"I don't think it's appropriate, if Lin Su himself notices it at that time, wouldn't we waste this opportunity for him to ask for help from the sidelines." Although Xue Dongluo didn't understand why her best friend spoke coldly to Su Lin, after careful consideration, she felt that what Xue Yan said was also very reasonable.

Let's wait and see, sometimes it's really a matter of concern.

Fu Honglei asked the two women to reach an agreement, and he was good at force but not good at thinking, he didn't want to waste a precious opportunity for Su Lin because of his brainless words, so he followed Xue Dongluo and them to observe the light curtain on behalf of Su Lin again.

Within the light curtain, Su Lin's face became extremely strange, as if he had encountered something extremely incredible, only to hear him shout: "An axe costs three hundred taels, why don't you grab it." ”

At the last moment, Su Lin was still slightly surprised, but in the next second, Su Lin recovered Cheng Yanjin's character again, he carefully weighed the axe, and shook it vigorously with his crippled right hand.

Don't say it, it's really heavy, if it weren't for the physical foundation before, it would be hard to say that he would be taken away by this axe.

"This axe is pretty ordinary!" Su Lin put down the axe, hid his left hand in his sleeve behind his back, and said with a dark face: "How many years have you been running an iron shop here?" ”

The young man also said that Cheng Biting Jin couldn't believe his iron-striking skills, and hurriedly perverted: "General Hui, the little one has been striking iron with his father since he was five years old, and he has been beating for 20 years now, and the iron used is definitely good iron. ”

"Do you know the consequences of lying?" Su Lin's face was still gloomy. At the same time, he slightly communicated the white flame runes in the sea world, making this tense air invisibly add a restless aura.

Under Su Lin's majestic gaze and intentional spiritual pressure, the young man fell to his knees with a bang, fine beads of sweat on his forehead couldn't help but appear, and his hands trembled slightly: "The grass people are absolutely ...... There is no lie, and I dare not deceive the adults. ”

His face was inexplicably a little pale, since he had cultivated his spiritual power, this was the first time that Su Lin had used his spirit to suppress mortals.

"Get up and speak!" He waved his hand, his face slightly gentle. Immediately, he waved to the three little guys who had been bought in advance behind him, summoned them in, and asked in front of the young man:

"He said that there is no one in the ten miles and eight villages in this town who does not praise his ant blacksmith shop for its excellent ironwork, He Jianpeng, let me ask you, have you ever praised him?"

"...... this?" Before the person who was called He Jianpeng by Su Lin could answer, the young man fell to his knees again, and shouted in his mouth: "General, small, small doesn't mean that?" ”

"Oh? That's not what it means? Su Lin's eyes narrowed, and Cheng Bitingjin's domineering and gloomy aura instantly raged out, "That means that you were lying before." ”

"He Jianpeng, tell him what should be the crime of deceiving the officials of the imperial court above the third grade?"

The little guy called He Jianpeng was originally hired by Su Lin from outside, but he was just an ordinary person at the bottom, how could he be familiar with the "Tang Ming Statutes".

Just when he was at a loss, Su Lin's spiritual transmission suddenly came to his mind, although he didn't know why an inexplicable voice suddenly appeared in his head, but he still read it out under the ghost's divine request:

"According to the "Tang Ming Statutes", deceiving the court officials above the third rank is like bullying the king, and the punishment is beheading. or go to the frontier and serve three years of forced labor in lieu of his crimes. ”

Of course, Su Lin was 80% sure that the owner of a small blacksmith shop could not be familiar with or even proficient in some of the "Tang Ming Laws", which also gave him the opportunity to drill into the leaks.

After all, the Tang and Ming Empires have used bamboo silk to record things until now, and the productivity is very low, and occasionally a few pieces of paper can be produced for the nobles to practice writing, and it is impossible to print and distribute a large number of laws.

Sure enough, when the young man heard this, he immediately trembled and cried and begged for mercy: "The villain will never dare again, never dare again, please...... My lord, my lord, spare my life. ”

Seeing such a tragic situation of the other party, Su Lin was slightly moved in his heart, and never imagined that he would do such a bullying thing one day, but in order to complete the task as soon as possible, Su Lin had to be ruthless and continued:

"You said that you have been operating here for more than 20 years, so you should hand over all the taxes and books for these 20 years, and I will personally check it."

Hearing Su Lin's words, the young man quickly wiped his tears and wiped his nose, stood up and walked to the counter, and took out the ledgers that had been dusty for many years, speaking of which were older than him.

said that it was an account book, but in fact, it was just a simple bookkeeping connected with bamboo slips, Su Lin took it and pretended to look at it seriously, frowned and said:

"I'm afraid you've missed a lot of taxes!"

"Old general, my father is the most loyal businessman in the Tang Ming Empire, and he pays thousands of taels in taxes to the empire every year.

"Really? I don't think there is a high temperature tax, a carving tax, a sewage tax, a shop operation tax, and a door opening tax, a palm lamp tax, and a ventilation tax, all of which are not recorded on the bamboo slips. ”

"This ......" Speaking of this, Su Lin saw that the young man was stammering again, and he couldn't even speak clearly.

Su Lin said intentionally or unintentionally looking at the axe he threw aside in the room, if that young man didn't understand Su Lin's intentions, he was really sorry that his father had raised him for so many years.

He was hesitating to take the axe made of fine iron and give it to the other party for free, when a muddy, old, slightly excited voice came from upstairs:

"General Cheng, how can you have time to visit the shop when you are busy with military affairs. Dogs don't understand the rules, you extinguish the fire, what about this axe, I built it according to your size and standards, famous weapons with heroes, this axe is not only for you, but who else is qualified to use it in the whole town.

"That, why don't you go and pour a cup of tea for the old general, it's so ignorant to come here for so long and not beckon the old general to sit down!"

I only heard the sound of clattering footsteps on the wooden ladder, and then an old man with an old dragon bell and most of his teeth missing walked down step by step with difficult steps.

"General Cheng, if you don't want to look at the account book later, let the dog make you a cup of tea first."

The toothless old man with a clear face moved the axe vigorously and handed it to the little guy next to Su Lin, while he was busy wiping the seat next to him and showing Su Lin to sit down.

The other party lowered his posture like this, and Su Lin, who was already a little weak-hearted, was not too presumptuous.

It's just that the guy in the shop, who was called a dog by the old man, still stood there stupidly and didn't mean to make tea.

The toothless old man saw that the child was still staring at the axe, his eyes were still lingering, his face became more and more eager, and the old man blushed and coughed violently twice:

"I'm not dead yet, you just want to be angry with me, aren't you, the guests are here, don't go to see the tea, what are you doing in a daze."

"But, Dad, didn't you say that the family is already poor in order to treat you, and that the axe is not used for you as a ...... Is it used as a coffin? ”

As he spoke, the young man's tears flowed even more violently than when Surin had scared him earlier.

Seeing this, Su Lin finally understood why he had repeatedly reminded the young man before, and the other party just didn't give him the axe, it turned out that there was such a reason.

It's just that he was anxious just now, and in order to save people in a hurry, he almost made an old man lose even the foundation of his old age.

He mobilized the sleeping tree in the world of Zhihai, and slowly awakened the origin of the "Xunmu Doctor" that Li Mo had given him before, and spread its spiritual essence in his eyes, and sure enough, he found an extremely rich black object on the old man's chest.

It was this object that was constantly devouring the old man's life, and it was also hindering the old man's normal breathing.

If this black mass is allowed to continue to grow, the toothless old man will not survive tonight.

"Old man, when I was young, I studied medicine for two years with the master in the mountains, and I won't take your axe in vain, you sit down, I'll help you take a look."

After waving his hand for the little man to go out and close the door, Su Lin sat down in the place vacated by the old man, and motioned for the toothless old man to sit next to him.

But the old man's body was trembling, and he didn't know whether he was afraid or had a stroke, so he coughed vigorously, but he didn't mean to sit down.

Su Lin was no longer reluctant, he knew that the Tang Ming Empire was highly hierarchical, and ordinary people were not qualified to sit on an equal footing with generals, unless someone in the family had made a name for themselves or had made meritorious achievements on the battlefield or above the third rank.

Hearing Cheng Yanjin's questioning pretended by Su Lin, the old man held back his cough and said, "It's good for the little old man to stand, this stump is already about to enter the earth, how dare you bother the old general to ask." ”

"Reach out!" Su Lin directly used the tone of command, which was also mixed with a little impatience.

He knew that if Cheng Yanjin's identity was too polite to these ordinary businessmen, these people would feel very uncomfortable, because they had already admitted the inferiority of the merchant class from the bottom of their bones.

Although Surin strayed into this from the real world, within a day or two, it was beyond his personal ability to change this class status quo.

It would be more direct to use the tone of command.

Sure enough, after seeing that Su Lin's face had just calmed down again, the toothless old man only said that he had angered the general again, for fear that the other party would let him pay this tax again, so he had to obediently stretch out his hand.

Su Lin closed his eyes and pretended to feel the old man's pulse, and in the meantime, a trace of white flame energy slowly flowed down the old man's veins to the position of his chest, just waiting for his spiritual power to be activated, he could make the flames burn the black object.

After about half a cup of tea, he opened his eyes and told the old man what he had already seen with the ability of "Doctor Xunki".

Afterwards, Su Lin asked, "Old man, have you been to any unclean places recently?" ”

He saw the black object and asked casually, but he didn't expect an unexpected gain.

The toothless old man's eyes were like memories, and after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't seem to think of anything, just kept coughing and shaking his head.

However, at this time, the young man in the shop, that is, the child of the toothless old man, he was carrying hot tea and tea utensils at the moment, and came over.

After hearing Su Lin's question, he remembered his previous experience, although he didn't like this old general very much, but it was a matter of his father's safety, he still said:

"Recently, more water has been used for iron smelting, and for some reason, the water in the lower reaches of the Zimu River in the town has been seriously polluted in the past two days, and I have been to the upper reaches of the Zimu River to transport water several times, and it seems that after returning from the water, my father suddenly coughed."

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