Who would blame her?

It's too late to say thank you.

The streets were crowded with people just now, and if a horse was frightened, it would be a big trouble, and if one of them was not good, I was afraid that I would have to take a few lives to get in.

If it weren't for the lady's quick reflexes and quick skills, and the patience of other horses, if they were replaced by ordinary mules and horses, there would be a river of blood near Wangfu Street today.

While he was talking, there was a sudden sound of a hand-to-hand battle in the east.

Fang Ruohua followed the sound and saw that the commander of the forbidden army, who was not too tall, was fighting with a middle-aged man, the middle-aged man's martial arts were obviously not bad, and he was carrying a little girl with one hand like a little chicken, and he was not flustered when he moved and transferred.

At this time, the market was full of people, and the commander of the forbidden army obviously had scruples, but the other party had no taboos.

The two of them exchanged more than ten moves, and the middle-aged man was stunned, and he carried the little girl away.

Qian Feng didn't chase after him, and took a deep breath: "It's the friend of the king of Nan'an County, and Zhao Wei of the rainbow gun." ”

Fang Ruohua looked at it with great taste, and the two little beggars who were wandering around next to him were also amazed: "Look, it's good to be born in the palace, the fathers and ancestors of the family have committed something, and they can still find such a master to protect themselves." ”

"If only my father were also a prince, I could eat meat every day."

Fang Ruohua slowly got into the car, lowered the curtains, and after a short time, the carriages were let go.

Chunyu leaned closely to his wife, and was still a little afraid in his heart: "...... Madame, that man just now looked at us so terrifyingly. ”

"Hmm."

Fang Ruohua shook his head.

Just now, when the middle-aged man was in action with the commander, he didn't forget to stare at his carriage several times, obviously remembering a grudge, and it is rare for such a cautious person to be seen.

At that time, if his horse was frightened, he would not only hurt people but also bear the responsibility of letting the prisoner go, and he was afraid that he would have to shed his skin if he didn't die.

"It's fine."

Fang Ruohua pressed her eyebrows and said softly, "It's not peaceful these days, I'm afraid the house is very chaotic, let the night aunt send you back to the shipyard in a while, stay in the shipyard for a few days, don't go back." ”

Chunyu was stunned, and his face showed a little panic: "Out, what's wrong?" ”

The shipyard in the lady's mouth is on an isolated island, and it is necessary to travel for half an hour by boat out of the port.

Chunyu always felt that the place was very remote, and it was okay to stay for a while, but after a long time, he felt uneasy.

Fang Ruohua exhaled and did not speak.

Chunyu suddenly remembered everything she had just seen, those ladies and ladies who were usually high, and the maids and sisters who were a hundred times better than these ordinary girls, were tied together, tied into a string, and embarrassed.

She was excited, shuddered, and no longer had the excitement of just accompanying the Sixth Lady to Duxiu Villa to watch the performance.

Fang Ruohua recalled Zhao Wei's name in his heart, and always felt a little familiar, and only remembered for a while that the original owner had seen this person by Zhao Yihan's side.

It's just that the original owner is not very bold, and he doesn't care much about these people, but Zhao Yihan has a good demeanor and luck, and there are many masters around him, so that they all become inconspicuous.

It's no wonder that Fang Ruohua didn't think about it for a while.

Their carriage gradually moved away, and Qian Feng actually looked at it a few times, paid attention to it, and turned back to a forbidden army beside him: "That was the Xu family's carriage just now." ”

The young forbidden army beside him responded: "The Xu family has participated in the smuggling of the king of Nan'an, and there is evidence to prove that the treasury silver stolen by the king of Nan'an was once in the hands of the Xu family, and it is not yet known whether the Xu family knows about it or not." ”

Qian Feng nodded, and said for a while: "That lady is very skilled, but she is sick and weak, and she is afraid that she will not live long." ”

Forbidden Army: "......"

Commander, you stared at other people's daughters, will it be misunderstood?

In fact, Qian Feng just sighed a few words when he saw a woman who reacted quickly and had good skills, so that his subordinates couldn't help but glance at him several times with strange eyes.

Qian Feng: "Go to work." ”

As soon as the Nan'an Palace's palace fell, the entire Nan'an City was full of rumors.

Sun Lian'an is just that, Qian Feng came here to kill people, obviously before the incident, they didn't know how much preparation they had made in advance, and now Qian Feng has a roster in his hand, which records the secrets of the current king of Nan'an County since he inherited the throne, large and small, and unknown.

Just by looking at this booklet, the network of the king of Nan'an in the city is clear at a glance.

In less than three days, there were four important families in the city, and they were a thing of the past.

In the city of Nan'an, everyone is in danger.

The Xu family is the same.

The whole Xu family is like a boat traveling to a high slope, but suddenly it is a cliff, one is not good, the boat is wrecked and people die.

As soon as the news of the confiscation of the county king's mansion came out, the whole family, from the master to the servants, was at a loss.

Xu Dafu's face was full of disbelief, and he was even more confused: "Lord Wang, this is this ......"

He has always boasted that he is well-informed and knowledgeable, and often looks down on those talents who read and write sour books, but now he knows that he is a serious person who sits in the well and watches the sky.

In his opinion, it was the prince who was as high as the sky, that kind of behemoth, and it was destroyed overnight, so easily, without the slightest warning.

Xu Dafu couldn't help but be a little frightened, and walked around the living room a few times, and several brothers panicked, not knowing if they should transfer the family property immediately, but the in-laws are old, and there are very few people who can entrust such things.

It is difficult for a family to develop, but it is very easy to fail.

Xu Dafu sighed, and was lucky: "Xu is not so bad?" ”

He is just a businessman, and the Xu family may be considered a big merchant in Nan'an City, but it is not enough to see it in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Even if the county king falls, it won't have much to do with the Xu family.

Besides, their Xu family is not what it used to be, and it is not a small family that is attached to the palace.

Xu Dafu was lucky, put on his coat and was about to go out in the rain, the old lady sighed, held her slightly old, not too good carving bamboo cane, and said coldly: "What's the mess, be quiet, at this time you still go out to stir up, and contact those individuals, do you see that our family is not fast enough?" ”

The old lady poked the bamboo cane and said coldly: "From now on, you men will do what you men should do, just as if nothing happened." ”

"Doesn't it mean that the experimental ship type of the new shipyard is about to be built? And the modified ship also went to sea? Go ahead. With me at home, I can't mess around. ”

She was slightly bitter, and closed her eyes helplessly, "Life and death are just in the sky." ”

The old lady has experienced many years of ups and downs, and has seen many family rains and winds blowing away, and knows that many times, the weak is the ant in the palm of the strong, people don't care, let go of your hand and you can live, if you want you to die, it's useless to struggle.

But don't ants want to steal their lives?

It's time to struggle, it's still going to be a struggle.

The old lady sighed faintly: "When people are old, they are soft-hearted. After thinking about it, he called Dou Li and a few other daughters-in-law, and sent a sum of severance money to the people in the family.

The concubines who can be sent away are also sent away.

Concubines, maids, servants, and the like all pay a little money to let them go to their own future.

"It's considered that we are accumulating virtue for Brother Xiao Rui."

The old lady smiled, her expression was still kind, she looked at Dou Li's sallow face, and said softly, "You see, people like us are ants that can be rounded and flattened at will in the eyes of the important ministers of the court, but in the eyes of the people who are attached to us, we are the sky." ”

"Look at the current posture of the imperial court, I'm afraid that my Xu family's ship is going to capsize, and we old people who can't go away will float or sink, along with it, the others will be dismissed, and there will be less evil."

The old lady cleanly emptied most of the Xu family's subordinates, and rubbed her eyebrows: "There are still a few of you." ”

She looked at the daughters-in-law in front of her, "You also take the book and leave it, bring the dowry, and go back to your mother's house." ”

"How did it get to this point......

Dou Li grabbed her wrist in fear, refusing to look at the book that was forced into her arms.

When she met a pirate, she wasn't as helpless as she is now.

"Obviously it was fine a few days ago."

Obviously, not long ago, their Xu family was still the object of envy of everyone, 'Duxiu Villa' was born to the Xu family, Dou Li has been married to this family for more than 20 years, and it is the first time that she can see envy and jealousy in the eyes of her former little sisters.

But fate is so unpredictable, and people can fall into hell at any time when they are caught off guard.

Seeing the sudden change in the faces of the daughters-in-law, Dou Li was even more frightened, her face was snow-white, and the old lady's voice became cold and hard, "Don't be stubborn, if the Xu family can pass this level, they will naturally take you back, if you can't get by, you can take care of yourself, and you can always live your life." ”

Fang Ruohua leaned against the window, and for a moment she had a little admiration for this old lady.

There are very few people like her in the world who can remain rational and calm in the twilight of their twilight years and encounter great changes.

On July 16, the Xu family, like several other large families in Nan'an City, was surrounded by soldiers and could not get through, so that there was no other family's frightening situation of scattering and fleeing.

The eldest master, the second master, the sixth master and the younger generation add up to more than a dozen people.

The sixth master of the Xu family was brought from the wing room of Yuewanlou, and his eyes are still hazy and his face is tired.

The third and fourth are on the trade road.

They can only issue documents and order them to be brought to justice as soon as possible, or ask the local government to cooperate in arresting them.

There are only a few elderly women left, and the other wives and concubines are released or divorced early.

If there is no tangible evidence to prove that those women committed crimes, the Xu family's affairs will no longer involve the female dependents.

When Qian Feng saw this situation, he didn't say much, but just sighed, the Xu family is kind-hearted.

The group was escorted to the car, and the haohao soup passed through the street, and the surrounding people were pointing and pointing.

Xu Dafu's heart went up and down, cold sweat was dripping on his forehead, and all kinds of bad thoughts came to his heart, especially on one side of his face, seeing his wife's face full of tears, desperately trying to rush to the prisoner car, he was so frightened that his hands and feet were weak, but fortunately, the slave and maid were still loyal, and they dragged people down.

As soon as he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he saw his six brothers and sisters getting out of the carriage in front, holding a stack of books like account books in their hands, moving lightly, panting slightly towards Qian Feng and the other forbidden army.

Xu Taifu: "......"

What's to be done?

Qian Feng narrowed his eyes, waved his hand, and more than a dozen forbidden soldiers boarded the long knives out of their sheaths and scolded sharply: "Who is coming!" ”

Several men in the Xu family sat up straight, and the sixth master's face changed slightly.

Fang Ruohua saluted unhurriedly, and whispered: "The general is good, the people's woman Fang's family, and they don't dare to stop the general from doing an errand." ”

She paused, and saw that Qian Feng had not stopped her, so she said seriously, "It's really the county government official Guo Shushu waiting for the grain disaster relief, the grain fleet has already arrived on the shore, and there must be a letter from the master of the Xu family to transport the grain." ”

Grain?

What grain?

Is the imperial court going to distribute relief food?

The whispering around stopped immediately, and everyone stared at Fang Ruohua with burning eyes, pricking up their ears to listen.

Fang Ruohua said softly: "There is a shortage of food in Nan'an City, the victims gathered, and the government could not deliver the grain and grass for a while, so the county order discussed with the gentry of Nan'an City and Towns, and borrowed money to relieve the disaster in advance. ”

"The eldest lord has been helping the former magistrate handle this matter for the past few months."

As he spoke, he opened the account book: "...... The fleet purchased 3,000 koku of upper white rice, 9,000 koku of medium white rice, and 12,000 koku of lower white rice from Annam, at a cost of ...... Buying grain and grass in Sulu, Siam and other places for 5,300 stone ......"

She simply read the amount of grain she had bought from all over the country, the amount of silver grain she had spent, and so on.

"The Xu family lent a total of 170,000 taels of silver to the county government, including 5,000 taels of dowry from the daughters-in-law of each house and 30,000 taels of foreign debts, which were borrowed from the Gao family and the Qiu family, and were scheduled to be repaid by the end of this year."

Fang Ruohua said a few words, briefly explained how they transferred money and how they rescued the disaster, and asked softly: "Master, is there any omission in this account book?" ”

Many of the people around heard this, and their hearts were shaken.

Xu Dafu was stunned and speechless for a while.

At the beginning, it was obviously the sixth brother and sister who said that they would borrow silver to buy grain, buy it for storage, and use it to feed the shipyard workers by the way, but they didn't say that they lent it to the government......

At that time, he was still in great distress, and he always felt that he was panicking by using up all the living money that his family could use up to buy food.

170,000 taels, which can be said to be more than two-thirds of the cash in the treasury.

The sixth brother and sister are really a good means.

If she wants to dig up the Xu family's background, I'm afraid it will be very easy.

For a while, he thought about a lot of things, but at this moment, he was suddenly full of energy.

If the Xu family made great contributions to the affairs of the victims, even if it was just to appease the people, the court would forgive their family's sins.

In fact, the Xu family has not been involved in any great lawsuits, and they have little involvement in the affairs of the king of Nan'an County, and there is no one involved in the government.

Thinking about it, Xu Dafu reacted quickly, and hurriedly said loudly: "There is no mistake or omission, please ...... Mrs. Fang waited. ”

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Qian Feng, "I implore the Grand Commander to send someone to fetch the seal letter from my study." ”

Qian Feng: "......"

Can he say no?

So many ordinary people watched from the side, looking excited, and some even began to swallow their saliva non-stop.

A few days ago, there were even victims of the disaster who gathered to make trouble, and several large households in the county were rushed, and a number of people died.