Judging from the current situation, the money I make from selling goods seems to be very low compared to hiring a singer, let alone a flag and drum troupe.
The three of them came to a stage and looked inside through the railings.
Yuanji saw several people wearing colorful clothes performing on the stage.
"Would you please come in and have a look?" Jiang Quan turned to look at his little cousin: "It's very cheap, only ten cents per customer."
Erni asked curiously: "How do I know?"
Jiang Quan looked at a sign and said, "Is it written on the sign?"
"Okay, let's go in and have a look." Yingbao originally wanted to take Sister Erni out to play. Is it the most prosperous place in the county? Why don't you go in and see what you are doing?
So the three of them paid thirty cash and went in to find a table.
After a while, a vendor came to sell food. Jiang Quan ordered a large portion of crispy and salty grilled steamed bun slices, three bowls of tofu puffs, and three red bean glutinous rice balls.
The rice balls are covered with a layer of diced pork in sauce, which is very delicious.
The three of them ate and watched.
Erni and Jiang Quan watched the dancers dancing and rapping on the stage, while Yingbao looked around.
There are all kinds of dramas in that area, there are people singing or reading in the teahouse next to it, and there are acrobats and knife dancers outside the hook bar, which is very lively with the various shouts of the vendors.
Gao Lifan was a storyteller, and his wife Zhang followed him by playing drums and singing.
When I met Gao Lifan and his wife in my life, they were engaged in that business. At that time, their only daughter Dongmei had passed away many years ago.
I remember that his family adopted a child from a brother of the Gao clan. It turned out that the son was very bad. Not only did he and his wife speak ill of each other, but he often stole the family's belongings and gave them to his biological parents.
"Ying Bao, Ying Bao!" Erni pulled her little cousin, pointed at Tai Zai and whispered: "Does the girl on the stage look like the eldest daughter of Chen Changping's family?"
Ying Bao raised her eyes and saw a dancing girl on the stage who looked like Chen Wan.
Even though her face was thickly rouged, there was no doubt that her figure and face were elegant.
Unexpectedly, she ended up in a dance class.
Erni put her legs close to Yingbao's ears and asked excitedly: "Can we please tell Patriarch Chen?"
"It's up to me." Ying Bao didn't want to get involved in this matter.
On the stage, Chen Wan was waving her sleeves in a dull manner, spinning and dancing, with no expression on her face, and her eyes were looking outside the hook fence, as if she was looking for something.
Over there, the three Jiang brothers and sisters felt their stomachs were full after finishing the snacks in front of them. When the boy came to collect the reward money with a copper plate, he threw in a few copper coins and quickly got up and left.
On the way, Erni was chirping about Chen Wan, feeling sad and gloating at the same time.
When he was approaching his shop, he saw many people gathered nearby. Zhengyuanji pointed towards the shop.
Jiang Quan and Ying Bao were startled and ran towards the shop.
Outside the shop, several vicious gangsters were grabbing Jiang Cheng and beating him.
Ying Bao was furious, but she was very sensible. She turned around and told her second cousin: "I'm going to find someone quickly! Find someone from the Yamen!" After saying that, she rushed in like a missile.
Jiang Quan hesitated for a moment, then immediately ran towards the patrol shop not far away.
Erni followed closely behind Yingbao and ran into the shop. She saw that the shop was in a mess, with several gourds smashed and scattered on the floor.
Fortunately, the preserved fruits and chestnuts were moved into the backyard to be packed into boxes, and they were not poisoned.
"Help! Someone is committing murder!" Yingbao shouted as he rushed into the shop, hugged a gangster's thigh and gave him a piece of cake.
A thick steel needle instantly appeared in her leg and pierced the guy's body. He screamed and immediately fell to the ground, curled up and howling.
After Yingbao poked this person, she ducked aside and pushed Erni towards the backyard: "Hurry in!"
After all, Erni is already a ten-year-old girl, so she can't be touched by those ruffians.
One of the three gangsters was knocked over by the poke, and the other two were a little dumbfounded, but they quickly reacted and rushed over to catch the Yingbao.
But Jiang Cheng didn't let them get what they wanted, so he picked up a stick and swung it over.
Previously, he had beaten three people by himself, but only two were left in the eyes. Anyway, he also exercised every month, and he hit them so hard that the gangsters in both places screamed.
So the gangsters from the two places turned around and had a fight with him.
Upon seeing this, Ying Bao rushed over and made a sneak attack. He used steel needles to poke their lower backs, thighs and buttocks unexpectedly. He poked them wherever he caught them, causing the gangsters in both places to scream.
One of the gangsters became furious, turned around, grabbed Ying Bao, stabbed her in the head with a dagger in her leg.
"Hungry legs!"
Hearing a loud shout, a figure rushed forward, kicked the gangster over with a flying kick, "How brave! If you dare to commit murder on the street, whoever is coming! Arrest them all!"
Several government officials ran in shouting, kicked the gangsters to the ground in twos and twos, and put chains around their necks.
Jiang Quan ran back to the shop out of breath, hugged his eldest brother who had blood on his face and cried, "Brother! Brother! How am I doing?"
Jiang Cheng collapsed and walked away, shaking his head at him: "It's okay..."
On the side, Ying Bao raised her neck and thanked the leader: "Thank you, Uncle Jin, for saving him."
Jin Wu touched her head and said with a smile: "Thank you, otherwise Uncle Jin came late and little Yingbao was frightened."
He turned around and pointed at a few hooligans and cursed: "Are we blind? How dare we bully someone with a golden mask?"
The three gangsters knelt down and begged for mercy: "I can't help it, Boss Jin. We don't know if the gang leader asked us to come..."
Before he finished speaking, he was slapped hard in the mouth by a government official: "Fuck me!"
Jin Wu waved his legs towards them: "Take them away! Take them back to the Yamen for trial. Qingtian Hongyue dares to use a weapon to hurt people. He is tired of seeing us!"
The two big gangs in the county are both involved with the government patrols, so there is a mutually beneficial relationship between the two parties.
But those gangsters dared to come out and cause trouble for them with their gang names. They really didn't know how to live or die.
Can Jiang Ji Specialty Shop personally name the people who asked them to take care of them? Jin Wu and others would not dare to slack off even if they had ten courages.
Those dogs came out to cause trouble at that time, so don't blame him for using them to scare the monkeys.
A group of government officials escorted three gangsters out. Jin Wu stood at the door and shouted loudly: "Whoever dares to commit murder and disturb the people again will be punished by me!"
Did he say those words to the crowd in the crowd, letting them know that the shop here was not allowed to move.
Sure enough, someone in the crowd ran away quickly, probably to spread the word.
After sending Jin Wu and others away, the frightened Er Ni hugged Ying Bao and said with tears in her eyes: "The people in the county are too terrible."
"Then it's just a few gangsters. Don't be afraid. Our shop has paid the deed tax and is being looked after by police officers. They don't dare to kill anyone." At most, they are here to cause trouble.
Bu Nao, Jin Wu just made a statement, and his store will be much safer from now on.
Yingbao opened the medicine box, took out the wound medicine, wiped the cousin's face, and fed him a pill.
Jiang Chengcheng's skin injury is not a big problem, and it is estimated that it will recover after a few months.
As the crowd watching the excitement gradually dispersed, Jiang Quan cleaned the shop with a pained look on his face, putting aside the few gourds he could use and sweeping out all the remaining fragments.
Erni collected all the seeds in the gourd pulp and gave them to her little cousin to process.
At that time, Jiang Yunniang walked in, looked around and asked, "Erquan, what's going on?"
"Auntie," Jiang Quan called out and said, "A few gangsters came to make trouble and have been taken away by the Yamen."
Jiang Yunniang frowned and said: "Erquan, if we have offended the Hutou Gang, how can we do it? Even the people in the Yamen can't do anything to them."
Jiang Cheng said again: "No, he said that we don't know anything and only want to show off our strength. Is it so easy to open a shop? That's a good thing. Ping Hong caused trouble."
Yingbao turned to look at her eldest aunt: "How do you know those people are definitely members of the Hutou Gang?"
The three gangsters had been taken away by the government officials a long time ago. Could it be that my aunt had some foresight?
