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Niu Erzhu is a gangster, a gangster who is not a good gangster.

Niu Erzhu got up very early today, not because of how industrious he was, but because he had no food in his stomach and couldn't sleep with hunger. Niu Erzhu poured a scoop of cold water with a sad face, pulled the belt of his trousers, and said hello to the old grandmother who was sleeping with his head in the back room, and then walked out of his two adobe houses and began a day of hard and sad pressure.

The hungry cow Dashao naturally has to fill his stomach first, and the way he gets food is nothing more than stealing, robbing, and cheating. Otherwise, you won't be able to get along in this area. According to the old man at that time, the Qinghong Gang, the most powerful gang in old Tianjin, any gang went out for a turn, and they could earn a lot of money, except for those who respected the gang leader and the patrol police, the rest of them ate, drank, gambled, and smoked, which was more nourishing than the gods. There are still "those who eat the emperor's grain", "those who go out of their mouths", "those who wrap up", "those who scatter geese", "those who reach out for it", ....... , varied, and so on, I won't go into detail here, and the text will explain it later.

Although this Niu Erzhu is not very neat, he is born in a serious sect, and he is also a prominent Qinggang, because he joined the club too early, and when it comes to seniority, it is a generation older than the leader of their class. If you want to say that Niu Da Shao is also clever, and his mouth is not in vain, but he does not have the most important ruthlessness of the gang, once there is a dispute between the gang and the gang, whether it is a civil fight or a martial fight, Niu Erzhu will try his best to shirk the past, this is not because Niu Erzhu is not righteous, but because he dare not listen to the words of the "old witch".

The so-called "old witch" is Niu Erzhu's grandmother Mrs. Niu, Niu Dashao has always been respectful of this god-nagging grandmother, this is not Erzhu's disobedience, but the origin of this grandmother is a little strange.

If you want to talk about the ancestor of Niu Erzhu, it is also a well-known figure, it is the clothed slave of Prince Zhuang Shuosai, one of the eight iron hat kings of the former Qing Dynasty, don't look at it as a slave, but the seven officials in front of the prime minister, the civil and military officials who are serious about the imperial examination and martial arts cannot afford to provoke these masters. There are even more people who rely on the grace of the Lord to sit in high positions. Niu Erzhu's ancestor once served as a prominent official of the governor of Zhili, and the following generations were also endless. When it came to the generation of Niu Erzhu's grandfather, the family road was a little ruined, and he only did a five-product supervisor to manage the salt affairs in Tianjin, although the power of the old lady Niu was far less prominent than the ancestors, but the wealth was in full swing, it is no wonder that the salt service is a fat and oily errand, and it is difficult for the Niu family not to get rich. Old lady Niu's family takes advantage of people's value, and everything goes well, but there is one thing, that is, there is no son.

As the saying goes, "there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great", not to mention that the Niu family has a lot of money, can it be that when the old couple closes their eyes, they are all cheaper than those clansmen who tend to be inflammatory? The old lady and his wife Niu Liu were anxious, in order to get a son and a half daughter, they burned incense and worshiped the Buddha and tied the doll, did everything, and even spent a huge amount of money to reshape the golden body of the Tianhou Temple to send the son Niangniang, but the old lady's stomach just didn't move at all. Speaking of this tethered doll, people of the age have the impression that it is nothing more than to burn incense and make a wish in the temple of sending the child, give lamp oil and incense, and choose a mud doll from the old way, tie it with a red rope, and take it home as a son to raise, which is said to attract the heir to reincarnate in the middle of the night. If he really gives birth to a son in the future, this mud baby will be respected as the eldest brother, and the child born will be called the second child, so there are many people who rank second in Tianjin. The so-called "washing" is to transform the doll into a "big brother" or even "uncle doll" by a craftsman on the mud, adding glasses, felt hats, beards, robes and coats to it.

Mrs. Niu Panzi is anxious, there are not a hundred dolls tied over the years, but there are dozens of dolls, but it can be said that it is also evil, and none of them can be kept, either they are broken in the middle of the road, or they are inexplicably gone. The old lady Niu was ruthless, and invited back a doll with eight large sedan chairs, and the melon and fruit snacks were enshrined along the way, and the sedan chair was equipped with golden silk nanmu seats, Su silk cushions, and the decoration was magnificent. The old couple didn't dare to sit in the sedan chair, the horse didn't dare to ride, and they followed behind the eight sedan chairs, and knocked home step by step, just to keep this "son". Not to mention, the sincerity of the two of them also worked, the doll finally entered the door safely, the old lady Niu finally settled a little in his heart, the old couple tacitly rested early that night, and waited for his son to come to reincarnate in the middle of the night.

For the sake of prudence, the old couple sent out the maid and servant who had always lived in the outhouse, and the doors and windows were closed, and the water could not be splashed in, leaving only a yellow dog as a companion. In the middle of the night, the dog barked not a single movement, just like a wolf howling in the field. The old couple was sleepy, and they didn't have the time to pay attention, and they only looked forward to sending their son in. Early the next morning, as soon as the two of them opened their eyes, Mrs. Niu called Qu Lai, and the doll that had just been invited back was gone, and the big yellow dog was also foaming at the mouth, and it was lying on the ground very hard. The window sill door frame was full of mud and muck from the mud doll, and at a glance, I knew that the son who had been so hard to invite was leaving in the middle of the night! The old lady Niu secretly congratulated himself on his foresight, and the doors and windows were closed tightly at night, and this son was left behind. Fortunately, the old couple rummaged through the cabinets, but they couldn't find the doll, and the whole Niu Mansion turned the bedroom upside down, but they still couldn't see the shadow of the young master. In the end, the cook in the house saw that the dog was dead, and carried it to the kitchen to disembowel and peel it, only to find that the doll had already been cut into a puddle of mud in the dog's belly, leaving only a luxurious little clothes, and I don't know if it was swallowed by the dog in the middle of the night, or the doll climbed into it by itself!