Mei didn't come to work for a few days in a row, and Han Dada'er was a little suspicious, but after thinking about it, Mei was a sleek person, and he was the head of the detective section, and no one dared to touch him in black and white.

He was a stingy man who never lent money to others. As a matter of common sense, there will be no money disputes with others. Han Daring thought about it and felt that it was not a big deal, so forget it.

After more than ten days, Mei was able to return to work in the main hall after taking leave. It's just that after coming back from this vacation, Mei's ability is a little different, usually except for business, he stays in the office to drink tea and read the newspaper, but when he comes back from the holiday, he feels that he talks less and less, and he is always listless, sullen, and short-tempered, and occasionally in his office, there will be a muffled snort, and I don't know where it comes from.

Fan Tong loves to pat on the back, so he always looks for an opportunity to serve tea and pour water, and shouts at his boss to ask for warmth, but as soon as he wants to flatter, he is bombarded by Mei's two words, and his hot face is pasted on his cold ass, and he is not interested in finding himself, Fan Tong doesn't know what troubles Mei has encountered, but he doesn't ask, for fear that as soon as he opens his mouth, Mei said that he wanted to borrow money, because of the relationship between his superiors and subordinates, and he was not good not to borrow, but if he borrowed it, it would be equivalent to throwing it away, and the IOU must be unexpected, and there is no hope of repaying the money.

Fan Tong is a person, he messes around all day long, it's best to have nothing to do with big and small things, you don't have to take care of him yourself, even when he sees the cheap picked up for nothing, he will sharpen his head and squeeze in. Since you can't shoot a sycophant, don't look for a man, so I won't run to Mei's room after that.

You Fei has always been seconded, and he has never mixed up an actual transfer order. So often looking for opportunities to pretend to be diligent, as long as Mei has the ability to call someone, he must be the first to report. But Mei didn't mention the matter of the transfer order at all, and in the end, it was Han Daring who went to mention it to Mei a few times. Mei was upset, and she really couldn't afford to provoke this living ancestor, so she could only stubbornly renew the secondment order for another year with her eyebrows twisted and staring, which was considered a temporary stop.

Han Daring saw that Mei's face was a little pale, his expression was anxious, and he was sometimes committed, he didn't understand medical theory, but it was okay to see Mei's ability to sit and lie down, so he told him that if he was uncomfortable, he would go to see a doctor, I really couldn't believe it, and it was okay to look at Lao Su in the epidemic prevention hospital, Lao Su practiced medicine in his early years, and his medical skills were comparable to many famous doctors.

Mei only nodded after listening to this, and then still locked herself in the office every day, except for commuting to and from work, or going to the peak to hold meetings and lectures, she rarely went out.

Relying on Tianjin Wei to come in safely, except for a few cases of sliding doors and picking locks, two fights and two cases of missing people, there were no extraordinarily serious homicides, and it seemed unusually calm, so there was no need for Mei to deploy anything, and every day he went to work and walked from work.

After more than a week like this, Mei took two days off, I don't know if I lost my medical treatment, or what happened, but after coming back, I suddenly disappeared from all kinds of illnesses and was in good spirits, and I was full of energy and I actually sorted out a lot of old cases at hand, re-sent them, and let people investigate. It wasn't like anything he could do.

However, Mei's ability suddenly became diligent, and the people under her naturally did not dare to be too lazy, and went out to visit old cases all day long, investigating clues, and the thieves who were tired every day died, and they all complained. Han Dada'er also felt that Mei's ability to change was extraordinary at first, but then he saw that Mei's ability was not pretending, but indeed declining, and he was extremely diligent in his vigorous and resolute manner, so he didn't delve into the reason for his sudden change in personality.

But he didn't know that Mei's abnormal performance was implying an uproar, but it would be a murderous fight!

It will be the eighth day of the lunar month, and in twenty days or so, it will be the Chinese New Year's Eve.

As the old saying goes, twenty-three sugar melons sticky, twenty-four sweeping houses, twenty-five pasting windows, twenty-six stew pot meat, twenty-seven slaughtering roosters, twenty-eight handfuls of noodle hair, twenty-nine stickers upside down, and sitting overnight in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The twenty-third day of the lunar month is a sacrificial stove, and legend has it that on this day the king of the stove will be sent to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor the good and evil deeds of the family for a year. Therefore, on this day, the sacrificial stove should use sugar melon rice cakes and other things to worship the king of the stove, in fact, it is to bribe the king of the stove, let him eat the sweet mouth of the sugar melon, and say good things to the Jade Emperor. Even the horse ridden by the king of the stove had to be provided with forage and cold water.

In fact, the so-called horse ridden by the king of the stove, also known as the stove horse, and the nickname is the tall leg, or the poor cicada, which is similar to a jumping insect, and often appears on the dark and greasy kitchen stove, which has nothing to do with the horse's dime.

As for this sugar melon, it is made of maltose and Jiang rice flour, which should be mixed with cooked Jiang rice flour and cooked soybean flour, and after it is done, the bean aroma is rich. When the sacrifice was over, the children ate it all.

On the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth days, the house should be cleaned, the window paper should be pasted, and the New Year should be clean and neat.

Twenty-six days to stew pot meat, because the past days and months are difficult, which is like now, you can eat meat every day, people are tired of eating, the old years are looking forward to the New Year, just want to relieve the hunger in the New Year, beating the tooth sacrifice.

It is said that it is 26 stew pot meat, but in fact, ordinary people have to catch up with the 278th of the lunar month to sell meat. Why? You think, in the past, ordinary children were hungry, and if you bought the meat home early, stewed it, and didn't wait for the Chinese New Year, you would have to eat it all.

Twenty-seven slaughter roosters, killing chickens and ducks on this day, whether stewed or smoked, you have to prepare the chicken and duck meat of the Chinese New Year's Eve. But it's all a folk custom, and it doesn't have to be done on this day.

Twenty-eight handfuls of flour hair, the old Tianjin people are used to steaming steamed buns from the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, steamed buns, stuffed with filling, no stuffing, jujubes, sugar, oil and salt, this steamed bread is to put dry flour into the good noodles, and the steamed noodles also use chopsticks, dip the food color on the steamed buns with red dots, which means auspicious. It is generally stored in a large bamboo basket and eaten until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Twenty-nine stickers are upside down, that is, on the twenty-ninth day of the lunar month, Tianjin people will paste the word blessing on the doors and windows of the house, the Spring Festival couplets and hanging money, hanging money can be said to be unique to Tianjin Wei, cut into a rectangle with red paper, carved on auspicious wishes, rich and more than the pattern, pasted on the window, take a homophonic good omen, hang money and hang money, hope to drop money in the sky.

On the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the family will worship God with rice cakes, and those who have money in the family will order honey at the noodle shop to worship God. The "five-foot-tall honey offering" in traditional cross talk refers to this thing. The noodles are half-made, cut into strips of more than an inch, fried and dipped in honey, and built into a pagoda shape one by one, ranging from a few inches to three feet.

In addition, it is necessary to make dumplings, stay up late, and keep the New Year. In addition to meat, dumplings should also be wrapped with vegetarian dumplings, which means that they will be quiet in the coming year. There are so many things before the Chinese New Year in the old days, so the average person is busier the first few days.

It's just Laba today, Han Daring is resting today, and he drank freshly boiled Laba porridge at home early in the morning.

As the saying goes, the two of them froze to death, and in the old days, the weather was extremely cold, and there were often beggars who had nowhere to stay, freezing to death on the side of the street. Every time on the day of Laba, the Taoist temple of Tianjin Wei will give Laba porridge, and groups of Huazi will gather at the gate of the big temple and the small temple, waiting for the porridge.

In the old days, Laba porridge was made of rice, millet, cowpeas, red beans, peanuts, jujubes and other grains. At that time, there were a few rules for boiling laba porridge, such as lotus seeds, longan, barley, large kidney beans and so on. Because some of them are put on fire, some are not cooked, and some are not affordable for the poor, so the old rules of laba porridge are not put away.

The main purpose of boiling Laba porridge is to pray for a good harvest in the coming year, and it has the meaning of sacrificing grains. At that time, Tianjin Wei, in the temple, the Laba porridge of the Great Compassion Temple was a head hook, it can be said that the porridge is thick and soft, sweet and delicious, so in addition to calling Huazi beggars, many ordinary people will also catch up with this day and line up at the temple gate to serve porridge.

On this day, Laba also uses peeled garlic to marinate in aged vinegar, and if you eat dumplings dipped in vinegar on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, you have to dip this garlic to marinate vinegar, because it is soaked on Laba this day, so it is called Laba vinegar.

After Han Dada'er drank Laba porridge, she wanted to accompany her mother to Xida Wanzi for a visit.

In the old days, there were three places in Tianjin Wei with the strongest flavor of the year, one was in Hedong, one was in the old city, and the other was Xida Wanzi in the west.

The ten thousand of Xida Wanzi is actually the bay of the river bay, which should have been called Xida Wanzi. The location is in the old red bridge, there is a Liangjiazui, located in the southwest of Zhaojiachang, facing the river on three sides, the river bay where it is located is called Xidawanzi, Tianjin people read it white, just call it Xida Wanzi.

At that time, the Xida Wanzi market was prosperous, especially during the Chinese New Year. Every year, when we enter the wax moon, the west is particularly lively. In fact, the New Year's goods used by Han Daringer's family for the New Year have already been purchased, so they just shop around casually to see if there is anything left behind that has not been sold.

Xida Wanzi Market is lively, people come and go, although the two guys in the family follow the car, Han Dadaer is not at ease, afraid that there will be many old women bumping into each other, saying that it is the old lady, in fact, Han Dada'er is not very old age, in the past, people married early, at this time it was less than fifty, but in the old society, it was considered an old lady.

In fact, there is another reason why Han Daring came with the old lady, recently, Tianjin Weixitou, a new real immortal temple has been established, and the incense is flourishing and very lively. Recently, typhoid fever is prevalent, and the old Taoist of Zhenxian Temple has given doctors medicine to treat the people, and it has won the hearts of the people.

The people all said that the audience had repeatedly shown their magical powers, and they said that they had a race with the true immortals, Han Daring never believed this, but he felt very curious, afraid that this was someone pretending to be a ghost again, but secretly amassing money. This True Immortal View is further west of Xida Wanzi, so he also wants to take the opportunity to take a look.

The car crossed the Jinhua Bridge, and the pedestrians have gradually increased, and they came to the market of Xida Wanzi not far away.

At this time, Xida Wanzi sold a lot of things, selling small goldfish, buying pots and pans, selling Spring Festival couplets and hanging money, and selling live chickens and ducks on the street. There are also red and white powder skins and yellow gaba that sell vegetarian dumplings. The red pink skin is dyed with food color, the red is bright and translucent, and the white pink skin is clean and bright. As for this yellow gaba, it is mainly supplemented by millet and mung beans, which are mixed with food color and dyed yellow. This stuff wraps vegetarian dumplings and plays the role of tendons.

There are croquettes sold on the street, unlike the current croquettes, put a bunch of dry radishes and batter, and smell a foul smell of radish roots from afar. The fried vegetarian croquettes that I saw in the old days were put in the noodles and vermicelli, and they were fried with powder, and the stewed cabbage was not only scattered, but the more you chewed, the more tensimile it became.

The steamed bread shop that sells steamed food is the hottest this month, and the flatbread shop also steamed steamed bread this month. In addition to selling steamed buns, the steamed bun shop also has flower cakes. Steamed buns and the like. This steamed bun is counted as ten catties, and in the past, rich people bought 100 catties and sent them to the west husband to do good.

(This West Ward Office is a "Lijiao" mission point set up near Yongfengtun, formerly known as the public office.) It is also one of the religious sects in the past, advocating that the law of the Buddhas, the practice of Taoism, the ritual of Confucianism, and the address are also good deeds and virtues. ）

There are still some cooked food snacks sold on the street, such as big sugar, sugar dun, sugar sticky, sugar fried chestnuts, this sugar sticky is not like now, only white sugar wrapped in red fruit, that is, hawthorn, in the past, sugar sticky, there are begonia fruit, dried apricots, lotus roots, grapes, nuts, walnuts, boiled with white sugar, put in the wooden plate colorful and very good-looking.

Han Da'er's favorite food is Xida Wanzi's "big sugar", which is a kind of hollow maltose, and the core is filled with rock sugar powder, green plums, preserved fruits, melon strips, etc., and he has to buy a pack every time he comes.

Han Daring accompanied the old lady to the stall selling big sugar, but saw a familiar back, accompanied by a middle-aged woman, this back was none other than Mei Ruohong.

Han Daring saw that the lady next to Mei Ruohong was her mother, so she hurriedly stepped forward to say hello, and Mei Ruohong saw that she was Han Daring and Han Daring's mother, so she also hurriedly greeted her. The two families are world friends, so the relationship between the two old ladies is also close, and after greeting each other, they talk enthusiastically.

Han Da'er saw that Mei Ruohong bought a pack of sugar, so he asked:

"Don't you like big sugar?"

Mei Ruohong Road:

"But don't you love to eat!"

Only then did Han Dada'er know that Mei Ruohong's bag of sugar was sold to herself. Although he was happy in his heart, he had some inexplicable resistance, and he didn't know why he became so twisted as soon as he touched Mei Ruohong.

Since Mei Ruohong went to Qiandezhuang with him that day, the relationship between Mei Ruohong and Han Daring has become one step closer, but Han Daring has always respected her more than he likes her in his heart.

Mei Ruohong asked:

"I heard the little Jew say, you went to Dongyuzhuang a few days ago, and you almost encountered danger, so you weren't injured!"

Han Dada'er and Lu Songtao were attacked by a group of rats, obviously full of injuries, but at this time, they said calmly:

"Of course it's fine! How could I get hurt! ”

Mei Ruohong knew that he was talking nonsense when he heard it, and the little Jew clearly said that Han Dada'er was covered with scars. She originally wanted to visit Han Da'er, but recently, many people have been infected with typhoid fever, and the Pasteur laboratory is too busy and has been doing germ tests, so she can't get out. When there is time, Han Da'er's injuries will have already healed.

Mei Ruohong's fair skin was tinged with a faint flush, and there seemed to be anger on her face:

"You're always kidding with your life...... I ......"

Han Dada'er saw Mei Ruohong's anger but was a little sad, and was about to say a few words of comfort, but he heard that next to the big sugar stall, on the tea and soup stall, a few people were talking about a few strange things that had happened recently in Xitou and the old city!

Han Dada'er is curious and likes to hear this kind of thing the most, but it's not that he doesn't have to, but because he was born to investigate and arrest murderers, so he took a few steps closer and listened carefully to the chatter of a few people, but he hung Mei Ruohong in front of the big sugar stall.

These people, you say a word, Han Daring listened for a while before he understood.

It turns out that in recent days, there has been a fox fairy in the old city, and many rich families have thrown things out of thin air in the middle of the day, and the things on the table have disappeared when they turn around, but the doors and windows in the house are closed, leaving only a handful of fox fur on the table.

This happened one after another, and it happened several times, all of which were clear and clear, not to mention the things on the table, even if they were locked in the cabinet, they were all gone, and they disappeared in a blink of an eye. Every time, there is a pinch of fox fur left at the scene, so some people say that this is a loan from the fox fairy.

For a while, the story of the fox fairy in the old city and the west spread out, and the one was more evil than the other.

Hearing this, Han Daring couldn't help but blurt out:

"What kind of fox fairy! This is obviously a snitch that has caught the sky! ”

A few people talking at the tea soup stall suddenly interjected when they heard Han Daring's words, and one of them was talking about it, and he immediately didn't like to listen to it, and he wanted to ridicule a few words when he stood up, saying that the person who interjected was not knowledgeable! But when he stood up, he saw that it was Jinmen Detective Han Daringer who interjected, and he immediately became polite.

Although Han Daring is wearing casual clothes today, the shadow of the famous tree, he used to be a street inspector, and there are really a few people who often know him on the street!

Han Daring said:

"If this snitch is not in my hands, it is okay, if it is in my hands, he will have to break his fingers!"

He didn't care about this, but it attracted the attention of a person not far away.

Unexpectedly, Han Daring's words actually caused another trouble!