Doctor Ni coughed lightly, and then said, "Well......, there is also a box of jewelry, fifty taels of silver. In addition, these are the title deeds of 50 acres of fertile land owned by my Huimin Hall, which are all high-grade fertile land, just outside the city. This one is the title deed of our old house. This is all we can take out, and we are willing to pay you all the money. Of course, there is also Huimin Hall, this is our last food and livelihood, please Lord Sui to enjoy the food, give the family a life, and always feel great virtue......"

After that, he arched to the ground, and when he talked about the sad place, his voice choked, and old tears rolled down.

"Alright, don't cry poor." The shopkeeper of Sui snorted, "You killed my mother, I don't have a place to cry!" Since you are so pitiful, I don't want your Huimin Hall, and leave it to you to support your family. I don't know how to do medicine anyway. ”

"Thank you......!" Doctor Ni choked up and arched his hand.

The shopkeeper squatted down, picked up the old ginseng and looked left and right, he naturally didn't know that there was one less one in it, at the moment these trees are all high-grade products, and they are all expensive, thinking that this kind of thing is better than money, even if you have money, I am afraid that there is no place to buy such a good old ginseng. Seeing the corners of his mouth, he couldn't help but smile, and felt that it was inappropriate, so he coughed lightly, pursed his lips, wiped off his smile, picked up the title deed and house deed and looked at it, took out the land title deeds, threw them in front of Dr. Ni, and sneered: "You use these fields to compensate me, are you compensating or trying to harm me?" ”

Doctor Ni was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Where did Master Sui start with this?" ”

"Don't be a fool! -- Most of the fertile land outside the city is barren and uncultivated, but the land tax of the yamen must be paid, and the confiscated land must also be paid. Five acres of land have to pay a tax of one acre, you have to pay a tax of ten acres of land for fifty acres, and one acre of rice is harvested two quintals (240 catties), which are beaten into 12 buckets of rice, and now the price of rice is 360 wen for one bucket of rice, and 12 buckets is 4,320 wen. The tax paid for ten acres of land is 43,200 wen! ”

Dr. Ni was a little dumbfounded, and couldn't answer with a dry smile.

The shopkeeper of Sui spat on the ground and said, "That is to say, if I collect your fifty acres of land, if you calculate according to the current rental rate of thirty percent, you can only rent out fifteen acres of land, and you can only collect seven acres of grain according to the usual half of the tenant rent, but I have to pay ten acres of land tax to the yamen." The net deficit is three acres, that is, the deficit of almost 13,000 wen has to be subsidized every year. Now that the war is in chaos, if the tenants quit the rent and run away, and no one can find a tenant, then I will have to pay more than 40,000 yuan in taxes every year. but not a grain of grain can be harvested. Therefore, taking your fifty acres of land seems to compensate me for my losses, but it makes me lose tens of thousands of dollars in vain every year. If you give me this hot potato, what is it if you don't pit me? ”

Doctor Ni was dumbfounded, he didn't think so much, these fields were his ancestral property. It is true that more than half of them are tenants, and the annual land rent collected is not enough to pay the land tax of the yamen. They all rely on pharmacies to fill the shortfall. Because it is an ancestral property, and the price of the land is very low, the pharmacy business is also very good, and it can afford to lose money, so I don't care. Now I listened to the shopkeeper of Sui and calculated it carefully, only to realize that this is indeed the reason, the more land in hand now, if no one cultivates, the more natural losses!

Dr. Ni picked up the land deeds, dusted off them, and said curtly: "I heard that the imperial court is going to reduce taxes, and ...... then."

"Don't do this!" Shopkeeper Sui sneered, "This is not a rumor that only exists now, it has been there a few years ago, what is the result?" Until now, the tax on a penny has not been reduced......! ”

Qian County Ling was shocked: "Plaintiff, you can discuss compensation if you negotiate, and you must not talk about the imperial court!" ”

"Yes, sir." The shopkeeper of Sui hurriedly bowed his hand.

Doctor Ni said again: "If Master Sui thinks that the field is not good, he can sell it, and these fifty acres of fertile land can be sold for at least 100,000 yuan!" ”

"Come on, you!" The shopkeeper of Sui sneered, "Two thousand wen per mu, there is some fertile land to be sold by the imperial court, and few people care about it." Who do you want me to sell? Come on, I don't want to bother with this, these good fields, you should keep them and pay them slowly. Since you said that these fields can be sold for 100,000 yuan, you can give me another 100,000 yuan. Plus these old ginseng, jewelry, fifty taels of silver, and your old house. Let's settle the bill. How the yamen loves to judge and how to judge, I don't talk much. ”

Dr. Ni was dumbfounded. If it were in normal times, Dr. Ni would be able to take out 100,000 Wen (100 taels of silver) easily, but before he went to the door to bribe, he had almost spent all the family's savings, and the 50 taels in the box were the last cash that could be taken out, so where would he find 100,000 Wen at this time?

Ni Er cried and kowtowed: "Brother, you must think of a way to make up another 100,000 Wen to save my life!" ”

Doctor Ni smiled bitterly: "Shopkeeper Sui, can you say slowly, I will return it to you in installments." Even if you pay a little more interest. ”

"No way!" The shopkeeper of Sui said categorically, "You killed my mother, I don't want to see you again in this life!" Therefore, if you can compensate in the lobby, this matter will be settled in my place, otherwise, if you sue the capital, I will also avenge my mother! ”

Dr. Ni's face was red and white for a while, and he begged bitterly, so he almost knelt down and kowtowed. The shopkeeper of Sui just didn't allow it.

Qian County Ling was also like a mud bodhisattva, sitting there without saying a word.

When there was nothing to be done, the voice of the Ni family's housekeeper came from outside the lobby: "Master, the old lady asked you to come out." ”

Dr. Ni hurriedly turned around and came out, got off the platform, and came to Ni's mother's sedan chair by the platform: "Mother! ”

The sedan curtain slowly opened a corner, Ni's mother raised her hand to take off a pair of emerald earrings from her ears, and took out a Chaoyang Wufeng hanging bead hairpin from her hair bun, and handed it to Dr. Ni: "These two pieces of jewelry are your grandmother's dowry to your mother." If you don't say anything, it's worth more than 100,000 yuan, so let's pay them back. ”

"Mother!" Dr. Ni took the two pieces of jewelry with trembling hands, his knees weakened, he fell to the ground, and cried: "The child is incompetent, and it has affected the mother. ”

Mother Ni sighed, waved her hand, and slowly lowered the sedan curtain.

Dr. Ni took two pieces of jewelry, returned to the lobby, and handed them to the shopkeeper Sui with both hands: "Master Sui, these two pieces of jewelry are the dowry of my mother's dowry back then, and they should be worth 100,000 yuan and be compensated to Master Sui." ”

The shopkeeper of Sui carefully took the two pieces of jewelry, flipped through them and checked them, he was also a knowledgeable person, looked at the two pieces of jewelry carefully, and nodded slowly: "That's right, it's worth it!" Carefully put the jewelry into the small box containing the jewelry, covered a few boxes, got up and said to Qian County: "Master, the compensation has been settled, we will no longer ask about how to deal with this Ni Er, and we will not put forward any more opinions." ”

"Good!" Qian Xianling smiled, patted Tang Mu in shock, shook his head and said: "Huimin Tang Ni Er, treat the cold hernia for the old mother of the Sui family, and the medicine is not as good as this prescription, so that the Sui mother died of illness, and the staff is sixty according to the law!" With that, he took out the order from the lottery holder and threw it down to the hall.

Ni Er's whole body trembled and listened to the verdict, but as soon as the result came out, it was only sixty rods, and under the ecstasy, he suddenly felt that the world was spinning, and he fell on the hall with a bang and passed out.

Doctor Ni hurriedly stepped forward, pinched the people and called urgently, and after a while, Ni Er woke up slowly, trembling and said: "Brother, I ......, I heard you right, right......?" It's not as good as my own ......, the rod is ......, the rod is sixty, and my life is saved, isn't it? ”

Dr. Ni was already so happy that his face was full of snot and saliva, and he nodded: "Yes!" The life saved ......! ”

At this time, I heard the whining sound under the platform outside the lobby, and the voices were from the old mother, wife and children, as well as the maids and servants. struggled and knelt down and kowtowed to Dr. Ni: "Thank you, big brother!" Thank you big brother for saving my life. ”

"There are so many people you should thank......!" Dr. Ni said with tears in his eyes.

The shopkeeper of Sui said angrily: "Okay, the sixty rods haven't been beaten yet, and you can survive the sixty sticks!" ”

Ni Er looked up and saw the soaps holding their sleeves viciously with water and fire sticks, and they were terrified.

Dr. Ni hurriedly took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, pulled out the lid and poured a few pills, and sent them to Ni Er's mouth: "Swallowing this medicine can reduce the pain and reduce bleeding." ”

"Thank you, big brother." Ni Er swallowed the medicine.

Two soaps came over, put him on the platform outside the lobby, pressed on the long wooden bench that was specially used to hit the board, one grabbed the hand, one grabbed the leg, the two soaps were one left and one right, the water and fire sticks were rounded, crackling and beating, until the flesh and blood flew, Ni Er screamed miserably.

When Kankan hit sixty sticks, the two soaps looked at each other, nodded secretly, and at the same time, the sticks were deflected, and the water and fire sticks were rounded, and they used their strength to eat milk, and hit Ni Er's legs hard.

Click-click-click...... These few times were not the sound of sticks hitting the flesh, but the sound of kneecaps shattering. Ni Er was already dying in pain, his legs were bent by the last few sticks, and he suddenly screamed miserably, struggling to move his legs to dodge, but his legs and upper body were pressed by several soaps, and he couldn't move.

The sixty sticks were finally finished, and Ni Er had already rolled his eyes and fainted. The two executioners put away the water and fire sticks, made a smug look at the shopkeeper Sui on the other side of the platform, and retreated to the lobby.

Doctor Ni was under the platform, listening to the sound was wrong, and screamed to stop, but Soap Li had already beaten sixty sticks and retreated, and hurriedly rushed up to take a look, his younger brother's legs were bent strangely, and the crooks of his legs were terribly dented. Dr. Ni is a famous doctor, and he knows at a glance that his brother's legs are not safe!

He hurriedly squatted down and stretched out his hand to carefully diagnose, and found that his younger brother Ni Er's legs and knees had been shattered into several pieces, such an injury, I am afraid that Da Luo Jinxian will not be able to heal, and my younger brother is afraid that he will never want to stand up again for the rest of his life!

But it turned out that the shopkeeper of Sui listened to the bottom of Qian County's order for the three of them, and knew that Ni Er could not be sentenced to death and beheaded, so he came up with this poison trick and sent the housekeeper to spend a lot of money to buy off a few soap officers who were executed, and asked them to break Ni Er's two legs. The last few sticks of these soap lis were deliberately hit towards Ni Er's legs, smashing his knees to pieces.

(To be continued)