Chapter 102 The Monkeys of Mount Emei
If you don’t pay, then we will take Zhu Lang away until you pay the donation.
If you think we are inappropriate, then you will go to Yingtian and forget to tell you that our county magistrate is the son of the Duke. Be careful that after you go to Yingtian, you will not even be able to return home."
Naked threats and unscrupulous ridicule are the so-called officials who serve the people. They see that the people are pigs and sheep, and the so-called serving the people is actually just a slogan of gaining power. With power, you must extract it and slogans can be abandoned at any time.
After hearing the yamen runner's words, Aunt Wang, who was on the side, hurriedly walked out and blocked Zhu Lang behind him and laughed, "Sir, we will pay the donation, we will pay the donation, one hundred taels, and I will get it for you immediately."
After seeing Aunt Wang surrender, the leading yamen runner suddenly snorted coldly: "You just questioned the county magistrate... So now you paid a donation that questioned the county magistrate, and you have to pay 200 taels."
"You..." Zhao Lu, Xia Wu, Zhou Pang, and Zhou Xin all looked at each other.
"Ha...!" With a sneer, the leading yamen runner looked at Zhao Lu and others: "Why... I want to do it, yes... I beat the official officer, enough for each of you to stay in prison for five years.
If you are killed by us, we call it self-defense. If you kill you, it will be a waste of time. Do you know what this is... This is right. We have the right. If you don't, you will be slaughtered by us.
If you don’t believe it, you can try it. If you dare to rush up, we will dare to draw your sword to kill people. By then, you will be in a river of blood and you will win the entire family’s prison...!"
Although this sounds ridiculous, every word is true.
So... Zhu Lang laughed at this time: "Cai Ye was joking... We are small families, how dare we fight with the Cai Ye Ye, two hundred taels of silver, a little bit, and we offer it immediately."
"Okay..." The leader of the yamen runner laughed: "Young Master Zhu is going to know the current affairs... I knew we would not come in vain this trip."
After a while, Aunt Wang came out of the room and twenty big silver ingots of ten taels on a pallet. When they saw the silver, the yamen runners were snatching it wildly like a group of monkeys in Mount Emei.
After the robbery, I heard the leading yamen runner laughing: "We will come again today next month. At that time, you can prepare the money early and don't bother us."
After saying that, a group of yamen runners walked out of the Zhu family yard with swagger.
"This group of bastards who kill thousands of swords...!"
As soon as the group of yamen runners left, Aunt Wang's tears came out. Zhu Lang knew that this was his grandmother's heartbreaking money. After all, it was 200 taels. You must know that these 200 taels were the money of about ten households in the Ming Dynasty.
Now that I'm snatching away, do you think Aunt Wang feels distressed?
Zhu Lang silently hugged Aunt Wang and said, "Grandma, it's okay, grandson will also earn you all the money."
"I know...but I just feel sorry for those officials who were so bad when they were in the Yuan Dynasty. Why did they still be so bad when they were in the Ming Dynasty? They didn't give us the way to live. Our family was charged 200 taels. How much should other people collect? Can they have our family's money?"
This made Zhu Lang slightly stunned, and he quickly shouted to Zhao Lu on the side: "Brother Zhao, go to the village to see if everyone has been collected. If all of them have been collected, please tell me."
"Oh..." Zhao Lu hurried out of the yard and went to Sanjia Village to see if anyone had been collected and donated. He didn't know if he didn't go. He was shocked when he went there. People died in the village because of the donation.
Moreover, five people died instantly, and the fire was burned, and none of the five people survived.
Chapter completed!