"Sister, it cost a total of two taels of silver to buy materials, two hundred and fifty-two copper plates, and you can count the copper plates over there?" Yun Niang finished pulling the broken abacus in her hand and looked up and asked.

Jiang Han and Xiao An counted the last few copper plates together, and replied word by word: "I have a total of three thousand one hundred and eighty-three copper plates here. ”

She also raised her head and said in a daze: "If you subtract the money given to Zhou Banxian......

"Mr. Zhou's money, I have already given it to him when I collected the stall. Didn't you say that if you go to the list of divination, you will give him five pennies for every five strings? I gave him one hundred and eighty-five texts. Aunt Liu said.

"Wow, then we earned nine hundred and thirty-one copper plates today!" Xiao An happily stroked his palm and shouted.

"yes!" Aunt Liu reached out and touched his head, "We've only been on the table until the end of noon, and we've only had about 800 zongzi, so we should have made more ...... if we knew it."

Xiao An avoided the aunt's hand, and said in a small way: "Auntie, we don't have enough money to buy materials, we have to do what we can!" ”

Father Jiang smiled: "Xiao An is right, it's good to have this result, let's take it one step at a time!" ”

"Alas, it's a pity that they are all sold in retail and have not received large orders!" Jiang Han sighed and said.

"It's okay, we have these nine hundred texts, and we can buy more materials next time! Isn't there another market on the twenty-nineth? This time, we'll have 1,300 or 400 of them! That's right-" Yun Niang paused, took out her wallet, handed it to Jiang Han, and said, "There is still today's bun money here, a total of one hundred and seventy wen." In total, we have earned a total of more than one or two silver today! ”

"My sister hasn't been to the dock to sell steamed buns for several days, and Xiao An and I can only receive about 50 orders a day, and we can only sell more than 30 now...... That's not a good idea! I happened to see someone selling buns today, they should have paid the protection money, and I didn't see anyone driving them away. ”

"Sooner or later, the market is so big, we can't finish eating! Besides, these are just a few of us, making zongzi during the day and buns at night, and our ability is limited! Jiang Han shrugged.

Then she happily said, "I've got a free laborer!" ”

"You can't talk about Brother Song, right?" Aunt Liu said.

"Yes! He hurt me so badly, he must be punished, right? It's already cheap for him to work for me for free! Jiang Han said as he put the copper plate into the bag.

"You're bullying honest people! Although Brother Song is at fault, you yourself are also at fault. What's more, if he hadn't reported it in time, our father and daughter would have died with their lives! Father Jiang said disapprovingly.

"Dad, he's not an honest man! He's stirring up trouble from beginning to end, and if I just scare him, he'll kill me! You must not have the kindness of a woman, he has a lot of eyes, he is here, we can't let him know the formula! From now on, he will be a brick to move wherever he needs to. ”

She fastened her money bag and said, "Auntie, you have helped for a long time today, and I will also give you a hundred literary wages, and I will still deposit this hundred yuan for you in the store opening fund and borrow one or two taels of silver from you......"

Aunt Liu patted her hand, interrupted her, and said with a kind look: "That one or two silver, you can wait until the Dragon Boat Festival is over to pay it back, as for what points, you can get it - this is all a trivial matter, Auntie just hopes that nothing big will happen, everything will go smoothly!" ”

……

Also on the day of the daily fair, the Inspection Department pasted a reward notice on the notice board at the gate of the town, offering a reward for those who could provide specific clues about the bandits.

Before noon the next day, someone really unveiled the list.

The unveiling of the list was an old man in his early fifties, saying that his son was killed by a bandit, so he built a grass hut on the edge of the fairy village at the foot of Luoxia Mountain, and a person went up the mountain every day to look for the traces of the bandits, and he finally found a clue recently.

When he heard about the notice from those who had returned to the village from the town that day, he hurried to it.

Lord Shen listened to his statement, placed him in the Inspection Department first, and immediately sent Xiao Song to lead two people to Fairy Village to inquire about the situation.

In the evening, the information that Komatsu brought back was not abnormal.

Early the next morning, Lord Shen sent the newly promoted Xiaoqi Yu Dongshan, leading a dozen archers, and followed the old man to investigate, fully armed.

Yu Dongshan brought back the details of the bandits.

It is estimated that there were more than thirty of the bandits, all of whom were armed, and appeared to be building fortifications.

"Fortifications? Could it be that they are in the same group as those people in Shili Pavilion? Those people robbed Dongshan Village just to go up the mountain to join them? Lu Tong listened to Yu Dongshan's report and said in amazement.

Yu Dongshan hurriedly replied: "Young Master Lu, the villain doesn't dare to assert it like this. However, the patrolling men in those bandits were armed with knives and guns, and the masked men in Shili Pavilion were also armed with knives and guns......"

Then he said to Lord Shen: "My lord, my subordinates also went to explore the place where they stacked food, and the food was sufficient, but I didn't know that it was robbed in Dongshan Village." The villain also checked the clothes they were drying, and wanted to steal one back, but he was afraid of startling the snake - but the villain saw that the clothes were similar to the bloody clothes we got back in Dongshan Village, but the style was different......"

Lord Shen shook his head and said, "That fabric is the most ordinary fabric, which is not enough proof. ”

This Yu Dongshan, like Zhao Qingfeng, is also an old archer who has been excluded, and was selected by Lord Shen.

He is two or three years older than Zhao Qingfeng, and he almost made a small flag a year ago, but he didn't take the initiative to honor Ma Huaide, and the position of the small flag was topped.

Now that he has been promoted by Lord Shen and has shown loyalty to Lord Shen, Ma Huaide's people look at him even more unpleasantly.

"My lord, since I have found a stronghold, my subordinates have the courage to ask to lead thirty or forty people to suppress this gang of bandits with Brother Yu." Zhao Qingfeng stepped forward and saluted.

He has been under a lot of pressure in the past two days, and Lord Shen did not blame him for the portraits of the three fraudsters, but he blamed himself.

Therefore, in the matter of suppressing bandits, he was particularly active, and he was eager to make meritorious contributions immediately to make up for Lord Shen's previous bad impression of him.

Lord Shen stared at him and did not speak.

Zhao Qingfeng was at a loss at first, and then his forehead began to sweat, and he suddenly understood that he was acting too impatiently.

Now that he is by the side of the adult, everything should be subject to the order of the adult, and before the adult has given the order, he recklessly stepped forward to ask for the order, as if he was persecuting the adult.

Just when his raised hand couldn't help but tremble a little, Lord Shen finally spoke.

"It must be suppressed, but it can't be impulsive, gather everyone tomorrow, make detailed arrangements and then act."

That night, after the others left, Lord Shen instructed Zhao Qingfeng to send out two more letters.

The next day, after a day of discussion and quarrel, Lord Shen decided to personally lead fifty patrol archers to Luoxia Mountain to suppress the bandits the next day.

……

Early that morning, Jiang Han's zongzi stall came to an uninvited guest.

This so-called zongzi stall is actually composed of two baskets, two bamboo poles tied to the top of the basket, and banners pulled up between the thin bamboo poles.

At this time, she was the only one behind the stall who squatted on the ground and shouted, free labor Song Yaozu was transferred to the dock today to help Yun Niang sell steamed buns.

As soon as she saw someone coming, she immediately stood up in surprise.

"My lord, you, why are you here?"

"Jiang family's meat dumplings, buy a thief?" Lord Shen read the words on the banner softly, and suddenly felt like he couldn't cry or laugh, "You...... That's really ...... I don't know what ...... called."

When Jiang Han heard this, he said a little shyly: "Hehe, my lord, I made you laugh!" This is a gimmick, that is, now, the bandits are making people uneasy, and I just play a side game. ”

After speaking, she quickly took out a zongzi, peeled it for him, and said: "This is my meat zongzi, you can taste it, there is no chili, you should be able to eat it!" ”

Lord Shen looked at the zongzi and said with a soft face: "In my hometown, I eat meat dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival." ”

"Yes, my lord, you are from Huzhou, and Zhejiang's meat dumplings are famous."

"How do you know?" Lord Shen raised his eyes and stared at her and asked.

Jiang Han sighed in his heart, and he couldn't wait to slap himself.

It's all because of this dark face, why are you talking to her so calmly today, which makes her lower her vigilance.

She rolled her eyes and said with a dry smile: "Hehe, listen, listen to what my father said!" Hehe, don't look at my dad who is lame now, before he was lame, he also traveled north and south, and his knowledge is not ordinary! ”

The corners of Lord Shen's mouth hooked slightly, noncommittal: "Really?" ”

"Of course! It's all to blame on these damn bandits, without them, our family wouldn't be much better! Jiang Han scolded, his face showing anger, but he said in his heart: "If it weren't for these bandits, I wouldn't have come to this place." ”

Lord Shen also raised his face and said, "It will always be exterminated!" ”

"My lord, I heard that you are going into the mountains tomorrow to suppress bandits? Is it true? Jiang Han suddenly lowered his voice and asked.

"Who did you listen to?" Lord Shen was surprised.

"The person who came to buy zongzi just now said. Maybe someone in the family is an archer from the inspection department, and they came to buy zongzi to ask for my peace charm! ”

Lord Shen frowned and asked suspiciously, "What peace charm?" ”

Jiang Han snorted embarrassedly, glanced around, and whispered her fooling words.

Lord Shen couldn't help but laugh when he heard this, and said, "Show me." ”

Jiang Han was laughed at by his sudden laughter.

This person looks good when he laughs, but why is he smiling at her?

She suddenly appeared in Washi today--although it wasn't the first time I'd met him in Washi, she just had a weird feeling.

Seeing that she was stunned, Lord Shen urged again: "Peace charm, I'll take a look." ”

Jiang Han came back to his senses suddenly, it turned out that he wanted to ask her for a peace charm - is she already so famous for this peace charm?

"Since he believes it, then send him one, anyway, it's all written by that Zhou Banxian!" While thinking like this, she took out two peace charms, handed one to him, and said with a smile: "My lord, tomorrow I will go to the mountains to suppress bandits, and this peace charm will be given to you. ”

When Lord Shen heard this, he looked at her with blazing eyes and thanked her.

The unhappy mood of being forced to suppress the bandits in advance suddenly became much better.

Jiang Han handed him the other one and said, "Since you go to suppress the bandits, presumably Gongzi Lu will also go, so you can give this to him!" May he come back safely!"

So, Lord Shen, who was in a better mood, stared at the red paper in her hand, and his face darkened again.