Sanlian Wafang is actually an abandoned shoe factory, which once specialized in making rubber shoes for the army, and once developed into a well-known local enterprise. But after the liberation, the production of rubber shoes far exceeded the demand, and ordinary people would not buy a large rubber shoes with a thick sole to wear, and then it went out of business. But the big tiled houses are still there, much higher than the small houses around, and behind them is an open space, and the tiled roofs cover a shady and ventilated place, where many people play chess, or sit and talk, and it is a place where people from the neighborhood often come.

Several people from the grave team occupied this place in advance, and the men lying in a row left when others came to see it, which was rare and quiet. The sixth man suddenly said that the dwarf with excellent skills just now was a Buddha.

Xiao Qi asked curiously: "Sixth brother, what is the Buddha?" Is it the one who burns incense in the temple? ”

After hearing this, the sixth said with a smile: "The one you are talking about is the Buddha, let's talk about the Buddha, and the Buddha is the meaning of a thief in the Beijing lip dictionary." ”

In the old society, gangs and gangs and guilds had their own set of lip codes. Let them talk about it, then it is like talking to foreigners, although outsiders listen to the words are true, but they can't understand it at all, which is a special means for people on the rivers and lakes to connect with each other, also known as lip dictionary. The names of the lip codes are also different from place to place, such as jargon, city language, dialect, incision, spring point, black language, etc., which is a way of communication between various groups or groups of civil society according to their own cultural customs and special needs of communication.

In old Beijing slang, Buddha refers to stealing; The Buddha is a thief and pickpocket, why does the Buddha be used instead of stealing in the lip dictionary, this is a head. In Kaifeng Xiangguo Temple, there is a statue of Buddha, about seven meters high, the whole body is pasted with gold. From all sides of its body stretched out eight rows of hands in various postures, each with an eye in the palm of its hand. There are about 1,000 hands and 1,000 eyes, and people love to call it "Buddha with a Thousand Hands and a Thousand Eyes". The thief is the folk "Buddha with a thousand hands and a thousand eyes", with many hands and eyes, and he specializes in staring at other people's money, so he uses the Buddha as a metaphor for a thief.

After hearing this, everyone was puzzled, so they asked the sixth child, "How do you see that person is the Buddha?" ”

Lao Liu scratched his squeaky nest, bared his teeth and said: "I was living with Lao Wu in the capital back then, that is, I lived at the bottom, and the ones we had the most contact with were called Huazi, liars, and Buddhas." All walks of life have their own habits, and we have seen a lot of them, so we dare to say that. ”

"Well, the sixth man is right, that dwarf never looks at people with wandering eyes, but his eyes wander around our waists, this is a habit that the Buddha has developed for a long time, and it can't be changed overnight." What he said also agreed with Lao Wu.

The third child took a cigarette in his mouth and said, "Look at that guy is not a good stubble, could he be the one who came into our house last night to touch the money?" ”

Lao Wu leaned against the wall, smoked the old dry cigarette thoughtfully, and then raised his head and said: "Probably not, I am sure that it was the snitch who stole the money last night, which is completely different from pickpockets." Pickpockets are also called three hands, relying on the kung fu of the hands; The snitch has to go to the house to uncover the tiles, relying on the kung fu of his legs, and I really haven't heard of a thief who can do both. But when he fell the second child, he was definitely not an ordinary pickpocket, he was a practitioner with many years of experience. ”

After they said it, Hu Dawei understood it and shouted: "Huh? Lao Tzu let a thin man fall so badly, and then it will be spread out, and my face will not be completely lost? ”

The sixth said with a smile: "Second brother, do you really think you still have face?" Your face at the door of the Sheep Soup Restaurant just now has already been lost, don't worry about it now. ”

"I said, I said, hey, I said, you all saw that I was blind, why didn't anyone help?" Hu Dazhu complained.

The fourth said with a cold face: "Lao Wu is cowardly, if he hadn't blocked me, I would have gone up and beat that guy!" ”

Lao Wu snorted his teeth and said, "Tut, if you want to go up early, you don't have to wait for me to stop you, are you using me as a step?" Besides, are we really going to drink mutton soup? Aren't we here to lure out the thief who stole the money and get it back? And Hu Da shook his arms and almost knocked people down, right? That brother also put him down to save people, if you want to say that my family did the right thing, Hu Dafang deserves it. ”

The brothers of the grave team had some disputes because of this Buddha, but they didn't have much time to find a place to sleep, not because they were tired of arguing, but because they were hungry and didn't have the strength to do this boring thing.

Who is the Buddha who said he was smashing his beard? It was none other than Wen Shenglian in the second article.

Wen Shenglian saw a scary strange thing when he went to steal money last night, and after returning home, he was so confused that he kowtowed to the smoking gun. His son Wensheng thought that his father was evil, so he used the most common local method at that time, grabbed the collar of his back coat and lifted it up for Wensheng, and raised his hand to slap him with a big mouth. The smoking was so loud that Wen Sheng's hands hurt, but it really worked, and his father came back to his senses.

The two of them thought together, thinking that it might just be wrong, and if it wasn't good, it was an illusion caused by smoking a lot. Saying that the thief was much more excited than ordinary people after seeing the money, Wen Sheng even covered his face and counted the money under the oil lamp with his son. He didn't expect that so many poor coolies would have so much money, more than stealing an antique from a big family and selling it.

They are idlers, and as long as they have enough money to designate not to go out, they stay at home. Wen Shenglian was still lying on the kang smoking a big cigarette, and his son didn't know when he ran out to play.

At this most pleasant moment, a loud voice sounded outside the house, and the voice was like someone shouting in his ear, and he was upset, and his good mood was gone. But all of a sudden, his ears pricked up, because the man shouting outside mentioned the word money, and it was a lot of money. Wen Shenglian is a thief, not to steal money for his life, but to become a habit, when he sees someone with a lot of money, he can't take his eyes off at all, and his hand is stretched out uncontrollably. At this time, he quickly threw away the cigarette gun, put on his shoes and tightened his trouser legs along the way, slipped along the wall to find the sound, and entered the sheep soup restaurant, and then the aforementioned incident happened.

He didn't dare to talk much because he saw Li Huan, so he quickly hid back at home and closed the doors and windows, and was relieved to see that no one was coming. I just wanted to continue to smoke two big cigarettes, but before I could hold the cigarette holder, I suddenly thought, aren't those people the same one he went to lift the tiles last night? It turns out that they still have money, and they dare to be so ostentatious, which is obviously provoking him, so he can't help but accept it, and when the sun sets, he has to lift their tiles.

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