Just when the head of the Ouyang family and Yizhou Zhizhou Lan Liqun were acting pretentious with each other, Xiao Chen and his party had returned to Tianyi Inn.
Xiao Chen's men were mobilized today, and they also took away the horses. Shopkeeper Xu thought they had gone on a far journey and would not come back until some time later, so they were dozing off on the counter.
"Shopkeeper Xu, let the waiter boil some hot water. Brothers have worked hard today. Take a good bath and prepare some hard food." Pushing open the door of Tianyi Inn, Xiao Chen shouted towards the counter.
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Hearing the sound, Shopkeeper Xu suddenly woke up from his dazed state. When he looked up, there was no waiter in the hall.
"Mr. Xiao, you are back. Why can't any of these waiters run away?" Shopkeeper Xu walked over, carrying a hot water bottle, looking around.
"The waiter is outside and has taken the horse to the stable. It's not as comfortable as your shopkeeper's. You can lie down on the counter and take a nap." Looking at shopkeeper Xu's still hazy eyes, Xiao Chen sat on the table at the entrance.
He stopped and said with a smile.
"Oh, there's no one here. If I were busy, how could I lie down there and take a nap?" Shopkeeper Xu smiled, put down the tea bowl in his hand, and started to add water to it.
Duan Tianming stood up and grabbed the kettle from Shopkeeper Xu: "Okay, I'll pour the water. The waiters are not here right now. Shopkeeper Xu, please do your best and boil hot water for the brothers first. By the way, give instructions to the kitchen
, prepare some hard dishes as my young master said."
"Okay, okay, I'm going to heat the hot water right now. We have some hard food in the kitchen, and we can bring it to you at any time after everyone has finished taking a shower." Shopkeeper Xu said with a smile as Duan Tianming started pouring water.
"Come on, come on, let's boil some water." Duan Tianming grinned and gave Shopkeeper Xu a gentle push.
"I'll go, I'll go right away." Shopkeeper Xu chuckled and walked towards the back hall.
After adding hot water to Xiao Chen's tea bowl, Duan Tianming looked at the other captains in the hall: "Why are you sitting in the hall? Why don't you go pack some clothes and take a hot bath later?"
After hearing Duan Tianming's instructions, everyone happily went up to their rooms on the second floor and began to prepare clothes.
Pushing the tea bowl filled with hot water in front of Xiao Chen, Duan Tianming also sat down.
"Xiao Chen, what do you think they will do next? Will they call the police to arrest us?" Duan Tianming said.
Picking up the tea bowl, Xiao Chen took a sip and said, "What would you do if your tavern was smashed?"
"If it were mine, I would have stopped them before they started, otherwise they would be smashed." Duan Tianming chuckled, climbed on the table, and blew the tea leaves floating on the tea bowl in front of him, as if he was a child playing.
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Xiao Chen didn't say anything, he rolled his eyes and rolled his eyes at him.
As if he realized that his answer was not appropriate enough, Duan Tianming raised his right hand and scratched his ear: "Hey, if it's my tavern, I can't beat him, so I have to report to the official."
Xiao Chen put his hands on the table, held the tea bowl and put it to his mouth. He looked at Duan Tianming and smiled, but said nothing.
"Why, won't they report it to the official?" Duan Tianming stretched his neck and asked.
"That's the Ouyang family's tavern, and the Ouyang family can be among the three major families in Yizhou City, and they can also monopolize the mining, production, and sales of Yizhou City's most distinctive Yishui inkstone. Do you think that is
A simple family?" Xiao Chen asked with a smile.
"It's definitely not that simple. However, if we smashed their pub, it was like a slap in their face. Can they just endure it silently?" Duan Tianming said.
"A slap in the face? To say a slap in the face, smashing the tavern only indirectly slapped the Ouyang family in the face. And although your riding crop was slapped on the body of the guard captain, it has nothing to do with being slapped directly on the body of Yizhou Zhizhou.
Difference." Staring at Duan Tianming, Xiao Chen had a naughty smile on his face.
Duan Tianming hurriedly put down the tea bowl in his hand, raised his right hand and shook it towards Xiao Chen: "Don't blame me for this. You said it, and you asked me to make some trouble and say it. Besides, I didn't originally
I was thinking of beating him, but that guy is unreasonable. Yesterday, it cost ten taels of silver to bring horses into the city, and today there are one less horse than yesterday, and he actually charges fourteen taels."
Raising his left hand and pinching his nose, Duan Tianming added: "Moreover, he actually called himself a military master in front of me, and also said what you are. I couldn't hold it back for a moment, so I gave him a few whips."
Staring at Duan Tianming's expression as if he had made a mistake, Xiao Chen laughed: "I don't blame you either. Why are you so anxious to explain? You only got a few whips. How many whips can you get enough of?"
Duan Tianming chuckled: "Slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue, I got more than a dozen lashes."
Xiao Chen opened his mouth and took a breath through his teeth: "Don't you know how heavy your whip is? Thanks to the thick skin of the guard captain, otherwise you would have been beaten to death by more than ten whips."
Duan Tianming's face showed a hint of embarrassment: "Just because he was rough-skinned and thick-bodied, I whipped him more than a dozen times to take advantage of the situation. But if he was whipped to death by accident, wouldn't it be difficult to handle?"
"Beat him to death? For us in Dongchang, what's not to be done about beating to death a vicious guard who secretly collected fees from merchants in the city?" Xiao Chen said calmly.
"We disguised ourselves this time, and there are so many things going on behind it," Duan Tianming said.
Xiao Chen smiled slightly: "The purpose of our coming out is to capture Ouyang Qianhu and Zhao Qianhu. As for other things, we can do or not do them. If we really kill the guard captain, the worst we can do is capture them directly."
It’s just a major criminal.”
Duan Tianming winked: "Then our East Factory's working capital will be gone."
"Didn't you beat the guard captain to death? We still have a chance." Xiao Chen lowered his voice and laughed obscenely.
The two of them laughed evilly for a while. Duan Tianming sat up straight and the expression on his face became serious: "What should we do next?"
"Brothers have taken a bath. It's time to eat and drink. Today's work has been done. You can do whatever you want." Xiao Chen raised his arms, stretched, opened his mouth again, and hit him.
A long yawn.
"Then what do you think the Ouyang family will do?"
"If I'm not wrong, this Ouyang family member will definitely not come to look for trouble. However, as for Yizhou Prefectural Government, I can't say for sure. Maybe Master Zhizhou will stand up for his brother-in-law." Xiao Chen
The corners of his mouth turned up and he smiled lightly.
"That's right. The guard captain charges various fees in the city wantonly. Without Yizhou Zhizhou's nod, he wouldn't dare to be so blatant. This income is quite a lot, and he must not be able to swallow it all by himself. Perhaps, to that
Lord Zhizhou is paying tribute." Duan Tianming said.
