What the? Settle the debt!

Master Ye was stunned for a moment, not understanding what was going on. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Seeing that the old man was still confused, the chief steward hurriedly reminded the master, saying that it was half a month ago that Cui Zhubo, the county master, had not made a special trip to Zhuangzi to pay off the debt.

After this reminder, Master Ye finally understood, and his face darkened when he was momentarily revealed, and said angrily: "Cui Youjiu Mo didn't take the wrong medicine and received so much money from my Ye family, why did he send someone to my Ye family to pay off the debt!" ”

The second steward, Song San, saw that the old man was very angry, and hurriedly persuaded: "Don't be angry, let's go and see, if it is someone from the county, maybe it was Cui Zhubo who sent him to go through the motions, and then send some silver to ask them to go back." ”

Hearing this, Master Ye was angry, he raised his feet and walked towards the gate, and asked the chief steward as he walked: "How many people came, who brought the three classes and six rooms?" ”

The "three classes and six rooms" in Master Ye's mouth refers to the three classes of soap, Zhuang and fast in the county, all of which are government officials. The six rooms are the offices of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers. The affairs of a county, such as catching robbers and robbers, requisitioning people and repairing workers, collecting grain and paying taxes, etc., are all done by the people of these three classes and six rooms. Usually the three classes and six rooms are all locals, and only the county order, county officer, and master are transferred from other places. Because of this, these three classes and six rooms have almost become the private land of the local gentry.

In this big family in Kunshan County, which family does not have children and nephews to work in three classes and six rooms? It is said that the iron-beaten yamen, the flowing official, but the official has changed one stubble after another, but the people in the third class and six rooms have never changed, even if they die, they are topped by their sons and nephews. It can be said that the three classes and six rooms have completely become hereditary land, and outsiders are not allowed to enter at all. When encountering a county where the gentry clan is strong, the people brought by the county may not be able to be inserted.

Master Ye asked who would lead the team in the sixth room of the third class, and he had to know the details of the other party, so it would be much easier to send people away.

The chief steward shook his head and said: "None of the dozen or so people who came are from this county, and none of the three classes and six rooms came." ”

"Not from the county? ... Why didn't the county send people? ”

Master Ye stopped, puzzled by this matter, he frowned, and ordered Song San: "You come to the tent for thirty taels of silver." No matter where you come from, even when you get to my Yejiazhuang, you have to send some. Hmph, as the old saying goes, the king of Hades is good, but the little ghosts are difficult, these little ghosts may come to my Yejiazhuang to fight the autumn wind by paying off the debt, otherwise no one in the county came. ”

"Hey, let's go for the little ones."

Song San responded, turned around and was about to go to the account room to pay the silver, didn't run two steps, and heard the old man stop him, hesitated before saying: "No, thirty taels is a little less, why did the other party come to more than ten people, we can't be careless, I think... It's better to be fifty taels, you go now, hurry up! ”

Song San nodded again in response, and ran back, here Master Ye glanced at the front yard, took a deep breath, took a careful look at his own clothes, dusted off the dust on his trouser legs, and then walked to the front yard.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw more than a dozen tall horses parked outside the door, and in front of the horses were all red-clothed soldiers with swords.

Master Ye "chuckled", and subconsciously looked at the chief steward, his eyes were full of accusations, obviously blaming the chief steward for not saying it clearly just now, he only thought that it was an errand officer, not an officer and soldier. It must be known that this errand and soldiers cannot be treated as the same, the errand is an authentic ghost, and it is easy to send it away if he dies for money, but this soldier is different, it is much more ruthless than the errand service, and the Ye family is not ruthless to give some blood, I am afraid that it will not be able to send it away.

As soon as the group of soldiers outside saw that the people of Yejiazhuang were coming, the officer with a small banner immediately took a few steps forward, stared at Master Ye and asked, "You are Ye Tiancheng?" ”

"Huh?"

Master Ye was still stunned, and the chief steward gently pushed him before he woke up, and nodded hurriedly: "The old man is Ye Tiancheng." After a pause, he asked a little nervously: "I don't know why the military master came to the village?" ”

Ye Tiancheng is famous, so it stands to reason that he doesn't have to be so humble, but he is a soldier, and the Taiping Army's massacre of the city in Nanjing is known to everyone in Jiangnan, and the Manchurian emperor fled in embarrassment, and his name is too scary. Even Kunshan County was very panicked when he saw the Taiping Army, not to mention Ye Tiancheng, an old man, so he had to be respectful. There is a way to reach out and not hit the smiling person, no matter what your soldiers are doing in Yejiazhuang, the Ye family is always polite.

"We are members of the Kunshan County Debt Settlement Division, and we are ordered by our boss to come to your house to pay off the debt. This book is the arrears of your Ye family from the first year of Chongzhen, you take a closer look, if it is correct, and pay the money and food according to the order. I'll wait until I go back on a business trip. ”

After the little flag said this stiffly, he handed a book to Master Ye.

"What, make up for it from the first year of Chongzhen?"

Old Man Ye's scalp was numb, and a few words in the first year of Chongzhen only made his legs tremble, if this is really according to this list, it will be more than 30 years of food and tax arrears, isn't this the life of his Ye family! That's not the way it went!

"How?"

The little flag officer stared at Master Ye up and down, his eyes were very unkind, and there was a sneer on the corner of his mouth, which made Master Ye even more frightened, and he didn't dare to say anything, so he stood there so worriedly, not even daring to raise his eyelids, looking like a prisoner waiting for trial in the lobby.

From time to time, tenants who came to pay rent came in and set off, and these tenants were much stronger than Master Ye, and curiously gathered in the distance to look this way.

How is this good, no, you have to find someone to save the Ye family quickly!

This group of soldiers asked the Ye family to pay thirty years of tax arrears, and there was no room for accommodation at all, Master Ye was anxious, and couldn't help but think that the county magistrate had always respected himself, and every time he called "Master Ye", he didn't give him less benefits on weekdays, and now that the Huang family is in trouble, he can't stand by and watch, right? There is also Cui Zhubo, his family has not given him any benefits on weekdays, so if they don't stand up to help the Ye family, when will they stay?

As soon as he thought of this, Master Ye secretly glanced back from the corner of his eye, but he was looking for Song San who was going to get the silver. Looking around, Song San hid by the door and looked at him. I had the intention to ask Song San to hurry into the city to find the county magistrate to help, but he couldn't speak, he was really anxious in his heart, like an ant on a hot pot, turning around.

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