Pardon!

Lou Hua's excited fingers trembled! Lou Yuzhu carefully studied the text of the list and confirmed that he thought about it, so he came to the official errand.

"Uncle Guancha, I want to ask what is the procedure for this pardon of household registration?"

The official messenger was not embarrassed by the official in front of everyone, and replied: "If it is a village, then the village is issuing a certificate to prove that the person who changes the household registration is not a traitor, and the person who is not benevolent and unfilial. ”

The government department seems to be a simple process, and the content is big! Lou Yuzhu, who had dealt with government departments in her previous life because of her parents' compensation, had a deep experience. cautiously glanced around the area, and saw that no one was paying attention, so he asked in a low voice: "Uncle Guancha, how much does it cost to touch up and down?" ”

The sturdy man in the official uniform raised his eyebrows, a little surprised that such a young brother was so knowledgeable, and he gestured with his hand.

"Ten taels?"

The official man nodded.

Of course, the court strictly prohibits the yamen from accepting bribes, but there are policies and countermeasures, and the unspoken rule of pen polishing fees is one of the countermeasures. Compared to the fee for changing the household registration, the pen fee is the least, and the more is the official with the real power who has the right to reduce the sentence, and if there is more, they will say a word, don't think that everything will be fine with the emperor's list, and the official with that power will touch his mouth and say that this person still has evil thoughts and does not want to change, and the list of pardons will be gone.

"Uncle's surname? If we want to change our household registration, can we ask my uncle for help? ”

"My surname is Zhao, I can help you up and down."

"Thank you, Uncle Zhao, then how should we find you?"

"When I got to the back door of the yamen, I said that I was looking for Lao Zhao, and someone would inform me."

Lou Yuzhu replied crisply: "Then thank you Uncle Zhao first, when the time comes, if we change our household registration, we will go to you." After the other party nodded, Lou Yuzhu led Lou Hua and Lou Ming out of the crowd.

"Ten taels of silver," Lou Hua also saw the gesture of the official surnamed Zhao, and the joy of receiving three taels immediately retreated and worried, "I bought a five-wen wallet just now, and there is still a difference of six taels and one hundred and thirty-four wen." With such a big gap of more than six taels of silver, Lou Hua was so anxious that he was about to shed tears.

"Brother, don't worry," Lou Yuzhu comforted him: "The amnesty is a good thing, we don't want to be short of more than six taels of silver, but think that we are only short of more than six taels of silver, we can earn more than three taels in such a short period of time, and we will definitely be able to earn more in the future!" ”

Lou Ming also stepped forward to comfort him: "Yes, big brother, let's find someone to borrow first, and then we will make money together to pay it back, and I won't eat the meat buns and eggs and keep the money." ”

Lou Hua touched Lou Ming's head with tears.

Lou Yuzhu was afraid that he would touch her, so she hurriedly changed the topic: "Brother, do you remember your grandmother's house?" The Lou family is so harsh that Fu Linshu rarely goes home except for the second day of the Lunar New Year, but every time he goes to the farm, the three uncles of his grandfather's family will come to help for two days, and every time Lou Hua replaces Fu Linshu to go back to his grandmother's house for two days.

"Yes."

"The matter of amnesty and change of household registration must be participated in by my grandmother's family, firstly, to put some pressure on my grandfather, and secondly, we have to borrow more than three taels of silver from my grandfather's family." Stupidly took out these three taels of silver, it was a fool's job, and after clarifying the origin of the silver, he was afraid that he would be forced by Liu Ah Mo to pick honeycombs everywhere and become a tool for the Lou family to collect money; I can't say clearly, hehe, the third room may never be peaceful. "Big brother, now you go to your grandmother's house to talk about the matter, and then let them come as much as possible. Grandpa, my fifth brother and I will go back now to inform you, and strive to settle things today, and you can go to the yamen tomorrow to transfer your household registration. ”

"Okay, it's just okay for you to go back, right?" In the end, Lou Hua is still a little worried about the two younger brothers.

Lou Yuzhu couldn't cry or laugh. "Brother, you are more dangerous than us, and you need to pay more attention to safety!"

Lou Hua subconsciously covered the place where the silver was hidden, and snorted. "I'm fine."

"Always be safe."

"Okay, so do you."

The brothers parted ways at the fork in the road, and there was no one on the road just after noon, Lou Yuzhu taught Lou Ming how to deal with it after he went back.

Lou Ming listened obediently, kicked the roadside stones with his foot, and asked sullenly. "Brother Yu, doesn't Grandpa Ah Mo dislike Daddy's second-class citizen status? Now that the emperor is amnesty, isn't it good that Daddy can change his household registration? ”

"It's good to change your household registration, the important thing is the ten taels of silver."

"How many taels did the uncle and eldest brother use to study?" Lou Ming's voice was muffled.

"Fifth brother," Lou Yuzhu pulled Lou Ming's hand and said earnestly: "People's hearts are biased, everything is good if you look at it, and nothing is good if you don't look at it." Grandpa and Ah Mo take a fancy to the uncle and eldest brother, even if they empty the family, they feel good, Grandpa Ah doesn't like our three rooms, and it hurts to spend one. ”

"Why?" Lou Mingxiao couldn't figure it out in his heart. "Dad is also the son of grandpa, why can't he be good to us if he can be so good to uncle?!"

"When the fifth brother grows up, he will understand." It's just human selfishness. Lou old man Liu Ah Mo takes a fancy to the big house just because he thinks that the big house can bring them more wealth, and he doesn't fancy the third room just because he thinks that the third room Lou Chengyi can't give birth to a smart son, plus Lou Chengyi is honest and Fu Linshu is cheap, and the two compartments have become a tragic fact for the third room. "Fifth brother, grandpa's partiality is their business, and our fight is our business. If we repeatedly fancy our grandfather and Ah Mo's partiality to fight with the eldest brother and their eldest brother, and fight for the sky, that is, the Lou family's tiled houses and a few acres of fertile land, this is a success. ”

Lou Ming seems to understand whether he understands or not.

"We don't fight with big brothers, we fight with ourselves. Fighting for our own lives, our own future, and our own future, we must open our horizons, we need to know that there is Yanjia Village and Huya Town, Huya Town and Fucheng, out of Fucheng and not home to the Great Yuan Dynasty, out of the Great Yuan Dynasty and countless neighboring countries, out of the neighboring countries and neighbors and on the other side of the mountain where no one has set foot, out of the other side there is the boundless sea, out of the sea and the vast infinite universe. The outside world is so beautiful, if we really focus on this Yanjia Village and on Grandpa Ah, then we will lose, and lose completely. ”

Lou Ming's eyes widened as if he didn't understand, and Lou Yuzhu didn't need him to understand now, as long as he remembered that these words would take root like a seed sooner or later.

About half an hour later, the brothers rushed home, and the Lou family had just finished eating, and it happened that the room was full of people. Liu Ah Mo was about to scold when he opened his mouth, but he was glared at by the old man Lou and reluctantly closed his voice, his eyes were still staring at the brothers.

Old Man Lou smiled and beckoned Lou Ming, and asked kindly, "Where did Wulang go?" Why don't you come back for lunch? And what about Jiro? ”

"We went to the town to play, and the second brother went to my grandmother's house." Lou Ming leaned in front of Old Man Lou and replied obediently.

"How do you go to grandma's house?" Old Man Lou frowned.

Lou Yuzhu found Lou Chengyi and said the matter briefly, the honest man couldn't believe it at first, and then his face turned red with excitement, and he knelt down with his knees bent in front of the old man, and said excitedly: "Dad, the emperor will give amnesty to the world for the birthday of the emperor and the prince, and the children of the convicts can go to the yamen to modify their household registration as long as they have a certificate from Li Zhengkai." ”

Old Man Lou frowned. After all, he is older and has eaten for so many years, and he knows that dealing with the yamen is not just based on the Dao Emperor List, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the so-called Hades is easy to see that the little ghost is difficult, and the Tao in this is deep!

Lou Chengyi was only excited and didn't see the old man's thoughtfulness, but Lou Yuzhu saw it clearly, and sneered in his heart, fortunately, he didn't put hope on the Lou family in the first place, so he couldn't say that he was disappointed.

"Lin Shu is obedient and benevolent, and the villagers all know that Uncle Lizheng will definitely give a certificate." As soon as he thought that his daughter-in-law could get rid of his lowly status and the boulder that was pressing on Sanfang's body could disappear, Lou Chengyi, an honest man, trembled with excitement.

The old man Lou groaned: "Third child, don't get excited, although there is an emperor's list, this yamen is not so easy to enter." ”

Lou Chengyi took a deep breath and touched the back of his head. "The yamen pen fee costs ten taels of silver."

The four words ten taels of silver are like cold water dripping into boiling oil, and the first one to fry is Liu Ah.

"Ten taels of silver?! You might as well kill me first! ”

Lou Chengyi was stunned, as if he didn't understand why ten taels of silver would be involved with Liu A's life. "Daddy, these ten taels of silver are counted as your son's loan, and when your son is busy with farming, he will go to the town to find work, and he can pay it back in less than ten months after thirty yuan a day."

"Also? What to take? Thirty wen a day, do you want food and clothing for three rooms and five people? Don't forget, your family of five still eats me and wears me! ”

Lou Yuzhu laughed angrily when she heard this. "If you want to do that, then calculate carefully. Don't say that my dad just says my father, the farming work all year round does not fall one day, even if the harsh landlord hires a long-term worker, it costs twenty yuan a day, right? Calculate that my father is afraid that he has been busy in the field for more than five months, thirty days in January, five months is one hundred and fifty days, and there are 3,000 Wen for 20 Wen every day, just our family of five has coarse grain steamed buns every day, and we don't see meat and vegetables for a year, and we don't make new clothes for a year, so these six taels of silver are enough, right? Not to mention how much work my dad does for the fat pigs and chickens raised at home. ”

Liu Ah exhaled angrily. Old Man Lou also frowned.

Flipping his mouth, Lou Yuzhu continued: "Farming is not counting the odd jobs that my father does, except for the five months of farming, my father has not fallen a day, and there are still five months of bits and pieces, right?" Odd jobs are 30 wen a day, and 5 months is 4,500 wen, not counting the reward given, and the silver of nine taels is just gone? My dad has been like this every year since he was fifteen, right? It's been more than fifteen years, right? How many taels is enough? ”

"You-you-you mean I'm still greedy for your money?!" Liu Ah yelled angrily, his eyes staring at Lou Chengyi: "Third child, you just see your debt collector doing this to me like this?!" ”

Lou Chengyi knelt on the ground, scolded at a loss.

"I'm just talking about things, if I say half a word wrong, it's not too late to scold me again." Lou Yuzhu looked at Old Man Lou with his eyes: "Grandpa, you are the head of this family, are you right to say that I am settling this account?" ”

Old Man Lou lifted his eyelids, there was no joy in his eyes for Lou Yuzhu, his eyes glanced at Lou Chengyi, and he hesitated and said: "Third child, you don't know the situation at home, the expenses of this family are not small, and the first dozens of foreign debts have only gotten better in the past few years, and the family really can't come up with so much money." ”

Lou Chengli stood up and also persuaded: "Didn't I say you, the third child, isn't the family very good now, why spend that unjust money to change what household registration?" ”

Lou Yuzhu chuckled and pouted back on the spot: "Okay? What did the second uncle say? Brother Ming's words of scolding me for being a pariah in a three-room family of five are still lingering! ”

Lou Chengli was annoyed and angry for a while. Ji Xiaorong saw that his man was being confronted by a seven-year-old brother, so he rushed up and pulled Lou Yuzhu for a while, and scolded in his mouth: "Adults and children are not allowed to interject when they talk, Brother Yu'er, you are such a tutor?" ”

"My tutor can't talk about the second uncle to comment. Who in the village doesn't know that Brother Ming is so young that he viciously pushed me into the water and bluntly told me to die? "I don't plan to live with this family for a long time, so Lou Yuzhu doesn't mind tearing her face.

"You!" Ji Xiaorong raised his hand and was about to fight.