In this world, most people are just ordinary people.
If you don’t watch it, it’s for nothing!
Zhu Yunxi also took a few glances at the woman's beautiful waist, and then sat down.
With a shout, a group of people sat over, and the stall suddenly seemed a little crowded.
There was not enough food on the stove, so the boy who brought them over was very discerning and placed several baskets of freshly steamed soup dumplings in front of Zhu Yunxi.
"Master, please try it. My sister's cooking is the best!"
Zhu Yunxi smiled, lowered his head and took a half-sip.
He has eaten all kinds of food in this world, so the taste of this soup dumpling in his mouth is also ordinary.
"Is it delicious?" the boy asked stubbornly.
"good!"
Zhu Yunxi understood that the reason why this boy stubbornly believed that his sister's cooking was the best was because he had never eaten food cooked by anyone other than his sister.
To be precise, he has never eaten anything else good!
"Hmm..." Zhu Yunxi ate two soup dumplings, but when he saw that the guards around him were still empty, he looked a little hesitant.
The woman behind the case had also been observing Zhu Yunxi's expression. At this time, she hurriedly said, "Sir, wait a moment, I'm slow..."
"It's okay, I'll keep it for you!" Zhu Yunxi said to the boy, "Go to the side and see if there are any braised pork pancakes, noodles, etc., and buy them."
The boy's eyes suddenly lit up at first, and then suddenly became excited again.
When Li Jinglong saw this, he took out a few silver coins from his pocket and put them on the table with a bang.
Suddenly, the corners of the boy's mouth shone brightly, and his eyes straightened.
"Buy it and I'll reward you with more!" Li Jinglong said with a smile.
"Thank you, Master!" The boy knew who was the real distinguished guest in this group. He saluted Zhu Yunxi first, then grabbed the silver coins and ran away.
Immediately afterwards, from those places with good business on the opposite street, the boy's arrogant voice came, "Hurry up, good food and good meat, I have a distinguished guest! I bought so much, can you give me a small change?"
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After a while, the boy was running back and forth again.
He refused delivery from other stores, and went back and forth by himself, setting up a table of wonton sauce meat, meatloaf noodles, and moving like ants.
At this time, I saw the woman coming out of the interview again, wiping her hands and saying, "Brother, give the rest of the money back to me!"
The boy clenched his pocket tightly and said, "Sister, my distinguished guest told me to give it to me!"
"No!" The woman stubbornly took out the remaining money from the boy's pocket, "If it's only three or five coppers, we'll have to bear it. But you help me run an errand, and you charge me a few silver dollars? How do you behave?
can not be like this!"
After saying that, she turned around and said apologetically, "I made you laugh, my child is young and naive..."
"Take it!" Li Jinglong looked at Zhu Yunxi's face and said, "If you don't accept it, we won't eat from you!"
"Ah!" The woman was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head in embarrassment.
"Sister, since you said so, let's just accept it!" The boy smiled and took the money back, pushing the woman behind the counter, "Hurry up and make soup dumplings, there are so many customers!"
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Seeing that the woman was busy again, the boy approached Zhu Yunxi with a smile.
He lowered his voice and said, "Master, you want to..."
"What do I want?"
"There is a pretty little lady, do you want her?" The boy scratched his head and said with a shy smile, "They are all girls from good families! They are just poor families, so they can supplement the family income! If you want it, I will bring it to you later.
Go to your residence! Quietly, no one knows."
"If you don't want to, just go to their house...it's on Heyan'er Street not far away."
As he said that, he said anxiously, "It's cleaner than the ones in brothels! The price is reasonable, I'm sure you'll be satisfied..."
Zhu Yunxi put down his chopsticks and stared at the boy, "If you don't learn well at a young age, you are a pimp?" He said, looking at the busy woman, "Does your sister know?"
Although his tone was a little harsh, he was not angry at all.
From the looks of it, it was clear that a pair of siblings were struggling to make a living from a stall. And the boys who grew up in the market naturally couldn't see it from an ordinary perspective.
In order to live, what does this mean?
This is just the normal state of the world!
The boy was a little scared, but he was unwilling to give up. He laughed softly and said, "I know you are a noble person, so you may look down on me...but, these followers around you...?"
"How did you know they were my followers?" Zhu Yunxi asked with a smile.
"Don't think I'm young, I can see a lot of people with my eyes!" The boy said hurriedly, "These people are surrounding you. Your posture looks bigger to me than the inspection master!"
"Ha...my attendant!" Zhu Yunxi smiled and suddenly pointed at Li Jinglong next to him, "You can find it for him! He loves this!"
puff!
Li Jinglong, who was sucking wontons next to him, couldn't take a breath and choked directly.
Just as he was about to speak, he heard several majestic and domineering voices coming from beside him.
"Hey, Miss Xu, who asked you to set up a stall here?"
Zhu Yunxi and others looked up and saw a few servants wearing green clothes and holding fire sticks in their hands, standing in front of the stall with stern expressions and a bad tone.
At the same time, Zhu Yunxi also noticed that the boy beside him secretly clenched his fists and gritted his teeth.
"It turns out to be Brother Zhou..." The woman named Xu's girl quickly came out from behind the interview and said with a flattering smile, "Can we have dinner?"
"Don't get too close!" The leader, who was in his early thirties and had a fat face full of fat, cursed with a bit of vulgarity, "Who is your big brother?"
After saying that, he glared and said, "You've been owed the tax for three days! Do you want me to smash your stall?"
Tax money?
The corners of Zhu Yunxi's eyes twitched sharply and he asked the boy, "What tax?"
The boy lowered his head and said, "There is a tax to set up a stall!"
"This isn't the city?"
"The government wants to collect it anyway, so who dares not to pay it?" The boy lowered his head and said in frustration, "Not only are there taxes for setting up stalls, but there are also miscellaneous fees!"
Zhu Yunxi put down his bowl and chopsticks, "What other miscellaneous expenses are there?"
"I don't know. Anyway, in addition to the fifteen grand tax on stalls every day, there are also thirty grand miscellaneous taxes every month!" The boy's voice was soft and inaudible, "If the government wants to collect it, who dares to ask?"
"Aren't you allowed to display it without paying?" Zhu Yunxi looked at the guards coldly.
"Just because I gave them money doesn't necessarily mean I'll let you do it!" The boy lowered his head and said in frustration, "Unless you give them more money, they can have a good place...otherwise, like my family, they can only live in
A corner!"
That's how it is in the human world.
A fly is like a dog and a dog is like a dog, using power for personal gain.
"You are the only two siblings in your family?" Zhu Yunxi asked again.
"There are also father, mother, brother-in-law...but..." the boy said, suddenly choked up.
"But what?" Zhu Yunxi patted his head and asked in a low voice.
"The government said that the emperor wanted to build a road, and in the middle of winter the conscripts went to fish for sand from the river... My father and brother-in-law had no money to pay for the official duties, so they had to be dragged away!"
The boy's voice was choked with sobs, "The ship sank, and my father and brother-in-law didn't come up...my mother immediately collapsed from crying and couldn't get out of bed!"
"Poor my sister, we've only been married for three months..."
Suddenly, Zhu Yunxi's heart became clogged.
"That means you serve as corvee for the government, and if something happens, the government will provide you with a pension..."
"Either you are a young master!" The boy interrupted Zhu Yunxi, "When we people die, we will die. Who cares about you!" He gritted his teeth and said, "The people in the government said that if you work for the emperor, you will die.
Just die in vain!"
"My sister, I...went to the Yamen many times. For no other reason than to beg them to fish out the bodies of my father and brother-in-law. But not only did they not care, they also wanted to file a complaint...
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"What's wrong?" Zhu Yunxi's hands began to tremble uncontrollably.
"A team of police officers demolished my house because my sister said she was going to Beijing to file a complaint... and they also said they would arrest her and send her to Yunnan to build roads..."
"There is no other way. My sister can only open a stall to support my mother and me..."
Zhu Yunxi's hands began to shake violently.
"We are not the only ones who have this kind of thing!" The boy continued, "There are more than 20 households on Heyan'er Street, and the men are all on the sand fishing boat, and not a single one has come out... Wuwu!"
"More than twenty households?" Zhu Yunxi's heart ached with pain, "It's such a big thing, but no one has heard anything about it..."
"The government has issued a gag order and no one is allowed to speak! Who dares to speak!"
The guards nearby looked at the meat in front of them and hesitated to speak.
Li Jinglong and He Guangyi looked at each other, both shaking their heads silently.
The human world, this is the fucking human world!
At this moment, there was another sudden bang.
But it was an official who kicked the stool over.
Then he pointed at the wife of the Xu family and cursed, "How dare you owe the imperial court's taxes? If you pay the money, don't even think about setting up a stall here..."
"Brothers, it's not that I don't want to give it to you, how dare I not to give it to you. I ran out of money to get medicine for my mother a few days ago, but I'm making money these days..." As he said that, the woman suddenly remembered something.
, turned back to look at the boy, "Little brother?"
In an instant, Zhu Yunxi clearly saw the boy's tears streaming down his face. He clutched the bag containing the reward given by Li Jinglong, "Sister, the doctor said that if I don't take the medicine, I will die! If I die, we will have no hope."
, no home..."
Wow, Zhu Yunxi's heart tightened.
It's not that the boy is greedy for money, but this reward is his mother's life-saving money.
"Brothers, you guys have also seen it. I beg you to be kind..."
"Don't say I didn't give you a chance!" The fat official in charge looked up and down at the Xu family girl with a chuckle, "I've told you so many times, do you not understand or are you just pretending not to understand?"
"When I call you girl, you really think you are a young lady... Haha, the doors on Heyan Street are all ajar, look at who I am giving a good face to!"
"Tsk, tsk, I think you're a nice person, but you're so clueless!" As he said that, the official waved his hand, "Brothers, what's the crime of not paying taxes? Give it to me!"
Bang Bang...
"Brother Zhou!" Mrs. Xu's wife knelt down and cried while desperately protecting her belongings, "You...you...have mercy on me..."
"I pity you, I want to pity you properly!" The official named Zhou smiled and said, "But are you willing to let me pity you?"
"I..." The Xu family girl just cried and was speechless.
"Come on, come on, go to my house!" The fat man surnamed Zhou smiled evilly and pulled the Xu girl up and to the side, "Go to my house and talk about taxes? You don't owe me the imperial court.
Yes, what can't be accommodated..."
There was a lot of noise here, and many people looked over.
These people have different eyes.
There's sympathy, there's curiosity, there's excitement, but... I don't see much regret.
This is the fucking world!
"If you let this fat man succeed!" Li Jinglong sighed in Zhu Yunxi's ear, "This woman's reputation is gone, and sooner or later she will end up with the door ajar... Oh!"
At this moment, Zhu Yunxi suddenly heard an angry curse, "Let go of my sister!"
Then there was a crash, and the boy threw the money bag out. The broken silver and a shining silver dollar were scattered on the ground.
"It's enough to pay taxes, let my sister go!" the boy shouted.
"Yo!" Fatty Zhou was stunned for a moment, then smiled at the surrounding policemen, "How can a child get so much money? Did he steal it?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhu Yunxi stood up.
The bowl in his hand was thrown out.
It hit the fat man on the forehead with a bang.
"Oh, you damn..."
Without waiting for him to say obscene words, Li Jinglong stepped forward and whipped his legs in front of him...
This chapter has been completed!