When he returned to the main courtyard, Xiao Nuan saw Li Qiushan, the steward of the second village, and said something to Huang Zihou with righteous indignation.

Xiao Nuan didn't say anything, and only after returning to the inner courtyard did she ask her mother, "Something happened to the second village?" ”

Qin Shi paused before saying, "You just came back, and my mother didn't want to bother you about Zhuangzi." But this thing is really infuriating! ”

The second village is different from the first village, the fields in the first village are all under the name of the Qin family, and they are not rented to farmers for farming, and the farmers are all long-term workers hired by Xiao Nuan's family. Although the fields in the second village are also under the name of the Qin family, there are more than 50 farmers in the village who rent farmland all year round.

For generations, these farmers have rented their fields in the grange, and there is nowhere else to go but here. Therefore, after Xiao Nuan bought the Wu family grange that was auctioned off by the Yamen, he did not drive these people away, and the land was still rented by them, and they received less than the rent when they rented the Wu family's field, which was a generous owner.

Last year, some of the cotton planted in the second farm was planted in the fields rented by farmers. Under the guidance of Xiao Nuan's cotton craftsmen, these tenants had a good harvest and sold cotton to Xiao Nuan's cotton mill, and the silver money they received in one season was more than the grain they had grown for ten years, and the tenants were as happy as if they had been in the New Year.

When a farmer has a field in his hands, the first thing he thinks about is to buy a land and a home. With their own land and houses, they will be steady. Therefore, more than a dozen families in the second village have withdrawn the fields in the village and disposed of the fields in other villages, and there are only more than 30 households left in the village. Most of the people who moved away were distant relatives of the Wu family or the families of slaves, and after these people moved away, the Zhuangzi was much cleaner, which was also a good thing.

The tenants who moved out were thinking about their future livelihoods and wanted to continue growing cotton. They begged for the Qin family, and the Qin family responded to their request and sold them twenty catties of cotton seeds per household at a low price. Twenty catties can be planted three acres of land, and if it can be planted well, the income must be considerable.

This is an excellent thing, but who would have thought that this year's drought will cause aphids on cotton leaves. These people who moved out were cunning when they used to work in the village, and they didn't know how to treat insects. After a few days of delay, the cotton was sick with yellow leaves, and the seedlings in the field were wasted. Now, they are in a hurry.

Because it's not cotton seedlings that die, it's silver with white flowers!

Can't let the rest die anymore, these people ran back to the second village for help, but found that the cotton in the second village was green and neat, and there was nothing wrong at all!

Although according to the method given by the cottonsmith Zhao Changqing, most of their remaining cotton was saved, but after the disaster, the cotton field was like being licked by a dog. These people do not find the reason in themselves, but rely on others. They complained that the cotton seeds given to them by the Qin family were not good, and the cotton seedlings that came out were weak before they got sick, and they also said that the people in the second village were not righteous, and they knew that their cotton fields were sick, but they pretended to be blind and didn't help!

Speaking of this, Li Chunshan, who was called in by the Qin family, was extremely angry, "We can't catch the worms in our village yet, how can we have time to see what is going on in their fields, Wu Yechang is spewing blood!" ”

Wu Yechang was originally the steward of the second village, but because of his ineffective work, Xiao Nuan was exempted from his errand soon after buying the second village, and Li Chunshan was mentioned as the steward. In this regard, Wu Yechang was not convinced, and moved out of the second village, which was the head led by Wu Yechang.

"What did they do next?" Xiao Nuan asked. If it's just this little thing, it won't make my mother angry, and the crazy words they have heard in the past two years are more than this.

Huang Zihou continued, "Two days ago, a large piece of cotton in the southwest corner of the second village died for no reason. The three Zhuangzi cotton craftsmen couldn't find anything wrong when they gathered in one place, or Lord Xuanqi sent someone to investigate, only to find out that it was Wu Yechang who sneaked in in the middle of the night and doused boiling water to death! ”

"More than two acres of cotton is gone, it is Chunshan's incompetence and failure to protect Zhuangzi." Li Chunshan's voice was choked, Wu Yechang and the others grew up in Zhuangzi, even if they could touch the fields in the dark, it was not easy to prevent them.

"Good crops, how can they get their hands on them? Even if ......" Qin Shi trembled with anger, "even if they dig this seedling back and plant it in their field, it is better than watering it to death." ”

"Dig it back and plant it in their own fields, it's not that they don't recruit themselves, Wu Yechang won't do this. When did this happen, and how did you deal with it? Xiao Nuan asked Huang Zihou and Li Chunshan.

Huang Zihou replied, "It is illegal to damage people's crops and seedlings, and the villain took Steward Li to the yamen." When Lord Lu sent a yacha to arrest Wu Yechang and his gang into the yamen for interrogation, they knelt in front of their wives without saying a word and wept bitterly and confessed, and blood came out of their foreheads. Seeing that they sincerely repented and really didn't have any money to compensate, Lord Lu discussed with his wife to spare them! ”

The Qin family felt helpless and helpless, it was obvious that they had damaged their crops, but when they asked Lord Lu to say it in the lobby, it was as if it was their fault if they didn't spare them! Now that she sees her daughter, she feels ashamed, because she is really incapacitated, and she wants to wipe her tears.

Xiao Nuan understood, she comforted her mother first, "In that situation, if my mother doesn't forgive them and let them pay money or go to prison, she will be against Lu Qiyuan on the surface, and the people in the hall will feel that you are not generous enough, saying that you are all worth a lot, and you will not forgive a few poor people who know their mistakes." ”

"That's it, that's it!" With tears in his eyes, Qin held Xiao Nuan's hand and said, "But Xiao Nuan, my mother is distressed, such a large piece of cotton, who are we going to provoke......"

"It's our fault that we weren't ruthless enough with these dogs, so that they think that these scoundrels can use them against us!" Xiao Nuan said coldly.

"Wang!" The rhubarb lying next to him is gone.

Xiao Nuan changed her words, "It's not a dog thing, it's insulting to say that they are dogs." ”

Rhubarb was satisfied, and his head pressed back into Xiao Nuan's legs, allowing her to continue to smooth her hair.

Huang Zi said kindly, "If you let the villain say it, the one who should be blamed for this matter is Lord Lu." It was he who acted unfairly and connived at Wu Yechang's gang! Whether they are truly repentant is clearly posturing and without a sense of gratitude. ”

"In the future, if they have any difficulties, they will crawl in front of Mrs. and beg to let Mrs. help them in vain, they are the virtues of this hob meat!" Li Chunshan Road. Zhuangzi returned to the Wu family, and the Wu family was very bad, so they raised such a bunch of things to harm the tenants and long-term workers, and Li Chunshan was bullied by Wu Yechang and them before.

Several people looked at Xiao Nuan in unison, waiting for her to come up with an idea. Xiao Nuan asked quietly, "You say, whose problem is this?" ”

"The first responsibility is Lord Lu!" Huang Zihou replied.

"Wu Yechang!" After Li Qiushan finished speaking, he added, "There are villains." It was the villain's lax precautions that allowed them to get into the village at night and damage the crops. ”

Xuanqi, who was standing outside the door, walked in, "The county lord handed over the errand of guarding the grange to his subordinates, it was his subordinates who were negligent, and the subordinates were at fault." ”

Huang Zihou also thought about his own problems, "The villain is a housekeeper, and he doesn't have enough control of the situation in the second village, and he didn't find the problem in time, and the villain is also at fault." ”

"Mother shouldn't be soft-hearted." Qin lowered his head.

"Woo woo...... rhubarb apologized, but he didn't know what he was talking about.