Chapter 280 Why are you so persistent
On the ninth day of the lunar month, my father went to the county government to pay the tax bank again. Gala and his grandmother helped look at the storefront in Bufang. Today it was a market, and people came and went on the street.
"Hey, have you heard that the wife of Prince Yang who has made great contributions this time has disappeared! He said that he was sinking into the lake!"
"Tsk tsk, which girl from this family is so unlucky?"
The two ladies who were choosing satin on the side suddenly started chatting first. Dugu Jialuo's small body shook and stood stiffly by the door.
"Which other family can it be? The empress of Daxing Palace who had an engagement before!"
"Gala, Gala, come here quickly, don't block the way!" Chen suddenly saw his little granddaughter standing behind two plump women, for fear of hitting her little granddaughter in a while.
But Gala looked up at her blankly, as if he didn't know her.
Chen was shocked and hurriedly tiptoed over and held Dugu Jialuo's little hand. Seeing that the palm of his hand was still warm, he felt relieved and said softly: "There are many people today. Don't walk around, do you know if you follow your grandmother?"
When Dugu Jialuo saw Chen looking at her with a gentle face, his heart suddenly felt warm, and nodded obediently and said, "Well, Jialuo will not run around, follow his grandmother!"
Chen smiled and said, "Be good!" But he couldn't help but look out the door and muttered, "Why are your father not coming back at this time?"
Dugu Jialuo looked outside and felt a little strange. Every time he went to the market, his father tried his best to help in the cloth shop!
The two of them didn't know that Dugu Xin had been detained in prison at this time!
The money given to Zhou County Magistrate cleared the relationship, and the other party promised that as long as he raised another 100,000 taels, he would definitely be promoted to another level!
Seeing that the transfer order was about to be settled, Zhou Qiren was ready to strike while the iron was hot! He attracted the well-known merchants in Ning'an County and made a generous speech, saying that the war was seriously damaged and the empty warehouse was empty, so he would pay the tax silver again!
The one who got the Dugu letterhead was three thousand taels!
Dugu Xin has always complained about the levy and miscellaneous taxes. At this time, the magistrate of Zhou County was able to plunder the people's wealth without any concealment, and said coldly: "Three years of Qing Dynasty magistrate, 100,000 snowflakes. Lord, you are 300,000! Your pocket is too heavy!"
Zhou Qiren, who was dreaming, heard someone making noise, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and shouted: "Where did the crazy guy come from? You dare to make a big fuss in the county government. If you drag it down, hit the fifty big boards first, wake up your mind!"
Dugu Xin was immediately blocked and was dragged by two yamen runners and pressed his pants onto the stool.
County Magistrate Zhou looked at the people below and squinted his eyes and asked, "Why, do you think about it? Is there any money or not? Let's go back now!"
Manager Shen next to him was already full of skin. He saw that he had more energy and less energy. He didn’t understand the truth that everyone didn’t understand. This was to exchange money for life. If there was no one, there would be no one!
When the county magistrate Zhou saw that everyone nodded, his small eyes narrowed into a slit, touched his beard and smiled: "Everyone comes to sign and seal it, claim your own tax and silver, and come to the county government to pay it all in three days!"
“Forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty!”
The execution runner took the stick and reported, "Sir, the pole punishment has been completed!"
County Magistrate Zhou looked at the claim of tax silver in black and white letters collected one by one, and waved his hand with no time to care: "Drag it to the jail!"
When the person left, the master beside him reminded worriedly: "Sir, why don't Dugu Xin also let him go back and ordered him to pay the money. The adults are about to transfer the post, so it's not going to cause more trouble!"
County Magistrate Zhou snorted coldly: "A small businessman, so he is so capable. I just want these inexperienced merchants to see what it means to not fight with officials!"
The master was shocked and hurriedly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, but he didn't dare to persuade him again. The county magistrate has settled in the capital this time and is no longer afraid of public grievances. He has to get out earlier, otherwise he will be cheated sooner or later!
But I feel pitiful that Manager Chen, who has always been generous, is afraid that this time I will not be able to pass it. I think he has an old mother and a young girl at home!
When Su Wei returned, Su Wei was worried about apology at Dugu’s Bufang, but he wandered around the streets of Ning'an County for a long time, but he didn’t see the door plaque of Dugu’s Bufang with red silk hanging!
It was a little strange for a moment, "Is it because I remembered it wrong?"
He jumped off his horse and asked the nearby sidewalk: "Did the old man know where is a Dugu cloth shop?"
The old man looked at Su Wei in surprise and waved his hand quickly, "I don't know, I don't know!"
Su Wei touched his head and said apologetically: "Master, maybe I remembered the wrong place. Beijing is important, and that little girl didn't touch it either!"
Yang Jian looked at the ground and said in dismay: "Let's go!"
The pharmacy shopkeeper next to him was grabbing the medicine. When he heard the conversation between the two, he hurriedly chased him out and was about to inform him, but the two rode away on horseback. The pharmacy shopkeeper sighed repeatedly: "I finally came to find the Dugu family and left like this!"
The waiter of the pharmacy next to him asked, "Shopkeeper, isn't that what happened to the shopkeeper Chen? "
The pharmacy shopkeeper whispered: "I can't say it, I can't say it!"
The waiter immediately fell silent! He thought of the young and cute lady of the Dugu family. When such a sudden change occurred at home, Bufang was taken into custody and sold by the county magistrate. Grandma heard that she was ill and was almost out of control, and her father was still in prison.
It turned out that the Dugu family lady wanted to take a son-in-law in the hall. The Dugu family lady looked like a monkey and well-behaved and very likable. She also wanted to take her youngest son Gouwaer from the countryside and take her to the shopkeeper of the Dugu family for nothing. She was so arranged in the morning!
After waiting for the second year, the people of Ning'an County were transferred, and only after the shopkeeper of Dugu's Bufang who suddenly disappeared from the street was killed by Zhou's county magistrate and was locked in prison. In less than a month, they survived to death!
Later, someone from the Dugu family went to visit the prison head. He heard that Qingluan, the man in Qingyulou, was a kind-hearted person. He spent money to meet Dugu Xin several times. He was about to finish his life. When he passed, he was no longer hot. In just one month, he was so thin that he lost his body! Qingluan leaned on Dugu Xin and cried: "What should I do if you leave like this, what should I do with Jialuo!"
The crying sounded the world, and it was said that I never thought that a brothel woman would have a true love!
Since then, Qingluan has made the people in the yamen respect each other and has begun to take special care of Qingyulou.
Chen's family disappeared before Dugu Xin. As for where Dugu Jialuo, who had been with Chen, the people around Dugu's family never knew about it again. There were rumors that they were taken away by fortune-telling Taoist priests, some said that they were adopted by Dugu Xin's friends, and some said that the child was probably stolen and abducted to the north at night.
The only remaining lineage of the Dugu family, who said they wanted to recruit son-in-law in the house, couldn't help but sigh!
Chapter completed!