Fan Ying said, "The surname Li will be so stingy!" It is also possible for him to take the silver back. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ”

The old man said that he didn't know what the man's surname was, but he was about forty white and pure, and he had some identity at first glance. I didn't have a good impression of such people, and I thought it was nothing more than the dog-eat-dog affair of those 'superior people'. They are not merciful to the rich, so we are not allowed to take a little from him?

Fan Ying shouted, "Dare to scold my senior brother!" ”

The old man hurriedly said, don't worry, this little lady, I didn't know it was you at the time...... When we went back and reported that the great thing had been accomplished, the man gave him two taels of silver as promised. We happily went to the blacksmith's workshop in Xiangyang City to make a new iron head. And he hired a ship to bring it back. He sighed and said: But it's really a good reward, we took a boat to carry the iron head, and it was on the river last time that something happened!

Fan Ying asked, "How?" ”

The old man said, "Because we haven't arrived in Jingzhou yet, our father and son are careless." In the middle of the night, I said that I would take a nap and only send my eldest son at the helm. Unexpectedly, the boat jumped up in the heart of the river, threw us all into the water at once, and the boat turned upside down! The iron head also sank to the bottom of the river and could no longer be fished out! ”

Gao Jun said, "Jump up, this is unheard of, who has such a big ability?" ”

Fan Ying said, "Could it be the big dragon?" ”

The old man whispered, "Great Dragon...... Dalong," said Gao Jun again, "it doesn't matter anymore, we're empty-handed anyway." Engong, you have saved my family, but also saved our lives, and now how to send our father and son, we don't frown. ”

His wife complained in a low voice, "I always advise you to get rich in a good way, don't hurt others, now is no longer the troubled times of the past!" Otherwise, our family of six has been going on for more than 20 years, and what are we doing with this salt well? Isn't it just to live in peace. ”

His daughter answered. "Dad, look at these two sisters! You can harm them even if they are such good people! If you hurt them, you're harming your own family! ”

The old man was even more embarrassed, knocking on his head and saying, "This is even more foolish!" I was going to do some short-term work to earn some money and then go to make iron, but who knew that I met someone surnamed Li, how did he know that our father and son would have some kung fu, so he ran up to discuss. I'm also a ghost, and I want to finish my work and go home sooner. ”

At present, the three of them have taken action to remediate the salt well that was almost abandoned, so that their family's twenty years of hard work will not be in vain, and the old man does not know what to say to be grateful. At this time, his eldest son ran down from the salt well and shouted to him, "Dad, go and see, the salt well has already been beaten!" ”

He had just heard that the iron head had been repaired, so he took the time to step on it a few times, but it felt different from usual. His words surprised a few people, and the old man ran out and stepped on the pedal, stepped on it a few times and said, "The strip is slow!" ”

Everyone pulled the iron head up, put down the special bucket that had been prepared for a long time, and the strips on the wooden wheel were not put so deep this time and slammed it, and the old man said happily, "Eighty percent of the fontanelle water is coming out!" ”

Taking fontanelle water is different from drilling wells, the same wooden wheel does not have to move, and the rope is still not twisted, as long as the cam on the pedal is replaced. After a while, the wooden wheel slowly rotated and lifted the heavy bamboo barrel up.

Someone found a wooden basin, and according to the girl's method, he poked the bottom of the bucket upward, and the muddy yellow fontanelle filled the wooden basin with a bang, and everyone cheered.

The old man got down from the wooden frame and pulled the family to kneel in front of Gao Jun, Liu Yuru, and Fan Ying, without speaking, all of them burst into tears. Especially the old man, who said incoherently, "Engong! What we father and son did made me uneasy along the way. Today, the villain's family is even more self-conscious! ”

Gao Jun moved his steps to the side, he was not used to such a grand and sensational scene, and waved his hand and said, "Don't break my life like this, I haven't enjoyed a good life yet...... The tears are empty, so you have to take out a lot of your home-brewed rice wine and give it to us! ”

The old man jumped up and said, then there is no need to say! Our twenty years of hard work have almost been wasted, and if there is no arrival of the benefactors, we don't know how long we will have to suffer! There is wine, even if you drink it all, I will ask the boys to sell it!

Liu Yuru said, "It seems that we are really nobles, and we are sending charcoal in the snow wherever we go." Yesterday, he didn't eat any food, so he had to go up and step on those few times, no, the big thing was done! ”

The family was happy and agreed, and they were busy at the moment, fetching water and firewood, washing rice and cooking. This family is also a hunter, and there are all kinds of game, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, and many wild vegetables and mountain fruits that cannot be named.

Gao Jun sat down, knowing that now was the time for him to put on some music, so he held up his chopsticks and asked, "Why is there no chicken?" Not even a chicken. ”

Liu Yuru said angrily, "It's not that there is a pheasant, what are you picking?" The old man knew at this time that he was asking this on purpose, and he was not embarrassed. It's hard to ask who they are right now, but they must be people who can be trusted. So, the old man replied without concealing it at all, "That thing is too much movement, and the hen reports the birth and the rooster reports the time, and it can't be raised." Not only can they not be raised, but pigs and dogs are not raised. ”

Gao Jun hurriedly asked the reason, and the old man said, "Our salt well, for 20 years, has been secretly fought by the family in the deep mountains, but we don't want people to know about it......"

Fan Ying asked, "Why is that?" Don't you dare to sell the salt wells that you have made for yourselves? ”

Gao Jun also said, "This is the first time I have seen Yanjing, but not long ago, when I went to Liaodong to help fight and deliver halberds, I saw a salt pond from afar in the Fengzhou area, where the officers and soldiers and villagers were working together, and it was not like you to do it secretly. ”

The old man sighed and said, "The two are not the same...... he said, and the place where salt is made is divided into salt ponds, salt tuns, and salt wells. A salt pond in places like Fengzhou can produce tens of thousands of salt a year. Youzhou and other seaside salt tun can generally produce 35,000 pieces of salt every year, and a salt well in the mainland, the big well is only 1,500 hundred, and the small well is only 4,500 hundred, and like this salt well made by my furniture, it is thankful that it can produce 200 pieces of salt a year.

The old man said, "One bucket is counted as five buckets, and the official price of each bucket of salt is ten cents." Then the annual output of my family's salt well will be 10,000 yuan if it is collected by the government. After paying the tax on one out of ten, we only have nine thousand dollars left. According to the calculation of one hundred yuan and ten yuan and one tael of silver, we have been busy for a year before we get nine taels of silver. So when will our family of six recover the hard work of 20 years? ”

The woman said that when the government took the salt, the price of a bucket was increased by 100 wen, and it became 110 wen, and it was not allowed to sell it privately, and the smuggler would be imprisoned if he was caught!

Her daughter said, "It costs 110 yuan to buy a bucket of salt, how much is a bucket of rice?" It's just a lot of money, and some people who don't have money are reluctant to put salt when cooking! ”

"Reluctant to put salt? Joke! This official sees that you are not eating well here, but you are paying attention to the salt industry plan of the Tang Dynasty behind your back! I don't think you want to live anymore! The voice came from outside the hospital.

The people at the table looked up, and two people swaggered in from outside the courtyard, and immediately one was Li Shen, the secretary of Xichuan Academy, and the second was the king of Zhenshan County.

Li Shen said, "It's nothing for you to dig salt wells, Xichuan Courtyard has taken care of the salt-producing pavilions, and there has already been a clear exemption from your Zayao." But if you conceal salt production and conceal salt taxes, this official will not be able to bear you as an official of the salt patrol institute! If you don't punish all of you for going bankrupt and sitting in prison enough, you won't be able to show the majesty of the country's law! ”

When the old man Xin and his family heard this, their faces couldn't help but change color! (To be continued.) )