"Ouch, patronizing Gorou, I forgot about it!"

Gao Shi increased his forehead with his hand and said busily: "It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, the matter has come to such a point, if you don't solve it quickly, I'm afraid it will be a long night."

Then you call her in, and I will tell her clearly so that she can do her work!" Chunfang came out with a promise and beckoned the woman in.

Lao Pozi was standing under the porch with a sore back, and when she saw this, she hurriedly gritted her teeth and entered the house, giving Gao a salute first. Gao's heart is much more comfortable, looking at her, he knows that he has been standing for a long time, and he can't help it.

asked someone to move over the Jindun to let her sit down and talk, and instructed: "You just heard it, the eldest sister of the Chen family came to my house in a panic when she had an accident, and now she has been sent back."

Oh, it wasn't me who told her to go back, it was she who thought about it all night and came to tell me in person this morning.

Alas! To say that he is a sensible and good child, it's a pity that her family has nothing to do with my Li family.

That's why I called you. Don't worry, Sister Hui will definitely have something to say to her family when she goes back, and her family will not rely on you if you go to get married.

Originally, her family hurriedly sent Sister Hui over to marry my family Goro, and even brought the dowry.

Our uncle was suspicious and sent someone out to inquire, and only then did he know the plot of the Chen family's crime. Although the lady of the Chen family loves her daughter with all her heart, she has taken a stupid move, how can she do such a thing?

No matter how my family is, they won't ruin their son's future because of this bride price, right?

Alas! To put it bluntly, this is a major event that shocked the world and is not trivial. Although Chen Jun and my deceased husband have the same year and fellow villagers, we can't afford it!

You have to make this clear to her family when you go.

As for those dowry ....... Gao nodded at Chunfang, watched her turn into the back room, and took out a bag after a while.

Gao pointed and said: "It is inconvenient for us to return the food and clothing, and it has been converted into two hundred taels of silver."

Jewelry, gold and silver, utensils, I asked the butler to ask someone to estimate, and they were folded by one thousand taels, a total of one thousand two hundred taels.

They were all exchanged for small silver tickets of five taels, ten taels, and twenty taels, which was convenient for them to use on the road.

The contract between the land and the shop has not been touched, and if the Chen family also wants to exchange it for a silver ticket, I can help them come up with a number. ”

Saying that, Chunfang had already put the burden in the hands of Mrs. Lao, and put a small silver ingot of only five taels on it. "This is your reward, grandma rewarded you, take it."

"It's ......." Mrs. Lao made a hesitant look and looked at Gao.

"Take it. Maybe she still has something to bring from her family, and we can't come out, so we have to bother you a few times.

You also need money to make a difference. This matter is over, I'll give you another five taels! Gao said.

"Oh, then, then I thank the second grandmother!" Mrs. Lao was overjoyed, and quickly folded her hands and bowed to thank her.

Gao Shi made a unbearable look, waved his hand and shouted: "Chunfang, you send it to the Lao family." Do it well, be sure to let her family write a divorce document, and ask the Li family for the bride price! ”

Mrs. Lao was promised benefits, and her heart was much calmer. Thinking about it and looking at the face of the silver, he opened his face and went to take this trip for the second grandmother of the Li family!

So Chunfang sent it out, and still went to the side yard to find Ma Jiu, and asked him to drive to Chen's mansion.

At this time, a young servant with a water and fire stick stood in front of Chen's house, and when he saw the mule cart stop, he asked with a smile: "Uncle Ma Jiu, your family is so busy today!" First of all, I sent the eldest lady of the Chen family home, who are you going to send at this time? ”

Mrs. Lao opened the sedan curtain and grinned, bluffing the servant to take a step back: "The Lao family? What are you going to do? Why don't you come to the door at this time to propose? ”

"It's not a proposal, it's a divorce!" Ma Jiu replied expressionlessly.

"Divorce?" The official pursed his lips with disdain: "It's strange that I sent the eldest lady of the Chen family back, it turned out that I disliked her family!" ”

"You know the! A lot of nonsense, be careful when your father is looking for relatives, I'll find you a big-mouthed! Mrs. Lao glared at the boy, raised her legs and walked inside.

"Yo, who is talking so hard?"

As soon as the words fell, Wei Xiong held the handle of the knife with his left hand, and flashed out of the shadow of the ticket door with his right hand behind him, looking at Lao Pozi condescendingly, and the matchmaker shrank back in fright.

"Oh, scare me, it turns out that Wei Ye is on duty?" Mrs. Lao immediately put on a smiling face.

Wei Xiongke is different from these officials, they are the official officials of the county government, equivalent to the "civil servants" of later generations, and the 20 or so people under him are actually helpers, that is, "temporary workers".

The establishment of the county yamen is limited, and there are master books, officials of each room, and Zhaomo under the county honor, and the head of the torture room and inspection, and the lowest is a warden like Wei Xiong. What should we do if there is a shortage of manpower?

The number of servants depends on how much the local government can bear, and those who have more money can call for a few, and those who have less money can use fewer people.

According to the system of this dynasty, the county servants should be apportioned to the lower Baojia, and each family took turns to send strong men to the county to provide for the envoys. The people were not happy, because the forced labor of the strong men would affect the farm work and production.

So the county respects everyone and charges an extra two dollars a year for each family, so that you don't have to send people, and the county hires people to serve for you. That's where helpers come in!

The people felt that they would not delay their homes and that the losses were bearable, and the county was able to settle idle people and stabilize law and order.

It is an ordinary warden like Wei Xiong, who can also lead more than a dozen or twenty idle servants with his "organized" status, and the fox and fake tiger are not majestic.

In the eyes of ordinary people, although this kind of person is a little ghost, he can't afford to offend, so when Mrs. Lao saw him, she accompanied him carefully, while telling him that the second grandmother of the Li family sent her to withdraw from the marriage, and quietly put one or two heavy pieces of silver in his hand and asked him to make it convenient.

When Wei Xiong heard that it was the envoy of the Li family, he raised his eyebrows, coughed loudly and warned her: "Don't be verbose, do things quickly, don't make trouble for me!" With that, he waved her hand to let her in.

Ma Jiu didn't say a word when he saw it, grabbed the mule cart from a distance, and squatted down to take out the fire sickle and smoke it.

Wei Xiong was a person from the yamen, and he knew that this old man was not easy to mess with when he retired from the army, so he ignored him.

Unexpectedly, the pot of cigarettes had not yet been smoked, but the entrance of the alley was won by horses' hooves.

At the head is Zhou Dutou with two tolerances to open the way, and the two behind are wearing crimson flying fish suits, leather belts around the waist, and below are the captains in riding brocade clothes who are dragged by the black ground and pleated rivers and seas.

"Yo, this is Master Tiqi!" Ma Jiu muttered, and then saw a blue sedan chair behind him turn around, and the county lord Fan also came.

Wei Xiong hurriedly ran out and greeted him at the door.

The two lieutenants jumped off their horses and came to the door, the older ones stroked their beards and looked up at the plaque of "Ti Xuefu", frowned and asked, "Is this here?" This Lord Chen is an official in Jiangnan, why is his family so shabby? ”

"Back to the adult's words, it is indeed true here. Chen Shi'an's parents died early, or the Yue's family sent him to study and take the imperial examination, and now there is only one wife, one concubine and two daughters in the family, and there is no male child. ”

Fan Xianling was a little fat, but he still tried his best to carry the front swing of the official robe and trotted from the sedan chair to catch up with the captain's question.

"Huh? It's not written on the paperwork, where did the concubine come from? The lieutenant was also a little confused.

"Oh, that was the dowry that his wife brought when she got married, and at the end of last year, Chen Shi'an took over the house when he returned to his hometown and province.

However, at that time, only more than ten people including Xia Guan were invited to be present to testify, so many people did not know.

Thinking that he would go back to Nanjing to take up his post, he had an accident before he could report it to the ministry, so the document only wrote his wife Chen Wei, and there was no concubine Chen Song. ”

Fan Xianling explained while wiping the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief.

"Oh, I see." The lieutenant muttered for a moment.

At this time, the younger one looked at Ma Jiu next to him vigilantly: "Hey, who are you?" Didn't he say that he had to watch the door, why did he still have visitors to his house? He turned his face and asked Fan County.

"Uh, this ......?" Fan Xianling immediately glared at Zhou Dutou.

Wei Xiong and Zhou Dutou whispered, Zhou Dutou immediately understood, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Back to adults, this is the car of the Li Mansion."

The second master of Li Mansion was the prefect of Dongchang, Shandong Province before his death, and after he died in the line of duty, the first emperor gave him a coffin and a royal pen inscription, and sent him back to his hometown for burial.

The eldest sister of the Chen family and the sister-in-law of the Li family were the doll relatives of Li Wencheng when he was alive, and the local people knew about this.

But now that the Chen family is guilty, the Li family is unwilling to marry this family affair again, so Wenchenggong's widow sent a matchmaker to talk about the divorce documents inside. ”

The two lieutenants glanced at each other, and since they mentioned that the house was made by the first emperor and buried, they couldn't say anything.

It's just that the young man muttered, "Falling into the well, something!" And they were silent, but they did not hear.

The young man didn't seem to be enough, and waved his hand: "Then don't let him squat at the door, like something!" ”

Zhou Dutou leaned over and said softly: "The two adults are angry, if it was someone else, we would have rushed away." It's just that this one is different, so the little ones are more polite on weekdays. ”

"Huh? What's the difference? ”

"Ma Jiuye is now under the custody of the Li Mansion, although he is only a coachman, but he was originally the head of the hundred households of Jinshanwei in the south of the country, and many guerrillas and generals in the south have a friendship with him.

He himself was injured during the rebellion during the Renxuan period, and he retired because of his merits, and he still had the ...... of the martial arts of the loyal and brave captain. ”

"Shhhh......h The young man couldn't help but turn his head and look at Ma Jiu a few more times.

The older one raised his eyebrows, nodded, and said, "In that case, you go and talk to him, and ask him to wait in the shade under the shadow wall."

If you still like the place at the door, we can come back when we are done. After speaking, he greeted the young man: "Xiao Zhao, let's go in." ”

Ma Jiu had actually heard them speak. knocked the pot under his eyes, got up and led the livestock, and walked towards the shadow wall without saying a word.

Captain Zhao smiled and said to the elders: "Uncle Lu, this person has no shelf, he is a good person." ”

Captain Lu shook his head with a smile as he walked inside: "Xiao Zhao, you don't understand, those who survive in a sea of corpses and blood like this are not afraid of anything, and they don't want to have any more rights and wrongs."

A day of life is a day of earning! You'll understand when you've seen blood on your knife. ”

"We're busy with all this, how can I have a chance to see blood? If I go to the battlefield, I will have to earn a hereditary general back! ”

Captain Zhao pouted and followed behind Captain Lu, and said unconvinced.

The Wei clan had already heard the news that Ti rode to the door. When she saw her eldest daughter being sent back today, she knew that the Li family was going to be cleared, and sure enough, Mrs. Lao came.

However, when it came to Mrs. Lao, she took out those silver tickets and explained that the second grandmother of the Li family specially changed some small denominations for ease of use, which made her feel that they were not too ruthless.

The two daughters next to me persuaded me word by word, and she also softened her heart and signed the divorce document. As a result, as soon as Mrs. Lao put away the paperwork, Ti Cai arrived.

The house was full of panic, but Wei got up, put the house deeds and land deeds into the baggage, and asked his daughter to bring the deeds hidden in the cabinet in her house and hand them to Mrs. Lao.

"The Lao family, I have to trouble you to go, bring these to the second grandmother of the Li family, ask her to help us sell them, get the money to deduct the bride price sent by the Li family, and exchange the rest for me for a few large-denomination tickets.

If it's too late to hand it over to me, please put it in Goro's name and take it out to earn interest or manage it, I don't have anything to say. ”

"Alas, grandma is really not easy, it's a pity that your two families have this fate!"

Mrs. Lao didn't want to mix it anymore, but then she felt that there was money to be made, so why should she push it out? So he quickly took it and hugged it tightly in his arms.

"Hey, which one are you? Matchmaker? Go out, go out, are there any idle people who are not here, etc.? If you have one, leave immediately! ”

Captain Zhao scolded loudly, and then stood still in the patio with Captain Lu, and said loudly: "Where is Chen Wei's family?" Please come out and listen to the issuance of the documents from the Criminal Department of Nanzhili! ”

Lao Pozi fled with her burden in the wilderness, came out and quickly found Ma Jiu's mule cart, and urged repeatedly: "Go, go, go back to the house to see the second grandmother, go quickly!" ”

Gao was surprised when he saw her come back, and there were more deeds in the baggage. When I asked, I learned that Tiqi had already entered the door of the Chen family.

"Oh, it turns out that the lady of the Chen family means that. This、Is this entrusting her family's family foundation? ”

As he was talking, Li Shuo came in to greet his mother, and when he saw that Mrs. Lao was also there, he hurriedly asked about the situation of the Chen family. Hearing that Tiqi had arrived, he couldn't help but sit down in his chair.

Gao couldn't bear it, so he told him about the Chen family's entrustment of real estate.

Li Shuo said after a while: "My family is sorry for the Chen family, they can still trust each other, which is really ashamed of me!" What does the mother think about this? ”

"It's ......." Gao looked at Mrs. Lao and said to his son, "Jiao Ru knows that there are two hundred and forty or fifty acres of land here, as well as four shops and a mill.

I mean, now Tiqi is in this county, and if it is disposed of, it will be easy to attract attention. It's better to wait and see, when the old man leaves, it's not too late to talk about what to do with it. ”

"It's up to my mother." Li Shuo raised his head and said, "If it is not disposed of after a month, it will be sent to the name of the son according to what the Chen family said, and when they are released and return, the son will be returned to the Chen family!" ”

Gao was originally the daughter of a small landlord's family, a little greedy, but she also read for a few days.

Thinking that these things are only two or three thousand taels of silver at most, it doesn't mean much to figure it, but it is better to let his son be a good person in front of the labor matchmaker.

So he agreed, "Okay, that's it." Then he rewarded Mrs. Lao and asked her to take the time to go to Chen's house to deliver a reply.

The next day, news came out from the county government that it turned out that the Nanjing Criminal Department of Yingtian had sentenced Chen Shi'an's family to exile in Guiyang, Guangxi, and that the family property had been confiscated.

Chen's mother, Wei and her two daughters, were taken to the county government for detention, and after waiting for the approval of the Jingshi Emperor, they set off for Nanchang, where they joined the escort team and then went south together.

As for the servants in the family, they will be dismissed, and the slaves and maids will be sold separately, and so on.

"Hey, Lao Zhou, why didn't you mention Aunt Song here?" Li Dan invited Zhou Dutou to drink tea in the tea shop next door to Chu Lao'er's sauce shop, and after hearing the news, he noticed the difference.