Missy, she likes to make waves

Chapter 98 Another Price

But fuck you, I want your good words to work.

Ma Changdiao's complexion was beyond ugly and indescribable.

He hit the coffee table with his fist, and the coffee table fell to the ground.

Ma Chang Diao said with a stiff face, "Our Ma family can't afford the [-]-denier ration. The county magistrate borrowed the rations. Ma can't help but save face, and if he scrapes it together, he can get a hundred denier."

Ma's family was engaged in casinos and brothels, and Ma Changdiao was not easy to get along with. He had tolerated Li Si for a long time.

If you really want to tear your face, no one is afraid of anyone.

No matter how angry Ma Chang Diao got, Li Si wouldn't love him.

Even if he went through a process and came to inform him, he didn't expect him to agree on the spot.

"The higher-ups ordered nine hundred deniers, but you can keep it for one hundred deniers. This doesn't mean to embarrass us servants. If you really don't have food, it's not impossible to exchange silver."

Li Si was grinning, and his words were ambiguous, "Mr. Ma is rich and powerful, and you can just give 300 taels of tea money. If you can't come up with this money, it's really a joke."

"You are willing to cooperate with us in our work to benefit the people of Hejun County. Magistrate Zhou said that the autumn harvest will be harvested next year. This part of the grain can be used to offset [-]% of the tax."

"If you don't cooperate, there will be another price."

"Think about it slowly. You can go to the yamen to find me at any time before dusk. You can also ask someone to inform me. As long as the rations are in place, everything will be easy to talk about."

Li Si threatened and lured without waiting for Ma Changdiao to respond, and after finishing speaking, he took the two yamen servants to pat their buttocks and left.

Ma Changdiao was so angry that the veins on his forehead twitched wildly, and he couldn't vent his anger. He picked up the teacup and threw it at the door, "It's really deceiving."

"Master, what should we do?"

The housekeeper asked, "Do you really want to borrow nine hundred denim from the government office?"

"Borrow what, can this be borrowed?"

"Any fool should know that if I borrow the grain today, not to mention the autumn harvest next year, even the autumn harvest in ten years will not come back."

The more Ma Changdiao said, the more he got angry, "It sounds nice, the autumn harvest is 810% tax deductible, and he gave me [-] deniers of [-] deniers of grain, and let him take [-] deniers for nothing. I have really treated Ma Changdiao as a big wrong."

The housekeeper didn't know how to comfort him, and sighed deeply, "Those who come are not kind, and those who are kind don't come, I'm afraid this matter will not be easily let go."

"What are you afraid of? Now that there are no customers in casinos and brothels, they will go out of business. I can save a few wages."

Ma Changdiao is not a brainless person, he has already thought about the way out.

"Having said that, when the epidemic is over, the gambling houses and brothels will always open. Let them go back today, and wait for an opportunity, and these people will always come up with revenge. If these government servants go to the gambling houses and brothels every day to find fault, how can we continue our business. Master, we don't want to offend the government."

If you offend anyone, you can't offend the government. How could Ma Changdiao not understand this truth.

He punched it again, "Nine hundred deniers, it would cost more than 7000 taels of silver if converted into cash. If we give it this time, will he come to the door next time?"

How could Ma Changdiao be easily grasped?

The butler fell silent.

So give me what to give.

Ma Changdiao's eyes were stern, and he ordered the housekeeper, "Send someone to follow and see which ones he has found. Arrange a dinner at Qingfenglou tonight and invite all these people."

If you are shameless, don't blame him for being rude.

The butler understood, and hurriedly ran out to follow her.

Li Si followed the same pattern and left five families without stopping.

The housekeeper followed behind them vigilantly, keeping a distance of four or five meters away from them, not too far or too close.

When he saw someone entered the gate of the government office, he hurried back to report the situation to Ma Changdiao.

He thought he was careful and careful, and nothing went wrong.

In fact, Li Si had already noticed it when he Guigui Chongchong followed.

"Follow him." Li Si finished ordering the yamen servants around him, and entered the yamen to wait for news.

An hour later, Li Si arrived at the isolation point in the west of the city and reported the news to Zhou Bi, "Ma Changdiao booked a table at the Yingchun Pavilion under his name, and invited the other principals we visited. They will discuss countermeasures there at night, and they will most likely refuse to borrow food."

Zhou Bi lightly tapped the table, his gaze was deep.

Everything is as the little ancestor expected.

Except for Zhouji Rice Grain Store, which honestly agreed to borrow grain.

It's not that the owner of the rice store is so noble, it's just that he doesn't want to offend the government.

After all, I know what I have done.

Moreover, the rice grain store is a serious business after all, and the boss is timid.

Unlike Ma Changdiao's unscrupulous business, he also has a large group of thugs and guards under his command.

However, although Zhouji Rice Grain Store operates a serious business, what it does is shady.

When the drought broke out, Zhou Ji Rice Grain hoarded a large amount of rice grain, and joined forces with several other rice grain stores to drive up the price of rice.

He was already on the blacklist by Zhou Bi.

There is a black leather book in the Zhoubi government office, which is specially used to record these unscrupulous merchants, as well as those villains who are not benevolent for the sake of wealth, or use their power to oppress the common people.

These people, either have insufficient criminal evidence, or because of various reasons, Zhou Bi cannot be punished for a while.

The seven girls who were going to be sacrificed at the beginning were selected from Zhou Bi's blacklist. The purpose of Zhou Bi's selection of these people was not to send them to death, but to take the opportunity to get some money from the villains on the blacklist.

Although they were released later, Zhou Bi still received a ransom of 5000 taels of silver from each of these criminals.

Entered the county government's warehouse, and bought a lot of rice with the money, enough for the people to last for a few days.

When Li Yan mentioned borrowing food, Zhou Bi thought of his black book, and just took advantage of this time borrowing food to make these moths bleed.

There are more than [-] grain borrowing households circled by Zhou Bihong, large and small. In addition to the six that Li Si visited in the morning, there are another [-] or so small households.

Zhou Bi didn't let Li Si go again. The so-called killing chickens and respecting monkeys is just like what the little ancestor said, those monkeys who killed chickens are not obedient.

There is no need to spend this effort. What is most lacking in the epidemic now is manpower, and it is really impossible not to use it urgently.

In the afternoon, Li Si and the others were arranged to work at the isolation point again.

On the other hand, just as Li Yan stepped into the gate of Yaoxiang Hall, she heard a shout from behind.

Li Yan turned her head, and saw Qin Xiaochun panting, and Ji'er panting behind him.

When he saw her, he said anxiously, "Sister, you are back. I searched around for you, but there was no sign of you and kumquat. The store was closed before."

Li Yan slapped her forehead and remembered something. She forgot to go to Lanting Xiaozhu with her child to learn from her teacher, so she hurriedly dragged the two children into the pharmacy.

At this time, the old shopkeeper was already there.

Jinju left a note for him, saying that she went to the isolation point to find her, but Li Yan didn't see anyone, and the two of them must have missed it on the way back and forth.

"Give each of them a mask to wear." Li Yan told the shopkeeper.

Then he said to Qin Xiaochun, "The illness outside is very serious, don't run around, wait, I will clean up, and then I will go to Lanting Xiaozhu with you."

After hearing what she said, Qin Xiaochun looked embarrassed, he hesitated and said that he would not go.

Li Yan asked him the reason, but he couldn't tell the reason.

(End of this chapter)