Infrastructure masters in the red building

Wang Erlang's inspection team was quite busy at this "commercial symposium".The team members under him are mainly to catch those "little things" people, and they will be fined if they are caught.

On the other hand, Wang Erlang himself was earnestly maintaining order on the scene, answering questions, and resolving disputes.He saw a lot of people at the entrance of the "Financial Office", so he squeezed in, just in time to see Lao Jin "flaunting his wealth" and showing a box full of "reserves" to the people present.

So much "reserve money" was exposed in broad daylight. Wang Erlang didn't take this kind of behavior very seriously. He always thought that "wealth should not be exposed" to avoid thieves.He didn't know at all that people like Lao Jin who had worked in pawnbrokers paid attention to their wealth and "disclosed what they should have".

But apart from the item of "flaunting wealth", Wang Erlang thinks that Lao Jin has done a very good job.I saw Lao Jin pushing out a blackboard, on which eight enlarged patterns of the front and back of "circulation notes" were stuck with paste, and explained to people in detail: "The circulation notes issued by this village are divided into four denominations, five Wen, ten wen, fifty wen, and one hundred wen, each of which has its face value written in capital letters on the front."

"But if you can't remember what these characters look like, it doesn't matter. Look here, everyone. Here is the logo of our village: a single-petal peach blossom. A peach blossom is printed on the five-character circulation coupon, and two peach blossoms are printed on the ten-character circulation coupon. Duo, and so on, fifty Wen is ten, one hundred Wen is twenty..."

Immediately, people realized: "If you dare not read, just count the peach petals printed on it."

Wang Erlang immediately felt relieved, thinking that his old mother may not know so many characters, but after so many years of embroidering flowers, it is absolutely no problem to count the petals.

Then, Lao Jin took out another circulation coupon, shook it out of thin air, and said: "Everyone listen to the scratching sound - this is because the paper used to print this batch of circulation coupons is special and has a very high It has a special toughness, and it has a special scratchy feeling in the hand."

Many villagers with circulation coupons in their hands rushed to take out the circulation coupons from their arms, shaking in the wind, listening to the sound.

"In addition, please note that the ink on this circulation coupon is extremely special, it will not smudge or fade, and it will not fade. Everyone can see that whether it is printed on it, whether it is text or flowers, the edges are neat and there will be no blurred outlines."

"In this position, there is also a very small microprint, which is the logo of our financial office."

"When you exchange circulation coupons on weekdays, you must remember to check these three characteristics, so as not to be deceived!" Lao Jin reminded.

"Huh? Could it be that there will be people imitating and making fake circulation coupons?" A villager asked immediately.

Lao Jin nodded: "Of course there is. Based on my experience as a bookkeeper for so many years, some people falsified copper coins, pawned bills, bank notes with bank numbers, and even land deeds signed by the government—"

"Of course I'm not trying to scare you, but it's always good to be on the lookout. Ladies and gentlemen, if you feel unsure when you receive any negotiable notes during the transaction, please come to our financial office together. We have a way to help you Please tell the difference." Lao Jin finally gave everyone a reassurance.

"As long as it's a real circulation ticket, you can come to us to exchange for copper coins. But one more reminder, this circulation ticket is bearer, once it is stolen, we can't help you get it back..."

At this time, Wang Erlang suddenly shouted in the crowd: "What are you doing!"

He strode forward, separated the two, and grabbed the wrist of a middle-aged wretched man who was holding a handful of "Flower Paper" circulation coupons.

"I saw that you were wandering around in the crowd just now with malicious intentions, so I felt something was wrong. Did you just take advantage of this big brother listening carefully to the talker of the treasurer Jin, and took out the circulation coupon from his arms?"

As soon as Wang Erlang reminded, the "owner" who listened attentively to the lecture suddenly came to his senses: "The circulation coupon, the circulation coupon in my arms is gone!"

Everyone understood at once: "Pickpockets!"

"It turned out to be a thief!"

"Look where it came from."

"Let him pay back the money he stole!"

However, Wang Erlang was not in a hurry to return the circulation coupons to the owner. Instead, he asked the other party to explain the face value and quantity of the circulation coupons. Seeing that they matched, he returned all the seized circulation coupons to the owner.

This live performance "Operation Against Pickpocketing" deeply educated the villagers of Taoyuan Village, making them fully realize that compared with copper coins, circulation coupons are lighter in weight and more likely to be stolen or lost.

The captured pickpocket was detained by Wang Erlang and locked in an empty room behind the village office.Taoyuan Village's plan is to send the man back to his own village with drums and gongs another day, and hand it over to the village for disposal.In addition, Taoyuan Village also registered the person's name, age, and appearance characteristics. In the future, this person will be prohibited from entering the village and participating in "business talks" activities, which can be regarded as being on the "blacklist" of Taoyuan Village.

This "pickpocket" incident was finally resolved. A mountain resident from another country raised his hand and asked Lao Jin: "Dare to ask, can I take these circulation coupons with me? I just keep them in my hand and wait for the next use. I don't want to." I'm short of copper coins, and I'm too lazy to bring a lot of copper coins back. I just ordered a big basket of winter bamboo shoots with your people, and the delivery will be in half a month. I can bring this coupon when I can, and use this coupon to buy winter bamboo shoots ?"

Immediately there were other people from other places who didn't understand: "Don't worry about keeping the copper coins... What if people don't recognize the coupon when you get back?"

Old King Kong just continued on this topic: "Impossible! Our master said that as long as this Taoyuan Village is here for a day, it will recognize the validity of the circulation coupon for one day. This fellow can take it back with confidence, and it will definitely work again next time." use."

"Of course," Lao Jin continued, "It's okay for the rest of you to be worried. How many coupons do you have in your hand before you leave today? I'll exchange them for you. All of this is voluntary."

"It's a good feeling!" Most of the foreigners who came here were relieved when they heard that it was all up to each person's will.They did feel that the "circulation coupon" was easy to carry, but they still wanted to be safe and wait until a while to see how it was used.

But some people managed to get a few "circulation coupons" and planned to go back and ponder them.

During the day, the "Taoyuan Village's first business meeting" was a complete success. When night fell, the villagers in each village in the village went back to their homes and looked for their mothers. The village was brightly lit and it was very lively, but the financial office The offices of the Investment Promotion Office and the Investment Promotion Office are all deserted, and there is no one there.

At this time, a black shadow slowly approached the office of the Taoyuanzhai Finance Office. He looked around and listened with bated breath. After making sure that there was no one around, he took out a thin copper key and locked the lock hanging on the door. Upside down, the lock opened in response.But the man lightly hung the lock on the door again, sneaked into the room by himself, and gently closed the door.

Taking advantage of the little bit of cold moonlight from the window, he found the silver box that the old shopkeeper displayed during the day, and tried to lift it, but the box was extremely heavy and he couldn't lift it at all.

The thief was rather satisfied with this—does the weight mean that there is a lot of silver in it?

He remembered that during the day, the old shopkeeper poked a key into the lock, turned it around, and opened the lid of the box.And he is a master at picking the lock, so he picked up the thin copper key and put it into the keyhole while experiencing the feeling in his hand——

Unexpectedly, he suddenly noticed that there was a small disc next to the keyhole. The thief stretched out his hand and pushed it, and it seemed that it could be turned.

Is this disc... related to this lock?

The thief felt that something was wrong, so he quickly turned his attention back to the keyhole, and carefully moved the copper key back and forth, trying to find a point of strength as soon as possible. Like the old shopkeeper in the daytime, he opened the lock with a "click" and the silver key was released. box open.

He was a little anxious, but the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't open it. After twisting it hard, the copper spoon in his hand was almost bent.

At this time, the door at the back snapped open, and someone held a lantern and looked into the house, saying, "Who's there?"

Knowing that he had been exposed, the thief turned around and fled.When he came in earlier, he planned his way to escape. Instead of rushing towards the door, he rushed towards the bamboo window that didn't look very strong.With just a bang, the thieves broke through the window and escaped successfully from the house.

The person holding the torch at the door was the inspector captain Wang Erlang.He was not in a hurry, instead he walked into the house leisurely, illuminated the silver box with a lantern, took out the copper key that was still in the keyhole, and said, "The third... the third one." Folded on this 'safe'."

At this time, Zhao Wuguang's voice sounded outside the window: "Catch it!"

Wang Erlang responded, went to restore the doors, windows and silver boxes, and went out to meet Zhao Wuguang.

Zhao Wuguang and one of his younger brothers were holding the thief just now, pinning the other's arms tightly behind his back.Zhao Wuguang laughed loudly: "Your idea is really good, send all the thieves to me."

These two people are together, and there are very few times when they don't speak up.Hearing Zhao Wuguang praise himself, Wang Erlang almost felt that there was something wrong with his ears.

But the thief caught this time was real, and the three of them took the stupid thief to the place of detention together.Zhao Wuguang scolded as he walked: "Look at the good idea of ​​each of you! You have been hiding nearby since the day, and you have been hiding for most of the night. Are you hungry?"

There was a series of cheerful sounds in the stupid thief's stomach immediately, Zhao Wuguang was taken aback, and the three of them laughed together after a while.

"You still want to steal the 'guarantee' from our Taoyuan village with your ability? Let me tell you, the treasure chest containing silver was designed by Mr. Jia himself, and it can only be opened by a special method... Erlang, what is that called?" of?"

Wang Erlang interface: "Safe box!"

This safe was indeed designed by Jia Fang himself, and was made by the top craftsmen of Baigong Workshop—the safe.This thing is very common in modern times, and its technical content is not very high.Of course, there are thieves who can open safes in modern times, but Jia Fang can guarantee that there are no thieves in this time and space who have this level of thieves.

Jia Fang happened to have some business in the capital this day, so he didn't go there in person, and went to Taoyuanzhai from Daoxiang Village early the next morning.

After he went there, he first asked the inspection team: "Does the safe work?"

Wang Erlang and Zhao Wuguang, who hadn't closed their eyes all night, were full of energy: "It works! Four of them were caught in one night."

Jia Fang: ...Do you dare to believe that this is actually a function of attracting thieves? !

He asked about the effect of yesterday's "seminar", and everyone agreed.Village head Tao clapped his chest and said that there will definitely be more people going to the market in the future; Lao Jin sighed, watching the copper coins coming and going, using a lot, but after careful calculation, outsiders came to Taoyuan Village to go to the market, and there were a lot of things to sell. There are also a lot of things, and once calculated, the income and expenditure are quite balanced, and there is not much copper money flowing out.

"That's good!"

This was originally expected by Jia Fang.According to his idea, when Taoyuan Village develops several pillar industries in the future, the surrounding villages and towns will have more and more contacts with Taoyuan Village, and eventually they will rely on the output of Taoyuan Village to form an integrated economic belt.

"Our village has a lot of products that are really popular, third master, you don't know, just take the winter bamboo shoots just dug from the back mountain, they are almost all gone..." Qin Lizheng... the current village head Qin Also started bragging.

Jia Fang was startled when he heard this, and thought of something, and asked quickly: "The peppers and tomatoes...haven't they all been sold?"

Everyone looked at each other, and Village Chief Tao hurriedly said: "No, most of them are kept. Didn't the third master tell you to keep more for seeds?"

In fact, Village Chief Tao spoke euphemistically. In yesterday's episode, the peppers were not the same as the tomatoes. They were fresh enough, but they were really hard to sell.

The main reason is that everyone has never seen these two before, and they all feel frightened when they see the fruit grow so gorgeously.

Finally, a few people had the courage to taste the fruit. The tomato was fine, sweet and sour, and juicy, but they didn't know how to burn it; and the pepper made people's throat hurt even more.As a result, no one dared to buy it, not even asking for seeds to plant—after all, there was no one in other villages like Jia Fang who could promise to buy all the crops.

The only place where this pepper has some influence is in the "Sancun Canteen". A dish with a little "spicy pepper" is more popular than other dishes, and the first one in the dish bottoms out.

But Jia Fang let out a long sigh of relief, and said, "It's good if you didn't sell it, that's great!"

He warmly greeted everyone: "Please give me all the unsold items... No, sell them all to me, or the last price, I will accept them all."

The plants that Jia Fang brought out from the flower garden of Hengwu Garden last time, after being transplanted in Taoyuan Village, still retain relatively strong vitality, bearing fruit one crop after another.However, the small peppers planted with the pepper seeds in these fruits and the small tomatoes grown from tomato seeds generally grow slower—this is consistent with the law of the Chinese cabbage in the two fields in Daoxiang Village.

But recently, the villagers collected a lot more. Since they didn't sell them at the fair, they handed them all over to Jia Fang. Seeing that he packed them in a trolley and pushed them behind the Xianliang Temple.

"It turns out that Mr. Jia still uses this to worship the gods!"

Village head Tao and the aboriginal villagers of Taoyuan Village expressed emotion together.

Jia Fang brought these precious peppers and tomatoes to Daoxiang Village and handed them over to Shuangwen.Shuangwen was then brought to the Rongfu courtyard and handed over to Mrs. Sun.Mrs. Sun set up a small pottery dish on the earthen stove of the kang, grabbed a handful of peppers, put them in the pottery pot, and slowly roasted them into dried peppers.

There are also some peppers that are chopped and added with salt and mashed garlic, one is marinated into a sauce, and some are thrown into a kimchi jar for soaking.

Tomatoes can't be frozen for a while in cold weather, so they are preserved like this first.

Jia Fang checked the fineness of the various sauces and pickles made by Sun, solemnly thanked the woman who had watched him from childhood, then left and hurried out.

Instead of going to the "small building", he went straight to a slaughterhouse in Nanmen City.Zhao Cheng, who went with him, showed some reluctance, and complained in a low voice: "Third Master, you still have to go to that dirty place yourself?"

Jia Fang said flatly: "It is because Qingsong is inconvenient that I called you."

The last time Li Qingsong was injured, it was Shui Xian who took him to see the doctor, and took him to the Beijing Palace for a night to raise him, and sent him back the next day.Qingsong also brought a large pack of medicine with her, which can be applied externally or taken internally.Jia Fang also had to admit that Shui Xian was thoughtful in his work.

Now that Qingsong is being raised in Rongfu like this, the doctor ordered that it is not suitable to see the wind for seven days.Jia Fang took Zhao Cheng with him when he went to Nanmen Slaughter City this time.

As soon as Zhao Cheng heard that Jia Fang had something to say, he didn't dare to complain at once. He just smiled and said, "I'll go wherever my master is going. Don't blame me, can't I listen to you?"

Jia Fang ignored him, but quickened his pace, came to a slaughterhouse, entered the door and greeted people directly: "Master Liu, are you ready?"

When the visitor saw Jia Fang, he couldn't help showing joy, rubbed his hands and said, "Master Jia, you are a dignified young master of the Duke's mansion, and you condescended to come to me in person...Look at me, it's dirty and dirty. It’s messy, there’s not even a place to invite you to sit down and drink tea.”

Lao Liu, this is a slaughterhouse. This slaughterhouse is really not very particular. The ground has just been washed, and blood can still be seen faintly. There are half pigs hanging on the wall, and a few clean and tender pigs hanging on the beams. trotters.

Zhao Cheng shrank behind Jia Fang, squeezed his nose hard, thinking, what kind of smell is this.

But Jia Fang laughed, waved his hand and said to Lao Liu: "It's okay, I'm just here for one bite of food, if the food is really good, I can go anywhere."

Old Liu laughed loudly and said, "Cheer up!"

As he spoke, he took out a whole piece of pork belly that had been cooked to half-cooked from a large pot beside him, put it on a clean chopping board, picked up a thick-backed big knife and began to cut it.Strange to say, this old Liu has a beard and a beard, looks extremely thick, and the knife is also extremely thick, but the slices of pork belly he cut out are as thick as paper, a whole piece of pork belly is cut out into a large pot.

When Jia Fang saw the knife skill, he praised him and said, "I'm not at all satisfied with our former cook."

After Lao Liu finished cutting the white meat, he took out a large bunch of black and purple strips from the pot, put them on the chopping board, cut one of them into thumb-thick money slices, put them on a plate, and handed it to Jia Fang.

Jia Fang stretched out his hand to take it, and after smelling it, he nodded and said, "All the ingredients are added!"

Old Liu responded with a voice like a bell, "According to what you said, add enough salt, onion, ginger, pepper, and bone broth..."

Jia Fang picked up a pair of chopsticks, took a piece of black and purple money, tasted it, nodded, and said, "That's the degree of ripeness. You can't cook it any longer. If you cook it again, it will get old. After cooking it to this heat, take it out." Soak it in cold water. When the time comes, the blood sausage will be sent to our store with the water and the basin, plus the thinly sliced ​​white meat."

Zhao Cheng shrank his neck behind Jia Fang, listening to Jia Fang talking like an old gourmet, thinking: Why does the third master know so much like a cook?

When Zhao Cheng heard the word "blood sausage", his eyes widened - he understood that the black and purple thing of emotion was actually made of pig blood?Mr. Jia, a noble son of the Duke's mansion, is actually messing with pig's blood?

Jia Fang was very satisfied, and said to Lao Liu: "I promise, in the future, your pig butcher shop will be popular all over the capital with only these two things."

"By the way, our shop has just changed its name. It used to be called 'Xiaolou Copper Pot Shabu Meat', but now it's called 'Xiaolou Hot Pot'."