Chapter 1006 Leave it to me
Manbao and Baishan exclaimed "Huh" at the same time.
Yin Huo smiled and said, "Let's not talk about other families. In our family, even my grandmother doesn't go out often, but every spring and autumn she goes out for a walk to look at the flower market. If she finds something she likes, she buys it, even if it's something rare. It's actually less likely that the servants will buy it as a tribute."
Although Yin Huo didn't care about anything and didn't take everything to heart, some things happened every year, so he took note of them.
Changshou, who was standing by, saw the young master and his friends talking so cheerfully, and added, "There are also flower farmers who are familiar with our family. If they grow new varieties or good flowers, they will send them to our door. If the old lady or the aunts see them and like them, they will keep them."
Manbao asked, "Is it expensive?"
Changshou paused and said, "It's about the same as the market price. It depends on what the masters like. If there's something they particularly like, they'll be happy and will naturally pay a higher price."
Manbao understood.
Yin Huo asked, "With so many flowers, if none of them bloom well next year, won't those people know they've been cheated? Aren't you afraid they'll come knocking on your door?"
Manbao said confidently, "The flowers I sold were good. How can they blame me if they grew damaged?"
Yin Huo laughed and said, "It's fine if it's just one or two pots of flowers, but if there are problems with so many pots of flowers, it will arouse suspicion. Besides, some people don't think too much and act based on their likes and dislikes. If they think the flowers you sell can't grow into good flowers, then that's the problem with your flowers."
For example, his sisters.
He said, "These flowers of yours must be very expensive. Only the wealthy or the rich can afford them. How can you offend so many people at once?"
Manbao and Baishan looked at each other and smiled, "We have thought of this a long time ago, so we will disguise ourselves so that no one will find us. We only told you because you are our friend."
Yin Huo laughed and said, "Rather than that, why not leave it to me?"
Manbao and Baishan exclaimed "Ah?", looking confused.
Yin Huo said, "No matter how disguised you are, you will still leave traces. Didn't the book you gave me say that geese leave traces when they pass by, people leave traces when they walk, and you can find melons by chance. Why don't you give me the flowers and I will sell them to others on your behalf. When they ask me about it later, I can say that I happened to meet a flower farmer on the road. I can describe him in any way I want, and the traces will end with me."
Manbao asked, "Aren't you afraid they'll cause you trouble?"
Yin Huo smiled and said, "They won't do that, not for a pot of flowers."
Who would cause trouble for him?
Given his physical condition and personality, who would have thought that he was the one who tricked them?
Even if he admitted it, they probably wouldn't believe it. Besides, given the status of the Yin family, no one would bother him for a pot of flowers unless his family fell from heaven to earth.
And if his family fell from the sky to the ground, he would definitely not be able to survive with his medicine-dependent body. So what difference would it make whether he had one less or one more?
This is actually quite interesting.
Manbao asked curiously, "Who are you going to sell the flowers to?"
Yin Huo asked, "Who did you originally plan to sell it to?"
Manbao: "I want to sell it to the relatives of the King of Yizhou."
Yin Huo: ...
He remembered that they were from Jiannan Daoist, so he asked, "Do you have a grudge against the King of Yizhou?"
"I just don't like him. I hate him."
Yin Huo was confused, "There must be a reason."
Manbao then slandered him, saying, "The King of Yizhou is particularly evil. He embezzled the money for building the river embankment, causing the Jianwei Weir to burst."
Yin Huo: "I've heard of this. Wasn't it said that the former Yizhou Governor, Yan Shi, was the main culprit for the corruption? The Jiannan Road Jiedushi and the King of Yizhou were simply deceived and unintentionally accepted his gifts. However, failure to supervise is a real crime."
Bai Shan said, "That's all fake. All of us in Yizhou know that the main greedy ones are the King of Yizhou and the former Jiedushi."
Yin Huo opened his mouth wide. What was said in the court was so different from what was said outside, right?
He only heard his father and grandmother mention it once or twice occasionally, so did his father know about these things?
Manbao continued, "Also, he drove away the disaster victims and seized their land, leaving many returning home without land or housing. He wasted money on celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, building countless floats and draining the Anyang County treasury..."
Bai Shan couldn't help but turn her head to look at Manbao, and quietly tugged at her clothes with her fingers, telling her not to say too much, otherwise it would sound fake.
Manbao's next words were a little more restrained. "He must have committed many evil deeds, so there were assassins trying to kill him, but he only cared about escaping, pushing the people into the hands of the assassins, and then in order to catch the assassins, he arrested innocent people..."
Bai Shan couldn't help coughing. This was too much. The King of Yizhou wanted to arrest innocent people, but in the end, didn't he arrest them first, and County Magistrate Tang took them away for interrogation and then released them?
Yin Huo was stunned when he heard this, because they were all friends, and Manbao and Baishan had always been two of the more reliable people in his mind, so he believed it without any doubt.
He asked blankly: "Is there no one in charge?"
Man Bao sighed, "Who cares? In Yizhou, the King of Yizhou is the most powerful. The Emperor is more powerful than him, but the emperor is far away and he can't control our Yizhou."
Yin Huo nodded repeatedly, "The powerful and wealthy should indeed be more restrained under the emperor's feet."
Manbao and Baishan looked up at him together.
Yin Huo suddenly understood what their looks meant. He blushed and said, "My sisters didn't do well, but compared to the other noble ladies and gentlemen in the capital, what they did wasn't that serious."
He paused and said, "They never fight outside. What they do most often is to stop people on the street, persuade them, scold them, or go to their homes..."
Yin Huo's face grew redder as he spoke, but he insisted on finishing his words. "I know it's wrong to do this. Father has criticized them, but because they didn't break any major laws, no one impeached them. The worst thing I did to you last time was to have someone use my eldest brother-in-law's connections to arrest you."
Manbao suddenly clapped his hands and said happily, "I knew it, I must be right. Why didn't your family call the government to arrest us? It turns out they did, so why didn't they come in the end?"
Yin Huo: "...Grandmother sent someone to stop them."
It’s a bit of a pity that Manbao is gone.
Yin Huo said so many words in one breath, and he was slightly out of breath. His face was slightly red, but still pale.
Manbao took one look at his expression and said, "You're short of energy. You should talk less in the future and try not to get too emotional. By the way, are the powerful people in the capital really that aggressive? Your sisters aren't considered overbearing, are they?"
The next update will be around 4:00 PM
(End of this chapter)
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