Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 114 Encountering a Thief
It can be said that Qin Tian and the blacksmith are in the same heart.

It's just that Qin Tian hadn't opened his mouth to agree, but Tie Niu suddenly shook his head and said, "I want to follow my adoptive father."

The blacksmith narrowed his eyebrows and said, "Tie Niu, Mr. Qin is a capable person. You can make a name for yourself by following him. What's the use of following your adoptive father? It's just a lifetime of blacksmithing."

Tieniu shook his head: "I will follow my adoptive father."

"You..." The blacksmith suddenly felt a little helpless, but Tie Niu didn't know how to cherish a good future.

On Qin Tian's side, however, he quickly understood that Tieniu had a deep affection for the blacksmith and couldn't bear to leave. Otherwise, this blacksmith shop would not be able to survive with only one blacksmith, right?

Seeing this, Qin Tian didn't insist, and said: "In this case, let Tieniu continue to follow you. When I come back from Longkou County, I will come here again. If Tieniu is willing to follow me, I will How about accepting him again?"

The blacksmith thought it was okay, so he quickly agreed.

By the time he finished speaking, it was already late and the autumn rain was still pouring down. The blacksmith tidied up two rooms for Qin Tian and the others, allowing them to barely pass the night.

Although the autumn rain did not stop the next day, it was much lighter. Qin Tian saw that he could continue on his way, so he bid farewell to Tieniu and the others and continued to Longkou County.

For the next month, they walked or stopped, and finally arrived in Longkou County at the end of autumn and early winter.

The area of ​​Longkou County is still not small, and the population is also quite large, with more than one hundred thousand people.

But when they came, because it was winter and the weather was cold, they didn't see many pedestrians along the way.

After entering Longkou County, they still have to walk for half a day to get to Longkou County. According to their situation, they may only be able to reach the county in the evening.

But even so, Qin Tian and the others decided not to stop along the way, and went directly to the county seat. After all, the weather in the suburbs was too cold, so they couldn't camp anymore, so they could only hurry to the county government.

They drove all the way, and when they came to a small path, they found four or five people standing on the side of the road and chatting.

After Tang Rong saw them, she chuckled lightly: "Master, those few people are really interesting, standing by the side of the road chatting in such a cold day."

Qin Tian's expression moved slightly: "The interesting thing is yet to come."

"What do you mean, Mr. Xiang?"

Qin Tian said: "You will understand later."

The carriage continued to walk, and soon came to the side of those people, and at this moment, those people who were chatting just now suddenly drew their knives from their arms, and immediately surrounded their carriage.

"Throw...throw out all the valuables." A man shouted loudly, holding a vegetable knife in his hand, which seemed ridiculous at this time, because no thief was on the street with a kitchen knife .

Tang Rong already understood Qin Tian's meaning at this time, it turned out that these people were just waiting for the fish to take the bait.

But along the way, Tang Rong became a lot more courageous. At this moment, facing these bandits, she didn't feel any fear at all. Instead, she gave the bandit a funny look.

At this time, Hu Shiba was ready to stand up and deal with these people. Along the way, he dealt with many thieves like this.

But just as Hu Shiba was about to stand up, Qin Tian pulled him down: "No rush!"

Hu Shiba glanced at Qin Tian in confusion, but didn't ask any further questions. At this moment, Qin Tian came out of the carriage, holding a few pieces of silver cakes in his hand. When the bandits saw the silver cakes, their eyes widened. Li suddenly glowed.

"Throw it over here." The man with the kitchen knife called out to Qin Tian, ​​who shrugged his shoulders: "I have a lot of silver cakes, and I can give you whatever you want, but it's just..."

"Just what?"

"It's just that I'm afraid I'll give it to you, and you don't have the guts to ask for it."

The bandits looked at each other, and then couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"We are thieves, are we afraid of asking for money?"

"That is, how much do you have, how much do we want, take it out quickly."

Qin Tiandao: "Do you dare to ask for the silver cake from the magistrate of Longkong County?"

The thieves were shocked when they heard this.

"What do you mean by that?"

"I'm the new magistrate of Longkou County, Qin Tian, ​​you little thieves, why don't you kneel down when you see me?" Qin Tian shouted suddenly, those thieves were startled, and fell to their knees with a plop.

"Master County Magistrate, please forgive me, we...we didn't know it was you..."

Sitting in the carriage, Tang Rong suddenly couldn't help laughing. She had seen quite a few thieves, but this was the first time she had seen such a cowardly thief. She was frightened by Qin Tian's words and begged for mercy. Woke up?
How can you be a thief if you are so timid?
Looking at these thieves begging for mercy, Qin Tian confirmed his previous thoughts more and more. When he saw these people standing on the side of the road pretending to chat, he felt that they were just thieves at first, because if thieves had experience, they would not Will do such an obviously flawed thing.

And when he frightened them, they begged for mercy, so he was basically sure.

"Get up, I'm here to ask you, why are you thieves?"

Seeing that Qin Tian spared them, the thieves finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the man with the kitchen knife stood up: "Go back to the master, the younger one is called Sun San, because he borrowed money from Master Zhou in the city, and he couldn't pay. There is no other way, I just came out to rob Dao, I never thought that luck would be so bad, the first time I rob Dao, I met the official."

The others also sighed.

"We also borrowed money from Mr. Zhou, and we were robbed if we didn't pay."

Qin Tian was puzzled and asked, "How much did you borrow?"

"Consistent money."

Qin Tiandao: "The money is usually not too much. I see that you are strong and strong. If you work for a while, you can pay it back. Why do you do such a thing?"

Sun San smiled wryly: "Master, you don't know, this week's master's money is a donkey's roll. I borrowed the money, and I have to pay back the five hundred cash the next day. Now I owe him ten money. It's amazing."

"Usury?" Qin Tian frowned. He did not expect that in the small Longkou County, there would be people lending usury. Although the Tang Dynasty did not explicitly prohibit this situation, the court did not advocate it.

In Chang'an City, there has always been a standard for repaying interest, which is considered within the normal range. Longkou County pays an extra five hundred cash a day, which is too high.

He looked up at these people and suddenly wanted to whip them.

Are these people fools? Do you dare to borrow five hundred cash a day?
Poor people must have something to hate.

"Why do you want to borrow money?" Qin Tian was still relatively calm after all, not too impulsive.

And hearing this, Sun San's face turned pale immediately: "My son is sick and needs money to see a doctor. I really have no choice but to borrow money from Master Zhou. I...I can't just see my son so sick ah……"

Unless it is a last resort, who is willing to borrow usury?

"Master, I...I was forced to borrow by Master Zhou."

(End of this chapter)