Chapter 396: Strange Days, Strange Things
Today is a strange day for the residents of Huangyang Town, on the road to Wulong Mountain. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info people got up early in the morning, pushed open the door, and did not see the morning sun, but saw the sky full of burning clouds. This is a bad omen for the old and experienced people in the town.
Because, normally, fiery clouds only occur in the evening when the sun sets, and now it is morning, and fiery clouds have already appeared in the sky. This is against the sky, and it is an abnormal manifestation of God's mood!
Therefore, experienced old people will sigh and say, "Fortune is abnormal, and disaster is in the world!"
Not only that, but when people come to the simple market on the road leading to Oolong Mountain in the early morning, they find that today's market is very lively, with almost twice as many businessmen as before. And many of these vegetable businessmen are new faces that the locals don't know.
The sudden arrival of these new businessmen made the old businessmen who had been buying and selling in this bazaar very angry. Because, their own fortunes are threatened by these new businessmen, which makes them very uneasy!
So, these old business dealers, relying on the fact that they were locals, secretly gathered a group of local landlords. Ask them for help to find trouble with these new businessmen! When necessary, they can also teach a few diehards a lesson and make an example of them, so that these new businessmen will retreat in the face of difficulties.
Among the many old traders, the old butcher Tang Yilong is the most popular in the town. Early in the morning, he saw that there was also a newcomer selling pork on the opposite side of his meat case, and his heart became unhappy.
Therefore, he asked the man to call for business for the time being, and he secretly talked to all the old traders in the bazaar. He told everyone to come to the back of the market and discuss countermeasures in the courtyard in front of Mr. Wu's school.
Tang Yilong is a middle-aged man with a big head and a thick neck, and it seems that his family life is also very rich, and he is a family that has no worries about food and clothing, and does not worry about eating and drinking. He has always been in good spirits, smiling at everyone, and is a likable businessman.
Now, the dealers of vegetables, meat, poultry, and fish have also sent representatives to attend a meeting secretly convened by the butcher Tong Yilong.
"Boss Tang, just say whatever you want!" In the crowd, the old man of Brunei, who sold poultry, was the first to say, "Isn't it, because of these new faces in the bazaar?"
"That's right!" Tang Yilong nodded and said, "It's just such a small town, and we usually buy and sell white noodles with clear water--it's very light! And now the number of buyers and sellers has increased by more than half overnight, so how can we live!"
"Boss Tang, don't say so much, just say what to do!" called Niu Feifei, the mother-in-law who sold vegetables.
"Yes, Boss Tang, just say what to do!" everyone muttered.
"Okay!" Tang Yilong was overjoyed when he saw that everyone was interested, "Since everyone has this intention, then it will be easy to do! My attention is this, each of us pooled one or two pieces of silver, and went to find Zhang Haisheng, the number one snake in our town, and asked him to help us settle this matter." ”
As he spoke, he slipped his gaze over everyone's faces, "If everyone agrees, I, as the leader, will take the lead in making up two taels of silver!" As he spoke, he took out two taels of broken silver from his sleeve pocket, held them in the palm of his hand, and showed them to everyone.
"Of course I agree, what's wrong with this!" Shang Dongfeng, who sold beef, shouted, "Everyone's business, everyone's interests, of course we approve with both hands!" As he spoke, he also took out a tael of silver from his sleeve pocket and handed it to the soup butcher who sold pork.
"Okay, little Panzi, quickly record Boss Shang's silver and his name!" Tang Yilong excitedly took the silver handed by the other party, and said to the little helper in the account room who was sitting at the small table behind him.
Therefore, everyone also took out the silver and handed it over to Tang Yilong. After that, they all surrounded Pan Hao, the little helper in the accounting room, staring at him sitting at the small table, registering the names of the fundraisers one by one. Everyone was also very cautious, not watching him record his name, and no one would leave hastily.
Half an hour later, at the gate of the courtyard of "Long Xiaotian" Zhang Haisheng's house, two cowherding babies saw it; the pig slaughterer on the street hurriedly walked into the courtyard gate of "Long Xiaotian" Zhang Haisheng's house with a white cloth bag and twisting half a bag of heavy things, and Shang Dongfeng, who was killing cattle.
At this time, Long Xiaotian Zhang Haisheng was lying on the rocking chair under the eaves of his own porch, shaking a pu fan on one side, and a canary in a bird cage hanging on the hook of the porch pillar on the other, whistling and amusing himself! Suddenly, he heard that his courtyard door was being pushed open, so he turned his head and glanced at the visitor.
Seeing that it was Tang Yilong, the pig killer on the street, and Shang Dongfeng, who was killing the cow, the former twisted a heavy thing in a small cloth bag and walked in in a hurry. Suddenly, Long Xiaotian Zhang Haisheng was puzzled, he immediately stood up from the rocking chair, looked at the two of them and said, "Yo, two rich people, rare guests, rare guests!"
The two of them walked up to him, arched their hands and said, "Master Zhang, you are so comfortable, your life is really happier than that of a fairy." ”
The other party laughed when he heard this, "Two rich men, you don't do business at this time, come to me, what's the matter!"
"That's right, the two of us are here, we have a very urgent matter!" Tang Yilong, the pig killer, said, "We are here to ask Master Zhang to come forward and help us solve a troublesome matter!"
Long Xiaotian Zhang Haisheng laughed, "I'm not a fortune teller and a word tester, I can solve any troublesome things for you!"
"Yes, yes, yes, that's what you can!" the butcher called out, "These troubles are not like other troubles, and the fortune teller really can't solve them!
The other party laughed again, "I guessed how many points it is!" Zhang Haisheng stood up from the rocking chair and said, "It must be two rich men on the street who have encountered difficult opponents." Otherwise, how could you come to my martial artist's house at the same time!"
Both of them laughed when they heard it, "It's serious...... It's serious, Master Zhang!" Tang Yilong said again, "The two of us were entrusted by many business friends on the street to ask Master Zhang to go out of the mountain to help. As he spoke, he opened the small half-bag of broken silver in his hand and held it up in front of Zhang Haisheng for him to see, "Master Zhang, we can't let you work hard in vain, this is the seventy-six taels of silver that all the businessmen have gathered on the street of Huangyang Town, and please work hard to help." ”
"No problem, you just said what you want me to help with!" Long Xiaotian Zhang Haisheng took the silver and said.
"In our Huangyang Town, there are dozens of business vendors overnight, and they are all selling meat, fish, and vegetables. Tang Yilong said with a sad face, "You also know Master Zhang, our Huangyang Town is a small town, where can we accommodate so many business dealers, don't they clearly want to rob us of food!"
"Oh! I see. Long Xiaotian Zhang Haisheng scratched his scalp and thought about it, "Who are these people, why do they suddenly want to do business!"
"It's all strangers, I don't know anyone!" Shang Dongfeng, who killed the cow, took over and said, "If they were all acquaintances, we would go directly to persuade them, and we wouldn't come to the door to trouble you!"
When Long Xiaotian and Zhang Haisheng heard this, he exclaimed, "Oh, so that's the case! That's not a problem, since they are all outsiders, it's easy to do, and there is nothing to say to them." Okay, I'll take people right now and get them away!"
As he spoke, he shouted to the apprentices who were practicing in the practice room in the backyard: "Xiao Liang, gather people immediately, let's go to the market!"
"Hello!" came a thunderous response from the backyard. (To be continued.) )