Damn it, I'm in the garbage book I wrote

Chapter 572 Institutional Superiority

In fact, Xia Lin really wanted to meet a villain who bullied men and women or a tyrannical and unreasonable young master, but the problem was that no matter how badly these people behaved elsewhere, they naturally behaved well when they came here.

Xia Lin did see the man who molested the girl while drunk, but he was pinned down on the spot by the militia nearby and was taken away in less than ten minutes. Moreover, Fuliang is probably the only place at present where there are no legal brothels and gambling houses, so the public security is relatively much better. And because many shady businesses are strictly checked here, large-scale evil forces cannot be formed.

It's not to say that similar things won't breed here. It's almost impossible to ban this kind of thing, but at least it should be banned openly.

As for the brothels, there is really not much that can be done about it. As the saying goes, the devil is always stronger than the righteous. These women really try every possible way to open their doors for business. It is amazing how smart the working people are. Because selling their bodies is not allowed, these women will take various methods to circumvent the law. There are even some scams like "pulling a millstone for an hour". Customers pay to help in the shops opened by the girls. If they do a good job, they will be rewarded. This is the kind of thing where temporary employees are rewarded by their bosses.

How to punish this thing? They neither bought nor sold it. The guests paid money to do the work. Why is it called a reward when the host gives them a reward? It is not immoral and does not commit crimes. The girl is not married. There is really no way to punish them without a crime.

The most outrageous thing was that just now Xia Lin passed by an alley, and a pretty girl greeted him and asked him if he wanted to learn how to knead dough. There were even all kinds of classes on this street, including those for kneading dough, making pancakes, making pea flour, and even teaching how to fold quilts.

It’s not expensive, only six or seven hundred coins for one fold of the quilt, which is considered as tuition.

How do you catch this thing!
As for the evil forces, they actually exist, but to a different degree. They are called chambers of commerce here. The big chambers of commerce use the model of small chambers of commerce. For example, the Xinping Horse Dung Chamber of Commerce is the chamber of commerce that monopolizes the horse manure business here. If the Leping Horse Dung Chamber of Commerce enters the market at this time, the Xinping Chamber of Commerce will negotiate with the Leping Chamber of Commerce. If the negotiation fails, the case will be transferred to the superior chamber of commerce.

That is, the Xinping Dung Chamber of Commerce and the Leping Dung Chamber of Commerce. This has entered a more advanced game. Both sides will use their own connections to compete for each other's dung pit resources, and sometimes even armed fights will occur.

But now the armed fights are a little better, because everyone knows that they cannot kill people in this area, otherwise it will be considered a big deal, so the way they fight is usually that two people from the dung club each pull a cart of dung to the outskirts of the city, and then the death squads from both sides enter the scene, each holding a willow broom and sucking up the dung soup, and then a melee begins.

That scene... Oh, it was really disgusting, but at least no one died, and the local relevant departments would turn a blind eye most of the time.

Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. Anyway, there are bizarre things everywhere. Xia Lin looked around and laughed himself to death.

But this is also normal. No matter where, under the premise of rapid development, and before the laws are perfected, all kinds of incomprehensible behaviors will appear to circumvent the illegal red line. This is commonly known as BUG. But the problem is that the formulation of laws cannot be done just by talking. It requires a long period of accumulation and discussion. Otherwise, if a strange bill is promulgated, Fuliang will become Florida in seconds, and Fuliang will no longer support idle people. You can live in Fuliang, but you cannot be without work.

After walking around, Xia Lin felt a little tired, so he sat down to rest in a mobile shop on the long embankment by the river. The owner of this shop sells tofu pudding, and the style is even a bit like the mobile wine shops on the streets of Baka during the Showa period. Xia Lin ordered a bowl of sweet tofu pudding with osmanthus fermented glutinous rice wine, and the owner specifically asked whether he wanted it iced or hot.

This shocked Xia Lin. After asking, he found out that his boss' business was not good before, so some kids from Ehu Academy gave him some advice and taught him how to make ice with saltpeter. Saltpeter was very cheap, but for the kiln workers who got off work at night, after being roasted by the fire all day, drinking a bowl of cold tofu pudding was priceless.

Business naturally picked up, and with the addition of his own homemade osmanthus sugar and glutinous rice wine, he became an indispensable and fixed NPC at this point and on this line.

"Then have a bowl of ice."

A big bowl of iced tofu pudding, soaked in rice wine, and then sprinkled with three circles of osmanthus sugar, a sip of it will dispel the dampness of the spring in the south, making people can't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It was just after school, and a few students came here, threw down a few coins and ordered the dishes they liked, then sat not far from Xia Lin and started arguing.

They first debated which of the new girls admitted to Ehu Academy this year was the prettiest. Some said it was Yanran, while others said it was Pingping, and they could not reach a consensus. But then they quickly shifted the debate to whether steel could float in water, and introduced the mechanism of density and buoyancy for an in-depth discussion. In the end, they concluded that as long as a piece of steel had a large enough contact area with water, it would definitely float on the water.

Some people are bound to be dissatisfied, so they agreed to try tomorrow to see how large an area is needed for water to lift a pound of iron.

Young people never admit defeat. Their ambition and vision do not allow them to admit defeat, so if nothing unexpected happens, someone will make a piece of iron float on the water tomorrow.

Maybe in a few years, an iron ship will be born in their hands. As a young man, everything is possible.

Just as Xia Lin was listening to their bizarre and imaginative discussions, a very young boy suddenly came up to Xia Lin and said mysteriously, "Sir, how about we make a bet with you?"

Xia Lin looked at them with interest: "What's the bet?"

At this moment, the boy looked back at his companion with a cunning smile, then shook his head and took out a glass ball and an iron lump: "Sir, guess which of these two balls will land first if they fall from a high place. If you guess right, I will give you fifty cents. If you guess right, how about you give me fifty cents?"

Xia Lin almost laughed out loud when he heard this. It seemed that these guys used this method to cheat people many times. Fifty cents was not much, it was quite interesting.

"I'll see."

Xia Lin took the glass ball and the iron lump in his hands and pretended to weigh them. He pretended to ponder for a long time and smiled complacently: "Of course, the iron lump fell to the ground first. It is much heavier." The owner of the tofu stall smiled and shook his head. He might have seen many people being played with by these precious lumps, so he had such an expression.

"You said it." The student had small eyes, a flat nose, and a cunning look on his face: "If you lose, you are not allowed to deny your debt."

Xia Lin groaned and raised his head: "Can I lose to you little kids?"

Then he took out a ten-liang silver note and said, "If you lose, it's yours. Tomorrow I'll have someone make you a big, thin piece of iron sheet."

"Okay, okay, then let's go do an experiment over there!"

They took Xia Lin to the bottom of the embankment. There were people on top holding glass balls and iron balls in both hands, and below were Xia Lin and the child with whom he had made the bet.

"Sir, it's up to you which hand you choose to be higher or lower. You won't regret it!"

Xia Lin smiled and raised his head: "That's about it, let's leave it at that."

"Then I'll let you go!"

As the child above put down the two balls in his hands, just as Xia Lin expected, the two things fell to the ground at the same time, in no particular order.

"Sir, which ball fell first?"

Xia Lin raised his eyebrows and said in astonishment, "Oh my, they landed at the same time? How is this possible!"

"Of course it's possible." The kid who made the bet happily stretched out his hand to Xia Lin: "Sir, I accept the loss!"

Xia Lin sighed and handed him ten taels of silver, his eyes full of reluctance: "Then you have to explain to me the principle of why two objects of different weights can fall to the ground together."

Just when the kid was about to start explaining to Xia Lin what the free fall experiment was, people from the mansion came up.

"Oh, Lord Xia, my General Xia! Everyone in the yamen has been waiting for you like crazy. They thought something happened to you. The whole yamen has come out to look for you. They are so scared that their hearts, livers, spleens and lungs have jumped out of their chests. Finally, they have found you."

Xia Lin turned his head to take a look and asked, "What do you want from me?"

"Sir... my Sir Xia, there is a welcoming banquet today. If you don't come, no one will dare to move. Many of us are trembling with hunger."

Xia Lin bared his teeth: "Sorry, sorry."

After saying that, he turned around and said to the kids, "Remember to make the iron float tomorrow."

He was captured, and the few guys who were left behind were stunned on the spot. They looked at the ten taels of silver in their hands, and first they became visibly panicked, and then their faces turned red with shame.

The only person who could be called Lord Xia and General Xia in this world was Xia Daosheng. Xia Daosheng was the compiler of the liberal arts and science textbooks of Ehu Academy, and the free fall they had just shown off was summarized in the book by Xia Daosheng, and they had only learned the basics.

However, they used this fur to show off in front of the elders of the sect and even cheated them out of ten taels of silver.

"Ouch...this is so embarrassing." Their faces turned red at the same time.

"That was Lord Xia just now, right? Ha, you guys are lying to our Grandmaster."

The vendor selling tofu pudding had no intention of letting them go, and the group of students rubbed their noses, not knowing what to do.

"Why don't you go ask your dean? If Lord Xia blames you, you will be in big trouble."

(End of this chapter)