Snowy night, cold light.

There was a rabble gathered in the No. 4 restaurant of Huanggaihu Restaurant, and Wu Daode and other 7 people gathered around a large square table to eat meat and drink in large bowls.

The bartender stood at the door of the restaurant waiting for the dishes to be added.

Qian Wanguan, who was very excited, blushed, and suddenly said, there are still 50 hanging money that has not been used up, and I don't want to hide it privately. Guys, order two more dishes and spend the money until you run out.

Hu Xiangcai said, I have always liked to eat pig tails. Order a plate of braised pig's tail to drink. Then he turned his head and shouted loudly, the bartender—

The bartender said respectfully, in. He approached the dining table and said, "Do you want a plate of braised pig tails?!" Coming right away.

Wu Daode asked, how much is a plate of braised pig tails?

The bartender said that the large portion was 40 hangs, the medium portion was 30 hangs, and the small portion was 20 hangs.

Hu Xiangcai said, I want a small portion.

Kan Neng came to stand up and said, I will also order a dish.

Wu Daode asked, what to order?

Kan Neng said, order a plate of dog meat.

Wu Liangjin, Qian Wanguan, Xiang Lai Zao, and Cai Wanmin all said that we all like to eat dog meat.

Wu Dao said, ordered the braised pig's tail, a small portion of 20 yuan, then the dog meat will buy a plate for 30 yuan!

The bartender said, "Okay!"

That evening, the Hu family's tofu workshop on Honghu Street was a different story.

Some chubby Gu Yuesheng walked around the tofu workshop, walked into the inner room again, and saw a table full of fragrant dishes on the table of eight immortals, so he called to his husband who was still stir-frying in the stove house, Qin Qi, don't stir-fry, and there are no guests.

Hu Qinqi said, isn't it good to fry a few more dishes during the New Year today? Besides, I'm going to Cao Yang and his family to come! You have to ask for a few dishes, and they are guests.

Gu Yuesheng said, alas, didn't you write to them, I don't know if they received it? If he received it, Cao Yang might have sent soybeans, but now that the tofu workshop has no materials, he is waiting for them to send soybeans.

Hu Qinqi came out with a plate of dishes and put it on the table. He frowned slightly and said, I feel strange, according to Cao Yang, they should take a boat to send soybeans today, but somehow, they didn't come when it was almost dark.

Gu Yuesheng said that it was snowing today, and it was estimated that they would not come.

Hu Qinqi moved his eyes and said, not necessarily. Your aunt's cousin Cao Yang is very trustworthy.

Hu Xiaonian, who was sitting on the chair, smelled the aroma of the food, so he didn't bother to look at a New Year's painting in his hand, but opened his mouth and looked at a table of steaming dishes. Then I set my eyes on the two adults, Mom and Dad, I'm hungry.

Hu Qinqi said, wait a while, you go out to the street to see, uncle, are they here?

Hu Xiaonian looked very reluctant, but he still stood up and walked out the door.

Hu Qinqi wiped his oil-stained hands on his waist, and said with a heavy heart, Yuesheng, I don't know why in the past two days, my right eye is always jumping, nothing will happen, right?

Gu Yuesheng glared at him, and said unhappily, don't talk nonsense during the New Year's Festival, you want to make a taboo, okay?

One morning in the early spring of the second year, Wu Daode went to the West Street grocery store to buy hookah, and saw a man hunched over cleaning in the aisle in front of the shop, so he said to himself: Oh, this person is so familiar. As soon as I walked around to him, I recognized it.

He slapped him on the shoulder and said, "Why are you doing this?"

Qian Wanguan looked up and saw that it was Wu Daodao, who had robbed a boatload of soybeans on the Chibi River in Layue last year, and sighed in surprise, oh, it's Angkor! He approached Wu Daode and whispered, the last time I got 1,400 hanging money, it was not enough to spend, buy this and buy that after a year, I spent more than 1,000 hanging money for dinner, and I had little left, so I was very tight! So come out and do something.

Wu Daode asked: How much does it cost to make a living now?

Qian Wanguan put his five fingers together and said in one fell swoop, including food and shelter, 500 hanging.

Wu Daode put down his style of speech again, there will be business in the future, are you still willing to do it with me?

Qian Wanguan said that it will depend on the situation when the time comes.

Wu Daode said goodbye, Qian Wanguan sent him a few steps, and turned around to continue cleaning.

Fu Dexing, who was wearing a green cloth cotton jacket, came out of the inner room, coughing and spitting.

Qian Wanguanma used a dustpan to take out some grass and wood ashes from the stove room and cover up the phlegm stains that were spit on the aisle.

Fu Dexing shook his short and fat body, turned around in front of the shop, and returned to sit on a Taishi chair in the shop, still coughing, but he also instructed a hired worker to bring him the hookah he often smoked.

Qian Wanguan came out of the house, put an earthen pot in his hand at Fu Dexing's feet, and then opened the lid of the earthen pot to facilitate his spitting. He also persuaded the shopkeeper, you cough so badly, it's better to smoke a little less hookah, and pay attention to your body!

Fu Dexing smiled slightly, did not answer, and before he finished smoking a mouthful of hookah, he coughed again and spit a mouthful of phlegm into the earthen pot.

Qian Wanguan saw that he was still smoking, and he didn't cough for a while, and there was some smell in the earthen pot, so he closed the lid of the earthen pot.

Fu Dexing gave him a thumbs up with satisfaction and said, not bad!

Besides, on the morning of the second day of last year's incident, at the beginning of the day after the snow, the courtyard of the Puqi Chenghuang Temple under the sun was deep and still a little mysterious.

At this moment, on top of the hall in the City God Temple, there is a majestic City God, who is looking through the case file.

The temple messenger entered from outside the hall, raised his hands and shouted, report, there is a Hades Yin cha at the entrance of the temple who wants to see Lord Chenghuang.

Cheng Hong said, "Please come in on a day tour."

For a moment, the day tour led Cao Hongyou and other 7 wet undead to stand side by side at the door of the hall.

The day tour arched his hand and said, "Hades is in the shadows to meet the city god."

Chenghuang also bowed his hand and said politely, which was not welcomed. Please advise the great god of the day tour!

I saw the day tour flicking his robe, calmly approaching the table of the city god, and looking back at Cao Hongyou and the other seven undead. Chenghuang also got up and looked at Cao Hongyou and the other 7 undead, all of them looked sad, and some of them had tears in the corners of their eyes.

The day tour tour spoke: The god has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, you should be clear at a glance, these 7 undead are all people from your Caojia Wine Shop in Puqi County, yesterday they sent a boat of soybeans from Chibi to cross the river, ready to go to Honghu, but the boat arrived in the center of the river, according to them, 7 masked strongmen appeared, killed all the Cao family and threw them into the Yangtze River, and then snatched a boat of soybeans.

When Cheng Huang heard this, his heart became heavy, and then he asked, did the 7 masked strongmen catch it?

The day tour replied, fleeing without a trace, and there were no clues.

Chenghuang said, I don't know even more. The temple is close to the city, dozens of kilometers away from the Chibi south of the Yangtze River, where there was a murder, and I really can't reach it.

The day tour said, I came to you, not to solve the case. I just want to check with you, has the Cao family done any big evil things in the local area, whether they have a grudge against others, and whether they should be the disaster of destroying the door?

Cao Hongyou said, you really wronged the Cao family when you said this, do you know? Our Cao's Distillery has been prosperous for many generations, operating the liquor industry, abiding by business ethics, never being inferior to the best, harming customers, and never forming a grudge with outsiders.

The other six undead all said in unison that the tragic destruction of our Cao family was purely accidental.

At this time, Chenghuang motioned to Deputy A and B in the hall to come over, and then said, You two will carefully check the merits and demerits of Cao Hongyou's family. glanced at Cao Hongyou and the other 7 undead to answer, check it, it is the most convincing, don't say more.

Deputy A and Deputy B immediately walked over, and Deputy A rummaged through the comprehensive case file placed on the Chenghuang table, and Deputy B stood by to watch and cooperated in the search.

Deputy A, who had been working on it for a while, held a stack of case files and said that he had found file No. 444.

Deputy B said, "I have memorized this set of numbers and asked me to go to the archives to check them one by one." Immediately out of the temple,

Deputy A also followed.

Half an hour later, deputies A and B each came to the hall with several files. The two of them said to Chenghuang in a decent manner, in the report, we have checked the merits and demerits of Cao Hongyou's family from old to young, and everyone has checked the merits and demerits of each person, and there is no great merit or major fault, so it should not be destroyed. The merits and demerits are all here, please take a look at the city god.

Chenghuang glanced at the surface of the files and said, I won't read them. Looking at the daily tour again, the murder case of the Cao family wine shop, if the Yangshi head catcher fails to be detected, it will depend on you hell to catch the head.