Chapter 2 Evil meets evil

March 22, as usual, is the day when the empress "goes out on a tour to scatter blessings". This emperor will be the most lively.The unique skills that each society in Jinmen has racked their brains to figure out are also displayed on this day.It is said that this year's fairs are the most complete. Taishi, Heling, Huahua, Baoding, Huangsheng, Dale, Jieshou, Eight Immortals, etc., which have not been shown for several years, all appeared out of nowhere. up.The common people followed the meeting route in advance to occupy a good boundary, and those who could not squeeze forward climbed the wall room.Reputable people set up canopies along the way, just like sitting in a box, waiting for everyone to come, watching carefully one by one.

Mr. Zhan, who works in the salt business, has had a good year this year.He made a fortune in a smooth manner, and married a young woman who is as beautiful as flowers and jade. He is high-spirited and high-spirited. He hired a shed shop half a month ago, and built a grandiose house on the most desirable open land at the intersection of Juyi Street. grandstand.Yixing port reeds thick as fingers were used to tie up the roof of the awning, and wide white pine boards smelling like rosin were used to spread the platform below. New mats were surrounded on both sides, and four bolts of red silk were wrapped outside, bought by Shengfang. A few lanterns are hung up.In addition, they also hired a few small space workers, put on one color blue cloth trousers and jackets, and stood in the shed in front of the stage in shifts day and night.

As the saying goes, this is called being strong with money, and it is also strong with courage.The people who are afraid of trouble stand far away, not knowing which evil energy will collide with this energy, something big will happen.Unexpectedly, this premonition came true.Please look down-- Ever since the day of the meeting, Master Zhan's newly married wife has clamored to go on stage to watch the meeting.Who doesn't know, this little woman is a girl who was redeemed from the small class after beating Hou's house.Her real name is Zifeng, she is good at singing tunes, and her stage name is Feilaifeng.This flying phoenix is ​​weak but strong.Now it is by no means like ordinary good girls who live a life of leisure and prosperity in anonymity.She just wants to show her face on Guyi Street, which is next to Hou's house. She intends to let people recognize her, look at her, and talk about her, but she doesn't dare to talk about her, who has suddenly turned into an official. The old lady pointed and pointed.She has another meaning: with her poor and humble status, as long as she is in front of others, the grandma of the Zhan family will never show up at the same time, so she can overwhelm the grandma.But she didn't expect that if Grandma didn't come, Master Zhan didn't dare to come. Soft stubble.

She was sitting on a chair covered with embroidered cushions, her little snow-white hands wearing emerald rings were swinging gracefully on the armrests; behind her stood an old woman with a Suzhou pout on her hair, Nine-linked hairpins strewn with beads, velvet flowers, and sterling silver in all directions, small feet of thin sheepskin boots, blue and foreign silk trousers with fat legs, and a moon-white gown with a four-inch wide flower sleeve hoop, and a woven silk handkerchief tucked in the lapel son.Her surname is Hu, and people call her Hu Ma, and she is the old servant of the Zhan family who knows how to serve people.Right now she was standing behind Fei Laifeng's chair, and beside Fei Laifeng was a tea table with all kinds of snacks laid out, like the candy pile from Da Guan Ding's house, the salted peanuts from Gulou Zhang Er, Zhao's skin candy, Cha Home-steamed food, etc., famous brands, have everything you expect, and cover it with a glass cover to prevent dust from rising.But Fei Laifeng seldom lifted the hood to make something to eat, but instead she asked Mama Hu to call up the village girl who was selling Yangcun cakes with a small basket under the stage, and just opened her mouth and said "Baoyuaner".In fact, she doesn't eat this kind of street food at all.One is to show off, and the other is to deliberately waste Master Zhan's money.That's not counting.Every time they come together, they will come to the shed.She will ask the servants to take Master Zhan's name card to stop the meeting.According to the rules of the Emperor's Association, if a prestigious family wants to watch a meeting, they will ask their servants to come to the head of the meeting with a name card, say hard work, change the card, and ask for a performance, and the meeting will be stopped.The head of the meeting waved the flag, and the small gong was knocked, and the plenary meeting stopped, and there were some performances, such as lions, heavy pavilions, Dharma drums, bar boxes, etc., all had a wonderful kung fu.After a period of performance, the small gong at the head of the meeting rang twice more, and then walked over, and the next meeting followed. Those who stopped the meeting had to send snacks prepared in advance as a reward.

Fei Laifeng had already asked money to come to a "cleaning meeting" to clean the street in front of the stage with water.In the past few days, no matter whether she is interested or not, she will cut off every meeting.Mr. Zhan is rich and powerful, who would dare to turn his head when he presented his famous card.What's more, she rewarded her very generously. On one side of the stand, there were hundreds of packets of snacks, each of which was ten catties a yard, and the serious eight hundred were all the big eight pieces of Xiangdezhai.Even the Eight Great Masters of Tianjin have never done such a big deal.This way, she watched the meeting, and people all watched her.Look at what this lucky little bitch is doing.

Although she did this in a fit of anger, she was also very arrogant when she took a lot of money and threw it off the stage.At this moment, the crane boys of the Crane Linghui are dancing the four cranes with rattan embryos and cloth feathers, "Flying", "Singing", "Sustaining", and "Shooting", turning around, wanting to fly, and moving towards her. Sing auspicious songs.Mama Hu whispered in her ear: "Second Grandma, look, the silver ring around the boy's neck was given by Lord Qianlong when he watched the meeting. I heard that Lord Qianlong sat on a boat to watch the meeting, so it's better to watch it here, hehe !"

Fei Laifeng suddenly thought that last year at the imperial meeting, she was still behind Hou's house, together with Baoyin, Zilai Chou, and Yuezhongxian, who were chewing rock sugar Meisu pills, sweating in the crowd .Maybe those sisters are in the crowd now, looking at her eagerly! Thinking of this, the Heling Festival has already finished, she was happy, and asked the servants to bring snacks, and rewarded those who played the single-skin drum, the suona, and the dancers. Those who carry the dragon flag, together with those who carry hard and soft couplets, each have a big bag; each of the six crane boys and Huitou have two big bags.

The Heling Club had a very fruitful harvest, and was about to set off excitedly, when suddenly he saw a person holding a big red lacquer stool, "snack!", and sat down with his buttocks pouted. cried: "Wait a minute. Perform it for your third master eighteen times as just now. There are plenty of dim sum buns at Second Mistress's place. She will give it to your third master!" The lively scene of these thousands of people was like boiling a pot, as if pouring a large basin of cold water, it immediately calmed down.And look at this man's attire, which can be regarded as out of the way--

Bronze-colored lake silk trousers, trouser legs tightly wrapped with sapphire ribbons, clean socks and black shoes, and a half-length dark maroon gauze robe on the upper body, which looks like a local rich man, but outside the robe is a short jacket with no sleeves and no collar. , like a mandarin jacket but not a mandarin jacket, but like Zhang Qi's waistcoat when he wrestled.The workmanship of this little jacket is very exquisite, with a pocket watch chain hanging on it, and there are seven or eight strange and insignificant medals hanging on the chest.Some people who saw foreign film boxes in the bird market recognized that they belonged to foreigners.But what's the use of the little comb on the wing of his hat? Cantonese women like to put a comb in their hair to comb their hair at any time, but I've never seen old men play this way.Don't look at this kid's outrageous attire, he's quite proud of it.It seems that everyone is envious of his outfit.

Some people want to tease him with words, look at his thin blue face under the hat, a pair of horizontal eyes under the bangzi's head, especially the blind eye on the left, shrink his neck and swallow the words quickly, this is a big bastard Star glass flower! On this street in the north of the city, don’t talk about recruiting him, who dares to look at him more? Even the old women would sing these two softly to coax their children: "Don't cry, go to sleep, glass flower, it's coming!" This can also be regarded as a traditional education method - adding strong social content in the arms.

But, what are the glass flowers going to do today? Anyone who lives around in this area of ​​the world knows in their hearts that the glass flower is not just messing around today.If you want to ask the reason, you have to mention the origin of his dazzled eyeball. Any good-for-nothing bastard must have a fierce and bloody story. Ten years ago, Glass Flower was still an unknown earth stick, nicknamed San Bangzi.Once, he broke into the peach shop and clamored to "take a share".Xiangtaodian is a big brothel commonly known as "Big Place" after Hou's family.There are many people in the store, and the leader greets seven or eight guys to surround him with axes.At that time, ax handles were popular in fighting, because one end of the ax handle was square, with edges and corners, and the skin would be ripped apart when it was swung.According to the rules of the bastards, you must lie down on the ground, cover your head with your hands to protect your head, bend your legs to protect your lower body, and let others beat you to death.As long as he endured this beating, the shopkeeper had to carry him into the store to heal his injuries, and when he recovered, he would get a share of the money in the store, and the bastards called "take a share".On this day, San Bangzi just lay there with his head folded and his legs bent, and asked someone to smoke a bag of cigarettes.Relying on his youthful vigor, he didn't say a word.Si Cui, a scoundrel who took a share in this store, smashed the head of an ax on his left eye, which was bloody, and he was only blind.After the injury healed, the eyeball was still there, but it was not black and white, and he became a fool. The dead Cui who broke his eyeball paid him for a table at Fujucheng Restaurant in Jiangcha Hutong, and apologized in person.This dead Cui has a cruel heart and a dark hand, secretly tucking a small knife in his boot, and whenever he wants to lose his eyes, he will draw the knife and strike.Unexpectedly, instead of making trouble, San Bangzi spent money to buy the table of wine and food, and thanked him in turn.This is because the bastards are not bad if they don't take injuries, and it's just what they wish for to get this kind of color.How strange! There are people in this world: some show their strength when they are cruel to others.There are also people who are cruel to themselves to show their prestige; some hide their injuries as a shame, and some hang them on their faces as a badge of honor.Since then, Sanbangzi has been named "Glass Flower", and has become famous in Tianjin.The brothels behind Hou's house, regardless of whether they are big or small, let him take his share of the money.When a guest finds trouble and makes trouble, and the flowers are bushed with thorns, let him know that he will come to revenge.Those girls who can't help themselves are vying for him to be poked in the back, begging him to sit down, which one is not his best friend? Fei Laifeng is also a figure in the Hou family, it's no wonder she didn't roll around in his arms and act like a baby! Shrewd If people keep these connections in mind, they will understand that the glass flower is intentionally coming from a disgusting flying phoenix climbing high branches.People in Tianjin call this "addition". In fact, Fei Laifeng recognized the man's attire as soon as he suddenly jumped in, and recognized it as a glass flower.Even though this bastard is made of earth, he just likes foreign goods. The foreign gold chain with the heart box on Fei Laifeng's neck was given by this kid! Thinking of making her look bad in front of hundreds of people today.She didn't know how much trouble the glass flower would make.Right now, this kid is playing with a lot of strength, and he can't use both soft and hard methods.If the servants were to bombard him, he would definitely be turned upside down and cause a scandal all over the city.She was so anxious that she felt a little irritable. Huitou is a sensible person who knows the way.Without saying a word, with a wave of the flag, he directed the crane boys to face the glass flower and performed it twice in a row.Then he walked up to the glass flower, smiled and said: "Third Master, you always show me face, and I will visit you another day." Glass face does not change appearance, voice does not change tone: "Fuck you! I'm always willing to stop the meeting, so why don't you allow your third master?" "Isn't this performed twice in a row just for you?" The head of the meeting was cautious, for fear that Glass Flower would borrow a word and make the trouble even bigger. "Your ears are long and knocked down? I didn't hear what the third master said. I told you to act eighteen times!" Glass Flower said. I'm stumped.He understood that he must not get angry, so he said firmly: "Third Master, we have stopped this meeting for a long time, and there are still thirty or forty meetings in the back! If it is too long, people will quit. You are the most open-minded master in Tianjin Wei. Third Master, you must think highly of our age Yes, how about playing for you for a whole day another day?" "Go, go, don't tell me what the fuck is good for me!" Not only was Glass Flower unmoved, but she killed the words, "What kind of person is your third master, you can feel it with your ears, when will you correct what you said? " Twice this counts as froze.A few men in costumes with chain-linked faces squeezed in from behind.This is the person from the Five Tigers and Box Association, who is pressing behind and can't wait.The man who played Pu Tianpeng was tall and big, and with a strong support, he looked burly and strong.He came up and clasped his fists at the glass flower, but he spoke very politely: "Please accept my worship first." The voice was buzzing. Glass Flower squinted at him, but didn't take it seriously, stood on tiptoe, turned his face to the sky, and said in a high-pitched voice on purpose: "If there's no northwestern wind blowing today, how could the chamber pot be blowing so loudly?" The crowd burst out laughing. This sentence choked the man at the box-carrying meeting back.People in Tianjin are very particular about talking.People lose, things fail, but the words cannot be soft.The so-called "weizuizi" is not able to speak. "Jing Youzi" talks, "Wei Zuizi" talks about fighting, and bickering is also fighting spirit.However, this man has a manly air, his bones are like noodles, his tongue is like jelly, and he doesn't open his mouth to say a word: "Third Lord, it's almost noon. Brothers are still hungry after playing for a day! Don't look at the monk's face, look at the Buddha's face, don't look at the Buddha's face, but also look at the empress's face, let us hurry up. !" "Well? Look at the empress's face? The empress's face is not as good as the second grandma's. The snacks on the table are all Xiangdezhai. If you are hungry, ask her to go!" Glass Flower said, using his ashes Bu Liuqiu's squinting eyes glanced at Fei Laifeng. It seems that he must wipe shit on Fei Laifeng's face today. Fei Laifeng sat on the stage without moving.Standing beside her, Mama Hu could see that Second Grandma's red lips were turning white. As a result, people from several aspects were completely speechless.Glass flowers prevailed.Full of air, he took out a small crystal bottle of polished foreign material from his pocket, opened the lid, poured some snuff into his palm, wiped a big butterfly on both sides of his upper lip, inhaled twice, sneezed a few times, and became more energetic , simply put his feet on the stool, it seems that he will spend the night here today. The people around couldn't see the meeting anymore, but they all stared wide-eyed to see how this situation would end.When Tianjin Wei encounters this kind of head-on confrontation, as usual, it is not a knot if it is not smashed.