Ying was startled by the knock on the door. After being stunned for half a second, she quickly stopped crying and staggered to get up - but found that her feet were numb.
"Ah Xuan! Ah Xuan! Go open the door! It might be your sister who's back!"
Unexpectedly, Gu Xuan could no longer bear her crying and quietly hid in the room.
Ying was anxious and shouted, "Xiao Huzi's mother! Chen! Why don't you open the door quickly! Where have you been slacking off again?!"
Chen Xingling rushed out of the kitchen and glared at her coldly.
Ying immediately shut up.
Seeing that she finally understood how to restrain herself, Chen Xingling did not say anything and quickly walked out to open the door.
㰴I thought it was the Gu Qi brothers who came back, but unexpectedly - it was a young man who looked familiar!
The man was wearing a military-colored overcoat that most young people like to wear, but it was very unruly, with a loose collar and a row of large buttons from top to bottom, none of which were buttoned, revealing the colorful underwear underneath.
He lazily leaned against the wall, knocking on the door with one hand, the cigarette in his mouth was crooked, one leg was standing at an angle, and the other was shaking wildly.
Chen Xingling looked at the scoundrelly aura that could not be hidden no matter how hard he tried, and quickly recognized him as the most famous scoundrel in the front street - Chen Nantai!
Chen Nantai squinted at her, pinched the cigarette at the corner of his mouth, turned his face away and spat.
"Mrs. Gu Qi, right? I'm A-Tai who lives on the front street. You should recognize me, right?"
"Yeah." Chen Xingling nodded slightly.
In the original book, Chen Nantai is just a minor character, but his life is quite "strange", and his future is closely related to the Gu family. From another perspective, they should be considered a family in the future.
Chen Nantai chuckled, revealing a mouthful of ugly black teeth from years of smoking.
"I, A-Tai, am a well-known local boss in my neighborhood! Who in the streets and alleys doesn't know me, Chen Erliuzi? I can say with confidence that there is no one in the entire Shangjing City who doesn't know me!"
Chen Xingling gave a polite smile and asked, "Do you have any?"
During the Chinese New Year, every household is busy pasting Spring Festival couplets and hanging lanterns, happily preparing clothes and hats, and kneading dough to make dumplings. The house is bustling inside and outside.
The Gu family and Chen Nantai's family are quite far apart, and it seems that they have never had any intersection. It is hard to understand why the other party suddenly came to their house at this time.
Chen Nantai said "Oh" and flicked the ash away with his index finger in a familiar manner.
"Your little fat girl Gu Miao was arrested, did you know that?"
Chen Xingling raised his eyebrows.
Chen Nantai chuckled and tilted his chin forward.
"The black market in the west of Tiancheng was cleared out early in the morning! There hasn't been such a big scene in many years. There were at least 20 to 30 people there! There were so many people, so many people were arrested. Your little fat girl was dragged along with them."
"Where to?" Chen Xingling frowned and asked, "Where exactly was he taken?"
Chen Nantai replied: "Not at the Administration for Industry and Commerce, but at the Traffic Brigade in the west of the city. The Administration was packed with people, and it was impossible to squeeze in, so some people moved to the Traffic Brigade."
At this point, he sneered and explained, "They arrested fifty or ten people in one day. It's a huge scale! Now a lot of people are going to the Administration Bureau to look for people, and there's a lot of noise inside and outside. I saw your fat girl went there, so I came over to tell you."
Chen Xingling's eyes flickered slightly, he reached into his pocket, took out a purple five-digit note and handed it to him.
"Thanks to you for coming to tell me. My wife and brother-in-law have gone to look for her, but they didn't know her details. Now we know. Thank you for taking the trouble to come here. Take this little money and buy a pack of cigarettes. Don't think it's too little."
Chen Nantai narrowed his eyes and smiled, quickly took it and put it in his pocket.
"Sister-in-law, I won't be polite. After all, we are all from the capital, and we live not far from each other. We are neighbors, so we should take care of each other, right? Um - do you know about the fine this time?"
Chen Xingling knew it a long time ago, but still pretended not to know and shook his head.
"Do you need to lock someone up? It's New Year's Day, it's not a good idea to lock someone up again, right?"
Chen Nantai frowned and shook his head: "This time it's too serious! They say the prices are too high, especially the pork - it's so expensive that I can't even bear to look at it! The leaders above are very angry, they say they must take this opportunity to rectify it, otherwise it will be a rebellion! They say not only will they lock people up, but they will also impose fines, and they will impose heavy fines!"
Chen Xingling asked, "How much is the fine? How long will it take?"
"Your little fat girl is not one of those people who does business in the black market all year round." Chen Nantai explained, "So she doesn't need to be imprisoned. It seems that she only needs to be fined because she sells pork. In fact, she still needs to be imprisoned, but there are so many people arrested this time that we don't know where to put them. It's the New Year and we have to find someone to watch over these people. It's too troublesome. So, your family should just be fined."
Chen Xingling breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled, "That's good. Thank you. When my lover comes back, I will ask him to pay the fine immediately."
"Fifty!" Chen Nantai saw that she said it easily, and couldn't help but gesture with his big palm: "It's not a small amount! But I heard that your Gu Qi is very good at making money, and his monthly salary is very high, so it shouldn't be a problem."
Chen Xingling didn't comment, lowered his eyes and prepared to close the door -
"Sister-in-law! Wait!" Chen Nantai blocked the door, chuckled, and lowered his voice: "Do you have pork for sale? No?"
"It's gone." Chen Xingling answered ambiguously: "After the pig was killed, half of it was sold and half of it was given away to neighbors, and only a big pig's head was left. My sister-in-law wanted to take the pig's head to the black market to exchange for snacks, so she got into this unfortunate situation."
Chen Nantai said "Oh?" and did not ask any further questions. In the end, he chose to believe it.
"Your little fat girl is so greedy, everyone in the neighborhood knows it! She trades pig heads for snacks! She's really good at making food! She thought there was some leftover pork, so she bought me a few pounds - my family is still waiting for the pork to make dumplings!"
Chen Xingling shook his head.
Chen Nantai tugged at his coat, smiled in a ruffian way and raised his chin.
"Sister-in-law, I'm done. If you need help from someone or want someone to do something for you, just come to me. There is nothing in Shangjing that I, Chen Erliuzi, can't do. I can guarantee it!"
"Okay." Chen Xingling pretended to be enthusiastic and waved: "I won't see you off."
Then she quickly closed the door.
When Ying heard that Gu Miao was really arrested, she burst into tears again.
"God damn it! How can we be so unlucky! We have been so unlucky for eight lifetimes! It's just this one time, isn't it? We didn't make a penny! And yet we are fined fifty dollars all at once! Fifty dollars!"
Gu Xuan looked at her crying with disdain and said in a deep voice: "Stop crying. What's the point of crying? If you can cry a little more and howl a little more, they will let your little sister go back. Then you can cry and howl as much as you want."
Ying was furious: "We didn't sell much pork yesterday! There are still a lot of people waiting to spend money during the Chinese New Year! Don't I feel sorry for your sister and the money?! How can I not cry?!"
Gu Xuan was extremely indifferent and whispered, "It's up to you."
Chen Xingling couldn't help but look towards the door, secretly worrying that the two brothers Gu Qi might have gone to the wrong places, otherwise they wouldn't have come back until noon.
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