Big businessman and little fisherman

Chapter 165 Muramasa
Lu Xiaosi was very relieved of Lu Quan, and was not afraid that he would make a fuss about not paying the royal rations.

But he forgot that their Xiaoxinzhuang is one, as long as someone makes a fuss and refuses to pay the food, then everyone will be unlucky together.

"Mother...Mother..."

The sun had just moved west, and Li Canguan ran home crying all the way, "Mom, my father was arrested and put in prison."

"What?" Aunt Li, who was busy in the vegetable field, thought she had heard wrong, stepped forward a few steps, and grabbed Li Canguan. "What did you say?"

Li Canguan cried tears and snot all over his face: "My father... my father was arrested by the officials, saying that he would not pay the imperial rations and would go to jail."

"How could this be?"

Qiu Shi also ran from her vegetable patch to Li's vegetable patch in a panic, asking as she ran, "Jin Can, what about my Xiaoqing's father?"

"They've all been arrested, the officials have arrested everyone." Li Canguan opened his mouth and howled dryly, "Mother, hurry up and take our family rations to the emperor's rations, or my father will be beheaded."

"Fart." Aunt Li slapped Li Canguan's head with a slap, and ran home in a hurry, regardless of her beloved youngest son being beaten and fell to the ground, "Tantan, Li Tantan , go and see, go and see what happened to your father."

Everyone in Xiaoxinzhuang was shocked.

How could he be arrested by officials?Didn't you say go to a meeting?

Even if you pay the emperor's rations, you have to give everyone time to raise rations. How can you say that you will be caught if you catch them?
Before everyone ran to the Zhuangzi of the village, the villager had already brought a few people over panting: "Hurry up... find a way to raise food, all the old and young men in Xiaoxinzhuang have been arrested by the messenger. "

"what is the problem?"

Lu Yange supported the crumbling Qiu family, looked up at the villager, "Uncle Villager, why did my father and the others get arrested by the officials?"

The villager took a deep breath: "There were two people in your village who said they had no food at home and refused to pay the public food after arguing, and then the messenger arrested them all."

Lu Yange continued to ask: "Did my father also say that he would not pay the royal ration?"

"No."

Murong Zheng glanced at the child who was not as tall as his chest, and couldn't help frowning slightly, thinking to himself, is there no adult in this small Xinzhuang, let a child come to ask questions.

"Your father didn't say no, it wasn't because there were two households in your village arguing that they wouldn't pay, so the words collided, and the officials arrested everyone who went to Xiaoxinzhuang and took them to the town."

Grandma Chen rushed over, leaning on crutches and supporting Chen Yaoyao's arm: "Why were you arrested even if you didn't say no?"

"Isn't there a commotion?" Muromasa said with an innocent face, "I didn't expect the officials to arrest people. I just said a few words, those officers came up and arrested people. We couldn't stop them." Stay!"

Lu Yange tightly clenched Qiu's arm, his small face darkened slightly: "Uncle Village Zheng, did you only arrest people from our Xiaoxinzhuang, or did other people in Zhuangzi also get arrested?"

Qiu came to his senses and asked, "Yes, is it only the people who arrested our Zhuangzi, or were others also arrested?"

"Only..." The villager looked at the men who followed him with an ugly look, "Only the people from Xiaoxinzhuang were arrested."

This time Qiu didn't need Lu Yange's reminder, and immediately asked: "Have you handed over all the royal rations for the rest of the Zhuangzi?"

One of the men who came with the villager answered the words honestly: "How is it possible, who knows that we have to pay the emperor's rations, our family is out of food."

Qiu pressed her step by step: "Then the other Zhuangzi have agreed to pay the grain?"

The villager glared at the man next to him angrily, and turned his face back to his anxious face: "No, everyone is having a meeting to discuss, just to discuss the river construction and the imperial grain. Who knows what the big guy said? With the rise of the government, those messengers arrived. It happened that you Zhuangzi people were clamoring that there was no food to pay taxes, and whoever wanted to pay should pay. Just like that, the messengers heard and arrested them."

Hearing this, Lu Yange couldn't help but sneer: "This is to scare the chickens to scare the monkeys."

Li Canguan asked incomprehensibly: "What are you killing chickens and monkeys? How can you kill chickens now?"

"If you don't have time, you have to kill, otherwise, who will know who the knife fell on." Lu Yange ignored the ugly face of the village, and continued to ask, "Uncle Village, I want to ask, if my family has all the food, Can my father be released?"

Muramasa was stunned for a moment, and nodded a little helplessly: "Ah... yes... it should be possible."

"Is it possible?"

Lu Yange didn't want to be fooled by this vague answer, "If it's possible, I'll ask my mother to go back to raise food right now, that is, to sell the land and house, and we have to pay a lot of the imperial food. Uncle Village Zheng, you You have to give me an accurate word, will people be able to come out after paying the rations?"

"I……"

Now Muramasa hesitated, and he couldn't guarantee it.

Everyone was anxious when they saw that the village official refused to give him a proper answer: "Isn't he arrested because he didn't pay the emperor's rations?
"Yes, it's true that you won't pay the food. You have to give a deadline. How can you arrest all the heads of our Zhuangzi? Now the heads of the family are not at home, so we women and Taoists are asked to take a few children. Where to raise food?"

"Yeah, the big guy didn't pay the food, why did you arrest the people from our Xiaoxinzhuang, do you think our newcomers are easy to bully?"

Everyone said something to each other, forcing Muramasa to give a correct answer.

The village is being surrounded by several women, and I feel devastated.But after all, he has worked as a village official for more than ten years, so he can't be embarrassed by a few women.

Seeing that everyone was looking for him to explain, he shouted anxiously: "I came here to deliver the letter and it was wrong. You are relying on your refusal to hand over this imperial ration. As for the head of your family, you have to ask if you can come out." Yamen, it doesn’t count if I say it.”

Qiu still wanted to ask, but was dragged back by Lu Yange: "Mother, aunts, don't worry, I'll go to the town and find someone to ask for news."

"You go? That's not okay." Qiu refused subconsciously, "I'll go, I can row back and forth quickly."

This time Xiao Si was ill, which scared Qiu Shi and Lu Quan half to death. If something happened to this child, how could they explain to Master Lu.

Especially Lu Quan, he swore in front of Lu Yuanshan's spirit tablet that he would take good care of Xiao Si.

"Mom, I'll go."

Lu Yange squeezed Qiu Shi's hand vigorously, and gave her a secret wink, "I'd better go to the town and ask Dr. Xie to feel my pulse at the same time, and gather your food and copper coins at home first, and have a look." How far is it, this royal ration must be paid, otherwise my father and the others will definitely not be able to get out."

"exactly……"

Now the village is not looking down on Lu Xiaosi as a half-grown child, he hurriedly said, "You should find a way to collect the imperial rations first, as long as the rations are paid, those poor masters will have to let him go."

Lu Yangge clearly knew that something was wrong with this incident, and the village may have colluded with those officials to deliberately arrest the head of Xiaoxinzhuang to make an example of them.But now that several family members have been arrested, it is even more inappropriate to turn against Muramasa at this time.

(End of this chapter)