Chapter 9 Suffering
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In modern times, in the same location in Qingdao, due to construction and industry, there is almost no smell of the fishy sea. Although the days I spent in the Xue family and Qianhu in the first month were poor, the environment was completely semi-closed. Li Meng always felt that he was in a dream and had no sense of reality.
Today I came to Fengmeng Town, a town that may have disappeared in modern times. Li Meng really felt that he had indeed traveled through time, and now he was in the Ming Dynasty more than 400 years ago.
Zhao Neng and the others quickly bought things and turned back with a smile. Some people were carrying a piece of pork in their hands, some people made some wine, and some people had a few feet of cloth in their hands. This was the only product available in this town, but it was already a luxury enough for these poor military children.
"Let's go home."
If I go back, the group of people, as Li Meng said, would walk on the small road, empty cars and empty loads, and some money in their pockets. They walked easily and were happy.
A few young men who talked a lot never stopped. Zhao Neng, who has always been steady, also had a smile on his face. Li Meng was in a very good mood. Cooking the sea and boiling salt and slowly getting down is also a good way to improve his life. After all, in this era, it is still the most important thing to live comfortably, which is also Li Meng’s recent goal.
On the way back Xiaolu, I really saw several farmers living by the roadside. Both sides were shocked. The farmers thought they met strong men, while Li Meng and the others thought they had met the inspector Yan Ding. Fortunately, they were false alarms and they did not go away and went there.
When the last ray of skylight disappeared into the sky, Li Meng and the others rushed back to the Xue family's Qianhou House. According to its name, the Qianhou House was one thousand households. In fact, due to various reasons such as hidden household registration, the number of households was slightly larger, but there were only a few hundred households on the list.
It is naturally impossible for so many families to live together. In fact, according to the organization of small banners, general banners, hundreds of households, and thousands of households, each one per 100 households, it is almost a big village. Li Meng and others have hundreds of households around the sea. To put it bluntly, they are villages around the sea.
When the group entered the village happily, they were stopped by Li Meng outside the village and said:
"Dear brothers, if you want to do this business frequently, we must be more stern. If someone hears it, we can't escape!"
Chen Liuzi beside him also shouted fiercely:
"If anyone is not strict with his mouth, I, Chen Liuzi, slashed his head with a knife!"
"Brother Li, don't worry, we all know it's amazing..."
Everyone agreed, and before they finished speaking, a cry came from the village. The crying was heart-wrenching, so clear in the quiet night, and it was not a family. Zhao Neng frowned and listened intently, and said:
"This is not Ding's wife, but the old Wang family."
Speaking of this, everyone no longer dared to delay outside and quickly entered the village. As for the knives and iron rulers, they were all taken back by Li Meng and put them in his car and pushed them home.
As soon as we entered the village, everyone was shocked. The whole village seemed to be blown by a typhoon, and there were chaos everywhere. Some people were there to clean up silently, and some people were scolding and crying. Everyone's happiness after making money was gone, and they hurried back to their own houses.
Li Meng and Zhao Neng's families were neighbors. When they arrived at the door, they found that the doors of both families were open. Li Meng put the rooster bus to the door and hurried into his house with Zhao Neng. The yard was messy, and it was obvious that someone had been rushing over. The two hurriedly rushed into the house.
Although the room was messy, what made them feel relieved was that Zhao Neng's mother was fine and was cooking in the kitchen, but the old lady's face was not good. Looking at the appearance inside the room and the expression of her mother, Zhao Neng asked hurriedly:
"Mom, what happened?"
The old lady added another piece of firewood before she started talking about why she was like this today. Two hours after Li Meng and the others went out, Inspection Officer Mou brought dozens of salt dicks to the village, saying that there were some righteous people reporting the news that someone here sold private salt and harbored a large number of salt goods.
Trafficking private salt and hiding salt goods is a serious crime, and no one dares to admit it. Moreover, everyone has vaguely guessed the secrets of Li Meng and Zhao Neng, but they dared not confirm it. Besides, everyone in the village will not talk nonsense.
Inspection inspector Mou was too lazy to ask questions, so he searched directly from each household. The dozens of salt dicks seemed to be dozens of mad dogs, and they immediately made the village mess. However, the bulk of salt goods were pushed out by Li Meng and Zhao Neng, and there was nothing left in each household.
However, if these beasts cannot find banned private salt, it does not mean that they will be honest. If anyone has any valuable things, they will not let these salt cubes go. The family is worth a lot of money, and the poor family has these family backgrounds. How can they snatch them away? But these salt cubes are like wolves and tigers, and if they resist a little, they will beat them up.
The village chief was only a hundred households, so he didn't dare to come out at all. Fortunately, Inspection Gunn Mu also gave the hundred households some face and did not attack him.
No large amount of salt was found, only a little salt in each household. It seemed that this matter was over, but inspector Mou could give up the situation, but he took away Grandma Ding's widow and daughter-in-law and the old girl from the old Yang family.
Grandma Ding is an old lady with bad ears and has no wife. Her son died early and was supported by her daughter-in-law. The old Yang family is just a girl. These old and weak can stop these salt dicks. Moreover, the young and strong people in the village are going out to sell salt (boiling sea and salt is illegal, and it requires some courage). The rest are so scared that they dare not go out.
We watched these people snatch Widow Ding and the girl from the Yang family, but they didn't dare to stand up until the evening when everyone dared to deal with it. Grandma Ding and the old Yang family had no choice but to cry out, so there was no other way.
Looking at the bad luck in the village and listening to the crying, Li Meng's face turned pale, and Zhao Neng's face was not good-looking. The reason for this incident was that they were trafficking in private salt. They thought they could make some money to improve everyone's lives, but who knew it had implicated everyone.
The good mood disappeared, Li Meng didn't say anything, Zhao Neng squeezed out a smile on his face, raised the pork and cloth in his hand, and said:
"Mom, I went to Fengmeng Town this time and bought some meat and cloth."
The old lady sighed, took the meat and cloth, and said:
"You two haven't eaten yet, I'll make this meat."
Chapter completed!