royal robes

Chapter 1055

"It turned out to be the queue, so there's no need for it. Although the river isn't too narrow, I can just fly over with my Qinggong holding you. We don't need to waste this money."

Xiang'er nodded and said, "I still need you to hug me? I can jump over myself."

"Yes, yes, my fragrance is also very powerful." Tianya said: "Why do these people have to queue up? Do they have to cross the river?"

"Yes~ we have to cross the river." A hoarse voice came from behind, and the two turned their heads to see an old lady, nearly 80 years old, with wrinkled face, fluffy hair, and few teeth left in her mouth.It seems that life is not good, not to mention crossing the river, even walking seems quite difficult.And from the looks of her, her ears are quite back, and she speaks very loudly, for fear that others will not hear her.

"You have to cross the bridge that charges tolls? What's over there?"

"It's not that there's anything over there, it's that this bridge is the only one that can cross the river." The old lady said, "The river is too wide to cross. There used to be ferrymen here, but they were all driven away. Now only this bridge can cross the river." River, if you want to detour to another road, you have to walk for several hours, and no one wants to go more."

A young man in front smiled and said, "Don't listen to him. How can you walk for several hours? In half an hour, you can reach the shallow and narrow part of the river, where there is a shorter bridge to cross. Who wants to waste this time? Go You have to walk back in the past, so it's good to just cross the river from here."

"What's so good? It costs ten cents to cross the river. How much rice can I buy?"

"All right, all right, you're right." The young man didn't want to argue with the old lady, since she was so old, everything she said made sense.

Xiang'er said: "Who built this bridge, why do they collect bridge toll here?"

"Of course the bridge was built by the yamen. These people are bullies. If they occupy the bridge, they can't pass without paying. Since they can't beat them, they have to pay."

"Oh~ very good." Tian Ya nodded: "This way of making money is not bad, Xiang Er, we will occupy a road at any time and charge tolls from others. If anyone dares not to pay, the man will be killed. The girl is sold, what do you think?"

"Brother Tianya, are you a bandit? Or do you want to be a bandit?" Xiang'er said depressedly: "It's okay to be a bandit. The most important thing is, are you short of money? If you are all short of money, then there is no one in this world who is not short of money." money."

Tian Ya said: "I'm not short of money, but who would think I have too much money? Isn't it good to find a way to make money? We just occupied a gate of Jinling... There are so many people going in and out of Jinling every day. But it's a big deal. If it doesn't work, we'll occupy the gate of the palace, the officials are all rich, and the emperor is also rich, and they have to pay tolls to go in and out of the palace."

Xiang'er didn't doubt Tianya, but he probably wouldn't occupy Jinling's palace. If he ran to occupy Zhou's Bianliang palace, it was still possible, because it belonged to his family.King Qi of the Great Zhou Dynasty wanted to collect tolls at the gate of the palace...no one dared not to pay.

Xiang'er is not interested in this proposal, she is more concerned about the bridge toll here.Why pay bridge tolls?Obviously this is bullying the common people. If you don't even care about this kind of thing, this martial arts practice will be in vain.

"Brother Tianya, don't you think they're doing too much? They obviously didn't build the bridge, so why do they collect bridge tolls here? And it's so expensive, ten cents is just for crossing the bridge, it's obvious No need to give it."

"It's not too much. Why can't others collect money if they have the strength? Whoever has the ability to defeat them can still collect money here, no problem." Tian Ya said: "If you have enough strength, you can even go directly to The palace collects entrance fees, and whoever refuses to pay them will be disabled."

Xiang'er couldn't understand how the usually righteous brother Tianya would support the bad guys to do this kind of thing. Perhaps in his values, if he has strength, he can rob others.For a person like him, there is almost no distinction between good and evil. This is also a very troublesome thing...

Xiang'er knew very well that Brother Tianya was King Qi of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Guo Wei's own son.It stands to reason that even if there is no mutual enmity between him and Southern Tang Prince Li Hongji, they should not help him.

But here in Tianya, there is nothing that should or should not be done, as long as he wants to do it, and he has the ability to do it, he will do it.Of course, this matter has something to do with Xiang'er herself. If Xiang'er hadn't asked Tian Ya to earn dowry money, Tian Ya would not have come to Nantang.

Xiang'er didn't have any opinion on Tianya's helping Li Hongji. Anyway, he knew in his heart that he wouldn't really bring any catastrophic consequences to Da Zhou.But...Xiang'er was very displeased with the matter of collecting bridge tolls.

Tianya may not care about ten cents, but for ordinary people, ten cents is a lot.The most important thing is that there is no need to give this money, and the person who collects the money is simply robbing.

"Brother Tianya~~~"

"Why~~" Tian Ya looked at the anxious Xiang'er with a smirk on his face, as a man, he likes to tease his own women.Tian Ya is no exception to this point, he clearly knows Xiang'er's intentions, but he just doesn't express his opinion, because Tian Ya thinks this is very interesting.

"Hate, you know exactly what I want to do."

"I know, I know, can I do it when I get home? There are so many people on the street, I don't care, I'm just afraid of embarrassing you."

Xiang'er's face turned red in an instant, how embarrassing it was for Tian Ya to say such words with so many people around her.Xiang'er also knows that Tian Ya understands her intentions, since he understands, it's fine, so there's no need to say more.

The people around them didn't know what the young couple wanted to do, but such a blatant kiss on the street was really embarrassing.

There were fewer and fewer people in front, and Tianya and Xiang'er also saw who was collecting the toll for crossing the bridge.It looked like an old gentleman, dressed neatly, taking notes with a pen in his hand.There were four people sitting next to him, all with swords on their bodies, but these four people were relaxed, with sprinkled meat and peanuts on the table, as if they were on duty.

Just these five people control the bridge entrance, no matter who is crossing the bridge, he must first pay the money before he can pass.The people here also know the rules, they don't jump in the queue and don't make trouble, and they pay money to cross the bridge honestly.

Soon it was Tian Ya and Xiang'er's turn, and Tian Ya honestly stepped forward and stood in front of the old man, looking at the pen and paper on his desk, and it turned out that he was recording the flow of people.

Tianya asked in a low voice: "Old gentleman, I am a foreigner. I have to pay ten cents to cross the bridge, right?"

"Yes, yes, hurry up and pay the money, there are still many people behind."

"Oh~ we are a couple, two people should pay [-] cents, but I don't have any change, can you find it here?" Tian Ya directly put a large gold bar on the table, everyone present was shocked, Give gold bars across the bridge?Does he really have no change on him?
Xiang'er said: "Master, I just told you to bring some change with you when you go out. It's so troublesome now, I don't think they can find it."

"The family is too poor, there are no copper coins or silver at all, only these gold bars."

What Tian Ya said surprised everyone. The family is poor so they only have gold bars... let alone crossing the bridge, it is not a problem to buy the whole bridge.

The weight of this gold bar is at least 50 taels, which is 500 taels of silver, and one tael of silver is exchanged for 40 taels, which means that there are at least [-] taels of money here.How many people does it take to cross the bridge to collect that much money?

It costs ten Wen to cross the bridge alone, and it takes 4 people to cross the bridge to receive such a gold bar.If about 1000 people cross the bridge every day, it will take a full month to collect them all.But how can so many people cross the bridge every day?Two or three hundred people at most would be great.

Obviously, although this bridge business is very profitable, this gold bar is enough for them to earn for half a year.

Ordinary people are very sensitive to money. When they see this gold bar, they immediately realize that they need to collect bridge tolls for half a year to earn this gold bar.What's more, copper coins are exchanged for silver taels, and silver taels are exchanged for gold. This process may not be so smooth. Who would be willing to exchange gold bars for copper coins?

Not only the people behind were drooling, but even the four drinking people next to him were drooling too.What a big piece of gold, what a handsome little lady, she doesn't look very old, she is in a budding state, it is estimated that the two have just got married, so they acted so intimately.

"Just in time, this gold bar is enough for you to cross the bridge by yourself." A man stood up directly, grabbed the gold bar on the table, put it in his arms, and then allowed Tianya to cross the bridge.

"But this is just a bridge toll for one person. If the two of you want to cross together, you have to pay one more. Otherwise, you can only cross by yourself. This little lady will stay here and wait for you to get the money again." You can cross the bridge."

Tian Ya frowned in surprise and said, "The consumption in Jinling is too high. You need such a large piece of gold to cross the bridge. You can't take me for a fool. Everyone else is ten coins, so why should I need one to cross the bridge?" gold?"

"The local people have contributed to the construction of the bridge, so they only charge ten cents. Have you contributed anything? Have you helped move bricks and stones? If you want to use this bridge without any help, of course you will be charged a little more."

"Oh~ so it looks like this, what you said is also very reasonable." Tian Ya took out another gold bar of similar size and put it on the table: "This way we can all pass by."

The person holding the sword immediately put away the gold bars, and then said embarrassingly: "How can I forget this matter, today is the first day of the new year, and the first day of the first day always charges double money. These two gold bars are only available to you." Go alone. Old Wu, next time you set up a card next to it, the two days of the 15th day of the new year will double the charge."

"Oh~~~"

"too expensive……"

The people behind me can hardly see them anymore. Is there an end for these people?Just an underfed dog.One gold bar is enough for them to collect bridge tolls for half a year, but now that someone else has taken two gold bars, they still don't count?Does this young man bully people at his age?

Charging bridge tolls is bullying, but this time the bullying goes a little too far.

"What you are doing is going too far. Others have given me so much money. Are you still finished?"

"That's to say~ two gold bars of this size, you've never seen so much money in your life, right? It's almost enough."

"The young man is a little stupid, and you can't treat him as a fool."

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(End of this chapter)