It was noon when Sun Tu came out of the household, the sun above his head was already blazing like fire, and the smell of wine and food was constantly wafting in the restaurants and restaurants on both sides of the street, which made his stomach gurgle for a while, but he was already hungry.

After eating a bowl of vegetarian soup cakes in the inn in the morning, he has walked a lot for a few hours, but he has never eaten anything. And now Sun Tu's body is growing and developing, and he is hungry faster, which makes him can't wait to walk back to the inn for another hour or two.

However, the hotels here in the inner city are all high-end places when they look at the decoration of the door, but it is not something that ordinary people like him can go in to consume, Sun Tu walked a few steps until he returned to the outer city, and then he found a relatively simple restaurant nearby, but it was a foot shop.

The court of the Great Song Dynasty has always had a clear decree prohibiting the people from brewing and selling wine privately, even if they open a restaurant, they must first bid for a license from the government before they can make wine and sell it themselves, which is the decree of buying and selling. At the beginning, the Ji family behind Zhang Chuan would think of seizing the Sun Hotel, and this is the reason.

In Bianjing City, everyone calls the inn that can make and sell wine by itself as the main store, and the others are foot shops, and the latter wants to sell wine, and can only buy it from the main store, and the price is naturally much higher. Of course, the main store also has to pay a considerable amount of liquor tax to the government every year. It is rumored that there are as many as 72 stores in Kaifeng City, each of which is a high-end hotel with a good reputation, and it is at least four stars or more in later generations, and there are no less than 100 foot shops.

In a city with a population of one million, there are no less than 200 hotels alone, which can be inferred how luxurious Bianjing City is and how rich the people are. In fact, the people who live here are happy to enjoy life, and it is even more common to go to the restaurant. Now, for example, in this small foot shop, more than a dozen tables have been almost filled with customers, and only one table is empty in the corner.

Sun Tu went in and sat down, and a guy came forward to greet him with a smile on his face. Sun Tu didn't pay much attention to eating, so he only asked the other party to serve him a bowl of vegetarian soup cakes, plus two side dishes, and the wine was not ordered. Because firstly, the price of wine today is really not cheap, and secondly, he is not used to drinking the bad wine of the Song Dynasty.

After sitting down, his mind turned even more, thinking of the situation in front of him, Sun Tu became a little worried, what should he do next?

Just waiting until the second day of the next month, the consumption is not small. The inn where I live costs more than two hundred dollars a day, plus the food and drink for two people, at least dozens of taels of silver in a month. What's more, Li Duzhi can say that the amount of silver to be paid is more than 200 taels, how can he afford it?

Originally, he thought that with a warehouse and a hotel, he didn't have to worry about money, but as soon as he arrived in Tokyo, something went wrong. And he can't afford to do this errand, otherwise the sin will only be worse when he returns.

was so upset that Sun Tu didn't even have an appetite for food, so he just stuffed vegetables and noodles into his mouth indiscriminately, but didn't care about how it tasted. At this moment, he suddenly heard someone next to him calling Sun Sanlang, which made him stunned and quickly looked back.

As a result, he only saw two men contemplating each other, and neither of them glanced at him, obviously the Sun Sanlang in the other party's mouth was not his Sun Tu, but another person with the same surname. But in this way, he could hear the chatter of the two clearly—

only listened to one person: "That Sun Saburo has really been unlucky recently, not only did his wife die of a sudden illness, but even his youngest daughter disappeared two days ago, what a sin." ”

"You mean the four-year-old girl? The one that looks like a watery spirit? ”

"It's her, two days ago, somehow, she was playing in front of the door, and suddenly disappeared, making Sun Saburo so anxious, looking for people everywhere, but she couldn't find it."

"Isn't it someone who was stolen by the people in the ghost fan building?"

Hearing this, Sun Tu couldn't help but feel a little strange, Fan Lou already knew what it was, and he had looked at it from afar, but what was this ghost Fan Lou?

"Well, it's probably the sins of the people there. In the past two years, there have been more and more lost women and children in Kaifeng City, presumably the guys there abducted people. ”

"You said that the court doesn't care, how can it go on like this?"

"Tube? The inside of the ghost fan tower is too complicated, even if the officers and soldiers go down, they may not be able to find those people, let alone the officers of Kaifeng Mansion. In the early years, when Bao Xiaosu was the governor of Kaifeng Mansion, they could still restrain themselves, but even so, they could not completely exterminate the ghost Fan Tower, and today naturally no one can do anything to them. And I've heard of one thing......" said him, deliberately lowering his voice and pretending to be mysterious.

"But what?"

"I heard that there are people in the ghost fan tower who are colluding with the family of a certain high-ranking official in the DPRK. Otherwise, how could those people taste freshness......"

This person's words were a little vague, but Sun Tu, who heard it clearly, had already understood. Obviously, the thieves in the ghost Fan Mansion found high-ranking officials in the DPRK and China as backers, so they were so unscrupulous, and at the same time, they let the Kaifeng Mansion and other yamen have no way to deal with them. As for the price, it should be to pick the captive woman or something and give it to the high-ranking official's family to enjoy.

The practice of such officials and thieves harming the people will make people feel a burst of horror and a burst of righteous indignation at the same time. But these two people are also ordinary people, and they just talk about it in private, but they don't dare to preach it.

However, the words of the two fell into Sun Tu's ears, which made his mood worse. In just one day, his opinion of this Tokyo Bianliang has taken a sharp turn.

When he entered the city yesterday, he still longed for this prosperous city, and thought that this place was really worthy of being called the first choice of many people in later generations, and he felt that it was not bad to live a lifetime here.

But now, he knows that it is just the imagination of those literary and artistic young people in later generations, and it is the opinion of wearing a filter.

To say how prosperous and open the Great Song Dynasty was, and how rich the people living here were, it just refers to those who have been successful in studying, and even those who have passed the Jinshi examination. As for the vast majority of the people at the bottom, they are still living in hardship and even precariousness.

This can be seen from my own experience today. Yamen officials are not easy to deal with, even if you enter the door, you have to spend a lot of money, and they can't help you solve the problem. This has to be put on hold in the future, and a video recording and a report are enough for some people to drink a pot.

And the existence of Ghost Fan Lou made Sun Tu feel incredible. At the feet of the Son of Heaven, there is still such a terrible organization that threatens the safety of the people, and the government still resigns itself to it, and some people even collude with it, what kind of era is this!

Don't listen to what the man said, the terrain of the Ghost Fan Tower is complicated, and there is no way for any officers and soldiers to take them. That's, if the government really wants to deal with an underground organization, it's not an easy matter. In the final analysis, it's just because someone wants to use the ghost fan building to satisfy their unsightly selfish desires.

The openness and prosperity on the surface, and the filth and sin in the dark are completely intertwined, this is the real Bianjing City! Even Sun Tu has a feeling that this is the best epitome of the Great Song Dynasty today.

Under the prosperous scene of flowers and cooking oil, there are countless internal and external troubles. At this time, the Great Song Dynasty had already come to the most dangerous moment, and those monarchs and ministers in power still turned a blind eye to this, and only lived in their own dreams, until the iron hooves of the Jin people stepped across the Yellow River and killed the city of Tokyo, they would wake up, but by then it was too late.

I don't know where it came from, Sun Tu once read a saying that the Republic of China is drunk and drunk is like a beautiful and noble cheongsam, but it is full of lice and fleas, and everything inside has already been bitten through and eaten. And in his opinion, the current Great Song Dynasty is also ordinary, how much dirt and blood and tears are hidden under this bright-looking brocade robe, as well as countless lice and fleas......