Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 228
In midsummer Jiangnan, and it’s the plum season again, the rain is a little less frequent. In the foggy stone city, water droplets splashed on oil-paper umbrellas can be seen everywhere. Zhu Youxiao is also sitting in a painting boat on one or two floors at this time , the sweltering air made him only have a thin shirt, long hair hanging loose, lying on the rocking chair and eating the lychee peeled by Lingxin.

Now under her own nourishment, Lingxin is becoming more and more beautiful and charming, without the shyness of a newcomer, and even gradually familiar with the way of joy, full of offense, and able to withstand Zhu Youxiao's beatings.Even at this time, her winking eyes are still aiming lightly at Zhu Youxiao, and from time to time she moves closer to touch Zhu Youxiao, hoping that some of her charming parts can stimulate the adrenal glands of this majesty, and in this way, she can be in love with Zhu Youxiao. Before returning to the capital, he could occupy the emperor for a moment.

Zhu Youxiao didn't understand a woman's mind. At this time, he was looking at the bluestone streets under the drizzle. The misty Jiangnan Ancient Street can also be seen in modern times. The reason why he was fascinated was not the scenery, but the The children who were crying in the huts and huts built between these narrow streets, and the adults who were still standing under the eaves and looking at the drizzle in front of the door showed despair.

In the eyes of the upper-class people, the Jiangnan in front of them may be a beautiful scenery, but in the eyes of the lower-class people, it is the crops that are about to fail and the famine in autumn.

However, what Zhu Youxiao didn't understand was why there were so many shanty towns in the small hidden river suddenly in Stone City, which was his capital, when he went on a tour today.

And when I first came to Jiangnan a few days ago, I didn't see these things. Maybe the officials were covering it up. When Zhu Youxiao thought of this, he felt a little bad. Even if Lingxin was already white and half exposed, Zhu Youxiao didn't Thinking of carrying a gun to go into battle, when he ordered people to stop the boat and dock, he happened to see a member of the crew walking to a shanty with wooden clogs specially designed for walking in the rain, accompanied by a servant holding an umbrella, and shouted loudly: "Song Laowu, your family When will you pay the rent owed, if you don’t pay today, I will order someone to drive you out!”

At this time, a thin man coughed and climbed up from the edge of the bed: "Mr. Chen, please do me a favor. Can you give me a little more time? The younger one was ill a while ago and spent a lot of money, and the mother-in-law at home has another problem." I'm pregnant, and now I really can't afford the money to pay the rent, or we should use the deposit first, and then we will pay the rent and the deposit for one month next month."

"Hmph, you said the same thing last time, and you still say it now, you think I'm easy to bully, so I'm up to you to be deceived." As Chen Yuanwai said, he waved to the slaves behind him and said, "Go and find out what's wrong with you." Valuable things, even a needle and a thread, are taken away, used as rent, and people are driven out, and they are not reported to the officials for the time being, who is the most compassionate and poor person outside of me.”

As Mr. Chen spoke, several slaves broke in, pushed a shriveled woman hiding behind the door to the ground, and began to search the house for a long time, except for a few broken bowls and clay pots. They didn't find anything, but the staff outside saw Song Lao Wu pressing the pillow tightly, so he walked over and said, "Go and see what's hidden under the pillow?"

Song Laowu couldn't bear it anymore at this time, and hurriedly begged: "Mr. Chen, there is nothing hidden, nothing hidden, please do me a favor, and give us a few more days. After a few days, I will definitely give you the rent." you."

"Get up!" At this time, one of Chen Yuanwai's slaves directly pushed Song Laowu away, and when he lifted the pillow to see, it was a few pieces of silver. Seeing this, Song Laowu wanted to hide: " That’s the money we used to buy grain seeds, return it to me quickly, ahem!”

The slave directly pushed Song Laowu away and handed the money to Chen Yuanwai, Chen Yuanwai couldn't help laughing and said: "Well, you Song Laowu, you dared to lie to me that you have no money, now I found out, right? Forget it, I don’t care about troublesome people like you, and pull him and his mother-in-law out!”

As they said that, the two slaves pulled Song Laowu and his wife away, and Song Laowu was also coughing non-stop at this time, and shouted weakly: "You won't let us live, return my deposit , I gave you a one-month deposit."

"Deposit, according to the contract, it is written in black and white that if you don't pay the rent for more than seven days, the deposit will not be refunded. You can count how many days you haven't paid the rent, and you are ashamed to ask me for the rent," said Chen Yuanwai He went to the front of the house, pinched his nose and said, "Give him back his chamber pot, and leave enough room money and compensation for ruining my house for the rest."

"You, you deceive people too much," Song Laowu coughed violently after saying one sentence.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao ordered the Dongchang Fanzi who accompanied him: "It is inconvenient for me and the prince Li Ge to reveal our identities, so you go and buy the shed for Song Laowu, and send another person to investigate. Looking into the details of Yuanwai Chen, I never thought that my Daming would have such an overbearing and unreasonable landlord."

Although everyone felt that His Majesty said the word "landlord" was very surprised, but they could understand what he meant, so the Dongchang fan took the order and walked over, and patted Chen Yuanwai on the shoulder: "How much is this shed for you?" , I bought it for you. It’s not easy for a couple who are sick and weak. You let him stand in the rain like this, and you can be cruel. Seeing that you are famous for wearing a square scarf, why are you so vicious? .”

Chen Yuanwai saw that this person spoke with a foreign accent and wanted to buy his own shed, and wanted to extort him for a high price. After all, he could blackmail a lot of money for renting this shed, and since he wanted to sell it, he had to charge a higher price. Yes, but he didn't expect this outsider to scold him for meddling in his own business.

Just like what the Dongchang fanzi said, because he was a student scholar, Chen Yuanwai didn't expect how rich and background this guy who looked like a commoner in green clothes could be, so he also yelled and scolded: "I said you Who dares to come here to teach me a lesson, if you want to buy this shed to be a good person, you can give 1 taels, if you don’t have this money, get out of here!”

As the fan of Dongchang, he has always been the one who fights directly when he disagrees with him, but now he has to keep a low profile because he is in front of His Majesty. The Chen member in front of him looked down on him, but forced the Dongchang Fanzi to show his badge: "Have you seen it clearly? If you don't see it clearly, I don't mind using my fist to make you look good."

The Dongchang fans didn't dare to do anything in front of His Majesty, but Chen Yuanwai was so scared that his face turned pale, and he took his slave away without asking for money, and this old Song Seeing this, Wu couldn't help asking: "Dare to ask this master's name, I wonder if I can return the few coins I have been waiting for. That is our family's grain seed this year."

The Dongchang fan directly threw a few coins in front of him: "This kind of trivial matter needs to be asked by my master, and it has already slipped out of his waist. Come in the house quickly, this rain is looking at you." It’s about to grow up, don’t get wet, this is five taels of silver, enough for you to survive for a while.”

Song Lao Wu hurriedly took the five taels of silver, and directly kowtowed to the Dongchang fan: "Thank you, master, thank you very much, master!"

"You don't need to thank me, if you want to thank you, thank your Majesty today." The Dongchang fan came to Zhu Youxiao and returned to his life, and Zhu Youxiao turned around and entered the boat: "I will pass on my will, and I will go to Nanjing tomorrow." Officials of the seventh rank and above enter the palace to discuss matters."

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