Chapter 187 Frame-Up

In the autumn of this year, Sanyang County indeed had a bumper harvest.

With the help of Tien Niu, he managed to cultivate one-third of the county's fertile land.

The newly arrived immigrants gritted their teeth and worked hard for more than half a year, and finally harvested mountains of food.

They are all tenants of Ergouzi. They only need to pay 20% of the land rent to their employer, and the remaining food is their own.

Looking at the grain piled up in warehouses, many people lamented that after living for most of their lives, they can finally have a good year.

At least it would be no problem to keep the whole family fed.

Ergouzi also gained a huge harvest. The land rent he harvested, plus part of the land planted by his own hands, added up to nearly 1 million shi.

Originally there were 8 million stones of grain in the gourd, and 1 million stones were stored in Shekou Mountain. Not much has been consumed yet, and now another 1 million stones have been added.

Moreover, these lands are Ergouzi's property. He has a good reputation and does not need to pay taxes.

In the entire Sanyang County, there are only a few dozen small landowners left who need to pay taxes, and this year they have collected more than 10,000 dan in total.

Ergouzi did not corrupt even a single grain of the ten thousand shi of grain collected. He refined all of it into marching pills and personally escorted them to Qingzhou City.

When Er Gouzi entered the city with Xingjunwan, he was shocked when he saw portraits of the Butterfly Fairy posted all over the streets.

I felt relieved when I remembered that I didn't know the Butterfly Fairy and they had no contact.

"Old man, who is the butterfly fairy posted on the wall?"

Ergouzi casually asked an old man on crutches.

"Hey, you are a foreigner, right? This Butterfly Fairy is amazing. He has committed many major crimes in Qingzhou City and is now known to the whole city."

"Ah, a woman who looks quite beautiful, what other big crime can she commit?"

Since Er Gouzi didn't know Butterfly Fairy, he naturally didn't know what crimes this woman had committed.

"People should not be judged by their appearance. It is said that this woman stole tens of thousands of pills from the alchemy room, including more than a thousand Xuanyuan Pills."

The old man was still clicking his tongue when he said this.

In the minds of most people, one Peiyuan Pill is already a huge wealth, but Fairy Butterfly actually stole tens of thousands of it.

But what was more surprising at this moment was Er Gouzi. When had he gone to the alchemy room to steal the elixir?

And stole so much!

The total number of pills he had sold on the black market amounted to just over a thousand pills, and Xuanyuan Pills only sold a few dozen pills in total.

Moreover, these elixirs are all refined by myself and have nothing to do with the alchemy room.

"This is just the elixir. He also stole hundreds of elixirs and thousands of spiritual stones from Qingzhou Prefecture's Yamen..."

The old man talked about the crimes that Butterfly Fairy had committed. They were all treasures and they were clear and logical. It seemed that these cases had been known to the whole city for a long time.

At this moment, Er Gouzi really wanted to complain to Butterfly Fairy.

This is obviously a frame-up, and all the sins will be placed on Fairy Butterfly.

"Just three months ago, a large number of marching pills, elixirs, spiritual stones and other materials allocated by the imperial court for military operations on the border were all stolen by Fairy Butterfly."

"Ah, you dare to steal military supplies, what about the border troops?"

Hearing this, even Ergouzi, who was used to stealing, felt that some people were too bold and dared to steal even military supplies.

Moreover, he has not been to Qingzhou City for more than half a year. Three months ago, he was still practicing on Shekou Mountain.

"Isn't it? This Butterfly Fairy's actions are too immoral and lacking in virtue!"

"A notice has been issued in the Yamen. Anyone who encounters the Butterfly Fairy, regardless of life or death, can go to the Yamen to receive the prize."

The old man was spitting like crazy, scolding the Butterfly Fairy for being wicked, and lamenting that he was not so lucky.

I heard that as long as you take Fairy Butterfly's body to the Yamen, you can receive a huge prize of 5 Xuanyuan Pills.

Even Er Gouzi was moved. Unfortunately, he didn't know Butterfly Fairy and had never seen this person before.

Ergouzi sighed, relatively speaking, he was still far behind.

I thanked the old man and walked to the Qingzhou Mansion Yamen alone.

This time, the tax payment went smoothly and there was no difficulty from the Yamen.

The entire Sanyang County's land tax, Dingkou tax and more than twenty kinds of taxes that should be paid this year were paid in one go.

After coming out of the Yamen, he wandered around the streets of Qingzhou City.

The population of Qingzhou City is really large. At first glance, they are all full of people. With so many people, it would be great if they all went to Sanyang County to farm their own land.

Portraits of the Butterfly Fairy were posted everywhere on the streets, and some people stood under the portraits and pointed, discussing how to capture this person.

Out of curiosity, Ergouzi came closer and listened.

The method discussed by these people is nothing more than to use some good things to lure the butterfly fairy and then set a trap.

"I think we can use a beauty trick to seduce the Butterfly Fairy!"

Ergouzi turned around and saw that it was a buck-toothed man. He didn't know where this man got his confidence from.

"Is this fellow Taoist interested in taking action together? But there is a big prize of five Xuanyuan Pills!"

A middle-aged man saw that Ergouzi seemed curious, so he came over and invited him to join him.

"Forget it, I'm not very capable, so I won't hold you back."

Ergouzi waved his hand and rejected the invitation and left quickly.

Next, he continued to wander around the city and bought a lot of supplies along the way.

Nowadays, the commercial roads in Sanyang County are almost blocked, and local goods cannot be sold to other places.

Some local necessities were not available, so some merchants risked transporting them here, and the price was more than 10 times higher.

Other things were okay, and they could barely last for a few years, but necessities like salt had to be bought.

Many people had no salt to eat, and their bodies were swollen.

Er Gouzi bought several hundred kilograms of salt from a Xia family business that specialized in selling salt. He wanted to buy more, but they didn't sell it.

It happened that there was only this large business that specialized in selling salt in the entire Qingzhou City.

The small amount of salt in other small grocery stores was bought from the Xia family.

Sanyang County now has a population of 100,000, but only a few hundred kilograms of salt, which can't last for a few days.

After a round in the city, he didn't find any other channels to buy salt.

Since he spent money but people were unwilling to sell, Er Gouzi could only take a different approach.

In the next one or two days, he kept wandering around this business to find out the bottom.

Two days later, he finally got the details, found an empty corner, slapped a talisman on himself, and the figure disappeared.