Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 55

It was the first time to drink alcohol since I came to this era. Although I drank less, I encountered too many things in the past few months, worked hard, and fell asleep after the New Year's Eve dinner.

This sleep was very solid, and when he woke up, it was already daylight. Widow Ma had cleaned the house, and even prepared tea and snacks for him to entertain the New Year guests.

Wang Tong, who was sleeping soundly wrapped in a quilt on the bed, was ignorant of all this. He was too tired and lacked sleep. In such a tense state of mind, only alcohol could temporarily relax him.

A burst of mournful crying woke Wang Tong up, his whole body bounced off the bed, and he had already taken out the dagger from under the pillow.

When he woke up, he could only hear firecrackers and the laughter of children on the screen. Could it be an illusion? Wang Tong shook his head, thinking that it would be better not to drink alcohol in the future. Trouble, death is not an exaggeration.

Wang Tong finished drinking the cold tea on the table, got up to wash his hands, and there was a steamer on the stove in the room. After opening it, he saw that the leftover food from last night was hot inside. Aunt Ma was really worried, and Wang Tong felt quite In order to keep warm, just about to eat something, I heard someone calling the door outside.

When they went out and opened the door, it was Sun Dahai and his brothers, all wearing new clothes and beaming on their faces. As soon as they saw Wang Tong answering the door, they yelled "Gong Xi Fa Cai", "Happy New Year" and "Getting promoted".

Sun Dahai is really straightforward, and his poor buddies have similar tempers. As soon as they came, the atmosphere in the house suddenly improved a lot.

"My lord, my father and mother are happy from ear to ear during the Chinese New Year. My brothers eat meat and eat greasy belches. The grandchildren of Xiaoqi around joked that we came to work with you. Now our eyes are red like a rabbit. Same!!"

Sun Dahai's voice was very loud. After he said this, the people who came with him all laughed and were very proud.

Asked to enter the room and sit down, Sun Dahai and the others were elated, talking about the joy of parents, wife and children, and the envy of the neighbors after getting the New Year's goods.

Wang Tong listened to a few words with a smile, and interrupted:

"At the beginning of the first month, the eighth brothers are coming to work. You can also see the demolition and leveling of the house in the back. The street is very chaotic. Someone needs to watch it!"

"Don't worry, my lord. Just now, some of my subordinates probably looked around. The area under the jurisdiction of our hundred households is like four or five streets. Our ten brothers are divided into five teams, each in charge of one side, and patrolling in a crossed direction." That's enough."

Hearing Sun Dahai's answer, Wang Tong couldn't help nodding his head. He thought that he would have to train after being assigned to his subordinates, but he didn't expect that Sun Dahai knew how to do things, which was a surprise.

No matter how miserable Jin Yiwei's generations of military households are, they still have traditions, and they are familiar with maintaining law and order. On the contrary, Wang Tong has too little contact with them and is not familiar with them at all.

Over there, Sun Dahai said that there are no small alleys on South Street, and there are many avenues. As long as you stay at each intersection and watch carefully, there will be no troubles.Wang Tong said again:
"Before that, our brother's errand is to maintain law and order, patrol and investigate, and if you are short of money or things, feel free to tell me, but if you blackmail with private businesses, don't blame me for being unruly!"

Hearing what Wang Tong said was solemn, Sun Dahai and others stood up from their chairs together, clasped their fists and bowed in agreement, and after sitting down, a man said with a hippie smile:
"The three melons and two dates collected on the street are no more than the New Year's goods given by adults in a year. Whoever picks up that little bargain is not throwing donkeys and catching dogs."

The words were humorous, everyone burst into laughter, Wang Tong also laughed, doing things requires money, with the income of this delicious restaurant, everything is much more convenient, if you don’t have money to pay, it’s impossible for the people below to abide by the rules and regulations, Wang Tong talked about the rules after he was fed, and the effect was very good.

The atmosphere relaxed, and Wang Tong laughed at himself and said:
"For some reason, I heard a cry before waking up this morning, but nothing when I woke up. It seems that my brother can't drink at this age, and he will be confused and hallucinating after drinking."

I thought that the others would laugh and make fun of me after I finished speaking, but I didn't expect the room to be quiet for a while, Wang Tong raised his head in surprise, Sun Dahai said hesitantly:

"My lord, when the brothers came, they did hear crying on the way."

"This street?"

"It's this street, not far from my lord..."

People in the world pay the most attention to the laughter and harmony of this Chinese New Year. The big things have to wait for the new year to pass, and the first day of the new year is to pay New Year's greetings to each other, let alone lose face with outsiders.

Even though I heard the cry while half asleep and half awake, the sternness of the cry was impressive. South Street is full of well-to-do families. What happened to this commotion during the Chinese New Year?

Hanging the Xiuchun Knife on his waist, Wang Tong got up and walked out. Sun Dahai and others were stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed. Sun Dahai followed with a little panic and explained:

"At that time, I was in a hurry to greet the adults, but I thought it was someone else's private matter, so I didn't take care of it."

Wang Tong waved his hands and said as he walked:

"I'm also paranoid. I'll find out after I have a look."

As soon as he went out, Ma Sanbiao, who was wearing this new suit, just walked in. He was about to say New Year's greetings, but when he saw the expressions of these people, he swallowed his words back. Wang Tong directly ordered:
"Sanbiao, take the guy and come with me."

Ma Sanbiao is a person who likes to be lively, and others are afraid of lawsuits that others can't avoid. He excitedly went to Wang Tong's house to pick up an ax for chopping firewood, and followed quickly.

Walked more than 20 steps to the south, turned east again, and entered an alley. This alley is actually a passage between two stores. Wang Tong was also stunned at the entrance of the alley. This is not the shopkeeper Zhao of Nanhuo Store. house?

He turned his head to confirm and asked:
"is it here?"

"That's right. At that time, everyone even scolded me for being unlucky. It looked like it was an alley, so I ignored it."

Wang Tong felt more and more wrong, but at this moment he remembered that shopkeeper Zhao's distraught appearance when he came here to borrow paper and pens years ago, he felt strange at that time, but now it is an ominous omen.

Walking quickly into the alley, the door of Shopkeeper Zhao's house was closed, and he didn't see any couplets, and there was no sign of blessing on it. A person beside Sun Dahai questioned in a low voice:

"It's New Year's Eve, why can't you even see the firecracker paper in front of the door and in the store..."

Firecrackers are set off on the first month of the Spring Festival. The red debris is generally not cleaned before the seventh day of the first month. It also means to celebrate and save money. However, looking at the appearance of the store in front of the shopkeeper Zhao, it is clean and deserted, and there is nothing at all. The appearance of the Chinese New Year, it is said that it would be like this when the old man died in the family, but Wang Tong and this shopkeeper Zhao are quite familiar on the South Street, and he has never heard of such a difficult situation in his family.

After a moment's hesitation, Wang Tong went up to knock on the door, yelling loudly while knocking:
"Brother Zhao, Brother Zhao, are you at home?"

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