Chapter 694: There's No Way to Live
Liu Laosan really has no way to live!
He was dismissed!
This is really unfair, the world is unfair, God doesn't seem to open his eyes, and he doesn't give honest people a way to live!
The twelve acres of watered land that now belong to Popi Li are actually cultivated by the ancestors of his old Liu family. Before the Song family moved south, these 12 acres of irrigated land and more than 20 acres of surrounding land were the property of the old Liu family.
But later, the field endowment became higher and higher, and there were more and more miscellaneous factions, and there was a method of "and buying". The ancestors could only farm for generations, and the Liu family, who couldn't study, became poorer and poorer, and finally couldn't keep the land, and bit by bit they pawned it to the Yimen Fang family.
But when they were in the field, they all said that Liu Laosan and his two elder brothers cultivated a total of 36 acres of watered land, which was planted by the descendants of the Liu family for generations, unless the descendants of the Liu family did not plant themselves, otherwise the Fang family must not drive people out. In fact, it is a perpetual tenant, and there is no deposit to pay.
In addition, as long as the children and grandchildren of the Liu family have the seedlings to study, they can enter the Wangjiang Academy of the Fang family and study like the children of the Fang family.
And for decades, the righteous side has always kept the agreement. Even if the Liu family owes the rent and can't pay it, the Yimen Fang never disagrees, and the children of the Liu family can also enter the Fang family's Mengxue to study, and several of the more outstanding children have entered Wangjiang Academy. It's a pity that no one can pass the Taizhou test -- there are too many landlords in Taizhou, and the test is very difficult.
So this Liu Laosan, don't look at him as an old farmer with a wrinkled face. In fact, I have also studied Mongolian studies for two years, and I can memorize "Hundred Family Names" and "Thousand Character Text". It's just that his books have also been read to this level, and he is the perennial penultimate existence in Fang Jiamengxue. But he still hasn't given up the fantasy of reading and progressing, and he can't do it himself. Just hope for future generations.
His youngest son, Liu Sheng, seemed to him to be a seedling of study, before Chen Dexing became the master of Jiangnan. has entered the Fang family's Wangjiang Academy, although it is still the material to accompany the son to study. But in Liu Laosan's opinion, there is still a glimmer of hope for the test (in fact, there is no, the difficulty of Taizhou test solving is similar to that of Chunqiu). As long as you can pass the exam, even if you don't have the opportunity to be a big official, you can get a teaching position in a famous academy in Taizhou.
At this point, Lao Liu's family will be able to climb to the corner of the scholarly family, if there are a few more reading seeds in the future...... It's a pity that this dream, which I don't know how many Jiangnan farmers are making, was raised by Chen Ming's Song Dynasty. It was completely shattered.
The way to study seems to have been broken...... In fact, for a landlord like Sixiucai, who knows how to do martial arts, it is not difficult to take the sesame mung bean officer. But a poor family like the Liu family has no conditions to let his children cultivate both civil and military, even if he can pass the written test, he can't pass fencing. And now that Daming already owns the entire Jiangnan, there are more people who want to take the Daming Sesame Officer, and the difficulty of entering the country will naturally rise.
Now not only is there no way for my son to go to school, but even the land that my ancestors have cultivated for generations is gone.
Liu Laosan only felt that the world was big, but he didn't have a way to live. There is no way for his old Liu family to live.
"How good it would be if the Great Song Dynasty was still there, how good it would be if Chen Rui didn't win the world, how good it would be if the Great Song Dynasty was still there, how good it would be if Chen Rui didn't win the Great Song Dynasty......"
On the same night that Ploppy Lee announced his retirement. Liu Laosan said these two sentences over and over again, and walked step by step to the depths of the Linhai River.
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"Come on, come on, you're shallow. Toad, I'm a little deeper, let's get drunk and rest! ”
The night Liu Laosan committed suicide by throwing himself into the water. Splashing Li is in Lai Toad's house, and a pair of difficult brothers and sisters are drinking alcohol.
That's right. It's really hard to be a brother! Lai Toad was also ordered to be "dispatched" to Binhai Prefecture (in the area of Vladivostok) in Liaodong Province as a soldier in Tuntian -- Chen Dexing's 100 acres of paddy fields, which was indeed not easy to take. The Lai family turned from a poor middle peasant to a rich peasant, and naturally they had to pay a price.
At the same time, only when these military and landlords have paid the price will they really own the 100 or 150 acres of land.
"You are Hetao, I am Liaodong Binhai...... It seems that the parting between our brothers is the eternal secret. ”
This is a bit of an ominous statement, but it's true. The two of them are gone, and it will be difficult to return to Linhai in this life. If it's not an eternal recipe, what is it?
Splashy Li sighed, "It's still a good life before, being a bastard in Duqiao, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking, women don't worry, you can't marry the daughters of good people, and the sisters in the Qinglou can sleep if you want to......"
Lai Toad shook his head, "The previous days were not easy, except that I could see the thirteen ladies of the Du family from time to time......"
Splashy Li sneered, "Do you still want Du Thirteen?" What kind of character are people, where is your turn? ”
Lai Toad snorted: "Why can't it be your turn?" If I make a meritorious contribution in Liaodong, maybe I will be knighted......"
"Stop, stop, stop thinking nonsense." Popi Li smiled a little mysteriously, leaned over to Lai Toad, and said in a low voice, "You don't know yet, the Du family didn't actually destroy the door, but was escorted to Peach Blossom Island." ”
It's not good to splash Pi Li for anything else, it's definitely good to talk to people, inquire about news or something, and actually let him inquire about the whereabouts of the Du family.
"There is no destruction...... Are you sure? Where is Peach Blossom Island? Lai Toad stared at Peach Blossom Island with drunken eyes, staring at Splash Li, as if he wanted to kill Peach Blossom Island to save the United States. It's a pity that he is not Guo Daxia, and he doesn't have a beggar gang leader as a master, even if he has that mind, he doesn't have the ability.
"Don't think about this swan meat......" Splash Li looked at the toad's burning eyes and sighed, "That swan can't fly to Tianzhu!" ”
"Tianzhu!?" The toad hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Popi Li said: "I only know that His Royal Highness King Fu has recruited many guests on Peach Blossom Island, and many characters of the Du family have followed King Fu. King Fu was sent by the sage to open up Tianzhu, and most of the people of the Du family had to follow. ”
"Then I have to go to Tianzhu too!" Lai Toad continued to drink and shouted loudly, which was a bit of a black-faced love saint. "I'm going to Tianzhu to make meritorious contributions...... Didn't the brigade headquarters say that military households could sign up for their own use under King Fu's account? I won't go to Liaodong to farm, I'll go to Tianzhu to fight! ”
Splash Li laughed, and said with a mouth full of wine: "I didn't expect you to be a lover, toad, or not, Splash Li I sacrificed my life to accompany the gentleman this time, and went to Tianzhu with you......"
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When the pair of buddies were full of wine and talking drunk, on the edge of the Linhai River, there were many farmers with torches, calling "Liu Laosan" to look for something in the four directions. Among them, the leader is Fang Sixiucai, and there is a young man about sixteen or seventeen years old next to Sixiucai, with a thin figure and slightly bulging eyes, who is Liu Laosan's youngest son Liu Sheng.
After Liu Laosan went home today, he cried and made trouble as if he was crazy, and he took a rope to hang himself, but was snatched down by his two sons and mother-in-law. But in the blink of an eye, it was gone! Liu Sheng knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly knocked on Fang Sixiucai's door and asked him to come forward and call on the neighbors to find Liu Laosan together-don't look at the current Fang family's dilapidation, but in the Linhai countryside, the appeal of the Yimen Fang is still much higher than that of those newcomers to the noble family.
Fang Xiucai's reaction was even more calm, and he immediately gathered his neighbors, and then asked some people to go to the woods to have a look, some people to go to the village well to have a look, and the rest of the people went to the Linhai River to search downstream along the river.
"What to do, what to do...... Mr. Fang Si, will my father really vote for Jiang? ”
Liu Sheng asked in a trembling voice. He had already expected the worst! When his father, Liu Laosan, came home and announced that Li Sanfa and Li Daguan were going to take back the Liu family's twelve acres of watered land, Liu Sheng knew that this family was going to be destroyed. These twelve acres of land, although they have long been surnamed Liu, are the lifeblood of the Liu family. Every year, the Liu family can be provided with ten stones of millet (after deducting rent, interest, exempt money and grain for the next year), and the family can survive by saving money. can also fantasize about taking the test to make the family turn over. But now, as soon as the twelve acres of watered land are gone, the Liu family is really cornered.
"Don't worry, don't worry, the third brother will be fine." Fang Xiucai comforted Liu Sheng in a low voice.
In the night, his brows furrowed tightly, he didn't think that Liu Laosan would be fine. Because of the idea of suicide, he actually moved, when the news of Jia Rudao's martyrdom came when the Ming attacked and occupied Lin'an. At that time, he was even standing on the edge of the Linhai River, if it weren't for the cold weather at that time, he Fang Xiucai would have followed Jia Dazhongchen and martyred the Great Song Dynasty.
But Liu Laosan's situation is more desperate than Fang Xiucai. Fang Xiucai is not without a way to live, he can be a leader. You can be a petty official, and you can even go to the Fuwang Mansion as a guest. He didn't come out of office just because of the integrity of a scholar, and he was unwilling to bend his waist for five buckets of rice. And he didn't get to the point where he couldn't live.
But Liu Laosan seems to have no way to live......
And there is no way to live, it's not just Liu Laosan! The surrounding towns and villages in Linhai County, where are not the people living in poverty? Without the protection of several righteous sects, and the oppression of those gentlemen and military households, the life of the people is really miserable.
Perhaps, this is an opportunity!
When a person dies, it's an opportunity to make trouble! If the judge in Taizhou can kill the poppy Li civilian, it will be angry.
If you don't kill Pimpie Li, this popular will be available.
Fang Sixiu thought of this, his body suddenly shook, and he suddenly stopped.
"Sir, why don't you go?" Liu Sheng found that Fang Sixiu stood still and didn't move forward, but turned around and asked.
"No, nothing, just thinking of something......" Under the cover of the night, Fang Sixiucai's face turned pale, and his chest couldn't stop rising and falling. The thought just now was terrible, it was terrible. So much so that Fang Xiucai himself was scared!
However, this terrible thought was firmly entrenched in his mind, and he could not get rid of it. (To be continued......)