Onlookers poured in like snowflakes, filling the sky with excitement and cheering endlessly. The entire state bridge was blocked with water, and the restaurant was full of onlookers. No matter men, women, old or young, they all pressed against the windows to watch. They were so crowded that even hairpins were missing.
From time to time, someone would throw money on the stage. Mr. Bao became like a loach, moving in and out of the two girls, picking up the money and singing his thanks loudly.
Zhang Xutang sat by the window and said to Li Ran: "The line you mentioned is not as interesting as these two dancers."
Li Ran's sarcastic remarks obviously ruined the fun, but fortunately he made up for it at this moment: "The skills are beyond the ordinary, second brother, do you appreciate it or not?"
There was a two-foot-high dustpan placed by the window, which was filled with copper coins. The copper coins looked more and more yellow under the light of the fire.
"Reward!" Zhang Xutang stood up, stretched out his hand, grabbed a handful of copper coins, and threw it towards the stage: "Good dance! Reward!"
The loud sound drowned him, but it could not drown his copper coins. The coins fell from the third floor and fell all over the floor. Half of them were on the stage and half of them were under the stage.
A few copper coins were not worth grabbing. However, everyone thought of Zhang Xutang, a boy who had scattered money. They looked up and saw a hand sticking out of the window. Brand-new copper coins fell through Zhang Xutang's fingers again.
Missed.
The sea of people began to turn into a stormy sea, and people rushed to grab it. Mr. Bao on the stage was anxious. He knelt on the ground and used his long sleeves to desperately try to pull out the copper coins. However, more and more coins fell down, and the entire Bao Lao Society came to help.
, and some jumped off the stage, shouting that this was awarded to them, and joined the crowd in fighting.
The two girls stopped dancing, looked up at the noble man upstairs, and then at each other. They were all stunned and didn't know what to do. Zhang Xutang frowned: "Why don't they dance anymore?"
Li Ran stuck his head out of the window and shouted: "Keep dancing! Keep on rewarding!"
So the skirts of the two girls swayed again, and the strings and drums sounded melodious, but they were not spinning as fast as before - the stage was full of copper coins, which hurt their feet.
Zhang Xutang looked at everything in front of him. Dancing girls, copper coins, and ants were all under his control. He was shocked by him, happy by him, and confused by him.
It's great, the show has finally begun.
Li Ran looked at Zhang Xutang who was in a happy mood. He always felt that Zhang Xutang was in a particularly good mood today, too good, as if something big and happy had happened.
Zhang Xutang looked at Wanghuo Tower and smiled again.
There was silence on the fire watch tower. Li Changfeng stood among them, holding tightly to the edge of the fire watch tower with both hands, leaning out slightly, staring intently at the fire on Panlou Street.
My eyes are looking at Panlou Street, and my ears are still listening to the sounds coming from all directions.
Various sounds gathered together in his ears, and they sounded chaotic, but he could distinguish the differences intuitively.
Mixed in it, there seemed to be a sound of something breaking. The sound was fleeting and was soon drowned out by the noise.
He immediately wanted to turn around to see the source of the sound, but he did not expect that the fire on Panlou Street suddenly shot up into the sky and became unstoppable. He did not dare to be distracted and ordered his subordinates to borrow people again and make sure to put out the fire.
When he saw the fire being extinguished by the fire brigade with his own eyes, he withdrew his gaze and turned to look elsewhere.
Zhouqiao became more and more lively, with a steady flow of people, and it seemed that more and more people were gathering. He called someone to ask, and when he learned that it was Zhang Xutang who was scattering copper coins there, he immediately frowned.
Nonsense.
Then he suddenly remembered the sudden anger from the two events just now.
These two fires seemed to be for no other reason than to lure the tiger away from the mountain.
"Capture the fire-breathing man on Panlou Street. I want to question him." He ordered his men to get him and looked towards the Zhang family's location.
The Zhang family, like other official residences, was very quiet. Li Changfeng took a closer look and immediately felt that the situation in the Zhang family had changed.
The distance he was away was not enough to clearly see the specific changes in the Zhang family, but he could see that the lights of the Zhang family dimmed greatly.
"Not good!" He knew something was wrong, so he rushed down to the fire-watching tower, ordered four good hands, and sent someone to notify Zhang Xutang to return home.
In the Zhang family's garden, the sound of the glass house breaking also alarmed the Zhang family's female relatives. Several screams came from Zhang Xutang's yard, and then they were scolded.
The already quiet female members of the Zhang family became even quieter.
It is as if they are potted flowers in this house, they can only bloom quietly and watch as they please. They have no right to interfere with anything that happens in the house.
The glass was broken and debris was scattered all over the ground. Song Huiyue, Du Lan, Hou Er, and Tie Zhenshan ignored the sharpness of the glass. Each of them held a large stone in his hand and smashed it down hard on the fish bladder glue on the ground.
Balls of fish bladder glue were pressed into a flat shape under the stone. The flowers and plants were in a mess, but there was still no trace of the letter.
Song Huiyue knelt on the ground, supporting the ground with one hand and holding a stone with the other. The glass shards on her palms and knees made small cuts, and she was completely unaware of it.
She smashed the fish maw glue piece by piece, and her hand holding the stone started to tremble, and her palms were all sweaty - the fighting behind her became more and more pressing, and time also passed by. The imperial army could not delay for long, they would arrive soon.
If this wasn't Zhang Xutang's territory, she wouldn't be so panicked.
The sound of smashing swim bladder glue was endless, everyone's faces were nervous, and the stones fell to the ground faster and faster.
No, no, still not!
Big beads of sweat broke out on Song Huiyue's forehead involuntarily, and drops fell down.
There was a muffled groan coming from behind, and it seemed to her that it was Tianxin's rough throat.
When Tie Zhenshan heard this groan, she immediately turned around and saw the spear without eyes, grazing Tianxin's scalp and leaving a deep mark on his bald head.
Her heart skipped a beat and she blurted out: "Bald donkey..."
Song Huiyue stopped her: "Don't scream!"
Tie Zhenshan was also worried for a moment and quickly shut up after realizing it.
They must never call each other by name here, not even by nickname.
There was another heavy intake of breath behind them, and a figure fell from above their heads. It was Tong Peng who smashed into the glass with a knife.
He was first kicked by the dead man and felt that his internal organs had been moved out of position by the kick. Then he was hit on the glass, suffering secondary injuries and almost died on the spot.
"What a bastard!" He cursed and stood up, supporting his body with a knife, shaking off glass shards all over his body like a dog shaking water. He looked at Tie Zhenshan and wanted to say a few witty words, but he opened his mouth and said "Wow",
A mouthful of blood spurted out.
Tie Zhenshan didn't have any friendship with these three heads at first, but since she boarded King Jin's ship, they have been visiting each other frequently, and they also developed some feelings of friendship, which made her heart sink.
Tong Peng wiped the blood casually and smiled at her: "I can't die. Good times have just passed and I can't bear to die."
After saying that, he rushed out with long strides.
Tie Zhenshan smashed the fish maw glue harder, sweating all over her head. The more she smashed, the more it felt like a bottomless pit. "Can something really be hidden in this?"
Song Huiyue nodded and kept moving her hands: "Don't stop! Quick!"
As soon as she finished speaking, she realized her anxiety, stopped her hand, took a deep and long breath, calmed down her panic, and continued to work.
While Du Lan was smashing, he looked at Song Huiyue. When he saw Song Huiyue holding up the stone, her face was expressionless, and her eyes had a fierce look, she knew that Song Huiyue was a little confused.