There was silence on the wharf in Nantai County, and coolies, sailors, ship owners, cargo owners, and businessmen doing business on the shore were all stunned, staring intently at the thirteen bewitching women who didn't know where they came from.

The coolies are all bachelors, they have eaten the last meal, let alone marry the mother-in-law, and the boaters are all bitter bachelors, even if they are the owners and bosses of the ship who have married their wives, how can the yellow-faced women in the family be compared with these fairies who seem to come out of the painting.

For a while, all the work on the dock stopped, a pair of hungry eyes stared directly at these colorful cheongsams and white thighs, the fairies were not only not afraid, but also ate and laughed, one of the women with a pointed chin, shook a handkerchief, and said to the coolie closest to him: "Brother, come to help others, I can't take it." ”

She was talking about the heavy big suitcase, the slender woman dragged such a heavy luggage naturally couldn't walk, the coolie heard a brother, the bones of his whole body were crispy, and he walked forward, completely forgetting that he was standing on the gangplank, plopped, and fell into the water.

There was a loud laugh, the coolies laughed, the sailors laughed, and the thirteen women trembled with laughter, leaning forward and backward.

"I'll help you move." A coolie with a big waist and a round waist ran over, and put the suitcase on his shoulder very easily, and was just about to leave, when the guy in the water climbed up, and he didn't care about the ** on his body: "How do you rob my business." ”

As soon as they didn't agree, the two fought, the man who carried the big bag on the dock had never practiced martial arts, and he fought with all his stupid strength, like two dogs and bears fighting hand-to-hand, and the women laughed again, and one of them said coquettishly: "What are you fighting, you want to carry luggage, there are many people here." ”

As soon as the coolies heard this, they all surrounded them with a hula sound, put all the women's luggage on a mule cart, rubbed their hands and didn't want to leave, and the woman in the green cheongsam at the head took out a big ocean from her small satchel and threw it over: "Oh, reward you." ”

Nantai County is very poor, and the currency in circulation is still dominated by the former Qing copper plate, who has ever seen the ocean, a coolie picked up the silver yuan and bit it with his teeth, and said in surprise: "It's silver." "One ocean can be exchanged for 1,500 coppers, and it takes 800 bales to make so much money.

With such a generous shot, what is the origin of these women? No one can say.

Thirteen sliding rods came from the county town to pick up the women, and there were two mule carts for carrying luggage, and in addition to the suitcases carried by the women, many wicker boxes were brought down from the boat, all of which were loaded on the carts, and the women got on the sliding rods and left the dock in front of everyone.

The wharf is still five miles away from the county seat, the women on this road have been baptized by the eyes, after entering the city gate, it has caused a sensation in the whole city, the street is full of people on both sides, pointing and pointing, whispering, some old people, while glancing at the big white legs under the cheongsam, while poking the ground with a stick, angrily scolding: "Bad morals, bad morals." ”

The women swaggered through the city, and when they came to the most prosperous place in the county, a row of empty houses opposite the drunken immortal residence, Shi Shiran went in.

This row of empty houses was originally the property of Master Gong's family, and later it was rented out, and it was renovated for a long time, and the façade was repaired like a palace, which was originally prepared for these women.

The women didn't come out after they went in, there was still rain in the sky, an autumn rain and a cold, but the hearts of the fathers and elders of Nantai County who were stirred by the big white legs were hot, and the teahouses, restaurants, streets and alleys were talking about these mysterious women.

The men lowered their voices, their eyebrows fluttering, and they were happy, revealing lewd smiles that only each other could understand.

The women were holding the soles of their shoes and gossiping, and the tailor-made cheongsams and high heels of the thirteen women added countless conversations to their lonely lives.

"The slit of that cheongsam is too high, and even the pants can be seen."

"My clothes are so tight, I can't breathe when I have to change them."

"Really, it's not a shame."

The gentry who represent the system of Nantai County also got the news, and the old people smashed their crutches on the ground, one by one, and a few people went to the county government to complain, begging the county lord to drive out these immoral women.

The next day, the sun was shining, on the window sill on the second floor of the row of façade rooms, more than a dozen bamboo poles stretched out, on which cheongsam, bras, pants and other things were strung together, once again causing the city to be full of wind and rain, the men always had to have nothing to do and ran to the drunken immortal residence, asked for a pot of water and wine, a plate of boiled peanuts, and looked at the opposite window sill to think about it.

The gentry were even more angry, these women's professions were about to come out, they must be in the skin and meat business, Nantai County is a clean place, how can it tolerate such a dirty place, some people found Gong Jiaxuan and asked him to drive these women away, Gong Lao just said that the contract could not be torn up, but he couldn't say it in his heart, this house was rented by Chen Zikun, maybe these women were also recruited by Chen Zikun, who would dare to pick them up.

On the third day, a group of craftsmen hung a huge sign on the gatehouse, composed of glass pipes and wires, vaguely able to recognize the three words of "night Shanghai", in the evening, the diesel generator rang, the signboard became colorful, very good-looking, the three big characters of night Shanghai will be green and red, and they can see clearly from afar, some people who have been to the provincial capital say, this is called neon, only in big cities.

The fourth day is the auspicious day of the zodiac, at noon, two firecrackers were hung on the second floor of Shanghai at night, there were 8,000 rings, crackling and blowing up for a quarter of an hour, and then there was the dragon and lion dance, the colored paper on the second floor flew wildly, and the idlers of the whole county gathered at the gate of Shanghai at night to see the excitement.

I saw a few small sedan chairs fluttering in, and those who got down from the sedan chair turned out to be several leading figures in the county, Li Juren, Gong Shanren, Master Zhou, Master Sun, and Boss Lin of the drunken immortal residence opposite were also old, everyone was wearing a new black horse coat, melon skin hat, a dress of going out to meet guests, holding a red invitation, and walking into the night Shanghai with a smile on his face.

Seeing the lively idlers looking at each other, they said that yesterday the old men kept saying that they wanted to ask the county to drive the night Shanghai away from Nantai, how could they become guests today, and this change was also bigger.

The old men also had no choice, originally they were aggressive to drive away these outsiders, but just last night, the escort sent an invitation to invite them to participate in the opening ceremony of the Shanghai nightclub.

The decoration in Shanghai at night is breathtaking, with Western-style furniture, sofa chairs, gramophone, Stan carpet paintings, and a movie projector, cigarettes and alcohol, paper cigarettes such as the Three Forts, and wine brandy and whiskey

Chen Zikun took Chief of Staff Yan and County Magistrate Liu to finally arrive, and thirteen women dressed up in Shanghai came to serve at night, these women came from Nanjing and Shanghai, and they didn't dare to say that they were proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but they were definitely experts in drinking, dancing, singing, and seducing men.

In the past, Nantai County also opened a few brothels, are the kind of rural kilns, in addition to accompanying wine and eating, is to go to bed, there is no fun, this night the opening of Shanghai subverted everyone's inherent view of the kiln, this shop can not only eat wine and gambling cards, but also listen to music and dance, and movies can be watched, it really makes the Nantai people who have been closed for many years an eye-opener, but the minimum consumption of three oceans is really unacceptable.

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Although there are guards to make the adults support, but the business in Shanghai at night is not as good as imagined, rich men do not have such an advanced concept of consumption, they would rather spend three hundred oceans to buy a yellow flower girl in the countryside, rather than spend three yuan to Shanghai at night to catch up with fashion, those poor men who can't marry their mother-in-law have this demand, but they can't take out so much money, they can only walk by, looking at the pants and bras on the second floor of Shanghai at night and swallow saliva.

These thirteen women were brought from Shanghai by Jianbing, and the entertainment industry in Shanghai was developed, the highest level was the book, that is, Jianbing's previous livelihood, and then the first class was the third hall, the second class was the second hall, and there were more below the third class, these people were retired from the second hall, although they were only twenty-one or twelve years old, but their competitiveness had greatly declined, and they had to go to Nantai County to earn a living.

Jianbing signed a one-year contract with them, and they can only leave after a year, but the business is tepid, and some girls have the idea of returning to Shanghai, headed by the one who likes to wear a green cheongsam called Hongyu, although she is only twenty years old, but she is the head of this gang, she strongly persuaded the sisters to stay, saying that Sister Jianbing will definitely not coax us, to be a man of faith, to keep the clouds open and see the moon, to insist on a year, night Shanghai must have a bright day.

The bandits attacked the county seat twice, and the strength of the soldiers was greatly reduced, and after Chen Shou, the big pole of Kushuijing, was recruited by the escort army, several bandits came to surrender one after another, and the seventh mixed brigade of the Jiangdong Army has begun to see the scale, and the public security situation in Nantai County has greatly improved, at least there are many fewer cases of bandits kidnapping and robbing roads in broad daylight.

Chen Zikun led the army to crack down on the area around the county several times, completely wiped out the area around the county, and replanted the abandoned land with seedlings, sorghum, wheat, and opium poppies.

The weapons bought from Shanghai were equipped with the newly recruited army and militia groups, and Chen Zikun's forces gradually became stronger, and the soldiers and horses borrowed from Luoyang should also be returned.

A group of permed high-forked cheongsams stood near the notice board at the city gate, while snorting melon seeds, while flying indiscriminately, the limelight actually overshadowed the army, attracting the unscrupulous greedy eyes of the men and the scolding of the women.

Hongyu was triumphant, spitting melon seed shells in her scarlet-painted lips, humming a small tune in her mouth, her waist and buttocks swaying gently with the rhythm, showing her proud figure to these hillbillies without care, and suddenly she found that there was a man wearing a hat in the crowd who didn't look at her, and she couldn't help but be a little angry.

The hatholder was dressed in sackcloth, his face could not be seen clearly with his head down, and his hands were hanging down without moving, which was extremely eye-catching in the crowd of revelers.

Ruby's eyes widened, staring at the hatholder.