Chapter 70 High View Rent Collection
(ps: Thanks to bluemilan, Phantom-Bing Xin, for the reward of the three-flavored children's boots, and I'm so proud to ask for Sanjiang tickets)
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At this time, the night was deep and silent. Most of the people in the prefect's mansion had fallen asleep, but there were only a few people who were awake, namely the guards and servants who were patrolling the night. However, their situation was not much better. They were all yawning for a long time, dragging sticks in a sleepy mood, patrolling around like perfunctory things, and they were extremely listless. Some even found trees and stones leaning against each other, and began to doze, with a snoring sound.
However, it was at this quiet moment that Gao Lan's tiger roar shattered the dreamland of everyone in the prefect's palace.
A tiger roar shook the sky completely, as if it was thunder in the dark night. It immediately made the people in the prefect's mansion jump up one after another, and some of them were so sleeping that they almost jumped up from the spot.
The main gate of the prefect's mansion.
Liu Pi was stunned by Gao Lan's actions, his whole body trembled like a crunch, and even his words were trembling.
"General Gao... do you... do you know what you are doing?"
Gao Lan gave Liu Pi a arrogant look and said, "I'm short of money and I'm here to collect rent. What's the problem?"
"You...!" Liu Bi was so angry that he trembled all over. He raised his hand to light Gao Lan's nose, so angry that he couldn't speak.
"Who is making noise here!"
A crisp and slightly majestic voice came from the inner courtyard, and then the torches in the prefect's mansion gathered, brightly lit, and the rustling footsteps were heard from far to near.
Two middle-aged ladies, under the guidance of a group of guards and servants, came to the front yard of Taishou Mansion. Their faces were covered with frost, their eyebrows were scolded, and their eyes were very angry.
When Liu Pi saw these two women, his rather fierce face suddenly became bleak and pale.
As soon as the visitor arrived, he saw Liu Pi hurriedly stepping forward and bowing to the salute, saying aloud: "Last general Liu Pi, have you seen the two wives!"
Needless to say, these two ladies are Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi who are in charge of the prefect's mansion.
Mrs. Gan's face was cold, she glanced at Liu Pi indifferently and said, "General Liu, the envoy Liu has entrusted you with important tasks and asked you to take charge of Yingchuan. Is this how you repay the envoy's trust?"
The beads of sweat as big as beans on Liu Pi's forehead fell down, and he glanced carefully back and forth, and whispered: "It's really a crime for disturbing the wife's dream. Don't worry, I'll clean up the idle people..."
After saying that, Liu Pi stood up, coughed heavily, turned to Gao Lan and said with a serious look: "General Gao, the prefect's mansion, not a city, how can idle people make noise here? Please move General Gao and leave with me for a while. If you have any questions, let's go somewhere else..."
Before Liu Pi finished speaking, Gao Lan showed a vicious smile, clenched the fist that was as big as a sandbag, and shone it on Liu Pi's cheek with a beautiful left hook punch.
"Bang!" Heavy punching in the face.
"Ah~~!"
Liu Pi screamed, covered his right eye, and fell backwards, lying on the ground and thrust all over.
Seeing this, the soldiers guarding the city who followed Liu Pi couldn't help but be furious and drew their swords to go up and fight Gao Lan.
However, the soldiers of Yuan Jun were not showing weakness, and stood behind Gao Lan in unison. With a "swish" sound, he drew out his sword at his waist almost at the same time, and was ready for the battle. His momentum was shocking. When he saw it, he seemed to be more fierce than Liu Pi's command.
When they were in opposition, Liu Pi and his group were immediately half short.
All the elite soldiers and generals in Runan followed Liu Guanzhang and others out of the city to fight Cao Ren and Xiahou Yuan. Now the ones who stayed in the city are either new soldiers or weak soldiers. Compared with the elite troops who collected rents brought by Gao Lan this time, the appearance is not the same level.
The expressions of Mrs. Gan and Mrs. Mi suddenly changed drastically.
Gao Lan clapped his hands as if nothing had happened, spat and said, "Useless waste, I'm here to rent money, do you a bird business? I don't think I'm worth it? Get out of here!"
Mrs. Mi has a strong temperament. Seeing Gao Lan so arrogant, she couldn't bear it and stepped forward and yelled.
"Bold thief, who are you? How dare you make trouble in the prefect's house? If you can't resist you, you will be able to! When Liu Jun comes back, he will let him punish you for his serious crime!"
Gao Lan grinned and looked particularly creepy: "I am anxious to collect rent, and I am reckless in my actions, which scared the two ladies. However, I am not a general under Liu Enjun. Even if you sue him, he will not care about my general's place."
Mrs. Mi's lips were trembling slightly, but Mrs. Gan was delicate and her face looked a little calm. She stepped forward and said, "I dare to ask who this general is? She was shouting to come to our mansion... to collect rent? But why?"
"It's easy to say!"
Gao Lan grinned carelessly and said loudly: "I am Gao Lan, the general of the general Yuan Gong of Jizhou! I was ordered to accompany the third son Yuan Shang to come to Runan and join forces with Liu Envoy to fight against Cao. A few days ago, my third son set up a clever plan to capture Yingchuan County. In order to enhance the friendship between the two families, I specially borrowed Yingchuan County and Liu Envoy to raise troops and station grains. Now our army is about to return to Hebei. Before leaving, I came to ask Liu Envoy to collect some rent."
"Collection of rent?"
Mrs. Gan and Mi Er have never heard such a ridiculous remark since they were young and lived for decades.
Mrs. Mi was so angry that she trembled all over and said angrily: "It's just a mess! Let's not talk about whether Yingchuan County was taken by your army. Even if it was really yours, the two armies formed an alliance to fight against the Cao thieves, and they all served for the Han Dynasty. How could they divide each other? Didn't Liu Jun work hard just for the bloody battle with the Cao thieves?"
Gao Lan couldn't help but whisper: "Madam's words are biased. My brothers still clarified the accounts. What's more, we and I have neither brothers nor brothers, and we have nothing to do with blood. How can such a big Yingchuan County be given away for free? I'll just say this here and take the rent money!"
When he finished speaking, he saw all the soldiers behind Gao Lan, holding up the weapons in his hands, responding with confidence, and the momentum was shocking the sky and the earth.
“Pay rent!”
“Pay rent!”
“Pay rent!”
The two ladies' faces suddenly turned red and purple, which looked very beautiful.
Mrs. Mi turned her head angrily, looked at Liu Pi who was lying on the ground and humming, and said angrily: "Liu Pi, just let these scoundrels be so arrogant in the prefect's mansion? What's the use of Liu Envoy to support you!"
Liu Pi had no choice but to stand up, with a big eye circle black, and trembled, "General Gao, listen to me, from ancient times to the present, it is unheard of the matter of renting counties to others and collecting rent, which is really a big mistake in the world... General Gao, it's not me, Liu Pi, when I followed Zhang Jiao as the Yellow Turban, I was called a big thief by the world, but I have never done such a ridiculous and strange thing as you. General Gao, your third son Yuan is crazy about money..."
"What's wrong with you? I dare to say that our young master is looking for death!"
After seeing the silver, another beautiful right hook punch changed into Liu Pi's left eye.
"Bang!"
"Ah~~!"
Liu Pi fell down twice and lie on the ground and began to foam.
Regardless of Liu Pi who fell to the ground and gave a blow, Gao Lan continued to say to Mi and Mrs. Gan, "The two wives are forgiven. I am a martial man under Yuan's command. I should not be so arrogant in front of Liu Envoy's wife. However, before the future, the third young master sent someone to say to me that a gentleman loves money and gets it well! It is not our Yuan family's things, and we cannot take a penny more. It is our money, and no one child can be left behind! Liu Envoy is not here now, and you are his wife, so you should pay this money. Don't worry, our army is a benevolent and righteous army. If you want to be fair, you will never fool the two women..."
Liu Pi's eyes were completely beaten to black, and he looked like a national treasure.
He heard this and raised his head from the ground in a daze, and said to Gao Lan in a daze: "The benevolent and righteous teacher... also does this?"
"Go to your mother!"
Gao Lan raised his leg and kicked Liu Pi again, and Liu Pi stopped moving.
Mrs. Mi gritted her teeth and opened her mouth to scold her, but she was stopped by Mrs. Gan.
Seeing Gao Lan coming in a fierce manner, Mrs. Gan knew that this matter might be difficult today. She had not many soldiers and generals on her side and could not be rash. Then she said, "General Gao, how much do you want?"
When Mrs. Mi heard this, her face changed drastically: "Sister!"
Mrs. Gan raised her hand to stop her and shook her head gently.
Gao Lan was ready, so he took out a bamboo slip from his arms and said, "This is the rental account specially written by our third son. It said that the first time we rented in Runan County, the rent would be charged for three years first. I will carefully calculate it and calculate it according to the rental price of 3,000 yuan a month. In three years, it should be 100,000 yuan. The third son said that our two families have a good relationship. If we take a fraction of the money, we should take 100,000 yuan to spend it first."
When the two ladies almost rushed up and strangled him to death after hearing this, they were a bastard and asked for 100,000 yuan to open their mouths. What's more, they still spent money?
Gao Lan also felt that Yuan Shang asked for the price inappropriately, but he continued according to Yuan Shang's message: "The third young master said that it doesn't matter if the two ladies want to pay, so I will ask the two ladies to accompany the third young master to Hebei until Uncle Liu has enough rent and then come to Hebei to change the two ladies. It is not difficult."
Gan and Mi faces suddenly turned green.
Gao Lan smiled gloomyly: "The third young master said that the two ladies must have a deeper understanding of Liu Envoy Liu than him. Liu Envoy Liu is a person who does big things. Will he use money to redeem you? You know better than the young master. As the saying goes, brothers are like brothers and wives are like clothes. I wonder what kind of fabric clothes the two ladies are in Liu Envoy Liu Envoy Liu. Both ladies are intelligent people, so they must have self-knowledge?"
Mrs. Mi showed anger and scolded: "Be arrogant, don't talk nonsense!"
On the contrary, Mrs. Gan looked calm.
As someone who followed Liu Bei in his early years, Mrs. Gan knew more about Liu Bei than others.
It was like after Lu Bu attacked Xuzhou, Mrs. Gan was captured and Liu Bei moved to another place. Mi Zhu took the opportunity to marry his sister, Mrs. Mi now, to Liu Bei. Liu Bei did not say anything, and took advantage of the situation to marry Mrs. Mi as his wife. He had almost never estimated Mrs. Gan's life and death. In the end, Lu Bu made Liu Bei well for political strategy and sent her back.
Although the words of the third young master Yuan in Gao Lan's mouth were not nice, they faintly touched her pain.
At this moment, the soldiers of Runan County were young, and Liu Pi was a fool again. What if Gao Lan got angry and really kidnapped them, would Liu Bei... find a way to save them?
After a long silence, he finally saw Mrs. Gan sighing and nodding, "Okay, we have given this money for you."
Mrs. Mi was shocked when she heard this: "Sister..."
"My sister doesn't need to say much. The situation is like this, so don't force it. At this time, you and I are all under the eaves... Besides, you also understand your husband's personality."
Mrs. Mi was stunned when she heard this and understood the meaning of Mrs. Gan's words.
He glared at Gao Lan angrily, and Mrs. Mi clenched her teeth and said hatefully: "One hundred thousand yuan is 100,000 yuan. My Mi family is a huge businessman. I haven't taken this thing seriously yet. I just hope that after taking the money, the third young master you mentioned will have the fate to use it in the future!"
Chapter completed!