Donkey Trouble Volume III: Reckless Men Paying Debts 49, Court Dog Meat
Stained with palace gas, the small radish is also sold as ginseng, can the dog meat business not be hot?
The big branches of the trees fell from the sky like boulders, smashing the bones of the cactus and cracking the flesh; the middle branches were like hammers and sticks, making the cactus dizzy; and the small branches were like knives and cones, stabbing and scratching on the cactus. The cactus' hair was a mess of grass and covered with leaves, his clothes were hung in rags, half of his tits were hanging down, and his face was cut with blood, and the blood was dripping down with the fat powder that had been washed away.
"What's the matter? I'm talking about it, right? Your water tank is broken, isn't the lantern broken? The watermelon is broken, isn't it? The bun is exposed, right? See if you're still evil?"
Zheng En scolded, and when he saw that the cactus ball was smashed under the canopy of the tree and couldn't climb out for a while, he took out a handful of food money in his pocket, threw it on the ground, turned around and walked out of the peach orchard, picked up the oil load and left.
Walking out of the distance, Tian Demei came out of nowhere, ran to Zheng En and complained: "You are really, I whispered to you to run, didn't you hear? Why don't you run?"
Zheng En was honest and just took it seriously: "I'm sorry, that mother-in-law looks strange, I just looked at her and didn't hear it at all." Besides, I'm going to run too, don't people really think we're thieves?"
"That's too. We're going to pay for it, and we don't really steal her! We plant peaches and sell them, and if we don't sell them, they will rot? I've never seen such a bully and unreasonable person. It's a pity that I don't know martial arts, I want to know martial arts, turn around and teach her a good lesson, subdue her, and see if she dares to be arrogant!" Tian Demei tried her best to fan the flames, trying to make a big deal and complete the task ahead of schedule.
"We were also at fault, we picked the peaches first. We should find them and tell the price first!" Zheng En replied lightly.
"The price is whatever she wants, and we didn't say that we won't give it to her? It's okay to pay a fine, even if it is doubled, at most three or two taels of silver, and we can't afford it! She has to beat someone, is this reasonable? Is there such a deal? It's too bullying, right? That's it, I heard her still scolding: Black thief, there is a kind of you don't run! Dare to stay in the town for one night, wait for the old lady to settle accounts with you, you are a hero, you dare not wait for you to belong to a rabbit, a turtle with a shrunken head, and a bastard with a grandson. Do you hear? Isn't this relying on a little martial arts to bully people?"
"I didn't hear that. Is that what she scolds?"
"I can hear it clearly! Otherwise, we won't send this oil, it's important to save your life, hurry up and run!" Tian Demei provoked him.
Foolish people are tired, but most of them are tough, and they eat steel and not iron.
Zheng En originally planned to send oil to avoid trouble quickly, but when he heard Tian Demei so excited, he didn't get excited: "Let's go, find a shop on the street, rest your feet, and eat your stomach!"
Tian Demei saw Zheng En step into the set, and was secretly happy in her heart, and took Zheng En to the Qianshan Town Inn.
Tian Demei had met with the shopkeeper Wang under the introduction of his cousin the day before yesterday, and coaxed him to say that some people couldn't get used to Du Ergong's domineering, so he specially invited a chivalrous hero from other places, and was ready to beat Du Ergong hard, brake his prestige, and ask him to help incite, try his best to be round, and thank him afterwards.
The shopkeeper Wang has been bullied by Du Ergong, and now someone is angry for him, and he also thanked him heavily, of course he is very happy, and he is trying to cooperate with Tian Demei.
Tian Demei took Zheng En into the hospital, and while he sent a guy to reconnoiter Du Ergong's movements, he also broke Zheng En away in the name of letting Zheng En recognize the room, and quickly communicated the situation with Tian Demei and improved the measures.
Zheng En put down the oil load in the corner of the wall, went to the arranged room to recognize the door, washed the dust on his face, walked downstairs, and was about to buy food, when the guy who was ordered to scout had already run back in a panic: "The owner, the dog meat seller has arrived in the west, or it will be here for us in a while!"
When the shopkeeper heard this, he rubbed his hands and stomped his feet, sighed for a long time, wiped his tears and pinched his nose and performed: "My God, my earth, what kind of world is this, how can people live!"
Tian Demei was afraid that he would perform too much, so she hurriedly pulled in and cooperated: "The old shopkeeper, the dog meat seller is here, you can buy it if you want to, forget it if you don't want to buy it, why are you afraid of being like this, angry like this, like a robber is coming to rob you?"
The shopkeeper wiped away his tears and said, "It's better to run into robbers." Robbers are secret robbers, you can prevent it, this is open robbery, make a register by household, check the body and blackmail, no one can hide from it!"
Tian Demei pretended to be confused and asked, "What the hell is going on, please tell us about the old shopkeeper!"
The shopkeeper Wang had already added oil and vinegar to Du Ergong's "heroic deeds", sorted out the set, and poured out while wiping his tears: "A few years ago, the family surnamed Du moved from Luoyang in this town, and the couple relied on a little kung fu, so they called the king and hegemon, and extorted money. First, they seized an orchard of the Wang family, and every year when the fruit was ripe, they forcibly sold it door-to-door. A peach and a half taels of silver, you can buy one elsewhere—"
"Is it the peach orchard in the east of the town?" asked Tian Demei, pretending to be a fan on the side.
"yes. You see, you have to stay away as you pass by. A few days ago, someone passed by the edge of the peach orchard and touched the leaves, and the cactus insisted that they had picked peaches. Oh, he was beaten half to death, and he was tied up on the side of the road for three days, until the man died, and then he was released! Oh, oh, you have to be careful!"
When Zheng En heard this, he became angry: "Don't go there, don't buy his peaches, see what happens to him?"
"He has a gang of thugs, all of them are like wolves and tigers, who dares not to buy them? A few days ago, there was a family that did not buy according to the number, and at night the daughter was ruined. That daughter hanged herself, and the man was so angry that he threw himself into the river! Pitiful, pitiful!"
The cactus ball beat the man to the point that he broke his leg and lay on the bed, which is true, but the daughter was ruined and hanged into the river, but it was the king's shopkeeper who made up and exaggerated.
"Is the dog meat business also run by Du Ergong?" Tian Demei guided on the side.
"How can it not! Who dares to be so domineering!"
"How is his dog meat sold?" asked Jung, puzzled.
"He's selling dog meat, he's just blackmailing for some reason. His dog meat shop opened, using Zhang Bald's braised soup, but said that it was the recipe of the palace kitchen that was excavated. Stained with palace gas, small radishes are also sold as ginseng, which is known to everyone. He's really expensive, and everyone can accept it. But he is very expensive, just look at it and smell it, and you need silver. And all year round, on the fifteenth day of the last month of each quarter, it must be delivered to the door, five taels for the upper household, two taels for the middle household, and one tael for the small household. If you don't give it, you will be beaten, and the law of a hundred lives will harm you.
"It's a pity that ordinary people have toiled for a year, and they don't have much income from a few taels of silver, and it is difficult for the whole family to afford it without eating or drinking! I am a high-class household, and I must prepare five taels of silver. In a remote town, business is not good, how can he withstand his blackmail all year round!
"The last time he came to let me smell the dog meat, my child and his mother couldn't look past it, and said, this is something that the queen enjoys and the queen's mother, we are sluts and cheap people, and we can't afford it! Just said this, then Du Ergong's eyes widened angrily, and shouted, Old beggar, I really don't know how to lift! We spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to dig out the secret recipe of this palace, and won glory and fame for Qianshan Town. It's not that Lao Tzu's dog meat is famous, attracting customers from all over the world, where does your inn make a profit? Pity an old woman, who was beaten to the ground and fell to the ground, and still did not forgive, and kicked and broke three ribs, and is still lying on the bed today!
In fact, Du Ergong brought people to sell "palace dog meat", and the shopkeeper Wang was more affectionate than anyone else, what "excavated the imperial kitchen technology of the Tang Dynasty and served the people, which made great contributions"; It's an honor to be able to see and smell it"; The palace dog meat attracts customers from all over the world, and Qianshan Town has become a tourist attraction, and my inn has more and more customers these days"; Help your blessing, thank you, thank you"; It's only four times a year, and I only pay five taels of silver each time, no more, no more" - the sycophants kept going on and on, and the slapping sounded. Not only did he pay the money in full every time, but he also entertained Du Ergong and his gang to drink and eat.
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