Chapter 217: The Old Beggar
Mr. He sat at the checkpoint in the town for an afternoon, and the old beggar asked flatteringly, "Where is my brother from?" I haven't seen you here. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"I'm from Luzhou, and I'm doing some business here for a few days." Mr. Ho knew that these beggars had been wandering here for many years, and he must have known a lot about what was going on here.
The old beggar nodded, "What kind of business does my brother do?" ”
"Guess what!" Mr. He wanted to test the old beggar's eyesight.
The old beggar looked Mr. He up and down for a while and said, "Brother, you are not a businessman, you are a Langzhong of Youfang." ”
Mr. He was taken aback at the time, "How do you know that I am Langzhong and not a businessman." ”
The old beggar smiled, "First of all, the old brother's eyes are full of leisure, you must know that businessmen are anxious all day long, and the light in their eyes is the kind of light that is forced by profits, and they are thinking about how much profit they make today, and they will never sit comfortably at the foot of the wall and bask in the sun like the old brother." ”
"Then how do you know that I am Langzhong?"
"First of all, my brother sat down at the base of the wall and talked to us, if he was a scholar, he wouldn't sit here in such a humiliating manner. Second, if you are a public person, of course you will have an indescribable sense of wealth and arrogance, but you don't, and there is a smell of medicine from time to time on your body, so I thought that you are a man who can deal with everyone. ”
"You old guy was not sent here by the government to investigate the case, look at people so accurately!" Mr. He couldn't help but praise the old beggar.
The old beggar grinned and said, "It's good that I'm an official eater, I'm just wandering for a long time and seeing more people." ”
Mr. He nodded at this time and said, "I am a medical practitioner, but I also do some medicinal herb business, but there are people who help me take care of these businesses, so I am so idle and come to these places to be lazy." ”
At this time, the old beggar patted his head and said, "I really didn't expect this, it seems that my eyesight is still a little worse." ”
Mr. He looked at the old beggar and asked: "Don't talk about this, every time my goods pass here, they will be checked, but I just looked at it for a long time, and I didn't check it much in the afternoon, but my goods are still being checked here in the afternoon, what's going on?" ”
Only then did the old beggar laugh and say, "My brother is here for this matter!" I see that my brother hasn't seen through the reason for this, so I've suffered a loss here. ”
"Is there a way out there?" Mr. He asked questions at that time.
The old beggar smiled and said nothing, Mr. He knew what was going on, he took out two taels of silver from his arms and stuffed them into the old beggar's hand and said, "Please accept this little heart." ”
The old beggar held the silver in his palm and weighed it, and then estimated the size with his hand, he knew that the silver given by this person was in good condition, "Brother, do you know why the leader went back in the afternoon?" ”
"I don't know, I'm going to ask you." Mr. Ho saw that the silver was useful.
The old beggar nodded and said, "That's because there is a problem with this card itself." ”
"What's the problem?" Mr. He was also puzzled in his heart.
"You must know that most of the trade taxes in this dynasty are collected in the state and county, and the town only supervises and does not charge any fees in this regard, but there is such a checkpoint here, do you know why?"
"I don't know." Mr. Ho could tell that there seemed to be a story here.
"Of course, someone in Beijing has set up a card here to collect money."
"Who?"
"I don't know about this, but I heard that this person is very remarkable, and even if this matter is reported to the emperor, this person is not afraid, so the card set up here is to collect wealth for him."
At this time, Mr. He understood, "The government is not restricted by the government to collect money here, so they can collect whatever they want." ”
The old beggar gestured out his thumb and said: "Brother is smart, it is precisely because of this that the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked, so the soldiers guarding the card here also know the trick of this, and they check carefully in the morning, so the people who pass by here have to pay the toll honestly, but in the afternoon, the business travelers who pass by because the sun is low and they can't catch up with the next village store, so there are fewer people passing by, of course, the people passing by are another category." ”
"I don't know what kind of one?"
The old beggar pointed to a few people who had cleared the customs and said, "These are the people." ”
Mr. He looked at these people, just some ordinary businessmen, he looked back at the old beggar in confusion, "What's wrong with these people?" ”
"My brother knows by looking at these people's clothes that they are not ordinary people."
Mr. He looked at the clothes of these people carefully, but he still couldn't see anything strange, so he had to clench his fists to the old beggar and say, "I really can't see anything strange here." ”
The old beggar smiled proudly, "Look at their clothes, they are clearly worn by people in the city, and they are exquisitely made and embroidered, and it seems a pity to wear such clothes on the road, unless they are the same as the old brother, the young man will not wear these clothes." ”
"Why is that?" Mr. He really admired the old beggar's eyesight.
"These people just push the car when they pass through the checkpoint, and they come back after the road, just to get acquainted."
Mr. He understood at this time, "Are you saying that these people are actually helping people get through, they have received the benefits of those who want to pass the checkpoint in advance, and they bribe these benefits to the guards at the checkpoint, so that when they pass the checkpoint, the guards just pretend to check the goods and let them go, while the others have to give money if they want to pass through here." ”
"My brother is a smart man." The old beggar gave Mr. He a haha.
Mr. He looked around, then got up and went back to the teahouse, at this time Yingxiang was still working hard in the private room, and on the table and on the floor were only the melon seed skins she had eaten, and the peanut shells were still ......
Seeing this scene, Mr. He was also dumbfounded, "I said little girl, you are not afraid of eating your stomach if you want to eat this way!" ”
"Grandpa He, come and sit, I just saw something strange over there."
This little mouth was so sweet that Mr. He was very happy, and Yingxiang seemed to have really discovered something, she pulled Mr. He to the window and sat down and said, "Grandpa went down just now, I looked at the level carefully in front of the window, and it turned out that I found a strange thing. ”
"What did you find?"
"There's a problem with the level below."
Mr. He was taken aback when he heard this, "What do you see?" ”
"I just saw a few people who obviously sent a batch of goods out of town, and soon I saw these people delivering goods, and soon again, it seems that these people are delivering goods for others out of that checkpoint, so I will pay attention to these people."
"Yes, the girl has good eyesight." Mr. He didn't expect this matter to be seen through by a little girl in the afternoon.
Yingxiang was even happier when she was praised, and she said with a fluttering eyebrow: "Later, I thought about it, these people must be specially designed for others to go out of the checkpoint, but this checkpoint is not a tiger prison level, and it is used to catch spies, so I took a closer look, and it turned out that the soldiers who kept the card sent out by these people were released without checking it." ”
"This shows that they stuffed the money in private."
"Exactly."
"How do you know that?"
"Of course, I saw it, I waited here for a long time, but I saw that the people who had gone out of the checkpoint for others came back, and this time they didn't go to deliver the goods again, but went straight to the leader's house, and soon the leader followed these people out."
"Didn't you follow these people to see where they went?" At this time, Mr. He wanted to find out the details of these people.
Unexpectedly, Yingxiang's face turned red at this time, "I've gone to the bathhouse." ”
Mr. He laughed out loud when he heard this, this is really embarrassing for the little girl, of course she can't go to those places. Now that Mr. He also understood how these people gave those pills out, he looked back at the table and floor in the room that had been eaten by Yingxiang and frowned, "Girl, don't eat any more, let's go back to Li's house!" ”
"Howler!" Yingxiang also agreed very happily.
On the way back, Yingxiang still kept talking, and Mr. He asked strangely, "What is the girl still eating?" ”
"I still had some uneaten food when I checked out just now, so I packed these up and prepared to go back and eat again."
"You still have to eat!!"
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