At noon, the scorching sun scorched the earth, and there were not many pedestrians in the streets and alleys of Fucheng, even those little guys who solicited customers, and most of them changed from standing under the eaves to hiding in the house. Under this scorching heat, a team of more than a dozen people carried seven or eight grain trucks, walking on this road that was almost hot by the sun, except for the first few cars pulled by thin mules, and the back ones were pushed and pulled by manpower. Whether it is exerting strength or sitting in the car to catch the car, they are all sweating bare-chested, revealing their muscles that have been tanned brown by the sun.

Finally, the group stopped in front of a rice shop. An old man at the head turned his head and greeted the others, and brought a junior in. Seeing that there was only an eighteen or nineteen-year-old guy napping in this huge rice shop, he stepped forward and called the little brother, but seeing that he didn't respond, the old man had to gently push the person with his hand again. At this moment, the guy finally woke up, and he thought that he was snubbing his patrons, but he opened his eyes wide to see the clothes of these people, and suddenly slackened, yawned and lazily burst out a sentence.

"Do you want to sell grain? Wheat is two dollars a stone, barley is a stone a dollar and five dollars, no two prices! ”

Hearing this, the faces of the old man and the young descendant suddenly froze. The young offspring couldn't bear it, and argued loudly: "Didn't wheat cost two dollars for one stone, and barley for two dollars for one stone?" Why did you fall so hard? ”

"When was it? It was a month ago, and the grain had not been fully harvested, of course, the price was favorable, but now there is grain everywhere, and our owner has no place to put it, if it is still at this price, do you let the owner drink the northwest wind? If you love to sell or not, if you don't sell, you will go to another house! ”

The old man hurriedly grabbed the anxious offspring with one hand. Said with a smile: "Little brother." Such a hot day. We are all from She County, Nanxi Nan, all the way from the township to transport food, mules are not enough, manpower push and pull, please see our hard work, how much spare two! To tell you the truth, if it weren't for the urgency of this year's summer tax, we wouldn't be in such a hurry to sell ......"

"Isn't She County rich? Who told you to put it off until now? The guy saw that the old man's mouth was trembling, and the latter was pursing his lips resentfully, so he said arrogantly, "Less than ten stones, is the price I just said, more than ten stones, you have to give a nine-percent discount, otherwise the blame will come down, and my job will be gone!" ”

The old man had already planned to swallow his anger and sell the grain. But as soon as he heard that more than ten stones would have to be discounted, he only felt that his whole heart was trembling. At this time. The descendants beside him finally couldn't help it, and pulled the old man up and said: "Dad, if you don't sell it, I don't believe that the entire Fucheng will collect grain from this family!" ”

"Then you're good to go! All Xiuning rice shops in this prefecture and county are all at such a price, and you can go to the same house. As for other rice shops, including those in She County, they have already reached the limit, and they won't buy a grain of rice at all! If you don't believe me, go around the city! The guy sneered through his nose as he spoke, and said with a sneering face, "It is said that Nanxi Nan is rich, but I see that it is nothing more than that." It's still a good sentence, Liangxi South of She County can't reach Xiuning Yishang Mountain, our Xiuning Shangshan doesn't have poor ghosts like you! ”

The young posterity was originally angry, but when he was provoked by this sentence, he suddenly exploded completely. He ignored the silent father, who was like a clay carved wood sculpture, strode out, and roared loudly to the men of the village waiting on the grain cart outside: "Wheat is two dollars a stone, barley is one stone and one dollar and five dollars, we have worked hard all year round, and all the money has been cheated by these profiteers!" ”

As soon as these words landed, there was an uproar all around, and they worked hard to go into the city to sell grain for silver to pay taxes on a hot day, but they were suddenly hit by such a blow, and the villagers were all stunned. And the young junior who spoke pointed to a grain price signboard selling grain next to him, suddenly got up and kicked it to the ground, and then said viciously: "Isn't it just to see that we have no money to pay the summer tax? When we collect grain, we are desperately pressed, and when we sell grain to others, we are forced to raise the price, I am fed up! What else do you say about Liangxinan in Shexian County, which is not worthy of Xiuning Yishang Mountain, and our Nanxinan is looked down upon! Today is a desperate prison sentence, and I want to seek justice! ”

While the others were still stunned, he rushed to the side of the grain cart angrily, grabbed a whistle stick on the road just in case, and rushed directly into the rice store with a loud roar. After a while, there was the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling. Faced with such a situation, others looked at each other, some came back to their senses and hurriedly shouted to dissuade them, but many more were provoked to anger.

"Not everyone in our village is a big family, just us, there are many sons in the family, a few go out to do business and students, only one is left at home to work hard to farm and eat, all to live, why look down on us!"

"What's wrong with Nanxi Nan? It's better than these rice merchants and profiteers! ”

"If you get out, you must teach them a lesson today!"

In the rice line, the old man was desperately trying to stop his young son, but as the angry villagers outside rushed in one by one, he finally realized that he couldn't be good today, and he had no strength to stop people all of a sudden. When he thought that every year when it was the tax season, whether it was the grain that had been harvested so hard or what was produced in other fields, all of them would be depressed to incredibly low prices, and that they would often have to sell their houses and fields, and even sell their children, and sometimes have to leave their homes to avoid taxes, his squinted eyes finally flashed a trace of despair.

Since you can't stop it, you can only get out of it and simply make things bigger!

The old man immediately sat down on the ground and began to cry. The movement here has already attracted many passers-by to probe their brains, and at this moment, when they saw the old man crying, they immediately surrounded him.

"Bitter life for the croppers! It's easy to collect a few buckets of extra grain in a good year, but the government wants to pay full taxes, and the profiteers are desperately trying to lower the price of grain, and they can't live! ”

After crying and shouting, the old man suddenly desperately hit his head on the ground, and for a while it was drenched in blood. Faced with this tragic scene, there was an uproar all around.

There is wine today, drunk today, and tomorrow is sad, and tomorrow is worried.

As a pretentious five-good literati Ye Junyao, he originally extremely despised this kind of timely and happy attitude towards life. At the beginning, the title of the gold list was admitted to the Jinshi, although it was only the top three. But the official is in She County, the capital county of Huizhou. He was full of longing for his career path. But the result was that after taking office, he was conspired against, and every step was thrilling. If it weren't for his discerning eyes and recognition of Wang Xiaoxiucai, he would have been unable to live this life. Therefore, when the report came up, Shexian County's summer tax revenue this year was seventy-seven eighty-eight, and he was finally able to spare time to drink some wine and relax.

Recently, Wang Fulin has been busy greeting those people in the Qi family's army. The county government didn't have time to come from time to time, and even Master Li's homework was brought back by Tongguò Jinbao and Qiu Feng. Ye Mingyue either went to the Yixiang Society, or went to the opposite side to find Wang Erniang and Wang Xiaomei to pass the time, and Ye Daxian Zun was even more unrestrained.

He was born in Ningbo Mansion, and used to love to eat seafood, just a little wine, and enjoy the desire of the tongue, but when he was young, he got paralysis, and his family naturally panicked. When he went to the north to take the exam, he couldn't eat fresh seafood anymore. It's finally stopped. Since he arrived in Huizhou, he has fallen in love with the heavy taste of stinky mandarin fish, and every time Aunt Zhang cooks it, those people who come from Ningbo Mansion are all far away, not to mention Ye Mingyue and Ye Xiaopang's siblings.

But this time, hiding from his daughter for a few days, it was a stinky mandarin fish, a variety of river shrimp, crabs, eels, and a small wine, and all kinds of things to eat. What embarrassed him the most was that Ye Mingyue counted Sister-in-law Zhang in front of him for a while.

"You also know Dad's willful temper, how can he toss around? I was better when I was busy before, but now I eat Haisai nonsense when I'm free, no wonder my brother wants to let him take it bad! ”

Fortunately, Ye Xiaopang was not here, otherwise he would have run away when he heard this. At this time, Ye Daxian Zun himself wanted to find a crack in the ground, but the two toes that had been suffering from an acute attack of paralysis in the past were distressed, and the joints in other parts of his body seemed to be aching faintly, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, and even his head was a little dizzy. Seeing that Sister-in-law Zhang's face was flushed and she was guilty, he really wanted to say a few words for this servant woman with first-class cooking skills, but suddenly there was a knock on the door outside.

"Miss, the torture room officer Wu asks to see the master."

Hearing Xiaobei's voice outside, Ye Mingyue suddenly glanced at her father on the couch. At this time, Ye Junyao finally squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.

"Mingyue, you go see it for me. If it's nothing serious, send them away. If there is a big thing, say I am sick. ”

Ye Mingyue was suddenly angry and funny. According to my father's virtue, if I can be promoted in this life, it will really be the sun coming out in the west! In desperation, she could only go out, and when she arrived at the door of the second gate of the official house, she saw that Secretary Wu was pacing in front of her father's study, so she stepped forward and said, "Secretary Wu is looking for his father?" ”

As soon as Wu Siyan saw a figure in front of him come out, he knew who it was at a glance, and hurriedly lowered his head. When he heard this question, he hurriedly explained: "Please also ask the young lady to return to the county, more than a dozen people in Nanxi South Village, She County, smashed the rice shop opened by a Xiuning family in Fucheng!" It is said that the officials of the government office have been dispatched several times, and they have already locked all the people back at this time! ”

Ye Mingyue suddenly chuckled in her heart, and then asked thoughtfully, "What other news is there from the mansion?" For example, what did Duan Fuzun say? ”

"Duan Fuzun's statement hasn't been found out yet, the villain just came to ask the county to show him, and now the government government Shu Tuiguan is sick, and the other Tongzhi Tong is too lazy to take care of the matter, do you want to go and ask for this case back, let's try it in the county?" When Secretary Wu said this, although he didn't understand why the county respected him didn't show up, he still didn't ask rashly, but just waited there cautiously for an answer.

"Where is Wang Xiaoxiang?"

Ye Xianzun's attention to Wang Xiaoxiucai Wu Siyi knows it, and now Miss Ye is the same, Wu Siyi is even more sure in his heart, Wang Xiaoxiucai is definitely a celebrity of the Ye family! So, he hurriedly explained doggedly: "Wang Xiaoguan has been taking Qi Baihu and those people around the townships of She County for the past few days, and he has been to Xixi South Village before, but he has not come back yet. On a hot day, thanks to the willingness of the petty officials to work hard......"

Where is Ye Mingyue willing to listen to this nonsense, what she cares about is whether Wang Fulin can come back in time! According to his father's temperament, he likes to show off his majesty when he has nothing to do, and when he really encounters something, he wants to shrink back, and he just wants to be with the mud, not to mention this disease, she can't even push it behind her. After thinking about it, she could only say apologetically to Wu Siyi: "I will tell my father about this, he happens to be sick, and I am afraid that you will have to work hard to inquire more." ”

Seeing that Secretary Wu reluctantly agreed, but her face and eyes were quite delicate, she suddenly remembered the last time her father and Wang Fulin played a double reed and pretended to be sick, and immediately understood that the other party would be wrong. But the more this kind of thing is explained, the darker it becomes, she didn't want to make extraneous branches, but when she had an idea, she came up with another idea. After seeing people leave, she turned to Xiaobei and said, "You sue sister-in-law Zhang, don't talk too much about your father's illness." Then you go to Wang's house to inquire, and it's best to get Wang Xiaoxianggong back. ”

A county master with such a personality as my father is really indispensable for such a Dinghai God Needle!

ps: Last night, people were almost unable to sleep due to the thunderstorms, and they were scared to death...... The first is to ask for recommended tickets and monthly passes (to be continued......) R1292