Song Yuanhuanzhi

Chapter 67 News
The weather is getting colder and colder, the north wind is like a knife slicing the face of pedestrians, the dead branches creak weakly, making the last struggle.

At the corner of the alley at the back door of the Song family yard.

Song Huan temporarily built a small stall, using the corner to block the noisy and unbridled cold wind, with tarpaulin as the roof and wooden poles as the pillars.

Below the oilcloth were placed five small bamboo sticks, surrounded by a small stove with charcoal fire in the middle, and a pot of hot water was simmering above it.

As the disaster became more and more serious, people were not allowed to move around on the streets, and patrols became more frequent.

A few days ago, Song Huan discovered that the patrolling yamen servants would pass by the alley at the back door

Song Huan wanted to inquire about news from the outside world, so he came up with this idea temporarily.

After a few days, she has registered in front of the big guys.

After all, in the cold weather, there is someone who can boil hot water for them for free in the alley, which is considered intentional.

From the beginning, Song Huan listened to the chats of those yamen servants, then interrupted inadvertently, and now he can occasionally chat a few words. Although the progress is slow, it is not unproductive.

Anyway, she knew a more important news.

The night before yesterday, someone in the loom workshop was robbed.

The slum is in the west of the city, only one street away from the loom workshop, and Dasuo Lane is only one street away from the loom workshop.

It's just... a little dangerous.

Song Huan looked down at the fire, and a woman passed by.

The woman was already dressed as a woman, wearing a patched cloth that was washed white, her complexion was yellow but also slightly rosy.

I saw her walking directly past Song Huan's shop, then walked two houses forward, and knocked on the door directly.

After a while, an old woman inside opened the door and let the woman in.

Song Huan counted silently in his heart, and when he counted to thirty, heart-piercing quarrels from women and begging and crying from the old woman came from inside as expected.

Song Huan sighed.

She heard this voice more than once.

Ever since she couldn't go out of the city gate and Adi's school was closed, she stayed at home every day, so she naturally discovered this scene.

Every family has a scripture that is hard to read.

At the beginning, the woman came once every five or six days, but now she came twice in three days, more and more frequently.

After a quarter of an hour, the woman left contentedly with a small cloth bag.

Song Huan glanced at the portion in her hand, there was probably a bowl full of it.

When the woman noticed Song Huan's gaze, she turned serious, frowned, and stared fiercely at Song Huan.

That meaning is very clear.

Song Huan looked away.

But after the figure of the woman left the alley, the cry of the old woman came from that house.

Song Huan remembered that the family's surname seemed to be Yu.

There was a rather big boy who was also a student of Xixi School.

It's just that he is older than brother, so he should not be in the same class.

Although Song Huan knew that he was a student of Xixi School, he had no communication with him.

The main reason is that Song Huan is not free either.

In the morning, I send my younger brother to school, and when I get back, I go hunting outside the city. Other than that, I either look for wild vegetables or chop firewood, or chop firewood or burn charcoal.

She doesn't have the time for these relationships.

Although Song Huan didn't know much about the Yu family, according to her observations in the past few months, the members of this family are only the boy, the old woman, and this young woman.

Song Huan guessed that this woman should be the older sister of the boy.

As for why my sister treats her grandma and younger brother like this, I don't know.

According to a normal way of thinking, if the whole family can support a scholar, the future life of the family and even the clan will be much easier.

Even if he didn't pass the exam, his literacy would allow him to find a job like an accountant, and his income would be considerable.

But this woman's approach was just the opposite. She gave Song Huan a feeling that she didn't want her brother to be admitted to fame.

It even gave people a feeling that they wished that the old woman and the boy would die sooner.

Of course, this is just Song Huan looking at it from the perspective of a bystander, but if there are any secrets about the family affairs that are not known to the public, you have to ask the person concerned.

While Song Huan was still wondering why the yamen servant hadn't come yet, he came.

Yamen servants A, B, C and D sat down respectively, stretching their hands to the side of the stove to absorb the little heat.

Yamen servant A shook his feet, his lips turned purple, and said, "Fortunately, there is a mouthful of hot water to drink, otherwise the weather will be really difficult."

Yamen servant B put down the things in his hands, picked up hot water and blew on it a few times, and then said, "That's right."

Song Huan glanced at the things that Yamen servant B put down from the corner of his eye, and his eyes were shocked. Isn't that the food that the woman just got?
Wouldn't it be confiscated by these gangs of A, B, C and D as robbers?
Song Huan didn't sympathize with that woman, but felt sorry for the grandparents of the Yu family.

The woman will definitely not give up until the food is in hand. When the servants leave, the woman will go back and forth, and the grandfather and grandson will not be able to post two bowls of food today?

What the yamen servant said next made Song Huan stop thinking about the Yu family.

Because she heard the issues that she has been concerned about these days.

Yamen servant A said, "I see more and more refugees outside the city, when will this day end?"

Yamen servant Ding said, "You don't know?"

Yamen servants A, B, and C all looked at Yamen servant D with puzzled expressions.

Yamen servant Ding cleared his throat, and then said in a low voice, "There are riots all over the city."

Yamen servants A, B, and C made a sound in surprise, and did not forget to lower their voices, "Riot?"

Yamen servant Ding nodded seriously, and said, "The news from my wife's uncle's nephew's daughter-in-law's cousin can't be truer!"

Song Huan, "..."

This relationship is so far away and so detourable.

Yamen servant B asked curiously, "Why is there a riot all of a sudden?"

Song Huanxin silently praised Yamen servant B, and she also wanted to know.

Yamen servant Ding said, "I heard that the magistrates all over the city reported the disaster falsely, so that those victims did not enjoy the corresponding juān tax exemption stipulated by the imperial court."

Yamen servants A, B, and C ate a big melon with a face full of faces.

It was only then that the yamen servant A looked angry, "Isn't it? If the prefect of the whole city can report the disaster in time without lying, maybe Yangjiang Prefecture will not have this kind of experience, and our Lu County will not experience famine."

As soon as these words came out, the yamen servants A, B, C, and Ding Gu looked helpless.

Exemption from taxation and labor is also divided into disaster situations.

The provisions stipulate:

There are floods, droughts, insects and frosts in Zhutian. It is seen that the camps are camped, the prefectures and counties are verified, and the accounts are applied for the province.

If you lose [-] points and lose [-] points, you will be exempted from rent, if you lose [-] points, you will be exempted from rent and transfer, and if you lose [-] points, you will be exempted from school and service.

If the mulberry and hemp are all lost, they will be exempt from adjustment.

Those who have been enlisted and lost will be discounted for the next year, and will not be discounted after two years.

For those who should be exempted, the wheat (rice) will be used as a score.

Song Huan thought, this involves the lives and interests of the people themselves, no wonder they rioted.

In this era, there will also be a large number of deaths in service.

If they can be exempted from corvee for one year and taxes for three years, their life will be very promising, at least it will allow the common people to take a breath and have time to recover.

False reporting of disasters will cause huge and substantial harm to the people, and it is a matter of human life.

But the magistrate only needs to be rode seventy.

How ridiculous and sad this is...

And based on Song Huan's understanding of people of this era in the past three years, that person who is smaller than a vegetable seed probably wouldn't dare to do such a sensational thing.

Then there is only one possibility left, and this matter is the result of the game between the court and the party.

The invisible hand behind is controlling the people, and through the people to obtain the results you want.

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