Daming King of Punishment

"You child!" As soon as the woman heard the child say this, she hurried out and covered the child's crotch.

After hearing this, Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo immediately looked at each other with a smile and said: "Tongyan Wuji, Tongyan Wuji."

After speaking, the two of them took out the steamed buns they brought this time, and handed them directly to the woman, and then they did it on the sidelines.Zhao Da had already poured water for the two of them, and watched them sit aside.

"You two young masters, why are you here this time?" Zhao Da looked at the two of them from left to right and couldn't help asking.

It was not a secret thing to come out this time, Song Wuya immediately explained the purpose of coming.

"Brother Zhao, it's like this. The autumn harvest is about to begin, and the magistrate asked us to come here to see how the rice harvest is going."

"Hey!" Zhao Dachang sighed, and kept shaking his head: "This year seems to be a bumper harvest year, but who knows that it will be a little dry at the end."

Hearing this, Song Wuya was rather puzzled, and asked with a frown, "Zhao Dage, it stands to reason that the crops have already grown, so why would it be affected by the drought in autumn?"

Although he doesn't understand this kind of field, Song Wuya is still clear about this.

There was no smile on Zhao Da's face, he was completely different from him just now, it can be seen that this year's harvest really disappointed him.

"That's what I said, but this autumn is dry, and the food for the birds and beasts is relatively less, so they focus on the crops, and the scarecrows don't work!" Zhao Da told the truth.

Song Wuya glanced at Bai Zhuo beside him, and shook his head helplessly: "Hey! I really didn't expect it! It's so difficult to depend on the sky for food."

In ancient times, there was no advanced agricultural equipment, not even professional planting techniques.This makes the already meager food production, a little bit of natural disasters, it will be fruitless.

"Brother Zhao, after hearing what you said, I don't even know how to report to Master Situ." Song Wuya said helplessly.

"Lord Situ is a good official, but...it's just that God is really unfair to him!" Zhao Da hesitated and said: "In the past, our Songjiang was also a rich place, but who knows that in recent years, it has become more and more It’s bad. It’s just a pity that Master Situ has been in office so far, not to mention such a troublesome case, but also encountered this drought, it’s really... hey!"

Indeed, encountering so many things at once is indeed not an easy task.Especially for a new official who just took office.

Obviously Situ Yi has made a lot of preparations here in Songjiang, otherwise he wouldn't have let Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo come out for this trip.It is estimated that Situ Yi has read the county chronicles of Songjiang in recent years.

"Brother Zhao, how did the prefect of Songjiang deal with such things in previous years?" Song Wuya was powerless about such things, so he could only ask Zhao Da.

"What else can I do? Of course, I'd like to ask the imperial court to allocate relief money." Zhao Da knew about it.

This is also the most common method, and Song Wuya has completed the task assigned by Situ Yi.It's getting late today, and the two of them will go to the fields tomorrow to have a look.

"Oh! At least the imperial court's disaster relief will allow them to spend this year with peace of mind." Although Song Wuya didn't understand this, he also knew that the imperial court's disaster relief money was enough for them to survive the famine.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he said this, he was immediately cast aside by Zhao Da: "Damn! Mr. Song, if all the money from the court goes into our pockets, you are right. But if Shrunk. That's not the case."

"You mean, the relief money from previous years has been embezzled?" Song Wuya was immediately startled. The amount of relief money allocated by the Songjiang Mansion might not be less than a million taels. It is definitely a big event that so many government money has been embezzled. . "Then why don't you report it to the court!"

"Young master? It's a long way from the capital, where do you want us to report? Even the provincial government is useless! Some people from our village went to the provincial government to report this matter, but who knows, in the end they never returned to the district. , There has been no news since then. Tell me, who else dares to take care of this matter? We old people believe that we don’t need that much money. We only care about our food and clothing and the next year’s crops, and that’s fine. But they... hey Young master, you have seen the life of our family of three, right?"

"Hey! I didn't expect this to be the case. If this is the case, it's no wonder that this matter has been concealed for so many years." Song Wuya sighed. If even the provincial government was involved in this matter, then what else could Situ Yi do? Woolen cloth?

"So, we are resigned to our fate. We can live one day at a time. As the saying goes, it is better to live than to die. Although our family of three is poor, it can be regarded as happiness. It is a pity that I can no longer be filial to my parents. It's gone." Zhao Da was already choked up, and his wife was crying bitterly while holding the child.

Seeing this scene, Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo didn't know how to comfort them.

"Brother Zhao, my condolences."

Song Wuya could only comfort him like this.After hearing this, Zhao Da cried even harder, "I'm not filial! I'm not filial! If it weren't for my incapacity, my parents wouldn't have left like this."

Chapter 91 Evil

?Chapter 91 Evil

"Brother Zhao, why do you say that? Birth, old age, sickness and death are unavoidable things, how can you be blamed?" Song Wuya murmured in his heart after hearing what Zhao Da said.

But who knows, it's okay if he didn't say it, but when he said this, Zhao Da became even more sad, and suddenly fell to his knees on the ground, crying loudly.That expression is like that of an ignorant child, which makes people worry about it.

"Brother Zhao, Brother Zhao!" Song Wuya was more anxious and at a loss when he saw a man crying like this, than seeing a woman cry.

But no matter what Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo tried to persuade Zhao Da, he just ignored it, as if he didn't hear it at all.Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo stood here looking at Zhao Da, even his wife turned away.

The situation in front of him was definitely not an ordinary thing. Zhao Da's grief-stricken appearance made Song Wuya feel a little strange.

Immediately, he ignored Zhao Da, but walked towards Zhao Da's wife and asked, "Sister-in-law, what's going on?"

"Hey! I'm ashamed to say it!" Even Zhao Da's wife's face was very ugly, and she seemed to be too embarrassed to talk about this matter.

However, after waiting for a while, she finally spoke up.

"I married into the Zhao family, and the elders treated me as my own. I never thought that they would leave before we could show our filial piety to the elders." Mrs. Zhao choked up, and even the children beside her were crying too. up.

The grief of the family really made Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo helpless. It is conceivable that they must have gone through unimaginable grief.

"Then how did your parents-in-law go?" Song Wuya heard this, and also noticed that the two elders must not have died of old age.

As expected, Song Wuya really got it right.

The woman raised her finger and pointed to the beams of the house, she burst into tears: "My father-in-law and my wife were hanged here."

When Bai Zhuo heard this, he trembled with fright and almost fell to the ground.And Song Wuya also frowned, looked up at the roof, and then asked: "What's going on here?"

"My parents-in-law and the others committed suicide by hanging themselves." The woman choked up again, and after a long pause, she continued with what she had just said: "The harvest has not been good in recent years, and the grain harvested every year is not enough for myself, and I have to hand it in Taxes. In the end, the disaster relief money issued by the imperial court did not reach us much. In order not to implicate us, the two elders chose...chosen..."

Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo looked at each other in blank dismay, they never thought that things would turn out like this.Now that they heard this kind of thing with their own ears, the two of them couldn't calm down for a long time.

"Hey! Poor parents in the world!" Song Wuya sighed to himself, turned to look at Zhao Da who was still crying, and immediately comforted him: "Brother Zhao, don't be sad. The reason why the two elders chose to do this is nothing more than I just want to make you live a better life. I am afraid Erlaoquan will be chilled by the way you are now."

"That's right! Brother Zhao, what Wu Ya said is right, we have to find a way to solve this matter. Isn't this Lord Situ who just took office? You also know that Lord Situ is an upright official. I think this year will be the same as previous years. It's different, don't cry anymore."

Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo, the two persuaded at the same time, after all, it still had an effect.Zhao Da slowly suppressed his crying, wiped away the tears on his face, smiled awkwardly at Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo and said, "I made the two young masters laugh, let's not talk about it anymore, Let's eat first."

Seeing that Zhao Da had recovered, Song Wuya also nodded, but he was a bit puzzled when he heard the woman's words just now: "Sister-in-law, just now I heard that the harvest is not good and you have to pay taxes. what happened?"

"How can I know this!" The woman frowned and turned her head away.

Looking at the situation, Zhao Da said: "The two young masters don't know something. According to common sense, the harvest is not good, and the emperor will show grace to exempt the tax. But for some reason, the governor of the province is still like We collect food taxes. They also said that this is the law of the country, which is completely different from disaster relief. That’s not counting. We only said that we don’t want disaster relief money, but want to exempt the taxes of the year, but the superiors said they would sue us for a crime of disobedience. !"

The more he heard about this, the more strange Song Wuya felt, how could there be such a thing in this world.He thought about it carefully, thinking that this matter would not be that simple, and he was afraid that there might be some ulterior secret in it.

Immediately Song Wuya pondered over this matter, and said to everyone: "Let's eat first, and go to the fields tomorrow to have a look. Although the weather is dry this year, there will still be a little harvest."

"Song Gongzi! That's it, we have even more headaches." Zhao Da immediately frowned again: "This little harvest, after paying the taxes, we will only have some grain left at most. When the time comes, the court's disaster relief money will If we can’t allocate the money, we can only eat grain, and I’m afraid we won’t even be able to grow the land next year.”

Hearing these words, Song Wuya and Bai Zhuo were shocked immediately.

"Then there is no food to grow! How will we live in the coming year?"

If a farmer doesn't even grow grain, what kind of farmer is he?Song Wuya was furious at the moment, Zhao Da's words had already made him understand everything, the government wanted to force them to die.

"Hey! Seeing that there will be no way to farm next year." Zhao Da said helplessly, "This is not our family, our whole village is in the same situation, and the neighboring villages are also the same."