The Villain is Addicted to Farming

Regardless of how difficult Shu Shuang's family is, under the black and white lease, he should fulfill the agreement to pay the rent.

Because the Zhong family did not live in Beiwei, and because the Shu family gave a few stones of rice every year, hoping that he would turn a blind eye to it, he did not show up when the Meng family came to collect rent in the past.

Now that Zhong Qiyuan is making trouble at the door, the Shu family doesn't take it for granted. Even if Lizheng intends to favor the Shu family, he can't show it too clearly. He can only persuade Zhong Qiyuan: "Let the Shu family pay back the rent and taxes owed, There is no need to be an official, is it, Xiao Daoist?"

"Soybeans are not counted, and grain is eighty shi for two years."

"Didn't you say it was halved?!"

"Don't you need to pay liquidated damages for breaking the contract?"

Shu Shuang's face turned red: "This is too much, we don't have so much food, can we discount it?"

"Okay, rice bucket is two hundred renminbi, one shi is two thousand renminbi, and eighty shi is 16 renminbi."

"The price of rice the year before last was only [-] yuan!"

"These days, the price of food is soaring, and you are in arrears with taxes for two years, shouldn't you make up for the difference in the price of food in these two years?"

"You are a lion!" The Shu family's face was very ugly.

But other tenants who have been squeezed by the big landlord for a long time don't seem to think that this is too much. No matter how miserable the Shu family is, they are not as miserable as they are!

When the host's family encounters a disaster year, not only will they not reduce their rent and tax, but they will find various excuses to squeeze them, let alone [-]%, and in the end they may have to pay [-]% of the food!

"No? That's fine. Anyway, you breached the contract first. I decided to take back the [-] mu of land and not rent it to you."

This is more serious than a fine. Without the land, the Shu family will either rent another family’s land and be exploited by the owner; !

A dozen or so members of the family looked ashen, or hugged each other and wept bitterly, or begged bitterly.However, Zhong Qiyuan had a heart of stone, and when he said he would take back the field, he would take it back. Lizheng couldn't help but tremble when he saw it.

This is just a 13-year-old girl who can drive a family of more than a dozen people to a dead end without changing her face. If she is a little older, wouldn't she be more cruel?

He persuaded: "Prince Daoist, you will rent out the land to others when you take it back. Instead of looking for other tenants, it is better to use them. They still know the basics..."

Zhong Qiyuan tilted his head to look at him: "It is precisely because I know the roots and the bottom line, and know what their virtues are, that I don't want to rent them out. Besides, in this world, there are too many people who have no land and are like duckweed. Is it difficult to find someone to farm?"

Nowadays, there are eunuch dictatorship, disputes between party and friends in the imperial court, vassal separatism and mutual conquest, exorbitant taxes and heavy corvees from the people, and it is difficult for farmers who have lost their land to survive.They are under the jurisdiction of Xuanwu Jiedushi, and there are not many exorbitant taxes, but it is not easy to have enough food in a disaster year.

The Zhong family's land only received less than [-]% of the rent and tax, so any tenant seemed to be a good thing for the heavens!

Immediately someone stood up: "I want to rent, just pay [-]% of the rent!"

The Shu family didn't expect that someone would be so cruel as to put their family to death, so they immediately stared at that person with hatred.But what they didn't expect was that more people rushed to stand up, wanting to get a share of the pie.

Zhong Qiyuan raised the corners of his lips: "Li Zheng, look."

Li Zheng: "..."

He wiped the sweat off his forehead, and knew that the Zhong family's tax was very low, not to mention these tenants, even he wanted to rent the Zhong family's land, and then raise the tax to sublet it to others.

He invited Zhong Qiyuan to the side and persuaded: "Master Xiaodao, there are many tenants here who own their owners. Your rent and tax are so low. If you grow up the appetite of these tenants and go back to make trouble, Those masters of theirs will definitely not let you go, and please don't charge such a low tax again."

The Zhong family set the rent and tax so much lower than their peers, and it is indeed easy to form "unfair competition" in later generations, and be attacked by other landlords.

But is Zhong Qiyuan the kind of person who will easily change his mind just because of other people's words?

She is not, her purpose is to return these fields and plan how to plant them herself, so she doesn't care so much.

"Don't let me go? Then let them try." Zhong Qiyuan said calmly, "In short, 16 yuan, or [-] stones of grain, half of the money and half of the grain is fine. I'll give you ten days, if you can't make it all up, I will Bring the officials to the door next time."

After putting these words aside, Zhong Qiyuan went to find Zhong Chuyuan.

The little radish head just finished eating the chicken wings, and has been sucking the remaining bones, trying to suck up the little bit of meat in the bone crevices.

Zhong Qiyuan patted Little Luobotou's head lightly: "Yuanyuan, let's go."

"Okay." Xiaoluotou took out a cold roasted wing from the oil wrapper and handed it to her, "Sister, this is from Sister Yun, it's delicious."

Zhong Qiyuan looked around, Yun Congwan had already left without a trace.She took the grilled wing and took a big bite under the salivating eyes of the little radish head: "It tastes good."

"Sister, you can eat longer if you stutter!" Xiaoluotou stared at the grilled wings while teaching her the food classics.

"Your stomach is just so big. You can eat big or small bites. In the end, you will eat the same amount. The better the food, the more people will covet it. If you eat slowly and for a long time, someone will grab you at any time." .Only what you eat is yours, understand?"

Little Luobotou seemed to understand but half understood.

Zhong Qiyuan didn't explain, and drove home after eating the grilled wings.

When she got home, Zhong Chuyuan gave the remaining roasted wing to Meng Shi, who took a small bite, then reasoned that she was not hungry, and asked her two daughters to share the food.

Zhong Qiyuan chopped firewood without raising his head: "I've eaten it."

Although the little luotou was very greedy, he still replied sensiblely: "Yuan has eaten it too, mother."

Meng shi frowned in her heart, and said again: "Mother doesn't like to eat, so it's not good to waste it."

Zhong Qiyuan said: "Mother's illness requires eating more meat, otherwise no matter how much medicine you take, it will have little effect."

Meng Shi was a little confused: "Is there such a saying?"

"Yes, besides meat, you should also eat fish, eggs, milk, etc."

Meng Shi suddenly felt embarrassed: "How can I eat these things often, and I can't eat up my family's wealth?!"

"Let's not talk about the distance, is there meat right now? Besides, your life is in danger at any time with this disease. If there is a good or bad..."

Meng thought of her cruel husband-in-law, if she passed away suddenly, it would be her two daughters who would suffer.In order to survive, she ate it without hesitation.Of course, in the end she still left a chicken wing tip for Zhong Chuyuan to eat slowly.

Looking at her little daughter's greedy look, and thinking of the contrast between the situation of the Zhong family and the Yun family, Meng felt extremely sad.

Zhong Zuo was in charge of the secretary, and Shi Hong gave him a very generous salary. In addition, he was exempted from the family's exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Not to mention eating meat every day, he occasionally had some meat dishes.But all his money was spent on himself and those concubines, concubines and concubines in the back house, and he never brought home a penny to her.

As for the Yun family, Yun Congwan's father was Shi Hong's general, and his salary was far less than that of Zhong Zuo, but the Yun family's food, clothing, housing and transportation were better than the Zhong family's?This is just because Father Yun's backyard is simple, with only one son and one daughter under his knees, and his salary is all taken care of by his wife, and he has never touched his wife's dowry...

"Mother, don't think too much about your illness." Zhong Qiyuan reminded.

Meng Shi came back to her senses and asked, "How does Yuan'er know what mother is thinking?"

"It's written on your face."

Mengshi hid her face, thinking that in the future she would have to hide a bit, so as not to worry her two daughters.

She remembered the business, and asked again: "You went to collect the rent, what was the result?"

Zhong Chuyuan took the initiative to repeat Zhong Qiyuan's last cruel words to her.She looked at Zhong Qiyuan as if asking for proof, and the latter nodded, acquiescing.

Meng Shi: "What if..."

"Be polite before fighting, if you don't listen to reason, then you can only speak with your fists."

Meng couldn't think of a better solution than this, so he could only wait and see how the situation would develop afterwards.

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Only six days after the ten-day agreement, someone from Beiwei quietly came to inform Zhong Qiyuan: "The Shu family has escaped!"

Meng didn't expect that the Shu family's choice would be to run away. She asked, "Yaner, what are you going to do?"

Zhong Qiyuan's expression was as usual, as if he had expected it: "they swallowed too much food in the past two years, how could they hand it over? Even if we scrape together and repay 16 yuan, we don't rent the land to them. They are used to it. How could it be possible to live a life of paying [-]% of the rent in the days when we don’t pay the rent. You have to be a vagrant anyway, why don’t you take all your belongings and run away before we realize it?”

"That--"

Zhong Qiyuan asked: "How long have they been running?"

"On the second day after the Taoist chief left, Mr. Shu sold the grain to Lizheng, saying that he would return the money to you. Then that day, the wife of the Shu family took the child away in the name of visiting relatives. At first, there was no People suspected that until two days later, the son of the Shu family also said that he would find a way to raise enough tax, and left Beiweili one after another. Yesterday, old man Shu went to work in the field, but he didn't come back this morning. Everyone pried him away. When I looked at the door of the house, it was all emptied inside."

Zhong Qiyuan rubbed his chin: "This trick of tail-docking to survive is not bad, and it's courageous enough."

Seeing that she was still in the mood to comment on the wit of the Shu family, the man was a little dumbfounded: "Xiao Daoist, are you not in a hurry?"

"What's the use of being anxious?" Zhong Qiyuan said, "In this turbulent world, they have only two ways to go. They can either mix with the refugees and go south; or escape into the forest so that the officers and soldiers can't find them. Maybe, They'll still separate. Either way, it won't be easy to find them anytime soon."

"Why go south?" Meng asked.

"There are military disasters in the north, but the south is more stable. If they don't want to die, they will naturally go to the south." Zhong Qiyuan said to Meng, "Mother, when you go to report to the officials, let them search in this direction!"

The informant thought that Zhong Qiyuan would let it go, but he didn't expect that she not only reported to the officer, but also gave the direction of the hunt.

What the Shu family did was completely betting on whether Zhong Qiyuan would pursue it, and whether the government would catch them.

When Meng came back from reporting to the official, she asked Zhong Qiyuan worriedly: "They escaped, what about the tax?"

Zhong Qiyuan said: "At first, I didn't expect to live on their little rent."

"That--"

Zhong Qiyuan took out a small box, Meng Shi opened it and saw that there were several silver medals and silver ingots inside, the big one was 50 taels, and the small ones were seven taels, totaling more than 300 taels.

There is no need for Meng to ask about the origin of the silver ingots, because the name of the Taoist temple where Zhong prayed to become a monk and practice was written on it, indicating that these silver ingots came from Taoist temples.

"It's been saved over the years." Zhong Qiyuan knew what Meng Shi wanted to ask, so he opened his mouth to explain first.

The money was indeed saved by Zhong Qizhi.There are more than a dozen hectares of land under the name of the Taoist temple, which is not taxed, but also has income from taxation, as well as income from ordinary practice. The days of Taoist priests are very happy.

Zhong Qiyuan has become a monk and has also become a monastery householder. Naturally, she has a share of the Taoist temple's income.She spends all her food and clothing in the Taoist temple, and is addicted to alchemy, so she doesn't usually spend much, so she saved the money.

"No wonder so many people become monks to avoid paying taxes!" Meng said with emotion, thinking of her daughter, she added, "Mother is not talking about you."

Zhong Qiyuan said it didn't matter, she said: "Besides, I also took on some jobs."

"What live?"

"What else can Taoist priests do?"

Montenegro is blocked.

Zhong Chuyuan took the initiative: "Sister, Yuanyuan also wants to help my sister!"

"Okay, but don't cry. When the time comes, I will share some of the money with you."

The two sisters just agreed, Meng Shi also wanted to help, but was ruthlessly rejected.

She probably also knows that her health is not good. In order not to let the burden of supporting the family fall on the shoulders of her two daughters, she has strengthened her physical training on weekdays.Within a month, my complexion visibly improved.