Back Off, Let Me Come

Cui Mi looked at Shen Tang, who was furious, and smiled as usual: "My mother has been in the wild for a long time, so it is reasonable that she does not know the national conditions of Qi. Not every country in troubled times is like Kangguo in the northwest, do you understand?"

When he mentioned the word Kangguo, Cui Mi clearly saw that his future began to shake violently again, and bloody scenes switched back and forth. This means that his life and death have changed at this moment, and the person who caused the change is in front of him.

Cui Mi said: "Survival is the most important thing."

Whether it is the lower common people or the high nobles.

In troubled times, it is not uncommon for the status of both sides to be overturned overnight.

The approach of the royal court seems cold and heartless, but it is the best solution at the moment. This is the lesson and experience gained from the overthrow of a country. Cui Mi made a heavy speech that was not in line with his age.

"Faced with a continent that is about to be overturned, everyone wants to board the ship to escape. As for the fight that will cause the big ship to be scarred and even sink, who cares? No one cares about the fate of the ship, or where it is going, but only cares whether they can get on the ship, whether they are the captain at the helm, and whether they can grab this straw!" Cui Mi's metaphor made Shen Tang's heart jump secretly, wondering if he knew something or was just a metaphor, "Sister Shen, you have to board the ship first to have the opportunity to repair the ship. It's a pity——"

"It's a pity that repairing the ship requires dismantling things to repair things." Shen Tang interrupted him and added, "The people who are dismantled are not happy."

Of course they are not happy.

If their position is dismantled, the seawater will flow back in, and the waves will sweep them away, and finally they will be buried in the sea, with no complete body.

The people who repair the ship can only settle for the second best, and choose the lesser of two evils. This way of collecting taxes is a good thing for prosperous areas with a large population and a lot of fields. The burden will be lighter, and the royal court can collect enough taxes every year to ensure the operation of the royal court.

But it is a disaster for areas with more mountains, more water and less fields.

The common people under the rule can only choose to endure, or leave their homes and go to rich places to make a living. The royal court sacrificed the most vulnerable group of people in the country. These people belong to the bottom of the bottom. They are old and weak and have no strength. They can only curl up in the poorest places to survive. Their death will not shake the stability of the royal court at all, and no one will hear their voices.

Shen Tang went straight to the point without any hesitation.

"Your father, the head of the Cui family, is not happy either?"

Cui Mi shook his head and said, "Sister Shen doesn't have to be so prejudiced against my father. As a husband and a man of my mother, my father may not be so satisfactory, but as a patriarch relied on by the clan, he tried his best. On this basis, maintain a little conscience. If he didn't have a conscience, how do you think the taxes here for three years were owed? Naturally, someone filled it up."

Mei Jinghe and others saw the disadvantages and wanted to save it.

But they didn't dare, and they didn't have the ability to take a strong dose of medicine.

Mei Jinghe and others were not sure whether this strong medicine could bring back the dead, cure the disease, or just kill the patient!

No one could afford to gamble.

They could only remove the lesions bit by bit.

Cui Mi hinted that Shen Tang could take up a new post: "It's okay for this account to remain uncollected, but Sister Shen has to take over... When the clan elders settle the accounts later, my father has to be able to explain..."

Shen Tang pointed at herself.

"Do you think I have the words 'sucker' on my face?"

It's fine to pay off the loan for Xun Zhen. After all, Xun Zhen spent money on Kangguo, and Shen Tang could see the money back, but what about owing Cui's three years of bad debts as soon as she took office? Does Cui Zhi think she is easy to bully and a fat sheep?

Cui Mi said: "Of course not."

He could only make it clear: "Sister Shen, why don't you change places?"

Shen Tang raised her eyebrows and asked back: "Where to change?"

Cui Mi said: "Anywhere is worse than here."

Shen Tang crossed her arms and laughed angrily.

The next moment, Shen Tang's face quickly enlarged in front of Cui Mi, and the distance was less than two fists. This was a very ambiguous distance, but Cui Mi had no other thoughts. Because a cold hand was gently strangling his neck.

Cui Mi's vitals fell into the hands of others, and goose bumps exploded all over his body. His scalp was numb, and Shen Tang's smiling joke came to his ears: "I have a question, has Cui Erlang been kidnapped and extorted? How much did the kidnappers ask your father to redeem me?"

Cui Mi's pounding heart gradually calmed down.

Honestly said: "Sister Shen, you also said that I am Cui's Erlang. I have servants and guards when I go out and come in, and I am protected without leaks. The bandit who has the ability to kidnap me and extort a ransom from my father, forgive me for being blunt, I am afraid that he has not yet appeared in the world."

Shen Tang said: "It is far away and close at hand!"

No one dared before, but now someone dares?

Cui Mi: "..."

Not long after, a letter appeared in Cui Zhi's study.

The eldest son Cui Xiong was holding a letter in his hand. He was obviously very anxious. His hurried steps made the hem of his clothes rub against each other, but he still suppressed his anger and did not run. He was like a gust of wind and rolled to the door of the study: "Father, father, something bad has happened——"

"Er Mi is missing, and my son has been kidnapped——"

Cui Zhi looked at him and Cui Xiong was instantly silent.

"Father already knows everything."

Shen Zhongli took the official certificate and took office. Cui Mi immediately followed him. Now he is under the nose of Shen. Fortunately, Cui Mi, this bastard, knew to report his safety and wrote a letter to himself. Cui Zhi took the "letter from the kidnappers" from Cui Xiong, glanced at it, and understood in his heart: "Don't worry about Er Mi."

Cui Xiong was not so careless.

“But Er Mi was kidnapped…”

The man whose surname was Zhongli and who changed his name to Shen Zhongli during his escape escorted his mother to Qi State safely, but his origin was questionable after all. It was really worrying to let his second brother follow this man. There were still many problems left in that place. Cui Xiong was really worried that Shen Zhongli would think that his father was playing a trick on her, and then get angry and implicate the poor Er Mi. Thinking of this, he sighed.

Cui Zhi said: “Er Mi is smarter than you.”

To survive in troubled times, strength is important, but brains are also important.

Da Xiong is much more straightforward than Er Mi.

“No matter how smart you are, you can’t stop thieves and robbers, right?”

Cui Zhi sighed and said: “Then what are you going to do?”

Cui Xiong volunteered: “Let my son take some people over and forcibly snatch Er Mi back! Only in this way can we rest assured.”

Cui Zhi asked back: “You are also kidnapped?”

It’s impossible for both sons to be caught by the Shen surname, right?

Cui Xiong said, "It shouldn't be that serious."

He could see clearly that this matter was kidnapping, but it was more likely that Er Mi deliberately stayed there, unwilling to stay here and be urged to get married. Cui Xiong didn't really take people away when he brought people there, but just found an opportunity to persuade his brother to come back. No matter what Cui Xiong said, Cui Zhi didn't give in, but ordered people to pack up all the daily necessities and servants that Cui Mi used to use and mail them over.

Shen Zhongli can detain his son.

Just remember to pay back the three years of bad debts that Cui's family paid.

Cui Xiong: "..."

Cui Zhi couldn't make sense, so he could only go to his mother.

These days, his mother seemed to have resumed the daily life of Cui's mistress, but she no longer dealt with those trivial matters, didn't have to arrange food and clothing for the family, didn't have to manage relationships with each family, and didn't have to care about those women from the side branches who came to cry poor and beg for money.

Pruning flowers and plants, dancing with guns and sticks.

Do whatever you like.

As soon as Cui Xiong arrived, he heard the whirring sound of a spear. Before he could greet him, he saw the spear-wielding woman in the yard spread her strength along the spear body to the spear head. The spear tip was raised, and the weapon and another spear flew up from the ground and stabbed him straight.

The speed of this spear was not too fast.

Cui Xiong just managed to hold it easily: "Mother?"

"Big Bear, practice with me."

In his memory, Cui Xiong rarely heard his mother's voice full of energy. Just listening to it, he could feel the vigorous vitality and enthusiasm contained in each word. He obeyed his mother's order and accompanied Cui Hui in the gesture. Until there was a crack, the spear shaft broke, and the force was so great that they all stepped back several steps, and numbness came from the tiger's mouth.

"Why is it broken?"

Cui Hui picked up the broken gun on the ground with some regret.

Cui Xiong bent down and picked it up, while picking it up, he told the news that Cui Mi went to find Shen Zhongli and was kidnapped by the other party. He thought his mother would be anxious, but unexpectedly, his mother just made the same arrangement as his father. He asked someone to pack Er Mi's things and send them to him.

Cui Xiong said, "Mother, don't you worry about Er Mi?"

Cui Hui certainly didn't worry.

It would be safer for Cui Mi to stay with Shen Jun, as long as he didn't commit suicide.

"But my son is worried that Er Mi will suffer. He has never run so far since he was a child. He can't take care of him so far away from home."

"If you are worried, just give him a few more people."

Cui Xiong was puzzled: "Give him a few more people?"

Since people have been sent, why not just bring him back?

Cui Hui said, "Give him money."

She was careless. She didn't understand the situation and sent Shen Jun to a remote place. Now he is restricted everywhere. If she could use Er Mi's name to give Shen Jun more money and people... No, give him more money. With money, Shen Jun can use the money to recruit more people, but if he gives it to others... With Cui Zhishan's character, he will definitely plant his trusted spies in it.

This move will not be fatal, but it will add trouble to others.

Cui Xiong: "..."

Cui Hui asked: "How much money do you have?"

Cui Xiong: "..."

As the eldest son of the Cui family, the heir of the main clan, with a stable status and an engaged wife, he began to have the privileges that only adult men have. For example, he no longer received pocket money, and had his own private treasury, which he could freely manage. Cui Hui obviously knew about this.

She fooled away all the money of the eldest son.

Cui Zhi heard about this, but did not stop it.

He said in a calm voice: "Let her do it."

But the confidant and staff were puzzled.

He knew the head of the family's feelings for the mistress, but he knew even more that the family was first and the mistress was second. The mistress's return this time was full of cunning, but the head of the family turned a blind eye to it, which was really weird. Didn't the head of the family think that the mistress would harm the Cui family?

The mistress and the head of the family have been divorced for many years, and she has also had intersections with Qi Yuanliang, the head of the Northwest Branch. Would the latter not intervene here?

And that Shen Zhongli.

Especially her, it is clear that she is Qi Yuanliang's eyes and ears.

Even if the mistress said that Qi Yuanliang had given this person to her and that he was hers now, it did not mean that Shen Zhongli would not contact Qi Yuanliang. Keeping this person would be like raising a tiger to harm oneself... Whether it was from the family level or the personal feelings of the head of the family.

Cui Zhi raised his hand to suppress the words of his trusted aide.

"No need to say more."

"Head, what is the most important thing in your heart?"

This aide was not only Cui Zhi's confidant, he was also an old man of the Cui family, Cui Zhi's half-master, and a witness who deeply remembered that the Cui family had left their hometown and fled all the way here, and it was not easy to take root. Cui Zhi trusted and respected him, and some of his inner words could only be told to him: "Of course it is the family. As long as I am the head of the Cui family, nothing can surpass it."

"Really, no selfishness?"

"If there was selfishness, it should have been there back then."

The confidant sighed deeply: "As long as parents remember it."

Cui Zhi looked at each other, but the conversation between father and son before the youngest son left came to mind. This child Cui Mi doesn't look like he was raised by a wealthy family. He has no sense of family honor and disgrace, and is indifferent to life and death. His temperament is very similar to that of his mother-in-law, who has been practicing Buddhism for many years.

This child is most disdainful of the continuation of the family.

The shackles that bound Cui Zhi looked like a joke to him.

Cui Zhi asked him why he was like this.

Cui Mi said: [Because it is meaningless to know the predetermined ending in advance. In this ending, Cui will die, his father will die, his mother will die, his grandmother will die, my eldest brother and I will all die, and there will be no death. If you spend half your life working hard to get to such an ending, no one will be able to get excited about it. 】

He asked: [Can’t father see it? 】

His father did not have the same ability to see the future as he did, but as the head of the branch of the Society of Gods in the Southwest Continent, his father could see too many truths that other living beings could not see. Seeing these truths, he should know that the world is heading towards the abyss.

[This is a broken ship that is about to sink. 】

The person at the helm doesn't care where the ship is going or when it will sink. He only cares about whether he is the captain. The crew members don't know about the wind and waves outside or the holes in the ship. They only care about the immediate benefits and enjoyment. What would he do while standing on the deck?

Even if you haven't looked so far, you should know that troubled times are like a meat grinder, and Ms. Cui is just a leaf of duckweed in front of it!

Cui Zhi looked at his son indifferently.

[At least it won’t sink now. 】

Cui Mi said: [It’s almost time. 】

[Did you see it sink? 】

[I also saw pictures of it sinking. 】It was only a moment, but it did not sink. 【The ants only strive for the gains and losses in front of them, but they don't know that the disaster of splitting the sky is about to come. If the ship does not sink, the Cui family may die, but if the ship sinks, the Cui family will definitely be destroyed. 】

Cui Zhi was noncommittal about this statement.

I didn’t say I believed it, nor did I say I didn’t believe it.

However, the security at the house was somewhat lax that day. Cui Mi packed a small baggage and escaped over the wall. No one looked for him for several days.

When the news came again, he had become a "hostage".

Cui Zhi looked at the news and whispered to himself, hesitating.

"Ship repair guy?"

Shen Tang used Cui Mi as a "hostage" to extort a large amount of money.

When she saw that what was sent was money instead of swords, guns and sticks, Shen Tang was shocked: "Tsk, tsk, Cui Zhishan has a good temper."

Cui Mi held the pen in his mouth and couldn't help but sneeze while looking at a pile of dusty letters. He raised his hand to flap at the tip of his nose: "Sister Shen, don't think too much about the existence of the head of the family. This kind of person has no intention." . Now he has a good temper, but he can also fall out quickly. "

"For example?"

"For example, if the bad debts were not settled for three years, he would fall out."

"If we can't make peace, I'll sell you off on the basis of your weight."

"I told you, he has no intentions. His son can't be sold at a high price here. If you deceive your mother, you can still give her a shock."

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I will take the exam for subject 3 tomorrow and wait for my good news.

Woohoo, I'm a little nervous. The route in the Yueqing examination room is so complicated.

PS: Cui Zhi did not fall out with Tang Mei because he knew that she had close ties with Qi Shan, or the Northwest Branch. Three years of bad debts is just an inspection. If Tangmei can be settled, Cui may not be able to cooperate with the branch behind Qishan (the inner branch of the Gods Association has disappeared for too long, the branches have scattered, and Cui Zhi also noticed something was wrong). If it can't be tied, it can be seen that the strength is only like this, it is better to continue to bet on Qi country.