The guy carried the rice bag back to the inn, and 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 shivered with fright, and immediately went to close the door in a panic.
The guy hurriedly finished the second half of the sentence: "It was Jin Yiwei and the soldiers patrolling the city, the group of people who blocked Fangshi yesterday, and I don't know the specific situation. I only heard that the fight was particularly fierce, and there were constant fights. The soldiers rushed to the inner city, and the two doctors from the North Street Shanyaotang were taken away by the soldiers, saying that if they wanted to save people."
The innkeeper did not breathe a sigh of relief after hearing this, but became even more nervous.
"How's that good, eh."
He was restless, and the woman beside him persuaded: "The city gates are blocked, and you can't get out. It's useless to worry about it. It's better to buy some food while the rice shop is still open. One, it can always last longer than others."
"What do you know? If the capital is in complete chaos, no matter how much property and rice grains are hidden in the home, they will be robbed in the end. I'm afraid you and I will not be able to save our lives..."
The shopkeeper only scolded, and then sighed.
The woman couldn't get used to his useless appearance, so she turned her head and left.
"Look, what a woman's opinion looks like."
The guy laughed dryly. He didn't agree with the shopkeeper. He thought that he would not buy food because he was afraid of being robbed. What should we do when we ran out of food? There are still so many guests in the inn who haven't left, even if the door is closed, the commotion inside can't hold up.
Just as he was talking, suddenly a group of fierce and wicked big men came outside.
"The shopkeeper, stay in the shop."
The guy was pushed to the front by the shopkeeper, and he replied tremblingly, "Several distinguished guests, the shop is full."
"What, nothing here?!"
The big man in the lead rolled his eyes, just squeezed in and picked up the shopkeeper.
He slapped the counter with a big palm, and he grinned and said, "Why do I think you still have free rooms? Are your firewood rooms and kitchens full of people?"
"No, no. But those places are so cluttered and uninhabitable..."
"Who said we're going to live, let you go to the woodshed with the guy in the store, and move the room out to the uncle!"
The shopkeeper's face was pale, and tremblingly defended: "But the house we live in has no windows, and..."
Except for the furnishings, the rest is not much better than the firewood house.
The shopkeeper of this inn is very stingy and treats himself meanly, not to mention the clerk in the store, who can only live in a broken house next to the stable. The other party will obviously not be satisfied with this kind of house.
"Isn't there a customer in your store, ask them to change rooms!"
"How did this happen?" the shopkeeper said while looking out the door.
Immediately following him, he was slammed 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 shout loudly, it will take time for a cup of tea." The villain looked at the innkeeper and sneered, "Besides, we're just staying at the inn, and we don't have to. Give the 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, and when they met the eyes of this group of villains, they shrank back in fright.
The wicked man at the head pursed his mouth and motioned his fellows to grab one and forcibly change the room.
The man behind him nodded knowingly and went up the stairs.
The layout of the inn is similar, the location with good lighting and ventilation is limited, and you can find the upper room just by looking at it.
"Dong dong dong."
The door was pounded so loudly, looking at the closed door, the villain was about to kick up his feet when suddenly the door opened.
Then an invisible force pushed them back one after another involuntarily. The person in front suffered a lot, while the person in the back was completely pressed by their companions and couldn't figure out what was going on.
A group of people rolled backwards and rolled down the stairs like a bunch of zongzi.
The wicked man who was clutching the shopkeeper's collar changed his expression and 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 that the luck of these people is too bad. There are about four or five rooms in the inn. Where they don't knock, why do they have to find Meng Guoshi
At this moment, Mo Li walked out of the door.
Lu Min hesitated and asked in a low voice, "The noise 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 to the stairs.
Lu Min: "..."
Suddenly, I felt that for one hundred taels of silver, I asked the national teacher to kill the king. Oh no, the price of beating the king is indeed a bit low. Meng Guoshi promised that it was probably because it was a big deal, not because of money.
Meng Guoshi didn't even look at a local ruffian like this on the side of the road who couldn't get the money after hitting him. It's not that you don't want to take over the big business, you can't make a sensation in the world, what's the point of it!
The second prince's misunderstanding of Meng Qi intensified, and Meng Guoshi didn't know it.
Meng Qi listened carefully to the movement outside. He wanted to go out, but the doctor would not allow him.
"It's just a small matter." Doctor Mo said very easily, his eyelashes drooping slightly, as if he was thinking about something.
When Meng Qi shook his head, the doctor went out.
No, I haven't said the style of the water tank yet!
Meng Qi began to wonder, did the doctor seem a little unhappy just now? Don't like water tanks
However, there are regulations in the capital not to dig indiscriminately, even if a well is drilled, it needs to be reported to the government, including the location and size of the well. Only after obtaining permission can someone find someone to dig the well. Finally, the government has to send yamen and officials to check. If it does not match the reported position, you will be punished.
This is true of ordinary people's homes, as well as the houses of wealthy households and officials.
Even if it is one's own land and repairing one's own garden, the government has to come over to explore.
On the one hand, it is to avoid the treacherous digging tunnels, and on the other hand, it is for the safety of the capital itself. Thousands of years ago, Taijing used to build gardens outside the city because of aristocratic wealthy families. Suddenly, the flood water 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, causing the whole street to sink.
Although Meng Qi could rely on martial arts to dig a pond in a suitable place without a craftsman, it is better not to dig such a small pond.
Although Qi Chao can buy a three-entry yard for 70 taels of silver in the Qi Dynasty, but this is the lowest price. Not only is the location of the house relatively remote, but the area is also relatively narrow, and there is no photo at the door.
Wall, backyard can only plant a few trees at most, even if you 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 floor of the house and turn it into a "pond" with a roof
It's harder than just digging a pond...
Meng Qi leaned back on the chair, and he seemed to feel the helplessness of being an official in the Chu Dynasty many years ago.
As the dragon vein of Shangyun Mountain, it clearly includes nineteen peaks, and there is as much land as you want, but when you arrive in the capital, you can only live in the house given by the emperor.
Now the house is gone.
It is good to live in the deep mountains and dense forests, but the prosperity of Taijing is also very good.
Hey, it is estimated that there are only dragon veins if you have a thousand miles of land, but there are no tiles on it!
Meng Qi began to recall where he had hidden money at the time. Except for the plaque in the palace, the silver on the city gate seemed to be the former National Teacher's Mansion and the Star-Observation Terrace. Check to see if these mansions have been destroyed, and who they belong to now.
Meng Qi quietly took out two silver cakes from his arms.
This was when he went to steal clothes in the middle of the night last night, and accidentally discovered that the house he knew and had lived with was an old friend, and the things hidden back then were not found.
The two pieces are weighed together, about six taels of silver.
"boom."
There was a loud bang from downstairs.
Meng Qi was stunned, put the silver cake back in again, and walked to the window in three steps and two steps.
I saw smoke and dust flying, the tiles of the roof on the street fell to the ground, and the people fled in panic.
The figure flashed, and Mo Li jumped up to the window on the second floor.
Meng Qi quickly opened the window and just happened to welcome someone in.
Only such a slit, there is a strong smell of gunpowder influx.
"what happened?"
"That group of people had gunpowder on them, and it may be something from the Thunder Hall." Mo Li frowned.
A few streets away, the Janissaries and the yamen who heard the sound came here.
At this time, Lu Min hurriedly knocked on the door outside, because Meng Qi didn't lock the door, he accidentally fell in.
Seeing the second prince, Mo Li couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed, just because he said just now that he would not cause too much disturbance, the result was exactly the opposite.
"Have we been found? How can an ordinary ruffian carry gunpowder?"
"… Ordinary local ruffians can't, but people in Jianghu are not 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 here, maybe it's because of his own bad luck and the other party's bad luck, and then he rushed over. Together.
"Just a little thing, why did they use gunpowder?" Meng Qi couldn't understand.
Mo Li was silent for a while before he said: "He threw a lot of hidden weapons, all of which were caught, and then his eyes were red, he lost his head, and smashed the black wooden tube out. I don't know what it was, Afraid that the organ that could spray the poisonous needle accidentally hurt the people, I used the internal force to pull the hidden weapon and smashed the wooden cylinder to the side, but the wooden cylinder shattered and rolled out a dozen black things."
That is the most famous Lei Zhenzi in the Perak Hall.
Mo Li didn't know each other at first, but after he left Zhushan County, he had already encountered it twice. He immediately wrapped the deadly thing with his inner strength, and threw it directly out of the inn, and threw it into the air.
Fortunately, apart from shattering and shaking the 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 registered for a number." Mo Li added, "I clicked on the acupuncture points, and they all lie under the inn."
"The Guards are here! What to do?"
The second prince was already anxious to climb the window.