Sweet as candy

The notice from the government has not come down for a long time, Xiao Lang can only let people light the bonfire at night.A group of Martial Arts League disciples worked tirelessly overnight to help, Xiao Lang set an example and naturally followed along.

Although Mu Yunyi didn't care about these small hardships, Xiao Lang refused to let him guard with him, and asked him to go back and rest with a straight face.

He is usually gentle with others, with a smile on his brows, as if everything is easy to discuss.Mu Yunyi always has the illusion that he is not the Xiao Lang that the people in the world talk about.His tone became tougher, but he finally looked like a candidate for the leader of the martial arts.

When returning back, he bumped into Song Shuyan, Mu Yunyi turned his head and saw Tian Jian, one tall and one short standing side by side, one raised his head slightly, and the other bent down with a smile, it was a good match.

He twitched the corner of his mouth inexplicably, turned and left.

Song Shuyan was very surprised when he learned that Xiao Lang was going to spend the whole night here with the disciples of the Martial Arts League: "Brother Xiao, can you take care of yourself just like this?"

Xiao Lang said with a smile: "It's just a night without sleep, ordinary people can sustain it, let alone those of us who practice martial arts."

Song Shuyan disagreed: "The disciples will take turns to change shifts, and father will not find someone to replace you. I went to him, but he only said that you know what to do, Brother Xiao, what does this mean?"

Xiao Lang smiled and said: "The leader is thinking of me."

"Ah?" Song Shuyan was stunned: "You are almost exhausted, why are you thinking of you?"

Xiao Lang shook his head, pulled her aside, and said in a soft voice: "Sooner or later, the news of the locust plague will spread. When the disaster situation calms down, except for those sent by the government, the person who takes the lead in disaster relief will be the most praised. The leader is here After Pingyi, I had already made a plan to hand over all the credit to me, so I was called to lead the team."

"So that's how it is." After listening to Song Shuyan, he said with a smile from his heart: "It's not considered giving in. Brother Xiao, you have done a lot."

"No wonder Dad asked me not to get involved in this matter. He wanted to gather more supporters for you." Song Shuyan said, "That's fine too. Brother Xiao, you have always been very vocal. When I saw it, you were the leader. Already!"

"Hush..." Xiao Lang raised a finger towards her, and said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "Shuyan, your voice should be softer."

Song Shuyan opened his eyes wide, covered his mouth carefully, leaned closer to him and said, "Really, I think you are more suitable to be the leader than Liang Pian and the others, and my father values ​​you so much, you must be the best candidate in his heart."

"Okay." Xiao Lang patted her on the shoulder and advised her to go back: "You have worked hard too, go back quickly."

"By the way." He couldn't forget in his heart: "Amu's medicine, you must let him drink it."

"I know, I handed it over to Brother Xue when I came here, and he was looking at the fire." Song Shuyan looked at him reluctantly: "Then Brother Xiao, I'll go back first."

Xiao Lang sent her away, turned around and continued to exterminate the locusts with his disciples. Xue Shiji came running angrily the next day, which startled him: "What's going on?"

Xue Shiji said: "Brother Xiao, the person who came to get the porridge today told me that there are people in the city maliciously spreading rumors and raising food prices."

Xiao Lang frowned, puzzled and said: "Isn't it already distributing porridge, they raise the price of food, who will buy it?"

"There are always a few fools!" Xue Shiji sat down with his clothes flapping, "I don't know who started it, and spread the word everywhere in the city, saying that the emperor was sick in bed, and the princes in the palace were fighting openly and secretly to try to seize power, and the report of the locust plague was delayed. , It’s a hot potato, no one wants to take care of this mess. The Wulin League is a rivers and lakes organization, and the food sent by it can only last for three to five days at most. If the food is not stored in time, the whole family will starve to death.”

Spreading the news at such a time causes panic and bad intentions.Xiao Lang's eyes darkened: "How much did they raise? Someone bought it?"

Xue Shiji gestured to him: "Yes, there are quite a few. Seeing that someone really went to buy it, the people were in a mess. The person who came to get the porridge asked me how much I could help them, so I knew something was wrong." This thing!"

The locust plague is approaching, and these people don't want to work together to tide over the difficulties, but instead try to take advantage of the fire to loot, which is really hateful.Xiao Lang was angry in his heart, stood up, saw Xue Shiji's eagerness to try, and suddenly reacted: "According to usual, you have already rushed to beat someone, why are you so calm today?"

Xue Shiji smiled and said, "Don't we have to let Daxia Xiao guide us? It's wrong to beat someone without evidence."

Xiao Lang smiled softly: "What did Shuyan tell you?"

Xue Shiji rolled his eyes, trying to put on an innocent look: "Why, can't I guess it myself?"

"You are too stupid to guess." Xiao Lang ignored the other party's plea, found another disciple of the Martial Arts League and gave some instructions, then turned his head and said, "Go, I will take you to justice."

Hearing his tone of voice, Xue Shiji knew that the other party really made him angry this time, so he didn't intend to be polite.Jumping up excitedly: "Let's go!"

"Since he has the guts to raise the price of grain, there must be a lot of grain in his home." Xue Shiji grinned, "In my opinion, it's better to beat him up first, and then rob his family of all the grain. "

Xiao Lang said: "We are members of the Martial Arts League, not bandits. How can we just rob someone's house?"

Xue Shiji pursed his lips, and led him quickly through a desolate street: "I've asked someone, and there are two people who raised the price, a pair of brothers, who look like bears, and look stupid. I didn't expect her eyes to be so bad."

He stopped in front of a compound, and a group of people was blocked in front of him: "Here, it's them."

Xiao Lang stepped forward and saw that those crowded together were actually rich and noble people, but at the moment they all seemed to have lost their minds, wrestling into a ball without any scruples, with grim expressions.

It must have happened suddenly, the family didn't have enough food, and the food shop was sold out long ago, so it happened after listening to other people's rumors.

He was about to step forward when he caught sight of a person in front of him, and his footsteps stopped.

The man was holding a few banknotes in his hand, waving them from side to side in the push and push, which was particularly conspicuous: "Hey, give me two buckets, and you can pay as much as you want!"

The person who set up the stall in front smiled and said: "Oh, my uncle, I know you are rich, but you should be given a first-come-first-served basis, right? Everyone else has been waiting in line for so long, tell me this..."

"I don't care!" The man who has money can make his back straight, supported his waist, and said confidently: "What should I do if there is no rice when it's my turn? The court let us do nothing. If we don't want to do it ourselves, we will have to go hungry." died!"

He had a loud voice, and when he shouted, all the people behind heard him clearly.The man said again: "I went to see the porridge distribution at the Martial Arts League yesterday, the porridge is so thin, it's not enough to fit between the teeth, and they still send it according to the number of people! Whoever likes to go, I don't care! Quick, give me two fights first!"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was an uproar in the crowd, and the crowd didn't bother to ask for proof, they all blushed and started to push forward, some even imitated him and offered high prices, just to get more food.

Those people were obviously here to sing together, Xiao Lang watched coldly, Xue Shiji clenched his fists, and said to him: "It's all so hateful, brother Xiao, why don't you fight?"

"It's better to get the stolen goods." The person in charge of driving up the grain price successfully slipped away from the side, Xiao Lang raised his chin in his direction: "Follow."

The two secretly followed, and saw him shyly enter the back door and meet up with the young man guarding the back door.Xue Shiji yelled, jumped off the wall, and kicked the opponent's ass hard with his strength.

"Ouch!" The man staggered forward and threw his mouth in the mud.

"Who kicked me? I'm bored?" He yelled and looked back, dumbfounded: "You, you, who are you?"

Xue Shiji ignored his question at all, stepped forward and grabbed his collar, and pulled up a big man as easily as a puppy. The panic in the strong man's eyes was even worse: "What are you doing!"

Xue Shiji sneered, and punched him in the eye socket: "Let you all work together to deceive people!"

The strong man yelled in pain, covered his eyes and wailed: "What nonsense are you talking about, come here, come here, there are thieves!"

The boy behind him finally turned around from his stupidity, picked up a stick from the side and was about to step forward to help.However, in a blink of an eye, a blue figure flitted past and touched him lightly.

The boy froze immediately, Xiao Lang turned his face to his accomplice who was being beaten unilaterally with a smile, and said softly: "Look, if you don't want to be like him, just do as I say."

After a stick of incense.

The people queuing up at the door to buy food did not decrease but increased, and everyone was pushing to go forward. The two brothers stood by the table with smug smiles on their faces.

At this moment, a young man dropped from the sky carrying two unknown objects, and stomped down the long table in front of them with a bang.

Sawdust was flying, and the surrounding crowd finally began to disperse after seeing this. Everyone was still in shock, and the brothers even hid back: "Who is it!"

Xue Shiji turned around slowly, holding one in each hand, and he was the same subordinate who coaxed others to snap up food just now.

"You've all been cheated!" He pushed the young man forward, "One of these two is the one who just said that he would buy grain at a high price, and the other is a young man from their house. They belong to the same group. They were all sent to scare you."

"You said, is that the case?"

The boy was shaking like a sieve: "Yes, yes, yes. It is the master who told us to do this, saying that this will make them voluntarily buy at a high price."

There was an uproar, the faces of the two brothers turned green and blue, and when they turned their heads, they saw the one whose nose was bruised and swollen by Xue Shiji, and they had an idea: "Blood spraying people! You are a trick of torture, and I, this boy, have also been bribed by you!" went!"

"Oh?" Xue Shiji twitched the corner of his mouth, turned his head and asked politely: "Tell me, is it a trick of torture?"

"No, absolutely not!" The man quickly shook his head: "They forced me to do this! Gentlemen, I don't dare anymore, please forgive me!"

The two brothers never expected such a situation to happen, and their faces were as dark as the bottom of a pot: "What do you want to do?"

"Don't do anything, I just can't stand you taking advantage of the fire to rob." Xue Shiji turned his head and said to the public: "Everyone, these two villains saw money and talked nonsense, why did you fall for it so easily? Can these two little people know the matter? If you want food, you can’t buy it cheaply anywhere outside Pingyi, so why bother to charge it at a high price? Besides, Pingyi is your home! Don’t you just let the situation get serious? Is it? The government’s notice will come down soon, as long as everyone is willing to contribute, the disaster will be calmed down soon, and the harvest will still be plentiful by then!”

Standing behind the crowd, Xiao Lang was learning and selling, and shouted from a distance: "Okay!"

The emotions of the others were immediately infected, and you started discussing with each other, Xue Shiji said again: "Listen to my advice, everyone. Return all the food you bought, we must not be fooled by this liar!"

Immediately someone echoed: "Liar! Refund! Refund!"

The crowd was so excited that the two brothers turned pale. Xue Shiji knelt down in front of them and gestured his fist with a smile: "It's best to cooperate obediently. If you let me know in the future that you took the opportunity to drive up food prices, don't blame me." You're welcome!"