When Lu Yongjie was a girl, she had a crush on someone, a distant young man from the family of Lu, who was the same surname. After getting married under the order of his father, she originally thought that the sorrow of her life was greater than death, but she did not expect that her husband would die.

He is a descendant of a ruined scholarly family. His family is barely barred and his parents die. He writes about a hungry and full life for others. Lu Yongjie, who has become a widow, cares even more. She likes him.

By chance, the two of them said a few words face to face, and then they hit it off at first sight, and soon they had a hot fight, and had been in secret for a while.

The young people had long seen it, and they were all trying to cover up the lovers intentionally or unintentionally. First, the young people did not consolidate the concept of feudal ethics and were relatively open-minded, believing that they were ideal couples. Second, everyone was generally sympathetic to this widow lady who dared to offend the Lu family's clan rules, was not afraid of severe punishments of clan rules, dared to love, hate and did not want to keep the rituals, and generally held a sense of sympathy.

Everyone even admires the courage of Lu Yongjie in a place like Lujia Village, especially as Lu Hanchen's daughter, who is desperate and brave.

So whenever the distant family named Lu came to Lu Yongjie on the pretext of finding a few long-term workers, the two of them had a try in the servant's room, and everyone helped conceal it.

In fact, Lu Yongjie knew very well that if the lover came to the house to propose marriage to his father, he would inevitably be subject to the most fierce opposition, especially the lover's surname Lu, which was simply a traitor. Even if he had five matches, his father would never tolerate getting married with the same surname, let alone he would still be remarried.

Lu Hanchen loves his youngest daughter very much and does not eat any children. Once he learns that he will not make any public offerings for family shame, he will definitely try every means to drive his lover out of Lujia Village, and even find ways to kill him. With his father's ruthlessness, he can do it, otherwise how could he become the supreme emperor of Lujia Village?

The only way to Lu Yongjie is to learn from Bai Chunjie to escape, but the lover is penniless and she cannot get a lot of money herself. Without enough money, they cannot hide much and are easily recovered.

After recovering, it was estimated that Lu Hanchen would not tie his daughter up and Shenhe, but he could kill his lover in the name of the clan, and then forced Lu Yongjie to cut his hair into a nun, and the ancient Buddha of Qinglanterns who would stay in a nunnery for the rest of his life.

Just as the two were worried about the future, Lu Hanchen sank Feng Er and Lu Yongfang both happened. The two hated the murderous ethics of Lujia Village, and at the same time they were afraid that the tragedy would fall on their heads.

When he was confused and had no choice, several young people came to Lu Hao to discuss and proposed that according to their methods, they could slap Lu Hanchen in the face hard, break his so-called clan rules, and on the other hand, let you lovers fly away from now on.

Lu Hao hesitated about this and did not discuss it with Lu Yongjie. After all, it was her biological father, and said, "Even if you can succeed, you will embarrass Mr. Lu as you wish, but we were tied up and brought to the ancestral hall, which was really embarrassing."

A young man named Lu Er said, "If you don't do this, will you be able to achieve your dreams? Or are you just planning to have sex and never thought about marrying a lady?"

Lu Hao hurriedly said, "I dare to swear to God. I dream of marrying her."

"Then don't worry." Another Lu San said slowly: "We just dislike Mr. Lu's disgusting set of tribal rules. We're so savage and outrageous. After thinking about it, there is nothing more that her daughter can humiliate him than if she violates tribal rules. And you two are in love, who doesn't sympathize? It's not a shame to tie them together."

Lu Hao kept shook his head and used her to make Mr. Lu look down on his face. They could think of it. They had angered, but they and Yongjie not only had to take risks, but also suffered great humiliation. No.

Lu Er said, "Look at your home, there is nothing. Now you are secretly stinging, but can you continue to do so? You will be a thief for life. What will the villagers see you? If you don't show the courage of a man to express your feelings, what are you going to do? Even if you make a name for yourself, can you pass the level of Old Pirate Lu?"

"Oh!" Lu Hao sighed.

Lu San said, "You are so crazy to think about it. Then you will be tied up by us and cover your heads and bodies. No one will see you. What are you afraid of? We don't allow anyone to come forward to bully you."

But Lu Hao still has some concerns. Even if he is willing to do something and embarrassingly, if the rope buckles are not properly fixed when sinking the river, wouldn’t he be drowned alive?

Lu Er said, "Don't worry, I'm sure I'm sure. The stone will loosen as soon as the water comes. You two float to the back of the boat. Someone will pick you up in the water. Take advantage of the night to take you to the boat behind."

It turns out that their plan is exactly the same as Xu Hao. Lu Hao knows water. As long as the stone mill can get rid of it, he admits that this plan is feasible.

Lu San also said: "You have hidden your identity first. We have asked the female doctor to take you in. You can go to the future to study medicine. If you don't agree, don't expect us to hide it for you in the future and help you escape."

Lu Hao knew that he had to nodded. This idea was very bad, but it seemed to be a trick to survive. Moreover, if it were not for them to protect him, he would not even see Yongjie.

But she was not sure whether she would agree or not, so Lu Hao told Lu Yongjie about this and asked her for her intention.

To his surprise, Lu Yongjie nodded in agreement without hesitation and said firmly: "Even if they really sank you and me, I am happy to die with you."

As far as this is concerned, what else can Lu Hao say?

In Xiaojia Village, Xu Hao has not returned to Beijing in the past two months because the weather is bad. It was just when the rice was just about to bloom, and there was no rain. The water level of the river dropped rapidly and the fields were drought.

Crops are most afraid of dry weather at this time, commonly known as "knotty drought". Because rice cannot be pulped well and cannot grow a full grain of rice, most of them are empty shells when harvested.

If you can't get out of food, you will have to go hungry. Other families in the village are easy to say. After all, the land tax will be appropriately reduced and the support of all parties can survive this year with savings and support from all parties.

But many tenants are in trouble. The landlords are unkind and have to pay the rent as much as possible in the year of disaster. If they can't pay back the rent, they will turn it into a promissory note. It's like strapping a rope on their necks. If they can't pay it back again next year, their own land will become the landlord's land.

Xu Hao had no way to solve this. This was a global problem in ancient times. It was necessary to crack down on local tyrants and divide land and formulate state-owned land or related land policies. It was necessary to implement it at the national level. It was facing the entire gentry and landlord class. How difficult was it?

Xu Hao knew his ability very well. If he could carry out a thorough land reform, it would be no less difficult than overthrowing the old Zhu family and changing the dynasty.

In short, what Xu Hao can do is take the lead in fighting drought. In the past few days, he has traveled around various villages to coordinate the issue of water use. At this time, the farmers were anxious. Who cares whether you are a duke or a high-ranking official? Cases of injuring people due to fighting for water sources have occurred everywhere. The government is in a hurry for this, so it must be as fair as possible.

Fortunately, Xu Hao's great prestige is undoubtedly in his hometown. He is also a famous boy with money. Every family suffers inevitable losses and promises to make up for it as much as possible. He is also willing to spend a lot of money, not because of his noble consciousness, but because he has money, he must be willful. Why not spend it?

When he learned that a few young people coincided with his plan, Xu Hao had no time to go and slap. However, Lujia Village had a unique geographical environment, and the rivers were passing by the village, with its own dam, which was not greatly affected by this drought.

The smoke friend Wang Siliu had a hard time. The fields in Tongjiayuan were all at the northernmost point, and the nearby river had stopped flowing. Seeing that the drought was coming, the rice fields were about to dry up, he decided to pump some pieces of water from the fields into one field and save a piece of field.

Wang Siliu, who is proficient in farm work, is very good. He simply plows the fields that are almost cracked and transforms them into drought-resistant late corn. While the ground is moist, it is just right to plant corn.

The school was on an emergency holiday, and he mobilized all the family, used water trucks, wooden barrels and wooden basins to scoop water from faraway ditches, and poured the field one by one for life.

Every day, I get up in the middle of the night, while the guards around the fields are dozing off, I secretly drilled a few holes in Master Tong’s special canal and directed the water to my adjacent fields. I quickly blocked the holes before dawn, and could not see any trace.

Others do the same, let alone a powerful man like Mr. Tong who is unkind and unkind, there is no need to be conscientious. Even a landlord with a conscience will not care.

Since ancient times, literati have embraced the idea of ​​sympathizing with the weak, and the working people in their works are basically honest and kind images. The bad-hearted ones are lazily slutty, scoundrels who steal, and unfilial prodigal sons.

Of course, good people are always the majority, but that does not mean absolute goodness. People have selfish thoughts and small evil things that are sorry for the conscience of heaven and earth. For example, stealing things from rich people, you say that you are poor and starving to death, you want to rob the rich and help the poor, and you want to take back what was stolen by the rich. No matter how good the excuse is, it cannot cover up the fact that you have done bad things.

This is how Wang Siliu is. His years of life in poor people have made him realize that "no one can't be rich without being rich". He cannot make money without taking advantage of others' hardships.

Not only did he steal the water from the Tong family, he also wanted to turn the accumulated dead money into living money, secretly found someone who specialized in loan sharks and agreed to pay the profits.

Those who lend money loans are all professionals, with their own set of personnel, similar to foreign funds in later generations, and the investors have all kinds of identities, including the Xu family.
Chapter completed!