Qiao's felt that Lu Jin's daughter-in-law was barely a good candidate, but Zhao Yongzhong and his wife felt that Lu Jin's child was quite good, and they sincerely blessed their pair. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Jiang said with a smile: "Didn't you send a lot of fried rice candy two days ago, we have all tasted it, it is crispy, crispy, and sweet, and it is rare that it is not sticky to the teeth, which is really good." I heard that this is the new food that you and the girl of the Lu family have made up together, it is difficult for the two of you to have such a tacit understanding now. ”

Zhao Yongzhong also said: "After this, they will get married, and the two of them will live together, so it must be a husband and a wife!" If husband and wife work together, they will definitely be able to live a prosperous life. ”

Zhao Erlang was a little embarrassed by Zhao Yongzhong's jokes, then he suddenly remembered something, hesitated for a while, and said: "Third uncle, I heard that you can't pay for service this year and be exempted from service, and every family has to send a man, and our old Zhao family was pulled away by four people at once." ”

As soon as Zhao Erlang's words came out, Qiao secretly threw a knife at him, and Zhao Yongzhong was surprised and hurriedly said, "What? You said that our family went to four people at once? Shouldn't every family have a Chengding? Why do we have to have four people in our family? No, no, where did our family get the four Chengding? ”

But all the people of Yan Kingdom, unless someone in the family has achieved fame, they have to serve as a servant. As for the specific way to serve this conscription, there are no hard and fast rules in the imperial court, and it can be decided at the discretion of the local county government.

According to Jinghai's practice in previous years, each family can contribute a chengding, and if you don't want to pay for it, you can pay for it. Obviously, the practice of the county government today breaks the convention and is very unreasonable.

Of course, the official word is two, and the county government's approach is no longer reasonable, and they, the small people, have no right to peck at it, what else can they do? I can only pinch my nose and admit it.

But what Zhao Yongzhong can't figure out is that now he and Zhao Yongxiao have been separated, and the old Zhao family's Cheng Ding is full of three old man Zhao, Zhao Yongnian and Zhao Dalang, where is there a fourth Cheng Ding?

"I heard that my fourth uncle was also pulled over." Zhao Erlang said.

Zhao Sanniang didn't want to care about the old Zhao family's, but when she heard this, she couldn't help but interject: "Hey, hasn't the fourth uncle already been separated?" He is a family of his own, and if he wants to serve his own family, where can he serve the old Zhao family? ”

On that day, the old man Zhao occupied the magpie's nest and took Zhao Erlang's property as their own, and since then they have relied on Qiaojiazhuang and refused to leave. Even if the official errand of Lazhuang Ding turned out the old Zhao family Chengding who escaped from Zhaojia Village to Qiaojiazhuang according to the household registration, and then for some reason, he pulled all the Chengding away. But Zhao Yongxiao is not on the household registration of the old Zhao family, and he does not live with the old Zhao family, why was he taken away by the official? It's also incredible.

Zhao Erlang also looked confused and said, "I don't know about this." A few days ago, I met an uncle of the same clan on the road, he is now working in your house, not long ago he received a letter from his family, which mentioned this matter, but what is the specific reason, his family book does not say. ”

As early as a few days ago, Zhao Erlang heard about this incident. At that time, he felt that something was wrong, worried that something would happen to Old Man Zhao, and felt that it was necessary to tell Zhao Yongzhong about it and ask him to inquire about it. If you really find out what is wrong with Old Man Zhao, you can also pull them in time to save them from accidents. But his mother persuaded him that it was better to take care of the old Zhao family's idle affairs, and it was just thankless, and maybe he would make a mess. He has this spare time, so he might as well sell a few more packs of popcorn and earn more money for his wife.

Zhao Erlang thought about it carefully, in fact, the four of them went to serve together, and they could take care of each other, except for being a little tired and tired, there was nothing else, where would there be any accidents? His third uncle's business was so busy, and he didn't want to disturb them for this idea, so he put this matter down.

But in the past few days, the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and finally he couldn't help but tell Zhao Yongzhong about it.

"I just thought, this is something unusual. Third uncle, you have a wide range of people, or you can find someone to inquire about what is going on. If I don't inquire clearly, I'm always a little uneasy. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Yongzhong, like Zhao Erlang, was also worried about the old Zhao family's Chengding who were taken away. Even though Zhao Yongzhong is now cold to the people of the old Zhao family, after all, those are his closest relatives, and when he hears that something may happen to them, he still can't help but want to care for them. He couldn't wait for the next day, so he immediately sent a guy with a fast foot to Zhaojia Village to inquire about the news.

Seeing that his father was in a hurry like that, Zhao Sanniang was not easy to stop, and she also wanted to know the details of the old Zhao family's Latin, so she let her father go.

The guy Zhao Yongcheng sent is not only fast, he is also a villager in Zhaojia Village, and he has in-laws in Qiaojiazhuang at home, so he is familiar with the road everywhere, so it is very convenient to inquire about the news.

At the end of the next day, Zhao Yongcheng returned to Fucheng with the news he inquired about.

It is said that the embankment will be overhauled this year, and a large number of chengding will be needed at that time, and one chengding per family is not enough, so a few more will be drawn from the families with many chengding as appropriate. In previous years, the old Zhao family often did not go to service, they all paid money to be exempted, and the attitude of service was extremely negative, which seriously affected the construction of fortifications in the imperial court. As a punishment, this year, a few more chengding will be transferred from Lao Zhao's family.

When the official of Lazhuang Ding went to the new residence of the old Zhao family to pull people, there were only two old men Zhao and Zhao Yongnian. The officials felt that there were too few people, and when they heard that Old Man Zhao had children and grandchildren living elsewhere, they were not too tired to panic, so they took Zhao Yongxiao in Gaodian Village and Zhao Dalang in Changle Town away.

Zhao Yongcheng palpitated and said, "Brother Yongzhong, fortunately you are not in Jinghai. The villagers all said that this year's official errand is more fierce than any previous year's official errand, look at the posture of those officials, if you are here, you will definitely be arrested. ”

are all separated, how can they still be counted as the Cheng Ding of the old Zhao family? It's too unreasonable to arrest people like this, right? In addition, the reason why they caught so many Cheng Ding from Lao Zhao's family is too absurd to be tenable at all.

In fact, the old Zhao family has always sent people to serve, and they didn't pay until last year. And what's wrong with paying money for ransom, this is allowed by the imperial court. Besides, in the entire Zhaojia Village, not only the old Zhao family pays money, but other families also do this. For example, the Lizheng family, their family really doesn't go every year and pays money every year, why haven't they heard that the official sent to the Lizheng family to pull people?

At the beginning, Zhao Sanniang heard that Old Man Zhao and Zhao Yongnian's father and son were indeed dragged to serve in forced labor, and her heart suddenly brightened, and she secretly thought: Over the years, you have treated my father like a cow and a horse, and always let my father go to hard labor, and you can hide if you can. Well, you can't hide from it this time, can you? Taste the winter servitude!

But later, when she learned that the government had found a lame reason to arrest people indiscriminately, she was still extremely angry. Of course, this is not for the injustice of Mr. Zhao and the others, but because they feel that the vicious labor is rampant in the township, and the world is too chaotic.