5-12 Patrol the City and Clean the Streets

Shanghai is a rapidly developing city, and there is no systematic planning for construction, so the urban area seems to be chaotic, and those desperate refugees have built haphazardly after they have fled to Shanghai, forming many low and dirty shantytowns, as well as the Suzhou Creek and the Huangpu River, which are densely packed with passenger ships and merchant ships and fishing boats, all of which need to be managed and coordinated.

In this situation, the Shanghai Provincial Yamen dispatched a special person to set up a city management department, called the Patrol City Cleaning Street Division, the rules of the imperial court were there, and it was obviously impossible for the local government to set up private institutions, so this department was outside the regular establishment of the imperial court, and the leading few people were the fast shift servants of the Daotai Yamen, and there was no grade at all, and thousands of helpers were hired below, and they were not paid.

When the nine-thousand-year-old gang was in power, the court's etiquette collapsed, python robes could be worn indiscriminately, and the mendling clothes were even more casual. The officials of the City Patrol Street Division are wearing dark green plate-collared official uniforms that are darker than the color of low-level officials, and the patches on their chests are embroidered not quail sparrows that are neither first-class civil officials, nor rhinoceros seahorses of low-level military attachés, but unique fierce dogs!

Hearing that Lord Qincha will be coming to Shanghai soon, the governor Chen Liangjue specially issued a warrant to let the Patrol City Cleaning Street Division sweep away the unsightly small vendors and illegal buildings in the city.

The commanding carriage of the Jingjie Division stopped at both ends of the road far away, and then dozens of big men slowly gathered around from the flow of people around, these people were stabbed with dragons and tigers, their eyes were fierce, they were not good at first glance, their clothes were not uniform, they wore everything, but when they gathered near the small vendors, they suddenly shook out the shoulders and put them on their bodies, and the shoulders made of dark green Songjiang cloth in a water, a big white circle on the chest, and a black character "Xie" was written with a brush.

The sudden attack of the city patrol street division caught the small vendors off guard, and they suddenly became a mess, hurriedly packing up the goods on the stalls, and delusionally retreating. The passers-by around seemed to be accustomed to this kind of situation, and they were not very afraid, but just stood from a distance and watched indifferently.

Among the onlookers were Liu Ziguang and Hu Yimin, who were disguised in disguise, and when he saw that there were groups of ruffians and hooligans robbing property in broad daylight, he couldn't help but be surprised, and grabbed a person next to him and asked, "Why is Shanghai so chaotic?" Gangster ruffians actually robbed the streets? ”

That person was a native of Shanghai, and when he heard Liu Ziguang ask this, and spoke Jianghuai official dialect with a northern accent, he knew that this person was a northerner who had just come to Shanghai, so he replied with a slightly sarcastic smile: "Of course Nong Xianghu Ning doesn't know, this is the assistant manager of the Ala Shanghai Patrol City Cleaning Division, and he is very powerful." ”

It turned out to be a person from the government, seeing the small commodities flying in the sky, fruits and food, the fierce assistant manager and the embarrassed hawkers, Liu Ziguang immediately thought of the era he was in, and he was often bullied by the city management, not to mention the confiscation of things, and if the attitude was a little bad, he would be beaten, even if he sued, it was useless, because the people who beat people were all unprepared assistant managers, so there was no place to reason for killing you, I didn't expect that there was the same thing in this world, he immediately stood up from the crowd and shouted:

"In broad daylight, Lang Lang Qiankun, you and others rob property and oppress the good, how is it different from bandits?"

As soon as the words fell, more than a dozen pairs of fierce eyes looked over, and when they saw Liu Ziguang wearing a cloth coat and being alone, the assistant manager squinted and sneered: "Where did the little red guy come from, it's your turn to take care of the affairs in Lao Tzu's yamen?" Beat! Book that, give Lao Tzu a hard beating! Kill Lao Tzu. ”

More than a dozen people swarmed up, surrounded Liu Ziguang in it, pushed and shoved into a small alley next to it, Liu Ziguang did not resist, let them pull away, and gave Miss Hu next to him a reassuring look, Miss Hu naturally knew the depth of Liu Ziguang's kung fu, so she simply pretended to be an ordinary spectator and hid aside to watch the excitement, and the bodyguards of Rishengchang in the distance slowly gathered over, mixed in the crowd and secretly protected the eldest lady, they would not act rashly without receiving instructions.

Liu Ziguang angrily reprimanded the assistant managers, while helplessly calling for help, the people were afraid of the assistant managers' obscenity, no one dared to speak out, just when Liu Ziguang was about to be pulled into the alley, suddenly a small cart rushed over quickly, knocked over several assistant managers, the person who pushed the cart was a handsome young man, he took advantage of the assistant managers were knocked over on their backs and did not react, grabbed Liu Ziguang and ran.

All of a sudden, time seemed to go backwards, and it was back to that rainy dim afternoon, after killing the bully by mistake, he was pulled away by his clever neighbor Xiao Mao, almost the same plot, the same scene, Liu Ziguang wanted to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, and went to the alley to beat the gang of assistant managers, but he didn't expect to suddenly rush out of this posterior life and death to save him, Liu Ziguang immediately had a great impression of him, and pushed the boat down the river and ran with him.

Every time the patrol city and street division sweeps, it is the assistant charge in front, and the serious errand is in the back to supervise the army, these men with fierce dogs embroidered on their chests are not easy to get along with the characters, which is not a good man with stunts and dominating one side, I saw the five of them jumping out of the carriage unhurriedly, lined up and blocked in the street, the river wind blew the hem of the dark green official robe, revealing the big red official pants and soap boots with a black waist on a white background, and the brake was majestic.

"Fourth brother, do you see it, someone actually resisted law enforcement and beat our brothers." An emaciated man said coldly, the iron rod in his hand tapping the ground rhythmically, as if he was a little impatient.

"Old Five, isn't your cross soul chasing stick a meat haven't been opened for a long time, just take those two boys to the market." The man known as the fourth brother has a very ugly face, the lower lip is prominent, the lower row of teeth is exposed, and he looks particularly murderous, he is carrying a jujube stick in his hand, but there are dozens of iron nails inlaid in front of him, which makes people feel chilled to look at.

The latter pulled Liu Ziguang and ran wildly for dozens of steps, but before he could think of it, he was blocked by five dark green figures, only to see them each holding a stick, fiddling with it in their hands, and holding paper cigarettes rolled into cigarettes from the cigarette butt in their mouths, lined up, not angry and arrogant. Hou Sheng was so frightened that he gasped: "Five dogs patrolling the city!" ”

Hou Sheng knew the consequences of falling into the hands of these five people, he took out a three-inch long iron piece fruit knife from his arms and put it across his chest, pushed Liu Ziguang behind him and said, "I'll entangle them, you go quickly." ”

Liu Ziguang didn't expect this person to be so righteous, and he was greatly moved in his heart, but pulled the latter behind him, and shouted at the five fierce and vicious roadblockers: "Good dogs don't get in the way, get out of the way!" ”

These five people are the five most famous bigwigs in the city patrol street division, they were all local bullies before joining the yamen, and they did evil after putting on this green skin, and they won the love of the boss, and were given the name "five tiger generals patrolling the city", but the name of the folk has changed, and they are called "five dogs patrolling the city". ”

These two young people, who didn't know the height of the sky, actually called themselves dogs to their faces, and the five of them were furious, spit out the paper cigarettes in their mouths, and pounced on them with sticks.

Ten seconds later, the five tigers patrolling the city have really become the five dogs patrolling the city, or the kind of leper dog lying on the ground and not moving, everyone's head has a bloody hole, blood is flowing out, the vital parts are also kicked, and they have completely lost their combat effectiveness, Liu Ziguang didn't want to take their lives, he still has a sense of proportion, if he really wants to kill, even twenty city patrol tigers will have to be confessed here.

At this time, dozens of assistant managers had already chased back from behind, and this time it was Liu Ziguang's turn to pull the latter to run away, and the two quickly disappeared into the flow of people on the Bund. The assistant managers couldn't catch up, so they had to scold and go back to treat the chief.

In the depths of the alley, Liu Ziguang and the latter squatted on the ground to rest, and the latter was already out of breath, leaning against the wall and panting, and rested for a while before he spoke: "Thank you big brother for the rescue." ”

Liu Ziguang smiled slightly: "It should be me to thank you, dare to snatch people from dozens of big men, your courage is extraordinary, you can be called a strong man, I am just a scholar, I just arrived in Shanghai today." ”

Hou Sheng said happily: "It turns out that you are a scholar, no wonder you can stand up and speak up for our hawkers, the eldest brother has a stunt, and the younger brother just got an axe, ashamed, ashamed." By the way, my name is Lin Sheng, and I haven't asked my eldest brother for his name. ”

Liu Ziguang thought for a moment and replied, "My name is Xu Wenqiang." ”

"It turned out to be Brother Xu, Lin Sheng gave you a gift, and the younger brother is a stall on the Bund Wharf to sell fruits, known as Fruit Ah Sheng, you can call me Ah Sheng." As Lin Sheng spoke, he took out the big green radish from his arms, peeled off the skin three times and two times, broke half of it and handed it to Liu Ziguang and said: "There is only this one left in a cart of radish, and the car must not be able to be saved. After saying that, he took a hard bite of the radish.

Liu Ziguang also held the radish and gnawed it, Lin Sheng was the first Shanghainese he met, and he might be able to see a real Shanghai from this young Shanghai low-level person, so Liu Ziguang panicked and said his name as the protagonist of the Hong Kong drama in the 80s.

"Brother Xu came from the north to join his relatives, what are your plans for the future?" Lin Sheng asked while eating.

"I want to get a job on the docks, and I don't know if there's a way." Liu Ziguang said this because the Bund Wharf is the distribution center of foreign merchant ships, and the City Shipping Division is located on the Bund.

"No problem, my little brother who lives with me is the one who carries the work on the dock, and he has a distant relative who helps the Lai family make a book. Brother Xu is literate and hyphenated, and he will definitely be able to find a decent job. Lin Sheng finished the last bite, stood up and patted his buttocks: "Let's go, I'll take you to see him." ”

"Lai's family? Which Lai family? Liu Ziguang suddenly remembered that he had seen some records about a person surnamed Lai in Shanghai in the archives of the East Factory.

"Who else can have Lai's family, of course, the most famous Lai Youwei boss in Shanghai, and most of the foreign goods in Shanghai are made by him." When Lin Sheng talked about Lai Youwei, his eyes seemed to have sparks of worship.