Chapter 20 Outwitting Ground Rent

"Ah, the Gan family beat my master?" Sheng was slightly stunned, then jumped down from the charcoal kiln, looked at Ergua and asked anxiously, "Then is there anything wrong with my master?" Are there any injuries? ”

"Like, well, I didn't see clearly!" Ergua looked confused, handed the beehive in his hand to Shengsheng, and said: "I originally gave it to you to eat, fortunately this thing is a medicinal herb, if the old host is injured, you can give it to him to eat." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Amitabha, Amitabha!" I took the beehive with some anxiety in my life and trotted all the way down the mountain.

Liu Yuanshan said: "You run over and be careful, don't be beaten by the Gan family." After a pause, he said, "Forget it, I'll go with you." After speaking, they followed their lives and went down the mountain together.

Ergua and edamame also chased after them.

The second uncle of Mao who is opening the kiln? put his head on the ground and said to Uncle Mao: "I am familiar with this old host, I want to go and see, and the rest of the work is for the two brothers!" ”

"Yes, you go." Uncle Mao waved his hand, and Second Uncle Mao bowed down and jumped off the charcoal kiln, walking steadily down the mountain.

Liujia Village, built around the mountains and along the river, is not a dense gathering place for humans, but a handful scattered in the east and west in the middle of several cols and valleys at the foot of the bald mountain, and there are people near the water source and paddy fields.

For example, Liu Yuanshan's house is very far away from Mao's second uncle's house, and it is also far away from Wang Xiucai's house, but they all belong to the category of Liujia Village, and the Gan family, which is one kilometer away from Liu Yuanshan's house at the foot of the natural mountain, also belongs to Liujia Village.

Liujia Village is very large, but there are very few people with the surname Liu, as for why it is called Liujia Village, there is no way to verify.

Liu Yuanshan's four friends followed Uncle Mao down from the mountain, and soon arrived at the door of Gan's house, and saw the sound of people and women crying and scolding at the door, and several people couldn't help but speed up their pace.

"Everyone's here, tell me, is this still going to let people live?" A woman's voice came from inside the door: "The landlord still has three points of humanity, why are you monks so vicious, this forced rent is forced to our door, I didn't see you running to the door of someone's house when other people's families tenanted your fields before, do you see my old Gan family is so bullying?" ”

"Amitabha, female donor, you listen to the old man's explanation!" Hearing the voice of the old host, Shengsheng breathed a sigh of relief, shouted "master" and hurriedly ran over.

"Oh, this is a move to save the soldiers, you will bully people!" Liu Yuanshan squeezed into the crowd and saw a woman in her thirties sitting on the ground with her hair scattered at the door of Gan's house, her clothes were a little messy, covered with mud, and her face was white, but unfortunately there was a layer of black ash on her neck, and he felt a little like vomiting.

There was also a mud-covered seven or eight-year-old kid pulling her, shouting mother, the child was skinny, dirty as if he had never taken a bath in eight lifetimes, and his legs were still bare on this cold day, and he only wore a slightly thick shirt on his body, and he looked out of size and looked funny.

"If you force my old Gan family to die, none of us can think about it!" A tall man waved his fist and looked at the crowd with a hideous face.

The senior brother of his life is called one, he is tall but slightly thin, pulling the master's eyes red, wanting to argue twice but not good at words, he can only murmur constantly: "No, no, we didn't force you, you don't pay rent!" ”

"Look at it, look at it, it's not called forcing us!" The woman rolled and made trouble: "Our family also has no food, or we can still owe you rent, besides, it's not that we don't pay, and when this year passes, it's not worth doubling it next year!" ”

A short old lady came out of it, she was the head of the Gan family, she was on a crutch, waving it and was about to knock the old host's head, but fortunately she was persuaded by the person next to her.

The old host's face was gray, and he shook his head for a while, and he couldn't tell a reason.

Someone next to him who couldn't stand it came out and asked: "Lao Gan's family is also talking nonsense, isn't this just the autumn harvest, I saw that they hoarded a lot of grain, and his family only has a few people, why can't he even pay the rent!" ”

"yes, that's what you want to do!"

"What a shame!"

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There was a lot of discussion in the crowd, but the people of Lao Gan's family didn't seem to hear it.

The villagers are just talking, no one comes forward to help the temple out, after all, in addition to a few women, girls and children, Lao Gan's family also has three big laborers, and ordinary people really have to suffer if they go up.

"I haven't met you like this before, and we won't give you the field tenants in our temple next year!" He raised his little hand and pointed at the old woman of the Gan family and said.

"What do you say?" A few men from the Gan family next to him were unhappy: "Don't point to my mother, we have already planted this land, why don't you rent it next year?" At that time, it was promised that I would plant for five years, and it was only two years. ”

"You, you!" I couldn't speak in anger all my life.

Second Uncle Mao also shook his head, this matter is really tricky!

He alone is enough to bring down the entire Gan family, but in this way, it is inevitable that he will fall into the mouth, after all, the monks of the temple do not want to increase their sins, and the Gan family is indeed a poor family, and it is easy to leave hidden dangers if it is not handled well.

"Senior brother, what should I do?" One looked at one, and one shook his head.

The old host sighed and said, "Amitabha, let him go!" "I don't want to fight too much.

"But the temple is about to run out of food." An urgent.

"Amitabha, old host!" Liu Yuanshan suddenly bowed to the old host, looked indifferent in the surprised eyes of the villagers, and asked, "If there is no food in the temple, what is the master's preparation?" ”

"Alas!" The old host shook his head and sighed, and said, "It doesn't matter if the old man is old, it's just that the two disciples are pitiful." Speaking of this, he looked up at the surrounding villagers and said loudly: "In the future, I hope that the donors will help him and leave a way for the two of them to live." ”

Everyone was silent, and they all understood that the host was afraid that he would die on his own, and before he died, he would explain the aftermath, and let everyone give more porridge and rice when his own disciples begged in the future.

When the Gan family heard that the temple was not entangled, their hearts began to be happy, and even the woman sitting on the ground got up, thinking that not only did they not have to pay rent at this time, but it was likely that most of the thirty acres of property in the temple would fall back into their hands.

"Oops!" Liu Yuanshan pretended to be surprised, glanced at the door of Gan's house, and said, "Then the Gan family will be bad in the future!" ”

"Huh?" Everyone looked at Liu Yuanshan and asked: Didn't the Gan family get benefits? How could something go wrong?

Gan Laosan stood up, pointed at Liu Yuanshan and said, "Little baby of the Liu family, don't be unbelievable, believe it or not, Uncle Gan, I'll beat you first." ”

"Don't believe it!" Liu Yuanshan looked calm, pointed to the sky above and said, "There are gods three feet above your head!" When Emperor Taizu became a monk in Huangjue Temple, he finally got the blessing of the Buddha because of his good deeds, and only then did he get our Daming country. ”

Hearing such high-profile words, Gan Laosan suddenly shivered for no reason, and his neck shrank back.

Liu Yuanshan saw it in his eyes and smiled in his heart, and continued: "As we all know, now there are only these three masters left in Qianning Temple, if they are forced to go to the industry by the Gan family, it will inevitably make the Buddhas in the temple be greatly neglected, and no one will clean the temple and wipe the statues of the gods. ”

"This ......" the Gan family couldn't help but shudder!

Everyone began to coax, "Naturally, they will blame the Gan family." ”

"That's, I can't tell when a thunderstorm rolls ......"

"You don't need the thunder to roll, a fire from the sky can cut off his family."

The ancients may not have been mentally retarded, but most of them were superstitious and convinced!

Gan Laosan was still hesitating, but the old lady with a crutch over there began to feel furious, and a crutch knocked on the buttocks of Gan's daughter-in-law, scolding: "You are the one who killed a thousand knives, get back for me." He yelled at Gan Laosan again: "Don't go and get food for the old host." ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Gan Laosan is not only afraid of the old lady, but also afraid of God.

"Send the masters to the mountains!" The old lady added again, and turned back to the house.

One person outside the door and his life breathed a sigh of relief, and also looked at Liu Yuanshan with gratitude, while Second Uncle Mao looked at him with a smile and said, "Okay, you kid." ”