Li Sanbao and Mama Li, who went back to the autumn harvest, came back, not only brought back the harvest of the 100 acres of land of the eleventh lady except for the income of the tenant farmers, but also brought the new grain produced this year for the old house of the Xu family, in addition, the fourth lady also came with them this time, and also brought back the letters from Mrs. Xu to Xu Zhongyan and the eleventh mother respectively.

Eleven Niang was very happy to see the fourth lady coming, and after she said hello to the people in the second room, she pulled her to her yard.

"Eleventh sister, you are too comfortable here, one person has a big yard!" the fourth lady said enviously.

"Fourth sister, I miss you! And grandmother! You have to stay here for a long time!"

"Hehe, you recruited me into this courtyard, but you have to think clearly, grandmother asked me to come this time, but she plans to let me live here permanently! I will live for a long time, don't you want to drive me out!" Xu Lu's originally arranged for the fourth lady to live in the west wing of the inner courtyard, but Eleven Niang took the initiative to ask her to let the fourth lady live in her yard, considering that the two sisters had a close relationship when they were in the old mansion before, Xu Lu's agreed.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, I have a lot of rooms in this yard, and the fourth sister has no problem living until she gets married!"

But she didn't expect that the face of the fourth lady who heard this began to turn red, and the eleventh lady looked at her curiously and asked, "Fourth sister, this won't really make me guess, right?"

At this time, Mama Li said: "Miss is smart, Mrs. Tai means that she plans to let the fourth lady live here until she leaves the pavilion." ”

After hearing this, Eleven Niang asked, "What's the matter?

The fourth lady nodded, and said with lingering feelings: "Wen family...... It's over!"

Eleven Niang looked at Mama Li with questioning eyes, and Mama Li said: "The Wen family borrowed 150,000 silver from the Li family, and now the loan is due, the Wen family can't afford to pay back, the Li family came to ask for money, and almost took away all the valuable things of the Wen family, the house deed, the title deed, the shop and all kinds of property, and the Wen Mansion is not only the twin sisters of the eighth lady and the ninth lady, but everyone in the Wen family was taken away by the Li family in the form of a slave deed......"

"Everyone?" Eleven Niang looked at Mama Li and Siniang in disbelief.

Siniang nodded and said, "Really, even Mrs. Wen didn't let go, but Mrs. Wen hanged herself that night, so she escaped a catastrophe." ”

Mama Li continued: "The others are not so lucky, as soon as Mrs. Wen dies, the Li family is afraid that those little ladies and daughters-in-law will do the same, so they tied them up on the same day, and now they can't even beg for death if they want to!"

"How could the Li Mansion do such a thing? The government doesn't care?" asked Shi Niang puzzled.

The fourth lady held Eleven Niang's hand with both hands and said, "Li Fu has an IOU in his hand, how can the government take care of it?"

Yes, Shi Niang remembered the "Great Chu Decree" she had read, there was no humanitarianism in this era, and people were also a kind of property, they could be slaves, concubines, and even ...... You can be a prostitute.

Paying off debts, killing people to pay for their lives, in this era, is the simplest moral standard, can't pay back the money, can only take people to pay, when she saw these laws before, she didn't have a personal experience, but now when she heard the fate of the Wen family, Eleven Niang couldn't help but shudder all over.

No wonder the fourth lady was so disgusted when she knew that her father borrowed money from the Li Mansion, it turned out that there was a reason for this!

At this time, in Xu Zhongyan's study, Yu Xing was also reporting the same thing to Xu Zhongyan.

"The little daughters-in-law of the Wen family were sent to Li Sanyuan that night......" Yu Xing said, and the rest of the words, even if they don't need to be said, Xu Zhongyan understands.

"What about the little ladies of the Wen family, will Li San be so kind to let them go?" Xu Zhongyan asked with a gloomy face.

"How could Li San not want to, but Li Furen refused, so he sent people to Liuhong Courtyard overnight to watch, and heard that he would be trained for a few days before being sent to Nanjing. ”

"Nanjing?" Nanjing is Yingtianfu, on Jingxi Road, Xu Zhongyan asked: "The Li family has done business in Yingtianfu?"

Yu Xing replied: "I heard that it hasn't started yet, the Li family is planning to open a new brothel in Nanjing, and then they want to use the Wen family's sister flowers as a signboard......

"Ha, this shameless Li family, it is estimated that they have been planning this matter for a long time!" Xu Zhongyan asked again: "What about the male of the Wen family? Have you heard that he will be sold to which family as a servant? This revenge of destroying the family and destroying the clan, it is estimated that the Li family will not dare to enjoy it by themselves!"

Yu Xingdao: "I haven't inquired about this yet, as soon as the Wen family came out, Mrs. Tai had already given a strict order to the family, and she was not allowed to go out without reason." ”

"What about the other ones who owe money?"

"Among them, the Xie family's Liu family did not borrow much, it was similar to our house, and they only borrowed 30,000 taels, so they repaid part of the cash, and the rest was mortgaged by the shop and the field, and it was also paid off. ”

"The Wang family borrowed 50,000 taels, and the principal and interest totaled 65,000, and the thousands of good fields amounted to 15,000 taels, and the rest of the money, smashed the pot and sold iron, can be regarded as paying off, but now the Wang family's family fortune is plummeting, without good land, it will be difficult for people to eat in the future. ”

Xu Zhongyan sneered: "Then now in Shangyuan County, isn't the Li family dominant? Liangtian, Wangpu, and Meiren have all changed their surnames to Li!"

Yu Xing also sighed, stood aside and stopped talking.

"You say, if our family didn't pay the money at that time, would the Li Mansion dare to do this to our family?" asked Xu Zhongyan.

Yu Xing thought for a while and said, "I shouldn't dare, after all, the third master is an official outside!"

Xu Zhongyan said: "I don't think so, the Li family doesn't even give the county magistrate's face, and besides, how can it be opened if it doesn't matter if it opens a brothel in Nanjing? ”

"This-" Hearing Xu Zhongyan's analysis, Yu Xing couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, if the Xu family was so miserable, then as a slave, wouldn't he have no way to live?

Xu Zhongyan said: "Okay, I've read my mother's letter,

Yu Xing said: "Yes, the slave must bring the words." ”

"Also, if there is any trouble in the Li family, you have to send someone to send me a letter, you know?" Xu Zhongyan confessed.

"Yes!" Yu Xing said.