On a cold and freezing day, the old Beijingers in Sijiu City, but as long as there is still a little way to live their lives, they can always come up with a way to make their lives a little sweeter.

Just like an ordinary poor small family, dozens of late-ripening autumn pears were touched on the wild pear trees outside the city, and they were poured water and frozen for a few nights while it was dark, and when the autumn pears were fastened with a thick layer of ice shell, they took a dustpan and carefully buckled it and put it on the roof, which could not forget to hold a few broken bricks and tiles and press them on the dustpan, so as not to spoil the birds, beasts, cats and mice that could make the family eat on Chinese New Year's Eve.

On the night of the New Year, I was able to deal with the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner that was somewhat stained with oil flowers and could fill my stomach, so I took a ladder to the roof and took down the frozen autumn pears and brought a basin of cold water to melt them. I didn't bite or chew, I just took a small bite on the frozen black autumn pear, and slowly sipped the sweet juice in the autumn pear to quench my hunger.

After a year of hard work, there can be such a mouthful of sweet juice in the New Year, which can be regarded as making people's hearts feel a little lively, and they can grit their teeth and then boil the next year's days day by day, just looking forward to the day when the family can have no worries about food and clothing, that is heaven on earth!

Resting in the courtyard of the second entrance to the main gate of the fire, I saw that the nine monkeys who walked in with a black thing didn't understand, but they took the rat cage in Xiangyoubao's hand as a pocket with frozen pears, and they came over in a hurry. After seeing the solemn looks on the faces of Xiang Youbao and Hu Qianli, the nine monkeys didn't have to wait for orders, and immediately beckoned a few little apprentices to trot and hold a few dead wind lanterns in their hands, and came to Xiang Youbao and Hu Qianli's side.

looked approvingly at the nine monkeys standing beside him holding up the air death wind lantern, and praised the leopard casually: "My nine monkey master, you can really be regarded as a provocative person in the Forty-Nine City?" How do you know I don't take this object into the house and look at it? ”

Hold aloft the air death lantern in your hand. The nine monkeys shook their heads nonchalantly: "Senior brother, this is called a dead thing that has been frozen for several days, as soon as you enter the house and hit the hot air, you can freeze at that time, and then it will rot into a puddle of mud, then you can't understand anything?" ”

With a cold face, Hu Qianli didn't pay attention to the gags between the leopard and the nine monkeys. Just stretched out a pair of thin slaps to open the rough rat cage, carefully grabbed the frozen steel needle rat out of the rat cage, came to the front of the eyes and looked at it carefully for a long time, and then put the frozen steel needle rat back into the rat cage, turned his head to a little apprentice of the fire gate standing beside him and said: "Wrap your hands with a rag, carry it outside to find a place to burn it quietly, and burn it clean even with the cage!" Don't worry about Fei Chai He, you must burn it to ashes! ”

Seeing the little apprentice take the order away, Hu Qianli turned his head to the nine monkeys standing beside Xiang Youbao and said, "Go and find your senior sister to open the cellar." Fetch a jar of spirits! Half of them were used to wash my hands, and the other half took the stone table and the stone benches around the rat cage and carefully brushed them three times! Don't ask others to touch your hands again, and after you have done all this work, you can also go and take a bath with hot water. Even those who have approached this stone table today have to take a careful bath in hot water, and then boil all their clothes in water! ”

Looking at Hu Qianli's face, Xiang Youbao couldn't help but say to Hu Qianli in a suppressed voice after all the little apprentices around him dispersed: "Uncle Hu." Is there something wrong with this thing? ”

Shaking his head slightly, Hu Qianli replied in a low voice: "There is nothing wrong that can be seen." It's just that the rat things trained in the hands of others have no disease on their bodies and whether they have insects, which is all a matter of no spectrum. If you don't pay more attention to this, if you don't pay attention to it, you will have a serious illness and a serious scene of the death of the whole family. I've seen it three or two times on these rat players in Forty-Nine City! There is a leopard, although what we eat at the main gate of the fire is this bowl of rice for training things, but this thing is a wild thing after all, and it is inevitable that there will be some unclean things on it. You can pay more attention on weekdays. This is an extra life for yourself! ”

took two steps back, and Xiang Youbao respectfully arched towards Hu Qianli to the ground: "Uncle Hu has learned a lesson, and Youbao has written it down carefully!" ”

Nodding, Hu Qianli washed his hands with the liquor brought by the nine monkeys, and said to Xiang Youbao, who was standing aside with his hands down: "You have also come to wash your hands, so go to the meeting room and wait for your uncle to come over!" I'm afraid that I really have to discuss this matter seriously before I can come up with a solution! ”

He made a 'reassuring' gesture to Nalan who was standing at the door of the stove and looking at him, and Xiang Youbao also carefully washed his hands in the pot of spirits, and then followed Hu Qianli into the discussion room. But a moment later, Na Jiuye and the others, who had already received the letter, also hurriedly walked into the discussion room, and asked hurriedly to Hu Qianli, who was standing in the room: "Qianli, haven't you been greatly wronged?" It doesn't matter if this thing works out or not, don't be angry because of this."

He gratefully arched his hand towards Na Jiuye, who was full of anxiety, and Hu Qianli responded to Na Jiuye in a proper manner: "Brother Labor is worried, this time I really didn't suffer any grievances - I and Youbao didn't enter the Mao'er Lord's house at all!" ”

Looking at Hu Qianli in surprise, Na Jiuye suddenly snorted as if he was confused: "Is this to make people block the door and not called in?"

With a slight wave of his hand, Hu Qianli stretched out his hand and led Na Jiuye to sit on the Taishi chair that greeted the door, and then said in harmony to Na Jiuye, who was full of puzzlement: "Senior brother, you are in a hurry first, this matter is told by Youbao to explain to you in detail, and you will understand!" ”

Seeing that everyone in the discussion room was sitting still, Xiang Youbao picked up the important things that passed by and saw at night and told the people sitting in the discussion room, but in the end, he arched his hand to Hu Qianli: "Uncle Hu, I have told me everything on this side, but I really can't explain the root cause of this matter, and I have to tell you in detail?" ”

After pondering for a moment, Hu Qianli, who was sitting on the chair, spoke in a low voice and said to the people in the room: "Senior brothers, Master Yan, Old Man Hong, do you still remember the story of the hundred rats in the capital decades ago? ”

The two shou eyebrows raised slightly, and the old man Hong, who rarely spoke in the discussion room on weekdays, suddenly picked up Hu Qianli's words: "I have heard this story carefully told by others!" Back then, a scene of a hundred rats in the capital made it so tiring that all the characters in the capital who liked to train things around were eaten, and even those characters in the mansions of wealthy families did not dare to say much. I heard that it was because of the scene of a hundred rats in the capital, a great treasure in the palace was lost, which made the whole city shocked! ”

With a sigh of teeth, Yan Xu frowned tightly and answered the words of the old man Hong: "I have also heard the old man in the sneak mention of this matter, saying that in the scene of a hundred rats in the capital back then, at first I thought that it was the good hand in the sneak who took the amazing treasure, so that I would be the scene of the whole city of the sneaking character." If it weren't for the words of the old master in the main gate of the fire, I am afraid that I would be the old man in the sneak scene, and it would have to be a scene where there is no one in ten! ”

Fiddling with his fingers, Xie Menshen also answered the cavity angrily: "I heard my master say that for this matter back then, the characters of my master's generation injured many people, and many people were so scared that they didn't dare to get involved in the training business anymore!" Senior Brother Hu, I remember that your master is also in this disaster."

Gritting his teeth fiercely, Hu Qianli nodded heavily, and then turned his head to look at Na Jiuye, who also looked solemn, and said, "Senior brother, I'm afraid that in the current Sijiu City, there will be such a scene of a hundred rats in the capital!" If this is really called this cat master again, I am afraid that in the main gate of our fire, we will have to be like the characters of the master's generation again, and hang up again! ”

Reluctantly picked up the tea bowl that was resting in his hand, Na Jiu Ye didn't even see that the tea bowl was empty, and there was not a drop of water, but he just brought the tea bowl to his mouth: "How good is this, if it weren't for the fact that Qianli and Youbao bumped into this matter today, I'm afraid that we will be in the dark until something happens to the main gate of our fire!" Chisato, what do you have to say about this? ”

Clenched a thin slap, Hu Qianli said in a deep voice almost word by word: "Sitting at home behind closed doors, disaster comes from heaven!" You can't hide from this, so you can only hit it head-on! Senior brother, we have to strike first! ”

"What's the charter?"

"First of all, we have to figure out how many things are all the work in the hands of the cat master, and then we have to find out which high-ranking family he looks down on the valuable things, and in the end, we have to get his handle - don't we still have to count on the help of the characters in the sky and stars from him?"

"The head is the same as Master Yan, have you worked hard?"

"I don't have to say, I'll go to that cat's house tonight!"

"But this second and third things are difficult! No matter how capable we are, we can't be the roundworms in the belly of that cat, how can we know which wealthy family he is looking at?! Besides, even if we know which wealthy family he wants to target, we can't control this cat master, right? It is said that it is said that it is to catch the traitor and take the double, and to catch the stolen goods, if he hadn't held down the hand of this cat master on the spot, he would have resisted death and deny it, it would be difficult! (To be continued......)