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"Student, I'd like to meet you two adults." The visitors bowed to Guo Binchang and Li Huaixin respectively.
"Nonsense." Guo Binchang said with a serious face, "You are a countryman... You have to kneel down before an official. Who allows you to salute like a scholar? Do you know that etiquette must not be messed up?"
As a civil servant and a Jinshi, he was still a member of the civil service. When he saw a bandit actually saluting him as a scholar, he felt extremely humiliated.
"To tell you what, sir, the student was once a child, but later he failed to succeed in his career, so he did other things to make a living." Zhao Yutu explained with a smile.
"Huh, what a shameless person... sweeping the floor." Guo Binchang snorted coldly.
Zhao Yutu knew what Guo Binchang wanted to say. He just wanted to say something polite and scum.
He was not angry because of this, and said directly: "Since Mr. Li is here, save the students and go to the garrison mansion again. Someone comes and delivers the things to the magistrate and the garrison."
The two bandits standing behind Zhao Yutu each took out a cloth bag and handed it over.
Guo Binchang did not touch the cloth bag, but asked Mr. Jia beside him to take it and put it on the desk.
Li Huaixin on the other side took the cloth bag directly with his hand, and his wrist immediately sank, feeling that the contents of the cloth bag were heavy.
Seeing the cloth bag delivered, Zhao Yutu smiled and said: "The cloth bag contains three hundred and twenty-five taels of silver. Our boss said that since the two adults agreed to cooperate, why not start giving monthly bonuses from this month to show that Sincerity.”
"this……"
Guo Binchang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly opened the cloth bag on the desk with his hands, revealing the white silver inside, which were all twenty-two ingots of gold ingots. In addition, there were a few pieces of broken silver.
Li Huaixin also opened the cloth bag and counted a total of sixteen silver ingots and five broken pieces of silver. After weighing it, he found that there were at least several hundred taels.
Master Jia, who was standing aside, looked straight in his eyes and swallowed.
He couldn't make so much money without eating or drinking for a year, and he wished he could take his place and sit behind the desk.
Guo Binchang held the cloth bag with one hand and said in a reserved voice: "What does your proprietor mean by this? Could it be that I am still coveting his forest?"
Zhao Yutu said with a smile: "Our boss hopes that Lingqiu can be stable. In the words of our boss, it is called win-win cooperation."
"Under my rule, everything will be peaceful and stable. I tell you, proprietor, to do business with peace of mind." Guo Binchang tied the cloth bag again, lifted it from the table and put it at his feet.
"Student, I would like to thank you, sir." Zhao Yutu bowed and gave a salute.
"There is no need to be so polite." Guo Binchang said, "Come here, serve tea."
"Thank you, sir." Zhao Yutu bowed.
He found that the magistrate of Lingqiu County was more philistine than he thought. The so-called scholar's character became a joke for more than three hundred taels of silver.
Li Huaixin said at this time: "Sir, is the official document sent two days before I was dismissed..."
"Yes, yes, yes, Master Jia, go and get the official document sent by Mr. Li." Guo Binchang said to Master Jia, then looked at Li Huaixin and said, "I've been really busy with business these past two days, so I've been delayed. Mr. Li, please don’t blame me.”
"I don't dare, lower officials." Li Huaixin bowed.
Not long after, Master Jia held an official document in his hand and handed it to Guo Binchang for a look. After Guo Binchang read and agreed, he handed it to Li Huaixin.
Putting the official document away, Li Huaixin put it in his arms, stood up, and said, "I will arrange for someone to send the official document and the bandits' heads to the Military Preparation Road for inspection, so I won't disturb you sir."
Guo Binchang nodded and said, "Well, go ahead! I will publish the list when the official document is replied."
As soon as Li Huaixin left, Zhao Yutu also stood up and asked to leave.
As soon as the two people left, Guo Binchang took the cloth bag back to the desk, touched this ingot, then that ingot, and was overjoyed.
More than three hundred taels a month, which would be several thousand taels a year. A magistrate could get tens of thousands of taels of silver.
Before, he thought that Liu Heng was deceiving him, just to get him to sign documents to manipulate him and Li Huaixin, but he didn't expect that he would actually give money.
After ten years of hard work, when I was ranked first, it was not just for these things.
Compared with the Xu family, he felt that Liu Heng from Hutou Village was very good, sensible and sensible.
………………
There was a carriage parked on the official road from Guangling to Lingqiu. The driver wore a felt hat and leaned against the carriage. There was a flag on the shaft of the carriage with the word "Xu" embroidered in black thread.
The rapid sound of horse hooves was heard in the distance, and a horse team was galloping from the direction of Guangling.
"Huh!" A man at the head of the cavalry pulled the reins, stopped beside the carriage, and asked, "Is this the carriage of the Xu family in Lingqiu?"
The curtain on the carriage was lifted from the inside, revealing a head and saying, "Are you guys from Daliang Mountain? Do you have a letter from Shopkeeper Li?"
The big man on horseback took out a letter from his arms and threw it into the carriage.
The horse on his hip snored, and two streams of white air came out, which quickly turned into ice slag and fell to the ground.
The man on the carriage picked up the letter and read it. After confirming that it was correct, he said: "In front of me is the Zhuangzi of my Xu family. All heroes, please follow me and rest in the Zhuangzi."
Ma Yunjiu did not doubt that he was there, and led the people to follow the carriage to Zhuangzi in front.
He wasn't too worried about the Xu family in Lingqiu. Even if someone wanted to harm him and the cavalry, there was no need to come so far away from Lingqiu, and he had paid a hundred taels of deposit in advance.
Even if someone really wants to do something, he is not afraid. With the strength of the cavalry team of more than 20 people, as long as they are not surrounded by a large army, ordinary people will not be able to stop him and the cavalry team.
Most of the riders in his cavalry were from Liaodong Yebushu, otherwise it would not have been possible for him to lead Shi Yunhu to escape from the siege of the army overnight.
Winter nights get dark earlier, and after midnight it becomes almost completely dark.
When we arrived at Zhuangzi, it was already the end of Shenshi, the sky began to darken, and the ground was frozen.
"Heroes, you have worked hard all the way. The food and wine have been prepared in the house." Butler Xu led the way and opened the door and walked into a side hall.
The side hall is large enough, with four dining tables placed inside, filled with food, and the aroma wafts out from the door.
Ma Yunjiu was invited to sit down at the main table, with Butler Xu accompanying him.
After having enough food and wine, everyone else was invited to the room to rest, except Ma Yunjiu who stayed.
The leftovers on the dinner table were removed and replaced with hot tea.
Butler Xu blew the tea leaves floating in the tea cup, closed the tureen, and said: "Ma Tou will lead you to live in this village for the next few days. Don't worry about food and drink. Our Xu family will make arrangements."
Ma Yunjiu waved his hand and said: "Don't bother me so much. Butler Xu will send someone to identify who is going to be killed. I will go directly to kill him tomorrow."
As he spoke, he made a slashing motion with his hand.
"I'm afraid it's not possible yet, we need to wait." Butler Xu shook his head slightly.
Hearing this, Ma Yunjiu frowned.
