Seeing this lonely woman, Wei Xuan asked his companion to bring a piece of bread and hand it to her, the woman hesitated for a moment and then took the bread and kept sending it to her mouth, obviously she was hungry. A palm-sized dough cake she actually sent directly into her stomach in one go. Then his face finally regained some of his life, and a light smile appeared on his face. But he looked at Wei Xuan's empty hands with blank eyes. Wei Xuan knew that he was hungry, and finally met a generous person who was willing to give alms, so he naturally wanted to pull down his face and eat to his heart's content. So he asked the passer-by again for a piece of bread.

The woman then stuffed it into her mouth and chewed it down a little. This time he was obviously full, the smile on his face was brighter, and two rows of teeth came out.

Just when Wei Xuan thought she was going to say something grateful, she found that the woman leaned back, quickly took off her pants, and opened her thighs in the stunned eyes of everyone and said to Wei Xuan and the others: "Come on." ”

Wei Zheng frowned, and Wei Xuan was also stunned, but he soon understood that this woman was trading in this way. She was penniless, and I had nothing to repay. Wei Xuan's heart was sour, he approached, and he could see that under the dirt on this woman's face was a beautiful girl's face. And she gave up the woman's life-like chastity just to thank Wei Xuan for the two cakes.

She thought that the reason why Wei Xuan gave her food was to covet her appearance, and she chose to accept the deal when she was hungry, and it was a public transaction!

No wonder the people around her also avoided her. If the woman is not crazy, she must have experienced something great, or there is a belief that sustains her to live.

The woman saw that Wei Xuan and the others did not move, and was about to take off her shirt but was stopped by Wei Xuan's entourage. The smile on his face also disappeared, and he was at a loss.

Wei Xuan helplessly turned his head and found Chunqin in his entourage with an embarrassed face and asked her to deal with it. Chunqin didn't directly pick up the woman, but the four of them stood in a circle and surrounded the woman in the middle. In Chunqin's opinion, she was a proud sword maid, so she asked people to go to the manor to call two women, and then asked Wei Xuan if he had decided to take this girl in. Wei Xuan thought about it and said that it should be okay to stay in the manor to do some groceries or go to the Wei Mansion to be a servant or something, but he still has to ask him what he means.

Wei Xuan has seen someone on TV in later generations who said unashamedly that it is impossible to work part-time, and it is impossible to work in this life. There are some people whose worldview you can't guess!

After this episode, Wei Xuan's mood became even worse, he thought that he had been mentally prepared enough for the bad situation of this era these days, and now it seems that he was wrong. The Wei family is not the kind of landlord situation such as Zhou Papi, no wonder Zhang Tianshi, Ji Yanqing, Xu and other places responded to the call.

Knowing that the second son was coming, the two stewards of the manor hurriedly came to greet them with people. Wei Xuan ignored their courtesies, but continued to walk through the crowd, and he found that although these people were poor, no one dared to approach within a hundred steps of the Wei family's manor. Obviously, he is afraid of the Wei family. And among them, there seemed to be someone who knew Wei Xuan, and a few old men muttered for a while and then knelt in front of Wei Xuan with a plop.

Wei Xuan hurriedly helped a few old men up and asked, "What happened to your old men?" ”

A few old men wiped their tears, you look at me, I look at you, and then stopped, and one of them knelt down again: "Second son, please forgive me the rent of my house." This spring was hit by a severe drought, with less than half of last year's harvest, and floods in the summer, and little in the autumn. Seeing that the debt collection comes to the door every day, I still want to leave something to eat for the children at home! Next year, as long as the harvest is a little better next year, I will pay it back with interest. ”

Wei Xuan had no choice but to help the old man up again, and then looked at the people around him with anticipation. Just wanted to agree, Wei Zheng reminded on the side: "Zhongdao, this kind of thing can't be easily relaxed, it is difficult for everyone, once you loosen your mouth, everyone will follow suit." There are also problems with the rents of other estates.

There are also many adults in our Wei family, and if the rent cannot be collected, not only will your life be affected, but the lives of the people in the house may become like them. Don't worry about them making trouble and not paying their rent. Later, I will send someone back to inform the government, and ask the Taishou and the county order to come forward to help collect it! ”

Wei Xuan did not refute Wei Zheng, he knew that his brother was telling the truth, the Wei family had so many people to support, and Wei Xuan also planned to expand the scale of the guards, most of which came from the grain and rent paid by the tenants. If a few tenants came forward to ask and casually agreed, what else could the Wei family gain?

As for asking the prefectural magistrate and the taishou to send someone to collect the payment, it was very common in this era, because many times the local governor had to rely on the local wealthy family.

Let's just say that the Wei family doesn't actually need to rely on official power, because the Wei family itself has its own strength, don't look at the sun that day was led by Wang Yue, that Wang Yue is a famous chivalrous man in the world, and the whole Hedong can't find a second one. Moreover, the vast majority of ordinary people are in peace and self-control, and the Wei family has many powerful people, and they can only use this method to seek grace time, and they have never thought of exemption and non-payment! A few thorns can't help the domestic slaves of the Wei family.

But Wei Xuan couldn't watch some people starve to death. So he entered the manor and asked the two stewards to bring the tenants' rents and loans. The person in charge was a shrewd man, and he quickly took out almost all the lease contracts and loan IOUs at the request of Wei Xuan. And by the way, the rent of the tenants around this estate for a year and the amount of all the loans were calculated.

What is surprising is that the annual rent to be paid by more than 200 households in this neighborhood is very limited, and the IOUs are even more varied, such as how many households can repay the cattle after harvesting with a ploughing ox and 6,000 yuan, and a household can borrow two hoes and 300 yuan, and so on, and less than half of them actually borrow money. The key is that the amount is not large, it is hundreds of thousands. In this case, they can't afford to pay it back, which shows that the people around them are really poor and home.

Seeing that the steward came out with a large stack of things in his hand, the people outside the manor who could stand up stood up and looked forward to it, and some sharp-eyed people sighed, it seems that the second son of the Wei family is bringing someone to urge the rent.

Wei Xuan waited for the steward's introduction, and said to him: "Steward Cao, burn all of these!" ”

Steward Cao was shocked, seeing that Wei Xuan didn't seem to be joking, he hurriedly looked at Wei Zheng for help, Wei Zheng also suspected that he had heard it wrong, and hurriedly turned to Wei Xuan: "Zhongdao, no!" ”

"Fourth brother, the Wei family can't collect these rents, it may be that you and I have one less meal or two meals of meat and one less drink. But if these people pay according to this, it is estimated that they will starve to death before winter, and before they starve to death, there will be people in the south who will rise up and make trouble. Not to mention anything else, just by smashing the manor, the loss of killing a few strong slaves in the farm will not be small. Where will there be someone to farm for my family next year? ”

Wei Zheng was speechless, Wei Xuan's logical thinking was obviously beyond ordinary people, he Wei Zheng just thought about the consequences of burning these things, and only thought of the immediate interests of the Wei family. But if the Wei family is due to be called for according to the same agreement in previous years, it is really difficult to say what will happen in the future.

Seeing that Wei Zheng didn't speak, the person in charge hurriedly ran to the manor with the account book and IOU.

Wei Xuan smiled and said to the few entourages he brought: "Stop him, snatch the things in his hand back and order them on the spot!" ”

The retinue brought out from Anyi was carefully selected, not only skillful, but also very loyal. However, Wei Xuan's life was obviously chaotic, so he was stunned on the spot for a while.

But there are four people who are exceptions, that is, Wei Xuan's four personal guards, especially Chunqin, their sisters are all from poor backgrounds, and they had a good impression of Wei Xuan in their hearts when they saw Wei Xuan treating the woman well. Now when he heard that Wei Xuan was going to burn the ledgers and IOUs that were pressed on the heads of the poor people outside the manor, he immediately reacted and led his sisters to chase after the person in charge.

The steward's age of about forty naturally did not mean that he was the opponent of four well-trained guards, and he didn't run a few steps before he was caught up, and then watched in amazement as the ledger and IOU in his hand were taken away, and then lit not far away. Several times he tried to order someone to snatch things back, but was stopped by other guards who reacted.

These things are flammable, and a single fire can burst into flames and quickly consume everything. The steward fell to his knees and wept, and several of the people working on the manor came to persuade him to help him up, but he refused to get up, and cried even more heartbreakingly at the burning fire.

The people watching from a distance were also at a loss when they saw the movement here. In the end, it was Wei Xuan who brought an entourage named Liu Ming from Anyi to everyone and said: "Fellow villagers, my son Xuan is merciful, seeing you like this, I have ordered people to burn your past IOUs, and this year's rent is also exempted." After going back, live well, and strive to get more food next year to repay Xuan Gongzi. ”

Everyone was dumbfounded when they heard this, what is the situation? Looking at the faces of the Wei family on the other side, and the person in charge was even sitting on the ground crying and refusing to get up, and soon someone understood that this might be true. Legend has it that the Xuan Gongzi of the Wei family almost died because he blocked the sword for his father, and he finally became popular, maybe he had some problems with his brain. It's just that you can't do this if you have a problem with your brain, their IOUs are burned, what do you mean, you just don't have to pay it back! And this year's rent doesn't have to be paid?

The crowd quickly gathered around, and even those who dared to run to the fire to pick up those things that had not been completely burned, and found that they could not read, so they took it to the crowd, and everyone saw that this was not the kind of IOU with their own handprints.

So the crowd was in an uproar, and then spread to the hundreds. The people outside the manor knelt on the ground under the leadership of several old men and kowtowed desperately in the direction of Wei Xuan!