Chapter Eighty-Five: Death Asks for Money
The night was deep, and the group was in the hall of the inn, and they didn't dare to come out at all, staring at the oil stains on the floor or the hanging lanterns on the flower boards, waiting for the result of the governor's punishment.
In principle, under the rule of Emperor Yongzheng, the governor of a province was the largest official of a province, and he had jurisdiction over and handling all affairs of a province.
Emperor Gao was far away, and most of the governors of a province were still difficult to be restrained by the imperial court in the local area.
Therefore, these people understand at this moment that their lives are in the hands of this governor, and if this governor is angry, his life can be saved at any time.
Runzhi deliberately let these people stand in place, and he didn't hurry to start speaking, but put on two games of chess, wearing the royal brocade official uniform specially used by the governor, and playing chess with Qing'er in the hall.
Between the movements of the jade chess pieces, a crisp sound is emitted, which is very beautiful and beautiful, as if someone is playing music, which is naturally because Runzhi and Qing'er are both quiet and rhythmic.
Many catchers are also wearing specific costumes in a circle, holding knives in their hands, the knife light is shining, and the silver knife light is reflected on the faces of the second brothers in the inn, which makes people feel extremely suffocated.
Finally, after a while, this Qian Tanxing still couldn't help it, so he rubbed his hands, wanted to speak, but seemed to have some U-shaped doubts.
The proprietress of this shop, that is, the wife of Qian Tanxing, the people in the store call her the proprietress on the surface, and privately give her the nickname of "death for money".
This is because this boss lady only has the word money in her eyes, and in her opinion, having money means having everything, except for money, everything else is not as good as bullshit.
In this shop, the proprietress turned out to be an underground brothel, a bit similar to an underground bank, that is, a brothel was opened in private, and more than a dozen prostitutes with good looks were raised in it, and they did not sell them publicly, but relied on the reputation of some local children to make a living.
Before Qian Tanxing married the old crow of this brothel, that is, the current proprietress of the brothel, the two have always been tacit partners in business, what's the matter?
It turns out that although this Qiantan inn is opened on the halfway of the famous Shaolin Temple, and it is a very eye-catching signboard with "Shaolin Temple Inn", there are still only a handful of people who come to stay here.
This is because, at that time, people's traffic was very underdeveloped, although Shaolin Temple is located on the famous mountain, the peak, the beautiful scenery in the center, occupies the time and location, but Songshan is in a relatively remote place, people who come here, most of them have to walk for a few months to arrive, and people who live close do not need to stay at all, so the inn here is actually not good business.
This situation has been greatly improved after combining with this old crow called "Death for Money", and since then, there has been an endless stream of people who come here on weekdays.
Naturally, these people didn't come all the way to this broken inn, but they all came from the unique skills of the dozen or so prostitutes in this shop, and these prostitutes were so skilled that even the best brothels in the city were hard to find, which naturally had something to do with the long-term skill training of these prostitutes in this old crow's daily life.
It's just that there is no one in the guest skirt in the past few days, and it turns out that the surrounding people have long heard the wind from the Shaolin Temple, "someone from the government has come here to investigate."
Since ancient times, those prostitutes were most afraid of ward rounds, and you wanted to be on the rise, suddenly shouted, and before you had time to put on your clothes, the door was kicked open by the government, and then you were sent naked to the prison in the yamen, and that terrible feeling was the nightmare of those vulgar prostitutes.
In the past few days, Bai Meifeng has been secretly distressed by the decrease in income, and he is deducting the salaries of those prostitutes, and reducing the wages of his second brothers, making the whole inn huge, and he can't even see the shadow of a piece of meat.
When Runyi was in a row, because he was dressed in disguise, he just regarded Runzhi and his party as a cluster of merchants for the time being, because the price of meat in the warehouse had risen, so he was reluctant to give the guests high-priced good meat to eat.
Fortunately, at the price of meat on weekdays, we provided Runzhi and his party with tofu made by various cooking methods.
Naturally, Cheng Hanyun and the officials of Zhongputou found that the problem of this shop was not unrelated to vegetarianism.
Because in the middle of the night, Cheng Hanyun and the other three officials were tired of playing cards together, and they also had a slight sense of hunger, so they went to the hall of the inn to ask for steamed buns to eat, and the second gave Cheng Hanyun more than 20 vegetarian buns with tofu fried carrot filling.
Just when these officials were eating happily, suddenly one of the officials found hairs similar to the rao poop in this tofu fried carrot filling, which made him feel nauseous and produced a violent feeling of nausea, so he immediately vomited, and even vomited all the things he had eaten for three days, and the whole person was confused.
It is true that outside, eating things with long hair, often those who have a hot temper, directly attack on the spot, those bosses do not apologize well, and even mental compensation, these people have to sue the government, and there are some people who are more cautious in dealing with the world, so they naturally disdain to make a big fuss about this little thing, so they forbear it, stop eating, change places, and never come here again.
But this hair is different from other long hair, which caused the disgust and panic of the officials, so they woke everyone up late at night and immediately reported to Runzhi.
Runzhi naturally knows that the way to be an official, diligence first, the way to do things, and the initiative first.
Naturally, these prostitutes would not have come, just to save money, this old crow actually let more than a dozen prostitutes stay together, bed to bed, and these servants all went to the door one by one, whether they were all pulled up and forcibly taken away.
So the prostitutes had no choice but to stare at each other one after another, and were thrown out of their rooms like pigs by the servants, and then they were all forced to be surrounded in the middle of the parlor.
Runzhi and Qing'er sat in the two highest places in the living room, which was originally used by the shopkeeper to settle accounts, and in this position, with just a slight glance, it was easy to see the guests staying in the inn.