looking at them, all the villagers sighed, precarious, and bullied, why wasn't this the case themselves?

"Young master, it's all my fault."

Uncle Zhang blamed himself.

Liu Dayou said in a deep voice: "Uncle Zhang, this is not your fault. ”

He glanced at the departing landsticks, and a gloomy and cruel look flashed in his eyes, which was completely different from his usual warm and kind expression.

He said in a low voice: "Uncle Zhang, I'm a little uncomfortable, I want to go into the bunk to rest for a while." ”

Uncle Zhang hurriedly said: "Then the young master will go in and rest, and the shop will be handed over to me." ”

……

It is said that after the sticks arrived at the cross street, they dispersed for recreation, and the big name of the beating stick was Liu Fengying, and sometimes others also called him "Ma Ye", which meant that he was very good at shooting horses, but Liu Fengying felt that this nickname was very appropriate, so he gladly responded down.

Before he joined Geng Ye's gang, he was a "third master", a servant of the county government.

However, after the county magistrate was transferred, the man was promoted by the magistrate because of his cleverness and ability, and he was promoted to the rank of chief and left Suining, and "Ma Ye" was unemployed, and he usually only relied on the room with prostitutes and wives to make a living by jumping immortals.

However, in recent years, Suining has been depressed, and this industry has become more and more difficult to do, so he changed careers to join Geng Ye's business, and sometimes he can also get a little meat.

I have done a lot of things without conscience, and "Ma Ye" has become more and more black-hearted, so he just ate Liu Da and slapped him a few times, but it was just a small episode, and he forgot about it in a blink of an eye.

At this time, "Ma Ye" looked in a hurry, but he had to go to the half-covered door of South Street, which was a widow, quite beautiful and skilled.

Now it is more inexpensive, more than a dozen dollars can play for half a day, thinking about nothing, "Ma Ye" decided to go there to fight with it for 300 rounds.

He walked down the street in high spirits, and soon turned to South Street, which, like West Street, was a slum area, with sparse and messy houses, large areas of barren grass and fields, vegetable fields, cemeteries, and fields.

The drizzle was hazy, and "Ma Ye" walked on the dirt road streets that were getting more and more muddy step by step, and the spring was cold, and it was not comfortable to walk outside at this time, but "Ma Ye" thought about the half-closed door, and his heart was hot, but he hummed a little song.

Suddenly he felt the urgency of urinating, and when he looked, he walked out into a field beside the street, which was full of waist-high weeds, which hid his figure deeply, and in front of him there were several dry graves, and the graves were full of muddy water, and the scenery was desolate.

He unbuckled his trouser belt, urinated happily with his tools, and exhaled with satisfaction.

Just as he was about to put the tool back in his pants, he suddenly heard footsteps that seemed to be rustling behind him, and then became hurried, "Ma Ye" was startled and said, "Who?" ”

Just as he was about to turn his head, a hard stone suddenly smashed into the back of his head, and a terrifying bloody mouth immediately burst out on the head of "Ma Ye", and scarlet blood and white brain fluid splashed out.

"Ma Ye" snorted, his feet slipped, and he stumbled, and then the hard stone smashed again, and the terrifying blood and white mixed matter splashed again.

"Ma Ye" opened his eyes to the maximum, and he burst out of his survival instinct, and he was about to howl loudly.

Suddenly, his right arm was twisted, and in the sound of Titica, his arm was already twisted and broken, and before "Ma Ye" could be called, his head was already pressed into the muddy water, so that he couldn't make any sound.

Then the hard stone slammed down on his head again, each time.

"Ma Ye" fluttered, and his limbs were still struggling desperately at first, and slowly turned into convulsions.

Eventually, it becomes an occasional twitch.

And the hard stone continued to smash, and again, and again.

The skull in front of him was shattered, and there were red and white things all over the ground.

Drizzle, still drifting.

Sprinkled.