Bai Hong said: "Before, I knew that you were Leng Zhixian and didn't sneak attack and kill you, and you sneak attacked and restrained me, but you didn't kill me with a knife, so let's fight the two of us." Now, none of us owe anyone anything. ”

With that, Bai Hong slowly pulled out the long sword at his waist and shook it slightly, the cold air was overwhelming, like frost. raised it and pointed to Leng Yi's throat: "I'm sorry, Leng Zhixian This task, I can't push it off, I must kill, this is a dead task, don't die!" Since you are Leng Zhi County, now, either you die or I live! ”

Leng Yi put the dagger back into his boot, turned around and left.

"Stop! Why are you going? ”

"You knew before that I was Leng Zhixian, but you didn't assassinate me without moving, which means that you didn't really want to kill me at all, since you didn't kill me, why should I kill you? So what am I still doing here? ”

Bai Hong put down the sword and said, "Then you don't want your other half's money?" ”

Leng Yi said: "I've turned my face, will you still give me money?" ”

"Of course you give it, you completed the task, why don't you give it?"

"Really?" Leng Yi turned around and looked at her.

Bai Hong walked aside, opened a wooden cabinet, lifted a small box from it, and put it in front of Leng Yi: "Oh, fifty taels of gold." ”

Leng Yi opened it and took a look, sure enough, it was yellow, orange and orange gold, buttoned it up, and mentioned it to leave.

"Wait!" Bai Hong said.

Leng Yi stood still and didn't look back.

Bai Hong bit her lip lightly and said, "You don't ask, if I don't kill you, how can I explain to the victim?" ”

"You'll have a way!"

"But I can't help it!"

"You're lying!" Leng Yi said, "You can kill me but not me, it means that you have already thought of a way." And now you're asking me to explain that you need my help with your solution, right? Anyway, what do you want me to do for you? ”

Bai Hong looked at his back in amazement and muttered, "How do you know?" ”

Leng Yi said: "If you don't say it, I'll really leave." ”

"I say!" Bai Hong took a few steps forward, until he got behind Leng Yi, and said in a low voice: "Your trouble and my trouble actually come from the same person. As long as we kill this person, we will be in no trouble. It just so happened that someone had been entrusted with a new mission, which was to kill this person who had caused trouble for both of us. You're not going to refuse, are you? ”

"Who is this man?"

"I'm sorry, I can't tell you this, and you don't need to know who it is, you just need to kill the people I designate at the time and place I designate. He is absolutely damned, I promise. Otherwise, you can kill me afterwards, and I will definitely be caught. ”

Leng Yi slowly turned around and looked at her.

Bai Hong said: "The remuneration this time is very high, so high that you don't dare to think about it." ”

Leng Yi still looked at her lightly.

"You don't believe me?" Bai Hong's face was as cold as frost like white jade.

"Yes." Leng Yi still said lightly, "I joined your organization and killed the target for you, but you sent someone to assassinate me." How do you make me believe you? ”

"You know that I don't really want to assassinate you, and you also know that since I know that you are Leng Zhixian, if I want to kill you again, you will already be a dead man! The people I sent to assassinate you are all easier for you to deal with. I have sent someone to kill you, and I have done it for the eyes of those who have entrusted the Lord to watch over you. Otherwise they will say I don't do my best! ”

Leng Yi's heart sank: "Someone is monitoring your assassination?" ”

"Yes, though, you won't find them. Because even I can't find them. I have to paralyze them so they don't get suspicious. Are you willing to accept this task? ”

Leng Yi groaned and didn't speak.

Bai Hong said: "I have already told you that the person I want you to kill is the person who entrusted me to kill you!" Kill him and you'll be in no trouble! Think about it! ”

Leng Yi finally raised his eyes to look at her, and this time, he didn't look down to avoid her dazzling beauty. Because he wants to know how much of Bai Hong's words are true.

Bai Hong said: "This task is not in a hurry for the time being. Moreover, to complete this task, it is not at the border of Bazhou. ”

"Where's that?"

"I can't say it yet, but I'll tell you when it's time to say it."

"How much is the honorarium?"

"One hundred thousand taels!"

"Silver?"

"Gold!" Bai Hong said, "Pay half when I give you the task clearly, and pay the other half when the task is completed." ”

100,000 taels of gold is 1 billion yuan! This is really a dizzying number, but Leng Yi didn't even blink his eyes, and said lightly: "When will you do it?" ”

"I'll tell you when I find the best time."

"Why don't you do this task yourself?"

Bai Hong sighed and said, "It's not that I'm arrogant, in this world, I believe that only you have this ability." ”

"Oh, think so highly of me?"

"The fact that you can kill the leader of the Tu Gang under such strict vigilance is the best proof of this."

Leng Yi's body shook slightly, looked at her, and said coldly: "It was you who notified the Tu Gang Master, so the vigilance of the Tu Mansion suddenly became so strict?" ”

Bai Hong nodded and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I have to further investigate your ability to see how high your true strength is, so as to decide whether or not to let you accept this task." You didn't disappoint me. ”

"You're wrong!" Leng Yi said, "I will disappoint you, because, from this moment on, I quit your organization!" ”

"Huh?" Bai Hong exclaimed softly, "You want to quit the organization?" ”

"You heard it right! ――You're not going to stop it, are you? ”

"Of course not, ...... I said" Bai Hong smiled bitterly, "Don't you take the task of 100,000 taels of gold?" ”

"I wasn't going to pick it up!" Leng Yi said, "I just want to know what kind of person is the one who wants to kill me, and now I have roughly guessed what kind of person it is." ”

"And do you accept this task?"

"No!"

"Why?"

"I don't want to be used as a gunman by you, I don't want to be calculated by you anymore, otherwise, I don't know how I died when I die, just like today! Leave! With that, Leng Yi turned around and left.

"You can't kill him without us!"

"With you, I'll die faster!" Leng Yi didn't look back, and floated away.

Bai Hong looked at him in a daze, as if looking at an ethereal cloud that he couldn't grasp.

The next morning.

Leng Yi got up, finished washing, called Master Dong over, and asked: "After the New Year, it's time for spring ploughing, in previous years, our spring ploughing in Yinling County, did the people encounter any difficulties?" ”

"Of course, there are many difficulties." Master Dong said, "The biggest difficulty is farming cattle. The common people of Yinling County are very poor, and only a few large households in a village have cultivated cattle, and other villagers cannot afford to buy them. ”

"And what about the annual farming?"

"The common people help each other, hand in hand."

"I'm afraid that the effect is not good, right?"

"It's not just that the effect is not good, because the strength of people is far less than that of cattle, so the speed is also much slower and tiring, and many farmers are unable to plough the land."

"What then?"

"You can only slash and burn."

"Slash-and-burn?!" Although Leng Yi is not familiar with farming, he also knows that this is the most primitive and backward way of farming, that is, to light a hole in the ground, put the seeds in it, and then don't care, what can grow into it.

Leng Yi thought for a while and asked, "How much does a ploughing cow sell?" ”

"The price is different at this time, and now it's time for spring ploughing, and the price is the highest. After spring ploughing, the price will come down. ”

"How much is a cow now?"

"The average ploughing ox should be around ten yuan."

Ten guan is 10,000 wen, which is equal to ten taels of silver and one tael of gold. Leng Yi now has about thirty taels of gold left in addition to the previous New Year's greetings, and the fifty taels he got last night are still seventy taels. That is, you can buy seventy cows. However, we can't spend so much money to buy cattle at once, because the difficulties encountered by the people are not only a matter of cultivating cattle. There is also the problem of eating food when the green and yellow are not harvested.

Leng Yi asked again: "Is it enough to adjust grain every year in our yamen's granary?" ”

"Where's enough?" Master Dong said, "According to the regulations, it is claimed that there are 1,500 stones per county, and this number is full, and it is not enough for the people to eat, not to mention that the grain in the warehouse has never been full, and at most, it is only half." ”

"Alas! There's so much to do. Leng Yi said, stood up, took out the small box of gold from under the bed, and said: "Here are fifty taels of gold, plus the remaining twenty taels from before, there are seventy taels in total, I am going to use it to help the people spring ploughing, and when the green and yellow are not harvested, supplement the people, is there any good way, sir?" ”

Master Dong was taken aback and said, "What does Dong Weng mean to pay out of his own pocket and help the people for free?" ”

"It's not gratuitous, in that case, if you can help for a while now, what will you do in the future? I don't have that much money to spend a long time. Therefore, this money must be used as a source of living water, which can be used for emergency purposes. The money spent will be recovered when the time comes. You can also earn a little money, so that you can continue to grow your capital and have more money to help the people. ”

"Well, Dong Weng is very thoughtful and has a good plan. Like some big households, when the green and yellow are not available, they can take out the money to receive the people, and when the autumn harvest has grain to sell, it will be returned to Dongweng. ”

Leng Yi smiled: "Isn't this the Qingmiao method?" ”

"Seedlings?" Master Dong naturally didn't know the important content of Wang Anshi's change nearly a hundred years later.

However, Leng Yi was cautious about this Qingmiao Law, after all, this reform detonated the entire government and the opposition, and was subsequently abolished. He just wants to be the magistrate of the county with peace of mind, and do something practical for the people by the way, instead of doing any reforms.

Leng Yi asked, "Is the current grain price considered high?" ”

"It's okay, the price of grain in a year is the lowest after the autumn harvest, the average in winter and spring, and the highest in summer and before the autumn harvest, because there is no green and yellow at that time."

(To be continued)