Chapter 215: Crying Poor
This girl is quiet and well-behaved on weekdays, but now she is pretending to be aggrieved, and she also looks good!
Women are really born actors!
Xiao Jing winked vigorously at Dong Xiaoya to show his approval when Lao Yue was not paying attention, and then said with a straight face: "Nonsense." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ The income of the info newspaper is so much, and it is not a fraction to subsidize the family every month, could it be that it is spent so quickly? What a joke, where did all the money go? β
Dong Xiaoya looked even more aggrieved: "Son, although there is a lot of money in the account, there is not much that can really be used. There are many things in the family, and you have to save every penny, otherwise you won't be able to live. Let's just say this month, there are still five or six days, and the slave family only has a few hundred dollars left in their hands, so if it goes on like this...... The newspapers and the accounts at home are very clear, every money is spent, if you don't believe it, you can go to the account books......"
As she spoke, the little girl who was about to cry cried out.
Xiao Jing gave her 10,000 likes in her heart. Xiaoya really played the image of a housekeeper who worked hard to run a house but was suspected by others to the extreme, and if the newspaper got involved in the entertainment industry in the future, such as investing in building an entertainment company or something, she could really spend her strength to praise her.
Xiao Jing, who looked annoyed, comforted: "Okay, don't cry, don't go to your heart." Hey, it's not easy to run a family. My family and the newspaper can have today, and it is indeed thanks to you that I lost my words. β
The first sentence of these words is a play, and the rest is a sincere thanks. Dong Xiaoya also glanced at Xiao Jing when she was sobbing, although there was resentment written in her eyes, but those who knew her could also see a trace of joy in her complicated eyes.
Xiao Jing sighed and said matter-of-factly: "That's it." By the way, you wipe the floor before you go. The guests are still there, and the house is not decent. β
With that, he gritted his teeth and wiped off the tea sprayed on the table with the sleeve of his robe.
Lao Yue was messy in an instant: What's the situation, don't you even have a rag at home?
The right person spoke patronagely. After taking a closer look, he found that Xiao Jing had two huge patches on his sleeves, which were very eye-catching. Look at Xiao Jing's robe again...... Tsk, not only has the color faded, but there are also many places where the line is open, and I don't know how many years this dress has been worn.
As if noticing Lao Yue's gaze, Xiao Jing explained very embarrassedly: "We run newspapers that look bright, but in fact, we have a hard time, and sometimes we put up a shelf to fill the faΓ§ade. Hey, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I'm just one or two clothes that I can take out to meet people, and I usually only dare to wait until the advertising of the Merchants Association, and I can only wear it in tatters, so I don't pay so much attention to it......"
He smiled so shy and apprehensive, like a child who admitted that his family conditions were not good and was worried about being laughed at by his friends.
Dong Xiaoya is also dressed plainly. She has always been a cloth skirt, Lao Yue only saw her when he came to the door two times ago, and she was dressed like this at that time, like an ordinary woman who lives a down-to-earth life.
As for the group of people outside......
Except for Shao Ning, everyone wore shabby clothes, even Qin Ziqian joined in the fun, anyway, it was impossible for a small tax collector to know her.
When I first saw her in the morning, Xiao Jing's eyes lit up: Isn't that the dress she borrowed when I was recuperating after the robbery? Did she buy it back as a souvenir?
When they looked at each other, they both smiled, and everything was silent.
As for the eldest prince Shao...... The local officials probably knew him as a local tyrant like the head of the land, and it would be fake if he also wore torn clothes. So, he deliberately wore super gorgeous clothes, and stood out from the crowd when he stood out. Although he himself was very proud, he was teased by Tang Zhengming: "Are you going to marry the second room?" β
Lao Yue smiled and said, "In this way, Gongzi created such a masterpiece as the mirror newspaper for the world, but he is still willing to be poor...... It's really admirable. β
There was a chill in his smile. As a tax collector, he often deals with all kinds of people, etc., and has long been accustomed to all kinds of nonsensical and messy things. In other words, eight out of ten people will cry poor, and the remaining two will violently resist taxes, and the other will run away.
No matter how much you toss, don't you want to evade taxes, owe or underpay taxes? I've seen a lot of this kind of person, who will eat your set!
Collecting taxes is from people's pockets to pay money, and naturally no one is happy; If you catch up with the poor one, it will be even more troublesome. Besides, in these years, the people's clan consciousness is heavy, and neighbors not to mention protecting each other, and sometimes they can violently resist the law together. Therefore, the job of a capable tax collector must be ruthless, and it is absolutely not okay to be soft-hearted and easy to speak. You kindly let the person go, go back to the boss and ask, how should you explain?
Last year, Lao Yue went to a household to collect miscellaneous taxes. Before I entered the door, I heard the crying in the courtyard, and there were many onlookers pointing outside.
When he stepped forward and knocked on the door, a vegetarian family member cried and told him that the old man in the family had passed away, and it was last night. Right now, the family is preparing for the funeral.
As the saying goes, the dead are greater. Even if Lao Yue is hard-hearted, he can't lick his face to collect taxes when his family members are crying and pooling money for the elderly's funeral. Even if he is a fox and a fake tiger, he has a bit of "official authority", and he is afraid that he will be beaten to death and go with the old man.
There was no way, he said a few words like "festival mourning" and retired from the house.
Soon, a month passed. One day, someone suddenly said to Lao Yue that he had seen the old man of that family: it is said that he was full of vigor to go to the stalls, walk the market, and still tease Sun in front of the public, very leisurely.
Is this a corpse?
Lao Yue ran to question angrily, and people were very embarrassed to say: Originally, everyone thought that the old man had passed away, but who knew that on the second day of the mortuary for three days, the old man miraculously came back to life, which was really a fluke...... Hey, I haven't had time to tell you about this, I'm really sorry, I have paid you a lot of taxes that my family owes, and I have paid you ......"
Lao Yue, who was suspicious in his heart, did not rush to leave after receiving the money. He waited for a short time near this house, and then he heard a fierce woman inside shouting, "Didn't you say that the old immortal should stop for a few days, and don't go out if it's okay?" It's good now, the money is still thrown out like a waste! Hey, see him come back, I'll give him food......"
His lungs were exploding.
How unfortunate it is to say that the old man who is still alive is dead, and everyone knows it. In order to default on taxes, the family even lied that the old man had passed away, and acted decently in front of the neighbors...... It's a big forest, and there are all kinds of birds!
From this, Lao Yue came to a conclusion: never overestimate other people's bottom line!
Cry poor with me? There are no doors!