Becoming a Saint by Leisure Reading - Chapter 68
[Chapter 68]
“Uncle, help…” A figure rushed into the lobby, saw Chen Luo sitting in the middle, and bowed down to worship. Ji Zhong took a slight step forward, standing between the opponent and Chen Luo.
Almost at the same time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the uncle’s mansion, Chen Luo raised his head, and saw Wang Li followed behind with a team of guards. While running, Wang Li shouted: “Lu Tong, don’t startle the uncle…” After saying that, he also ran up to Chen Luo and saluted, “I have seen the uncle.”
Chen Luo looked puzzled: “What’s going on?” After speaking, he looked at the figure kneeling on the ground and asked, “Who is he?”
To be honest, it was the first time he saw someone kneeling and prostrating after traveling to this world.
“Uncle, forgive me.” Wang Li said helplessly, “This man is called Lu Tong, and he is the steward of Sanxizhuang.” “Sanxizhuang
?”
“Yes, didn’t His Majesty reward you with a Huangzhuang the day before yesterday? Sanxizhuang was settled, just outside the capital, surrounded by three streams, the most fertile.”
Chen Luo nodded, his own word was Dongliu, and the Department of Internal Affairs gave it to Sanxizhuang, so it corresponded.
“Then this is…” Chen Luo pointed to Lu Tong who was on the ground.
Wang Li sighed: “The rule of Huangzhuang is that it is required to hand over the quota every year. If there is any surplus, it will be regarded as a reward. I don’t care about other trivial matters.”
“This Lu Tong is kind-hearted. Whenever he meets a homeless child, Take it into Huangzhuang. Today I was ordered to go to receive it, and found that there are no less than two hundred young children in Huangzhuang.”
“If it is normal, as long as he can pay enough statutes, this matter will be turned a blind eye. Just look at the past and forget it. But this Sanxizhuang is already your private property, uncle, so you can’t do this.”
“Hearing that these children are going to be dismissed, Lu Tong is in a hurry, and insists on pleading with you. I don’t have any Stop it before…”
Chen Luo gave Wang Li a white look. He is not a fool. This Wang Li came up to grab the white. If he said that he didn’t communicate well with Lu Tong, he would not believe it. But how to do this matter, he has another care in mind.
He first called Ji Zhong to his side and whispered a few words. Ji Zhong nodded, and quickly walked out of Bo’s mansion.
Then, he looked at Lu Tong who was kneeling on the ground: “Tell me, how do you want me to save my life?” When
Lu Tong heard Chen Luo’s voice, he quickly kowtowed again, not daring to raise his head, and said, “Back to uncle In the past, Sanxi Village handed over 10,000 taels of silver to the Department of Internal Affairs every year, but in a year with a good harvest in the village, after deducting the daily expenses, the total can only be collected more than 11,000 taels.
” The old slave continues to manage the Huangzhuang, and let those children live in the Huangzhuang. The old slave is willing to hand in twelve thousand taels a year. If one tael is missing, the old slave will apologize with his life.”
Chen Luo chose Raised eyebrows: “Tell me, at most eleven thousand taels of silver a year, how can you promise me twelve thousand taels a year?”
Lu Tong was already prepared, and said: “Old slave will rent the land and pay for it when he returns home.” Give back a part and let the children farm. Ten children can do the work of an adult, and there will always be some income. The old slave also has some savings, if it is not enough…”
Lu Tong suddenly closed his mouth when he said this, Clenched hands.
Chen Luo knew it in his heart: “If it doesn’t work, sell some children to raise money, right?”
Lu Tong suddenly raised his head when he heard this, tears streaming down his vicissitudes of face: “I don’t want to… But if there is no emperor Zhuang Zhe, these children have no way out…”
“Uncle…” Wang Li interjected at this moment, “I know their plan. But it’s not that Lu Tong wants to sell the children, it’s those children who voluntarily… Boss I also went to see the child, the youngest child is three or four years old, and the oldest is eleven or twelve years old. If you are lucky enough to be sold to a rich family as a slave, if you are unlucky, you may not grow up…”
Chen Luo sighed in his heart, waved his hands, and said to Lu Tong: “Get up first, wait a while.”
Lu Tong looked at Chen Luo in doubt, and Wang Li frowned: “Get up when uncle tells you to get up, hurry up .”
Lu Tong quickly stood up and stood aside with his hands tied.
…
After more than an hour, Chen Luo leaned on the seat to catch up on sleep, and Ji Zhong came back with a tired face.
Ji Zhong walked up to Chen Luo and told Chen Luo the results of the investigation: “I’ve checked everything. This Lu Tong has been taking in orphans for three or four years, and they didn’t gather together suddenly. When the children grow up to thirteen years old, they leave on their own. There is nothing suspicious about the number of people.”
Chen Luo nodded, he asked Ji Zhong to investigate when Sanxizhuang began to take in children, and if Lu Tong wanted to occupy Huangzhuang, he would temporarily ask Wang Li to accompany him in a play , find a group of children to perform as a group, what should I do if I use my sympathy?
In addition, we must prevent Sanxi Village from being a charitable organization on the surface, but secretly a stronghold of human trafficking. If I agree, I will be an accomplice.
Fortunately, the news that Ji Zhong brought back gave him reassurance.
“Since this is the case, it’s easy to handle.” Chen Luo shook his head, looked sideways, and had to say that Wang Li’s professionalism is really good. I asked him to sit, but he didn’t sit, and stood for more than an hour, as if nothing happened. But Lu Tong was the same as Wang Li, which surprised Chen Luo a bit.
“Okay, let’s go…” Chen Luo stood up and walked out. Wang Li hurriedly asked: “Uncle, where are we going?”
“Go to Sanxizhuang to see the child!” Chen Luo smiled, and then looked at the nervous Lu Tong, “There is no need to return the rented land, Huangzhuang can continue to let the children go.” They live here, but the children have to work for me, don’t worry, I will pay you for the work…”
Lu Tong was happy, then worried again, and asked: “Excuse me, my uncle wants them What are you doing? This old servant is afraid that they will spoil the uncle’s important business.”
“No way!” Chen Luo knew that Lu Tong was worried about the children, so he smiled lightly: “I want them to be the little princes selling newspapers… Bah, little experts! ”
… The
Red Sleeve Academy.
A pair of beautiful eyes stared at Weilan Lake in the academy, and the owner of the beautiful eyes sighed softly. Her elder brother is a student of Zheliu Academy. At noon, he talked to her about the article “Du Shiniang” that caused Zheliu students to advance one after another. She yearns for it.
“Why don’t you skip class and go to Beifeng Building tomorrow morning? I don’t know if Mr. Nan will talk about “Du Shiniang” again.” The woman picked up a stone and threw it into the lake. Come out to find Wan Anbo?”
“Diefei, why are you in a daze? Are you missing your lover?” Another delicate voice sounded, and the woman named Diefei turned her head, only to see a figure bouncing towards her. Come.
“Stop jumping!” Cheng Diefei spat, “What kind of lover? How do you say such words?” The
woman came to Cheng Diefei’s side, grabbed Cheng Diefei’s arm, and said with a smile, “How can I not? I Daddy said that love between men and women is the most reasonable thing in heaven, and only hypocrites avoid it like snakes and scorpions!”
“Your father is a great scholar, and everything he says is knowledgeable. You are just a little girl, and you don’t know how to be ashamed…” Cheng Diefei scratched Scratching Liu Mengrui’s nose, “If you were like your father, and recited the old saying ‘The belt gets wider and you don’t regret it, because of Yixiao’, I will recognize what you say…”
“Huh… …” Liu Mengrui twisted her body arrogantly, making Cheng Diefei’s pretty face blush. But Liu Mengrui didn’t notice it, and said: “It’s this poem, my family will be broken through by those aunts, and I will live in the college for two months…
” Why did you come to me?”
“I almost forgot.” Liu Mengrui tapped her head, “The academy issued a public announcement, saying that it wanted to recruit Confucian scholars who had entered the realm of ‘dragon and snake’ in calligraphy. Transcribing an elegant article, one credit for a hundred times of transcribing, I came here specially to invite you to go with me.”
“Do you know what article?”
Liu Mengrui thought for a while: “It seems, what is it called “Swordsman”…”
“It’s so weird name, do you know which great Confucian’s article it is?”
“Hmm… not Daru, it seems to be some kind of uncle, called Wan…”
“Wan Anbo?”
“Yes, yes, that’s the name.”
He walked straight to the Student Affairs Office…
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