At this time, the people of Xiahe Village had just eaten breakfast, and the sun that had just risen showed a red face, coating Xiahe Village with layers of golden halo.

"Mother, you can drink some porridge." Dachuan's daughter-in-law Juan'er looked at her mother Chen with a concerned face at the dinner table, holding a bowl of boiled rice porridge in her hand, which was also accompanied by nourishing dried dates and other things.

Chen shook his head haggardly.

"Mother, I dreamed of Dachuan last night, and Dachuan told me that I had found my second brother." Dachuan's daughter-in-law Juan'er put the porridge in front of her mother Chen and said in a chatting tone.

Hearing this, Chen's eyes lit up at first, and then dimmed, and his eyes moistened, "Dreams are all the opposite, my Biao'er"

Many people have this thought, and the dream of Jue is the opposite, that is, the anti-dream, which has no scientific basis at all, but many people have this idea to some extent, and Chen is no exception. Dreams are all the opposite, saying that if you find it, you haven't found it, and when you hear the eldest daughter-in-law say that you dreamed that the eldest son found the younger son, she became even more worried.

This is also a matter of concern.

Seeing Chen's sad appearance, Zhu's father on the side came over to comfort, "I also dreamed, I dreamed that Dachuan hadn't found Yu'er yet." ”

When Chen heard this, he immediately glared at Zhu's father vigorously, his face was full of anger, and without saying a word, he stretched out his hand and pinched Zhu's father's arm hard, and tears of anger came out, "You lack heart, can you speak!" ”

Zhu's father made amends again and again, he just saw his eldest daughter-in-law say that Dachuan had found Yu'er, and Chen said that the dream was the opposite. Then he was worried, so Zhu's father thought that I said that I didn't find Bi'er in my dream, and the dream was the opposite. Wouldn't that be the reality of finding Biao'er, so that Chen wouldn't have to be sad.

The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny, I think Father Zhu must understand this truth at this moment.

When Zhu Ping'an's family was thinking about coaxing the Chen family to drink porridge, they heard someone hurriedly running in from the gate.

"Shouyi's family, the county government, the county government has someone from there." A villager hurried in and said.

Someone from the county office?

Hear the words. Chen was overjoyed, stood up suddenly, and asked anxiously. "Did the government find my family?"

"It's not." The villagers scratched their heads, a little unbearable to break Chen's illusions, but when everyone arrived at the head of the village, they had to be reminded. "They said at the entrance of the village that they were measuring the land. There are several people, and the leader is the old man in the county office, Li Ertou has seen and recognized it in the county office. ”

"What kind of land to measure, our family's land has been filed in the county government and received the land deed." Father Zhu walked out of the doorway.

"Second brother, then I don't know." The villager shook his head, and then reminded anxiously. "But many of the servants have gone to the ground with pen and paper and a ruler. Go and see. ”

In ancient times, the hierarchy was strict, the idea of official status was deep-rooted, and the household secretary was just a county government household house warden, a small official who did not enter the stream, but in the eyes of the ancient villagers, this was a great official, who was in charge of the entire county to collect taxes, pay grain and taxes, and people sat in the county government, and there were many officials under him.

In ancient times, although it was said that the magistrate was responsible, but after all, the magistrate was a person, and he lacked skills, and it was the Liufang Xu officials who really worked in the county government, and they actually contracted the rights and responsibilities of the yamen. The county officials are not in charge, and in the eyes of the people, the officials of the six houses are all big people with real power.

The people from the county government are still measuring the land, which is not a trivial matter, so the villagers saw that the matter was very big, so they hurriedly came over to report to the Zhu family, and now there are still many people on the ground to watch.

Land is the foundation of the ancients, and under the reminder of the villagers, Zhu's father also had to pay attention to it.

The family, following the villagers, walked to the front of the village.

Not long after I walked out of the door, I ran into Mr. Zhu and others who came from the Zhu family's old mansion, and of course the uncle Zhu Shouren was also there.

Old man Zhu and the others, like Zhu's father, also had a surprised expression on their faces, and were shocked by the sudden news that the county government came to measure the land, but the uncle Zhu Shouren showed the psychological quality of a scholar beyond ordinary people, and handled it calmly, quite a kind of courage that let the wind and rain blow, and I was unmoved, as if I had known about this for a long time, and I was not surprised at all.

"Shouyi, what's the matter? Why did I hear that the county government was coming? Old Man Zhu asked worriedly.

"Dad, I don't know, I said it was measuring the land." Father Zhu shook his head.

"This measurement of land is a matter of the household, it is the official of the household, this household is mainly responsible for paying grain and taxes," Uncle Zhu Shouren said with his hands behind his back and touching his chin as he walked.

Pay taxes on grain? When Old Man Zhu heard this, his face couldn't help but become heavy.

When I walked to the ground, I found that there were already many villagers around Zhu Ping'an's house, and when the villagers saw the Zhu family coming, they all greeted and made a way for the Zhu family to go forward.

When I walked in, I found that there were four officials and a household secretary wearing a blue official uniform on the ground of Zhu's house.

At this moment, the household secretary is pointing to the official to measure the land, the official is pushing a wheelbarrow, there is a wooden bucket on the wheelbarrow, and in the wooden bucket is placed a rope ruler similar to the wheel of a spinning wheel, the official takes the rope ruler out of the cart and inserts it in the soil, one person stands in place and is responsible for counting, and the other two people lead the ground and go inside.

"You're the one who is the victim?" Hu Shu, who was wearing a cyan official uniform, saw Father Zhu and them walking over the crowd, nodded his chin and looked at Father Zhu and asked.

"I don't know why you measure the land?" Father Zhu walked to the front and asked.

"On the orders of the county magistrate, I came to measure your family's land as a basis for paying taxes." Hushu hugged his fists in the direction of the county government and said in an official tone.

Tax? The onlookers in Xiahe Village discussed for a while, Zhu Ping'an is the champion, and he has become an official, how can he still pay taxes. Doesn't it mean that if you become an official, you don't have to pay taxes?

After listening to the discussions of the people in Xiahe Village around him, Hu Shu touched his beard and said unhurriedly, "Of course, Lord Zhu naturally didn't have to pay taxes when he was there, but now that Lord Zhu is gone, this tax is inevitable." ”

People go to tea and cool, some time ago, the county government often ran to Zhu Ping'an's house, and sent things and congratulations, and now Ping'an Lang has just had an accident, it's only been a few days, and the county government has jumped out to collect taxes, hey

"Who said my son is gone!" Chen was angry when he heard this, and stepped forward through gritted teeth, eager to scratch this person into shredded potatoes, and even said that my son was gone.

"Who are you, village woman?" Hushu sneered.

"Who are you, you know that the county lord has to salute when he sees me" Chen didn't have a good face.

"The second one's." Seeing that Chen was so rude, Old Man Zhu was worried that he would make the eldest man in the county government angry, so he couldn't help but step forward and preach Chen, and then apologized to the book, "She is a woman who is not sensible, don't be like her." ”

"Then forget it."

Hu Shu glanced at Old Man Zhu as he spoke, and Old Man Zhu glanced at Hu Shu, and couldn't help but shrink his neck. Old Man Zhu also stepped forward with the courage just now, worried that the second family's cause trouble would affect the Zhu family, which would be in front of the official, and his courage would have long been gone. (To be continued.) )