At dawn, they were worried about carrying hoes and preparing to rush back, and just arrived at the entrance of the market, they found a blank piece of paper nailed to the big tree on the side of the road.

The young junior climbed the branch to pull out the plum blossom dart, took down the note and handed it to the literate to see, it was written: Take 1,000 taels of silver to Bamiao Mountain to change people within three days.

Eight Temple Mountain? Isn't this the lair of Yao Huang's star Liang Leopard? Someone suddenly realized that what they encountered yesterday was not a beast-faced monster, but Yao Huangtou, who was entrenched in Bamiao Mountain.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, some bandits who wandered in northern Sichuan touched the point with a normal face for a hundred days, and at night they wore a face mask in front of everyone in the form of a monster to hide their identities and deter the people.

In the firelight, the country people suddenly found the beast-faced monster standing murderously in front of them, the timid were half frightened to death, and the bold were also frightened.

Now say that last night's beast-faced human monster was a local tyrant pretending, the timid don't believe in their eyes, and the bold are also scared, I don't know what to do.

Master Luo has been a scribe in the state for several years, of course, his knowledge is different from everyone else, at first he heard that it was a monster with a beast face and a human body who robbed the son, and now he saw the other party leave a note, of course he knew the relationship.

Master Luo cried and said to everyone: "I, Luo Jiatan, have been an official for more than ten years, and I don't think I have done anything hurtful, who would have thought that I would encounter such a catastrophe when I was old."

Although there was a slight accumulation of savings in the past, how could he raise so many silver taels in a moment and a half, this heavenly star really doesn't want anyone to live. ”

Although everyone even claimed to be on the surface, they pondered in their hearts that Luo Jiatan had been in charge of the household administration of a county for more than ten years, and had accumulated a lot of savings, if he couldn't take out the silver taels, who would be able to take out the silver taels?

Although Luo Jiatan is not the largest landlord within a radius of twenty or thirty miles, he also has more than 300 acres of land, and now although the world is disturbing the land is worthless, no matter what, one acre of land is worth ten taels of silver, and Luo Jiaguang can buy three thousand taels of silver for his land.

In addition to land, there are also shops, and the Luo family has three or five shops in the county seat and the surrounding markets, which can also sell thousands of taels of silver.

Everyone sighed and looked embarrassed, and the whole scene looked quite embarrassing.

This is a bad worry for the fifth aunt who is hiding on the side, this is his only son, the mother is expensive by the son, if this son is gone, his status in the family will plummet.

snatched it out of the back hall, and the fifth aunt cried too much: "It's all this time, the master is still stingy with these silver taels, doesn't it make everyone laugh?"

If you really can't do it, you can buy a few shops in the city, and if you can't do it, you can sell dozens of acres of land, and you have to scrape together the money that the local tyrants want anyway. ”

was snatched away by his aunt's wife, Luo Jiatan coughed desperately, and arched his hand around with a flushed face: "Everyone, I, Luo Jiatan, am old and have a son, and this only child has always been like a baby."

Madame is right, destroying the family and relieving the difficulties, no matter how bad it is, even if it is not good, it is not necessary to sell the ancestral property, so everyone does not have to worry about this silver or something.

But this Yao Huang is brutal and easy to kill, and has no reputation, the old man is worried that even if he gathers the money that the local tyrant wants, if the other party does not let him go, he doesn't know what to do at that time? ”

Everyone shook their heads again and again when they heard this, although the shops in the market had also traveled from south to north, but everyone didn't dare to provoke the local riots.

Seeing that everyone was silent and unassertive, the shopkeeper Liu of the teahouse touched his head and said, "Master Luo, if you don't send someone to find Yang Lin and Yang Xiucai in Yangjiazhai, or if he has any good way, he can't say it maybe." ”

Luo Jiatan shook his head again and again when he heard this: "But Yangjiazhai, ten miles to the north, where the villagers are particularly strong, and some people even rumor that their ancestors once fought against the Mongolian Tatars in the ancient city of Yunshan for decades, and later lived incognito in this mountain village because of the traitor's betrayal and failure.

In the past two years, there were a few ignorant officials who were injured by the villagers, but it was the old man who came forward to mediate that it didn't make a big fuss. ”

Shopkeeper Liu arched his arch and said: "Old Luo, the local people are fierce, but what I want to recommend is Yang Lin and Yang Ruzhen, the tribute students of the village." ”

Thinking of the confrontation between the villagers and the officials that day, Luo Jiatan shook his head and said: "Oh, this Yang Lin Yang Ruzhen is only twenty years old, but he is a weak scholar, how can he convince the public?"

If the old man is not mistaken, he should be a Xiucai in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Chongzhen participated in the township examination in the fifteenth year and was selected as a tribute student, but I heard that he had no money to study in the provincial capital Gongyuan and returned to the township.

This time, dealing with the local thugs is indispensable, how can he deal with this kind of thing?"

In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination system developed to a peak, if you want to become famous in the imperial examination, you need to go through a small examination (including the county examination, the government examination, the hospital examination), the big examination (the township examination, the meeting examination, the palace examination), only those who pass the imperial examination can become a showman, if the imperial examination is not the first, even the gray-haired old man is only a child.

The township examination will be the palace examination is the real imperial examination, as long as the people who are promoted in the township examination can come out to be officials.

And this tribute student is an excellent tribute student who has a good score in the township examination but has a limited number of admission places and is given a certain political and economic status (5 buckets of rice per month).

This is like the county of Pengzhou Yiguo, there is a state college, and there are 30 tribute students. (This quota is fixed every month as in addition to Western University professors)

This Luojiabao is the only bazaar within a radius of thirty miles, although there are one or two tribute students, but Yang Lin is really unique in high school tribute students who are only twenty years old.

Shopkeeper Liu smiled, shook his head and said: "This is what you look down on the other party, Yangjiazhai is backed by the mountains, many people are busy farming and farming, and go to the mountains to hunt. ”

The surrounding villagers didn't have any ideas, but now they applauded loudly when they heard the shopkeeper Liu of the hotel say so.

A dead horse is a live horse doctor, Luo Jiatan has no other way but to beg the shopkeeper Liu to invite.

Liu Bei invited Zhuge Liang to look at the thatched house, although the countrymen did not pay attention to anything else, but if they asked someone to do something and invite someone to go out of the mountain, they must also be in the battle.

Shopkeeper Liu led the way in front, two strong men followed closely with sliding rods, and the group rushed to Yangjiazhai ten miles away.

More than a mile away from the village, I saw several farmers shouting and chasing a wild deer, one carrying a quiver on his back, shooting at the limbs of the wild deer from afar, and the wild deer limped forward desperately.

Shopkeeper Liu waved his hand and smiled: "Yang Wei, why did you stinky boy not grow up like this, and you couldn't even shoot a wild deer, this is too missed." ”

Shopkeeper Liu is the main customer of mountain goods, these hunters used to see Shopkeeper Liu nodding their heads, today this Yang Wei didn't care at all just shot arrows at the wild deer in the running, and finally shot several arrows into the front legs of the wild deer.

Before the wild deer could run a few steps, the slightly smaller Yang Cheng ran over, and after some tossing, he finally caught the wild deer, and several people were happily carrying the wild deer to the side of the road.

Looking at the angry shopkeeper Liu, Yang Wei apologized repeatedly: "Shopkeeper, I'm very embarrassed, I couldn't talk to you if I wanted to catch this wild deer alive just now."

Big shopkeeper, who are you going to greet with the slide rod today? ”

Looking at the wild deer limping on the ground, Shopkeeper Liu smiled, patted the other party's shoulder and said, "Of course, it's the talented man in your clan."

Yang Lin and Yang Xiucai live there, and they still hope that their brothers will lead the way. ”

When Yang Wei heard this, he took half a step back and shook his head again and again: "Shopkeeper, this, this is not good, our Xiucai Gong is very weak now."

In order to supplement the nutrition of Xiucaigong, everyone has been busy for a day and a night, just to fight a wild deer to replenish our Xiucaigong's body. ”

Shopkeeper Liu was shocked in his heart, and hurriedly asked the reason.