Who knew that a few days later, they heard the news that their country was fighting with its neighbors, and that the war was suddenly coming, and everyone was panicking.

The village chief was also called away by the town mayor, saying that there was a meeting, and it was estimated that there was any news to inform everyone, and the people in the village were patiently waiting at the door of the village chief's house, wanting to know what news the village chief could bring back.

When the village chief returned, his face was ugly, he kept smoking, and there was no response to the questions of the villagers, and everyone was speculating whether something had happened.

After a while, the village chief spoke, "Alright, everyone come here!" The mayor of the town notified one thing today! ”

Hearing this, everyone became nervous, "Village Chief, what's going on?" ”

The village chief sighed and said: "Today, the mayor of the town came to us to talk about the problem of taxation, and everyone knows that we have suffered disasters around us this year, and it should be reduced or not collected, but the news we got just now will not be reduced, it will increase by one percent." ”

"What?" Everyone was shocked when they heard this, and they couldn't believe it.

"How do we live? There is no harvest of this wheat at all, and now we have to increase taxes, what can I do? ”

"Yes, let's all die, where can we afford such a high tax!"

In previous years, the tax was to pay a part of the harvested wheat, but this year if there is no wheat, you have to give silver, and the people in the village are not rich, who can pay the tax with how much silver!

The village chief shook his head when he heard everyone's words and said, "It's useless to cry now, you all hurry back and see how you can find a way to get enough money, right?" Otherwise, the tax collectors will definitely not let us go. ”

What the village chief said is indeed the truth, those who collect taxes are all people raised by the yamen, and they are not easy to mess with, knowing that they can't complete the task and have no way to hand over the errand, so they are all vicious to the villagers, and everyone dare not mess with them.

After hearing the words of the village chief, everyone was silent, and finally they slowly turned around and went back, and they all had to go back to their own homes to see what else could be done now.

Yan Haodong and He Kexin returned to their homes, and the two of them were also talking about it, Yan Haodong said: "Now this situation must be paid, people in the village generally don't keep the wheat, in previous years, they sold it after paying taxes, and then went to buy coarse grains and came back to eat." ”

He Kexin also nodded and said: "Who knew it would be like this, this neighboring country took advantage of our country's suffering and deliberately started a war, wanting to see if it could get benefits!" ”

Yan Haodong said with some worry: "If they really rob the city, our life will be even more difficult." ”

Luo Ming, who they thought was leaving, came over in a hurry that day, and after seeing their husband and wife, he said anxiously: "I'm leaving, I have to go to the battlefield now that the war is going on, there are many injured people there who need me." ”

He Kexin and Yan Haodong paused for a moment, no one thought that he was a dignified prince, a world-famous miracle doctor, who would actually go to be a military doctor, and it was understandable to think about it, he had his own responsibilities, "Okay, we know, you can go!" ”

Luo Ming took off a piece of jade pendant from his waist, "This is my jade pendant, if you encounter any problems, go to the medical center in the county town to find someone, the people there know this jade pendant, they will take you to meet my people, and someone will definitely help you then." ”

"Thank you."

Luo Ming nodded and got on the horse and prepared to leave, Yan Haodong and He Kexin's eyes were red, He Kexin turned around and ran towards his home, Yan Haodong opened his mouth and said, "Wait a minute! ”

Luo Ming turned to look at him, He Kexin ran out, with a bag of pastries made by her in her hand, "This is what I made for my family, you take it to eat on the road, you must pay attention to safety, we will wait for you to come back!" ”

Yan Haodong also immediately spoke: "Protect yourself, we are waiting for you here!" ”

Luo Ming's eyes were red, and he nodded and turned around and left with the pastry He Kexin gave.

Luo Ming also left, Yan Haodong and He Kexin understood that the battle must be very tense, otherwise Luo Ming would not need to leave.

Soon the people who collected the grain tax came, and the people who came this time were all tall and big, and they looked very powerful, and after arriving at Qingshui Village, those people said loudly: "The people in your village hurry up and pay the tax, and we will leave, if anyone has other thoughts, we will not be polite." ”

Although everyone was very unhappy about having to pay taxes, now that they heard what these people said, they didn't dare to say anything, so they could only obediently prepare to pay taxes.

But everyone is not rich, this little family is more than one or two silver, and more is nearly three taels of silver, so much money is simply killing everyone!

Those people don't care about this, some people are reluctant to stretch out their hands all the time when they give silver, they are unhappy, they will directly stretch **, and some will scold a few words.

Seeing this scene, Yan Haodong's heart was not comfortable! These are all his fellow villagers, but now he feels very uncomfortable when he sees everyone like this.

Thinking about whether there would be a way to pull the people in the village in the future, Yan Haodong's family did not have to pay taxes because they had no land.

But he didn't know that the Yan family was going to put their family's taxes on Yan Haodong's body, and when it was time to pay the taxes, the Yang family said to those people: "Ladies and gentlemen, our family has no money, that's my son, he is very rich in opening a shop in the town, you can ask him for tax money." ”

Those people glanced at Yan Haodong and said to the Yang family: "You go to him yourself, we don't care about your family affairs, we just need money, if you don't have money, we will arrest your man!" ”

Yang's face was ugly, she knew that she would definitely not be able to ask Yan Haodong for it, so she said to these people, she wanted these people to ask for it, they are all people with status, if you want it, Yan Haodong will definitely not dare to refuse directly, maybe she will have to give the silver.

Yan Haodong looked at the Yang family, and snorted coldly in his heart, he didn't expect that his mother would still fight this idea, he was called by the village chief, in order to protect the people of his village at a critical moment.

There are young adults here, and those people don't dare to mess around, but who knows that their mother actually has such thoughts.

The Yang family came to Yan Haodong slowly, and said very arrogantly: "Your family doesn't need to pay taxes, right?" Your father and I raised you after all, so you can help us pay the taxes, right? ”

Yan Haodong sneered and said, "Why don't I need to pay taxes, isn't it because I left the house when I separated?" Mother, you're still here saying this kind of thing, which makes me feel like you're making fun of me! ”

Yang's expression changed for a moment, and then he said indifferently: "You are so capable, you have opened a shop in the town, where do you still need land, our family has so much land and tired people's money for a year, you don't have more than a day, are you still worried?" Are you human? ”