Feng Xu said that since Mrs. Ning asked them to move out of Ningfu, she just didn't want them to get involved anymore.

At least on the surface, they'd better not make people feel like they're related.

Therefore, even if you want to date, it is best to do it secretly and not on the surface.

After all, in Mingzhou Mansion, Lai Xingchun is still staring at the Ning family!

Chen Huilan listened to Xianggong's words to persuade her, so she could only sigh and nodded in agreement.

Therefore, even if Ning Yongye High School was the head this time, Feng Xu did not go to Ningfu to say goodbye.

Although he also won the show, his ranking was average.

During the congratulatory banquet, even if he toasted Ning Yongye, he was standing at the back.

Of course, with his ranking, it is normal to stand at the back.

After the completion of this imperial examination, it will take three years before the township examination will be held.

Although there is a coil given by his father-in-law, plus the silver taels that Mrs. Ning asked them to leave, they can barely afford the expenses of these three years.

But Feng Xu still wants to find a way to make money, so as not to make the family sit on the mountain.

Unexpectedly, Ning Pengpeng actually asked Steward Jiang to contact him privately and asked him if he would like to go to Nanyue Mansion together.

It's just that on the side of Nanyue Mansion, Ning Pengpeng doesn't want to come forward by himself.

After thinking about it, he could only find Feng Xu and pretend that he was the owner who came to do business.

Hearing Old Madam Ning say this, Feng Xu didn't say a word, so he nodded and agreed.

When the group sat in a carriage and swayed all the way to the city of Nanyue, it was already more than ten days later!

Along the way, Ning Pengpeng saw that there were many ordinary people on the road who were dressed in rags, with hungry faces and thin faces, like disaster victims, supporting each other and walking slowly on the official road.

Originally, Feng Xu saw these people like this, and wanted to give them the steamed buns in his baggage, but Ning Pengpeng grabbed him and resolutely asked the coachman to hurry up and leave these people.

Feng Xu was very surprised to see Old Madam Ning make such a decision, but he also knew that Old Madam Ning was not that ruthless person.

Since she is blocking herself, there must be a reason for her to stop her.

But Rao is like this, Ning Peng Peng's carriage is stopped by these people from time to time to beg for food and drink.

In the end, it was Qing Niang who swung a whip on the ground vigorously, pulling out a deep mark, and these people shrunk their necks and avoided it with a frightened look on their faces.

But when they arrived at the city of Nanyue, they found that although there were few people in this city, they were not like the people they met on the road before.

However, the emaciation on the face is real.

Ning Pengpeng did not go directly to Ning Laosi and Liu Hu, but found an inn to live in.

Then when Xiao Er was sending hot water, he inquired, and found out that Lord Futai of Nanyue Mansion had come up with a new way to collect money.

Anyone from a fishing village who wants to go into the city to sell fish has to pay a fish tax in addition to the poll tax.

For example, if a fish is sold for ten yuan, the government has to levy a tax of six yuan.

In fact, whether you sell fish or meat, you have to pay taxes in this way.

Most of the fish that he caught in the sea with his life fell into the hands of the government.

The rest of the silver is not even enough to repair the fishing nets.

It is equivalent to saying that you have to pay for it at the risk of death.

Who wants to do such a thing?

Therefore, in those fishing villages near the sea around the city of Nanyue, many people feel that they can't survive.

After all, although they can catch fish and eat, they can't help but eat other things and buy cloth to wear.

But if you want to buy anything in the city of Nanyue, whether you buy or sell, you have to pay 60% of the tax.

Hearing this, Ning Peng Peng remembered that it was no wonder that she lived in this inn, and the price of each room that the shopkeeper wanted was much higher than when she came with Pei Yan.

It seems that this sixty percent of the tax is also included!

But after this inn minus the taxes paid by Ning Pengpeng and them, and then the taxes paid by the inn, the remaining silver is pitiful.

So, you really can't say that this inn is a black shop.

It can only be said that this Lord Futai of Nanyue Mansion is really a master who can squeeze all the stones out of oil.

And the people Ning Pengpeng and the people they met along the way were really unable to survive in this Nanyue Mansion, so they would find a way to escape from this homeland.

In some cases, entire villages have fled the famine.

If it continues like this, it is estimated that it will take a few years, and the population of Nanyue Province may not even be comparable to that of Hu County.

However, this has no impact on Chen Futai.

After all, he had already planned to return to his hometown when he had collected enough money.

As for when it will be enough to loot, isn't this now that these jian people can still squeeze out the oil!

So, there's no rush.

Feng Xu listened to what Xiao Er said, and his whole body trembled with anger.

Unexpectedly, this Chen Futai, when he was a second-class master, only thought about collecting money, and didn't care about the lives of the people.

Ning Pengpeng's face was also very ugly, after all, when she followed Pei Yan to come, this Nanyue Mansion did not have such a level.

But now, after entering the city, she can clearly see the depression on these originally lively streets of Nanyue Province.

It is not an exaggeration to even say that ten shops and nine empty shops.

Therefore, after Ning Pengpeng freshened up, when she went out to look for the Ning family's north-south thirteen line grocery store according to the address given by the fourth child, she found it at a glance.

It's not how lively the Ning family's grocery stores are, but the few shops in this row are open.

And the Ning family's grocery store is the best business among the few that are open.

"Mother, when did you arrive?

Why don't you let someone notify me and Brother Tiger first?

If I had known, Brother Tiger and I would have gone to pick you up at the city gate. ”

Ning Laosi was smiling and buying things from the customers he had entertained before, and when he turned his head, he saw Ning Pengpeng standing at the door, smiling at him.

Startled, he immediately jumped up, hurriedly came out, and after letting people look at the shop by himself, he helped Ning Peng into the courtyard behind the store.

When Ning Pengpeng was standing outside the door just now, he saw the guest received by the fourth child, and after buying something, the fourth child threw sixty percent of the silver coins in the box on the side.

And the remaining forty percent of the silver was thrown away by the fourth child in another place.

To tell the truth, the remaining forty percent of the silver is not enough for the capital of the things sold by the Ning family.

But before arriving at Nanyue Mansion, Ning Laosi swore a poisonous oath in front of Ning Pengpeng that he would definitely act like Liu Hu in this Nanyue Mansion.

Unexpectedly, this Chen Futai was the jackal who couldn't be fed.

And that Master Mao, compared with Chen Futai, is just a little more tactful, and the face of asking for money is exactly the same.

The silver sent by Ning Laosi before, Master Mao only received it not long ago, and now it has begun to stop again!

In order to calm things down, Ning Laosi could only knock out his teeth and swallow them in his stomach, trying his best to meet what Chen Futai and Master Mao asked them to do.

It's a pity that Chen Futai and Master Mao are direct ways to make money.