win the hairpin

Chapter 139
Watching other people's suffering, it is natural to understate and criticize, but even if half of the pain is shared with oneself, it is unbearable.

Especially the fire stick that can smash a hole with a stone, if it really hit Tianling Gai, I am afraid that it is not as lucky as Uncle Song's, and it will die directly.

People are gone, who will use more money?
Everyone left awkwardly, as if they only realized now that the Zhang family had to pay a compensation, and the compensation was still light. If he had someone chisel him like this, then he hoped that his family would do the same for the murderer.

The steward touched his nose and left in a despondent manner.

You Song sneered twice, threw away the fire stick, and asked someone to carry the apology inside.

Of course, money is something that you don't want for nothing, and if you want it, you don't delay revenge.

Mrs. Song wanted to deal with these compensations, so the King of Jin took Song Huiyue out and wandered around Caomen Street blindly, and finally ate and drank in the restaurant for a while. He breathed a sigh of relief in the chair.

The two sat quietly to digest food, and heard someone singing a ditty next door, the clapper was crisp and soft, the singer was so happy that he almost fell asleep.

King Jin moved the stool closer to Song Huiyue, and said sleepily, "I was dizzy when I read the fish scale book last night, it was a mess, and my eyes were blurred."

Song Huiyue asked subconsciously: "Does the scale book change a lot every year?"

The fish scale book is to draw houses, forests, ponds, and fields in order, just like fish scales. These things are not often traded, and even if they change, they will change very little. In some poor counties, they will not change once every few years.

On the contrary, there are frequent transactions in wealthy lands, and there are more changes, but after all, it is a large item, so the transactions are not so frequent.

King Jin closed his eyes, and said slowly: "Last night, I only looked at the fish scale albums on Hedong Road and Hebei Road, and they didn't change much."

He sat up, dipped his fingers in some tea, and first drew a fish scale on the table.

"It was like this at the beginning," and then he drew another place, which was roughly the same, but the positions of the lines in the middle changed. "After a flood season, it became like this."

After the flood season, the originally well-defined fields were submerged. After the flood season, re-measurement was required. After the measurement, some people's fields quietly expanded, while others became smaller.

Moreover, every flood season changes, and rich households encroach on the fields little by little.

King Jin lay back again and closed his eyes: "The scale book has changed, but the land deed has not changed. The land tax is calculated in mu, and those who have less land have to pay more tax. How difficult is the people's livelihood."

Forcing the people to become bandits, it is no wonder that bandits and bandits are endlessly suppressed.

He was full of thoughts, and muttered like sleeping but not sleeping: "I have to go out for a walk."

Song Huiyue looked at him sideways: "Are you going in person?"

King Jin opened his eyes and saw that she unconsciously leaned towards him and clinging to him like a child, he couldn't help smiling: "Yes, I can't go, I have to look at the account books."

When he smiled, Song Hui also smiled slightly. When he smiled with thick eyebrows and big eyes, he was full of energy, as agile as a bird.

"Oh, by the way, that prefect Dou..." Song Huiyue told Dou Qushan to find Ni Peng.

"If he can do it, it will just save me a job."

When the two were talking slowly, Xie Zhou raised his mouth, opened the door and said: "My lord, something happened!"

King Jin was sleepy at first, but after hearing Xie Zhou's words, he immediately sat upright, his eyebrows turned cold: "What's the matter?"

"It's Chen Zhigang, just under the state bridge. He came out of the public house, went home to eat, and disappeared along with the bearers on the way. Later, he was found under the state bridge."

"It's really a toothless person," he grinned, pointing to his own white teeth, "all of them were pulled out, not a single one remained."

Then he shook his head again: "It's too miserable, even the clothes are stripped off, and everything that can be taken away from the whole body is gone."

King Jin took a sip of tea slowly: "Did someone from the ghost cave do it?"

Xie Zhou cleared his throat, and said solemnly: "They said that you did it, my lord."

When King Jin heard this, he put down his teacup and dared not say anything: "Is this king's reputation so bad?"

Xie Zhou shook his head: "That's not true. It's Chen Zhigang's bearer who said that you and Chen Zhigang got married at Mr. Zhang's house. You must be waiting for an opportunity to retaliate. Shall we find a way to clarify it?"

King Jin nodded, thinking that this speculation was very reasonable. Originally, he was going to attack Chen Zhigang, but someone was a step ahead of him and gave him a sigh of relief.

Thinking of venting his anger, he suddenly went to see Song Huiyue.

Song Huiyue was holding a piece of shortbread to eat. The shortbread was crumbly, and the salted egg yolk inside was rustling down. She ate it with one hand and picked it up with the other. After eating, she poured the crumbs into her mouth. Finally took a sip of hot tea.

She noticed King Jin's gaze, and said without hiding it, "It's me."

She pointed at Yin Xiao again: "The two of us."

Specifically, she directs, Yin Xiao arranges, and the people in Wuyou Cave do it.

King Jin was both surprised and delighted. He was surprised that Yinxiao was able to drive the desperadoes in Wuyou Cave, and he was delighted by Song Huiyue's protection of him.

Song Huiyue treats everything outside the Song family indifferently, like a passer-by in the world, but when he was used as a tool by his father, he took him under his immature wings.

"There is no need to clarify," King Jin ordered Xie Zhou casually, "Just take it as me."

Xie Zhou looked at Song Huiyue and felt a toothache.

He wondered if Song Huiyue's gloomy side came from her mother's womb, or from the accident ten years ago?
No matter where she comes from, he thinks that Song Huiyue is no longer an ordinary little lady. Talking about marriage is no longer suitable for her. She seems to need a place to show her skills.

"Sister Yue, go and take charge of Qinxin Teahouse," he blurted out, "The place is like a mess, Miss Qin can't handle it by herself, there are always people looking for trouble."

Hearing Xie Zhou's sudden whim, Song Huiyue was not surprised, and asked casually, "Aren't the starlings afraid that I will tear down the tea house?"

Seeing her reaction, Xie Zhou felt more and more that he had seen the right person: "You see that you are not chaotic in the face of danger, you have the style of a general, and it's okay to dismantle it."

King Jin also thought this proposal was good, the closer the relationship between Song Huiyue and him, the better: "You should have a place to relax."

Song Huiyue thought about it, and felt that being able to manage a tea house really made her feel at ease.

"Okay." She readily agreed.

"My lord, my lord." Du Lan rushed over after Xie Zhou, "Something happened to Zhouqiao, and what happened to Chen Zhigang alarmed the secret envoy Yue Shu, who asked to mobilize the imperial army. Army of the four sides, completely wipe out the underground ditches!"

Xie Zhou said in surprise, "So fast!"

When he just came from Zhouqiao, the people from the yamen had just arrived, why did he ask for an order so quickly to let the imperial army command the soldiers to pay?

"Go and have a look," King Jin stood up, "I'm afraid they regard the people in this underground cave as my influence, and they will kill me by surprise."

Song Huiyue also stood up and followed.

(End of this chapter)