Volume 1 Xiao Yuanba Chapter 129 Fish belly and fragrant soup
As soon as he stepped out of the threshold of the prison, the prisoner was so caught in the sunlight that he had to raise his hand to cover his eyes, which he had not seen in days. It took a while to get used to it, and when he looked up and saw that the calming officer had already gone away, he hurriedly raised his feet to catch up.
"Sir, let's ...... Where is this going?" The prisoner turned his head to see that this was neither the signing room of the old man of the county government hall and the torture room, nor was it the torture room, and he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.
He looked up his featureless face, saw that he had gone out of the courtyard and into a memorable passage, and suddenly remembered that he had been brought in by twisted arms from this road.
Before they could figure out what was going on, they had already stepped out of the yamen. The calming officer showed Menzi a piece of paper, and the other party gave them over and let them come out like this. There are no shackles or shackles on his hands, and no shackles on his feet.
The prisoner was puzzled and did not dare to move forward, and looked back at the gate and the black lacquered plaque above the four characters "Yugan County Ya".
"Hey, what do you think? Let's go!" The officer greeted him.
"I ...... it, and that's it? W-This works? They're not going to chase me out and beat me up and get me back, are they?" As soon as the prisoner finished speaking, he saw a few men coming over at the intersection, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly hid behind the officer.
"Zhou Dutou." The officer saluted the big man led by the other party and said, "I have led the people out of the place, and the formalities and documents are all with Master Sun."
Zhou Zheng didn't smile as always, nodded and looked behind him and said, "Is this guy okay? I'm afraid he'll mistake you, look at the way he looks like this."
"It's okay, you don't know me yet? It's just a splash, isn't this our forte?" The officer replied with a grin, looking very familiar with this "Zhou Dutou".
The prisoner remembered that on the first day of his trial, the master of the torture room finished questioning, and one of the two chief judges was surnamed Zhou. He couldn't help but shudder.
"Since you picked him, okay." Zhou Dutou pointed at the prisoner with his hand: "Boy, let you do whatever you want, if you let him get hurt in an accident, I will arrest you back, and tell you to taste all the methods of Lao Tzu against the Japanese Invaders." Do you hear me?"
The prisoner's face turned pale with fright, and although he didn't understand what to do or how to do it, he quickly nodded his head in agreement.
"You go and do your errands." Zhou Dutou asked his subordinates to step back, beckoned Xie San'er to come closer, and said in his ear, "Dou Jiong has already led his men to Santang, he is familiar with the situation, and he will cooperate with you over there."
When something happened to the inspection sub-division, he asked him to use his finger to compare or write the Arabic number 'five, four, two', and he knew that you were his own person."
Dou Jiong is the same fast shift catcher as Wei Xiong, but he is in charge of outside the city, so Zhou Zheng said that he is familiar with Santang.
Xie Saner showed his understanding with his eyes, and after thanking each other with his fists, he continued to walk forward with the prisoner.
"Let's find a mess, you go wash your body first, change your clothes, eat and sleep well, and let's talk about business later."
After speaking, he pointed to the face of a family not far away, where three green cloth curtains with tie-dye prints were hung, and Xie San'er walked straight into with the prisoner.
At that time, there were two kinds of places where you could take a bath, the low-grade curtain in front of the door had the word "perfume line", that is, the commonly known mixed hall, the high-end curtain had no words, and the lotus flower was painted on the curtain to imply "mud but not stained", and people with money, status and culture called it a soup pool.
The former or use bamboo joints to connect the hot water of the earth dragon burned with charcoal, or repair the pool to lead the hot spring for people to bathe, there are back rubbing, pedicure, nail cutting, hair care, etc., and even washing and drying clothes, such as Li Dan enjoyed this in ten thousand years.
The soup pool is mostly personalized service in the private room, in addition to the above, there are also food, wine and even women's ***, or you can play and sing outside to set off the atmosphere, of course, it is no problem to find a room for you to rest after washing.
This kind of thing is not something that ordinary people can go to, similar to the "bathing center" in later generations. Xie San'er is considered to be a prisoner today, so he entered such a soup pool!
This is also one of the two soup pools in the county, which is the property of the Wu family. Two taels of silver per person entering the door This is the rule, people say that they will refund more and make up less, but they do not accept payment afterwards, and no matter how much status they have, they have to follow the rules of this industry.
Xie San'er also felt a little more comfortable and relaxed. Two hours later, he asked his fellow to take him to the prisoner's room, and when he opened the door, he saw that the boy was still asleep on all fours.
Xie San'er went over and kicked his leg: "It's time to get up and get down to business, and I'll sleep later!"
"W-What?" The guy got up in a daze, and when he saw that it was Xie San'er, he hurriedly got up and crossed his hands and stood at the table. "What do you command, sir?"
"Huh? How do you know that I am going to command?"
"Hehe, if you brought me to this kind of place, it must be that I am going to do a very dangerous job that may lose my head, can I still not see this?" He said, bowing his head obediently.
"And guess what I'm going to let you do?" Xie San'er sat down on the stool and pointed to the other one for him to sit down and talk.
"Well, it can't be...... You want me to go back to Tateba and Katehanako to lurk in the room, right?"
Xie San'er smiled "sigh": "What's your name?"
"The villain Yu Liang, everyone calls me 'fish belly.'" The prisoner scratched at the back of his head with a little embarrassment. He washed Xie San'er before he saw that this person didn't seem to be big, and he should be about the same as himself.
Sure enough, Yu Liang is half a year older than Xie San'er. "The villain is a pawn, how dare he call the chief a brother." Yu Liang waved his hand and nodded in fear.
"Eh, straighten up!" Xie San'er waved his hand very imposingly: "Brother Yu, everyone in this world is the same person, why do you bother...... Arrogant...... What did it come from?"
"Foolishness."
"Hey, you've read?" Xie San'er looked at him in surprise.
"I studied for four years as a kid, and then I worked as a pawn shop guy for another three years."
"Hey, let's be the same! I was imprisoned by the county for half a year because of a fight with people in Nancheng and discounting the bridge of my nose, and then Li Sanlang - that is, the inspection of the capital - he paid for the Liu family's young shopkeeper to bail me out, and I went to the hotel to work as a partner in prison for half a year.
No, after two years of work, I went to Shangrao with the second young master Baodu for inspection, and now I am the little flag officer of the pacification department. Don't look at the small flag, the town is two levels of officials, and I get the salary of the general flag......."
"Oh, then, then you've met a nobleman." Yu Liang pouted enviously: "When I thought about me, the guy did a good job, and he didn't have time to run away."
Fortunately, I was literate, could calculate, and could make accounts, so they left me a book to keep an account of the things I had robbed, and when they saw that I could write well, they took me away. Alas! Now I have been with them for three years, and I am not a thief but also a thief.
If I had been able to meet a noble person like my sir, I wouldn't be where I am ......today."
"So, why did you make the herald again?"
"Because I have a good brain and a good memory, I can draw and write down what I see, and maybe I am also quite clever, so I was photographed by a heavenly Dong Shuai (Dong Qi), so I asked him to come to him, and then I went to Tatehuazi's side.
Don't hide it from the chief, there are so many people in charge in the lake, and I know in my heart who is short. After meeting each other, I have a distinction between what should be said and what should not be said, and after doing a few things, Tatehanako will be more relieved of the villain."
"Then you shake out their old bottoms this time, and you're not afraid that he will seek revenge from your family?"
"The villain only has an uncle, surnamed Zhu. When I was arrested in Shikou Town, they all thought I was from there, but when I was very young, my father left our mother and son to go to the mine and never came back, and after my mother died of illness, I grew up in my uncle's house in Zibu."
Hearing Yu Liang say this, Xie San'er sighed: "It turns out that it is also a bitter life!" Then he patted him on the arm: "It doesn't matter, follow us in the future, follow Li Sanlang, and no one will bully you again!"
"It's okay for a little man to be a thief?" Yu Liang asked cautiously.
"What are you? All the generals under Lou Zishi have been inspected by my family, and there are even more generals and sentinels!" Xie San'er smiled:
"When I was in charge of the captives, they were all under my command, and now I still lead my troops to fight! There are many different places here, and you will know it slowly. For example, you know, we don't call adults,
They are all called chiefs.
Also, meeting is a military salute for soldiers, not a handshake salute for soldiers. When the team sees the chief, they are not allowed to kneel or kowtow, and we pay attention to the equality of individuals here. Those who are officials are not allowed to take big, because Li Sanlang said that officials and soldiers are also equal.
Oh, by the way, you don't always have to be a 'villain,' a villain when we chat, just call it down. When we see the rulers speak, they all call themselves lowly or mark ......."
Yu Liang was stunned when he heard this: "Good girl, why do you have to pay so much attention, it seems to be very troublesome?"
"It's not troublesome, just get used to it." Xie San'er waved his hand: "The key is to put yourself on an equal footing with others, this is called ...... The job rank can be different, but the personality status is the same!
Hey, anyway, you remember, you will understand the day in the future. Let's be serious."
Yu Liang nodded, only then did he know that after a long time, this was all foreshadowing, and the real drama had not yet begun! "Are you familiar with Chen Yuanhai and Chen Tong's father and son?" Seeing him nodding, Xie San'er lowered his voice and said:
"These two are a great scourge in Huxi! The purpose of the inspection is to get rid of them, do you dare to follow me to find them, to find out their whereabouts, the truth and the truth?"
"Chen family father and son, this is easy to do, and it should have been done a long time ago!" Yu Liang slapped his thigh: "Their reputation in Huxi is too stinky, and many masters don't look down on them.
It's just because Junshanhu responded to send troops the earliest this time, so Tatehuazi held them very much, and promised to give Chen Yuanhai 2,000 weapons after defeating Yu Gan, and appointed him as the governor of the Huxi Water Army.
I've also heard that Tatehuazi had privately promised to hand over all the lake west of Sheshan (Snake Mountain) to the Chen family to take care of!"
"Oh? Is there such a thing?" Xie San'er's eyes rolled to his heart, and he tapped his fingers on the table and said, "I heard that your tone is quite familiar with the Chen family?"
"I've been there three or four times, and their people should know me." After Yu Liang finished speaking, he thought for a moment: "All the patrols are going to be soldiers against his family?
Before I came out, I heard that Tatehuazi was preparing to divide the troops into two ways, and I had already recruited Master Sun of the torture room for this matter. I guess...... This road to the west won't really let the Chen family take the lead, right?"
"Well, you guessed it right!"
"That villain, ah no, can you offer a plan to make up for it?"
Xie San'er glanced at him: "Tell me, I'll go to the capital inspection there and talk to him later, if it works, I will ask the county lord Fan to pardon you."
"Okay, okay, that's please!" Yu Liang became happy, leaned forward and said, "Here's the thing, there are two people in the Huxi Dang family who are the most difficult to deal with the Chen family.
One is the big white goose of Jinxi Lake, whose real name is Bai Yan, the swallow's swallow. This person was originally a person from the rivers and lakes, a disciple of the Junshan faction of Dongting Lake, and because he was involved in a life lawsuit, he ran here and was taken in by Jinxi Lake, and later chose to be a family member."
"Then, why did he make a feud with Junshan Lake?" Xie San'er asked.
"His brother's name is Bai He, and he was originally engaged, but the girl was ruined by Chen Tong and thrown into the lake. Although the Chen family later lost a lot of money, and repeatedly stated that they did not know in advance that they were related to the Bai family, this feud was settled.
There are only 1,000 people on this side of Jinxi Lake, and the strength is too weak to dare to be angry, so Bai He ran to Sanqing Mountain to become a Taoist priest. Therefore, Bai Yan hates the Chen family to death, and this person can work him."
"Okay, what about the second one?"
"Song Gongming and Song Laoqiao of Botang."
"Botang? It's a very small place, how many people can there be under this surnamed Song?"
"Not much, just four hundred." Yu Liang smiled and stretched out four fingers: "But Song Gongming has a lot of experience in Huxi. Chief Xie, you may not know that the Sinaphtha Zhai occupied by the Chen family was originally Song Gongming's territory!"
"Hey, I see!" Xie San'er patted his knee: "Dare to love this village was snatched by his father and son from someone in that Song?"
"To be precise, it's a fraud and robbery. Song Gongming took in Chen Yuanhai at the beginning, and Chen Yuanhai stayed behind when he went out, but when he came back, he had already changed the flag. Song Gongming had no choice but to take people to settle down elsewhere first.
Later, he fought with the Chen family three times and was defeated, he
I had to set up a village in Botang. In the future, the Chen family will become stronger and stronger, and Song Gongming will not dare to ask for Shinao Zhai again."
After Yu Liang finished speaking, he said in a low voice: "This time, Tatehuazi gathered in various ways, and Da Baiyan and Song Gongming also went one after another, I guess they are reluctant and don't want to match, just afraid of provoking Tatehuazi."
"Understood, you mean that flies don't bite seamless eggs, since there are seams, you might as well use them?" Xie San'er looked at him and nodded, touched the short stubble and thought for a moment, and said, "The information you provided may be really important.
In this way, let's find a bunk for you to sleep in on the school yard first, and I'll go and discuss it with the capital inspection and Chief of Staff Zhao, and when it's decided, let's leave tonight or early tomorrow morning!"
When Yu Liang heard that he was leaving, he looked at the room, and muttered reluctantly: "Let's go, don't you wash too much, sir?"
Seeing Xie San'er's glare, he had to get up slowly, and muttered, "Alas! It's good to have money, I don't know when I will come back, will I have a chance to wash it in this life?"