Qin Tian and the blacksmith can be said to have the same heart.

It's just that Qin Tian hasn't opened his mouth to agree, but Tie Niu suddenly shook his head and said, "I want to follow my father-in-law." ”

The blacksmith frowned and said: "Tie Niu, Qin Gongzi is a capable person, you can make a name for yourself by following him, what's the use of following your father-in-law, it's just a lifetime of iron." ”

Tie Niu shook his head: "I will follow my father-in-law." ”

"You ......" The blacksmith suddenly felt a little helpless, a good future, but Tie Niu didn't know how to cherish it.

Qin Tian's side also quickly understood that Tie Niu had a deep affection for the blacksmith and couldn't bear to leave, otherwise this blacksmith shop would rely on the blacksmith alone, but I was afraid that it wouldn't be able to hold on, right?

Seeing this, Qin Tian didn't insist, and said: "Since this is the case, then let Tie Niu continue to follow you, when I come back from Longkou County, I will come here again, if Tie Niu is willing to follow me, I will accept him again, how about it?" ”

The blacksmith thought that this would do, and hurriedly complied.

When he finished speaking, it was getting late, and the autumn rain was still falling, and the blacksmith tidied up two rooms for Qin Tian and them, so that they could barely survive the night.

Although the autumn rain did not stop the next day, it was much lighter, and Qin Tian saw that he could continue to hurry, so he said goodbye to Tie Niu and them and continued to rush to Longkou County.

In the following month, they walked or stopped, and finally arrived in Longkou County at the end of autumn and the beginning of winter.

The area of Longkou County is still not small, and the population is also quite large, with more than 100,000 people.

However, when they came, because it was winter and the weather was cold, they didn't see too many pedestrians along the way.

After entering the territory of Longkou County, they have to walk for more than half a day to get to Longkou County, and according to their situation, they are afraid that they will be able to reach the county seat in the evening.

But even so, Qin Tian and the others decided not to stop along the way and go directly to the county seat, after all, the weather in the suburbs was too cold, so they couldn't camp anymore, so they could only hurry to the county office.

They hurried all the way, and when they came to a small road, they found four or five people standing on the side of the road in front of them, gossiping.

After Tang Rong saw them, she chuckled: "Xianggong, those people are really interesting, standing on the side of the road and chatting on such a cold day." ”

Qin Tian's expression moved slightly: "The interesting thing is still to come." ”

"What do you mean?"

Qin Tiandao: "You'll understand later." ”

The carriage continued to walk, and soon came to the side of the men, and at this moment, the men who had been chatting just now suddenly drew their knives from their bosoms, and immediately surrounded their carriage.

"Put ...... Throw out all the valuable things. "A man shouted loudly, holding a knife in his hand to chop vegetables, which seemed funny at this time, because no thief was carrying a kitchen knife on the street.

Tang Rong had already understood what Qin Tian meant at this time, it turned out that these people were just waiting for the fish to take the bait.

However, along the way, Tang Rong was a lot bolder, and at this time, in the face of these bandits, she didn't mean to be afraid, but glanced at the thief very funny.

At this time, Hu Shibai was ready to stand up and solve these people, and along the way, he solved a lot of thieves like this.

However, as soon as Hu Shibai was about to stand up, he was pulled down by Qin Tian: "Don't worry! ”

Hu Shibai glanced at Qin Tian puzzled, but didn't ask much, at this time, Qin Tian walked out of the carriage, holding a few pieces of silver cakes in his hands, and when those thieves saw the silver cakes, their eyes suddenly lit up.

"Throw it over." The man with the kitchen knife shouted at Qin Tian, and Qin Tian shrugged: "I have a lot of silver cakes, and I can give them to you if you want, but ......"

"Just what?"

"It's just that I'm afraid I'll give it to you, and you don't have the courage to ask for it."

The thieves glanced at each other, and then couldn't help but laugh.

"We are thieves, are we afraid to ask for money?"

"That's it, how much do you have, how much we want, take it out quickly."

Qin Tiandao: "Do you dare to ask for the silver cake of the county order of Longkong County?" ”

When several thieves heard this, they were shocked.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Qin Tian, the new county commander of Longkou County, is waiting for a thief, and you still don't kneel when you see this official?" Qin Tian suddenly shouted, and those thieves were suddenly startled, and they knelt down with a plop.

"The county commander spares his life, we ...... We didn't know it was you......"

Tang Rong sat in the carriage and suddenly couldn't help laughing, she had seen a lot of thieves, but it was the first time she had seen such a timid thief, and she was frightened and begged for mercy by Qin Tian's words?

How can you be a thief if you are so timid?

Qin Tian looked at these thieves begging for mercy, and became more and more sure of his previous thoughts, he saw these people standing on the side of the road and pretending to gossip, so he felt that they were only afraid of being thieves for the first time, because if the thieves had experience, they would not have done such an obvious flawed thing.

And as soon as he frightened them, they begged for mercy, then he was basically sure.

"Get up, and come to ask you, why are you thieves?"

Seeing that Qin Tian spared them, these thieves finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the man who was holding the kitchen knife before stood up: "Back to the old man's words, the little one is called Sun San, because he borrowed the money of the old man Zhou in the city, he can't pay it back, there is no way, so he came out to rob the road, I never thought that my luck was so bad, the first time I robbed the road, I met the official master." ”

Everyone else sighed.

"We also borrowed Mr. Zhou's money, and we didn't rob it."

Qin Tian was puzzled and asked, "How much money did you borrow?" ”

"Consistent money."

Qin Tiandao: "The money has always been not much, the official sees that you are strong and strong, and you can pay it back if you work for a long time, why do you want to do such a thing?" ”

Sun San smiled bitterly: "Master, don't you know, this week, the master's money is a donkey rolling, borrowed the consistent money, and the next day he will have to repay the consistent 500 Wen, and now I already owe him ten yuan, I really can't afford it." ”

"Loan shark?" Qin Tian frowned, he didn't expect that in the small Longkou County, there were still people who lent usury, although Datang did not explicitly prohibit it, but the imperial court did not advocate it very much.

On the side of Chang'an City, there has always been a standard for repaying interest, which is considered to be within the normal range, and Longkou County will repay an extra 500 wen a day, which is too high.

He looked up at the men and suddenly wanted to smoke them.

Are these people stupid, and you dare to borrow 500 wen a day with interest?

The poor must have something to hate.

"Why borrow money?" Qin Tian was still relatively calm in the end and was not too impulsive.

Hearing this, Sun San's face suddenly turned pale: "My son is sick and needs money to see a doctor, I really have no choice, so I went to find the money borrowed by Master Zhou, I ...... I can't watch my son get sick like that......"

Who would borrow usury unless it was absolutely necessary?

"Sir, I'm ...... I was forced to borrow it by Master Zhou. ”

(End of chapter)