Chapter 724: Youth

Liu Erli's old lady is weaving reed baskets, iron pots can no longer afford to buy, reed baskets are poured with saturated salt water to evaporate, will produce a layer of salt shell, salt shells will no longer dissolve in saturated salt water, can be used as a container, put on the kang to bake, can also get salt, this is the old man's shallow wisdom.

The old lady said to her son while weaving the basket: "Erli, I said don't be strong, I heard that the whole of Zhejiang and Zhejiang has suffered a disaster this year, Xiao Su Shaobao is the stars go down to earth, and he can't take care of the salt affairs, don't believe those rumors." ”

Liu Erli poured the brine onto the basket containing the gray salt, and the brine flowed into the big clay jar below: "Xiao Su Shaobao said, as long as we complete the imperial court's lesson, we can sell the extra salt, mother, don't worry, I will work day and night, and sell the extra ones to the salt collectors, and we will also get a piece of salt field out this year, and the future will be better." ”

"Hahahaha......" A hearty whisper sounded outside the shed: "Erli is really an ambitious person, this is going to be the richest man in Luli!" ”

Liu Erli stopped what he was doing: "Lu Daguan, what are you doing?" The weather is very hot, don't let the noble person suffer from heat stroke. ”

The steward was angry: "Liu Erli! How dare you speak to the Lord like this? You're a daring bold! ”

Lu Zhongyuan didn't care: "After all, you owe my family's brine on credit, and now you owe two dollars, so I have to come over and take a look. ”

After speaking, I went to say hello to Liu Erli's wife: "Old man, I have been fine after missing a visit for a long time?" ”

Liu Erli's old lady's eyes were full of horror, and she didn't dare to answer.

Lu Zhongyuan looked at the furnishings in the shed: "Tut-tut, it's really hard, but it's like farming, and the farmers in central Zhejiang are even harder this year." ”

"It's okay to have hope for hard work, but what I'm most afraid of is that there is still no life at the end of a year of hard work, right?"

Liu Erli twisted his head to the side angrily and stopped talking.

The surrounding Yanting households also gathered, and Lu Zhongyuan said proudly: "Heaven and earth conscience, follow me Lu Zhongyuan, so everyone still has to eat, right?" If you really cut off your brine supply, you'll have to run away tomorrow to ask for food, isn't that right? ”

The villagers didn't dare to speak, and Lu Zhongyuan also felt hot, so he opened the folding fan and fanned it: "I'll talk about it here, this year's salt price really can't rise, it's still thirteen wen a catty, and the big guy has to work hard to produce more salt." The weather is so good this year, the number of classes has to rise by 60%! ”

The crowd was in an uproar, and an old man shouted, "You are trying to force people out!" ”

Lu Zhongyuan was a little unpredictable: "Old man, I, Lu Zhongyuan, compete with outsiders for salt works, steal roads with smugglers, and fight with water bandits and road bandits, which is really fatal." But to the township party, he has always been polite, right? ”

"But everyone knows this year's New Year, the Jedi drought!"

"What is the most expensive thing in a disaster year? Grain! Older people should know, what is the price of food like in such a year? ”

"Now the price of food outside has doubled, and it's only June! You can imagine what happened next. ”

"Compare your heart to your heart, the big guy can't watch me suffer such a big loss, and you want me to provide food to everyone at the price of a good year, right?"

The food of the lower households was exchanged for salt from Lu Zhongyuan, and they all ate the last meal on weekdays without the next meal, and what they could save was basically nothing.

Lu Zhongyuan arched his hand to the crowd: "No way, everyone can only pull like this this year, and I won't double the price of grain, all the villagers in the township, see who suffers and don't bear it, so I only rose by a little more than half, sixty percent." ”

"I bear forty percent of the losses myself, so I have to let the villagers pass this hurdle!"

"Enough fun, right? People's hearts are long, and the township party can't make me Lu Zhongyuan too embarrassed, right? ”

Seeing that all the villagers were no longer dissatisfied, Lu Zhongyuan said in a cruel voice: "But what about it, I can't tolerate sand in my eyes. If you don't like to do it, you can pay off your debts and leave, no one can stop you, right? ”

After speaking, he turned to Liu Erli and said: "Erli, it seems that the pond here is too small for my brother to accommodate you, a dragon, let you be a close companion with me, and make a fortune selling together, you said that you want to take care of the old mother, but you don't want to." ”

"Now, I can't get along with me."

"In the years of the catastrophe, I didn't want to help each other in the same boat and get through the difficulties together, but I wanted to incite the villagers to take advantage of the fire to rob and raise the price of salt. My brother can't keep you, so I'll pack up my things today and leave with your mother. ”

Liu Erli's old lady panicked: "Lu Dashan, Erli didn't mean that!" Don't dare, we don't dare anymore, Erli hurriedly confessed his mistake to Lu Dashanren! Lu Dashanren, you have a lot of adults, without Luli, we won't be able to live......"

Liu Erli said angrily: "Lu peeling! You're here to bully the folks! I heard from a reader that Xiao Su Taibao is capable, and the price of food outside has not risen! Are you in the ...... Exploitation! Suck our blood! ”

Lu Zhongyuan's eyes flashed with a fierce color: "You're still not convinced, right?" If you can't say it, you just curse, right? I suck blood, so can you stop me from sucking it? ”

"Since you disregard the friendship of the township party and slander me like this, then don't blame me for Lu Zhongyuan's lack of affection."

After speaking, he said to the steward: "I don't want two debts, Master Lu, I don't want it, just use that iron pot to resist it, and smash it for me!" ”

The courtyard soldiers rushed forward like wolves, and Liu Erli exclaimed sadly: "I fought with you!" ”

However, two fists were invincible to four hands, and he was soon knocked to the ground by the courtyard man holding a short stick of tea wood, and the steward greeted viciously: "Smash!" Not only did the broken pot and the shed be demolished together, but today the two flower girls were driven out of Luli and relieved their anger with Lu Ye! ”

Soon, a dilapidated shack was smashed into a pile of garbage, and Erli Niang cried and held up the two pieces of iron pot that were smashed to pieces: "Oh my God...... Open your eyes...... Is there a way for the poor to live......

The surrounding villagers took a few steps back, and several middle-aged people wanted to step forward again, but the old man at home pulled his sleeves and didn't dare to say anything.

Lu Zhongyuan was satisfied, and said to Liu Erli, who was pressed to the sand: "Xiao Su Taibao is capable, but he also has to complete the imperial court's lessons, right?" By whom? It's not up to us lords, is it up to you, a natural rebellious thing?! ”

"Which way did you listen to Ye Xiucai's nonsense and take it seriously? Can he control your food or drink? Bewitch people's hearts, pat their butts and leave, and leave you here, so that the sky should not be, and the earth is not spiritual. Erli, Erli, why don't you have a snack......"

I heard a voice answer: "He didn't scream, but if he did, maybe he would be spiritual?" ”

Lu Zhongyuan was furious: "Who?!" ”

When I turned my head, I saw that it was three teenagers.

Two of them were dressed as Confucian scholars, and the other one was dressed in a strange samurai attire, with a gorgeous brocade robe but leggings, and a long and narrow knife at his waist, which did not resemble the Song people's clothing.

I heard a Confucian boy turn his head and say to another Confucian boy: "Ziwen really has a clever family history, how do you know that this Liu Erli is in trouble." ”

Another laughed and said, "It's just a reasonable inference." When I heard the situation talk about the situation that day, I knew that you had planted the roots and seedlings that caused disaster for others. ”

The warrior boy beside him bowed down and said, "Shao Xiaolangjun has unpredictable opportunities, please calculate for me Ping, how to avoid the disaster of ghosts." ”

The young man surnamed Shao smiled and waved his hand: "Let's talk about it again." ”

The three of them chatted unscrupulously on the side, and they didn't look at Lu Zhongyuan and his party in their eyes, Lu Zhongyuan couldn't help but feel annoyed in his heart: "Give me a beating first, and then let them lead the elders!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the samurai boy pulled out his long sword, "Hey! The ground shouted, did not retreat, but entered the knife flash, and the lightning two slashed the tea wooden sticks in the hands of the first two courtyards, and then hit the two with the back of the knife handle, and "Hi! With a bang, he jumped up in the air and slashed towards Lu Zhongyuan.