Chapter 223: Miserable
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A fifteen-year-old jar of earth-barley wine was poured into the old man's stomach in this way before it was ruined on the ground.
"Haha, good wine, good wine. After drinking a jar of wine, the old man laughed heartily, then got up and walked to the shopkeeper's side, patted the shopkeeper on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Shopkeeper, you see that if you don't drink this jar of wine by me, it will definitely be all wasted, so it doesn't count my money, what's the matter?"
I thought that this old man got up to deal with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Westmen, but I didn't expect what he said was: Don't count the wine money for the jar of wine he just had. I couldn't help but laugh and wonder, can this old man figure out the current situation.
Zhu Rendi was begging for money, and when he was doing evil, the old man suddenly jumped out and gaged, what is going on. Zhu Ren despises an ordinary person, but he doesn't know what it means for the old man to suck water.
I thought it was just an ordinary martial artist, and it didn't split the ground, and it didn't break a few pillars, maybe it was just a little trick, but I didn't know how this little trick of taking wine into the throat could be done by a martial artist the day after tomorrow.
Seeing this situation, the shopkeeper speculated that the old man might have practiced, but he still said kindly: "Old man, go back and sit down." Obviously, he was afraid that the old man would anger the Zhu people in front of him.
Sure enough, Zhu Ren, who was passing by in front of this beggar and was about to snatch all the money and things in other people's bowls, spoke disdainfully.
"Old man, this wine has been mine since just now, and you can't talk to this lame. Zhu Ren looked at the old man in a flaxen-colored torn robe in front of him and said, the implication was to let the old man pay for his wine.
As he spoke, he turned his head to look at the man in armor beside him, and when he saw that he didn't react, he became bolder.
He looked at the combination of people at the table, and thought it was strange, there were all kinds of people, and now it was estimated that those people might not be together, and the man in the armor probably didn't know the old man.
The reason why Song Lingle watched the play was just that he also wanted to see how many catties and taels the old man Bai Shaoxia found.
"What are you, what are you? You have such good wine?" the old man sneered lightly from his nose, and with contempt in the corners of his eyes, he said, "For a person like you, good wine is a waste when you look at it." โ
Zhu Renda, who is also rampant in Qingping Town, has never heard such insults, and has confirmed that the old man has no contact with the soldier.
Even if there is a connection, Zhu Rendi will beat the old man first, and then he will swing directly at the old man's head with a punch, and he will open the scoop to the old man like breaking the wine jar before.
It's a pity that Zhu Renda's fist didn't even touch the old man's hair, so he flew up in the air, flew directly out of the wine shop, and landed with a pop.
The doglegs that came with him shot one after another, one counted as one, and the old man just waved his sleeve robe, like a fly, and all flew out, and smashed on Zhu Ren's body that landed before, and the Zhu Ren at the bottom of the pressure foamed at the mouth.
While spitting white bubbles in his mouth, he said: "Xiong Xuan, you wastes are not up quickly, and you will crush Lao Tzu to death." "Starting from the top people, they turned over one by one.
When the last person got up, he stretched out his hand and pulled Zhu Rendi at the bottom, Zhu Rendi spit out the foam in his mouth, glanced at the wine shop fiercely and said, "Let's go." He didn't say anything harsh, but the shopkeeper knew that these people obviously wouldn't do that.
After dealing with these people, the old man no longer looked at them, but took the shopkeeper with one hand, and took the remaining jar of wine from the shopkeeper's arms with the other, and sat down on the stool beside him.
"Guest officer, you're in trouble for nothing. The shopkeeper sat down and said with an anxious look on his face, worried for everyone.
"Don't worry, let's tell me what's going on. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked with a smile.
"Alas, it's getting harder and harder. As soon as the shopkeeper heard someone else ask, he sighed and said, "We homeless people have to pay a certain tax no matter what we do here." โ
"Isn't this tax payment supposed to be, how can you live so miserably? His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked suspiciously.
"But this tax is more than twice as much as that of Ximin, and those who have some money are okay, and there is almost nothing left after paying taxes to a small shop like me. After the shopkeeper finished speaking, sadness came from it, and he kept wiping his tears.
It seems that everyone sitting except for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knows about the double tax, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince carefully observed the appearance of a few Westerners seated, and did not feel any injustice on his face, it seems to be a long-standing rule, making them feel that this is what they should do.
In this way, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince knew how difficult it was to change the appearance of this Xituo, and subconsciously glanced at Zhang Qianjian, the county commander representing the Han Dynasty, and saw that there was also a touch of heaviness in his eyes.
"I remember that if you earn less than 100 taels of silver a year, the exiles also pay the same tax as the Westerners, and if you earn less than 60 taels of silver, you don't have to pay taxes. Commander Song said at this time.
"My lord doesn't know why I ended up in such a field. The shopkeeper said miserably: "This Qingping Town has abolished this rule since two years ago, no matter how much money you make a year, you have to pay double taxes, even so, I can barely get by......" The shopkeeper's voice choked up.
Swallowed his saliva and cried and said: "But this Qingping Town has a villain like Zhu Ren who despised before, and he came to loot every once in a while, and he couldn't do business, not to mention, he couldn't pay taxes last time, and he broke one of my right legs, and he wanted to burn my wine house just now." โ
Speaking of this, the shopkeeper's expression became flustered again: "Then Zhu Ren is not easy to provoke, guest officer, you better run quickly." โ
After saying that, he hammered his thigh with resentment and weakness, and said: "I can't pass on a craft here, I can't live my life, what kind of wine do you make, or join...... I didn't dare to marry a wife and have children when I stayed in Qingping Town, for fear of encumbering others, and I didn't think that I would still be able to live this day in the end. โ
The few people sitting listened and sympathized with the store's plight, especially the tears of Miss Li Bang'er fell with the store.
The story is miserable, especially when they don't even dare to marry a wife and have children, and everyone can't help but sympathize, and they don't notice the pause in the store's words, or notice that it is also caused by the store's emotion, which seems a little incoherent.
However, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince listened, and His Royal Highness thought to himself, or join what?
Somehow, I remembered the small ball I got on the Eagle Ridge, and there were two sentences on it, which read: The cave master ordered my Da'an Gang to integrate the soldiers and horses to prepare for the response, and after reading it, the Brother of the Eagle Ridge returned to Xizhui.