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Chapter 1222 Strong Wind (4)

Halfway through Unitary Time, the sun gradually sets on the mountain line in the west.

The gentle summer wind, humid and stuffy, enveloped Fuzhou City at night with gray. In the crowded city with many pointed eaves, the lights lit up little by little, first as colorful as beans, and gradually

Hui Chang Street.

The squeaking boats sailed through the small river between the houses, and people in cool clothes holding cattail fans walked on the not-so-spacious Fuzhou streets, passing by vendors, carriages, horses, sedans, etc.

On the east side of the city, Zaohua Horse pulled up its carriage and headed east along Huaiyunfang at night. Not long after dinner, there were many passers-by walking on the sultry streets. Two teenagers were sitting on the street.

On the carriage shaft, we walked slowly forward in the night.

"Yesterday afternoon, I went to Yinqiaofang to rent a stall." Waving his riding whip, Ning Ji drove and spoke maturely, "Nothing happened, but now that I think about it, there is no businessman but a treacherous one. That puppy from the Street Department

The officer, with his sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, probably signed the contract readily because of my wealth and wealth, but when we get there, he might secretly cause trouble."

"But aren't we the ones who are the business leaders?" Qu Longjun, who was sitting nearby and dressed as "Long Aotian", said with a smile.

"...Huh?" Ning Ji scratched his head and spent a moment, "Then he rents a bunk to me. At this time, he is a businessman. You are not allowed to make excuses. We must be prepared for this matter. Look at the chaos outside now.

In this case, everyone is short of money and has a dark heart. Maybe when we go there, they will tell us that the two good berths agreed to are occupied by others, and they will exchange for two bad ones, or they may need to pay more temporarily.

It’s possible…”

"Yeah." Qu Longjun nodded, "If this is really the case, what should we do?"

"Then you're not afraid of them. In other words, it's actually a good thing. Let me tell you, just like we rehearsed before, you bang the table with them and act like a master, and I'll beat up these guys from the Street Department.

This is how we build up our reputation. Hum, good people are bullied, and good horses are ridiculed. If you want to avoid being bullied in the future, you have to fight with your fists from the beginning!"

Just after dinner, there were many pedestrians on the street facing Huaiyunfang, and the carriage was moving slowly. Ning Ji thought about the future development in the car - of course he rarely thought about such things in his early years.

When he was young, he had the help of his brother and sister-in-law when he wanted to do good things. When he wanted to do bad things, he had a bunch of friends to help him. When he got older, he simply went to the battlefield and followed a group of big guys to listen to the plans of the general staff. Most of the time, his genius was not used at all.

He was strategizing in his head until he became a "big brother" in Jiangning City, and now he is a "little brother", so he has to predict and worry about many things.

All your imagination has been used.

"So, when you get there, don't be as gentle as usual. People don't care whether you know it or not. You must be fierce and cruel!" Ning Ji and Qu Longjun said, waving their riding whips again and pointing at them.

Someone from the front shouted: "Uncle and auntie, give way! Boil the water! Boil the water -"

The uncle and aunt who were walking in front of the road fanning their cattail fans looked back and saw two handsome young men on the carriage, and they slowly moved toward the street.

"Look, that's it, be loud!"

"I know, I know." Qu Longjun smiled and narrowed his eyes. He apologized to the man and woman in front of him sheepishly and looked left and right. When he saw a big yellow dog on the side of the road looking at the two of them, he said calmly.

He raised his face and cursed fiercely: "——Woof!"

"Woo." The big yellow dog wagged its tail and tilted its head in confusion.

"Hey hey hey."

"……hey-hey."

The lights were flickering on the road ahead, and both people in the car were laughing.

The carriage left Huaiyunfang, which was a new road close to the east city wall of Fuzhou. Along this wider road to the south, passing a bridge called Jinyin Bridge, you can see two lanterns and colorful lights on both sides.

The road is lined with shops and crowded with pedestrians. It is bounded by the Jinyin Bridge. One side is called Jinqiaofang and the other side is called Silverqiaofang.

The night market culture of the Wu Dynasty was already prosperous. In the past, in Bianliang and later in Lin'an, there were many lively markets that stayed up all night. Now that the new emperor is looking south to Fujian, although the wealth of the Wu Dynasty is not as good as before, it has brought

The military and civilian population can still be considered more than enough to fill several large cities such as Fuzhou.

At this time, the Jinyin Bridge was close to the east of Fuzhou City, and the roads next to it were renovated two years ago after Xinjun arrived. Since the Jinyin Bridge was connected to the waterway, freight was convenient, and in the past, the Silver Bridge Bridge was the wholesale aquatic product in the city.

A gathering place. After reconstruction, brothels and restaurants were opened in the previously abandoned Jinqiaofang. The second half of Yinqiaofang is still a market selling aquatic products, but the section near Jinqiaofang has added groceries and restaurants.

Every night, lanterns are decorated here, fried fish, noodle stalls, vendors selling ice powder and snow soaked in water are set up on the roadside, making it a very friendly night market in the neighborhood.

This is the place Ning Ji and Qu Longjun are looking forward to setting up their stall.

According to Ning Ji's idea, after coming to Fuzhou, the planned purpose is to travel and sightsee. If things go well, he will find trouble with the old traitor Tie Tianying, cut off the opponent's dog head and use it as a ball. During the game, there will be several people in the city.

The Zuo family members who came from the southwest were not allowed to meet each other - lest they intercede for Tie Tianying, hurt the harmony, and go to the southwest in the future, they would slander themselves.

According to common sense, Zuo Wenhuai, a gang of well-educated little traitors, was highly favored by the young emperor after they came to Fuzhou. Of course, they lived in a wealthy area where they were well-off and prosperous, so they were close to several Dafang cities in the core area of ​​the city.

I can't show up often.

Here at Jinyinqiao, prices are close to the people and public security is average. This way he can avoid the Zuo family, but he will have more opportunities to meet Tie Tianying. He thought about it again and again, and consciously calculated it properly, and then came to Yinqiaofang to find the street secretary.

The clerk rented two high-priced stalls in excellent locations.

He was also prepared to fight after being fooled.

However, as they entered the market, the expected situation did not happen. At this time, most of the night market stalls were opened in the evening. They came out after eating. They arrived a little late. Ning Ji described them as puppies with "sharp mouths and monkey cheeks"

The officer was waiting for them at the reserved stall and complained to the two of them in a very unkind manner.

——The two stalls that Ning Ji spent a lot of money to buy have no facades. They are placed in the middle of the road and are identified by the green bricks paving the road. The previous stall owners have just moved away. They arrived late and there is no way they will be beaten by the ones next to them.

The stall was occupied, and in order to avoid any disputes on the first day, the clerk had to wait in the stall for a while, and then told them where they could temporarily store the jujube horses, and then walked away full of resentment.

Ning Ji was stunned, and then looked at Qu Longjun: "The service is so good...does he think he is a member of the Chinese Army?"

Qu Longjun actually laughed: "You must have mistakenly blamed others. In fact, it's not surprising..."

While setting up the stall, she told Ning Ji something. Of course, these small yamen that manage the streets do not have very good order in many small places. Going back hundreds of years, there are often some people who do this kind of thing.

Hooligans in the market, but during the two hundred years of the Wu Dynasty, commerce was developed. According to historical records, Bianliang had a lot of troubles because of these things in the founding of the country for more than a hundred years. Later, the imperial court specially reorganized the street department, and thousands of retired soldiers

As the foundation, the commercial order of Bianliang City has just been established.

Before the Jingping Disgrace, the commercial order in the major cities of the Wu Dynasty was mostly maintained by the "urban management" composed of these retired soldiers. Even the famous Zongze once managed the affairs of the subdistrict department. As for the Lin'an stage,

, these things have been passed down all the way, and the imperial court still worked hard on the management of the city.

Ning Ji has been going to Xiaocanghe since he was a child. What he saw along the way from the southwest was first the human trafficking in Dai Mengwei's jurisdiction, then the brutal and bloody murder of Li Yanfeng's family in Tongshan, and then the split of the Fair Party in Jiangning. A series of wars, almost from

I have never seen the normal order in Southwest China outside, so when I saw such a kind-hearted civil servant, I felt a little uncomfortable for a while.

"There will definitely be a scam! Don't take it lightly!"

After setting up the stall, Ning Ji still emphasized this, maintaining his determination to pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger.

Facts have proved that his vigilance is indeed quite reasonable. The so-called shopping mall is like a battlefield, and soon the evil will come.

The Yinqiaofang night market was lively and crowded. Ning Ji relied on his wealth to rent a space for two stalls for the carriage. On the left side of the stall was a steamed rice cake stall run by a fat aunt. Seeing new people arriving,

The fat aunt who steamed rice cakes came over and talked enthusiastically several times speaking in a weird dialect when she was not selling goods. She learned that the two of them had just come here from outside, and the aunt's stall had been moved around.

He squeezed towards the two of them.

The space between the two stalls was only slightly spacious for a grocery stall converted from a horse-drawn carriage. Ning Ji left a gap to facilitate moving from the front to the back of the stall. But the aunt moved around and passed by in a short time.

The boundary drawn by the sharp-mouthed, monkey-cheeked, and puppy official between the two sides almost blocked the passage.

Ning Ji was very aware of the situation and how could he stand this kind of thing. He walked across the aisle and pushed his butt to the side. Suddenly the whole stall was pushed back. The fat lady sold a bowl of rice cakes and started moving happily again.

After moving the stall, after a while, Ning Ji walked through the aisle and got another bump on the butt...

After repeating this several times, Ning Ji finally couldn't stand it anymore. When the aunt was moving the stall, he pushed his butt back and said, "Don't come over here..."

Before he could finish his sentence, the fat aunt next to him started to slap the table: "Xie Jie Niang, what are you doing? Why don't you move my shop——"

"Wha, what?" Ning Ji didn't understand, but he thought it was not a good thing to say, "Hey, you old woman, that guy clearly drew the line just now, let's use this bluestone as the boundary..."

"Scatter the lines around. Wherever there is a line, you are a bastard. You always squeeze in four people. If my stall is squeezed and damaged, you have to pay for it..."

"Hey! What the hell -" Ning Ji jumped out.

"You lying, hairless mother..." The fat aunt opposite also jumped out, stepped on Ning Ji's chest, and started to curse: "You@#¥%...

…”

"Fuck, you think I don't hit women, you lunatic, have you ever seen a fist as big as a casserole? I'll blow your head off with one punch..."

Ning Ji waved his fists, and then he saw the opponent's feet take another step, waving his hands, and his chest pushed forward like a chariot: "You@#¥!¥&*——"

"Come here again and I'll beat you to death——"

The fat aunt's scolding roared loudly. She waved her hands, stepped hard with one foot, and her breasts swayed. Ning Ji was definitely not a good person. He waved his fist several times. If it were an ordinary big man or even a naughty woman, he couldn't tell.

He was about to beat the opponent until blood flowed all over the floor. However, at this moment, facing those heavy and dangerous chests, he realized that there was no way he could hit the opponent with his fists. The opponent's lower body was steady and kept advancing. Ning Ji just jumped up and headed towards

The opponent pushed twice on the shoulder, barely pushing the aunt back two steps, but then the opponent rushed over again...

The streets of Fuzhou in May were humid and sultry. People were passing by at the night market. Some people stopped and watched the two people scolding each other with great interest. Qu Longjun on the side was holding a fan to attract business and his eyes widened for a moment.

His eyes were closed, and he was also a little dumbfounded, because the aunt's voice was deafening and continuous. He had already prepared to wash the long street with blood. Although Ning Ji, who was showing his majesty, used various techniques to push the opponent back, his words were clearly stated.

I was caught off guard and was scolded by the other party until my face turned red and I couldn't calm down.

Just listen to the aunt's voice rising and falling, jumping forward as if singing:

"You are a big idiot, unlovable, and you are as good as a dog. You have a bad head, bad words, and a hairy head like a poop!!!"

"you……"

"——Shocking to death! The turtle is born, I marry a literary insect, I am a cute rabbit! I have a plug and a stick, I have to wear pants! Qiuqiu is tired! The sales are effective!"

"I……"

The brief but fierce confrontation lasted for a while. A customer in the back started to look at the rice cakes on the stall. As soon as the aunt turned around, she put on a smiling face and ran back. Here Ning Ji waved his hands a few times.

"I...I wiped...if I hadn't understood you, I would have killed you..."

He was so angry that he almost suffered the greatest humiliation in his life. When he turned around, he saw that Qu Longjun had already greeted a passing woman: "Is this girl interested? Let's take a look..."

But it was Ning Ji's scolding with the aunt that attracted some customers. A girl with a dark appearance but well-dressed looked at some of the utensils on the stall a few times, and Qu Longjun smiled and greeted her.

Ning Ji put his hands on his hips and was furious, but after a while, Qu Longjun opened his door. With a warm smile on her face, she used a short sword to protect herself and deceived the girl opposite her into giving her fifteen taels of silver. She turned around

Come and see Ning Ji’s pig nostrils.

"I'm going to kill that woman's whole family—"

"We made money-"

"Did you listen to me, that damn fat guy..." Ning Ji turned back and pointed to the rice cake stall over there.

The fat woman looked up from behind the stall and said, "You deserve a dog plug!"

"Oh no, if I hadn't seen that you don't know martial arts..."

"We made a lot of money -" Qu Longjun held up the silver in his hand and showed it to Ning Ji.

Ning Ji glanced at her and whispered: "You are a woman, go and scold her, I can't understand what she said."

"Pfft - neither can I. I can't scold her either." Qu Longjun couldn't help laughing, and then said, "Just look at the money, maybe you'll be happy."

"What's the use of you!" Ning Ji took the money and put it in his pocket, walked back, and started to push his butt against the other party's stall. The fat aunt was selling things, and after a while she started to squeeze over to the stall with her arms in her arms. This childish

The confrontation lasted for a long time, and the aunt occasionally scolded Ning Ji piecemeal: "You are a dog-stopper." "You are not loved."

After a while, he showed off and explained to Ning Ji: "Don't you understand? Hey, let me tell you, Jiafan means eating, dog stuffing means dog shit. If you match Jia rice with dog stuffing, you will eat it."

Rice, food, dog, shit. A little bit..."

Ning Ji jumped up and said, "Your first rice goes with a dog gag, your first rice goes with a dog gag!"

There was a mixture of fish and dragons in the market, making a lot of noise, perhaps because Ning Ji couldn't kill anyone. The occasional exchanges between the two were nothing in the midst of the noise. After a while, Qu Long finally arrived.

As a diplomat, Jun stepped in to mediate. He went to the fat aunt and bought two bowls of rice cakes. They talked for a while, and then the tit-for-tat over territorial disputes gradually eased.

According to the news brought back by Qu Longjun, the aunt is not considered a local. She came to Fuzhou from Xiamen to make a living. She has only been doing business in the market for two years and is considered an old person in the market. Ning Ji said that he did not care about these news.

He was not interested at all, and emphasized to Qu Longjun that if the other party knew martial arts, he would have been killed by one punch, and Qu Longjun could only smile and appease him.

In any case, the life of the two people setting up stalls in Fuzhou City began. Perhaps because the lights were dim at night and the treacherous signs hung on both sides of the carriage, no one came to protest for a while.

Ning Ji had a murderous look on his face and was not satisfied with it all night. Two women liked him and came over to talk and ask about the price. Ning Ji hated women the most and scolded them in a very uncooperative tone.

After leaving, Qu Longjun, who had a handsome appearance and a kind attitude, made several more deals.

The things in their car were all small items that Ning Ji had rolled off the battlefield. Many of them were indeed treasures. However, seeing that the customers Qu Longjun was dealing with all night were all women, it was hard to tell for a moment whether the other party was real or not.

I came here to buy something, but I still fell in love with Qu Longjun’s appearance.

"You are betraying your lust and seducing them." Ning Ji pointed out the important point when the two parties handed over the property.

"Women are easy to coax. If you don't want to, I'll let you do it." Qu Longjun stretched out the fan in his hand and smiled, enjoying it.

In this way, around 11:00 that night, a green forest man who looked like he was looking for trouble finally came here.

He was a ferocious man in his twenties, dressed in shorts. He might have just had a late-night snack at the fried fish stall at the end of the market. He was holding a piece of grass in his mouth, picking his teeth, and saying hello to the people in the market.

He came over. He dragged a stool in front of a stall, walked to Ning Ji and Qu Longjun's stall, and sat down: "I heard that you two came from other places?"

With such a swaggering appearance, there is no doubt that he is a gangster who collects protection fees. Qu Longjun's eyes narrowed, and his expression turned into a cold and stern look for an instant, and then he said: "Brother, let me go."

Ning Ji came out with a straight face.

Such a ferocious-looking green forest man just cupped his hands and laughed: "Okay, I heard that two young brothers who sell top goods have come to the market. Now it seems that they are really talented. Do they know that people from the south return to the south?

What about northerners returning to the north?"

Ning Ji frowned!

I saw the green forest man smile: "Haha, I think you two know this matter. After the Jingping Incident, the Wu Dynasty lost half of its country. Hundreds of millions of people had to leave their homes and came to Lin'an and other places in the south of the Yangtze River. However, in the south of the Yangtze River,

The local people were not happy to see this, and often drove away the northerners. During the ten years of Jian Shuo, conflicts between southerners and northerners were often seen in Jiangnan and other places. How could such situations be rare in Fuzhou today?

"

"What, what do you mean..." Ning Ji stared at him.

"Of course you two know." The green forest man sighed, "When outsiders like me arrive in Fuzhou, the locals in Fuzhou may not be happy with us. My brother Chen Hua, whose ancestral home is Lin'an, is now a soldier of the Jinyintang of the Guitai Alliance.

Today I heard that two brothers are coming from afar, so I came over to say hello. You two, the world is not peaceful, so I am an outsider, so I need to help each other. If anything happens to you two in the future, you can repay me and return to the Thai Alliance.

Chen Hua’s name.”

After the man finished speaking, he waited for Ning Ji and the other two to understand, and then put it in his arms to take out something. When Ning Ji heard this, he laughed: "I understand. Let's help each other."

His right hand was stretched out.

Chen Hua was taking something out of his arms with his left hand. He stood up subconsciously and stretched out his right hand to give it a shake. The next moment, his buttocks touched and he sat back on the stool. He took out a piece of red paper from his arms with his left hand.

He was able to hold it firmly and dropped it to the ground. A moment later, his body twisted and his legs knelt on the ground. The right hand held by Ning Ji made a clicking sound, and his face turned red.

In the back, Qu Longjun stood there, with his hands behind his back, and an inscrutable smile on his lips, looking like a lonely master with snow in the world. Not far away, behind the rice cake stall, the fat aunt stretched her neck and opened her mouth.

The mouth looks this way.

Ning Ji held the opponent's hand for a moment, then Chen Hua stretched out his left hand and patted the back of Ning Ji's hand continuously: "I understand, I understand, I understand... I understand, I understand."

They didn't let him go. Ning Ji frowned and asked, "Isn't it that Tie Tianying is very strict in governing Fuzhou? Doesn't he allow you to establish such a gang?"

"...Huh?" Chen Hua thought for a while, and then said with a sad face, "Oh, there are such things everywhere, young hero, we have a gang. If something happens, we can sit down and talk about it. If something happens, we can also find someone.

For that...that Tie, Tie Boss and the others, it's always better than no gang at all, young hero."

"So that's the case, it makes sense."

Ning Ji nodded, and Chen Hua continued to pat the back of his hand: "Young hero, put it down, put it down, put it down, it's about to break. Young hero, I just came to say hello, just say hello. If you don't like it, I'll do it.

Let’s go…”

"Hey, don't go." Ning Ji pulled him up, then put his arms around his shoulders, "Come with me, let's talk in detail."

He put his arm around the other party's shoulders and walked towards the stall. When he reached the passage between the stalls, he rolled his eyes and pushed the fat lady's stall back a little while grabbing the frustrated Chen Hua.

Went in.

"Tell me...who is your boss? What gangs are there nearby...and do you have a lot of fights here on weekdays? How do you fight..."

The night was still humid and hot, and the streets were noisy. After a while, in Chen Chen's answer, Ning Ji quickly made friends in the world as usual. When Chen Hua finished explaining and left, Ning Ji

Ji looked at the fat aunt across from her with twitching eyes and confused eyes. She said "hum" and raised her eyebrows.

"Rice rice with dog stuffing..."

The fat aunt tilted her head and grunted...


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