"Just the facts? I see that you don't shed tears when you don't see the coffin, and say, where have you gone all day! ”

Qu Miaoling continued to spread her hands, "Mother, where else can I go?" I went to Xiangmanlou for my grandmother to buy jasper cakes, went to the teahouse to drink tea, and went to Jingkanghou Mansion, that's it! ”

"And—"

Qu Miaoling said, "Didn't my mother send someone to follow me, where am I going, my mother will not know?" ”

Wen's face froze, "What nonsense are you talking about, when did I find someone to follow you!" You—you're bloody. ”

"Mother, don't worry, I'm just talking casually, look at it, what I said doesn't matter, how angry you are, but if you put the basin on my head, I can't be angry, where is the fallacy and heresy?" Qu Miao Ling is very sincere with affection and reason.

"Y-you're just a strong word."

"Mother, although a woman is not talented is virtuous, but you can't help but study, the idioms are all wrong, I call it reasoning."

Wen fell to his back in anger.

Just when Wu Dehou came back from duty, he saw the mother and daughter facing each other violently, and the road was blocked at night.

Wu Dehou blew his beard and glared: "What are you doing!" The quarrel is endless! ”

"I've seen Master Hou."

"I've seen my father."

Everyone saluted in unison, including Qu Miaoling and Wen.

"Master Hou, look at Miao Ling, she is not at home at night, the concubine says a few words to her, she is still not happy, a girl's house, how dangerous it is to stay outside!"

When Wu Dehou heard this, he also felt reasonable.

"Miao Ling, this is your fault, your mother also cares about you, quickly, apologize to your mother."

"Father, if my mother slandered me that I was concerned about me, then I would rather not have this kind of care!"

"Wen, you said Miao Ling water-based poplar flower?"

"No, no, no, Master Hou, there is no concubine!"

Wen shook his head desperately.

"Father, do you think your daughter will cheat on you? Well, my daughter swears to the sky, if what she said is false, there will be five thunderstorms in the sky! ”

It's a poisonous oath.

Wu Dehou swallowed his saliva, like the old lady, he also believed in Buddhism.

I am even more afraid of this poisonous oath.

"Wen, what's the matter with you, just two days later, you came out to be a demon again, is the ancestral hall not kneeling enough? Or the Buddhist scriptures are copied less! ”

"Master Hou, concubine body-" Wen was afraid.

"Don't get back to me yet!"

"But-" Didn't Wu Dehou send someone to spread the word at night, saying that he would come to his room tonight?

"Don't get out yet!"

Wen's fart was rolling and urinating, and that night, Wu Dehou really didn't go to her room.

"Father, it's really not what my mother thinks, tonight it was the people from the Jingkang Hou Mansion who sent her daughter back, and if they hadn't let her daughter come back, tonight, the daughter would have stayed in the Jingkang Hou Mansion to take good care of the second brother."

Qu Miaoling explained again, and Wu Dehou nodded.

"Father believes in you, you are not a child who does not know the seriousness of the matter, and besides, don't make the poisonous oath just now."

After Wu Dehou finished speaking, he went to Jiang Jingjing's courtyard.

After such a incident, he originally wanted to have a good relationship with Wen, but now it is in vain.

Forget it, let's go to Jiang's!

"Where's Master Hou?"

Wen asked Taolei.

"Mrs. Hui, Master Hou, Master Hou, he went to Aunt Jiang's yard."

"Smack."

The teacup filled with fire-extinguishing tea exploded at Momoro's feet.

"That slut!"

knew that if she seduced Hou Ye, sooner or later, she would have to scratch her face.

Look what else she has to do!

Wen didn't sleep all night, and he kept his eyes open until dawn.

When Tao Lei came to put makeup on her in the morning, she smeared several layers of powder under her eyes, but she still couldn't cover the drooping eye bags and dark circles.

Looking at himself in the mirror, Wen held his cheeks and fell into deep sadness.

"Taolei, am I old?" As he spoke, Wen touched his face.

The elasticity is not as good as it was at the beginning, and after giving birth to Tatsumi, she can clearly feel that her skin is a little loose.

It's hateful that Jiang Jingjing is only twenty-eight years old, and it's a good time.

The more I thought about it, the more ruthless Wen became.

And Wen's question, naturally no one dared to answer.

Tao Lei knows that Wen's is now a dynamite barrel, and whoever touches it will blow it up, so today, Tao Lei did not speak like a spring and change her tricks to praise Wen's beauty like a flower, but instead pretended to be a quail.

After finishing breakfast with a tired face, Wen was thinking about how to coax Wu Dehou when he heard a noise outside.

"Madam, the people from the front yard came, saying that Master Hou had something important to discuss."

The Wen family immediately showed joy, could it be that the Hou Ye knew that he had wronged himself yesterday and asked him for peace?

Wen was even happier, and asked Tao Lei to change her clothes and apply lip grease before going to the front yard.

"Madam, hurry up, don't let Master Hou wait."

Wen quickened her pace, but saw the oncoming person urging, the person she had seen.

Wu Dehou is in such a hurry, does he really just want to reconcile with himself?

Wen's heart was beating.

Stepping into Wu Dehou's study, Wen fell into an ice cave, and the atmosphere in the study was extremely stagnant.

She only felt like her chest was freezing, and it was hard to breathe.

"I've seen Master Hou."

Qu Miaoling stood up and saluted Wen, then sat down.

"Okay, you can say it."

Wen Shi noticed that there was still a person kneeling on the ground, inexplicably familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it.

"Returning to the Hou Ye, Mrs., Miss, the villain is the steward of Nanzhuang, and the tenant farmers refuse to pay the rent, and have been besieged at the gate of Nanzhuang for a long time. Today, the villain risked his life to come to the Hou Mansion for help! ”

"Nanzhuang?" Wu Dehou muttered.

"Father, it is a Zhuangzi in the south of our Hou Mansion."

This Zhuangzi is one of the dowries of the lord of Huiling.

"Don't pay rent, what a boldness! Steward Qian, I will send someone back with you immediately, arrest all those mobs, and send them to the government, so as to relieve the hatred in my heart! ”

"I can't help it, Master Hou!"

"What, could it be that the money manager colluded with them, and they sent you as a lobbyist?" Wen immediately asked rhetorically.

"Father, this money steward has always been loyal, this time he came to die, there must be something unspeakable, and I ask my father to listen to it and make a decision."

"Since Miao Ling is speaking for you, I'll listen to a few more words!"

Steward Qian glanced at Qu Miaoling gratefully, and then said: "Master Hou, it's like this, it's not that the tenant farmers are unwilling to pay the rent, they really can't pay it!" ”

Qu Miaoling interjected: "Money is in charge, but there is a catastrophe this year?" ”

Steward Qian pondered for a moment and nodded.

"A plague of locusts?"

Shake one’s head.

"Waterlogging?"

Steward Qian continued to shake his head.

"What kind of plague is that?" Qu Miaoling asked again.

"It's a man-made disaster!"

Wu Dehou became interested.

Steward Qian continued, "Back to the Hou Ye, God has been very kind in the past few years, the wind and rain have been smooth, and the harvest of the tenant farmers is also very good.

"But what?" Wu Dehou asked.

"Since the beginning of the previous year, the Hou Mansion has asked the tenant farmers to pay more and more rents, and it has become more and more difficult for us to collect rent, until this year, there is a word in the house, saying that it is going to collect forty percent of the rent, and in addition to the two percent of the rent handed over to the imperial court, the tenant farmers have tightened their belts, and many people have starved to death on the streets of Nanzhuang!"

Steward Qian's face was full of tears.

"Bang" kowtowed to Wu Dehou.

"What, forty percent?" When Wu Dehou heard this, his eyes widened.

"Ben Hou hasn't been on patrol for a while, has the rent collected by the people here risen to forty?"

Wen was silent and did not dare to speak, because the person sent to deliver the message was her cronies.

She tried to shrink her skeleton, but in vain.

"Father, daughter remembers, last time my daughter looked at the family's account book, the data on it was very strange, and according to what the money manager said, the daughter finally understood, no wonder the account was not right, it turned out that there was a problem with the rent, and the account book recorded was two percent, so where did the remaining two percent go?" Qu Miaoling wondered.

Wu Dehou was furious, "Wen, you say, what's going on!" ”

These things in the house have always been managed by the Wen family.

At this time, Wu Dehou pointed the finger at Wen's family, and cold sweat flowed on Wen Rou's forehead.

"It's-"

She was quickly thinking about the rhetoric in her heart, she never thought that it really made Qu Miaoling see the flaw.

This Qu Miaoling is really not simple!

"Father, my daughter just thought that when I went back to inspect the fiefdom, the tenant farmers there said that they were also required to collect forty percent of the rent, but the account book in the house still recorded two percent!"

"What!"

This time it wasn't angry, Wu Dehou's eyes were about to pop out.

"Wen, speak! This money is not in your pocket! It's still in the pocket of the bunfu! ”

"Say!" Wu Dehou roared.

Wen was directly paralyzed with fright.

"Master Hou, no...... That's not the case, listen to me! ”

"Father, don't be angry yet, mother may have been deceived by her subordinates!"

"Miao Ling, when is it, you are still speaking for her, being deceived by your subordinates, do you believe it?"

"Master Hou, the concubine really doesn't know, the concubine hasn't been in charge of Zhuangzi's affairs for a long time, if something like this happens, the concubine will definitely investigate thoroughly, give an explanation to the tenant farmers, and give an explanation to the Hou Mansion."

After Wen finished speaking, he leaned down and knelt down, his posture respectful, and he admitted his mistake seriously and sincerely.

Wu Dehou's chest bulged, and he took Qu Miaoling's hand and said, "Miaoling, you have to think of a way, you can't let the news of the Hou Mansion squeezing the tenant farmers get out, your father's old face depends on you!" ”

Qu Miaoling was suspicious.

Wu Dehou means that he will let himself cover up the past for the Wen family?

This old fox has a good calculation.

"Yes, Miao Ling, that Zhuangzi is not the Hou Mansion after all, you are the daughter of the county lord of Huiling, those tenant farmers will definitely listen to you, you must find a way to appease them, don't make a big fuss." Wen Shi also followed, and was glared at by Wu Dehou before she closed her mouth.