"What's the matter? The devil is gambling or going to the other end of Xieqiao to rush to the villain."

What? Brother Zi has committed an old problem again?

"Hey... Sister Genzi, you can't say this randomly. Brother Genzi said that he would give you all Yinyang before the New Year, so where did he get the money to gamble and fight against the enemy?" Chen Tianhua still didn't believe it.

"I gave it to me? Humph... He coaxed your Tugen brother. He always gave his family five dollars in silver for the New Year cage. I bought all the New Year goods and other items, so he took a few fish home." She replied.

Only five silver dollars were taken home?

No matter how much I calculated it, Lin Gen got at least thirty silver dollars from the market before the New Year. Those five silver dollars were still the red envelopes sent after the rice cake was made on the 29th of the New Year.

This is too unreasonable.

Chen Tianhua's anger rushed up.

I spent a lot of hard work all year round and saved some money, and I kept it all on the gambling table. I was willing to lose all of it. Those who won the money would go to the brothel in the town and squandered it.

Leaving Lin Gen's house, he came to find Wu Laosan.

"The main reason is that he was too idle in the first month of the year, so his hands were itchy. When someone instigated, he left without saying that." Wu Laosan said something in his heart.

"Where will Brother Genzi go to gamble money?"

"I heard that this time I met a woman from the past, and I went to Xieqiao for 8 or 100 times." Wu Laosan said.

"Xie Qiao? Take me there. Let's drag him back. They are all my brothers. We can't stand by death and refuse to save him." Chen Tianhua said.

"Okay...Okay..." Wu Laosan gritted his teeth and agreed, "Take Ahua with him later. He has that bird gun just in case."

"Okay, hurry up."

The two rowed the boat to Ahua's house.

...

Xieqiao Town is located between Shuangqi Town and Ke Town, five or six miles away from Xibutou Village, and it is convenient to row and take the waterway.

The three words Cuiweiju sound a bit elegant. Chen Tianhua thought it was a brothel, but Wu Laosan said that it was actually a brothel.

It belongs to a mid-grade brothel. In several nearby towns and even the entire Shanyin County, Cuiweiju is quite famous, with many people from all walks of life.

There are many women here to accompany you to eat, drink and have fun, mainly by smoking opium and gambling.

During the late Qing Dynasty, the entire society was extremely dark. In addition to being closed to the country, there were two major chronic diseases: opioid smoking and gambling.

These two stubborn diseases will harm the country and the people.

From Empress Dowager Cixi to ordinary people, there was a huge bureaucratic and landlord class, which was generally in a mess and was insensitive to participate.

What hope does such a country still have?

In Chen Tianhua's memory, after Lin Gen followed him, he did not gamble for a long time, and he also kept his promises.

"Brother Wu, this guy usually uses opioids." He asked.

"I didn't notice it when I sucked opioids. Genzi's mind was clear. If you touched opioids, it would be like the end of this life. The family was destroyed and the wife and children were separated. This was absolutely impossible." Wu Laosan said, patting his chest.

"Okay...this is good."

Chen Tianhua finally fell to the ground with a stone, and he felt relieved.

He is most afraid of this opioid, and once he gets addicted, he will not be able to quit easily.

If this is true, then Lin Gen will be hopeless and can only fire him from the business, otherwise there will be endless disasters.

A few years ago, he clearly emphasized that he would not listen to the hello when he took the money home?

Why did he come to such a brothel again, and he didn't go home for a few days?

This is abnormal. Chen Tianhua judged that Lin Gen had something wrong, but it was hard to say that he was deceived by the old lover.

He asked Ahua to row a boat quickly.

When they arrived at Xieqiao Town, the boat was docked. Chen Tianhua asked Ah Hua to guard the boat to respond, and he and Wu Laosan entered Cuiweiju in the first place.

Cuiweiju is a three-story mansion with a three-story building, with three-story main building on the front yard, with blue bricks and gray tiles.

There are several loft rooms in the backyard, and the loft is divided into two floors, about six or seven meters high, with flying eaves.

Two huge red lanterns flying in the wind in front of the main building each have the words "cui" and "wei".

Whether it is the main building or the attic room, there are singing and dancing, and the unrestrained laughter of men and women from time to time can be heard.

Like the attic room in the back yard, the curtains are closed all day long, and a red candle is swaying in that swaying position.

The pink curtain covered the bedding inside, and a little leaked out from it, with men and women laughing and panting, and the bed shaking...

This is indeed not a brothel, but a brothel.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was an unwritten rule that brothels generally sell laughter but not body, while brothels provide full-service services.

Seeing a strange man approaching Cuiweiju, many men and women flirted with each other from time to time in the window upstairs.

The woman's thick dress was erotic, her chest was exposed, and her back was covered with a ghost, while the man was all close to the woman's body, exploring back and forth on her body in a vulgar way.

There is a long counter at the entrance of Cuiweiju, with many wine jars and barrels in front, and behind is the place where the shopkeepers and guards in the shop are staying.

In a seat on the long counter, Lin Gen poured bowls of old wine into his mouth. Sometimes the mouth of the bowl was not aimed at his mouth and poured directly onto his clothes.

Look at this cowardly, most of them are drunk.

At the counter, a charming young woman with a not outstanding figure but thick makeup on her face stared at Lin Gen in this direction.

She is the madam of this Cuiweiju family, and everyone calls her Sister Mei.

A scar man in his thirties just came up beside her.

The madam leaned into the scar man's ear and whispered: "Second Master, it's this sheep. Yin Yang lost nearly thirty in the past two days, and the IOU he wrote was 500 yuan."

"Who led him over?"

"It's Ruan Laoqi upstairs."

"That mama, do you still believe what Ruan Laoqi said upstairs is like? She is just a cigarette addiction. When she gets addicted, she just catches a bachelor in and says she is a big boss."

This scar man is called Fei Yingtun, known as Fei Erye, and is the manager behind the Cuiweiju.

The madam named Sister Mei was his mistress.

In addition to opening a brothel, there are also gambling houses and tobacco shops. Some people go outside to fish or bring sheep to the gambling houses and enter the tobacco shops.

Whether it is a gambling shop or a tobacco restaurant, waiting for these sheep or fish to catch, it is a carefully designed pit, and then it releases usury, which will make you unable to pay it back for the rest of your life.

There are many people who have gotten into this set, but no one dares to talk about anything over the years, so they can only grit their teeth and swallow it into their stomachs.

Scar Fei Er's business is usually aimed at the rich people. The young masters of rich families dig holes in advance so that you can jump voluntarily and finally get a mute and eat coptis chinensis. You can't tell if you have any pain.

Mr. Fei is a sensible figure in the Xie family area. His eldest brother Fei Yinghe is a businessman, who runs a dyeing shop and shipping company, and is also the security chief of the township.

Their father was named Fei Ruchun, who was the county magistrate of Shanyin County, also known as Dianshi, and had an eighth rank title.

Although he is only a eighth-rank rank, he controls all prison guards, constables, patrol inspectors, etc. in the county, which is equivalent to the county police chief in later generations.

In Shanyin County, except for Wu Magistrate, even if he has the most real power, he has great power.
Chapter completed!