The noise outside the box interrupted their silence. Jia Hui and Luda came back to their senses and glanced at the door of the box.
The sound of the sword being drawn was mixed with the sound of footsteps, and the sound of the crossbow being cocked was heard.
No need to look, there should be a good ambush downstairs. If he jumps down, he will be shot half to death by the crossbowman who has already aimed at the window, and then he will fall to the ground and die.
If Dagou still survives, the swordsmen and gunmen will swarm him and chop him into pieces.
It can be said that as long as their commander outside the door does not lose his mind, no matter how tough the gangster is, they will not be able to escape. It is equivalent to picking up the credit for nothing.
pity…
The two turned around and looked at each other.
Jia Hui smiled at Luda.
"How's it going, Brother Lu?" After saying that, he stretched out his hand and shook it towards Luda.
"Are you willing to admit defeat?"
There was a burst of quarreling outside the door, some yelling that the thieves could not be captured, some shouting that everyone should stand shoulder to shoulder, and some wailing to stop fighting...
"Wait a minute! Brother, the fight outside the door isn't over yet! They're not necessarily fighting us!" Ruda still wanted to struggle.
"Okay, let's wait until the fighting outside is finished." Jia Hui retracted his hand and put it on the table casually, not in a hurry.
The voice of his personal soldier Wei Shi can be clearly heard in the voice outside the door, and the broken gong voice can be heard as soon as he opens his voice.
It must have been his own soldiers who got into trouble with the soldiers from the army and horses summoned by the shopkeeper.
Not long after, with a loud shout, the door became quiet, as if some negotiation was going on.
Then the entire corridor was filled with gasps of cold air...
Not another word was heard.
Thumb thump!
"General, the commander of the city patrol and the restaurant manager brought about fifty people to break into the box. Now they have been captured alive by us. Please tell me how to deal with it!"
"Hey!" Jia Hui looked at Luda who looked unlucky with a proud look on his face, and stretched out his hand towards him.
"It's okay! Old Ten, let them retreat quickly, don't disturb a certain family's fun!"
After all, Ruda was a criminal who committed two, ah, no, definitely more than two murders. Although he was acting chivalrously and righteously, the people he killed were all those who were rich and unkind.
But after all, it was Luda who had done the case himself. Even though he was a nobleman, he still couldn't stand up when facing these law enforcement officers.
Reasonable!
"Yes! Did you both hear it? If my general doesn't have a distinguished guest coming today, I'm in a good mood! Otherwise, I won't skin you two!"
Wei Shi agreed, then stood up, looked at the two pale-faced people, and yelled at them.
There was another burst of compliments and flattery outside the door, and Wei Shi was heard cursing at them, and the sound of footsteps entered the box again. However, unlike the previous time when he wanted to trample the floor, this time the footsteps were very hasty but cautious.
Soon, calm returned to the outside of the box again.
"Here, ten taels of silver!"
Ruda took out a small banknote from his pocket with an annoyed look on his face and slapped Jia Hui's hand heavily.
Jia Hunhun didn't care and opened the banknote. Well, twelve taels, that's right!
Fold it in half again and put it in your waist bag.
In fact, ten taels of silver is nothing to the two of them. What they want is the feeling of winning or losing!
At the very least, the set of banquets they are eating now cannot be purchased for only ten taels of silver.
Food costs about 8 taels of silver, but the most expensive thing is the drinks.
Those few jars of wine alone cost nearly sixty taels of silver.
If you can go back to your roots a little bit, just a little bit.
Silently putting away the twelve taels of silver notes, Jia Hui raised his head and looked directly into Ruda's eyes.
"There is going to be chaos in Jiangnan, Brother Lu..."
"Okay, brother, I don't have any other abilities. This little strength is still of some use. Brother, just give me your orders!"
Ruda interrupted Jia Hui's words, patted his chest and agreed.
"Brother..." Jia Hui was a little touched when he heard Luda agree to help him without saying a word.
Ruda actually had no obligation to participate in the war in Jiangnan.
He is the nominal deputy general of Gansu Town. As a border soldier, he is only obliged to participate in the war if something goes wrong in Gansu Town and other border towns. Regarding the upcoming rebellion in Jiangnan, he does not need to participate, and even participating in it would be suspected of exceeding his authority...
But he still chose to help himself without hesitation.
"Okay, okay, don't act like a child! I told you that if something happens, just tell your brother, he will naturally help you, but what kind of rebellion is it? Who are you going to fight?"
Ruda stopped Jia Hui, who was raising his hands and wanted to say some polite words, and asked his doubts.
Jia Hui touched his chin, which had grown some fine black hair, and couldn't think of where to start.
Ruda was a little confused when he saw Jia Hui.
"But what can't be said?"
"That's not true. I just don't know where to start..."
Jia Hui put away the folding fan in his hand and kept tapping his palms.
"Actually, this incident started when my uncle was retaliated by the salt merchant... Later, they found a false clue that the salt merchant had deliberately released, and my uncle led all the people to rush up... It was obvious that the military and businessmen colluded, and later My aunt brought a letter to my family. I saw that it was a good thing! After investigating and finding out that the situation was true, I went to Xiyuan to find the emperor...
...Only when we investigated the matter did we find that it was actually the Manichaeism from hundreds of years ago, now called the White Lotus Sect, who had set up a trap for King Zhongxin, and that unscrupulous thing was taken for granted..."
Jia Hui told Ruda exactly what happened, and he believed Ruda's story.
Again, when asking for help, you must have the attitude of asking for help. At the very least, you must explain everything exactly as it is!
But when it came to talking about the people the White Lotus Sect wanted to unite with, Jia Hui found that she couldn't speak, so she had to open and close her mouth silently, so she fell silent.
"What's the matter? Then who are the White Lotus Sect of Laoshizi going to rebel with?"
Ruda asked anxiously about Jia Hui. He had some vague suspicions in his heart. Seeing Jia Hui's silence, he felt even more anxious.
"Alas..." Jia Hui sighed.
What a sin!
"servant…"
Jia Hui squeezed out two words through his teeth with difficulty.
"What? Who?"
But the voice was too soft and Luda didn’t hear it clearly.
"Servant of the world..."
Jia Hui changed her words, but her voice was still very low.
"What the hell?"
After taking a few deep breaths, Jia Hui calmed down his anxious heart.
"The family has a son!" Jia Hui said to Ruda word by word, as if he had written down a heavy burden, and he breathed a long sigh of relief.
"servant…"
Hearing the name Jia Hui said, Ruda was a little distracted, but he thought of what he had seen and heard along the way...
"No wonder, no wonder, why do the Sa family think it's appropriate for them to rebel?"
Jia Hui rubbed the folding fan in his hand unnaturally.
"I feel the same way. We are all human beings. There is really no reason to be so cruel. We kill people with no more than a nod of our heads. Some of the methods even I, with my hands covered in blood, find... cruel...
If it were me, I would really rather die together with my master's family, and my family members probably wouldn't survive either. Thinking about it carefully, if what I have experienced will continue to be suffered by my descendants from generation to generation, it is really better to go on the road together! "
Perhaps because he was about to become a father, Jia Hui also began to fantasize about what his child would be like in the future, and how he would be involved in various lives. After investigating the attitudes of most of the aristocratic families in Jiangnan towards servants, he even He couldn't help but put his own child into it, and his heart was as sharp as a knife.
He shook his head to get rid of the bad images in his mind.
"Why would those heartless people treat their servants like this?
It doesn’t make sense! Even if you raise a dog, you will have feelings for it after more than ten years, right? Let alone an individual? The worst thing is that the servants are all his own property. If they are broken or killed, then..." Ruda stared closely into Jia Hui's eyes, but in the end he still couldn't finish his words.
"Perhaps, the ancestors of those people had the same idea as you, big brother, at the beginning. But after so many years, it seems that everything has become a matter of course. The most terrifying thing is that even those servants have become accustomed to it. Lord Home is their heaven!
In this case, what will those masters who accidentally learn of the servants' thoughts do? Test them step by step until you find out their bottom line. If you go a little further, the servants will no longer resist...
Generation after generation, the bottom line is constantly being exceeded, until one day, the master no longer regards the slaves as the same people as himself.
But the life of the master's family is seen by the slaves, and there will always be a few unwilling people who stand up and resist. "
Jia Hui lowered his head and did not look at Ruda.
"The White Lotus Sect seized on this and gave the slaves a chance to turn over, a chance to become their own masters."
Jia Hui continued to speak, and Ruda suddenly raised his head.
"Brother, your Jia family is also an aristocratic family from Jiangnan, right? And it's also a family with two kingdoms..."
Jia Hui stopped talking and spoke after a moment.
"Yes, in the early years, the Jia family was the backer of the Jiangnan aristocratic families...
In the early years, Daqi really needed money to rebuild the Jiangnan aristocratic families. In fact, they were not that important. Even killing the goose to retrieve the eggs would not have any impact. After all, each company's technology is similar, and there will always be someone who kneels down and offers their technology to save their lives.
But at that time, the Jia Shi family was favored by the behemoths who were once beyond their reach, but later became "that one" in their eyes, and actually became their backers.
How could Taizu be so alienated from his civil and military confidants over such a thing? What's more, during that time, the Jiangnan aristocratic families all lived with their tail between their legs, paying no less than a penny in taxes, and even donated a lot of gold and silver to the national treasury, but they just turned a blind eye.
Don't look at me like this. You should know how our Jia family treats the servants and their sons, right? Always kind to people.
Especially my old lady, she has become even more serious. The cats and dogs in front of her are almost more valuable than the younger generations in the family.
Not to mention the maids and servants in Rongguo Mansion, they are almost becoming the deputy young master and deputy young lady! "
Seeing Luda looking at him with a disappointed look on his face, Jia Hui quickly speeded up his speech and gave him a Rongguo Mansion shock.
"This...also, your Jia family's treatment of servants is one of the best in the entire capital." Ruda scratched his head, and the inexplicable rejection of Jia Hui that had just arisen in his heart also dissipated. Luda also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Jia Hui glanced at Ruda angrily.
"In short, Jiangnan's taxes are too important, so Jiangnan cannot be in chaos! This rebellion that is bound to break out must be suppressed as soon as possible!
For now, there won't be any major battles, and everything will be fine. Many projects in the imperial court are about to start. In this case, the taxation of Jiangnan is particularly important.
but…"
Jia Hui smiled sinisterly at Ruda.
"When the time comes, it's up to me to decide when to start. For example, after the servants have taken revenge..."
Jia Hui closed his mouth again and stopped talking.
That's all. There's no need to say more.
Luda suddenly understood and nodded towards Jia Hui.
"It has to be you, brother!"
Ruda quickly picked up the teapot and filled it with tea as if he were pouring wine for Jia Hui. He smiled at each other and swallowed the tea in the cup as if he were drinking.
. . . . . .
Yangzhou.
In a pavilion outside.
Lin Ruhai looked puzzled as a group of cavalry rushed towards him accompanied by the dust in the sky.
Early this morning, a messenger ran to his home to inform him to come to the pavilion outside the city to wait for Lin Chong to come.
The messenger didn't say what he wanted to do, and he didn't even have a letter. He said he had to open the letter in front of Lin Chong in the pavilion and read it in person. This made Lin Ruhai very angry.
If he didn't have Brother Hui's token in his hand, he would have been thrown into the prison to serve him well.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew by, instantly blowing up the dust brought by the march of a large number of cavalry. With a "whoosh", the dust rushed into the pavilion.
"Cough cough cough...poof!"
Just as he was about to say hello to Lin Chong and his group, his face was covered with dust blown by the wind, and he quickly spat on the ground.
"Master Lin!" Lin Chong jumped off the horse, took out a kettle from the saddlebag and walked up to Lin Ruhai.
He didn't care about anything anymore. Anyway, Lin Chong saw his bad luck with eating a mouthful of sand. He simply gave up his grace and quickly took it from Lin Chong's hand and said something. He poured some water into his mouth and started without stopping. gargle.
"Gulu gulu...poof!"
After spitting the water in her mouth outside the living room, Lin Ruhai looked at Lin Chong.
"General Lin, but Brother Hui...what orders does the Grand Governor have?"
Lin Ruhai suppressed the affectionate name that was about to blurt out from her mouth and instead addressed Jia Hui by her official title.
What's more, there are so many people watching!
Jia Hui’s face must be taken into consideration. Not only to maintain Jia Hui's majesty, but also to consider the lives of these soldiers.
What if one day Jia Hui hears her nickname?
My nephew-in-law is very petty!
This topic must be ended as soon as possible.
"General Lin, does the Grand Governor have a letter for me?"
Lin Ruhai took the initiative to speak.
"Exactly! Mr. Lin, this is a letter written by the general to you!"
Lin Chong took out a letter from his saddle bag and handed it to Lin Ruhai.
Sitting on the simple table that had been prepared long ago, he carefully checked the traces of Jia Hui's fire paint.
Faced with this kind of behavior that was usually very insulting, Lin Chong was not annoyed. He knew the contents of this letter, which was related to hundreds of lives!
Besides, taking Lin Ruhai out of the city in this way must be a big deal, so you can't be too careful.
After confirming that it was complete, Lin Ruhai picked up the letter opener on the table and opened the letter under Lin Chong's gaze.
Today’s first update and second update will be around 3pm.
This chapter took one night to write. The main reason is that it has only been a week since the surgery, and my eyes are still very fragile. I spent a lot of time resting with my eyes closed and applying eye drops, so I write very slowly...
(End of chapter)
