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Chapter 281 Earth Emperor

"Oh, what is that? Thinking about how to settle your brother's debt?" Lu Ming asked with a smile.

I feel a little sorry in my heart, every time Li Xianger meets me, her conversations with me are equivalent to new and powerful evidence for me in court, and all the different shop assistants have heard it.

Li Xianger shook her head, "No, I'm going to divorce him, so, Mr. Lu, my younger brother is worthless to you, but we will try our best to compensate Mr. Lu, and we will do our best to hope that To get Mr. Lu's satisfaction and understanding..."

Lu Ming was stunned when he heard that, divorce?

"Well, I've already made up my mind, and I know that my father will definitely not agree. I will leave here for a while after submitting the divorce application. When I come back next time, he and I will automatically terminate our marriage. Right, Mr. Lu?" Li Xiang'er's tone was flat, but there was a hint of sadness that could be heard.

Lu Ming nodded, "As long as the lawyer is not too outrageous, it should be fine." This girl is actually soft on the outside and strong on the inside, and she has big ideas.

"Okay, Mr. Lu, then I will take my leave. I will still bear what Xiaoxuan owes you. I will write to you when I arrive at the new place, but please don't tell others my address." Then, Li Xianger got up.

Lu Ming nodded: "Okay, then I hope you can find a new life."

In fact, her departure really left a lot of chicken feathers for herself, and even made Hu Dingjin completely vent her anger on herself.

However, if you want to persuade her to stay or something, then forget it.

He got up and sent her to the door, watching her get into the rickshaw.

I don't know if she will really leave, will Hu Dingjin let her go, or will she have a way to go?Anyway, it's none of your business.

……

The moon was bright and clear, at the west entrance of the small town of Shilipu, under the old weeping willows, Lu Ming was sitting on a small horse, chatting with some old people.

They are all old people with vicissitudes and wrinkles. After decades of hard work, they have reached the final stage of life. Looking back now, the hard work, sadness, and occasional happiness are all gone.

These old people never expected to meet such a proprietor as Mr. Lu one day.

Just yesterday, Mr. Lu’s butler led people to give ten catties of pork, ten catties of white flour and two catties of soybean oil to each of the elderly in the village over 60 years old. Rice noodle collection.

And the day before yesterday, Mrs. Lu's housekeeper Mrs. Wei took the accountant and re-signed the land lease contract with all the tenants in the town. The future land rent will be calculated at [-]% per quarter. In the past, when the Xu family had a good harvest, the land rent would even reach Seventy percent.

Xu Niuzi's land was also sold to Mr. Lu, and his family moved to live in the county.

In other words, the land rent of the entire Shilipu has been reduced in this way.

Many people don't even believe it at all. Anyway, no matter how the land lease contract is written, few people can read it. Feel free to see what Master Lu said. Can't make people starve to death?
But now, old people in their 60s who are still in good health in the town have been invited by Master Lu to chat under the ancient willow tree in the town.

The young new owner really feels completely different from the previous landlord.

"Third Lord, did you just say you haven't seen the movie? Heard of it? Well, I just became a Shilipu resident, so in a few days, I'll invite the screening team to show the movie for a few days. From now on, our town will During the Chinese New Year, let the projection team come and show movies for a few days." Lu Ming said with a smile to a wrinkled old man.

This Mr. Xu had obviously seen the world before, and he was able to answer his own words. Unlike other old people, most of them were very restrained. What he said, he just smiled and apologized.

Third Master Xu over there smiled, showing his black teeth, "That's kind, Third Young Master, I know that you are a nobleman in a big place, and you don't think much of this land rent, but if you do this, the nearby landlords will not pay you much attention." All guilty."

Lu Ming smiled: "Whatever, the most miserable people in the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River are farmers, but the most miserable people actually create the resources that are the foundation of our survival, and the work they do is also the most tiring. It is not normal at all. At your age , as long as you can do it, you have to work in the fields, otherwise there is no guarantee, and it is always not right when you think about it, right?"

Mr. Xu chuckled and said, "It seems to have been like this for hundreds of years, and there is nothing wrong with it. If you don't read or know how to read, you will be able to farm the land, right?"

Lu Ming nodded: "But, what's the matter with being able to read and write? Some jobs in the city can be replaced by the third master. I think you can do it as a commissioner of the administrative office!"

Third Master Xu was taken aback, "Third Young Master, don't dare to say that, don't dare to say that!"

Lu Ming just laughed, and said, "Third Master, and uncles and uncles? Are you tired? It's time to go home and rest. You don't have to stay with me!"

"Not tired!" An old man said immediately, and the rest of the old people agreed.

Although, this old master Lu, or "Third Young Master", didn't quite understand what he was saying, and he didn't dare to answer the words himself, and didn't know how to answer them, but sitting near him, listening to him speak, with a smile on his face. It's very face-saving. After returning home, the younger generations in the family will gather around and ask, even unfilial children will be much more honest in a short time.

Over there, Lu Ming laughed in his heart, these old grandpas are quite energetic.

However, in Shilipu, there are only a dozen of them who are over 60 years old and in good health. The average life expectancy in the villages of the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River is much lower than that of my previous life.

Suddenly, a woman's scream pierced the night sky, which was particularly ear-piercing in the silent night, and all the birds were startled and flew up.

Not far away, a man in black shirt immediately waved his hand, and someone quickly ran towards the screaming sound.

The screaming had turned into crying.

Lu Ming was taken aback, thinking it was a fight between the villagers?That's the scary sound.But the old people sitting around him shook their heads and sighed.

"Master Xu, what's the matter? Do any family members often quarrel like this?" Lu Ming asked Third Master Xu.

Third Master Xu sighed, and said: "The woman from Dazhu's family, it was supposed to be the third young master's happy event these few days, so it seems that the person who blocked her mouth broke free, no wonder the third young master."

Lu Ming glanced at Mr. Xu, nodded, and didn't ask any more questions, "Okay, I'm a little tired, I'm going back to rest!"

Lu Ming got up and took a few steps, smiling and gesturing to the standing old people, and beckoning to the man in black who was a few steps away from Yuluan, who immediately laughed along with him. Trotted two steps to Lu Ming.

"Master!" The man in black had a flattering smile on his face. He was wearing a black silk shirt with his belly open, revealing a white vest underneath, black cloth trousers and shoes, a box gun holster with a long strap on his shoulder, a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. If so, the typical image of traitors in film and television dramas.

He is also surnamed Xu, the fourth eldest, originally a distant relative of the Xu family, and also the head of the nursing home of the Xu family.

The dozens of nurses raised by the Xu family, in addition to protecting the peace of the house against bandits, are also a deterrent to the tenants. Rents may be violently collected during special periods, but the tenants of Shilipu have never made a collective disturbance, so they have never been used. Come to collect the rent.

Originally, all the nursing homes hired by the Xu family from other places were dismissed by Lu Ming, but the fourth Xu was from the town, and Mrs. Wei found out that he had no bad deeds, he was good to the villagers, and he was familiar with the situation, so , and retained him as the town's deputy security chief, usually maintaining law and order in the town.

For such villages and towns, real public power cannot enter, and the local landlord is the local emperor. Not to mention ordinary disputes, even murder cases are handled in private.

Looking at Fourth Xu at this moment, Lu Ming asked, "What's going on?"

"It's a lunatic, master, I've already asked someone to gag her!" Fourth Xu said with a flattering smile.

"Is he really crazy? Isn't he a kidnapped woman?"

"What a lunatic!" Elder Xu smiled wryly, "Master, who in this village can afford to buy a kidnapped woman?"

Lu Ming sighed inwardly. Nowadays, the mental patients in the countryside are indeed a problem, and no one has the money to send them to a mental hospital, so when they are crazy, they go crazy. Most of them run away and die outside. It is normal for relatives to stay and take care of them, such as more serious ones, to be tied up at home, especially when they are ill.

Seeing Lu Ming's expression, Fourth Eldest Xu said cautiously: "Master, but this Second Aunt Zhao was fine a few years ago, yes, it was her daughter, who was raped to death by Xu Dazhong when she was only seven or eight years old the year before last, and then Second Aunt Zhao That's crazy."

Lu Ming was stunned. Xu Dazhong was originally the eldest son of the Xu family, and he was also a small shareholder who came forward to organize troubles. He had met him a few times, but he hadn't talked to him. The theory and the like, it was the third son of the Cao family and him. Quarrel.

Glancing at Fourth Xu, Lu Ming nodded inwardly. It seems reasonable that the villagers gave him a good opinion. What is his intention in saying this to himself?Thinking about it, he naturally couldn't see the past, his conscience had long been uneasy, now that he can drive away Xu Dazhong, he tried to see if he would take care of such things.

"This Xu Dazhong, has he done a lot of bad things?" Lu Ming asked casually as he walked.

Fourth Xu hesitated, and said, "Yes..."

Lu Ming nodded, the Xu family moved to the urban area of ​​Heishan, and hated him even more.

Heishan's own intelligence station, that is, the Yellow River Trading Company, had news a few days ago that Xu Dazhong was secretly looking for a killer, trying to get rid of him to vent his anger, and even offered a high price of 1 yuan. However, he had no connections at all. Instead, the scammer defrauded him of a deposit of 1000 yuan.

What's more, Commander Hu may have resettled Xu's family in order to show that he would not kill donkeys. Of course, the Xu family still has surplus money. Among other things, the Longgang County Office paid 5 yuan for the redemption of the land. Yuan.

But at noon today, Master Gong received a call from Commander Hu. Commander Hu wanted to make an appointment to talk to him.

He also received a call from Wells. Hu originally hoped that Governor Chaxon would remove the current county governor of Longgang, and said that the recent chaos in Longgang was to death, and it was all caused by the new county governor.

However, Governor Chakson has another granddaughter-in-law to blow the news. Speaking of the governor of Longgang County, Mrs. Windsor, the wife of the Grand Duke of Falkland in the imperial capital, even if there may be a few layers of relationship in the middle, but if the county governor has not violated any laws and regulations Direct dismissal is not good after all.

Wells, the grandfather, is not completely confused. He still thinks what the granddaughter-in-law said makes sense, so Hu's pillow style didn't work.

From the governor, he couldn't do anything to drive him away, and he went through many recent contests.

Hu Dingshan probably realized that it seemed extremely difficult to drive him away completely, and finally began to change his mind to see if he could coexist with him in Montenegro.

That's why I made this call to Master Gong.

Thinking about these things, Lu Ming looked up at the bright moon in the sky, thoughtful.

(End of this chapter)