Let's live with the farmer [Traveling]

Xue Ming waved his hand to show that he was fine, looked at the fresh fruit on the ground, and asked, "How much did it cost?"

"Boss, are you really okay? Why don't we report to the officials? I heard that the county magistrate here has just taken office, and they all say that the new official has three fires. We can definitely get it back if we go."

The smile on Xue Ming's mouth dissipated, became gloomy and finally turned into sarcasm. This may not be to underestimate him, "He deceived me today, and I will definitely return it a hundred times."

Zhang Shuwen didn't understand what he meant, so he was pulled back by Mr. Zhang, and the words got stuck in his throat again.

"Let's not make trouble for the boss. I guess he's feeling uncomfortable. Let's sell out all the things here!"

No matter how angry Zhang Shuwen was, he didn't dare to fight the officials, so he could only tell Xue Ming the price of the fruits, "These two baskets of fruits were bought by the family. There are several fruit trees in their house. I heard that If we want to buy it, we will sell it to us at the price of two baskets for a penny, and if we still need it, they can make it cheaper."

The fruit looks good too, Xue Ming ate one, the juice was sweet, and he nodded with satisfaction, and asked them to carry the fruit back to the fishing boat, and it will be closed today.

Zhang Shuwen looked at the remaining bucket of ice and asked in confusion: "Boss, the ice will melt tomorrow, and our loss will be great."

In order to avoid their suspicion, Xue Ming just said that the ice was made of medicinal powder, and the emperor used this to make ice cubes for summer vacation.

Zhang Shuwen was fooled by him for a while, and he heard that he knew people around the emperor, and they worshiped and respected him.

After loading the things onto the boat, Xue Ming leisurely chewed ice cubes and ate fruit, and let Mr. Zhang take a boat tour on the river.

Zhang Shuwen bought food and wine according to his instructions, and said with a grunt: "Boss, why are you so happy? I just saw those two policemen on the street pulling people to force others to buy ice cubes, which are cheaper than ours." So much taller!"

The river breeze is blowing, and the wine is fragrant.Xue Ming was unmoved, but lifted the curtain, picked up the wine glass, squinted his eyes, and asked, "How is the beauty here at night?"

Zhang Shuwen angrily picked up two pieces of ice and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing them loudly.

The sound of the qin, se and flute is sweet, and the singing voice is clear and clear.As the river wind blew, Xue Ming sat on the bow of the boat with his legs outstretched, holding a glass of wine. He was in a trance, but he saw a person standing on the bow of the boat.

He raised his head and shouted: "Ping An! Song Ping An!"

Surprised the left and right boats looked sideways, a bold woman threw a pair of pink handkerchiefs and shyly replied: "Peace is here!"

Zhang Laogeng, who was punting the boat, also laughed, guessing that the "Song Ping'an" in his mouth was his sweetheart, and said, "Boss, are you homesick?"

Xue Ming pressed the center of his eyebrows and stuffed a peanut into his mouth, "I'm homesick."

Miss people more.

Mr. Zhang joked: "The boss is really popular, and many girls fall in love with him."

Xue Ming glanced at the drowsy Zhang Shuwen lying in the cabin, then picked up the handkerchief on the ground and threw it over, covering his face.

Drunk all night, and the sun was high, Xue Ming was awakened by Zhang Shuwen's startled roar. Before he opened his eyes, he heard Zhang Shuwen's groaning sound, nervously holding a handkerchief and asking, "Boss, what's going on?"

The people here are very feudal in their bones. A woman throws a handkerchief and a man picks it up, which means she agrees to the marriage. Xue Ming got up and got up with scarlet bloodshot eyes. Yours, you promise to marry them."

The goods on the boat have been moved ashore by Zhang Laogeng, and he will be sweating profusely from exhaustion. He wiped his sweat and came over and said a few words: "Yes, it's sisters, you hugged and kissed twice yesterday. , tsk tsk."

Zhang Shuwen froze in place for a moment, Xue Ming hung the changed clothes on the canopy of the boat, and took Mr. Zhang ashore after washing.

When he came back to his senses, he went to the market with his basket annoyed.

As soon as the things were unloaded, the Cheng family and Cheng industry came again. Yesterday they robbed and sold them and made a lot of money, and today they bullied others even more, pointing at the fruit in his basket and the broken ice left in the bucket: " This is mine!"

Xue Ming pretended to be in trouble, "Both of you, you already took away a bucket yesterday, which caused me a heavy loss. Are you being too greedy for coming here today?"

The Cheng family said arrogantly with the whistle stick on their backs: "Get out of the way for me, or I will kill you!"

Zhang Shuwen ran back with the bucket in his hand, Cheng Ye kicked him quickly, opened his fingers and laughed arrogantly, "Damn, you are still fighting with me!"

This would be a busy time on the street, and there were many people around pointing and pointing, most of them were saying that the Cheng family brothers were unreasonable.

Xue Jiming's body was already weak, his face was pale, and his precarious appearance made people feel distressed. He begged hoarsely, "Give me some way out, you two, you already grabbed a bucket yesterday, if you rob again, I will Nothing to return!"

"I don't care about you!" The Cheng family shook off his hand, and started selling in front of him with a bucket.

Everyone cursed secretly in their hearts, seeing Xue Ming holding his head in defeat, and shrugging his 'crying' shoulders, it was heartbreaking.

Little did he know that Xue Ming covered his face and laughed until his shoulders shook.

Everyone couldn't bear it and came up to pick plums and plums to buy home. Zhang Shuwen gritted his teeth and stared at the two brothers of the Cheng family who were trying to sell them forcibly.

At noon, two baskets of plums and plums were sold out.Only then did Xue Ming raise his head and lead Zhang Shuwen and Zhang Laogeng, who had been busy all morning, to the restaurant.

After eating and drinking, when he came back, he saw that the Cheng family brothers had already closed the stall.

Zhang Shuwen watched them take a lot of money back into their pockets, and said sullenly: "Yesterday and today, they earned more than 100 taels at least."

It was originally planned to be sold for a week, but thanks to their help, not only the time was advanced, but also the money was doubled.Xue Ming messed up his hair a bit, grabbed a handful of dust and sprinkled it on his body, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the yamen."

Zhang Shuwen was puzzled: "Didn't you say that the county magistrate would not help us?"

A look of cruelty flashed in Xue Ming's eyes, and his whole body exuded cold air: "Now I can't help but whether he will help or not."

Zhang Shuwen didn't understand what he meant, and followed him step by step.

A group of people surrounded the gate of the yamen. Zhang Shuwen stepped on his feet and looked inside, then pulled the person next to him and asked, "What's going on? Why are there so many people around?"

The man said angrily: "You know the two head catchers in the yamen. Yesterday and today they charged people two taels of silver for pulling people on the street. They offended several big families in our city."

"How do you say that?" Zhang Shuwen was overjoyed, no wonder the boss wasn't worried at all, it turned out to be a prophet.

The man said again: "It's fine for them to bully us ordinary people. He bullied Mr. Li and Ms. Wang's servant girl in the city. Both of them are bad masters. Can you come and ask for an explanation?" ?”

Xue Ming stood outside for a while, waiting for Cheng's family and Cheng Ye to be arrested and brought into the yamen before he walked in "shaky".

The county magistrate sullenly glared angrily at the Cheng family and Chengye.

The two brothers had solid evidence and denied it to the death: "Your Excellency, we two brothers just saw that he is a foreigner who is not good at doing business, and that's why we helped!"

Xue Ming raised his sleeve and wiped his eyes pretendingly, and said: "My lord, I hope you can see clearly, the villain Xue Ming has just arrived, and before he started to do business, he was robbed of all his belongings by the two arresting heads of the yamen."

The Cheng family glared at him angrily: "Don't spitting blood, our two brothers are under your instruction!"

Xue Ming calmly turned his head and said to the chattering crowd: "The big fellows have also seen that my property was robbed before the stall was opened. This ice is an imperial merchant's watch that the villain supplies to the emperor." Brother bought it at a high price, and lost a lot on the way, and this time I lost all my money."

The county magistrate in the hall quickly caught the two key words "emperor" and "emperor merchant", his face turned darker, and the master standing beside him whispered a few words in his ear.

The county magistrate frowned and said, "The Cheng family, the Cheng family, today everyone is suing your two brothers for robbery and selling, fined your two brothers twenty boards, and returned all Xue Ming's belongings."

Xue Ming cupped his hands in thanks, and said: "To tell you the truth, my lord, tomorrow I will go back to my hometown to meet my cousin Huang Shang, and I hope my lord will give me a reward, so that the two policemen will settle the money in front of everyone. "

When the county magistrate agreed, Xue Ming raised his hand to let Zhang Shuwen come forward with his calculations.

The two looked at each other, and Zhang Shuwen calculated with understanding, and said: "A bowl of ice is three taels of silver, and a bowl of sour plum juice is four coins. The two head catchers have robbed us of two buckets of ice and four buckets of sour plum juice." , a total of 180 bowls of ice, 270 bowls of plum juice, so that is [-] taels of silver, seven coins and twenty Wen."

When the Cheng family and Cheng Ye heard the number, their eyes darkened, and they quickly kowtowed and cried, "Sir, don't listen to his nonsense, I just grabbed two buckets of ice, and sold them for a total of less than 100 taels."

Now with the support of the county magistrate, Zhang Shuwen went up and pulled off his clothes and poured out all the money, including not only the ice coins they sold today but also the protection fees they collected.

He counted a total of 120 taels in front of the county magistrate, then kowtowed and said, "My lord, this is all the taels sold by the two brothers today. Look at them, they are lying, please learn from me!"

Xue Ming lowered his head, with a smile on his lips, and said, "My lord, if you don't make decisions for the villain, the villain can only go to the provincial capital to sue for justice."

He spoke neither humble nor overbearing but scared the county magistrate's back, he repeatedly patted the gavel and said: "I will punish your two brothers to compensate according to the price!"

It is true that the Cheng family and Chengye did not sell 200 taels, but the county magistrate has confirmed that, and the evidence is solid, they have no way to argue, so they can only go home and collect 270 taels of silver, seven coins and twenty coins .

After leaving the yamen, Xue Ming took off his disguise and showed a sneering smile, put away the bank notes and money, looked longingly into the distance, and said with a light smile, "Peace, I'm going home!"