The old man smiled bitterly, "Silly granddaughter, this is five taels of silver! The three of us, grandparents and grandchildren, don't need that much silver in a year." He said to Feng Yuheng, "It's just to borrow some boiling water, a pot and firewood. Miss, you don't have to give so much, just give a few coins."
Feng Yuheng smiled and said, "Take it. It's not easy to set up a stall in such a cold weather. If there are so many of us, you won't be able to do other business for a while. Just come to us. Take this money."
Huang Quan stuffed the silver into the old woman's hand and said with a smile: "Grandma, take it quickly and make the tea!"
Seeing that Feng Yuheng was determined to give it, the old couple knew that they had met a noble person, so they were about to kowtow to express their gratitude, but Feng Yuheng stopped them. They said many words of thanks, and then went to make tea again. Wang Lin arranged for everyone to take down the food reserves in their cars, mostly snacks bought in the previous small county, some uncooked noodles bought just in the morning, and the dried meat that Feng Yuheng brought from the capital, and gave them all to the old couple. The secret guards who went to the mountains to find game also came back soon, each carrying a rabbit and a pheasant. Those who knew how to handle game took the initiative to help, and the secret guards set up a fire not far from the tea shed and roasted the processed game on it.
In a short while, a fairly sumptuous lunch was prepared.
The little girl was so greedy that Xiangrong took the initiative to give her a chicken leg. The old woman knelt down to thank Xiangrong and said that their granddaughter had not eaten meat for almost a month.
Wang Lin was puzzled, so he asked the old woman, "Stout meat is only about 20 wen per pound. You can earn 20 or 30 wen a day, right? You can't go a month without feeding your children meat."
The old man sighed and said helplessly: "My dear boy, it's not as good as you think. We earn thirty cents a day and have to hand over fifteen cents. Sometimes we don't earn fifteen cents, so we have to collect the copper coins we have saved and hand them over. If we don't pay, we will be beaten. Life is not easy!"
Wang Lin was helpless when he heard this. When he hadn't met Feng Yuheng in his early years, his family was also poor. He knew that there were always some bullies in the suburbs who collected protection fees. No matter what you did, you had to pay them money every day. If you didn't pay, you would be beaten. After countless years, a law has been formed, and the government can't do anything about it. Of course, if these small stalls are smashed, they will really protect them, so after a while, people will accept it. After all, doing this kind of passing business, you can meet anyone, and it is inevitable that some unreasonable merchants will maliciously make things difficult for you. At this time, you have to rely on the other party's protection.
Feng Yuheng also understood this principle. She had no intention of caring about these trivial matters that the people did not report and the officials did not meddle in. She also believed that it was really impossible to make a living in such a place without someone to protect her. She only said to the little girl: "Now that you have money, don't tell outsiders. When you go home, let your grandparents buy you some delicious food."
The little girl nodded repeatedly, her eyes curved with smile, which was very beautiful.
Everyone was eating and drinking tea, and some even opened their wine bags and took a few sips. Feng Yuheng didn't care, since they were all riding in a carriage, and they would just fall asleep if they drank too much, so it was no big deal. But not long after they had eaten, a few more carriages came from the small road in the east and stopped in front of the tea stall. Then a dark and fat woman and a tall and strong man who looked like a butcher came over here. They first glanced at Feng Yuheng and his group, and the woman's face showed a little alert. The butcher ignored them and shouted loudly to the people at the tea stall: "Pack twenty of your coarse flour cakes, we want to take them away."
The old couple responded and hurried back to work. The butcher took a fancy to the tea that Feng Yuheng and his group were drinking. It smelled fragrant. Needless to say, it must be the best tea. He shouted loudly: "Make another big pot of this tea, put it in the water bag, and let's take it away!"
When the old man heard this, he quickly explained, "Sir, this tea is brought by these guests themselves, and we can't afford it in our small teahouse. If you want to quench your thirst, our tea costs one cent a bowl. But to be honest, it's all tea foam, which is just for warming up the body and quenching thirst."
"Did you bring it yourself?" The butcher glanced around, and finally his eyes fell on Feng Yuheng and Feng Xiangrong. He pondered for a while and whispered a few words to the old woman beside him, but saw that the old woman shook her head. The two took the coarse flour cakes, gave them copper coins, and hurried back to the carriage.
Xiangrong was puzzled and asked Feng Yuheng in a low voice: "Second sister, what were they talking about just now? Why did it seem to me that they were talking about us?"
Feng Yuheng sneered, "We are the only ones dressed the best, and we have servants serving us, so the man who looks like a butcher has set his sights on us and wants to kidnap us sisters and exchange them for money."
"Ah?" Xiangrong was shocked, and then burst into laughter. It was easy to kidnap her, but she was with her second sister now. Which thief was so bold as to kidnap her second sister? In the end, it was still unknown who would kidnap whom! Xiangrong was fully confident in Feng Yuheng in this regard, without any ambiguity.
Her laughter and Feng Yuheng's voice were not concealed at all, and were heard by the old woman and the butcher. The old woman didn't react much, but the butcher was obviously very angry. He stopped and turned around, pointing at Feng Yuheng and the other two and shouted, "Damn it, you two little bitches, what were you talking about just now?"
When he started to threaten, the three generations of grandparents and grandchildren in the tea shed were frightened. The old man hurried forward to persuade them and kept apologizing to the butcher-like man. The old woman also advised Feng Yuheng to say less, saying that it was better to have less trouble when going out.
But the butcher had already said it. Even if Feng Yuheng didn't react, Ban Zou in the dark guard group couldn't hear it. Bitch? These two words are said with the mouth, right? Very good! When his figure moved, people only felt a flash in front of their eyes, and they didn't see that it was a person flashing past their eyes, but just a shadow. Then, the butcher felt that his cheeks were pinched by someone. He wanted to get rid of it, but the thing pinching his cheeks was like an iron clamp, and he couldn't get rid of it no matter what. It was during this struggle that his mouth suddenly felt hot, and before he could feel the pain, something fell out of his mouth and fell to the ground. In just a moment, his cheeks loosened, and the figure in front of him flashed and disappeared. He lowered his head in surprise, wanting to see what the thing that fell to the ground was. When he saw it, it didn't matter. He was shocked and screamed strangely, and sat on the ground with his butt.
The little girl in the tea shed was also frightened and screamed. The old couple quickly hugged their granddaughter in their arms and turned their heads away, not daring to look again.
The fat woman was also terrified, because the object on the ground was the big man's tongue, a bloody tongue that was cut off at the root and thrown on the ground. She was sweating and her mouth was full of blood. She had fainted from the pain. She stepped back in fear, staring at the people in front of her, and the more she looked, the more frightened she became.
The big man just suggested to her that the two girls were good and it would be better to take them away together so that she could get more reward money when she got there. But she didn't agree because she noticed that this group of people were probably not ordinary people. Those young men in black were obviously masters. There were only four thugs on her side, and they would definitely suffer if they really started fighting. But she didn't expect that the words of the two women on the other side angered the butcher, who called them bitches and cut off their tongues. Now she couldn't advance or retreat, and she didn't know what to do for a while.
Xiang Rong had never expected that Feng Yuheng's secret guards would be so bloody, and she was so scared that she closed her eyes and dared not look. But Huang Quan, who was standing next to them, was furious, staring at the woman and said loudly: "Where did this evil person come from? How dare you insult my young lady? Cutting off the tongue is really a light punishment, Ban Zou, why don't you just chop the person off?"
Banzou rolled his eyes and started to struggle with a piece of rabbit meat again, while also replying: "That's too bloody, and we haven't finished our meal yet!"
Xiangrong nodded repeatedly after hearing this, agreeing with it deeply.
But Huang Quan didn't think so. "People who curse the young lady should be killed. Keeping them alive is a nuisance! I don't think you are good people. Tell me! What do you do? What are those carriages loaded with?"
As she was shouting, four big men came over from the other side of the carriage. One of them dragged the unconscious butcher away, and when he came back, he asked the woman, "Why not just kill them all?"
The old woman was so angry that her nose was crooked. She whispered, "Are you stupid? How could we beat him with his skills just now?" She stamped her feet and changed her expression. She smiled at Feng Yuheng in a flattering way, and at the same time, she swung the handkerchief in her hand and said, "Oh! Miss, what a misunderstanding! What a misunderstanding! What he said just now was not pleasant to hear. You were right to teach him a lesson. It's better to cut off his tongue. If you don't cut it off, I'm afraid he will still get into trouble in the future."
"Oh." Feng Yuheng nodded, "So, I helped you clean up the mess? I got rid of a troublemaker?"
"That's right, that's right!" The old woman smiled, but her expression was very stiff, and it was obvious that the smile was forced. "Young lady, you are so kind and righteous. If you meet someone who talks too much, you should teach him a lesson. Thank you for your help."
"Thank you?" Wang Lin suddenly spoke up. "How can you just say thank you verbally? If you want to thank me, you have to show your sincerity! Our lady doesn't usually help others easily, so you see, how much money should I give to express my gratitude?"
This one sentence shocked those people! What was going on? He had been robbing people for years, but today he was robbed by someone else?
Even the fat black woman laughed: "Oh! Young brother, have you made it big in this business?" She was not as polite to Wang Lin as she was to Feng Yuheng. She sneered and said: "If you say something like that, you are not afraid of getting your tongue blown away by the wind."
Wang Lin also laughed, "My tongue grows in my mouth, so it is not afraid of strong winds. But if your tongue falls on the ground, you have to be careful. Strong winds may not be a problem, but if a stray dog comes, it will take it away and eat it."
"You..." The old woman was also furious. She looked at Feng Yuheng again. She was a pretty girl, but why did she look like a robber? She calmed down and stopped arguing with Wang Lin. Instead, she said to Feng Yuheng, "I have been humble, but the girl still doesn't give me face. In this case, I am not afraid to reveal my identity. To tell you the truth, I am from the Ninth Prince's mansion in Kyoto. Do you want to make things difficult for His Highness?"
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