The most popular thing in Nanshi today is the stall selling meat.

Although most of the people who went to the market to grab meat and buy meat were ordinary people, there were many prophets among them. There are always housekeepers, maids and servants in the powerful family, some of these people are very favored by the master's side, and they all have three relatives and six reasons, so as soon as the master's family gets the news, they will immediately get the news.

Therefore, these people took the lead in grabbing the Fang Market and waited for the Fang Market to open. As soon as the northern, western, and southern markets opened, a large number of people flocked in, and many people doing business were surprised to find that most of the people who rushed into the markets went to the meat shops.

Soon, the people who realized it later also rushed into the market, and after that, those customers who had not heard the news at all, but only went to the market to buy other things, after hearing the news that the guests who had bought all kinds of meat and left in a hurry, also left everything behind and joined the rush to buy meat.

There were originally few people at the door of the shops selling gold and silver jewelry, jewelry and jade, and at this moment there were even more people. The vendors selling snacks stared at the customers who were frantically grabbing meat and eggs, and then looked down at the delicious food they had cooked, not understanding that they had abandoned this good food and went to grab some raw meat and live duck.

Hu Ren from the Western Regions had a white cloth on his shoulder, and at first he was boasting about how his cloth was, but at this time he was already listlessly leaning against the door frame, his big blue eyes were spinning around, wondering if since the people of the Tang Dynasty love meat so much, should they drive the sheep over next time, obviously this meat is easier to sell than cloth.

The market has been robbed, as long as there is a meat word, the stall is crowded with black heads, as if they don't want money to buy home. Those who sell live chickens, live ducks, dogs, and goats are not too much to prepare because they are live creatures. Rao is like this, in fact, it can't be sold in a day on weekdays, because of the wealth of the people in the world. It's still far from the point where you have meat to eat every day.

The rest is the shop that sells slaughtering haode meat, and the meat seller is busy with all sorts of people, just carrying a sharp ox ear knife to cut and tie the meat, without raising his head or opening his eyes. The money basket was thrown next to the meat case, and the guests were allowed to throw the money into it themselves, without even bothering to count it.

Some of the people who were squeezing behind on tiptoe saw that there was less and less meat on the board, and they were in a hurry. Simply yelled: "I paid!" He threw the money in his hand into the basket, and then pulled his neck and shouted, "I'm done paying!" I'm done paying! Hurry up and cut the meat for me! ”

The meat seller stood behind the man with his hands in his hands. Watching this hot business scene indifferently, listening to the jingling sound in the money basket, and looking at the stacks of copper coins, there was no joy on his face.

It's a one-shot deal! It's sold out today, so what business will you do tomorrow? No matter how much you earn on this day, you can't support your family for a lifetime.

Seeing that the sky was already dyed with a hint of twilight, it was too late to go to the meat store to batch the meat and come back, and the store couldn't spare the manpower to buy the goods, and several guys were busy. How can there be idlers to buy goods?

No, even half of his son stepped forward to help. The boy desperately held on to the board that was being crowded by the crowd and kept retreating to his side, and at the same time shouted with his changing rooduck: "Don't squeeze! Don't squeeze it! Squeezed the board over. My family doesn't sell meat anymore! ”

The shopkeeper smiled miserably, and secretly said in his heart: "Yes! From tomorrow. You really can't sell meat! ”

Yang Fan was dumbfounded as soon as he arrived at the scene, he never expected that the business on the meat stall would be so hot. Ordinary people rarely buy some meat on weekdays, and although they want to eat meat during the New Year's holidays, they are not willing to spend so much. But this time is different, if you don't buy it now, you will never be able to eat meat, and everyone is crazy.

Yang Fan rode on the horse and was stunned for a long time before he woke up like a dream and tied the horse to the side of the road and pounced on it violently.

A sea of people!

Yang Fan was full of martial arts, and in the surging crowd, his feet did not touch the ground, like a piece of dead wood in the tide, floating around. All of them used his elbows, shoulders, hips, waist, hips, everything that could be used to arch, bump, rub, twist, and struggle forward.

"It's not going to go on like this."

Yang Fan was a little shy at first, embarrassed to compete with others so much, but thinking that there was a pregnant woman at home, who was still pregnant with his child in her belly, this time was the time when she needed to supplement nutrition......

It's so sad.

For the sake of his wife, for his son, fight!

Yang Daguan decided to put aside the official body and vowed to compete with the people for food.

He roared, and his body bent and fell, and his body fell between the shoulders and heels, so that his feet were against the ground. As soon as his feet touched the ground and took root, he had strength in his body, and he didn't see how he acted, so he heard a burst of exclamations in all directions, and those who were desperately "swimming" to the meat case seemed to be beaten by a huge wave, and quickly surged to the left and right.

The outermost part of the crowd, who was desperately arching inward, was pushed by this force, staggered and fell two or three feet away, and fell to the ground. In an instant, a range of three or four feet was vacated in the center of the crowd, and Yang Fan had to stand upright inside, Yang Fan secretly screamed ashamed, and hurriedly took advantage of this rare opportunity to rush forward.

Since Yang Fan became an artist, because he has taken the road of officialdom, he rarely fights with others, so there are not many opportunities to use this "eighteen drops" of superior martial arts, and before that, he just used this kung fu in the joy of the boudoir with ingenuity.

However, he only used his full strength once, and that time the forty-eight tremors were not used up, so Wan'er exclaimed "I'm going to die", and she really fainted happily, so that even if Yang Fan wanted to try it again in the future, he could only reduce its power by half, otherwise he wouldn't even be able to bear Wan'er's mature woman's body.

Now it is the first time that Yang Fan has used this superior martial arts on the side, but he didn't expect that although he was on the side of "fighting", it was for the ...... Buy some meat for his wife and children.

Yang Fan exerted his "obscenity", and after forcibly lining up the crowd around him, he stood there like a flock, but this was only a moment's work, and the crowd that he vigorously lined up only surrounded him for a moment, and then squeezed towards him under the reaction force of the peripheral masses. Taking advantage of this moment, Yang Fan pounced forward. Cleaving the meat stall like a wave.

The butcher shopkeeper who stood there in a daze like a mourner saw him, Yang Fan's shock was majestic, who couldn't see him? I saw Yang Fan clearly at a glance. The shopkeeper's eyes lit up, and he trembled with excitement: "It's saved!" ”

Yang Fan didn't know him, but he knew Yang Fan.

Yang Fan is a popular figure in Nanshi, although he doesn't often appear here. But he has eighteen stores here. And they are the most profitable and powerful stores in Nanshi, if it weren't for the fact that he was an official and a high-ranking official like Langzhong in the Criminal Department, he would have been elected as the head of Nanshi by the merchants of Nanshi. It has become a representative of all walks of life in Nanshi.

The shopkeeper looked at the pork that was left on the board with less than two fans, and suddenly came back to his senses. yelled, "It's closed!" It's closed! It's not for sale, it's not for sale! ”

The guests who rushed to the front were anxious: "Shopkeeper, don't you still have two pork dishes on this board, why don't you sell them?" ”

The shopkeeper glared and said, "Can't I keep this meat and eat it myself?" Not for sale, not for sale! ”

The shopkeeper heard it in the small shop, hurriedly grabbed it out, and said to the shopkeeper: "Are you old and confused? If these two pork dishes are replaced with rice noodles, how long can they be eaten? Why do you keep yourself to eat meat? ”

The shopkeeper glared at her fiercely, and reprimanded her in a low voice: "What do you know about a woman's family." Go and go, don't mess with me. The shopkeeper turned around. Continue to shout: "It's not for sale!" I'm going to use the rest of the meat for my own home. Liu Qi, Huo Er, hurry up and take the meat back! ”

The people were dissatisfied. But he didn't dare to rob openly, so he had to scold and scatter, Yang Fan was desperately squeezing forward, and as soon as everyone dispersed, he grabbed the front of the meat case, only to see that the official man was squeezed so that his head was crooked, his clothes were scattered, his robe was wrinkled, and his boots were almost dropped, and he was crookedly on his feet.

Seeing that people are not selling, Yang Fan couldn't help but be disappointed, he straightened his clothes stupidly, and was about to try his skills elsewhere, today he vowed to grab a few catties of meat for his wife and go back, the shopkeeper had already nodded and greeted him, held him with a pair of fat palms, and said with tears in his eyes: "Yang shopkeeper's ......"

Yang Fan was respectfully welcomed into the butcher's shop by the butcher shopkeeper, and after about three pillars of incense, he carried an oil-stained hemp bag and sneaked out of the butcher's shop with only one gap in the door panel, and the two unsold pork had fallen into his bag.

The butcher shopkeeper is about to lose his job, and Yang Fan controls eighteen shops in the most prosperous area of Nanshi, as long as he is willing to support it, whether it is to join a gang or distribute some things to the butcher shopkeeper, the shopkeeper will not worry about having no new business to do, so he ...... These two pork dishes became a meeting gift for him to ask Yang Fan for help.

Yang Fan carried the sack out of the butcher's shop, and before he put the sack on the horse's back, he saw two familiar people walking towards him in the distance, two of them were disheveled and embarrassed, and they both bowed their heads, looking dejected.

"Brother Chu, Brother Qiao!"

Yang Fan immediately shouted, Chu Madge and Ma Qiaomeng looked up and saw that it was him, and immediately ran over happily, Chu Madge said happily: "Erlang, why are you here?" ”

Yang Fan said: "Brother Chu, Brother Qiao, how did you two enter the city?" ”

Both sides rushed to ask, and Ma Qiao said, "Hi! Didn't I hear a message from my family, so I hurriedly took leave and rushed back, but I didn't expect that as soon as I entered the city, I heard that the imperial court had issued a 'ban on slaughter', so I didn't even return home, so I ran to Nanshi to buy meat, but it turned out to be a step too late. ”

Yang Fan was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "What happened to your family?" ”

As soon as Ma Qiao heard him ask about this, he smiled and said with a smile: "Naturally, it's a great event, haha, your sister-in-law is pregnant." ”

"Really?"

Yang Fan was surprised and delighted, and hurriedly bowed his hand to him and said, "Haha, congratulations, Brother Qiao is about to become a father." ”

Ma Qiao waved his hand and deliberately made a disapproving appearance, but the mouth that was about to reach the root of his ears couldn't hide it: "I can't compare to you, I can't compare to you, I'm a few years older than you, but I didn't expect this matter to go behind you." Hey! When my son is born, I will call you brother. ”

Yang Fan smiled: "How can you be sure that the first child must be a son?" Maybe I'll give birth to a girl. It's good to give birth to a girl, if she looks as beautiful as Sister Dough, she will marry into my family in the future and be my daughter-in-law. If you look like you......"

Ma Qiao glared and said, "What? ”

Yang Fan sighed and said, "Then I will reluctantly make it difficult for her, accept her as a goddaughter, and help her prepare a dowry in the future." You can't wronged my unborn son. Otherwise, my lady wouldn't have agreed. ”

Ma Qiao spat him and said, "Bah, Bah! If I give birth to a daughter, I will be as beautiful as her mother. But then again, why did you give birth to a son? I gave birth to a daughter? Maybe your first child is a daughter, and you will be my daughter-in-law in the future. ”

Yang Fan cocked his chin triumphantly and said, "Yesterday, I invited Dr. Jiang to come to the door and prescribe a few pairs of fetal protection medicine for your brother and sister. Dr. Jiang cut the pulse for your brother and sister by the way, but Dr. Jiang said that from the pulse image, he was at least eighty percent sure. It's a boy. ”

Ma Qiao and Chu Crazy Ge listened to it and said hello to him, and the three of them laughed a few words. Yang Fan asked again: "Brother Chu, you are in Jinwuwei, Brother Qiao is in Longwuwei, these two guards are stationed in this Luoyang City, one east and one west, separated by a distance, how did you come together?" ”

When Chu Yange heard this, his old face turned red, and he faintly showed a little embarrassment, and Yang Fan couldn't help but be surprised when he saw it.

Ma Qiao smiled: "Erlang." You don't know. Miss Xiaodong is very fond of our Brother Chu, and now Brother Chu has invited a matchmaker. Hired to Aunt Hua's family, Aunt Hua is ready to arrange a marriage for them as soon as spring begins. ”

Yang Fan was overjoyed when he heard it. Smiled: "Okay, good! Brother Qiao and I are going to have children at home, and Brother Chu is now going to start a family. It's really a three-happiness coming-of-the-door. Brother Chu, this is your mistake, such a happy event, Brother Chu didn't tell me about it. ”

Chu Madge smiled: "It's just an engagement, tell you what to do, I originally planned to wait for the wedding preparations to stop, and then invite you to the banquet on the day of the official marriage, hehe, our own brothers, you must come then." ”

Chu Yangge didn't lose their brotherhood because of Yang Fan's promotion, but after all, the gap in each other's status was there, this was a fact that could not be ignored, how could he instruct a criminal department Langzhong to help him organize the wedding, and it would be enough for Yang Fan to come when he got married.

Yang Fan understood his thoughts, friendship is one thing, and class is also an objective fact that cannot be ignored, so he didn't say much, just said: "Don't say these unsightly words, did Brother Chu come to the city to buy the items needed for the wedding?" We are our own brothers, you are welcome, if I have it in the store, you can just get what you need, we are good brothers, and Miss Xiaodong is also a neighbor I know very well, let my little brother do his best. ”

Chu Madge smiled: "To you, I naturally won't be polite. But I'm alone, and besides, it's the first time I've married at such an old age, and I don't know anything about this. Xiaodong is the only girl in the family, who wants to provide for the elderly and send them to the end, and I don't have a home, so I became a door-to-door son-in-law.

Most of the marriage is handled by my mother-in-law, so I don't have to think about it. I also heard about the 'ban on slaughter' today, so I hurried to the market to buy some fish and meat back, although the fresh meat can't be put on the day of marriage, it is better to make bacon and dried fish first. Who knows......"

Speaking of this, Ma Qiao was also a little depressed: "Alas! I really can't think of it, there has been no such thing since ancient times, how can you say that the emperor would make such a will, the common people live a hard life, and all they ask for is just a food and clothing, and occasionally a little meat to eat, it is a great pleasure, the emperor actually issued an edict ......, and now your sister-in-law is pregnant, I also want to buy some meat for her to make up for her body, who knows that it is empty. ”

Speaking of this, Ma Qiao saw the oil-stained sack in Yang Fan's hand at a glance, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and said, "Erlang, have you bought meat?" ”

At this time, the drums of Nanshi Sanshi sounded "dong dong", and Yang Fan said to the two: "Let's go, let's talk while walking." ”

The three of them went all the way, Yang Fan told him about the fact that he saw the official messenger prohibiting fishing on the way to the White Horse Temple, and learned that the imperial court had issued a 'ban on slaughter', Chu Yangge and Ma Qiao couldn't help but look at him with strange eyes when they heard it, and Yang Fan was furious, and couldn't help touching his nose and said: "What are you two looking at me like this, I am a big official, and I have to live." Is it a shame to buy some meat for your daughter-in-law? ”

Chu Yangge and Ma Qiao listened, the expressions on their faces became even more weird, Yang Fan didn't look like he was laughing at him for being in the criminal department and buying meat with people, and couldn't help but wonder: "What do you two mean?" ”

Chu Madge sighed. Shaking his head and saying with a wry smile: "Erlang, Erlang, you are really smart, and you are confused for a while." ”

Yang Fan was stunned: "What's wrong?" ”

Ma Qiao shouted, "What's wrong? Haven't you figured it out yet? You say the fishermen on the river are forbidden to continue fishing? ”

"yes!"

"Can a dead fish be fished out of the river?"

"yes!"

Chu Madge smiled bitterly: "Fishermen fish. Are you willing to eat it yourself? It's not that you want to sell it for some rice and noodles to go back, why don't you buy those freshly caught fish from them nearby, but go to the south to buy meat? ”

Yang Fan was stunned. I was stunned for a long time, and I couldn't say a word.

Ma Qiao'er shook his head and said, "I've heard people say jokes about riding donkeys to find donkeys before, and I only think it's a stupid person in the story." But I didn't expect that there would be such a fool around me! ”

Chu Yangge rarely saw him embarrassed, and he was so cute at the moment. I couldn't help but laugh.

Yang Fan slapped his forehead, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Yes, yes." That's true, I'm really dizzy. ”

Chu Madge comforted: "Fortunately, you came by chance, and you even grabbed some meat, the two of us came earlier than you, but those people are like crazy, our two big men can't rob them, and now they are empty-handed, and I don't know how to explain when I go back." ”

Yang Fan zhanzhu footsteps. patted the sack on the horse's back and smiled, "I have it." Of course, you have it. Can a brother still eat alone? There are two pork fans here, and Sister Xuning is pregnant. You can't even eat a little bit of meat. Brother Qiao, you can carry one back in a while. ”

Ma Qiao said: "Okay! Jiro. You're welcome to talk to you! Brother Chu, this pork, half of our family. ”

Chu Yangge hurriedly said: "No, no, no, my younger brother and sister are pregnant, and they need meat supplements, when I get married in the spring, I must have no meat to eat, and the neighbors will not say anything." ”

Yang Fan said: "Don't fight, that pork is for Sister Xuning." Brother Chu will get married until the beginning of spring, and it will take more than a month, don't worry, when the time comes, I will be responsible for the freedom of the chicken, duck and fish at the banquet. ”

Ma Qiao said: "Now that the slaughter is banned in the world, although the court does not directly ban meat, but the ban on slaughter is not equivalent to a ban on meat, a month later, where can you get meat to eat?" ”

Yang Fan shook his head and said, "You don't have to worry, the sky can't fall." The reason why I also came to buy it is just because the will has just been issued, and the imperial court must strictly control it, and for a period of time, everyone is afraid that they will really not be able to eat meat. However, such a contrary to common sense, even if it is the emperor's will, it is impossible to carry it out.

It is a matter of course for the court to collect taxes, and there are not people who evade taxes and avoid taxes, let alone such a ridiculous will. What is the difference between this and a decree forbidding the people to dress and eat, and forbidding the people to marry and have children? The people did not have enough to eat, so the hunters hunted, the farmers raised pigs, and the fishermen fished, and the meat they got was sold to the rich, and then they changed rice and noodles and went back to live.

Now that this is the case, all the people in the world are vegetarian, the price of food is soaring, the price of vegetables is soaring, the people can't survive, the gentry and the magnates have no meat to eat, they can't even eat meat, what kind of officials do they do, what money do they make? Wait, it won't be long before this decree will be dead in name. ”

Yang Fan sighed and said: "It's just that before the imperial court revokes this decree, it is impossible to openly buy and sell meat, and it is impossible to eat meat openly and unscrupulously, and the price of meat will inevitably soar because of this. ”

Hearing him say this, Ma Qiao and Chu Madge also understood, Chu Madge sighed and said: "Although the powerful families will also be affected, the impact will not be big after all, the unlucky people are still the people, the rich people may not be able to eat meat for a while, but for the small people, they may not even be able to eat." ”

"yes......"

Yang Fan was also a little stunned, sighed, and then said, "Brother Chu, you don't have to worry. I'll take care of the meat you need when you get married. I'm going to see Master Xue today, because this matter has been delayed for a while, and I have to go over in a while. Hehe, every time I see Master Xue, I always have something important to ask for, but this time I came to the door, I am afraid that he would never think that I would ask him for any help. ”

Chu Yangge and Ma Qiao both showed strange expressions on their faces, indeed, when everyone in the world couldn't eat meat because the emperor believed in Buddhism, he could go to the temple and ask a big monk to help him get meat to eat, this kind of thing sounded a bit ridiculous, but when they thought of the impact of this incident on themselves, how could they still laugh.

Ma Qiao said angrily: "We have also seen some old people who eat fast and believe in Buddhism, but they want to become immortals and become Buddhas, or they want to live forever, it is all her own business, and now the emperor wants to become a Buddha, but let us people live a good life without eating, drinking, or living, what is this called." ”

Yang Fan said: "The reason why the emperor became the emperor is because of the emperor's own business, and sometimes it is the business of the people of the world. Only with a good emperor can you have a good life! ”

Yang Fan didn't say too much, and seeing Chu Yangge and Ma Qiao nodding in agreement, it was enough. They can't read big words, but being illiterate doesn't mean they don't understand the reason, and when they understand the truth, they will become their like-minded comrades-in-arms in the future.

They are all officers of the forbidden army, and they have already begun to lead troops, and they will bring more soldiers in the future. Yang Fan's intentional guidance was not to take advantage of them, but he didn't want to part ways with them one day because of different beliefs, or even meet each other in arms and become mortal enemies.

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