Chao Xi asked Wang Ba for advice on how to complete the tax collection this year.

Wen Cheng was also worried, looking at this seemingly vulgar, but in fact meticulous wandering king.

Wang Ba laughed:

"A certain is a fighter, a big old man. What kind of trick is there, dare to show off in front of the superior?!

The adults and a certain family are actually co-followers, and now they are all assistants for tax collectors and levies for husbands.

Morning glory and donkey, catching chickens and dogs, these pickled things, the sons and daughters of a certain family are good at it;

If you want to let a certain family, such a vulgar man plan to ask, but he is a poor person who is a shoddy person...... Dog meat is never allowed to be served. ”

Chao Xi smiled slightly, not reluctantly.

Alas, it's just that according to the current posture, after returning to the government with Wen Cheng, it can be regarded as ill-fated and unpredictable...... At the lowest level, this buttocks will be punished by big seedlings, and punishment is inevitable.

……

It's even more pitiful for the tax collector, the first person responsible, whose life hangs in the air, and the future is like hanging on a spider's silk, and the consequences are unpredictable!

Now I am discussing with my husband Gu Lao in a panic and anxious way to deal with it, but I really don't know how to cut the goods, what kind of panic has it become?

……

While talking, the water baby ...... Sichuan people like to speak with a child's voice, and this is still the case.

The water baby carried a smooth duck and walked closer, "Uncle Wang, the duck has been washed, please ...... Do you want to order the fire to cook, and the small ones to go and sell the wine? ”

Wang Ba raised his leg and kicked the water baby lightly:

"Less witty in front of grandpa"

After speaking, he took out a handful of copper coins from his bosom:

"Well, I'll pay you eighty dollars, and I'll cut some pig's head meat and come back.

Let Zhang Mazi cut it, his mother-in-law is called cutting meat?

Chopping wood is pretty much the same. It's just that they will chop up lumps of lumps, so that they can save some salt, eat a lump, and those who don't burp are considered to have thick necks.

Relying on her brother to take charge of things in Yanjing, she was a little arrogant, and Zhang Mazi, who was bullying, didn't dare to put a fart...... Goods that are not packed. ”

Wang Ba said: "Let's just say that it is used by a certain family to entertain brothers, try to dare to Ge Laozi, come to a lump of meat, half a catty!" ”

The water baby agreed, picked up the copper coin and left

"Uncle Wang is relieved, and only teaches Second Uncle Zhang Zhong to cut the meat himself and clean the bones;

If the second uncle is not there, he will call his sister to cut meat and vegetables. Let her put more coriander, peppercorn, sesame oil and salt, and keep it to make Uncle Wang happy! ”

……

Uncle Bo Zhong Ji, this is the order of the men in the ancient family, so Zhang Zhong is the second in the family.

Wang Ba laughed and scolded:

"Weigh enough, weigh it first and then mix!"

Wang Ba raised his tone again:

"Inform Zhang Mazi...... That mother-in-law: Grandpa knows that her third brother who is the steward of the salt well, a few days ago, he crossed the mountain and crossed the ditch and sent her salt, how many years have he not caught him, don't think grandpa is a pig urine bubble and knead it casually! ”

The water baby responded, and went to buy wine and meat without mentioning it.

……

Wang Ba turned to Wen Cheng and said:

"Today is already a matter, and follow me to eat wine and meat, tomorrow will be sad tomorrow, and I will not care about it tonight!"

Wen Cheng knew that he couldn't do anything today, so he said goodbye to Chao Xi and went to the Xiangyong station behind the wall of the township courtyard with Wang Ba.

Chao Xi has his own townsmen and officials to settle down and provide food, so he doesn't have to worry about Wen Cheng.

Stay in the barracks, enter the gate - don't put the militia company, don't be a violent organ, call the poor Qiantou and the homeless slaves every minute, know what to call Ma Wangye......

There really are three eyes!

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Enter the gate, but see that the loess in the courtyard is tamped with stone pillars, and it is also neat; There are three rows of mud houses along the courtyard wall of the barracks and the gable of the township. There are about 20 rooms, some large and some small, and the thatched roof has been repaired over the years, and it is neat.

Wang Ba summoned Ding Yong to carry the duck and go to the stove room to cook. With the text, he crossed the courtyard and entered the hall.

Entering the room, Wang Ba picked up the water scoop made of half of the gourd hanging on the wall. From the west side of the hall, in a wooden bucket under the base of the wall, scooped a scoop of cold water and handed it to the text.

Wen Cheng drank half a scoop and talked to Wang Ba, Wang Ba took the scoop and didn't talk, he drank it all, scooped up another scoop and drank it, and then put down the scoop and burped brightly.

"Sit down and talk" Wang Ba pointed to the wooden couch, dragged a mustache in his hand, and sat down next to him.

Wen Cheng knelt on the couch according to his words, thought for a while and said, "Brother Wang, I look at you today, when you talk to Lord Chao Xi, you seem to have reservations!" Could it be that you have something in mind? ”

Wang Ba pulled open the neckline on his chest:

"Behind closed doors, don't talk to me. Shicai talked to the cutter, and almost didn't suffocate Lao Tzu to death!

Wang Ba rubbed his neck:

"You are a literati, and I am a big boss, but our two families, I have been in contact with your brother-in-law for many years, when have you been polite?"

Wen Cheng nodded and responded: "Hehe, what Brother Wang said is reasonable. I just don't know that Brother Wang, there is no way to have children, so that Dongshan Township can deal with the past, what about this year's fatal tax? ”

"I don't know which of the goods that have been cut by a thousand cuts is determined this year, and it is heavier than another year!"

Wang Ba hated: "The court decided to be one, the state plus three, the county plus four, to the county and township to become five!" Originally, I was a rough guy who could only write names, and I accumulated military merits to do this angry wandering.

Originally, I was counting on the exhibition hall to live a little bit and help the villagers and neighbors a little bit. Which Cheng thinks, the neighbors who can't explain the poor and provoke are secretly scolded! It's that hemp wheat husk. ”

Wang Ba scolded viciously: "I am here every day, walking around a radius of 100 miles, and I don't know what people in other places are like."

I only know that many people in Yongzhou, Jingzhou, and Yuzhou have abandoned their families and businesses, dragged their children and dragged their daughters, and fled to our Yizhou;

In recent years, there have been more and more people who have come to our Han'an to be refugees, vassals, or even slaves. ”

Wang Ba sighed: "Thinking about the days of coming to those states, it is very difficult.

Otherwise, who will leave their homeland and destroy the stove and fill the well?

Besides, I also met some small officials and three elders who also fled to the jurisdiction of Han'an, and they couldn't survive anymore. ”

Wen Cheng nodded silently, deeply convinced.

……

"Looking at this world, I'm afraid our side won't be better for a few years!"

Wang Ba said: "Others can still flee to our side, but where can you and I flee when the time comes?" Bah! Don't worry about it, the sky is going to fall, my mother is going to get married, and a small person like you and me can't stand it. ”

Wang Ba spat out: "Sleep in the barracks tonight, and I will call you tomorrow morning." Tomorrow you will leave it alone, and I will take you to the tax collection office, and keep it in order;

Originally, these bullshit things, it was not your turn to worry about me, didn't you get involved!

If you can't pay the taxes, go back to the one surnamed Kong, and don't beat you to death with a few sticks? ”

Wang Ba got up, it turned out that he had already seen the water baby, carrying wine and food, and came to the main hall.

"Let's eat and drink first, and come with me tomorrow morning!" I'll talk to you about what's going on. ”

Wang Ba patted his buttocks: "Water baby, go to the stove room and bring the duck." Don't go to the stove to grab the broth from them, just eat it here. ”

Wang Ba took the water baby and handed it over, and the pig's head meat wrapped in banana leaves and a bamboo tube of rice wine were placed on the table, beckoning Wen Cheng to eat wine.

……

That night, Wen Cheng rested in Wang Ba's camp without mentioning it, and only waited until tomorrow morning to follow Wang Ba to collect taxes and pay errands.