When the prince of no descendants found out that he had a baby, he went crazy

Chapter 104: Sacrifice, or the best

His own child was scolded, so this time Gu Hua showed no mercy.

From then on, Ye developed a speech impediment, which also made her behave much more honestly.

In the evening, the exile team successfully arrived at the designated lodging station and stopped.

Gu Hua gave Dagui ten taels of silver and soon found out what was going on.

Except for those criminals with serious sentences and extremely vicious prisoners, ordinary exiles like them can pay to have their shackles removed.

"How much is one person?"

Dagui knew that his master was asking about the money needed to remove the shackles. "Master, Agui and I will not remove them. Anyway, it doesn't matter whether the shackles are there or not."

Gu Hua glanced at him and said, "Stop talking nonsense."

Dagui and Ergui looked at each other, and they both knew in their hearts that their master Gu Hua treated them as half a family member.

"One hundred taels."

"This is robbery..." Gu Chen said in surprise when he heard the number.

An ordinary family cannot save ten taels of silver in a year, and these people ask for a hundred taels of silver as soon as they open their mouths. What's the difference between this and robbery?

"Here." Gu Hua took out nine hundred-liang silver notes and handed them to Dagui. "Don't worry if they are trying to rob you of your money. If you want to have a safe journey tomorrow, you have to pay this money even if you don't have to."

Xia He, Chun Lan, Dong Mei, Xiao Qing and Xiao Zi, my brother and myself, the master and Master Gu, together they make nine people.

Ergui finished counting the people silently in his mind, and couldn't help saying, "Fortunately, the four young masters are too young to wear shackles, otherwise they would have to pay an extra 400 taels."

Gu Hua paused, then looked at Ergui with a half-smile, "I'm afraid the thing you're glad about will happen soon."

Gu Chen: "Not really?!"

"As for that." Gu Hua's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said lightly: "Because our wealth has been exposed."

Sure enough, Dagui came back with a bitter face and said that even the child had to pay fifty taels.

Gu Hua did not dwell on this matter too much and went to argue with the officials about whether all the children had to pay.

First, she didn't want other children in the exile team to suffer because of her own family's affairs.

Besides, when the time comes, she will take back the money these yamen runners took from her as long as she has the ability to pay it out.

After the money was paid, before dinner, the officers came to remove the shackles from Gu Hua and the others' ankles.

Gu Hua threw a ten-liang silver ingot to the yamen runner who came to open the shackles, "Young man, where are you from?"

The young yamen runner took the silver in surprise, obviously not expecting Gu Hua to give him another benefit.

Although Liu Cheng heard from his brothers in the escort team that this group of people were a group of rich fat sheep, but as he was escorting exiled prisoners for the first time, he still felt somewhat innocent about taking other people's money for nothing.

"My name is Liu Cheng. I am from Liuqiao Village, a hundred miles outside the capital. I used to be a hunter. I happened to save a nobleman in the capital, so he found this job for me."

Gu Hua nodded in understanding.

This job was introduced to him by the person he saved as a reward.

Gu Hua could see that this young man was still simple and honest at this moment, and had not yet been corrupted by those officials who would do anything to exploit the exiles.

Originally I just wanted to get closer to him, but now I also showed some sincerity, seeing that he was embarrassed.

Gu Hua: "Take this, we will need your care along the way." Not long after Liu Cheng left, Ergui and Chunlan, who had gone out, hurried in with food.

Gu Hua found that Ergui had bruises on his face and Chunlan was pale, so he asked, "What happened?"

Dongmei, who also walked in with food in her hands, replied angrily: "Master, there is a woman who is unreasonable.

Her children wanted to eat good food, but instead of spending their own money to buy food from the kitchen in the post station, they set their sights on eating our meals.

They are also using moral blackmail to say that we have money to give them one or two dishes, what's wrong with that?
If Ergui hadn’t gone, more than one dish of scrambled eggs and braised pork would have been spilled.”

Gu Hua narrowed his eyes and smiled coldly.

...Everyone is treating them as suckers.

"Chunlan, Xiahe, Xiaoqing, Xiaozi, don't go and join in the fun, stay and take care of the children." Gu Hua: "Let's go meet the woman who wants to eat other people's food and will knock it over if it's not given to her."

When Gu Chen, Dagui, Ergui, Dongmei who was leading the search, and Gu Hua saw that woman, she was using moral blackmail to blackmail another person who had paid for extra food.

"How can you be like this? A little kid ripped the chicken leg off your plate. What's wrong with that?" The woman put her hands on her hips, looking unreasonable and mean, and her voice was like an old hen, "You are so ignorant at your age. Do you want the child to spit out the meat he ate for you?"

Gu Hua and the others were finally enlightened.

Since I traveled to this world, I have never seen such an unreasonable person.

When I saw a three or four-year-old child holding a chicken leg with oil dripping from his mouth next to the woman, he was chewing it proudly while looking at several other children who had walked all day.

Gu Hua could only say that the woman’s education was very successful, but the child turned out to be even more disgusting than she was.

"You...you woman." After walking for a whole day, the man who had just finished preparing a roast chicken for his family looked at a chicken leg that had been torn off the plate. He did not want to get entangled with a woman and a child any longer, so he gritted his teeth and prepared to leave in silence.

"Brother, wait a minute!"

The man who was about to turn around and leave looked sideways at Gu Hua. Although he was very angry about this matter, his good upbringing softened his expression.

He asked, "I wonder what you want."

His good upbringing made him polite when facing others, but the man was obviously more psychologically traumatized than the mother and son just now. While speaking, he intentionally protected the food in his hand towards his arms.

Gu Hua glanced at the others who had gathered around to watch the fun and said briefly, "They and their son just knocked over two dishes that I bought from the inn's kitchen.

Now everyone knows that the money we brought with us during our exile was not worth spending, but it cannot withstand the abuse of this mother and son."

The man seemed to understand what Gu Hua meant and nodded quickly: "The road to exile is still long, and there are many places to spend money. Your child ate the chicken drumstick I bought. Either buy me one and return it, or pay me."

Gu Hua also walked over and stretched out his hand, "You knocked over my braised pork and a plate of scrambled eggs, a total of fifteen taels of silver.

Do you choose to give money, or choose..."

Gu Hua glanced at him meaningfully, picked up a stick as thick as his arm from somewhere, and wrote "Ergui" on it. He didn't need to say what he was going to say next, as others understood.

If you don't give money, you will be beaten.

The family of the mother and son came out from the crowd at this time. Seeing that Gu Hua and the others were not easy to deal with, they laughed it off and tried to fool them.

"The child is ignorant and has caused trouble for everyone." A long-faced man said this to Gu Hua.

He waved his arms, and without asking whether Gu Hua and the man whose chicken leg was torn off by his child were willing, he said, "Go away! Go away! We have to go back to eat too."

(End of this chapter)