Director Zhang and Mo Chao only have one thing in their hearts, that is, to thoroughly investigate the case.

"What the minister said is true." He bowed his head.

"Chen remembered that Li Shunde came here because he received money from other people's families." The clansmen grabbed the talk.

According to the temper of the chief officer, he had already expelled these people who came to make trouble, but Mo Chao made him patient.

Mo Chao said: "You go on." ”

"I vaguely saw it that day, it seems that the previous master sent someone to come, and he specially looked for Shunde."

"Tell me who your former master was?"

The old man in the clan said: "That's the case, our whole clan used to be members of the Guo family. They have been farming for generations. ”

"Farming for them for generations?"

They are not farmers who divide the land, but the slaves and maids of the Guo family, all of whom are lowly people. Director Zhang flipped through the household registration file, and he realized what was going on.

"Yes, our old lady has sinned and become slaves, so our whole clan is like this. Later, he was assigned to the Guo family and became their slave. Later, because our Li family had a large number of people and were willing to do things for them, they gave us the fields in Linfen, but they were just barely making ends meet. The old man spoke slowly.

Mo Chao nodded to him and said, "So, you have been the domestic slaves of the Guo family since the previous dynasty?" ”

"Yes, because someone in the Guo family has been a state official before, we are all their slaves."

Director Zhang asked, "Who is the person sent by the master?" ”

"It's the Guo family's house slave, I remember his name is Zhang Anxun. That Xun is still the word in the hexagram. This man is not a good man, he has made a lot of money from my family, and he has deducted our reward. On the twenty-third day of the lunar month, he often came to look for my stubble. The old man said indignantly.

"The twenty-third day of the lunar month? Remember so clearly? Mo Chao asked.

"Yes, yes, that day is the time to send New Year's gifts, and this twenty-third day of the lunar month must be delivered, which is set by the ancestors. Hey, wrong, wrong, that's the rule of the Han family. ”

"The Han family you're talking about is the Yingchuan Han family?"

"I don't know if it's from Yingchuan or not, but I remember that it seems to be a matter of Liang, and it's been decades. At that time, there was a man named Han Pei in the Han family who was staying in Jinju. Ah, at that time we were blessed by him, and we were able to live and work in peace. ”

"The Han Pei you are talking about, it shouldn't be Prime Minister Han, right?"

"How do I know, later it seems that he went to Beijing to be an official, and our grandfather saw him, saying that he was not very old and quite handsome, but his younger brother was short-tempered and gave people a look at every turn. But the two brothers don't take it big, and they treat people kindly. In that chaotic year, we were lucky to meet such a person. You must know that those who dance knives and guns are really murderous without blinking, and the old lady survived at that time all because of the Han family. ”

The old man sighed helplessly: "Jinju is gradually settling down, so we will farm for them." If the year is not good, we will go, and we will not go back empty-handed. Oh, and then the one surnamed Han fell ill and went to see the eldest girl of his family. And later, because the years had been too long, the land was given to us. I didn't want something to happen, and the people in the clan teamed up with the bandits, and as a result, the whole clan was not enslaved. We also came under the Guo family. ”

When people are old, they talk a lot, but Mo Chao still has to remind Zhang not to be anxious, and they listened to his story patiently.

Master Zhang asked: "You are both working for the Han family and the Guo family, so which family are you considered slaves?" ”

"We must be counted as the Guo family, then the Han family is no longer in Jinju, so the land does not belong to them. Besides, now is not the time of the week, this time is different from the past, so isn't the Han family still down? After so many years, that piece of land has long become the Guo family. ”

"I see, so are you still in touch?"

"With whom?"

Mo Chao preemptively asked: "Is there anything to do with the Han family?" ”

"Ah, the descendants of the Han family are not good, and they don't remember that there is a group of us for a long time. In the first year, we went to Beijing to visit, and when we heard that their family was down, we still looked at it, but by that time, the Duke of Jin had died, and the descendants were scattered. He worshiped his master Guo Xian. ”

Director Zhang asked, "Guo Xian?" Guo Xian, you say? ”

He was afraid that the old man's words would be unclear and he would hear it wrong, so he specially asked again.

"yes, it seems like he's still a big official. However, the Guo family treats us really thinly, and after the New Year, we don't give things and don't say anything, and we still ask for more things and more money and food every year. But we are poor, and there is no way out, where will we get the money to fill their bottomless pit? When it was sent to Beijing, it was just ridiculed by them. "The old man's anger is a little unstable.

"You speak slowly, I'll let someone bring you a mat, you speak slowly."

After the old man sat down, he said leisurely: "We have no money, and during the Chinese New Year, we can only borrow money from the official of the Guo family in Jinzhou, so we have always owed money, and they actually opened their mouths and asked us to pay back 10,000." ”

"To tell you the truth, I was thrown here, and I sighed secretly in my heart."

"Heh, they're all hard-working people."

"My relatives and friends are all in Chang'an and Luoyang, and I have traveled thousands of miles to Chizhou, of course, I am very sad." Ji Ying's words changed, "However, since life is thinner than paper, what is there to be afraid of." As long as you stand on top of 10,000 people, no matter how miserable and miserable it is. ”

He took a big gulp of wine and continued to chat with Wei Heng as usual.

"Alas, I heard that the girl was released, but her whereabouts are unknown." Wei Heng said.

"Although there is no intersection, it is a great luck that she can get out of danger safely, and I hope she can leave Chizhou, the land of right and wrong, with peace of mind." Ji Ying has different hearts, with her stubborn nature, how could she slip away obediently, and she will definitely want to save the others in the prison.

That girl is clearly a kingfisher who is not willing to be restrained. Even the shiny feathers that peeled off from the fight to the death did not hesitate to fly fearlessly into the abyss of despair.

He moved his lips slightly, and muttered to himself, "So stupid, but so moving." ”

The wine was strong, but Ji Ying didn't feel anything, and praised while drinking: "It's really good wine." ”

Wei Heng used wine to vent his dissatisfaction. Ji Ying didn't dislike this stinky drunkard, but handed him sobering soup and found someone to carry him to another place to rest.

Then, Ji Ying looked at the dark night sky alone. I stayed up all night, quietly guarding the gusts of mountain wind.

"You're not going to the state to turn your fortunes, are you?" Yuechi muttered in his heart.

Sure enough, the monk really ran to the state office, but he didn't go in, and was stopped by the official at the door before he broke in.

"I said, you came all the way here, just waiting for others to catch you."

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