Time passed by little by little. Although the sun had already set in the west, the heat wave was still coming, making people feel extremely hot and sweat pouring out of their forehead and back.

Li Dagou was lying on the ground and was still wailing. Although his family was anxious, they did not dare to take Li Dagou home for treatment when they saw the flashing sword lights and the Black Panther walking back and forth.

Fortunately, there were two people covering his wound, and his blood was no longer flowing like water. I guess he could stop the bleeding for a while if he held it down a little longer, but not applying medicine was not the solution after all.

The people who were slumped on the ground also went to help the old man who was covering his face to get up, and stayed away from the Black Panther. At this time, there was no one around the Black Panther, and the small grain drying field made room for him.

Space.

Looking at the big dog Li on the ground, Zhang Rui seemed to be able to see what the dog looked like when he died, and he could also feel the resentment and hatred in Zhang Liu's memory.

"The bandits in Zhilian Mountain... maybe there is the murderer of Gou Mao here." Zhang Rui thought to himself.

At this time, he looked back at Li Si, and saw that Li Si was holding Agou's hand tightly, then lowered his head and gritted his teeth and closed his mouth. The fourth aunt was also hugging the little sister tightly, covering her head to prevent her from letting go.

She looks like this.

After a cup of tea, the man who had been asked to notify the housekeeper of the Li Mansion was followed by a middle-aged man with a shiny face, a beard at the corner of his mouth, and a neatly dressed man wearing a melon skin hat.

According to Zhang Liu's memory, this should be Li Hun, the housekeeper of the Li Mansion. Zhang Rui's first impression of this Li Hun was that he was cunning and cunning, and he looked exactly like the bad guy on TV.

Li Hun was followed by two men who looked like servants and thugs, highlighting his identity. Seeing Li Hun arriving, some servants belonging to the Li Mansion became a little commotion.

"Steward Li, I'm really sorry to thank you. I should have visited you in person, but I'm afraid that my newbie brothers won't be able to control these idiots, so I can only ask you to come over and discuss some matters." Black Panther walked over and said to Steward Li naturally.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say. Mr. Lei is so polite. I don't know why Mr. Lei called Li to come over." Li Hun raised his hand and saluted.

"It's nothing special. It's not that the weather is bad. The brothers in the brothers' village want to eat and drink. So I came down and asked these mud-legged people for some food and drink. After the brothers have eaten and drank enough, I can protect them from being bullied by outsiders, right?

." Black Panther paused, swallowed, and continued.

"It turned out that these mud-legged people were completely ungrateful. They even cried to my brother that the weather was bad and there was no food. My brother is not an unkind person, so I was wondering if I could let them borrow the money from your Li family first, and then wait until they have food.

I'll return the money and food to your Li Mansion."

After listening to Black Panther's words, Li Hun couldn't help but admire him in his heart. He thought that I, Li Hun, could be considered a shameless person, but Black Panther could talk about robbery in such a high-sounding way. I had never heard of it before.

00 Sure enough, there is a world outside the sky, and there are people outside the world. It seems that there is still a lot for me to learn on the shameless road.

"What Mr. Lei said makes me very embarrassed! You must know that all the money and food belong to Mr. Li, and I can't make the final decision in many cases. Moreover, now is the time when the economy is in recession, and the price of rice outside is only two to five yuan per stone.

By the time they harvest, the price of grain has returned to eight cents per stone. It’s not worthwhile for me to go out and come home at the same time!” Li Hun said, stroking his beard on his right hand.

"It's simple. Butler Li only needs to exchange silver taels for them. You can calculate it based on the current silver taels of two taels and five cents per stone. Two stones per household is five taels of silver. When the time comes, you can calculate back according to the rules of nine outings and thirteen returns.

Grain is enough, so you won’t suffer any loss." After hearing what Li Hun said, Black Panther said with an indifferent expression.

"It's not impossible to say this. I'm afraid that after I give you the money, they won't acknowledge it as soon as you leave." Li Hun continued.

"They dare. If anyone dares not to make me feel better, I will kill him immediately." As he spoke, Black Panther looked around at the people around him. Everyone who saw him lowered their heads and did not dare to look into his eyes.

"Steward Li, just write an IOU to them. When the time comes and you have the IOU in hand, let's see who dares not to repay you the money and food. I'll see who dares not to sign, and I'll chop his mother in half with a knife."

"Since Mr. Lei has said so, it would be unwise for Mr. Li to shirk it any further. However, Mr. Li has one more request here, please ask Mr. Lei to save his face."

"It's easy to say. If Butler Li has anything to say, just say it!"

"It's like this. There are ten households here that are servants of my Li family. Please ask Mr. Lei to spare them some food. Otherwise, Mr. Li will have to scold Mr. Li when he goes back to the mansion."

"Sure, for the sake of your brother Li, each of these ten households will pay one stone." After hearing Black Panther's words, the ten households suddenly felt a little moved. They felt that Butler Li was usually not very good, but this time he was so generous.

You really did a good job. I am very glad that I am a servant of the Li family, which makes them feel as if they have found the backbone of their leadership. But other people dare to be angry and dare not speak out.

"Then Li thanked Master Lei here." Li Hun bowed to the Black Panther, then called the thug next to him and whispered a few words in his ear. The thug bowed to Li Hun and then

Returned to the direction of Li's house.

"Please wait a moment, Mr. Lei. Mr. Li has sent someone to get the silver coins and prepare a banquet for you all."

Hearing Li Hun's words, the Black Panther who had achieved his goal couldn't help but feel elated. He thought that Li Hun was pretty good. He was a man from the mansion. He was good at talking and doing things. When I made enough money, I would build a mansion like this.

The butler came out to enjoy it.

"Butler Li is so polite, I...oh, no, we are here. Thank you very much, Butler Li."

Seeing the two people muttering, Zhang Rui did some calculations in his mind: They calculated that one stone and meter outside now cost two and a half taels, and two stones per household is five taels. According to what they said - nine out and thirteen back.

, I will have to repay nearly eight taels of silver by then. The crops in the fields will be harvested in more than half a month. The weather is dry this year, and the grain production will definitely be reduced significantly. The price of grain should be higher than the normal price.

However, according to the IOU, the millet will still be sold to him at the price of eight yuan and one dan, which means that he will have to pay back ten dan of millet. I guess he will also say that you can go to other places to sell millet to repay the silver. Look at it.

This is the path you have chosen, but people in the countryside rarely even see copper coins. The only things that can be sold are the millet produced in the fields or some mountain products picked up in the mountains. Otherwise, they can be sold in the county.

Selling girls and wives.

Moreover, the only people who can come here to collect grain from non-grain-producing areas are the Li family and the Huang family. The Huang family is not very interested in the business here and only collects farm rent from servants, so they rarely come here.

A large amount of grain was collected, so the Li family collected grain most of the time. In other words, the villagers only gave them millet.

Five taels of silver can be exchanged for ten shi of millet in just over half a month. No matter how much you consume, you still have eight shi of rice grain. In two or three months, when the villagers' rice grain is exhausted, they can resell it for at least two taels and five yen. It's even more, even if it's calculated as 2 taels and 5 taels, it's still 20 taels, which is a decent profit of fifteen taels.

Moreover, rice bran can also be mixed into rice and sold, and no matter how evil they are, they can still make twenty taels. With such a huge profit, no one would believe that the Li family did not join in the robbery plan this time. They were the ones who really robbed the villagers.

The cleverness of their plan lies in their ability to distract the attention of the villagers and deliberately reduce the grain supply to some servants of the Li House. This reflects the power of the Li House and reduces the possibility of unity in the whole village.

Let the conflicts arise between the villagers and the bandits. The Li family is just doing good things and coming out to rescue you idiots at the right time to prevent you from being killed by the bandits.

Slowly, the villagers worked hard every day to help them for free, and all they got out of it was the food to survive. This plan was really one after another, how sinister, no wonder their Li Mansion grew so fast.

Sure enough, things went as Zhang Rui expected. The thug ran back in less than a cup of tea, carrying silver coins, a package of written IOUs and tools for signing and signing.

"Mr. Lei's family has been waiting for a long time. Here is the silver tael that Mr. Lei's family should receive. Calculated at five taels per household, there are thirty-two households here, ten of which are from my Li family. I would like to thank Mr. Lei's family for the kindness in advance. , there are one hundred and sixty taels of silver here, of which twenty-five taels were invited by my family, Mr. Lei, to have a drink with Mr. Lei. I also asked Mr. Lei to take a look." Butler Li took the bag of silver taels raised by the thug and handed it to him. Said to Black Panther

Black Panther took the bag of silver ingots from Butler Li and weighed it in his hands. He opened it and saw that there were ten silver ingots in total, each weighing twenty taels. He said in a good mood.

"It's easy to say. They say Butler Li is polite. Brother, I'll be here to help you watch these idiots sign and sign. See who dares to take advantage of your Li family. I'll help you chop him up."

"I would like to thank Mr. Lei in advance. I believe no one will dare to bully my Li family. However, the banquet will take a while. Please wait for me, Li, here for a while, and then we can have a good time without getting drunk. "

"Hahaha, that's easy to say. I also want to get drunk with Butler Li."

Butler Li and his people signed and stamped their names on the Eight Immortals table where Black Panther was standing before. Zhang Rui thought about it and got over it first. If it doesn't work then I'll run away and let's see how you find me. I'm bored now. The Black Panther chatted with the two bandits not far away.

"Who the hell is Li Si?" Black Panther suddenly shouted

Li Hun, who was taking people to sign and sign, looked up when he heard the sound and continued his work without paying any attention. Other villagers who knew Li Si subconsciously looked at Li Si, wondering what happened.

Following the eyes of the villagers, Black Panther quickly found Li Si's family. He saw Black Panther walking over and giving Li Si a slap and a kick without any warning.

At that time, Li Si was holding Agou, and he didn't react until both of them fell to the ground. Agou was so frightened that he wanted to cry but did not dare to cry. His eyes were red and he didn't know what was going on.

Zhang Rui was a little wary when he saw the Black Panther approaching, but he didn't expect it to be like this. At this time, Aunt Li, who was holding the little sister, quickly went to help Agou and Li Si who fell to the ground. The little sister was frightened by the sudden thing.

cry.

"Shut up, I will stab you if you cry again." Black Panther said to the little girl with a fierce look,

I don't know if the Black Panther killed too many people, but the little sister stopped crying, but her tears kept flowing.

Seeing such a scene, Zhang Rui immediately stopped in front of Li Si. Logically speaking, when faced with a powerful and murderous bandit, usually a mud-legged person in this era would not be able to help but kneel down and beg for mercy. However, Zhang Rui, who has traveled through time, has never been like this in his life.

Most of them didn't have the habit of kneeling before others, so they just stood there.

"Your Majesty, please calm down. I don't know why Li Si offended you, Your Majesty. We are here to apologize to you."

The Black Panther didn't say anything but slapped him. Maybe he had just received the money and was in a good mood so he didn't use the knife. Although Zhang Rui saw that he could easily dodge the slap, he didn't try to dodge it. He was stunned because he had suffered it.

The force of his slap knocked him three steps away.

"Damn it, you kid, do you want to die? If you dare to block your grandfather's way, I will stab you next time." After saying that, he ignored Zhang Rui and said to Li Si and Aunt Li on the ground:

"Li Si, damn, I heard that you went to the county to sue me last year???"

Before Li Si could react, he immediately understood: they were bandits from the direct mountain, the murderers of his son. Although he had decided to accept his fate, he still felt a faint pain in his heart when he heard Black Panther's words at this moment.

.

"I don't dare, Your Majesty, I have already accepted my fate." Li Si pushed Aunt Li and Agou aside and knelt in front of Black Panther and said. Zhang Rui looked very heartbroken.

"It's okay if you don't dare. To tell you the truth, I killed that bitch of yours. It was the first time I robbed something. He dared to hesitate. He really didn't know whether to live or die. Afterwards, I saw that the thing wasn't that good either.

Just throw it away." Hearing Li Si accept his fate, Black Panther said with some pride.
Chapter completed!