Wen Yi borrowed fifty taels of silver from Lu Yuan's foreign family in the town, doubling the usury in a year, Wen Yi thought that after getting the land, he would work hard for another year next year, even if he lived a hard life for another year, he would have to pay off the foreign debt of one hundred taels of silver, as long as he had land, there was always hope.

When he came back, he paid the money, took a chip from the clerk's hand, and returned home eagerly waiting for the next day, and tomorrow, the clerk would bring the deed of the land assigned to him. The villages that belong to the official fields are all high-quality good fields, with thousands of acres, and Wen Yi still went around the edge of those fields at night, looking forward to that piece will really belong to him.

Wen Cheng came to the house in the evening, stayed in Wen Yi's house for a while, but didn't say anything, just sighed deeply and left again, Wen Cheng's family has seven people, it stands to reason that there are seventy acres of land, but one hundred and forty taels of silver has become a high threshold, Wen Cheng also wanted to borrow usury, but was stopped by his father. They will continue to have no land of their own, and can only rent the fate of official land.

Wen Yi and the woman were excited all night and did not fall asleep, as soon as the day was hazy, the woman hugged her son, who was still sleeping sweetly, and arrived at the entrance of the village with Wen Yi, waiting for the clerk to come over with the deed.

Waited until the sun was three poles, the clerk master in the town finally accompanied by two officials, riding a small donkey staggeringly came, saw Wen Yi, smiled, took out a deed from his arms, and threw it to them, "This is your deed, come with me, take you to where your land is, insert the boundary card, I am done, there are more than a dozen families to run today!" The clerk stretched his waist and said lazily.

Looking at the somewhat puffy face of the clerk and smelling the bursts of wine emanating from his body, Wen Yi said in his heart. This old man must not have slept well yesterday, look at the way he rides on a donkey, don't fall and break it.

Although the clerk master staggered, he never fell, passed through the green crops, and walked forward with the Wenyi family, these are all official fields, and the people above have been imprinted by the white ash two days ago, and the pieces are extremely distinct, and each piece is passed. Wen Yi's heart is like a cat scratching.

The sun gradually rose, and seeing that he was about to walk out of this crop field, Wen Yi couldn't help but feel worried, the village was already far away, why hadn't he reached his own land yet, "Master, which piece of land is the thirty acres of land allocated to my family?" He couldn't help but ask.

The clerk glanced at him, "What are you panicking about?" The court will still lie to you. The county magistrate will lie to you, saying that it is thirty acres, that is, thirty acres, and it will not be worse than you. ”

"Yes, yes, yes. The villain naturally believes in the county magistrate. Seeing that the clerk was angry, Wen Yi said busily.

While speaking, the clerk had stopped, pointed to the front and said, "Oh." That's your land, thirty acres, no less. You two, hurry up and put the boundary card in, we're going to the next one!" ”

The two officials answered, took a few boundary cards, and ran quickly to that place, seeing the place where the two officials inserted the nether cards, Wen Yi's heart suddenly cooled, and what kind of fertile land was that large piece of land, it was a wasteland, full of rocks, not to mention planting crops, even grass, and there were not many roots.

"This, this is my land?" His hands and feet trembled, and he looked at the clerk, "This is the land I bought for sixty taels of silver?" ”

"Of course, boy, these thirty acres of land will be yours in the future, so let's wait." The clerk laughed.

Wen Yi's legs went limp, and he fell to his knees with a poppy sound.

"No, no, no, I don't want it, I don't want the land, give me back the money, I don't want the land." Wen Yi said, behind him, the woman was already crying in despair, they were all locals, and they didn't know that this land couldn't be planted at all.

"Boy, you think the court's plan is child's play, you want it, if you don't want it, don't want it. Tell you, you can't return if you want it. The clerk sat on the back of the donkey, and the whip pointed ahead, and said majestically.

The two officials quickly ran back, and the clerk glanced at the two grass people who were crying, and said coldly, "Let's go." ”

Wen Yi was paralyzed on the ground, in order to buy this land, he also borrowed fifty taels of usury, this time next year, he will have to pay back one hundred taels, but this land, let alone one hundred taels, even ten taels, I am afraid that it will not be repaid, but this is a usury rolling on a donkey, one hundred taels a year, and in the second year, it will become two hundred taels.

In the midst of Wen Yi's crying, the woman rushed up, grabbed the donkey's reins violently, pulled the donkey back vigorously, and screamed: "We don't want the field, return our money." ”

The clerk was defenseless, and last night was ridiculous for a long time, this time the donkey suddenly turned half a circle, and he was already a little shaky, and suddenly an upside-down green onion was planted from the donkey, and a dog ate and screamed in pain, and the two servants hurriedly helped up the clerk, but they saw that there was a red and bright bag on the clerk's forehead.

The clerk reached out and touched it, hissing in pain, and seeing the pickled woman in front of him who had caused her to fall down stretched out a person like a bone and a stick to him again, he suddenly became angry from his heart, and the evil was born to the side of the gall, and he raised his leg to be a heartwarming foot, "You crazy woman, dare to beat your master." ”

The woman was kicked by this kick, and she fell on her back, and this kick actually kicked her to faint, and the doll that was holding in her other hand flew out a few meters away, and fell heavily to the ground, just crying twice, and then she was silent.

One of the officials rushed over, and after a glance, he gasped, and the little doll's head happened to be on a stone half buried in the earth, but the exposed part was a sharp triangular protrusion, and on the little doll's head, a large hole was bleeding. Reaching out and touching the little doll's nose, the official jumped up suddenly, "Master, it's out of breath, it's dead!" ”

Wen Yi finally reacted at this time, and when he saw the woman and child who fell to the ground, he rushed over with a wolf-like howl, picking up the child with one hand and the woman with the other.

The clerk's face turned white, and he climbed on the donkey in a panic, "He fell to his death by himself, but it has nothing to do with Master Ben." He struck the donkey on the ass with a whip, and ran away with the two servants.

There was a cry everywhere in the village, and it was not only the Wen Yi family who were deceived, all the families who bought the land with money did not get the official land that they had been renting and cultivating as they had hoped, and like Wen Yi, what they were given was some wasteland where birds don't, not to mention growing grain, even if they planted grass, they didn't necessarily grow much.

Wen Cheng sighed, looking at Wen Yi who was curled up in the room with his head in his arms, and the woman who was holding the child who had long lost her breath in her hand was shrinking in the corner of the house in a dementia. Long hair shawl, like a ghost, Wen Cheng thought about taking the dead child from the woman's arms several times, and every time, the woman screamed, kicked and beat randomly, opened her mouth and bitten, Wen Cheng could only give up.

"Ayi, things are already like this, what else can be done, you go out with me first, get a few thin boards, and then open a thin wooden coffin, and let the child be buried in the ground." Wen Cheng pulled Wen Yi up from the ground and dragged him out.

"Let's go, I still have some boards at home, you go with me to get them, nail them and bury the child!" Wen Cheng looked at the tragic situation of this family, and his heart was also sad, and at the same time he felt a sense of luck, his father was not allowed to borrow usury, otherwise there would be one more crying family in the village today.

Wen Yi followed Wen Cheng to his house in a daze, and the two carried a few wooden planks, and when they returned to Wen Yi's house, the woman and the child were nowhere to be found.

"Ayi, where are you woman?" Wen Cheng was taken aback and shouted loudly.

Wen Yi seemed to be a little sober, looking crazy all over the house, but he didn't find a corner of his clothes, coming out of the house, Wen Cheng walked to the well platform in a corner without advice, looked down, and suddenly felt that his breath was stagnant, and under the well, there was a piece of black hair.

"Ayi!" He cried out.

The woman and the child were salvaged, but they had long been out of breath, and the woman still held the child tightly in her arms, unable to pick it open.

Wen Yi was like a madman, holding a sheep fork, and drove everyone out of the house, including Wen Cheng, and slammed the door shut.

"Ayi, Ayi, don't come nonsense!" Wen Cheng shouted anxiously outside the house.

There was no echo in the room, only the sound of a gentle wolf's howl.

"Let's go, let's go first, let Ayi cry for a while, maybe it's better, let's come over at night to help him take care of the funeral of the mother-in-law and the doll, pitiful!" Wen Cheng's father said angrily. A good home, in the blink of an eye, it was gone.

The whole village was in mourning, and the despair of getting the land pushed their already poor life further into the abyss, and those who did not get the land could not see any hope on the road ahead, and in the dark night, there was not a single light on in the whole village. Wen Cheng came out of the house, ready to go to Wen Yi to have a look.

As soon as he stepped out of the house, a fire flickered in front of him, and in the blink of an eye, the fire grew bigger and brighter, and almost illuminated the whole village. It was Ayi's house, Wen Cheng was taken aback, and ran towards Wen Yi's house.

Wenyi's house has been plunged into a sea of fire.

"Ayi, Ayi!" Wen Cheng jumped to his feet and shouted outside the fire, but all he answered was the crackling sound of the fire. (To be continued......)