Mr. Xiang teases her husband every day

Chapter 35

"This place is so poor!"

They did not go directly to the Quzhou county government office, but first went to the villages and towns below.Xiang Yuan intends to take advantage of the time to visit the grassroots, which is to find out the bottom line first, in case his eyes are smeared after taking over.

Hearing the disgust in Zhao Shen's tone, Xiang Yuan also nodded.Indeed, he had thought that Quzhou was located on the border, remote and barren, but no matter how perfect his imagination was, it could not compare to what he saw with his own eyes.

At the entrance, there is not a single brick and tile house, the dusty ones are all thatched roofs, and the better ones are only surrounded by courtyard walls, and the houses are built with mud bricks.

Snot-nosed, black dolls playing with them, big ones and small ones, hula-la ran past and stopped not far away, looked at them curiously, focused on the carriage, and the clothes they were wearing. It's all envy.

"Come on, I'll give you some candy."

Xiaodou took out a bag of sugar cubes and tempted the little doll.

Seeing the candy in Xiaodou's hand, all children, big and small, couldn't help but salivate.For a long time, under the temptation of Xiaodou's unchanged smile and constant words, only one older child came up slowly, carefully took the cube sugar that was not clear in color, and then quickly put it in his mouth.

Xiaodou giggled a few times and asked, "What's the name of your village?"

"Lee's family is in a depression"

"How far is it from Quzhou?"

The older child blinked in confusion: "Quzhou? I don't know."

Xiaodou was stunned, Quzhou didn't know, didn't this kid even study?

"Why didn't you go to study?"

"My mother said there was no money to study, and my father said no one taught me."

Xiaodou still wanted to ask, but the children who couldn't wait saw that there was no danger, so they all huffed and surrounded him, staring at him with their round eyes open.

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Xiaodou divided all the candies in his hand.

When I got back to the carriage, I saw my champion master was pulling the lord to recognize the crops in the field.

"This should be beans, and this seems to be corn."

Seeing Zhao Shen's amazed eyes, Xiang Yuan felt proud.Fortunately, I have been to the grassroots before when I was a senior, and I have experienced the farmland first-hand, otherwise I am afraid that I will not be able to distinguish the five grains.

The children were given candy by the villagers, and their attitude seemed to be very kind. The villagers who were scattered around and watched secretly couldn't help but gather together at this time.

Xiang Yuan put on a gentle smile and said that his family was going to Quzhou, passing by Lijiawazi to buy some water and dry food, it would be better if there was meat.

Xiang Yuan, who thought that the villagers must be very enthusiastic when he said he wanted to buy things, was surprised to find that the situation was not as he expected. Instead, the villagers hesitated after hearing his intention to buy things with money .

Zhao Shen looked at Xiang Yuan with the same doubts in his eyes.

"Don't worry, we just need some water and food, not much."

Seeing this, Song Da hurriedly spoke.It's a pity that even though some of the poorly dressed villagers were shaken, they still didn't dare to talk to them.Xiang Yuan was nahan, just about to open his mouth to test, when he heard someone rushing over from behind, shouting as he ran: "Something happened, something happened, the youngest son of Lizheng's family was beaten, Lizheng told the big guy to go back quickly, and followed him to beg What about the argument?"

As soon as Lizheng's youngest son was beaten, the onlookers ignored Xiang Yuan and his party, immediately picked up the hoe and pickaxe at hand, picked up their own child, and ran towards the village.

"Let's go and see."

Zhao Shen glanced at Xiang Yuan, saw that he was eager to try, and his whole body exuded an aura of wanting to watch the excitement, and silently followed behind.That speed, only fast but not slow.

In other words, he didn't want to miss it if there was something exciting to watch.

Lizheng's house is easy to find, the best thatched cottage in the village.Xiang Yuan and the others stood on the periphery and looked in. Through the crowd, they saw a young man leaning on a chair in the yard, blood was hanging from the corner of his mouth, and he was weak.

"Shangwazi is too bullying! Lizheng, let's show them some seriousness this time, otherwise they will think that there is no one left in Xiawazi!"

"That's right, because every time we rely on them to sell some vegetables and fruits, we'll push our noses in the face, and it's going too far every time. This time, we even hurt Xiaoyu, it's too much!"

"Come on, let's go to theory theory."

Surrounded by young men from the village clamoring to teach Xiawazi a lesson, the Li family was smoking dry tobacco in Shangwazi, and it took a long time before they knocked on the pipe, frowning and shouting: "Okay, don't talk about it." If Xiaoyu hadn't insisted on following along, would he have been beaten?"

"Uncle, Xiaoyu is your youngest son, why do you say that!"

"Xiaoyu is also doing it for us, third child, don't be angry."

"That's right, Uncle, we don't care about anything else, Xiaoyu was beaten, so we need an explanation?"

Through the gap, Xiang Yuan saw that the young man named Xiaoyu seemed to be in a hurry to speak, but when he was in a hurry, he couldn't help coughing, and after coughing, the strength he had finally gathered was exhausted, so he could only spread out on the chair again.

"Why don't they sell the stuff themselves?"

Zhao Shen listened for a long time, still confused, so he couldn't help asking.

At this question, those who watched the excitement suddenly came back to their senses, and all looked over.

Scary, when did some foreigners come here!Silk and satin, dressed so well, must be a rich person, and cannot be offended.

The surrounding villagers didn't dare to say anything, so Lizheng had no choice but to come forward.

"May I ask where you are from and where are you going? Is there anything important here?"

Xiaodou leaned forward and said in a brisk voice: "We are going to Quzhou, passing by here to buy some food and water."

Li Zheng looked at them suspiciously, and said after a long while: "You don't need to pay for water, things that can be seen everywhere, such as food, distinguished guests, please give me some."

After finishing speaking, he asked the surrounding villagers who sold pancakes and steamed buns.It took a full cup of tea before a woman came out and said that there was dry food for sale, Xiao Dou followed to get it, Xiang Yuan and Zhao Shen still stayed where they were, showing no embarrassment in the posture of continuing to watch the excitement.

Li Zheng twitched shamelessly, but he didn't dare to drive people away, so he had to smoke a few more puffs of dry tobacco in a depressed mood.

"Father, I really don't blame Aqi for this matter, it's because of my carelessness, we can't argue about it."

On the other side, Xiaoyu, who had finally recovered his breath, spoke hastily, afraid that it would be too late, and the villagers would rush to Shangwa Village indiscriminately, and there was a real conflict. He wants to develop with Aqi and it's all gone.

Fearing that Li Zheng would not believe it, Xiao Yu took a few breaths and hurriedly told the story.

But it turned out that he was anxious about the wild goods that he was going to sell this time, and wanted to calculate the price by himself, so he ran to ask Aqi for advice, but he didn't want to accidentally break a taboo, so he was beaten up by Aqi who became angry from embarrassment.

After listening to Xiao Yu's coy and half-covered words, Zhao Shen understood that Aqi is probably a brother.Being taken advantage of by Xiaoyu Wuxin, he naturally quit.

Seeing that it was nothing serious, the gathered villagers were all driven away by Li Zheng to go to work, and the few remaining who were reluctant to leave asked in a dawdly manner whether they would accept the wild vegetables. They picked a lot and brought them to the village. Aqi helps to sell.

Zhao Shen couldn't figure out why these people didn't sell their own things, but entrusted them to others.And shouldn't you be careful to please those who entrust you to sell things?Why did he look at those who asked for help to be more stubborn.

Xiang Yuan had already put on a gentle smile, and chatted with Li Zheng affectionately.After talking for a while, I finally figured out the reason why these people don't want to sell things by themselves.

"The magistrate of the county is a good official. Without him, we little common people would not know what would happen to us!"

Xiang Yuan was quite satisfied with the first half of Lizheng's story.Cui County Magistrate in Quzhou took office. As soon as he took office, he took action to deal with the local forces in Quzhou, rectified those unscrupulous merchants who relied on their families to exploit the villagers, and eliminated the unhealthy practices. In exchange, the people of Quzhou applauded and praised them.So far, it is indeed a good official.It's a pity that this county magistrate Cui has overcorrected. After this, he thinks that the world's businessmen are as black as crows. They are all profit-seeking, greedy and cunning people. They actually strictly control the activities of businessmen in Quzhou. Ordinary people are allowed to do business without reason, and if found, the punishment is quite severe.

"It's just that you only rely on farming, how much can you achieve? I don't think the children in the village are studying, right? Is it possible to live like this from generation to generation?"

Zhao Shen didn't understand.

Li was silently patting dry smoke, the little fish smiled wryly and said: "What can I do? There is no other production in the village, just grow some grain. At most, there are some wild goods in the mountains that can be sold in spring and autumn, but they also have to sneak around. I have to trust someone. If I hadn't heard that the magistrate of the county was going to be transferred, I wouldn't have dared to sneak in like this."

"Shut up, the magistrate is also something you can arrange? If there is no magistrate, we would have been exploited to death by those black-hearted merchants, and it's your turn to let this fart now!"

Xiao Yu curled her lips, secretly thinking that her father is stubborn!Mingming also felt that farming alone would make him unable to live, but he still steadfastly followed the county magistrate's rules and dared not move. Could it be true that he dared not move until he was about to drink the northwest wind?

"Why does that Aqi you mentioned dare to do business?"

"He has a backer. There is a relative in the family who works in the yamen. It is because of this relationship that he dares to collect some mountain goods and resell them. Otherwise, he would not dare."

Xiaoyu explained quickly, and the implication was to warn them not to betray Aqi, because she has a background.

Xiang Yuan was amused by his little thought.

As the saying goes, the king of Hades loves little ghosts, so don't underestimate the low-level power organizations such as subordinate officials and government servants who work in the yamen, or you will suffer big losses.

"Do you know what the new county magistrate is like?"

Zhao Shen asked suddenly.