Ye Yunlan hated that iron could not become steel, and looked at her sister-in-law. In the past, when she lived a poor life, she didn't think there was anything wrong with her sister-in-law, but now that she has everything at home, she only realized her shortcomings. is a small family that can't be seen on the stage, and she will always only see what she is looking for, and she will not let go of the slightest bit of small profits, and she will do nonsense in her name.

She knew that she had suffered in the past, and she turned a blind eye to her actions, and only regarded it as compensation for her back then. Who knew that now even her brother was messing around in her name and encircled nearly 100 acres of land under the jurisdiction of Quantang Town. If it weren't for his man getting the news from the people around the prince, I'm afraid she would still be in the dark.

If this was something that Ye Wu instigated Ye Yunqing to do, then she still thought about it, after all, it was her own brother. But it was Ye Wu's brother, and she Ye Yulan was separated by more than one layer. Nearly 100 acres of mansion, this is the first in Quantang Town, and it is even more beautiful than her Ye family.

Seeing that Ye Yunlan only looked at her coldly and didn't speak, Ye Wu was really flustered, and asked, "Grandma, do you have something to say!"

Ye Wu didn't expect his brother to beat her. Ye Yunlan was a little disheartened, shook her head and said: "Now that the matter is now, you don't want to lose money, and this matter may not be able to go down." ”

"So, what should I do then?" Ye Wu asked.

Ye Yunlan looked at her and said: "For the sake of today's plan, you can only let your brother cross the clear road of all the land he has in hand, didn't you set up a document in the town? As long as you bite the bullet, this place is fine. This can't be done. If there are still people who are not convinced, you can only use force. Give them a little hardship, I don't really think that the state of our Huaiyang Mansion is so easy to tell. ”

Ye Wu listened to Ye Yunlan's words. The heart was slightly lowered, and the buttocks were next to the stool, and he stood up again, "Grandma, the joint ......"

Ye Yunlan waved her hand, "You don't have to worry about this, this thorn in the coffin has already been named with the prince, and sooner or later he will find an opportunity to get rid of him." You just have to look down on the people under you. ”

Ye Wu's family just let go of his heart. Ye Yunlan glanced at her and said, "But this is the case." It's just this time, if next time, whether you live or die, I won't care. ”

Although Ye Wu's mouth was promised, she didn't think so in her heart, she now thought that Ye Yunlan was scaring her just now.

Ye Yunlan looked at her face, frowned, and said, "Don't take my words as wind in your ears." You have stabbed the trouble to the palace this time, if it weren't for the trouble, the person happened to be a little wrong with the prince. The prince has long wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of him, and your brother may really go to prison. ”

In order to dispel Ye Yunlan's displeasure, Ye Wu said a series of words of gratitude, and only flattered Ye Yunlan to the sky. After glancing at the opportunity, she asked again: "Grandma, who is this one who is making trouble?"

Ye Yunlan listened to these many flattering words. It was time to relax, and he replied casually: "It's not from our town." You know it's useless. ”

"Not from our town?" Ye Wu was even more curious, "Which one is it?" ”

"Not really. Ye Yunlan said with a sneer. "He was in Zhanghe Town, and he took the lead in delaying the payment of taxes without saying anything, and he also stretched out his hand to Quantang Town, encouraging the villagers to jointly file a complaint, and really thought that with the umbrella of the people, it would become a blue sky?"

"Who is Lizheng in Zhanghe Town?" Ye Wu said in surprise, "Our family has never offended him?"

Ye Yunlan shook her head and said, "He has always done things regardless of intimacy, only cares about the original situation, he is a famous thorn, and he has long been unable to tolerate him, but some foolish people in the countryside are extremely supportive of him, and he can't move for a while." ”

Quantang Town and Zhanghe Town are adjacent, last year's big flood, almost no grain in the Jianghuai area, but the taxes are paid according to the law, among the adjacent towns, Duzhanghe Town is allowed to delay the payment of taxes for one year, this matter is widely spread in the townships, and the name of He Yonghua in Zhanghe Town is known to passers-by. Ye Wu has lived in the countryside for a long time, and he has also heard of He Lizheng's name. It's just that it's none of her business at the time, and when she heard about it, she echoed and praised it. Now that I heard that he had offended people, Xu was an official for a short time, and after only a moment of surprise in my heart, I became happy again in an instant.

Fortunately, this He Li Zheng offended the people of the Huaiyang Palace, otherwise her brother's matter would not have been solved so easily.

When Ye Yunlan and Ye Wu closed the door to talk, Ye Hexiang was distinguishing with Uncle Ye and his party at the door of the Ye family's mansion. Ye Changyue, the aunt of Ye, said that she deliberately left them and did not let Hu Lan'er follow up, because she was afraid that Hu Lan'er would rob her daughter's good deeds.

Ye Hexiang didn't admit it, only said that he was angry with them and went out, so he turned to Ye Yunqing's house, and cried to Uncle Ye again.

Ye Hexiang has always cried and said that she is absolutely desperate, Uncle Ye's mother and daughter Ye Changyue were dumbfounded by her, Uncle Ye was a little strange Ye Hexiang in his heart, and after hearing Ye Hexiang crying, his head was covered, and he only took a middle, and began to come to the mud again.

Ye Hexiang has excellent eyesight, knowing that Dao Zhang Xing is probably not taken care of, she is working hard in vain, and she is not in a good mood, and she is too lazy to talk to them for a long time, and after crying and making trouble, she said goodbye and went home. On the way home, I told my daughter Zhang Xing well.

Zhang Xing couldn't understand Ye Hexiang's temper anymore, so she just listened silently and didn't answer a word.

The days are back to normal, Wei Yunhai still goes out early and returns late to work on the wharf in the town during the slack time, Wei Minwen and Wei Minwu have changed a lot, since they decided to give it a try, they no longer wander in the countryside, often soak in the private school and do not come back, Zhang Xing sometimes sees them reading and writing in the room.

After Uncle Fu learned about this, he supported him in every way, and asked the guys in the store to send a lot of things over, including pen, ink, paper, inkstone, clothes, shoes and socks made by Uncle Fu, as well as rice and noodles to eat, etc. In addition, he also took them to visit several well-known gentlemen and students in the town to ask questions about teaching and asking for advice on the fate of the game.

Among these well-known gentlemen and students, there is a person they all know - He Yuanqing, the young master of the He Li Zheng family in Zhanghe Town. Young Master He is only fourteen years old this year, but he is a thirty-third year child of Yuanping in Daxia, that is, when he was eleven years old, he passed the children's birth exam that Wei Minwen and Wei Minwu will end in February next year.

Because they are the same age and have lived together on the river embankment for a long time, Wei Minwen and Wei Minwu are more willing to ask He Yuanqing for teaching, He Yuanqing often goes down to the countryside for some reason, these three people are more and more familiar, and He Yuanqing has become a frequent guest at the Wei family's dinner table.

Zhang Xing had a headache about this, firstly, because this young master was coming to eat, so she had to put more thought into it, after all, the Wei family could barely eat a full stomach, and too coarse food was not a way of hospitality. The second is because of her mother Ye Hexiang, every time He Yuanqing comes, Ye Hexiang is as excited as a cat seeing a mouse, and she is very enthusiastic, pulling people to ask long and short questions, and she is smart enough to create a chance for her to be alone with He Yuanqing.

Zhang Xing has no way to deal with Ye Hexiang's actions, and when she encounters nonsense, she can only disarm and surrender. Ye Hexiang doesn't care if she has a reputation or not, in her words: "Reputation? Can it be eaten as a meal? As long as you can make Young Master He fall in love with you and marry into the Lizheng family, you will be a young grandmother in the future, which girl in this town doesn't envy you?"

Zhang Xing agreed very much with some of the concepts in Ye Hexiang's words, reputation is indeed a useless thing that can't be eaten, but in this land, if she wants to live well, the bright clothes of reputation really have to be put on.

Fortunately, it didn't take long for this awkward day to happen, something happened to He Lizheng, and He Yuanqing suddenly stopped coming.

Zhang Xing asked why. Wei Minwu replied: "I heard that someone accused He Lizheng of being framed, instigated the villagers to make trouble, and was sent to prison. Yuan Qing is running around about this. ”

"Framed?" Zhang Xing asked in surprise, "Is there any evidence?"

Wei Minwu nodded and said, "I heard that there are both human and material evidence. ”

Although Zhang Xing used to eat by mouth, and studied the laws of that time very thoroughly, she didn't know anything about the laws of this land. Asked Wei Minwu what happened, he was a half-grown child in a poor and remote country, and he was busy preparing for the next exam, so he couldn't tell.

After Zhang Xing asked a few times, she forgot about it, because Qiu received it.

Before the first cold dew came down this autumn, the rice of the Wei family's five acres of paddy fields had been harvested. But before the heat was covered, the village chief of Weijiazhuang urged the tax every family.

Wei Yunhai shook his head and sighed and said, "He Lizheng is still in prison now, and no one will speak for us anymore, so let's hand it over." Uncle Xihu said that if anyone doesn't pay it, the land will be taken back. ”

Ye Hexiang was rare to be clear, and said in embarrassment: "Brother Wei, it's handed over, what are we going to eat?"

Yes, the tax for two years on five acres of land is worth dozens of liters of chestnut rice, and after they pay it, the rest can't even last a month, but if they don't pay it, the land will have to be taken back.

This is not unusual, and many of the nearby towns do it. Wei Xihu, the old village chief of Weijiazhuang, said: "Don't force me to do this evil thing, I can't help it." I'm afraid you don't know the way yet, right? This is what we are going to prison for. ”

Zhang Xing felt a little strange, didn't he say that He Lizheng was imprisoned on the charge of framing and inciting the villagers to make trouble? How could it be related to paying taxes?

It's just that no one told her about this—she was an eleven or twelve-year-old country girl, and she had neither a relationship with the He family, nor a matter of fact, so who told her about it?

The news I got from Wei Yunhai's mouth was all spread in a few words, and I didn't know whether it was true or not.

Zhang Xing didn't have the heart to think about it, because after the Wei family handed over dozens of liters of chestnut rice, there was already a lot left, and the cold winter was coming soon. (To be continued......)