Chapter 12 **Ya
Now that he has come here, if he can take advantage of the opportunity of them to go to the kiln to find Wen Changzhi's account of buying and selling illicit salt, then he will not die this time.
After entering the courtyard, Wen Tang entered the back room along the corridor in the dark.
After entering, Wen Tang found that this was not Wen Changzhi's private villa, but a smoked building.
This place is a place that sells large cigarettes for people to smoke.
In Jiangcheng, it is not surprising that farmers have the habit of smoking dry tobacco since ancient times.
However, the cigarettes offered here are not cigarettes that ordinary people can smoke.
This is cigarette paste, which is the big paste in He's mother's mouth. However, unlike the ordinary smoke, this large paste came from the Western Regions.
In the beginning, the ointment was only a medicine, because it had a paralyzing effect, so doctors would give it to those who were suffering from pain to reduce the pain.
But because it is a thing from the Western Regions, its price is high, and it is not something that ordinary people can use. Gradually, this kind of thing is rarely seen in the medical center.
It's just that I didn't expect that it was those fireworks alleys that would "carry forward" this big paste.
Prostitutes often put a large paste in their cigarette pipes in order to attract business and make their customers want to die. Most of those who went to the brothels were rich boys, and they were so generous that they soon monopolized these expensive pastes.
Some people even started a business that specialized in buying and selling large pastes.
Wen Tang hid behind the door, looking at the rows of people lying on the couch in the distance and smoking big creams, some of them were bare-clothed and bright-necked, and they could see that some of them were comfortably swallowing clouds and spitting out fog.
And some can clearly see the patches on their clothes and shoes, but they can only hide in the corner of the wall with a cigarette stick and smoke, crying and laughing while smoking.
At first, Wen Tang only thought that these people were smoking and hallucinating, so they behaved abnormally.
Who would have thought that one of them had just finished smoking a cigarette when someone called him over.
"Come on, my feet are itchy, lick them for me."
Lying on the couch, a fat man who looked a little rich was directing the thin black man in the patch.
I thought that the black and thin man would refuse such a ridiculous request, but who would have thought that not only was he not angry, but he really knelt down and licked the fat man's toes with his mouth.
And he was very happy.
The fat man was also very satisfied, and after he had licked it, he threw him a white piece of silver.
A piece of silver can at least provide food and clothing for this black and thin man's family for a month.
But he took the silver and immediately exchanged it for a piece of tobacco.
After getting the new cigarette, the man wiped his tears and stuffed the cigarette into the pot, then continued to shrink in the corner and smoke.
Wen Tang looked at this scene and was really surprised.
These people are crazy.
Just as she turned her gaze away, she saw a young man in a green shirt under the window in the distance, also enjoying the smoke.
And this person is her brother Wen Changping.
Even though she knew that Changping had been smoking ointment, when she saw her brother in the clouds, she was a gesture of enjoying it.
Wen Tang's tears fell suddenly.
Why did Changping, who was so sensible and well-behaved at the beginning, be contaminated with such a thing, why!
She couldn't wait to rush in and take Changping away, but a force behind her quickly dragged her out.
In order to prevent her from screaming, he also covered her mouth in time.
"Shhhh It's the fourth master, me! ”
Wen Tang stared at the man, and the tears in his eyes also fell on the tiger's mouth in his palm.
Looking at the tears on his hands, Zhou Yunli quietly glanced inside again, and it wasn't until he saw Wen Changping that he understood something.
A few of the subordinates inside seemed to have heard something and seemed to want to come out to take a look.
Zhou Yunli then grabbed Wen Tang's waist and ran out of the courtyard.
It wasn't until he ran out of the alley that he stopped to let Wen Tang catch his breath.
The heart was already bad, running so fast, Wen Tang couldn't breathe several times.
Fortunately, there was no one chasing after her, she quickly squatted on the ground with her chest covered, and after gasping for a while, she asked, "Fourth Master, why did you appear here?" ”
In fact, since Wen Tang ran away, Zhou Yunli has been following her, and the distance is very close.
It's just that she was so focused on the salt bandits inside that she didn't notice.
Zhou Yunli stood there and looked at her calmly.
It's only been a few times since he saw this girl, but he always felt that there was a force on this girl's body that was dragging him, so that he wouldn't follow to protect her.
He didn't go directly to Wen Tang's words, but asked, "You rushed in with your bare hands and wanted to die?" ”
"I'm just ......" Wen Tang looked at Zhou Yunli, and he didn't know what to say.
She watched her brother suck the big ointment, and what else did she care.
Zhou Yunli came over again at this time and said, "I understand that you see your brother in a hurry. But now is not the time. ”
After speaking, he helped Wen Tang up again and said, "I'll send you back." ”
Wen Tang had calmed down slightly at this time, and she also understood that it would be useless to rush in now, so she nodded and followed Zhou Yunli all the way forward.
On the way, she remembered the hemp bag in the car again, so she asked, "Why did the fourth master recognize these people as illicit salt dealers at a glance?" Could it be that you've been following them before? ”
But the fourth master didn't reply to her, and she didn't want to ask again, so she just lowered her head and followed behind him.
The two didn't say anything all the way, and finally parted at the door of the shop in the north lane of the south city.
After the fourth master left, Wen Tang wanted to go back from the back door, and just entered the door, but saw He Ma who was already waiting at the door.
Seeing Mama He, she smiled, and she didn't dare to speak out about today's events.
After pulling her back to the room, Mama He complained a lot.
"Third girl, you know your own body, what you can do and what you can't do, you have to know in your heart. The third watch went out in the middle of the night, the girl's family, what if I met the gangsters? What if I faint halfway through? ”
"Got it, got it. Not next time. Wen Tang obediently admitted his mistake, and then yawned again in order to prevent Mama He from going on again.
Mother He originally wanted to say something more, but when she saw Wen Tang's sleepy appearance, she finally held back all her words.
After closing the door and leaving, Mama He didn't forget to say: "If there is anything in the future, let me, an old mother, do it." For you, my old wife is willing to go up the sword mountain and go down the sea of fire. ”
After that, Mama He closed the door and left.
Sitting in front of the red candle, Wen Tang was moved for a moment and couldn't help crying.
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Since fainting on the night of the fight, Wen Tang didn't dare to run around casually for many days, and obediently stayed at home to take medicine.
Of course, she has not been idle these days, in order to make the business in the shop lively, she must cut the price of salt, so that the price of salt is low, lower than private salt, the people will come here.
She inquired privately, and the current price of private salt is ten wen a catty, while the price of ordinary salt in the shop is twenty wen, and if it is a better snowflake salt, it will be thirty wen a catty.
In order to compete with the illegal salt, she immediately lowered the price of salt to eight cents, and also bought a few packets of white rice and sold them together in the shop.