Chapter Ninety-Seven: Zhouqiao Night Market Hooligan Harassment

After dealing with the six thieves of the Great Song Empire, especially the punishment of Li Yan in the streets, it caused a great positive response among the people, and the people praised the court and the new emperor. For this reason, I specially asked someone to write down their crimes and handling the situation and send them to the Emperor Taishang of Hangzhou for inspection, firstly, to respect his old man, secondly, these people are his important ministers after all, and thirdly, except for the eunuch Li Yan, the others were not sentenced to capital punishment, and they were all under house arrest in Beijing. This is also handled according to the old man's wishes, so in order to let the old man not have too many ideas, he ordered someone to hand over the explanation documents by 800 miles of express.

At the same time, Li Yan's parade on the street also caused a huge shock among the hundred officials of the imperial court, the current officials of the Great Song Empire are all civil officials and jinshi, not jinshi are also highly educated, literati are particularly concerned about face, it is better to parade them in the street than to kill them directly, or it is a hundred times more uncomfortable than killing them, a thousand times...... So the impact of this matter has gone far beyond the event itself. The officials were particularly frightened by this public way of dealing with their crimes in public, after all, face and reputation were more important than life. But they have no legitimate reason to refute it, although the ancestors of the Great Song Empire do not kill the scholars, but they don't kill it, it's just a different way of punishment.

It is precisely because of the powerful deterrent effect of this criminal law that many officials are reviewing their past words and deeds, or wiping their butts for the first time, trying to deal with their shady things as soon as possible, otherwise they will be caught by the emperor, and they will have to parade through the streets. After this incident, the attitude and words and deeds of the officials of the imperial court suddenly improved a lot, although I don't know if it can last, but the changes in front of me are visible to the naked eye, and at the same time, the satisfaction of the people in Beijing is also constantly improving.

Seeing the situation continue to develop in a better way, I am also in a good mood, this day I suddenly thought that since later generations say that Bianjing is the world's most prosperous city at this time, then I should go to the palace outside the field to visit, so I told the queen Zhu Lian, who knows that the queen Zhu Lian agreed in a mouthful, maybe shopping is what every woman likes, the past and the present remain unchanged. At the same time, in order to get closer to the ordinary people, he called the Wang butler, Sixiang, and Xiao Liuzi, who had been sticking to the prince's mansion in the East Palace, to change into civilian clothes and leave the imperial city from Donghua Gate.

Our group of people out of the Donghua Gate has been to the south through the east corner tower of the imperial city, through the east corner tower to the Xuande Gate Street, and then along the side of the royal street has been going south, and then came to the famous state bridge, the state bridge is called Tianhan Bridge, is the intersection of the three royal streets in the south of the city, the east of the city and the west of the city, around the state bridge is distributed with the government, residences, shops, brothels, the gentry in the city, the common people, foreign businessmen are gathered here, here is also the ideal place for the catering industry, so it is very lively at night, crowded with peopleEverywhere is the sound of the restaurant greeting and the noise of the drink.

Then we turned to the west, along the way the queen Zhu Lian and they pointed at the stalls on both sides of the street, seeing that they were interested, we approached together, only to see that the two sides of the street here are full of rice stalls, barbecue stalls, dried meat stalls, each stall is crowded with people, the roadside is full of vendors' small tables, are also full of diners, they look at the price and bargain with the shopkeeper, buy a lot of things, it seems that the fun of shopping and the nature of foodies are innate. After fully enjoying the joy of shopping, our group continued to walk forward, only to see that there are wild fox meat, air-dried chickens, as well as geese, ducks, chickens, rabbits, belly lungs, eels, buns, chicken skin, waist kidneys, chicken minced, seeing that I also came to be interested, so I walked over and asked the price, each copy is only fifteen copper coins, and I can't help but sigh that the price here is really low, and there are snacks and snacks of the Cao family on the side.

Then we went further on the street full of merchants, only to see that there were selling hemp curd chicken skin, smeared dirt (thinly sliced pig and sheep offal), sesame drink fine powder, vegetarian sticks, sand sugar mung bean licorice ice and snow cold water, lychee paste, crystal soap, raw flooded papaya, pickles, apricot slices, medicinal papaya, mustard melon, plum ginger, lettuce shoots, fragrant candy seeds, inter-dao sugar lychee, golden silk party plum, etc., all of which are sold in plum red boxes, which are very beautiful and attractive......

Walking around, I suddenly saw a hotel in front of the gate decorated with colored silk, which was particularly conspicuous, and when I got closer, I saw the four big characters of the southern restaurant, and I beckoned everyone to come, or we eat southern cuisine today, everyone came around to take a look, and they agreed to eat southern cuisine, and in this matter suddenly a group of big men rushed up from behind, pulling Qiu Xiang behind and shouted: Miss, the dried meat you bought just now has not been paid. As he spoke, he pulled Qiu Xiang to the alley on the side, and we looked back, what's wrong? Then Steward Wang saw this, so he approached my side and whispered: Your Majesty, the old slave estimates that these are bullies and hooligans in the market, deliberately looking for trouble, let the old slave go over to deal with it. I nodded in agreement.

Then Steward Wang walked forward quickly, came to the big man, and politely arched his hand and said: Ladies and gentlemen, I am a housekeeper, why did you drag my maid, just now in the butcher shop stall, we bought dried meat and paid enough. Did you recognize the wrong person? Before Steward Wang finished speaking, one of the black-faced men stepped forward with an angry face, pushed Steward Wang hard, and said loudly: Old man, it is obvious that you left without giving money for buying dried meat, and you are still cheating. Then all the people behind him echoed the voice, Steward Wang because of his age, was pushed so hard by the black-faced man and fell to the ground, seeing this situation, I whispered a few words to the little Liuzi who was tightly guarding me, and then asked Queen Zhu Lian to enter the southern restaurant on the side to temporarily hide, Queen Zhu Lian walked to the southern restaurant with the support of Chunxiang, I stepped forward to help Steward Wang, and then said to everyone: You said that we didn't give money to buy things, please ask how much meat money you have, I will pay it off now. I also know that for this kind of street lai, since people are going to rely on you, you can only consider yourself unlucky.

Hearing me say this, the leading man said arrogantly: I didn't give money for buying things, I was arrested by us, and now I think of giving money, how can there be such a simple thing, let's go to the government to reason. Then I pulled at Qiu Xiang again, how could she be a weak woman who had the strength to break free from these big men, and seeing Qiu Xiang being pulled into the alley on the side, I shouted: Stop, wait and say that you want to go to the government. Why pull people into the alley. The number of people watching the excitement on the side gradually increased, listening to me say this, the big man who took the lead was obviously impatient, and walked towards me violently, Steward Wang saw this, and didn't care that he had just fallen, so he walked quickly to me, Xia Xiang and Dong Xiang on the side also reacted in fright, and they moved closer to me, at this time the surrounding crowd was also discussing, maybe they were used to seeing these bullies and hooligans bullying the market, extortion, although the words were a little angry, but they were also afraid of hurting themselves, That is, they whispered under their mouths, but no one came forward to stop this gang of hooligans.

At this time, the big man who took the lead had already come to me, and then he grabbed the collar of Steward Wang's clothes and said fiercely: Dead old man, don't be ashamed to give face, you are still a good man at such an age, you are still justified in buying things without giving money, it seems that it is not possible to teach you scoundrels today. Then he picked up his palm and slapped Steward Wang heavily, Steward Wang suddenly felt that his mind was full of stars, and then said loudly: If you dare to hit someone, you really don't know how thick the sky is. Before the words were finished, the big man was another heavy slap, and I really couldn't stand it at this time, so I separated Xia Xiang and Dong Xiang who were standing in front of me, and walked towards Steward Wang, only to see Xia Xiang and Dong Xiang holding my hands and arms tightly from left to right, signaling me not to go over.

I couldn't see Steward Wang being beaten at such an age, so I struggled to break free from Xia Xiang and Dong Xiang, and rushed directly to the big man and shouted: Stop, let go of this old man. You come at me for something. The big man was stunned for a moment, then put down his hand that was grabbing the collar of Steward Wang's clothes, glared at me angrily, and then strode over, came to me and said viciously: Boy, do you want to be a hero to save beauty? As he spoke, he reached to my chest and grabbed my collar.

Immediately, Xia Xiang, Dong Xiang, and Steward Wang sounded loudly in unison almost at the same time: Stop! They rushed to the big man as quickly as crazy, but the two weak women and an old man, just without fear to the big man, the big man was also stunned when he heard it, and the hand stretched out to my chest suddenly hovered in mid-air, obviously frightened by this sudden scream, and then saw them rushing at him desperately, based on the instinctive reaction the big man immediately blocked with both hands, and then took two steps back, and those accomplices behind saw it, and they also went forward to pull Xia Xiang, Dong Xiang, and Wang Steward three.

And at this time, Qiu Xiang, who was being pulled, also tried her best to shout to the surrounding crowd of onlookers: Go and report to the official! The crowd of onlookers around reacted at this time, and then saw someone rushing towards the official mansion, and at this time, seeing that the movement outside was getting bigger and bigger, Queen Zhu Lian and Chunxiang also walked out of the southern restaurant, and just saw the three of them rushing towards the leading man, and the two of them shouted desperately: Stop. It's too late, that's fast, all this happened in the blink of an eye, although the leader of the big man avoided the collision of the three, but he was also taken aback by this lifeless posture, and then he was furious, and shouted at the people who rushed up behind him: Beat me, fight to death!