After sending Master Zhu away, Master Huang called Li You over and asked carefully, and reassured: "You can do your errand with peace of mind, even if there is no boss to speak, I will protect you." ”

Master's words are not false, since he accompanied the Dongjia magistrate to take office, he has been asking Li You to do things. Because Li You is not like those old errands who are like ghosts and slippery like oil, he works hard, does not be lazy and slippery (in fact, he is afraid of being beaten by two boards), and does not seek personal gain (in fact, he is young and inexperienced, not that he doesn't want to), so that the master can use it very smoothly. I will still need it in the future, how can I let Zhou Xiancheng send away inexplicably.

Chen Zhixian sent Xie Laobuar to the county office, asked the reason, and sentenced her to "make trouble with power, and slap her mouth for thirty". Then there was a soap servant crackling and pumping Xie Laobu's thirty mouths and drove him out. Zhou Xiancheng's disposition of Li You was also revoked.

For Zhou Xiancheng himself, Chen Zhixian did not say anything. It's not worth doing anything for a little person like the old bustard, after all, he is also an official of the imperial court, and he must leave some dignity, and the rule of officials protecting each other is not a fiction.

On the other hand, Li You's crooked poem "Gift to Yao Xing'er" became popular at the fastest speed, and it was much more popular than the previous two fine poems. For a while, it achieved the effect of "the streets and alleys in the county, but there are people, and there are people who talk about Li Shi".

This poem is easy to understand and catchy, and is well received by the vast number of working people. The ridicule and irony are unattainable and unattainable names, which fully satisfy the bad taste of the people at the bottom. There was even a rumor that "Li Xiaoya's begging for pleasure was rejected by a certain name, and he became angry and revenged".

However, it was said that Yao Xing'er was famous for her image as a talented woman in Qinglou, but she was a good swimmer who drowned, but she was hit hard by Li You with her literary talent (this word is debatable), and her image was ruined. These few days are closed, and it is rumored that he washes his face with tears every day. It's nothing, and it's not impossible to make a comeback as long as someone is popular. But the most shocking thing is that her good friends don't come to the door either.

is on the cusp of the limelight, come to find Yao Xing'er, what if the little official knows about it, and then make up two crooked poems to recite and recite? Everyone is a reader, so it's shameless. What if Yao Xing'er begs you to write poems for her, create public opinion, and fight in the ring with that servant? It's a shame to win, because you surrendered your identity and quarreled with a gangster; But it's even more humiliating to lose. So let's hide for now.

Even more vicious people think that after a while, Yao Xing'er will definitely lower his own price, and when the time comes, ten taels of silver will be scooped several times, so why bother to send the silver now.

Xie Laobuard and Yao Xing'er, who had been a little arrogant in the past, never expected in advance that the reality was so cruel, and those so-called connections who could call for wind and rain in the county were simply beach pavilions, and even a government official could not help it.

Li You is still thinking about the brain-dead plots in countless online articles about fighting snakes and not dying, but suffering from them, and when it is his turn, he must cut the grass and eradicate the roots to prove that he is not brain-dead. I was inexperienced and couldn't think of any tricks, so I asked Zhao to discuss.

Zhao Chukuai decided that Li You had the support of Zhixian County and intended to curry favor. gave an idea, find a nameless corpse and throw it at the door of Yao Xing'er's house, and then arrested Xie Laobuar and Yao Xing'er together on the grounds of investigating the case, and detained them themselves without sending them to prison.

Li You appreciates this trick very much...

I couldn't find a suitable corpse for a while, and a few days later, another official matter was dispatched, and Li You was too busy to leave this matter behind. Because the county arranged for the catchers to go to the countryside to collect tax arrears this month, Li You was a little anxious.

Before this dynasty, there was a tax on the mu of the land, the tax on the mouth of the mouth, are directly collected grain, after the change of Jiashen, the imperial court implemented the apportionment into the mu, the mu into the integration of the tax into the field, because the first assistant at that time was too much loss of grain, so it was decided to only collect the silver. Later, due to the uncertain price of grain, it was easy to hurt the peasants by only collecting cashiers; Second, the Southern Yanjing Division needs nearly 10 million stone of grain every year, and the gap is too large. Therefore, the field tax was changed to half grain and half silver, and the prefectures and counties in the world each had a quota. The tax burden of Suzhou Prefecture has always been the first in the country, of which Xujiang County has 1.7 million mu of land, and the annual tax amount is 120,000 taels of silver and 200,000 stone grain.

Last year's year was not very good, and there were many tax arrears in the villages of Xujiang County, which was not related to Chen Zhixian, who had not yet arrived at that time. But this year's uneven harvest has affected the assessment of the boss, Chen Zhixian was a little anxious, seeing that the spring flower fields (rape and wheat planted in the winter of Jiangnan farmland) have been harvested, so he sent the wolf-like officials to the countryside to collect last year's tax arrears, and Li You was also assigned some tasks.

At this time, Li You led Zhang San and Li Si to recruit a small boat. When I came to Matouzhuang, I saw a few grain chiefs, and one of them took them to collect taxes.

The first one, the fields were flooded last year, the harvest was very poor, and there was still a debt of five coins of silver and seven buckets of grain. This time it was made up, and Li You commanded his men to load the ship and continue.

The second family, who gave birth to triplets a few years ago, is now six or seven years old, can't do work but eats a lot, and is bitter and owes seven dollars in silver. The poor baba scraped together all the money in the family, but it was still not enough, and he figured out a money channeler, with five or six hundred yuan, and collected it together. Zhang San and Li Si muttered, I have to find a money shop to exchange for silver when I go back, and I don't know what the price is now.

The third one, even worse. There was an old couple in the family, a son and a daughter. The son served abroad last year, and the father died of a serious illness, and now there are only orphans and widows in the family. but he owed a penny of silver and two stones of grain. I saw the old woman crying and crying, "There is really nothing to pay." The grain chief who led the way also shook his head, helpless.

Zhang San and Li Si, who followed Li You, looked left and right, and saw that the four walls of the family were destitute, and they didn't even know what to rob. Zhang San came over and said to Li You: "Poor master, there is indeed nothing to deduct taxes, and this family may only be able to sell their sons and daughters." ”

Li You raised his eyes and looked at the little girl leaning against the door of the house, twelve or thirteen years old, with a yellow face and thin muscles, staring at this side with big eyes and worrying, feeling pitiful.

Zhang San said again: "The poor master lives alone in the county, and there is no one waiting in the house, so it is better to buy this and go back to do laundry and cook." At this time, it must be cheap to buy, and it is not to be missed. ”

Li You's heart moved, in his previous life, he was also a lazy person, and he felt very troublesome when he came over to wash and sweep and sometimes cook, and how could he hire someone to wait for him with one tael of silver a month. But with the idea of the 21st century, buying and selling human beings is still a bit adaptable.

The grain chief of Matouzhuang also said: "This is also a good deed, the family is very diligent, and they will not be lazy in their work, Li Guanren is kind." ”

Zhang San said to the old woman: "Sister-in-law, how about your daughter sell it to Li Guanren for five taels of silver?" ”

Li You thought that the old woman would inevitably resist, who was willing to sell her son and daughter, but he saw that the woman came over to bargain and said, "I beg the master to be kind and give more..."

In the end, the price was set at six taels, and the length of the contract was guaranteed, and the contract was two, which was a death contract for generations of maids.

Li You's salary for nearly two months was two taels, the master rewarded some, took some from home, and did some unspoken rules for official business, but there were a total of seven taels of silver in hand, and after paying the money for the sale, there was only living expenses left, and he forgot to calculate whether he could afford to raise a little girl. Typical impulse spending.

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Jianghu people say that 30,000 words is a threshold, why don't I see where the threshold is