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Chapter 18 The Way of Living in the Dead

The next morning, the magpie was shouting outside the door, as if telling people that something good is coming.

The business of their small shop exploded again. People who had never seen fried dishes had no resistance when they saw the fried bread and fried noodles. Those who were a little richer would grit their teeth and buy a portion to taste. After feeling the novel taste, they praised it again. Soon there was a long queue at their doorstep.

One morning, conservatively estimated that their net profit was around 20 pounds, and the speed of making money was simply outrageous.

However, neither Sun Chunming nor Sun Yue were happy.

Lao Fang and the others came as promised today, still yelling to eat meat and work, but everyone was wearing a vest, with pockets on both sides of the vest, and two knives were inserted.

This is called a knife inserted into two ribs. This knife is not a casual insertion. If you insert such two things, it means you are advancing and retreating, living and dying together. These veterans are really ready to kill people.

Lao Fang did not work with everyone, but did not help Sun Chunming and the others sell breakfast. Instead, he leaned lazily on the door frame of their house, holding a tender willow branch in his mouth, tilting his head and shaking his feet, and looking at everyone passing by with a particularly frivolous look.

It was not until the people who bought the meal in the morning gradually dispersed and the materials they had prepared before were finished, that Sun Chunming breathed a sigh of relief.

He put a large bag of copper wallets he received in the morning, and without counting them, he put them directly in front of Lao Fang and said, "Brother Fang, it's cold, I'll use this little money to share with my brothers a few glasses of turbid wine to drink to warm up your body."

Lao Fang didn't get up from the door frame, looked up at Sun Chunming with his eyes slanted, and smiled and said, "What do you mean, brother, I'm a little dissatisfied. I'm a little unhappy."

Sun Chunming smiled and said, "Brother Fang, don't misunderstand. Since you are brothers, you should naturally have good fortune and hardship. You can't just watch us eat meat. You drink soup. You should collect the money first. If you buy wine, leave the rest to you for the time being. You brothers don't treat me as outsiders, but they are all my brothers. The brothers don't have a stable meal plan now, and this is my business."

Lao Fang sat up after hearing this, "Brother, do you mean, have you found a meal for us brothers?"

Lao Fang was excited. You must know that he saw them with his own eyes working, and he made dozens of coins easily. If he said he was not envious, how could that be possible?

After they went back last night, they complained about Lao Cao's good luck, especially now that they see the people of Lao Cao's family, they are all white and fat, and they are sour and can't help but use the saliva they spit out as jealous.

"I just have some ideas. When the brothers all have free time in the evening, I will talk to everyone."

Lao Fang laughed and said, "Okay, you scholars have a good brain, so I will take the money from you."

As he spoke, a team of imperial guards suddenly came to the south. Looking at the clothes, it was probably from the Guards Division and walked over with carelessness.

The leader glanced at Sun Chunming with his eyes squinted and said, "Are you the scholar who runs a soup cake shop? I heard that your soup cake is a masterpiece. Come on, give me a few of them a bowl to try?"

Sun Chunming looked bitter. The sun was already high and came to have dinner. I am afraid that eight out of ten people would be bad.

Just as he was about to explain, Lao Fang behind him shouted in surprise: "Old Qian? Zhimao, why are you here?"

The soldier in the leader was stunned, and then he saw Lao Fang leaning against the door, and said in surprise: "Lao Fang?"

These two people actually knew each other.

The soldier in charge looked at Lao Fang's shape, especially the two knives inserted in the vest, and frowned and said, "Why, you are the ones who are guarding this family?"

Lao Fang said tactfully: "Not bad."

"Can you give me some face? I was also greeted by someone, and I am here to find fault today."

Sun Chunming's face turned green. How arrogant is he saying so bluntly in front of the main person?

Lao Fang shook his head and said, "I can't give this face today. Lao Qian, we used to kill the Khitan brothers together. I thought back then, I was one level older than you, and I have guaranteed this family. If I change it, I will ask you, can you give me some face?"

The soldier frowned and said, "You can't save it."

"Why, don't you give this face?"

"I can leave, but I am not the only one in the guards. When tomorrow, if you change someone you don't know, what can you do? Can you still fight with us, the imperial guards in the street?"

Lao Fang didn't say anything, but just silently pulled out the knife between the ribs and played with it seriously.

"You still dare to kill the imperial guards? Lao Fang, I would like to advise you, although the new official family is kind, it is a change of dynasty after all. It's really a big deal. No one can save you if you are accustomed to the old dynasty."

When Sun Yue heard this, he couldn't help but jumped out and said angrily: "What a joke? Did the imperial guards and their Wang family make it? They are just cousins ​​of the commander-in-chief. Why can they command the imperial guards?"

Old Qian said embarrassedly: "This...hey, it's also your life is not good. I didn't catch up with the good times. The new official family wants to demolish the guards' horse and guards' infantry into two divisions, the number of people is also to be expanded. At present, Wang Yansheng is a popular figure in the guards' cavalry. You know, the official family used to be the head of the palace front department, so there are not many Buddhas in the guards' department. At such an important moment, it is not impossible for his cousin to find a captain to help him do things. Otherwise... hide."

After hearing this, Sun Chunming was simply desperate. He had been living in the system for a lifetime and knew very well what the reorganization and expansion meant. It would be strange if those middle and low-level leaders were not crazy. This is a critical period when they had to buy things and give gifts even if they sold houses and land. For thousands of years, they had never lacked rats who were willing to be bulls and horses for their leaders.

Just like this soldier said, he gave face this time, what about next time? Not to mention whether they could fight or not, would they really dare to kill the imperial guards?

Only Sun Yue, after hearing the news, not only did he not panic, but his eyes shone brightly!

Seeing Sun Chunming squatting aside with a frown, Sun Yue hurried over and said, "Dad, I have a solution."

Sun Chunming was overjoyed and hurriedly carried him to the side of no one, and asked anxiously: "What's the solution? Tell me quickly!"

"Simple, just find a backer who is bigger than Wang Yansheng."

"Find a backer who is bigger than Wang Yansheng?"

"There is one person that Wang Yansheng can't afford to offend."

"who?"

"Zhao Guangyi!"

"Are you crazy? What is the identity of others, what is our identity, and why should we stand up for you?"

Sun Yue said confidently: "If it were normal, naturally no one would be willing to fight against the celebrities of the officials for us, but now the Secretariat Department is split and expanded, do you think Zhao Guangyi is not jealous? Yu Gong said that the Song Dynasty wants to increase the influence of civil servants on the army, and Zhao Kuangyin also needs his brother to hold on as soon as possible. To privately, we don't know what kind of virtue Zhao Guangyi is. Can he miss such an opportunity to install private people?"

Sun Chunming pondered for a while, and felt that this was a way to live in death, and said, "But he is the prince, and we are just a civilian. How can we meet him?"

Sun Yue laughed even happier: "Dad, now it's a ruler, not a troubled time. If you kill people in troubled times, you can report to the officials. I'm not the prefect of Kaifeng? I heard that no one has knocked the drums in front of Kaifeng's prefecture for a long time, but I don't know if it's still ringing."
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