"After that, you give me the rough number of granaries of the other rich merchants, and give me the rest."

Initiating fundraising, those treacherous parties will be opportunistic and will not donate or donate less on the grounds that the granary is not enough.

But with a rough number of warehouses, they can't help it.

Gu Zhusheng's face was sad, although he could let those rich businessmen donate these like himself, but in the end, it was his own pain.

When Li Zhen and Ye Shuhua came out of Gu's house, there was a huge difference between Gu Zhusheng's face and when they entered.

The whole face collapsed several degrees.

Inside the carriage, Ye Shuhua shouted happily.

"You said that these rich businessmen are really insatiable, and the people around them are suffering like this, and they are still unmoved."

Li Zhen didn't feel that he had the same hatred for the enemy, but said lightly: "People don't kill the heavens and the earth for themselves, businessmen pay attention to a good word, and there is no profit in righteousness, so they naturally refuse to cut their own flesh and bleed." ”

Ye Shuhua pursed her lips, thought about it carefully, and felt that it was right, then thought of other rich businessmen, and said, "How do you plan to let other rich businessmen blet?" On Gu Zhusheng's side, we know where he hid his grain, but other rich businessmen don't know, how can they threaten to force him to comply? ”

Li Zhen smiled meaningfully and said, "I have my own tricks." ”

With Tongyu Town as the center, almost all the four or five towns on both sides have no harvest, and the number of victims is only a lot more.

In addition to the Gu family, there were five or six wealthy merchants living in four or five other towns.

If you run as a family, I'm afraid you'll be tired to death.

Li Zhen instructed Jiuyu to do one thing on the same day.

By the second day, Tongyu Town, including several other towns, was almost spreading that the granaries of the five or six wealthy merchants had thousands of quintals, but they were all concealed and not reported.

The rumors are getting more and more outrageous, but they are also getting more and more popular.

At that moment, Li Zhen and Fang Zhizhou used this as an excuse to invite the other five wealthy businessmen to come to discuss with Yuzhen.

They had no choice but to come to Tongyu Town.

In the main hall of the Zhizhou Mansion, there are five wealthy businessmen.

They are Jia, Liu, Zhang, Hu, and Jin, these five people.

The five of them each have a ghost, and they are thinking about how to deal with what happens next.

Sitting on the main seat was Fang Zhizhou, and Li Zhen had not yet come.

Just when the five of them couldn't wait in time, Li Zhen came.

He swept the crowd and sat down on the Lord's seat.

"The five of you have come from afar, and the purpose of calling you here today must be known to everyone."

"The Gu family, as the president of this chamber of commerce, took the lead in donating five hundred quintals of rice and noodles, I think, you should not be less than that. So, call everybody, specifically, a donation amount. In this way, I will report to the imperial court, and I will also ask you for the title of a philanthropic and wealthy businessman. ”

The five wealthy businessmen smiled, and secretly said in their hearts who wants this useless title.

But everyone only slandered in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say much on their faces.

"Let's talk about it, how much do you donate?"

After Li Zhen finished speaking, he immediately ordered Jiuyu to take out a pen and paper and distribute it to five people at a time.

A donation form was written on the paper, leaving only the number of donations for them to fill in.

Liu Fushang smiled and arched his hand to speak: "Second Highness, I am ashamed to say that the small people really don't have so much rice and noodles, and this heavy snow has also made the small people's fertile fields no to harvest, and there is not much left in the granary, at most a hundred quintals can be donated." ”

Liu Fushang made a start, and others also expressed their positions.

"Yes, our Jin family is really difficult, and we can only donate eighty loads."

"The Jia family can only donate eighty."

"So is our Hu family."

"So is the Zhang family."

Five wealthy businessmen cried out one after another.

Fang Zhizhou knew that they would be like this, these rich businessmen were used to being treacherous and cunning, and what they were best at was crying poor.

Moreover, there is no way to take them.

They are far away in other towns, and they cannot use force to search their homes directly.

Li Zhen had long known that they would be like this, and smiled faintly.

On the other side, Ye Shuhua has been taking care of the little boy.

From the chat, I learned that his name was Gu Jiu, the son of the Gu family, and his mother died of illness when he was five years old.

He recovered very quickly, but in a few days, he was able to sit up.

After taking the medicine, Gu Jiu looked at her beautiful sister and said.

"Thank you sister for saving me, I will be my sister's person in the future, I will help my sister a lot when I get better."

Ye Shuhua touched his head with a smile and said, "Okay, then you have to get better quickly." ”

Gu Jiu naturally hoped to get better soon, his mother said that only by being a useful person can the master not dislike you and abandon you.

If you want to live and live well, you have to become the most useful one.

He wants to be useful.

He wants to live well.

At this time, the bamboo shadow who went out to run errands came back, still holding a piece of paper in his hand.

Hand it to Ye Shuhua.

She looked at it, showed a smile, and then gave it to Gu Jiudao.

"This is your title deed, and the people of the Gu family will not do anything to you in the future."

said that Ye Shuhua burned the title deed again.

Gu Jiu was about to thank him happily, but when he saw his beautiful sister doing this, his eyes widened and he was at a loss.

"Sister doesn't want me too?"

"Silly boy, how could it be, I burned this title deed, you no longer belong to anyone, I will help you eliminate your cheap status another day, you are an upright person."

He didn't understand, but he knew a little, "Then sister won't let me follow you?" Am I going to be alone in the future? ”

He has no ability to survive, and he can only become a beggar on his own.

When he is a beggar, he will starve to death.

He didn't want to starve to death.

Gu Jiu's face was still swollen, and he couldn't see his original appearance at all, but his eyes were exceptionally clear and bright, like a newly cultivated spring water.

Reflected in the daylight, it glows.

And in these eyes, they are full of helplessness at this time.

It's like a lonely grass in the wilderness, which can be robbed of life by a cold wind at any time.

"Then are you willing to follow me back to Liyang City?"

Gu Jiu'er nodded without hesitation, and there was a glimmer of hope in her helpless eyes.

"As long as my sister doesn't leave me, let me go anywhere!"

Ye Shuhua smiled and gently touched his head.

A small one.

He was so thin that he had a small head.

Thinking of the boxes Gu Jiu said again, she always felt that those things were not simple.

Then he asked again: "Gu Jiu'er, can you tell my sister again, you can talk about the details of the boxes you saw in the Gu family, such as what is on the boxes, and what clothes are the people who carry the boxes?" ”

Gu Jiu'er knew that her sister wanted to know this, and he also thought about it vigorously.

After thinking for a while, he said: "Those boxes are nothing special, they are the most ordinary boxes on the market, but they look very heavy, because the stout men of the Gu family have a hard time moving." ”

"The people who move the boxes are all slaves of the Gu family?"

Gu Jiu'er nodded, "Yes." ”

"Who are you seeing in the carriage?"

Gu Jiu'er thought about it again, "No, but there seems to be a person sitting in the carriage at the front, but I didn't see the person's appearance, I saw that Master Gu was respectful to him." ”

"By the way, I seem to have heard Master Gu call the person in the carriage Seventh Master."

"Seventh Master?" Ye Shuhua twisted her eyebrows and muttered a repeat.

This Seventh Master is definitely different from the Seventh Master when he was in China.

It's just that who is this Seventh Master?

At first, she originally guessed that it must be the third prince's person, but now it seems that it is not.

The box was tinkling, and it was heavy, and it could only be a weapon.

Whether it is the third prince or someone else, it is not a good thing to buy weapons.

It seems that we should focus on investigating this seventh master.

"Then Jiu'er, when did you see those boxes shipped out?"

"Just the day before my sister rescued me, by the way, sister, they should still have a batch to deliver, I remember hearing Master Gu ask when the next batch will be delivered, but I didn't hear the time that the person said."

Ye Shuhua praised him with a smile and said, "If you can remember this, Jiu'er is already great." You must not tell anyone these words except me, do you hear them? ”

Gu Jiu'er nodded vigorously.

He was too young to understand what these things meant, but he knew that they would cost him his life.

It was because they knew this that those Gu family members almost killed him.

Ye Shuhua asked Ji Cui to accompany Gu Jiu'er, and she went out of the house to find Li Jiu.

But when he saw that he had also returned from the main hall, he was smiling, as if he had already solved those rich merchants.