Cheng Chumo separated from Zhao Chen and others.

It's the direction to Ninggu Restaurant.

Ninggu Restaurant is surrounded by inns in Ninggu County.

But there are not many guests.

Cheng Chumo started walking around.

Zhao Chen and others came to an inn near Ninggu Restaurant and walked into the inn. There were only two or three people scattered inside.

It was almost noon now. Logically, there were many guests at the inn at this time.

But that's not the case.

"Are you here to stay in the hotel?" The inn shopkeeper came up with expectation on his face.

"Yes, I passed by here and wanted to rest in the city for a few days." Zhao Chen nodded.

Zhao Chen felt a little strange when the inn shopkeeper looked like this.

"Okay, okay, this is the younger one, let's arrange for the room for several guests."

"Waiter, send two pots of good wine to the guests." The inn shopkeeper seemed very excited.

Zhao Chen looked at him, and the inn shopkeeper smiled embarrassedly.

"To be honest, our inn has not checked in for many days."

"If it doesn't open, the inn will be closed!" The inn shopkeeper explained to Zhao Chen.

He personally led the way with his luggage in front of Zhao Chen.

"There are many people on the streets of Ninggu County, how could the shopkeeper say this?" Zhao Chen asked with a smile.

In fact, I am planning to inquire about Ninggu County from the inn shopkeeper.

The inn shopkeeper looked back at Zhao Chen, shook his head and sighed.

"Young Master just came to Ninggu County, and I really don't know how scary it is here."

"The young master saw that 90% of the people on the street were people in Ninggu County, and people from other places rarely came here."

"Although the young man wants to make some money, I still reminded the guests, if nothing is wrong, leave Ninggu County early." The inn shopkeeper shook his head helplessly.

Zhao Chen nodded, but did not continue to ask.

If you stay here for two days, you will definitely find out why the inn shopkeeper said this.

"Then please trouble the shopkeeper, prepare some meals for us in the room." Zhao Chen and the inn shopkeeper said.

Soon, the waiter brought food and also gave two pots of good wine for free.

Several people were having dinner in the room.

Li Ruoshuang looked at Zhao Chen and suddenly spoke: "Ninggu County is a famous Shangxian County in Qizhou. Logically speaking, the shopkeeper of an inn should not have the words of such a person."

"Brother, I have heard from my husband before that Ninggu County is a famous Fu County and pays a lot of taxes to the court every year."

"If it is as the inn shopkeeper said, how can they collect taxes?" Princess Qinghe also nodded.

"Maybe the officials in Ninggu County have other ways." Zhao Chen said casually.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the noise coming from downstairs.

"Shopkeeper, should I pay the tax this month?"

"If I don't want to hand over, I can only smash your broken shop." A cold scolding came from downstairs.

"Sir, the little man has paid the tax this month at the beginning of the month..."

"I paid it, yes, you paid it, but what you paid is the shop tax, the business tax, the drinking water tax, the eating tax, the sleeping tax, the inn shopkeeper, before he finished speaking,

Being interrupted.

Then I heard a series of strange taxes.

Zhao Chen pushed open the door and stood at the entrance of the stairs on the second floor and looked down.

Then I saw several yamen runners standing in the lobby on the first floor, with the inn shopkeeper with a begging face in front of them.

"Sir, I have never heard of such taxes in the past. Did you make a mistake?" The inn shopkeeper asked the yamen runner in a low voice.

"Is it wrong?" The yamen runner smiled, and then kicked the inn shopkeeper hard in the stomach.

"Mad, do you think I'm wrong, or are the adults above mistaken?"

"The Lords of Ninggu County have worked hard for you, and you don't even pay the tax?" The yamen runner kicked the inn shopkeeper again.

Zhao Chen stood upstairs without moving.

If it were normal times, he could help, but at this time, he could not delay the entire plan.

We should not put Li Ruoshuang and the others in danger because of our own actions.

The inn shopkeeper was kicked twice and fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

"Come on, the old guy doesn't want to pay taxes, so let's help him."

"Take away all the valuable things in the inn." The yamen runner shouted with the others behind him.

Other yamen runners went crazy and searched for the shop.

I flipped the counter up and down.

Only a small portion of the money was found.

The waiter stood aside tremblingly, not daring to say a word.

He didn't dare to go up and help the shopkeeper.

"Mad, that's all that little money?" The yamen runner cursed again and spat at the shopkeeper.

He walked aside, picked up a few jars of wine that had not yet been opened, and walked out cursingly.

Seeing this, the other yamen runners also took several jars one by one.

The inn returned to quiet, and the waiter helped the inn shopkeeper up and sat down.

Zhao Chen went downstairs and walked to the inn shopkeeper.

Check with him about the injured area.

Fortunately, the internal organs were not damaged, so I just had to rest for a while.

"Shopkeeper, the yamen runners in Ninggu County are like this?" Zhao Chen spoke and asked the inn shopkeeper.

The inn shopkeeper smiled bitterly, the hatred in his eyes surged and dissipated, then waved his hand and sighed: "It has been like this year. I have to pay taxes every month."

"The key is that we have never heard of the tax we have to pay before."

"Young Master, you just came here. In the past, Ninggu County only collected some basic taxes. The people in Ninggu County lived a pretty good life and had a lot of merchants."

"But starting this year, Ninggu County Magistrate Chen Qu suddenly ordered that many strange taxes emerge."

"There is a tax on land when you are born, a tax on marriage for your wife, a tax on coffin when you die, a tax on planting trees, a tax on pig farming, a tax on pig farming, a tax on cattle farming, a tax on chickens and ducks farming..."

"As long as they think of it, there will be no tax that they cannot collect."

"If this continues, Ninggu County will be completely finished." The person who spoke was the waiter in the inn.

When talking about all kinds of strange taxes, the waiter looked angry.

The inn shopkeeper shook his head and smiled bitterly: "In the past, there were many businessmen in the city, and there were shops everywhere on this street."

"But this year, many people have been destroyed by this tax."

“Many people even became beggars.”

"Maybe in a short while, the villain will become that way."

Zhao Chen didn't say anything, he knew very well that if he had happened twice like today.

This inn will be destroyed by those yamen runners.

But Zhao Chen felt strange again.

Since you know that you will lose anything in the end if you stay here.

Why are they still unwilling to leave?

"Shopkeeper, since you stay here, you will lose everything in the end, so why don't you leave early?" Zhao Chen was silent for a moment, and asked his doubts.

"The young master doesn't know that we are not allowed to leave."

"If you want to leave, you can only leave, and you can't take anything away."

"If you want to take it away secretly, if you are caught, you will be directly sent to prison."
Chapter completed!