Dressed as a peasant girl, she pampered the powerful villain

Chapter 8: That little calculation is not enough in her eyes.

Li Zheng frowned and shook his head, thought for a while and said: "Yesterday, there was another prisoner robbery incident in the exile village. Now we are conducting an investigation in the village. By the way, did you see anyone from other villages yesterday?"

Doctor Li was startled: "Another prisoner robbery? Didn't it just happen last month?"

Li Zheng sighed: "Yes, these past two months have been really uneventful."

After the war in Dawei was settled, the monarch planned to build gate towers under his jurisdiction in the circulation areas of various states and counties.

Originally, I wanted to recruit local residents, but I was afraid of missing out on farming.

When he was in a dilemma, an official proposed that criminals from the two dynasties build an imperial city for the country and make up for their deeds until they die of old age. Without the emperor's approval, they gained the reputation of being "virtuous" throughout the country.

Those criminals are the current prisoners. It is said that they are all officials from the two dynasties, including honest officials and treacherous ministers, ordinary people and nobles, and even relatives of the emperor. In short, they are like dragons, phoenixes, tigers, leopards, monkeys and rats.

These prisoners were all imprisoned and managed in a centralized manner. When there was a need to build a city tower, they would be escorted and dispatched to various places. Like cattle, sheep, pigs and horses, they were always moved east and west. Since they had no fixed place to live, the king ordered the construction of the city tower. Wherever they go, a 'convict village' is set up there.

It has been more than ten years since the city tower was built. Although this group of prisoners has no fixed place to live, they have no worries about food and clothing and have always been in peace with each other.

Oddly enough, in the past two months, two prisoners have been robbed.

It would be fine if the robbers were caught, but they were not caught. Last month, they searched every house from Lincun to Fangzikou Village. This time, there is another wave, which will upset anyone who hears it.

Doctor Li carefully recalled that the people he came into contact with yesterday were all villagers from his own village. He looked at Li Zheng and said with certainty: "I have never met people from other villages. If you are really worried, just tell the big guys. If you find out, it's better." Let me know as soon as possible."

Li Zheng nodded, feeling that it made sense: "Sure, I'll inform them later."

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Wang Shuyan carried fifteen packages of medicine and the medicinal wine given by Doctor Li before leaving. After asking a child, he found the oil and grain shop.

The shop girl, Mrs. Xu, coaxed the child aside, smiled at the visitor and said, "Hey, is it Sister Yan? Didn't your mother just buy food yesterday?"

As long as it is not a famine year, almost every family in the village has the habit of growing grain to store grain. It is not uncommon for them to buy grain occasionally, but villagers like the Wang family who only buy grain are the only ones in Fangzikou Village.

Wang Fu's father used to be a native of Fangzikou Village. He escaped from the village during the war and never came back. Later, we learned that Mr. Wang had made a fortune by doing business abroad and had made a fortune.

After the war was settled, Mr. Wang returned to his hometown in fine clothes to help the village build an ancestral hall and roads. The whole family returned to the village once a year to pay homage to the ancestral hall.

He was such a prosperous man at the time, but he never thought that after Mr. Wang passed away, his three sons would immediately separate after observing their filial piety, and the only one who would return to his roots would be his destitute young son, who also became a gambler.

Mrs. Xu lamented in her heart: No wonder people often say that if it takes 30 years to the east of the river and 30 years to the west of the river, if the income is ill-gotten, the children and grandchildren will not be able to keep it.

So when the descendants of the Wang family returned to the village, Xu had no impression of them before yesterday.

If it hadn't been for the rare incident of "her own daughter beating her father" yesterday, she wouldn't have recognized her at a glance. This girl is really hot-tempered.

Wang Shuyan smiled at her: "Thank you, aunt, for the food you sent yesterday. It was delicious. I want to say thank you first."

Mrs. Xu was stunned for a moment, then came to her senses and waved her hand: "It's okay, it's okay. You just like it. I want you to try what I grow at home. What do you want to buy today?" The vegetable yesterday was actually a wild vegetable, and she felt it had a strange smell. I liked it, but I was afraid that my mother-in-law would scold me if I wasted it, so I just found a reason to give it away when Mrs. Zhang came.

Wang Shuyan was polite and continued: "One pound each of sugar, salt, oil and soy sauce. By the way, Auntie, do you have the whole grains and beans?"

She looked around and found that in addition to food, the goods sold here also included hand-woven straw shoes, bamboo baskets, fire folding bags, and oil lamps, all of which were necessary consumables for daily bamboo farming.

Mrs. Xu sneered: "Without sugar, how can I have the kind of food that only rich people can afford here? There are only soybeans, and by the way, next time you buy soy sauce, you have to bring the jar from home. I will lend it to you today. You have to pay me back as soon as possible."

As he spoke, he smoked banana leaves and murmured to himself: I have been a rich man but I don’t know how to budget carefully. How can ordinary people in the village be willing to buy so many of these things?

No sugar yet?Wang Shuyan was a little surprised, but thinking back, it was right. Sugar production technology at this time had not caught up yet.

Wang Shuyan: "Thank you, auntie. I'll pay you back tomorrow, so I'll give you three kilograms of soybeans."

Nowadays, rice is the main source of crops, and there are not many vegetables. We can only look for wild vegetables and fungi.

After thinking for a while, he asked: "There are always eggs, right?"

Mrs. Xu was stunned and nodded: "Yes, there are, but I sell them for Granny Liu in the village. They cost two cents each. How many do you want?"

This kind of thing is very common in the village. In addition to grains and knitting products in her oil and grain shop, villagers put them here for her husband to go to the county town and sell them for money, and then get [-]-[-].

Wang Shuyan waved his hand: "I want ten first."

Mrs. Xu blinked and felt again that this girl was a prodigal woman, and she really didn't know how to live like her mother.

Wang Shuyan: "How much?"

Mrs. Xu held up the abacus and calculated: "Ten eggs are twenty cents per catty, soybeans are twenty cents per catty, three catties are sixty cents, salt, soybean oil and soybean oil are all seventy cents per catty. The total is 290 cents. Count you 280. Jiu Wen, they all belong to the same village, so they must help."

Upon hearing this, Wang Shuyan reflexively asked loudly: "How much is it?" Are these foods so expensive?

Xu's eyes flashed with guilt, but she still said bravely: "280 nine cents, this is not a lot of money for your family, right? Moreover, the price of salt, soybean and soybean oil has increased this year, I... I also have a discount It’s a penny.”

Yesterday, Mrs. Zhang brought three coins of broken silver to buy grain. Ordinary people usually had no broken silver, so they always used copper coins. She only received dozens of coins more, so it wasn't excessive.

Moreover, she didn't believe that all Zhang's dowry would be used to pay off debts. The broken silver last night showed that Zhang was also a calculating person.

What's wrong with killing a young lady like this who has eaten fine food and fine food?
Wang Shuyan blinked, then blinked again to make sure he heard correctly. It was a discount of one cent, not ten cents. Is this also called a discount?
Mrs. Xu couldn't help but feel a little frightened when she stared at her like this. She swallowed and continued: "The price has indeed increased. We are all from the same village. How dare I, an elder, lie to you about such a thing?"

Wang Shuyan snorted in her heart. The discount of just one penny shows that the Wang family is indeed a little transparent in this village. Even though her grandfather once returned to his hometown in glory to build ancestral halls and roads, as long as your family is in decline, people will not hesitate to kill you. .

After all, she was not the original person, and Xu's calculations were not enough in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)