Aggrieved Fish Sprite

The man returned to the inn with the bag of rice on his back, but before he could deliver it to the kitchen, he was stopped by the shopkeeper.

"How is it outside?"

"I heard that there is a fight in the inner city..."

The shopkeeper trembled in fright, and hurriedly went to close the door immediately.

The clerk hurriedly finished the second half of the sentence: "It was Jin Yiwei who fought with the soldiers who patrolled the city, that is, the group of people who blocked Fangshi yesterday. I don't know the specifics. I only heard that the fight was very fierce. The soldiers rushed to the inner city, and the two doctors from the North Street Shanyaotang were taken away by the soldiers, saying that they would save people."

The innkeeper didn't heave a sigh of relief, but became more nervous.

"How can this be good, hey."

He was restless, and the woman next to him persuaded: "The gates of the city are blocked, and you can't get out. It's useless to worry about it. Why don't you go buy some food while the rice shop is still open? One, you can always last longer than others."

"What do you know? If the capital is completely in chaos, no matter how much property and food are hidden in the house, they will be robbed eventually. I'm afraid you and I will lose our lives..."

The shopkeeper only cursed, and then sighed.

The woman couldn't get used to his useless appearance, so she turned her head and left.

"Look, it's really a woman's opinion, what it looks like."

The clerk laughed dryly and didn't agree with the shopkeeper. He thought that if he was afraid of being robbed of food, he wouldn't buy it, so what should he do when there is no food?There are still so many guests in the inn who haven't left, even if the door is closed, it won't be able to sustain the commotion inside.

Just as he was talking, suddenly a group of vicious men came outside.

"The shopkeeper, stay in the shop."

Pushed to the front by the shopkeeper, the clerk replied tremblingly: "Several distinguished guests, the store is already full."

"What, not here?!"

The big guy in the lead rolled his eyes, and forced his way over to pick up the shopkeeper.

He slapped the counter hard with his big fan palm, and he said with a smirk, "Why do I think you still have vacant rooms? Could it be that your woodshed and kitchen are also full of people?"

"No, no. But those places are very messy and uninhabitable..."

"Whoever said that we are going to live here, tell you to go to the woodshed with the guys in the store and move the room out to the uncle!"

The shopkeeper's expression turned pale, and he explained tremblingly: "But the house we live in has no windows, and..."

Except for the furnishings, the others are not much better than the firewood room.

The shopkeeper of this inn is very stingy and treats himself harshly, not to mention the guys in the inn, who can only live in a broken house next to the stable.The other party would obviously not be satisfied with this kind of house.

"Aren't there customers in your store? Tell them to change rooms!"

"How did this happen?" the shopkeeper said while looking out the door.

Immediately afterwards, he was thrown heavily to the ground, grinning in pain.

"There are officers and soldiers outside, how can you..."

"They're not outside the door, this inn is so remote, even if you yell loudly, you still need a cup of tea." The villain looked at the innkeeper and laughed, "Besides, we are staying in the inn, and there is nothing wrong with it." Give money, what can the government say?"

He raised his fist and looked at everyone in the inn threateningly.

Some residents on the second floor heard the noise and came out to check. When they saw the eyes of these villains, they shrank back in fright.

The leader of the vicious man pouted and signaled his companions to grab one and change the house by force.

The person behind him nodded knowingly, and stomped up the stairs.

The layout of the inns is almost the same. There are limited places with good lighting and ventilation, so you can find the upper room by just looking.

"Dong dong dong."

The door was pounded loudly. Looking at the closed door, the villain was about to kick it, when suddenly the door opened.

Then an invisible force pushed them back one after another involuntarily. The people in front endured a lot of force, while the people behind were completely oppressed by their companions and couldn't figure out what happened.

A group of people, like rice dumplings on a string, half-rolled backwards and down the stairs.

The expression of the villain holding the shopkeeper's collar changed, and he directly pulled out the short knife hidden in his waist.

Upstairs, Lu Min carefully opened the door a crack, and looked at the door next door with a complicated expression.I thought to myself that these people's luck is too bad, there are about four or five upper rooms in the inn, where they don't knock, why do they have to find Meng Guoshi?

At this time Mo Li walked out of the door.

Lu Min hesitated and asked in a low voice: "The commotion is too loud, will it attract people from the Taijing government office?"

"You're right, so it's me."

Doctor Mo glanced at the second prince, then walked towards the stairs.

Lu Min: "..."

Suddenly, I felt that 100 taels of silver would invite a national teacher to kill the king, oh no, the price of beating the king is indeed a bit low.Meng Guoshi agreed probably because it was a big deal, not because of the money.

This kind of ruffian on the side of the road, who beats up and can't get any money, Meng Guoshi doesn't even look at it.It's not that you don't want to take over a big business, and you can't make a sensation in the world. What's the point of fighting!

The second prince's misunderstanding of Meng Qi intensified, but Meng Guoshi didn't know about it.

Meng Qi listened carefully to the commotion outside, he wanted to go out, but the doctor didn't allow it.

"It's just a trivial matter." Doctor Mo said very easily, his eyelashes drooping slightly, as if he was thinking about something.

The doctor went out after Meng Qi regained his composure.

No, I haven't decided on the style of the water tank yet!

Meng Qi began to think, did the doctor seem a little unhappy just now?Don't like water tanks?

However, there are regulations in the capital that random digging is not allowed. Even if a well is dug, it needs to be reported to the government, including the location and size of the well.Only after obtaining permission can someone dig a well, and finally the government has to send yamen servants and officials to check it. If it does not match the reported location, you will be convicted.

This is true of ordinary people's homes, as well as the houses of wealthy households and officials.

Even if it is their own land, or to build their own garden, the government has to come to investigate.

On the one hand, it is to prevent the plotters from secretly digging tunnels; Suddenly, the flood could not be discharged through the river, and half of Taijing was submerged.

Later, another wealthy family bought half of the alley and repaired it extensively, causing the entire street to subside.

Although Meng Qi was able to find a suitable place to dig a pond by relying on his martial arts and not using a craftsman, but - digging such a small pond, it would be better not to dig it.

Although it is said that one hundred taels of silver in the Qi Dynasty and 70 taels of silver in the Chu Dynasty can buy a courtyard with three entrances, but this is the lowest price. Not only is the location of the house relatively remote, the area is also relatively narrow, and there is no sign of the entrance.

At most, a few trees can be planted in the backyard. Even if we dig a pond, the area of ​​the pond is not much larger than the water tank unless the house is demolished.

Or lift all the ground of the house and turn it into a "pond" with a roof?

This is harder than simply digging a pond...

Meng Qi leaned back on the chair, and he seemed to feel the helplessness he felt when he was an official in the Chu Dynasty many years ago.

As the dragon vein of Shangyun Mountain, it obviously includes nineteen peaks, and has as much land as it wants, but when it comes to the capital, it can only live peacefully in the house bestowed by the emperor.

Now even the house is gone.

It is good to live in deep mountains and dense forests, but the prosperity of Taijing is also very good.

Hey, there are thousands of miles of land, but there are no tiles on it, probably only the dragon's veins!

Meng Qi began to recall where he hid his money back then. Except for the plaques in the palace, the silver on the city gate tower seemed to be the former National Teacher's Mansion and Star Observation Tower. Find out if the mansions have been damaged and who they belong to now.

Meng Qi quietly took out two silver cakes from his bosom.

This was when he went to steal clothes in the middle of the night last night, and accidentally discovered that he knew that house, where his old friends lived, and the things hidden back then were not found.

Weigh the two pieces together, about six taels of silver.

"boom."

There was a loud bang from downstairs.

Meng Qi was taken aback, then stuffed the silver cake back, and walked to the window in two steps.

I saw smoke and dust flying, roof tiles fell to the ground on the side of the street, and the people ran around in panic.

In a flash, the ink carp jumped up to the window on the second floor.

Meng Qi quickly pushed open the window, just in time to welcome the person in.

With just such a crack, there is a strong smell of gunpowder pouring in.

"what happened?"

"The group of people had gunpowder on them, and they may be from the Thunder Hall." Mo Li said with a frown.

A few streets away, the imperial guards and yamen servants who heard the sound rushed over here.

At this time, Lu Min knocked on the door in a panic, because Meng Qi didn't lock the door, so he accidentally fell in.

Seeing the second prince, Mo Li couldn't help being a little embarrassed, because just now he said that going by himself would not cause too much commotion, but the result was just the opposite.

"Have we been discovered? How can ordinary hooligans carry gunpowder?"

"... Ordinary ruffians don't know it, but people from the Jianghu don't necessarily." Mo Li has experienced this kind of thing several times, and he feels from the bottom of his heart that there is no conspiracy in it. together.

"It's just a little thing, why did they use gunpowder?" Meng Qi couldn't figure it out.

Mo Li was silent for a long time before saying: "He threw a lot of hidden weapons, all of which were caught, and then his eyes were red, he lost his head, and smashed out that black wooden cylinder. I don't know what it is, Fearing that the mechanism that can spray out poisonous needles would accidentally injure the people, so I used internal force to pull the hidden weapon and knocked the wooden cylinder to the side, and the wooden cylinder shattered in response to the sound, and more than a dozen black things rolled out."

That is the most famous Lei Zhenzi in Thunder Mart Hall.

Mo Li didn't know each other at first, but after leaving Zhushan County, he had already encountered it twice. He immediately used his inner strength to wrap up the deadly thing, threw it out of the inn, and threw it into the air.

Fortunately, apart from the shattering and falling of tiles, no one was injured.

"Do you know where they came from?" Meng Qi could only tell that the accents of these villains were not from the North.

"I haven't signed up yet." Mo Li added, "I tapped the acupoints, and they are all lying under the inn."

"The Praetorian Guards are here! What should we do?"

The second prince was already anxious to climb the window.