Mu Xiaowan sighed deeply, and then told me what happened.

The village where Mu Xiaodui is located is called Qingyu Village, Qingyu Village is named after Qingyu Paste Mountain, although Qingyu Paste Mountain is famous for the cultivators of the ten continents in the whole sea, and even some Chinese cultivators also know Qingyu Paste Mountain, but the people who live here do not know the special nature of Qingyu Paste Mountain, because Qingyu Paste Mountain is surrounded by cliffs, no one goes up, the lower part is ordinary mountain stones, and above the clouds is jade, and the clouds and mist over there do not disperse all year round.

There are seventy or eighty families living in Qingyu Village, and five years ago, the Mu family and the Lu family were just neighbors, and at that time the Lu family was just an ordinary village resident who made a living from hunting.

The relationship between the Lu family and the Mu family has always been very harmonious, the Mu family has four people, Mu Xiaodui and her parents and sister Mu Xiaoxi, Mu Xiaodui was beautiful, when the Lu family was not an official, he once wanted Mu Xiaodui to marry into the Lu family and marry Lu Yuandi, Lu Yuandi was also very infatuated with Mu Xiaodui and wanted to marry her.

Although Mu Xiaodui and Lu Yuandi grew up together, Lu Yuandi's personality is very irritable and his conduct is also very poor, so Mu Xiaodui has no feelings for Lu Yuandi at all, not only Mu Xiaodu, everyone in the Mu family doesn't like Lu Yuandi, because he knows that chickens and dogs are thieves all day long, and he doesn't do his job.

The Mu family did not marry their daughter, the Lu family was very angry, they felt that the Mu family was disgusted with his poor family, so they gave birth to an inexplicable 'poor ambition', and since then they have broken off the relationship with the Mu family, and there has been no contact between neighbors, and I don't know what the reason is, in the winter of five years ago, Lu Yuandi's father entered the foot of Qingyu Paste Mountain during a night hunt, and then for some reason, he got into a relationship with an immortal master, and then was directly promoted to the county order.

Lu Yuandi's father was called Lu Wang Zhou, and after he was promoted to the county order, he began to take revenge on the Mu family.

Yingzhou's taxes are actually not heavy, and only one stone of rice is needed every year. (A stone here is about a little more than 100 kilograms, only a stone before the Qin Dynasty is more than 100 kilograms, in the Tang Dynasty, a stone was only 53 kilograms, and in the Qing Dynasty, a stone of grain was only 28 kilograms, so the appearance of Yingzhou was definitely before the Qin Dynasty.) ）。

The Mu family has four people, and they have four acres of fertile land, this place has beautiful mountains and rivers, no drought and no waterlogging, and it is not difficult to pay a stone of taxes a year for this planting area.

But after Lu Wangzhou became the county commander, he began to secretly attack the Mu family, and he would secretly send people to pull out all the crops that were about to mature from the ground every year, and even poisoned the Mu family, making Mu Xiaodui's mother delirious.

Because of Mu Xiaodu's mother's illness, the Mu family was bankrupt and not cured, most of the crops were destroyed, and the family was only enough to make ends meet, and the taxes could not be paid at all.

According to the law of Yingzhou, failure to pay taxes for five consecutive years is a felony, and firstly, the house will be raided, and secondly, the women in the family can be sold by the local county officials to the rich family as maids or concubines to deduct taxes, while the men will be assigned to work in the quarry for free until they die.

The Mu family is an honest farmer, although they know that the situation at home has become like this because of the Lu family, but the Lu family is a county order, and under this social system, the county order is equivalent to the royal law of this place, not to mention that the Lu family is very obscure and does not leave evidence, even if there is evidence, it is basically impossible for a common person to bring down a county order.

Therefore, the Mu family is now forced to this part, and there is no way at all.

Lu Yuandi also became the pavilion chief of Qingyu Village under his father's relationship, this pavilion chief is equivalent to the village chief, the purpose is to collapse Mu Xiaoxi's family and turn Mu Xiaoxi and Mu Xiaoxi into his concubines, but now Mu Xiaoxi is still young, Mu Xiaoxi didn't tell her about it.

Mu Xiaohui told me that Lu Yuandi told her a few days ago that as long as she was willing to cooperate and obediently be his concubine, he would not embarrass her parents, but Mu Xiaohui knew very well in her heart that what Lu Yuandi said could not be done at all, even if she obediently became Lu Yuandi's concubine, her life would not be easy, and her parents would not have a good time either.

When Mu Xiaowei said this, the expression on her face was extremely lonely, I asked her why she didn't flee with her family, she told me that the household registration system here is very strict, if you go to other places if you don't have an identity, you will be arrested directly, if you are caught because you break the law, you will be executed with a cruel criminal law, and no one can escape at all, because if you run away for a crime, you will be wanted by a reward on the whole continent.

Therefore, in Yingzhou, civilians who have not committed crimes dare to run away at will. Families like Mu Xiaodu, who don't have any backing, dare not run away.

That night, Mu Xiaodui kept talking until more than four o'clock in the morning, and by the end, Mu Xiaodui was numb, and there was no fear or sadness in her words, just a kind of unwillingness and complaint about fate.

"It's almost dawn, Shen Gongzi, how are you now, can you go? I'll send you away, even if it's just my house. Mu Xiaowan stood up and said.

I smiled and said, "Miss Mu, you can still save Shen in this situation, Shen is grateful, you don't have to worry, I'm not leaving, I have a way to help you." ”

"What can you do? Shen Gongzi, I have probably checked your injuries, to be honest, I didn't expect you to wake up, what can you do now? Mu Xiaodui looked lonely, turned his head and walked to a dilapidated cabinet, took out a dark blue bag from it, and then untied the burden and leaked out the usual copper coin.

Mu Xiaohui took out the copper coins and walked up to me and said: "Shen Gongzi, there are a lot of jade bottles in your baggage, those jade bottles are very valuable, you have to take good care of them, don't let others know, your injuries are too serious now, use these copper coins to see a doctor first, and then use those jade bottles to exchange for some money after your illness is cured." ”

"Those jade bottles are valuable?" I asked, a little confused.

This is Qingyu Village, there is a green jade paste mountain, there is jade on it, and the color is no worse than my jade bottle, why are these jade bottles so valuable in Mu Xiaodui's eyes? No wonder Mu Xiaodui was stunned for a moment after seeing my jade bottle before.

Mu Xiaodui nodded and said, "Yes, jade is more valuable, but there is no jade currency in circulation in Yingzhou, so it can only be sold to antique shops or pawnshops, and you can exchange it for some silver taels." ”

"Then I'll give you all the jade bottles, and you can exchange them for silver taels, can you pay taxes?" I asked suspiciously, in fact, I don't need to give her the jade bottle, I just want to know what kind of woman Mu Xiaodui is.

Mu Xiaowei nodded and said: "It can be, but it's Shen Gongzi's own thing, I can't ask for it, and now there is not enough time, when the rooster crows in a while, Lu Yuandi will come with a messenger." ”

Looking at Mu Xiaodui's appearance, I knew very well in my heart that when she saw my jade bottle, she must have wanted to ask me if I could give her the jade bottle, if so, she would definitely have enough time to raise enough money, but she didn't ask, and the reason was just that it was my thing and she couldn't ask for it. Such a woman, I don't know whether to call her stupid or kind.

"Well, Miss Mu, do you believe me?" I said suddenly.

Mu Xiaowan glanced at me suspiciously, looked at me with a pair of spiritual eyes, and said after a while: "Shen Gongzi, I believe in you, I know you want to help me, but there is no room for turning back in this matter, you better not take risks for our Mu family." ”

"Miss Mu, I'm an outsider, you said that the household registration management here is very strict, even if I leave your house, it will be a dead end, because I have no identity, so helping you is also helping myself." I said seriously.

Mu Xiaowan nodded silently and said, "Okay, Shen Gongzi, what do you say I should do." ”

"If I take out something very important and give it to Lu Yuandi, ask him to ask his father to come and see me, and then ask his father to contact the immortal master to come over, how long can I delay?" I asked, confused.

Mu Xiaowan thought for a while and said, "It's going to take about two or three days, Shen Gongzi, you want to contact the Immortal Master?" No, this is too risky, the Lu family has a good relationship with the immortal master, and the immortal master will not call the shots for us. ”

"Hehe, I don't want that immortal master to be the master, by the way, Miss Mu, the immortal masters here are all from that sect, do you know?" I asked, confused.