Chapter 179： 180 Take the beauty back

Chapter 179 180 Take the beauty back

Tu Gang rode an old low-footed horse and arrived at Qingchuan City the next day at Hai Shi. After entering the city, he went straight to Xiao Taohong, a good friend who lived in Xicheng. There was a "bang bang" sound, and Xiao Taohong pulled her shoes and muttered as she walked: "Damn!" If you don't come early, everyone will fall asleep.

As soon as the door was opened, Tu Gang was hugged by Tu Gang, Tu Gang gave a "squeak" on the little peach red lips, kissed him, and teased: "Little baby, do you miss Brother Tu?"

Xiao Taohong stretched out a finger, poked Tu Gang's chest, looked at Tu Gang with a wink, and said softly, "What's the use of thinking about you, you can't come every day."

"I'm not here!" Tu Gang picked Xiao Taohong into the house and rolled onto the bed. After Yun Xieyu died, Tu Gang asked Xiao Taohong, "Is there a magistrate in the yamen?"

Xiao Taohong leaned against Tu Gang's arms, squinted her eyes, and said lazily: "Yes, I heard from Mrs. Huang next door that she is still a handsome young man. She also said that the magistrate's wife is like a fairy, and the couple makes people look at them. I can't take my eyes off, why are you asking about this?"

"Don't do anything! Just ask casually! Take a break, I've been riding a mule for a day, I'm exhausted."

Tu just fell down and thought about Xiao Taohong's words: "A woman like a fairy, I have to go and see. If she is really as beautiful as a fairy, I will take it back and honor my elder brother."

Xiao Taohong listened to Tu Gang's sound of falling asleep, and sat up quietly, took out a waist card from Tu Gang's basket, made a mark on a piece of oil mud, put it back quietly, and then fell down to sleep.

Zhou Jia went to the study. After writing the letter he brought to Qingzhou and the official documents submitted, he discussed with Mr. Qian the follow-up bylaws of the yamen. The two were busy in the study before drawing up the bylaws. Mr. Qian smiled and said, "Are you hungry, sir? If you are hungry, let Ruyi's daughter-in-law cook a bowl of noodles to eat."

Mr. Qian shook his head and said, "I don't need to bother Ruyi's wife anymore, I used to! I used to have two meals a day, and only three meals a day after I got to the adults' house. already."

Zhou Jia politely cupped his hands and said, "Where, it's been such a long journey, Mr. Hard work."

The two packed up their letters and went back to their rooms to rest.

Zhou Jia went back to the room and saw Li Yu's sleeping red face, so he couldn't help kissing. Li Yu glanced at Zhou Jia in a daze, and said lazily, "You're back! It's time to rest."

Zhou Jia changed into a nightgown, went to bed and hugged Li Yu in his arms, and fell asleep after a while.

The next day, when the time of the hour had just arrived, Zhou Jia got up and handed the memorial, letters and official documents to Xu Chun, and asked him and Xu Gui to rush to Qingzhou to spread the news as soon as possible.

After a few people had breakfast, Zhou Jia, Mr. Qian, and Tu Dianshi went to the yamen office on business.

Li Yu asked Ruyi to go to the Yaxing to buy two rough women, and went home to help Xiaoyu with the housework. He took Yang Wei and drove the carriage out of the west city gate and walked outside the city.

Yang Wei sat on the rafters of the car, looking at the scenery along the way, dangling his legs.

Li Yu saw that some fields outside the city were uncultivated, and some farmers were busy harvesting rice. Li Yu got off the carriage and walked to the edge of the rice field. He saw that the ears of rice were shorter than those seen in Xishan Village. There are also many shriveled seeds per ear of rice.

Li Yuxin said: This harvest, I am afraid that after harvesting an acre of land, there will only be more than two stone of grain. It is my own field.

The farmer who harvested the rice saw an extravagant woman with a child who looked like an eight or nine year old servant, driving a carriage to the side of the road, looking at his rice field, the old man said to his daughter-in-law: "Daughter-in-law Dongzi, go and see Look."

The woman nodded, walked up the field with the sickle, walked five or six paces away from Li Yu, and asked nervously, "Ma'am, is there anything wrong with my rice?"

Li Yu looked at the woman's tanned face, smiled and said: "I've disturbed my sister-in-law's work, there is no problem with the rice, I just take a look and take the liberty to ask, how many acres of land do you have in your family? Is it your own? Is it still a tenant planted? How much tax is paid, can you eat enough?"

The woman looked at Li Yu's smile for a while, and said with a blushing face: "The little woman has five acres of land, three acres of land, all of which are owned by their own family. After paying tribute, they can't even fill their stomachs."

Li Yu looked at the woman and comforted: "Then you don't have to worry about starvation this year. The imperial court will exempt farmers from Qingchuan County from tax for five years from this year. According to your family's output, adding some coarse grains should be enough. In a few days, someone from the yamen will come to inform you."

The woman's eyes lit up when she heard it, "Exemption from tax for five years, how did you know, madam?"

The woman suddenly thought that the mountain bandits were about to come to get food. She had to hand in 60% of the food. The food was given to the mountain bandits, and the whole family would be hungry again, so she refused to give it; the lives of the whole family could not be saved.

The woman said sadly: "Madam, it's useless, you don't know the situation of Qingchuan, Madam, please walk slowly, I'm going to cut the millet."

Seeing the woman's red eyes, Li Yu hurried back to the field to get busy. He sighed, got on the carriage and walked forward. He asked a few farmers who were harvesting, and they all said the same thing as the woman.

Li Yu thought angrily: It seems that when the bandits face the people, they really have nothing to fear! Who is supporting them? Raise the mountain bandits to act so unscrupulously.

Yang Wei raised his head, looked at Li Yu's sullen look, ran to the field to pick up a handful of straw, made a straw cage and handed it to Li Yu, saying, "Madam, look at the cricket cage I made."

Li Yu looked at Yang Wei's smiling face and took the cricket cage, "It's pretty well made, but Awei's hands are quite clever."

Yang Wei comforted Li Yu like a little adult: "Madam, don't be angry, they are timid and ignorant."

"Madam is not angry with them," Li Yu smiled, "Let's go back!"

Those peasant households got together when Li Yu was gone, and the tall man said, "Did you hear what the lady said just now? She said that the imperial court was exempted from tax for five years. Is it true?"

The older man smiled bitterly and said, "Yang Dashan, what if it's true? Think about it, what's the difference between the imperial court's exemption from levy and levy, except for two years of severe drought, we have also not paid taxes to the imperial court for two years. Oh, don't forget, there is also a small court in Qingchuan!"

The old woman said with red eyes: "Yeah! It's all handed over to those robbers, and the government is too useless. A few years ago, when I caught mountain bandits every year, I paid a lot of money, not even the corners of the mountain bandits' clothes. bump into."

"Alas!" The old man sighed heavily, "Yeah! I don't have any hope, I'd better leave it to the bandits, buy and buy and be safe!"

"Can you be safe? A few days ago, the little girl from the next village was dragged by a passing bandit into the woods while washing clothes by the river. Be careful, the little girl in the house has a good color, so don't let me go out. ."

"Alas!" After hearing this, everyone let out a sigh of hurt.

Tu just slept until the sun was so high that he came out of Xiao Taohong's house and rode a horse to the gate of the county government office. When he saw that there were people working inside, he believed what Xiao Taohong said, thinking: It seems that the third master and the Those brothers are much less fortunate, so go back and talk to the big boss first.