Chapter Seventy-Six: The Flame of Silence
The three tables full of wine and food were cleaned, and the shopkeeper stood beside him smiling, only he knew how distressed he was now!
Three tables of wine and food, just the cost is almost 10,000 yuan!
But what can be done?
I don't know what was going on in my head at the time!
Maybe after being stimulated by that old bastard of Hughes, and getting the result that he was "deceived" and "misled" by himself, he poured the north wind on the top of Eagle Mountain in his head!
Otherwise, alas!
"Have you eaten enough?" asked the tax collector, wiping the oil stains on the corners of his mouth with a napkin.
Whether it's the grilled lamb chops with a golden color, charred on the outside and tender on the inside, or the crispy and creamy cheese and vegetable salad, they are all the freshest!
Paired with two glasses of Radom wine imported from the Confederates, although it is just a normal product, it is good to have this brand in this kind of small shop!
It's just that it's not so simple to eat and drink and want them to be satisfied!
Hearing the question of the "head" who was mainly responsible for communication, everyone nodded with a look of disgust on their faces, and focused their eyes on the shopkeeper!
Feeling more than a dozen glances from top to bottom and from bottom to top, a drop of cold sweat broke out on the shopkeeper's forehead, and it was not wiped!
grinned reluctantly, revealing a "smile" that was extremely difficult to see, and bowed slightly: "Ladies and gentlemen, do you think this wine and food are delicious?"
The leader stretched out his little finger to pick the mutton tendons between his teeth, and replied inarticulately: "I don't know for the time being, is the blue-tailed pheasant ready?" There are still meals for sixty people that need to be packed, and the big guy is still waiting!"
Nothing was picked out, and he wiped the saliva on his fingers twice on the napkin and glanced at the shopkeeper: "One or two meals, who knows if your meal is dirty or not?"
"One meal, two meals?" The shopkeeper was frightened by this sentence, is this the meaning of coming over often in the future?
The shopkeeper knelt down on his knees and hurriedly begged: "My lord, the villain knows that he is wrong, and the villain knows that he is wrong!
Before he finished speaking, he cried in a low voice!
It's just that the indifference in the eyes of more than a dozen people did not fluctuate in the slightest, and there were two points of ridicule!
Crying? Regret?
Regret that if you want to be useful, there can be so many tragic things happening?
The leader waved his hand in disgust: "A few of us are tax collectors in the Xicheng Business District, you should have seen us, right?"
The shopkeeper knelt on the ground and sobbed and nodded: "Yes, villains often see several adults!"
Hearing this, the leader pursed his lips: "So, how much has your tavern been renting every year for more than ten years! How much is the labor! How much is the cost of wine and food! How much profit and taxes are there? Do you think we have a bottom in our hearts?"
"This, this!" The shopkeeper knew that it didn't make much sense for him to cry anymore, these were all the head snakes of Xicheng, and they could be regarded as knowing the roots of each shop!
As soon as this remark came out, the shopkeeper was immediately speechless and at a loss!
Suddenly, the look in the head of the guard before going out popped up, and he immediately explained: "Villain, villain, let's go to the chief guard to apologize, go right away!"
"Bang!" the leader slammed the table, "It's late! The chief of the guard is out of town with the child!
A few old tears slowly slipped down, and the shopkeeper couldn't do anything but regret at the moment! The whole person lost the desire to struggle for a while, and knelt on the ground like a chicken and choked silently!
The leader glanced at the companions, and saw that they all nodded imperceptibly before looking at the shopkeeper again: "In the past ten years in Eagle City, have you ever seen or heard the news of the chief of the Leon guard bullying anyone?"
The shopkeeper woke up for a while, and shook his head after hearing the tax officer's question: "Back to my lord, no! Not once!"
Hearing this, the leader nodded and sighed, and continued to ask with a look of hatred for iron and steel: "The chief of the guard is in a high position, but he doesn't bully anyone, especially the common people, guess why?"
The shopkeeper shook his head blankly again: "I don't know!"
This time, the head turned his whole body to the shopkeeper and leaned forward and squatted down, and replied word by word: "Because the chief of the guard was also poor when he was a child! Poorer than all of you! I know that it is not easy for you to make some money! But what are you?"
"Bang! Bang!" "Slap! Slap!" His eyes were like knives, staring at the eyes of the three-inch shopkeeper in front of him, although the slap was loud but not light: "Being in a high position does not bully people, and the captain of the guard is good to his brothers! What do you say we should do as brothers?"
"I, I!" the shopkeeper tried to argue something several times, but when he looked up and saw the tax collector's eyes, he felt as if he had been stabbed by a bright light, and he couldn't help but dodge aside!
The whole person was paralyzed to the ground: "Let the adults deal with it, the villains know that they are wrong! This kind of thing will never happen again in the future! I swear in the name of the ancestors!"
The head sat down again, stretched out his finger and pointed in the direction of the shopkeeper: "What I want is your words!"
"The chief guard is open, and if you admit your mistakes and are sincere, you won't care anymore, but you have to take out thirty percent of the money and hand it over to the treasury!" The tax officer suddenly announced this information, which made the shopkeeper stunned!
Without waiting for an answer, he listened to the leader continue: "This year is much colder than usual, and there may be winter disasters in many places!"
I don't know how many times it rotated on the table before it stopped, and in addition to the shopkeeper who was still kneeling on the ground in a daze, more than a dozen tax collectors had just left!
The expected punishment did not appear, and the meal money was given! And the amount of gold coins was only a lot more!
In addition to leaving a sentence of donating 30% to the treasury, the rest is to leave a lot of fright and shock to yourself!
Kneeling and moving to the table to pick up the gold coin, the shopkeeper was in a daze, for a long time!
Anmad came home from the palace, thinking about what King Mobel had said all the way!
"Danny agreed to Ruihong's terms and convinced me! So, I'm going to let him out in the next two days! But don't tell anyone about Danny's business!"
"Also! Ruihong decides by herself, let her take care of my son's safety by herself! If something happens to you and me, it will be really difficult to handle it in the future!"
The moment he entered the house, An Mad sighed heavily: "Who let it be their own child!
Came to An Ruihong's room again, and looked at the daughter who was reading leisurely in front of him: "There's nothing going on with the king!
An Ruihong closed the page of the book and smiled slightly: "Father, I know, let His Highness Danny get used to the snow fox for half a year, and then take the Southern Secluded City branch out of the snow fox and give it to him!
Hearing his daughter's plan, An Mad breathed a sigh of relief!
Fortunately, the daughter has used her brains in this matter! And others may not know where the son is, but the king, as a father, must know it in his heart!
Next, it's up to the second prince to see what he can do!