Chapter 127: The Problem of Face (I)
Wang Yong'an said that it was still a habit brought by immigrants from Lu Province to put copper stoves in houses in rural areas in Northeast China, so he nodded and said that he knew it, and this matter was left to me. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The two of them continued to walk, and suddenly found that there was no sound behind them, and when they turned around, they saw that the rest of the female nurses were far away, looking at them with a smile.
"What are you doing?" Xiao Xiaoyue shouted with a red face.
"Hahaha......" Everyone caught up at this time, and they were amused around Xiao Xiaoyue, Wang Yongan saw that he was about to go to the hospital nurses' dormitory, so he saluted the female nurses, and turned around and left with Fan Wentai and others.
When Wang Yongan and the others walked away, the female nurses returned to the dormitory chattering, and hurriedly lit a fire to cook, Xiao Xiaoyue went to the hospital logistics to ask for some dishes back, and everyone was busy for a while before having dinner.
A little nurse suddenly stood by Xiao Xiaoyue's side and said with a smile: "Sister Xiaoyue, what do you think of Adjutant Wang?" ”
"I'm going to kill you, don't make such jokes, he's Nianzhen's husband." Xiao Xiaoyue reprimanded with a red face.
"What's the matter, you just be the queen and the two daughters serve the same husband......," the little nurse cried.
Xiao Xiaoyue shouted in shame: "Look at me tearing your mouth and making your Empress E's ......"
"Help...... Sister Xiaoyue killed someone......"
After cleaning up after dinner, Xiao Xiaoyue lay on her bed, originally wanting to rest well, but suddenly found that her mind was full of Wang Yongan's hippie smiling face, and she was suddenly startled, and quickly sat up and calmed down, and said to herself: "Why are you thinking about him, it's strange, doesn't he owe me money?" Can't think of him, absolutely can't think of him anymore......"
Wang Yongan was not idle at night, he found Hou Gan and Gong Wuyuan, secretly discussed, tomorrow find a few nurseries to try the water first, Hou Gan said that this kind of thing is handed over to Wang Sanpao to do, this kid can't do serious things, but he has a hand in crooked ways. So everyone called Wang Sanpao, and when Wang Sanpao heard it, he shouted wonderfully, leave this matter to me.
The second day's Beiyang New Army's 24th Mixed Association Veterans and Recruits Contest was more lively than the first day, although there were not many people who knew about the contest yesterday, but more than 20,000 people came, in addition to 10,000 people who went in, many women, children and latecomers could not enter, and even more gentry and officials also wanted to see the excitement, but they disdained to compete with ordinary people to get in, tied among the people.
After a night of fermentation, especially when the people who had left the school field returned home, they talked about it vividly, which aroused the curiosity of more people, and the squires looked for ways to go in and watch it that night. At this time, Wang Sanpao's role was revealed, and he claimed that he had a way to get in, but he had to pay the money to the guard's brother. I don't want money, but the guard's brother has taken a big risk, and people want money. Some gentry inquired about the price, one person has to pay one tael of silver, and one person can bring up to four subordinates, this time in the five taels of silver, everyone hesitated.
Later, Wang Sanpao said to some gentry and wealthy businessmen who wanted to save face, who spent money to enter, this is a matter of face, and a private seat was set up for everyone, and there was no mixing with the people to sit together.
"Guys, there are only twenty slots, and you still think you can get in if you have money? Bah! It's a big mistake, if you want to go into the barracks and sit in a private seat to watch, in addition to money, you also have to have face, whoever has a big face, who can get in. Five taels of silver, not to buy a seat, but in Yangzhou City's face problem, people with face and face can enter. Wang Sanpao bragged and said without paying taxes, "Old fools, do you really think that I will bring anyone in?" A small family, I won't take him in, so as not to lose face for me, you must know that the person sitting inside is also a county magistrate and state government official, how many can you see in your life? ”
Wang Sanpao didn't talk nonsense, because Wang Yongan really sent ten invitations overnight to several officials of the Yangzhou Prefecture Governor's Yamen, ten invitations to the Yanyun Division, five invitations to the Jiangdu County Yamen, five invitations to the Ganquan County Yamen, five invitations to the Dingzi Battalion of the Patrol Battalion, five invitations to the Salt Merchants Guild, and another ten invitations to the former officials who had been officials in the imperial court and are now retired in Yangzhou.
As a result, there were only fifty invitations left for Wang Sanpao to sell, and after a period of hunger marketing and publicity by Wang Sanpao, the price of the invitations soared, and the original five taels of silver for an invitation soared to fifty taels of silver, which was such an expensive price, and some people could not buy it with money. For the gentry and those merchants, entering the barracks to watch alone is a symbol of their status, sitting with the county magistrates, sitting with the big salt merchants, all showing their identity and status in Yangzhou and even in central and northern Jiangsu, and even some people have swollen faces and fat people to borrow money to enter the barracks to watch.
Xiong Er is such a person who slaps a swollen face and fills a fat man, as a flower stick that can be mixed on the street, he was also a good hand in the Cao Gang, and later the Cao Gang was destroyed due to rebellion, and Xiong Er was also arrested repeatedly. After some interrogation, Xiong Er was released because he did not participate in the "revolutionary party", and half a month later, Sun Tiansheng led a group of poor people to plunder property in the name of the revolutionary party.
Those "revolutionary parties" were also gangsters on the street, so they naturally recognized Xiong Er, so they bought face for him and did not go into the alleys to loot.
Xiong Er preserved the property and safety of the people in the alley, which immediately attracted a burst of applause from everyone, especially the people in the alley, who were even more grateful to him, and also got the nickname of Xiong Er, a double knife. Xiong Er himself also felt that the nickname was loud, and he wore two kitchen knives pinned to his waist every day, and on the streets of Yangzhou, anyone who saw him recognized this person as Xiong Er, a hero who protected the people, and gave a thumbs up.
Xiong Er became the hero of Yangzhou City, and many troubles in this era were not solved by the government, not by the ancestral clan, or by his own private to find a flower stick to solve, Xiong Er because of the reputation of a hero, became a mediator in Yangzhou City, full of face, and the family slowly had a surplus of wealth.
Xiong Er's two sons, nine-year-old Xiong Ming and six-year-old Xiong Liang, heard about the military camp competition yesterday, and the two children also ran in to watch it for an afternoon, and when they came back, they shouted that they must go there tomorrow. Xiong Er's heart was also moved, but as soon as he inquired, it turned out that only the first two thousand people could enter, and he was going to get up early to go to have a look, only to learn that there were people queuing up at the third watch in the middle of the night last night, and now there are at least seventy or eighty thousand people queuing outside. Xiong Er thought in his heart that with his own face, he would go to the front and cut in line, which Cheng wanted to be guarded by a sergeant, let alone cut in line, even if he walked to the front, he would be knocked back with a stick.
The two children woke up early in the morning and ran over to line up, but came back crying and said, "Dad, we can't get in, there are too many people." ”
Xiong Er also his heart in the middle of the night to be able to go in as soon as possible, and when he saw the two children crying, he left the house with his hands behind his back in his heart, and he didn't even have two kitchen knives in his waist. When I came to the street, I saw many people talking about it, and the neighbor who sold oil cakes in the morning said, "Do you know? Today, the officials, the salt merchants, and the gentry have all been invited, and they will sit in the private seats and watch. Yesterday, only half of the people went in, and even fewer people went in today, just because they wanted to build a seat for the big man and grab the land. However, I heard that the Zhou prison officer on our street brought his family in, and he sat in a private seat, sitting with the general judge, and he was full of face. I think the prison officer will have a chance to be promoted this week, do you think, no matter how he and Lord Tongju sit together, the two of them know each other, will there be less face for him in the yamen in the future? ”
"He's a petty official who watches prisons, how can he get in and someone send him an invitation?" Someone asked.
"Hey, don't you know, he bought the invitation with Wang Sanpao Wang Inspection." The oil cake seller whispered.
"Wang Sanpao?"
"Yes, Wang Sanpao has an invitation in his hand, but the price is clearly marked, fifty taels of silver! In addition, do you know the flower stick in Xicheng, the fourth master of Qingzhao? It cost him a hundred taels to buy an invitation. ”
"Why did he spend a hundred taels of silver?"
"Smash the pot and sell iron, you must know that this is a rare opportunity, the big names in Yangzhou City are there, Zhao Siye can eat and play with them, not to mention Xicheng in the future, it is the entire Yangzhou City, Jiangdu County and Ganquan County, Zhao Siye is this ......" The oil cake seller combed his thumbs, "Whoever doesn't sell him a face, if there is something, look for Zhao Siye, and ensure that it can be done!" ”