Shen Linquan said: "I have to go to the county seat to buy some things, but I rarely go to the county seat, I can't find it, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up, can you accompany me to the past?" ”

Tang Youxiang agreed: "Okay." ”

Shen Linquan was very happy: "Then thank you, I went back and called Lingfang together, let's leave now?" ”

Tang Youxiang asked: "It's quite far, how can we go?" ”

"Yes," Shen Linquan scratched his head: "I'm thinking, buy a carriage by the way, then we have to walk and drive the carriage back, do you mind, I'll carry you for a while?" ”

Tang Youxiang was quite happy: "That's okay, then I'll wait for you at the door." ”

Shen Linquan responded with a smile, and just walked to the door, he gave the dishes to Tang Mingsong, turned around and walked quickly, Tang Youxiang gave him two steps, Mi Bao stared at him and ran away, only then did he put a small horn together with both hands, covered his father's ears, and whispered: "Daddy, don't talk to him more." ”

"Huh?" Tang Youxiang said: "What's wrong?" ”

Fat Tuanzi was worried: "This kind of person who is always smiling and grinning is all cunning foxes, and Mi Bao and Daddy are not his opponents combined, so Daddy must be careful." ”

Shen Linquan walked briskly, in fact, he listened to every sentence in his ears, holding back a smile.

Tang Youxiang also smiled and said, "Okay, Daddy knows." ”

He mainly wanted to meet with his eldest brother, ask him what he thought about Mi Bao, and by the way, he would make a cliché about the arrow.

After a while, Shen Linquan and Tang Lingfang came over, Tang Youxiang left with them, and Mi Bao just went home to take a nap.

Her recent routine is very regular, and the nap time is also very accurate, and she got up after sleeping for an hour, and was watching her brothers practice calligraphy in a daze, when the patriarch outside came.

The patriarch also came to return the bowl, and he also brought two multigrain steamed buns in the bowl.

In fact, he didn't have to do this himself, he just stopped by to see Mi Baoer.

These days, I have long been very familiar with each other, and as soon as the patriarch came, he hugged Mi Baoer aside and asked her, "Mi Baoer woke up?" ”

Fat Tuanzi nodded: "Hmm." ”

The patriarch asked her, "Those fields, you don't have to do anything in the future, you can have a harvest, right?" ”

Mi Bao blinked and cheered up: "That's right, but Mi Bao can also grow vegetables." ”

The patriarch was silent for a moment.

He explained to her in a low voice: "Mi Bao'er, outsiders came to the village today, those people...... We don't know what it's for, grandpa is afraid that something will happen, so let's not grow vegetables first. ”

It's called grandpa here, it's customary to call grandpa, it's used to be called uncle, but Mi Bao feels that he is already a mature social treasure, and he must respect the leader, and the official title is indispensable, so he wittily invented the title of patriarch grandpa, and the patriarch didn't correct it, so he called it so.

Mi Bao waved his little hand indifferently, but his milky voice was full of posture: "The grain has been planted, what is there to hide from the vegetables?" ”

It's also true, the patriarch is really a little undecided, and his hand involuntarily twists the tip of the goatee.

Mi Bao saw it, completely unconscious, pulled his hand away, grabbed it himself, and rolled it seriously with his two small hands.

The patriarch grinned in pain, suddenly thought of something, and suddenly lowered his voice: "Mi Bao'er, grandpa brought the vegetable seeds, Mi Bao'er talked to them, and then, and then everyone took them back to plant, can they live without watering?" ”

Mi Bao nodded: "Yes." ”

"Okay," the patriarch was a little excited, "Grandpa brought the seeds that night." ”

The farmer is not afraid of working more, even if it is a little weird for everyone to grow vegetables together at this time, even if this is covering his ears and stealing the bell, he would rather take one more turn and be sure.

The patriarch left in a hurry.

At this time, Tang Youxiang and Shen Linquan had already arrived in the county seat.

Tang Youxiang's kung fu is good, he is a master among ordinary people, but in the eyes of kung fu people, it is average, and it can't be compared with Shen Linquan, who knows kung fu inside, so they hurried, it was Shen Linquan and Tang Lingfang who held his elbow one by one, and performed light skills all the way, that feeling was quite cool.

It was a little late for lunch, although I was in a hurry, and it was already at the beginning of Shen Chu (15:00) when I arrived at the county seat, Tang Youxiang said: "My eldest brother opened a big car shop here, and on the north gate, he is very familiar with him, and I am also familiar with him, but not as good as him, do you want to go to him?" ”

Shen Linquan said with a smile: "From here to the north gate, it's another leg, and it's not easy to use light skills in front of people, besides, our family doesn't care much about money, do you think this will work, let's go to buy a car first, and then go to the north gate to pick up the eldest brother, and then go all the way back from the north gate?" ”

Tang Youxiang smiled: "Okay." ”

So he took them straight to the carriage and horse shop.

Shen Linquan did not spare the silver, and after he went, he bought it smoothly, and he also bought an extra donkey cart, and brought an open-top carriage at the back, which was convenient and solid to pull things.

After buying it, I drove directly to the north gate, and soon found Fan Weiquan.

Then I hurriedly bought things.

The family came lightly, and they had to buy everything, clothes, bedding, food, fruits and vegetables, and utensils.

Although Shen Linquan said that he asked him to bring it, they actually entered the store by themselves.

After all, in a small county like Dongfeng County, all the people who come and go are acquaintances, they are originally fresh faces, and they are so generous, and they will definitely attract people's eyes if they spend a lot of money or something, so don't let them follow, and when the time comes, just push a few words, otherwise it will be passed around, in case it is rumored that some rich people go to Taoyuan Village, and there will be incidents in their lives.

Now that there is a drought, many places have run out of food, and it is impossible to be too careful.

Since he was thoughtful, Tang Youxiang accepted his kindness, and followed his eldest brother from a distance, talking in a low voice.

Uncle Fan had obviously thought about it a lot, so he whispered to them: "You are right to hide it, and it is also right to guard the village, no matter what you say, it is not impossible to survive this month first, and when the time comes to pay taxes, keep a snack, and hide it." But ......"

He had a headache and pouted his teeth: "However, there are too many villages with difficult days, all of them!" At this time, the big guy, what to say, that is, guarding the hanging rope and dreaming, a day before the harvest, you can still grit your teeth and lie to yourself, and boil down, but at that time, there is no hope, no one knows what will happen, a little spark can be fried!! The people of your village can never go out for the rest of their lives? When the time comes, when you look at your face, you will not be a starving person. ”

He paused: "Take a step back and say, even if no one sees it, people are really forced to do that, no one will calm down and think carefully, knowing that there is no food in your village, there may be people to rob it, because your village is small, young and strong, and it is a strict place, it is easy to guard at this time, and when something happens, it is easy for people to close the door and grab food." ”

Tang Youxiang's brows tightened when he heard it: "Then, what should I do?" In many places, not a single grain of grain can be harvested, and people are starving to death everywhere, for three years! The county master doesn't care? He's not afraid of making trouble? ”

Uncle Fan smiled bitterly and shook his head: "In the past few days, I have specially inquired, our county master is still quite young, less than thirty." Three years ago, I was in the Jinshi, and I heard that I married a wife in the capital, and then I put it here to be the magistrate. As a result, the year was unfavorable, three years came, three years of drought, and this person still drank with the literati all day long, held literary meetings, chanted poetry and did the right thing, and didn't care about anything......"

He lowered his voice: "I heard that he is still hiding the matter of our arrears here, I am afraid that he will not be an official...... But it's bad to hide it, if you don't hide it, don't say anything else, at least you can reduce taxes, or don't collect taxes directly, you have powerful parents and officials, and you can ask the court for silver for disaster relief or something! Just because it's hidden, there's nothing! ”