Although Xiao Xiantang said it and said that he could hold it, whether it was Ge Lao or Zhao Yongkang, they all had doubts in their hearts, they felt that Xiao Xiantang was talking more big, and maybe even just "lustful and dizzy".

But no matter what, Xiao Xiantang still connived at Mu Chonglan's behavior, so that as soon as the incident came out, the people of Longtong County complained one by one, and all kinds of rumors spread, especially after which profiteers who were already dissatisfied with Mu Chonglan's "protection fee" even encouraged his subordinates to start spreading rumors, saying that Mu Chonglan was the reincarnation of a demon to harm them in Longtong County.

The people of Longtong County mostly see flowers in the fog, and they don't know the inside story, so when they see the wind is the rain, they hear such rumors among the neighbors, and they believe it, and the more they say it, the more mysterious it becomes, and finally it has evolved into the real Xiao Xiantang and Mu Chonglan The two have died in the middle of the job, Xiao Xiantang and Mu Chonglan at this time are actually two spirits, otherwise how could they be born with such a look.

Mu Chonglan went out, mostly wearing veils, and he couldn't see his appearance clearly, but he faintly saw that he was a beauty, Xiao Xiantang was different, his appearance was outstanding, that was well known to everyone in Longtong County, and at the beginning, everyone got together to go to the county government to see him, the county master.

Later, everyone knew that Xiao Xiantang had a good appearance, but his temper was not good.

Even, a few days ago, someone tried to ask him if he wanted a concubine, and he asked someone to beat that person up and hang him for three days before releasing him.

Longtong County is located in a remote area, although the people do not live and work in peace and contentment, but also because of the private smuggling of the whole people, do not worry about food and clothing, the so-called full and warm thoughts, all the people talk after dinner, almost all of them are from the county government.

As soon as the news of "arresting the strong men" was released this time, the neighbors began to discuss among themselves, and they all speculated about what the county government had done.

"Hey, what do you say, what does this county lord want to do?" A man in a long gown gowned.

A man sitting next to him stretched out his hand and pulled him: "What are you yelling at, don't be afraid of being heard, ask those poor masters to take you to prison and eat in prison." ”

"Speaking of which, why are all those bad men all new faces these days?" Another big man drinking tea asked with some curiosity, he had been at sea before, and he had just returned from the sea, and he was still a little unclear about the situation.

A man turned his head to look at the man who was asking, and exclaimed, "Don't you know? ”

"Know what?" The man who drank the tea was confused.

So, the man said mysteriously: "That is the matter of collusion between the navy and the third class of the county government." ”

As soon as the man's voice fell, the man next to him pushed him and scolded: "Bah, what collusion is not collusion, Li Laosi, what nonsense are you talking about, the military masters of the Dinghai Navy, and our poor men of Longtong County, that is cooperation, it is a strong alliance, what do you know." ”

A bunch of flattering words blurted out, but there are only a few words to say, after all, I don't know a few big words, and these are all hearsay.

When Li Laosi heard the man say this, he pursed his lips disdainfully: "Zhang Dahe, what are you scolding, we don't have those dogs, you just praise them as a flower, and you don't get any money." ”

Another man who had not spoken much heard Li Laosi say this, his face sank, and he said in a low voice: "Li Laosi, don't be ignorant of your dog, the so-called partition wall has ears, Zhang Dahe is here to help you." ”

When Li Laosi heard the man's words, his face changed, and he looked around with a strange expression, perhaps he was really worried that the wall had ears and he would be arrested in prison, so his face was not obvious, and some regret flashed in his eyes, regretting his many mouths and tongues.

That Zhang Dahe saw that the man had said a fair word for himself, so he looked at the man with gratitude and said: "Brother Ahai still has the bottom line, in the end, he has read books, but it is different from some fishing in the sea." ”

Brother Haihan in Zhang Dahekou's name is Chen Haihan, on the surface, he is a porter who moves goods in the port, but in fact he is also a big and small leader, although he organized a bunch of young people in Longtong County who have no power, no power and no silver at the beginning, to move goods for those maritime merchants, just because one or two movers do the work, it is easy to be repaid by those maritime merchants, but they come and go, and they can be regarded as making some names.

Because Chen Haihan's nickname is Haizi, basically the older ones will call him Haizi directly, and the peers will call him Brother Hai, which is also because of this.

"Brother Ahai, are we really going to work on their drunken building?" Another thinner porter approached and asked timidly.

"That's right, Brother Ahai, I've been to see it, their restaurant is so big, where can we use so many of us, I think they are afraid that they don't have the idea of recruiting workers, and ask us to do that shady thing for them." Li Laosi spoke.

The so-called shady thing, although it was not explicitly stated, everyone understood that it was a smuggling matter, and where could the general restaurant recruit workers gather the strong men in the entire county, so he would guess that Xiao Xiantang and Mu Chonglan were asking them to do the shady thing, and it was not a speculation for no reason.

Chen Haihan narrowed his eyes, thought for a while, and said, "It doesn't matter what he does, he will be paid if he goes left and right." ”

"But ......"

"Don't be, this day is far away from the emperor, the county master is the sky above his head, can you still poke a hole in the sky?" Chen Haihan sneered.

In fact, Chen Haihan also muttered in his heart, he first learned that the new county magistrate asked them to register their names, and he thought that the new county magistrate was planning to find a way to pay for food so that he could make a fortune, or he wanted to build roads and bridges and draw them to do Ding service, after all, it is a common thing for the county government to draw Ding Gong, and even if the county lord builds a small road and digs a pond in the county lord's mansion, it is to pump them to do labor.

However, it's nothing to do military service, but it's just harder, so as long as it's not a military service to death, the people mostly swallow their anger.

Speaking of which, this time it seems that the Ding service is not like before, at least they still have to pay the wages for working in the restaurant, so they really go to work, and it is not in vain.

It's just that I don't know if the so-called wages are just a disguise, the purpose is to deceive them first, or afterwards empty words and white teeth say that they owe it first, and then it becomes a dead account.