With the affairs of the house settled, Huang Tinghui and Lu Daoming had nothing urgent to deal with.
I heard from Huang Tinghui that there are talking birds in Ruian County.
Lu Daoming also became interested.
Young men from rich families are most curious about some novel gadgets.
Lu Daoming is naturally no exception.
After hearing Huang Tinghui say that he wanted to buy a parrot for Wu Feilian, Lu Daoming thought about buying one for his wife, which would just make her happy.
Pregnant women are most likely to be in a bad mood. If he can make his wife happy, Lu Daoming feels that the money is worth spending.
Huang Tinghui and Lu Daoming walked towards Chen Kee Restaurant.
Then I saw several people in uniforms surrounding a piece of land.
The few police officers wearing uniform uniforms seemed to have had a dispute with someone.
Huang Tinghui and Lu Daoming walked a few steps closely before hearing a burst of noise.
"It's true that I'm buying birds here, and I should pay some taxes!"
"But we have only sold a few birds, and you are going to make us hand over all the money we got from buying the birds!"
"It's too greedy!"
The leading man said to one of the city officials.
"You are making a living in Ruian County, so you should know the rules of Ruian County!"
"Here, we are the rules!"
"If you hand over what you have earned, we will not make things difficult for you!"
"If you still insist, don't blame us for arresting all of you stinky Qiuba!"
"Don't even look at what kind of place this is. This is a place where you bastards can just do business?"
Faced with the dissatisfaction of the leading man, the city official became more and more arrogant.
"You... you..."
"Insatiable, insatiable!"
"Is there no law in Ruian County?" the leading man shouted with great dissatisfaction.
"You are selling monster birds in Ruian County without authorization. This is a violation of the royal law of Ruian County!" the city official said reluctantly.
"When did the auspicious parrot become a monster bird?"
"Brother city official, don't you think your nine clans live too long?"
Huang Tinghui's voice came from a distance.
The leading man felt that the voice was somewhat familiar, and he looked in the direction from which the voice came.
Huang Tinghui and Lu Daoming were seen walking towards their direction.
"Brother Hui?"
Zhang Cheng looked surprised, looked at Huang Tinghui and said.
"Brother Zhang, I didn't expect to meet you here!" After speaking, Huang Tinghui introduced to Lu Daoming, "Mr. Lu, this is my friend Zhang Cheng, Brother Zhang!"
"His skills are extraordinary!"
"Lu Daoming, from Ruian County, hello, Brother Zhang!"
Hearing Huang Tinghui call Zhang Cheng his eldest brother, Lu Daoming also followed Huang Tinghui's call.
"Are you in the same group?"
"Boy, don't try to coax me with such words. Do you think you are trying to scare me with such words?"
"Can I let the guy who sells these monster birds go?"
"Don't make a mistake, otherwise don't blame me for being rude!" The city official looked at Huang Tinghui and Zhang Cheng reminiscing about the past.
Naturally, he felt extremely unhappy, and he said to Huang Tinghui with a sullen expression.
If he hadn't noticed that Huang Tinghui and Lu Daoming looked like scholars, he would have taken action long ago.
But Huang Tinghui smiled faintly, and he did not take this city official seriously.
"In the third year of Xuanwu, there were overseas envoys paying tribute to our Emperor Taizu of the Dasheng Dynasty!"
"The overseas envoy presented a parrot, and the parrot said: Great prosperity for generations, unifying the country!"
"Emperor Taizu was very happy. The overseas envoys were rewarded with thousands of gold, and the parrot was also called auspicious by Emperor Taizu!"
"It is the auspicious sign of my prosperous dynasty and national destiny!"
After the words fell, Huang Tinghui raised his head again and looked at the city official and asked.
"You just called this parrot a demon bird. I must have heard you right!"
Huang Tinghui smiled happily, and then his expression changed.
The whole person became indifferent and frightening.
"Even Emperor Taizu regarded this bird as the auspicious sign of our prosperous dynasty, but you call this bird a monster bird!"
"May I ask you, are you opposing Emperor Taizu?"
"May I ask you, how many heads do you have that you can chop off, and how many heads do your family members have that you can chop off?"
"Could it be that the auspiciousness of the great dynasty is the monster bird in your eyes?"
"Are you cursing my Dasheng Dynasty!"
The voice was so loud that all the city officials could not stop trembling in shock.
These city officials have never read books and have little knowledge.
How did they know that people from overseas presented parrots to His Majesty the Emperor?
Emperor Taizu even called the "parrot" auspicious!
At this time, those city officials wanted to tear their own mouths apart.
What’s not good to say?
If you say this bird is a demon bird, I'm afraid it'll make you want to die early!
I have to admit that a scholar’s ​​mouth is simply a murderous sword.
Who would have thought that a few city officials were standing arrogantly in front of the soldiers just now, trying to swallow up all the money they obtained.
At this time, they seemed to have lost their souls, and a lot of sweat flowed from their cheeks.
They were really frightened.
At this time, Huang Tinghui added another piece of firewood, "This is Mr. Lu, the scholar of our Ruian County!"
"A distinguished scholar."
"I am not talented and have not achieved any fame yet, but my tutor is Mr. Li, a member of the Li family!"
"If we want to hold you accountable, it's just an easy matter!"
"When the time comes, no matter how many more heads you have, I'm afraid they won't be enough to kill!" Huang Tinghui threatened.
Like a camel crushed by the last straw, the city officials fell to their knees in front of Huang Tinghui with a plop.
"Master, Master!"
"It's true that we have the eyes but not to recognize Mount Tai. It's the truth that we have the eyes to not recognize Mount Tai!"
"We all don't know a few big characters, how can we know these things?"
"I just thought the bird could talk, but I was really afraid that the bird was a monster!"
"We really don't know what His Majesty Taizu said. We don't even know that this bird is auspicious!"
"We were wrong, we were really wrong!"
"Please, Master, please spare our lives, please spare our lives!"
After saying that, the city officials who were so frightened that they couldn't stand up kowtowed towards Huang Tinghui and Lu Daoming one by one.
They were really afraid that Huang Tinghui would expose this matter.
Emperor Taizu said it was an auspicious thing, but they denounced it as a monster.
If this matter spreads, it will really cause a big fuss.
Even if they have a few heads, I'm afraid they won't be enough to kill them.
After kowtowing, the city officials knew that this alone could not calm Huang Tinghui's anger.
In front of life, everything is empty.
I saw the city officials kneeling in front of Huang Tinghui. He took out a large bag of silver, and then said to Huang Tinghui flatteringly: "Master, Master!"
"Please, my lord, you have a lot of money, please let us go!"
"We will definitely never do this kind of thing again!"
"Absolutely not!"
"Please have mercy on me!" the city official begged.
This scene made Zhang Cheng and Lu Daoming look dumbfounded.
Are these the same city officials who were bossing around just now?
At this time, they were just like pugs trying to please Huang Tinghui.
Zhang Cheng, Lu Daoming and several other soldiers were all stunned.
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Chapter completed!