Wang Laoshi stood at the door of Mr. Wang, the famous family in the town. He wandered from midnight to dawn. He stretched out his head and saw that there were people coming and going from the house of Mr. Wang. Finally, he mustered up the courage to step forward and smiled carefully to the doorman on the lazy stool: "This master, the youngest is Mr. Wang's tenant Wang. I want to see Mr. Wang. Please inform me if you are worried."

The slave sitting on the lazy bench didn't even give him a face, and glanced at him coldly: "Just because of you, I want to see our master? Are you worthy?"

Wang Laoshi had no choice but to beg again: "Then I will meet Mr. Wang."

"The Wang family is always hundreds of people. It is hard for us to see the butler. Just you, can you climb up?"

"Then I'll ask you to see the next second, no, the third housekeeper can do it."

As he was talking, a middle-aged man was walking out of the door and asked, "Who wants to see me?"

The third housekeeper is specialized in charge of Mr. Wang's field. Of course, Wang Laoshi knew him and trotted forward and saluted the third housekeeper.

The third butler asked with his nostrils facing the sky: "Don't go and take good care of the fields, and you will cry when you sow. I will tell you that you haven't paid all your rent this year, so don't wait for me to strip your broken house."

Wang Laoshi called him to bow and agreed, and then carefully said: "Three Butler, I have something to come this time. Want to ask you?"

"Please me?" glanced at Wang Laoshi, who had empty hands: "What are you begging me?"

"I want to take back the land I had given to Mr. Wang's name."

When he heard this, the third housekeeper was like a cat with his tail stepped on his tail, and roared eight feet high. "What did you say? You want to pull your land back? You dreamed. Oh—I understand, did you go to the city to watch the fun after a while yesterday? Oh, when you were desperate to be oppressed by taxes and corvee, you put your acres of broken land in the name of our master, and only paid 80% of the rent, so that your family can live comfortably. What's wrong? When you see the cheaper, you are going to climb up again?"

"No, no, no, the third housekeeper, when I handed over the 15 acres of fertile land to your hands, we agreed that the rent could be 80% but our family did not have corvee service. However, you see, over the years, our two masters have been working for your family every year, and you also let us farm your original land for you for free, and we didn't say anything. As a result, this was exhausted and owed you a lot of debt. I——”

"What are you? Our master has let you exempt from labor service. That is a great kindness. Isn't it okay for our family to have some work to help? People should be conscientious and people should be grateful. Who said we have used you in vain? Didn't we take care of the food? Didn't the food saved by your family fall into your pocket after selling it? Isn't that our wages?"

The robbery was choked, and Wang was speechless at that time. The third housekeeper patted his shoulder: "Don't think that the stone is standing there, so great guarantee. As the saying goes, the official with the iron-clad yamen, the official named Zhao, is a Beijing official. How long can he stay here? The person with the surname Li, who has no roots and no sect, offended all the gentry. He has been staying for a long time? His former surnamed Wang has lost his life here. Hehehe, when the time comes, you want to come back and contribute, you will be beautiful."

Then he said earnestly: "Go back and think about it carefully. It is hard to suppress local snakes. Don't stop the government from arresting your son's corvee service to quell the rebellion and leaving your oldest son's old path of going but not returning. Don't regret it."

After hearing this, Wang Laoshi was like a thunderbolt, and he didn't know how he walked home in the end.

Zhao Laoshi came to Mr. Li's house and explained to Mr. Li's case that he had withdrawn from his offer. Mr. Li was furious at that time: "You are so ruthless, how dare you slander me?"

Zhao Laoshi was very anxious at the time: "Why did the land I dedicated to your name become your land? I have documents here, black and white. Who is falsely accusing whom?"

Mr. Li sneered: "Where are the words, why don't I know?"

Zhao Laoshi carefully took out the original document in his arms, but Mr. Li snatched it away without even looking at it, and tore it to pieces and raised it: "Where did the document come from?" Then he shouted: "Come here, beat this bastard who accused the land of the gentry. This year, he took back the land given to him and drove him out of the village."

With an order, a group of evil slaves immediately rushed up, and beat Zhao Laoshi to the point of blood and threw him on the street.

Zhang Zhongshi begged to the Liu Dong family, but no matter how much good things he said, the Liu Dong family said nothing: "Just a few acres of broken land, I want to pay back the money that the donkey rolled last year. You are dreaming. I will tell you that if you don't raise all the money, I will sell your daughter to a kiln. Hehehe, if you sell it at a good price, it's fine. If you can't sell it at a good price, you have to pay back the debt. You can't even lose a big son."

The land is gone, the debt is not enough, the daughter is gone, the debt is not enough, how should we live this life?

In the woods at the intersection of the three forks, Zhao Laoshi chose a crooked tree, took off his belt, put it on it, and looked at the direction of his home. He was completely desperate. Just as he was about to stretch his neck, he heard a man's murmur coming from beside him: "My wife, I really have no shame to see you, the ground is gone, my daughter is gone, and I'm also in debt. I'm dead, I'll be over." Turning his head, it was Zhang Laoshi from the neighboring village. He was about to talk to persuade him, but thinking about his own experience, wasn't he still in a dead end? He couldn't resist the urging of the government and chose to offer sacrifices to the gentry. But now the land passed down from generation to generation is gone. He has no face to see people in the world, so he has the face to face his ancestors when he goes underground?

I am actually worse than Zhang Houshi.

Wang Laoshi came late, and there were only two crooked trees in this small woods. If you want to hang yourself, you have to wait. Wang Laoshi lamented: "I am such a coward, I can't even catch the first wave of hanging you." Then he and Zhao Laoshi were tearful and said: "Two brothers, you can go on the road. I will collect the corpse for you. Unfortunately, I died, and there is not even a person to collect the corpse."

Zhang Laoshi and Zhao Laoshi are both honest and kind people. They must repay them if they are about to receive favors, otherwise they will feel uneasy if they owe favors.

Although there is nothing to thank, do you still have to knock a head if you say thank you?

So the two stopped hanging themselves and asked Wang Laoshi: "Old brother wants to hanging themselves too? If you have something to do, you can't think about it. If you can live, you should live."

As a result, after the two of them persuaded each other, Wang Laoshi couldn't help but burst into tears and sighed: "I can't live this day." Then he told his own story.

After he said this, two other honest people also cried with each other.

While crying, Zhao Laoshi, who was still younger, suddenly stopped his grief: "Oh, it's not right."

The other two honest people asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"

Zhao Laoshi stamped his feet: "We are not afraid of being wronged and even dying, so what are we afraid of? I see Lord Zhao, Lord Li is a good official, we will take the blame, and we will sue them."

Wang Laoshi shook his head: "No, it's hard to defeat the local snake. In two or three years, Lord Li will be bullied by them, and we will still suffer."

Zhang Laoshi stamped his feet again at that time: "Even if it takes two or three years, it will be worth it to have enough food for at least two or three years of food."

Zhang Laoshi also gritted his teeth and said, "We honest people are so hard to be bullied by them. Before I die, I will make a fuss with them. Even if the boss wants to beat me to death in court, it will be better than cowardly."

When Wang Laoshi saw the two of them becoming resolute expressions, he immediately became energetic: "Yes, no matter how you die, it is a way to die, I will give my best and let them see that we honest people are not allowed to bully them."
Chapter completed!