Chapter 1660 Who Do You Belong To?

At the same time, in a shop called Dayu Mipu in the west of the city, Liu Wei was twisting a handful of new rice and playing with it in his hands.

"Seven hundred coins per bucket, shopkeeper, isn't this price a bit expensive?"

The shopkeeper of the rice shop stood at the counter with an abacus. He raised his eyelids when he heard this and said nonchalantly: "It's seven hundred cash now. After a while, even one thousand cash may not be able to buy half a bucket."

Liu Wei raised an eyebrow: "The price of rice in the capital is not that outrageous. Is the shopkeeper bullying us outsiders?"

The shopkeeper of the rice shop sneered and didn't bother to tell her: "Seven hundred per bucket, buy it if you like, or leave if you don't."

Liu Wei remained silent and looked sideways at Rong Leng.

Rong Leng nodded to her, and the two left together.

Today, they visited all the Wuliang shops in the west of the city. Except for the two that had been closed down, there were only nine shops left. The price of rice and oil was higher than that of the other shops.

Qingzhou had only been occupied for half a month, and the people had not yet been shocked by the situation. The shops had already heard about it, and they raised the prices and sold the common daily necessities at several times the price.

They are really honest and businesslike. They are not afraid of thunder and lightning to make money from the national crisis.

After leaving the rice shop, Liu Wei said to Rong Leng: "So far, the prices of the shops in the west of the city have risen the highest, far ahead of those in the south of the city. Among the several five-liang shops in the city, the price of this Dayu rice shop is the highest. , who is the owner behind this Dayumei Shop?”

Rong Leng thought for a while before replying: "My surname is Qin, and my residence is also in the west of the city."

Liu Wei touched his chin: "It seems that Boss Qin is very close to the rebels. Internal information has been revealed to him. So can we assume that Qingzhou is about to be in chaos?"

"Qingzhou is already in chaos." Rong Leng said.

Liu Wei shook his head: "It's not chaotic enough now. After a few days, we found out that all the officials currently serving in Qingzhou were missing. They said they were missing, but in fact they were still there. The rebel Li Daitao had impersonated the original officials and secretly They continue to dominate the operation of Qingzhou City. We don’t know what their plan is, but now it seems that their next step will not be satisfied with counterfeiting. They want to truly occupy Qingzhou and come out openly and declare. own ownership, so Boss Qin raised the price of rice. Imagine what the people would do if they woke up and found that their state capital was invaded by another group of people. , escape, second, resist, third, surrender, no matter which one of these three, panic is inevitable, and so is the harvesting of grain. Now the people don't know that Qingzhou has changed hands, but Boss Qin does. Prices have already started to rise, so if we look back, the days of riots in Qingzhou are not far away. "

Rong Leng listened quietly, and after a while he said, "Go to the Qin Mansion and have a look."

Liu Wei said "yes", took a deep breath, and muttered: "I don't know where Fu Zichen is or if he is in danger..."

Rong Leng remained silent. He also wanted to know whether all the former officials of Qingzhou City were still alive.

Before evening, Liu Wei and Rong Leng arrived at the back door of the Qin Mansion. The Qin Mansion seemed to be building a small building, and the back door was wide open. From time to time, a sweaty worker would come in and out, pushing mud bricks.

Liu Wei and Rong Leng observed for a while and determined that these workers were not domestic slaves of the Qin Mansion, but a construction team hired from outside, so they walked in through the back door without any cover.

As soon as I entered, I bumped into a tall young man, who was also a worker. He had a hoe on his shoulder. When he saw them, he was stunned for a moment, took a half step back and bowed.

This is treating them as the masters of the Qin Mansion.

Liu Wei pretended to say "yes", and before leaving, she glanced at the worker's feet, then paused, then immediately looked at the legs of other workers, and finally pulled Rong Leng's sleeves.

Rong Leng also saw it, and he stopped the worker: "You."

The worker stopped and asked in confusion: "What are your orders, Master?"

"What's your name?" Rong Leng asked.

The worker paused for a moment, and then said slowly: "The young man's surname is Lu, and his single name is Yi. He is their foreman."

"Your shoes are dirty." Liu Wei suddenly said.

The foreman named Lu Yi looked at his feet. Because he often did physical work, he was afraid that his trousers would get caught on his legs. Even in the winter, they would roll up their trousers to their calves. In this way, their ankles and shoes would be dirty. , it is not an exaggeration to say that it is wrapped in mud.

Lu Yi didn't know what these two young masters meant, so he could only reply respectfully: "It's dirty, and it has insulted the eyes of these two nobles."

"That's not what I meant." The slimmer of the two pointed at his toes: "It's too dirty."

Lu Yi still didn't quite understand and frowned.

The two young masters said nothing and left together.

It wasn't until the two of them disappeared that Lu Yi looked at his own feet suspiciously, and then at the feet of another worker next to him.

After such a comparison, a dense cold sweat broke out on his back.

Lu Yi joined the army in his early years and was a veteran for more than 20 years. He was injured two years ago and was forced to retire. After that, he started working as a mason in Qingzhou City. After that, he started his own small fortification team. The people recruited into the team are all reckless men who have some skills but little knowledge.

Among these people, Lu Yi, who was a soldier, was particularly outstanding. Both in terms of physical strength and endurance, he was much stronger than these rough guys.

Just like now, because of years of military training, he has subconsciously formed a habit when walking, and he will touch the ground with his toes first. Touching the ground with his toes first will save a lot of effort and reduce the weight load, but because of this, the toes of the shoes will be worn out more severely, but the heels of the shoes will not be too dirty. Other normal people, who have not experienced military training, are more accustomed to touching the ground with their heels first, so their heels will be more easily dirty and worn out than their toes.

The two young men just mentioned his feet and toes alone, which clearly showed that he was a soldier.

Lu Yi's heart shook, and when he came back to his senses, he found that he was sweating on his head, and the sweat was flowing down his temples and into his neck, which made him shiver.

Lu Yi took a breath and asked the worker next to him in shock: "Who were those two people just now?"

The worker didn't know them either, and said casually: "Maybe they are the young masters of a certain room."

Lu Yi didn't dare to be careless, and took the hoe and ran almost wildly in the direction where the two left.

As soon as he walked into the garden, he was hit by a stone in the distance. He didn't know where the stone hit him. He suddenly became stiff and couldn't move.

Acupuncture.

Lu Yi opened his eyes wide in horror.

A moment later, he saw two people coming out from behind the rockery. They were the two young men just now. The tall and stern-looking young man dragged him into a crevice in the garden, and then asked coldly: "Who are you?"

Lu Yi could still speak, but he didn't dare to say it. Sweat soaked his clothes.

The thin young man next to the cold young man was good-tempered. He patted the cold young man on the shoulder, looked at Lu Yi again, and said in a gentle voice: "If you were a rebel, you would not be able to see that we are not the masters of the Qin Mansion, but you did think we were the masters of the Qin Mansion just now, and you even bowed to us, so I judged that you are not a rebel. Just now we mentioned the tip of your shoe again, which means that we found that you are a soldier. In fact, there are many people who retire from the military and become bricklayers, but if you were not guilty, you would not have run into the garden to find us after being startled. You came here, which proves that you are not an ordinary bricklayer who was born in a military family. You have another identity, so now tell us, who are you?"