"You don't have to climb the roof to see me." Cen Xi saw me reluctantly move in, and the expression on his face improved.

I raised my hand and swore, "It's Xiaohu who wants to see the girl, and Weichen, as his master, can't see him go astray, so I came to stop him." ”

Cen Xi looked at me, and suddenly laughed, the louder he laughed, the louder he laughed, the louder he laughed, and at the end of the laugh, there was nothing in his eyes except for deep loneliness.

"Shen Qingzhi, you came to me...... For what? Cen Xi sat down in front of the bookcase, and he moved his gaze to a new landscape painting on the case.

I stood in front of him for a moment, and my tone was a little stiff as I spoke.

"Temple... Your Highness, did you yourself ask the Emperor to come with me? ”

Seeing that the ink had dried, Cen Xi reached out and rolled up the painting on the case little by little.

"Or else? Father is not in the mood to care about such trivial matters. ”

I was silent for a moment and said, "Gu Yuancheng is also here, you know, right?" ”

"Hmm." Cen Xi replied nonchalantly.

I stared at him, my brow furrowed, "You're not safe here. ”

Cen Xi didn't speak, just calmly put the rolled scroll into the painting tube.

"You shouldn't be here." I stepped forward, clapped my hands on the table, and there was a hint of anxiety in my eyes, "Go back now, Weichen will explain to the emperor for you." ”

Cen Xi finally looked up at me, but this glance was full of coldness that I couldn't understand.

I was stunned.

"You want to die at his hands?"

I lowered my eyebrows, but I couldn't say anything.

Cen Xi sneered, "Shen Qingzhi, don't deceive yourself, you can't kill him at all." ”

"In that case, I'll take it for me."

I staggered back, a look of disbelief in my eyes.

"If you do it, the emperor won't spare you, are you crazy?"

Cen Xi stood up and walked up to me, and he handed me the painting tube in his hand.

"I've spent a long time on it, and if you take it, it will be counted as an apology."

I tried to push the cartridge away, but Cen Xi shoved it into my hand with all his might.

I looked at him, but he stopped looking at me, and turned his back to look out the window at the moonlight.

"Let's go." He said.

I clenched the paintpiece and struggled for a long time, but finally walked out in silence.

When I got to the door, I paused.

"Cen Xi, we ...... Okay......"

Cen Xi didn't look back, but I heard the voice coming from the long night.

"Hmm." He replied to me like this.

When I walked out of the east courtyard, Sun Hu was waiting for me behind the curtain on the west side.

He seemed relieved to see me return.

"My subordinates still thought that Xiangye was going to be dismantled by His Royal Highness the Prince."

I approached him with a sinister smile, and one hand slowly drew the soft sword from my waist.

Sun Hu didn't know why, but he still instinctively stepped back.

"Xiang, Xiangye, what are you going to do, what are you going to do?"

"The original appearance is tormenting there, but you are slipping away!" With a cold snort, I picked up my sword and rushed towards Sun Hu.

"Calm down, calm down, Xiangye!"

"Help!"

Early in the morning, Sun Hu dragged me out of bed and pushed me straight into a famous medical center.

"What are we doing here?" I shook my head, ready to sober myself up.

Sun Hu looked at me helplessly, "Xiangye, have you forgotten?" There are many doctors in Jiangnan, we said that we would like to come and see your injury. ”

"Yes, yes, that's what we said." I vaguely remembered, but there were some things I still couldn't understand, such as "We have time, why did you bring me here early in the morning?" ”

Sun Hu pushed me in front of the doctor and said, "If the famous medical center in Jiangnan doesn't come early in the morning, we will probably have to line up to go to the capital."

Really?

I'm a little skeptical.

"This boy is right." The doctor saw the suspicion in my eyes, and explained with a smile, "Because of the rainy days in spring, there are many patients every day these days, plus those who come from outside, Childe, think about it, how many people should there be in total?" ”

"That's a lot of ......."

Before I could finish my sentence, a lot of officials suddenly broke into the infirmary. The officials were all fierce and vicious, and they looked like no one in their eyes, and those who didn't know thought that a group of robbers had broken in. One of them was a leader, who had a roll of paper in his hand, and he didn't know what was written on it.

"Ma Shanzhi, Ma Shanzhi!" The leading official shouted impatiently.

The doctor who was about to check my pulse stood up, his brow furrowed, and he looked very sad and helpless.

When the official saw him, his tone was even more unkind: "Ma Shanzhi, when will you pay your taxes this month?" Could it be that you think that your life is too comfortable now, and you want to go to prison with your brothers? ”

"Ladies and gentlemen." Ma Shanzhi reluctantly smiled and said, "Just after the cold winter, many patients have no money for treatment because of the snow disaster, and the medicine in the hospital is out on credit, and there is really no money to enter the account. ”

"I don't have time to listen to you talk about this useless nonsense." The leading official didn't want to be polite to people at all, "In a word, do you pay this tax today, or don't you pay it?" If you don't pay it, don't let us be black-hearted and smash your broken medical hall. ”

Ma Shanzhi closed his eyes, he wanted to open his mouth and beg them again, but he understood that these beasts would not be moved by them at all.

Taking a deep breath, he held back the dampness in his eyes and said, "You guys smash it, I don't have any money." ”

"Good boy, backbone." The leader's eyes sharpened, "Brothers, smash me, smash me." ”

"Phew!" Smack!"" Whoa!"

The bottles and jars on the counter were all thrown to the ground by several officials, and the bowls and mortars on the cabinets were also smashed.

"Get out of here!" A magistrate felt that I was in the way, and stretched out his hand to push me.

Seeing this, Ma Shanzhi hurriedly came to pull me, and he scolded at the official, "You still have no humanity, she is a patient!"

Before Ma Shanzhi's words fell, a heart-rending shout came from the medical hall, "Ah!"

Sun Hu withdrew his hand with a cold face, and glanced disdainfully at the official who was rolling on the ground with his right arm.

"Bold! You diao!" When the leading official saw this, he immediately became annoyed, shouted and rushed over with several other officials drawing their swords.

Sun Hu snorted coldly and was about to make a move, but I reached out to stop him.

"Childe?" Sun Hu was puzzled.

I ignored him, smiled and greeted.

"Oops!" I pointed to one place and shouted, "Who dropped these three hundred taels of silver?" ”

The officials who were going to cut me stopped one after another, and the leading official had the sharpest eyes, and at once he saw a silver ticket in the corner next to the counter, and the silver ticket was impressively printed with more than three hundred taels of big characters.

The leading officer and soldier glanced at me, with a smile on his face, he personally walked over and picked up the silver ticket on the ground, and turned back to Ma Shandao, "Look, isn't this silver, why hide it and let us waste our strength?" ”

"Big brother, my hand." The official who had Sun Hu's hand broken saw that the leader had no intention of pursuing it, and immediately reminded him to seek justice for himself.

"Shut up." The leading official did not care about his injury, but reprimanded him: "We are here to collect taxes, are we here to beat people?" Come, lift him up, let's go. ”

"Big brother......" The man was not convinced.

As soon as the leading official pulled him up, he dragged him out, and scolded in a low voice as he walked: "You are not a long-eyed thing, can you provoke a person who can throw three hundred taels casually?" Let's go back and divide the money, and the arm you broke is not a loss!"

A group of people hulala walked away, Sun Hu looked at this situation, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Sure enough, 'money can make ghosts grind'!"

I touched my wallet with a painful face, and I only felt that the future of my life was bleak.

I've only been receiving it for a few days......

"Are you alright?" Ma Shanzhi looked at me with an apologetic face, "I'm really sorry, you originally came here to see a doctor, but I didn't expect such a thing to happen." ”

I pretended to be calm and waved my hand, "It's nothing, nothing at all." ”

Sun Hu looked at me, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help twitching.

"If I remember correctly, now is not the time to collect taxes at all, and besides, I have always paid taxes once a year, how can I say that it is monthly?" I asked.

Ma Shanzhi sighed, and he helped up a few chairs that had fallen to the ground, "Childe, sit down first, this matter ...... Let me think about it first. ”

I looked at him, and when I saw that he was evasive, I listened to him and sat down.

"Do you have anything unspeakable?" I asked.

Ma Shanzhi paced back and forth for two steps, hesitating and saying, "It's not something unspeakable, it's just ......."

Sun Hu said, "Doctor Ma, why don't you sit too?" ”

Ma Shanzhi thought about it, and finally chose to sit next to me, intending to tell the matter, but before he said it, he was very cautious to confirm his identity to us, "Are you really businessmen from Tuzhou?" ”

Sun Hu nodded, "My son-in-law is the Tuzhou Yun family, and he is the cousin of Yunsheng Yun's son." ”

"It turned out to be Yun Gongzi's cousin!" Ma Shanzhi was half surprised and half delighted.

I looked at him and asked, "Do you know Cousin Yun?" ”

Ma Shanzhi said: "Half a month ago, I met Yun Gongzi in a place, and he helped me a lot. ”

"It turns out that my cousin still has this fate with you." I smiled and said, "So, we're half a family friend." Since you are relatives and friends, you can't help but say something directly, and the younger generation will not talk to others. ”

Ma Shanzhi pondered for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "I'll talk to you, so as not to suffer a loss here." ”

"In fact, this matter is not a secret in our part of the south of the Yangtze River, but everyone is afraid of causing trouble, so they dare not say much."

"Originally, we in Jiangnan were the same as the other places, we only paid taxes once a year, and the taxes we paid were not very large, but since the new governor came to Jiangnan five years ago, we have ......" Ma Shanzhi took a deep breath and lamented, "We poor people are struggling. ”