It is best that before Prince Zhu returns, Jinling City is safe and sound.

It's not possible, though.

It was only a day later that there was a disturbance at the barracks.

The people said that a few people in the barracks came out to eat and drink and did not give money, so they got into a fight with the shopkeeper.

Fortunately, there were no deaths.

This matter has been left to Zhu Ziqin, who manages the barracks.

Gu Zi listened to the turmoil outside, it didn't look like a fake.

But how could such a thing suddenly happen?

Gu Zizhong asked the housekeeper to take care of the house, and she still went to the barracks in person.

When she went to the barracks, Zhu Ziqin was dealing with this matter in the camp tent, and she didn't have time to meet guests.

As soon as she played with her temperament, she said bluntly: "You go and talk to your army, just say that the young lady of the Zhu family in Jinling has come to him, and ask him to come out to see me quickly." ”

The doorman didn't dare to slack off, so he hurried in to report.

After only a moment's effort, the doorman stumbled out of the door, and respectfully invited Gu Zizhong and Feng Ming, who was accompanying him, in.

As soon as Gu Zizhong entered the camp tent, he saw Zhu Ziqin reprimanding a few people who knelt down.

As soon as Zhu Ziqin saw her coming, she immediately changed her color, quickly got up, and asked her to sit over first with a smile.

Gu Zizhong followed Zhu Ziqin's guidance and sat on the side of the seat.

Zhu Ziqin walked back and forth around the kneeling soldiers, the tiger whip in his hand smeared with copper seals, shining and shining in the sunlight outside the tent.

Gu Zizhong took his gaze away.

Zhu Ziqin simply looks like he hates iron but not steel.

But after all, it was his own soldiers, and he couldn't do it.

Circling around the men, he came back and sat down.

He was so angry that he gasped.

Gu Zizhong hurriedly inquired about the situation.

Zhu Ziqin said: "A few of them went to eat, but they didn't give the store any money, and they got into trouble with others. ”

The person who knelt down began to complain to Gu Zizhong, you said everything to me, it was noisy, and Gu Zizhong felt bored when he heard it.

Zhu Ziqin shouted, and they were instantly silent.

Gu Zizhong casually pointed to a person and asked him to explain the situation.

The man's face was full of grievances, and he said with a bitter face: "We have been going to that restaurant to eat and drink before, and they still called us 'military masters' at the beginning and gave us free meals. But later, their attitude gradually changed, and then they simply turned around, not for free, but for inexplicable money. This time, they actually hacked us for ten taels of silver. We haven't had a salary for two months, so where is there so much money for them......"

Zhu Ziqin pointed at him: "What kind of wine do you go out to drink if you don't have money?"

Gu Zi listened to a rough idea.

She shook her head and said to Zhu Ziqin: "Brother Ziqin, I basically understand what this little brother said. They're arguing with that store over this, right?"

Zhu Ziqin pointed to the group of people and sighed: "Fortunately, the matter is not big, and no one died, otherwise it would have been miserable." ”

Gu Zizhong didn't admire him: "What's the point of taking someone's life? Yan Pingnan led the troops to fight against the Japanese invaders, and casually set up arson and robbed and raped him. Didn't the imperial court say anything? We built a barracks in Jinling, and this is also for the imperial court. ”

Zhu Ziqin didn't expect that the young lady would say this.

Gu Zi thought about it again, and asked the person again, "Have you discussed it with that store?"

The man's face was still swollen, he looked embarrassed, shook his head and said, "Where are you still discussing? ”

Gu Zizhong was about to laugh out loud with curiosity: "They are a family that runs a shop, do they dare to argue with the barracks of the imperial court?"

Zhu Ziqin closed her mouth, a little hesitant.

Gu Zizhong saw that he was a little tired.

Zhu Ziqin leaned into her ear and whispered, "The owner of that shop is related to Lord Futai. ”

Oh, no wonder.

The shopkeeper embarrassed the soldiers, this may be Lord Futai is giving the barracks a dismount.

There really is him.

The corners of Gu Zizhong's mouth rose, but her face turned hideous.

She was not convinced, and secretly thought: "This Lord Futai, taking advantage of the fact that his father-in-law and father are not in Jinling, made such a trouble. It's good, embarrass me, I'm going to embarrass him even more. ”

Lord Futai has openly opposed the Zhu family in Jinling.

It's bold.

She asked Zhu Ziqin to release all the soldiers, and rewarded them with ten taels of silver, so that they could pay back the debt.

Gu Zizhong pondered for a moment, pulled Zhu Ziqin to the corner, and said, "Brother, I know that we have no food recently, and the soldiers have not received silver pay for several months. Well, you guys hold on for a while, and I'll figure it out. The barracks cannot be dispersed in any situation. ”

Scatter?

Are you kidding.

Zhu Ziqin won't let the barracks disperse.

He naturally raised his head and reassured Gu Zi.

Although Gu Zizhong left, he still couldn't let go of the barracks in his heart.

She left the soldiers in the barracks.

She went to the store herself.

When the shopkeeper saw Gu Zizhong, he unnaturally wanted to divert his gaze to avoid the sharpness in Gu Zizhong's gaze.

Gu Zizhong smiled and said, "Shopkeeper, I gave you the ten taels of silver that our barracks owe you." ”

As she spoke, she slapped a silver ticket of one hundred taels on the table: "They owe you ten taels of silver, and I will pay you ten times as much." Is it enough?"

The shopkeeper nodded cautiously.

Gu Zizhong smiled and said, "This kind of trick will be used less in the future." Lord Futai doesn't need to cause such a trivial matter. Jinling still has bigger things to do, and Zizhong will definitely take the initiative to discuss it with his old man. ”

The shopkeeper's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and he could barely move.

Gu Zi waved his sleeves and walked away.

After she returned home, the first thing she did was to find Tang Xiannan.

This time, I still have to trouble Uncle Li, after all, Jinling is in the south, and I have to rely on the villagers in the south to help.

The barracks were in trouble, and the court did not pay them money, so they had to raise them themselves.

Tang Xiannan naturally took over this task, and she hurriedly wrote to her uncle.

Ten days later, a letter came from outside, saying that Uncle Li had urgently transported grain from Gusu and Yangzhou and Hangzhou.

They're going to have to hold on for a while.

For a while, Gu Zizhong had to talk to Lord Futai in person.

After all, Zhu Ziqin is the demeanor of a military general, and his heart is not atmospheric at all.

Once Lord Futai makes some tricks, he is afraid that he will be like thunder, right?

Gu Zizhong still has to go to the ring with Lord Futai.

Eyeliner came back and said that there are often some strangers in and out of Lord Futai's mansion, and none of them are from Jinling City.

Gu Zizhong confirmed in his heart that King Kang Mian had good contact with Lord Futai. Maybe Lord Futai will be King Kang's internal response.