Moth

The new county magistrate named Fang Bingbi is a white-faced scholar who is very good at being an official. On the first day he took office, he set up ten tables of banquets at Taoyedu in Qinghe County to entertain rich and small gentlemen in Qinghe County. After eating a good table of flowers and wine, I bought four pairs of women's hair accessories at the largest gold shop in the city, and respectfully dedicated them to Song Wuchang, the magistrate of Taihe Prefecture.

The teacher brought by the county magistrate is not so pleasing to the eye.

This new master has a vicious scar face, that's all for a scar face, if the scar can be just right across the face, it can still be pleasing to the eye.The key is that the scar is so coincidental that it spread from the right corner of the mouth to the earlobe, which looks like a real grin that opened the mouth.

In addition, the master was blindfolded with one eye, a one-eyed man like the bandit leader in the storybook.

The master was as thin as a broom handle, with a wretched chin and chest, and he was holding a feather fan in his hand—I don’t know how many chicken buttocks the chicken feathers on the fan were. The layers are tied extremely tightly, and the visual effect is like a squashed chicken, crawling aggrievedly in the skinny and chicken-foot-like hands of Mr. Scar, every time it shakes, it seems to be telling "" They are born from the same root, so why rush to fry each other."

The fan is so powerful that it can stun people within ten steps in a radius. It makes people feel like chickens from a chicken farm are rushing from the front of people's eyes to the front—but the owner of the fan doesn't think so. .

Forget it.

The key point is "ugly people do more mischief, and black buns have more vegetables." That master also raised a dog named Jindou himself.Jin Dou is an old male dog, with a lot of folds on his face, which are piled up layer by layer. If you hold it with your hands, you can almost see a chrysanthemum made of dog leather.As soon as Jin Dou came, he molested all the bitches in the magistrate's yamen to the point of wanting to run for their lives.

Master Dao Scar and the old dog Jin Doucheng are inseparable every day, performing a "chicken flying dog jumping" scene almost everywhere.

But Fang Bingbi, the county magistrate, had no restrictions on this.

Fang Bingbi went out to socialize for a day, and when he came back, his buttocks were still hot, so he hurried to the master's signing room to report.A Wannian branch was planted in front of the door of the signing room. The Wannian branch was planted by the previous magistrate. It was obviously supposed to be pruned into a garden ornamental tree like a mushroom pier, but for the previous magistrate, it was turned into a sideways and slanting tree. The "Chicken Feather Fried" with the posture of a sick plum.

As soon as the door was opened, there was a strong smell of chicken coop. Fang Bingbi didn't even frown. He sat down on a stool and took a big gulp of tea.

Suddenly, a chicken feather fan flew over from behind the screen, and together with a sentence, it was stuck on Fang Bingbi's forehead. The voice was very nasal, and it sounded like he had a cold: "Who do you look at?" 'White-faced Scholar' drinks tea like you, with cows?" The voice was neither high nor low, and a sense of majesty was beginning to emerge under the calm tone.

Fang Bing brushed his hand and smoothed the chicken feather fan, fanned it back and forth without feeling too fussy, and said with a sigh of relief: "Boss, I got it right. The former county magistrate is a wimp, he was pissed to death..."

A person circled out from behind the screen.

This person has scars on his face, one eye, and his hair is not tied up, it is loosely draped over his shoulders, and he is wearing an old gray gown that can't be worn anymore, which is loosely worn outside the inner coat - a large white patch. The yellow undershirt protruded abruptly from the cuffs and neckline, looking sloppy and ugly.

The man walked lazily, his left and right feet were almost scrambling around.

He didn't care what happened next, put his hands together, sat lightly on the table, stepped on the table with one foot raised, and held a thing that looked like a wick in his mouth, and copied his own The "full-flavored" chicken feather fan hit Fang Bing's pen hard, and lazily said: "Again, I, I have a great name. My name is Liu Changzhou, and my name is Yaoshan. I am known everywhere, and I am called Liu Sihai. Yes. Only call 'Boss', you just wait, you wait for me to answer you."

Fang Bingbi changed his words without saying a word: "Okay, Yaoshan."

"When the first emperor passed away, there were seven places in Kyushu that were flooded and flooded, and Qinghe County was one of them. The dam that was built only a few decades ago was considered a weak project. Instead of stopping the flood, The broken and dilapidated building materials that collapsed also helped the evildoers harm the downstream fishing villages."

"The three major counties in Taihe Prefecture are almost all in Fuli, where the Xuanhe River can be seduced. Yuanhe County in the upper reaches is close to the water source of the Xuanhe River. The water quality is high and there are many tea trees. The tea produced every year pays [-]% of the tribute, and the rest is sold. From all over the country, some of them flow directly westward into the territory of the Western Regions. Therefore, this Yuanhe County is only able to rely on tea."

"Qinghe County in the middle reaches is a logistics transfer station. Qinghe County and Qingliang Mountain on the north bank are separated by an east-west Xuanhe River. Almost [-]% of Qinghe County is Shang. Xuanhe River has a large drop of hundreds of feet in the area where it flows through Qingliang Mountain. The local people call it "Xuanhekou". Ships can only be anchored in Qingliang County, and to be transported to the downstream Shahe County, either by land or by water within the county. There are road gangs and boat gangs in this county that do this business."

"Shahe County in the lower reaches is considered poor. There are no tea fields and no water potential difference. Almost every year, it depends on the two big counties in the upper reaches for relief, and owes a lot of foreign debts."

Liu Changzhou dipped his slender, chicken-claw-like fingers into Fang Bingbi's tea bowl, and casually drew a topographic map on the table—Xuanhe is from west to east, and from the upstream is Yuanhe County and Qinghe County. There are three major counties, Shahe County and Qinghe County. Qinghe County stands opposite Qingliang Mountain, where Xuanhe River has a nearly [-]-foot hanging estuary.

This Fang Bingbi looked gentle and clean, but when he spoke, he gesticulated and spittled all over the place. After a few words, he dried up his throat and took another gulp of white water. Then he said: "There used to be a flood discharge project in Qinghe County and Qingliang Mountain, but most of it was washed away during the last flood. The water was all poured into Qinghe County, and the tea boats from the upstream could not anchor. The tea boat to Beijing was also delayed."

"Qinghe County is not short of money, and the tea that is tributed to Jingli is bought from Yuanhe County. Sometimes when the tea fields are low in production, they will directly pay the price of tea in Jingli, convert the tea that should be paid into silver, and give it to them directly. The Ministry of Households. The difference between the local tea price and Beijing tea price is nearly five taels. Think about how rich Qinghe County is? Buying 5 tea in Yuanhe County and buying tea in Beijing directly costs [-] taels It's close."

"Then let's talk about how the magistrate of this county is so arrogant."

"The tea boats from upstream couldn't anchor at the big wharf in Qinghe County. The tea on the boat had been wet for several months, and most of them were moldy. When the road gangs and boat gangs in Qinghe County were almost settled, almost all the gangs They have all become tired gangs. Isn’t this an oversupply of the tea that comes ashore? Road gangs and boat gangs competed for business, and they fought.”

"The magistrate of this county is considered a coward. The road gang and the boat gang fought in the yamen. When he saw the posture of the ax and the big knife, he was frightened and convulsed. Before the doctor was invited, he was convulsed to death."

Liu Changzhou let out a "huh", and glanced at Fang Bingbi's sleeve pocket with his remaining eye—in fact, his good eye is still very beautiful, like a willow leaf, with the end of the eye slightly raised, and it stops when it is just right— ―The face is calm, but in fact it hurts: Damn, I haven't been in office for more than ten years, and I spent 4 taels just to honor the bullshit officials above, it's just... a bunch of bastards.

He also lifted the other dangling foot to the table, sat cross-legged under his buttocks, and sneered, "What did Fatty Song say?"

Before Fang Bingbi could reply, he heard the concierge Old Liu knock on the door, saying that the prefect Song Wuchang's subordinates had sent in a return card.

Liu Changzhou picked up the thorn in distaste, glanced at it a few times, and said in a tone colder than before: "What a fat man Song, I gave his wife four pairs of gold hairpins, and what a dog dare to say?" I am very happy. Mr. Wushan's Calligraphy' is clearly asking for bribes."

Fang Bingbi's nature is difficult to change: "Master, will you give it? If you don't give it to him, I can't be in the middle of it on the bright side. Give it to me. The original work of Mr. Wushan is really hard to find. I saw it in the emperor's study." A few."

Liu Changzhou patted him on the shoulder with a murderous look, and the scar at the corner of his mouth became vivid. He gritted his teeth and said, "Give it to him! I can't hold him to death! Tell him to spit it out sooner or later. In this way, you can send a message to the emperor." Confidential letter, borrow the painting in his study for a few days."

Fang Bingbi was not at all surprised when he heard such outrageous words. He went to the desk and began to rub paper and ink.

Liu Changzhou habitually stretched out his hand to untie something on his belt, but after touching it for a long time, he realized that he had already untied the torn belt that was in the way.He folded his clothes with one hand, sloppily swayed back behind the screen, and threw a bright yellow brocade bag from behind the screen: "I'm taking my son out for a stroll, and I'll leave it with you when the big seal is used up. In addition, I told Master Zhang to say I won't come back to eat at night."

Before leaving, he did not forget to pick up his rather magnificent chicken feather fan, and shouted "Jindou" as soon as he went out.Jin Dou is the best among the old dogs, running fast, he threw himself on him like an arrow, wagging his tail for a long time.

Liu Changzhou used the feather fan to lift up the pleats of the Jindou and spread them on the fan, and said casually: "Son, let's go, daddy will take you to drink flower wine, have you heard of Taoyedu?"

One person and one dog opened their postures, and wandered into the street rather domineeringly.

It was near midday, the sun was shining brightly, and the tongue was so hot that it was so hot in the dog days that it had never stayed in the mouth seriously, and it was always hanging out like a hanged dog.

The Xuanhe River diverges into a branch in the upper middle reaches of Qinghe County. Because of the twists and turns, it flows crookedly from the northern part of Qinghe County to the southernmost part. The local people call this branch "Jiudaowan".The river flowing through the city stretches for a full ten miles, and the bustling scenery of the entire Qinghe County is almost concentrated along the coast.

Jiudaowan is very domineering, and it has a sense of presence that separates the opposite people on both sides of the water.There is a small stone bridge every [-] steps on the water, and Duolu Bridge is the most popular bridge among the many unnamed small bridges because it is in the center of the water area around Taoyedu.

And Taoyedu is located in a zigzag area from north to south in Jiudaowan.

People say that Taoyedu is "prosperous for ten miles", which is true.The boats coming and going on the water are like weaving, and some people put their homes on the boats, so the boats are different.There are small-scale fish restaurants on some boats, and the fresh fish can be served in the pot immediately. It is no exaggeration to say that the delicious taste almost covers the entire water surface and people along the coast.Some boats run people's business, and most of the Qinlou brothels on the shore assign the brides to the boats during the day, and let them fool around wherever they go.

But most of them are the neat fleets moored on the shore. Each ship has a flag on which is embroidered the names of the leaders of each gang. A fleet roughly counts twenty or thirty ships.

The ships from the upper reaches have a heavy draft and a large tonnage, so they cannot enter the tributaries. If you take the waterways in the county, you can only rely on these small boats.When Qingjiang County was still a small place, there were still a small number of people doing this business, and it was almost a monopoly.

Later, when the county town gradually developed into the capital of Taihe Prefecture, merchants traveling from south to north found that there was a lot of water along the way, and they competed for a share of the profits, which gradually eliminated the monopoly situation.However, several gangs often merge with each other. The few gangs in Qingjiang County include the Zhao, Qian, and Sun gangs of the Lu Gang, and the You Gang of the Chuan Gang.These big gangs are not like the small gangs who fight openly and secretly. They often collude to raise the transportation price. In the end, no matter which ship gang receives the job, they will allocate [-]% of the account to other gangs.

This year, God really didn't show face. These gangs were probably forced to jump over the wall by the men who were waiting for the rice to be cooked at home.

The real reason why Taoyedu is called Taoyedu is that Taoyedu sings ten miles at night.

As night fell, colorful lanterns were held up on the big and small fences along the coast, and with the reflection of the lanterns on the water, the peach leaves were reflected in the sea.Lights of various shapes are hung on the boats, big and small, on the water. The fragrance of clothes on the shore and the stars in the water make it truly a never-ending day.

Every fifteenth month, the largest and most popular brothel on the shore——Chuxianglou, will hire a large boat, carrying the famous girls from Chuxianglou on the boat, and have a beautiful walk on the water. .

But Liu Changzhou is a person who doesn't know how to deal with customs. He came out mainly because his spine was stiff from reading the files in the yamen for a day, and he just came out for a stroll.

In the back garden of the yamen, there is a yard of famous local flute-tube bamboos. It is often windy and still not hot. Now that it is directly exposed to the sun, Liu Changzhou almost regrets his intestines.It is suitable to stay in the bamboo forest at this moment, and then ask Master Zhang to cook a large bowl of mung bean porridge, and insist on coming out to suffer this foreign crime-it is purely full of food, purely self-made.

He looked around, and a small building flying up from the corner of a house not far away caught his attention.

The construction of that building is special, among the high and low buildings, there is a unique row of extremely delicate cornices. Looking at it this way, only the front of this family is different, and it is especially easy to catch people's attention.

He walked over with interest, and looked up—Hengmen Tea House.

"'Under Hengmen, there are pianos and wine'. Hengmen, interesting."

The one-eyed Mr. Scar flicked up his clothes, and walked in calmly with his "flying chicken and dog jumping".When he looked up, he saw a calligraphy and painting on the wall hanging in the middle of the teahouse.This rough man can't understand calligraphy and painting, but he can understand characters—a few lines, a boat and a person are drawn crookedly on the painting, and there are some tangles of branches, and a few words are written on the side. There is a big character, "Journey to the River in the Evening Years".

Coincidentally, he had also seen the strangely shaped big seal below in the study of the emperor, it was as if it were fake.

He hadn't broken through his iron shoes yet, but this "Mr. Wushan's calligraphy and painting" actually made him run into a blind cat and a mouse.

He twitched the end of his good eyes, and slapped his chicken feathers in his hand, causing a bloody storm, and no one could question: "Is your boss here?"

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Under Hengmen, there are piano and wine. —— Tao Yuanming

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