Ji Qingwen saw that Zhu Cunshu's inexplicable anger just now had calmed down a little, so he hurriedly invited him to the private seat on the second floor of the restaurant to have tea, lest he get angry again.

At this moment, the head of the palace of the King of Qin, Shi Ye, led the guards and arrived with orders.

This royal governor was originally a thousand households in the northwest border army of the Ming army, and was later enveloped by the current King of Qin, and he had some military experience. He listened to Ji Qingwen's preliminary deployment, and after making some slight corrections and additions, he went down to settle the people.

Immediately afterwards, there were guards from the Qin Wangfu in plain clothes, who walked into the "Lao Wanxing" restaurant in twos and threes, and went to the private room on the second floor, pretending to be guests and hiding.

The orders these people received were just to support the scene, not to fight with the enemy, so the expressions on their faces were quite relaxed, but a closer look could still show that their actions were slightly unnatural.

Ji Qingwen only wanted to deal with the matter of "negotiating tenants" in front of him, but he was not worried that his deployment would be seen through by the opponent - if they saw the flaw, knew the difficulties and retreated, and eliminated a storm invisibly, it was exactly what he wanted.

However, if the opponent did not see the ambush set by Ji Qingwen and had no brains to get into the ambush circle, then Ji Qingwen could take this opportunity to seize Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, and then send them to the government for disposal, which could greatly delay or eliminate the possibility of a peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

In this way, Ji Qingwen can be more stable as his hard-won rich second generation, which is also what he can't ask for.

It was this somewhat contradictory psychology that made Ji Qingwen feel like a deer living in his little heart, and he was jumping around for a whole afternoon.

With this uneasy feeling, it was finally time for dinner when the sun was setting.

Seeing that the restaurant shopkeeper was not early, "Deng Dengdeng" ran upstairs, pushed open the door of the private room, and said to Ji Qingwen: "Young master, the tenants downstairs are almost here, and several bookkeepers of the family have also arrived, or will you go down first?" ”

Ji Qingwen was tormented by his nervous mood, and when he listened to the shopkeeper's urging, he was even more anxious, and reprimanded: "I know, I still need you to urge my business?" You go down first to greet the guests, and I will naturally arrive when the time comes. ”

The shopkeeper heard that the young owner was angry, and immediately said a few words, then retreated, but scolded in his heart: Boy, if you don't have your father and grandfather, if you are not the young master of the Ji family, Lao Tzu will not look at you at all!

Ji Qingwen suddenly felt that the shopkeeper was a little pitiful because he had been taught a few words for no reason, so he coughed slightly embarrassed, got up and made a gesture to Zhu Cunshu, and said, "Lord Shizi, I will go down to discuss the tenant." You sit here and drink and eat, and when things are done, I'll come up with you. ”

"No, this rare excitement, how can I miss it? I heard that your family also hired tricks, and I want to see if they have real kung fu. Zhu Cunshu said busily.

Ji Qingwen looked embarrassed and said, "Prince Shizi, just spare me." Today, there are some mud-legged tenants sitting below, and I heard that there are still people who plan to stir up trouble, in case you have a bump in it, how can I afford it? You'd better sit here, why don't I go outside and find some beautiful women to accompany you?" ”

Zhu Cunshu glanced at Ji Qingwen and said, "Okay, it turns out that you think I'm cumbersome." It's okay, it doesn't matter if I don't watch this excitement, I don't want to eat the broken dishes in this 'Lao Wanxing' restaurant, don't look for me beautifully, I'll go back to the palace. ”

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he immediately smiled, and thought: That's the best, there is no safer place in Xi'an City than the Qin Palace.

But I heard Zhu Cunshu say again: "Good boy, you dare to laugh when you heard that I was leaving." You think I'm the only one? Tell you, I'm gone, and so are the guards I brought! ”

When Ji Qingwen heard this, he suddenly felt bad, and hurriedly smiled: "The prince said this." I'm not worried about your safety! If you want to go down and see the excitement, you can do it! But there is only one thing, you can read more and say less, but don't reveal your identity. ”

Zhu Cunshu heard that Ji Qingwen agreed to his request, and the angry look on his face suddenly disappeared, and he changed his smile and said, "Nonsense, do you want you to teach me this?" Let's go, I'll go down first! As he spoke, he kicked open the door and walked downstairs into the atrium.

Ji Qingwen looked at him with such a high-flying and domineering appearance, and scolded in his heart: Silly ×, if you don't have your father and grandfather, if you weren't the prince of Qin, Lao Tzu wouldn't look at you at all!

Thinking about it, this was unspeakable, Ji Qingwen could only follow him downstairs step by step, and the little duozi who was waiting for him quickly followed.

The atrium of the "Lao Wanxing" restaurant downstairs was really full of people, thirty tables of eight immortals, and the tenants who were ragged and unkempt sat full, and the entire atrium was smoked by the smell of earth, sweat, and feet emitted from their bodies, so that Ji Qingwen sneezed three times as soon as he went downstairs.

When the tenants heard the sound of sneezing, they all turned their heads to look at Ji Qingwen, and someone asked, "Who is this son?" ”

The bookkeeper, who had already sat down at the main table, replied in a loud voice, "This is the young master of my host's family. The master has something to come over later today, so let the young master preside over it first. Everyone, please say hello to the young master! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a few sparse voices in the middle hall saying "Hello young master" and "Hello young master".

Ji Qingwen barely squeezed out a smile on his face, and said as he walked towards the main table, "Everyone is polite." Sit, sit, sit, we sit down and talk. ”

When the tenants heard this, they sat down one after another, but their two eyes were still staring at Ji Qingwen.

Ji Qingwen was uncomfortable by them, and first asked Zhu Cunshu to sit down, but he was about to sit down, but he felt a little uncomfortable, so he stood up and said: "I invite everyone to come today, the main reason is that I don't invite everyone to eat for a year, let everyone get together and eat a delicious meal, it can be regarded as not planting my Ji family's land......"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard someone say: "You don't talk about the wind and cold, which white seed is your family's land?" Thirty percent of the tenant rent every year, not a day late, who has a white seed? ”

Ji Qingwen heard the loud voice of the person who spoke, so he asked, "Which brother is speaking?" Please also stand up and tell us your name. ”

Before the words fell, I saw a burly man stand up, arched his hand to Ji Qingwen, and said, "Under Li Zicheng, this is polite." ”

"Li Zicheng? Li Zicheng! ”

Ji Qingwen's spirit suddenly froze when he heard this name, and he immediately looked at him, only to see that Li Zicheng was also in his early twenties, with dark skin, majestic and square, a thin beard on his face, and two eyes with black and yellow colors.

So Ji Qingwen looked him up and down several times, and then he arched his hand and said: "It turned out to be Brother Li, I have admired the name for a long time!" ”

This was originally a polite sentence, which can be said from Ji Qingwen's mouth, but it has a special meaning, after all, Li Zicheng overthrew the Ming Dynasty in history and is a famous hero.

Of course, Li Zicheng didn't hear the meaning of his words, and waved his hand and said: "You don't come to these vain things, it's better to say it directly!" I came here with my uncle today to speak for these peasant brothers. ”

Ji Qingwen didn't expect Li Zicheng's speech to be so direct, and he introduced the topic to the topic in just a few words, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.

At this moment, he saw a person standing next to Li Zicheng, patted Li Zicheng's shoulder, and said to Ji Qingwen with a smile: "Young Master Ji, please forgive me, in Xia Gao Yingxiang, my nephew is a quick temper, although the words are reasonable, but he is still too anxious and blunt." In this way, since Young Master Fang Cai Ji said that he was inviting the brothers to dinner, then please serve the food first, and we will discuss the business after we are full of wine and food. ”

Ji Qingwen saw that the person who spoke was in his forties, and he was a little similar to Li Zicheng, with the same tiger back and bear's waist, the same face and round mouth, and from the title of "nephew" in his mouth, he guessed his identity without wasting effort - he was Li Zicheng's uncle Gao Yingxiang.

Now that the protagonist has arrived, it's time for the big drama to begin.

So Ji Qingwen followed Gao Yingxiang's words and said, "Okay." This gentleman is right. We eat or discuss today, in order to fill our stomachs. As the saying goes, 'I have wine today and I get drunk today', since I have prepared the wine and food, I can't waste it, right? ”

As he spoke, Ji Qingwen commanded loudly: "Shopkeeper, serve!" ”

The shopkeeper agreed: "Okay! He began to direct eight or nine runners to serve food, bringing steaming wine and food from the back kitchen to the table, and in a blink of an eye, the smell of wine and food overflowed, and the body odor of the tenants was easily concealed.