Xiji Town is so big, Yang Yinzhu was in the casino a few days ago, and naturally he met Mei Xiucai.

Mei Xiucai was so focused on the gambling table that she didn't pay attention; Yang Yinzhu had just gotten involved in gambling and was not so attentive, but he didn't come forward to get closer.

Speaking of which, the two are of the same age, Gui, Mei, Yang, and Li are also close to each other, and they all played together when they were children, but they are getting older, one is a bastard who does not learn and has no skills, and the other is a scholar who is dedicated to the imperial examination.

Even at this moment, Yang Yinzhu also despised Mei Xiucai in his heart, and he was faintly complacent.

Is gambling good? For other people, they have already lost 20 taels of silver in betting, and they have reached the point of selling land, so they have to think about returning to their original capital, and there are still more than 20 taels of silver left in their left and right pockets, and the capital is ready-made.

But Yang Yinzhu is not, he usually is a bastard, but he acts simply, knowing that gambling is a bottomless pit, so he stopped, although he felt sorry for the twenty taels of silver he lost, but he also knew that he would fall deeper.

Mei Xiucai was obviously red-eyed by gambling, so he thought about coming to the pawnshop to pledge, which was also a fluke in his heart, and he had the idea of redeeming it back to his roots, but he didn't want to think about what to do if he lost again.

At this moment, Mei Xiucai had already made a decision, took a long breath, and raised her feet to the pawnshop.

"Mei Xianggong, no!" Yang Yinzhu's eyes rolled, and he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

Mei Xiucai paused, turned her head, recognized it as Yang Yinzhu, and said a little impatiently: "It's Yang Er, what's the matter with calling me?" ”

Yang Yinzhu showed concern, glanced at the pawnshop in front of him, and said, "Mei Xianggong is in trouble?" ”

Mei Xiucai immediately became a little vigilant, held Xiucaigong's shelf, raised her chin, frowned, and said, "What's the matter with you?" ”

Yang Yinzhu was tired in his heart, if he didn't want to use this to tie up Gui Wu and take advantage of Gui Wu's relationship, he wouldn't bother to pay attention to Mei Xiucai.

The Mei family has now changed the lintel, and it is said to be a "scholarly door", but in the first twenty or thirty years, there was no difference from the Gui, Yang, and Li families, and they were all shaved in the soil. Therefore, Yang Yinzhu can see clearly that this Mei Xiucai owes gambling debts, and all he can make up his mind is the title deed.

Mei Xiucai has a fame, and there is a tax-free field under her name, so it is not difficult to get a title deed.

The Gui family is seeing the days of life, but the foundation is in Mujia Village, and there are not a few acres of land under their name, so it is time to buy land. Yang Yinzhu planned to use Mei Xiucai's land to make a name and get on Gui Wu's boat.

As for Mei Xiucai, who only wants to pledge at present, and has no plans to sell land, then don't be afraid, as long as Mei Xiucai continues to gamble, there will always be a time to sell land.

"Mei Xianggong, this is the pawnshop of the Hong family, have you forgotten the nickname of Master Hong?" Yang Yinzhu whispered.

Mr. Hong is the richest man in the town, and two daughters-in-law died in a row in the family, and the third one was married two months ago.

Now the people in the town are waiting to see how long this third daughter-in-law can live in the Hong family. The first two were hanged the next day after passing the door, and the other was beaten to death by her mother-in-law with a belly that lasted for half a year. I didn't want to wait for two months, but it was calm and there was no news coming out.

Master Hong, nicknamed "Pixiu", has always been a master who only enters but does not leave.

The black things that the Hong family pawnshop has done are not one or two, and the matter of robbing the heirlooms of the secret family has to be passed on every three or five times.

Mei Xiucai is only betting on the title deed, not a treasure, but now that the land price in Tongzhou is expensive, he can make double the profit with his backhand, and the Hong family will let it go if he gets the title deed?

Mei Xiucai was bent on turning the book before, forgetting this stubble, but now that she thinks about it, she can't help but be afraid for a while. If this title deed is really pledged in the Hong family's pawnshop, it will be a big loss.

If he was someone else, he was reminded once, and he couldn't help but be grateful, but Mei Xiucai couldn't help but be annoyed and angry, looking at Yang Yinzhu's face was not good.

Yang Yinzhu greeted Mei Xiucai's dead wife in his heart, and said with a smile on his face: "Mei Xianggong is busy, I'll go first." With that, he turned and left.

Mei Xiucai only saw Yang Yinzhu's back, so naturally she couldn't see the contempt on Yang Yinzhu's face, and her lips opened slightly, silently counting.

is also addicted to gambling for a while, Mei Xiucai fell deeper and deeper, unable to extricate herself, and because of her gambling debts, the whole person was very gloomy and irritable; Yang Yinzhu is here, but he is lost, plus he is envious of the good business of Baiwei Xiang Food Shop, and he is bent on finding a rich business, and he has silver in his pocket, so he is also a little more energetic.

There is also "people rely on clothes, Buddha relies on gold", Yang Yinzhu has been messing around in the town for a few days, and he has not returned to the village, so he directly spent 200 yuan from the clothing appraisal store to buy a new silk coat, which looks decent.

Just when Yang Yinzhu silently counted to "five", he heard Mei Xiu behind him speak: "Yang Er, stay!" ”

Yang Yinzhu smiled proudly, and only turned around when he smiled, and said casually: "Mei Xianggong has something to do?" ”

Mei Xiucai frowned and said, "You have always walked around the town, do you know what else you can pledge?" ”

There are three pawnshops in the town, with different guises on the outside, but they are actually all bought and sold by the Hong family. The Mei family knew the help of the Hong family, and they happened to know this inside story, so naturally they would not bump into the other two pawnshops.

Yang Yinzhu hesitated for a moment and said: "Mei Xianggong, this world is as black as a crow, but anyone who is involved with the pledge pawn will be stripped of a layer of skin later." According to me, Mei Xianggong pledged it to outsiders, so it is better to go to Du Lizheng. The Du family calls slaves and maids, and they are the most not short of money, and they are Mei Xianggong's family, so they will not cheat people. ”

When Mei Xiucai heard this, she became more and more irritable.

Who doesn't know that the Du family is rich, but the previous lawsuit of two hundred taels has not been concluded, how dare he send it to the door?

At that time, Duri was suspicious and sent someone to the town to investigate, so he couldn't hide his gambling addiction.

"The Du family's side can't do it!" Mei Xiucai frowned and said: "I have something to do with silver, a total of two or three hundred taels of silver, the time is more urgent, I want to use the land deed as a mortgage to move, just use it in these two days, if you have a way to help me find it, I won't let you be busy in vain, if it is done, I will send you two taels of silver as a thank you gift!" ”

Although there is a stingy old man, Mei Xiucai often walks around the town, and it is inevitable that the scholars will eat and drink among themselves, but he is not a tight hand, so Mei Xiucai happily promised.

Yang Yinzhu has more than 20 taels of silver in his pocket, which is naturally not rare, but he still makes a little bit of excitement on his face, and says: "If Mei Xianggong asks something else, I, Yang Er, am not easy to say, if you want to talk about the way to use money, there is just one." ”

Mei Xiucai was desperate, so she opened her mouth with a hint of hope, but she didn't expect that there was really a play, and immediately said: "What way?" ”

Yang Yinzhu said: "It is estimated that Mei Xianggong was negligent, in addition to the Du family in the village, there is a ready-made rich man in the town." ”

Mei Xiucai didn't expect Gui Wu for a while, only when Yang Yinzhu mentioned the Lin family, she frowned and said: "The Lin family has never walked around with the people in the village, can you catch up with his family?" But it was questioning, and there was a bit of contempt in his tone.

Yang Yinzhu snorted coldly in his heart, but said kindly on his face: "It's not his family, it's Gui Wu of the Gui family, who opened three shops in the town a few days ago, and the business is thriving." ”

Yang Yinzhu took people back to the village, and he didn't hide it, but no one thought that he would sell land. The Gui family is not ostentatious, and the father and son of the Yang family are not loose-mouthed, and no one knew that Yang Yinzhu's eight acres of land had changed hands for a while.

Although Yang Yinzhu wanted to coax Mei Xiucai to sell the land, he hid the fact that his family had sold the land to the Gui family.

Mei Xiucai's face is ugly, who is Gui Wu? It's his ex-brother-in-law, how can he be willing to lose face in front of Gui Wu?

Yang Yinzhu was not in a hurry, looked up at the sky, and said: "It's time for dinner, if Mei Xianggong appreciates his face, let's go to Barilla to see and see." ”

Mei Xiucai wanted to throw off her sleeves and leave, but seeing that Yang Yinzhu looked at ease, thinking that "cats have cat paths, mice have rat paths", I can't say that there is still a place to use Yang Yinzhu, and I am really hungry in my stomach, so I nodded reluctantly.

When she arrived at the Baiwei Xiang Food Shop, Mei Xiucai saw that the shop was not big, and she didn't think so, but after half an hour of eating, she saw several groups of guests changing at the table next door.

Yang Yinzhu asked for braised pork and meat buns, and while eating, he was calculating the profits, and he couldn't help but be speechless. He also knows his own weight, he doesn't have such a big capital, and he can't afford such a deal, but he wants to borrow a fortune.

Mei Xiucai is not so ignorant of the world, and since he can see the prosperity of this shop, he is moved by Yang Yinzhu's previous proposal.

Gui Wu has money, so he borrowed money from Gui Wu?

Mei Xiucai fell into hesitation, her expression changed and struggled.

Yang Yinzhu saw it in his eyes, sandwiched a chopsticks of pig's head meat, and felt that the taste was more fragrant.

*

In Mujia Village, the millet that was dried before has dried thoroughly.

Taking advantage of the fine weather on this day, the Gui family gathered in the second room to make millet seeds.

Because the long house now has Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba, both of them are half the size of the child, when the amount of food is large, Gui Er's grandfather will mainly give the small two stone millet of the two acres of land in the long house to the long house.

Mei refused to break the rules, and said: "Second uncle, one sum is one sum, this account can't be calculated like this, and Chun'er can't be burdened." Besides, there are more than these two acres, that is, the new eight acres, and next year it will still depend on Chun'er, or according to the old rules. ”

According to the old rules, the harvest is divided in half, and the long house is responsible for the agricultural tax itself.

Second Grandpa Gui wanted to say more, and Gui Chongyang also followed: "Second Grandpa, let's follow what my aunt said, if the rations are really not enough, come and get food, will the second grandfather still stop you from borrowing it?" ”

This is also millet seeds, the taste is soft and sweet, and when it is sorghum, Gui Chongyang doesn't want a catty.

Gui's second grandfather stopped being verbose because of the insistence of his aunt and nephew, and asked Gui Chun: "Did the village say when will the autumn tax be paid?" ”

Gui Chun said: "The summer tax in these two days must be made up before the end of the month." The autumn tax must be paid from the beginning of September! ”

When it comes to agricultural taxes, it is Duri who is in charge.

Over the years, Du Li has not embarrassed the Gui family on the surface, but the Gui family will always have such and such troubles when paying agricultural taxes.

Gui Chongyang remembered another thing and asked, "Big brother, after paying the agricultural tax, is it time to take the service?" ”

After the busy farming, in the winter leisure time, the local staff is responsible for building roads, building bridges, dredging rivers and other engineering things.

There is no Cheng Ding in the Gui family's room, and the drawing does not involve the Gui family's room, but the Gui family's second room, Gui Er's grandfather, Gui Wu, and Gui Chun's three Cheng Ding, are unavoidable.