Hu and Yi quickly entered Luliang City.

The city is deserted, and the shops on both sides of the street are also deserted, looking like you can't come. Young people in brocade clothes like Hu Yanjin and Yi Chengjin seem to be incompatible with this gray and fluffy street.

The shopkeeper of a restaurant was coming out with a basin of water, and fell on the side of the road with a "bang", and when he looked up and saw the two sons, he hurriedly greeted with a smile: "Two masters!" What do you want to eat? Sitting inside, there are tea and snacks too. ”

It's only afternoon, and it's not dinner yet, but Hu Yanjin still nodded, and the two entered the dining room together.

"Two masters, is it a dine-in or a private room...... There are people singing songs in the private room. ”

"Dine-in. Is there any spring tea this year? Start with a pot of tea. ”

"Gotcha!"

"Shopkeeper, why is Luliang Street so deserted?" Hu Yanjin took advantage of the shopkeeper's personal come to pour tea and asked casually.

"Alas! We don't want to. Some time ago, the brother-in-law of Xuzhou Lei Zhifu came to collect the land, and the land in several counties east of Luliang Mountain was returned to his family. Moving and leaving, Luliang naturally has a lot of people. There are fewer people, and it will be difficult for us to do business. ”

The shopkeeper poured the tea, and just about to leave, Yi Chengjin stopped him: "Shopkeeper, you are not busy with business, just sit down and have a cup of tea together, and then put two bowls of your pheasant soup and three knives of honey." ”

"Oh, this master will eat it at a glance, our Lvliang's pheasant soup is the most authentic, big bones, hooves, shredded eels, hens are boiled for twelve hours, add pepper, ginger, frangipani...... Those who know how to eat know that pheasant soup does not look good, but it definitely strengthens the body and increases appetite! The shopkeeper sat down as he spoke, and shouted to the room: "Two bowls of pheasant soup, add pepper!" Honey three knives! ”

"What, there is no pepper in the spicy soup?" Yi Chengjin asked curiously.

"Alas! It's all to blame for this Luliang Mountain, which runs north-south and is tangent with the Yellow River. Usually it's okay, as soon as the Yellow River rises, several villages in the eastern foot are flooded at any time, and it is strange in the past few years. Pepper is expensive, and ordinary people can't afford to eat it, so they put more dried ginger. You two are rich people, so naturally you want to eat authentic. The shopkeeper said with a grin.

"We were outside the city, and we saw a lot of panicked farmers running out, I don't know why?" Hu Yanjin asked.

"As I said just now, the brother-in-law of the Lei Governor's Mansion came to Luliang to collect the land, collected it at a very low price, and forced the farmers to sell the land. That's not all, it's not the silver that he gets from selling the land, but the old rice of his Wang family for many years! What is the difference between exchanging an acre of land for a bag of moldy old rice and grabbing it?

After the land is collected, the rent of the tenants will be raised immediately, how do you say that people can live? As soon as everyone summed up, they went to the county government to complain, hoping that the county magistrate would come out to mediate, increase the land price, settle the silver settlement, reduce the land rent, and keep it as it is. But sitting at the gate of the county government for a day, the county master hadn't seen it yet, and a group of bought flowers ran in and smashed the county office. ”

The shopkeeper refilled the water for the two of them, and whispered: "Smashing the county government is to commit and despise the court, this is the crime of killing the head, the flowers ran away after smashing, and the unlucky ones are the farmers and tenants who dare to sue." ”

"Humph! There is no royal law in this Luliang City? Yi Chengjin snorted coldly.

"Yes! There is a king's law, there is a king's law, and it is very real. You two don't know, Lei Zhifu's brother-in-law is surnamed Wang, and his single name is a French character, hey! Isn't he the 'king's law' of Luliang City? ”

I really guessed the beginning, but I couldn't guess the end, Hu Yanjin squirted out a mouthful of tea, and they all laughed angrily.

"Okay, after drinking the soup, we'll go to meet this king!"

"He usually lives in Xuzhou Mansion, if he goes to Luliang, he also lives in the county office, and the county magistrate wears a pair of pants with him, and he is a soup drinker." The shopkeeper looked at them, and then twisted and explained: "The two masters, don't sell the villain, you two quarreled and left, and the villain still has to stay in Luliang to support his family." ”

"If we don't say it, it's okay, you want to be so ......" Hu Yanjin said a few words in the shopkeeper's ear, and the shopkeeper nodded again and again.

The two drank the soup, this spicy soup was sufficient, and after drinking the soup, they sweated, refreshed, and full. Hu Yanjin pointed to a little girl in the private room who was probing her brain and said, "I haven't touched this honey knife, take it and send it to the girl inside." It's not legal to sell her art, let her find another way to make a living in the future. ”

"This kind of showman is shameless and deserves to be arrested!" Yi Chengjin said disdainfully.

The shopkeeper was a little embarrassed and said with a dry smile: "That's ...... Little girl, there are some willow operas in the family, since Emperor Taizu banned operas, don't you have nothing to eat when you sing operas? Now that the business of the store is not good, she is asked to come out to help the business, and it is not ...... to sell her art and make money by relying on her crafts Shameless......"

Hu Yanjin smiled: "My friend just said casually, don't take it to heart." Women are also human beings, men can listen to operas, why can't women sing operas? It's just that the ban has not been canceled, if your girl is accused of singing, won't it add to the incident? You don't need to look for silver, so I'll give your girl a flower to wear. ”

The two walked out of the door, and Yi Chengjin said with some displeasure: "Why are you talking to him so much?" Wrong is wrong? Do you want to wronged yourself and forgive him? ”

"I just think of Hua Qiao, who is also a little girl, but has the courage that men don't have, and does what only men can do...... Don't think about it, let's go, go to Luliang County! ”

Luliang County is not big, and the county government is also on this street, the gate is closed, and the two officials are standing on the left and right, chatting with the killing stick in the pestle's hand.

Hu and Yi dismounted in front of the door, and the two officials knew the clothes and wore silk Luo, either the official family or the son of the official family, and hurriedly stepped forward and greeted: "Second master, where are you from?" Is there something wrong? ”

"It's okay, who likes to visit the yamen?" Yi Chengjin didn't laugh, took out the waist card of the head of the Criminal Department, and said: "We want to find the county order, go and report it!" ”

The guards only saw the word "Criminal Department" and were startled, the youngest official of the Criminal Department in the capital was also at the same level as the county lord of his family, so he had to report it quickly.

The door was opened here, and as soon as the two of them entered the county office, the high county order, who was drinking wine with Wang Fa and the two in the inner hall, wiped his mouth and trotted out to greet him. When I looked up, I saw two tall and long-legged, handsome and extraordinary sons walking over.

Both of them are handsome, but if you look closely, the two are a little different, the one in front has eyebrows that are reversed, a little more stubborn, and the one in the back is broad, a little more tolerant and calm.

"Oops...... I don't know which adult in the Criminal Department is? The lower officials are far away! Gao Xianling greeted warmly.

"This official is Yi Chengjin, the head of the Criminal Department, and this is Hu Yanjin, the grandson of the emperor's grandson, Zhilang Hu Yanjin."

Gao County's order heard it: Scared, they are all shrimp officials, and the grade is a little higher than me, but I am a county parent official, and you two run errands in a department of the Beijing Division, can this be compared? With such a change of mind, the enthusiasm on his face was seven or eight points less.

"Ah, I don't know if the two adults came to Luliang on business? Or is it a private matter? If you are on business, please show us your official letter. ”

Yi Chengjin saw that his face changed, and guessed that he thought he was too small, so he snorted coldly:

"Gao County Order, what crime should you be guilty of!"