Although Tiankuo is the magistrate of this Lu County, the local rich family wants to give him some face, but when it comes to big problems, the young couple can't do anything about it.

For example, in this case, they don't take the money out, you can only think of an idea to get them to pay voluntarily, you can't force it, right? If it really involves the issue of money, Tiankuo's prestige is really unbearable.

After all, this place has always been like this, it is useless to be an official, come and go, most of these rich people in Lu County are in collusion with the Fucheng side, since Governor Zhang doesn't want to care about them, they want to see Governor Zhang's face, even if they are willing to take that money, they will consider it carefully.

As soon as the two of them discussed, they could almost understand the general situation, and now they can only try to set an example, they will first take the money out to donate, and then let those rich people donate, so that they must take out some of it.

If they were to do this, and only take twenty taels of silver, they would themselves feel that it was not suitable.

Anyway, it's winter, and there's nothing to do when I'm idle, so Tiankuo wants to implement this matter first.

The couple only had more than 3,000 taels of silver on hand, although it was not a small amount, but there were still more places where they needed silver in the future, and they couldn't spend it indiscriminately now.

Siqi thought about taking out five hundred taels to set an example, and discussed with Wang Tianxiang and Wang Tianlai, both of them were very embarrassed, this county magistrate and his wife came here, but they paid a lot of money, if they didn't give them this money, this Lu County would not be able to get up.

Although they have not seen any results yet, the wool has been processed in the workshop, and they have all seen it, and the kind of wool made can be woven into sweaters, and they think that it will sell well after they come, and they just wait for the silver to be brought back later.

asked the magistrate to take out the money one after another, and I don't know if the couple had considered it for themselves, but they didn't dare to refuse the money, repairing the river was a good thing for the people, in fact, they had long wanted to repair it, but they couldn't get the money, and the rich people here wouldn't give them face.

Now that Tiankuo is willing to do this, it is too late for them to support it, this is really contradictory in my heart, I can only thank and thank you.

Tiankuo and Siqi personally took the donation box to visit the homes of those wealthy families in the county, and after they went, they visited the homes of famous families in the town, but they did not let anyone do it for them, they were always the husband and wife running in person, and Wang Tianxiang and Wang Tianlai also followed.

After more than ten days of busy work, the effect is still not as good as they thought. The magistrate and his wife took five hundred taels of silver, and the people below also had to take out some, although it was not twenty taels of silver, but there were very few more than two hundred taels.

After ten days of hard work, they only raised less than two thousand taels of silver, and this had to be added to the five hundred taels they took out themselves.

Siqi really didn't expect these rich people in this place to be so picky, this is the habit of picking, their own family spends money lavishly, and it has never been very good, and when it comes to things that are not beneficial to themselves, they are unwilling to make a move.

Of course, you can't kidnap morally, should people take out money if they have it? But she was still not very comfortable in her heart.

These people colluded with the people of the government to collect the people's fat and ointment, and there was also wool sold in their hometown, but not only the price sold by the local people, but it was more than several times, I think it was because these rich people here bought it at a low price, and then sold it at a high price.

In fact, she doesn't have much confidence that she can change these people, so she can only work hard with Tiankuo Duonu, if only she could do without their help, or if she can find someone who can calm them.

It's already the twentieth month of the lunar month, and the number of people who come to visit the house is obviously much less than during the Mid-Autumn Festival, probably in the past few months, the couple has not shown any intention of wanting to make friends with these people, so they don't come to the knot.

In a poor county in a small place, it is better to use that money to honor a bigger official.

It doesn't matter if you don't come, you will be upset when you look at those people, and none of them are sincere.

This time, their plan was less effective, and Siqi didn't give up, but the New Year is coming soon, so there is no need to toss this matter anymore, so let's be busy with the New Year.

A few days ago, Tiankuo had already sent a letter to his home, and two days ago he received a letter from home, and he brought a lot of things.

Siqi finally ate the sausage he wanted to eat, and the Wu family prepared more than 30 catties of bacon sausage for them, as well as Siqi's favorite spicy pork ribs, and the Gu family also prepared a lot, which was enough to eat.

It's cold and snowy here, and it's not good to make sausages, but you can put it when you take it, and you can freeze it directly in the snow.

Tiankuo sent a letter to Zijun again, asking him to come here for the New Year, Zijun has not yet started a family, and he will not go back at such a long distance, and he can be regarded as being with his family when he comes here.

Siqi plans to let the four people who helped the family go back on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, and these days they have to trouble them to buy things at home.

There are few shops in the county, close to the end of the year, and it is snowing heavily, and it is not easy to send things outside, and the local people keep adding things to their homes, which is really not easy to do, but fortunately, they have bought almost everything they want to use.

After living for a few days, he finally had a New Year's appearance, and everything he wanted to eat had been bought, so he thought about letting them go back in advance.

At noon on this day, I was eating, and suddenly heard someone knocking on the door, Siqi was startled, Tiankuo sat next to her, touched her hand, "It's okay, I'll take a look." ”

As soon as he got up, Yongqing outside had already run out, glanced through the crack in the door, saw the people outside, was a little worried, and ran back again.

"Old lady, it's a bandit, hide it."

As soon as he heard this, Tiankuo and Siqi frowned at the same time, bandits? This is good, why did the bandit come? I haven't heard of bandits in this place? Is this still a county seat, so rampant?

Siqi asked him again, "How do you know it's a bandit?" They've got guys with them? Say what you don't have? ”

Yongqing shook his head, "I didn't bring a guy, only a few people, but I know the person who is in the lead, he has been active on our side before, he is indeed a bandit, although he does not seek money and kill, but looking at the strange infiltrating people, I saw him once, I always remember it very clearly, I heard that they are no longer in the local area, I don't know how to come back, and they are standing outside at this time." ”

As they spoke, someone outside knocked on the door again, but they never spoke.

Siqi always felt that something was wrong, so he asked Tiankuo to take a look, Tiankuo walked to the door, did not speak, glanced into the crack in the door, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and directly opened the door.