That night, the party Xu's team camped near the official road. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

They are all tenants under the protection of the Xu family, and the subordinates whose life and death are pinched in the hands of the master are tense all day. After setting up camp, they gnawed the rough dry food, and at the same time murderously guarded the homeless people who followed not far behind the team, for fear that these people would see them eating, faint from hunger, and directly attack Xu's team, causing the masters to be frightened. As a trilogy, if it ends up with "poor protection...... Even if Xu Ze is a well-known lenient gentleman, this group of tribes doesn't dare to gamble on what if!

The tense atmosphere in the ranks also affected the maids and servants, whose movements were not as light as when they were on the road, but somewhat stiff, and from time to time they glanced at the back of the group with worried eyes. If you look closely, you will find that when they walk, they try to walk next to each other or vehicles, as if this will make them feel more at ease.

Xu Su is not a pampered woman, and when necessary, coarse grains can be swallowed. Seeing this scene, she frowned, and was about to get up, but was held down by Mrs. Zhong.

"Mother?" Xu Su looked at Mrs. Zhong in puzzlement, and saw that Mrs. Zhong shook her head lightly at her, her expression was still gentle, but with a little fierce meaning, "This kind of thing, it's not something you should take care of, there are grandfathers and your sister!" ”

Xu Su lowered his head and looked at the corn porridge that was thickly boiled in a porcelain bowl, obviously still a little hungry, but he had no appetite.

She is a very smart and knowledgeable woman, otherwise she would not have been extremely dissatisfied with her husband's and even her husband's shallow behavior of taking advantage of the war to loot money after marrying into the Lujiang Chen family in her "previous life", so she tactfully advised that "accumulating wealth in troubled times is tantamount to taking trouble, it is better to accumulate grain and hemp, for the purpose of surrendering sincerity", but after all, it was seven or eight years later.

At this time, Xu Su had just passed her twelfth birthday not long ago, and it was the first time she went far away, even though her temperament became more and more calm, she couldn't get rid of her girlish heart. After seeing many tragic scenes in Hanoi County, Xu Su's curiosity and excitement about travel were replaced by rising anger and endless pity. Compared with the people of Hanoi, the people of Shangdang County are almost as happy as living in the Pure Land of Bliss.

"Susu ......"

"Mother." Xu Su raised his head and asked seriously, "Are all the counties in the Northland like this?" Or is it just Liang...... That is true? ”

Mrs. Zhong gently touched her daughter's sideburns, with a hint of compassion in her eyes, she just wanted to say something, but Xu Hui, who was coming from Xu Ze and Qi Fang, and was going to find her aunt and sister to tell her some precautions for tomorrow, strode over, and when she heard Xu Su's question, she said simply and firmly: "Not only in the north, but also in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

"Hui'er ......" Seeing Xu Hui kneeling on the cushion and saying this to Xu Su seriously, Mrs. Zhong was silent for a moment before sighing lightly, "That's it, what Su Su wants to ask, just ask your sister!" ”

Although she didn't know Xu Ze's ambition to dominate the world, and she hadn't been in contact with Xu's internal affairs for a long time, a woman named Zhong Yun still relied on her unique sense of smell in politics and keen attention to details to detect the turbulent undercurrents under the calm appearance of the Shangdang Xu. She vaguely guessed something, but pretended not to know, and didn't want to think about it deeply, because everything that followed was not something she could interfere with.

Listen carefully, watch carefully, use your brain, control your expression and mouth, know where to meddle and arrange, and what you can't even touch. This is Mrs. Zhong, who has an embarrassing identity, and has learned the philosophy of life in the deep mansion of the Yingchuan Zhong family, in the complex generations.

Mrs. Zhong hopes that her only daughter, Xu Su, can also become a person like her, although it will be very tiring to live, but as long as the family continues to inherit and Xu Su, who is the same as her mother's style, she can live well. But deep down, Mrs. Zhong hopes that her daughter will be free and have a different life. Therefore, when Xu Hui was popularizing Xu Supu, knowing how much impact this would have on her daughter, and even affecting her future marriage and life, Mrs. Zhong still chose to acquiesce after several struggles.

Not every woman is fortunate enough to meet a Xu Rong - even if he only got along with her for ten years and left countless regrets before he died, but with the memories of these ten years of happy times, she can smile and walk through the rest of her life.

Xu Su didn't know that her mother's heart had turned a thousand thoughts, she quietly looked at her sister who was less than a year younger than herself, but much more capable and stronger than herself, and after seeing Xu Huiping retreat from the maidservant, she lowered her voice and said: "Whether it is in the north or in the south of the Yangtze River, the people are not able to live a good life, but there are not many wise people in the northern family, and the means are not in place, so they go straight and rampage, so that you can see clearly, and they are reprimanded by everyone, the means of the Jiangnan family to plunder the land and population are much more clever!" One of their most common methods is to pretend to gather the displaced people to rule them and let them occupy the land......"

Seeing Xu Su's somewhat confused eyes, thinking that his sister was not in contact with political affairs, Xu Hui embarrassedly stopped the gushing words, and explained to the eldest sister: "In the first year of Xinghe, today's Shengshang promulgated the household modulation - Jiangnan and Beidi and other places, Ding Nan lost three taels of silk and three catties of cotton every year; Females and second-class males lose half. One man occupies seventy acres of land, and the woman occupies thirty acres. In addition, Ding men teach 50 acres of land, Ding women 20 acres, half of the second Ding men, and women do not class. ”

At first glance, there seems to be nothing wrong with this order -- a family headed by a man pays three taels of silk and three catties of cotton a year, and a family headed by a woman halves it. A man can get seventy acres of land, and a woman can get thirty acres -- this policy is so mild in every way that Xu Su looked at his sister in bewilderment, not understanding what was wrong.

Xu Hui didn't see the clue at first, but it was only after Xu Ze explained that he suddenly realized. So her voice was lowered, and there was some meaning in her tone: "Sister, don't forget, where did the seventy acres of land come from?" Take it yourself! The land south of the Yangtze River is rich and good, but so many displaced people flock over, not to mention them, even the local people, how many can fully occupy the total number of acres of a family? If a man does not cultivate fifty acres of land, he will be imprisoned...... Besides, what if you take it? The land tax, miscellaneous taxes, and miscellaneous taxes are higher and higher year by year, and sometimes taxes are levied in advance for many years...... The mulberry is one foot long, and the price is around, and the field is one acre, and the degree is money, and the house is not tiled, and they are all responsible...... As long as you want to scrape the ground, are you afraid that the sky can't be three feet high? The people can't get by, so they can only take refuge in the family and seek their refuge, and the family is 'benevolent' and shelters these people. ”

In the end, Xu Hui's words almost burst out from between his teeth: "In this way, the family has face and lining, this is the real clever surname of the anointed sorghum!" As for how many people are forced to live in this process, how many people sell their wives and children, and they don't care about life and death. ”

Hearing Xu Hui say this, Xu Su suddenly felt a coldness spread from the bottom of her heart, surging to her limbs and bones, completely freezing her.

That's what it is...... Family? This is the top family she hopes to marry into?