Lu Ying didn't believe in God, but when Qiu Yu took him to grab the first incense, he knelt in front of Mazu Niangniang and begged her for a lot of things.

Lu Ying made a wish, Mazu Niangniang, please let her mother, grandfather, grandmother, grandfather, and this person around you be healthy and happy, and everything goes well.

Qiu Yu also knelt in front of the statue of Mazu, with the same pious face.

When leaving the temple, the flow of people is like a shuttle, coming and going at the entrance of the temple, and the incense carries a light smoke to the sky.

Qiu Yu held Lu Ying tightly and said with a smile: "It's strange to say, I used to be very stubborn, thinking that everything could be solved by myself and I didn't need the gods to take care of it, but when praying for relatives and friends, I willingly knelt in front of the statue." ”

"Maybe it's not God who kneels me, but those people in my heart."

Lu Ying opened Qing Lingling's eyes: "So do I." ”

There are hundreds of years of history pages between the two, but at this moment, they feel that the other party is their confidant.

After that, they went to the beach to put the lantern together, Qiu Yu saw Lu Ying write a short poem on the lamp, and he suggested that Qiu Yu also put one. ”

Qiu Yu: "My old man is very good, he doesn't need this." ”

Lu Ying insisted: "Let's put it down." ”

Qiu Yu had no choice but to agree.

He bought another lamp, took a brush, hesitated for a moment, and wrote, "May my parents be happy and live longer." ”

Qiu Yu's biological mother has been dead for several years, but he also brought his mother with him when praying for blessings, as if his mother was still alive, but she lived in a place he couldn't see, Lu Ying saw it in her eyes and didn't say anything.

The river lantern was pushed into the water, riding the current farther and farther, Qiu Yu looked sad, turned around and hugged Lu Ying, and felt a pair of small hands hesitantly patting him on the back, like coaxing a child jerkyly.

Qiu Yu closed her eyes and let herself lean her forehead against Lu Ying's petite and soft body.

Fortunately, in a strange era, he is not completely alone, someone can understand him, this person is also extremely smart and powerful, and the history records Yingying's courage and fearlessness, and after getting along with each other, people can experience Yingying's thoughtfulness.

He's still a very young kid, but he's already very reassuring.

When she returned to Qiu's house, Qiu Yu found that the atmosphere at home was different from the past, not only the joy of the New Year, but also the curiosity on the faces of the people, as if they had encountered something new and awe-inspiring.

After entering the main hall, he found that the three elders of the Lu family had all arrived, and Qiu Yu thought to himself, it turned out that the descendants of the rain god had come to pick up the children collectively.

Lu Fang sat on the top seat, quietly tasting tea, Qiu Zhifu sat aside, with a smile on his face, Mu Yue sat dignified, and Aunt Lu wore men's clothes, full of arrogance, a sharp young military attaché.

Just looking at the faces, the four adults, including the Qiu Governor's Mansion, are all up to the standard of "fairy characters".

It's a pity that Qiu Yu not only knows that his old man is essentially a money-greedy young man, but also heard Lu Ying complain that the parents of the Lu family don't talk about martial arts when they play mahjong, and that layer of fairy filters is so broken that they can't put it together.

Lu Xiaoxuan came over to hug her son: "Come to pick you up, are you still angry?" ”

Lu Ying replied: "I'm not angry. ”

"If you're not angry, you'll leave."

Mu Yue and Lu Fang stood up together, and Lu Fang nodded to the Qiu Governor's Mansion.

"You don't need to send it, just send someone to the island to inform you if you have something."

The prefect of Qiu was dashing, and raised his hand: "Uncle Lu walks slowly." ”

This is about to separate, Lu Ying leaned on her mother's shoulder and waved at Qiu Yu: "You have to remember to come and play with me." ”

Qiu Yu waved at him and said softly, "Okay, I will definitely go to you." ”

Lu Ying smiled: "You don't have to be in a hurry, finish your own things, study and practice martial arts, I also have my own things to do." ”

At this time, no one took Lu Ying's "I have something to do" seriously.

The parents of the Lu family thought that Lu Ying should hone her calligraphy, painting, chess skills, and study arithmetic.

Qiu Yu thought that Lu Ying was going to secretly practice his "Tianshan Sutra".

Everyone agrees that the villain is indeed very busy, and he has to be busy growing up.

As everyone knows, Lu Ying's busyness is not the same as they think, and it is not difficult for him to take care of calligraphy, painting and martial arts, so he can still free up his hands to do other things.

After the New Year, Lu Xiaoxuan's annual leave ran out, so she had to say goodbye to her family reluctantly, Mu Yue also packed her bags to continue her journey, and Lu Fang also sailed out to sea to collect incense in the South China Sea

It's gone.

At this time, Lu Ying's guards told him that there was a disturbance in Ding'an County.

The so-called troubles mean that the merchants and landlords hoard grain and sell it at a high price during the season when there is a shortage of grain, and the common people can no longer survive, so they are forced to gather, pick up the sickles and hoes at home, and hit the door, forcing these people to change the price of grain back.

When Lu Xiaoxuan took Lu Ying to play around, he said that the people of the Yu Dynasty were repeatedly banned, and there were dozens of times a year, which had been exposed, but no one could suppress the greed of grain merchants, and neither could officials, and some officials were grain merchants behind them.

Qiongya Island can only achieve food self-sufficiency in a very good year, although the climate here is good, can not be hard to farm, otherwise the land is exhausted, more and more saline-alkali land, land consolidation, it is not good, not to mention the coastal areas there is a typhoon this big killer, the wind blows, the houses are lifted, and the crops in the fields can not be saved.

So many times, the people rely on the port to live, they do labor, small businesses, food and clothing rely on the grain transported from outside the island, the Lu family can 100% manage their own rations, that is, the Lu family to resist the Japanese and guard the route, but Qiongya Island still has hundreds of thousands of people, who are dependent on the landlord.

But if there is any change in Qiongya Island, the Lu family will not care, and they will know it, Lu Ying heard the news, took out a jade plate engraved with a white pigeon, and threw it to the taro who accompanied him: "Go, call dozens of people over, let's go to Ding'an County." ”

Jiang Ping, who was guarding beside him, was puzzled, because Young Master Sun had an indifferent temperament in previous years, he didn't care about these things, and the Lu family had no reason to care, in the final analysis, there was still a court on the island

In the Qiongzhou Mansion, the Lu family is a local powerful at the level of the Tu Emperor, but they are not self-reliant, and they still acquiesce to the existence of the government.

This time, the grain merchant in Ding'an County who was troubled was the brother-in-law of the prefect of Qiongzhou, and the Lu family stood next to him to watch the excitement, so there was no need to care about him, right?

Lu Ying said: "Our family has given face to the prefect Wang, and he has been tossing it all these years, but he is really making trouble, and Ding'an will have accidents from time to time, aren't you annoying?" ”

Jiang Ping said from the bottom of his heart: "Annoyance is naturally annoying......"

The main combat force of the Lu family is thousands of sailors, but not all of the sailors have settled in Qiongshan City, and some of them have settled in Ding'an County next to it.

Lu Ying said simply: "That's right, let's go." ”

The young boy went to the study first, and after he visited Qiongya Island and Binzhou, he unconsciously saved a small box of booklets and packed them, and let a servant named Lanshan carry them, as if he wanted to go out to deal with the matter himself.

Jiang Ping's head immediately became bigger, he didn't worry about Lu Ying and a child getting involved in this matter, but he couldn't stop it.

The child in front of him is surnamed Lu, and he has absolute authority in the Lu family, except for Jiang Ping, a swordsman from the Central Plains, who can retain a little self-thinking ability in front of him, everyone else will only blindly obey and believe in front of Lu Ying.

For example, Lanshan, this young man who is less than twenty years old is also the escort sent by Lu Fang to Lu Ying, Li Ren, who followed the boat before he was ten years old, he couldn't beat Jiang Ping on land, and when he got to the water, ten Jiang Ping couldn't beat him, and now Lu Ying said that he wanted to go out, Lanshan didn't say a word, and immediately helped carry things.

Another example is the housekeeper's daughter, Lu Ying calls her Mother Wei, she is the mother in charge, and she can't do things properly, seeing that Lu Ying is leaving, she hurriedly told Lan Shan to remember to bring an umbrella, and to bring throat lozenges and snacks to Lu Ying.

Lu Ying: "You don't need to bring an umbrella, it's been sunny these days." ”

It wasn't until Jiang Ping saw Lu Ying stepping on Lan Shan's arm and about to climb on the horse that he finally couldn't help but rush over: "Young Master Sun, you can't ride a horse alone!" ”

So Jiang Ping personally rode a horse and took Lu Ying to Ding'an County, the road from Qiongshan City to Ding'an County was not easy to walk, if it weren't for Jiang Ping's exquisite riding skills, and put a thick fur on the bottom of Lu Ying's buttocks, Lu Ying would have to be upside down and fly.

Once the hungry people took up arms, sometimes they would not only make trouble, but also play rice (i.e., eat large households), and the brother-in-law of the prefect of Wang's mansion was surnamed Liu, who not only raised the price of grain, but also robbed women, bought things without money, and put forward all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes.

That's right, landlords can also raise taxes on farmers, and this is a common phenomenon in the Yu Dynasty!

Therefore, there were a lot of peasant households who were tortured to the point that they couldn't get by, and several big surnames in the township gathered men and crowded at the door of Landlord Liu's house and banged on the door.

When Lu Ying and his party arrived

Wait, the door is about to break.

He glanced at Arashiyama, who understood, pulled out a thunderbolt and threw it into the clearing.

The loud roar made everyone look at it, and all movement was gone.

Jiang Ping dismounted and stretched out his hand to Lu Ying, who sat on his arm reservedly and walked to the door of Liu's house.

Jiang Ping raised his voice and shouted: "Let's talk and count." ”

The peasants looked at each other, and finally pushed an old man surnamed Fu out, who was short and stocky, with a dark complexion, a weather-covered face, and opened his mouth to speak with a very strong accent.

"Young Master Sun, we can't live anymore."

Lu Ying replied: "I know, that's why I'm here, I'm here to help you." ”

Fu Laohan didn't speak, just stared at Lu Ying in silence, and Lu Ying looked at him with a calm face, no joy or sorrow.

Lu Ying's surname means that he has a faith bonus on Qiongya Island, but at the same time, they are not true gods after all, but only in the name of "divine descendants", so they can't save the suffering, they can only predict the weather, and Lu Ying's age also makes many people suspicious, but they don't dare to step forward because of the thunderbolt.

They didn't believe that Lu Ying could help them.

At this time, Landlord Liu was guarding the door with his family, and yelled inwardly: "Where is my brother-in-law? When is the brother-in-law coming! ”

Then the sound of banging on the door suddenly stopped, and the outside of the fence became extremely quiet. ，

Landlord Liu breathed sharply and pointed to a nursing home: "Go, see what's going on outside." ”

The nursing home had a wound on his forehead, and when he climbed the ladder and poured boiling water through the wall, he was beaten with a slingshot, but the landlord Liu pointed out, and the housekeeper and the head of the nursing home stared, and the nursing home had to go up the ladder aggrieved, and then face a pair of clear eyes.

Lu Ying smiled and said to the nursing home: "Let your master open the door, I am Lu Ying of the Lu family, so that he can go back to his brother-in-law safely." ”

The nurse was startled, hurriedly rolled down the ladder, and said to Landlord Liu: "Master, the young master of Grandpa Rain's family is here, and he said to save you!" ”

Landlord Liu had seen Lu Ying, and he and his brother-in-law, the prefect Wang, had prayed in their hearts that the sick and crooked little ghost of the Lu family would die sooner, as long as the Lu family was cut off and the generation was broken, the brother-in-law could justifiably collect more taxes, including those big ports on the island, and they would have to pay taxes at that time.

But the Lu family has always been standing there, and they have lived so long from generation to generation, not to mention how much people are disliked, the prefect Wang is afraid that he will not be able to make enough money in office, so he uses his power to help his brother-in-law enclose land in Ding'an County, and hints that he will levy more taxes, hindering the face of the court, and the Lu family will not take care of it.

But now that Landlord Liu has almost been swallowed alive by the villagers, where can he dare to take Qiao, he gritted his teeth, opened the door and welcomed Lu Ying in, squeezing out a smile.

"It turned out to be Mr. Lu, he was really a distinguished guest, and he was full of brilliance."

Lu Ying was not polite to him, as soon as he raised his hand, Lan Shan pulled out a knife and put it on the neck of the landlord Liu.

"Listen, I want your land, now prepare the title deed, let's go to the yamen to seal it, don't worry, I'll give the money."

Landlord Liu knelt on the ground, the cold blade was against his neck, and a fishy smell spread in the room, which was incontinence.

Lu Ying took out a Qiu Yu mask and put it on, frowning: "Hurry up, prepare the title deed, do you still want to live?" ”