Chapter Fifty-Eight: Meeting the Dead at Night
Drooping his head, Na Jiuye looked at Xiang Youbao who had just walked into his house with a long sigh, lowered the door and sighed: "There is a leopard, we are still in a lawsuit, you are good, and you still pick up a trouble from the outside?" β
Turning his head to see that the lights had been extinguished in the room where Old Man Hong was settled, Xiang Youbao lowered his voice and responded to Na Jiuye: "Senior Uncle, at that time, if I didn't take Old Man Hong back to the entrance of the hall, I am afraid that if you are in a hurry, Old Man Hong will not even be able to pass tonight!" Besides, aren't we also asking for other people's things? With such a master who can do eight-tone whistles in the main gate of our fire, then I will come again in the future to train the birds to call."
Sighing heavily, Na Jiu Ye shook his head weakly: "I said that I will go later, what should I do about this matter in front of me?" There are very few things like crispy brass in Sijiu City! In the early years, a pair of small cloisonnΓ© vases made of crispy brass blanks, which were only palm-high, could shout out the price of a gold bottle of general size in the hands of those who liked this thing! β
His eyes widened in surprise, and Xiang Youbao smacked his tongue and shouted, "Such a precious thing, how can it still be taken out to make that eight-tone whistle?!" β
Holding his head with his elbow, Na Jiuye replied listlessly: "That's not the late Qing Dynasty when there were several military disasters in a row, and there were many defective objects in those crispy brass things that originally fell out of the palace, and few people could repair them, and they couldn't be repaired without the quality of the repair, so the people of the Hong family in Fengwei Hutong pondered the doorway and made an eight-tone whistle with the crispy brass!" β
With the same heavy sigh, She Youlu, who was sitting in Na Jiuye's room, also nodded frequently: "In previous years, I heard that there were people in the middle of the road who took some broken crispy brass objects to pawn. But in the past few years, I haven't heard of any such things! If you had been talking about it earlier, the last crispy brass object would have been five years ago! β
pinched his fingers and roughly calculated, Xiang Youbao couldn't help but sigh: "According to this day, I'm afraid that this last crispy brass object was thrown into the pawnshop by Hong San'er!" It's been five years, and it's a bit mysterious to want to get it back! β
Frowning, She Youdao muttered and said, "It's not that there is no hope at all?" Just this time, senior brother, you got the insect king at the Autumn Insect Society, didn't Debelle's house ask someone to wash it all up? I heard that someone stepped on a crispy brass object, because many people tried to grab it, but in the end they destroyed it! β
Suddenly, Xiang Youbao suddenly came to his senses, and said to She Youdao, who was frowning and groaning: "Uncle She, who is in the hands of this ruined object in the end?" β
After looking up and thinking for a while, She Youdao hesitated and said to Xiang Youbao: "This is really inaccurate news!" But maybe Debele can know about this? I heard that Debelle had the house washed, but there was no place to go. At present, those who see the sky are touching some folding baskets in Yanlai Building, and then take them to Dashilar to sell them, and at night they will settle down in the sand bed shop where Dashilar Liba lives."
Raising his eyes and looking at the sky outside the window, Xiang Youbao immediately walked towards the door: "Then I'll go to those sand bed shops in Dashilar to find Debele!" β
As soon as he got out of the ninth master's house, Nalan who came over raised his hand and handed a thick coat to Xiang Youbao's hand: "The wind is hard at night, bring a thick coat to block the wind!" β
smiled gratefully at Nalan, and put on the thick clothes obediently: "It's still my junior sister who knows that it hurts."
Snorted lightly, Nalan turned over and handed over a pack of dim sum: "I didn't see how you ate dinner, how can you go out in the middle of the night and run around blindly, with an empty stomach?" There is a yellow lantern hanging in front of the sand bed shop in the big fence, don't go around, and drill into it when you see the open door! If you really call the vixen to hook the soul, then no one can save you! β
Looking at the blush that suddenly flew on Nalan's face with some puzzlement, Xiang Youbao promised Nalan indiscriminately, while tearing open the dim sum bag, and ate a few pieces of still hot trough cake in three or two clicks, and then raised his legs and walked towards the door.
In the middle of the night, in the capital, except for those who are in a hurry to go home at night, they will take some narrow streets and alleys to take shortcuts, and those who can also walk on the street are almost all on the main road.
The year is not peaceful, and the number of families with no surplus food is increasing day by day. When the whole family is so hungry that they can't cry, they can't care about the others.
grabbed a handful of pot ash under the pot and painted his face black, put on a jacket with hollowed out cotton, and took a broom pimple wrapped in cloth in his hand.
The moon was dark and the wind was high, waiting for the lone passer-by to pass by, and the broom pimple in his hand was put on the person's waist and eyes, and he shouted in a trembling voice: "Do you want money or death?" β
The passer-by who was so frightened for no reason that he almost went out of his body heard this shout at first glance, so he naturally took a few with him and took out a few. If the hats, clothes, and shoes worn on the body can still be seen, the men who have had the courage to come out for half a lifetime will naturally not be able to let go. If you don't pull people up, you will never give up.
When the things arrived, which alley was the blackest, he ran to which alley and ran wildly, leaving only a stripped stripped bitter passer-by holding his arms and shivering in the cold wind, swearing towards his house with a suppressed voice!
When it was dawn, all the hats, clothes, and shoes that were pulled down last night naturally went to the pawnshop, and they were exchanged for the scattered silver of the melons and dates, which was barely enough for the family to drink a few meals of mushy and hang their lives. When there is no overnight food at home, the broom pimple on the kang foot will have to be opened again!
Don't count the men who are forced to go to Liangshan like this, and there are even those green-skinned gangsters who poke poles and eat all directions in the narrow streets and alleys!
The casino lost all the waistband of the trousers, the gold and silver were consumed in the secret door, and the ocean and the spirit were burned into a wisp of green smoke in the private smoke hall, and the poor and crazy green-skinned gangsters squatted in the black room with the small puff in their hands, and said that they wanted to wash the little valuable things on the unlucky passer-by, and sometimes they did it well, and they had to take the unlucky passer-by into a black room for a bundle, and someone over there threw a post at the unlucky passer-by's house.
What town three mountains, cover five mountains, the four sea kings, the name of the dragon across the river at your fingertips, kill seven, slaughter eight scare people The story is nonsense, and at the end of the post, the last sentence on the end of the post is timid-prepare ten pieces of ocean, ten catties of Lao Baigan, twenty catties of fire, ten catties of donkey meat, and send it to the bottom of the incense burner at the mouth of the alley before dawn
But whenever they see such a post, the women who were originally frightened can settle down, knowing that this is the green-skinned gangsters on the street who are blowing bigger than the sky and are bold, like the father of a mouse!
Ignoring the price code written on the post, take a few ready-made nests in the pot, and spare half a bowl of pickle pimples, and put it next to the grandfather's incense burner at the mouth of the alley, and then open his voice and scold a few words in the black shadow where there are people swaying, and within an hour, the master will definitely be able to go home bare-chested!
And the heroes of the three mountains and five mountains in that town, at this time, they could only hide in the dark and eat pickles, and scolded a few women who sacrificed their lives and gave up their money. In my heart, I hate that I really have the skills of Huang Tianba, Dou Erdun, and Yanzi Li San, and I won't be able to intercept the road in the middle of the night to mix up coarse grains
Glancing at the side streets and alleys where people were flickering, Xiang Youbao hesitated for a moment, but still chose the nearest road and walked straight towards the sand bed shop where Dashilar Liba lived at night.
The disciples in the Huozheng Gate, in addition to paying attention to practicing some physical fitness skills on weekdays, pay more attention to those life-saving tricks that can only be used when capturing fierce beasts.
It's like at night, ordinary people always feel that the sky is so dark that they can't reach out and lose their fingers, but the disciples in the main gate of the fire have all practiced a pair of night eyes when hunting beasts at night. As long as he squinted his eyes a little and looked back and forth, those living creatures that moved a little in the night naturally couldn't escape the eyes of the disciples of the main gate.
After walking less than two bowls of tea along the alley, Xiang Youbao suddenly stopped in front of the Dingzhai stone in front of a family, and shouted to the dark corner of the wall not far away: "That master over there, you are hiding!" β
As if he didn't expect Xiang Youbao to see himself in the dark night, the middle-aged man who was cowering in the dark shadow in the corner of the wall hesitated for a moment, but still jumped out of the darkness, pointed at Xiang Youbao with a piece wrapped in cloth in his hand, and shouted in a dumb voice: "Are you going to die or money?!" β
Hehe, Xiang Youbao pointed to the thing in the middle-aged man's hand and smiled: "I said this master, you can just take a broom and cut it off, but you can wrap it up more or less, aren't you?" The broom whiskers are all branched out, which hard guy have you ever seen, and seedlings have grown on it?! β
Subconsciously withdrew his hand, and the middle-aged man shouted in a hoarse voice: "Don't you don't know what to do!" I don't want to kill! Ma Yu'er took out all the money in his pocket, or else"
didn't wait for the middle-aged man to finish speaking, Xiang Youbao had already laughed and shouted first: "Otherwise, what can you do?" Smash me to death with a broomstick? Hurry up and go home and rest, stay here in the middle of the night to scare people and play, if you really run into the patrol police patrolling the street, then you will really get into trouble! β
Holding the broom and pointing at the leopard tremblingly, the middle-aged man who couldn't see his eyebrows clearly sighed for a long time, and finally held back a sentence: "Then if you give five eldest sons, will you make five eldest sons?" If you don't know it, I will have to become a lying down in this forty-nine city, you should think that you are accumulating virtue and doing good, and you will reward me with five eldest sons! β
Sighing slightly, Xiang Youbao reached out and took out more than a dozen eldest sons from his pocket, and threw them far away at the feet of the middle-aged man: "Look at you, you are also in a hurry, so you came out to do this, take this money and go back quickly!" β
Throwing the broom pimple in his hand aside, the middle-aged man who couldn't see his face clearly groped for the eldest son thrown by Xiang Youbao on the ground, and hurriedly said to Xiang Youbao: "Thank you!" This man, you"
But at this moment, the dark clouds covering the moon in the sky quietly dispersed. By the bright moonlight, the middle-aged man who was kneeling on the ground and touching the copper saw the face of the leopard clearly, and immediately sat on the ground, and pointed at the leopard and shouted: "You are the master of the leopard?" β
With a frown, Xiang Youbao took a few steps forward, and finally saw the face of the middle-aged man with dust on his face through the moonlight: "You are Debele?" Why are you still doing this kind of business?! β