Tongjia Town is one of the few large towns in Xiaye, where to the north is Baitou Mountain, not very far from the boundary of the bubble defense system "Sky Dome", and you can drive to the edge of the Sky Dome for about half a day. In the early years, a few tungsten ores with good stock were measured here, which made the people of Xia Ye very excited, thinking that there was a large ore vein under the pit bottom of Tongjia Town. The Federal Mining Agency sent a special person to find it but found nothing, seeing that the tungsten ore turned from prosperity to loss, until there was only one red leaf mine left and some tungsten ore left for mining, and several other mines were exhausted and abandoned, and the big ore vein was still not found.

Although the big ore vein has not been found, over time, Tongjia Town has gradually converged into a town dominated by mineral trading with these tungsten mines.

In the past, most of the young people in Tongjia Town who had the strength to work in the mine, now although there are not many tungsten mines, the life in the town is not as good as before, and the mining association has a few brains and found that the bottom of the pit in Tongjia Town is not a black bow stone that no one cares about at all, and it is a very sought-after building material. The base corner of the house with the bow stone is impermeable, and it is quite firm, the head of the mining association of Tongjia Town summed up a total of money, and together they pooled money to go to Shangdu, and contacted several construction merchants in Shangdu to build a sales channel for bow stone, so that the young and strong people who were originally working in the mine and were idle at home now went to the quarry naturally, and Tongjia Town also retained people, and gradually prospered in this area.

Young adults have the strength to dig bowstones to survive, while the women in Tongjia Town and those who are impatient to die mostly make a living by picking ice mushrooms.

The rain is damp and humid, every ten days before and after the rain, there will be a cluster of white mushrooms growing under the roots of the trees between the cracks in the stones, about two or three inches high for the thickness of the fingers, pinched in the hand when just picked, like grasping a piece of cold ice, so it is called ice mushroom. Ice mushrooms can only be eaten after being boiled in hot water for a long time, although the taste is mediocre, but because of its unique rainy and humid environment, the entire federation only grows in some parts of Xiaye, and it is a rare commodity in other places. The people of Xia Ye picked the ice mushrooms and gathered them and sold them to the merchants who traveled back and forth between the boundaries of the districts, and the surplus was dried into dried mushrooms and kept at home in packets, and they were not afraid of spoiling for a long time.

There are many places where there are many physical hardships, such as taverns, gambling houses and skin and meat restaurants. After a hard day's work, it is very comfortable to go to the tavern and drink two glasses of strong liquor to relieve fatigue. However, this is generally a family, and if you don't get married, you will take care of the gambling house and the skin and meat restaurant.

If you want to say that in this gambling house, there are three kinds of people, and if you have some spare money in your pocket, you will come to the gambling house to play a few games, and you will not be in a hurry if you lose everything, and you will stand with your hands crossed to watch others play, this kind of person is called a gambler; Regardless of whether there is money in the pocket or not, you must lose it with red eyes or until the early morning of the next day, and then you are unwilling to rub your bloodshot eyes to go to work, this kind of person is called a gambling stick; If you lose all your monthly money, you are not reconciled, and you are looking for someone to borrow money from you everywhere, and you have to gamble money on credit with the gambling house, this kind of person is called a gambling bastard.

The gambling bastard on Lao Yang's right looked to be in his forties, with a scruffy beard on his face, the hair on the back of his head and forehead was uncombed, messily forked, and the placket and neckline of the black and red checkered cotton jacket he was wearing were shiny, and he was wrinkled and shrunk in a chair with others.

"The little boss is really a gambling bastard dad who has been in the blood mold stall for eight lifetimes, wandering around the town every day to recruit cats and dogs, I am ashamed of you!" Lao Yang said to the right in a low voice, while quietly raising his eyes to see the reaction of the colonel in the main seat.

"Who is betting on bastards! I'm just idle and have nothing to do in the town to play two, sometimes I don't have any money, so naturally I have to let the gambling house take care of it, the customer is God, do you understand? The gambling bastard who had been sitting without speaking heard Lao Yang's harsh words, and without raising his head, he raised his lips and said something dry to Lao Yang, only to see him roll his eyelids, not caring about everyone's eyes: "When my son arrives, pay it off, what are you yelling about." ”

"Do you know how much you owe to the gambling house this year?" Lao Yang laughed angrily, and said to the gambling bastard Yuqiu in a forced voice: "It's not for the sake of the little boss, who wants to touch you with this slimy thing!" You can always see those meteors on the epaulettes, right? The colonel officer who came to the capital, you dare to drag the accounts of other people's gambling houses, and pinching you to death is no different from pinching a worm to death! ”

"Whether it's a colonel or a lieutenant colonel, anyway, I don't have any money on me now, and I don't have any money in my car repair shop, so you can ask him for it when my son arrives." Yuqiu, a gambling bastard, raised his head and glanced at the colonel in the main seat, rubbed his hands to his mouth and sighed nonchalantly, pouted and said, "I said that you have enough in this small building, and you don't even give people a pot of hot tea, no wonder no one is willing to come to you to mediate." ”

"Presumptuous!" The young adjutant of the garrison department, who had been standing silently behind the colonel, became more and more rude when he heard the words of the gambling bastard, and stepped forward and drank: "The colonel had an old relationship with Tongjia Town in the early years, and this time he came back from federal official business, which is a special trip for you to splash that little gambling money." Just now, the steward of the gambling house talked to you about it, the gambling money owed has already reached the agreed date of return, and you are still ready to drag it down, if the colonel really wants to arrest you, you really take yourself seriously when you can sit here safely? ”

Lao Yang hurriedly beckoned to let the only telephone operator in front of the security station at this time make two cups of tea, and then put them in front of the colonel and the boss of the gambling house in turn with a smile, and glared at the gambling bastard Yuqiu, who wanted to shoot back at the adjutant, asked him to shut up, and said to the colonel apologetically: "This Yuqiu opened a car repair shop not far from Tongjia Town, not an idler scoundrel who owes debts and does not pay them, there may be some misunderstanding here." His son has a restaurant in our town, and his son is in charge of their house, and I have sent someone to call him, and he should be there in a moment, please wait. ”

Although Lao Yang is the director of the lowest level of the security department of the garrison, he is indeed a person in the official establishment of the federal garrison department on the surface, but in Xiaye, people do not recognize the establishment of the federation, after all, the people who come to this poor place in Xiaye are people who are impatient with the strict rules and regulations of other administrative regions of the federation, and similarly, the federation has no good impression of this poor crater.

For hundreds of years, the Federation has rarely worked the construction of Xiaye, but also, the mother planet has put a large area of flat land without reclamation, and no one is too lazy to bother in this ugly and barren crater. Therefore, after so many years, the federation has only set up necessary facilities such as security posts and hospitals in a few large towns and cities in Xiaye.

Because of the Federation's strict gun control system, in addition to the army stationed at the edge of the bubble defense system "Sky Dome", there are very few armed forces inside Xiaye. In Xiaye, the managers of those urban facilities are selected and managed by the local people who have a good reputation, and occasionally there are other people from outside the district who are sent over because they have offended people or for some other reason, and they can't stand the poor environment of Xiaye for a long time and try to ask someone to transfer themselves, or simply resign and go back. Lao Yang is a native of Tongjia Town, he was elected as the director of the public security station more than ten years ago, and there has been no major accident in Tongjia Town over the years, and his director of the public security station has been working until today.

The colonel took a sip of the teacup, it didn't seem to have a trace of shelf, and said to Lao Yang quite easily: "I'm not busy, this time the garrison department asked me to be responsible for the security and security work of this year's winter arrest, passing by Tongjia Town, I took a look at the family's business, I didn't expect to hear that someone was arguing with the housekeeper in the gambling house......" The colonel said and turned his head to look at the gambling bastard Yuqiu, who was still with his head down, rubbing his hands on his chest and breathing, looking up at the door from time to time. The colonel smiled and sighed, shook his head slightly, and put down the teacup.

"It's rare for the firm to receive mediation, not to mention the economic dispute, I don't know if the name of the gambling house manager is written on the mediation record...... Colonel, your name? Lao Yang took out the LCD notebook and cautiously asked the colonel with a biased face.

"Since I'm here with someone, write my name. Lian Kecheng, Colonel Staff Officer of the Public Security Department of the Second Federal Garrison Department. The colonel's staff officer did not shy away from the fact that the federal military personnel opened a gambling house, "My brother is taking care of the business of this gambling house, I have never done it, you don't need to worry, the business accounts of the gambling house are also clear accounts, there is nothing unpleasant." ”

The crowd outside the mediation hall seemed to be suddenly a little restless, shouting something, Lao Yang shouted something at the door impatiently, and the crowd calmed down slightly. Lao Yang nodded at the staff officer of the company, and waved his finger a few times on the LCD notebook in front of him. Lian Kecheng, who was sitting next to him, was obviously very curious about the LCD notebook, staring intently at Lao Yang's notebook that had been eliminated decades ago, and said, "Why are you still using the LCD notebook?" This thing is almost a cultural relic. ”

Lao Yang looked up at Lian Kecheng and smiled and said: "Xia Ye is not as good as Shangdu, cheap leather things are more popular, the notebook of the LCD screen is more durable than the power saving of the siliconized screen, I heard that the notebook of the siliconized screen is not cheap, and our Tongjia Town is a rough man, it is common to bump and fall the flowers, and no one can afford to use the notebook of the siliconized screen." ”

"Lao Yang, what you said is absolute, my shop used a siliconized notebook a few years ago, tsk, a good thing is a good thing, the clarity and the feel of sliding on it are not comparable to the LCD screen." Yuqiu, the gambling bastard, didn't have anything to say, raised one leg and shook it twice at Lao Yang, and said proudly.

"Don't talk nonsense, is your name on the mediation transcript or your son's name?" Lao Yang Ding couldn't get used to the scoundrel appearance of the gambling bastard Yuqiu, and asked angrily.

"Naturally, I ......" Yuqiu just wanted to speak, only to hear a crisp male voice from the noisy crowd outside the door of the mediation hall:

"Write my name, Hugo."

Lao Yang and the staff officer raised their heads at the same time when they heard the voice, and the crowd at the door of the mediation hall parted to both sides, and two figures, a man and a woman, walked out of the crowd and stood at the door of the mediation hall. The man was in his twenties, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes, short black hair cut to pieces, and wore a pair of close-fitting cargo overalls with a plain black jacket wrapped around them. The woman looked a little older, in her thirties, with flaxen-colored hair, a large braid that hung down to her waist, and also wore a pair of overalls, and held a pair of yellow rubber gloves that she wore when she worked.

"My son is here, what's the matter, you look for him, I have to go first, there is something in my shop......" Gambling bastard Yuqiu, a spirit bounced up from the chair, and walked to the door while talking very quickly, muttering in his mouth: "Let it, let it ......" Before everyone present could react, he squeezed out of the crowd and disappeared.

"You old fellow...... Get the hell out of here! The woman with big braids angrily raised her arm and threw the rubber gloves in her hand to the ground, and turned around to catch up. Forget about sister, and then go to him. The delicate-looking young man took her hand and tugged it gently, turned around and bowed his hand to everyone in the room: "I am Hugo, the rain of rain, the fruit of fruit." Yuqiu is my father, you can tell me something. ”