Chapter 119: A Mistake
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At the last moment, she closed her eyes, it was not that she didn't want to run, but that she couldn't.
With a hiss, she secretly said in her heart, it's over.
She didn't want to die yet, she hadn't found her family yet, she didn't want to die like this, and it seemed to hurt to be trampled to death by a horse.
The expected pain did not come, but there was a bang, Bai Zhi opened her eyes, and the vegetable stalls on the street were knocked over several times by the carriage, and several vegetable vendors were making noise around the carriage.
Bai Zhi turned her head to look at the indigo blue Baogai carriage, stretched out her hand to cover her chest, and breathed a long sigh of relief, fortunately, the little guy driving the horse turned the horse's head in time, otherwise she might have to trample on a few bones now.
She wasn't injured anyway, and seeing that the little guy was surrounded by a few vegetable sellers, she was very anxious, so she just went to him to ask for compensation.
Bai Zhi thought about it, and felt that he was really a big good person.
When he turned to leave, he suddenly heard the jingle of wind chimes behind him, which was a windward chime hanging in the corner of the carriage, and when the bell rang, someone walked out of the carriage.
"Jinbao, how much silver should be compensated, calculate the compensation to everyone." The man's voice was warm and light, as good as a spring breeze.
She paused, and subconsciously wanted to look back, but when she turned around, the man who spoke had already lifted the curtain and entered the carriage, and she only had time to see the corner of the dark robe.
Bai Zhi couldn't help but laugh after watching it, and reached out and knocked on her head, "You are really hopeless, you can't walk when you encounter a nice voice." ”
With that, she turned her head to look in the direction, and walked away.
After Jinbao compensated the silver to several vegetable sellers, the money bag on his waist was also empty, and he said to the man in the car with a bitter face, "My lord, I have already compensated." ”
The man in the car responded with a faint hum, and then said, "Is the woman you almost hit just now injured?" Take some silver and look at it. ”
Jin Bao hurriedly responded and ran to the place where the carriage rushed through the street just now, and after looking for a long time, he didn't find the frightened woman, so he returned to the carriage to resume his life, "My lord, the woman is no longer in the place just now, she must have left." ”
When the man heard this, he said no more, and said, "Go on." ”
Jinbao answered, jumped lightly, sat in the carriage, and drove away.
The land of Jinling has always been rich, especially the Jinling Wei family.
In recent years, the imperial court has promulgated various decrees, and obstacles have been encountered here, especially in the case of illegal salt, the imperial court has always strictly prohibited the sale of illegal salt, but Jinling is still the place where the largest production of illegal salt every year. Jinling has a special terrain, and many people can make their own private salt, and official salt is not easy to sell.
If the officials fail to meet the tasks of the annual assessment, they will forcibly buy and sell official salt to the people, and anyone over the age of ten will be regarded as a mouthful, and they will be forced to buy official salt according to the population. Buying and selling is a small scale, and the price is several times more expensive. The people are miserable, but the official salt purchased is far from enough for daily use. Therefore, they went on a large scale to buy illegal salt, and the illegal salt was privately colluded with the salt lords.
The price of salt in the land of Jinling has become a disguised tax, and the people have complained, and the imperial court attaches great importance to this, and has sent several supervision envoys one after another, but in the end they have all returned in vain, and some even spread the news of their deaths. Salt barons are prevalent, and if officials cannot be assimilated here, they can only be solved silently.
The emperor was furious and ordered Lu Zhiyuan to leave for Jinling on the same day to take up the post of Jiangnan Salt Administration, in charge of the Jiangnan salt industry.
Someone once said, 'The difficulty of salt politics in the world, Jinling is the leader.' ’
Lu Zhiyuan stretched out his hand and pressed his eyebrows, and threw aside the pile of documents in his hand, he started to have several accidents in succession before he arrived in Jinling City, I don't know if it was a coincidence or someone was warning him.
The carriage continued to drive and quickly left the market, disappearing little by little at the corner of the street, while several people hiding in the shadows left in various directions.
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Bai Zhi searched for a long time and finally found the welcome building that Huansha said, it is really an inconspicuous small shop, even the three words of welcome building seem to be dusty for a long time, this broad daylight, the door is closed, it is really a strange place.
She approached and knocked on the door, but there was no response from inside.
After a few more knocks, the response to her was still silent.
Bai Zhi waited for a long time, and just when she turned around to leave, the door behind her was opened, and the old wooden door creaked, and as soon as she turned around, she saw a little er in coarse cloth standing and looking at her impatiently.
"Who are you looking for?"
"I'm here to deliver something for Huansha." Bai Zhi looked at the little er, he was dirty, it looked like he hadn't washed his clothes for a long time, and he knew that if he was diligent, he wouldn't be closed in the middle of the day and not do business.
Xiao Er was stunned when she heard Huansha's name, and then sneered angrily, "She also knows that it's really rare to send things back." Then he spread his hands and said, "Take it." ”
Bai Zhi shook her head, "Huansha said that it was going to be handed over to the shopkeeper." ”
When the little second child heard this, he frowned, and he was about to get angry, "The shopkeeper doesn't know where he died, I still want to ask him for wages, if you don't give me something, you can take it back yourself." ”
After he said that, he turned around and went back to close the door, Bai Zhi saw that he hurriedly stopped him, since the shopkeeper was not there, she handed over the purse to the little er, and asked him to hand it over to the shopkeeper.
Although she herself knew that according to the appearance of Xiao Er, she would definitely not listen to her, but she still said so.
She peeked at the contents of the purse, it was a silver ticket, the amount was not large, only a hundred taels. Bai Zhi didn't know if Huansha was looking for her specifically to bring a silver ticket out, so why bother looking for her, whoever went out of the house could help bring it over. And she has checked the silver ticket again and again, and it is just a very ordinary silver ticket.
I don't understand it when I think about it, but fortunately I don't think about it. The purse was delivered, and she looked at the time when she saw that there was still a lot left before she made an appointment with Sister-in-law You, and the city was lively, and it was difficult for her to come out of it, so she wanted to go around.
I walked around the city, bought some snacks, and estimated that it was almost time, so I went to the place agreed with Sister-in-law You and waited.
After waiting for about two quarters of an hour, Sister-in-law You came back, this trip must have been extremely smooth, Sister-in-law You had a smile on her face all the way, people were in a good mood and everything was pleasing to the eye, and Sister-in-law You gave her some molasse generously.
The candied fruit is pickled with sugar, which tastes sweet and greasy, but white sugar is expensive, so naturally not everyone can afford to eat it. Ordinary people can eat some during the New Year's holidays, although the Wei family is rich, but the next people, especially those like Bai Zhi, are really rare to eat.
Sister-in-law You generously gave her a packet, and Bai Zhi naturally accepted it with a smile. All the way back to the courtyard, got off the carriage, and naturally a coachman carried the things he bought, and Bai Zhi followed Sister-in-law You all the way from the corner gate into the house.
In the kitchen, dinner has been busy at this time, but the lights are on, and the people standing in the courtyard are all bowing their heads, and they don't dare to breathe.
Shan Xing looked at the people in the courtyard angrily, and said with a smile, "Everyone who knows me will tell me the truth, who framed me, otherwise I will find out that she will not be able to eat and walk around." ”
"Yo, the apricot girl is really good-tempered." A cool voice came, and Sister-in-law You walked over with a smile, "Who didn't open your eyes to provoke our eldest girl, tell me, I must be the first to spare her." ”
Shan Xing looked at Sister-in-law You's appearance and was angry, she slept well all afternoon, and she knew that she was tired of it.
"How could I fall asleep when I'm so decent, do you know about this sister-in-law?"
Sister-in-law You went out to buy alone this time, naturally she didn't get a lot of oil and water, and her heart was happy and tight, so naturally she wouldn't quarrel with Shanxing, "How do I know this, maybe the Shanxing girl is tired and sleeps day and night." ”
Shan Xing checked for a long time and didn't find out what was going on, she remembered to eat a few pieces of hazelnut cake before she fell asleep, could it be that there was something wrong with the pastry.
Hazelnut cake is Sister-in-law You's specialty, and Aunt Zhao has always liked to eat it, so every once in a while, Sister-in-law You will make some to please Aunt Zhao, the more Shan Xing thinks about it, the more she thinks it is a problem with hazelnut cake.
Shan Xing has already decided that it is the problem of hazelnut cake, and it must be the stumbling block that Sister-in-law You gave her, so that she could fall asleep so that she could take the opportunity to go out to buy alone and take the opportunity to fish for oil and water.
She figured it out in her heart, but she couldn't ask, after all, the hazelnut cake was specially made for Aunt Zhao, and she was simply stealing it, and if she said it, she would be caught by Sister-in-law You for a long time, and Shan Xing refused to admit that she liked Sister-in-law You's craftsmanship, so she could only suffer a dumb loss, and her angry face changed color.
Sister-in-law You naturally didn't know what she was thinking, she was very tired when she came back from this trip, thinking that she would have to get up early tomorrow morning, so she was too lazy to delay the time, and said to Shan Xing, "Miss Shan Xing, check it slowly, I'm tired and go to sleep first." ”
Seeing her gloating appearance, Shan Xing gritted her teeth fiercely, waved her hand to let everyone else disperse, and turned around and left.
When passing by Bai Zhi's side, Shan Xing glared fiercely, but she also knew that she couldn't complain about Bai Zhi about this matter, it was a good thing done by Sister-in-law You, so she naturally recorded this account on Sister-in-law You. Rao is like this, she also took Bai Zhi out of anger, "I came back so late, I must have gone out to play and delay my business, so I don't have to eat dinner tonight." ”
After that, the mountain apricot rose out.
When the people in the courtyard dispersed, Bai Zhi had a little maid beside her, and said mysteriously in her ear, "Sister Bai Zhi, I didn't say anything." ”
Bai Zhi smiled at her, and reached out to lift an oiled paper bag, "This is the shortbread I bought for you, and a packet of moldied fruit, you take it back and eat it." ”
Xiao Bottler is the simplest girl Bai Zhi has ever met, doing fire work in the kitchen, and the greatest pleasure every day is to count the days to live.
She was sold by her father to the Wei family's courtyard, and she was sold for a total of ten years, and now it is the third year, and she draws a line in the corner every year, counting that she can return home after drawing ten lines.
Xiao Bottle'er's eyes lit up when she saw the food, and she happily took it, and thanked her with a smile, "I know that sister, you are the best." ”