Chapter Forty-Three
It was just dawn, and the stalls that were set up early on Zhushikouer Street had opened business. A group of patrol officers with big guns hanging across their necks dragged their legs and feet over. There were not many or fewer people, and they threw down several big ones at some small stalls selling food, almost surrounded the stalls selling food and stuffed them up.
A table was set up next to the snack stall. The hot boiled water on the table was scalded with at least two kilograms of raw pulp and a knife for the executioner who was open to his chest and exposed his arms, and had a red cloth strip on his waist and forehead. According to the rules of the punishment gate, he could only drink alcohol and lively on the day of the red deal, and the things next to him could not be touched at all. He was afraid that the righteousness of the person would be turbid, and he would be plagued by the wronged ghost after the execution!
A little farther away, many patrol guards kept in the patrol stations carried white ash buckets and small colanders, and drew a piece of land horizontally and vertically on the spacious Zhushikouer Street. Especially in the center of the street, they even drew a large circle with white ash.
Holding a pickaxe in his hand, a coolie hired from Liba's store in Dashilan put the big cake he had just obtained in his arms. He swung the pickaxe and dug a hole the size of a bucket, a foot deep. Then a monk and two masters put a soul-suppressing card in the pit and a ghost-extinguishing bell, and then he carefully filled the hole and smashed it tightly!
After doing this work, the coolie, who was afraid that the master would lose his debts on weekdays, immediately reached out to the patrolman with a short gun standing next to him and steadily collected a piece of money for bathing! A monk and his wife also began to recite scriptures and practice their own practices. With the power of the soul-squeezing card and the magic power of the ghost-expressing bell, they set up a formation for the wronged soul that was about to set off, so that the evil spirit was detained in this formation when they left their bodies. Then, hundreds of people passing by on the street would trample on the back, so as not to cause trouble in the future!
Looking outside, many two-story houses facing the street also had windows. Some houses who liked to watch the fun took small tea and sesame cakes, and looked at the execution ground that had been almost arranged while eating. Some people obviously changed the location next to the window, and even moved the Taishi chair and small coffee table to the window early, and took advantage of the fact that people didn't come, and looked at the surrounding situation first and enjoyed the pleasure.
In front of the Huozhengmen Hall, the She brothers standing next to the door that had been open all the time had already changed into new robes and jackets. Perhaps because the new clothes were just on their body and were somewhat not close to each other, the She brothers all had crooked shoulders and looked like something was wrong all over their bodies.
Walking into the gate, Xie Gate Shen and Na Jiuye also entered the yard early. They just waited for the man holding the customer's sign in his hand, and immediately greeted the man holding the customer's sign and then invited the man holding the customer's sign to the second floor.
At the stairs on the second floor, Xiang Youbao, who was temporarily acting as a traitor, also changed into a short and neat dress. The men holding jade customers' brands in their hands naturally had to invite them to the Grand Master's chair by the window. Those customers holding bronze medals also had to be polite to invite them to the clean water-eaves table.
When I entered the yard, seven or eight large iron kettles lined up on the stove that came out of the new plate, and white air was sprayed in the mouth of the pot. The newly washed teapots and tea bowls were also loaded with trays, and then the guests were rinsed with hot water and served.
Her body bones were a little better, and Xie Menshen’s wife couldn’t stop working, so she accompanied Nalan to work under the stove early. Even the half-old children in the family gathered around the stove and helped hand over the firewood...
Only Hu Qianli, at this moment, could only stay in the second yard, spread out a new account book that he had just purchased, then grindled a tube of Hui ink, and waited quietly with a wolf hair in his hand.
There are many rules in Sijiu City. If someone comes to congratulate you, the host family will have to take the account book and record it carefully before they can come to the door to return gifts one by one in the future!
Facing the first man who came to the door with the customer's sign, the She brothers immediately straightened up and shouted the sound of greetings in a loud voice: "Hey... Isn't this Master Bao? But I haven't seen you yet! You are the first customer who came to the door today. Just in the second floor, we have prepared a chair for you! Coincidentally, our head of the sect just got the Phoenix Tea sent by a friend from Guangdong. He made a strong pot for you. Do you always taste it?"
Master Bao, who was fiddling with the jade sign in his hand and wearing a brocade blue satin gown, was very satisfied with the greetings from the She brothers. He fucked a bit of awkwardness in the Cantonese Beijing Mandarin and shouted: "It's Master Launa Jiu who has troubled it! It's still early this day, so I'm going to have a pot of tea first, which is really good!"
Moving the great master's foot, Bao Ye stretched his old customer and familiar friend's posture, and shook and walked into the entrance of Huozhengmen Hall in the envious eyes of the lively people around him who were waving early.
Facing Master Bao, Master Na Jiu raised his hand and bowed flat: "Haven Bao has come early? The seats prepared for you are here, and someone is waiting to serve you! Come on... Make a pot of the phoenix tea you just got, and it's going to be thick!"
With a smug smile, Master Bao also bowed flat: "I'm sorry, Master Jiu, I still remember this old Guangdong, I'm so good at this?!"
He reached out and held Master Bao's arm. While leading Master Bao to the second floor, he smiled and said in Master Bao's ear: "When no one comes at this time, there is still something next to him. I have to ask Master Bao to give him a look!"
Looking at Master Na Jiu with a diligent smile in surprise, Master Bao asked back with some confusion: "What's the good thing? Is it worth telling me if you Master Na Jiu is so hiding?"
Without saying anything, Na Jiu just led his hand to the entrance of the stairs: "You go up and take a look, don't you understand everything? Come on...you're going to rise..."
He walked up the stairs in the direction guided by Master Na Jiu. He had just stepped onto the floor on the second floor. Xiang Youbao, dressed in a neat and short dress, immediately greeted him, bowed to Master Bao with his hands and smiled, "Master Bao, have you been here long ago? You can sit up first, the phoenix tea you like will be delivered to you later!"
He looked at the layout of the second floor of the building on the door of the fire gate hall with curiousness. While sitting down on a chair in the Grand Master in the middle of the building, he turned his head to ask Xiang Youbao, who was serving diligently, and said, "Didn't Master Na Jiu say... Are there any rare things that I want to see?"
With a mysterious smile on her face, Xiang Youbao raised his hand and pointed at the pink wall on the window frame in front of Master Bao: "Isn't that there?"
When he raised his head slightly, Baoye, who was still sitting as steady as Mount Tai, jumped up and couldn't help but exclaim: "What's the matter with throwing it away?"
Listening to the unchanging local accent that appeared in surprise, Xiang Youbao still looked as usual, pointing at the pink wall, which connected to the end and formed a Tai Chi diagram and said, "This is the thing I have recently served by Master Na. Master Bao, look, is it still a strange thing?"
Staring at the scorpions that were connected to the end and slowly crawling in the shape of the Tai Chi diagram, Baoye couldn't help but nodded: "This is quite strange! Well...... The head and tail are connected to the end, and you can still come out with a Tai Chi diagram! There is really a skill in the Huozhengmen!"
With a slight smile on her face, Xiang Youbao took the tray that Nalan brought to the stairs, and turned his head to the nodding slightly and smiled at Master Bao, who was nodding slightly: "Master Bao, please take a look. This thing is fresh, but it's more than this! Come... Let Master Bao have a great blessing in all directions!"
Accompanied by the leopard's whispering and the heavy slap of reaching out to the handrail of the stairs, the scorpions that were crawling slowly suddenly distracted from the order they had just crawled, and quickly formed a bat pattern on the pink wall!
Looking at the scorpions that were connected first and crawling slowly, before Bao Ye's big open mouth closed, Xiang Youbao had already put a teapot in his hand. The tray of the tea bowl was placed on the table beside Bao Ye, and reached out to slap the table again: "Give him another gold and silver bucket to Bao Ye!"
Still responding to the instructions of the leopards, the scorpions loosened their formation again, crawling quickly, forming a treasure pot pattern full of gold ingots on the pink wall!
With his mouth wide open, Master Bao even heard the giggle made when his chin bone was pulled to his head!
There have always been many strange things in Sijiu City. Twenty years ago, a group of outside artists who came up on the overpass erected a rope in broad daylight and let a child climb up along the rope. In the weather of the 10th winter, seven or eight peaches with fists were thrown out of thin air!
If you look at the stalls selling goldfish in Laoguanyuan, there are two or three stores that can put goldfish in shallow plates half an inch deep, knocking on the plate and saying that the goldfish will swim toward wherever they are. The goldfish will follow the tune and the Xuan will be at the mercy!
But the fighting scorpions in front of you don’t have to touch them at all, but they can form several different patterns back and forth according to the shouts of the leopard?
This is too...
After copying the hot tea that Xiang Youbao had just poured for him, Mr. Bao drank the bitter tea in one breath, which was somewhat stable. He raised his eyes and shouted at Xiang Youbao, "What... a means?"
With a smile, he added a bowl of hot tea for Mr. Bao. Xiang Youbao Shen mysteriously approached Master Bao's ear: "This is of course not a big deal! The left is just..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard the stairs whirlwinds, and several players in the same exquisite and decent clothes also walked in with the jade sign in their hands. A sharp-eyed man raised his head and shouted at the top of his voice: "Good guy... what's this thing?"
As soon as she saw more people coming, Xiang Youbao immediately closed his mouth and only smiled and walked over to the newly arrived players: "How many masters are here? This seat is ready for you..."
With impatient waves, a man with three or four large gem rings on his fingers shouted at the top of his voice: "Don't say nonsense! How can those scorpions who are forming formations on the wall serve?!"
She looked embarrassed and Xiang Youbao muttered, "Actually... this method was figured out by my uncle! If you want to talk to a few masters, it's really not a big deal! But you guys also understand that this trick is so easy to eat. If the men in the city know this trick, it would be boring for you to play, right?"
His eyes rolled, and Master Bao, who had arrived at the first place, jumped up from the chair: "Since I have the first customer sign in the Huozhengmen, I have to take the first place! Masters, we have to pay attention to coming first and then coming..."
Unceremoniously, the same jade sign appeared, and several players who were looking up at the tower immediately shouted: "Isn't the first-class customer sign in my hand?"
"Isn't it just coming first and then? I'll just say to Master Na Jiu, I'll buy two customers' brands, so I have to take my turn first, right?"
"It seems so evil to say it?! I still have to know how this scorpion plays like this formation today! Don't mention a few nonsense about the customer's brand to me. Ma Liu'er offers a price for me, but I won't open my mouth to make a price!"
As more and more players walked up to the tower, people who were trying to learn how to train scorpion drawing skills first were also shouting and raising prices. When the sun was about to come, even the men standing outside the tower passing by the water eaves platform understood what was arguing in the tower. If they couldn't squeeze up to the tower, they could only surround the Najiu, who was heading into the yard to welcome guests, surrounded the guests!
Seeing that the entrance of Huozhengmen was already crowded, the She brothers standing at the door to welcome guests could only hear a leopard whistle on the building, and immediately waved to the sound team that had already brought various sounding instruments by the main gate of Huozhengmen. They turned around and lit the whip that had long been tied to the bamboo pole, and then picked up the whip that was hissing and smoke high!
Amid the deafening sound of firecrackers, the sounding team invited by the Overpass immediately sounded the command gongs and drums. A "big opening" opening song suddenly made the window paper on Zhushikouer Street tremble!
With a crisp voice, the head of the festive ceremony invited by the long-awaited festival sang a few old lyrics from 'Praise and welcome guests': "Good heaven and earth, good luck, good year, good moon and good weather! Good fortune and longevity are coming together, the god of wealth, black tiger crosses the door! It's a happy time to open the door..."
In the auspicious words of praising the guests, Xie Gate God, who had already put a lot of big brothers in his clothes, grabbed the door with a quick step, and shouted loudly: "The flag at the Huozhengmen Hall is opened, and you will benefit from all the money..."
As the big hand like a palm fan waved, a large number of big boys sprinkled on the sounding team and the crowd watching. Seeing that the neighbors around who had already been disturbing snacks were already in trouble, they brought the congratulation rice cake to the door to congratulate him. The smarter player immediately came to his senses and reached out to take out a few oceans from his arms, followed the neighbors who were sending congratulation rice cakes and headed straight into the yard.
Even if you cram the Buddha for a moment, you have to take advantage of the fact that others open. Even if it is not useful now, then it will work if it is not guaranteed in the future?
Waving his wolf's hair, Hu Qianli, who was still cold on this happy opening day, recorded the neighbors who came to congratulate the wedding one by one, and the names of players who gave opening gifts. In just one hour, a new Taobao account book was written to the last page...
After seeing a loophole, Xiang Youbao finally squeezed down from the crowded tower and came to Master Na Jiu, who was also sweating heavily: "Uncle Master, have you not let go, right?"
Shaking his head tiredly, Master Na Jiu was tidying up his new clothes that had been rubbed into pickles as soon as he was on his upper body, and muttered in a low voice: "Where can you dare to speak? No matter who you promised, the rest of you will have to eat me alive... You unlucky child, where did you figure out this bad idea?"
He squeezed his eyes at Master Na Jiu, and Xiang Youbao also lowered his voice and said, "In the past, I have seen an old man playing this trick. What's the name... Auction? Anyway, there are only a few things, everyone wants, so the price will be higher! No one can steal the price in person! When it's almost done, I'll see if it's almost done. Uncle Master, please follow what we discussed last night..."
Seeing a group of players who had just finished delivering gifts from the second yard rushed towards him again, Master Na Jiu opened his voice helplessly and shouted: "My masters, Masters... I'm talking outside. Have you guys watched the excitement first? Let's..."
He shook his arms impatiently, and once again squeezed to Master Na Jiu's side and shouted in dissatisfaction: "The left is just the head that falls to the ground. What can you think about it? Let's talk about how to train the scorpion first..."
Chapter completed!