Lu Yongjie had a crush on a person when she was a girl, a distant young man from her own family with the same surname Lu, after marrying on the orders of her father, she originally thought that she would mourn more than die in this life, but she didn't expect her husband to die.

He is a descendant of a dilapidated scholarly family, his family is surrounded by walls, his parents are dead, and he lives a hungry and full life by writing books, and Lu Yongjie, who is a widow, doesn't care anymore, what she likes is him.

By chance, the two people said a few words face-to-face, so they hit it off at first sight, and soon they got into a hot fight, and they secretly had a relationship for a while.

Those young people have long seen it, and they are intentionally or unintentionally covering for this pair of lovers, first, the young people have not solidified the concept of feudal etiquette, and they are more open-minded, thinking that the two of them are an ideal pair. Second, everyone generally has sympathy for this widow lady who dares to offend the family rules of the Lu family, is not afraid of the severe punishment of the family rules, dares to love and hate, and is unwilling to observe the festival.

To be able to be in a place like Lujia Village, especially as Lu Hanchen's daughter, Lu Yongjie's bravery regardless of Qiē, everyone even admires it a little.

So whenever the distant relative surnamed Lu came to Lu Yongjie for an excuse, he always had a tryst in the next person's room in the name of finding a few long-term workers, and the big guy helped to hide it.

In fact, Lu Yongjie knows very well that if the lover comes to propose to his father, he will inevitably encounter the most fierce opposition, especially the lover's surname is Lu, which is simply a big rebellion.

Lu Hanchen loves his little daughter very much, and he doesn't eat children with tiger poison, once he learns about it, he will definitely do everything possible to drive his lover out of Lujia Village, and even find a way to kill him, with his father's ruthlessness, he can do it, otherwise how can he become the emperor of Lujia Village?

So the only way in front of Lu Yongjie. Only Xue Bai Chunjie escaped, but the lover was penniless, and she couldn't get a lot of money herself, without enough money, they couldn't hide far, and it was easy to be chased back.

After chasing it back, it is estimated that Lu Hanchen will not tie up his daughter and sink into the river, but he can kill the lover in the name of the clan, and then force Lu Yongjie to cut his hair and become a nun, and guard the green lantern ancient Buddha in the nunnery for a lifetime.

Just when the two of them were worried about the future. happened when Lu Hanchen sank Feng Er and Lu Yongfang into the river, and the two hated the murderous rites in Lujia Village, and at the same time they couldn't help but be afraid that the tragedy would fall on their heads.

When he was at a loss, several young people came to discuss with Lu Hao, and proposed that according to their method, on the one hand, they could slap Lu Hanchen's face once and break his so-called clan rules, and on the other hand, let you a pair of lovers fly away from now on.

Lu Hao hesitated about this and did not discuss it with Lu Yongjie. After all, it was her own father, and said: "Even if you can succeed, you will make Master Lu embarrassed as you wish, but the two of us will be tied up." It's too embarrassing to get to the ancestral hall. ”

A young man named Lu Er said: "If you can't do this trick, is it possible for you to make your wishes come true?" Or did you just plan to cheat and never thought of marrying a young lady? ”

Lu Hao hurriedly said: "I dare to swear to the sky. I never dreamed of marrying her. ”

"Then don't worry about it." The other Lu San said slowly: "We just don't like Master Lu's disgusting set of clan rules, and the two lives of the good ones are gone, it's really barbaric and outrageous." Come and think about it. There's nothing more humiliating than her daughter breaking the rules of the clan, and you two are in love, who isn't? There is no shame in tying them together. ”

Lu Hao shook his head vigorously, using her to make Master Lu lose face, thanks to what they thought of, they were angry, but he and Yongjie not only had to risk their lives, but also suffered great humiliation, no.

Lu Er said: "Look at your home, there is nothing, now it is the big guy who is sneaking around and pity you, but can it go on like this?" If you have been a thief all your life, what will the people in the village think of you? If you don't show the courage of a man to show your heart, then what are you going to do? Even if you get ahead, can you pass the level of Lu Lao Thief? ”

"Alas!" Lu Hao sighed.

Lu San said: "You want to think about it. Then we will tie you up and cover your head and body, and no one will see you. We don't allow any one to come forward and bully. ”

But Lu Hao still has some concerns, even if he is embarrassed, but if the live buckle of the rope is not done well when he sinks the river, won't he be drowned alive?

Lu Er said: "Don't worry, the buckle I tied is foolproof, as soon as you get out of the water, the stone will be released, you two will float to the back of the boat, someone will pick you up in the water, and take advantage of the night to send you to the small boat behind." ”

It turned out that their strategy was exactly the same as Xu Hao's, Lu Hao knew water, as long as the stone mill could get rid of it, admit that this plan was feasible.

Lu San also said: "You guys are incognito first, we have asked for a female doctor, take you in, and you can go to study medicine and go to school." 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 couldn't help but nod, this idea was very ranciful, but it seemed to be a clever plan to survive, not to mention that if he didn't have them to help cover up, he wouldn't even be able to see Yongjie's face.

But I don't know if she is willing or not, she shouldn't be willing, Lu Hao sued Lu Yongjie about the matter and asked for her opinion.

To his surprise, Lu Yongjie nodded in agreement without the slightest hesitation, and said categorically: "Even if they really sink you and me into the river, I am willing to accompany you to die." ”

Having said that, what else does Lu Hao have to say?

In Xiaojia Village, Xu Hao has not returned to Beijing for nearly two months, because the weather is bad, when the rice has just bloomed, there has not been a single rain, the water level of the river has dropped rapidly, and the fields have drought.

Crops are most afraid of dry weather at this time, commonly known as "pinch neck drought", rice because of poor pulp, long rice grains, harvest most of them are empty shells.

If you can't get food, you have to go hungry, and other families in the village are good to say, after all, the field endowment will be appropriately reduced, and with savings and help from all sides, how can they survive this year.

But many tenants are about to be unlucky, the landlord is unkind to the iron plate rent, and in the disaster year, they have to pay the rent in full, and they can't afford to pay the rent arrears into IOUs, which is like putting a rope around their necks, and if they can't pay it back again in the coming year, their own fields will become the landlord's fields.

Xu Hao has no way to solve it, this is a problem in the ancient world, fighting local tyrants to divide the land, formulating land state ownership or related land policies, must be implemented at the national level, facing the entire gentry and landlord class, how difficult is it?

Xu Hao is very clear about his ability, if he can carry out a thorough land reform, it will be no less difficult than overthrowing the old Zhu family and changing the dynasty.

In short, what Xu Hao can do is to take the lead in fighting drought, and in the past few days, he has led people to various villages to coordinate the problem of water use. At this time, the peasants were anxious, who cares whether you are a national prince or a big official, there are cases of injuries caused by fighting for water sources everywhere, and the government is in a lot of trouble about this, so it must be as fair as possible.

Fortunately, Xu Hao's huge prestige is undoubtedly in his hometown, and he is a famous boy who scatters money, every family suffers inevitable losses, and promises to make up for it as much as possible, and he is also willing to spend a lot of money, not because of high consciousness, but because of money, he must be willful, why don't you spend it?

Knowing that a few young people coincided with his strategy, Xu Hao didn't have time to take a kick, but Lujia Village was blessed with a unique geographical environment, with rivers flowing around the village and its own dam, which was not greatly affected by this drought.

The life of the smoker friend Wang Siliu is not good, the fields of Tongjiayuan are in the northernmost part, and the nearby river has been cut off. Seeing that a great drought was approaching and the rice fields were about to dry up, he was determined to pump water from several fields into one field and save one field.

Wang Siliu, who is proficient in farm work, is very powerful, and he wants to plow the fields that are about to dry up and change them to drought-tolerant late corn, and take advantage of the moist bottom of the field to plant corn.

When the school was on emergency vacation, he mobilized the whole family, scooped water from the ditch with a water wheel, a wooden barrel and a wooden basin, and worked hard to irrigate the field one litter after another.

Every day in the middle of the night, when the guards around the field were dozing, he secretly dug a few holes in the special canal of the old man's house, and led the water to his adjacent fields.

Other families do the same, not to mention that there is no need to talk about conscience for a rich and unkind man like Master Tong, even if there is a conscientious landlord, no one cares.

Since ancient times, literati have held the concept of sympathy for the weak, and the toiling masses in their writings are basically honest and kind images, and the unkind ones are called lazy prodigals, scoundrels who steal chickens and dogs, and unfilial losers.

Of course, good people will always be the majority, but that does not mean absolute goodness, people have selfish thoughts, and there are also small evil things that do not live up to the conscience of heaven and earth. For example, if you steal something from a rich person, 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 robbed by the rich, no matter how good the excuse is, it cannot hide the fact that you have done bad things.

Wang Siliu is like this, the perennial poor life has made him realize that "no one is rich without windfall", and he will not be able to make a fortune if he does not take advantage of the suffering of others to fall into the well.

Not only stole the water of the Tong family, but he also wanted to turn the accumulated dead money into living money, secretly found someone who specialized in loan sharks, and talked about the profit of Sanqi.

The loan sharks are all professionals, with their own set of people, similar to foreign funds in later generations, and the investors have any identity, including the Xu family.

At this time, it is a good opportunity to make a windfall, although Xu Hao is in town, he does not dare to be unscrupulous, and the interest cannot be too high, but he can also take the opportunity to put the principal and collect the profits, and if he can't pay back the money, he will collect other people's fields; If you don't dare to be blatant, then send someone to eat and drink at your house, stirring up the unrest of the neighbors, and the debtors often prefer to sell their land to pay off their debts than call these people to the door. (To be continued......)