Chapter 64 Two fat quails

"Hey, among our rebels, you are the one who hates rape and plunder the most. Why did you become so irritable when you got here?"

Li Dingguo looked at the crowds passing by on the road and whispered: "I hate this feeling of being constrained everywhere. For some reason, since I entered Lantian County, I felt like I had fallen into a fishing net, and I was in trouble everywhere and something was wrong."

Zhang Guofeng smiled and said, "That's because you have never been treated with a normal appearance. The rich people you met before were bastards, the landlords you met were all knocking on bones and marrow sucking marrow, and the governments you met were all tigers and wolves who ate people.

When you come here, you find that the landlords work by themselves. If they do their work, they will have wages. Rich people have reasons to have money. The government does not eat people, but only takes away the tax that must be taken away.

If you don’t have a meal, you will get sweat pills. If you don’t stay in a store, you will be taken to make buns. You won’t see a few people who are ill-behaved, so you are not used to it.

Poor kid, I haven't lived a good day."

Li Dingguo was so angry that he couldn't hold back his face when his old friend said that, so he raised his leg and kicked Zhang Guofeng. Zhang Guofeng ran forward with laughter. Li Dingguo chased him from behind, attracting passers-by to look at him. He only saw two strong young men playing there, smiling on each of them, and the older ones even scolded him, disliked them for making trouble blocking the way.

Li Dingguo was indeed uncomfortable all over.

There are no thieves who block the road, no bad guys who are as ill as ink, and no evil people from Pili Yangqiu, which makes him accumulate many years of life experience and lose his goal.

In the end, he discovered that he could dominate the world in troubled times and be invincible, but he could not do anything in the fairyland on earth.

This is something that the proud Li Dingguo cannot tolerate.

I harvested wheat for others, and I took care of the meal. I gave six hundred copper coins. The meal was not bad, and the hospitality was thoughtful. I didn’t treat them like wheat tourists as human beings. The copper coins were also solid. Every copper coins were yellow and there was no iron coins mixed with. Now, they were all heavy in the backpack, and every step they took soundly, reminding him that he was a rich man.

Li Dingguo had more money before, especially after conquering Fengyang Mansion, he had seen mountains of silver, gold, and huge amounts of gold jewelry. After he got it, he did not leave any of his sons and rewarded them all to his brave subordinates.

The ding-dang copper coins behind this actually made him feel like he was a rich man for the first time.

"Can you buy a bowl of noodles with four copper coins?"

When Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng walked for a long time, they were trapped and exhausted, they walked into a noodle restaurant. When they saw the guests coming, the shopkeeper smiled like Maitreya Buddha and was entertained with diligent care.

"I'm still hungry after eating the noodles. You can add soup and take out the pot in your bag and let it be roasted on the stove. Then soak it in the soup and make it a full meal!"

Li Dingguo saw the diligent young man take away their dry food, and soon brought a large bowl of sour soup, with two fat pieces floating on it.

Zhang Guofeng and his friends brought the baked pancakes again, so they learned from other maike to break the roasted braised pot and throw it into the sour soup. After taking a bite, they gave Li Dingguo a thumbs up.

“It’s really delicious.”

Before Li Dingguo could answer, the old shopkeeper next to him said with a smile: "When you finish harvesting the wheat, go to Xi'an City to play. You must have a bowl of mutton steamed buns there, and then go to Fanren Street below the Gulou to open your eyes. I dare not go to Mingyue Tower. If you go there, the money you earn this year will be thrown into the bottomless pit."

"Mingyue Tower?" Zhang Guozhu, who was eating soaked cakes, immediately raised his head.

The old shopkeeper who was adding soup to him slapped him in the head with anger and said, "Learn well and make money, go home and respect your parents well. Save money and marry a wife and buy land to accumulate family business. Don't think about those vixen."

Zhang Guofeng grinned and said, "I will definitely go and see it when I have money."

The shopkeeper picked up his thumbs up and said, "That's right. If you have money, do things that rich people do. If you don't have money, make money well. If you make too much money, you will be eye-opening."

Amid the laughter of everyone, Li Dingguo and Zhang Guozhu finished their meals, and the rest of the maike asked the old shopkeeper where someone needed labor.

Without much effort, the old shopkeeper made arrangements for these maikes.

Seeing that Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng were still waiting for him, they left everyone behind and walked over and said, "Are you full?"

Li Dingguo patted his stomach and said, "It's very full."

"It just so happened that Liansheng Inn in Xi'an City ordered a car of apricots with the old man. The shop's guys couldn't leave. How about you two brothers and brothers accompanying the old man? In a day and a half, two hundred cents!"

Zhang Guofeng jumped three feet high happily, but there was a hint of gloom in Li Dingguo's eyes.

"Okay, OK, Xingzi is there, let's go now."

The old shopkeeper smiled and pointed at the bamboo basket under the eaves. Zhang Guofeng immediately ran over to carry a basket of apricots and said, "Where is the carriage?"

The old shopkeeper brought a mule cart. Zhang Guofeng happily put the apricot on the mule cart, and stole an apricot in the middle. The old shopkeeper just laughed and scolded him, and didn't care.

After loading the last basket of apricots, Li Dingguo glanced at the empty field. He did not notice any abnormality, so he invited the old shopkeeper to sit on the shaft. He and Zhang Guofeng followed the mule cart left and right toward Xi'an City thirty miles away.

"Old man, this place is not in Lantian County, why do everyone claim to be Lantian County?" Until now, the expected danger has not come, and Li Dingguo couldn't help asking questions.

The old shopkeeper smiled and said, "We used to say that we were from Xi'an, that is, since four years ago, we began to call ourselves from Lantian."

"Why is this?"

"What else can we do? It's just to live a stable life. In the past, this place was called Chang'an County. People found that when they became Chang'an County people, they couldn't eat enough, and bandits came to rob each other. Then, we moved the boundary marker of Lantian County here.

Then, officials from Lantian County came here to measure the land and began to ask the people here to repair canals, dig ponds, build reservoirs, load water trucks, orange veins, and water wells to plant new crops on the wasteland.

After these things were done, the county magistrate gathered the wealthy families to discuss the rent reduction. I don’t know how to discuss it. The wealthy families are willing to reduce the rent to less than 30%. Next, there will be more people willing to farm.

A few years have passed, and Chang'an County has become what it is now.

Since the taxes have to be paid to Lantian County, everyone thinks they are from Lantian County."

"No forced?" Li Dingguo's eyes were still scattering around, and he seemed to ask without any intention.

"Maybe, probably, probably not. I haven't heard of forced things happening..."

Li Dingguo had a great chat with the old shopkeeper along the way, while Zhang Guozhu ate the big yellow apricots on the mule cart while walking.

After walking for three hours, seeing the Xi'an city wall approaching, what Li Dingguo expected still did not appear.

When entering the city gate, Zhang Guofeng looked heartless, and Li Dingguo's muscles were tight and followed the old shopkeeper tightly.

Seeing the old shopkeeper paying the tax on entering the city, he greeted the bald tax collector who was sleepy and ferocious, and the three of them drove a mule cart into Xi'an City.

As soon as he entered the city, Zhang Guofeng felt that his eyes were not enough. He had never seen so many rich people... At this moment, he felt that the world was not very real. He wanted to ask where were the ragged people he was used to seeing.

The old shopkeeper slapped Zhang Guofeng intimately on the back of the head and said, "Stop watching, hurry up and rush to Fanzi Street. If you delay, you will eat up all the apricots in the old man's car."

Li Dingguo smiled and said, "Where is Fanzi Street?"

The old shopkeeper pointed to the tall drum tower in the distance and said, "It's right there, this is the city gate. We can't stay here. We will be fined if we block people from passing."

After saying that, he led the way in front and signaled Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng to follow.

The more they walked forward, the more dense the pedestrians became. When they finally arrived at Fanzi Street, the old shopkeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Look, if it weren't for you two strong men, the old man wouldn't have the ability to deliver goods alone."

Li Dingguo smiled and said nothing, but his hand pressed on the long bag and refused to leave.

When Zhang Guofeng saw Li Dingguo's appearance, he was stunned for a moment, and then the smile on his face disappeared. He also hung the bag on his back on his shoulders, naturally keeping a three-foot distance from Li Dingguo. If you look closely, the strides of both of them are average.

The carriage came to a lively inn. Li Dingguo carefully looked at the name of the inn. It was indeed an inn called Liansheng.

The old shopkeeper just arrived at the entrance of the inn, and a guy with a towel on his shoulder yelled loudly: "Okay, my shopkeeper Hong, Xingzi was only here at this time. Your business is not very good."

The old shopkeeper smiled and said, "Don't blame me, Brother Xiaoqi, the old man didn't expect there would be so many people in the city today. Could it be that there is something fun to watch?"

The guy smiled and said, "The eleven Qing Gongren from Mingyue Tower came out today. I heard that they were all beautiful. Now, everyone who has some money in the ten miles has been moved. Even if they can't get a beauty, it's good to take a look."

The old shopkeeper pointed to Li Dingguo with a serious face and said to Zhang Guofeng: "I don't dare to go, it's a fairy nest!"

Li Dingguo smiled and said, "We brothers are two miserables. Where can we get the money to see the beauty!"

The guy said to Li Dingguodao bluntly: "Come on the goods quickly and deliver them to the backyard. After moving the goods, go to the cabinet to pay money, so you will not delay your continued profit."

As he spoke, the guy carried a basket of apricots himself and led the way. Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng looked at each other, then looked at the old shopkeeper who had been sitting in the inn hall and asked for tea with the inn shopkeeper. He gritted his teeth, carried the bag again, carried a basket of apricots and followed the guy to the backyard.

The backyard was very clean, and nothing happened except for the guy muttering something that the old shopkeeper sent half a basket of apricots.

After unloading the goods successfully, he paid 400 cents on the counter, and the old shopkeeper waved goodbye to them with a smile.

Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng stood on the crowded streets, as vigilant as two fat quails that were about to be hunted by eagles.

Unfortunately, except for the passers-by who looked at the two coolies who were blocking their walks, no one paid any attention to them. This made Li Dingguo feel so disappointed that he wanted to yell at the top of his throat.
Chapter completed!