"Lord, listen to me! Lord。。。。。。 Rat Lee screamed hysterically, but no sound responded, and the only glimmer of light was extinguished in the darkness.

"Lord, this man has already betrayed you, what are you leaving him to do?" Outside the secret room where Li Rat was held, behind the white-robed man who captured Li Rat on the official road in the east of the city, stood a black-robed man with a cloth towel covering his face; ”

"Don't worry! It's useful to keep him!" The black-robed man patted the white-robed man on the shoulder: "No injury, this time you did a good job, you and Tianhao are my right-hand men, and there is no doubt that he is loyal, but sometimes he is too flamboyant and easy to make mistakes, if you encounter trouble, you have to help a little." ”

"Tianhao is a genius of heaven, and he has few opponents, and he is like a brother to me, and if there is any difficulty, he will naturally take care of him. When the white-robed man spoke, there was no expression on his face, and there was no trace of turmoil in his heart, which made people not know whether he was sincere or false.

"That's good, that's good!" The black-robed man seemed to be very satisfied with the white-robed man's answer: "By the way, things over there must be done quickly, this is not a place to stay for a long time." ”

"My subordinates understand!" the white-robed man arched.

In the main hall of the household department, Su Xing, who was dressed in a red official robe, sat in the center of the hall, his solemn face without a trace of smile, but he could not hide the smugness in his heart.

"See Lord Su!". On the left and right sides of the lower head stood the left attendant of the household department, Sharpa, and the right attendant of the household, Zhu Danian, and the two of them saluted Su Xing together.

"The two adults don't need to be polite, everyone will be colleagues in the future!" Su Xing raised his hand towards the two waiters: "I hope that the two adults and the punishment will work together to be loyal to Your Majesty!"

"I am willing to be loyal to Your Majesty, and I am willing to share my worries for my lordship. Sharba and Zhu Danian once again made a series of statements to Su Xing, and they said the clichés of officialdom.

"Two adults, please take a seat! When the punishment was about to take office, he was ordered by His Majesty to allocate silver for disaster relief, and I don't know how much silver is still in the treasury?" Su Xing waved his hands downward: "Lord Sha, you can talk about it." ”

"Lord Qiyu, the materials and equipment of the front-line soldiers, and the river transportation project of the Ministry of Industry have consumed a lot of silver, and the current national inventory of silver is less than one million taels. Sharba said, and while sneaking a glance at Su Xing: "If this is not the case, the predecessor Shangshu will not take the risk to propose a tax increase to your lordship." ”

"My lord, what Sha Shilang said is very true!" Zhu Danian also echoed: "Raising soldiers alone has consumed nearly half of the treasury silver, I wonder if your Excellency can tell Your Majesty to cut off some of the border soldiers to recuperate?"

"What the two lords said is very reasonable, and this official will present it to His Majesty at the appropriate time! But the most urgent task at the moment is how to increase the treasury deposit in order to relieve His Majesty's worries. Su Xing sneered in his heart: "It seems that the deposit of the treasury is even worse than what Your Majesty said." ”

"The method that Master Zhu said is a long-term plan, and if you want to increase the treasury revenue in a short period of time, there is no other way than to raise taxes. Sharpa said: "My lord is good at business, and he must know this matter better than the lower officials!"

"Report! Lord Su, the shopkeeper of Sanshun Qianzhuang, Yin Tianfeng, has come to visit. Just when Su Xing was discussing politics with Sha and Zhu, a gray-clothed guy came to report.

"Please ask the shopkeeper Yin to speak in the back hall. Su Xing heard that Yin Tianfeng was coming, and a difficult smile appeared on his face: "Two adults, we will discuss this matter another day." ”

"Lord Sha, the person who was originally under the jurisdiction of the household department has become our official in a leap!" Zhu Danian saw Su Xing enter the back hall, stood up and stretched, and said with a smile: "It seems that your extravagant hopes are going to be disappointed after all!"

"Master Zhu, you just said that you became our superior!" Sharba sarcastically mocked Zhu Danian without showing weakness: "Will you have a good life in the future?"

"It's not that you don't know that this official has no ambitions, as long as there is wine and meat every day. Zhu Danian saw that Sharba still wanted to drag himself into the water, so he walked out of the lobby with a smile, but the voice came into Sharba's ears word for word: "It's you, my lord, I asked the Su family to raise taxes before, and I'm afraid that the future will not be as comfortable as before." ”

"Zhu Danian, you're just a waste. Sharba couldn't wait to swallow Zhu Danian: "There will be something for you to see in the future." ”

"Brother Chuan! This is a tax card, please check it. A tax collector in a messenger uniform handed over the tax card to Li Chuan, who was in charge of the errand house

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"Dog, it's early today. "Since the tax fraud incident, it has become Li Chuan's daily errand to sit in the errand house to recover tax license cards and clothes.

"One of my jokes was assigned to Brother Shui, so it's naturally too early to get off the errand!" The tax collector who called the dog took off his errand clothes and took out his coat from the wooden cabinet and put it on his body: "By the way, Brother Chuan! You should have heard that the head of the Shang family has become our Shangshu at once, and this Sha Daren's face is as ugly as a dead person in the family!"

"Shut up. Li Chuan shouted: "The affairs of adults are not something that we should discuss, be careful of losing your head." ”

"I know!" The dog stuck out his tongue and folded the clothes neatly in the wooden cabinet: "Brother Chuan, do you have any wine in the room?"

"Not today, Lord Su wants to feast on the shopkeeper Yin of Sanshun Qianzhuang. Li Chuan typed a notebook and wrote down the time when the dog returned the tax card and errand clothes: "The room is busy, let's not get involved." ”

"Brother Chuan, this is Huang San, the court guard sent by the Tingwei Mansion to guard the household department!" a gray-clothed guy walked in with a man who looked to be in his thirties.

"Is there a warrant from Lord Zhu?" Li Chuan asked, looking at Tingwei Huang San, who was seven feet long, with a sallow complexion, and a two-pronged mustache, but an unfamiliar face with a sense of déjà vu.

"This is an adult's warrant!" the little servant handed a letter with the seal of the squire to Li Chuan's hand.

"Well, you go down first. Li Chuan looked at Hanwen and took it into his arms, smiled at Huang San and said, "Brother Huang, haven't we met somewhere?"

"The first time Huang came to this household, and it was also the first time he saw Brother Tai, how could he have seen him before?" Huang San smiled and shook his head.

"Then I must have remembered it wrong!" Li Chuan said with a smile: "Brother Huang came just in time! Since the accident with Luo Bei, it is really tiring to take care of this errand room alone, so I will ask Brother Huang to help in the future." ”

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say!" Huang San arched his hand towards Li Chuanyi: "In the future, please take care of Brother Tai." ”

To the south of Dongguan Road is a winding, rugged, muddy sheep farm trail, but on both sides of the road are dizzyingly high cliffs, and the shadow is hazy in the distance.

"Miss Misu, it seems that these footprints have disappeared here. Liu Ningshi stood on her heels and looked into the distance.

"This valley is very dangerous, and the enemy is dark. An Dafang clasped his hands in front of his chest: "I have already sent a signal for help, it is better to wait for Wang Hu and them to arrive and enter together." ”

"Chief Guard, I can mark them along the way. Misu was anxious, and hurriedly shook his head and said, "The moment Brother Bei falls into their hands, it will be more dangerous." ”

"Brother Dafang, let's go in and investigate, maybe there will be something else to discover!" Liu Ningshi looked at Misu's appearance, couldn't bear it in her heart, and persuaded her.

"Since Ning Shi has said so, okay!" An Dafang looked at Liu Ning Shi helplessly: "Miss Misu, let out the silver butterfly and lead the way." ”

The silver butterfly was like a fluttering angel, fluttering its graceful wings and flying towards the depths of the trail, and Liu, An, and Mi followed behind and walked slowly.

After walking for about half an hour, the originally narrow sheep intestine path suddenly became clear; the deep valley is surrounded by mountains, deep ravines and secluded beauty, pine walls, clear springs and holes, hanging paths and dangerous circles, strange rocks, and all kinds of butterflies flying and frolicking among the flowers, making the three of them feel as if they have entered a three-dimensional picture.

"Hmm, the silver butterflies don't seem to be leaving?" Liu Ningshi looked at the butterflies in the valley as if they were attractive, and the silver butterflies also flew among them and danced together.

"Ning Shi, I can't imagine that there is a cave outside this East City?" An Dafang seemed to be attracted by the scenery here, and his face gradually softened: "It's so beautiful." ”

"Miss Liu, Misu also thinks this place is so beautiful!" Misu walked to the gurgling stream, picked up a piece of clear lake water with both hands and gently pounced on his face, and his originally anxious heart slowly calmed down.

"It's really beautiful here, but Ning Shi always feels that something is wrong?" Liu Ningshi became vigilant in her heart: "Brother Dafang, what do you think?"

Liu Ningshi couldn't hear any sound, hurriedly turned her head, and found that An Dafang and Misu had disappeared, leaving her alone standing in place.

"Huhuhu!" In the valley where the mountains and rivers were originally beautiful, the wind suddenly blew fiercely, the lightning flashed and thundered, and the clear stream also turned into a turbulent and rushing wave, trampling on the flowers and trees.

"Girl, you didn't belong to this Jinling City in the first place!" From the turbulent waves, the phantom of a black-clothed man with a cloth towel and sharp eyes slowly rose from the water, holding a steel knife and pointing at Liu Ningshi: "Let you run away for so many years, and you won't be caught today?"

"Nonsense! I am a person from this Jinling City. Liu Ningshi stared at the man in black, and her pretty face flashed faintly with an overkill intent that had never surfaced: "You thieves! Ning Shi will no longer be afraid of you, nor will she give in to you again." ”

"Hey, hey, little girl, you've got a lot of skills. The figure of the man in black loomed towards Liu Ningshi: "Just let me see what you have learned over the years?"

"Whew!" Liu Ningshi flicked her palm, and the dragon-shaped dagger flew out of her hand from her waist, and two blue arc-shaped qi blades flew towards the man in black.

"Hahaha! Although the figure of the man in black was not happy, he calmly shuttled back and forth between the air blades.

Liu Ningshi put her feet on a little bit, and spread out her shadow-like body around the man in black, and the knife did not leave his vital point, but it was strange to say, no matter how she used it, she just couldn't hit the man in black.

"Ahhh ”