Chapter 1998 Looking for Someone
Seeing that he was the only one coming down, Bai Shan asked in a low voice, "Are there two of you on duty?"
"Yes, there is another person up there."
"Then go find Brother Tang and tell him that the traffic from the inner city gate to here is completely congested. Someone's child was stolen and they're looking for him. The people inside can't get out right now, but people from all directions are still coming to the main street." He lowered his voice and said, "If someone stumbles and falls..."
The officer shuddered. Why didn't they go home for the Mid-Autumn Festival instead of squatting in teahouses and restaurants? Wasn't it to prevent this?
He didn't dare to neglect it and said quickly, "Master Bai, I have to go up and take another look."
"I will go with you."
The four of them quickly went up to the third floor, but that was not the end. There was a small attic above the third floor. Tang He asked them to guard in the attic. There was a window there that could see most of the street.
He made such arrangements not only to prevent congestion, but also to prevent fire and other accidents.
When Bai Shan entered, he smelled alcohol. The yamen runner sitting inside was sitting on a stool, swinging his legs and eating fried beans. He was surprised to see so many people coming in and stood up. Just as he was about to ask his companions who this was, he recognized Bai Shan in the dim light.
His blood ran cold.
The officer who led Bai Shan upstairs smiled apologetically, but Bai Shan pretended not to know. He walked straight to the window and turned to them, saying, "Two brothers, please look."
The two men, who were originally a little uneasy, felt relieved when Bai Shan called them brother. They immediately forgot about the fact that they had been absent from work and drank and ate meat during their shift, and immediately went forward to see what was going on.
Leaning their heads forward, they saw the dense crowd of heads and the occasional shouts of exclamation. They were so frightened that cold sweats broke out on their backs. "This..."
A yamen runner hurriedly said, "I'll go evacuate them."
"Wait," Bai Shan grabbed him and said, "It's not enough to rely on just the two of you. One of you goes to find Brother Tang, he will handle it, and the other one quickly finds a way to notify the people nearby to come and help."
Bai Shan said, "You should also have a way to contact us in an emergency, right?"
"Yes, beat the gong and drum!" the officer said, "Find the nearby officers to beat the gong, and the chief officer to beat the drum."
They were divided into different levels. They would beat the gong for small matters that they could handle themselves, and would only beat the drum when it was a particularly important matter that had to be reported to the county magistrate or Jingzhao Prefecture.
Bai Shan: "Then fight!"
So, Officer A ran downstairs. He had to run past the Drum Tower three intersections away. It was a lookout tower with a drum.
He was also going to notify the county magistrate through there.
Meanwhile, Officer B extended the gong outside the window and struck it according to the secret code.
Bai Shanze stood at the window on the other side, watching the increasingly crowded and chaotic crowd on the street. Bai Dalang was also watching and said, "We need to stop and evacuate the people coming here and let the people inside come out."
Bai Shan's eyes swept across the street. When he saw the person he was looking for, he turned and was about to go downstairs. He said to Officer B, "Come downstairs in a while."
He went downstairs, took off his money bag, took out a silver ingot of five taels from it, and handed it directly to the shopkeeper, "Exchange it for copper coins."
The shopkeeper hesitated, "This..."
"Five taels, and five hundred coins."
The shopkeeper immediately smiled and said, "We just happen to have so many copper coins in our store. If you go somewhere else, I'm afraid you won't be able to exchange so many."
He first took the scale and weighed it. After confirming that it was a full ounce of silver, he bent down and opened the cabinet below. He took out five strings of money from it, then opened the drawer and took out five strings of money from it. He gave them to Bai Shan and said with a smile, "Sir, can you count them?"
"No."
Bai Shan only took one string, and Daji asked the shopkeeper for a cloth bag to put the rest in and held it in his hand.
Bai Shan walked out with a string of money in his hand. Passersby on the road didn't notice him, but a group of teenagers playing across the street couldn't take their eyes off the money in his hand.
Bai Shan walked straight up to them without slowing down. He didn't move his hand holding the copper coin, but just stood in front of them. After looking around at them, he asked, "I remember there was a guy named Dashan..."
The oldest boy immediately called out, "Brother Dashan, I know he's at home with his sister-in-law. Are you looking for Brother Dashan?"
Bai Shan had never thought that Dashan was married. He had sought him out to make a name for himself when he first arrived in the capital. He said, "It would be best if he were here, but it doesn't matter if he's not. Where's Xiaowu?"
"Fifth Brother? He's on another street now." The young man looked at the money and swallowed, patting his chest and saying to Bai Shan, "If you have anything to ask of us, we can run errands for you."
Bai Shan looked at him critically, as well as the seven or eight young boys behind him, ranging in age from eight to twelve or thirteen.
They immediately straightened their backs and raised their chests, trying to pretend that they were strong.
Bai Shan reluctantly said, "Okay, send two of you to the cloth shop to buy some red cloth strips. Have them cut them this wide and this long. We need... twenty strips. Have a few more people move two tables or benches and put them in front of the intersection."
He handed the coin in his hand to the young man and said, "Hurry up, half a quarter of an hour will be enough, right?"
The young man immediately took it, untied the string, and pulled out a few dozen coins. Without even looking at them, he stuffed them into the hands of a young man behind him, raised his chin, and said, "Go!"
The young man ran forward very flexibly. He turned left and right and disappeared.
The leading young man tied up the money again and stuffed it into his clothes on his chest. It looked bulging and heavy, but he didn't care at all. He asked, "What do you want us to do, sir?"
"Stop them," Bai Shan said, "Stop those coming from this street, and those coming out of those two streets. They can go back or to the sides, but they are not allowed to go forward."
The young man's face froze, "This... are they going to stop everything?"
"Yes," Bai Shan turned around and took the cloth bag from Daji. He weighed it, making the copper coins inside make a pleasant sound. He said, "You did a good job. After the task is completed, these will all be yours."
The sound of copper coins was really pleasant, especially when so many of them clashed together. The young man stared at the cloth bag in his hand, unable to move his eyes away. He swallowed rapidly and wanted to agree, but shook his head with difficulty. "No, we can't stop so many people, and if the police find out, we'll be in big trouble."
As soon as he finished speaking, Officer B, who had already struck the gong three times, ran down from upstairs and came directly to Bai Shan. "Master Bai, I've finished striking the gong. They will be here soon."
The young man opened his mouth wide, looked at the officer, then at Bai Shan, and immediately said, "Don't worry, Master, leave this matter to us, we will definitely do it for you."
See you tomorrow
(End of this chapter)
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