Cooperate?

How to cooperate?

"We adults have come all the way from Beijing, and we are really tired, but this post station is really full, and it is okay for us to forcibly expel these people, but it is still a little unbearable..."The man sighed.

"What's unbearable, this is a post station, not an inn, hurry up, drive them out, I'll spend money to buy two of you upper rooms." Wang Qilang interrupted him and said.

The man smiled and shook his head.

"Childe laughed, don't you dare." He said, "These old and weak women and children are too pitiful. ”

"Pathetic? Have mercy on you, and sleep in the wilderness. Wang Qilang snorted and said.

"But then our family is pitiful." The man laughed.

"So what do you want?" Wang Qilang asked.

"It's a bit hard to talk about." The man said, "We have an official letter but no money, you see if this will work, I will use the official letter to ask for a room, and you can give some money to these people who have been driven out, so that we can be regarded as affectionate and righteous." ”

Wang Qilang's eyes lit up.

The old servant couldn't help but nod.

That's a good idea.

Reasonable and reasonable.

"Then I'll have two upper rooms." Wang Qilang immediately said, "I have a female dependent here." ”

The man groaned, his face embarrassed.

"The upper room is for the official family according to the regulations," he said, "so be it, two single rooms." ”

That's fine, at least you don't have to sleep in a chase bunk, it's hard to be embarrassed.

Wang Qilang nodded.

"Okay, Uncle Gu, you can follow them." He waved his hand happily.

The old servant nodded hurriedly. While looking at the man.

"Dare to ask the official where to run an errand?" He asked with a smile.

"Don't dare. Can't. Taicang Road is just a small official under the transfer division. The man replied with a smile.

The old servant was very surprised, this is the important yamen in charge of the money and food of one party, which is related to the lifeblood of the imperial court, and has always been appointed by officials with outstanding political directors, and those who can serve as officials under the transfer department are naturally not ordinary people.

The old servant was a little happy in his heart, but he didn't expect to be able to climb this relationship on the way. Mastering money and grain is useful for the Wang family, who is engaged in waterway trading.

"My lord is humble." He said even more flatteringly.

The man was no longer polite and nodded.

"Then you will have to spend money." He said, turned his head to look at the guard behind him, and made a look, "You and this old man go to do something, hurry up, the adult's car is about to arrive." ”

The guards answered, and the old servant nodded and hurriedly followed. Wang Qilang had already rushed outside happily and hurriedly said, thinking of something and turning around.

"Your Excellency. I also have to ask the cook to prepare the food and drinks. He exclaimed.

The man nodded with a smile and watched Wang Qilang walk away.

On the side of the road outside the post station, the Zhou family's entourage also set up tents, bonfires were lit, and three or four people carried meat and vegetables bought from the kitchen and two jars of wine.

"This little post station still has good wine..."Steward Cao said to Cheng Jianniang.

"I ate it at night to ward off the cold, don't eat too much." Cheng Jianniang said.

"That's naturally that, that's natural." Steward Cao nodded again and again.

"See, I don't even dare to eat and drink in the wild." Wang Qilang said, staggering over, with a little pride.

"When you go out, you don't dare to have fun on the road." Steward Cao said.

Unruly subordinates!

"It's your turn to talk to me!" Wang Qilang glared and shouted, while looking at Cheng Jianniang, "Okay, the room has been obtained, pack up your things and go live, as for you..."

He looked at Steward Cao and the others and snorted.

"Datong can't stay, so you can sleep here, so as not to waste the tent you have set up."

"Where did you get the room from?"

Cheng Jianniang, who was sitting on a four-legged stool, wearing a cloak and a hood, looked up and asked.

Wang Qilang became more and more proud, raised his head and hummed twice.

"Childe, I have my own way." He said.

As he was talking, there was a commotion in the station.

",, didn't you hear grandpa?" The two guards threw the whip off their hands fiercely.

An old man with a child in his arms could not dodge it, so he turned around and took down two whips, so as not to hurt the child in his arms.

The child cried, the woman cried, and the already well-filled hall was in chaos.

"Master Bing, I've already let them lay the floor here..."Yi Cheng, whose face was pale and sweaty, stepped forward to dissuade him.

"What kind of bunk, get out of the house, the old men want to eat and sleep here." The guards shouted, raising their whips again, and then looking, "You guys, give them money, let them get out of the city and find another place." ”

The old servant and a few of his attendants were stunned.

Listening to the guard's words, the people in the house looked at them with undisguised anger in their eyes.

"No, no, it's not so," said the old servant, sweat on his forehead.

Something doesn't seem right...

But it was too late, and no one listened to him.

"We don't want money, we want to live here." An evicted man shouted angrily.

When someone takes the lead, more people shout.

"Yes, we don't want money."

"Who scarces your money!"

"Bullying! And there is no royal law! ”

Seeing everyone like this, the guard snorted and shook the whip in his hand.

"What are you doing? Want to rebel? Let me tell you, our family went to Taicang on an errand by the order of the Son of Heaven, and if you don't get out quickly, you will delay the important affairs of the adults, which of you can afford it? ”

It turned out to be an angel?

Everyone present was stunned, and their anger was hidden, leaving only some helplessness and injustice.

Yi Cheng's expression was complicated, and he couldn't help but step forward.

"Even so, these people have been driven out of the city like this, mostly women, children, old and children, and it is not very good in the middle of the night...," he whispered.

"Lao Tzu is not unreasonable." The guard said with a smile, glaring at the old servant and the others on the side, "Don't hurry up and give everyone the money!" ”

The old servant was sweating profusely, and now he had to step forward.

"Here's some money. Take some and find a place to stay," he said. While handing the money to the people in the hall one by one.

No one took his money. Some people even spat, the young man supported the old man, the woman held the child, and walked out of the hall in a messy but strange and quiet manner, and on the other side, a few people came in the backyard in a hurry, scolding and swearing.

“… This is bullying! ”

"....Which dog officer..."

At this moment, the carriage and horses outside the post station sounded. A dozen or so guards dressed like the guards here, and a carriage drove in.

"Lord Feng is here!"

The guards in the post station shouted loudly, accompanied by shouting, not forgetting to drive away the people with their whips.

"Hurry up and get out of the way, don't delay Lord Feng's rest."

Because of this drive, the crowd was even more confused, and the children who had just been pacified began to cry again, and there was chaos in the inn.

Looking at this chaos, Cheng Jianniang stood up.

"The house you wanted, this is not how it came about, right?" She asked.

"Give the money, and it's not for nothing to drive them away." Wang Qilang said. While looking at the chaotic courtyard, his expression was also a little surprised, and then he was happy.

Giving money to be able to leave so many people!

"Hey. Adults don't care about villains, it's rare for us to go all the way, you can also go in and live. He snorted at Steward Cao and the others.

Cheng Jianniang glanced at him.

"Who are those people?" She stretched out her hand and pointed at the guards in the courtyard.

"Oh, my own people, they can help..."Wang Qilang said with a bit of pride.

Before the words fell, Cheng Jianniang raised her feet and walked forward.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Wang Qilang shouted with a puzzled face.

Cheng Jianniang no longer paid attention to him and stopped on the road at the door.

"Someone." She said.

Although Steward Cao didn't dare to get too close, he always stood in a place where he could hear orders at any time, and immediately responded when he heard the words.

"Beat me up these daring things that wantonly disturb the people!" Cheng Jianniang said, looking at the courtyard.

Steward Cao immediately greeted him, and immediately seven or eight entourages rushed to the courtyard with their wooden sticks.

"He actually bullied the people, he really deserves to be beaten!"

With the shouting, the four guards holding the whip were suddenly surrounded by the people of the Zhou family, and they couldn't help but beat them down with their heads and faces.

This call came too suddenly, and the guards didn't react at all, and the Zhou family's entourage were all carefully selected by Master Zhou, and the four guards were knocked to the ground in three times, and even the old servants and a few others were not spared.

The people in the courtyard froze, and when they came back to their senses and heard their shouts, they suddenly did not know which of the leaders shouted "yes", and then the cheers came one after another.

Wang Qilang was also stunned.

"You're crazy! What are you doing? He came back to his senses and shouted.

Cheng Jianniang ignored him, raised her feet and strode towards the door, where a man was getting down from the carriage parked outside the door.

The noisy and screaming man was also startled, took off his hood and looked at it, his face shocked.

"W-what's going on?" He shouted.

The official of the Taicang Road Transfer Division who came to greet him was also stunned, and he couldn't help but shudder when he looked at the person in the courtyard who was holding a stick and was steady and ruthless.

It's a shame that he came out quickly to greet the adults just now, otherwise, he would have been knocked to the ground at this time...

Who is this?

Most of the people in the post station are officials, could it be that they have touched the mold of some big man?

The big guy is terrible, but he is not afraid.

"My lord, I don't know what to do." The official said, his face was surprised, "These people are deliberately making trouble!" ”

As he spoke, he hurriedly greeted the guards on the side.

"Don't go catch the gangsters yet!"

The guards immediately picked up their weapons and responded in unison.

"Slow, slow, ask what's going on," the thin man said busily.

"My lord, what else do you ask, if you come up and fight without saying anything, you must be a villain!" The officer shouted, urging the guards again.

Before his words fell, a female voice came from behind him.

"Come up and fight without saying anything, these soldiers are really villains!"

The official and the lord turned their heads to see a woman in a large cloak standing behind them in the night.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Who are you? The official raised his eyebrows and shouted.

"Unhappy passers-by." Cheng Jianniang said.

A passer-by who is holding an uneven fight?!

Sick, right?

It's still uneven! What do you think of singing? What do dogs do with rats!

Wang Qilang stared at him and jumped to his feet, this woman is really a fool!

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Two shifts today. (To be continued......)