Gu Jingyu opened his eyes, he had already come to the next task.

When I opened my eyes, I saw that it was kneeling in front of him, dressed very "magnificent".

Gu Jingyu didn't want to use this word to describe a person, but for a while, he couldn't think of how to say it.

He had seen many nouveau riche in the modern world, full of gold, and dressed in very shiny gold.

Compared with the person in front of him, those nouveau riche don't seem to be so spicy-eyed.

"Master, how should I collect this year's rent, or is it the same as before?"

Gu Jingyu sat on it with his eyes closed, ignoring the people kneeling below.

After a while, a memory of this body appeared in my mind.

This body is an ordinary landlord in Yaoguang Kingdom, and when the original owner was very young, his father and mother left him a lot of wealth.

If some of the following things hadn't happened, then he would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life, and he wouldn't have to worry about making a living.

The original owner grew up under the love of his father and mother since he was a child, and his personality is also very simple and kind, but he is definitely not stupid.

Originally, a person like him would not be in any big trouble if he was an ordinary landlord.

But the problem lies in the mess left by the original owner's father and mother, their family's servant Lin Gui.

Speaking of this Lin Gui, he has been a servant of the Gu family since his ancestors, and every servant is dutiful.

Until the generation of Lin Gui's parents, they still served the original parents.

Unexpectedly, on the way to business again, I met mountain bandits, and none of the people in the group lived, including the parents of the original owner and Lin Gui.

After the original owner found out, even if he was very sad about the death of his parents, he remembered that there were so many people in the caravan, and he gathered a large amount of silver, and settled the old and weak women and children, and gave them a considerable amount of money.

So much so that later, although they were saddened by the death of their loved ones, they did not have any complaints about the original owner.

After Lin Gui received the compensation money, he deliberately pretended to be righteous and awe-inspiring.

"My parents have been following the master since they were children, and this time they were able to go with the master, even if there was an accident, they never complained." Lin Gui stood there righteously and awe-inspiringly, with sadness and stubbornness in his tone.

"Young master, I can't ask for this money! As a domestic servant, it was an honor to die for my lord, and I could not let this money tarnish the loyalty of my parents. ”

The original owner was moved by these emotional words, he was born a person with a temperament, and he also admired people like Lin Gui.

In this way, Lin Gui was left behind, and the original owner trusted him very much.

But it was this trust that made him unable to turn over in his life.

A few years ago, Lin Gui suppressed his temperament and tried his best to help the original owner stabilize the shop.

Several times he fell ill outside, and the original owner was very touched by a person like him and gave him a lot of good things.

These things have far exceeded the compensation of the year by a thousand times.

But in the past few years, I don't know if it's because of my big heart or what, Lin Gui began to act in yin and yang, and began to embezzle.

Every year, a lot of money can be embezzled from the store, and these money add up to enough for a month's tax revenue in the entire Jiangnan.

The original owner trusted him very much, so he never found out that he had lost so much money in his account, but he thought that business had not been good in the past few years, so he lost money very seriously.

Every time he saw Lin Gui's anxious face, the words that the original owner wanted to say were instantly extinguished.

With the connivance of the original owner, Lin Gui's corruption became more and more serious, and his appetite became bigger and bigger.

The money he was greedy for in the shop was no longer enough to satisfy Lin Gui, and he began to turn his attention to the tenants who rented the land.

The original owner's parents left them tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land and all kinds of land deeds.

Of course, these lands cannot be planted by the original owner alone, and they will be rented out every year, and then a certain amount of rent will be charged.

Rent is the share of the grain produced by these farmers.

The annual share is about 20%, which not only ensures the income of the original owner itself, but also prevents the farmers from starving to death because they cannot afford to eat.

Originally, it would be good to go on like this, but one day Lin Gui suddenly said to the farmer: "Master said, the rent collected in the past few years has become less and less, and the rent has risen from the original 20% to 40%. ”

Suddenly, many peasant households sighed, they relied on the harvest from the fields to live all year round, and some families with several people had no grain left every year.

This increase in rent is completely depriving people of livelihood.

Suddenly, the reputation of the original owner was ruined, after all, the rent collected by other landlords was only 30%.

The original owner's insatiable reputation didn't take long for the whole Jiangnan to know.

The original owner still didn't know anything, and even Lin Gui complained in front of him.

"Nowadays, it is becoming more and more difficult for farmers, and they can't eat enough to eat with 20% of the rent, which is really distressing." Lin Gui spoke, very affectionate, and the original owner was also moved when he listened.

"Master, I want to be kind to my old face, and beg the master to reduce the rent for these farmers, and when they finish this time, we can rise again."

Of course, the original owner agreed, after all, the money he had now was completely enough for him to live comfortably for the rest of his life.

Naturally, money is not so important.

The original owner's parents raised the original owner too simply, and they didn't find anything wrong with Lin Gui.

Forty percent of the rent, and he was greedy for two and a half by himself, and he was simply insatiable.

Suddenly, one year, there was a great drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and there had been no rain for almost two years, and even if it rained, it was a light rain, and there was no relief at all.

The farmers really couldn't hand over the harvest, and in the end most of them chose to go up to the mountains to become bandits.

Those who became bandits hated the original owner the most, and if he hadn't collected such a high rent, then they might not have ended up like this.

Even many people have starved to death at home because of such high rents, which caused their children to be unable to eat.

At this time, he had planned to take out the grain in his granary to the farmers in case of emergency, but he was directly hacked to death by the bandits who suddenly came down the mountain.

Even when he died, he didn't understand why that man looked at him like an enemy.

He felt that he had not offended anyone in his life, nor had he been sorry for anyone, and the only thing he felt guilty about was that he was not able to avenge his parents.

It wasn't until he died that he knew the truth, and it turned out that Lin Gui, who he trusted the most, had been lying to him all along.

Even when the bandits came down the mountain, he got the news early, packed up and ran away secretly.

Lin Gui's disguise was so good that it was not the time to detect Lin Gui's concealment at all.

Guess what the identity of the protagonist of this story is!

Hint: The heroine of Tanedawen!

(End of chapter)