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At noon the next day, the sailors entered the cabin and reported: The big ship was close to Zhoushan

Xiao Bobai took the chart and showed it to everyone After saying Zhoushan, continue to the northwest is Hangzhou Bay If the wind and water are smooth, you will be able to go ashore tomorrow morning Chang Sihao looked at the marks on the chart Hangzhou Bay is a bit like a horizontal triangle The tip of the left side points to Hangzhou The lower right corner is where Zhoushan is now located The sharp corner of the upper part points to three words: Songjiang Mansion

He asked, "Is there a place called 'Huating' under the administration of Songjiang Prefecture?"

Xiao Bobai nodded: "Yes" pointed to a small dot at the junction of sea and land below Songjiang Mansion: "This is Huating, the place is not big, but it is very rich."

Chang Sihao pondered for a moment and said, "Brother Xiao, old housekeeper, I don't know if I can ask you for a favor."

Xiao Bobai glanced at the young master, turned his head and said: "Chang Shaojian has something to say, please say" Chang Sihao said: "I have something to do, I want you to send me to Huating to get off the boat In addition, I also hope that the two of you can help take care of it for a while" Xiao Bobai looked at the young master again Xiao Jinyue tilted his head: "Wow, your wife wants me to keep it, it's not good."

Chang Sihao smiled: "I am you, you are me, my wife is your wife, and you are afraid of eating a few meals."

Xiao Jin picked up the moon and was happy: "Ha, you kid didn't go to the road at all You didn't stay with me for a few days, but you learned to take advantage of it Lao Bai, you see, it's easy to please God, it's hard to send God" Chang Sihao laughed Xiao Jin Shiyue said: "It's a pity that you are willing, I am willing, I'm afraid that our wife is not willing to make a mess of it" Chang Sihao said: "It's okay Shuangji, after I go ashore, you follow Xiao Gongzi to Hangzhou Explain it for me Stabilize Yin'er " Li Shuangji nodded half-embarrassed, feeling that he was stupid enough, but compared to himself, these two people seem to be even more abnormal Xiao Jinyue looked up at his chin: "I used to eat my relatives for nothing, but this time it's finally my relatives' turn to eat me for nothing, welcome......" Li Shuangji was confused again, and said: "Are you willing or unwilling At this time, you should talk about retribution" Xiao and Chang laughed

When Chang Sihao got off the boat in Huating, the Xiao family still gave him two hundred taels of gold tickets and some scattered silver taels for him to spend Chang Sihao told Li Shuangji to wave goodbye to everyone Seeing that the big ship was far away, he moved the bag around his neck to his back The sword was wrapped in cloth and carried on his shoulders Rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs Pretended to be a countryman and went straight to Huating County

When I came to the outside of the county, the clouds were rusty in the west, and the sun was clear and golden, and it was already dinner time, and the dirt road leading to the city gate in front of me was full of mud from the rain, and the left and right were like a hundred and ten oxen just scurrying through here, and on both sides of the road were low stalls, and the sheds were covered with sticks and ropes, and the shape was square and round, like an umbrella cemetery, and the voices below were dull and dark

Most of the people coming and going on the street are gray or blue clothes Most of the styles are similar It looks very monotonous Chang Sihao avoided the mud A little bit of jumping is walking between Suddenly heard a sizzling and squeaky sound There was a mess in front of the pedestrians flashed into an alley The middle is crazy and it seems to be a black dog Showing his eyes to the front Chang Sihao is afraid of splashing muddy water Sideways to the side The buttocks feel like something is leaning on There was a sound of dishes and porcelain The dog in front of him slipped in the mud Rolled on his shoulders and rolled in it Following the people in the alley to chase a half-grown child to the body of a body Like a monkey in a swinging stream, pounced on the dog, grabbed two of the three and put it over, and the people around him waited for the taste to come back to their senses, and saw the child hook his neck and strangle the dog, and rolled himself into a mud child, and everyone laughed, Chang Sihao was worried about him at the beginning, afraid that he would be bitten by a dog, and when he looked closely, he realized that he was holding a pig, but the pig was so thin that he was like a dog, and after rolling the mud, he was like a dog, so he also laughed

"Welcome, welcome, guest, your noodle tea is here, what else do you want, just ask the bun oil cake characteristics of our store, famous far and wide, but a mile"

Chang Sihao heard this as if he said to himself When he looked back at his face, a man wrapped in homespun cloth was holding a bowl of steaming noodle tea and was enjoying himself with an apron tied on his body It turned out that he had just avoided this and let him enter this small tea stall The butt was leaning on the guest table of the other party The stall owner was wrong and took himself as a guest to entertain him I couldn't help laughing in my heart He saw the stitches and would do business Just when his stomach was empty, he sat down The mud boy caught the pig and happily held the pig upright in front of him and tiptoed to the back of his head with a small pigtail on the back of his head It seems that the handle of the uncooked clay pot has just been pinched, and it turned out to be a girl

Chang Sihao asked for a few pieces of shortbread, chewed on the noodle tea, and after eating and checkout, the stall owner saw that he was taking out silver, his eyes lit up, and he quickly accepted it, and said with a smile: "My brother is not a local, is this going to the city?"

Chang Sihao was shocked in his heart, and secretly thought that I didn't even say a word, How do you know that I am not a local

The stall owner smiled and said, "Most of our locals have to pay the bill with slips, but not many of them use money."

"What kind of note?" Chang Sihao asked, while seeing that the note in his hand was handed forward again, and then he reacted: he took these notes to make change for himself

This note is two fingers wide Take it and look at it carefully It is written in square with a few numbers such as Gu Yijin and Huang Wujin There is a red stamp printed at the bottom Eyes swept sideways The money box with half a mouth next to it is also full of white notes of this kind I can't help but wonder: "This can be used as money to spend" The stall owner closed the box and said: "Hey, you are asking strangely Why don't you spend money This is the Xu family's strip You just take a look at the entire ground in Huating County Take this This is easy to go anywhere Chang Sihao said: "Xu family, which Xu family"

The stall owner said: "Yes, you don't even know the Xu family, how to live this day, isn't that the home of the old man Xu Ge, who is the head of the dynasty, not to mention that his old man is loyal to the country, not to mention that his two sons are even more friendly and love the people...... and asked: "Hey, I said brother, you live quite far away, do you have land at home?"

Chang Sihao responded: "Oh, I live a little farther away, and I have dozens of acres of paddy fields at home."

The stall owner said: "Are you still planting your own land now Ouch That's a pity How much do you have to pay in a year's taxes " Pursed his teeth Chang Sihao saw that his eyes were not right and sighed: "Alas, the tax is very heavy, but what can be done?"

"Hey" The stall owner sat down as if he was in good spirits, and said, "I will be the introducer for you to make sure that you will not suffer."

Chang Sihao asked: "What is that for?"

The stall owner said: "Why haven't you even heard of the dedication, alas, the countryside is really closed," he rode the stool and moved forward: "The donation means that you take out the land and dedicate it to the Xu family, and then the land will be returned to you to grow grain, but after that, you don't have to pay taxes."

Chang Sihao asked: "Why don't you have to pay" The stall owner said: "Because the land belongs to the Xu family, you farm for the Xu family, of course you are exempt from tax" Chang Sihao said: "Then my land is gone, what good do I have" The stall owner smiled: "You don't have to open the account, why are you farming, aren't you still collecting grain, you have land, you have land, you have paid taxes on most of the grain, but after you don't have the land, you still plant the original land, and you don't have to pay taxes when you beat the grain, isn't this much better than before?"

Chang Sihao said: "But the land has become the Xu family, they have to pay taxes too, and they can't rush me to ask for food."

The stall owner said: "Alas, you are really the land of the court officials and the nobles of the royal family, which is entered into the gold register, and if you do not report to the official naturalization, you will be exempt from tax You have paid grain, as long as you hand over part of the Xu family, the rest is your own, it is more appropriate than paying taxes, understand?"

Chang Sihao suddenly realized and thought: "It turns out that the Xu family has not only occupied the land of the peasants through the method of 'surrender', but also got all the country's taxes into their own pockets.

The stall owner looked at him in astonishment and said with a smile: "I figured it out this time, tell you that after the donation, you don't have to worry about anything You look at the clothes worn by the people who come and go here Those are all from the Xu family The gray clothes are tenants The blue clothes are Zhuang Ding If you are willing, just donate yourself and follow the Xu family in the future Maybe you can mix up with an official and a half-job" Then he said what he said if he came to donate, he would help to be an introducer, and so on Chang Sihao knew that he was so enthusiastic It must be that he could get oil and water in the middle At the moment, he received a note for change Pretending to think about it, he got up and said goodbye, and walked under his feet, thinking in his heart: Look at the fact that there are so many people wearing gray and blue clothes on this road, they are all affiliated to the Xu family, so how much land do they have to donate Come out for a while, seeing that it is close to the city gate, someone next to him stopped with a smile: "Little brother, it's hot, do you want to go to the fire?"

There is a small table next to him There is a teapot and a bowl on it Chang Sihao thought it was a tea stall He waved his hand and continued to walk forward There is a tea stall in a few steps It is also a general furnishing Someone also stopped and asked: "Little brother, do you want to go to the fire" Chang Sihao walked out more than a dozen steps and was stopped four or five times He was angry for a while Chong finally stopped himself This person: "Do you look like I have a fire?"

The man's two cheekbones were bulging, his skin was pitted and scarred, and when he smiled, the hills suddenly rose and the ravines were crowded, as if his whole face was opening up the world: "Look at it, isn't this fire coming up, don't worry, don't worry, you can take a look first, and then go down the house if you are not satisfied" said and pulled his hand behind him

Chang Sihao looked in that direction and saw a small squatter shed made of firewood and thatch not far away There is a small door on the side There are three small round holes the size of a fist in the front Pimple face led him to the front and said with a smile: "You pick You pick " Chang Sihao was very curious Looking in the round hole with his hand I saw that in the dim light There were seven or eight women naked in this small shed** Sitting or standing Thin Hair dirty It seems that it has not been washed for a long time Some still have straw sticks stuck to their faces Some have blue eyes with bruises The ground is black and wet with pills and mud It exudes a bad smell There is a broken board of bricks on both sides of the corner, and there is a sparse hay mat on it, like the bed of a pigsty

The pimple smiled at him: "How do you like it, seven old money at a time, to ensure that you go to the fire?"

Chang Sihao frowned and said, "Seven old money"

The pimple pouted his lips in embarrassment, and his whole face pulled out a miserable expression, as if the landform had just passed by a mudslide: "Hey, this is too expensive, let's this is the average price, you have walked around here, how dare I ask you to lie, seven dollars, it can't be less."

The smell emitted by this small shed makes people want to vomit Chang Sihao moved his head away a little Looking back at the place he had just walked around There is such a small squatter shed behind those small tea stalls It looks like the same business I thought: "There are still such brothels in the world It's just a joke" shook his head and turned around to leave, but he was pulled by a pimple face and said with a smile: "You wait, you wait" and greeted the shed: "Fourth uncle, fourth uncle, Xiao Tingting" A woman responded: "Wash the pig" pimple face said: "What kind of pig to wash, hurry up The visitor is coming" The woman agreed Pulled out a girl from behind the squatter This girl is eight or nine years old, with thin arms and belly, two red dots on her wet chest, a small yellow ripped cloth on her lower body, bare feet underneath, little dirty hands in her mouth, gnawing on mud nails, raising a pair of big eyes and looking at Chang Sihao timidly

The pimple face looked left and right, as if he was afraid that the "peer" next to him would see it, covered his mouth with his hand, and half-bowed his back, and discussed with him in a low voice: "This guest master, this price is really indispensable, so you can pick one of the ones in the shed, and then take my nephew's daughter The child is a little smaller, and when the new bud rice is not carried, after all, there is still a tender strength."

Chang Sihao looked at the woman who seemed to be a peasant aunt: "This is your fourth aunt"

"Fourth Aunt" is itching on the top of his head at this time, five black fingers are scratching in his hair, and it looks like a soaked earthworm loosening the soil When he heard this, he thought he had the heart to pick himself and hurriedly wiped his hair and wanted to make up an expression of "Panjun and Slave" The pimple face knew that there were some kind of guests who liked the taste of "good family" Thinking that there was a play, he nodded busily: "Ming Media is marrying the fourth uncle" Chang Sihao pointed to the girl called "Xiao Tingting": "She is your nephew's daughter" The pimple face and the thumb brother picked: "If it is fake, I will change my niece and daughter."

Chang Sihao said: "You let them pick me up together"

The pimple face tasted a little wrong when he heard this, and suddenly became extremely serious: "Big brother, do you believe me, can you still talk nonsense, really relatives are different, I guarantee to feel at home."

Chang Sihao's fist clenched a few times underneath I really wanted to beat him But I knew I couldn't Suddenly a thought came to my heart: "Miss Cheng doesn't know where she was sold now Is she also doing such a thing " This thought moved, and the pimple in my heart became bigger I have the heart to give this child some money I know that it is not in her hands Even if I have good intentions, I can't control the world It's just just gritted my teeth and turned around and left The people in several other tea stalls listened from afar Seeing that he didn't even want to play with such a discount He didn't even come to provoke him The pimple looked at his back inexplicably for a moment But he was not discouraged and shouted again: "Come on, it's hot, go to the fire," he returned to the side of the road, busy soliciting others

The Xu family's mansion is located in the northeast of the county Chang Sihao inquired about the direction and searched all the way while walking, thinking: "Those women see that they are all peasant women, but if they can survive, they will never do this business The family's land is dedicated, and there is no way to make a living, and the man is naturally a slave, and the woman has to sell herself All this is not forced by the Xu family The more I think about it, the more angry I become, and I ponder: "The Xu family must have signed a lot of contracts to engage in this set of contributions, and if I get this thing in my hands, it will be the best evidence to sue him in the future" I made up my mind and came to go around a few times outside the Xu Mansion and counted in my heart I stayed in a small shop nearby, slept for three hours, nourished my spirits, opened my eyes, saw that the moon was in the middle of the night, in the dead of night, got up, packed my clothes tightly, stabilized my waist and flanked the difference, and quietly touched out of the door behind the "ten miles of time".