Return of the Swallow

The expression on Lu Dashun's face changed from respect and anticipation to astonishment in an instant, and he never expected that the topic of Qin Yining would suddenly turn to him.

"Princess, why do I..." His unspoken question was swallowed back into his mouth when he met Qin Yining's knowing gaze.

The scene fell into a deathly silence for a while.

None of the people present were stupid, and even if they didn't understand the incident when it happened, they would understand it now after sitting down and thinking about it carefully.

Shopkeeper Zhong lowered his head and said nothing, with his black hair facing Qin Yining, trying his best to conceal the thoughts in his heart.

Qin Yining sighed helplessly as he looked at this young man who had not reached the weak crown.

It seems that human nature will change as the environment changes.

When she saw Lu Dashun for the first time, he still looked timid, and at a glance, he knew that he was temporarily hired by shopkeeper Xia Da to top the vat. He was wearing a new suit of good material, and his hands and feet were tense, and he didn't know where he was going put.

But in the past few days, he has already learned how to calculate, and learned to come to her to trip up Master Zhong and Master Xia. She has long been dissatisfied with shopkeeper Xia, but shopkeeper Zhong is loyal to her, and she has always trusted her. It can be seen that Lu Dashun's ambition is not small.

Qin Yining couldn't help feeling a little emotional. If there are people, there are rivers and lakes.

In the past, when there were not many people around her, the little girl knew to avoid each other. Now that there are too many people, as long as the mutual relationship involves interests, who is superior to whom, and who can show his face, it will become more and more difficult to distinguish.

Seeing that Qin Yining was silent, Lu Dashun panicked. He said anxiously: "Princess, please calm down. The villain is not dissatisfied with you, nor is he trying to hide his secrets. It is because Master Xia was promoted by Master Zhong, and Master Zhong is your confidant. If the villain rashly Rubbish words, I'm afraid I won't be able to win your trust, 'hearing is believing, seeing is believing', since the little one is destined to become the subordinate of the princess, I naturally don't want you to be kept in the dark, and I hope the princess will learn from her!"

Qin Yining smiled.

In fact, half of what Lu Dashun said came from his heart. It is true that shopkeeper Zhong Da was too close to Qin Yining, and shopkeeper Xia Da was hand-picked by shopkeeper Zhong Da, so he had to make such a bad plan.

But Qin Yining also understands that there are also elements of selfishness hidden in this. But everyone has selfishness, and she won't expose it.

"Don't be nervous. I understand your thoughts. You may be like this because you don't know much about us. In the future, you only need to speak out. You are a kind person. As long as you do your job seriously, you will naturally be reused." Qin Yining smiled and said sincerely.

Lu Dashun immediately saluted excitedly when he heard the words: "Thank you, Wangfei! Thank you, Wangfei!"

"Get up, there is no need to perform such a great gift." Qin Yining looked at Shopkeeper Zhong with a smile, raised his eyebrows narrowly, and joked, "Treasurer Zhong won't take revenge on him, right?"

As soon as these words came out, Lu Dashun's heart skipped a beat. Wang Hao seemed to be asking the shopkeeper Zhong, but she was actually asking him - they all understood his little thoughts, but they didn't want to expose it!

Lu Dashun originally thought that he would be able to rise to the top, that he was really a smart and powerful person with unlimited potential, but now it seems that he is too conceited and has become a laughing stock instead.

This time Lu Dashun bowed his head in complete convincing, and said repeatedly: "Don't dare."

Shopkeeper Zhong Da knew in his heart that Qin Yining was asking him on the surface, but in fact he was supporting him, and he felt more guilt and panic in his heart.

"princess,

It was my incompetence and ignorance of people that made such mistakes. I really don't deserve Wang Hao's forgiveness. I already know that I am guilty. Shopkeeper Lu San just spoke out in front of you and did nothing wrong. Even if Shopkeeper Lu San did something wrong, the princess will punish him. How dare I take revenge in private. "

Qin Yining smiled and waved his hands and said, "Let's all sit down and talk. We are all on our own, for the same purpose."

Shopkeeper Zhong Da saluted and sat down.

Lu Dashun was shocked again.

What shopkeeper Zhong said just now was also telling him that even if shopkeeper Zhong really did something wrong, he would be punished by the pearl of the princess. He, who is also the shopkeeper, has no qualifications and position to make small moves in private.

Lu Dashun's forehead was covered with sweat. It seems that he was too proud and self-satisfied, he even forgot his duty, and also forgot that these are powerful people in front of him, he was so complacent that he almost brought disaster on himself.

Qin Yining ordered the maid to refill the tea and serve some snacks, and chatted with the two for a while, but he didn't appear to be irritated by Shopkeeper Xia at all.

This obvious comparison made Shopkeeper Xia even more insolent, while Qin Yining became more secretive.

"There are two more things to trouble the two of you to do."

"Princess, please tell me."

The two responded, and both stood up and bowed their hands in salute.

Qin Yining said: "The old capital has not been peaceful these years. There were famines and wars back then. After catching up with the earth dragon and turning over, the people are in dire straits. Although my village has raised a lot of refugees, it's a drop in the bucket, and it can't save everyone. However, I am still unwilling to give up what I can do. So I plan to exempt all the tenants under my jurisdiction from rent for one year. Shopkeeper Zhong, I need to trouble you to do this, shopkeeper Lu San Just be there to help."

Upon hearing this, Master Zhong immediately nodded in understanding.

But shopkeeper Lu San was a little surprised.

Others don't know, but they followed shopkeeper Xia Da a while ago, but they have figured out how many properties Qin Yining has. Although those properties are not written in her name, but the grain produced by those lands, if they catch up with a In a good year, the rent paid is enough to feed an army. If all these rents are not collected, what a huge sum it will be!

"Princess, you..."

Qin Yining smiled and waved his hands, "Money is something outside of the body, not to mention that I was once a saint who was ordered by Tianjizi to protect the destiny of the country. point."

When she said this, Lu Dashun remembered that although he was not in the old capital back then, he had heard a little about the solemnity of the Holy Maiden Wentian. In the Great Yan Dynasty, it would be as loud as a heavenly secret.

Lu Dashun nodded repeatedly.

Shopkeeper Zhong Da understood that Qin Yining did not just want to do good deeds.

She had taken in many refugees back then, and bought the land of many people who wanted to escape with her own money, in order to let everyone have money to escape, but she did not expect that good people will have their own rewards, and the soldiers led by Pang Xiao entered the old There was no massacre of the city at all, no trampling on the fields, and the soldiers and horses were all well-behaved. Those ordinary people who fled for their lives had no place to go after returning, let alone a living.

But Qin Yining has taken in all those common people, most of them are in her village.

At the beginning, they were very grateful for the favor of the "big landlord". It's just that a large part of them don't know that Qin Yining is behind Zhuangzi's backstage. Doing more of these now is nothing more than to let those refugees who have been favored once again resound the original benefits, at least not to make any moths when Shopkeeper Xia did something bad.

Shopkeeper Zhong Da followed Qin Yining for a long time, so his guess was not bad.

Qin Yining is still very confident in her popularity, even if she doesn't mention the matter of taking her in, the people of the old capital Heyang County who came to rescue the disaster when Dilong turned over should remember the benefits of her and Pang Xiao. It's just that they didn't deliberately publicize this time, and many people who came from other places didn't know about it.

I believe that if you use your heart to build momentum, you will naturally be able to build a good relationship among the people. As long as you have the hearts of the people, other things will be easier to handle.

While Qin Yining was at home planning the affairs of Shopkeeper Xia, Pang Xiao was in chaos in the camp of the Pingnan Army.

In recent days, the "suppression of bandits" has continued, and Pang Xiao took turns to bring out many brothers, but only those who were on his "black list" at the beginning were left behind. This has made these people very upset. Later, the so-called "bandits" no longer dared to walk on the road, because no matter whether they took the official road or the small road, whether they carried the big shopkeeper under the banner of Stone to save face, or disguised themselves as other merchants, they transported them out of the city. There is never a time when the goods are not robbed.

Moreover, when they suppress bandits, they are only allowed to enter, not to exit. This led to the interruption of Stone's foreign trade.

The people of the Stone number are in a state of desperation. Those in the military camp who have not been paid by the army until now are also very aggrieved. It’s fine if everyone doesn’t pay, but how do you feel when you see other brothers in the same camp getting paid, but you don’t?

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner according to Pang Xiao's plan,

On this day, about a thousand or so people who started the riot and were obviously bribed secretly finally gathered on the school grounds.

"My lord is unfair!"

"Why does the prince only take them and not us!"

"Don't share the spoils with us yet!"

...

These people are even more angry than when they first caused trouble, and no one is willing to make concessions when it comes to their own interests.

Pang Xiao was wearing a black bunt, his hair was neatly tied up high, and he stood on the school field with his hands behind his back, looking expressionlessly at the noisy crowd in front of him. Although he has a very thorough understanding of human nature, he still felt a little depressed when he saw that these soldiers worked harder to pursue their interests than to kill the enemy in battle. What's more, they were not loyal, they had been bought secretly long ago, and stayed in the Pingnan army camp to monitor his situation anytime and anywhere, with the intention of plotting evil.

The crowd made a lot of noise, which gradually intensified because of Pang Xiao's silence.

When the noise reached an intolerable level, Pang Xiao said in a deep voice, "Shut up."

Hu Zi, who had been standing behind Pang Xiao for a long time, stood up immediately and shouted: "Shut up, listen to the prince!"

And those men who followed Pang Xiao out to suppress the bandits many times, and who were sincerely convinced by Pang Xiao said in unison: "Listen to the orders of the marshal, listen to the orders of the marshal!"

The noisy shouting and cursing of more than a thousand people was no match for the shouting of the same thousand people in unison, so they were 10% weaker in momentum and shut up one after another.

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