Xu Lanqing's face was pale, and she walked quickly to the front yard, and all the mothers-in-law and grandmothers in the family also heard the news, and rushed to the front yard with the help of the maids.

Several gray-shirted servants gathered around the gate, peering out through the gap in the gate and whispering. The housekeeper of the Xu Mansion is named Sun Wenqi, a middle-aged monk who looks like a scribe, and his cultivation in the later stage of Qi refining is better than shrewd and capable with a bit of literary temperament.

Sun Wenqi looked nervous and walked around the gate, and a servant saw Xu Lanqing coming and hurriedly ran over to inform him. When Sun Wenqi heard that his wife was coming, he calmed down a little, and hurried over without touching the ground to greet Xu Lanqing.

Xu Lanqing was infected by everyone's appearance as if they were facing a great enemy, and seeing that Sun Wenqi's expression was quite solemn, his heart rose to his throat, and without waiting for him to finish his salute, he asked in a low voice: "What is the situation outside? How many people have they come? I heard that it is a handyman mother-in-law leading the team?"

Sun Wenqi frowned, handed over a famous thorn and said: "There are a total of eight people outside, wearing the clothes of the peak management team, and there is a white hoop on the right arm. The leader is called Gao Xiang, this is her famous thorn, some people recognize her as a woman from Gao Qingliang's family, a miscellaneous servant of the Wuqu Department, I heard that she had fed pigs with Qiu Xiang of the Houshan Pig Farm, and it should be the peak management team that entered the door of Qiu Xiang. ”

Xu Lanqing heard that there were less than ten people outside, so she relaxed a little and took the name thorn, only to see that the name above was the leader of the peak management team's tax collection group, Gao Xiang.

This Yin barbarian did things to the point of profit, and in a few days he came up with a tax collection group, and he was divided into several groups to see what this meant. Xu Lanqing handed the thorn to the maid beside her, glanced at the closed door, and raised her eyebrows: "What are you doing when the door is closed? There are more than 100 people in our courtyard, and they are so caught by a miscellaneous mother-in-law that they don't even dare to open the door? Open the door and let them in, I want to see what kind of yamen the tax collection team is." ”

Sun Wenqi's old face flushed, and he explained with an embarrassed face: "Madame is angry, Madame has misunderstood." It's not that we won't let them in, it's that they won't let them in, and they let the door close. Seeing that Xu Lanqing was stunned, he added in a low voice, "They asked us to close the door because they wanted to post a tax notice on the door of each house." ”

"Nonsense!" Xu Lanqing said angrily, "The most important thing for our Xu family is a smooth façade, and the old man doesn't even let the door god pair be posted on the door during the New Year's holidays." Are you going to have them put a sign on the door? Do you put a sign on someone's door?"

Sun Wenqi said with a bitter face: "But that Gao Xiang is holding the metaphor approved by the ancestor in his hand, how dare I stop it?"

"Ancestor's metaphor?" Xu Lanqing said unconvinced, "You saw with your own eyes that it was a metaphor approved by Ancestor himself?

Sun Wenqi hesitated and said: "I haven't looked at this carefully, I think no matter how bold they are, they don't dare to fake the ancestor's metaphors, right?"

"That's hard to say, I want to see with my own eyes, what the ancestor said about the metaphor!" Xu Lanqing's face turned pale with anger, in her eyes, this Sun Wenqi was not only a little more bookish and angry, but also appreciated by Xu Wangqian, but when it came to the ability to really do things, it was far behind.

Xu Lanqing was used to talking at home, her heart was on fire, and she didn't care about talking to Sun Wenqi, so she took a big step and rushed towards the gate. Seeing this, Sun Wenqi didn't dare to stop him, so he hurriedly ran a few steps, and kicked and kicked the servants gathered at the gate to disperse.

"Open the door!" Xu Lanqing snorted coldly.

Sun Wenqi could only bite the bullet and shouted: "Open the door." ”

"Don't open it, it's not finished painting yet...... There was a woman's sharp roar outside the door, Sun Wenqi peeked at Xu Lanqing, who was apricot eyes, didn't dare to delay, strode forward, removed the door latch, and shouted "Open the door", and his arms shook.

There was a burst of chickens and dogs jumping outside the door, and a fat woman shouted anxiously: "Didn't you tell you not to open the door?

Sun Wenqi looked at the fat woman holding a large bucket pen in her hand, and was also startled, and hurriedly asked: "Didn't you say that you were going to post a notice on the door, what are you doing with the bucket pen in your hand?"

Gao Xiang painted half of the door, she was quite proud in her heart, but she didn't expect to be shocked to open the door, and she carefully described the "work" for half a day, and there was a big red road on it, so angry that her face was red, her chest rose and fell a few times, and she was about to scold her mother for rolling the street when she opened her mouth.

Seeing this, Zhao Xiaoliu on the side hurriedly coughed heavily, and Gao Xiang finally remembered the precautions that Director Yin had repeatedly emphasized during the three-day training. She held back her anger and spat heavily on the ground, and then remembered the discipline of the peak management team, so she didn't say a word, squatted down with a gloomy face, and wiped her head on the white jade steps with her cuffs. The saliva has not been wiped off, and the bucket pen in his hand has drawn a few traces of blood thorns on the white jade steps.

Xu Lanqing poured countless efforts into this connected nine mansions, every grass, every tree, every flower and stone. Especially the white jade steps in front of the door, she spent a lot of money to procure, and there were servants who carefully wiped them with silk towels every day. Right now, this stone step is getting dirtier and dirtier by Gao Xiang, so angry that Xu Lanqing's eyes rolled and she almost turned her back on it.

Zhao Xiaoliu and Fifth Brother Zhao were assigned to the same group as Gao Xiang, seeing that she ignored the main master, but they wiped the floor vigorously, and quickly divided into two ways, one stepped forward to pull her up, and the other ran to the team, scooped water from the big wooden barrel he brought with him, and squatted on the ground to help wipe the steps.

Xu Lanqing tried to calm down her anger, turned her face, and saw a notice posted on each of the two gates. The so-called notice, in fact, only has four big characters, the right notice reads "Glorious Paying Taxes", and the left reads "Shameful to resist taxes".

As for Akika's painting, it is a few large red flowers depicted with red paint under the notice that says the glory of paying taxes. Don't look at the rudeness of Gao Xiang's life, but the safflower painted is very regular, the only thing is to look at the style of the safflower is a little familiar.

Xu Lanqing looked carefully, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt that it looked like the patterns on the embroidered shoes that the rough servants in the family only wore during the New Year's Festival. Those embroidery patterns are particularly gaudy and eye-catching, Xu Lanqing was only three or four years old at the time, and she liked this bright color very much, so she went to her mother to ask for it, but she was beaten down for a long time, and she also remembered this pattern deeply.

"Didn't you say that you would post a notice, how can you draw a picture directly on the door?" Sun Wenqi saw Xu Lanqing staring at the red flower on the door and didn't speak, so he hurriedly walked up to Gao Xiang and scolded in a low voice.

Gao Xiang ignored him, but solemnly bowed to Xu Lanqing, and then rolled his eyelids and recited: "Mrs. Xu is above, the ancestor is in charge of the peak management team tax collection group, and the leader of the group C, Gao Xiang, is entrusted by the great elder Yin of the Ministry of Integrity to preach and collect the aura tax. That, presumptuously, that suddenness, please see Mrs. for that understanding. ”