"You're from Sweetwater?"

"Yes-" The senior was happy, knowing that he could ask something, and his attitude was very respectful.

"Who are you, Zhang Ye?"

"It's my eldest brother. ”

"Is it your eldest brother? Then why are you here alone?" said the official as he looked around, and at this glance, he saw Man Qing and Aunt Zhou, who were looking anxiously not far away, "Those two came with you?"

Gao Siliang suddenly became alert, this person's attitude is a little wrong, how do you feel that there is something hidden in the words, and there is a follow-up?"

The official didn't wait for Gao Siliang to answer, and sighed twice, "Then it is probably the unmarried little lady of Zhang Ye's family! Hehe, I have heard for a long time that the niece of Zhang Ye's family is married to an orphan girl in the countryside, and at this time, that little lady must not be able to sit still!"

Senior Siliang took a step back, and felt a little chill in his heart: These people know everything, and they are waiting for them to come looking for him! Something is wrong, something must be wrong! He wanted to walk away directly, but the official suddenly approached him and said almost in a whisper: "We have been waiting for you to come to your boss Zhang! However, if you want to get him out, you must also think about what to fish!"

What else don't you understand in the senior year, this is a game, just waiting for them to drill it. He stopped talking, but bowed to the servant, turned and walked towards Manqing.

The official didn't expect that before he finished speaking, this person left, and followed behind and "stopped" twice, but after all, he had to stand at the door to watch the door, and it was not easy to go far, so he came back after walking a few steps.

"Hmph, they're all temperamental people! Wait for you, such a big piece of fat, I don't believe I can't bite off a piece!"

Unfortunately, this official happened to follow Zhang Xiantai to the dock, one of Zhang Xiantai's cronies. Zhang Ye was arrested this time, and it is very simple to say, that is, Zhang Xiantai has too much appetite, Zhang Ye really doesn't want to be controlled by others, and mediates in many ways, but he still can't satisfy Zhang Xiantai, so he casually found a reason and detained Zhang Ye. The follow-up will be simple, let the cronies wait at the gate, sooner or later the people of the Zhang Ye family will come to catch people, and whether they are lions or tigers will open their mouths, it is not up to them to decide? For this reason, Zhang Xiantai also deliberately put his cronies in the gatehouse, just to wait for the people of the Zhang family to come.

Moreover, they have a series of follow-up methods, all waiting, they don't believe it, these countrymen, still can't help but rub the round and flat?

Therefore, the official was not in a hurry, laughed twice, turned around and left the position of the porter, and reported directly.

Here, the senior walked to the anxious side of Man Qing and Aunt Zhou, but before they could speak, he whispered that he would leave first. Man Qing and Aunt Zhou saw that his demeanor was a little wrong, and they didn't say anything, so they followed him back, but they walked back to the inn, and the senior walked to the room of the two, closed the door of the room, and then said what happened just now.

Aunt Zhou slapped her thigh, "What does this mean?

Man Qing didn't speak for a while, her heart was full of resentment and worry, and she sank into a stone as uncomfortable. She grabbed Aunt Zhou, who was still chattering, with some guilt in her eyes, "Aunt Zhou, four taels, it may be that we have caused you to be involved! I don't know what moths are behind these people, so, why don't you two go back first?"

The three of them probably knew the situation, and when they heard Man Qing say this, the two of them were not happy.

"What are you talking about? Where can I have me today without Boss Zhang, this hasn't started yet, what are you afraid of, I, Zhou Cuihua, am not a person who is afraid of things!"

"Manqing, I know what you mean. Don't worry that we will be affected, if there is no boss, I will still call Hanako one, what is there to be afraid of—— but you, this time you may have to suffer because of the boss!"

Man Qing's eyes were slightly red, no longer pretentious, but directly analyzed the current situation. "It seems that they have set up a bureau, and they want us to find them and give them gifts. ”

The senior nodded repeatedly, "Mmmm, I feel the same way." They've been waiting for us, they just don't know what they want? Hmph, the boss has already sent them so much, or is he not greedy enough!"

Aunt Zhou didn't know as much as they did, so she asked what was going on. The senior two talked about the construction of the wharf from beginning to end.

"They're too greedy and insufficient!" Aunt Zhou exclaimed in a low voice, "They have given so many houses and land to them, and the rest of the land has also gone to the town to pay for it, why should they be greedy?!"

"Not really. If it weren't for our boss, many of the people in these ten miles and eight towns would still be hungry before! Many people would like to thank Boss Zhang, and when I came out this time, they also said that we must bring the boss back, and we are willing to pay what price!"

"The question is, at what cost?" Manqing also calmed down, "I don't know where the title deeds on the docks are, if they just want land, I can't do it." ”

Aunt Zhou and Gao Siliang looked at the burden that Man Qing had been with, "Then what they want is not the title deed, but the house we have already built?"

"I don't know where it is - besides, I heard Brother Zhang say that most of them have been sold, or rather, Brother Zhang sold the land at the beginning, and the houses were built by everyone themselves. ”

Indeed, this is the case for the most part. At that time, Zhang Ye's approach was to go to the town to approve a large piece of land, and then find someone to design it, divide it into different small pieces, and everyone came to pay for the land. If the money is not enough, then come to work, there is a salary for work, and slowly pay off the money step by step. And this workmanship, at the beginning, he built a wharf with stones, and then most of the houses were built. Each family who bought land also wanted to build a house, so Boss Zhang said that it should be built in a unified manner, all of which were made of stone, and the scale was similar, so as not to make some people magnificent and some people were thatched houses. Then what if you don't have the money to buy land and build a house? Then you will continue to work, in addition to going around to help other people's families build houses, you also have to plant paulownia trees, hoe grass and fertilize it, and when the season comes, you have to pick paulownia seeds and extract oil...... Anyway, the dock has been doing something in the past few years, and not everyone can't afford to pay any money.

Like the Gui family, they still have a little money, they paid part of the land money first, and then they also went to work, and the wages they got almost slowly returned the money for building a house, so now they are much freer, and they began to prepare to open their own restaurant. This is mostly the case with the dozens of homes that have moved to live on the docks. And like Manqing, there is no money at all, the land is almost given by Boss Zhang, and the money for building a house is said to be the money for work, but it is also a confused account, anyway, Boss Zhang gave it a cushion.

So how could Man Qing have this title deed and house deed? Not to mention that she didn't have it, she estimated that there were few in Zhang Ye's hands.

As soon as Man Qing finished speaking, Aunt Zhou and Gao Si were both worried, "Then what should I do, there is neither a house deed nor a land deed, so what do these officials and gentlemen want?

Man Qing looked at them and looked at herself, so she simply opened the burden and told them one by one, "I have a silver ticket of one hundred taels and forty taels of silver here," there are still sixty taels hidden in the ground of the house, and she doesn't dare to keep anything, "And these are the approval documents in the town, as well as the account books that Brother Zhang gave to Master Zhang and several masters in the town before." I think it's not that Brother Zhang didn't send it, but he sent it a long time ago, because they were not greedy enough!"

"Moreover," Man Qing had a little headache, and said Gao Siliang and Aunt Zhou, who were frowning like those two, "Brother Zhang doesn't have any money in his hands at all. In the past few years, he has used all the money from the sale of tung oil to build a wharf -- this wharf is unknown to others, but you know that it was all built by Brother Zhang, whether it is in the town or in the county, and he has never paid for it at all! Then Brother Zhang asked everyone to go to work, and changed the money to build a house, so that this wharf can be built! But there is also money in front, so many people have to work every day, and they have to buy a lot of things, and Brother Zhang has long run out of money! He is now waiting for more tung oil in a few years, and the rest of the house will be sold for money! ”

"Huh?" Aunt Zhou couldn't help but exclaim, "The court didn't give money to Boss Zhang, why did you come to him to ask for money now?!"

Gao Siliang snorted, "I can see through these officials!