"I don't understand it." Chen Guanren smiled, and said proudly: "This is called extraordinary, and it is a hobby of celebrities and gentlemen. ”

The shopkeeper was speechless and said, "When did it become a matter of grace to buy and sell?" ”

"I don't know, I told you to read more newspapers and not read them, just know the cloth heads."

Chen Guandao: "Now they all say" The people's daily use is the Tao, and the foolish man can become a saint Gu Zhuming, a genius in the south of the Yangtze River, deliberately begging in the snow, singing lotus flowers, and begging for money to buy wine, and get drunk and rest. Wang Yin, a celebrity in Shanghai, often wears the "Five Permanent Clothes" grotesquely, and often uses lies to sensationalize. It seems to be uninhibited, but in fact it is experiencing the state of mind of a crazy beggar. Therefore, not only will it not be ridiculed, but it will make people awe-inspiring. ”

"So, Boss Qin is also experiencing the state of mind of the teahouse owner?" Shopkeeper Hou said with wide eyes.

"Not good, but there's definitely something in it." The corners of Chen Guanren's mouth turned to Nunu downstairs, and he said in a low voice.

Shopkeeper Hou is also a person who sees the six roads, and when he saw Shen Mo coming in from outside the door, he shut up.

Shen Mo came in, greeted the guests downstairs one by one, and went upstairs to greet Chen Guanren: "What are you talking about?" ”

Shopkeeper Hou smiled and said, "I'm going to give one to Brother Chen."

This. ”

"Don't tarnish my reputation as a gentleman." Chen Guanren glared at him and said, "I want to be a groom again when the time is good." ”

"Don't listen to their nonsense" Old man Zhou moved a place, sat down silently, and said: "A few of them are old and improper, and when they saw so many media pulling fiber downstairs, their hearts were moved. ”

"I also feel strange just now" sat down silently, picked up the teapot and refilled the water for everyone present: "It's only the sixth day of the first month today, why are Liu Widowfu and Pei Mazi busy?" ”

"Set sail to catch up with the wind, you can't miss the opportunity." Ma Liuye took out his snuffbox, poured a cigarette and said silently: "You try this!" Freshly loaded, authentic Nanheng made, fine and pure! ”

"Thank you," Shen Mo shook his head and thanked Bumin: "I can't stand it." ”

"The newspaper about the emperor's draft has become true. The prefect has received an edict from Beijing to cooperate with the angels from the palace. It is estimated that at the most February, the Chin Cha should arrive. Chen Guanren shook out the inside story and said: "Actually, according to the people, the people should ban marriage now, but the prefect has mercy, so he opened his eyes and closed his eyes, the original intention was to let those who have been engaged rush to tie the knot, who knows that as soon as the news spreads, those who are still waiting for the word boudoir are also in a hurry, and they all want to let the girl tie the knot before the arrival of the Qin mission." ”

The old man sighed and said: "What kind of world is this, the previous dynasty was scrambling to send the girl to the palace, but now it's good, I'd rather make do with Xu Ren's family than be a mother." ”

"It's that the girls are married, and it's cool here. There are tens of thousands of fans in the palace, and the vast majority of those who can be mothers have to die alone, who wants to push their daughters into the fire pit? ”

Ma Liuye shook his head and said.

"But then again, it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, gentlemen." A long-voiced female voice interjected, no need to look, everyone also knew that it was Liu Widowfu who came up: "If you big officials have this idea, everything is wrapped in the old body, whether it is young and beautiful, or the rich mother's family, it is no problem!" ”

"You might as well be louder and let Shopkeeper Qin blast it out." Ma Liuye didn't like these black-mouthed people, and bluffed with a black face.

They are all old customers in the store, who doesn't know that the shopkeeper Qin is the proprietress and who hasn't seen her heroic appearance in the battle against the hooligan A Fei? Liu Widow shrunk his neck and said with a sly face: "You are good at your old business, and your old body is also kind, I am afraid that a few people will patronize and chat and miss the market." ”

"That's the scorer, too." Old man Zhou said: "There are families at this table, who dares to divorce the original partner and marry the yellow flower girl?" ”

"You're an old yellow calendar," Liu Widow said with a smile: "What is the market now?" Men are expensive. Why didn't Jin Xianggong on the back street of the temple come today, because he let the three families hold him at the same time yesterday, and finally was snatched back by one of the many powerful people. He himself had a bit of backbone to climb the wall and escape when people were unprepared, but not long after he landed, he was robbed back by another family. However, not just any man is expensive, and there are very few talented and unmarried golden beetle sons-in-law like Jin Xianggong.

No one wants their daughters to live a miserable life, so it's cheaper for these rich and powerful masters. There are many of them, as long as you can treat other people's daughters sincerely, it is no problem to do a partial house. ”

As soon as these words came out, except for silence, the rest were a little yearning, even the old man of the coffin Zhou was also unable to reach and yearning.

"Bah, old!" Hearing this, the tea guest at the adjacent table scolded: "Gloat here with our cone!" Our daughter is so cheap, crying and shouting to be a concubine? In a fit of rage, he threw a teacup on the ground and smashed it.

Liu Widowfu was also carried away, only to find out that there were the woman's parents here, and hurriedly smiled: "Brother Zhou, you have heard it, how can the old man ever say such a thing!" ”

"The voice of an old is louder than the old, and he can't hear a word!" That week, the tea guest surnamed Zhou was about to split his hand to catch Liu Widowfu, and the tea guest next to him hurriedly grabbed him and said: "For the New Year, don't be like an old cheap fu." ”

"You specified that it was a misunderstanding, the old body went down first, you dissipated your anger, dissipated your anger." Liu Widow Fu didn't have the face to stay here, so he hurriedly went down.

That Zhou, the surname Cha was polite and still scolding, Ma Liuye was not happy, and said in a rough voice: "Old Zhou, if you want to scold and chase down, let's sit and chat, but we didn't provoke." ”

"Not few" In fact, Lao Zhou heard a few of their words, but he didn't dare to offend these people, so he kept holding his breath. Now that he is angry from Liu Widowfu, he will accept it when he sees it, and said to Shen Mo: "I am very angry today, I am offended, and I will pay for the teacup." ”

"It's just a teacup." Shen Mo smiled and shook his head, and commanded: "Give Zhou Ye a pot of chrysanthemum tea to defeat the fire." ”

"No, you don't." Lao Zhou sighed and said: "This belly is angry, even if you use the ice lump, you can't defeat it, I'll go out to breathe." Ladies and gentlemen, I lost my company, and I hurriedly threw my hands and pedaled downstairs to go to the sixth teahouse of the first month, which is just one of this big farce, and in the whole New Year, Shanghai City is completely chaotic. In addition to marrying as soon as possible, families with daughters send their daughters to relatives in other places to hide. Many people even moved their families to Nanyang for the sake of insurance, preparing to wait for the limelight to pass before returning.

Just out of the first month, the eunuch from Beijing arrived... Because the Grand Canal was not yet navigable, they came from the sea, so Shanghai was the first stop. When they heard that Sun Yao, the prefect of Suzhou, didn't do anything, the eunuchs were angry, if the first shot in Jiangnan couldn't be fired, how would Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing and the like gnaw behind?

But it doesn't matter, this is giving them an excuse to start, and the ancestors in the palace are still counting on taking this opportunity to make a big profit!

The eunuchs forcibly requisitioned the luxurious Jiangnan Hotel in Shanghai, and did not use the people of the Suzhou Mansion, they did not come alone, and they were accompanied by a thousand Dongchang fans. Moreover, there have long been people from Dongchang who have made a rough picture of the situation of the wealthy households in Shanghai and written a thick booklet.

The eunuchs of the Wanli Dynasty at this stage, although they are already arrogant, but after all, they have just turned over, and they are still a little weak-hearted, and they dare not provoke the real wealthy families, so they are looking for those "nouveau riche" who have no foundation.

, It's true that they came out this time to draft girls for the emperor, but that's not the main purpose. Who doesn't know that the southeast is rich in the world, the 100,000 yuan of family wealth is not a huge rich, and there are as many as 10,000 taels of silver, if it is not good to extort money, how can it be worthy of the glorious tradition of the eunuch industry?

The whole Po City is full of chickens and dogs, and the rich are miserable to be blackmailed, but for the happiness of their children, they have to bear the pain. Even those families who have just married their daughters-in-law are not quiet, and they have to have a sum of money to eliminate the disaster. If it goes on like this, it is not surprising that there is a big mess, and finally a citizen who sent his daughter away is unbearable and hangs himself. He sent his daughter to the countryside and jumped into the river. Leaving behind an orphan woman, she died of excessive sadness.

The family died in seven days, which naturally attracted strong attention from the newspapers, and soon made the whole story public: the dead citizen was named Du Ding, who immigrated to Shanghai from southern Jiangsu ten years ago, worked as a weaver in the weaving factory for ten years, and finally had savings and opened a weaving factory. But because of honesty and poor management, the intelligence of the edge East Factory, which was already on the verge of bankruptcy, was not so accurate, and they targeted the boss of the construction site. But the people who started the work are not rich, and there are always some people who are in high debt and can't open the pot.

This Du Dingfu fu, there is only one female Yunxiu under his knees, fifteen years old. Born called Didi, out of the water hibiscus general, can be Du Ding's only comfort. Du Ding also regards her as the pearl of the palm, she is really afraid of melting in her mouth, and she is afraid of flying in her hand, and she is really looking forward to recruiting a satisfactory son-in-law in the future to let the salted fish in the family come to life. But there are unforeseen circumstances, the emperor actually wants to draft a girl in Jiangnan, the more beautiful Yunxiu is, the more worried Du Dingfu is, lest she be selected and ruined in the palace for the rest of her life. The couple discussed, and finally decided that the wife would take their daughter to hide in their hometown in southern Jiangsu.

Du Ding thought that this would be able to avoid the "catastrophe", but he underestimated the insidiousness of the eunuchs. Not long after sending his wife and daughter away, someone from Dongchang came to pick up someone, and naturally he pounced.

The leading eunuch looked through the book he brought with him and asked, "Is it Dudin?" ”

"Yes." Dudin smiled and nodded in agreement.

"There's a girl named Yunxiu?"

"Yes, there is one."

"What about people?"

"I'm married."

"Married?" The eunuch said with a grim expression on his face: "Who are you marrying?" Whether to marry the wind or the rain, explain it to me clearly. "The eunuch was furious, he had encountered such things many times today.

Sure enough, Wu Zhong is out of Diaomin! I really don't take the holy decree as a dish!

"It's not a secret, my daughter was engaged when she was eight years old, and her mother-in-law took her over after the Spring Festival this year." Du Ding was nervous and forced himself to calm down.

"Where did you get married?"

"Luzon." Dudin swallowed and foamed.

The eunuch was silent, and snorted. The Du family's gaiwan tea sipped, and only after a while did he say quietly: "The surname Du, haven't you heard of the power of Dongchang?" Tell me, grandfathers even know how many hairs they have, and they dare to fool us, don't die! ”

Du Ding said with a loss of heart: "Even if a person eats ten pieces of gall, he doesn't dare to fool his father-in-law." ”

"Don't fucking put onions in your pig's nose, pretend to be an elephant! I asked, since you married your daughter, when did you have a happy event? The eunuch stared at Du Ding Dao like a poisonous snake with a pair of eyes.

"This" Du Ding was speechless for a while, and said: "The family is too poor, so it will be spared." ”

"Poor Mao" saw that he was blocking a drop of water, the eunuch scolded rudely, picked up the post in his hand and said: "Can you recognize the words on this?" ”

"Yes." Dudin said, with a glance.

"It's good to recognize it" The eunuch cut his hands back, pacing, and said: "The emperor's draft girl, this is the order of the emperor, the daughter should honestly wait for the election at home, but hide the daughter, this is disobedience to the order." What a sin it is to disobey the Chin, you know?! ”

"It is known that disobedience to the king's orders can lead to death. But man did not disobey the king. Du Ding trembled and took out a purse from his arms and said: "This is a little sincerity of people, please don't be too little." ”

The eunuch's face was a little foggy, but when he opened the purse, he changed his face again, threw it to the ground, and spat it on Du Ding's face and said: "This tricky people, if you don't give a little bit of power, you don't believe that the neck is tofu and the knife is iron, come here!" ”

"In!" The crowd also saw that the money in the bag was less than fifty taels of silver, which is simply playing us fools!

"Lock this people up."

"Yes!"

Immediately, several fans stepped forward and twisted Dudin, and the heavy shackles buckled on his head.

"Why take me!" Dudin exclaimed in horror.

The eunuch said viciously: "A Diao Min Shao is pretending to be stupid here. Today, a grandfather doesn't need any money, so he wants to kill this plague chicken and make an example of this monkey on the beach! He waved his hand and said, "Put him in a wooden cage and parade through the streets!" ”

Dudin was really loaded in a prisoner car, walked the streets and alleys on the bustling Shanghai Beach, and then threw himself into prison, and on the same day he was humiliated and hanged himself