Ziyi was sitting in his seat worrying about gains and losses. He didn't notice that Jiayi on the side table had already left the hall with a few people, and he didn't know where he went.
The moon is bright and the stars are few, and the lanterns are starting to shine.
On the streets of Runzhou City, a group of four or five police officers wearing soap coats, tall hats, pointed boots, and carrying red and black fire sticks were hurriedly walking among them.
In the Tang Dynasty, the catchers were originally divided into catchers and kuaishou, which were two professions based on scores.
But because the nature of their work is so similar, the common people often can't tell them apart, so they just call them "catcher" and "kuaishou" together. No matter who they meet, they all call them "catcher".
Of course, although local police officers in ancient times represented the government to a certain extent, they were not appointed by the imperial court.
It's a job with no grades and little pay. No one with serious skills would be willing to do such a job.
Therefore, most of the police officers were local idle strongmen. You can imagine the quality of these people. Therefore, in the Tang Dynasty, they had a well-known name: bad people!
This person is already a bad person, so who can talk to you about morality?
Therefore, except for some yamen and police officers in Dayi, Tongzhou, the yamen and errands in other places eat the plaintiffs and defendants, the government and petty thieves. They have nothing to do, and they also blackmail merchants and pedestrians.
The kind of people you hate.
And this Runzhou, even though it has the word "zhou", is actually still at the town level.
A town of this level, placed in other places, would not have an official office at all, because in ancient times, only officials above the county seat could exist.
Just because Runzhou is special. When the population is large, there are hundreds of thousands, far more than some ordinary cities.
That's why the former Suzhou governor made an exception and set up a government office here. The county government sent a subordinate official with a group of Asians to garrison here to handle some local affairs.
Although this place has declined in recent years, no one has been transferred back.
There are so many reasons combined.
In the end, the police officers here were more unscrupulous than in other places, colluding with some city foxes and rats all day long, doing all kinds of evil and harming the whole party.
Others say that the county magistrate who destroys a family is the governor who destroys the family! Here, a squad leader can destroy other people's families.
Today, these detectives were sitting in the yamen drinking a lot of wine. Suddenly, they heard that Young Master Ma from the city was coming. The detectives, who usually took advantage of others, quickly called him to join them for a drink.
But I didn't expect that when young master Ma saw them, his expression was as if he saw his biological father! He immediately started crying and complaining!
He said how he was bullied by a group of businessmen for no reason today, how those profiteers beat him, kicked him, and threw him to the side of the road.
At this time, the detectives were already drunk. When they heard that their fair-weather friends were being bullied by others, they immediately became furious!
Next, I heard San'er mention that the other party was a group of businessmen, and they were very wealthy!
Thinking that they had nothing to do during the Chinese New Year, they could use this as an excuse to extort some money. Several police officers immediately overturned the table and followed Young Master Ma aggressively towards the inn.
"Dong dong dong!"
Outside the inn, there was a violent kicking of the door, and there were faint shouts and curses!
When the restless shopkeeper heard the news, he was agitated and turned his head to look outside in horror.
Sure enough, he guessed correctly, what was supposed to come came anyway!
Outside, several police officers took turns kicking the door, and the sound was so loud that it was scary!
So not only the shopkeeper who had been focusing on the outside heard it, but even Xiao Han and others who were having a good meal also heard it clearly.
As early as the first knock on the door came, several guards near the door had already stood up from their clothes.
Just when they were still wondering why the people on duty didn't issue a warning, Xiao Han behind him pressed his hand and said with a smile:
"Sit down, everyone, sit down! There are so many of us here and there is no point in just eating. Now someone has come to put on a big show for us, so we just sit here and watch! Shopkeeper? Shopkeeper!"
Xiao Han shouted twice in succession, and the restless innkeeper finally heard it and quickly turned his head to look at Xiao Han who made the noise.
"Go, open the door!" Xiao Han pointed outside and said calmly.
"ah?"
When the store manager heard this, his eyes widened and he looked at Xiao Han in shock.
At this time, someone knocked on the door. I thought with my toes and knew that it was definitely not a good thing! Why did this young man just let himself open the door without asking? Doesn't he have any experience in walking around outside?
The shopkeeper was a little dumbfounded, so he didn't move at the counter.
Wang Wu, who was leaning on the counter with a piece of unknown meat in his mouth, saw him. He immediately stood up, slammed the table and shouted: "Ah what! I asked you to open the door. Are you deaf? Didn't you hear?"
Wang Wu is not afraid of any trouble now. With such a big Buddha on his back, he is eager for someone to knock on the door and let him have the addiction of pretending to be powerful!
How could the shopkeeper know what Wang Wu was thinking? He was so frightened that he suddenly came back to his senses, quickly picked up his robe and ran outside in small steps.
It should be said that the door of his inn is not closed on weekdays, so as to make it easier for guests to come back late and check in.
But today his entire inn was booked, so there was no need to accommodate other guests, so he closed the door early. In this way, Mr. Ma and the police officers were locked out.
"Hey, Old Suntou! Are you going to stop this business and close the business?"
The shopkeeper just ran out of the inn. Outside the door, a police officer saw him and immediately started yelling and scolding him!
"Is the official here? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'll open the door right now!"
The shopkeeper has lived here for half his life, so he knew who was coming outside just by hearing the sound! At that moment, he didn’t even dare to ask what they were doing, so he just ran to the courtyard door and unbolted the door.
Let people in.
The slightly shaky door that had been kicked opened.
Several detectives swaggered into the yard. The first one was holding a toothpick in his mouth. The sturdy detective hummed and asked the shopkeeper who kept offering his hands: "Hey, shopkeeper Sun, I heard that a man lives in the shop.
Going into business together? Is this the real thing?"
The innkeeper felt bitter after hearing this, but he didn't dare not answer, so he had to hand over his hand and said solemnly: "Go back to the official, there is a group of merchants checking in today, but I have seen their identities, they are all good people...
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"Nonsence!"
The policeman didn't wait for the shopkeeper to finish speaking, and spit the toothpick in his face directly, and then said in a weird voice: "A kind person? Which businessman in the world is a kind person? I'm talking about shopkeeper Sun,
Have you collected illegal money from others? Do you believe that I will take you back to jail soon?"
"Ah?" Shopkeeper Sun was shocked when he heard this. He didn't even bother to wipe off the toothpick stuck to his face. He just kept cupping his hands and saluting: "The official knows his lesson, the official knows his lesson! I'm just a businessman doing my duty.
When they come to stay, the little one is doing this business, so how can he have any interaction with them? You have to make the decision for the little one!"
