After listening to Tian Mazi's words, the old man's face changed slightly, and he looked at Xiao Yue again.

"Young Master Meng, please stay. I'm not driving you away, there are no secrets here, those who understand naturally don't understand, and those who don't understand can't understand it. ”

Xiao Yue smiled and said, "The old man's words are very meaningful, but please don't be hostile, I'm really just curious." ”

The old man laughed too, but it was a little meaningful.

"Meng Gongzi is a friend of the eldest young master of the Huang family?"

"Well... Xiao Yue glanced at Da Niu, and then sighed, "Sort of." ”

This old man is also a person who can read his face, he glanced at Tian Mazi, Tian Mazi immediately pulled the big cow and said: "Go, follow my brother to the back counter, I hid some good soju, and I will be cheap for you today." ”

Da Niu was first overjoyed when he heard this, then looked at Xiao Yue again, and said embarrassedly: "No, I want to follow Childe." ”

"Hey, my master is here, he took this boy around the salt farm, what are you going to do!"

Da Niu scratched his head, and then said to Tian Mazi: "Then he won't leave the salt field, right?"

Tian Mazi patted his head, "Where can he go when he leaves the salt farm?" Besides, Ergouzi is still at the door!"

"That's right. Da Niu laughed innocently and said to Xiaoyue: "Childe, you take your time first, and when you want to leave, call me." ”

Xiao Yue nodded quietly.

After Tian Mazi and Da Niu left shoulder to shoulder, the old man said slowly: "My surname is Qu, and the guys here call me Master Qu." ”

"Master Qu. Satsuki saluted him.

"Well, are you a foreigner?" asked Lao Qu bluntly.

"Yes. ”

"What are you doing in Huangjiazhen?"

Xiao Yue smiled bitterly: "I just haven't been here, so I'm curious to take a look." ”

Lao Qu asked with some disbelief, "Just come and see?"

Xiao Yue helplessly looked at the salt workers who were sitting around listening to their chat, and then said helplessly: "Yes." ”

Lao Qu looked at her expression and smiled, "Xiao Meng, then you come with me, and I'll show you inside." ”

"Okay. Xiao Yue followed the old man, and the two avoided the resting salt workers, as well as the salt workers who were working, and entered a small room.

Satsuki looked at the furnishings of this small room, which looked like an account room, but there was no one in the room.

"There's no one else here, just say what you have to say. Lao Qu found a rattan chair with armrests and sat down slowly.

Xiao Yue sighed, then stood by the wall, and said helplessly: "I just came to see the excitement this time, but I didn't expect to be unjustified." ”

"Watching the excitement?" Lao Qu asked curiously, "What is the excitement?"

Satsuki began to talk serious nonsense.

"I was originally helping the head of the family to see if there was any suitable business here, but on the way I heard that the imperial court was going to buy the Huang family's salt well, and I felt that this matter was extraordinary, so I wanted to come and see the excitement, and as a result... ”

She looked at Lao Qu and found that he was not moved, still calmly lying on the rattan chair.

"As a result, I was mistaken for someone from another family by Young Master Huang and was detained. ”

Listening to Xiaoyue's words, Lao Qu sighed, "You are really unlucky, you break in at this moment, and others can't hide." ”

Xiao Yue smiled bitterly: "Then what's the way, I can't get out now." ”

When Lao Qu heard this, he also smiled bitterly, "What's more, we can't get out." ”

"Why?" asked Satsuki, puzzled.

Lao Qu sighed, "Our family is in Huangjia Town, we are gone, what should the family do?"

"This... Xiao Yue suddenly realized that this topic was a little wrong, and she quickly asked, "Why do you want to leave?"

Lao Qu said helplessly: "Everyone has been busy for more than half a year, and the salary has been in arrears, saying that it is the New Year." He looked at the empty room, "This used to be the bookkeeper, and now even the bookkeeper is gone." ”

Xiao Yue asked suspiciously, "What is this Huang family going to do?"

Lao Qu sneered and said, "The grasshopper after the autumn, I still want to jump a few more times." ”

Xiao Yue sighed, "You are in a dilemma, I am innocent of being implicated now, everyone is really connected by the same fate." ”

Lao Qu shook his head and said, "If you are really not from the salt industry or the Huang family, it will not affect you much. He pointed to the door of the hut and said, "We salt workers in the salt works are in big trouble. ”

"What's the big trouble?" Xiao Yue said puzzledly: "In the future, no matter who is in charge of the salt works and salt wells, you will all eat!"

Lao Qu smiled bitterly: "If you say so, you want to suffer a crime in vain, and this year is difficult." ”

"Where do you start?"

Lao Qu looked at Xiao Yue, and then said, "I see that you are also an understanding person, and I won't be sloppy with you." Now that the end of the year is approaching, the Huang family has been in arrears for so many months and has not paid our salaries, whether the imperial court and the Huang family can negotiate the purchase of Yanjing this year, and if the Huang family uses our salary as a threat to confront the imperial court, what should we do?

Xiao Yue thought for a while and said, "Uncle Qu, what you said is reasonable, but if the Huang family uses this as an excuse to blackmail, then you can not pick salt for him!"

Lao Qu shook his head, it was bitter.

"You don't know how much salt the Huang family has hoarded in the past six months. At the beginning, the eldest young master said that he would rush to work overnight and give us double the salary at the end of the year, but now it is difficult for the family to find them to advance some salary, and even the bookkeeper is gone. It's okay now, but they are not afraid that we will not go to work, and there will be a reason to cut our salaries at the end of the year. ”

Xiao Yue sighed, "It seems that the only way for you to complain to the yamen is to complain." ”

"Yamen?!" Lao Qu heard this, and his anger came up, "It depends on the yamen, if you want me to say, even the yamen in Pingjing Prefecture may not be able to say the truth!"

Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, looked Xiao Yue up and down again, and then asked tentatively, "What road is Childe on?"

In fact, after hearing him talk about such an intricate relationship in the local area, Xiao Yue became more and more cautious in her heart.

"I'm really a passing soy sauce guy... No, I was just passing through. ”

Lao Qu said suspiciously: "Then how do you know about Tianhuo?"

"Skyfire?" Satsuki shook her head and said, "What is Skyfire?" I haven't heard of it. ”

Lao Qu saw that she didn't look like a lie, so he smiled and said, "The fire we use to fry salt is the heavenly fire. ”

"Oh, so you call it Skyfire. ”

"And what do you call it?"

Xiao Yue said with a smile: "I used to teach it natural gas, but the name doesn't matter. She asked curiously: "How do you know how to use this thing to fry salt, you must know that if you don't get it right, it will explode and hurt people's lives!"