Chapter 24: Sweeping

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Four or five miles west of the Xue family's thousand households, there is a place called Nest Village, where dozens of families live, all of whom were refugees who fled from the famine in Henan a few years ago, and found a place to settle in this vicinity, because the land here is barren, and the guards are too lazy to pay attention to it.

These Henan disaster victims took root here, but they barely maintained food and clothing, no matter how small the place, the people living in it were also good and bad, the bad guy in the village was surnamed Wang, ranked seventh, and everyone called him Wang Qi.

This bad guy is generally bolder, the people in the village rely on the sea to eat the sea, and they all boil the sea and boil salt to sell it at the nearby Lingshan salt farm, and later because Li Meng collects salt, they are all sold to Li Meng, after all, he can earn more than half a penny of silver, but Wang Qi, who has been wandering around recently, found that if he sells salt to Fengmeng Town, he can earn a few more points of silver, relying on his own brute strength, and collecting all the salt in the village.

He also got a chicken cart and pushed it to Fengmeng Town, and he was lucky, he didn't meet Yanding twice and made more money, but Wang Qi didn't give the money he earned to the villagers, but gathered two people with similar conduct to him, and forced the villagers to give them salt.

The three scoundrels each have a firewood knife and a wooden stick, if there are villagers who are unwilling to be beaten, these villagers are timid and afraid of things, not to mention that they are not under the jurisdiction of the government, and they are afraid that after calling the officials, the matter will not be solved, but they will cause trouble to themselves, and everyone can only swallow their anger and let them fish and meat, this Wang Qi is proud.

When the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, he made up three loads of salt and dragged three villagers to push the cart, and he and his companions followed, thinking that this time they would find a prostitute in Fengmeng Town and come back, and have a good time on August 15.

The three villagers in front were crying and pushing the wheelbarrow, and Wang Qi and the three in the back were biting the grass roots, holding wooden sticks in their hands, or holding firewood knives, humming a small song and following behind, they were ready to see a single traveler to grab his vote, and run away when they saw the salt ding, anyway, it was the villagers who pushed the salt, and this thing was not done once anyway.

As a result, it was only three miles out this time, and when he was not on the main road, five men with bamboo poles suddenly appeared in front of him, and as soon as these people came out, they startled Wang Qi and them, and when they saw that the clothes worn by the people in front of them were also poor people, their courage immediately grew.

Looking at the five people who blocked the road, one of them still knew each other, it should be the family of the hundred households west of the Xue family's thousand households, looking at the bamboo pole in the other party's hand, Wang Qi weighed the big firewood knife in his hand, walked to the front with his companion in a flow of anger, and said:

"Dog, you're blind, my knife ......"

The few people with bamboo poles didn't say much, and the five people rushed over in a pile, the guy who was less than two feet in the firewood knife was heavy and not easy to wield, and before he could lift it, he had already been poked a few holes by the tip of the bamboo pole, and the two on the side had not yet moved, and they were so frightened that they dropped the firewood knife and knelt on the ground when they saw this scene.

The villagers who pushed the cart collapsed directly, thinking that it was over, but they didn't expect that those people took away the firewood knives, and beat the remaining two scoundrels with bamboo poles, and when they were about to be unable to move, one of those people holding bamboo poles stood up and said:

"Wang Qi has done a lot of evil, he will deal with it for the villagers first, don't sell this salt outside, what should I do if I encounter a salt dog halfway, send it to the West Village of the Xue family's thousand households, four dollars of silver, and give cash without ambiguity!"

After finishing speaking, the shouting man kicked at the two scoundrels and shouted coldly:

"Harm the villagers again, this Wang Qi is an example, don't fucking pretend to be dead there, get up quickly and lift this corpse into the sea!"

When the villagers with the carts recovered, they went back and told the people in the village that everyone was happy that Wang Qi was killed, but they didn't have to suffer from him, and then they were a little afraid, the means of killing people were not a joke, and they thought that if they gave four coins of silver, they would still send it to the West Village, and the people over there were still kind.

During the period from the fifth day of August to the twenty th of August, the single households in the thirty miles around the Xue family's thousand households all received similar warnings, and those who did many evils were directly poked to death by bamboo poles.

This price is nearly two coins of silver higher than the price purchased by the salt farm, and the copper coins and cash silver are as you choose, and there will be no arrears and deductions.

And those who were stabbed to death by bamboo poles are in front of them, the other party is not joking, the honest villagers have chosen the safest way to make hard-earned money.

It's not that there are Ming Shunmin, those who want to report to the official or look for salt, often just go out, the house at home is burned, or people are beaten on the way, anyway, the road to Fengmeng Town is so many that Lingshan Guard is very simple.

In fact, after the Mid-Autumn Festival, the yards of Li Meng and Zhao Neng's homes began to be full again, and the sea salt from each village was sent here.

In September, Li Meng and the others had already sent salt to Fengmeng Town twice, not only between the households and the village, but also between the Yanding, it is estimated that the news was also circulating, on the path from the Xue family's thousands of households to Fengmeng Town, there were nearly 20 Yanding who never returned.

Although there are no less than 200 people under the inspection of the salt under the inspection of Mou, these 200 people are in Jiaozhou, Gaomi, Jimo, Pingdu, Changyi and Weixian generation set up cards everywhere to check the arrest, and the salt under the inspection of Mu is divided into many gangs, although this Jiaozhou and Fengmeng Town have always been active in the salt, but the number is also limited.

Twenty of them died unconsciously, and the corpses could not be found, and the remaining salt Ding who was a little smarter were all concentrating on buying low and selling private salt in the salt field to Fengmeng Town, and they didn't dare to do more forbidden things.

Some people say, why don't you report to the officials, these saltmen of the inspection department never looked at the yamen of the state capitals in the past, and the same officials who are quick to catch are not nosy.

For a while, there was a strange situation, the salt Ding and the salt dealers did not interfere with the river water, and each sent their own salt, each of them was polite to the salt inn in Fengmeng Town, for fear of offending these big salt merchants who were the parents of food and clothing, which was really extremely ironic.