you, I want your nice words to be useful.

Ma Changdiao's face is no longer ugly and can be described.

He slammed his fist on the coffee table, which flipped to the ground.

Ma Changdiao stiffened his face and said, "Nine hundred denier rations, our Ma family can't get it, and the county order the lord to borrow grain." Ma can't help but give face, and he can make up a hundred deniers if he gets together. ”

The Ma family makes a living in casinos and brothels, and Ma Changdiao is not a good match, he has endured Li Si for a long time.

It's really going to tear your face, who is afraid of whom.

No matter how angry Ma Changdiao is, Li Si will not coax him.

He just went through the process and came to inform him, and he didn't expect him to agree on the spot.

"The order from above is 900 deniers, and you will be 100 deniers, which is not intended to embarrass us errands. If you really have no food, it is not impossible to fold the silver. ”

Li Si smiled and grinned, and the words he said were yin and yang, "Ma Ye is rich, and he will give three hundred taels for tea money, if you can't come up with this money, it will be a real joke." ”

"You are willing to cooperate with us to work for the benefit of the people of Hexian County, Zhou County Decree said, next autumn harvest, this part of the grain can be used as a price to offset ten percent of the tax."

"If you don't cooperate, it's another price."

"You think about it slowly, you can go to the yamen to find me at any time before dusk, and find someone to inform me, as long as the rations are in place, everything is easy to talk about."

Li Si threatened and lured, and did not wait for Ma Changdiao's reaction, after speaking, he took the two officials to pat his ass and leave.

Ma Chang was so angry that his forehead was bruised, and he didn't vent his turbidity, picked up the teacup and threw it at the door, "It's too deceitful." ”

"Master Ma, what should I do?"

The housekeeper asked, "Do you really want to borrow 900 deniers of grain from the government?" ”

"What to borrow, can this be borrowed?"

"Fools should know that if I lend grain today, don't say that the autumn harvest will come back next year, even if the autumn harvest will not come back ten years later."

Ma Changdiao became more and more angry the more he spoke, "It sounds good, the autumn harvest deducts 10% of the tax, 900 denier of grain, he gives me 90 denier, 810 denier let him take it for nothing." I really treated my Ma Chang Diao as a big injustice. ”

The housekeeper didn't know how to comfort him, and sighed deeply, "Those who come are not good, and those who are good are not coming, I'm afraid this matter will not be easily stopped." ”

"What are you afraid of, now that the casinos and brothels have no customers, they will close directly, and I can save a few wages."

Ma Changdiao is not a brainless person, and he has already thought of the way back.

"That being said, when the pandemic is over, gambling houses and brothels will always open. Today, let them eat soft nails and go back, and when they find an opportunity, these people will always take revenge. If these servants go to gambling houses and brothels twice in three days to find fault, how will we continue this business? Master Ma, we can't offend the government. ”

If you offend anyone, you can't offend the government, how can Ma Changdiao not understand this truth.

He punched a few more on the shelf, "Nine hundred deniers, this will cost more than seven thousand taels of silver when converted into cash." If we give it this time, what about the next time he comes to the door? ”

Ma Changdiao will not be easily pinched.

The butler was silent.

So what to give back.

Ma Changdiao's eyes were fierce, and he instructed the housekeeper, "You send someone to follow, see which ones he has found, arrange a table in Qingfeng Building tonight, and invite all these people." ”

If you don't have a face, don't blame him for being polite.

The housekeeper understood, and ran out to follow him.

Li Si concocted as he could, non-stop, and walked five more households.

The butler followed them vigilantly, as if he had finally kept a distance of four or five meters from the people, not far away.

When he saw that people had entered the gate of the mansion, he quickly turned back and explained the situation to Ma Chang Diao.

He thought he was cautious and didn't make any mistakes.

In fact, as early as when he was catching up, Li Si had already noticed it.

"Keep up with him." Li Si finished instructing the officials around him and entered the yamen to wait for news.

An hour later, Li Si arrived at the isolation point in the west of the city and reported the news to Zhou Bi, "Ma Changdiao booked a table at the Yingchun Pavilion under his name, and invited several other principals we visited, and they would discuss countermeasures there in the evening, and they would refuse to borrow food nine times out of ten." ”

Zhou Bi tapped the table with a deep gaze.

Everything was as the little ancestor expected.

Only except for the Zhouji rice grain store, he honestly agreed to borrow grain.

It's not that the owner of the rice grain store is noble, it's just that he doesn't want to offend the government.

After all, what I have done, I know.

Moreover, the rice grain store is a serious business after all, and the owner is timid.

Unlike Ma Changdiao's business, which is not serious, he also has a large group of thugs under his hands.

However, although Zhou Ji Rice Grain Store is running a serious business, what it does is black-hearted.

When the drought broke out, Zhou Ji hoarded a large amount of rice grain, and united with several other rice grain stores to raise the price of rice.

has long been blacklisted by Zhou Bi.

There is a black book in the office of Zhou Bi, which is specially used to record these unscrupulous merchants, as well as those who are unkind to the rich, or use their power to oppress the common people.

These people either have insufficient evidence of their crimes, or for various reasons, Zhou Bi cannot be punished for a while.

The seven girls who were going to be sacrificed were selected from Zhou Bi's blacklist, and Zhou Bi's purpose in selecting these people was not to send these people to death, but to take the opportunity to let the villains on the blacklist give some silver taels.

Although he was released, Zhou Bi still collected a ransom of 5,000 taels of silver from each of these villains.

entered the treasury of the county government, and with this money, he also bought a lot of rice, which was enough for the people to last for a few days.

When Li Yan mentioned borrowing grain, Zhou Bi thought of his black book, just taking advantage of this borrowing grain to make these moths bleed.

There are more than 20 grain borrowers of all sizes circled out by Zhou Bi's red pen, and in addition to the six families visited by Li Si in the morning, there are about 20 other small households.

Zhou Bi didn't let Li Si go again, the so-called killing chickens and respecting monkeys, as the little ancestor said, those monkeys who killed chickens were not obedient.

Where is the need to spend this effort, the most lacking thing in the epidemic now is manpower, and it is really not possible to use it urgently.

In the afternoon, Li Si and the others were arranged to work at the isolation point again.

On the other side, as soon as Li Yan stepped into the door of the Medicine Fragrance Hall, she heard a shout from behind.

Li Yan turned her head and saw Qin Xiaochun panting, and Jill gasping and following him.

When he saw her, he hurriedly said, "Sister, you're back, I looked for you around, but I didn't see you and Kumquat, and the store door was closed before." ”

Li Yan patted her head, remembered something, forgot to go to Lanting Xiaozhu with the child to apprentice, and hurriedly pulled the two children into the pharmacy.

At this time, the old shopkeeper was already there.

Kumquat left a note for him, saying that he went to the quarantine point to find her, Li Yan didn't see anyone, and the two of them should have missed it on the way to and fro.

"Give each of them a mask to wear." Li Yan explained to the shopkeeper.

He said to Qin Xiaochun again, "The outside service is very serious, don't run around, wait, I'll clean it up, and then go to Lanting Xiaozhu with you." ”

Hearing her words, Qin Xiaochun looked embarrassed, and said that he would not go.

Li Yan asked him why, but he couldn't say why.

(End of chapter)