Ming Dynasty and New Rome and Infinite Magic Machine

Chapter 1000 Appetite
At 6:30 in the evening, it is lunch time in the school cafeteria.

But classmate Lei Fu seemed to have no appetite. He stood at the school gate waiting for Shang Luo with his head down. It was not until Shang Luo stopped the car in front of him and got out that he saw Shang Luo himself.

"Ah, Senior. Logically, I should call you Senior."

"You're welcome, junior." He raised his head and suddenly felt something was wrong, "Ah, Xue.Tianjun?"

"Just call me junior brother. I am a human being, not a deity. You should call me by my true identity to show respect to me. You always call me Tianjun, as if I have nothing but my cultivation."

"Well, then, let's call you that." Shangluo's comfort did not make him feel better.

Because he had known for a long time that the imperial court, including Shangluo, had taken good care of him in this matter. As a person involved, it would be reasonable to at least question him repeatedly for a few weeks. Even if he was not sent to the imperial prison, he should at least be interviewed in the school. But throughout the whole incident, the Jinyiwei completely protected his privacy, and no one mentioned his involvement in this incident in any public occasion.

"Anyway, thank you." He handed the coins in his wallet to Shangluo.

Shangluo took the wallet back, opened it and took a look.

He took out the coins and was about to return the wallet, but Lei Fu shook his head: "You can take this wallet too."

"why?"

"This wallet is a gift from her. When I first came to Yingtian, I was unfamiliar with the place and she took good care of me." He looked at the wallet with a look of nostalgia. But he also knew that it was an item involved in the case and that handing it over directly would make it easier for the Jinyiwei to handle the case. The court had taken good care of him and he could not cause trouble for the court anymore.

"Where are you from?"

“I’m from Jilin.”

"Jilin? That far?"

"Yeah." Lei Fu nodded. "This train ticket is really expensive. When I left, my family sold two acres of land to get enough money for my trip."

[Wow! I finally see you! You've been here for so long, and finally I see a poor person! I looked and it takes more than 40 hours to get here from Jilin by train, and the ticket price is so expensive.]

"Ah, this." Shang Luo hesitated. He felt that he had suddenly knocked down the other person's spiritual support. "Then how is your family doing? How much land do you have left?"

"There are probably more than 8,000 acres left."

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"Ah." He suddenly raised his head. "You may have misunderstood, junior. My family is a military household in Liaodong, and we have a lot of land. But these 8000 acres are not all mine, they belong to the farm. We formed a farm with several neighboring families, and bought seeds and farm machinery together. As for my family, it's only more than 2000 acres."

[You can’t say you only have 2000 acres anywhere, right?! In Rome, this is considered a manor owner! ]

"Wait, why did you say it was 'pooled' money?"

"Because farming is also expensive. Buy fertilizers, seeds, and farm machinery. During the busy farming season, you have to hire drivers and contact trains to transport grain. When it's time to pay the tax, you have to send it to the city, and the freight is quite expensive. When I was in school, my family didn't have any spare money to give me travel expenses. My dad asked me to take the land property book and sell the land in JL City to get some change. In addition, my dad likes to play with modified cars, and he spent too much money on the family." "I thought your family only had a few acres of land."

"Alas, there are only a few people in Liaodong. The families of the other Liaodong military households you see in school basically start with 500 acres. There are so few people in Liaodong that they can't even form a province, so the land they are allocated is much larger."

"By the way, don't all the fields of the military households belong to the imperial court?"

"It belongs to the court." He nodded. "In the beginning, the court only allocated a few hundred acres. But later, when I reclaimed the land myself, the court didn't care anymore, and it was all my own. I'm not sure, since my grandfather's generation, no new land has been reclaimed. I don't remember exactly how much of my family's land is not tradeable, but the silver my family paid every year was probably several hundred taels. If it wasn't for the bad luck when I was in school, it would have been easy to get a train ticket."

"Oh, I'm so rude. It turns out that you are a rich landowner. I thought everyone lived in a small box like me."

"I was a little uncomfortable living in the capital at first. The dormitory is not even as big as my doghouse. After living here for two days, I feel that this place is not bad. At least I don't need to drive to buy laundry detergent. There is a store at the door - ah, thank you. Chatting with you makes me feel much better. I say, junior brother, oh no, Shang Tianjun, you are very busy, right?" He said seriously, "I almost forgot your identity when I called you junior brother. You are so busy, do you still have time to enlighten me?"

"If I can't even take care of the people around me, how can I take care of others? We are classmates."

"Then I'll be frank. As for the matter of sugar," he thought for a moment and asked, "Will she die?"

"What if I said yes?"

"I've figured it out." He looked at Shangluo, "I can't live just for myself, nor can I live just for others. Neither giving up nor seeking death is appropriate. I have to face this matter calmly - I think I still have some questions to ask her. If she can't avoid being punished by the law, can I...can I see her?"

"Is it okay?" Shangluo asked Apollonia in the phone.

[From a procedural point of view, there is no problem. According to the rules, the family members should come to deliver the last meal for the deceased, and we can meet at that time.]

Shangluo nodded to him: "From the process point of view, it is possible. Of course, the premise is that she is willing."

Shangluo took out his cell phone and said, "I forgot about it when I left last time. Please add my contact information and I will inform you if there is any progress. After all, you are the party involved and you have the right to know."

The two added each other's contact information. Shangluo watched him enter the school gate, then he opened the car door and got in.

"You really are the same as before."

Victoria's voice suddenly appeared beside her.

"Huh? Are you awake?" Shang Luo, who had sat down firmly, glanced to the side. Victoria seemed to have woken up a long time ago. She was leaning against the back of the sofa, looking at the scenery outside the window.

"I woke up a long time ago. In fact, I woke up before you stopped the car. When I woke up, you were sitting next to me, your legs touching my head. I was glad that you didn't move away and still sat next to me. And when I was about to say something, you got out of the car. Then I saw that you were busy, so I didn't disturb you. I heard your conversation with him."

"I will forget what happened before."

"No need." Victoria looked over. She had just woken up and was back to the way she was when they first met. She was like the blue sky at eight o'clock in the morning, clear and with a bit of a chilly morning breeze.

(End of this chapter)