Chapter 14 Respect for each other is like ice

The Great Zhou takes four households as neighbors, five neighbors as guarantees, 100 households as li, five li as townships, and one li for every 100 households, which is responsible for collecting taxes, investigating household registration, and mediating neighborhood disputes.

Said to be an official, it is not a grade, but it is not a person who can be competent, it is good to say in a good year, in a disaster year, taxes are not easy to collect. Therefore, those who serve as Lizheng are either highly respected, or scoundrels, or exquisite.

It is highly respected that Liu Chengfang is not touched, he is in the middle of the latter two, and he is also a character who does not like dogs before he marries, and there are many people who are messy.

Now that he has been collected for debts and collected on the door, Nima is definitely an insult, there is wood?

He didn't plan to let Xiong Gui and Meng Zhen go so lightly, but now that Xiao Tuanzi told him about Croton, he refused to miss the opportunity, and immediately found Liu Yongfu and Liu Yonglu to come over and whispered.

Liu Yongfu and Liu Yonglu heard that the other party brought two hundred taels of silver, and they were a little eager to try, and then heard Liu Chengfang say that they used croton, without saying a word, one of them carried a sack and chased over.

The two hundred taels of silver of the Great Zhou weigh seventy or eighty pounds now. Originally, there was so much silver, most people would use silver tickets, but Zhang's was his own ladder, and he usually put it in the sack under the bed, because he hated these two people, he simply picked it up in the basket and put it out. The two didn't think much about it at the time, so they just picked it up. In addition, Liu Chengfang borrowed it later, and it was filled with most of the sacks.

This area is a bit rugged, and the two of them copied the path, and all the way through it is either a ditch or a depression, which is not easy to walk at all. It didn't take long for the two of them to eat the croton in their stomachs, and they had to find a place to "convenient" every few minutes.

However, the person who wants to be convenient always has to find a corresponding hidden place, right? Since then, the other person has wondered if to take a little out of it first, and the Liu family brothers are waiting for such an opportunity.

Meng Zhen hid in the sorghum field to have diarrhea, Xiong Gui was untying the sack with his head down, he didn't want someone to hug him from behind, he was about to open his mouth, but unexpectedly, a stinky sock was stuffed into his mouth, and before he came back to his senses, his hands were also tied behind him, and his eyes were dark, and a sack was put on his head. He was kicked a few more times, and the mouth of the sack was tied.

The brothers of the Liu family are also used to doing it, and by the way, they hid in the sorghum field on the side with a sack, put Meng Zhen there, and concocted Xiong Gui in the same way.

Some people may wonder, is this bear so expensive? Don't have the slightest power to resist?

And that's really true. The sorghum leaves blew in the wind, and they kept rattling, so Xiong Gui didn't hear the footsteps at all. The two of them, who have been used to being in the countryside all these years, didn't expect that anyone would not buy it, so they started directly.

As soon as the sack mouth was pierced, the two of them carried it on the road.

Liu Yongjun, who was watching from afar, brought the silver back, and Liu Chengfang was waiting at Liu Yongjun's house.

The Liu brothers carried the sack for a while, put it on the ox cart, and went back to their pigsty to catch a few piglets, threw them together, and drove the cattle to the street.

Of course, it is impossible for them to directly drag people into the street and throw them directly on the path on the edge of the ridge.

It should be that these two people are unlucky, and no one has passed by there all day. It rained again in the evening, and the two of them were drenched all night, and finally they were found by the passing cowherd baby, who curiously untied the sack and released the person.

Although it was summer, it was not fun to spend the night in the wild, and when I got home, I lay in bed and couldn't move, and the doctor came to see that it was typhoid fever and that I had to take medicine slowly.

Liu Chengfang had already distributed the two hundred taels of silver to a few people who contributed.

Fortunately, although Liu Yongan's family has no land, the family still raises more than ten pigs and two cows, and when they are slaughtered in October, they will make up for the borrowed money in front.

Now there is another supernatural version of the story circulating locally.

Xiong Gui and Meng Zhen specialize in stealing chickens and dogs everywhere, collecting debts for others, and they don't want to walk too much at night and encounter "ghosts", these two people were caught by a short mule, not only the money they asked for was taken away, but also tortured to the point that they were not human, and they were released back.

Some people also say that these two people are not good at eight characters, and they punish their parents.

Others say that these two men were born to be bad and could not keep their money. Because in the Great Zhou Dynasty, people believed that gold and silver were spiritual things, and when they did not belong to someone, they would run away by themselves.

It spread everywhere, and the people of the Xiong family and the Meng family also heard it clearly, and there were a few clansmen who came to help take care of it at the beginning, but then gradually no one came to the door, and they starved to death at home.

A person like this who dies in a young man cannot be buried in the ancestral grave, but only deserves to be thrown in a mass grave.

Later, more people said that this was a cycle of heavenly principles, and retribution was unpleasant.

Zheng Qingwen, who asked them to collect debts, of course didn't want to do so, so he brought two people to Liu's house to discuss the law, and was bitten by a dog before he entered Zhuangzi.

"Zheng Qingwen's mother-in-law's surname is Xiao, and she is the same as the Xiao family who slandered Ajing last time. I have already inquired clearly, Zheng Qingwen wanted to be promoted to pavilion chief, and deliberately let his sister-in-law come to our house to make trouble, and gave Xiao Xiao's thirty taels of silver, otherwise do you think that just like the Chen family, she can wear satin? Bring earrings? Zhang said lightly to Liu Chengfang.

Zheng Qingwen, another Zhuangzi's Lizheng, usually doesn't deal with Liu Chengfang very well.

"People are looking for cockfighting, if we don't fight, we will be looked down upon." Liu Chengfang explained.

The summer was scorching, and it was stuffy like a steamer, and the husband and wife were sitting under the hall of the gate talking, but there was a "bang" in the kitchen, which frightened Zhang and ran over.

It turned out that Hongguang had overturned the rice bowl.

It was now clucking and calling for the hens to come and eat the food that had been spilled on the floor.

Zhang Shi was angry, picked up the rolling pin, and smashed it towards Hongguang, and the chicken leg was lame all of a sudden, lying on the ground motionless. Zhang thought of the twenty acres of land deed, and then thought of the two hundred taels of silver, so he went up and grabbed Hongguang regardless of it, and fell outside. Although Hongguang spread his wings like a bird, he still fell to the ground like a mass of dead meat, motionless.

For this chicken, the family's land is gone, the silver is gone, and even the pigs and cattle raised have been sold, what feelings can the Zhang family expect to have for it?

Liu Chengfang saw that it was Hongguang, so panicked that he didn't even wear shoes, and ran out directly and hugged the chicken in his arms.

Liu Chengfang, who had never shed tears in front of Zhang, burst into tears at this moment.

When Zhang saw the man crying, he covered his mouth and cried.

"Even if you don't raise it, you have to win the Zheng family and then stop!" Liu Chengfang said, wiped his eyes, and hugged the chicken to Dr. Chen.

I don't know if Dr. Chen's medical skills are brilliant or Hongguang's life should not be extinguished, anyway, it didn't die that time, and it was still regarded as a treasure by Liu Chengfang. But his relationship with Zhang's family appeared in the middle of that fall, and the husband and wife respected each other like "ice" from then on.