After her husband died, her parents came to force her to remarry

Chapter 271: I don't know how high the sky is and how deep the earth is

Chang Wei sat on the stool seriously, looking dignified and unyielding, holding his head high: "I just watched what you usually do, like you taking a bath, I didn't watch you."

"Then should I thank you too?" Jiang Xiaohe said leisurely, crossing her arms.

"That's not necessary."

She was almost laughing out of anger: "I didn't expect you to be so shameless."

Jiang Xiaohe closed her eyes and opened them again: "I'm warning you, you have to block the hole for me later, otherwise..." She clenched her fists as a warning.

Before Chang Wei could open his mouth, he heard a commotion outside.

Jiang Xiaohe rushed to the window and pushed it open, only to see flames in many places outside.

Many people on the street ran out.

I heard someone in the crowd say, "Isn't that bright light the Chamber of Commerce's shop?"

Jiang Xiaohe turned around and looked at Chang Wei: "Brother Meng's work?"

Chang Wei nodded: "I'm afraid that most of the shops of the Chamber of Commerce will be lost tonight."

Jiang Xiaohe clapped her hands, well done!

He turned around and glared at Chang Wei, pointed at the cave entrance, then pointed at his own eyes, and then left his room.

I went back to the room, covered myself with the quilt, and now I could have a good sleep.

She had a dreamless night. Even though there was a lot of noise outside in the second half of the night, she couldn't be woken up.

The next morning, when she opened the window, she saw black gravel on the bed. Jiang Xiaohe looked from the second floor and saw that many shops had been burned down on the street where she lived.

When Jiang Xiaohe went downstairs to ask for water, she saw that the innkeeper had a sad look on his face.

"Boss, what's wrong with you? Why are you so worried? It's not your shop that's on fire."

The boss said with a sad face while counting on an abacus: "Do you think I can laugh? This Chamber of Commerce's shop has lost most of its business, and we ordinary people will suffer again."

Jiang Xiaohe frowned slightly: "This Chamber of Commerce's shop burned down, what does it have to do with you?"

The boss sighed, "My lady, you don't know that the profits that shops like ours pay to the Chamber of Commerce every year are ridiculously high. Now that the Chamber of Commerce has lost so many shops, it will definitely make up for the losses from small shops like us. At the end of the year, which is almost the end of the year, I'm afraid I will have to pay all the profits for the year."

After saying that, the boss shook his head uncomfortably: "It's really not easy for us ordinary people to do business all year round."

"Do you agree with them doing this?" Jiang Xiaohe's voice was a little high.

The boss looked around, fearing that someone with ulterior motives might have heard what he said.

"Oh, my lady, please keep your voice down. If the people from the Chamber of Commerce hear this, I won't be able to pay a year's profit, and it's uncertain whether I can continue to run this shop!"

Jiang Xiaohe lowered her voice and whispered, "Boss, I really want to ask you, why did you agree to give the Chamber of Commerce the profits from your own shop?"

The boss shrugged and said, "We can't do anything about it. Madam, you want some water, right? I'll have someone bring it to you later."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk anymore, Jiang Xiaohe stopped talking too. She asked for a few more steamed buns and went upstairs.

When the waiter brought the water, Zhang Qingshan came over and said that he would go downstairs to harness the horse first. Jiang Xiaohe nodded and said, "I'll wash up and come down soon."

When leaving, Meng Hetang also came to see him off and looked at Jiang Xiaohe: "Did you like the play I invited you to watch yesterday?"

Jiang Xiaohe nodded seriously, then thought of what the innkeeper said in the morning and shook her head slightly.

He relayed to Meng Hetang what the innkeeper said in the morning.

After listening to this, Meng Hetang shook his head and said, "The people from the Chamber of Commerce are so arrogant now. In fact, they are spoiled by these people! They have spoiled the people from the Chamber of Commerce so much that they don't know how high the sky is or how deep the earth is."

Jiang Xiaohe suddenly remembered that when she was in school, she read a story about soldiers and prisoners, and told it to Meng Hetang.

"Once upon a time, there were a hundred soldiers who captured ten thousand civilians and buried them alive. Despite such a huge disparity in population and power, the ten thousand prisoners did not resist. It was clear that if ten thousand of them wanted to escape, they could have. Could it be that a hundred civilians could not kill a soldier? But they did not resist, and in the end they were buried alive while crying."

After Meng Hetang heard what she said, his face was full of surprise.

Jiang Xiaohe looked at Meng Hetang and said, "The current Chamber of Commerce is these one hundred soldiers, and the big and small shops in this county are these ten thousand civilians."

After Jiang Xiaohe finished speaking, she got into the carriage.

Meng Hetang stood there, not coming back to his senses for a long time.

Chang Wei patted him and said, "What are you thinking about? Let's go."

Meng Hetang said "oh", looked up and saw the wound on his eye, wondering: "Who gave you the wound?"

Jiang Xiaohe lifted the curtain and looked at Chang Wei.

Chang Wei touched his nose and said, "I bumped into it while sleeping last night."

Jiang Xiaohe snorted and lowered the curtain.

Meng Hetang seemed to be enjoying the show and pointed at the car: "My sister beat him?"

Before Chang Wei could say anything, Jiang Xiaohe's voice came from the car: "He deserves it!"

Meng Hetang covered his mouth, trying to hold back his smile, and then said to Jiang Xiaohe in the car: "Sister, don't forget about the food when you go back."

The curtain was lifted again: "Don't worry, Brother Meng."

After sending the two away, Meng Hetang walked back with his servants, and ordered as he walked: "These days, go and help me gather more business owners in the town."

The servant responded respectfully.

Chang Wei rode his horse and followed Jiang Xiaohe's carriage: "What did you just say to Brother Meng that made him so stunned?"

Jiang Xiaohe lifted the curtain: "Just a story."

"what story?"

"You want to know?"

"tell me the story."

"I won't tell you!" After saying that, he lowered the curtain.

Chang Wei: .....

Manager Chang rolled his eyes and said, "See, see, his master is so ignorant! He deserves it, a licking dog. In the end, he has nothing!"

At noon, they found a spacious place to stop and rest and have lunch. Jiang Xiaohe took out the steamed buns that she had asked the innkeeper for in the morning and gave one to everyone.

Just as I was enjoying my meal, I saw a few people running out from the direction of the county town, with weapons in their hands.

The person standing at the front looked at Jiang Xiaohe and his group and narrowed his eyes: "Are you Jiang Xiaohe?"

Jiang Xiaohe frowned. Was he coming for her again?

"I don't know you, do I?"

This meant he admitted it. The man looked at Jiang Xiaohe and said, "You don't know me, but you definitely know my dad."

"Your father?" She really wanted to ask, who is your father?

Chang Wei beside him whispered, "He is Mr. Wu's son, his name is Wu Xiong."

"You have eyes!"

Then Wu Xiong pointed at Jiang Xiaohe and asked, "I had something to do that day and had to go on a long trip. My father said he was going to teach a woman who didn't know her place a lesson! I saw that he brought a lot of people with him, so I let him go. Now that I'm back, I heard that he has been missing for a long time. Tell me, did you harm my father?"