The old man Han Guanghan really cared about the people, and took a series of measures to solve the problem of the victims who had been plagued for many days, vacated many houses to resettle the victims, distributed fixed relief food every day, and encouraged large families to give porridge to save their lives and accumulate merit.

As a result, the problem of the victims who have plagued Chang'an for many days has finally not developed in a worse direction.

Li Wuchang and Zhao Xun were naturally overjoyed.

After the two discussed, they set up a stall, put porridge and steamed buns, and at the same time did not show off, they could also do their part, Wang Changde and his family showed great enthusiasm, and they personally sat in charge every day, and even Xiaoxi came out to help.

Naturally, there is no shortage of money, and the two of them knocked Xue Laosi with a total of 130,000 taels of silver, plus four gold bricks, although the price of grain has not been reduced, but it is certainly more than enough to maintain a small stall.

"Can the silver ticket be used?" Zhao Xun handed a steamed bun and a bowl of porridge to a child, took a look, and secretly asked Li Wuchang on the side.

Li Wuchang smiled: "It can be used." We were lucky enough to be careful enough to leave no flaws, and it was impossible for them to try to grab our pigtails for a while, but lately I've had to be a man with my tail between my legs. ”

After thinking for a while, he continued: "It's up to you to decide the silver ticket, just give me a few to use on my body." ”

Li Wuchang doesn't care much about silver, he hasn't been short of money recently, and there is still a lot of six hundred taels left from the last time.

Zhao Xun smiled: "You are generous...... In that case, let's put it with me for now, and see where we can use it later. ”

"That's right, it's almost the New Year, I want to enter the fourth product on the occasion of the New Year, and I guess I'll go to you to practice these days, and by the way, I'll study the ghost figure method, and I have a few good ideas recently, but unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to show it. Li Wuchang talked about the exercises.

He is now a third-rank intermediate level, and he has been nervous these days, and his practice is not so diligent, and his progress is slow.

"Just buy you a big house, you don't have to be so tied when you practice martial arts. Zhao Xun proposed.

Li Wuchang thought about it, and felt that it was not bad to get a secret base, so he nodded and asked Zhao Xun to look at it.

Zhao Xun said again: "Speaking of which, I haven't advanced for a long time, and I've stayed at the sixth grade for a long time, my master said before, I'm not diligent enough, it's that the opportunity has not come, and when the time comes, I will naturally break through, and it's too mysterious." ”

......

The plan couldn't catch up with the changes, and Li Wuchang's plan to practice hard in the past few days was interrupted by the big housekeeper Ye Rong.

Li Wuchang returned home, and just wanted to explain to the nurse, Steward Ye came, saying that the master wanted to give him a thing, so that he would have nothing to do every day.

Li Wuchang was surprised, his father had never given him an errand, today is really fresh, and the New Year is still a few days away, what can happen.

Steward Ye handed him a stack of bills and told him to collect debts.

Collecting debts at the end of the year, this is not a good errand, although Li Wuchang didn't want to go, but he didn't dare to refuse, so he had to take the task next, and casually asked Steward Ye why he let him go.

Steward Ye explained: "The master casually mentioned that he was looking for something for the fourth prince to do, and the eldest lady Zhang proposed to let the fourth prince go to collect debts, and the master thought it was good when he heard it, so he agreed." ”

When Li Wuchang heard that it was Zhang's attention, he estimated that there was no good fruit to eat on this trip, so he decided to call Zhao Xun to go with him when the time came to deal with the emergency.

Debt collection, how can you do it without thugs.

When the big housekeeper left, Li Wuchang studied the list in his hand, and there was really a problem.

The people on the list are all famous, either old or down-and-out merchants, orphans and widows of dead men, and even more bizarrely, gang people.

This is obviously a debt bill that was specially collected at a low price.

The ladies of large families in Chang'an City have regular gatherings to exchange emotions and talk about various topics, new things, husbands and children, business matters, and of course, debt problems.

Some people borrow money and encounter difficulties in collecting debts, so they will transfer the IOUs at a low price and let the powerful families collect them and recover their losses a little.

The Li family had rarely done this kind of thing before, and this time the Zhang family specially accepted some such lists in order to embarrass Li Wuchang.

"Alas, here we go again, can't you make soup well, why do you want me to collect this kind of debt. Li Wuchang sighed in his heart.

Although he was dissatisfied, Li Wuchang still decided to do this thing well, lest the Zhang family make any trouble.

The next day, I went to Zhao Xun to explain the situation, but Zhao Xun was happy and said, "Okay, I'll be a thug with you." ”

Li Wuchang's name, coupled with Zhao Xun's fist, no matter what the old scoundrel is or a gang member, when he saw Li Wuchang, most of them were flattering, and he happily repaid the silver taels he owed.

Occasionally, there are a few particularly tough old lai, who don't sell Li Wuchang's face, at this time it is Zhao Xun's turn to come out, Zhao Xun will not be rough directly, he behaves lightly, gently pats the table with one palm, and then pushes it, and the table becomes a fragment, and then Zhao Xun squints at those old lai.

At this time, no matter how tough the old man was, his legs were weak.

Of course, there are exceptions.

......

In the west of the city, Chonghuafang, which is close to the city wall, is staging a dispute.

A group of people gathered around a mother and son and pointed at them, all of them came to ask for debts.

The eldest lady looked haggard, looking at the crowd around her who were asking for debts, and she was very helpless.

Her husband died, leaving a lot of debts, countless people come to ask for debts every year, the family has no property, can only rely on her daily small work to make a living, the money earned is not much, naturally there is no ability to pay the debt.

My son is eighteen years old this year, and he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, so that one day he can participate in the martial arts conference, fight for a good background, and glorify his ancestors.

Although her son is very sensible and will work to make money on weekdays, she is reluctant to be distracted by her son, and every time she knows that someone wants a debt, she sends her son out, and then faces the difficulties of the creditors alone, begging them to give them some more time.

Today another group of people came to ask for debts, and the son did not go out, reasoning with them, and in the face of those harsh words, the son was very angry, and he wanted to use force to teach them a lesson.

But the creditors were not afraid.

"Boy, it's only natural to pay back the debt, your dead ghost father owes me fifty taels...... You see, there are still pictures in black and white, you dare to repay the account, you still want to do it, come, hit me, see who dies first?" A middle-aged man held a list and looked at the angry young man in front of him with a look of disdain.

Then a group of people chimed in.

"Yes, it is natural to repay debts, everyone should not be afraid of him, if he dares to do it, we will report to the official, he can fight again, I don't believe that he can be caught and beaten by Mr. Du, but he was later arrested and put in prison to eat in prison. ”

"Yes, the father's debt is repaid, and he is finally arrested today, every time his wife comes out, hum, don't be ashamed, I have to give an explanation today. ”

"Yes, I must give an explanation today, otherwise I will buy his wife to a brothel and earn money to pay off his debts. ”

"Although his yard is a little broken, it should be worth some money. ”

"Hmph, his dead ghost father offended the prince, the crime deserves death, he is already blessed if he does not implicate his family, and he still wants to participate in the martial arts conference to get ahead, and he also dreams, as long as the prince says a word, he is not even qualified to participate. ”

......

Listening to the chatter of the people around him, the young man lowered his head, clenched his fists, and trembled, as if he was trying to endure it, and his mother pulled him by the side, muttering in his ear, presumably to persuade him not to be impulsive.

At the outermost part of the crowd, Li Wuchang and Zhao Xun crossed their hands on their waists, looking at this scene and frowning.

"It seems that this is a person with a story, I think that kid seems to have a bit of martial arts, do you know who he is?" Li Wuchang stared at the young man and asked Zhao Xun softly.

"What's more, it's a little kung fu, his name is Jiang Minglun, he is eighteen years old this year, and he is a famous young talent in Chang'an City recently. Zhao Xun replied.

"It's so high, it's almost the same level as the five sons of Chang'an, it's so young, it should be quite a small one, right?"

It stands to reason that a master of this level is either a famous teacher or a successor who is focused on cultivating by major families, so it will be so miserable, so many people collect debts, and even they have a share, fifty taels.

"Grapevine, this Jiang Minglun's father was a guard in the Jin Palace, a master among the masters, and later I heard that he offended the prince, was abolished by the prince, broke his legs, and was expelled from the palace, and since then he has become extremely depressed, in order to treat his legs, he borrowed a lot of money, but he has not been cured, and then he died of depression, leaving a pair of orphans and widows and a bunch of debts. Zhao Xun said that he heard the grapevine.

After speaking, he sighed and continued: "Alas, Jiang Minglun has followed his father to practice martial arts since he was a child, and he has naturally made rapid progress. It stands to reason that there should be many people who are a young master like him, but because of the relationship between the prince, not only do they dare not win him over, but they will also find an opportunity to step on him. You see that most of these debt collectors want to pat the prince's ass, so they are so unrelenting. ”

Li Wuchang sighed and said, "It's the Jin prince who is known for being amorous and lustful, and usually does everything except good things, Lu Yuanfeng?"

Zhao Xun nodded, lowered his voice and said, "I heard that Jiang Minglun's father broke into the inner hall because he caught assassins, and accidentally saw the concubines in the palace taking a bath, which angered the prince...... For many years, they have not let go of this pair of orphans and widows, and some of those creditors are simply the descendants of the royal palace, and the debts are specially collected by them, and the interest is set very high, one or two becomes two taels, and two taels become four taels, you say, isn't this a clear intention to play with them?"

After a pause, he continued: "I didn't expect that your eldest lady also received one and asked you to wade into this troubled water." ”

Li Wuchang replied casually: "It's only fifty taels, it's a big deal that I put it on my own, what else can she do with me?" as he spoke, his eyes staring at the increasingly chaotic scene.

sighed, and said: "Am I sick of being nosy, or I can't see that their Lu family is so arrogant, why do you want to help that kid?"

Zhao Xun smiled and said, "It's okay." ”

After speaking, he came out of the crowd, waved his hand at Jiang Minglun, and said loudly: "Brother Jiang, do you remember the little brother, the little brother Zhao Xun, I came to see you today." ”

The people around quieted down and looked at Zhao Xun puzzled.

Jiang Minglun was also stunned, he didn't know what was going on, he didn't know Zhao Xun.

When everyone was puzzled, Zhao Xun took out a stack of silver tickets, all of which were in a hundred taels of denominations, there were more than a dozen, handed them to Jiang Minglun's mother, and explained: "Aunt, the younger Zhao Xun is a good friend of Brother Minglun. ”

Jiang Minglun's mother first looked at Zhao Xun in a daze, then looked down at the silver ticket in her hand, and then looked at her son, not knowing what to do.

Jiang Minglun squinted his eyes and glanced at Zhao Xun, seeing that Zhao Xun had a calm face and a clear gaze, not like a bad person, the other party may have heard his name and wanted to win him over, so he showed favor like this.

Thinking so, Jiang Minglun made up his mind, first pass this level and then talk about it, it's a big deal to find a chance to repay this Zhao Xun in the future, nodded at Zhao Xun at the moment, and said, "Brother Zhao is polite." ”

Then he said to his mother, "Mother, this is indeed my friend, he gave you the money, just accept it, just give it back to these people, and we will repay the brother in the future." ”

His mother relieved herself, nodded, and said loudly to the creditors: "Come, come one by one, and settle all the accounts today." ”

The Jiang family originally only owed less than two hundred taels of silver, but in a few years, it has rolled over to more than one thousand taels, which shows how tricky the interest is, Jiang Minglun did not argue, just paid off the silver two, redeemed the IOU, and then let these people roll.

Watching everyone leave in disgrace, the mother and son finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Only the mother and son of the Xie family were left in the courtyard, as well as Li Wuchang and Zhao Xun.

Looking at Jiang Minglun, who was looking at him vigilantly, Li Wuchang shrugged, beckoned to Zhao Xun, and said with a smile: "Let's go, Xiaoxi is still waiting for us to eat." ”

Zhao Xun arched his hand at Jiang Minglun, kept up with Li Wuchang's pace, and walked out of the courtyard.

Leaving Jiang Minglun with a stunned face.