Xiaoyaoshanjun

Chapter 34 Failed

The two of them had lunch before leaving the yard. Bai Yanhong walked out with a happy face, and Tian Buli followed her, intending to settle the matter with the help of his master's face.

At around four or five o'clock, the two men arrived at the gate of the escort agency.

As soon as Tian Buli approached, two sturdy men who practiced martial arts shouted, "Who are you?!"

Tian Buli approached and said, "My two brothers, my name is Tian Buli, I am a scholar in the county, and I have come to visit the owner of the manor."

While talking, Tian Buli approached the two men and took out a dozen copper coins under their gaze.

When they heard that his name was Tian Buli and that he was a student, and that Bai Yanhong was standing next to them, the two men knew who he was right away.

"Our owner is not here. I heard that people in the manor said that last year, Manager Lei kicked out a student, and this year he passed the exam and became a student."

Looking at the copper coins handed over by Tian Buli, Zhang Hu put them away with a smile.

Tian Buli said politely, "It's me. It's all in the past. I came to the owner today to ask him something. Could you please inform me, big brother?"

Zhang Hu looked at Tian Buli with a smile, "Are you asking about this woman and Zhang Xia, or something else? If you're asking about something else, I'll run for you."

Tian Buli showed a surprised look and lowered his head in embarrassment. "It's about Zhang Xia and Bai Yanhong. They helped me before. I heard that they were in trouble, so I came to ask about it."

Zhang Hu quickly looked at the young man and Bai Yanhong beside him with a smile.

"Zhang Xia and I are from the same village. The village has been looking for the money hidden by those women these days. The escort leader must know about your situation. You should go back and don't cause any trouble."

"If you have any feelings for them, you can just show your support when they go to the brothel. They are not being sold to other places, so I have to show my support as well."

"I'm telling you this because I think you're a kind person. If you insist on going to find Lei Guanshi and stay here, the escort leader and a few fellow apprentices will find out and they'll definitely cause trouble for you."

Bai Yanhong had a bad temper, but she didn't dare to compete with such a warrior at this time, so she didn't say anything.

Tian Buli looked calm and patiently said, "Brother, please help me inform them. I am a person who remembers kindness but not grudges. My teacher won the first place in the county's examination in February, and this month he passed the examination for the prefecture's scholar."

"The house that Bai Yanhong and Zhang Xia bought before is my husband's ancestral house. They gave it to me a few days ago, and I gave it to my husband. My husband remembers the kindness of the two girls, and I remember it too."

When Zhang Hu heard that Tian Buli's teacher passed the imperial examination, his attitude changed. "Okay, wait a minute. I'll go and notify Manager Lei."

After more than ten minutes, an old man with an unhappy face came out.

"Brother Tian has become successful. He now works as an errand boy for the scholar. He even dares to come to our Fuyuan Escort Agency to buy people in the middle of the night!"

Tian Buli said politely, "Manager Lei has misunderstood. The two girls have been kind to me. I heard that they are in trouble recently. How can I ignore them?"

Manager Lei smiled and said, "Since Brother Tian is so kind and righteous, then buy them. One hundred taels for each. If you can afford it, I will bring the other one out to meet you and let you take it home to manipulate it."

One hundred taels is not a small amount of money. Normally, selling tofu only earns three or four taels of silver a month, and this amount of money is not cheap on the street.

Buying a woman with just over two years' salary may seem like a big deal, but this is the view of modern people.

In this place, one hundred taels of silver can buy eight cows and can feed a family for four to five years.

With one hundred taels of silver in the family, there is no shortage of women to marry into.

If you really use the one hundred taels to buy a woman, you will definitely be called a spendthrift.

Even buying someone else's wife wouldn't cost a hundred taels, let alone buying a concubine.

There are three types of concubines: noble concubines, good concubines, and lowly concubines.

A noble concubine is a concubine who comes from the families of royal relatives and high-ranking officials. She has the highest status among the three categories, and usually women who are not capable of being a concubine become this kind of noble concubine.

A good concubine is a concubine who comes from an ordinary commoner's family, from a small family with a clean family background. It usually does not refer to an ordinary family, but a family of scholars.

Concubines were born into common people, actors, prostitutes, beggars and child brides. They had the lowest status among the three categories and were considered purchased goods.

In this era, not only concubines, both good and bad, could be sold, but also wives of ordinary origin. The status of women in the feudal era was related to their husband's family and their own family, and the influence was great.

Both Zhang Xia and Bai Yanhong had no children. Ordinary people bought concubines to continue the family line, so they would not spend a lot of money to buy them.

A woman in her twenties or almost thirty cannot be sold for a good price even if she is sold to a brothel. If the food, treatment and living environment change, she will be ruined beyond recognition in less than half a year. A brothel will never spend a hundred taels to buy a woman, and will not even give fifty taels.

An egg cost one cent, a chicken cost forty cents. Usually brothels would buy people based on their monthly income. Otherwise, they would easily die of illness, be beaten to death, or be abused to death over time.

Tian Buli knew that Manager Lei was deliberately making things difficult for him. People like him didn't care whether their masters were short of money or not. They just wanted to show off by being dogs, and if they didn't make any money, they would lose money.

"Two hundred taels is too much. I really can't come up with that much money. I'll go back and raise some. I can probably get a hundred taels at most."

Manager Lei looked at Tian Buli with a smile and said, "Okay, I didn't expect you to be so rich now. Show me some of your money first, and I won't mind your secret meeting with someone in our mansion. Otherwise, it will be hard to explain if this kind of thing gets out."

"Buying is buying, stealing is stealing. Since you let an old man like me see your unruly side, you should at least give me some respect, right?"

Looking at the hand that Manager Lei stretched out.

Although the boy in front of him is a student and follows an old scholar, Manager Lei is not afraid of him.

Especially when I saw this kid being so servile, I looked down on this lucky boy even more.

Tian Buli frowned and thought for a while. Soon, Tian Buli took out all the money he had, including a fist-sized copper coin bag and two taels of silver.

"Can I meet Zhang Xia? I heard she's not feeling well. I happened to bring some medicine for her. This little money will be used as tea money."

After Manager Lei took it, the smile on his face became even wider.

Soon, Manager Lei put the purse into his arms, took the medicinal herbs handed to him by Tian Buli with both hands, looked at them, then turned and walked inside.

When he turned around, he saw that Manager Lei had thrown the medicine bag in his hand to the ground.

"Close the door! Wait until he brings enough silver and then notify me. I want to go and try what it's like to be a girl worth 100 taels today."

When Tian Buli saw Manager Lei take the money and leave, and heard his sarcastic and complacent voice, his anger suddenly flared up!

"Old dog Lei! How dare you bully me?!"

Manager Lei's heart suddenly jumped when he heard the thunder-like roar. He turned around and looked at the young man who was glaring at him from behind, and soon sneered.

"Good boy! How dare you cause trouble in Fuyuan Escort Agency! Do you think you are so great just because you have a scholar? A scholar is nothing! Even the county magistrate should respect our village! Break his legs for me! Let him know how powerful our Fuyuan Escort Agency is!"

Zhang Hu and another person quickly walked towards Tian Buli.

Although they took the money and knew each other, they couldn't afford to offend Manager Lei. They also wanted to see if Tian Buli had any money on him so that they could knock him down first!
The enemy was coming in full force, and Tian Buli was well aware that the servants in these farms were not only cruel to outsiders, but also to their own people.

Beating people to death was a very normal thing in Zhuangzi. Not only did people die while practicing martial arts, but also men and women died for being disobedient.

Fuyuan Escort Agency is a large and powerful company with many thugs, and it is also a wealthy and powerful family. Tian Buli knows very well that he can't afford to offend them.

But there is no way back!

Tian Buli clenched his fists, kicked back hard, pressed his toes and soles tightly against the ground, and rushed forward to punch Zhang Hu.

This punch was a full-strength attack in rage.

Zhang Hu smiled and reached out to grab his fist, but he didn't expect the punch to be so fast and hard that it hit him directly in the stomach.

Zhang Hu's eyes suddenly widened as if they were about to pop out, and his hands began to tremble uncontrollably.

"This punch! Hitting you is unkind and unjust! It's like adding insult to injury!"

Tian Buli retracted his arm and directly hit another person.

Someone nearby punched Tian Buli in the chest, but it felt like he was hitting hard cowhide.

Tian Buli grabbed the man's arm, swung it up and threw it towards Manager Lei.

"What's going on? Someone's causing trouble!"

Soon, several martial artists ran out of the yard.

Seeing that there were so many of them, Tian Buli ran out quickly.

"Old Lei! Just wait, I won't let you go!"

Tian Buli shouted and ran away quickly, without noticing that Zhang Hu had fallen to the ground next to him, his hands and feet were shaking, his eyes were wide open, and blood was flowing from the corners of his mouth.

Manager Lei and the people around him quickly came over and saw Zhang Hu's appearance, and shouted loudly.

"Dead!"

"Zhang Hu was beaten to death!!"

Tian Buli, who had not run far, suddenly had a sudden shock in his heart. He quickly turned his head and saw four or five people surrounding the ground, but no one was chasing him.

"Tian Buli killed Zhang Hu! Hurry up and call the brothers to come out and catch him!"

"Call the police! Kill him to make Zhang Hu pay for his life!"

Tian Buli heard what those people said from afar and quickly ran out again. At this time, his palms and back were as cold as water, as if he had done something unforgivable.

I killed someone...

Tian Buli ran home quickly and saw Huer and Baoer playing with other children at the door, so he quickly grabbed Huer.

"Hu'er! Go home quickly and ask your mother to take you three to the Liu Mansion to stay for a few days. Ask someone to take you to the mansion to meet your father. I have caused trouble. Let your mother and your father live a good life! Don't meddle in my business! I will come back when your father becomes a high official!"

After Tian Buli finished speaking, he quickly left.

Hu'er didn't know what had happened, but he felt it seemed very serious.

In a few seconds, the bean lady came out of the door and looked around curiously.

"Hu'er, is your second father back? I seem to hear him talking."

(End of this chapter)