Chapter 661 People turn their backs
When I settled the accounts yesterday, I missed the four imperial doctors who joined this battle. They were guilty! Thank you for your reminder!
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Shi En is a utilitarian who only recognizes money. He is not a lurker with firm beliefs like "Eighteen Years of the Enemy Camp". So much so that his news is early and late, sometimes sometimes without, destined to be the icing on the cake and it is difficult to provide timely help.
However, Liangshan has always adhered to the principle of walking on multiple legs and never put all the eggs in one basket. Ji Ji, who was temporarily staying in the branch of Jiangnan in Liangshan, had already received an order from the general village to inquire about information. At this time, he was working hard, and even Deng Yuanjue, who had a great energy in Jiangnan, used the hidden line.
Therefore, although Wang Lun was not anxious when he had not received any news about Gao Qiu's side troops. What could he delay? The imperial court's military deployment in Jiangnan has always been weak, and Wang Lun ordered Ji Ji to temporarily stop the battle. Therefore, at this time, the most objective threat to Siming Mountain was the local snake Fang La, but Wang Lun could not think of it. Fang La had a reason to turn against him.
After all, everyone is both an anti-Chief and has a natural ally. He doesn't believe that before overturning the Zhao family's table, Fang La was too impatient to point the finger at Liangshan. After all, he just raised his hoe high now and hadn't excavated it yet!
While waiting for the news, Wang Lun was not doing anything, but had too many things. The whole mountain was running at full capacity, even more busy than when Gao Qiu was in Yunzhou. Even the tenth battalion of troops under Chao Gai were about to go to Jiangnan were not resting.
At this time, the situation was quietly fermenting the great news that Gao Qiu was awarded the title of the head and the situation was quietly fermenting.
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"Boss, today I will take my whole family to my father-in-law's house to visit relatives, and I won't keep anyone at home. I still owe you 200 kilograms of grain? I will keep this deed in my house in your hands. I will rest assured, and I will feel at ease!"
A tenant in his thirties knocked on the door of his boss, took out a matter from his arms that had carefully wrapped several layers of things, and handed them over.
The old man, who was called the boss, did not accept the deed, but sighed and said with a little disappointed expression: "School, may you also want to go to Liangshanpo?"
"Uncle, I dare not say that! It is passed to the government. This is a serious crime of rebellion!" The middle-aged village man who called the writer was shocked and quickly denied it.
"If you don't join Liangshan, you're just going to visit the relatives and put the deeds on your uncle?" The old boss smiled bitterly and said, "In the past two days, I've collected 57 deeds like you! What time is this? What kind of relatives are there in a swarm of people? I'm old, but I'm not as old as a fool!"
The family lowered their heads and said nothing for a while. Finally, they insisted: "Uncle, I really didn't go to Liangshan, I really just went to visit relatives. My family missed home... You'd better accept this deed. There is no one at my family, so how can you help me take care of me?"
"You are just going to leave for you. You even pay the house to your uncle. You can't harm you! But..." The old man looked quite enlightened and did not change his face and intimidate his tenant at this time. He just advised him kindly:
"You are a talented person in our village. Why do you think of taking that path? I owe my family food, but I didn't force you with a knife, so it's not that I can't wait! But if you take your family and leave this village, you can't go back! Isn't your little girl still eating milk? Is it hard for you to think about it?"
When the family saw his excuses, he told the boss to see through and made it clear. He couldn't help but sigh and looked up at the elder whom he called "Uncle" and said, "Boss, I know that you are different from the boss in the next village. You have always treated our family well. Nowadays, you only cost 50% of the rent for the harvest every year, and you are just like the former Niuke (the tenant who owns his cattle). Now we have to say that we are living better than before, but our boss has always had less land and more people, and there is really not enough land to grow! Now my parents are not well-behaved, and my children are young. My family is exhausted, but they always say they can't see any light. I really want them to live a good life for a few days!"
This man is a little smart and honest. It is obvious that the rents of several surrounding states have been reduced to 50%, but he used this to praise the boss in front of him.
"Didn't you always see you take your parents to Liangshanpo for medical treatment?" The old boss still wanted to keep him. He looked left and right nervously, lowered his tone, and said with a heart-warming look:
"Boy, listen to me, you go and see them when they are free medical treatment, and you continue to apply medicine, but don't trap yourself in! Don't look at them who have defeated the imperial army now, and the huge imperial court is vegetarian? They always show off such a limelight in Liangshan, which is rare for a long time! You don't look at who they are killing? Gao Qiu! That's the Grand Marshal Guanjun in front of the official family. They kill them without blinking. It's so dead! Don't forget that the rafters that have come out will always rot first! Listen to uncle, go back first! I'll give you the debts to you slowly, this period of time is not counted as interest, ha!"
To be honest, since the news of the defeat of the official army in Liangshanpo, the tenants in the village have become a little restless. This person is not only the largest landlord in the village, but also the Baozheng of the village. He is very wary of this trend. He knows very well that once people's hearts disperse, it will be difficult to manage. Not to mention that for the sake of the court, from his own perspective, if the tenants run away, who will plant the land?
Jiacai lowered his head and refused to speak. The old boss thought he had asked him to persuade him, but Jiacai had other ideas in his mind.
It turned out that when Liangshan broke the city of Zizhou a few months ago, he sent people to the county town to mobilize. At that time, everyone heard that the court had already ordered 130,000 heavenly soldiers to come to conquer Liangshan. They thought that Liangshan would not be able to resist this disaster. Therefore, many people were afraid of disaster and did not even dare to collect the grain of the court sent by Liangshan, for fear of causing trouble, let alone leaving Liangshan.
Because of this, Sun An, who believed that the mobilization was not good, apologized in front of Wang Lun for this. After all, this was his first cannon, so he became a squint.
But who could have expected that this earth-shaking army of more than 100,000 people would collapse at any time, and even Gao Qiu, who was harming the country and the people, was killed. Then various news about Liangshanpo spread across the land of Qilu. After being spread, it was quite mythical. The white-clothed scholar Wang Lun became the Tiangang Star sent by God who was dissatisfied with the Zhao family's desperation. There were 100 single seven stars and teeth around him to complement each other, and so on. Anyway, all kinds of sayings were so amazing.
Among the people who gave up the opportunity to send grain in Liangshan in the last round, the family was only counted. Later, when they heard the news, they wanted to regret it. The boss said that he had knowledge, but he destroyed it on the knowledge that "the bandits would definitely not defeat the court" and "the court would definitely settle the accounts after the autumn". When he remembered it now, he felt that he should have brought the grain back, and at least he had to pay back the usury first. After all, the people had not said that they had to go up the mountain after receiving the grain.
"Boss, thank you for your kindness! I'm leaving now. Not only can I let my parents, wife and children live a comfortable life for two days, but I can also move some land for other villagers in our village, so that they can rent a few more acres in their home..." Although they are not old, they are oppressed by life too early, so that the middle-aged tenant whose hair has quietly climbed up to their temples said this, and bowed to the old boss, holding their own deeds in both hands: "Please keep it all together!"
"Boss, boss! Jiashu's mother came over. She said she had paid off her debt!"
The boss was stunned when he heard this, signaling that he had just stopped busy. He immediately took a few steps out and saw his family walking into the inner hall with a smiling old woman. The boss greeted him: "His aunt, sit for a while! Xiao Si, pour tea for your aunt!"
"I'm not busy with my boss, I'm here to settle the bill!" The farmer was so kind. Before the old woman finished speaking, she took out a large inch of silver from her arms and put it on the table. She said with confidence: "I borrowed grain from my boss, but I don't have any grain to pay it back, so I'll pay it off. What's the price on the market now? You can deduct it directly from the boss!"
The old boss was sharp-eyed and knew it at first glance. He thought that this was a five-two-ounce silver in the official system. He was not busy settled the score at the moment, but was surprised and said, "Aunt, your family has made a fortune?"
Everyone lives in the same village, and who is poor and who is rich is unsure of who? This extremely poor family suddenly took out a ingot of five taels of silver. It was abnormal, too abnormal!
Jiacai felt aroused and stepped forward and said, "Aunt, Jiashu heard that he had visited relatives a few months ago, but he didn't see him. Why did he bring such a large invoice of silver so quickly? Such a relative is a rich man!" Jiacai and Jiashu are of the same generation as Jiashu, and he is a few years older than him, but Jiashu has been brave since childhood, Jiashu is cautious and can get a lot of fun.
The old woman kept smiling when she heard what Jia said. She changed her face and said, "It's not a rich man, it's okay at home! But the people of Qingzhou are generous. Seeing that I was honest, he left him with a helper. This is the advance wage! My boss, I think it's better to dispel the money for me, and I still have something to do!"
Ull-interest is an important means for landlords to acquire land and accumulate wealth. It is natural for some people to repay the money. Although they were confused, the boss went down to get the broken silver himself. He went back to settle the accounts with Aunt San, and burned the IOU in front of the borrower. Aunt San took the broken silver and put it in his arms, saying, "I can still trust the boss!" He said hello to the family and went back.
Jiacai didn't have the intention to stay for a long time at this time, so he put the deed on the table and said, "Boss, I'm leaving now, take care of me!"
Seeing that the boss couldn't persuade him, he sighed in his heart and said, "Child, if it's not the case, you'll come back, and your ancestral house will be left to you!"
This boss's approach was very humane, and he was moved by his family. He bowed again and then turned around and left.
As soon as he got home, the children and parents of the family had already packed up. They took all the valuable things at home with them. The family didn't say anything. They went forward to get the heaviest bedding and carried it on their backs. The five-member family said farewell to their hometown and embarked on the road to leave their hometown with trepidation.
Apart from the hungry children, the adults kept praying in their hearts, asking the king who came down to earth on Liangshan to not deceive them, the farmers who had nothing.
"Dad, isn't that Jiashu and his family?"
It was a coincidence that after leaving the village, my family saw the third aunt who had just paid back the money from Dongjiazhuang at a glance. They also walked on the small road to the east.
"Aunt San, where are you going?" Jiacai's mother shouted loudly. Although she was only in her early fifties, her wrinkles were crawling all over her forehead.
The third aunt looked back and found that it was only one family. Although her face was a little embarrassed, she still told the truth: "It's his aunt? We'll go to my son. He's been doing well now, and I'll take our family over!" She said: "Aunt, where are you going?"
"Aunt San, when we go to Qingzhou, we are also visiting relatives, so why not go together?" Jiacai said.
"Okay, this is a mess, so be a companion all the way!" An old man on the other side agreed, and the family stopped. When the family caught up, he teased the family of Jiacai's daughter and rushed to Qingzhou.
Seeing that the two families had been together for most of the day, the sun was about to set. The nine people walked to a fork, and suddenly heard the third aunt say, "My mother, our two families are going to separate here. We are going to fight the south!"
When the grandmother of the family said, he hurriedly stepped forward to take the package from his aunt and two daughters, and thanked him: "You see, we are not good at both of us, and you have to help carry my baggage!"
"Don't worry, everyone, the fellow villagers in the country, what is this matter!" Aunt San heard a hint of reluctance mixed with her straightforward words.
My mother, Jiacai, also had something in her heart, but she was unable to say it clearly. She was about to part with her old neighbor. Maybe she would never see her in her life and tears fell down.
Jiacai was afraid of something bad, so he came forward and finally persuaded him to leave, and the two families parted. Seeing that Jiacai's family had gone far away, the eldest daughter of the third aunt said, "Mom, we are in the same way as them, why do you want to separate yourself?"
"Silly daughter, your mother is doing the right thing. We are going to go to Erlong Mountain and lose our heads. Do you have to shout when you see someone?" The father spoke and said, "Just walk the path! I have walked this road a little, but if I walk fast, I can reach Erlong Mountain in half an hour! When I see your brother, I am not allowed to bother them. What is the copycat... Anyway, I can't delay his affairs. He is doing well now!"
"What's the 'what', that's called discipline! It's stupid!" Aunt San said disdainfully. When she thought of her son, her mood suddenly improved a lot.
"Mom, do you think my brother asked someone to bring him back, is it really that good on the mountain? Can you send cattle and pay for money, and then give our family a hundred acres of land for free?" asked the eldest daughter.
"People may coax us, but can your brother coax us? He was born to me. If you dare to coax me, ask your father to break his legs!" Aunt San said so heavily, but she looked very proud.
"But where will our land be divided? If only it could be in our village!" the youngest daughter said reluctantly.
"Where there is land, there is home! One hundred acres of land, I dare not even dream of it!" The child's father sighed.
"I just said that, but the young man who was speaking said that this is disciplined and not allowed to talk nonsense! Anyway, I believe that Shu'er won't coax us! Ni, as long as we have land, we will recruit son-in-law to let you both stay in front of your parents!"
This time, Aunt San did not refute her own man, and she smiled. The family of four was laughing and making fun of each other, and with her longing for a good life, she accelerated her journey.
When they were in a good mood, the journey seemed short. When they arrived in front of Erlong Mountain, they found that this name had its origin. They saw mountains around them and surrounded a tall city tower. The flags were flying on the city tower, and the soldiers were majestic. The village households didn't know any military terms. They felt that the village was steep and tight, and they felt extremely shocked from the heart.
"Many people! Dad and mom, are these people coming to Liangshan like us? Oh, there are so many people, Liangshan has so many places to share with us. Let's go up and agree to them first!" The little daughter was innocent and chaotic, and her words made her parents funny.
"With your brother here, I'm afraid we won't have land? It doesn't matter if this one comes early or late. No matter how late it comes, it can't resist the people on the mountain!" Aunt San said confidently.
The little daughter said "Oh" with a slight understanding. At this moment, she suddenly saw a few familiar figures at the closing door and said in surprise: "Brother Jiacai!? Look, isn't that Brother Jiacai's family? Didn't they go to join relatives?" (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!
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Chapter completed!