The rain is getting heavier and heavier, and there is no intention of stopping.

Five people, a horse, and two donkeys crowded under the only remaining broken door of the Chenghuang Temple to take shelter from the rain. At this moment, the little red fish's stomach growled twice at an inopportune time.

Little Red Fish said, "I'm hungry, as the master, don't you care about food?"

Xiao Jinyan said: "I'm hungry too. ”

Zhao Lanjiang said, "You go find something to eat." ”

Xiao Jinyan said, "I don't have the strength. ”

Zhao Lanjiang came to the leper donkey, and looked at Lu Gongzi with malicious eyes, so frightened that Lu Gongzi's nose snorted, and he retreated again and again. Xiao Jinyan knew what he had in mind, and even said, "There is a horse and a donkey over there." ”

Zhao Lanjiang glanced at Li Tingcheng, "There are many Li families, I can't beat him." ”

"And you can beat me?"

Zhao Lanjiang said, "Xiao Jinyan never makes a move on his friends. ”

Lu Gongzi looked at Xiao Jinyan pitifully, Xiao Jinyan looked up to the sky and sighed, "God, can you change something to eat?"

There was another knock at the door.

The visitor was Widow Li, a vegetable seller at the head of the village, who carried a bamboo basket in her hand and brought a pot of boiled cabbage, a roast chicken, and a jar of soju. Xiao Jinyan's face was full of smiles, "Aunt Li, I knew that you were a knife mouth and a tofu heart, and you knew that I hadn't fired here for a few days, so I came here to deliver food." ”

Widow Li said okay, don't be poor, put down the food, frowned, "Why did you become like this broken temple?"

Zhao Lanjiang said: "Some people like to smash things when they are angry, like girls." ”

Li Chengcheng raised his eyebrows angrily, "Say it again?"

"I'll just say it once, I don't like to listen. ”

Li Chengcheng was about to draw his sword, but Zhao Lanjiang's hand was on the hilt, and the two of them fought, and they were about to break out.

Xiao Jinyan hurriedly persuaded, "If we continue to fight, we won't even have a place to shelter from the rain." ”

Zhao Lanjiang asked, "Can you beat me?"

Li Tingcheng sneered, "You can't beat it, you can't be humiliated, Xiao Jinyan, your prospective brother-in-law has been bullied, do you still care?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "I'm so sleepy, I just want to sleep after eating." ”

Xiao Jinyan went to pick up the meal, and Widow Li stretched out her hand to stop it, "This meal is not for nothing." ”

"I knew it wasn't going to happen. ”

Widow Li said, "I'll take care of your meal, and you help me kill someone." Before Xiao Jinyan could answer, she said again: "But don't worry, when you are free, just help me slaughter it." ”

Xiao Jinyan said, "A meal is worth a life, and this meal is too cost-effective." Who is the person who can make Li Sanniang move to kill?"

Widow Li said, "I forgot what that person's surname was, it seems that his name is Li Shifei, or Zhao Shifei, or Song Shifei, in the future, if you meet someone with this name on the rivers and lakes, help me kill him." ”

"Why don't you do it yourself?"

"He's my child's father. ”

Xiao Jinyan: "Uh-uh......"

Zhao Lanjiang snatched the basket, tore off a chicken leg and gnawed it, and said, "Don't be verbose, I'll eat the rice, and I'll help you slaughter it when I meet in the future." ”

After Widow Li left, five people sat on the ground, and Li Chengcheng had a habit of cleanliness, so he untied a piece of felt cloth from his horse and spread it on the ground.

Little Red Fish said that it was finally time to eat.

Before the words fell, the gate of the City God Temple was kicked open.

Bang.

The entire gate collapsed, and Zhao Lanjiang supported the ground with both hands and flew backwards. Li Chengcheng grabbed the grass and swept it more than two feet away. The little red fish also performed light skills and came to the jujube tree, but Xiao Jinyan was the only one who sat in the innermost part and didn't have time to dodge, and made a gray face.

Xiao Jinyan said angrily: "Who is so rude, don't you know how to knock on the door?"

In the rain, five people dressed in lily clothes walked in. Seeing that the dress is the catch of the six gates of Suzhou City, the leader is a short and fat man, and he shouted: "Who is the leader here?"

Xiao Jinyan said with a smile, "It turned out to be the poor master, I am the master here, and these are my friends, sheltering from the rain here." ”

A catcher said, "Be bold and make a fool of the people, and you won't kneel down when you see our Su Zhutou?"

Xiao Jinyan pursed his lips, "The ground is a little wet, I only have this set of clothes, I want to kneel for you." ”

The short and fat catcher looked around, and then said, "The official's surname is Su, his name is Zhengyuan, he is the new chief catcher of Suzhou Prefecture, and he was ordered to check the floating population. This official has been the head of the hunt for more than ten years, and the people in the rivers and lakes who have done it, there are not a hundred but eighty, and I warn you not to appear in my territory. ”

The head catcher was originally an official, and he claimed to be an official, which was regarded as an arrogance, but in the eyes of the common people, those who lived in the prefect's yamen were all officials.

Xiao Jinyan wondered, "Poor master, I am not a floating population, I have lived in Gusu City for more than a year, I don't believe you ask the villagers, besides, we are all people of the Ming Dynasty, one does not steal, two does not rob, and three does not object...... If you don't rebel, why should you drive us away?"

Su Zhengyuan snorted coldly, "You Jianghu people, you keep to yourself during the day, and at night you kill people and set fires to do all kinds of evil, the most hated by this official is the Jianghu people, I give you a three-day period, after three days, if you don't leave, go to stay in the six-door prison." ”

Zhao Yanjiang took a step forward and held the knife horizontally in his hand.

Seeing this, Su Zhengyuan shouted, "Do you want to assassinate this official?"

Xiao Jinyan even said that he had misunderstood, took the knife, chopped the remaining chicken leg from the roast chicken, and handed it to Su Zhengyuan, "My brother wants to invite you to eat chicken." As he spoke, he even looked at Zhao Lanjiang.

There is an unwritten rule on the rivers and lakes that people in the rivers and lakes will never conflict with the government, at least not on the surface.

After Emperor Taizu ascended the throne, he wanted to wipe out all the people in the rivers and lakes, and then the national teacher Liu Boleng pleaded, and the matter was stopped, but he made a rule, and the people in the rivers and lakes were not allowed to go against the government, and the Dengwen Institute was established, and the world's major sects were recorded in the book, and this system continues to this day.

Where does Zhao Lanjiang care about this set, take another step, take the knife, and slash it out. The knife wind was fierce, as if to divide the rain curtain into two, those few catchers were so frightened that they retreated again and again, and there was no murderous intent in Zhao Lanjiang, only to see everyone fall to the ground in their clothes, and the word "catch" on the chest of the fast clothes was actually split into pieces by Zhao Lanjiang.

Su Zhengyuan said, "You dare to do something to this official?"

"Yes, how?"

Su Zhengyuan looked inward, "It's okay, I'll ask." ”

Zhao Lanjiang said coldly, "This time it's a slight punishment, and the next time I see you, it's not a matter of a few clothes." As long as Zhao is in Suzhou Mansion for a day, you will not appear in front of me once!"

Su Zhengyuan took everyone and walked away.

The rain stopped.

Xiao Jinyan secretly thought in his heart that if these few people stayed in Gusu City, sooner or later they would cause trouble for themselves, and they had to find a way to drive them away, so he said, "Everyone, the rain has stopped, it's not that I don't want to keep you, now I don't even have a place to live, if we don't change the green mountains and green water, I won't send them." ”

Li Chengcheng said, "If you don't help me find the martial arts, I won't leave." ”

Zhao Lanjiang said, "Follow me." ”

"Where to go?"

"Find a place to live!"

......

Su Zhengyuan took everyone back to the Suzhou Mansion, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

He was originally a native of Liangzhou, Longxi, before coming to Suzhou, he was a fast catcher in Liangzhou, Liangzhou was poor and bad, and there was no oil and water, so he spent 8,000 taels to get through the relationship with the capital, and only then did he get the shortage of the head catcher of the six doors of Suzhou Mansion, and wanted to come here to take the opportunity to make a profit.

The first thing he did after taking office was to conduct an inventory of the rivers and lakes under his rule, and take the opportunity to take a few stragglers to make an example of the rich people in the city.

"Rice buckets! a group of rice buckets!" he pointed to a few of his subordinates and scolded, "Why don't you use them at critical moments when you show off your martial arts on weekdays?" and pointed to the patch on their chests, "This knife is cutting your clothes, and it hits my face!"

Su Zhengyuan asked again, "What's the name of the leader?"

Liu San said: "Master Qiyu, the one at the head is called Xiao Jinyan, who is a professional gangster in Nameless Town, and the rest of the people don't know." ”

Su Zhengyuan muttered, "Xiao Jinyan, why is this name so familiar?" Xiao Jinyan used to be the leader of the martial arts alliance, but that was five years ago, not to mention that this person looked young, he didn't associate this person with the leader of the martial arts alliance anyway.

"Master, today's man surnamed Xiao, let's forget it?"

"Forget it?" Su Zhengyuan scolded, "This matter is not over! If you don't do those guys, how will Lao Tzu mix in Suzhou in the future?" The faces of the six doors have been lost! Also, there have been a lot of people from the rivers and lakes in Suzhou City recently, and you have all shown me a little brighter, if there is any trouble, report me quickly!"

......

Suzhou gardens are famous all over the world.

Whether it is a wealthy family or a small family, they are very particular about the affairs of the mansion.

The most particular thing is the Fan Mansion and the Zhao Mansion. In the Ming Dynasty, the dwellings are the houses, and the official residences are called the houses. Although the Fan family is rich, their ancestors have never made a name for themselves, and although the mansion is beautifully built, it can only be a house. The Zhao family is a scholarly family, and there have been three jinshi, one scholar, which is for the Zhao Mansion.

Fan Wuchang, the owner of the Fan family, was wearing a blue satin gown, which was washed white, with more than a dozen patches on the cuffs and chest, and was settling accounts at this time.

Fan Wuchang piled the items in the past few days together, and there was an abacus on the table, copper coins were strung together, and broken silver was gathered into a pile.

He weighed the broken silver, and there were fifty-two taels, and he was going to find a silver shop tomorrow and cast the silver into an ingot. Fan Wuchang calculated in his heart that the fire consumption of the Li family silver store was three taels, which was too expensive, and he had to go to the Liu family silver store ten miles east of the city, although it was a little farther, but the fire consumption was only two taels, so that he finally saved enough 100,000 taels of silver and completed a small goal in life.

Fan Wuchang has two silk villages and an inn under his name, and his business is prosperous, which can be described as making money every day. The 100,000 taels of silver were squeezed out between his teeth with his wife, and in order to make up 100,000 taels, he deliberately sent his wife back to his father-in-law's house, on the grounds that he could save one person's picking fee.

This money will be left to his son Fan Xiaodao in the future.

Fan Wuchang thought to himself, and he didn't know how this kid was doing in the Loose Sect.

Speaking of this son, he really didn't let him worry, he was naughty every day when he was a child. When he was ten years old, Fan Xiaodao was growing his body, he had a lot of food, he was lazy to eat, he didn't work at home, in order to save money, Fan Wuchang sent him to Tianlong Temple, and as a result, Fan Xiaodao turned Tianlong Temple upside down, and he also peed on the ancestral secret book of Tianlong Temple "Six Veins Divine Sword", and the abbot of Tianlong Temple traveled thousands of miles and sent him back.

Later, Xiaoyao sent to Gusu City to recruit apprentices, did not charge tuition, managed food and housing, and taught martial arts, such a good thing, how could Fan Wuchang miss it, so he gritted his teeth and gave Fan Xiaodao thirty taels of silver, sent him to the Xiaoyao faction, and specially told him that before he finished learning and went down the mountain, he should not give his family a little letter, it costs money.

Fan Wuchang put away the silver and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

In order to celebrate the achievement of the 100,000 small goal, Fan Wuchang is ready to be extravagant, add a stewed cabbage with minced meat at night, steam an extra bowl of rice, and take out the wooden chicken and wooden duck carved with high-quality sandalwood.

At this point, the door was kicked open.

Zhao Lanjiang broke in with everyone.

Fan Wuxian saw that everyone was carrying a blade in their hands, thinking that they were bandits who robbed the house, so he hurriedly knelt down, "A good man spares his life, I have no money at home!"

Zhao Lanjiang looked at the courtyard and pointed to the east wing, "I live here, and you live opposite." ”

Fan Wuchang ignored him, stood up, and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Zhao Lanjiang threw the knife at the stone pier at the door, and the blade of the knife sank into the stone pier, making Fan Wuchang's face pale with fright. Zhao Lanjiang said, "We have no place to live, so we will borrow your home for a few months." By the way, take care of our food, you can rest assured, we will not give you money. ”

Little Red Fish took a fancy to an ear room and said, "I want this one." In a moment, Li Chengcheng and Qingcao also picked a room. Xiao Jinyan's movements were a little slower, and there was only one side room left, close to the thatched house.

Xiao Jinyan was a little embarrassed and said, "Boss Fan, isn't this appropriate?"

Fan Wuchang nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, this is not appropriate." ”

Xiao Jinyan pointed to the main house, "Then please clean up your house, and I'll make do with it." ”

Fan Wuchang's face turned green, and he said, "This is clearly a group of robbers!"

"What did you say?"

Fan Wuchang squeezed out a smiling face, "I said that you welcome all heroes and heroes, and make our house shine." ”

Xiao Jinyan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Boss Fan, it's a waste of money, don't worry, what about your family, we don't live in vain, we are still ready to eat for nothing, but we are not picky eaters, we will eat whatever you eat." It's not too early, so let's make dinner. ”

Fan Wuchang's family was born with trouble for no reason, but there were many people on the other side and they knew martial arts, so they had to stabilize them first, and then in the long run, find a way to send these plague gods away, he came to the kitchen, picked two spoonfuls of rice with a spoon, thought about it, grabbed another handful, and put it in the small pocket under the rice bag.

Fan Wuchang is diligent and thrifty, every time he steams rice, he will grab a handful of rice from the pot, so that he can save nearly ten catties of rice every month, he once proudly called it the philosophy of life, life should be like this, otherwise, how can the 100,000 taels of silver be saved?

He scolded in his heart, "Let you eat, hold you to death!"

When the rice was cooked and brought to the table, everyone looked at the bowl of rice, staring at each other, not knowing what to do. Fan Wuchang counted out ten grains of rice and put them in his bowl, chewed them slowly, ate them for a long time, patted his stomach, burped, and said, "Everyone, eat quickly, it's not enough!"

"Boss Fan, add a meat dish. ”

Fan Wuchang had to take out the wooden chicken and wooden duck from the box, Lu Gongzi asked Sandalwood Xiang, stepped forward and bit off the head of the chicken, making Fan Wuchang feel distressed, and almost cried, "Loser!"