In the middle of the summer, the south of the Yangtze River, and it was plum season again, the rain became more diligent. Water droplets splashed on oil paper umbrellas could be seen everywhere in the foggy stone city. Zhu Youxiao was also sitting in a pleasure boat one or two floors. The sultry air made him have to wear a thin shirt, spread out and long, lying on a rocking chair and eating the lychees that You Lingxin peeled to him.

Now under her own nourishment, Ling Xin is becoming more and more charming, no longer shy about the first experiences, and she is even gradually familiar with the way of joy and attacking, and can withstand Zhu Youxiao's attack. Even at this time, her charming eyes lightly glanced at Zhu Youxiao, and touched Zhu Youxiao from time to time, hoping that some charming places of her can stimulate the adrenal glands of His Majesty and take up the emperor for a moment before returning to Beijing.

Zhu Youxiao didn't understand a woman's thoughts. At this time, he was looking at the bluestone streets under the drizzle. The ancient Jiangnan streets shrouded in fog can be seen in modern times. The reason why he was fascinated was not this scenery, but the shacks and children crying in the sheds among these narrow streets, and they were still standing under the eaves and looking at the adults with a look of despair in front of the door.

In the eyes of the upper class, the Jiangnan in front of them may be a beautiful scenery, but in the eyes of the lower class, there are crops that are about to be harvested and the famine in autumn.

However, what Zhu Youxiao didn't understand was why the Stone City, which is Liudu, suddenly had so many shanty towns in this hidden river when he was on a tour in a silence today.

But when he first came to Jiangnan a few days ago, he didn't see these things. Perhaps it was because the officials had concealed it. Zhu Youxiao felt a little bad when he thought of this. Even Ling Xin was already snow-white and half-exposed, Zhu Youxiao had no intention of carrying a gun to the battlefield. When he ordered people to stop the boat and dock, he happened to see a man walking outside walking in the rain, accompanied by a servant holding an umbrella and shouting loudly: "Song Laowu, when will the house owed the house be given? If you don't give it today, I will be ordered to drive you out!"

At this time, a thin man crawled up from the edge of the bed with a cough: "Mr. Chen, please be fine. Can you give me some grace? The young man got sick a few days ago and spent a lot of money. The mother-in-law at home is pregnant again. Now she really can't afford to pay the house. Otherwise, we will pay the one-month house and one-month deposit next month."

"Hmph, you said that last time, and now you still say that. Do you think I am easy to bully, so you can deceive me." As Chen said this, he waved to the wealthy slaves behind him and said, "Go and find something valuable, even if it is taken away for a needle and a thread, and you will be driven out. I will not report it to the official for now. Who is the one who is the most kind and compassionate to the poor?"

As Mr. Chen said, several wealthy slaves broke in and pushed a shriveled woman hiding behind the door to the ground. Then he began to plunder the things in the house. Apart from a few broken bowls and clay pots, he couldn't find anything after searching for a long time. However, the official outside saw Song Laowu pressing the pillow tightly, and walked over and said, "Go and see what is hidden under the pillow?"

Song Laowu couldn't help it at this time and asked hard: "Mr. Chen, I didn't hide anything, I didn't hide anything. You can do it. I'll give you a few more days to give us a few days in a few days."

"Start up!" At this time, a rich slave under Chen Yuanwai pushed Song Laowu away, lifted the pillow and saw that it was a few coins of silver. When Song Laowu saw this, he wanted to hide: "That's the money we bought for grain. I'll give it back to me quickly, cough cough!"

The rich slave pushed Song Laowu away and handed the money to Chen Yuanwai. Chen Yuanwai couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, Song Laowu, how dare you cheat me and say you have no money. Now I'm showing me. Well, I won't bother with you, and pull him and his mother out!"

As he said that, the two slaves pulled Song Laowu and his mother out, and Song Laowu was coughing constantly and yelled weakly: "You won't let us live anymore, give me my deposit, I'll give you a deposit of one month."

"The deposit is written in black and white according to the contract. If you don't pay the house in seven days, the deposit will not be refunded. You can calculate how many days you haven't paid the house, so you have the nerve to ask me for the house." Chen Yuanwai said, and walked to the house and pinched his nose and said, "Give him his chamber pot back, and the rest will leave enough house money and money to waste my house compensation."

"You, you're bullying too much," Song Laowu said and coughed violently.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao ordered the Dongchang man who was accompanying him: "I and Mr. Wang and Mr. Li are inconvenient to reveal their identity. You go and buy the shed for the Song Laowu. Send someone to check the details of Mr. Chen. I didn't expect that my Ming Dynasty would have such a domineering and unreasonable landlord."

Although everyone was surprised that the word "landlord" said by His Majesty, he could understand what he meant. The Dongchang Manzi took the order and walked over and patted Chen Yuanwai on the shoulder: "I bought this shed for you. It is not easy for the couple to be sick and weak. Just letting others stand in a rainy day and be cruel. It is also true that you have a reputation wearing a square scarf, so why are you so vicious and scorpion-like?

Mr. Chen originally saw this man speaking with an accent from other places and wanted to buy his own shed, and he wanted to blackmail him at a high price. After all, he used this shed to rent and blackmail him a lot of money. Since he wanted to sell, he had to charge a higher price. But he didn't expect that this foreigner would use rats to meddle in other people's business and scold him.

As the Dongchang man said, Chen Yuanwai was also a scholar who was a student and did not expect that the guy who looked like he was just a blue-shirted man could have such a rich background, so he shouted loudly: "I said who you are, you dare to come here to teach me the teacher a lesson. If you want to buy this shed to recharge for something good, just give 10,000 taels. If you don't have the money, go aside!"

As a Dongchang player, he always starts fighting with a disagreement, but now he is in front of His Majesty, so he has to be low-key. He even teaches a few verbal lessons. However, he didn't expect that he was despised by Chen Yuanwai in front of him, and instead forced the Dongchang player to show off his waist: "Did you see clearly? If you don't see clearly, I don't mind using your fists to make you look long."

The Dongchang man didn't dare to really take action in front of His Majesty, but Chen Yuanwai was still scared to look pale and immediately took his slave away without asking for it. Seeing this, Song Laowu couldn't help but ask: "I dare to ask the master's name, I wonder if I can also bring back the money I have waited for. That's the grain seed of our family this year."

The Dongchang man threw a few coins of silver in front of him: "This kind of small thing is something that I need to ask for. It has already come out of his waist. Just wait and get into the house quickly. The rain eyes are about to get bigger. Don't get rid of your body. This is five taels of silver, which is enough for you to live for a while."

Song Laowu hurriedly took the five taels of silver and kowtowed directly to the man who was accused of the Dongchang: "Thank you, sir, thank you!"

"Don't thank me, thank Your Majesty now." The Dongchang man came to Zhu Youxiao and resumed his life, while Zhu Youxiao turned around and entered the boat: "Tell me my will, and tomorrow we will bring officials above the seventh rank in Nanjing to the palace to discuss matters."
Chapter completed!