Chapter 8: Settling in
"Hard work! Give it a favor..." In the noisy vegetable market, a young porter carrying a load was clamoring and pounding forward.
A man blocking the middle of the road moved sideways away.
The two passed by each other. The porter glanced at the man who looked strange and half-length, thinking that this man should be a foreigner who had just come to the town.
Just by just passing by, this little episode did not last long in the porter's mind and was forgotten completely.
...
Shao Cheng turned sideways and asked the porter to look at the town streets that were not too wide but seemed to be prosperous. He realized that he had been teleported to the county town where the story happened in the ghost-beating world.
According to the plot in the movie, it is not difficult to see that the story of "Ghost Fights" basically took place in an ordinary town along the southern coast in the late Qing Dynasty.
Compared with Foshan, the town where ghosts are beaten is obviously much smaller.
You know, if it were a city like Foshan with busy trade, a wealthy businessman like Boss Tan who appeared in the plot of Ghost Fighting Ghosts would not be considered a character at all!
Not to mention the officials of all sizes in Foshan City, the officials of the Qing court who took office immediately, even those with high reputation as Huang Feihong are not comparable to those of small local rich men like Boss Tan.
In the town where the plot of fighting ghosts occurs, this rich Boss Tan can be regarded as the No. 1 character. Even if you don’t consider the county magistrate who never appeared in the plot, only the captain who collected black money, played by Lin Zhengying, can be regarded as the same level as her.
From this we can see that this place is obviously an ordinary southern town.
In terms of time, Shao Cheng judged that it was probably after Huang Feihong's world - this can be seen from his braids.
In Huang Feihong's world, although the Qing court was already full of holes, it can be seen from the fact that most people still combed their hair and the government was still strong that their energy was not completely exhausted.
But here, you can see many young people with no whip, half-length and no short hair, and no hairstyle at all. For example, the headmaster played by Lin Zhengying, the wealthy Mr. Tan, and some older people still have braids.
Although we have to consider that the location here is in the south and the Qing government's relatively lax management, there are a large number of people who keep whips and cut off them... but the approximate time will not deviate.
Since it is a familiar era, although it has changed the city, it will not be difficult for Shao Cheng to adapt.
With a backpack on my backpack, I didn’t go to the store, but instead found a tea shop on the street, bought a bowl of tea, and asked the owner of the tea shop about renting a house.
Although this town is not big, there are many things like renting and selling.
Soon, Shao Cheng found a small blue brick house based on the instructions of the tea shop owner.
After communicating with the owner, I realized that the original owner of the house had moved to Foshan for business and then sold it at a low price.
However, many areas are in chaos these days, with natural disasters and plagues.
Although there are not many things in this town, the population is inevitably reduced, so there is not much demand for housing, so the sale of houses has been delayed.
He was left at home to look at the house. After a few months, he was already anxious to go to Foshan to help his family with his business. At this time, he finally met a buyer, but the owner did not quote a false price and directly gave a very low price.
Such housing prices are naturally not a problem for Shao Cheng, who has been operating in Huang Feihong's world for three years and has exchanged a lot of gold and silver when he returned home.
Even after buying the house in full, I bought all the furniture in the house.
The owner hurriedly took Shao Cheng to the yamen to find an acquaintance to complete the transfer procedures, received a new land deed and house deed. When he came back, he bought quilts and bedding from the tailor's shop and waited for a family. After returning to the newly bought tile house, he could live in the house.
I put on the bedding, hung it on the bed tent, threw the original owner's bowls, chopsticks and chamber pot into the nearby alley, and replaced it with my newly bought living utensils... After all this trouble, after settling down, it was already dark outside.
I don't want to go out to buy food either.
I just made do with the canned biscuits I brought in my backpack and ate some. Shao Cheng, who had just arrived here, was about to go to bed.
Out of the habit that he first developed in the chaotic times in the late Ming Dynasty, Shao Cheng first inspected before going to bed, found out the locations of the doors and windows in the house, and carefully inserted the door latch and window pins.
Finally, I was not at ease enough, and I was still behind the door and behind the window. I put the newly purchased bowls and chopsticks on the table and chairs. If someone pushed the door from outside in the middle of the night, even if I opened the door latch along the crack of the door, the dead chair and chopsticks could have some early warning effect.
After doing all this, Shao Cheng crawled into the bed...
...
Kiss~~~! Kiss~~~~!!!
Just as the morning was dawn, Shao Cheng woke up by a loud crow of roosters.
Although this town is in the town, there are quite a few people who have built a chicken coop in the yard in this era. After all, in the eyes of many middle-aged families, raising chickens and ducks is much more suitable than buying eggs on the market! During the Chinese New Year and the holidays, you don’t have to spend the hard-earned money to buy chickens. Just stew those chickens that are almost unable to lay eggs to have a fat New Year.
Shao Cheng naturally doesn't lack money and doesn't want to waste time raising this.
However, the sound of the rooster crowing this morning reminded him one thing - this world is not as chaotic as Huang Feihong or the late Ming Dynasty before. Although the former is more chaotic, there are no ghosts after all. In this world where ghosts beat ghosts, it is not difficult to see from Zhang Dadan's experience that this world insists on a hundred ghosts walking at night... It is simply a common thing to meet a ghost zombie when you go out at night!
I worked hard for a long time last night, and I had both the door and the table and chair... In fact, I had no defense against ghosts and monsters!
Although Shao Cheng knew that ordinary people should not be as unlucky as Zhang Dadan, and they hit ghosts one after another. But after all, the world background of "ghosts and monsters are all around the ground" is here. I didn't encounter them yesterday, but it doesn't mean that tomorrow will be fine!
After thinking about it, Shao Cheng decided to put the matter of purchasing the industry first and visit his teachers to learn skills first, and he was somewhat wary of these ghosts and monsters.
Hidden the package in the rice jar in the kitchen, put one of the revolvers on it, pinned it with a custom cowhide gun bag under the clothes on the waist, and hid the short knife in the scabbard on the back, holding some unmarked silver coins that were specially hired to suppress in Huang Feihong's world. Then Shao Cheng locked the door and went out to find out...
Chapter completed!