"Mr. Zhang, do you know how much grain my fertile land can produce in a year, and what is the price?"

"Wujia has 1,000 acres of fertile land, and the yield per mu is 200 catties, and 1,000 mu is 200,000 catties. According to last year's market price plus one percent, if I want all of them, I need to give Wu Gongzi 11,000 taels. Wu Gongzi thinks I'm right? Zhang Qing responded with a smile.

Wu Chun was overjoyed, this person really came prepared.

Someone came to the door to increase the price, and the grain in the Zhuangzi earned a thousand taels more than in previous years, and Wu Chun was naturally happy. So he made an appointment, Zhang Qing paid the deposit, and the next day he brought a huge convoy to collect grain.

One hand to pay the grain, the other hand to the silver. Wu Chun received 11,000 taels of silver, explained a few words to the steward, and began to walk home happily.

Although Zhuangzi was not far from the town, the bumps in the road made Wu Chun clutch his chest and turn pale.

"Hat, go slower."

Wu Chun couldn't stand it, so he opened the curtain and ordered. The hat who was driving the car agreed and slowed down.

Wu Chun tossed back and forth, leaning on the wall of the car tiredly and resting with his eyes closed.

Just as he was comfortably closing his eyes and recuperating, suddenly, with the neighing of the horse, the carriage suddenly accelerated and galloped.

Wu Chun was unprepared and rolled back and forth in the carriage on his side, which hurt him so much that he bared his teeth.

"What's going on?"

Wu Chun struggled to sit upright, but the carriage was bumping left and right when it was moving quickly, and he couldn't sit upright at all.

"Childe, the horse is shocked!"

Hat's reins tried desperately to control the horse, but the horse was already uncontrollable and continued to gallop on the road.

"Hold the ......," Wu Chun shouted.

"I can't hold it!" It's hard enough for Hat to sit on the frame and keep himself steady, and it's hard enough to pull the crazy horse.

"Childe, sit tight...... Ah......h

Wu Chun saw that it was not good, and wanted to move out to control the carriage, but he took a lot of effort to move to the frame before he was about to grasp the reins, when a large stone was pressed on one side of the wheel of the carriage, and the whole carriage turned to one side uncontrollably.

Wu Chun was thrown off the horse and rolled down the side of the road in an instant, the carriage rolled over a few times on the road, rolled down the side slope of the road, and the horse also broke the reins and ran away.

Wu Chun was so thrown by the carriage that it almost killed him, he only felt that his eyes were black, and his chest was so stuffy that he almost suffocated.

He lay on the ground and struggled to sit up after a quarter of an hour. He stood up and walked towards the city step by step.

It was getting dark. There were no pedestrians on the road, and if he didn't get back to the city in time, he was afraid that he would have to spend the night in this wilderness.

Wu Chun was annoyed that he was so unlucky, and hated that the hat was not skilled, and he could drive the horse away with a carriage.

It was soon dark, and Wu Chun was exhausted from walking on the road for more than half an hour.

Just as Wu Chun was sitting on the side of the road gasping, there was a sound of horses' hooves. He hurriedly stretched out his head to look behind him, and saw two fast horses galloping in his direction in the night.

Wu Chun was pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly stood in the middle of the road to stop it.

"Help...... Help me! ”

"Phew!"

The horse stopped a few paces away from him.

"Strong man, my horse is frightened, the carriage is broken, and the people don't know whether they are alive or dead, I hope the strong man can do well and take me back to the town."

"Is this one of your family?"

One of them pointed to the unconscious man on horseback in front of him and asked.

Wu Chun walked up to the man and said happily: "It's my little servant." Where did the strong man find it? ”

"The man was lying on the side of the road and was almost trampled on by my horse, but fortunately I stopped in time to save him. Since you are together, then get on the horse, and we will go back to you later. ”

Another man stretched out his hand at him and motioned for Wu Chun to mount his horse.

Wu Chun dragged a sick body, and was thrown into a good place on his body, and his whole body hurt everywhere except for his hair, and he still went to the horse.

After a few tries, the man got impatient, so he simply dismounted and lifted him onto the horse.

"Catch it."

After the man finished speaking, his legs were clamped, and the whip in his hand waved, and the horse ran quickly.

Wu Chun was behind the man, closing his eyes and gritting his teeth, hugging his waist tightly. Riding a horse was no better than riding in a carriage, and he was wounded, and the horse ran and jolted badly. When the two men sent them to the door, Wu Chun felt that half of his life was about to be gone.

The man put down Wu Chun and his hat and left, and did not accept Wu Chun's invitation to come into the house for tea.

Wu Chun was sent into the room by his subordinates, and when Master Wu heard the news, he quickly invited a doctor to come over to see his injuries.

Fortunately, this time it was all skin trauma, and the wound was cleaned and bandaged, but there was no big problem.

The man was thrown out of the carriage and is still unconscious, and the doctor said that he had injured his brain, and he was prescribed two medicines and left.

Master Wu sent people out, Wu Chun untied the purse around his waist, took out a thick stack of silver tickets from the purse, and handed it to Master Wu.

"This is the 11,000 taels of silver tickets for today's grain sales, Dad, you can take it."

Master Wu happily took it and opened it to view.

It didn't matter if he looked at it, his face was pale and his fingers trembled: "Chun'er? This? …… How is this a blank slate? ”

Wu Chun was stunned, and his heartbeat stopped. He pulled the silver ticket in Master Wu's hand and stared at the light: "This? How can it be? I obviously received a silver ticket...... Dad, this? ”

Wu Chunmeng, when Zhang Qing, the grain collector, gave him a silver ticket, he carefully checked them one by one, and he couldn't be wrong. The silver ticket was in his purse at the time and never left it. How can a silver ticket turn into a blank sheet of paper after a few hours?

Wu Chun shook his head, closed his eyes and relived the day in his mind, and suddenly he opened his eyes suddenly: "It's those two horsemen, yes, it must be them." When I came back from Zhuangzi, they were the only ones who approached me, and they must have been them...... Dad, go to the government to report the case, now that the city gate is closed, they are still in the city, and they must not be able to escape. ”

10,000 taels of silver is not a trivial matter, and the biggest profit in all the businesses of the Wu family in a year is this thousand acres of fertile land. The second is Yunshang Cloth Village and Tongchun Building. Yunshang Cloth Village is ruined, Tongchun Building is finished, and the silver for selling grain can never be gone again. Master Wu hurriedly called someone to prepare a car and took Wu Chun to the government to report the case.

When Lord Tong heard that it was the Wu family who came to report the case, he attached great importance to it, asked about the details, and asked:

"What do those two people look like, can Wu Gongzi describe it?"

"This ...... My lord, it was getting late at the time of the incident, and I didn't see their faces clearly. I only know that they are sturdy, in their twenties, riding high-headed horses, and their skills are neat and neat. ”

"This ...... Wu Gongzi, such people are grabbed in our town, if Wu Gongzi can tell what they look like, then it will not be a problem for us to find them. "Lord Tong is embarrassed.

"My lord, although I didn't see their faces clearly, but they have foreign accents, you can go to all the inns in the town to check, and you can always catch these two thieves."

Two ordinary young men, who didn't see their faces clearly, were about to arrest people just by their foreign accents, and Lord Tong rolled his eyes in his heart.

If it weren't for the fact that the Wu family had just donated 10,000 taels of silver, he really wanted to drive them out.

But this is the first case of Lord Tong taking office, and Lord Tong naturally has to pay attention to it, although Wu Chun can't provide many valuable clues, he still sends someone to the city gate to strictly check the two young men on horseback.

And the two men on horseback were now taking off their disguises and handing over the 11,000 taels of silver tickets they had received from Wu Chun to Wei Huai'an.

"Food delivered?" Wei Huaian took the silver ticket and put it in his purse.

"Food has been sent to the affected areas."

"Well, locusts are raging in the Qingyang area, and there is no harvest. Although the imperial court also distributed relief food, it can only save emergencies, not people, and now with these 200,000 catties of food, at least it can survive this long winter. ”

"The son of the world is fraternal and thoughtful."

It was Wei Huai'an's confidant Su Han who came from the capital who spoke. Another man is Su Han's subordinate Zhang Qing.

"What's the news in the capital?"

"The joint garrison of Chengxi Prison has caught a few fugitives, but the people are still panicked, and the emperor has changed the morning court every day to once every three days, and strengthened patrols, checks, and night bans. Seal the gates an hour in advance. ”

"What's going on with the prince?"

"The crown prince is still locked up, and the emperor doesn't seem to want to deal with it further."

"Alright, you go down and rest first." Wei Huai'an stood up and asked Chen Sheng to arrange a place for them to live.

Lord Tong ordered to find the person who stole Wu Chun's silver ticket, and after a few days, the two people who Wu Chun sued seemed to have evaporated from the world without a clue. More than 10,000 taels of silver were gone, and the Wu family father and son fell into crisis again.

"At present, Yunshang Cloth Village is completely abandoned, and if you want to rebuild it, you are afraid that it will not work, and the business of several jewelry shops is not as good as before. There is also a fat powder shop, and people have begun to collect debts in the past few days. Tongchun Building has been in the same building for more than a month, and there is no income at all. There are still two months left until the end of the year, and I am afraid that we will have a difficult year by then. ”

Father Wu sat on the kang and looked at the accounts on the table and sighed.

"I'm afraid it's difficult for Tongchunlou to come back to life, or ...... Sell Tongchun Building, so as to save the emergency. ”

Wu Chun looked at Father Wu, thinking of the former glory of Tongchun Tower, and felt a little painful.

Father Wu nodded helplessly: "Instead of feeding these useless people in vain, it is better to sell them and save a lot of thought." ”

So, a month after Zhou Huanjun was arrested, Tongchun Building closed down, leaving one of the Wu family's subordinates to watch the store, and everyone else was sent home.

Wei Huaian smiled when he heard this: "This is called self-inflicted evil consequences. ”

"Chen Sheng, you go to Wu's house to ask Wu Chun to come out, I want to buy this store."

"What do you want this shop to do?"

Su Muling took the hand stove handed over by Xichun and hugged it in his arms. As soon as the genius was cold, her hands and feet began to get cold.

"Now our chef's skills have been recognized by the people of the town, and there are many customers every day, and there are some people who can't wait for the disappointment. It's time to scale. "Opening two stores across the street from the same door is a good idea that is not afraid of losing customers.

"I'm afraid that the Wu family will hold their breath and won't let us." Su Muling smiled. They tossed the Wu family so badly, it was strange that the Wu family could fulfill the opponent.

"Don't worry, I have a way." Wei Huai'an smiled evilly.