Simao smiled hehehe: "My silly sister, you quietly lift the curtain to see, can I still walk?" Besides, why should I leave, I'm still waiting to go to the old hall boat to drink tomorrow. ”

Chun Niang's mind was smart, she brought her face closer to the car curtain, stretched out her slender jade hand to open a slit, and then looked at the back of the car in the cold moonlight, and sure enough, there were a few people who were far away in the darkness at the junction of sight, just in front of the tail unhurriedly. couldn't help but be angry and anxious, stretched out his hand and pinched Simao fiercely: "You don't want to die, I'm still thinking about drinking at this moment, I'll drown you in the wine vat tonight, tomorrow is to open the incense hall, I'm a woman, the rules of the Cao Gang can't even enter the door, no one helps you, you just wait to die." ”

Simao dodged Chunniang's flower fingers, and muttered in his mouth: "I can't do the thing of swasting a girl halfway, besides, I escaped from you, how can you explain to your father and the bosses of the Cao Gang?" ”

"I'm a woman, who would dare to eat me? You don't fill me with a big radish here, and when you enter the yard, quickly pack up your things and get out, I have a way to drag these tails. Do you hear that? Chun Niang's apricot eyes are wide open, not angry but mighty.

"The matter of the old man, how can I let the girls go to the top tank, nonsense, since I dare to get on the old hall boat today, I am naturally prepared, and I am not afraid to open the incense hall tomorrow, I must come back alive with all the shadows, I still have to go to you to be a turtle with a shrunken head, I have to occupy your fragrant boudoir treasure, and I can't die to others."

After hearing this, Chun Niang couldn't help but widen her eyes, her brain suddenly came back to her senses, and she saw that the sky was dealing with the four mao in front of her, which was a slippery and treacherous ghost-like character, looking at his indifferent expression, looking like a bamboo in her chest, she thought to herself, this Simao is not a mallet, knowing that she will die, she is still rushing to throw herself into the net, and there must be something strange in it.

Thinking of this, Chun Niang used her hands angrily, pinched her four hairs and twisted them into twists, and scolded while pinching: "You are dead, did you guess that it would be no good to get on the Laotang boat today?" Pretending to be confused, I am getting bolder and bolder......."

In the night, the lone mule cart pierced through the darkness with the dim oil lamp on the front of the car, and scattered the sound of whispering and laughter all the way.

The large and small incense halls of the Cao Gang are generally divided into three categories: the first type is the "happy event incense hall", such as the reception of apprentices, celebrations, important personnel appointments, etc. The second type is the "Appraisal Xiangtang", which invites "three old and four young" to discuss important decisions and important affairs within the gang. The third type is the "criminal incense hall", which is similar to the internal court, which acts as a trial and punishment function. What Simao wants to participate in is the last kind of incense.

Opening the incense hall is not a trivial matter for the Cao Gang, and the scenes of ruffians worshipping and bandits fighting blood have been uniformly interpreted in later film and television works as cutting fingers and dropping into the wine bowl, and then drinking each other's saliva and a mixture of A, B, C, D, and finally kowtowing their heads, pulling a lot of nonsense such as "I don't want to be born in the same year and month, but I want to die in the same year and month". Cao Gang's Kaixiangtang actually has very strict procedures and rules, you must know that formalism is an important part of organization and management, and it is by no means as simple as fake empty red tape, otherwise how many dynasties will use Zhou Li as the foundation of governance?

Cao Bang opened the incense hall and asked to "clean the face" and "shabu-shabu" before entering. When you go in, you can't wander around by yourself, you must be led by a special "customer teacher". When you enter the incense hall, of course, you must first worship the ancestors, you can't worship in vain, you have to recite hymns in your mouth, and then incense after memorizing the poems. Next, it is time to enter the introduction and interaction of the guests, get acquainted with each other, enliven the atmosphere, and enhance the atmosphere of friendly consultation between the guests. This is not the end of the story, and then the political study time begins, and the moderator of the meeting recites and learns the rules again, and it is not enough to repeat important things three times, but must be repeated thousands of times to deepen the impression. After learning, the last "Praise to the Ancestors" link, take a picture of the grandfather's sycophants again. After taking off his pants and farting for a long time, the ceremony of opening the incense hall is officially over, and the meeting can get to the point.

As an old man in the gang, he has seen a lot of empty people who show timidity when opening the incense hall, and even some of the children in the gang may not be clear about the rules, but this Zhang Simao is not, first of all, the clothes, the cold wind on the river, he is just a long shirt, he does not wear a robe with a horse coat and vest, does not wear a winter hat, his braids are combed black and shiny, his appearance is neat, he does not wear gold and silver, his spirit is introverted, he bows his head and stands aside, without saying a word, it is simply a standard groom. Liu Heipi didn't understand the details of Simao, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Is the little brother an empty son or a family?" ”

Simao replied respectfully: "Don't dare to deceive the seniors, the door wall is not listed, and the ancestor sits down a servant." ”

"Okay, little brother, no layman, please." After Liu Heipi heard this, his perception of Simao was even different, so he almost patted him on the shoulder and shouted that the little comrade is very good.

As the host of the incense hall, it is the basic skill to make the identity of each guest clear, so that when presiding over the meeting, he can thread the needle, control the situation, and not make jokes. So his first question was to find out if Simao was the brother in the door. Ordinary people may honestly answer yes or no, but Simao's answer is ingenious. When the three ancestors of the Cao Gang ancestor "Weng, Qian, and Pan" preached in Hangzhou, there was a loyal little Taoist servant under the seat, and this Taoist servant did not join the gang until he died, but he had a deep relationship with the three ancestors and the Cao Gang, Simao used this allusion very cleverly, one is to tell Liu Heipi that he is not a complete layman, so that he can rest assured that he will not make a mistake and make a fool of himself, and he is not boasting and annoying. The second is to tactfully tell the other party that he has no intention of being an enemy of the Cao Gang and has no malicious intent. The jargon of the rivers and lakes is to listen to the sound, and to touch the heart, just such a round, Simao is tantamount to forming a good relationship with Liu Heipi, or how to say that the first impression is very important.

On the copper basin handed over by others, Simao brushed his face with water and wiped off the water droplets with a white towel, which is called "clean noodles". Then he picked up a cup of tea in front of the door, rinsed his mouth for the first time and spit it out, and drank it all the time on the second time, which is called "shabu boat". After going through this scene, under the leadership of Liu Heipi, he finally stepped into the incense hall, only to see the antique sandalwood official hat chairs on both sides, Yan Xingji was sitting on the top right in a green cloth robe, and there were four or five people sitting separately on both sides, or bearded, or long beard, with different postures and demeanors, but they were all with straight faces like King Kong in the temple.