He spread his hands out, showing considerable helplessness.

"Therefore I advise you to go quickly, and if the officers and soldiers do not touch you, if they see you, they will surely ask for twenty taels of silver for you. If you can't hand it over, wait and be caught! ”

The shopkeeper waved his hand to them and told them to leave quickly, and not to linger too much here.

I wanted to stay here, but who knew that this inn was still like this.

In desperation, the emperor and others had no choice but to leave from here.

They looked for other inns on the street, and saw several larger inns, but when they entered, none of them were open, and even some small inns turned them away without surprise.

In desperation, the emperor and others could only walk aimlessly, and suddenly saw a family with the door ajar, and an elderly woman cooking there.

"Lord Squire, you go and discuss with the master of this house, we will spend the night here, and we will discuss the money."

The emperor smiled and said what he meant, and handed over this thorny question to Lord Shilang, which was the emperor's intention, no matter how reluctant Lord Shilang was, he still had no choice but to pass.

Inside, the middle-aged woman had already seen the squire. Seeing the group of them standing outside, the middle-aged woman became extremely confused and a little nervous.

"Hello eldest sister, we are from out of town, can we stay with you for a night? It's easy to talk about money. ”

As he spoke, he took the money out of his bosom and brought it to the woman, hoping that she would accept it.

Seeing the money sent to her, the woman shook her head slightly.

"We're just an ordinary farmhouse here, if you don't dislike it, of course you can stay here, and you can take the money back. Our peasant family is the most hospitable, I think you have an extraordinary temperament, it should be a merchant from other places, right? ”

The woman's eyesight was not bad, and they were dressed as ordinary merchants.

At this time, the emperor led the others in, and the squire immediately took the emperor to introduce the woman.

"This eldest sister, I'm going to stay here for the night, thank you for taking in." The emperor said a few words of thanks.

The group went inside and put things aside.

Seeing that the woman was working, several guards offered to help, and the woman came down at her leisure and made them a pot of hot tea.

"It stands to reason that a few people are guests, but at the moment we only have these coarse teas in our house, if you are hungry, let me know, I will steam some potatoes for you, there is no other food at home, I can only grieve you."

A rather ashamed smile crossed the woman's face.

Her words shocked the emperor very much, and he never expected that the family would be so poor that there were only potatoes left.

"This eldest sister doesn't need to be polite, it's better for you to accept this money first, buy some rice and grain, we can't eat and live in vain with you." The emperor again asked the squire to deliver the silver to the woman.

This time, the woman did not refuse, and took the ten taels of silver.

After a while, the woman went to the kitchen and brought some steamed potatoes, which he cut into small pieces, sprinkled some salt on them, and gave them bowls of water to drink.

Although it doesn't look good, because I'm so hungry, it tastes good. The emperor is used to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas in the palace, and it feels good to eat this ordinary peasant meal.

Simply filling the stomach, the emperor's eyes looked here, and found that their house was quite big, but only one middle-aged woman was seen.

"Where are your husband and your children? Why don't you invite them out too, and I'll thank them later. The emperor stretched out his hand and clenched his fists slightly, looking extremely respectful.

Although he is the emperor, this is someone else's home after all, and he should inform the master.

Although the consent of the middle-aged woman has been obtained, ordinary people are all men in charge of the house, and they don't want the two of them to have a dispute over this matter.

was questioned by the emperor, and the woman's tears burst out of her eyes.

Her actions shocked everyone, and hurriedly relieved, and the middle-aged woman withdrew her tears and gently wiped them with a handkerchief next to her.

"I'm really sorry to make you laugh, and my heart is sad when I think of the head of our family. Because we have no money to pay rent, my family head was dragged by the rich man Zhou to do hard labor, and he has been there for more than three months, and there is no news, I don't know if he eats well and lives well there......"

The middle-aged woman looked at her, and at this point, tears began to flow again.

"There is such a thing! When someone came here just now, someone collected the toll from us, but I didn't expect that there was a rich man forcibly pulling Zhuang Ding, is there still a royal law? Haven't you ever reported to the authorities? Local officials didn't care? ”

The emperor was extremely concerned about this matter, and asked the middle-aged woman many questions in a row.

Hearing the report from the emperor, the middle-aged woman laughed coldly, and she was not in a hurry to be sad at this moment.

"What's the use of reporting to the officer? We don't have any money, and the county lord won't make decisions for us, and even if we win the lawsuit, we won't even be able to pay the lawsuit......"

The middle-aged woman felt that the emperor was not a bad person, but poured out her inner pain to them.

After hearing her explanation, the emperor's anger was uncontrollable.

He slapped the table hard, and then stared calmly at the middle-aged woman.

"This eldest sister, please rest assured, this matter is decided, and I will definitely make decisions for you and let your family return as soon as possible."

"Don't be reckless, you guys stay here for the night, and leave tomorrow morning, I don't want to keep you long. If those officers and soldiers see it, they will definitely ask you for money, and if you don't give it, you will even get into a lawsuit......

The middle-aged woman was kind-hearted and couldn't bear to be treated like this by officials.

The emperor had a feeling of being refuted by someone, and after thinking about it, it was normal for this middle-aged woman not to believe his words, and she might take what he just said as bragging.

The officials on one side laughed coldly, and they took the initiative to take a step forward.

"You are wrong this time, my lord is from the capital, there are countless shops in the capital, and he also has dealings with many officials in the court. Since my lord just promised to make decisions for you, how can he not have certain means. ”

He said a lot of words, and naturally understood that if a rural villager like them didn't say it a little bit, he wouldn't believe what you said was true or false.

Sure enough, as the man guessed, when he heard him say so powerful and so rich, the middle-aged woman's eyes lit up, and she completely pinned all her hopes on the emperor.

"If you can really be in charge of our house, even if you want our house, I am willing to give it to you! I thanked you before! Then the middle-aged woman would kneel on the ground and kowtow to them.