Chapter 32 The poor are treacherous and have a rich conscience

The layout of Lingshan City is a typical "well" shaped layout, and important buildings such as the Zhizhou Yamen and the Salt Transportation Inspection Yamen happen to be in the small mouth of the tic-tac-toe formed by several streets, and the streets near this are also the most prosperous and lively places in the entire Lingshan City. In August of the sixth year of Chongzhen, on the lively South Street, a shop opened quietly.

The name of the shop is Wu Family Trading House, and it is said that a merchant from Fujian opened a shop here to sell groceries from the north and south. The low-key opening of the store didn't even attract the attention of many people, but no matter how low-key it was, how could it escape the eyelids of those who begged for a living in this market, so some of them began to hit the idea of this store, wondering if it was to get some wine money from this store every month or something, anyway, this foreign businessman, if he didn't bully him, it didn't show that our Shandong Erlang's means were not.

Zhang Mazi is one of these splashes.

When he heard that someone had suggested going to the shop to get a few flowers, he was moved. In the past, there was no money to spend on the street, and when I went out a few times with the salt of the Inspection Division, I would always get some money, but since I started to grow hair, this income has been cut off, and Zhang Mazi has had a really hard time these days. This poor man has a rich conscience, if he really eats and drinks well every day, who is willing to do this extortion, but if everyone is willing, and he doesn't need to be the first bird, he is not opposed to getting a few pennies from that shop, and dares to do business in this Lingshan City, but he doesn't know to visit them as a group of local snakes, and this shopkeeper is indeed a little blind.

A few cups of cheap burning knives went down, and a group of splashes couldn't hold it anymore, so they rushed up and rushed out of a dilapidated courtyard, and walked all the way to South Street, Zhang Mazi also blushed and stumbled to follow the crowd.

"Tell your shopkeepers to come out!" The leader of the splash skin exposed his chest and abdomen, and walked into the door of the Wu family business house with a menacing attitude, and slapped the counter with his hand. If Yu Feng was here, he must have found that this clamoring guy was still his old acquaintance. It was when he went back from selling illicit salt for the first time that he met Chen San, and at the beginning, he also stuffed a few taels of silver into Chen San's hand to buy road. But at that time, Chen San was wearing the clothes of Yanding, but now he is dressed as a common person.

"A few people came to us, I don't know what to say! The surname Wu is the shopkeeper of this firm! "The shopkeeper came out, a very young person, except for his skin was a little dark, and he also looked like a businessman, even if the blind man could see that this group of people were not good-intentioned, he still had a very warm smile on his face.

"Do you know me?" Chen San squinted his eyes and spit out the bamboo stick in his mouth.

"Didn't ask ......?"

"Our eldest brother Chen San is a well-known person in Lingshan City who is eager for justice and righteousness, you ask these shopkeepers who do business next to you, who doesn't know, who doesn't know?" A helper next to him said loudly, and Chen San looked proud.

"Ahh Fortunately, I will be glad to meet you! The shopkeeper Wu looked admiring, "It turns out that Uncle Chen is such a hero, but it makes Wu disrespectful!" ”

"Our eldest brother cares about you merchants, what is the difficulty on weekdays, even if I report my eldest brother's name, if there is any petty theft and other things that hinder your trading, our eldest brother's prestige is enough to deter these small children!" I don't know if this group of idlers is familiar with the clichés, or if they have asked someone to teach them, and after this series of words, they don't stumble at all, and they are extremely fluent.

"Then there is really Uncle Lao Chen and all the brothers!" Shopkeeper Wu thanked him in surprise, but did not take another step. The gang looked a little impatient, raised their eyebrows, and their faces were full of threats: how does this person do business, he doesn't have any eyes at all, but when he says this, the sensible should take the initiative to take some money out, with silver, of course, it can deter Xiaoxiao, no money, then this Xiaoxiao is standing in front of you, can't you see it?

"Ahem...!" Chen San couldn't stand it anymore, and decided to wake up this wooden shopkeeper: "Shopkeeper Wu, I'm willing to maintain order on the street without taking a penny, but this brother can't work on an empty stomach!" ”

"Oh, I want money!" Shopkeeper Wu suddenly realized: "How much does it cost?" ”

Chen San stretched out a slap: "It's not easy for you to do some business, just this number!" ”

"Fifty wen?" Shopkeeper Wu asked tentatively.

"Boom!" Chen San was so angry that he wanted to take advantage of the slap to fall on the other party's face, uncle, I came out with so many people, just for a mere fifty wen, you are really not awake, or pretend to be confused!

"Five taels, every month!" He didn't bother to tell the other party.

"Five taels, then you sit down, I'll go in and get you, Xiaosan, make a pot of tea for your uncles, what, no tea, then don't go and buy it back!"

The man hurriedly went out, and the shopkeeper Wu confessed, shook it, lifted the curtain and went inside. The splashes looked at each other and smiled, this foreign merchant is really a soft egg, and he will be scared of the chicken, the five taels of silver are in hand, and the wine and meat of these days are indispensable.

There is a lot of tea kung fu, not only the guy who bought the tea has not come back, but even the shopkeeper Wu has not come out yet, now, Chen San is a little impatient, which one is this play, do you have to smash your broken shop, uncle.

He turned his head and was about to order his subordinates to toss a little bit to come out, but when he turned his head, he was a little stunned. "Big brother...!?"

The sound of neat steps came from far and now, straight to this side, and now, even the splashing skin of the question is not silent, don't ask anything, look back!

Looking out from the door, you can clearly see that a group of soldiers, lined up in two rows, holding spears longer than people, are trotting towards this side in a neat queue, it seems that their target is this Wu family firm.

"The case in that brother's hand is committed, go through the back door immediately, don't bother everyone!" Chen San reacted and whispered to the people behind him. Zhang Mazi was still a little confused, "Where did this officer and soldier come from, I haven't heard that there is a large army crossing the border!" ”

"Officers and soldiers, that's long hair, don't you see the guy in their hands?" Knowing Splash retorted in a whisper.

Chen San looked at his subordinates, and everyone shook their heads, these people are so good at stealing a chicken and touching a dog, or flirting with other people's little girls, there is not such a big sin for the officers and soldiers to come to them for trouble, it is a little troublesome, and they are also the officials of the Zhizhou Yamen, they are all old acquaintances, how can they not know the truth.

The soldiers ran to the door of the trading house, snapped, stopped, and then scattered, actually blocking the exit of the trading house, and several merchants next to it, seeing this scene, probed their brains to look outside, and from time to time there were whispering discussions.

"Who is Chen San!" A young military academy walked out and shouted at the crowd.

Chen San's heart tightened, it was broken, he was looking for himself. He quickly thought about what he had done recently, and made sure that he hadn't done anything bad, and his face was full of flesh, and suddenly seemed to be like a chrysanthemum blooming, and he hurriedly stood up, and replied respectfully: "The little one is Chen San, this military master looks at the face, I don't know what to call it!" ”

The young military academy looked at him coldly and beckoned to him.

He frantically scraped together the money, and just as he was about to speak, he saw a slap fall from the sky and slap him in the face, his head buzzed, and the sky swirled for a while, and his eyes turned black.

"My family heard that you Chen San, caring about the merchants, took the initiative to maintain the order of this street, and asked me to reward you!"

Chen San shook his head, ignoring the fact that his cheeks were swollen, and shouted loudly: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding, the small thing is to make some small jokes with the shopkeepers on the street, it can't be true, it can't be true!" ”

He is a fool, hearing the words of this military school, he also knows what the other party has found himself, thinking of the guy who went out in a hurry, he didn't dare to complain about the shopkeeper Wu, but he hated the splash who came up with the idea to fight the autumn wind to death, paralyzed, this business house has the support of these soldiers, and wants to pry Lao Tzu to touch this thorn, did Lao Tzu throw your child into the well?

"Was it a misunderstanding?" This time, it was the turn of the young military academy to squint at Chen San, and his gaze was the same as when Chen San looked at Shopkeeper Wu just now.

"Misunderstanding! What a misunderstanding! Chen San hurriedly distinguished, at this time, he didn't dare to be tough at all, let alone play fierce, dozens of spears were clearly there, he really didn't dare to bet that these soldiers would kill him on the spot.

He also heard the whispering behind him just now, although he didn't quite believe that these officers and soldiers were those who killed people without blinking their eyes, and this long hair would not appear in Lingshan City with such a swagger, but, regardless of whether these officers and soldiers were long-haired or not, he definitely didn't want to risk his life to verify it, if it was true, how unjust would it be to die, and people really didn't care about killing themselves.

He took out a small silver ingot from his personal pocket, and he didn't care about the pain, and quietly stuffed it into the military academy's hand: "I hope the military master will explain to you adults, it's really a misunderstanding!" By the way, I don't know which adult's subordinate the military master is? ”

The military academy took the silver, weighed it, and disdainfully threw it to the guy who had been silently leading the way, and said proudly: "My lord, it is the new Lingshan Salt Transportation Inspection Department Inspector, Lingshan Wei Baihu Yu Fengyu, uh, there's nothing to do, just disperse!" ”

The soldiers rumbled away as when they came, Chen San looked at the soldiers in the distance with a pale face, his legs were weak, he couldn't support it anymore, and sat on the ground.

"Big brother!" The broken skins next to him reacted, and came over to help Chen San, seeing a familiar figure in the crowd, Chen San didn't know where to have so much strength, he jumped up, held down the other party, and split his head and covered his face with an old fist: "Jiang Lezi, you are a wretch, you want to kill Lao Tzu, let Lao Tzu offend Long Mao!" ”

"Oh, shopkeeper Wu, I was joking with your old man just now, I have some housework now, and I will make amends another day! Let's make amends! Shopkeeper Wu, don't worry, as long as Chen is here, there will never be any miscellaneous pieces that don't have long eyes to ruin your business....."

Chen San, who was in front of him, completely subverted Zhang Mazi's understanding, what kind of existence is this long hair, so that Chen San, who has always been bold, is afraid of being like this, imagining the majesty of those soldiers just now, he has an irrepressible idea in his heart, if... What a majestic thing it would have been if I had been one of them!