At the gate of the county office, Gui Wu and Mei Xiucai came out.

Mei Xiucai's footsteps were in a hurry, and he couldn't wait, so he only nodded to Gui Wu and hurried away.

Gui Wu didn't go home, but walked to the Barilla main store and found Gui Qiu, who was looking at the accounts: "The title deed has been transferred, tomorrow is Chongyang's birthday, I just want to go back, do you want to go back together?" ”

Gui Qiu said happily: "It's great to be so fast!" I'm not going back yet, but I'll have to settle accounts for a few purchases tomorrow. I asked Lilac to prepare two boxes of vegetarian snacks, and I bothered the fifth uncle to bring them back to Chongyang. ”

Gui Wu nodded in response.

When he learned that Mei Xiucai's transfer to Gui Wu was not the thirty acres he thought before, but fifty-five acres, Gui Qiu was simply stunned: "It has not been half a month in total, and it has all been exported, and this Mei Xiucai's hands are also stinky!" ”

Gui Wu smiled and said nothing, Mei Xiucai was really unlucky, the first time he lost all his two hundred taels, and the second time he was "robbed" outside the casino, there was really no way, so he had to come back to Gui Wu and borrow it again.

Because there was no other pledge, Mei Xiucai wanted to take the money immediately, so she agreed to the transfer.

As for the rules of "asking the clan relatives first, and asking the neighbors second", Mei Xiucai left them behind, and because Gui Wu bought land, he also turned a blind eye to the past.

Gui Wu did not have the meaning of "robbing while the fire was fired", Zhongtian nine taels of silver per mu, Xia Tian four taels of silver per mu, said slightly higher than the current price, forty-five acres of Zhongtian, ten acres of Xiatian, fifty-five acres of land, a total of four hundred and forty-five taels of silver.

Because Mei Xiucai had already taken three hundred and fifty taels before, Gui Wu gave another ninety-five taels, and Gui Wu bore the silver and sales tax for the red deed.

Even Mei Xiucai felt sorry for the field, and he also had to read Gui Wu's business "kindness" in his heart.

In addition to being happy that he has more land, Guiqiu is mainly happy that he can let go of his hands and feet in the future and "repay" Du Lizheng.

*

Mujia Village, Du House.

Duri was returning from the West Market Town with a gloomy face, and when he came back, he sat in the hall and luckily.

When Li was worried about his son's schooling, he hurriedly served tea and asked in a low voice, "Master, but the conversation didn't go well?" If it really doesn't work, forget it, the county school is tight, and the seventh can't keep up, or don't bother, let him go to Yuan's house to go to school! ”

Du Li was serving the tea and drank it all in one gulp, Fang Chang exhaled and said, "I want to forget it, I'm afraid it won't work, the other party is coming for me." Hmph, I really pinched it when I was a soft persimmon and wanted to buy our family's 800 acres of land! ”

The land on the surface of Duri's house is 800 acres.

The other party was sufficient, and he disdained to talk to Du Lizheng, a rich man in the countryside, so he directly sent the housekeeper to come forward and stopped the class in Du Qi County School.

I originally thought that Du Li would find it immediately, but I didn't expect this delay to be more than half a month.

The other party was consciously swept away, and the tone of the steward became bigger and bigger.

The Du family is all in the field, and the current price per mu can be worth eight or nine taels of one mu, but the steward did not mention buying it, but let Du Li take the field to "take refuge".

This "refuge" became a tenant under the name of the master's family, and Du Lizheng was not crazy, so he naturally refused, and the result was unhappy.

The other party said cruel words, saying that Du Li was not knowing how to lift and wanted to teach him a lesson.

Dury has been smooth sailing for all these years, and he hasn't encountered such a mallet for a long time, so he naturally thinks it's funny.

This is Tongzhou, the land of Zhili, if the powerful buy land by force, then the people will already be in chaos. I don't know whose second fool this is in charge of the house, so he will go on a rampage like this.

Douri was not afraid, but in the end he was upset.

In the early years, he settled in Tongzhou because it was in the north, and there were many remote outsiders, so it was not eye-catching. Now Tongzhou is lively.

Li Shi was uneasy: "Master, what if the other party is an official?" ”

The Du family spoke in Mujia Village, but it was only Mujia Village.

Du Li Zheng frowned and said: "The other party just wants to buy land, it may not have to be our family, the Lin family is also a big family, there are six or seven hundred acres of land under their name, leading them to find the Lin family." ”

When Li heard this, he couldn't help but hesitate.

The Lin family has no grievances with their own family, isn't this too unkind? However, thinking of the Du family's 800 acres of land, which will be their son's in the future, the Li family immediately left the uncomfortable in his heart behind.

Duri was speaking clearly, but he was also embarrassed in his heart.

The previous county order was fed by the Du family, so it was naturally convenient to act everywhere; Today's county order is new last year, where do you know which one he Du Zhong is?

Now not only has the county order changed, but the grain chief of Xiji has also changed.

Du Li is able to use the summer and autumn taxes to embarrass the Gui family, and the above can also rely on this to embarrass him. Therefore, Duri was extremely careful, and at the beginning of September, he asked the arrangers to start collecting the autumn tax at the village temple.

"Is there any movement on the Gui family's side? No excuse to find the seventh child to intercede? "Dury is right.

Li snorted lightly: "I didn't come, according to me, it's not a good one." bewitched Lao Qi when he was a good friend, but he may not take Lao Qi to heart. Lao Qi didn't go to the village school today, and he didn't come to ask. ”

Du Li Zheng picked the corner of his mouth and said: "The Gui family prides itself on relying on it, I want to see how long this reliance can be relied on." ”

A few days ago, a letter came from Nanjing, and Du Li was getting the news that the imperial mausoleum was going to build a mausoleum for several late imperial concubines, and he was going to be sent out of labor in the vicinity of Zhili.

Didn't the Gui family rely on Gui Wu to shake up? Gui Wu also wants to read and dream! Then "draw salary from the bottom of the kettle" and draw Gui Wu to repair the emperor's mausoleum. When I got there, there were more places where I could do my hands and feet, and when the time came, I would see how arrogant the Gui family would be in the future.

The Gui family was on the list of "tax arrears", and the yamen was spending some money, so they didn't believe that Gui Wu couldn't be sent to repair the emperor's mausoleum.

Duri was smiling proudly, squinting his eyes, wondering if he should do something about the autumn tax as well.

*

In the village ancestral hall, although Du Li is not there, several village elders are there.

This payment of autumn grain is a big deal, and with the Gui family's "tax arrears" in front, everyone is afraid that something will go wrong, so they are all asked to watch carefully. In addition to paying grain for his own family, he also urged his family to pay early.

The common people are most afraid of the government, unless it is a natural or man-made disaster that cannot afford to pay taxes, there are few who dare to owe taxes. Those who really dare to do the work of the government and do not pay agricultural taxes in arrears are all large grain growers.

Since the first day of September, the village ancestral hall began to collect agricultural taxes, and seven or eight days have passed, and many people have been paid intermittently.

In other villages, such as Li Facai, a scoundrel family has to delay payment; But because it is Du Lizheng in Mujia Village, he has little friendship with each family, and he forced two families to go away because of tax arrears, and the rest of the families have a long memory, and they pay early every time they collect taxes.

This year is no exception, as far as half of the agricultural tax has been collected today, and there are still a few households that have not paid it, and they have also come to say hello, either drying grain, or not grinding rice, that is, the work of the past few days.

Even the Gui family paid the autumn tax as early as the first day of junior high school.

But there is one exception, which is the Lin family.

The Lin family pays early every year, but this year there has been no movement.

The news was reported to Du Li Zheng here, and Du Li Zheng frowned and said: "This Lin family has always been paid early, what does it mean this year?" Is this to show the Gui family? ”

Over the years, the Du family and the Lin family have been well water in the village and do not interfere with river water, but in fact, the two families are not without suspicion.

At that time, the Gui family sold land in three rooms, and "Donggui" relied on Du Li to take advantage, but others couldn't buy it, and finally the Lin family came forward to buy it.

In the two months when Gui Wu returned to his hometown, he also went to visit the Lin family, which made Du Li Zheng a thorn in his heart.

Now that he is being targeted on his own land, Du Li is already planning to push the Lin family into trouble.

"Hmph, I don't know what to do, but I deserve it!" Du Li was thinking like this, and he was only happy about the Lin family's late payment of agricultural taxes.

*

The next day, Gui's room.

When Gui Chongyang opened his eyes, he noticed something on the pillow, rubbed his eyes and saw that it was a new set of clothes and a pair of new shoes. He was still confused in his heart, thinking that it was because of the change of seasons, so he didn't think much about it, and changed it directly, but it just fitted.

When he came out to wash, Gui Chongyang thanked Mei.

Mei said: "There is nothing to give you, so I will prepare a set of clothes for you." The shoes were sewn by your cousin. ”

Gui Chongyang thanked Mei Duo again.

Mei Duo smiled and said, "Eat longevity noodles in the morning and make dumplings with mushroom fillings in the evening." ”

Hearing the words "longevity noodles", Gui Chongyang remembered that today was the Double Ninth Festival and his birthday, so it was no wonder that Mei's aunt and nephew prepared clothes and shoes for him. Because his birthday is the day of his mother's sacrifice, he has not had a birthday yet, so he can't help but be a little strange.

After eating a fragrant longevity noodle, Gui Chongyang and Mei Xiaoba went to school.

*

At ten o'clock in the morning, Gui Wu entered Mujia Village in a carriage. When passing by the village ancestral hall, I heard the bustling chaos in front of me.

Gui Wu stopped the carriage and picked up the curtain to look.

I saw a few village elders with gloomy faces, stopping a few young people, not knowing what to say.

After a while, Duri was black-faced, and a few helpers arrived.

The corners of Gui Wu's mouth were raised, and the carriage curtain was lowered, and the carriage was ordered to move on.