Time passed little by little, and although the sun was already setting in the west, the heat wave was still coming, making people feel hot, and sweat was pouring from their foreheads and backs.

Li Dagou lying on the ground was still wailing, although his family was anxious, but looking at the flashing knife light around him and the black leopard walking back and forth, they didn't dare to take Li Dagou to leave home for treatment. Fortunately, there were two people covering their wounds, and his blood was not so bleeding, and it was estimated that he would be able to stop the bleeding for a while, but not being able to take medicine was not a way after all. The man who was paralyzed on the ground also went to help the old man who was covering his face to get up, hiding from the black leopard far away. At this time, there was no one around the black leopard, and the small barn made a lot of space for him.

Looking at Li Dagou on the ground, Zhang Rui seemed to be able to see the appearance of the dog when it died, and he could also feel the kind of bandits who were not resentful and hateful and went straight to the mountain in Zhang Liu's memory... Maybe there's a killer here. Zhang Rui looked back at Li Si, only to see that Li Si was holding Ah Gou's hand tightly, then lowered his head and gritted his teeth and closed his mouth, and the fourth aunt was also holding her little sister tightly, covering her head to prevent her from looking like this.

After the time of a cup of tea, I saw that the person who had been asked to inform the housekeeper of the Li Mansion was following a middle-aged man with a greasy face, two beards at the corners of his mouth, and a neat head with a melon skin hat. According to Zhang Liu's memory, this should be the housekeeper of the Li Mansion - Li Ming, the first feeling that this Li Ming gave Zhang Rui was cunning and obscene, and he was alive and well off the image of a dog on TV. Li Mix was also followed by two people like family thugs, highlighting his identity. Seeing Li Ming's arrival, some of the servants belonging to the Li Mansion were in a little commotion.

"Steward Li, it's really hard work, I should have visited you in person, but I'm afraid that the novices of the brothers won't be able to suppress this group of mud legs, so I can only ask you to come over to discuss some things." The black leopard naturally walked over and said to Steward Li

"Well said, well said. Lei Dangjia is polite, I don't know what Lei Dangjia called Li to come over. Li Chao raised his hand and said

"There's nothing special, it's not that the weather isn't so good, the brothers on the brothers' cottage want to eat and drink. I came down and asked this group of mud-legged people to eat and drink, and waited for the brothers to eat and drink enough to protect them from being bullied by outsiders. As a result, this group of mud-legged people didn't appreciate it at all, and they cried to my brother and me that the weather was bad and there was no food. The brother is not an unkind person, so he wondered if he could let them borrow the money and grain from your Li Mansion first, and then return it to your Li Mansion when they have money and food. ”

After listening to the words of the black leopard, this Li Ban couldn't help but admire in his heart, thinking that I, Li Ming, am also a shameless character, but this black leopard can talk about robbery so high-sounding, I really haven't heard of it. Sure enough, there are people outside the sky, and it seems that there is still a lot to learn on the shameless road.

"It's very embarrassing for me to say that! You must know that this money and food belong to Master Li, and many times he can't be the master. Moreover, it is now the time when the green and yellow are scarce, and the price of grain outside is two or five dollars and one stone of rice. By the time they harvested, the price of grain had returned to eight pennies a stone. I'm not cost-effective even if I'm out of nine! Li Mixed said as he touched the beard on his right hand with his hand

"It's simple, as long as Steward Li exchanges them for silver taels, you will calculate it with the current two taels of silver and five coins and one stone, and two stones per household is five taels of silver. When the time comes, you can calculate the grain back according to the rule of nine out and thirteen, so that you will not suffer a loss. The black panther said indifferently

"It's not impossible to say this, I'm afraid that after I give you money, they won't admit it as soon as you leave."

"They dare, who dares not to let Lao Tzu have a good time, Lao Tzu immediately cut him." As he spoke, the panther looked around at the people around him, and all those who were seen lowered their heads and did not dare to look him in the eye. "Steward Li, you will give them an IOU, and when the time comes, you will have an IOU in hand to see who dares not to pay you back the money and food. Lao Tzu also saw who dared not to sign, and Lao Tzu immediately slashed his mother. ”

"Since everyone in charge of Lei has said so, Li will be too bad at being a man if he shirks it. However, Li has another request here, and he also asks Lei to sell face. ”

"It's easy to say, if Steward Li has anything to say, just say it!"

"That's right, there are ten households in my Li Mansion, and it's good to ask Lei Dang's family to exempt them from some grain, otherwise Master Li will have to scold Li when he goes back to the mansion."

"Cheng, for your brother's sake, each of these ten households will pay one stone." Hearing the words of the black leopard, the ten families suddenly felt a little moved, and felt that Steward Li was not usually very good, but this time he really did a good job. I am very glad that I am the servant of the Li family, so that they feel as if they have found the backbone of the leader. Others, however, dare not speak out.

"Then Li has thanked Lei for being in charge here." Li Chao shook at the black leopard, then called the thug next to him and muttered a few words in his ear. I saw the thug slapping at Li Mingzuo and then retreated to the direction of Li's house.

"Please also ask Lei to wait a little, Li has already sent someone to get the silver taels, and prepare a table of banquets for you to pick up the wind and wash the dust."

Hearing Li Ming's words, the black leopard who had achieved his goal couldn't help but burst into joy. I thought that this Li Mix is good, it's not a loss to be a character from the mansion, but he can talk and do things, and when Lao Tzu earns enough, he will also get a mansion and get such a housekeeper to come out and enjoy it. "Steward Li is too polite, Lao Tzu... Oh no, we're here to thank Steward Lee. ”

Seeing the two people muttering, Zhang Rui calculated the account in his heart: they are now counting one stone of rice and two taels of five dollars outside, and two stones per household is five taels. According to what they said - nine out of thirteen, when the time comes, it will be nearly eight taels of silver. The crops in the fields will be harvested in more than half a month, and this year's dry weather will definitely reduce grain production drastically, and the price of grain should be more than the usual price. However, according to the IOU, the time will still be sold to him for eight dollars and one stone of grain, which means that ten stones of grain will be returned at that time. It is estimated that when the time comes, he will also say that you can also go to other places to sell millet to repay the silver taels, and it looks like it is the road chosen for you, but people in the countryside are rare to even see copper plates, where have you seen silver taels, and the only one who can sell is the millet produced in the field or can pick up some mountain goods in the mountains, otherwise it will be to sell sons and daughters and wives in the county. And the people who can come here and collect grain from the grain-producing area are only their Li family and Huang family. The Huang family is not very interested in the business here, so they only collect some land rent from the servants, and rarely come to collect a large amount of grain, so most of the time the Li family is collecting grain. In other words, the villagers only gave them grain.

Five taels of silver can be exchanged for ten stone of grain in just over half a month, how to consume more than eight stone of rice grain, and after another two or three months, the villagers' rice grain is exhausted, and then sell it for at least two taels or more or more, and it is also twenty taels in the calculation of two taels and five dollars, and it is a proper profit of fifteen taels. Moreover, rice bran can also be sold in rice, and no matter how much they have a black heart, they can earn twenty taels. With such a big profit, if you want to say that the Li Mansion did not join this robbery plan this time, the ghosts don't believe it, and they are the ones who really rob the villagers.

Moreover, their clever plan is to provoke and distract the attention of the villagers, and deliberately reduce the grain of some of the servants of the Li Mansion, which reflects the ability of their Li Mansion and reduces the possibility of the whole village uniting. Let the conflict erupt between the villagers and the bandits, they Li Mansion just do good deeds appropriately, and come out to help you mud-legged people at the right time, so that you will not be killed by the bandits. Slowly, the villagers worked hard every day to help them work for free, and all they got was the life-saving food. This strategy is really one set after another, no wonder their Li Mansion will grow so quickly.

Sure enough, things were as Zhang Rui expected, and the thug ran back less than a cup of tea, carrying silver taels, a bag of written IOUs, and tools for signing and drawing.

"Lei Dangjia has been waiting for a long time, here is the silver tael that Lei Dangjia deserves. According to the calculation of five taels per household, there are thirty-two households here, and ten of them are from my Li Mansion. First of all, I thanked the Lei family for their favor, there are one hundred and sixty taels of silver here, of which twenty-five taels were invited by my Li Mansion to drink a glass of water and wine. Please also take a look at the little bit of Lei Dangjia. Steward Li took the two silver bags raised by the thugs, handed them to the black leopard and said

The black panther took the silver ingot bag handed by Steward Li and weighed it in his hand. I opened it and looked at the silver ingots, a total of ten, each weighing twenty taels. In a good mood, he said: "It's good to say, they all say that Steward Li is polite, brother, I'm here to help you watch this group of mud-legged people sign and draw charges, and see who dares to be sloppy with your Li Mansion, Lao Tzu will help you split him." ”

"Thank you Lei first, I believe that no one will dare to bully my Li Mansion, but the banquet will take a while, and please wait for me here for a while, and then we will not get drunk and return."

"Hahaha, it's easy to say, I also want to have a drunk rest with Steward Li."

Steward Li led people to sign and draw on the table of the Eight Immortals where the black leopard stood before. Zhang Rui has thought about it, let's pass this first, and then talk about it, when the time comes, Lao Tzu will run away from his mother, see how you find Lao Tzu. At this time, the bored black panther chatted with the two bandits not far away.

"Who the fuck is Li Si?" The panther suddenly shouted

Li Ming, who was leading someone to sign and draw the charge, looked up when he heard the voice, and continued his work without paying much attention. Other villagers who knew Li Si subconsciously looked at Li Si, not knowing what was going on. Following the eyes of the villagers, the black leopard soon found Li Si's family. I saw the black leopard walk over and slap Li Siyi without warning and kick him. At that time, Li Si was holding a dog, and he didn't react until both of them fell to the ground. Ah Gou was so frightened that he wanted to cry and didn't dare to cry, his eyes were red and he didn't know what was going on.

Zhang Rui watched the black leopard come over, although he was a little guarded, but he didn't expect it to be like this. At this time, Aunt Li, who was holding the little sister, hurriedly went to help the dog and Li Si who fell to the ground, and the little sister was so frightened by the sudden thing that she cried.

"You shut up Lao Tzu, and then cry Lao Tzu stabbed you." The black leopard said to the little sister with a fierce and vicious gaze, and I don't know if the black leopard killed too much, the little sister was stunned to stop crying, but the tears kept flowing. Seeing such a situation, Zhang Rui immediately stopped in front of Li Si, according to the reason, when facing a powerful and murderous bandit, the mud legs of this era could not help but kneel down and beg for mercy, but after crossing over, Zhang Rui had never been in the habit of kneeling in his life, so he stood there.

"The king is angry, I don't know how Li Si offended you, the king, we are here to make amends for you."

I saw that the black leopard slapped him without saying anything, maybe he had just received the silver, and he was in a good mood and didn't use a knife. Although Zhang Rui saw that the slap could be dodged completely, he didn't dodge it, and he was stunned to accept his slap, and the strength of the slap directly threw him out three steps.

"Damn, do you kid want to die, dare to stand in the way of your grandfather, and next time Lao Tzu will stab you." After speaking, he ignored Zhang Rui, and said to Li Si and Aunt Li on the ground: "Li Si, I damn it, I heard that you went to the county to sue Lao Tzu last year??? ”

Li Si hasn't reacted yet, sue? In an instant he understood: they were bandits in the mountains, murderers of his son. Although he had decided to accept his fate, he still felt a faint pain in his heart when he heard the words of the black leopard at this moment.

"Don't dare, my lord, I've already resigned myself to my fate." Li Si pushed Aunt Li and Ah Gou aside, knelt in front of the black leopard and said, Zhang Rui looked very distressed.

"It's good if you don't dare, I'll tell you honestly, that dog cub in your house was killed by Lao Tzu, that was the first time Lao Tzu grabbed something, he actually dared to hesitate, he really didn't know whether he was alive or dead. Later, when I saw that the thing was not very good, I lost it. Listening to Li Si say that he accepted his fate, the black leopard said with some pride.

After listening to the black leopard's words, Li Si's anger could not be concealed, and he raised his head and glared at the black leopard who was showing off his might.