5.7

Zhou Yunsheng originally thought that the Zhu family should have been spoiled by the roving bandits. In the original storyline, the bandits hated Zhu’s family for being rich and unkind, not only robbed all of Zhu’s belongings, but also set a fire to destroy most of the houses. But when the carriage came closer, Zhou Yunsheng realized that Zhu’s house was only slightly damaged, but the inside of the house was as good as new, and even the flowers and plants were still the same as before he left.

A sergeant in martial uniform walked out and saw the group of people and hurriedly greeted them and inquired, “But Zhu Ziyu, the Zhu family’s son, has returned?”

“Precisely under me.” Zhu Ziyu walked over to greet him with Lu’s assistance.

“Mr. Zhu, your compound was requisitioned by our General Ding Yuan as a temporary command post, and now that the roving bandits have retreated, this will be returned in its original form.” Judging from the military uniform, the sergeant’s position should be that of a Thousand Household, but his attitude was not arrogant at all.

General Dingyuan is one of Qin Ce’s right-hand men, very upright, will not be greedy Zhu family property. Zhou Yunsheng’s heart finally landed on the ground, quickly arched his hand to thank, and ordered Cui’er to take out a bag of silver from the package to hand over.

Guard this mansion is the governor personally ordered, how can the sergeant dare to neglect? Naturally, he did not dare to accept the silver, and after firmly refusing, he hurriedly left with a line of soldiers.

Zhou Yunsheng sat in the intact living room and sighed comfortably, he was about to ask Cui’er to set up the meal when he heard the concierge report – Big Steward Zhu had returned.

“Good timing, tie up the person for me and send him directly to the government office.” Zhou Yunsheng smiled deviously.

Zhu Laoshi simply did not expect the proprietor would suddenly turn on himself, but was so unprepared that even the account book of the embezzled proprietor’s property was stowed away in the accompanying parcel, which was rummaged through by the guards.

Zhou Yunsheng this time with great fanfare, took him around a few nearby villages, which entered the county office. Hall two two contrast Zhu Laoshi and Zhu family account book, the onlookers of the townspeople snapped awake: Zhu Laoshi not only unauthorized more than several percent of the rent, but also stipulates that every New Year’s Day tenant farmers have to give him a gift, or else the fields will be taken back. These gifts are all into his private pockets, and there is no Zhu family whatsoever. His son Zhu Fushun fancy which family beautiful girl or brother, regardless of the captive back, but the banner is dedicated to the proprietor to enjoy, so that Zhu Ziyu by these families hate into the bone.

At this point, Zhu Ziyu is really wronged, he is a brother, only to be pressed, which can press people?

The county magistrate of Qing Min County, who is Qin Ce’s subordinate and has an extremely upright character, immediately accepted the case and ordered the magistrates to go to Zhu Laoshi’s house to search for him, and indeed rescued the captive girl and brother. The townspeople who crowded around the door could not help but clamor, cursing Zhu Laoshi for his unscrupulousness on the one hand, and holding the blame for Zhu Ziyu on the other.

All the bad things were done by Zhu Laoshi’s father and son, but Zhu Ziyu took all the blame, wrong, truly wrong!

Due to the attack of the bandits, Zhu Laoshi took refuge and brought the property of the Zhu family into the old forest and refused to return it. The county magistrate ordered him to hit him hard forty big board, see about to break the gas, he just whimpered and confessed.

More than a dozen carts of property and food pulled to the door of the county government office, attracted the townspeople again a burst of amazement. I have seen greedy, never seen so greedy, this is the Zhu family’s old bottom are almost empty, right?

Zhu Ziyu turned over the account book one by one inventory, at the end of the arch hand, “Magistrate Lord, now is the time of natural disasters, the people do not have enough to live, these belongings and food is Zhu Laoshi from the townspeople to scrape the blood and sweat, Zhu Mou shame not dare to accept, this will be donated to receive the townspeople, to accompany you to tide over the difficult times.”

The villagers have long been on the carloads of grain red, if not for the magistrates with swords on both sides, I’m afraid it will be a scramble, and now listen to Zhou Yunsheng said this, have kneeled down and kowtowed to thank you, tears sprinkled all over the lapel, and said that Mr. Zhu is a living God.

The county magistrate was worried that there was not enough grain stored in the warehouse to help the townspeople, and was overjoyed to hear this, and even walked straight down from the hall, bowed deeply at him, and said that he would report the matter to the court and seek a commendation for him.

Since then, the Zhu family’s bad reputation was finally cleaned up by Zhou Yunsheng. In the future, Zhang Jiarui and Loyal Dog Attack would no longer have a reason to suppress the Zhu Family.

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Qin Ce was squeezed in the periphery by the townspeople, and watched Zhu Ziyu get on the carriage and walk away, before he nodded slightly at the county magistrate.

Chapter family members after watching the lively incident in front of the county government office to receive a bag of grain, joyful home.

Zhang Shulin sighed, “It turns out that Mr. Zhu has been taking the blame for Zhu Laoshi. His father and mother and father are both dead, and since he was young and didn’t know anything, he was hoodwinked and fooled by a group of unruly slaves, and he took on a bad reputation like that for nothing, so it’s also pitiful.”

“What’s there to pity about him? He didn’t collect less rent, and his life is more comfortable than anyone else’s.” Zhang Jiarui sneered.

“When you plant someone’s land, you naturally have to pay them rent. Is it that giving the land to you for nothing is considered truly good? Is there such a cheap thing in heaven?” Qin Ce, who had been silent all this time, suddenly opened his mouth, his face really not considered nice.

Zhang Shulin glared at the still indignant Zhang Jiarui and nodded in agreement with a smile.

Just then, the village chief came, rubbing his hands and said, “Shulin ah, the army is withdrawing, but the bandits are not clean, I am afraid that they will come back in the future. After discussing the matter, we decided to put together a few carloads of grain to send to the military, so that they can come to our Zhangjia Village more often when they are not busy, to deter them. Your family should still have some grain left, right? Take two bags and send them to the ancestral hall. There are other families that need to be notified, so I’ll leave first.”

Zhang Shulin sent away the village chief, came back to a few bags of grain worry. Zhang family with a small black total of seven people, but only so much food, but also from July to eat the spring of the next year, every day to drink a thin porridge are afraid of not enough, at this time even have to share some of them to give to others. How can he afford it?

Zhang Jiarui is also very reluctant to give up, proposed, “Just send a handful of it, meaning is also done. Obviously can be a drum to clear the banditry, those soldiers but halfway gone, visible is left to blackmail the townspeople, really want to fill the gully.”

This kind of thing is not uncommon in Chu Yun Country, the so-called collusion between officials and bandits is exactly like this, but this does not include the troops under Qin Ce’s command. The reason why the troops withdrew halfway was to kill the Empress Dowager’s first son, and the second was to enter the capital to rescue the young emperor, only to wait for the dynastic situation to stabilize before returning to fight the bandits. Zhang Jiarui’s words were completely unfounded slander.

Qin Ce’s eyes darkened as he glanced at Zhang Jiarui, his opinion of him dropping directly to the bottom.

Zhang Shulin actually nodded his head in agreement and followed with a few curses before scooping out half a bowl of grain and preparing to take it to the shrine.

Suddenly, I heard someone outside running around, “No need to send food, our several villages of food proprietors all out of the square has been sent to the barracks to go.”

“Good man, proprietor!”

“Living Buddha!”

“I have to offer the proprietor a longevity sign!”

“Me too, if it weren’t for the proprietor’s help, we’d be dead already!”

Outside the courtyard, there was a lot of noise, all praise and gratitude for Zhu Ziyu. Zhang Shulin originally thought that the ancient landlords were all characters like Zhou Pawpi, but he didn’t realize that he was so lucky that he ran into a great benefactor, and he was busy pouring the grain back into the bag and smiled happily.

Zhang Jiarui’s face was green and white, he opened his mouth several times but didn’t know what to be sarcastic about, and finally snorted disdainfully, “Fishing for fame!”

“It’s a blessing for you that he’s willing to sell his name.” Qin Ce looked at Zhang Shulin and commanded, “Prepare some earth rituals for us to take with us to thank Mr. Zhu.”

“Hey, should be, should be.” Zhang Shulin was busy packing up a basket of tuyi and was about to go out, but was hard taken over by Qin Ce, “Things are busy at home, you stay, I’ll go and it’s done.”

Zhang Shulin hadn’t scolded Zhu Ziyu much since he crossed over, and seeing him now was really a bit awkward, so he agreed. Qin Ce got what he wanted and immediately took big steps out the door.

July summer, and a few months in a row without rain, the heat of the temperature is unbearable. Zhu family’s belongings are scattered by Zhou Yunsheng clean, there is no room to add the ice basin, only to wear a thin reddish-colored sarong, bare feet, shaking the bamboo fan, half dead lying in the lotus pond next to the pavilion.

When Qin Ce arrived, he was preparing to have his lunch, and on the low table by his feet was a bowl of secret cold noodles with golden yellow oil, sprinkled with green onions and red oil pig ears, the rich aroma going straight to one’s nose.

Qin Ce was a foodie, but the first thing he noticed was not the food, but the youth’s feet that were casually draped over the edge of the soft couch. Light green veins climbed and spread under the jade texture, with a mysterious and magnificent beauty. Qin Ce could almost sense every faint pulsation of that vein, and even smell the unique aroma it emitted.

He wanted to kneel beside him, cupping these jade feet and kissing them, licking and sucking them one toe at a time, admiring his luscious and unrivaled expression when he was in the throes of love, and watching the crystalline tears seeping out of his peach blossom eyes when he was being bullied viciously by himself.

One crazy thought after another came to him, making him obsessed. His eyes became fierce and evil, like a long-hungry wolf.

The short table was at his feet, but Zhou Yunsheng thought he was looking at the bowl of cold noodles, cursing a ‘foodie’ in his heart, he lazily opened his mouth, “Eat if you want to, don’t look like you’ve been starving for eight lifetimes.”

“Really?” Qin Ce snapped his head up, there was disbelief in his eyes, moreover there was a hint of ecstasy, and a lot of sweat immediately emerged from his palms, which was sticky and very uncomfortable.

“Naturally, can I still skimp on a bowl of cold noodles?” Zhou Yunsheng snorted.

The light in Qin Ce’s eyes quickly dimmed, pursed his lips, and wiped his sweaty palms with the hem of his shirt before he held up the cold noodles and ate them. He ate especially slowly, but his chewing movements were especially vicious, as if this bowl of noodles had a grudge against him.

After spending the afternoon by the youth’s side, he got up to take his leave, and when he exited the Zhu family’s gate, his face immediately turned gloomy. No matter how magnificent he looked, Zhu Ziyu was ultimately a man, but he had such charming and crazy thoughts about a man!

This makes Qin Ce feel very entangled, even more entangled is that he is not willing to give up in the slightest, on the contrary, began to seriously consider the possibility of using the power of force to force people to take.

Zhu Ziyu is already twenty years old, in other families would have been married and have children, he can not afford to delay. But what should Zhang Shulin do? Do you really want to renege on your promise?

Thinking about this, Qin Ce was suddenly caught in a dilemma.