bayedsolid Chapter 29 Complaints
Chapter 29 Complaints
"Who did it? Who did it? It's the result of half my life's hard work!" The prefect looked at the empty room, covered his chest and fainted.
Suddenly, the servants were in a panic.
Tang Qiyue looked at her masterpiece with satisfaction, climbed over the wall and left the city quickly.
The next day, there was a commotion among the refugees, with cries and curses coming one after another.
Zhao Bao was frightened awake, and looked at Tang Qiyue with his big round black grape eyes, mumbling some baby language. Tang Qiyue only knew that her adopted son was trying to get into her chest, and her face suddenly turned dark.
In the past few months, although she used her supernatural powers to cleanse her body every day and ate more, she still didn't have what she didn't have, and Tang Qiyue didn't know what was going on.
He could only give the health pills to his father, and carry Zhaobao away from the crowd to feed him.
Here, the rioting refugees were suppressed by the soldiers guarding the city, but they still couldn't suppress the various angry voices.
"No! The settlement is based on the number of people, and each person has to pay fifteen taels. Who can afford it?"
"That's right. Even if we collect it by household, we don't have the money."
They are all fleeing famine by digging for food in the fields. They can't earn ten taels of silver in a year, and now they are asking for fifteen taels. Isn't this going to drive them to death?
"Fifteen taels is fifteen taels. If you don't have any, leave immediately. The prefect said that whoever dares to cause trouble will be detained on the spot." In fact, they received the punishment of being beaten to death on the spot, but they didn't dare to say it. Didn't they see the murderous eyes of the refugees in front of them?
Alas! It is not easy for those people guarding the city.
"I don't care. I don't have money, so I'm going to settle down here." The burly man had an incredibly loud voice.
"Do you dare to cause trouble?" The soldier guarding the city swallowed his saliva and did not move even though he was afraid.
When Tang Qiyue came back from feeding the child, what she saw was a confrontation between the two sides. She narrowed her eyes. She made such a big fuss yesterday, but today the prefect acted as if nothing had happened.
Just as she finished her thought, she saw a group of soldiers holding long swords and spears running out of the city gate. The leader shouted, "Everyone at the city gate must be searched."
"Why?" someone asked unhappily.
"Last night, a thief came into the prefecture and stole the prefect's favorite inkstone. The prefect was furious and searched the city today, both inside and outside the city."
Tang Qiuyue almost couldn't help laughing out loud when listening to the leader's serious words. This hypocritical prefect is really good at making excuses.
He didn't even use his pig brain to think about it. Could these refugees hide in the half-stacked wooden boxes in the wing?
It seems that he has gone crazy with anger.
Tang Qiyue was in a very good mood, especially when she thought about the things in the wooden box she saw when she sneaked into the space last night.
She roughly counted out a box of 100-yuan silver notes, which amounted to about 30,000 taels. One box of fine pearls and jade ornaments, one box of gold, and two boxes of silk and satin fabrics. The other boxes contained head ornaments, agates, and other items.
It almost blinded her, but at the same time she was also very angry. How much of the people's money had this corrupt official extorted?
Tang Qiuyue placed these boxes in the corner, waiting to take them out in the future to do good things for the people.
It was precisely because of what happened last night that I almost failed to leave the city, and the sale of supplies for silver was also temporarily put on hold.
"My backpack is broken. Please stop kicking it."
The sound of prayer brought Tang Qiyue back to her senses. They had already started searching their backpacks.
Check it, check it, you won’t find it.
Even after opening all the backpacks, the soldiers still couldn't find it. They could only lead the people into the city to report.
"What a sin! All the food in my house has been spilled on the ground. How can I eat it?"
"My backpack."
Complaints abound.
In the magistrate's house, the servants dared not breathe a word and let the teacups hit them.
"Waste! It's all waste! My stock."
There are so many boxes of treasures, who the hell stole them?
Unfortunately, the prefect could not make it public and could only ask his confidants to look for it secretly. This was the result of half his life's work.
Tang Qiyue went into the city again, this time alone.
After finding a corner where she could avoid being peeped at by others, Tang Qiyue went into the space and put on makeup so that she looked like a teenager that even Lin could not recognize her if she stood in front of her. Then she started to catch fish and tie rabbits.
She caught five of the five to six or seven kilograms of fish in the space and put them into a large wooden barrel, and then tied five gray rabbits with ropes. There was no other way. Now there was an area in her space dedicated to raising rabbits. Without counting them, there were almost a hundred rabbits.
There are too many people on the road and it is not easy to take it out to eat, so we can only let it continue to multiply.
Tang Qiyue walked out of the corner with a slightly bent back, carrying two things, one in the hand and the other on the back. She found a busy place and put them there. "I'm selling fish. Fresh big grass carp, fat crucian carp, bighead carp, and rabbits."
The way people eat fish is simple. They just scrape off the scales and steam or boil it. This doesn't taste good at all, so even though there are so many fish in the river, no one catches them to eat. People only think of eating fish when they have nothing to eat.
Fish certainly cannot compare to meat in the hearts of the people.
Hearing that someone was selling fish, the people walking by kept walking, but when they heard about the rabbit and saw the gray-haired man trembling on his feet, they immediately rushed over with the woman carrying the basket.
"Brother, are you really a rabbit?"
Tang Qiyue picked up a still lively rabbit without saying anything and said, "Why not? Look, it's still very lively."
"But I only have five. If you like them, buy them now. There will be no more if you hesitate."
Basically, everyone who ran over was after the rabbits, and the five gray rabbits were gone in less than a quarter of an hour.
Tang Qiyue counted the six hundred coins in her hand and looked at the fish worriedly. How about not selling it and keeping the fish to make fish soup for her son or making it into dried fish?
Just as he was about to take the fish back, a man suddenly came running over and said, "Young man, please sell me two fish quickly. My wife is waiting for the fish soup to increase her milk supply."
Tang Qiyue groaned, tied up two large crucian carps with hemp rope and said, "My fish are cheap, not by pound, the big ones are all 45 cents each, you can just give 90 cents."
She didn't use a scale, because all the fish in the space were of the same size and easier to classify.
The man felt a toothache, and thinking of his wife at home, he endured the pain and gave the copper coins to take the fish and was about to leave. Then he seemed to remember something and asked, "I heard you have rabbits here, do you have any more?"
Tang Qiyue shook her head. "No, my family is poor, and we only have a few rabbits. We need to sell them for some food, but there is no more."
Hearing this, the man ran away without staying any longer.
Then Tang Qiyue waited for half an hour, but there were still three bighead carps in the bucket and no one wanted them, so she simply picked up the bucket and left.
Fish doesn't taste good but it's still meat. Pork costs 30 cents per pound, and if there are many people, two bites per person will be enough. Fish is different, it's big, so everyone can taste enough.
So, Tang Qiyue continued to change her appearance and sold eighty rabbits in the space before she stopped.