Chapter 39: Again
But fortunately, Su Yuanshan and Su Buwei were wearing sachets that kept warm.
Every time they shoveled water, they would take off their thick cloaks and go barefoot to shovel water.
Otherwise, I don't know how many sets of dry thick clothes I have to change in a day!
Fortunately, no one saw Su Yuanshan and Su Buwei act like this, otherwise I am afraid that they would have to cry out a few times:
In such weather, wearing so little, and shoveling water barefoot?
It looks like he's frozen stupid, and he's about to return to the west!
When Su Yuanshan and Su Buwei shoveled water, Su Buwei had already boiled the water.
After the two cleaned up, they sat on the threshold in front of the hall and ate steamed buns.
Every shovel consumes a lot of stamina.
"Sister, we still have enough firewood, right?" Su Buwei asked with a steamed bun in his mouth.
Su Bu was shocked: "Don't worry, it's definitely enough!" ”
Su Yuanshan sighed: "It's not easy to buy firewood now, so save it if you can!" ”
Su Buyi looked at the heavy rain outside the window, and began to miss Zhao and Su Buyi again.
Alas! It's raining so heavily, I don't know where A-Niang and Big Brother are from time to time it rains so heavily...
Did they find a place on high ground to take shelter temporarily...
In the evening, the Su family sat around and ate the pot.
Because everyone wears thermal sachets and doesn't feel cold, there is no extra stove.
After all, you can't buy firewood outside now, and the remaining firewood has to be used to boil water for eating, which can save a little.
Everyone ate the pot together, everyone drank another bowl of ginger soup, and soaked their feet in wormwood together.
Then I was ready to go to bed.
However, at this moment, Su Bu was shocked to find that there was a hole in the roof of their house!
To be precise, it should be the weak part of the roof, which was smashed through several holes by the rain.
The holes are located in the corners of the two sides of the hall.
At this time, a few pieces of broken tiles had just fallen from those small holes, and then, like a screwed faucet, the rain was sprayed with hula.
A few drops also splashed into Su Buwei's mouth, which was the closest.
Su Buwei: ......
After Su Buwei screamed twice, he went to the kitchen to get a few wooden basins and put them under the hole to catch water.
But this passive water connection is not a way, you have to take the initiative to fill the hole.
Otherwise, no one can guarantee that the holes will not get bigger and bigger, and then the house will be flooded.
As the saying goes, a thousand-mile embankment collapses in an anthill!
Su Yuanshan turned around to look for supplemental tools, but he could only find a pile of cloth and forage to feed the horses.
There was no way, Su Yuanshan stubbornly went up, and with the help of Su Buwei, he successfully plugged those holes with a cloth and stuffed them tightly.
"Let's sleep together tonight, not only that, you go and move all the bedding in everyone's bedroom, and everyone squeeze it!" Su Yuanshan patted his chest in fear.
Think about it, if Ah Yan hadn't noticed the rain leaking in the house just now, they might have drowned in the rain in their sleep!
There is no alarmism!
Let's sleep together, and if you encounter danger in the middle of the night, you can take care of each other, so that you don't just fall asleep.
That night, the Su family lay on the same kang, covered with a thick futon, enjoying the heat constantly emitted by the sachet on their chest, and fell asleep.
Only Su Bu was surprised.
She held the purse in her right hand, and took the trouble to absorb the aura of the broken spirit stone.
The boring cultivation day after day has long been engraved into Su Bujing's bone marrow, and no matter how many times he is reincarnated, he will never forget it!
Nothing was said all night
Early in the morning of the second day.
After the Su family got up, the first thing they did was to shovel out the water that had accumulated in the yard overnight.
After breakfast, I heard a knock on the door in the courtyard.
"Knock Knock"
As soon as he heard the knock on the door, Su Buwei's heart tightened, and he rushed to the front of everyone, picked up the sword from the side, and looked ready to attack.
Now it's not only cold outside, but it's also raining so hard, who will come to them in the rain?
Their family is in Bai County, but there are no acquaintances.
Su Yuanshan also hugged Su Buxian nervously, his steps were different, and he could run at any time.
Don't blame the Su family for such a big battle with just one knock on the door.
If you want to blame, blame it on when I was in Qianhua Town, I was frightened by the rebels who raided and slaughtered in the middle of the night.
Su Buwei grabbed Su Buwei in time, "Second brother, don't worry, go open the door first and take a look!" ”
Su Buwei nodded cautiously, pulled the sword in his hand, put it behind his back, took an oil-paper umbrella, and strode forward to open the door.
"Why are you moving so slowly! Don't know what's going on? ”
I saw a man dressed as an official standing at the door, with a scimitar pinned to his waist, and he was complaining with the corners of his mouth.
Su Buwei, who went to open the door, breathed a sigh of relief.
It's good to be from the government!
The people of the government will not kill people and set fires in broad daylight!
In the hall, Su Yuanshan also looked at the people outside the door, and when he saw the official clothes, the big stone hanging in his heart finally fell.
Then he stepped forward and welcomed the man in official uniform into the hall, and said, "Don't blame the official, it's very cold this day, we have to put on our clothes to open the door, right?" ”
Fortunately, Su Yuanshan and others did not let go of themselves and wore less clothes because of the thermal insulation sachet.
The Su family was very cautious to wrap their underwear jackets with three layers of inner and outer layers, and at the end they also put on a fluffy cloak.
Judging from the clothes, it looks like an ordinary person who is afraid of the cold, but his complexion is more ruddy.
"I don't know what the official came to us ordinary people for?" Su Yuanshan continued.
The man in the official uniform glanced at Su Yuanshan, and the corners of his mouth were hooked, "It's nothing, it's just two things, I'll leave when I'm done." ”
"The first thing, you just settled in Yongzhou, and you don't know yet, you have to pay the annual tax and the person tax... There is also the newly set consolation tax on the imperial court a few days ago..."
Su Yuanshan's eyes widened, and he retorted: "Official, we have paid the annual tax and the human tax before!" ”
Besides, they have just settled down in the famine, shouldn't they be exempted from tax for three months first?
When the man in the official uniform heard this, his brows furrowed, and he shouted in a displeased tone:
"Delivered? Handed over to whom? Where did you hand it in? Who testifies to you? I'm telling you, you have to go to jail for tax evasion! ”
Su Yuanshan choked, how did he know what that person's name was, and even if he knew, who would be willing to testify for him?
They haven't settled in Yongzhou before, so they paid both taxes, who will believe them?
At this time, if Su Yuanshan didn't know that it was the officials in the village who put their family together, he would be really stupid!
The official obviously saw that they were not familiar with the place, so he extorted the bamboo pole fiercely!
But even if they know the truth, they can only eat coptis dumbly, and they can't say anything about their suffering.
Thinking of the greedy face of the official, Su Yuanshan smiled and said:
"Don't blame the official, how much you say you want to pay, we just pay."
Su Buwei moved the sword behind his back with some anger and wanted to make a move, but Su Buwei was pulled hard and stopped.
Although it is very simple to kill this official, what he represents behind him is the government!