Seeing that he was the only one coming down, Bai Shan asked in a low voice: "Are you two on duty?"
"Yes, there is another person up there."
"Then you quickly go to Senior Brother Tang and tell him that everything from the inner city gate to here is congested, but someone's child was stolen in the middle. They are looking for the child now, and the people inside can't get out at the moment.
, but people on the streets from all directions are still coming to the main street," he lowered his voice and said: "Once someone slips and falls..."
The officer trembled. Why did they squat in teahouses and restaurants during the Mid-Autumn Festival instead of going home to celebrate the festival? Isn't it just to prevent this?
He did not dare to neglect and said quickly: "Mr. Bai, I have to go up and take a look again."
"I'll go with you."
The four of them quickly went up to the third floor, but they were not finished. There was a small attic above the third floor. Tang He asked them to stay in the attic. There was a window there that could see most of the street.
The reason why he arranged this was not only to prevent congestion, but also to prevent fires and other accidents.
When Bai Shan went in, he smelled the smell of alcohol. The yamen sitting inside was sitting on a stool, swinging his legs and eating fried beans. When he saw so many people coming in, he stood up in shock and asked his companion who this was. He
I recognized Bai Shan in the dim light.
His blood immediately ran cold.
The servant who led Bai Shan upstairs laughed repeatedly, but Bai Shan just didn't know what to do. He walked straight to the window, turned to them and said, "Brothers, wait and see."
The two of them were still a little uneasy, but Bai Shan's shout of brother made them feel comfortable. They immediately forgot about their drinking and eating meat and missing work during the shift, and immediately came forward to take a look.
Looking forward, the two of them saw the densely packed heads and the screams and curses coming from time to time. They were so frightened that cold sweat broke out on their backs, "This..."
A government official said hurriedly: "I'm going to evacuate."
"Wait a minute," Bai Shan grabbed him and said, "It can't be done by just the two of you. One of you can go find Senior Brother Tang and he will handle it. The other of you can quickly find a way to notify people nearby to come and help."
Bai Shandao: "You should also have an emergency contact method, right?"
"Yes, let's play gongs and drums!" the officer said, "find the nearby officer to play the gongs and the chief officer to play the drums."
They are hierarchical, and they will play the gong if they can resolve small matters by themselves. They will play the drum only when extremely important matters must be reported to the county magistrate or the Jingzhao Prefecture.
Bai Shan: "Then fight!"
So, Officer A ran downstairs. From here, he had to run past the Drum Tower three intersections away. It was a watchtower with drums.
He originally wanted to notify the county magistrate through there.
Here, the second officer stretched the gong out of the window and struck it according to the secret words.
Bai Shan stood on the other side of the window and looked at the increasingly crowded and chaotic crowd on the street. Bai Dalang was also watching. He said: "We have to stop and evacuate the people coming here and let the people inside come in."
Bai Shan's eyes wandered around the street. When he saw the person he was looking for, he turned around and was about to go downstairs. He said to Officer B: "Come downstairs in a moment."
He went downstairs, took out his money bag, took out a silver ingot worth one and a half taels, and handed it directly to the shopkeeper, "Exchange it for copper coins."
The shopkeeper hesitated, "This..."
"Five hangings, give me another five hundred dollars."
The shopkeeper immediately smiled and said: "The shop just happens to have so many copper coins. If Mr. Lang goes elsewhere, I'm afraid he won't be able to exchange for so much."
He first took the scale and weighed it. After confirming that it was a full tael of silver ingots, he bent down and opened the cabinet at the bottom, took out five strings of money, then opened the drawer, took out five strings of money and gave it to Bai Shan, and said with a smile: "
Mr. Lang, please count?"
"No."
Bai Shan only reached out and took out a bunch. For the rest, Daji asked the shopkeeper for a cloth bag and stuffed it into his hand.
Bai Shan walked out carrying a bunch of money. The passers-by on the road didn't notice, but the group of teenagers playing across the street couldn't take their eyes away from the money in his hand.
Bai Shan walked straight up to them without slowing down his steps. His hand holding the copper coins did not move. He just stood in front of them. After scanning them around, he asked, "I remember someone named Dashan..."
The oldest boy immediately shouted: "Brother Dashan, I know, he is at home with his sister-in-law. Are you looking for Brother Dashan?"
Bai Shan didn't even expect that Da Shandu would get married. He still approached him to make a name for himself when he arrived in the capital at the beginning of that year. He said: "It's best if he is here, and it doesn't matter if he is gone. Where is Xiao Wu?"
"Fifth brother? He's on another street now." The young man swallowed as he looked at Qian, patted his chest and said to Bai Shan, "If Mr. Lang has anything to do, you can tell us. We can all run errands."
Bai Shan looked at him critically, as well as the seven or eight young boys behind him, ranging from eight to twelve or thirteen years old.
They immediately straightened their backs and pushed their chests up a lot, trying to pretend that they were strong.
Bai Shan said reluctantly: "Okay, you two people go to the cloth shop to buy red cloth strips and let the shop cut them. They should be this wide and this long. I need... twenty strips. Let me give you a few more strips."
Someone, please bring two tables or benches and place them in front of this intersection."
He handed the sling of money in his hand to the young man and said, "You have to be quick, half a quarter of an hour is enough, right?"
The young man immediately took it, opened the rope and pulled out more than 20 pieces of paper. Without looking at it, he directly stuffed it into the hand of a young man behind him, raised his chin and said, "Go quickly!"
The young man ran forward as fast as he could. He was so nimble that he turned around and disappeared.
The leading boy tied the money back up and stuffed it into the clothes on his chest. It looked bulging and heavy, but he didn't care at all and asked: "What do you want us to do, Master?"
"Stop people," Bai Shan said: "Stop people coming from this street and those coming out of those two streets. They can go back or go both ways, but they are not allowed to go forward."
The young man's face froze, "Is this... blocking them all?"
"Yes," Bai Shan turned around and took the cloth bag from Daji's hand, weighed it so that the copper coins inside made a pleasant sound, and said, "You have done a good job, and these will be yours after the matter is completed."
The sound of copper coins was really nice, especially when so many coins collided together. The young man stared at the bag in his hand and couldn't move his eyes away. He swallowed sharply and wanted to agree, but he still shook his head with difficulty, "
No, we can't stop so many people, and if the officials know about it, we can't afford to go around in circles."
As soon as he finished speaking, Officer B, who had finished beating the gong three times upstairs, ran down and came directly to Bai Shan, "Mr. Bai, the younger one has already finished knocking. They will be here soon."
The young man opened his mouth wide, looked at the servant, then at Bai Shan, and immediately said: "Don't worry, young master, leave this matter to us, we will definitely do it for you."