Chapter 9: A Trap

(Everyone has a point, so I changed Boss Tu's name to Tu Lichun.) )

After accompanying Mrs. Wang to have a routine breakfast, Li Ze wiped his mouth, stood up and lowered his hands and said to Mrs. Wang: "Mother, just after the autumn harvest, the rent over there in Liujia Village has not been collected for a long time, and there are some changes in the middle, where is the son going to take a look."

Mrs. Wang put down the soup bowl in her hand and looked at him coldly: "You have grown up, you can do what you have to do, you don't need to tell me."

Li Ze was dumbfounded, he was only fourteen years old and less than fifteen years old, in the previous life, at his age, he could still rely on his mother's arms to be coquettish, but here, he has actually grown up.

After saying this, Mrs. Wang stood up, and no longer paid attention to Li Ze, but went straight to the back hall, and after a while, the monotonous and rhythmic sound of the wooden fish sounded, mixed with the sound of Mrs. Wang reciting scriptures.

Li Ze sighed, looked at Xia Zhu who was standing on the side, and said in a low voice, "Take care of your mother."

Xia Zhu nodded silently.

Cleaning up his mood, Li Ze returned to his Ming Book Garden.

"Master, how many days are you going out this time?" Xia He opened the wardrobe and looked at Li Ze inquiringly.

"Three or five days!" Li Ze thought for a while and said.

"Master should take me with you, otherwise who will serve you?" Xia He said: "Uncle Tu, that person, is clumsy, I'm afraid that pouring a cup of tea will burn my master's hands, and I'm afraid that even pigs will dislike the cooked rice."

Li Ze laughed, stretched out his fingers and flicked Xia He a violent shudder: "Don't slander Tu Lichun like this, he is the right-hand man of the master."

"The slave knows that Uncle Tu has to be used in front of the master, but the slave and the maid are different from him, I can't do what he can do, but he can't do what I can do!" Xia He pursed his mouth.

"You stay at home and look after the house, and by the way, you will sort out the accounts of this quarter reported by Yixingtang. Let's see if there's anything missing or weird." Li Ze said while watching Xia He pack up his clothes for himself.

"Yes, master, the slave just took a cursory look at the general account of Yixingtang this quarter, it is indeed a little strange, and it is quite different from the master's expectations." Xia He straightened up, "Don't let me find out what's wrong."

After saying this, the originally docile girl had a fierce look in her eyes.

Li Ze smiled faintly, in the past few years, he has been teaching this little girl modern accounting knowledge and accounting methods, and compared with the simple bookkeeping method of this era, I don't know how many levels higher. If Xia He wants to make a fake account, the people outside won't be able to see it at all, but if others want to play tricks in front of her, that is, moving a big axe in front of Lu Ban is purely ugly.

"Three years ago, we took a stake in Yixingtang, saved the dying business, we accounted for the lion's share, in the past three years, Yixingtang has developed rapidly, making a lot of money, and some people are red-eyed." Li Zedao: "If it's not too much, just warn it, if you have other thoughts, then let Tu Er come forward."

Xia He nodded: "I hope it won't be Tu Erye who will come forward."

Li Ze grinned, walked straight to the study room separated from the wall of the bedroom, grabbed the bookshelf on one wall, and pulled it hard, and the bookshelf immediately slid forward a little, revealing a dark room inside.

Xia He also walked in.

In the middle of the darkroom was a bookcase with stacks of books, and against the bookcase were boxes one after another, and on the walls, there were all kinds of weapons.

Li Ze walked to the wall, looked at these weapons for a long time, and couldn't help grinning.

These weapons are also his masterpieces over the years. The iron mill at home, the level of ironmaking has improved greatly in recent years, and the quality of the weapons produced far exceeds that of the weapons of the same era, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as sharpening iron like clay. This is of course also thanks to his guidance. Although he does not have enough expertise in this area, he always knows some simple ways to improve the quality of steel, even if it cannot be applied on a large scale, but with the little manpower he has now, slowly accumulated, he has almost made his subordinates equipped with the same hand.

Reaching out and touching a horizontal knife on the wall, he thought about it but still didn't take it off, and finally just took a small folding crossbow into his arms and walked out of the study.

Tu Lichun was already waiting outside.

Walking to the front yard, several other guards had already prepared their horses, and the group turned over their horses, left Zhuangzi, and walked all the way to the outside of the village.

Liang Han hurriedly stepped into the Moxiangju, looked at Gongsun Changming, who had a pair of long legs on the stone table, curled up in the wide rattan chair, holding a book in one hand and a small teapot in the other, and said hurriedly: "That master is out."

Gongsun Changming rolled his eyes, "He will go out when he goes out, what does it matter to us?"

Liang Han sat opposite him with a look of excitement and said, "Don't you think this young master is very mysterious?" And is it interesting? Tu Lichun used to be an extravagant character, but he was obedient in front of this little young master, and the people in this Zhuangzi were actually in awe of this young master, which was incredible."

"What do you want to do?" Gongsun Changming put down the book in his hand, looked at Liang Han, and asked with some vigilance.

"I want to see what secrets he has out there? If there is such a thing as that, haha, it would be interesting." Liang Handao.

Gongsun Changming looked at Liang Han speechlessly, and then said, "Why do you only remember the first half of what I said and forget the second half?"

"What else did you say later?"

"I also told you to keep to yourself, let's just stay temporarily, don't go to the bottom of the roots, otherwise the mass grave in the back mountain will have a place for us." Gongsun Changming said." Curiosity kills the cat, you better be honest, lest it drag me down."

Liang Han said with a dark face: "I have been dragged like this by you all my life, you actually treat me like this?"

Gongsun Changming snorted, and a large mouthful of tea squirted out, pouring Liang Han on the opposite side.

Liang Han, who had become a chicken in the soup, did not erase the droplets, but just looked at Gongsun Changming with hatred.

Gongsun Changming sighed, it seems that this curiosity can't be suppressed, I hope this kid is lucky, don't fall into the hands of that master, otherwise things will be in trouble.

Autumn is high, Li Ze excitedly drove the horse to gallop, talking about learning to ride a horse, but it also tortured him enough, during that time, the inner thighs were bloody every day, the old wounds did not go, and the new injuries were born, every time he went back, Xia He was crying and crying to wash him with medicine, and Li Ze, who was crying and crying for his mother, was only slightly better, and he went to practice equestrianism without hesitation.

He wants to practice equestrianism well, not so that one day he can gallop on the battlefield, he thinks that if he trains his equestrian skills, one day in the future, he will be able to run faster when he escapes.

In order to be able to escape, he is also enough to pay the capital, in the horse gallery in the Zhuangzi, he spared no expense to buy several horses for breeding, and now the foals have come out of several horses, although it is not yet possible to ride, but a look at the physique, it is not an ordinary horse can compare. Even Tu Lichun was greedy and had already booked one with Li Ze.

Fourteen years old, in the previous life, it was indeed an age when you could be spoiled with your parents, but in this era, as Mrs. Wang said, she is indeed an adult. At this age, a person who has been married grabbed a handful, that is, an errand boy in the front yard of his Zhuangzi, who was also married last year, and when his father and mother, Lao Tzu, and the servant of Zhuangzi, came to tell Li Ze, he was really speechless for a long time. Of course, in the end, I still rewarded a lot of money.

At the age of fourteen, in this era, he is actually going to start a family.

And themselves, is an exception. First, he never thought of asking for a wife at this age, and secondly, Li Ze is also a guy who is not loved by his father and mother, he is already fourteen years old, and it seems that his father and mother have forgotten that they should ask for a daughter-in-law for him. Of course, Li Ze is also happy to see it, he hasn't grown up yet, but he can't hurt his vitality at such a young age.

"Master, do you think that Liang Han will really come?" Tu Lichun was a little unsure.

"Gongsun Changming, this dead old man, is cunning and big, but Liang Han, hehe, I just need to look at his eyes, I know that it is a guy whose curiosity is so heavy that he can't control it, plus he is smart enough, he has lived in our Zhuangzi for more than two months, and he must have tasted a lot of different flavors, people like him, it's strange if they don't explore the end!" Li Ze sneered: "If you don't hold this guy, how can you bargain with Gongsun Changming, a bad old man?"

Observing the face and touching the hearts of the people, the last life was Li Ze's strength.

"If you kill it with a knife and bury it in a mass grave, it will be a hundred." Tu Lichun said viciously.

"Then what if the master asks?" Li Ze asked rhetorically: "The master hid them here, obviously he values these two people very much. In case the weight of these two people in the master's mind exceeds our imagination, then what else can we hide, so ah, for these two guys, killing is not the best policy, trading is the way! I'm sure they'll help us cover up if the conditions are sufficient."