Chapter 12 The Tang Ranger

A big man with a beard and bare breasts squeezed in, Wu Qing was startled, almost frightened, good guy, bronze muscles, piece by piece, what made Wu Qing even more envious was that there was a tuft of palm-sized chest hair on his strong chest, this is a fierce man!

"What is it, let so-and-so taste it first!" As the big man spoke, a pair of hands with the size of a fan had already uncovered the wooden box wrapped in white cloth.

A burst of white mist quickly erupted, and the big man was startled, thinking that it was a hidden weapon, but his head was biased, and he felt nothing, so he gave up.

Wu Qing hurriedly said: "Wait! Then quickly close the lid to prevent the cold air from flowing out.

"Little one, what the hell are you here, why don't you let someone take it and see it." The big man was straight-tempered, staring at Wu Qing with a pair of ringed eyes.

Wu Qing was also glared at by this, and his heart was furious, and he hurriedly said: "If you want to eat, and take the money, it's only two pennies, do you want to take it by force?" ”

When Dahan heard this, he didn't pay attention to it, and directly threw out a bunch of money, Wu Qing's eyes swept away, it was a full five hundred wen, and he had to buy two hundred and fifty popsicles. I didn't expect this man to be a cheerful person. Where did Wu Qing know that this man was a famous ranger in Taiyuan Mansion, who usually fought for righteousness and squandered money, passing by Wenshui County, and didn't want to meet Wu Qing's mother and son who came out to sell popsicles. Although his face was vicious, he could see that the life of Wuqing's mother and son must not be good, and the orphans and widows wanted to live a difficult life, but they were self-reliant, which was a rare thing, so he directly threw out five hundred Wen, regardless of whether it was enough or not.

After throwing away the money, the man didn't pay attention to Wu Qing anymore, so he opened the box and took out popsicles of various colors. Wu Qing knew that this was ice to his brain.

"There are only fifty in it, only one hundred wen, and there are four hundred wen to make up for you. Don't eat too fast, or you'll get into the ice. "Wu Qing returned the four hundred Wen to the Great Han.

Dahan shouted loudly and said: "It's really happy, there are four hundred Wen left, and it will be used as a certain family's fixed money, and a certain family will visit this Wenshui for a few days, so you will make more preparations." ”

Wu Qing was overjoyed, put it away, and then handed it to Aunt Wu, who also let it out at this time, raised her head, although her face was a little embarrassed, but for the sake of her son, she was willing to do anything.

Dahan took out a popsicle and handed it to a few children who were staring at him, and said, "Today, a certain family is very kind, let a few of you children eat this new thing." ”

For a time, a hundred popsicles were scattered and only a few remained.

Wu Qing couldn't help but admire the character of this big man, and asked: "True hero, dare to ask uncle, where did you stay, so that I could make a popsicle and send it." ”

Dahan was stunned for a moment, he wanted to just give alms to this mother and son, but he didn't want this kid to have some backbone, so he immediately said: "I'm going to stay at Yuelai Inn, if you are free, you will send it, but I may not be there, if you are not free, just make a note, he will return me when you are rich." ”

After the big man finished speaking, he smiled and walked away.

Suddenly, a nerve in Wu Qing's heart moved, could this be the legendary Tang Ranger? Such a hero, so heroic, my heart yearns for it!

"Uncle, would you like to tell the junior the name?"

Wu Qing shouted loudly, and the big man was long gone.

After the time entered June, there was a severe drought in Shuzhong and Guannei, and floods occurred in the prefectures of Hebei Province, and millions of people were affected. The imperial court ordered all prefectures and counties to open righteous warehouses for disaster relief, but it still could not prevent the famine from happening, many people began to flee, and Hedong Province was also affected, and countless people came to flee.

Wu Qing looked at the unclothed people on the street, his face was yellow, waiting for relief, his heart was very heavy, is this the people of the Tang Empire? Is this the ancient empire that flourished and mighty? What he didn't know was that in the past ten years, the Tang Empire had been plagued by disasters, and the food consumption in the Yicang was almost the same, coupled with some greed and loss, so a large number of affected people fled their homeland in search of life.

Although Wu Qing had the heart to help these people, he didn't have much rice at home, so he went to the rice market after school at noon to see if he could buy some and be kind. By the way, building a porridge tent and earning some prestige will also be good for your future business.

When I came to Zhang's Rice Shop, I saw the price tag, the cheapest corn cost 50 wen, not to mention the price of rice was 70 wen. Wu Qing was very angry in his heart, these profiteers are difficult to make a fortune, no wonder the status of businessmen is low in this era, such profiteers, who doesn't scold and who doesn't hate? deserves a low status, and deserves to be fattened up and slaughtered by the government in the end. But is that really the case?

Wu Qing knew very well that if the Shi and Shu clans did not have huge economic resources, how to support the family's expenses was a problem, and if they only controlled a large amount of land, they would definitely not be able to support a family by relying on the things produced in the land. So who are those jade shops, restaurants, butcher shops, silk houses, teahouses, salt shops, etc., there is no doubt that most of these things are in the hands of the scholars and the Shu people, but they do not operate them themselves, but entrust them to the hands of merchants who are good at management. The scholars and the Shu people provided officialdom and policy preferences, and the businessmen paid wisdom, which also caused collusion between officials and businessmen.

There is no doubt that Zhang's rice store must have a background behind it, otherwise Wenshui County would not have this only rice store. Without a background, it has long been squeezed out of the water.

"Everyone, pay attention, there will be no credit today, 35 wen for miscellaneous grains, 50 wen for corn, 50 wen for wheat, and 70 wen for rice. Line up to buy it, don't crowd it, otherwise the guy in our hands is not a vegetarian. The man of the rice line said as he held up a wooden stick the thickness of his arm.

More than a dozen refugees left silently with yellow faces and distracted eyes. And the local people were clamoring.

"The day before yesterday, Yidou was only thirty Wen, and it has risen to seventy Wen in just a few days, which is too black-hearted."

"Who said it wasn't, I just went to see it, and even pigs won't eat that miscellaneous grain!"

"Who let the Zhang family have a clansman who is the county commander."

"Okay, don't talk about it, or you'll have good fruit to eat."

So the people stopped talking, but Wu Qing fell into deep thought, it seems that the power of the Zhang family in Wenshui County is very great, otherwise it would be impossible for these people who live in Wenshui to dare to be angry and dare not speak.

Wu Qing looked at his arm, it was too thin, and suddenly, he thought of the ranger who appeared some time ago, but unfortunately he never met it again, Wu Qing had been to the Yuelai Inn, and there was no such person at all. If there is a ranger, he will rob this Zhang's rice shop.

In fact, the purpose of Wu Qing looking for a ranger is to apprentice, if this era is not so two, it is really impossible to get around, Cheng Biting Jin learned the three-plate axe, and at the end of the day, he also mixed up with a national prince. Because this is an era when the law is not sound, this is an era when people eat people without spitting out bones, and personal force is also a means of self-preservation.

The reason for this qiē is those nobles, those scholars who are full of poetry, books, etiquette, and morality.

Scholars, sometimes they are also people who eat people and don't spit out bones.

Wu Qing stared at the Zhang Ji Mi Xing for a long time, with an indignant look in his eyes, he flicked his sleeves fiercely, and then turned to leave, chanting loudly: "Every time you slaughter more dogs, you are more readers!" ”

Although Wu Qing plagiarized a couplet from the last years of the Ming Dynasty, he really didn't think much about it at the moment, but suddenly felt so much.

Who would have thought that it was just these two couplets that would make him be praised by many people on the road of life in the future.

At the same time, a beggar not far away burst into a look of surprise in his eyes, and then got up and followed Wu Qing.