Chapter Twenty-Eight: White County
But no matter how dark it is, it still has to be handed over.
As the saying goes, the people don't fight with the officials.
Not to mention that they are new to the city, even the aborigines here have no reason to deal with the government.
Su Yuanshan showed a reluctant expression on his face, turned around, counted six taels of silver from his purse, and handed it to the official master as a pretending to be heartbroken:
"Official, this is the money our family has been saving... Can't it really be less? ”
When the official saw the silver, his eyes lit up, and he quickly snatched the silver in his hand, his eyes were still spinning, staring at the remaining silver in his purse.
The official cleared his throat and said, "Ahem, in fact, you foreigners who have fled from other states want to settle down in my Yongzhou, and there are still some rules to know..."
As he spoke, the official man stopped talking, his eyes kept looking at the purse, and the meaning in his eyes was self-evident.
Su Yuanshan gritted his teeth, handed over the entire purse to the official, and said in a respectful voice:
"Our family is a newcomer, we are not familiar with the place, and we still need a lot of advice from the little official, this bit of silver is our family's heart, please be sure to accept it!"
The official smiled with satisfaction, checked his purse, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became stronger, "I can't talk about advice, that is, you have to go to the county seat to register as soon as possible, if it's late, maybe you won't accept refugees." ”
Su Yuanshan nodded hurriedly, and after mediating for a while, he sent the official away.
"Guest, don't be heartbroken about those money, there are many taxes and miscellaneous taxes nowadays, and there is an inexplicable tax from time to time, as long as you can keep it safe." The old woman said in a calm tone.
"Alas, the family can't squeeze out any money at all, I don't know when I'm the leader this day!" The old man sighed, turned around and went back to sleep.
Su Yuanshan's face was not good, although their family had a lot of silver, but they were suddenly cheated with a bag of silver, and it was fake to say that they were not heartbroken.
Zhao patted Su Yuanshan's hand, "It's okay, the large amount of silver tickets is here, the day after tomorrow, we will go to the county money village and exchange the money." ”
Su Buxian yawned, and Zhao hurriedly urged him to go to sleep.
Faintly, Su Buxing seemed to hear Wen's cry and Chen Wanli's cry outside.
Su Buzhen didn't care much in his heart, as long as their family was fine.
This night, the mourning in the village did not stop.
Because everyone in the Su family was too tired, they were not affected in the slightest, and Su Buzheng also cultivated diligently until dawn.
It wasn't until noon that everyone got up leisurely, washed up, and had lunch under the hospitality of the old couple.
After the meal, Su Yuanshan and Su Buyi went out to inquire about the news, and the Zhao family went out to find the villagers to buy food, and Su Buyi was still nesting in bed.
Su Buwei pulled Su Buwei in the courtyard, first tied the horse step for an hour, and then found a wooden stick to compare and practice swordsmanship.
After moving forward with a heavy load some time ago, Su Buwei's strength has become greater, and his heart has become more tenacious, and he has been able to calm down and concentrate on sword practice.
In addition, Yi Jin has washed the marrow, and at this time he has become a martial arts wizard, as long as he polishes it a little, he can turn from a jade to a beautiful jade.
Peaceful times always pass very quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it is sunset and dusk.
Zhao asked the villagers to buy a bag of corn, sweet potatoes, a few pieces of pickled bacon, spent a lot of money to buy two sharp firewood knives, and inquired about where the village water well was.
After escaping from the famine, they had nothing left, and no matter where they wanted to make a living in the future, they had to have food and weapons in their hands.
Su Yuanshan and Su Buyi also came back, they found out that this place is not far from Bai County, every morning, there is an ox truck in the village to take the villagers to the county to buy, as long as one person pays a big money.
After eating in the evening, Su Bujing filled half a cup of Xianfu water from the waterfall in Xianfu, diluted it and let each member of the Su family drink a cup as a daily nourishment for the body.
At dawn on the second day, Su Yuanshan and Zhao took their four children to bid farewell to the old couple, got on an ox cart at the village gate, and slowly shook it to Bai County.
After the ox cart drove out of the land of a shot, in the distance, Su Bu seemed to hear Wen's voice again:
"Chen Yuan! Your father was official... Took... You've got to stand up... Farming..."
Although the voice was intermittent, Su Bujing could still vaguely guess what happened to the Chen family.
It's nothing more than that when the people from the government come to collect taxes, their family can't pay a huge amount of taxes, and Chen Wanli, who is in his prime, is dragged to work as a coolie.
It's just that I pity Chen Yuan as a child, and he is about to be forced to grow up.
In these troubled times, I don't know what will happen.
After Su Bu thought about it for a while, he no longer thought about the Chen family, sat on the ox cart and leaned leisurely on Su Buwei's shoulder, looking at the scenery along the way without hurry.
The village is about an hour and a half drive from Bai County.
After the ox cart arrived in Bai County, the villagers on the cart carried their own things on their backs and went to sell them to earn some change and spend it.
Su Yuanshan and Zhao led the four children to the county government office in Bai County, explained their intention to the official on duty at the door, and were taken to an office inside.
In the room sat a man over forty years old, with a well-maintained beard, dressed in a brown wide-sleeved collared official uniform, and with a jade pendant of translucent color around his waist, with a proud expression.
"Where are you from?" The man in the official uniform asked with his chin raised, his eyes looking Su Yuanshan up and down unscrupulously.
Su Yuanshan took a step forward and said, "The grass people and their family were persecuted by the True Dragon Army and fled from Qizhou..."
The man in the official uniform interrupted sharply: "What real dragon army? Don't talk nonsense about ignorant old men! That's the rebels! ”
Su Yuanshan hurriedly changed his words and said: "My lord is right, it's a rebel!" Those rebels have harmed people a lot, we were forced to leave our hometowns, thinking that Yongzhou was rich and healthy, so we went through a lot of hardships and fled to this place, hoping to get the shelter of Yongzhou! ”
The man in the official uniform touched his beard with satisfaction, nodded and said: "Well, our Yongzhou is indeed too civilian, even if we don't close our doors at night, we won't be robbed, and the lord of Qinzhou is kind and generous, and accepts refugees, so you are in the right place." ”
"Take out your yellow book and look at it."
Su Yuanshan took out the yellow book and handed it to the man in the official uniform.
The official man glanced at it casually, curled his beard and said:
"It's okay with the yellow book, but you came too late, the villages around Yongzhou have been filled with the previous group of refugees from Yuanzhou..."
Su Yuanshan took out the filial piety silver money that he had prepared last night and pushed it into the hands of the man in the official mansion, "My lord is accommodating, our family just wants to live in Yongzhou." ”
The man in the official uniform weighed the weight in his hand, calmly held the silver money in his arms, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was a little sincere:
"Seeing that your family is honest, let's do it, I'll give you an idea, if you still have spare money in your hands, hurry up and rent a yard in the county to settle down, and then find a job, this has a livelihood, you can come here to register with me, and you can also settle down in Bai County."
Su Yuanshan had an idea in his heart, and led everyone to say goodbye to the official man and leave.