"If you want to know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown!"

Chen Li picked up the tea bowl and took two large sips, seeing the unfinished faces of these guests, a sense of accomplishment rose in his heart.

As a modern person who has been single for 20 years, he has traveled to a dynasty that has never appeared in history, and he can make a living by telling stories in an inn, but he can also end up with food and clothing.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of gongs and drums outside.

"Is this a happy event?"

It has been half a month since I came to this world, and I have learned a lot of information from the mouths of the guests who come and go from the south to the north, for example, in recent years, the Tiantang Dynasty and the Qiang Hu in the north have been fighting fiercely, and the war is continuous.

"Happy event? Sort of. Xiao Er's face was strange, "But then again, Mr. Chen is almost twenty, right?" Didn't think about committing to a family affair? ”

Chen Li rolled his eyes: "If I can find a daughter-in-law, I'm still talking to you here?" Isn't it fragrant when the wife and children are hot on the kang? ”

Xiao Ergan laughed twice: "Mr. Chen is joking, you have a reputation for showing off your talents, and you can reduce taxes by 30%, and with such conditions as you, a lot of girls are willing to marry." ”

"What does marriage have to do with taxes?"

Chen Li didn't understand.

Xiao Er sighed and explained: "Our Tiantang and Qiang Hu are mortal enemies, but after the war is fought, it is naturally the people who wither, I heard that in some places in the north, thirteen or fourteen-year-old dolls have been pulled onto the battlefield, and now all over the country is yin and yang are declining, and the saint and the ministers discussed it and issued a new policy, male eighteen, female sixteen, after this age do not become married, to add three percent of the tax!" ”

Chen Li was dumbfounded.

He also said before that he was so talented and famous, how could he go to the government to pay taxes and be almost indistinguishable from others, so he couldn't wait for the conditions at all, right?

It turned out that the predecessor had been studying for many years, and had not married a wife and started a family, and the part of the tax offset by fame was added back.

"Those ...... outside," Chen Li said again.

Xiao Er glanced at the growing crowd outside and sighed, "These are poor people!" Even if the man is lame and blind and beats his wife, these women must be full of joy and go home with the man who likes them, otherwise there are only two ways, either they will be crushed to death by heavier and heavier taxes, or they will have to follow the government officials to sell themselves in the official Qinglou. ”

"This is really the government's allocation of wives!"

In the feudal era, many people may never leave the village where they were born for the rest of their lives, plus the taxes are heavy, so the criteria for men to choose a mate are very simple, as long as they can have children and help the family, these requirements for appearance and figure are only dared to be thought of by rich families.

These women who can't marry in various towns and villages either have character problems or are lazy.

Therefore, these girls who sent the family team are generally not welcomed.

Pouring the last glass of wine into his stomach, Chen Li patted his stomach and said with a smile: "Eat, go home." ”

Chen Li wrapped the remaining half dish of dog meat in an oilcloth and stuffed it into his arms, said goodbye to the shopkeeper and Xiao Er, and walked outside.

Eating meat is a luxury these days, and it is absolutely impossible to waste it, and you can't finish it and pack it back for supper!

When he walked to the door, the shopkeeper suddenly called: "Mr. Chen, the family sending team is here, you should also go and have a look!" I heard that the war in the north is tight, and the court has issued a new policy, and if the men are over 20 years old and have not yet married, they must be sent to the vanguard camp. ”

"Got it." Chen Li smiled and waved his hand, but secretly cursed in his heart: "What kind of world is this." ”

If you don't get married, you will increase taxes, but if you don't pay taxes, if you don't get married after 20, you will be arrested and confiscated into the army?

Then let's take a look at the girls in the family delivery team first, it's really not okay to go back and ask the shopkeeper to help say the doorman.

Coincidentally, the family delivery party happened to stop at the corner of the street, and the girls were carrying packages of different sizes, looking around curiously, because this might be their future home, and among the passers-by who were watching, there might be their future husbands.

A girl at the end of the team made Chen Li's eyes shine.

The eyebrows are like distant mountains, the skin is like peach blossoms, especially the autumn water-like eyes, which are even more bright and moving.

Chen Li muttered with some doubts: "How could such a good-looking girl fall into the family sending team?" ”

Suddenly, a young man in blue next to him spoke: "This brother, if you fall in love with Lin Dai, I advise you to give up, don't cause trouble for yourself." ”

"You know her?"

Chen Li became interested.

It's not the first time that this girl has been sent to the imperial capital?

"You don't know?"

The young man's face also showed a look of doubt.

The young man seemed to think of something, and suddenly laughed: "Brother Tai, don't get me wrong, it's not that you like Lin Dai to threaten you, but this Lin Dai's life is a curse, I'm afraid that Brother Tai will be blinded by beauty and lose his life." ”

Chen Li couldn't help but chuckle.

He is highly educated, and he doesn't believe in that superstitious rhetoric at all, plus he drinks alcohol, and he is drunk at the moment, and he doesn't care.

"Don't believe it, this Lin Dai's fate is a well-known thing."

The young man saw Chen Li's disdain for this set of rhetoric, shook his right hand, unfolded the folding fan in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "Lin Dai was originally considered to have a solid family, but when she was sixteen years old, her father went out as usual, and met a horse bandit halfway, and was sunk on the same day, and the Lin family almost scattered all their wealth in order to compensate for the loss of customers. ”

Chen Li frowned: "What's this?" The moon is cloudy and sunny, and people have good and bad luck! In these years, it is common for businessmen to encounter horse bandits, and because of this, you say that the girl is a lonely star? ”

The young man smiled slightly and continued: "In the same year, Mother Lin suddenly suffered from a strange disease, often chills, and sometimes fainted. ”

Isn't it normal for a wealthy family to suddenly collapse, huge pressure accumulates, and get sick?

However, Chen Li did not speak, after all, it is useless to talk to people in this era about modern medical theories, and people can't understand them at all.

Chen Li was a little sympathetic to Lin Dai.

In the era when feudal superstition was prevalent, who would dare to marry an ominous person like Lin Dai?

At this moment, Lin Dai suddenly knelt down, kowtowed three times in a row, and choked up: "I am literate, I can settle accounts, and I eat less, please give me a way to live, I must work hard, and be a cow and a horse to repay your great kindness!" ”