Qiu Bai immediately ran out of the kitchen when he heard this. The two officials looked like ruffians, "What about your family?" ”

"Brother Guancha is good, there are only a few of our sisters and brothers left in our family, what can Brother Guancha tell me." Qiubai had a smile on his face and a humble tone.

A peasant girl, who dared to call herself "I" in front of him, the official with a mustache on the left was a little unhappy, but he didn't have a seizure and only nodded, "Pay the tax." ”

Qiu Bai's mind didn't turn around, and he asked, "Tax?" What taxes? ”

The mustachioed official was extremely unhappy when he heard this, "Last year's drought and locust plague, the adults were merciful and exempted from your taxes, and now everything is fine, do you also have to be considerate and considerate of the adults, and pay last year's taxes." ”

Pay back taxes? Qiubai almost wanted to laugh when he heard it.

Last year, she had also heard about the tax exemption due to the drought and locust plague, but it was said that it was not the old man in the county town who wanted to be exempted from taxes, but the emperor in the imperial city who was far away sympathetic to the common people, and specially issued an edict to exempt the affected areas in the north from paying taxes for three years.

Qiu Bai was angry in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it, "Brother Guancha, I seem to have heard that the imperial court exempted us from paying taxes here for three years?" Her tone was extremely humble, for fear of making the two of them unhappy.

Despite her humble attitude and tactful speech, the two officials were still angry.

A peasant girl, talking to Lao Tzu and calling herself "I", forget it, Lao Tzu sees that she has no father, no mother and no one to teach, so he doesn't care about her, and now he dares to question Lao Tzu's words in person! Look at Lao Tzu if you don't kill you! (These are the mental activities of the mustachioed officer)

The mustachioed official named Liu Laosan was short-tempered, and after hearing Qiubai's words, mung bean's eyes instantly turned into soybeans, "Don't want to pay?" Yes, follow me back to the yamen! After speaking, he reached out and grabbed Qiubai's arm and dragged him out of the courtyard.

Qiubai was taken aback by this sudden change.

Qiu Doudou, who was standing on the side, was stunned when he saw this scene, and after that, he rushed to Liu Laosan, who was dragging Qiubai, and beat him, "What are you doing!" Let go of my eldest sister! Let go, let go, let go! ”

Liu Laosan was very angry, he had been on an errand in Quankou County for almost ten years, and it was common for him to collect taxes, which of these people saw him and said whatever he said with a smile, for fear of offending him, but this year, he was hit by two little cubs!

He was furious, raised his foot and kicked Qiu Doudou to the side, and yelled at Liu Manfu, who was standing aside: "You fucking stupid!" Come here and get this little one back for me. ”

"Beanie! Why are you kicking my sister! Qiu Bai saw that Qiu Doudou was kicked and flew away, and his eyes were red, and his humble attitude was gone, and his face was angry.

Liu Manfu followed Liu Laosan out to collect taxes for the first time today, and he was relatively timid, and when he saw Liu Laosan angry at him, he trembled in fright, and hurriedly trotted over to lift Qiu Doudou from the ground.

Qiu Ling heard what seemed to be an argument outside, and hurriedly ran out of the house, and Qiu Xiaobao also ran out after her ass.

Seeing the scene outside, Qiu Ling was frightened.

Qiu Ling is only ten years old this year, and she is much more sensible than children of the same age due to family reasons, but after all, she is only a child, and she immediately cried when she saw this scene.

Liu Laosan dragged Qiu Bai out, and Liu Yuliang followed behind with Qiu Doudou.

"Big Brother Official...... Big Brother Official! Please, you let my sister and sister go......" Qiu Ling recognized the official errand as soon as she saw the costume, she didn't know what was going on, and she only knew that she knelt on the ground and pleaded.

Seeing this scene, Qiu Bai was angry and regretful in his heart, angry that these officials were no different from bandits, regretting that he shouldn't be impulsive, how much tax money they wanted to give them, how could the people fight with the officials, that was not the same as looking for death.

Qiu Bai was dragged outside the courtyard in three or two clicks, Qiu Doudou kept struggling under Liu Manfu's hands, and his mouth was still scolding, "Let go of me!" You bad guys! ”

"Brother Guancha! Big Brother Official! At this moment, Wang Xuetian suddenly trotted over from a distance, followed by Wang Liang.

"Brother Guancha, the dolls are young and ignorant and collided with you, I will compensate you for them." He kept giving the two of them a beating, and then took out two copper coins from his chest, "Brother Guancha, I gave them their tax money for them, you don't remember the villain, wait for the little one to teach them a hard lesson!" ”

Liu Laosan looked at the two copper coins, let go of his hand, put Qiubai away, took the copper coins offered by Wang Xuetian with both hands and put them in his purse.

"Forget it, no father and no mother, it's normal to have no upbringing." After speaking, he took Liu Manfu to the next house.

When Qiubai heard the words "uneducated", he felt that his blood was surging straight to his head, and he almost scolded back without holding back.

Wang Xuetian hunched his back and watched Liu Laosan walk away before retracting his gaze, looking at Qiu Bai with a stubborn face and sighing, "We are the people, they are officials, we can't afford to provoke us, if you are short of money, just come to me." ”

Qiubai looked at the backs of Liu Laosan and Liu Manfu who were far away, and hated it in his heart, and after hearing Wang Xuetian's words, he said in a relaxed tone: "Thank you Uncle Wang for your help today."

Wang Xuetian waved his hand, "Tell Uncle Wang about this, I have long regarded you as daughters in my heart, if you have anything to do in the future, just open your mouth, if you think it's not good to talk to me, just tell him." As he spoke, he raised his hand and pushed Wang Liang on the side.

Wang Liang nodded hurriedly, and replied in a loud voice: "Mm-hmm."