On the first day of the winter month, Dai Kui and Chen Caozhi left Xie's manor together, and the two said goodbye at the small ferry under Cao'e Pavilion. ”

Chen Caozhi said: "Or at the end of the month, or at the beginning of the month, I will definitely visit Mr." ”

Dai Kui said with a smile: "Don't learn from that prince, I can't see Dai when I visit Dai on a snowy night." "Smile and say goodbye.

Chen Caozhi and Ran Sheng galloped quickly, and it didn't take half an hour to rush to Dongguan Town, Xiaochan and others were already waiting for it, and immediately hit the road together.

Xiaochan said: "Xiao Langjun, today is your birthday, let the store prepare leek leaf water cakes when you rest at noon." ”

Ran Sheng said: "Brother and I have already eaten water cakes in the Xie family's manor. ”

Xiao Chanxi said: "It was Zhu Langjun who ordered someone to prepare, Zhu Langjun has a heart." ”

Ran Sheng glanced at Chen Cao, and said in his heart: "Previously, the Xie clan was guarding Cao'e Pavilion, saying that Zhu Langjun ordered him to wait there, and when my brother and I arrived at the village, it was said that Zhu Langjun went to Zhujiazhuang, which is really strange!" Zhu Langjun is not in the village, but the lady of the Xie family is in the village, I remember that at the beginning of the year in Jiankang Wuyi Lane, that Daoyun lady asked Brother Ah to help her talk - Brother said that Zhu Langjun has a special identity, what kind of special law is it? ”

Ran Sheng faintly thought of something, and felt that this was too unbelievable, and then thought about Zhu Langjun's appearance and physique, and his words and deeds on weekdays, Ran Sheng was sure that he was not wrong, Zhu Langjun was a woman, as for whether it was Dao Yun Niangzi, he was not sure-

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration, Ran Sheng remembered that Mr. Dai Andao said that Xie Daoyun had learned drums and painting from him, and it was for this reason that Zhu Langjun didn't dare to come out to see Mr. Dai!

Chen Caozhi saw that Ran Sheng's face was different, and asked, "Xiao Sheng, what's wrong?" ”

Ran Sheng said: "It's nothing. Playing the horse, he thought: "Looking at it like this, the Xie girl must also like Brother, and she disguised herself as a woman to follow Brother, does Brother want to marry two?" It seems difficult, it's hard to marry one, let alone two! Although the Xie girl's talent is not weaker than that of a man, it is better for Brother Ah to marry Lu Xiaoniang-"

Ran Sheng is smart, and after knowing his life experience, he is much deeper and more studious, Chen Cao knew that Ran Sheng had guessed Xie Daoyun's identity, his brows furrowed slightly, and he thought: "It's nothing to be known by Xiao Sheng, but Brother Yingtai will inevitably be seen by more people in the future, which is a troublesome thing." ”

As soon as the group left the Dongguan Town, a Xie clan hurried over on horseback: "Chen Langjun - Chen Langjun's horse is too fast, the villain is chasing all the way, my family Langjun asks you to wait, she came quickly." ”

Dai Kui returned to Yan County, and Xie Daoyun could set off, Chen Caozhi originally thought that Xie Daoyun would come a day later.

Chen Caozhi said to the Xie clan: "You go back and report to your family Langjun, I'll just walk slowly." ”

Half an hour later, Xie Daoyun arrived on horseback with two of her subordinates, her ox cart and retinue still behind.

Everyone hurried up, and when they arrived at Shanyin County, it was already night, and it was dark, but they saw two people coming out of the county post, it was Jing Nu and Lai Zhen, Chen Caozhi was taken aback, thinking that something had happened in Chen Jiawu, and hurriedly asked what happened to Lai Zhen?

Lai Zhen said: "Xiao Langjun, today is your birthday, the young master's mother sent me and the two of us to send you winter clothes and new shoes." ”

Chen Caozhi asked, "Has my sister-in-law come back from Huating?" ”

Lai Zhen said: "The young master's mother only returned from visiting Lu Xiaoniang from Huating the day before yesterday, and immediately ordered me and Uncle Jing to come to Shanyin to see Xiao Langjun, as well as the gifts and letters that Lu Xiaoniang gave to Xiao Langjun. ”

Chen Caozhi returned to the post house to praise the winter clothes sewn by Ding Youwei for Chen Caozhi, and presented Lu Weirui's letters and birthday gifts, Lu Weirui gave a pair of jade, made of high-quality mutton fat jade, white and flawless, crystal clear.

Lu Weirui was obviously very happy in the letter, saying that Ding's sister-in-law was really overjoyed to see her, and she also saw Run'er, Run'er was extremely cute, and hoped that Chen Langjun would be able to see her again when he entered Beijing next year-

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The next morning, Chen Caozhi and Xie Daoyun went to meet Dai Shu, the history of Huiji, and said that they had met Mr. Dai Andao in Dongshan. According to Chen Caozhi's facts, Dai Shu pondered for a moment and said: "Shu Ning Gong concentrates on writing history books, when he knows the reasons for the rise and fall of the past dynasties and the family, there should be a decision. ”

When Jun Cheng Lu Yu learned that Chen Caozhi came back empty-handed, he thought that Chen Caozhi had hit a wall in Yu Pre, so he laughed secretly, he wanted to see what else Chen Caozhi could do?

On the afternoon of the third day of Chen Caozhi's return to Shanyin on November 3, Yu Xiao's father asked to see Dai Zhijun, and Chen Caozhi was also present at that time. ”

Yu Xiao's father entered the county office, and after meeting Dai Neishi, he greeted Chen Caozhi and Xie Daoyun respectively, and said to Chen Caozhi: "Brother Chen, the ancient Su Qin and Zhang Yi are not as good as Brother Chen. After that, he ordered his subordinates to present a stack of books and said: "This is part of my Yu family's family register, here are 700 household books, together with the 300 hidden households handed over before, the Yuyao Yu family will hand over 1,000 households in this land break." ”

Chen Caozhi arched his hand and said: "Brother Yu is tired." ”

Dai Shu was overjoyed, the Yu family, the largest family in Huiji County, handed over seven hundred hidden households at once, and when the news spread, the Huiji Shishu clan did not dare to hesitate anymore and wait and see, and after half a month, the county handed over the hidden households in an endless stream -

Less than a moment when Yu Xiao's father handed over the book, Lu Jiao knew the news, and he was so angry that he ordered the little official to invite Yu Xiao's father to see him, and Yu Xiao's father went to the county office to see Lu Jiao, Lu Xiao's face was gloomy, and he held back his anger and asked: "Uncle Ling should have received my book, why did your sect act without authorization, and where did you ignore the other scholars?" ”

Yu Xiao's father is also a very arrogant person, how can he bear Lu Yu's tone of teaching, and said: "Lu Juncheng, my Yu clan is the largest clan in this county, the Hui Ji Shishu are all staring at my Yu clan, and the two earth envoys are also staring at my Yu clan, the king of Pengcheng was detained with fifty escapes, how dare my Yu clan obstruct the soil break?" If you really want to make a big incident, can Lu Juncheng have a strategy to protect my Yu family? "Father Yu Xiao is ridiculing Lu Yu for not being able to protect his henchman Zhang Lun.

Lu Jiao's face turned blue with anger, and he said angrily: "The interests of my Jiangzuo clan are all buried by cowards such as you!" ”

Father Yu Xiao sneered: "Let's see how the domineering Lu clan deals with himself in this earth break!" Leave. ”

After Yu Xiao's father left, Lu Li paced back and forth in the hall, and ordered someone to ask He Zhu and Wei Bo to discuss.

At noon, He Zhu and Wei Bo came to Lu Li's apartment successively, and listened to Lu Zhu talk about the Yu family's handover of 700 hidden households, He Zhu was shocked and angry, but Wei Bo remained silent.

Lu Jiao told He Zhu and Wei Bomo to panic, now there are still twenty days before the deadline for review, and they will be able to come up with countermeasures within these twenty days, and the Huiji clan must not bow to Chen Caozhi, and the Yu family will definitely regret handing over so many hermits.

Wei Boweiwei, seeing that Lu Yu had nothing else to do, he left first.

After Wei Bo left, He Zhu immediately scolded Yu for being old and mediocre, and handed over 700 hermits without consulting with him in advance, which is really unreasonable!

He Zhu asked Lu Li what to do now? The day before yesterday, Lu Shi sent a letter from Jiankang, asking the Yu family, the He family, and the Wei family to slow down Chen Caozhi, and then hand over dozens of hidden households to deal with it when the deadline is approached. But now because the Yu clan has fallen to Chen Caozhi, the alliance of the Huiji clan has basically collapsed, and the time limit is urgent, so it is impossible to ask Lu Shi for countermeasures.

Lu Yu said: "Don't worry, Dao Fang, did the people you sent to Qian Tang come back?" ”

He Zhu said: "It is estimated that I should come back in the past two days, and I have been there for eight days." ”

Lu Jiao said: "If you can catch Chen Caozhi's handle, I will immediately report to my father, and my father has the right to remove Chen Caozhi." ”

He Zhu said: "I will send someone to Qian Tang again, and there will be news back in the next two days." ”

In the afternoon of the same day, the Wei family of Shanyin handed over the books of the four hundred hidden households to Chen Caozhi, and Lu Yu and He Zhu were so angry that they were dizzy, He Zhu hated and said: "Very good, now only my He family is left to support the single tree, Chen Caozhi's Yu family, Wei family, Kong family, Xie family all went to visit, only my He family is missing, it seems that I am going to take my He family's prestige." ”

Lu Jiao said: "Wu Jun Zhu's family, and my Lu family are still safe, Jia Bizhi is helpless in Wu County, the Taoist side is not in a hurry, the top priority at the moment is to collect evidence that Qian Tang Chen is a traitor." ”

He Zhu said: "I'll go back to Zhuang first, and I'll come to see you as soon as I have news." ”

In the evening of the same day, He Zhu came to Lu Li's apartment with a pawn and three villagers, who were the right-hand men sent by He Zhu to Qian Tang and rushed back from Qian Tang in the afternoon.

He Zhu asked the pawn to report the journey of Qian Tang to Lu Yu in detail, and the pawn said respectfully: "Good to teach Lu Juncheng to learn that the villain rushed to Qian Tang with these three Zhuang guests on the 26th of last month, the villain was originally a Qian Tang person, and he was quite familiar with Qian Tang, and the villain also had a cousin who was an official in the county office, and the villain's cousin learned that it was Lu Juncheng and He Sheren's trust, how dare he not do his job, that is, lead me and the other four people to visit the tenants of the original Chu family and Lu family——"

This trick also wanted to explain to Lu Li the enmity between the Qian Tang Chen family and the Chu family and the Lu family, Lu Li waved his hand and asked him: "The Chen family has changed the number of shade households before and after this land break. ”

The pawn said: "The villain knows the severity of the matter, first of all, he checked this matter, but the Qian Tang Chen family did not take advantage of this land break to expand its shade household, this point can be taken advantage of, but the Chen family only had less than 40 hectares of land three years ago, and now it has expanded to 200 hectares, the villain does not believe that there is no prohibition in this thing, immediately searched carefully, and found that many homesteaders sold their own land to the Chen family very cheaply, as for the class field, it was given to the Chen family for free, and he became the tenant of the Chen family, the villain asked those tenants, but the Tao was willing, the villain did not believe it, After many inquiries, it was the Chen family who promised those yeoman farmers that in the event of a natural disaster and famine, the Chen family would make up the land rent tax on behalf of those tenants, so that they would not go bankrupt because they could not pay the tax——"