my wife is queen

Chapter 77
In the capital city, people who like to go topless, wear blue and green cloth shirts and pants, and have scars on their shoulders, most of them are one kind of people.

The trackers and waterworkers who lived around the canal and the waterway, and the coolies who worked hard in Chongwenmen.

As Sun Chuanting walked into the small courtyard, all the skinny men showed fierce eyes, ready to copy the shoulder pole and attack at any time, so that he would never return.

He Jin didn't know Sun Chuanting, but he knew Li Mian who came after him, and knew that the rightful lord was coming.

Before Li Dingguo's incident happened, He Jin originally thought that Li Mian was just an official and gentry son in the capital, and did not follow his orders for a long time.

He has been weighing the weight of this official and gentleman, whether he can keep He Jin's commotion in the grass yard.

He Jin was born at the bottom and had no access to the official circles in the capital, so he didn't know how much money from the yamen was involved in the Caochangyuan.

But there is one thing he knows very well, just five cities Bing Ma Si Yamen is enough for him to drink a pot.

Li Dingguo had more than a dozen lives in his hands, and some of the sticks died of serious injuries one after another, and died in the prison of Shuntian Mansion, not more than a dozen lives were contaminated.

A big case that was enough to cause a sensation in the capital has been silent for a few days.

Li Dingguo came out of the Yamen of Shuntian Mansion safe and sound, he was not sentenced to be executed, and he was commended by the government and awarded ten taels of silver.

He Jin didn't care about ten taels of silver, what he really cared about was Li Dingguo's safety and the status of Li Mian's son-in-law.

He Jin stopped waiting and watching, and immediately sent someone to deliver a letter to Li Mian, ready to make a move.

He Jin walked over, holding the white paper fan in both hands, cupped his hands and said: "Student He Jin, He Kangnian, met the son-in-law, and this young master."

The skinny men were all taken aback when they heard the word son-in-law. They never thought that they would be lucky enough to see such a powerful man as a son-in-law in this life.

The lean men withdrew their fierce eyes one after another, put down the shoulder poles in their hands, and clasped their fists in a hurry.

Since it was the first time to see such a dignitary as the son-in-law, in the panic, many thin men made a mistake in clasping their fists, and hugged their left with their right hand.

Li Mian and Sun Chuanting didn't pay attention, they looked at He Jin in front of them and felt satisfied at the same time.

He Jin wore a soft scarf on his head, a blue straight dress on his body, and a white paper fan in his hand.

There is no Suzhou embroidered purse hanging from his waist, nor is he wearing jade such as Tianhuangshi, Hetian jade, etc. Instead, he is wearing an unremarkable short knife.

Sun Chuanting looked at the white paper fan in his hand and the dagger pinned to his waist, and roughly guessed He Jin's identity, which was not as simple as an ordinary poor scholar.

He also understood why Li Mian chose a frail scholar to snatch the prostitution business and casino business in Caochangyuan.

Li Mian nodded to indicate that He Jin would continue to make arrangements, and don't care about him and Sun Chuanting.

He Jin held the white paper fan again, cupped his hands, turned and walked back in front of a dozen lean men.

But before speaking, arrange for two lean men to move out the rosewood official hat chairs that had been prepared a long time ago, put them next to the grape vines, and find a cool and comfortable place for them to sit down.

Sun Chuanting picked up a white porcelain bowl from the Eight Immortals table next to him, and took a sip of a big bowl of tea: "This He Jin is the mouth of water."

Li Mian glanced at the large white porcelain bowl, he had been in the mansion for a long time, and it was the first time he saw someone make tea in a large bowl, and took a sip of it, it had a special taste.

Hearing Sun Chuanting's inquiry, he responded: "Li chose this scholar named He Jin because he is the mouth of the Cao Gang."

Sun Chuanting got an affirmative answer, and he knew it well. No wonder Li Mian chose a down-and-out scholar on matters related to Caochangyuan.

Caokou is a scholar attached to the canal to make a living. Most of them are scholars who are "tricky and bad supervisors". They are responsible for interpreting the water transport rules promulgated by the government.

The collection and transportation of grain in the waterway of the canal gradually gave birth to a set of water transport rules, commonly known as the canal rules.

Caokou holds the right to interpret the rules of the water, and can get a lot of money around the collection and transportation of grain.

Around the general Caokou, there are often more than a dozen or twenty trackers and waterworkers gathered. If there are more people, they will form a Caogang entrenched in the waterway of the Caoyun.

Sun Chuanting looked at more than a dozen water workers not far away, and he could tell that He Jin was just a small water worker: "As Jin Guan, it shouldn't be a problem to find some water workers from the water gang. Why did you only choose a small water worker?" Caokou He Jin."

According to Sun Chuanting's intentions, the two people he wants to deal with next, whether it is Wan Siquan or Lu Yangguan, are not good at dealing with them, and they are much more difficult to deal with than Liu Eitou.

The water workers formed the water gang, and there were hundreds of water workers gathered around the water mouth. Facing Wansiquan and Lu Yangguan, they were still stretched.

The small water mouth with only a dozen water workers to help it is not worth mentioning.

Li Mian has a different opinion: "Insufficient strength is exactly why Li values ​​He Jin. Another point is that He Jin is a dutiful son. In order to feed his mother, he gave up participating in the scientific examination and worked in the canal river. A caokou."

When Sun Chuanting heard that He Jin was a dutiful son, he was relieved of his character. As long as he took refuge in Li Mian, he would not commit any betrayal.

Nothing can be pinned on human nature. What really reassures Sun Chuanting is filial piety, not filial piety.

As long as Li Mian wins over He Jin's old lady, and then helps him marry an honest lady and give birth to a son.

He Jin is completely in his hands.

Sun Chuanting still retorted: "It's just that filial piety is useless. This time we are competing for the prostitution business and the gambling house business in the grass yard. If we are not careful, He Jin and the dozen or so water workers around him will all have to become A corpse like Liu Goose's head."

Li Mian knew that Sun Chuanting said this, on the one hand, he was worried about delaying the important event, and on the other hand, he really thought about the common people.

If it were a group of officials and gentlemen dominating the pasture yard, they fought bloody battles with Wan Siquan and Lu Yangguan. No matter how many people were killed or injured, Sun Chuanting would just look on coldly and wouldn't say a word.

When it came to common people, Sun Chuanting inevitably said a few more words.

Li Mian turned his head to look at Sun Chuanting, no wonder the officials in the capital thought he was an outlier, it could be seen from his demeanor that he was different from all the officials in the world.

In the eyes of the officials and gentry, the common people are a group of exploited mud legs with only one purpose of existence.

Planting food with bitterness brings silver profits.

Sun Chuanting was lucky, he seemed to think about the common people all day long, but he was a high-ranking official in the capital.

(End of this chapter)