Chapter 8: Settling In
"Excuse me! Let a ......" In the noisy vegetable market, a young porter with a burden yells and pounds forward.
One of the people in the middle of the road turned sideways and got out of the way.
The two passed by, and the porter glanced at this strange-looking, half-headed man, and said in his heart that this person should be a foreigner who had just come to town.
Just rubbed shoulders like this, this little episode didn't last long in the porter's heart and was forgotten and forgotten.
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Shao Cheng turned sideways and let the porter go, looking at the streets of the town, which was not wide, but the people came and went, and understood that he had been transported to the county seat where the story was born in the world of ghosts and ghosts.
According to the plot in the movie, it is not difficult to see that the story of "Ghost Fight" is basically born in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, an ordinary town in the southern coastal area.
Compared with Foshan, this town born of ghosts and ghosts is obviously much smaller.
You know, if it were a busy city like Foshan, a wealthy businessman like Boss Tan who appeared in the ghost fight plot would not be a character at all!
Not to mention the large and small officials in Foshan City, the Qing court officials who took office are even a prestigious figure like Huang Feihong, and they are not comparable to a small rich man like Boss Tan.
And in this town where the ghost fighting plot was born, this is just a rich Boss Tan who can be regarded as the number one person. Even if you don't consider the county order where the plot never appears, only the head catcher who received black money played by Lin Zhengying can be regarded as a level of character with her.
From this, it is clear that this is an ordinary southern town.
In terms of time, Shao Cheng judged that it was probably after the world of Wong Fei Hung - this can be seen from the braids.
In Huang Feihong's world, although the Qing court is already riddled with holes, it can be seen from the fact that most people still comb their braids and the government is still strong, and its qi has not been completely exhausted.
But here, you can see many young people who don't have whips, their heads are half long and not short, and they have no shape at all, while people such as Lin Zhengying's head catcher, the rich man Tan, and some older people still have braids.
Although we have to consider that this is located in the south, the Qing court has a relatively lax relationship with management, so there are a large number of people who keep whips and cut off whips...... But the approximate time is not biased.
Since it is a familiar era, although the city has changed, Shao Cheng will not be difficult to adapt.
With a backpack on his back, he didn't go to the store, but directly found a tea shop on the street, bought a bowl of tea, and asked the owner of the tea shop about renting a house.
Although this town is not big, there are many things like vacant houses for rent and sale.
Soon, Shao Cheng found a small blue brick house according to the guidance of the owner of the tea shop.
After communicating with the owner of the house, I learned that the original owner of this house moved to Foshan for business, so it was sold at a low price.
It's just that in recent years, many areas have been in chaos, and natural disasters and plagues have continued.
Although there is not much to do in this town, it is inevitable that the population will decline, so there is not much demand for housing, and the sale of the house has been delayed.
The family left him to watch the house, and after a few months, he was already anxious to go to Foshan to help the family do business. At this time, it is easy to meet a buyer, and the owner does not quote a false price, but directly gives a fairly low price.
Such a house price is naturally not a problem for Shao Cheng, who has been operating in Huang Feihong's world for three years and has exchanged a lot of gold and silver when he returns home.
When you buy the house in full, you also buy the furniture in the house.
The owner of the house hurriedly took Shao Cheng to the yamen to find an acquaintance to go through the transfer procedures, received a new title deed and house deed, and when he came back, he bought cotton quilts and bedding in the tailor's shop.
Spread the futon, hang the bed net, throw the bowls, chopsticks and night pot of the original owner's house into the nearby alley, and replace them with the new living utensils you bought...... After such a toss, when I settled down, it was already dark outside.
I don't want to go out and buy food.
Just made do with the canned biscuits in his backpack and ate some, Shao Cheng, who had just arrived here, was ready to sleep.
Out of the habit he had originally developed in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, Shao Cheng first inspected before going to bed, found out the location of the doors and windows in the house, and carefully inserted the latches and window pins in the door.
In the end, I was not relieved enough, and I put up a table and chair behind the door and window, and put the newly bought dishes and chopsticks on the table and chair - if someone pushed the door from the outside in the middle of the night, even if the door latch was opened along the crack of the door, this dead chair and chopsticks could play some early warning role.
After doing this, Shao Cheng climbed into the bed......
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Giggle~~~! Giggle~~~~!!
Just after dawn, Shao Cheng woke up to a loud rooster crow.
Although it is in the town, there are really many people who build a chicken coop in the yard to raise some chickens and ducks in this era. After all, in the eyes of many people with medium family backgrounds, raising chickens and ducks is much more suitable than buying eggs in the market! When it comes to the Chinese New Year, you don't have to spend your hard-earned money to buy chickens to eat, you just need to stew those chickens that are almost unable to lay eggs to have a fat year.
Shao Cheng is naturally not short of money, and he doesn't want to waste time raising this.
But this morning's rooster crow reminded him of one thing - this world is no more chaotic than Huang Feihong or the previous Ming Dynasty, although the former is more chaotic, but after all, there are no ghosts. And in this world of ghosts fighting ghosts, it is not difficult to see from Zhang Daring's experience that this world insists on a hundred ghosts walking at night...... It's not uncommon to go out at night and meet a ghost zombie!
Last night, I was busy for a long time, and I was latching the door and topping the table and chairs...... In fact, there is no defense against ghosts and the like!
Although Shao Cheng understands that ordinary people should not be as unlucky as Zhang Daring, they hit ghosts one after another. But after all, the background of this "ghosts walking all over the ground" world is here, and I didn't bump into it yesterday, but it doesn't mean that tomorrow will be fine!
After thinking about it, Shao Cheng decided to put aside the purchase of the property for a while, and first went to visit the teacher to learn the arts, and was a little wary of these ghosts and others.
Hiding the package in the rice jar in the kitchen, loading one of the revolvers with bullets, pinning it under the clothes on the waist with a custom-made leather gun bag, hiding the short knife in the scabbard at the back of the waist, and carrying some unmarked silver coins that were specially hired to be suppressed in Huang Feihong's world, Shao Cheng locked the door and went to the street to investigate......
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