Ling Tong woke up in a daze with a splitting headache, but found that his eyes were covered with black cloth, and his hands and feet were tied so that he couldn't move.

In his ears, the two of them were arguing.

"Do you really want to do it? …… She, she's also the daughter of the third uncle, won't she be okay if she disappears in the house like this? ”

"Who called her eventful! There is no turning back when she opens the bow, if she is released, the previous events will inevitably be exposed......"

"But after all, she is young, so she may not know the joints in this"

"Brother Ling Xuan, you let go of me!" Ling Tong suddenly said loudly.

The two of them were visibly startled, and the woman said, "She's awake, shut her up!" The two gagged her with sackcloth.

"You see, she is so noisy, it must be bad to let her out, if you just joked with her as you said before, this practice of knocking her out and tying her up is really difficult to justify, she is also so old, how can she deceive?"

"Xuan'er, listen to my mother, this girl can't stay!"

"Mother......

"Don't be afraid, my mother can do anything for you, even if there is something in the future, my mother will bear it alone, and you still have your future...... Now look at Ling Shang like that, it has been done for the most part, that water, as long as he drinks it for another half a year, he will become demented, and then you will be the eldest prince in this northern mansion, and you will no longer live under people! ”

"But, mother, if someone in the East Mansion knows that she is here, or if the matter of the spring has been discovered, how could that Xin Xuan suddenly wither?"

"There is no way that anyone in the East Mansion will know that she is here, otherwise how could she be allowed to run alone at night? As for the spring water even if it is discovered, as long as we don't show up again, we won't know that this matter has anything to do with us, and the most important thing now is that we must not let her go out alive. Xuan'er, if you don't do it again, you will be in trouble when it dawns! ”

"That'...... That...... What should I do? Ling Xuan shuddered.

"First suffocated with a quilt, and then thrown into the well in the southwest corner of Dongfu! There are few people who go there, and if she is discovered, she will only be said to be naughty and accidentally overboard! ”

Ling Tong heard these words, naturally she was so frightened that she couldn't help but kick her legs on the ground, and at this moment she remembered that Xu Shen warned her not to act alone, but she didn't listen, she was remorse and afraid in her heart, and she couldn't help crying, and her tears wet her clothes.

Soon her head was covered with a quilt, Ling Xuan held down her hands and feet, the woman covered the quilt tightly, at first she still had the strength to fight, and gradually it became more and more difficult to breathe, her head was dizzy and sweaty like rain, and her hands and feet were paralyzed a little bit......

On a midsummer afternoon, the hot air was sticky, and Ai Ning had been busy in Zhuangtou Beiyi for three days, and after a simple lunch with a sip of water, she stood under a large willow tree in the courtyard of an ordinary farmhouse, drinking the most ordinary big bowl of tea in the tenant's house.

At this moment, she doesn't look like a grandmother of the Hou Mansion, she is only wearing a moon-white linen clothes, with an azure embroidered silver curly grass pattern belt around her waist, a smoke-green sachet hanging, her hair bun is the most common cloud bun, and she only wears an ivory carved cloud hairpin, even so, it still looks clean and neat.

Xiao Nian was sorting out the title deed on the side, while Uncle You was playing abacus on a wooden table with paint peeling, looking at the account book.

In the past three days, 26 tenants have renewed 22 households, and when the first day arrived, I heard that the landlord had increased the rent, and most of the tenants were about to make a fuss.

On the third day, there were four households left, all of which rented the most land before, especially one named Huanghu, a piece of nearly 500 acres of land from Monkey Head Mountain to Hongluo Temple was rented by him, and he and a man named Liu Qi were the most troublesome in the past few days.

With him in the crowd to make noise, there are many people who have no opinion to make trouble, Ai Ning asked people to write a lease notice and paste it in the town, the notice said that all the people in the fiefdom, regardless of whether there is land at home or not, as long as there are young and strong people will rent land, first come, first served, the minimum five acres can be signed.

Originally, the two-cent profit was low in the Zhuangtou area, how could the farmers refuse? Nearly 100 people applied at once, and in this way, the stalemate situation was opened, and many new tenants were signed out in a blink of an eye.

Before, hundreds of acres of a rent of large households were split into a number of small households, the farmers who rented the land said that it was pie in the sky, the location of the Hou Mansion was good, and they could not rent it, but they were intercepted by Huang Hu and others, after Ai Ning sent people to investigate carefully, it was found that Huang Hu and Liu Qi were quite implicated with the clan relatives of the second wife Zhou family, and for many years rented land from the Hou Mansion with one cent of interest, and then rented to small tenants with three points of interest, and many of the small tenants who renewed their contracts in the past two days had been subtenants of these two families.

At this point, this unusual story of one cent of profit, Ai Ning fully understands, the second master is so angry about his personal renewal of the contract, presumably this is the reason, he has managed the grange for so many years, and he has always lost the money in the official and filled his private pockets in Xifu!

The yellow tiger originally held the small tenants hostage and wanted to give Ai Ning a dismount, but he didn't want to lose the familiar land he had cultivated for many years, so he naturally lost this white two-point spread, so he was very angry. In the morning, he brought a few evil slaves to smash the rental field, but fortunately, Uncle You was prepared and transferred from the town in time to bring the city guards.

Ai Ning has read the account book, and now there are less than 100 acres left, and he thinks that he will be able to finish it in another hour or two......

I only heard another commotion in the courtyard, but I saw that it was Huang Hu who went and returned.

"Grandma Guo, I rented all the rest of the land! Two cents is two cents! He came in with great force, completely ignoring the other tenants, and when he looked at the title deed closely, there were less than 100 acres left, and suddenly scolded angrily: "His grandmother's, Lao Tzu is just a meal, and he rents out hundreds of acres!" …… The eldest grandmother is ruthless enough, this is Lao Tzu's life! ”

He jumped on the haystack in the courtyard, beat his chest and shouted in all directions.

"I'm here today, whoever robs my Yellow Tiger's land will be my enemy! It's useless for you to sign a contract today, and I will go to your field every day to make trouble, and then teach you to have no harvest, and see what you pay for rent? ”

"Those things that don't have long eyes are all listening to me, all those who have rented the land near my Yellow Tiger Monkey Head Mountain, now hurry back and return the rent to Lao Tzu! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will set fire to your field and burn you without a fart! ”

He jumped up and down in the yard, completely ignoring Ai Ning, extremely arrogant!

It seems that he called this for a few laps, and there are really those who have already signed and come back to retreat. After all, they are all honest people on the farm, they have always known Huang Hu's character, but they have really done those indiscriminate scoundrel kung fu!

Ai Ning's face turned pale, and she came out solemnly, looked around at the tenants who came to withdraw from the contract, and said: "Everyone, this deed is equivalent to the royal law, how can it be said that it is child's play to retreat?" Do not fear him, but listen to me......"

She turned her skirt around, pointed at Huang Hu and said, "You don't want to make trouble again!" The dozens of people present have heard what you said today, and he can prove it every day! ”

"Is the land of my Hou Mansion your private property? If you want to rent, you have to rent it!? I tell you that not an inch of this land will be rented to you now! A fanatic like you disrupts the rental yard and harms the village, so you don't have to stay in the Grange! In the autumn of this year, the Hou Mansion was ordered by the emperor to recruit 5,000 soldiers, and your boiling temperament is the most suitable for the soldiers. After two years, let's see if this character can be changed, and if I can't change it, I will go to the border again! ……”

"During this period, as long as there is any fire or commotion in the grange, the government will be the first to come to get you, and you will not escape the involvement!"

As soon as these words came out, the yellow tiger was stunned, his arrogance suddenly disappeared, and he jumped down from the haystack in a daze, and said hatefully, "Your Hou Mansion is bullying people......" and then lost his voice.

He thought that this delicate young grandmother was so powerful! As a person from the Hou Mansion, all men between the ages of 23 and 65 do have the obligation to conscript, the country has always been peaceful and does not fight, four or five years have not been conscripted, the Hou Mansion is even more trouble-free, very rarely requisition of soldiers, I don't want to make such a fuss today, the land is gone, and it ends up like this!

Everyone admired the eldest grandmother's fairness, grace and power, and the control of Huang Hu and other wicked people, and they all admired and celebrated.

Soon, the last 100 acres of land were rented out, and when Uncle You and others arranged the lease of the land deed according to the number, stored it, and put it in the suitcase one by one, it was almost unitary, and the little girl had prepared the carriage, and Ai Ning was going back to the house immediately.

It takes three hours to go from Zhuangtou Beiyi to the capital carriage, and you can also rest for one night and then go, but Ai Ning can't let go of the order after all, so she hurries up the road, and goes to the area of Mazigou when the time comes, this place is relatively deserted, the left side is the loess slope, the vegetation is incomplete, the sand grows for a long time, and the dust is all over the sky.

About 10 feet deep under the official road on the right is a gravel beach, which was originally a riverbed, but later the river channel was changed by a big flood, and it turned into a dry mud and gravel, with foot-high weeds, and there is no shop in front of the village, and it is Xuejia Village that must be driven through this two-mile road.

Only the sound of horses' hooves and bells could be heard on the official road under the moon, and under a yellow oil lamp in the car, Xiao Nian was dozing, Ai Ning was still looking through the accounts, and Uncle You, the coachman and the four family members were sitting on the wooden plank outside the carriage.

Suddenly, a few sticks and torches were thrown down the hillside to block the way! The horse was frightened and neighed, the front hooves were in the air, and then the horses jumped up and down and almost broke the carriage, the coachman reacted immediately, and pulled the reins tightly, and it was easy to control the frightened horses.

At this time, five or six masked people quickly ran down from the hillside, holding long knives, and the family and Uncle You knew that they were not good, and jumped out of the car with wooden sticks and iron tools in their hands, protecting the carriage, and preparing to fight.

Ai Ning had already seen through the curtain that things were dangerous, but he instructed Xiao Nian: "The account books and title deeds are all in the cowhide box, don't look at it, they want to deal with me, you hide in the car and don't get down......" After speaking, he took out a small dagger from the suitcase and hid it in his sleeve and jumped out of the carriage, "Grandma!" Xiao Nian's eyes were full of tears, and she wanted to reach out to pull her, but Ai Ning looked back at her solemnly and warningly, put down the car door curtain and left.

At this time, two of the four family members had fallen in a pool of blood, there were six masked people, only one was injured at the moment, and there were five left, and five people surrounded the two family members and Uncle You, and the situation of the three was extremely dangerous.

Ai Ning knew in his heart that there was no possibility of escaping from the barren mountains and mountains here, and they would not stop if they didn't catch themselves, so he shouted loudly: "I, Guo Su, am here, don't hurt other people who don't want to do it!" After speaking, he walked out with the dagger in his hand in his hand tightly.

The masked men gathered around her.

Uncle You hurriedly said, "Young grandma, what are you doing?" Run, we'll fend off them for a while!" ”

Ai Ning smiled miserably: "Uncle You, no need, I'm afraid I won't survive today, you can take care of yourself!" Uncle You shook his head anxiously, protected in front of Ai Ning, and soon hung a color on his body.

"How can my Uncle You be an ungrateful person who forsaken the Lord, and if he wants to die today, he must die in front of Miss!" He was brought by Ai Ning from Su Mansion, and he called her "Miss" in a hurry.

Xiao Nian saw a seriously injured masked man lying on the ground from the car window, and his knife was also very close to him on the ground, so he quietly got out of the carriage, bent down to pick up his long knife, and was about to run, but the man reached out and grabbed her ankle, she was terrified, knowing that she was the only one to rely on at the moment, she turned around and stabbed him with her eyes closed, and the man let go of his hand......

Seeing the blood in the knife, Xiao Nian suddenly became bold, she screamed and slashed from behind the masked man, and actually cut down a person and rushed to Ai Ning's side.

Although it is five to four, after all, Ai Ning Xiaonian is a female streamer, Uncle You is the bookkeeper, although the two family members have been trained, they have been injured, and these five people have gradually shown their defeat.

Listen to "Ah! Ah" Two calls, Uncle You and a family member were cut down and fell down one after another, and the two masked men began to approach Ai Ning, Ai Ning had to retreat step by step, and had come to the edge of the official road, Xiao Nian was anxious to protect her, where could she get by? The two family members were entangled and could not get out, the masked man continued to attack, Ai Ning retreated again, stepped on the air, rolled all the way down the official road, and fainted on the ground.

Two masked men jumped off the rocky beach and walked towards her...... I saw her lying on the stone in a plain white dress, her forehead was bloody, her eyes were closed and she had no power to resist......

Suddenly he felt dizzy and almost unsteady, and when he had calmed down, he looked at his companion, who shook his head and looked confused, and when he raised the knife again and stabbed it, there was a sudden buzzing sound in his ears, and he suddenly felt that his hands and feet were paralyzed, and he fell to the ground in front of him......

Under the moonlight, a man in a green shirt bent down and picked up Ai Ning......