"Young Master, you are injured like this, why are you still like this?

Xiaobi touched her buttocks and blushed and complained to Hou Guoxing!

"Hehe, the young master is careless. Accidentally..."

Hou Guoxing stared at Xiaobi with a pair of confused eyes and explained!

"Xiaobi, you go to bed, come up and help the young master, just like the young master was in a coma that day! The young master was beaten again in the palace, and his body was even more injured. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Young master, don't pretend, you even know the size of the birthmark on Li Changshi's chest, you deserve to be beaten, who knows what you did in the palace! The slave maid can put two pillows for the young master! Master, do you want to do that again? ”

"The young master is a decent gentleman, he is here in the palace to save his life, there is no way, I am saying that I really accidentally bumped into you just now!"

"Really, don't touch it?"

"I really don't touch it!"

Ten minutes later.

"Ahh Young master, why are you like this again?"

"The young master didn't mean it!"

After returning from Hou Guoxing, such a sound often appeared in the room.

Alas, life is like this, what more can you ask for! Walking on the country road, Hou Guoxing, who had been recuperating for a night, was ready to take his injury to see the work of his tenants and experience the life of a landlord. Looking back at Xiaobi, who was several meters away from him and had a wary face, he only felt a happy mood!

"Come on! If you are closer to your grandfather, you won't eat you, what are you afraid of? ”

Xiaobi hurriedly protected her chest, stopped and looked at Hou Guoxing with a nervous face.

Young master, this is still outside in the blue sky and daylight, don't mess around!

"Ahh yes! Bah! What do you think the young master is like, the young master is a gentleman and Yanagishita Megumi! Say you don't touch it, don't touch it! ”

In the past, although the young master would also do his tricks, but he was just sneaky, but now it's good, after the young master came back from the palace and told himself the secret, he always changed his way to bully himself. Although he doesn't reject it, he is ashamed to death. Thinking about the dirty things that the young master did last night, Xiaobi rolled her eyes at Hou Guoxing!

"Young master, don't bully the slave maid to read less, Yanagi Hui still knows it!"

Ha ha..... Ha ha.....

Looking up at the greenery, the tenants are toiling in the fields, and the warm breeze blows to sweep away the stuffiness of the days.

Suddenly, a middle-aged man in tattered clothes came in front of him, kneeling in front of Hou Guoxing and crying:

"Young Master Hou, you are doing well, can the rent owed to your family be relieved."

"Rent?"

Hou Guoxing was stunned for a moment, looked at the simple man in front of him, and suddenly remembered the story of the landlord Zhou Papi and Yang Bailao! Could it be that his own family is also a representative of the landlords of the evil old society who crow in the middle of the night and force their children to buy daughters?

"How much do you owe?"

"Young master, the little one owes a total of three years of rent, and the little mother-in-law has been sick for the past two years, and the family's money has been used to see a doctor. The guest housekeeper said that if he didn't pay the rent, this year's field would not be planted for small ones. Young master, you are doing well, let the little one slow down, and the little one will definitely make up for it next year!"

"If there is really no ..... in this rent"

Just as Hou Guoxing was about to agree, Xiaobi pulled his shirt behind him and said to the man:

"Brother Zhang, this matter of rent, after my young master has asked the housekeeper, see if he can still help the eldest brother, Mrs. and the young master are merciful, but some rules still can't be changed, Brother Zhang, do you say yes?"

When the man heard this, he couldn't speak, just begged Hou Guoxing bitterly!

"Get up first, and follow me to the front." After speaking, he ignored Xiaobi, and walked forward with a blue face.

Walking through the field, a white-haired old man with a wrinkled face was wearing patched clothes all over his body, holding a wooden plow, a man and a woman in front of him, pulling the wooden plow rope with a deep foot and a shallow foot, the boy was about 10 years old, wearing a shabby linen clothes, and the girl was only about five years old, with strips of messy cloth hanging on her body and stuffed in it with grass and then tied with a few ropes!

At this moment, I heard a little boy exclaim:

"Sister, what's wrong with you!"

The boy hurriedly lowered the rope and picked up his sister, who had fallen!

"Brother, my shoulder hurts so much." The little girl hugged her brother and cried.

Grandpa let his sister rest, right? I can pull and move alone. The boy pleaded with his grandfather.

"Crying... Cry... Just know to cry! ”

"I can't do any work, and you don't want to go to Master Zhang's house to be a maid. If you don't want to, and you can't work, are you waiting to starve to death? Sooner or later, the whole family will kill you. The old man scolded viciously with red eyes.

"Grandpa, my father said that he wouldn't buy his sister, why do you always want to sell your sister!"

"If you don't sell, if you don't sell, what will you pay for rent? As long as your little cub is concerned, will you be a good person, is grandpa willing? When there is no land, the family will starve to death, and she will not have to die! ”

"No, you can't sell your sister!" The little boy's stubborn argument.

At this time, the man who was walking on the side of the road with Hou Guoxing walked quickly into the field and picked up the girl and complained to the old man:

"Daddy! I said that I will find a way, I will find a way, why do you still say this, we can't sell our children if we are hard! You also brought the little girl out to work, this little child, what if you are tired! ”

The old man heard the blame in his son's tone, and was furious for a while:

"You are a useless thing, Lao Tzu has crossed more bridges than you walked, Lao Tzu doesn't understand the truth, but after living for more than 60 years, I only understand one reason, without the land here, our family will starve to death.

"You old man is so bad, the tiger poison doesn't eat children, how can you shout to sell your granddaughter like you?" Hou Guoxing was furious when he heard it.

When the old man saw Hou Guoxing, he hurriedly went ashore and bowed his waist and said with a smile:

"Young Master Hou is here, the injury on your body is not healed, you can't see the wind, Miss Xiaobi, you are too, don't hurry up and help the young master back"

"Uncle, you seem to be a kind person, why do you have to sell your granddaughter?" Hou Guoxing frowned and asked.

"It's... The old man couldn't speak.

Uncle, I think you should not plant this land. Hou Guoxing looked at the old man's appearance and shook his head in disgust.

"Don't, I say, I say."

The old man sighed, his old eyes reddened and recalled the past:

In the past, the small people had a few acres of land to barely make ends meet, and we were content with these mud, but then the Yellow River flooded and flooded us, and people like us suddenly felt that the sky had fallen, so we could only take our family to the city. O man! When you're hungry, you can really do anything. Speaking of this, the old man suddenly shivered all over his body, and there was a look of fear in his eyes.

"Dead pigs, dead rats, what they catch and eat, the people who flee the famine are the wild vegetables that can't see the end at a glance, the road. Weed. The bark is eaten up, and in the end even the soil is eaten, and you may not know what the Guanyin soil is, and many people are suffocated to death after eating! In the end, everyone actually began to eat people, and a cousin of the old man couldn't stand it when he was hungry, so he exchanged his dying girl and other people's children for food. Later, her mother-in-law went to find the child to eat meat, only to know that it was her own child in exchange! This mother-in-law couldn't stand the stimulus and committed suicide by throwing herself into the river, and after my cousin found out, he went to look for people but only had a pot of broth, and the corpse had already been fished out and eaten. ”

Hearing this, Hou Guoxing only felt his stomach tumbling.

Later, my cousin's only son starved to death, and I felt that there was no hope of living. Pulling the old man, he pointed to my unsuccessful son and said, I must keep the only seedling of my old Zhang family, and when I die, you will eat me, because you should be able to stick to the city!

No one knows how many days have passed in those days, only to follow the crowd and look in the direction of the city. One day, my cousin also arrived, and this kid was also dying of hunger, and the old man thought about what his cousin had said, and thought to himself that even if he ate it, his cousin would explain it himself. Outcome.. As a result.."

Speaking of this, the old man burst into tears and shouted:

"And when I cut off a piece of my cousin's meat, he... He suddenly. Suddenly woke up, just looked at me half-dead and said to me, I'm not dead yet, didn't you say that I would wait until I die! ”

Xiaobi on the side hugged the old man's hand and cried.

When he got home, Hou Guoxing only felt angry, he used to go to school and heard that Zhou Papi and Yang Bailao felt that it was an inhuman world, but he didn't expect that there was still a matter of Yizi cannibalism in this era!

Xiaobi, aren't these tenants usually managed by my uncle and his two sons? How ruthless are you people, they can still live without land? Do you want to force others to sell their wives and daughters, and cannibalize each other?

Xiaobi saw that Hou Guoxing was angry, and was so frightened that she knelt on the ground and cried:

Master! The slave maid is also from a poor family, and Xiaobi's parents bought Xiaobi to Mrs. because they couldn't support Xiaobi, but many things are not what you think, young master, and these rents are not exempt.

Hearing the movement in the house, the guest light hurriedly came! Seeing Xiao Bi kneeling on the ground, she was stunned, smiled at Hou Guoxing and asked:

"Guoxing, but Xiaobi made you angry?"

"Uncle! Are we short of those three years of rent? These tenants are all old people in our family for ten or eight years, villagers and villagers, so they drive others away? ”

Seeing Hou Guoxing's anger rushing towards him, Keguang was stunned and asked:

"Guoxing is talking about the old Zhang family?"

"Is there anyone else?"

Keguang looked at Hou Guoxing, who was angry, smiled and said:

"Guoxing has been kind-hearted since he was a child, and now he probably forgot some things from the past, you wait a minute, I'll bring you the account book!"

"Guoxing, you see, our family's rent is very low in the surrounding area, many landed farmers put their land on the meritorious scholars, to give about fifty percent of the rent, not to mention the other expenses generated by farming, not to mention that no one should take care of it, a year down the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes are miserable, this year down most of them are owed last year, so accumulated over time, in previous years, when the imperial court was rich, it could often be reduced or reduced, but in the past few years, the market is estimated to be difficult."

How so? Why do farmers have to work so hard for a year? Hou Guoxing was surprised.

"Guoxing! Haven't peasants lived like this since ancient times? It is already a matter of course to be able to eat a full stomach when the wind and rain are smooth. Lao Zhangtou's family is so poor, mainly because his son's mother-in-law has been sick in the past few years. Alas! The most feared thing in this kind of land is that you get sick, and often your family is ruined! ”

"Then can we reduce the proportion of rent, or directly waive the rent of his family for three years?"

"The country can't be prosperous, because we have offended many people with this rent."

"Why is this so" Hou Guoxing wondered!

"There are eighty-two or even ninety-one around, my sister gave seventy-three with a soft heart, which has made the rich people around very dissatisfied, these people are either high-ranking officials or relatives of the emperor, we can have this thousand acres of fertile land, or the father-in-law of the prince's mansion has come out to say hello a few times, we must not be like this."

Hou Guoxing still understands the truth of following the crowd, and those who are independent and special often die first!

After thinking for a long time, Hou Guoxing said:

"Uncle, I need a wooden plow and a carpenter."