After eating noodles, he sent the dishes and chopsticks back to the noodle restaurant, and got back the ten cents that were pressed there, Ji Baobao went to another store and bought two bowls of mung bean soup back.

This mung bean soup is put in the well water town, and it tastes very cold and extremely relieves the heat.

Ji Baobao was drinking mung bean soup while looking at the sugar man on her stall, "It's so hot this day, brother, look, the sugar man hasn't melted." ”

"It's going to melt, it's just slow." Sheng Jun said with a dry smile.

"I know, I just wanted to talk to you." Ji Baobao is happy.

Sheng Junqian's eyes were full of tenderness.

As soon as noon passed, Ji Baobao and Sheng Junqian didn't wait for business, but waited for a few ruffians in the town, saying that they were collecting protection money.

Seeing that everyone was obediently handsome, without any reluctance, Ji Baobao and Sheng Junqian felt very strange.

Ji Baobao whispered to the eldest sister who sold rouge gouache next to her: "There is still a protection fee to be charged, how much money do you pay?" Why do you all seem to be willing? ”

The eldest sister smiled: "You just came to do business today, no wonder you don't know." We have all paid the money for many years, and as long as we pay the money and get the paperwork to pay the money, then as long as we are in this town, no matter where we are in the town, we will be protected by these people. The county government is in the county, far away, even if there are officials who come to see it from time to time, they can't manage so much, thanks to them. ”

"Then of course we are willing," the eldest sister continued to laugh, "If you pay thirty wen per month for each stall, you can buy it and be safe and secure in this town and won't be bullied, who wouldn't want to?" ”

"We are all small businesses," the eldest sister said, "we have no backers, since we have paid the money, those bad sons of the rich and noble families in the town want to bully us, we have to weigh it, it's good." Pay it too, and buy peace. However, I think you should be considered two stalls, that is, you have to pay 60 yuan. ”

Ji Baobao and Sheng Junqian were even more surprised.

I didn't expect these ruffians to be such ruffians.

But seeing that they are not bad people, but collecting money will really protect everyone, they also decided to pay this money.

It's not that they want to be protected, they don't feel like they're going to be bullied by anyone, they just want to do less. If they don't pay for their stalls, there will definitely be some trouble.

Don't be afraid of trouble, but wouldn't it be better if you didn't have this trouble?

Anyway, it's only sixty dollars.

As soon as the two of them decided, the few people who collected the protection money came to their stall in a hurry, and one of them whistled: "Yo, it seems to be a new arrival." ”

The person who knew how to read and registered with an account collection book in his hand looked at the book carefully before nodding: "It's new." ”

Then, the leader, who was still holding a dog's tail grass in his mouth, and was very hanging, shook his legs and opened his mouth: "Report your name, register, and pay the money, this month has passed twenty days, you only need to pay ten wen this month, starting next month, you have to start paying thirty wen every month, I will make it clear to you first, don't say that we didn't tell you in the future." ”

Ji Baobao and Sheng Junqian both reported under pseudonyms.

Ask about relationships.

Knowing that it was a husband and wife, someone said: "Brother Ming, they are husband and wife, looking at the stall, it seems to be a stall, but it is divided into two, according to the rules, only one stall should be charged." ”

The person who is the leader with a dog's tail and grass in his mouth and is very hangy is called Brother Ming.