The officers and soldiers pushed and shoved, and when they went up, they were punched and kicked, "Whoever wants your sweet potato to break the car, if you don't take the money, you gang of people, you are not beaten!" ”

The people around him shook their heads and sighed at this time, and helplessly persuaded the man, "You just pay this money, just think of it as a ruin to avoid disasters, isn't it better to eat in prison?" ”

The man's nose was bruised and his face was swollen after being beaten, and he cried and said, "My family has been an old peasant for generations, and where can I get fifty taels of silver, even ten taels." ”

Layue couldn't bear to see it, so she ordered Mama Chang to take fifty taels of silver to save this person's life.

Shi Yunqing looked at it and sighed, "You shouldn't help him." ”

Seeing that Layue was puzzled, he said, "Now this is obviously the officers and soldiers deliberately looking for fault and collecting money indiscriminately, if you save him, can you save many people?" There are dozens of people at the gate of this city, and you have to help each of them, even if you sell them, you can't help. And, even if you really help, what about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow? Unless there is no one to go through this gate. ”

"You can't watch that person be beaten to death and not save him, right?" Layue was not convinced.

"It's not that you can't save it, it's just that it's not the right way. As the saying goes, the law does not blame the public. If everyone works together and doesn't pay this money, they can still fight. In this situation, what do you let the people behind do? ”

As soon as Layue heard that it was reasonable, she wanted to call Mama Chang to ask for the money back, but Shi Yunqing grabbed her, and said helplessly, "You have given it all, how can you ask for it to come back?" Didn't you kill that man? ”

"So what to do?" Layue's panic also lost her cool, and her brain couldn't turn around.

Shi Yun paused slightly, and ordered the carriage to drive to a remote place on the side in a low voice, and said to Layue, "Wait and see what happens." ”

Some of the people behind took linen cloths and covered crops, and hurriedly took off the linen cloth and threw it aside, for fear of being punished again.

The second was an old man carrying an empty dung basket.

The officers and soldiers looked him up and down for a long time and said, "The two dung baskets are not the same size, and the fine is twenty yuan." ”

When the old farmer heard this, his cloudy eyes widened, "One of the two pairs of dung baskets is broken, is it thrown away?" I've always used it like this, and I didn't ...... before."

The officers and soldiers plucked their ears impatiently, "Forty Wen!" ”

If you don't pay for it, you're afraid that you will be beaten in the end, and you have to take more money. In desperation, the old farmer searched his body for a long time and only got a dozen copper coins, and he held it with trembling hands, and was snatched away by the officers and soldiers and let him in.

Behind him was a vendor selling clay pots, and the linen and cotton cloth of the vendor's clay pots had been thrown away, and after looking at it, he felt that there should be nothing wrong, so he stepped forward nervously.

The officers and soldiers looked him up and down carefully for a long time, lifted their triangular eyes, and said sharply, "What kind of business are you doing?" ”

The vendor hurriedly took out the certificate of selling crockpots, secretly stuffed a silver ingot under the documents, and said with a smile, "The small one who sells crockpots, this is the document." ”

The officers and soldiers took the paperwork and passed the silver by the way, sneered twice, and said, "What you write about the clay pot business, but you don't write about the rope business, and the rope on the car violates the law, and you will be fined ten taels of silver." ”

The man never expected that he would be fined for secretly sending the silver, but the officers and soldiers had already smiled and said, "This depends on your sensibility, otherwise it will be the fate of the first person, understand?"

The crockpot seller thought about it for a while, ten taels of silver was really not a small amount, where did he get so much money from his small business, so he said with a smile, "Official, don't you see that these crockpots have to be braided together with ropes to be reliable?" Otherwise, the carriage will be shattered as soon as it moves......"

"Less nonsense, don't be embarrassed!"

Layue was taken aback, turned around and asked Shi Yunqing, "When did Yecheng get these fines?" Isn't this a matter of human life? Aren't you afraid of the wrath of the public if you indiscriminately accumulate wealth under such a clever name? ”

That's why there are so many forces that are secretly ready to move, just waiting for a little spark in the Great Fu Dynasty to start a prairie fire.

But these are not easy to say to a woman in Layue, so Shi Yunqing only analyzed the current situation in the imperial court to her, "There was a great drought in the Fu Dynasty last year, and the year before last was a snow disaster. The imperial court did not reduce the taxes, but gave them, and they couldn't collect taxes everywhere, so they had to think of these things to fine. ”

"Does the court not care?" La Yue was sad to hear it, and thought of the Xue family's sisters and brothers, maybe Ludi was even more difficult than them here, and the people had already been displaced in advance.

"Shi Gong...... Yunqing, you have walked a lot outside, have people been displaced in many parts of the country? La Yue's mood was a little low, "Before, I saw that there were suddenly many more beggars in Yecheng, and even Dai Xue was also exiled with those people. ”

Shi Yunqing snorted, "Yecheng is now regarded as one of the top three Taiping city-states in the prosperous number of the Great Fu Dynasty. ”

The prosperity of the top three is now like this, and you can imagine how sad it is elsewhere.

There was silence in the car for a while, but the noise outside the car was still there.

I don't know who shouted, "Didn't someone help pay fifty taels for the first person to pull the sweet potato?" Why do so many help but not help us? Let's go to the man! There is no one who does good deeds. ”

This change was unexpected by Layue, and she looked at the people who were looking for Mama Chang outside in surprise, and hurriedly called Mama Chang into the car.

Shi Yunqing released the sign of the Shi family, and then drove directly to the city gate, the guards guarding the gate looked at the pomegranate flower mark on the car, and hurriedly opened the city gate with a flattering face to let them pass.

Layue said in a panic, "I used to hear my father say that a gentleman does good, and there is a way to do good. I really believe it today. ”

Shi Yunqing turned back to her and said, "Recently, Yecheng is afraid that it will not be peaceful to enter and exit, if there is anything that needs to be done in and out of the city, just mention me, or show me my pomegranate flower silver ball sachet." ”

Layue was still worried about how to transport her batch of apples and pears set by Wei County, but Shi Yunqing could be regarded as relieving his urgent need again.

After the carriage entered the city, she first arrived at the gate of Zhang's mansion, Shi Yunqing personally sent her off, and then thought about it and said, "If I send you back in person, I'm afraid that your mother-in-law will embarrass you again, you can go back by yourself, today is the ninth day of the sixth month, and the day after tomorrow, my mother's Xiaoyun will come to pick you up in person." ”

There is no one in front of the Zhang Mansion, and the heat of the gatekeeper is in the gatehouse to escape the heat, and someone will come out to greet the door.

Layue didn't know about them, so she let Mama Chang help her back, then went back to the room to change her clothes, and went to her mother-in-law to say goodbye.

When she entered her mother-in-law's door, Layue saw that the mother and daughter were listening to a small play, and they looked radiant and happy, and they hated Layue to the bone marrow: thinking that they actually took advantage of their leg injuries to buy the doctor to drug and kill their own lives, she couldn't wait to strangle them with her own hands.