Qiu Yan fought with the demon king Shi Jianhui in the ancestral hall in the depths of the Jiedu Embassy, and finally completed the cause and effect of enmity.

At that time, on the platform of the ancestral hall, there was a naked woman, Shi Jianhui was in the Zuihou moment before her destruction, and the broken demon pill tried to fly towards the naked woman, but she was stopped halfway.

Earlier, Qiu Yan had separated a wisp of divine thought, burst into the ancestral hall, and saw two familiar figures in a flash, one of them was the demon king Shi Jianhui, and the other was a naked woman lying on the stage.

In the first battle of the ancestral hall, the demon king died, and the ancestral hall was flooded in the battle between Tang Lai and Chen Yan and the god of Hengduan Mountain, and was destroyed in one fell swoop, and the woman on the stage disappeared into the ruins.

But what Qiu Yan didn't expect was that the woman who disappeared with the ancestral hall that day now appeared in front of her and called herself the young master.

Face to face, eye to eye, Qiu Yan finally recognized why he was familiar with this woman.

Two years ago, when Song Qian appeared in front of Qiu Yan in a sedan chair, in addition to Song Nu, there was also a maid who was wearing green clothes, bowing her head and lowering her eyes, it was difficult for people to see the appearance clearly, but the breath and temperament were recorded by Qiu Yan, and it was the daughter on the stage of the ancestral hall that made him feel familiar.

"You ......"

Qiu Yan narrowed his eyes, his eyes were cold, and he was about to ask, but was interrupted by a sound of footsteps.

"Yan'er, are you back?"

Then, Liu Huai's voice came.

"Uncle. ”

Hearing this, Qiu Yan had to stop talking, pack up his mind and salute, and then saw Liu Huai's figure and frowned.

Compared with before, Liu Huai is much haggard, and his spirit was still quite strong, but now he is a little old.

"Finally went home, the news that you were admitted to Xiucai, Master Song had already sent someone to bring Xin'er over, and I heard that he was still the head of the case. It's the first, it's good!

As soon as he saw Qiu Yan, Liu Huai was overjoyed, and his slightly old demeanor disappeared a lot.

This scene, in Qiu Yan's eyes, made his heart warm, but a little anger immediately appeared in his heart.

"I left Qingchang because of the Taoist test, and I went directly to Wuxin City after the test, and it was only two months before and after, but my uncle was in such a short time. But it shows old ......"

With a twist of thought, he guessed the reason.

"Song Nu ......"

Thinking of Song Nu's face before, Qiu Yan's anger gradually burned, but Liu Huai was beside him, so he had to forcibly press it, otherwise with his life cultivation, it would inevitably surprise the old man.

"Your cousin has gone out to collect rent, and will be back in a moment. Indeed, if he knows that you are coming, he will be glad to be there. ”

Qiu Yan was puzzled: "Collect rent? How many acres of land our family newly bought, can we already collect rent?"

When he first came to Qingchang, Qiu Yan helped the Liu family buy a house. He also paid for some farmland as a source of income for the Liu family, but those fields had been barren for a long time and had to be reclaimed. There has been no improvement in two years.

"It's not those pieces of land," Liu Huai shook his head and sighed. "A few days ago, the peasants in the field made trouble, and I was afraid that your reputation would be ruined, so I sold the land. ”

Qiu Yanyan's eyes narrowed when he heard this: "Trouble? In the past two years, the rent has not been confiscated at all, and even you have taken money to subsidize it from time to time, why do they want to make trouble? Besides, if you make trouble again, there is no need to sell the land, just change the people." ”

Qiu Yan said it, but he knew very well in his heart that if the helper made trouble and wanted to sell the land, the price would be extremely low and the loss would be great.

"Xu is the land is barren and has no production," Liu Huai smiled, "Uncle has never read, but I used to watch dramas, and I know that people with merit and fame are most afraid of this kind of thing. ”

Qiu Yan's heart was even warmer, but his anger was also surging, and after thinking about it a little, he knew that there must be a push behind this matter, and as for who that person was, he was about to come out.

"No wonder in a short period of time, my uncle was a lot haggard, it turned out that he was overly worried and hurt his heart, and he had to write a prescription in two days to make up for it. ”

After sorting out the context, but it was always difficult to have a seizure at home, Qiu Yan just asked: "Since the land has been sold, where will my cousin go to collect rent?"

Liu Huai smiled and patted Qiu Yan's shoulder: "Your cousin is collecting rent for you, you were admitted to Xiucai, and the government gave you a few acres of land." ”

"The government gives land?"

Hearing this, Qiu Yan shook his head secretly.

Da Rui Law does have a clause, saying that if the students are admitted to the examination, the government will give arable land, but this is a strategy adopted to appease the world's scholars when they won the world at the beginning of that year.

Over the past 80 years, the imperial examination has been held every three years, not to mention the talents, and the big landlords have accumulated a lot, and the big landlords have emerged in endlessly, and the wealthy families in the place have annexed a large area of land, and the rest is barren and difficult to cultivate arable land.

This is still the situation in a frontier place like Jiannan Road, as far as Qiu Yan knows, in rich places such as Jiangnan, land annexation is even more serious, and there is no room for distribution to Xiucai for a long time, so it is all converted into money and grain, which is distributed on a monthly basis, and the terms of land division exist in name only.

Some of these news were known to Qiu Yan when he was talking to the living beings in the post house, and some of them were learned from Yan Yongjie back then.

The thought crossed his heart, and Qiu Yan asked again: "Who sent the land given by the government?"

"It was sent by the master of the Song family in person, this person is a good person, don't you know, since the land was sold half a month ago, your cousin's shop is also in trouble, our family is almost exhausted, I didn't expect the master of the Song family to go up and down, and the land that should have been issued in a few months, took the title deed in advance, otherwise it would ......"

Liu Huai shook his head and didn't continue.

"The terms of the government's land for Xiucai have long been in vain, no matter how much Song Nu does, this land deed is by no means given by the government......!

Thinking of this, Qiu Yan secretly sneered.

At this time, I heard Liu Huai say again: "By the way, this will let your aunt go out to buy some vegetables and pick you up for ......."

When his voice fell, a crisp voice came from the side-

"Just leave this kind of thing to the little maid, how can you trouble the old man and the old housewife. ”

It was the woman who opened the door for Qiu Yan who spoke.

Previously, because of Liu Huai's haggard color, Qiu Yan couldn't care about anything else, he wanted to understand the situation first, but now that he had the general situation, his attention returned to the woman.

Unexpectedly, the woman was already familiar with Liu Huai, and after saying a few words, she left home with a vegetable basket, while Qiu Yan was pulled into the house by Liu Huai.

"This maid of yours is very diligent," Liu Huai smiled, and without waiting for Qiu Yan to speak, he took the initiative to say, "A few days ago, she suddenly came to the door, saying that she was a maid you accepted in Wuxin City, and her background was pitiful. What's wrong?"

After all, Liu Huai has been a steward in Pan Mansion for many years, and now he is older, but his ability to observe words and emotions is still there, and he has already guessed when he noticed Qiu Yan's expression, so he took the initiative to speak without waiting to ask.

"Since the news of beating you Zhongxiucai came, many people wanted to sell themselves to take refuge, but I didn't agree, for fear that if I didn't check it for a while, it would ruin your reputation, but this woman took a letter from the daughter of the festival envoy, and the county lord looked at it, and said a lot of things about you in Wuxin City, and took out one of your books as a token......"

After listening to these words, Qiu Yan roughly understood the matter and gradually had an idea.

"Uncle Lao, those who sell themselves to take refuge, are more idle, attached to it, in order to evade taxes and avoid service, it really shouldn't be taken in, as for this Biying, you don't need to worry about it, I have my own opinions. With a countermeasure, he spoke out to appease Liu Huai.

Not long after, the woman named "Biying" came back from grocery shopping, took the initiative to enter the kitchen, and cooked.

After a while, Qiu Yan's cousin Liu Yue also collected the rent and came back, and the brothers met and had their own greetings, and then, the female relatives of the family set up tables and chairs, and the family sat around.

"Last month, your aunt and cousin were picked up by the people of Pan Mansion, those people were polite, I heard that it was because of your name, as if you wrote a few words before, spread in Yuanning Mansion, and were sought after, Pan Mansion heard a little, regretted the original behavior, and wanted to remedy it. During the banquet, Liu Huai introduced the changes in his family, looking relieved.

But these words made Qiu Yan suspicious.

"I wrote the handwriting, I was in the Taoist test, calligraphy was a little successful, but did not leave any ink in Yuanning Mansion, if there is anything, that is, when the soul was condensed, Zhang Zhen took those practice calligraphy, I heard that he took them to Yuanning City. I don't know, what's involved. ”

Nowadays, most of the households in Yuanning Mansion have invited the god of the stove, which is shrouded by Qiu Yan's own legal domain, but the matter of calligraphy and literature, the general family does not have much contact, even if it is a large family, most of the people who worship the stove are cooks, the real magnates, how many can care about the way of cooking?

The circles are different, the horizons are different, and the knowledge is different, such as the matter of the demon war, if it weren't for Lu Jing's soul entering the underworld, Qiu Yan would be difficult to know.

Therefore, even if the stoves are all over the city, the system of collecting information in the jurisdiction is still not perfect.

After eating, bidding farewell to Liu Huai and the others, Qiu Yan got up and returned to the house, followed by a woman.

When he entered the courtyard, it was getting late, so Qiu Yan didn't say much, and went straight to the study.

After a few months away from home, there was not much dust in the study, and it was obvious that someone had cleaned it.

Glancing at the spotless desk, Qiu Yan's mind flashed Pan Rongniang's voice.

With a sigh, Qiu Yan sat down, put down the package and the long sword, and turned his eyes to look at the woman "Bi Ying".

"Tell me, what's your plan?"

Bi Ying listened, she was not in a hurry, she lowered her head and lowered her head, looking respectful, and there was no ripple on her delicate face: "Bi Ying really wants to be a servant girl for her son, in order to thank her for saving her life." ”

As she spoke, she raised her head and stared at Qiu Yan with watery eyes: "The reason for this will be explained to Gongzi clearly, but before that, there is still something to do." When the words fell, she clapped her palms.

Crunch.

There was a sudden sound outside, and then the door of the study was pushed open, and Song Nu walked in tremblingly, he was naked, his hands were tied behind his back, and he was carrying a bamboo on his back, and as soon as he walked in, he fell to the ground with a thud. (To be continued......)