After eating Laba porridge, after Laba, Sanniang's house began to break ground.

Just like what she said, there was only one family separated from Luo Shi's house, and she didn't have the money to build a courtyard wall, so she only used a fence to enclose a small yard, and she said that when spring begins, she will plant some gourds and vine-climbing flowers and plants.

In the courtyard, only a north house is planned, the east side is a stove room connected to the bedroom, in order to be able to heat the kang in winter, and a utility room is built in the west, and Niu Qian does some carpenter work in it on weekdays.

Put the pit in the backyard, just dig a big manure pit. It looks similar to the original thatched hut, but it has less money and time, and it is more humble than it.

A few craftsmen and masters were invited, and Niu Qian followed to help, and a group of big men carried tools to dig the foundation.

Luo Shi borrowed her own stove room for Sanniang, and helped make lunch together to serve the old men.

Although it is not as rich as when she built a brick house, because Sanniang is used to cooking vegetarian dishes, it may not be very shabby.

cut the fennel, shiitake mushrooms, and dried tofu into small cubes and mix them, and make a pot of vegetarian pies; There are also fried noodles with chili and shiitake mushrooms; The spicy vegetarian shredded pork that was originally sold didn't need to be mentioned, so it was naturally fried in a full pot, and it was accompanied by a pot of cabbage noodle soup.

Cool the cakes, put them at the bottom of the food basket, and then knock the bowl lid on the plate to keep warm, and carefully put it in.

Luo Shi and Sanniang each had a food basket, and they also asked the pocket to carry the noodle soup can, and the three of them went out of the stove room to deliver the food together.

Bypassing the Niu He family's house, there is a spacious land in front of the eyes, and the mud is turned everywhere, but there is no one to be seen.

"What's the matter, people? Did you take a break and go to my house to eat? Luo Shi turned her head to look around, and wondered.

"We didn't meet each other when we came out just now, shouldn't we go home?"

"Sister! Brother Niu Qian is there! Still with sharp eyes, he pointed to the side of Niu He's yard.

Luo Shi hurriedly looked down, and saw that half of Niu Qian's body was blocked by the courtyard wall, and before he could find them, he had already scuffled with a short man on the ground-

"Brother God!" Sanniang screamed in surprise, put down the food basket and ran towards him, Luo Shi pulled her pocket and hurriedly followed.

It turns out that the person who scuffled with him was Ushiga!

Niu He's thin and short man told him to press on the ground and struggle, Niu Gan smashed it with a fist, and Niu He instantly hung up, but his mouth was unforgiving:

"Calf things, Lang Ba Gou thing, you dare to bad Lao Tzu's feng shui, prevent my children and grandchildren from making wealth, I will kill your mother, sell her to the kiln, and call you ......"

The more he scolded, the more ruthless Niu Qian's hands became, and Luo Xi saw that he had already become murderous, and hurriedly said: "Hurry up and stop him, this is going to beat people to death!" ”

Coincidentally, Niu Changgeng just passed by here, preparing to send the New Year's goods prepared by his grandmother to Luo Shi, and when he arrived outside Niu He's house, he heard Luo Shi's cry for help, hurriedly threw the basket, and rushed over-

Seeing the situation, he didn't need anyone else to say anything, he hurriedly rushed to hug Niu Gan's arm, dragged the person off Niu He's body, and gasped:

"Brother Niu Qian, what are you doing, you will pay for your life if you kill him, what do you call Sanniang!"

"He doesn't want us to live as a husband and wife, I, I ......" Niu Qian's body trembled slightly, obviously angry.

"Then you're going to kill him and pay for him?"

Luo Shi was angry with his wooden fish head, and couldn't help but smack him, and then stepped forward to check Niu He's injury, and saw that the human face had swollen into a pig's head, and the side of his mouth couldn't help but bubble with blood, presumably it was the internal organs that injured him.

"Brother Qian, what's going on, let's already say that we should avoid him, how can we get up a house and fight him again?"

Sanniang's face was full of anxiety, checking whether Niu Qian had been injured, but fortunately, except for the crack of the tiger's mouth in his fist, there was nothing serious, there was blood in his fingers, and he didn't know if it was his or Niu He's.

"This Niu He's heart is too bad, he knows that I broke ground today, yesterday he buried saltpeter and sulfur in the ground, and when we got off the hoe, he came to throw the fire fold, and the Dashan brothers told him to blow up his hand and send it to the village head Dr. Liu's place."

"Is he crazy?"

Luo Shi really couldn't understand why Niu He was so committed to destroying and preventing social harmony.

"He said that I had broken the feng shui of his house, because I only built a thatched house, which was much lower than his tiled house, and it was next to the east wall of his house.

Luo Shi looked confused and looked at Niu Changgeng, meaning: There is still this statement?

Niu Changgeng scratched his head:

"I've heard the older generation say, it's just that our village is not very particular, it's all about shaving in the field, who can be richer than whom, I heard that the house or business family in the city will have this plan"

"Then we can build the house higher, can't we?" Sanniang said

"How can there be such a simple thing, our house is an adobe thatched roof, built high, at least have to build a sand and mud wall, or directly on the red brick tiles, otherwise the house will be easy to collapse when it rains, but now, how can we have money?"

"Vomit ......"

As he spoke, Niu He on the ground suddenly vomited a pool of blood, rolled his eyes, and pouted the next moment!

"I have to rush to the hospital, don't really kill anyone"

Niu Changgeng was about to carry him, but was stopped by Luo Shi:

"He ate his fist in the abdomen, and he vomited blood like this, his spleen and stomach should be damaged, don't you want him to die on his back, and then find someone to carry him, oh! I have a flat cart, a pocket, come home and push it! ”

"Eight, eight, which god beat you like this!"

Before Luo Shi left, a crying mother-in-law rushed over, pushed her away, hugged Niu He on the ground and cried, tossing several times, so that his mouth couldn't stop overflowing with blood.

"Don't fool him, send him to help!" A human life, Luo Shi is also anxious.

"Fuck off! You little demon girl, since you came, our village will stop for a day! I've already reported to the official, and I'll let you go to jail for a lawsuit today! My son is going to die, how much money will you pay for? ”

The person who came was Niu He's old wife, who lived in the east of the village, had several sons in the family, and her husband had died early, and she was so poor that she couldn't afford to build a house for Niu He to marry a daughter-in-law, so at that time Niu He took up the adoption pocket and took advantage of his bad intentions to settle the house.

She was washing clothes by the river, and when she heard that her eighth son had asked someone to beat her, she kept calculating in her heart, just asking someone to pay some money to use, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, she also bought rice and grain for the New Year, and she was worried about this.

Gradually, a gong sounded in the distance, overshadowing the cry of the mother-in-law.

Luo Shi looked up and saw seven or eight yacha carrying a big sign of quiet avoidance, carrying a small sedan chair of green cloth, all the way from the dirt road.

Following the sedan chair, from time to time with his ears to speak, it was Aunt Osmanthus's Niu Baoshan!

It's not that enemies don't get together, today's big gold drum, it seems that someone is going to set up a stage to sing a big show!

The sedan chair landed outside Niu He's house, pressed the sedan chair, and a young man came down.

He wore a sheepskin coat, white bamboo socks, and a pair of dark warm nest high-soled shoes. He had a goatee, sunken eyes, and looked a little overdrunk, and he was in a loss.

Niu Baoshan was the first to see Luo Shi, and raised an inexplicable smile: "Master Huo, this is what I'm talking about, yo, is this still fighting?" I didn't expect that we would catch up with a good show."

When the mother-in-law saw the official coming, she wiped her nose and cried: "The county magistrate came just in time, the bastard of this family beat my son, and begged the lord to call the shots for the mother-in-law."

Niu Baoshan snorted: "I want to sue the yamen, this is Huo Ye, the master of money and grain in Qingshan County."

"Hey Baoshan brother, let's take a rare trip, if we encounter injustices, we have to take action after all, I said old lady, you send your son to treat his injuries first, and when I and Miss Luo Shi deal with business, we will naturally help you get the villain."

Master Huo raised his hand and stroked his beard, and said very politely.

Luo Shi remembered that this Niu Baoshan had a milk brother, who seemed to be the money and grain master of the Qingshan County Ya, and he also left his relationship and sent Xinghua to serve the county commander.

"Master Huo, the little girl abides by the law, has no land or tenants in her name, and has no land rent and land tax owed, I don't know what you want to tell me?"

"The land tax has nothing to do with you, it's just the land tax, the house tax, and the commercial tax that you earn, can you pay a penny and a half?"

Xu was a little tired from standing, he only glanced at it, and Niu Baoshan diligently moved a rattan chair, invited him to sit down, and twisted a soft tobacco to light a big cigarette for him.

"The imperial court issued a report to the palace, and the displaced people registered in the government have been divided into houses according to the head of the household registration, which does not need to pay taxes, and as for the commercial tax, there is no more, and I have not set up a shop, and I have not done the business of salt and copper catties, how can I pay commercial tax?"

Luo is neither humble nor arrogant, she still swallows the clouds and spits out the fog, she puts the truth out one by one, and does not believe that he can lie in the sky.

It's a pity that it's always overestimating the cheeks of shameless people.

When he came, Niu Baoshan had already done mental construction for Master Huo Shi, and he knew that this girl was sharp-tongued, but at first glance, he couldn't help coughing, hiding a little embarrassment:

"The resettlement house is like this, now you have built a brick house by yourself, who approved this land, and you are not from Niujia Village, if you want to move every inch of land here, you have to pay! Today is the foundation, and tomorrow is the cultivated land, should you try the charity hall in Qingshan County? ”

Gritting his teeth, Luo Xian's eyes were bright, and his back was straight: "I only recognize the documents of the imperial court, and I have never seen a list of people who say this kind of thing."

"Clerical ...... Naturally, there is! Since the top takes care of your group of outsiders, you can't make the local villagers too cold, you live in a resettlement house, since you have built this brick house, you should add ten taels of silver tax, hand it over, let's do it today! ”

Don't say ten taels, she doesn't want to give a copper plate.

"I haven't seen the document with the official seal, I will never recognize it, Master Huo, please go back!"

Luo Shi didn't believe that there was such a thing, since he recruited homeless people to settle down, he naturally hoped that the land under his jurisdiction would prosper and tax revenues would increase, and he had never slaughtered outsiders as fat pigs.

Coupled with the relationship between Niu Baoshan and Niu Xinghua, she decided that this was a trick to trick her into the pit.

"Master, don't mess with her, this girl has made a lot of money, you see how long it has been settled, and she has built such a good brick house, and she has made a generous move, I heard that she eats a lot of meat, and the people who work for her are thirty yuan each, which is about to catch up with the landlord's family."

Niu Baoshan fanned the flames on the side, and a few eyes flew over, full of arrogant desire to snatch.

"Brother Baoshan, I know it, it's just that our government does things, we have to follow the charter, and we are not robbers and bandits, so it's not good to understand with her, she only thinks I am jealous of her family's money, and a misunderstanding will damage my reputation and that of our master, right?"

"This Nature"

"Salute first and then soldier, since she is stubbornly resistant, then no wonder me, Xiao Jia!"

He changed his tone, waved his hand, and said coldly: "Smash!" ”