After escaping from marriage, Master National Teacher is anxious

chapter 69

"Husband, why is this happening here?" Wen Man asked in a low voice.

Feng Yao said: "The imperial court did not allocate much money to Luocheng, part of it was used to repair the city wall, and the rest went into the hands of corrupt officials. Since the previous dynasty, this has been under the jurisdiction of the Lou family. The Lou family has made great contributions in defending the city. There are few failures, so His Majesty will turn a blind eye, and when food and grass are lost, the Lou family will forcibly search for people's fat and people's ointment."

It turned out that the two father and son of the Lou family were so inhuman.

"Your royal father actually knows everything, but he just doesn't want to expose it. The Lou family has offended his bottom line this time, so he has to find someone to manage it. He also knows what Wen Hui did secretly. Fengzhen is a rich place, that's why Wen Hui came to Luocheng." Feng Yao told her something about Luocheng while leading her forward.

Luocheng is located in the northernmost part of the Emperor Cloud Kingdom, and the climate is dry, which is not suitable for growing food and vegetables. If there is a drought in that year, the farmers will have no crops. They can only rely on selling their property and borrowing money to solve their food and clothing, and earn a lot of money. , the family is even more struggling.

There used to be people who raised knives at the government, but the government colluded with the Lou family. As long as the Lou family father and son give an order, those people will either be killed or imprisoned. After a long time, those who can go to their relatives will leave Los Angeles and have nowhere to go. If you go, you can only swallow your anger here.

Looking at the people selling crops and small things along the street, Wen Man felt uncomfortable, and wanted to ask Feng Yao for some copper plates and scraps of silver to buy something so that they could exchange for food, but what Feng Yao took out were all The silver bill of more than one hundred taels scared her so much that she hurriedly asked him to keep it.

She understands the truth that wealth should not be exposed to evil eyes.

"Let's go, let's find a pawn shop." Wen Man said, taking off the hairpin on her head, seeing Feng Yao's puzzled face, she explained, "In the palace, Er Huang Xiong brought me good things, Ye'er and I will be buried under the tree in the backyard, otherwise those troublemakers will rob us if they see us, it's better not to take out your bank notes."

Feng Yao nodded, although he is not afraid of being targeted, but right now it is really better not to cause extra problems.

Los Angeles is not small, but the land is vast and sparsely populated. There is only one pawn shop. It is on Baichuan Street to the east. The houses here are obviously better than the ones I saw just now. According to passers-by, all the officials in Los Angeles live here, and there are also policemen. Patrol from time to time.

After entering the pawn shop, Wen Man handed over the hairpin in her hand, "How much can this be?"

The pawnshop clerk took it, looked at it carefully, and asked her indifferently, "Deed of death or deed of living?"

"How much are they?"

The clerk said impatiently: "This thing is not worth a lot of money, mainly because the craftsmanship of the craftsman is relatively high, and the material is very ordinary. The death contract costs [-] copper plates, and the life contract costs [-]."

Wen Man doesn't know how much this hairpin is worth, but she has already cultivated her bargaining instinct in the palace, "To tell you the truth, my husband and I came from the capital city to find relatives. We met a thief last night. Besides this The hairpin, all the valuables have been stolen, if it wasn’t for this, I wouldn’t be the hairpin, can you give me more?”

"Which of the people who come to me as a pawn is not a poor man who is in a hurry to use money?" The impatience on the boy's face became more obvious, "Come on, if the deed is dead, I will give you an extra one hundred copper coins."

Wen Man pretended to hesitate, and after a while, gritted her teeth and nodded, "Okay, then die."

The clerk gave them a hundred coppers, "Everyone else is looking for relatives in other places, how about you, why don't you go to Los Angeles to find relatives?"

After getting the copper plate, Wen Man didn't pay attention to the guy any more, she took Feng Yao and walked away, saying as she walked, "I don't know how much my hairpin is worth?"

"Not expensive, 100 taels." Feng Yao said calmly.

Wen Man almost bit her tongue, "What? 100 taels? Why didn't you stop me?"

Feng Yao laughed, "What are you doing to stop you?"

"Now I'll either be the one who doesn't know what to do and get slaughtered, or I'll expose the fact that we are very rich. When I mentioned that the money was stolen, the guy didn't even raise his eyebrows. It must be that this kind of thing happens in Los Angeles. It's no surprise to him, or he's used to it." Wen Man faintly felt that that guy was not a good person.

Feng Yao also found out, but what he wanted was to be targeted. Besides not stopping Wen Man, he also deliberately dropped a 100 tael bank note in the pawnshop.

The defeat of the border army must have been due to the intrusion of spies into the army. Since it has been easy, the identities of himself and Wen Man cannot be exposed. Only Wen Hui, who has just arrived in office, can come forward.

As for how to meet Wen Hui, there is nothing more suitable than being robbed in the street.

But Wen Man didn't know this, when Feng Yao took her into the alley, she thought it was to take a shortcut, even when several strong men with sticks blocked their way, she didn't realize it.

"Hand over all the bank notes." The head of the strong man stared at Feng Yao fiercely.

Feng Yao originally planned to let them succeed, and then report to the officials himself, but seeing them looking like bears, it was not easy to be robbed by them, so he changed his strategy, and beat them all to the ground as soon as he made a move.

There were five strong men in total, and he let one go on purpose.

Wen Man's eyes were sharp, and she was about to chase after her, but her stamina lightened, and she was pulled back by Feng Yao.

Let go of the whistleblower, and there were four left, Feng Yao was even more rude, tied the four of them together as soon as he entered, and found something to stop their mouths.

"These people are all pawnshops. They robbed in broad daylight. It must be because there are people in the government." When Feng Yao spoke, he paid attention to the reactions of the four people. Their look of confidence proved his guess was right.

He bent down and whispered his plan in Wen Man's ear.

After hearing this, Wen Man also felt that it was feasible. Before the officials from the government came, she picked up the wooden sticks on the ground and knocked them hard a few times, "Let you see the money, let you rob your house, what is wrong with you, To do such a thing.”

Still angry after the beating, she stepped forward and looted all the valuables from these people.

These few people probably never imagined that those who robbed were robbed by others.

"Here we come." Feng Yao signaled Wen Man to stop first.

Wen Man stuffed all the looted property into her sleeve pockets, and then stood behind Feng Yao.

After a while, a group of people swarmed over. Judging by their clothes, they were indeed government servants. It turned out that it was the officials and gangsters who protected each other, which made the pawnbrokers so arrogant.

"Assault in the street in broad daylight, come here, arrest them!" The leader of the arresters gave an order, and all the arresters surrounded them, not targeting the four people on the ground, but Feng Yao and Wen Man.

The perpetrator in the street became the one who was beaten instead, but the majestic master of the state was regarded as the perpetrator. Wen Man wanted to laugh, but she held back.

Feng Yao took a token from his waist, "Take me to see the Fourth Prince."

(End of this chapter)