Shen Yu led people to the front, while Lin Yanxi and Shen Muzhou stayed to stare at the tea shed, trying to save people.

Looking at Shen Yuxiong's high-spirited figure, he looked like an old hen who just wanted to fight fiercely.

Lin Yanxi touched his elbow and Shen Muzhou was suspicious, "Otherwise, you can go and have a look, I don't know how many people are guarding there, can he beat it?"

Shen Muzhou and Lin Yanxi silently observed the situation in the tea shed at the opposite corner, he crossed his hands and hugged him, leaned on the corner of the wall with his body slightly tilted, and looked at her with his head slightly down.

"He's not going to fight those guys."

Lin Yanxi shrugged and didn't care about Shen Yu's side anymore.

Shen Yu led a group of people to the well and was stopped by several people, who were holding long knives in their hands, wearing the same official uniforms as the people who stopped in front of the tea shed just now.

"Eh, don't you know that you have to pay for drinking water?" The first one spoke.

The homeless people behind Shen Yu looked at the stone well, their eyes lit up, and they took a few steps forward, and these officers and soldiers stood up with their long knives, so frightened that they hurriedly retreated.

No matter how much you swallow saliva, it is in vain, your throat and eyes are dry, and you can't even secrete a drop of saliva in your mouth.

Shen Yu pursed the corners of his lips and said disdainfully, "This imperial court has already reduced the taxes for opening wells, why should you pay for drinking water?"

The man waved his hand impatiently and didn't bother to talk to him about these things in vain, "Look at you dressed like a rich boy, don't tell me this, you can't drink the water in this well without paying the money, there is water by the river, you can drink it as you like."

Along the way, where was there water in the river, the dry riverbed was exposed, and the muddy water was mixed with mud and sand, and they couldn't drink it at all.

These people saw that Shen Yu had a sword pinned to his waist, and they were afraid that he would come to find trouble, so they hurriedly surrounded the officers and soldiers again.

The officers and soldiers pointed at Shen Yu and asked fiercely, "What? Do you still want to fight?"

Shen Yu looked at the officers and soldiers in this circle, it was either that he couldn't beat it, or it was unnecessary.

He smiled and said, "How tiring it is to fight, that's all the work of rude people, don't you just ask for silver?"

"Come, come, come! Today I Shen ...... So, please drink water, whatever you want!"

The officers and soldiers pointed to the well behind them and sneered: "I see that you are not badly dressed, but I didn't expect you to be a fool, do you know how much a bucket of water is in the back well?"

Without waiting for Shen Yu to answer, he continued with a sneer: "A bucket of silver or two, do you want to ask for it? Don't be ashamed to say it, and drink it casually, I'm sorry!"

Shen Yu's greeting, many people who couldn't drink water gathered in front of him, but most of them were just watching the excitement, if this could be mixed with saliva to drink, it would naturally be the best.

He untied the purse around his waist and poured the gold leaf from the purse to the ground.

The officers and soldiers and the people present saw that the gold leaves fell to the ground and made a crisp sound, and the officers and soldiers hurriedly controlled the people present, and hurriedly lay on the ground to pick up the gold leaves.

The people in this county town have been squeezed dry, and they have not seen broken silver for a long time, let alone such gold leaves.

Shen Yu stared at the official who was lying at his feet and picked up the gold leaf, and asked, "Is it enough?"

The official took the gold leaf in his hand, smiled all over his face, and said, "Enough, enough."

He hurriedly beckoned the other officers and soldiers to disperse and let the well out.

Shen Yu looked at everyone and said, "Don't crowd, line up, everyone can get water today."

The people were so excited that they knelt on the ground and kowtowed, Shen Yu was called by their benefactors one by one, looking at these people who were in distress, a scoop of water could save lives.

But this scoop of water has become a means for the government to accumulate wealth, and it has become a bait for people with intentions to abduct and sell.

Shen Yu clenched his fists, and thought of Shen Qingyun again, is all this really related to you, Imperial Brother?

The officers and soldiers on the side greedily held these yellow gold leaves in their arms, held one up and looked at it repeatedly, and suddenly he found that the bottom of the gold leaf was engraved with a royal pattern, his smile gradually stiffened, and he raised his head in horror to look at the nobleman in front of him who was gorgeously dressed and generous.

"You're keeping an eye on him here." collar

The officers and soldiers at the head threw down these words, took the gold leaf into their arms, and left in a hurry.

The officers and soldiers trotted all the way, not daring to stop for a moment, and turned into the county order mansion in about half a pillar of incense, and as soon as he entered the mansion, he didn't care about anything else, shouting: "Oh no! It's not good, sir!"

When he ran into the master's study, he pushed the door and found that in addition to the master, there was a man in a black cloak standing in the room, with his back to everyone, and the brim of his black robe covered his face, so that he could not see clearly.

The county commander glared at him, pulled him to his knees and said, "Presumptuous, my lord is here, don't panic!"

The officer and soldier were the confidants of the county lord, and although he did not know the whole situation, he also knew roughly that they had obeyed the order and the black cloak, so he quickly knelt down and said, "I have seen the adults, it is a small rudeness, and there is something important to tell you."

The county lord glared at him and muttered, "Get out, I'll talk about something later."

The officers and soldiers looked at the county lord in embarrassment, and had no choice but to obey the order, he got up and saluted, took two steps back, and was about to turn around and walk out of the study, when the black cloak stopped him and asked, "What is the matter?"

He looked at the black cloak, and then at the old man, and lowered his head and did not dare to speak.

The county lord hurriedly said, "If the lord asks you, you say!"

The officers and soldiers bent down and never dared to raise their heads to reply, and when they saw the county lord let him say, he no longer concealed it: "There are a few gorgeously dressed foreigners from the county, they, they seem to be from the palace?"

The county lord's cold sweat fell instantly, and he exclaimed, "What? Are you sure?"

The officers and soldiers knelt on the ground and said with some uncertain expressions on their faces: "The little ones are just guessing, but those people first went to the tea shed to make trouble, persuaded everyone not to go in to drink tea, and then went to the well, threw a lot of gold leaves, and bought the well to give free water to the people."

"The man who threw the gold leaf seemed to be particularly familiar with the affairs of the imperial court, and he said that the imperial court reduced the tax for opening wells. And he called himself Shen, and on the gold leaves he sprinkled, there were ...... There is a totem of the royal family."

The county commander grabbed the gold leaf in his hand, raised it and studied it carefully in the sunlight, and finally found a very small totem at the bottom, he was scared into a cold sweat, and his mind went blank in an instant.

If it's just a matter of opening a well to make money, he can still fool the past, but the big deal is to lose his official position and let him out, and there are opportunities to maneuver on the road to exile, but if the tea shed is dragged out of the pit prison and privately made weapons, it will be a dead end, and the nine clans will be punished.

"Let me ask you again, do those people already know about the tea shed?" The county commander asked as he grabbed the collar of the officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers were too frightened to speak, and the county commander hurriedly said, "Say!"

Then he winced and said, "He, they, they should have no evidence, only suspicion."

The county commander let go of his collar in a daze, closed his eyes deadly, his heart was numb, and he said in despair, "It's over, it's all over."

The black cloak was still on his back, slowly stretched out an arm, palm up, and the county commander hurriedly presented the gold leaf, and the black cloak only glanced at it and grabbed the gold leaf in the palm of his hand.

"You should know that the head of the ghost town pit prison has always been optimistic about your position, the reason why the master did not move your position is because you are useful, if you don't handle it well and bring trouble to the master, then you and this trouble can only disappear together."

The county commander grabbed the officer and soldier and said, "Go and inform Li An, and tell him that today's fish is sold out." Go!"

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Lin Yanxi and Shen Muzhou waited outside the corner, they stood for a long time, the sun was shining on their bodies, so warm that people were lazy, her forehead was gently against the outside of Shen Muzhou's arm, and her eyelids were lightly closed.

She yawned tiredly, her voice was like a cat's meow, she was very squeamish, and she continued to close her eyelids, and she had not rested well in the bumps of the past few days.

The young man was half a shoulder taller than her, he crossed his arms and held a murderous sword in his hand, but when he looked down at the girl, there was a faint smile at the corner of his lips, and his eyes were gentle and delicate, and when he lifted his eyes to look at the tea shed in the distance, he was covered with a layer of cold again.

"Shen Muzhou, don't you think the sun is very comfortable today? It's warm." The girl still pressed her forehead against his side, and her voice was lazy and soft.

He looked up

Look, the sunlight was filtered by the layers of leaves, and when it leaked onto her, it faintly swayed out a circle of light golden halos, and he had forgotten the warm feeling of the sun hitting his body after many years of cold illness.

It seems that he was born to endure the cold alone in the shadows, and he is used to it, but when he met Lin Yanxi, the sun can't bring him warmth and brightness, Lin Yanxi can.

A dull pain spread from his heart to his whole body, he gritted his teeth and endured it for a while, before he forced down the residual poison, and he had to go back to Zhihailou as soon as possible to get the antidote.

Meng'er said that the residual poison of the medicine only attacks when the heart is emotional......

He lowered his eyes and hid his complicated emotions together.

"Hmm."

After a long time, he answered, and let out a long sigh of relief, but she did not respond.

The people in the tea shed dispersed one after another, and an official rode a fast horse, glanced around in a panic, and then entered the tea house, only to see in, but not out.

One, two, three......

He silently counted the number of people who walked out of the tea shed in his heart.

The little girl who was resting with her eyes closed on her side seemed to be awakened by something, she rubbed her stiff neck, and looked at Shen Muzhou, who was staring intently at the person who came out of the tea shed opposite.

"One hundred."

Shen Muzhou read softly, and then there were no more homeless people coming out of the teahouse.

"A hundred? Not less?" Lin Yanxi poked out a small head from behind him and looked at the opposite side for a long time.

It's a pity that the people in the tea shed are indeed empty.

Shen Muzhou frowned and walked out of the corner, staring at the tea shed and said, "An officer and soldier went in just now."

In other words, someone went in to ventilate the news.

Shen Yu came back from a distance, and before he could speak, Shen Muzhou asked lightly, "The matter is settled?"

He raised his head proudly and said, "This is natural, there are still things that my five princes can't do."

Lin Yanxi's gaze looked from head to foot, and finally landed on the shriveled purse tied around his waist, she raised her eyebrows, and quipped, "It seems that everything is settled."

Shen Yu was a little embarrassed and parted his purse inside, "How are you guys? How many people are coming out?"

Shen Muzhou replied, "One hundred."

Lin Yanxi's little face became stiff again, and her childish and delicate facial features looked a little serious.

"Those people must have discovered that we were investigating, and there is no point in delaying here, so I'd better go back to the ghost town to find the owner of Zhihai Mansion first."