The shopkeeper didn't look like a bad guy like Mo Qian, so he told him the truth.

While massaging the soles of Mo Qian's feet vigorously, he said: "In Wentang Town, more than half of the people who do business rely on that ancient well to live, and the hot spring water in the ancient well is our life's money. ”

"That's naturally yes, boss, you have good skills, business must be booming!" Mo Qian was pressed by the boss to the reflex area of the kidneys on the soles of his feet, and he suddenly couldn't help but want to retract his feet in pain.

"Thank you for the compliment, what kind of business do we have here, it's just a mess."

"Where do you start with this, I see that there are a lot of people in this town who come to soak their feet!"

"There are a lot of people, but we can earn a few bitter money by soaking a guest's feet and pressing the soles of our feet, and a stick of incense on a customer's feet is only ten yuan, even if we press it from morning to night, a guy can't earn a hundred yuan a day."

"That's a lot!" Mo Qian said casually.

The income of 100 wen a day is not high, but it is not particularly low, but it is definitely not enough to support the family.

"Oh my son-in-law, thank God if I really want a penny, I employ two guys in this store, plus myself, I can receive at most twenty or thirty customers a day, and sometimes there is not a single customer when the business is miserable."

"That's what you said!" Mo Qian agreed, after all, how can business be full every day.

"If you don't have business, forget it, if you come to business, we will have to pay for hot spring water!"

"What? Do you have to pay for fetching water? What kind of rule is this? Mo Qian was taken aback.

The boss sighed and continued: "Hey, in this world, rich and powerful people can do whatever they want, and we, the small people, have no other way than to be oppressed." ”

Mo Qian immediately grasped the key point that the boss said, and he asked: "Boss, what's going on, tell me quickly, the prefect of Yuanzhou is my uncle, if you are unjust, my son will go to the prefect to avenge you!" ”

When the boss heard Mo Qian's words, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he couldn't imagine that the person in front of him was actually the nephew of the prefect, could it be that he stepped on shit when he went out today?

The boss immediately said everything like a bamboo tube pouring beans.

It turned out that five years ago, the landlord of the town, Yan Zhenchuan, colluded with the county magistrate, and the two teamed up to seal the ancient well in the town in the official name of protecting the ancient well.

In fact, it was not really sealed, but an iron fence was erected next to the ancient well, leaving only one entrance and exit.

As a result, the merchants of the town had to go down from that mouth if they wanted to fetch water from the spring.

And at the entrance, there is a house slave of the Yan family, and this house slave only does one thing, that is, to collect water money!

You heard that right, there is a charge for fetching spring water! And the price is clearly marked.

Each bucket of hot spring water costs two pennies, and the more water you fetch, the higher the cost.

Moreover, the banquet master also thought of a wonderful trick, that is, the bucket for water cannot be used to draw water from the buckets brought by the merchants, but must be used with the bucket he has prepared a long time ago.

The bucket prepared by the banquet master was only less than half the size of the bucket that merchants usually used.

That is, if merchants want to fill a bucket of water, they have to pay four cents for water.

Of course, if you want to enjoy preferential policies, you can also pay a monthly fee to fetch water, two taels of silver per month, and fetch water at will.

After listening to the boss's story, Mo Qian couldn't help but admire the business acumen of this banquet master.

This is simply more blood-sucking than the capitalists of later generations!

"Boss, didn't you think about going to the lawsuit? This ancient well is clearly the common wealth of the whole town, why is it monopolized by one person surnamed Yan? Mo Qian asked angrily.

The boss couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this: "Sue the official? Who doesn't know that the county magistrate and he Yan Zhenchuan wear the same pants, a few days ago, Yan Zhenchuan also teamed up with the magistrate to occupy a fellow countryman's fertile land, and burned a family of four to death, do you think there is an official in charge? ”

Mo Qian knew that the person the shopkeeper was talking about was Lu Zhao, the second master of the cottage.

After some inquiry, Mo Qian had already touched the old bottom of this banquet Zhenchuan.

This Yan Zhenchuan's grandfather once served in Yichun County, and the Yan family has taken root in Yichun since then.

Yan Zhenchuan's grandfather was not in good health and needed to recuperate all year round, and the hot spring water in Wentang Town happened to be good for him.

In order to prolong his life, Yan Zhenchuan's grandfather built a building in Wentang Town and settled in the town since then.

The Yan family went to Yanzhenchuan for three generations, operated in Wentang Town for 60 years, and finally became a tyrant in Wentang Town.

For this kind of landlords who relied on the background of officials, there were almost countless in ancient dynasties.

As long as one person in a civilian family has a high school entrance examination, or a half-official position in the government, within three years and five years, the family's fertile land will begin to increase rapidly, and the wealth will also increase dramatically.

Three years of Qing Governor's Mansion, 100,000 snowflakes of silver is not a joke.

The corruption of officials in the middle and late Ming Dynasty can be said to be equal to that of the Qing Dynasty.

After soaking his feet, Mo Qian took Yi Jiu and the others to wander around the town for a while, and visited the ancient well.

The ancient well was indeed sealed with iron chains all around, leaving only an entrance to go down to fetch water, and at the entrance, a man dressed in a housekeeping costume was sitting on a bench with Erlang's legs crossed.

After leaving the ancient well, Mo Qian followed the location pointed out by the shopkeeper and came to the banquet house in the north of the town.

When he came to the outside of the Yanfu, Mo Qian found that the scale of the old mansion of Yanzhenchuan was not small, and he circled around the Yanfu and found that the Yanfu covered an area of no less than four acres.

can build a mansion of four acres of land, it seems that this banquet Zhenchuan is really rich.

In the evening, Mo Qian took two followers back to Loushan Village, not far from Wentang Town.

The guys on Wuyun Mountain set out this time, and all of them gathered in Lu Zhao's cousin's Loushan Village.

Loushan Village is located in the north-west direction of Wentang Town, and the straight-line distance from Wentang Town is only ten miles, and it only takes half an hour to arrive on foot.

Lu Zhao has a cousin in Loushan Village, who is the son of his maternal uncle, and the two have grown up together with bare butts since they were children, and their relationship is extremely iron.

This time, Lu Zhao went down the mountain to take revenge, and lurked in the house of his cousin Peng Jinhong with a group of bandits.

The daily eating, drinking, and Lazar of the 20th person are all funded by his cousin Peng Jinhong.

Late at night, in the lobby of the Peng family, Mo Qian was discussing with the thieves how to attack the Yanfu plan.

"The third child, there are high walls on all sides of the banquet house, and there are thirty strong family members guarding his house, let's be the twenty people, if we attack it, I'm afraid it will be difficult to attack it!" Lu Zhao pointed to the topographical map of the Yan family drawn by Mo Qian and said.

Mo Qian smiled slightly: "We don't have enough manpower, if we use a strong attack, we will definitely not be able to take the banquet mansion, we can't attack by force, we can only outwit!" ”

"What's the way to outwit?" Zhang San opened his mouth to ask.

"Tomorrow when it gets dark, let's carry all kinds of fire-causing things to the rear of the banquet mansion first, and wait until the fourth watch in the second half of the night, set fire in the backyard of the banquet mansion, so that everyone in the banquet mansion will definitely rush to the backyard to extinguish the fire, let's gather everyone again, attack from the gate, and kill them by surprise, at that time, even if there are more people, we will definitely be able to win."

"Why do you want to set fire on the fourth watch? Can't we just set it on fire when it's dark? Zhang San asked suddenly.

Mo Qian gave him a roll of his eyes and explained: "The fourth watch day is the time when people sleep the most soundly, and it is also the time when vigilance is the lowest, the thirty family members of Yan Zhenchuan can't help him take care of the family and the hospital without sleeping at night, right?" ”

Zhang San then understood, nodded and stopped talking.

Mo Qian saw that everyone had no doubts, and continued to speak: "The twenty of us are divided into two groups, I will take five brothers to ambush behind the backyard with firewood, Brother Zhang and Brother Lu, the two of you will lead the remaining fifteen people to ambush at the front door, once you see the fire in the backyard, don't be busy attacking the door, wait for the fire to burn a stick of incense before attacking." ”

This time Zhang San didn't ask any more questions, and Mo Qian's plan was already very detailed.

After talking about the battle plan, Mo Qian looked around at everyone and said to Zhang Sandu: "Brother Zhang, there is something I want to discuss with you alone!" ”

Zhang San glanced at him, didn't say anything, and walked straight outside the house.

Mo Qian also followed closely and came to the outside of the courtyard, Zhang San couldn't wait to ask Mo Qian: "Third child, what do you need to tell me alone?" ”

"Brother Zhang, I want to ask you a question, what are you going to do if we successfully capture the Yanfu tomorrow night?"

Zhang San replied without thinking about it: "Then you still need to ask, of course, it is to kill the whole family of Guangyan Mansion and avenge the second child!" ”

"What about after the revenge? What do you want to do with all the property of the banquet house? ”

"Property? Naturally, it belongs to the three of us! We are the three leaders, and the property does not belong to us, do we give it to those little cubs? ”

Mo Qian couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "In this way, the day of our destruction is not far off!" ”

Zhang San's eyes turned white and said, "What do you mean by this, third child?" ”

"Brother Zhang, if we capture Yanfu tomorrow, the news will immediately reach the county seat early the day after tomorrow, Wentang is only two hours away from the county seat, if the government moves quickly, it will send troops to arrive in the afternoon!"

Zhang Sanyi was immediately anxious when he heard this, and he hurriedly asked, "Third child, what do you say?" ”

Mo Qian said calmly: "Brother Zhang, if you don't want to go to the guillotine so soon, I hope you can listen to my plan in the future, and within half a year, I will be able to let you settle in Yuanzhou Mansion!" ”

As soon as he heard that he could enter the city, Zhang San's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Is that true?"

"Of course!"

Zhang San couldn't help but show joy on his face when he received Mo Qian's affirmative reply, but soon he fell silent again.

After a while, Zhang San asked Mo Qian: "Third child, let me ask you something, didn't you go down the mountain by me, why did you come back again?" Still want to follow our group of bosses to rebel? ”

Hearing this, Mo Qian's face showed a trace of sadness and anger.

He said to Zhang San slowly: "I have a common enmity with the Jiangxi General Soldier, and I want to avenge my wife!" ”