Chapter Twenty-Three: The King's Widow Who Sells Tofu
Fu Xiaotian returned to his room, and saw Ban Yunyun sitting on the kang, waiting for his father-in-law to return, with a coquettish face: "Xianggong, come on, what does my mother say?" โ
Fu Xiaotian laughed evilly, sat on the edge of the kang, and grabbed Ban Yunyun's arm, "It's okay, madam, my mother said, in the future, I won't be so harsh on you, just let you understand those things." โ
When Ban Yunyun heard this, she was very happy, so she took a sip and kissed Fu Xiaotian's cheek: "Xianggong, you are so good." โ
"Where's the awesome? Madame, it's getting late, go to bed. โ
After that, Fu Xiaotian took off the flat boots he was wearing on his feet, put on the kang, covered the quilt, and there were some humming noises in the room from time to time, we don't know, we don't dare to say it.
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The next day, Fu Xiaotian had just finished eating, sitting in the courtyard basking in the sun, and the elder came to Fu's mansion with a smile, and at the same time held a letter and a token in his hand, "Fu Tingchang, I'm here, old man." โ
Seeing the arrival of the elder, Fu Xiaotian did not slack off, quickly stood up, came to the elder, and supported him: "Elder, you are here, is there something wrong?" โ
The elder smiled kindly, and handed the token and letter in his hand to Fu Xiaotian: "The county magistrate has agreed to your pavilion chief position, remade a pavilion chief token, and handed you a letter." โ
After hearing this, Fu Xiaotian hurriedly thanked him: "Okay, thank you, elder, come on, go in and sit down." โ
The elder smiled slightly and shook his hand: "No need, I have other things, you can be busy." โ
Fu Xiaotian still wanted to stay, but the elder left without looking back. Helplessly, after Fu Xiaotian sent him out of the door, he carefully looked at these two things.
Just look at the token that says on it, the pavilion chief of Mobei Town, and the back says Fu Xiaotian.
Fu Xiaotian thought to himself, this thing is really simple, but at least it is much better than nothing.
At this time, Fu Xiaotian opened the envelope again, and it was written with a brush, "Fu Xiaotian opened it personally." โ
The letter reads: "I am the magistrate of Dingxi County, and since the villagers elected you as the new pavilion chief, then I will agree." After becoming the pavilion chief, I hope you will work well, and I won't say anything more. Seeing that the end of the month is approaching, you have to think carefully about this month's taxes. โ
Seeing this, Fu Xiaotian was annoyed for a while, "Fuck you, let me think about it, what are you doing, taxes and taxes, it's like I've never seen money." โ
After that, Fu Xiaotian tore the letter in his hand in half and walked out of Fu Mansion.
When he came to the street, Fu Xiaotian looked at these vendors, who were basically old women, and there were few young people, and they had to collect taxes.
Coincidentally, Fu Xiaotian saw Da Biaozi who was buying vegetables at a small stall, and walked over quickly, "Da Biaozi, did you sleep well last night?" โ
Da Biaozi laughed and hugged Fu Xiaotian's body: "Brother, this is a joke, of course my Da Biaozi slept old." โ
Fu Xiaotian was hugged by him, and suddenly felt a sharp pain, but he couldn't say anything, so he could only endure and say, "Are you going to buy vegetables?" โ
Da Biaozi pointed to the cabbage and green onions on the stall: "Yes, I'll buy some side dishes and go back to cook some food, I haven't eaten anything at home recently." โ
"Oh, that's right."
At this time, the old woman weighed the dish and handed it to the big biaozi: "Just give five cents of copper coins." โ
Da Biaozi just wanted to pay for it, but Fu Xiaotian took out a copper coin and said, "No need to look for it." โ
Without waiting for the old woman to react, Fu Xiaotian walked to the side with Da Biaozi and asked in a low voice: "Da Biaozi, let me ask you, how do you pay your taxes?" โ
Da Biaozi was slightly stunned, frowned and thought for a long time, and then spoke up: "I also heard from the elders, in fact, the imperial court stipulates that as long as the grain tax is paid once a year, other taxes are only paid once every six months." However, the county magistrate asked us to pay once in a while if we do business in a small village or town. โ
As soon as Fu Xiaotian heard it, he understood that it was the county magistrate who was eating kickbacks. This is not good, I am definitely not this kind of person who aids and abuses, it's just that, the soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, the big deal is that the position of the pavilion chief will not be done by himself.
Just when Fu Xiaotian was pondering this matter in his heart, a noise sounded in front of him.
Fu Xiaotian and Da Biaozi hurriedly rushed over, this look is really funny. I saw a woman selling tofu who was grabbed by the arm by an obscene-looking man, and it seemed that the man was drunk.
I saw that this woman looked like she was twenty-eight or nine, with thin willow eyebrows, a pair of peach blossom eyes, and although her clothes were a little shabby, she had a unique charm.
When Fu Xiaotian saw this scene, he asked the big biaozi on the side, "Hey, who is this woman?" โ
Da Biaozi smiled innocently, "She's the widow of the king who sells tofu, we all know each other." โ
At this time, this man took advantage of the strength of the wine and directly touched the beautiful face of the widow Wang, Fu Xiaotian looked at it, and thought to himself, he is also a pavilion chief, this person does this kind of thing in public, he can't ignore it.
Thinking of this, Fu Xiaotian came to Widow Wang's side, pulled Widow Wang over, and slapped the man's face, "Hey, flirting with women from good families in public, don't I exist as a pavilion chief?" โ
The man was slightly stunned, and then shouted angrily: "Who are you, dare to me?" โ
After that, the man wanted to make a move, but who knows, at this time, Da Biaozi came over, and when he mentioned his thin body, he was beaten, "Look, this is my brother, the pavilion chief of Mobei Town." โ
When the man heard Da Biaozi's words, his face turned pale: "Okay, wait, the pavilion chief, my brother is still the pavilion chief of Xiaozhai Township, see if I don't teach you a good lesson." โ
As soon as the man finished speaking, Da Biaozi punched him again, and then threw him to the ground like a chick, "Get out." โ
Seeing the resentment on the man's face, Fu Xiaotian smiled slightly, not afraid at all, he was not cleaned up by my wife when he came.
At this time, the widow Wang glanced at Fu Xiaotian, and said shyly: "Thank you Pavilion Lord, the little woman is also unrequited, otherwise, go eat something at my house, I will greet the adult." โ
Fu Xiaotian laughed, and slowly a sense of vanity came to his face: "It's okay, it's okay, I won't go." โ
Widow Wang looked at Fu Xiaotian with silky eyes: "Go on, my lord, I don't have anything to eat in my house, it's all tofu." โ
Bean curd? That's a good thing, uh, what kind of tofu? Could it be?
Thinking of this, Fu Xiaotian was drooling for a while, oops, look at this, this widow seems to have not had that for a long time.