The old lady Zhou and the stewards of the Zhou family, who sensed that something was wrong, stopped a family that wanted to move away secretly.

This family is the same as most people in the village, although they are surnamed Zhou with the old lady Zhou, but they live a poor life, working in the fields day and night, and after paying the rent and taxes stipulated by the imperial court, there is basically nothing left.

In the past, the family, like the rest of the village, spent most of their time on wild vegetables and grass seeds to feed their hunger, and in the case of drought like this year, they would peel some bark and dig up some grass roots to cope with eternal hunger.

Facing the Zhou family steward and a group of subordinates who blocked the way, the family who originally planned to quietly escape from Zhoujia Village late at night was terrified.

In Zhoujia Village, Mrs. Zhou is the sky, and the stewards and subordinates of the Zhou family are the hands that Mrs. Zhou stretched out!

In this era when the influence of the clan power in the local area far exceeds the national law, any disobedience to Old Lady Zhou may incur the most severe punishment!

Although the family couldn't tell what was wrong with moving out of Zhoujia Village, they vaguely felt that this kind of moving behavior must be hidden from Mrs. Zhou and the Zhou family.

"Ergou daughter-in-law, if you don't sleep at night, where are you going with your mother-in-law and children?"

The steward of the Zhou family blocked the way, and his gloomy face flickered against the background of the torches held by the people behind him, really like a demon in the underworld.

"Third uncle, the second dog has been detained in Elm Bay for a long time, a few days ago I listened to the old man and went to Elm Bay to make trouble, but those people in Elm Bay are hard-hearted, and they refuse to let the second dog come back!"

On weekdays, I saw the second dog daughter-in-law who couldn't even say a word to the housekeeper of the Zhou family, but at this time, she answered very quickly, as if she had practiced countless times before, "I just thought, Yushuwan must be because I didn't make a lot of trouble enough, so I took my mother-in-law and the children to make trouble together!"

This old and young man sat in his village, making trouble twice a day, as long as he made a lot of trouble, he would definitely put the second dog back! ”

Looking at the Ergou family with two rags on their backs, the steward smiled sadly.

"Ergou daughter-in-law, you take your mother-in-law and children to Elm Bay to make trouble, this is nothing, after all, the second dog is detained in Elm Bay, you have to go to make trouble with them, one person asks for two taels of silver ransom money, they are more ruthless than thieves!"

Looking at the second dog's daughter-in-law, whose expression was relaxed, the steward's voice suddenly rose and became evil, "But why did you take your belongings to Elm Bay?" Do you want to run away secretly?

You have no conscience, the old lady rented the land to your family to plant, so that your family could survive, and now you want to secretly leave Zhoujia Village, you wolf-hearted thing, are you worthy of the old lady?

Are you worthy of the Zhou family?

Say, what the hell is going on! ”

The steward asked loudly in his voice, in this silent night, it spread throughout the entire Zhoujia Village, how many people woke up in their sleep and listened secretly.

"No, no...... We didn't want to run away, we really wanted to go to Elm Bay to make trouble, and this package brought some dry food, and the old and young ones couldn't starve to death there when they arrived at Elm Bay, right? ”

The second dog daughter-in-law was frightened, but she still wanted to fool the past, and her mother-in-law trembled even more, hugging the two crying children and secretly wiping her tears.

"Dry food? Even people like you are worthy of dry food? ”

The housekeeper of the Zhou family laughed out loud, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, "Usually you dig wild vegetables and peel the bark at home, why do you want to go to Elm Bay and remember to eat dry food?" ”

"Third uncle, isn't this a rich road for a poor family......

"Shut up! Not honest yet! Come on, tie up the second dog family for me! I saw the ancestral hall, and this woman still dares to talk nonsense! ”

The subordinates, who had been waiting impatiently, took out the rope prepared in advance, and regardless of the crying and scolding of the second dog daughter-in-law, they tied up all the old and young in this family, and the crying and begging for mercy shook the sky for a while!

The steward did not let people block the mouth of the Ergou family, but let the family cry loudly, according to the meaning of the old lady Zhou, the people in the village must be heard clearly, dare to escape, dare to betray what will happen to Zhou Jiang!

In the past countless years, being brought into the ancestral hall to be punished was the most feared thing for countless villagers in Zhoujia Village!

Because in this village, if you make a mistake and be beaten and punished, the steward of the Zhou family can decide with one sentence.

But anyone who needs to be dragged into the ancestral hall and accepted the trial of the clan elder and the old lady Zhou must be a great event, in everyone's memory, none of the people who were dragged into the ancestral hall and punished will be able to survive in the end!

The night in Zhoujia Village was exceptionally quiet, except for the barking of dogs in the courtyard of the mansion where Mrs. Zhou lived, there was no sound, and even the crying of the Ergou family disappeared.

Countless people secretly speculated, can the Ergou family survive? In order to move away from Zhoujia Village, to go to Elm Bay for the sake of the family, is it really worth it?

And the words that have been quietly circulating in the village these days say that as long as you are willing to work hard, you will be able to eat enough and get paid...... Is this also true?

If it's not true, why did Ergou's family have to take such a big risk to move to Elm Bay?

No one was able to answer these questions to the villagers of Zhoujia Village, and most of the women who secretly returned to Zhoujia Village with their second daughter-in-law were frightened, and honestly hid in their homes and opened the rag packages that had been prepared again...... Can't others find out that the family also wants to move to Elm Bay!

At the darkest time before dawn, a thin figure quietly touched out of Zhoujia Village, and as soon as he left the village, that thin figure ran wildly!

There is a shortage of manpower everywhere in Elm Bay, and the old village chief and a group of stewards are eager to pull all the dolls wandering around the village to work in the workshop!

For the women and children who came to make trouble in Zhoujia Village, in the eyes of the old village chief and a group of stewards, where is this to make trouble, it is clear that they are here to work!

Don't want to?

It's easy to say, we have never forced others to work in Elm Bay!

Please go to the staff canteen for a full meal first, and then talk about the treatment of working in Elm Bay, but anyone with a bright head knows how to choose!

In addition, those young people in Zhoujia Village who underwent labor reform in the kiln factory were allowed to visit their families.

These young men of Zhoujia Village, who worked in the kiln factory, had to not be tortured as Mrs. Zhou said, but they became fat and strong a lot because they were well fed and well-fed!

Not to mention that Old Lady Zhou is reluctant to spend two taels of silver to redeem them, even if Old Lady Zhou is willing, these people are not willing to leave!

The women who were sent by Mrs. Zhou to make trouble eventually became employees of various workshops in Elm Bay......

At three poles in the morning, the escort team urgently assembled, and under the leadership of the owner Zhao Hengyi, a group of people rushed out of the village on a high-headed horse in full armor!

That murderous appearance makes people look at the straight offender and mutter!

Someone cautiously inquired about the old village chief, and the answer was that the female worker of the textile workshop was privately detained by Zhoujia Village, because the female worker had just signed a debt document of two taels of silver yesterday, so the owner wanted to take the guards to find the female worker back!