Spring planting and autumn harvest, for the ancient people, is a kind of ritual-like existence, in the era of low productivity, food is directly related to the survival of people.

Therefore, as soon as the cuckoo called, every family went out, and there was a lively atmosphere inside and outside the city.

Since Lu Shuo wanted to investigate the case, he set his sights on the Zong family and the Yu family, and the low-key Yu family owned several large contiguous mountains and the Yu family, compared to the Zong family, which was mostly flat, the Yu family became the focus of Lu Shuo's investigation.

After all, the mountains are hidden and the paths are crisscrossed, so it is easier to hide something, on the contrary, the large flat land of the Zong family is not so eye-catching.

However, Lu Shuo was worried that although it had been an autumn and winter, it was not a simple matter to want the Lu family to relax their vigilance, so he did not plan to go straight in, but chose to slowly enter the Yu family's sphere of influence from the outside.

The Yujia Mountain is in the south of the city, so let's go from the west of the city to the south of the city slowly.

After he made an appointment with Lu Xun about the investigation, he went back that night and explained it to Yuan Wenyi.

The most important thing between husband and wife is trust, and Lu Shuo feels that he has always done a good job in this regard, and Yuan Wenyi has always been tolerant and supportive of his decisions.

It's the same this time.

Yuan Wenyi's belly is already very big, and there are still more than two months to give birth, and her belly is as big as a basket, Lu Shuo feels worried when she looks at it.

At this time, she held her round belly, eating plums, and smiled gently at Lu Shuo, and said, "You can just go, just remember that I and my two children are waiting for you at home, and you must take care of yourself." ”

On the territory of the Lu family, they have to investigate the case of the Lu family, in case they are angry, things will become dangerous, so Yuan Wenyi is still worried about this matter.

Lu Shuo kissed her forehead and said softly: "Don't worry, even if you don't mention it, I will pay attention, I haven't seen the two children yet, and I can't bear to do it." ”

After speaking, he leaned close to her ear and whispered: "We have agreed, it will be a lifetime." ”

Hearing this, Yuan Wenyi's face was red, and he beat his chest unruly, thinking about it, Lu Shuo has kung fu in his body, and there are two secret guards sent by the prince to protect him, so there should be no accident, but she is too worried.

The two were tender and sweet, Lu Shuo held her face and said: "You are pregnant and reborn, don't think too much, everything must be your own body, listen to the words of the grandmothers, don't worry about me, you know?"

Yuan Wenyi's heart swelled with honey, nodded and said, "I listen to you." ”

Early in the morning of the second day, Lu Shuo took off his official uniform, changed into a spring suit, and rode out of the city gate with Lu Xun and several masters dressed as officials.

The group was extremely fast, wearing a neat spring coat on their bodies, hunting in the morning sun of spring, looking very eye-catching, walking for a while, and finally stopped in front of a village.

Many of the people in this village are homesteaders, only a few poor people are tenants, and their lives are still rich, and now the spring ploughing has begun, and the people can be seen everywhere in the fields of the village, whether old or young, big or small, they have set out to do a race against time.

Lu Shuo and his entourage were very eye-catching, and they deliberately increased their formation along the way, putting on a posture of the county lord going to the countryside, so they only stopped in the field for a short time, and they attracted many onlookers.

An old man was wearing a straw hat, and there were beads of sweat on his ravine-lined face, but he was not afraid of officials and life, and when he saw Lu Shuo dismounting, he did not stay away like others, but took a few steps forward and looked at him with curiosity on his face.

Lu Shuo started talking to him.

"Uncle, are you going to be old this year?"

Since ancient times, the small people were afraid of seeing officials, and Lu Shuo's words were peaceful, and the villagers behind seemed to be relieved.

"Fifty-six. ”

The old man's voice was a little loud, probably a little deaf, so Lu Shuo deliberately raised his voice and asked, "How is the field this year?"

The uncle smiled and said, "Everyone wants to collect it, and you have to ask God to reward you for food." ”

Lu Shuo's trip was not only to investigate the case, but he really wanted to know about the crop harvest in Changping County, so he chatted with the old man.

After a while, Xu Shi saw that Lu Shuo had no official authority, let alone made any moves to suppress people, and the people behind him gradually became bolder, their attitude was very enthusiastic, and they began to talk to Lu Shuo sentence by sentence.

From the chat with them, Lu Shuo also noticed some problems today.

For example, on the issue of taxation, after he introduced a tax policy last year, after several discussions, the imperial court has issued a new tax policy, which has lightened the burden on the peasants and tried to reduce social contradictions.

However, there is a policy, there are countermeasures, the previous term did not implement this policy before leaving, but made a lot of money, although the official finally reported people, but after the greedy silver was collected by the central government, there was no follow-up, and these peasants who had been plucked out of the hair life is becoming more and more difficult, on weekdays, fortunately, once sick and take medicine, almost to the point of losing the industry and selling themselves to the point that the whole family sells themselves.

After Lu Shuo came, the new policy was activated, but the people below did the same, and there were still people who dared to blatantly charge fire consumption last winter.

Fire consumption is a remnant of the previous tax policy, and now that the policy has been changed, there should be no need to collect fire consumption, who knew that these lower-level officials would have the audacity to do such a thing.

Lu Shuo naturally couldn't tolerate it, and even sent someone to pick up the little official and ask him the cause of the fire.

The result is naturally stumbling and not knowing.

Lu Shuo looked at the people who were watching, they were all dressed in cloth, and many patches were stacked on top of them, how sad and sad they were.

These people at the bottom have never had human rights at all, and they are sucked blood layer by layer until they are sucked dry.

What a helplessness, but this is the norm in this society right now!

Lu Shuo didn't have any intentions, so he took the title of the official on the spot, and prepared to go back to report to the prefecture level and go to his fame.

The little official trembled with fright, but the people behind him were very happy one by one, and their perception of Lu Shuo was much better.

After dealing with this matter, it was already evening when he left, and Lu Shuo was originally preparing to investigate a few more towns, but now he could only go home.

On the way back, Lu Xun said with a smile: "I saw what Master Hou did today, and I finally know what a parent official is." ”

is also his noble status, if he is an ordinary person, he is afraid that he will accept the bribe of that small official and perfunctory.

Lu Shuo shook his head and said: "Since you wear this official uniform, you must be worthy of your identity, so that you can be regarded as worthy of your heart, but I don't know how many examples of oppression like today there are in this court." ”