"Silly brother, I am your sister. We are a family. What do you mean by a family? The kind that can lend a helping hand when the other person is in trouble."
"Right now, my sister's situation is better than yours, so I'll help you first. When it's your turn to help your sister in the future, my sister will never refuse to you. You'll definitely accept it calmly and calmly."
"Besides, any problem that can be solved with money is not a problem. Just accept it and don't bother me."
The banknote was stuffed into Xiao An's hand again. Xiao An raised his eyes, his eyes already red.
The fingertips of his fingers that were used to holding swords were covered with calluses and were extremely rough. He could easily hold a heavy weapon, and he wouldn't even frown when holding a hot iron. But now he was holding this thin weapon in his hand. The banknotes, but Xiao An seemed to be holding tens of millions of kilograms of stuff, too heavy!
"Sister, I can accept the money, but I have a condition." Xiao An said.
"What are the conditions? Tell me." Yang Ruoqing asked with a smile.
He is also his biological brother. If anyone else wants to take away money from her, let alone one hundred taels, even if it is ten taels of silver, they will probably find ways to say good things to her.
When he got to this kid, he tried every means to coax him into accepting the money. Not only that, he also had to impose conditions, uh...
"Sister, for the one hundred taels of silver this time, as well as the one hundred taels from last time, plus the house in Qing'an County, I must give you an IOU, and I will pay you back bit by bit in the future."
"Ah?" Yang Ruoqing opened her eyes wide.
Xiao An looked at Liu Xueyun seriously again, "Brother Liu, please help me be a witness."
Liu Xueyun smiled and glanced towards Yang Ruoqing, "As long as your sister agrees, I have no objection."
Xiao An turned around and looked at Yang Ruoqing carefully: "Sister, is that okay?"
Yang Ruoqing grinned, "I'm your sister, do you still have to pay back the money I gave you?"
I bought Daan a house in the capital, gave Duoer farmland and money as a dowry, and even promised the third girl a dowry of thirty taels of silver, as well as Mianmian, Xiuxiu...
These were all given as gifts, and I never thought of writing an IOU to take them back.
"Sister, others are others, and I am me. If I don't write an IOU, I won't feel safe with this money, and I will look down on myself!"
This silly brother!
Yang Ruoqing smiled bitterly, "Okay, sister, I won't hide it from you. In fact, the money and house I gave you these two times were not my own, but came from others."
"Take the bank note in your hand, for example. Third Young Master Cao took it out to scare the He family's parents. To put it bluntly, he was afraid of offending me and your brother-in-law, so he spent money to buy peace."
"You can take this hundred taels of silver with peace of mind and spend it on the parents of the He family. Don't write an IOU. If you are in a hurry to borrow money from me in the future, it won't be too late for us to write one at that time."
Finally, Xiao An accepted the banknote.
With these one hundred taels of silver notes, he felt confident about returning to Qing'an County to settle the He family.
"A hundred taels of silver won't last long in Qing'an County, especially since the follow-up expenses for Uncle He's treatment are like water. Xiao An, I have an idea."
"What's your idea?" Xiao An asked.
Yang Ruoqing smiled and said, "Ark, there are Wang Ba and Wang Xiong. These three big fat sheep are placed there for us to jerk off. If we don't jerk off our hands full of wool, I can't help but make this trip to Donglin County." !”
"Is this... okay?" Xiao An was shocked.
In his concept, even if his home was ransacked, his property would be confiscated and handed over to the court.
"Are you going to ransack your home? It's not as bad as your wife and children, right?" Xiao An asked again, with some pity in his eyes.
Yang Ruoqing curled her lips, "It's not necessary to confiscate the house, but it is necessary for Fang Zhou and Wang Xiong to be dismissed and investigated. Over the years, the father-in-law and his son-in-law took advantage of their positions to squeeze out all the people's wealth and wealth. As for Wang Ba, let alone that. , he will definitely spend the rest of his life in prison."
Xiao An nodded.
"But even so, the people's wealth they squeezed out should be returned to the Donglin County Yamen. How can we take it?"
Seeing the stupid look on his younger brother's face, he looked like a stupid roe deer.
Yang Ruoqing wanted to pry open his head, then scoop two spoonfuls of brains from her own head and pour it in to make him smarter.
"I am the general's wife. Not only do I have a royal decree, but I also have a token given by Emperor Qi Xingyun."
"The same goes for Xueyun. With the two of us here, we will naturally lead people to investigate the stolen money from Fang Zhou and Wang Xiong's family. If the geese are plucking their feathers, we won't swallow them all. If we leave a bite for Magistrate Zhou and the others, it will be the end of our benevolence."
Xiao An was shocked, amazed, and couldn't speak for a long time.
He found that he was really only suitable for being on the coaching field, or on the front line of the battlefield fighting and killing. He didn't understand at all these behind-the-scenes things, and he was not keen.
"No matter what, we still have to be nice to the people of Donglin County, otherwise I won't feel at ease." Xiao An finally reminded.
Yang Ruoqing smiled, "Don't worry, your sister is not a corrupt official or a profiteer. I have a sense of propriety."
"Come on, let's stop talking and have lunch. You can live up to anything in this world, but not food!"
Yang Ruoqing took the lead in picking up the chopsticks and stabbed them directly into the double-eared iron pot on the small charcoal stove in the middle.
What's sizzling and fragrant in the iron pot is the ground pot chicken. The chicken pieces are roasted to golden brown and dotted with coriander and spicy pepper. The edge of the iron pot is close to the cake, and the aroma of the chicken penetrates into the cake. The outside of the cake is crispy, and the inside is soft when you take a bite.
The fragrance and softness of the wheat are perfectly blended with the deliciousness of the chicken. One bite of the cake and one bite of the chicken. Dip the cake into the thick chicken soup and eat it. Wow, even a god would not change it!
Besides, what’s the benefit of being a god? If you want to live without grains, you can't eat anything. It's no fun to be a god.
It is better to be a secular person, eat what you want, drink what you want, and be happy.
"Sister, this spicy shrimp is not bad, you can try it."
Xiao An put a piece of prawn in Yang Ruoqing's bowl.
Yang Ruoqing glanced at Xiao An and said to him: "Xiao An, I will take this opportunity to teach you how to do it. Maybe you can put it to use in the future."
"Well, sister, tell me, I'm listening."
Xiao An said with wide eyes while holding a prawn in his mouth.
Yang Ruoqing pointed to the shrimps in her bowl, "Not only Xiao An needs to listen, but Xueyun you also need to listen. It will be useful to straight men like you two."
Liu Xueyun smiled awkwardly and looked at her seriously.
Yang Ruoqing continued: "When there are dishes like prawns and fish on the dinner table, if you plan to give them to a girl, then you must not do what Xiao An did just now. You have to help her remove the shrimp shells in advance. Peel it and put the whole shrimp meat in her bowl."
"If it's a fish, you have to use serving chopsticks to remove the fish bones before giving it to her."
Xiao An looked confused: "Sister, isn't this the same thing? Why do you go to so much trouble?"
Liu Xueyun squinted his eyes slightly, thoughtfully.
Yang Ruoqing resisted the urge to hit Xiao An on the head with chopsticks, "What is this the same thing? If you take this extra step, you will see something different in the girl's eyes. She will feel that you really put your heart into it. You are really single based on your strength. If I weren’t your sister, I wouldn’t want to teach you!”
