The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 137: Pointed Red Lips (1)

When we arrived in Yanzhi Town, we ran into a group of children playing a game of officers and soldiers catching thieves at the entrance of the town.One of them, presumably the king of the kids, was wearing a sheet stolen from the house.The sheets were colorful and colorful, making him look like a majestic male peacock.

At this moment, the child king was directing several children, and dragged another child out to beheaded.The child refused to accept and yelled loudly: "It's not fair! It's not fair! Why was I dragged out and beheaded?"

Kid King didn't think he was noisy, and patiently explained: "We chose you together. Look, so many people have chosen you, what else do you have to say?"

The rest of the children also nodded repeatedly, indicating that he was right.The child muttered: "Why did everyone choose me, and I was about to be dragged out and beheaded?"

The King of Children understands his reason: "The minority obeys the majority, do you know that?"

The child gave an "oh" half-understanding, and said in confusion, "But why must the minority obey the majority? What if the decision made by the majority is wrong?"

When Kid King was questioned, he suddenly became unhappy, and scolded: "The decision everyone made, is it that everyone is wrong, and you are the one who is right?"

The child was still not very happy when he was scolded, but he stopped protesting, and when the child king ordered him to be "executed", he let out a scream in cooperation.

We all stopped and looked at this scene with great interest, only to feel that although they were playing house, they still looked a little solemn.The only downside is that the child king kept sticking his hands in his nostrils when executing the prisoner, which spoiled the atmosphere a bit.

His nose is an inexhaustible treasure, and every time he reaches into it, he gets something. When he turned his head and saw us, he flicked his hand towards us.Although we were a little far away, we subconsciously hid.Seeing that he was able to retreat ten steps away from the enemy, the child king became more and more arrogant.

As we approached, Ji Mingmei asked him how to get to Qi's rouge shop.He used the momentum of pointing to the river and mountains to draw Hu Bihua, telling us to go south first, then go north, then go south again, and then go north again.Our heads followed his hand and drew several circles in mid-air before we finally realized that if we follow his route, we can only turn around in place.

"Hey, do you know how to get there?" Seeing that the situation was not going well, I hurriedly asked him with a straight face.

"Oh, I don't know." Seeing that the situation was not good, he answered honestly.

Ji Mingmei and I were a little angry for a while, and we couldn't care about the children, so we had to go straight to the town, asked others about the direction of Qi's house, and then walked over there.

Most of the people in the town are engaged in making a living related to rouge and gouache, which is why the town got its name.Walking along the way, large and small rouges were spread all over the street, and even the flies were contaminated with rouge, and when they rushed over, they carried a burst of fragrance.Because the smell was a bit heavy, I couldn't help but sneezed a few times, causing the fashionable flies to avoid it.

Seeing that the whole street was full of rouge shops, Ji Mingmei's eyes lit up, and she tried all the way from the street to the end of the street. When she came out, her face was mottled, and she asked me with a smile if I looked good.After appreciating it for a while, I couldn't help but fell into deep thought, and then asked her: "How did you do it with makeup until your nose was bruised and your face was swollen?"

"Bang, you're dead." Ji Mingmei made a gesture of a gun and announced to me seriously.

I stood on the spot and thought for a while, and felt that the sound of falling to the ground was too loud, so I put my hands on my chest and let out a casual "ah", and then continued to walk towards the Qi's rouge shop at the end of the street.Ji Mingmei chased up from behind, and said dissatisfiedly: "Hmph, you can just perfunctory me like this!"

I ignored her and stopped in front of the rouge shop in front of me. I looked up and saw the four characters "Qijia Rouge" written on the plaque, and walked in.The clerk in the store saw the customer, hurriedly greeted him, and asked with a smile: "Does the customer want to buy? This store has all kinds of rouge and gouache, and rouge shops near and far get the goods from us."

There are too many rouge shops in the town, so naturally it is impossible to sell all of them to people in the town. Most of the shops actually supply rouge shops elsewhere, so the clerk only asked this question when he saw us coming in.I also smiled at him and said, "I'm a patrol horse, not here to patronize business."

When the guy heard that I was a patrol horse, he said "oh", poured two cups of tea for us on the cabinet, and asked if we were here to deliver a letter.I shook my head embarrassingly, and only said that it would be convenient for me to inquire about something from the shopkeeper of the Qi family.

The guy said with a smile: "Open the door for business and welcome guests from all over the world. What's the inconvenience? But just so that my husband can know that my shopkeeper is in the backyard and is discussing matters with other shopkeepers in the town. It will take a while to get it." idle."

I hurriedly said, "Of course I have to wait for Shopkeeper Qi to be free before bothering me."

The guy asked us to sit in the shop for a while.However, I have never been in a rouge shop before, and smelling the scent of powder in the shop, I felt uncomfortable, so I had to stand up again, and went to talk to the guy who had nothing to say.

The guy probably also saw my embarrassment, hesitated for a moment, and then said to me: "Sir, maybe you are not used to being in the makeup pile, how about this, please go to the backyard to enjoy the flowers, pass the time, and wait for my house." The shopkeeper is free, so I came to see you two."

I was relieved and thanked him hastily.The guy explained to another guy, and then led us through the back door of the shop and into the backyard.Most of the shops in the town have the layout of the front shop and the back house. The front is for business and the back is for self-occupation, so the layout of the backyard is quite large.

We followed him out the back door, through a patio in the middle, and into the backyard.A large clump of Chinese roses was planted in the courtyard. The flowers were bright red, protruding from the branches, like a bud of blood.This large clump of roses is open at the same time, which is really beautiful.At this time, a woman was picking flowers among the flowers. When she heard footsteps, she turned her head and asked the man, "Who is this?"

The waiter hurriedly responded: "The patrolling horses came to look for the shopkeeper, and they said they wanted to inquire about something. The shopkeeper is busy right now, so I invited them to the backyard."

"Oh." The woman responded calmly, "The shopkeeper is discussing matters in another courtyard, please wait a moment, sir."

I nodded to thank her, Ji Mingmei walked up to her, leaned down to smell a flower, and said intoxicatedly: "This flower is really fragrant!"

The woman handed the bamboo basket in her hand and said with a smile: "Then help me pick flowers."

Ji Mingmei was overjoyed, and really helped her pick a big basket of flowers, and asked her what she did for picking so many flowers while picking them.The woman told her that it was for making rouge.Finely mash the red rose petals, then filter out the dregs with fine gauze, dry the juice and add osmanthus oil, which is rouge.

The rouge made in this way not only has the beauty of rose, but also has the fragrance of rose, but it cannot be mass-produced, so she just makes some for her own use.Ji Mingmei smiled when she heard that, she probably made up her mind to do the same when she went back.I smiled slightly when I heard it from the side. This woman said it simply, but when she actually did it, there must be little details that are unknown to everyone.

Ji Mingmei helped the woman pick enough flowers, and the two found a stone table and chair to sit, poured the rose on the table, picked off the petals one by one, and piled them in the basket.Although I wanted to step forward to help, I felt a little embarrassed about getting the rouge on my hands, so I stood aside without embarrassment and pretended to admire the flowers.

The woman glanced at me out of the corner of her eye, and said to Ji Mingmei with a smile: "It's rare for city patrolling horses to take their families on the road. It's probably a wedding banquet. It's hard to leave, right?"

Ji Mingmei blushed and bowed her head in silence.A man and a widow walk together all the way, it is really hard to tell people that we are not a couple, so I just pretended not to hear it.Seeing Ji Mingmei's shy expression, the woman also liked her very much, and told her a lot about family affairs.

I also listened to the general idea.This woman is the wife of the storekeeper of the Qi family. As for the matter that the storekeeper is discussing, it is about the distribution of rouge and gouache in the town for the coming year.Presumably there is an organization similar to a chamber of commerce in the town, and shopkeeper Qi is the chairman.The two were talking, not knowing what Ji Mingmei said, which made Mrs. Qi very happy, leaving her behind and running into the house, and wanted to give her a box of homemade rose rouge.

Taking advantage of her absence, Ji Mingmei made a face at me and said in a low voice, "They only send me but not you, so don't be jealous. When I get the rouge, I'll give you half of it when I go back!"

I couldn't laugh or cry: "What do I want Rouge for?"

"You can use it on me." Ji Mingmei said with a smile, blinking her eyes and shaking her head.I couldn't help being a little funny when I heard this, and rolled my eyes at her.At this moment, Mrs. Qi came out with the rouge and was about to hand it to Ji Mingmei, but suddenly there were some noises from the other courtyard, as if someone was shouting loudly.

As soon as Mrs. Qi turned around, she immediately retracted her hand, and we followed her gaze to look at the Crescent Gate leading to the other courtyard.A person came out from the Crescent Gate, seemingly very angry, and shouted behind him as he walked: "In the whole Yanzhi Town, who doesn't know that the Qi family is powerful, and the distribution of shares depends on the Qi family's words. Shall we talk?"

As he spoke, he had already walked to the side of the yard, and several people behind him chased him at the same time. The leader must be Shopkeeper Qi, and he kept shouting: "Old Yan! Old Yan! What are you talking about? What about the Qi family? The time has been decided in the town? Isn't it all the result of everyone's discussion?"

Old Yan sneered repeatedly: "Yes, everything is the result of everyone's discussions from beginning to end. The minority obeys the majority. Everyone decided to reduce the share of Yan's family. I have nothing to say."

He seemed to be quite emotional. When he was speaking with great momentum, he seemed to collapse suddenly for some reason. He murmured, "Isn't it because of this reason that Yanzhi Town was established? The karma I planted by myself , no one can blame it. It's just..."

As he spoke, he looked around those people, and sighed, "It's me now, who will be next? I can accept the bet, but when it's your turn, you will be as bachelor as me?"

These people seemed to be discussing reducing the share of the Yan family's rouge, so this man named Lao Yan couldn't help being angry, but because it was unanimously approved by everyone, there was nothing he could do.Ji Mingmei and I didn't understand it very well. Lao Yan said that it was because of this reason that Yanzhi Town was established.What is the reason for this?
We just came here to inquire about things, so naturally we can't control these things, so although we were a little puzzled, we didn't dare to speak out.On the contrary, Mrs. Qi smiled and said: "What's the matter, Lao Yan, why are you arguing with everyone again?"

Lao Yan turned his head to look at her, with an extremely strange expression on his face, and he didn't speak, as if he had thought of something.Mrs. Qi looked at him, her eyes didn't dodge, she was just surprised, she didn't know why he was looking at her like that.Shopkeeper Qi saw that the expressions of the two were different, and hurriedly said, "What's the matter?"

Lao Yan looked at Mrs. Qi, and suddenly smiled and said: "It's nothing. It just suddenly occurred to me that since our brothers got married, we seem to have grown a lot, and we quarreled more frequently than before. Don't you think so?"

"Hey, I have never interfered in the affairs between you brothers." Mrs. Qi said with a surprised smile, "You brothers quarrel, you can't rely on me! Besides, your teeth will inevitably bite your tongue, and brothers quarrel. It took three or two days for a fight to pass, but you are not allowed to make trouble with excuses!"

"It's up to you." Lao Yan looked at Mrs. Qi, and seemed to be much less angry, "If the eldest brother married the sister-in-law, why would our brothers split up. It's all the sister-in-law's fault!"

These words were also full of jokes, and shopkeeper Qi seemed to be relieved when he heard the words.Mrs. Qi put her hands on her hips, then made a gun gesture with the other, and shouted: "Bang, you're dead!"

Ji Mingmei said this to me not long ago, but it was just a joke.At that time, I was ashamed to cooperate with Ji Mingmei, but Lao Yan cooperated extremely, when he heard Mrs. Qi say "bang", he fell to the ground with a loud cry.He pretended so realistically that he fell to the ground in one fell swoop.

Probably Mrs. Qi gets along well with these people on weekdays, that's why she can joke with each other like this.The people present also laughed, and all laughed and cursed: "This guy disrespects sister-in-law, damn it! Damn it!"

And just when we all felt that the atmosphere had calmed down, Ji Mingmei suddenly said: "Why is that person lying on the ground and can't get up?"

That's right, no matter what everyone said during this period, Lao Yan lay motionless on the ground, as if he really died.Right after Ji Mingmei finished saying this, everyone present felt that something was wrong. Shopkeeper Qi hurriedly walked towards him and shouted, "Old Yan! Old Yan!"

Lao Yan, who was lying on the ground, finally reacted to him and began to bleed from all five orifices—he was shot dead by Mrs. Qi's feint!

(End of this chapter)