Mr. Tong also stood aside, listening carefully to Hu Hai's words, which were really consistent with the situation he had grasped. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Seeing that Xia Nan didn't speak, Hu Guan said again.

"Miss, this crop is seriously damaged, the farmers have no harvest, and I am afraid that this year's rent will not be collected, and it is ...... Not only did they not want to pay the rent, but I think the group of people meant that they wanted to ask the owner for an explanation. ”

Hearing this, not only Xia Nan, but even Mr. Tong's brows couldn't help frowning.

He didn't know about it.

"But any tenant says so?"

Steward Hu looked at Mr. Tong and shook his head.

"They didn't say it directly, but the plague of locusts came so fiercely that many tenants couldn't even eat enough, and they had resentment in their hearts, and they were ......."

"And what?"

Steward Hu seemed to be hesitating to say it, but finally gritted his teeth and said it anyway.

"And last year, I used the anti-locust medicine distributed by the owner, and I couldn't resist the scourge of locusts, and the tenants had more or less complaints in their hearts, and the Jiang family next door to us was deliberately digging up our tenants."

Xia Nan didn't know about the medicine, it was still Ji who was in charge at the time, she wanted to ask Ji, but Huainan and Kyoto were far away, and it was too late to come and go.

The Jiang family next door poached people?

Listening to the tone of the manager, the Jiang family has a lot of fertile land, and has always wanted to take the entire land of Huainan under its banner, but this piece of land in Xia Nan is a hard bone to gnaw, and the Jiang family plans to start with the tenants first, and then there will be no tenants on Xia Nan's side, and the harvest is poor, so it is difficult to sell this field.

She thought for a moment, but didn't say anything.

"I've heard a little about these things, let me think about it all night, it's getting late, you can accompany me to take a look at the crops tomorrow."

Hu Hai saw Xia Nan frowning, and hurriedly responded, so he retreated.

After he left, Xia Nan asked Mr. Tong.

"Mr. Tong, what do you think about this matter?"

He'd been here some time ago and knew more about it than she did.

Mr. Tong thought for a moment and said.

"This matter can't just be heard by Hu Hai alone, and I need to find some tenants to inquire, but I have also looked for these tenants before, but I haven't seen anyone."

Hearing what he said, Xia Nan was even more puzzled.

"Didn't find anyone?"

Mr. Tong replied lightly.

"The crops were so badly destroyed that the tenants had long since stopped going to the crops, and I went there several times, but I didn't see anyone."

Mr. Tong saw Xia Nan thinking, looked out of the door again, and saw that it was getting late, so he left first.

After running around like this for the past few days, Xia Nan was really tired, washed up, and fell asleep thinking about this matter.

The next day, she woke up early.

A maid brought her breakfast, and she was about to leave.

Xia Nan stopped her.

"What's your name?"

The maid was dressed in emerald armor, with two pigtails, and her appearance was still immature, and she did not look like a twelve-year-old.

"Slave Qinghe." She stood respectfully, her watery eyes turned slightly, as if she was wondering why Xia Nan stopped her.

"How long have you been here?"

"Miss Hui's words, the slave maid has been in the house for two years."

"Oh...... It's been two years. ”

The little maid didn't know what she wanted to say, but looked at Xia Nan with wide round eyes.

"When I came, I heard of the good reputation of the steward, and that he was a tolerant man, more generous to his subordinates, and especially kind to those around him, and that there were many peasant families in the neighborhood who came to him because of their admiration for his reputation? But so? ”

After Xia Nan's words were finished, she saw Qinghe's eyebrows frowning unconsciously, she glanced at Xia Nan, as if she wanted to speak, but she stopped talking, and then just nodded lowly.

Xia Nan then asked some things about Hu Hai, but the little maid kept silent and didn't say a word.

Xia Nan knew it in his heart.

She specifically mentioned that Hu Hai was generous and kind to the people around her, just to test Qinghe's reaction, but she didn't expect this little girl to be direct enough, so she frowned directly and didn't say anything.

When she came in, Xia Nan noticed that this maid didn't have half a hairpin on her body, and the average big family would more or less reward her subordinates with some hairpins and the like, so that these maids could go out decently, but the few maids who came to serve her didn't, and their bodies were so clean that they didn't seem to be able to take out anything.

At this point, there is a contradiction with the rumor that Hu Hai is generous to his subordinates.

Soon after breakfast, Hu Hai picked her up and went to the crops.

Xia Nan deliberately chose a silk skirt with a small skirt today, with a jade belt, revealing her waist, and simply pulled up her hair, revealing a small face the size of a palm, the whole person is bright and charming, and it is extremely moving.

When he arrived at Zhuangtian, seeing the mess in the land, Xia Nan's mood was also quite heavy.

Dozens of acres of fertile land, all destroyed, she slowly walked down the field, squatted down, and saw a seedling no longer than the length of the index finger fell to the ground, and her body was eaten by locusts, and the scene was like a disaster scene.

The situation with the crops was even worse than she had imagined.

Hu Hai opened his mouth and said, "Miss, you have also seen the situation here, I am afraid that this field can no longer be planted, and now there are a few tenants who seem to want to surrender the rent. ”

"You called them to me."

"Huh?" Hu Hai didn't seem to expect Xia Nan to say this, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and then said.

"This ...... Miss, this crop has been abandoned for a while, and many tenants have nothing to do during this time, so I arranged for them to go to a crop first, help them harvest, and earn some money to subsidize it. ”

Hu Hai said this nicely, but Xia Nan frowned when he heard it.

What does this mean?

Her tenants run to other people's crops to earn money for subsidies? Or was it introduced by the steward?

"I can't accept this reason, their owner is me, but no one else, who went to other crops without saying a word, where will I go?"

Xia Nan looked peaceful, but once the voice was cold, it couldn't help but make people feel cold.

"It's—okay, I'll do it."

Xu is Xia Nan's face also turned cold, Hu Hai's face was quite ugly, and he didn't say anything, so he left first.

Xia Nan looked at his back, thoughtful.

She was walking back, and when she was about to get to the carriage, she saw a purple robe with sharp eyes, the material looked quite high, he was lying in the crops, because the crops were relatively low-lying, and no one had taken care of them recently, so no one found out for a long time, Xia Nan was suspicious and slowly approached.

When she approached and saw who the person in purple was, her eyes couldn't help but dilute.

This person is in a purple robe, but there are bright red blood stains on his chest, like a blooming rose, his facial features are extremely deep, sharp and angular, his eyes are closed at the moment, a little more gentle than usual, but his sword eyebrows are frowned, as if he is enduring some pain.

She frowned, she didn't know why this man was here, but now that he was seriously injured, she would never let him die here alone.

"Hug Yue, come here, help help him into the carriage." (To be continued.) )