On a snowy night, the cold light shines everywhere.
A group of people gathered in the No. 4 restaurant of Huanggaihu Restaurant. Wu Daode and other seven people gathered around a large square table to eat large pieces of meat and drink from large bowls.
The bartender stood at the door of the restaurant waiting for additional dishes.
Qian Wan Guanxi, who was very excited after drinking, blushed and suddenly said, there is still 50 coins left to spend, and I don't want to keep it secretly. Guys, order two more dishes until all your money is spent.
Hu Xiangcai said, I always like to eat pig tails. Order a plate of braised pig tails to go with your wine. Then he turned his head and shouted loudly, "The bartender——"
The bartender said respectfully, yes. He approached the dining table to look at it and said, "Do you want a plate of braised pig tails?" ! Coming soon.
Wu Daode asked, how much does a plate of braised pig tails cost?
The bartender said, 40 ounces for a large portion, 30 ounces for a medium portion, and 20 ounces for a small portion.
Hu Xiangcai said he wanted a small portion.
Kan Nenglai stood up and said, I will also order a dish.
Wu Daode asked, what to order?
Kan Neng said, order a plate of dog meat.
Wu Liangjin, Qian Wanguan, Xiang Laizao, and Cai Wanmin all said that we all like to eat dog meat.
Wu Daolai ordered the braised pig tail, which cost 20 cents for a small portion, so let’s buy a plate of dog meat for 30 cents!
The bartender said quickly, "Okay!"
That evening, Hu's Tofu Workshop on Honghu Street was in a different situation.
Gu Yuesheng, who was a little fat, walked around the tofu workshop and then walked into the inner room. He saw an Eight Immortals table filled with fragrant dishes, and shouted to her husband who was still cooking in the kitchen, "Qinqi, don't use it." It's time to cook, but there are no customers.
Hu Qinqi said, wouldn’t it be nice to cook more dishes during the New Year’s Eve? Besides, I am also preparing for Cao Yang and his family to come! I have to order some dishes, they are guests.
Gu Yuesheng said, alas, you wrote to them. I wonder if they received it? If it is received, Cao Yang may send soybeans. Now that the tofu workshop has no ingredients, he is waiting for them to send soybeans.
Hu Qinqi brought out a plate of food and placed it on the table. He frowned slightly and said, "I feel strange. According to reports, Cao Yang and the others were supposed to be delivering soybeans by boat today, but for some reason they didn't come even as it was getting dark."
Gu Yuesheng said that since it snowed today, they probably wouldn't come.
Hu Qinqi moved his eyes and said, not necessarily. Your cousin Cao Yang is very trustworthy.
Hu Xiaonian, who was sitting on the chair, smelled the aroma of the food and didn't bother looking at the New Year picture in his hand. Instead, he opened his mouth and looked at the table of steaming dishes. Then he turned his attention to the two adults, Mom and Dad, I'm hungry.
Hu Qinqi said, "We'll eat later. Go out to the street and see if my uncle and the others are here?"
Hu Xiaonian looked very reluctant, but still stood up and walked out.
General Hu Qin wiped his oil-stained hands on his apron and said with a heavy heart, Yuesheng, for some reason my right eye has been twitching in the past two days. Is something going to happen?
Gu Yuesheng glared at him and said unhappily, "Don't talk nonsense during the New Year and festivals, but create a taboo, okay?"
One morning in the early spring of the next year, Wu Daode went to the West Street grocery store to buy hookah. When he saw a man hunched over cleaning the aisle in front of the store, he said to himself: Oh, this person looks familiar. He recognized him as soon as he walked around.
Then he slapped him on the shoulder and said, Wan Guan, why are you doing this?
Qian Wanguan looked up and saw that it was Wu Daode who had instigated his gang to rob a ship of soybeans on the Chibi River in the twelfth lunar month of last year. He exclaimed in surprise, "Oh, it's Angkor!" He approached Wu Daode and whispered in a low voice, the 1,400 coins he received last time was not enough. In the next year, he would spend more than 1,000 coins on buying this and that, and treating guests to dinner. There was not much left, and he was very tight! So I came out to find something to do.
Wu Daode asked: How much does it cost per month to do this business now?
Qian Wagguan put his five fingers together and said in one fell swoop, food and accommodation included, 500 yuan.
Wu Daode put down his words again. If there is still business in the future, are you still willing to do business with me?
Qian Wanguan said it would depend on the situation at that time.
Wu Daode said goodbye, and Qian Wanguan walked him a few steps away before returning to continue cleaning.
Fu Dexing, wearing a green cotton-padded jacket, came out of the inner room, coughing and spitting.
Qian Wan Guanma used a dustpan to take out some plant ashes from the kitchen and covered up the phlegm stains on the corridor.
Fu Dexing swayed his short and fat body, walked around in front of the shop, returned to the shop and sat on a master's chair. He was still coughing, but he also asked a hired worker to bring him the hookah he often smoked, and then he smoked One sip made the coughing get worse.
Qian Wanguan came out of the house, placed an earthen jar in his hand at Fu Dexing's feet, and then opened the lid of the earthen jar to make it easier for him to spit. He also advised, shopkeeper, if you cough so much, it’s better to smoke less hookah and pay attention to your health!
Fu Dexing smiled slightly but did not answer. Before he finished smoking the hookah, he coughed again and spit a mouthful of phlegm into the earthen pot.
Qian Waguan saw that he was still smoking and had not coughed for a while. There was some smell in the earthen jar, so he closed the lid of the earthen jar.
Fu Dexing gave him a thumbs up with satisfaction and said, Not bad!
Let’s talk about the morning after the incident last year. It was early morning after snow, and the courtyard of Puqi City God’s Temple under the sunshine was deep and still somewhat mysterious.
At this moment, the majestic-looking City God was sitting in the hall of the City God's Temple, looking through the case files.
The temple messenger entered from outside the temple, raised his hands and shouted, reporting that there were messengers from the underworld at the gate of the temple who were wandering around hoping to see the City God.
The City God said: Please come in.
For a moment, Riyouxuan led Cao Hongyou and other seven wet undead souls to stand side by side at the entrance of the temple.
Ri Youxun bowed his hands and saluted, saying that the underworld sent him to pay homage to the city god.
The city god also returned the courtesy with his hand in hand, but he was not welcomed from afar. Please give me some advice from the great God of Japan Tour!
I saw Ri Youxuan flicking his robe, calmly approaching the city god's desk, and looking back at Cao Hongyou and the other seven undead souls. The city god also stood up and looked at the seven undead including Cao Hongyou. They all looked sad, and some had tears in their eyes.
Riyouxun said: "I don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing. You should know clearly at a glance that these seven undead people are from your Caojia Winery in Puqi County. Yesterday they sent a boatload of soybeans across the river from Chibi to prepare On their way to Honghu Lake, unexpectedly, the boat reached the middle of the river. According to them, seven masked strongmen appeared, killed all the Cao family and threw them into the Yangtze River, and then robbed a boat of soybeans.
When the city god heard this, his heart became heavy, and he asked, had the seven masked strongmen been caught?
Riyouxuan replied that he escaped without a trace and had no clues.
City God said, I don't know even more. This temple is close to the city, dozens of kilometers away from Chibi, south of the Yangtze River. A murder occurred there, and I was really beyond my reach.
Riyouxuan said, I came to you not to ask you to solve the case. I just want to check with you whether the Caojia Liquor family has done any serious evil in the local area, whether they have formed any grudges with others, and whether there is any disaster that should cause the family to be exterminated?
Cao Hongyou said, you have really wronged the Cao family by saying this, do you know? Our Cao's Winery has been rumored for many generations. We have been operating the wine business and strictly adhere to business ethics. We have never praised the best, harmed customers, and have never made any enmity with outsiders. As for the tragedy of being wiped out, it was purely accidental.
The other six undead people all said in unison that our Cao family was wiped out completely by accident.
At this time, the city god motioned to the deputies A and B in the hall to come over, and then said, you two should carefully check the merits and demerits of Cao Hongyou's family. He glanced at Cao Hongyou and the other seven undead souls again and said, "Check it out. It's the most convincing one. Don't say too much."
Deputy A and B went over immediately. Deputy A rummaged through the comprehensive case files placed on the Chenghuang's desk. Deputy B stood aside to watch and cooperate with the search.
Deputy A, who had been working on it for a while, held a stack of case files in his hand and said that he had found file No. 444.
Deputy B said that he had memorized this set of numbers and asked me to go to the archives to check them one by one. Immediately walk out of the palace,
Deputy A also followed.
Half an hour later, deputies A and B came to the hall each holding several files. The two of them spoke to the City God in a formal manner, reporting that we have checked the merits and demerits of everyone in Cao Hongyou's family from the oldest to the youngest, and found that none of them had any great merits or demerits, and the family should not be exterminated. The files of merits and demerits are all here. The City God please take a look at them.
The city god glanced at the surface of the files and said, I won't read them. He looked at Riyou again and told him that if the murder case of the Cao Family Liquor House could not be solved by the arrests in the Yang world, it would be up to you guys in the underworld to catch the murder.
