Ru Taisu tried to stop this, but couldn't stop that. In the end, he could only look at their misfortune with tears in his eyes.
Zhu Bai smacked his lips: "The bayberry is too sour, don't eat too much, or it will damage your teeth."
Ru Taisu was aggrieved and threw his hands away: "Excuse me, Your Highness. That food is a bit sour, and no one in my family likes to eat it."
Zhu Bai nodded and stretched out his hand: "Here, the handling fee is one tael of silver."
Ru Taisu protested in a low voice: "I don't understand..."
Zhu Bai narrowed his eyes: "I personally bought bamboo baskets and bamboo poles, and brought dozens of soldiers and horsemen to clean your fruit trees. Do you want to default on your debt?"
Okay, let's waste money and eliminate disaster. Who let me get into trouble with this devil again?
Ru Taisu sighed secretly, took out a piece of broken silver and held it in front of Zhu Bai with both hands: "Your Highness accepts it with pleasure."
Zhu Bai raised his chin to Cen Du.
Commander Cen Du hurriedly took it over.
Zhu Bai smiled and said to Ru Taisu: "My lord, there is no need to give it away. If there are any more fruit trees in your house that need to be cleaned, just come to the Military and Horse Department and call me. One tael of silver at a time, I am not afraid of hard work."
Ru Taisu hurriedly held up her hands: "Your Highness, I'm not bothered."
Even if there was, he would ask someone to clean it up immediately.
There are more than 200 soldiers and horses in Dongcheng alone. If they all come, they can tear off the roof of his house.
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Today, each bedroom received a small bowl of red cherries and bayberries.
Zhu Bai himself went to find Zhu Yuanzhang with two small baskets of fruits.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Zhu Bai's face was covered with various strange colors, and his clothes were covered with moss and red and black marks. He couldn't laugh or cry: "What are you doing?"
Zhu Bai grinned, showing his teeth stained by juice: "I went to help Mr. Li Shanchang pick cherries."
I lost my front teeth during a recent dental replacement, and now the remaining ones are still like this, which is really terrible.
Zhu Yuanzhang dragged Zhu Bai over and wiped the mud on his face with his sleeves: "Tsk, tsk, look at you, you look like a monkey every day."
Li Shanchang has been here this afternoon, and this kid is probably going to cause trouble again...
Zhu Bai took the washed cherries from the hands of the palace servants, held them in front of Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "Father, try it."
Lao Zhu even ate a lot of them, and while eating, he praised: "Hey, Mr. Li has such good cherries, we didn't even know."
Zhu Bai said: "Isn't that right? It fell to the street and rotted, and no one picked it. What a pity. My sons and daughters picked it and gave it to the people in the city."
Zhu Yuanzhang understood instantly: This guy got an advantage again and acted like a good boy.
Zhu Bai added: "My son is planning to clean up all the fruit trees in Yingtian Mansion where no one cares about the ripe fruits on the street. At least for half a month, we will have fresh fruits ripe on the trees to eat every day."
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed out loud: "Hahaha, this is good."
It’s so satisfying to think about eating fruits without spending any money.
Zhu Bai chuckled: "Since my father also supports my son, I can continue to do it. I also need to write it in the regulations of the Military and Horse Department to prevent these people from playing rogue."
Zhu Yuanzhang: "Let's do it. This will save those rich people's fruit from rotting on the road and not being eaten by anyone."
When he was a child, he was very hungry and would often look at the melons and fruits rotting on the branches of the rich families and he would be filled with hatred.
Unexpectedly, Lao Twelve would grant this wish for him.
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Zhu Bai was full of energy. He took care of the affairs of the Guanya Bureau in the morning and went straight to Li Shan's house with his people.
Yesterday, he saw that the cherries were about to ripen, so he decided to finish picking them first before picking plums, apricots, peaches, loquats, green plums, etc.
The soldiers from the Bingma Division came forward and knocked on the door.
This time the door opened immediately, and Li Shanchang's butler came out to greet him: "Oh, I didn't know that King Xiang came to visit yesterday. What a neglect."
Zhu Bai secretly laughed: Don’t you know? You don’t dare to know!
"It's easy to talk about. Now that the butler is here, this matter will be much easier to handle." He stretched out his hand to the butler, "One tael of silver a day. I have come twice. Give me the money."
The housekeeper opened his mouth slightly: Zhu Bai came to their house to rob cherries, why did he have to pay him?
Zhu Bai pointed behind him: "More than a dozen people are working for your family for free."
The butler's face was filled with anger: "I was busy with Your Highness and your lords yesterday, but you won't have to do it today."
Zhu Biao smiled coldly: "If you say you don't need it, then you don't need it. Have you cleaned the leaves and fruits that fell on the street at your house?"
The housekeeper was stunned.
Zhu Bai said: "No. If not, then the Military and Horse Department is cleaning it for you. We have finished cleaning it, and you say no, it's just a freeloader."
The housekeeper wiped the sweat from his forehead: "I know this, I will ask someone to clean it now."
Zhu Bai said: "Today is too late. We are already here. We must enforce the law. Otherwise, everyone will be like you. Tomorrow after tomorrow, how can I manage Yingtian City?"
The butler could only take out the money and present it with both hands: "Okay, okay. We accept the punishment."
Zhu Bai collected the money and handed it to Cen Du to command: "We are conscientious soldiers and horses. Since we have collected the money, we must work and get out of the way."
The housekeeper could only get out of the way.
Then Zhu Bai and the others went in and picked the second cherry tree cleanly.
Zhu Bai went out, stroking his round belly, and educated the housekeeper: "You can't always be like this. I eat until I can't move every day, it's too painful."
The butler bowed his head and said: "Thank you for your hard work, Your Highness. It's good to go, Your Highness."
Now he no longer cares whether Zhu Bai is talking nonsense, as long as he can send this little devil away.
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Zhu Bai took the soldiers and horses to pick loquats from a temple in Nancheng, and picked green plums from a wealthy family in Beicheng before returning to the palace.
When he came back on the third day, he found that the alley outside Li Shanchang's house had been swept clean, and not a single cherry was left on the tree.
Then he led the troops from the Military and Horse Division to patrol the entire city. The places where fruits and leaves were falling all over yesterday were now cleaned and made extremely refreshing.
Not only that, even the branches blocking the road were well pruned.
Zhu Bai smacked his lips: "Tsk, the reaction is too fast. I won't let you rob more, ah no, I will enforce the law a few more times."
Only those in the Military and Horse Division knew what Zhu Bai meant when he said that someone would help them with their work.
Only those who take responsibility for the results will take the initiative and work seriously.
Otherwise, everyone will be perfunctory and refuse to play football.
When he returned to the palace, a palace official told him that Li Shanchang had sent twenty baskets of cherries and ten baskets of plums, and also left a message that when all kinds of fruits ripen, he would send them to Zhu Bai.
It took a lot of effort to come and pick it myself.
Zhu Bai thinks Li Shanchang is still very sensible.
This is great. Li Shanchang flattered Lao Zhu and prevented him from seeing anything wrong when he went in and out of Li's house.
Not only Li Shanchang, but also several other officials.
For a time, there were too many fruits to eat in the palace.
Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the officials to discuss it and send it in batches instead of all in one day. Otherwise, it would be rotten and not be eaten, and he would have to ask people to pour it out.
