Jianghuai Zeye, the moonlight is faint.

A piece of "driftwood" floats on the surface of the river, moving slowly along the waves.

Suddenly, a huge wave rolled up, hitting the "driftwood" and sinking into the water.

The fat catfish holds its white belly, swaying, its mouth keeps spitting bubbles, and its long whiskers flutter to the sides along the water waves.

Unable to move and roll in the water with the waves, regain balance, and silently stare at the fat catfish.

In the middle of the night, the fat catfish felt that the one-man show was boring, and the ink-like fins cooperated with the long whiskers to point.

Unable to move, he turned around and came to the lotus root field, beckoning a round head and a fist.

The four beasts gathered together, their heads touched, each with its own movements, bubbles from time to time, and finally separated, and the fat catfish ran to the old clams to make a gesture.

"I should be careful to guard the lotus root, and I should not worry."

Receiving a reply, the fat catfish shook its head, took the lead, couldn't move and put its limbs together, followed closely, and followed with fists and round heads.

The old clams have no hands, otherwise they will touch the shells high and low.

"It's strange, I've never seen such a smart beast."

The longer they spent with the water beasts under Liang Qu's command, the more amazed they were at the wisdom they showed, which was not at all what their current strength should have.

Just one is not a coincidence that can be explained.

An ancient relic that can be enlightened?

The old clam felt that he still knew too little about the world.

I hate not reading when I was young!

……

The fat catfish took the lead in braking, and the three beasts stopped one after another.

The fist braked in time, hit the butt that couldn't move, and was kicked.

The fat catfish pointed ahead, and the three beasts all lay on the ground, moving little by little, through the dense aquatic grass forest.

Crawling out of a certain range, the fat catfish took the three beasts to probe slightly.

In the distance, a monster larger than anyone present was lying on its stomach and napping in the water and grass.

Covered in red scales, with four legs, a long tail, and long spiny fins on the back, the muscles bulge under the wrapping of the scale armor, and the body is extremely majestic and burly.

The fat catfish fin pointed at the crimson water beast and patted his white belly.

He couldn't shake his head, his claws dotted his scales, and then stretched out to the crimson water beast.

The round head looks left and right, opting out of the argument.

Robust, cute, fat.

Liang Qu issued a new order to the three beasts, requiring them to find qualified water beasts and try to be one level higher than them in strength.

He was worried that the four beasts could not understand the meaning of these three adjectives, so they meant that they could not move like crocodiles, which represented robustness; Like a finless porpoise with a round head, it represents cuteness; Like a fat catfish, it represents fat.

Every time you judge, the four beasts must gather together to make a decision.

The two beasts were arguing whether the water beast in front of them was more like an immobile beast or more like a fat catfish.

Apparently, the fat catfish got something wrong.

Quarrels.

The two beasts decided to put aside the dispute for the time being and wait for the gods to decide.

The fat catfish brought a stone and pressed it under the aquatic weeds as a marker, and withdrew from the territory of the Crimson Water Beast.

……

Money! Money! Money!

The gongs are noisy and the birds are flying.

"Summer tax is collected, summer tax is collected! Pay the grain on the port, pay the grain on the port! ”

"Summer tax is collected, summer tax is collected!"

The piercing sound of gongs was like a tidal wave, and the noise was loud.

Liang Qu, who was asleep, opened his eyes and suddenly got up after hearing the shout.

"Pay taxes? Oops, I forgot to buy grain! ”

Liang Qu lifted the thin quilt, put on his pants, and was about to tie his belt, when he suddenly fell back to his seat.

"I'm dazed, I'm an official now, and I don't have to pay taxes."

Liang Qu held his head.

A false alarm.

I came back too late yesterday, and trained with a mirage for an hour, and I never thought that I would sleep until the hour.

Although it is not too late at eight or nine o'clock, most people get up when the rooster crows, and it is really something that a loser can do when he sleeps until the hour.

Suddenly woke up, no longer sleepy, Liang Qu got up, and received a message from the fat catfish.

"Found the right offering?"

Liang Qu looked overjoyed, but he didn't expect to see good news when he woke up.

The river god festival will start soon, and the matter of the sacrifice must be completed as soon as possible.

He immediately put on his clothes, washed up, took Fubo and an iron anchor, and when he went out, he saw Chen Qingjiang and his father Chen Renxing, who were pushing a cart and going to pay taxes.

Say hello.

Only then did the two people who were buried in the cart notice Liang Qu.

"Ah Shui! Going out? ”

"yes."

Liang Qu stepped forward and put on the handle.

He has a lot of strength, and with one hand, he can make the cart full of four stones of grain and six hundred catties of rice move smoothly, and there is nothing to do with Chen Qingjiang and Chen Renxing.

"No need, no weight, just two of us."

Chen Renxing hurriedly dragged Liang Qu's wrist, but he couldn't move it, like an old tree that had taken root.

"It's okay, I just went to the port, when did Uncle Chen buy the board car?"

"I bought it two days ago, thinking that I would have to pay taxes soon, I had to move the grain myself, I bought a board car, and I also planned to buy a donkey! In the future, I will pay the grain and pull the donkey, I will be enough alone, and I will not be able to come out without my father! ”

Chen Qingjiang's face was beaming with joy.

"It's a good thing, it's okay to rent it out for people to grind and pull the cart, which is also an income."

Chen Renxing and Chen Qingjiang nodded repeatedly.

With the help of Liangqu's bait, the two Chen families and the Li family, the three families have more than one or two silver dollars of income every day, and they are also a few dollars for the family.

As for taxes, what used to be a matter of months ago is nothing at all.

Chen Qingjiang prepared a full four stones of rice this time, and he was not afraid of the officials' difficulties, no matter what.

Sending the two to the port, there were many old faces who didn't know each other behind the table, and Chen Zhaoan asked everyone to divide the team and line up one by one.

Liang Qu also saw Chen Jiechang and Li Libo's two families, although they were river officials, they were not in the grade, and they still had to pay taxes.

Seeing Liang Qu's figure from a distance, several small officials hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.

"Master Liang."

The county orders of flowing water and the iron-beaten officials are all locals, how can they not know Liang Qu, the "head snake".

Liang Qu looked around, but he didn't see the little official who collected his money during the autumn tax, and he didn't dare to come.

He turned around and pointed to Chen Qingjiang, Chen Jiechang, Li Libo and others in the crowd.

"Let these people hand it over first, the loss of one stone and one bucket is almost the same, on top of this, how much should it be, don't make it too difficult for the villagers."

For the strange is not strange, and the clarity is not excited.

Previously, Xu Yuelong asked Liangqu not to be too clean in Fengbu County, but he later understood that there was not so much messy reason.

Just one, there are few saints in the world and many ordinary people, everything is spotless, and no one will take you to play next time.

So Liang Qu didn't embarrass the little officials too much, and the loss was counted, but don't go too far, and the whole other people's wives will be scattered.

"Yes, yes, yes."

Several officials hurriedly said yes.

"You've worked hard."

Liang Qu as a wrestler.

"Liang Ye is hard, Liang Ye is hard."

The little officials bowed down again and again, watched Liang Qu untie the rope of the boat, drift away, turned out the household register, turned around and shouted.

"Next, Chen Qingjiang."

"It's coming, it's coming."

Chen Qingjiang didn't know why it was his turn so early, so he didn't dare to delay, so he hurriedly squeezed away everyone and pushed the cart forward.

poured out the grain, only to reach two stones and six buckets, and was stopped by the small officials.

"That's enough."

Chen Qingjiang was stunned and hesitated.

Let's not mention that I haven't kicked yet, but I count the three buckets of Xiaoshunzi, and the rules are in order, so it's not enough.

Seeing that the clerk ticked the book, Chen Qingjiang knew that more things were better than less, so he hurriedly turned around and left.

"Eh, this official, this official."

Liang Guangtian pushed and shoved, squeezed away a few people around him, and passed by Chen Qingjiang.

The official did not raise his head, and the urn sounded loudly.

"What's the matter?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, the one just now is my nephew, see if this can ......"

The little official closed the household registration book and looked at Liang Guangtian with a smile.

"Yo, who should I be, it turns out that you are an old thing, don't you think I'm a foreigner, I don't know the relationship between you and Liang Ye?"

Liang Guangtian was frightened and hurriedly said: "That's in the past, it's difficult for every family to recite scriptures, who doesn't have any contradictions, my brothers are still fighting, our uncle and nephew have actually reconciled a long time ago." ”

The little official hesitated slightly.

Liang Guangtian's words make sense, but they ......

He didn't dare to ask Liang Qu if this was really the case.

Chen Qingjiang was stunned for a moment, then turned around: "When will you get along with Ah Shui?" How did I not know? ”

The little official's face immediately changed.

"Old guy get out of the last side for me, and then dare to cut in line, be careful that the master whips you!"