Datang: Starting from Li Jiancheng

Chapter 52
"If I don't pay the money myself, will the imperial court give it to me, or will General Hou give it to me?"

"If I hadn't been with Tongqi all day long, how many people would have died in Longyou, General Hou would know? Seriously, if I hadn't provided the smallpox vaccine, before the Turks invaded the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty would have tormented himself die."

When Luo Bin said this, his tone became more and more indignant, "If I hadn't been with Tong Shou all day long, those children without father and mother would not have been able to go to school, and Chang'an would not have the Taiping Academy that everyone wants to enter. !"

After saying these words, Hou Junji was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and pointed at Luo Bin for a long time but couldn't say a word.

"General Hou is poor with a breeze in his sleeves, and also poor with a high moral integrity, but I dare to ask, what can you do for Datang?"

Luo Bin glanced at Hou Junji with disdain, "At the beginning, His Majesty sent you to Longyou to help the disaster with me, but what happened?"

"General Hou was so frightened by smallpox that he didn't dare to leave the house. He did nothing else except write notes and reports to His Majesty every day."

"If a Marquis like me would be ridiculed, then a general like General Hou might make people laugh."

At this time, Hou Junji's complexion was as dark as the bottom of a pot, and he gritted his teeth and looked at Luo Bin, "You are presumptuous, and you actually slandered me! You..."

"If the general thinks I'm slanderous, you can report me in front of His Majesty, and ask His Majesty to send someone to Longyou to ask if what I said is true." Luo Bin frowned and gave Hou Junji a look. The disdain grew stronger, "If I really slandered the general, I, Luo Bin, would stand on the tower of Chang'an City and apologize to the general."

"Conversely, if the general tells the truth and slanders me, is the general willing to do the same?"

Hou Junji was trembling when Luo Bin asked him, his old face was flushed.

But there is no doubt that what Luo Bin said was the truth, and he was not so confused that he would do something stupid when Luo Bin provoked him.

"If you don't dare, then please leave, General Waiting. I can't leave such a fragrant person as General Waiting in this place of copper smell." Luo Bin pursed his lips, his face calm.

This is to drive people away.

Hou Junji gritted his teeth and looked at Luo Bin, then waved his sleeves and left.

But after being ridiculed by Luo Bin, he was naturally unhappy. In addition, he had thought about it for a long time, and finally gave up the money to buy the peach blossom drunk to taste, and Hou Junji wanted to get rid of Luo Bin. Then fast.

Thinking like this, Hou Junji raised his eyes and smiled secretly...

After Hou Junji left, Luo Bin strolled around Taiping Restaurant and ate something, and then returned home.

Before leaving, he also specially reminded the Beiwei soldiers guarding the entrance of the restaurant to take precautions, after all, Hou Junji was notoriously small-bellied.

As soon as Luo Bin left, a group of gangsters brought knives and sticks to Taiping Restaurant to make trouble.

All are in rags, but they are ferocious.

"stop!"

Before they entered the door, they were stopped by the Beiwei army.

"What's the matter? The restaurant opened by the Marquis of the Tang Dynasty is rich in gold and jade, so don't we beg for mercy?" The leader gave a disdainful look at Bei Weijun, with a haughty expression on his face.

Seeing this, Bei Weijun frowned, "You can go in, but keep the sword and stick."

"Where is there a restaurant with such wide control that you don't allow you to carry weapons?" The group of people frowned, obviously unwilling.

The Beiwei soldiers pursed their lips when they heard the words, seeing that they couldn't make up their minds, they finally let him in.

And the group of people kicked to the counter as soon as they entered the restaurant, and directly yelled at the "executive store manager" hired by Luo Bin, "What a Taiping restaurant, obviously the food and drinks are mediocre, but you have the nerve to scold them for sky-high prices?"

"It's shameless!"

"Yes, you are really shameless, you know how to make money from ordinary people!"

When several people entered the room, they began to yell at each other, and Bei Weijun immediately stepped forward when he saw this, and arrested everyone in twos and threes.

"Go back to Hou's Mansion and report to Lord Hou, and we will send them to see the officials." One of the soldiers backed Wei Jun said to the other soldier.

"Okay." The man responded, then immediately turned around and left.

The group of gangsters who were caught continued to curse and slander Taiping Restaurant after struggling for a few times.

However, most of the guests in Taiping Restaurant were high-ranking officials and dignitaries, so this kind of scene is not surprising, and few of them left except that their mood was affected a little.

After all, although the food in Taiping Restaurant is indeed more expensive than other restaurants, the dishes and drinks are first-class.

If someone catches up with a happy event and comes to Taiping Restaurant to entertain guests, it will be the first priority to save face.

After the Beiwei army returned to the Hou's mansion, he briefly explained the matter to Luo Bin.

Luo Bin's expression darkened when he heard the words, and he slapped the table angrily, "What a shameless Hou Junji."

"Go, follow me to the government." Luo Bin got up, and walked out with deep eyes.

They were members of Hou Junji, and the government probably didn't dare to control them. At most, they would be released without charge after two days of detention.

But it was a coincidence that this group of people bumped into his head, so they couldn't let them get away with it.

Zhou Keshuang, the county magistrate of Chang'an, was stunned when he saw Luo Bin, and then stepped forward with a smile on his face, "Why is Lord Hou here?"

Luo Bin didn't want to deal with him, and said directly: "My Beiwei army sent a few gangsters who made trouble in my Taiping Restaurant today. May I ask how Master Zhou plans to deal with it?"

Zhou Keshuang pursed his lips when he heard the words, "Naturally, they will be beaten up, and they will be locked up for a few days before they are released."

"But what if they are ordered by someone?" Luo Bin asked after his eyes sank.

Zhou Keshuang also touched his nose in embarrassment.

After Bei Weijun sent the gangsters there, the gangsters kept clamoring and claiming that they were members of General Hou Junji. In order to prove it, he even asked someone to test it at Hou Junji's house. Fan, it turned out to be so.

"Your Majesty is worrying too much. This group of bastards are born with such a nature, so there should be no one to instigate them." Zhou Keshuang said helplessly.

After all, with the general on one side and Lord Hou on the other, he dared not offend either side.

"Master Zhou, is there any interrogation?" Luo Bin frowned at Zhou Keshuang.

"Just finished the trial." Zhou Keshuang nodded, and then glanced at Luo Bin with a guilty conscience, "The group of gangsters said that they were resentful because they had been greedy for the food and drinks in Taiping Restaurant but couldn't afford it."

"Ah……"

Luo Bin snorted coldly, "Also, Taiping Restaurant will deliver a few jars of free wine at the door every day. As long as the people in the city are not lazy, how can they not get a drink when they line up there every day?"

"Master Zhou, you should know me. In terms of intelligence, strategy, and calculation of people's hearts, I am afraid that there is no one in Tang Dynasty who is my opponent. Are you really going to offend me?"

Luo Bin's eyes were deep, and he frowned at Zhou Keshuang, full of threats.

He despises this group of county magistrates who do nothing in their positions and maliciously cover up the powerful.

(End of this chapter)