Chapter 159: Return
Comparing the difference between the world of reality and the world of fiction, and feeling that "the plot of a masterpiece is really to gather all kinds of contradictions and conflicts, and it is not as dry and boring as the real world at all", Xiao Mu and Lin Yi soon waited for the return of the brocade guards who visited everywhere. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
The first to come back were the two who went to Wangjia Hutong, they arrived at Wangjia Hutong, and easily heard about a person like Li Xiaoer, who has been selling stinky tofu since his ancestors, and the neighbors all said that they had eaten their tofu, Li Xiaoer followed his father Li Lao Er to sell stinky tofu since he was a child, and then his father was old and couldn't sell it, so Li Xiaoer took over the ancestral mantle and continued to sell stinky tofu on the streets and alleys......
"Okay, listening to that peddler Li Xiaoer boasting about the origin of his tofu, I should have listened to it, I didn't take it seriously at all, I didn't expect his stinky tofu to turn out to be really an ancestral heirloom...... Xiao Mu thought in his heart, obviously there was a bit of unbelievable taste in it.
Of course, this is due to the difference between ancient times and Xiao Mu's later society, after all, in the modern society of Xiao Mu's later generations, there are many merchants under the banner of "ancestral secret recipe" and "century-old brand", but often a deep investigation will find that this business may have done a completely different business last year, and whoever wants to really believe it easily will definitely be ridiculed as a fool.
But now that I have traveled to the Ming Dynasty, I found that the "ancestral stinky tofu" that was originally listened to as a joke by myself turned out to be true, of course, there is a slow development of ancient science and technology, and the situation of "son inheriting the father's business" abounds, but I am more afraid that the merchants of the Ming Dynasty are much more ethical than later generations, even if it sounds like boasting, but it is often true, at most it is a little exaggerated.
The merchants of the Ming Dynasty were so ethical compared to later generations, but thinking that the word "people's hearts are not ancient" must have appeared in the Ming Dynasty, Xiao Mu couldn't help but sigh a little, why did he want to travel to the Ming Dynasty, he really wanted to travel to the ancient pre-Qin, Spring and Autumn Warring States and the like, and see with his own eyes the scene of "not closing the door at night and not leaving the road behind", as well as what the legendary "wind of the ancient benevolent" looks like.
Listening to the report of the guards who came back first, the guards who went to Lijia Hutong to visit Wang Lao Wu's situation also came back soon.
However, the luck of this guard was not as good as the two who went to inquire about Li Xiaoer's situation, he came to Lijia Hutong, met the residents who lived in this alley, and inquired about Wang Lao Wu's situation, and all the people who responded to him were white eyes - obviously, he was regarded as Wang Lao Wu's fox friend and dog friend, and he came to find Wang Lao Wu to fool around.
The guard was hurt in his heart, so he had to change his strategy and pretend to be the one who came to Wang Lao Wu to ask for an account, and then someone finally pointed out to him Wang Lao Wu's residence - the alley came to an end, and the dilapidated house that could collapse at any time was.
This also fully shows that Wang Lao Wu's reputation in this area is really very stinky, it stands to reason that normal people meet people who come to collect debts, and the neighbors are often helped to cover up, at least they have to pretend not to know, but things have completely changed when it comes to Wang Lao Wu, and the residents of this alley seem to hope that he will be found by the debt collector as soon as possible, and then put him in prison.
With the identity of asking for accounts, the guard finally inquired about Wang Lao Wu's situation, which is nothing more than a very common failed life trajectory: he didn't study well since he was a child, and when he grew up, he was lazy and lazy......
Since the neighbors know so clearly about Wang Lao Wu's situation, it means that he should have lived here since he was a child, obviously similar to Du Lao Liu and Feng Lao Si, but he is not the subordinate of Wang Dengku, a big businessman, and he is not a dangerous person - of course, an ordinary scoundrel is not a dangerous person in the eyes of the Jinyi guards.
Soon the words of this guard were confirmed, and he was sent out with him to Shuntian Mansion to find other headhunters to inquire about the situation, and later sent to Shuntianfu to inquire about the headcatcher Hu Dali and several guards under his command came back together.
According to the inquiries of these guards, Wang Lao Wu was indeed famous before the arrest of the official yamen, and indeed as Hu Zhutou said, he had to report to the prison when he had nothing to do, and there were almost no fast catchers in Shuntianfu who did not know him.
As for the situation of Hu Zhutou and his subordinates, there is almost no difference from what they themselves said, almost all of them are hereditary government officials, at least since the previous generation have been on an errand in Shuntian Mansion, it is obvious that they are definitely not suspicious characters.
Of course, a few brocade guards must not have arrived at Shuntian Mansion and directly asked about the above situation, in fact, when they arrived at Shuntian Mansion with their front and back feet, they happened to let the catcher who had been sent back by Hu Zhutou to move the rescue soldiers see it, and the catcher instantly called a dozen people, surrounded several brocade guards, and shouted, "Where did you hide Hu Zhutou?" "Hurry up and release people, or you're welcome". Of course, their majesty did not last long, and after the brocade guards showed their waist cards, they were all honest one by one, and they were very active in answering all the questions of several guards, which can be said to be endless. The performance of these catchers is simply appropriate to describe as "front and back".
The guards quickly finished asking the questions to be asked, and some strange expressions could be clearly seen in the eyes of the catchers, it is estimated that after Hu Zhutou and a few of them returned to Shuntian Mansion, the next period of time may not be easy - provoked the great gods of Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi, and the entire Shuntian Mansion is afraid that they will all have to take a detour when they see Hu Zhutou, so that the catcher who was sent back by Hu Zhutou to move the rescue soldiers at the beginning is still a relatively lucky one.
All in all, the series of emergency actions triggered by the name "Wang Lao Wu" were all proved to be false alarms in the end, which was also a result that could be expected in advance, but after all, when it comes to the emperor's safety, even if it is a probability like going out and being struck by lightning, it must be taken as if it will happen in the next second, so Wang Chengen and the brocade guards who have been busy for a long time do not have too many complaints.
However, compared to them, Xiao Mu, the main owner who almost didn't work or contribute, complained much greater, after all, he was pointlessly nervous for a long time.