She is different from the empress in the history books

Chapter 35 Wind Direction
Pei Peng probably guessed what Xu Qing was thinking, and she couldn't help laughing:

"She is indeed pitiful, because she has no choice but to follow the family's order to marry. It's just that the marriage partners are good or bad. But you are different, Xu Qing, if you really don't want to be a son-in-law, you have a chance to fight for it." , but you gave up."

Xu Qing was angry:
"Do you think I have a choice?"

"Why don't you have a choice? When your grandfather and father put more resources on your younger brother, and he accepts it calmly and even ridicules you, you can choose to completely cut off his path."

"But he is more suitable to lead the family than me..."

"Don't be stupid, Xu Qing, haven't you seen it yet? I think your mother has noticed it. He is a man with great ambitions but little talent. In terms of his ability to be the head of the family, I'm afraid he is not as good as you."

When Xu Qing was told this, he was stunned for a moment. Was this a compliment to him?Or scold him?
"What's the use of saying this? It's impossible for me to argue with him."

"Is it really?"

"What do you mean?"

Pei Peng didn't answer any more, and was helped into the carriage.

Cheng Fei was so angry that he didn't dare to take a breath, thinking that this couple was really... flammable and explosive.

Seeing Pei Peng get into the car, she hurriedly followed.

Cheng Fei was also thinking, why on earth is this?This cousin of hers doesn't look like someone who can't even stand her husband's expression. Why does she seem to be provoking trouble on purpose?

"Pei Peng, what do you mean?"

Xu Qing was still unwilling and continued to ask questions below.

"Pei Peng, make it clear!"

But seeing that Pei Peng no longer paid attention to him, and even ordered the team to prepare to leave, Xu Qing could only cast a bitter glance at the carriage that Pei Peng was riding in, and got into the carriage as well.

On the way, Xu Qing didn't even listen to the travel notes he usually listened to to pass the time. He just lowered his head and pondered what Pei Peng said, and couldn't help but ask the attendant kneeling beside him for his opinion:

"Tell me, what does Pei Peng mean? She thinks I can still compete for the head of the family? But I have become a son-in-law, and I don't have a son. How can I fight? If I fight, how can she be willing to give up control of Taizhou? Opportunity to follow me back to Xu's family to be the wife?"

I have to say that although Xu Qing is not smart, he understands Pei Peng quite well.

Another princess might not mind being the wife of a noble family, but Pei Peng is not that kind of person.

The attendant offered no advice, just smiled and remained silent.

Xu Qing turned his head and glanced at him, only to realize that this was not the entourage who had followed him since childhood, but Pei Peng who replaced him after he got angry.

Xu Qing couldn't help but kicked him, knocked him to the ground, and said bitterly:
"What am I talking to you! You are all Pei Peng's people, how can you treat me sincerely!"

Xu Shu was completely unaware of the conflicts between her parents. She teased Yang Luo, who was sneaking fish, and Xu Zhao, who was devoted to showing off her friends, before she sat down to look at Yang Luo's sculptures.

"This is,"

After Xu Shu asked Yang Luo's permission, she picked up the jade that already had some shape and took a closer look.

"Is this a kind of bird?"

"That's right,"

Yang Luo said with some nostalgia:
"This is a sacred bird in the legend of my hometown. It was once engraved on the totems of some tribes and was later passed down."

"What's it called?"

Xu Shu caressed the flowing lines on the jade. Although it was not completely finished, she also seemed to see a bird with wings spread.

"We all call it the God Bird."

Yang Luo explained again:

"There is a tribe in my hometown, headed by a woman. And this kind of bird was seen by the mother of the first leader in a dream, and then gave birth to her. Although this tribe is gone, the pattern of the divine bird has been passed down. come down."

Xu Shu stroked the jade and gently placed it on the table.

"Pregnant because of emotion? It's interesting. However, the more interesting ones are women at the head."

Yang Luo nodded, because this legend, even this tribe has no written records, so people in his hometown do not believe it is true.

After all, how can a woman be a leader?Only barbarians in remote mountainous areas can be so ungrateful.

Yang Luo lowered his eyes and looked at the object that he had started to carve by accident.

Why not?Obviously did a good job.

Xu Shu glanced at Yang Luo, who was inexplicably silent, and asked casually:
"Since there isn't much you need to take care of here at the brewery, why don't we go to Xiaoli Village again? I don't know what the situation is like there. Brother Zhao, do you want to go?"

Xu Zhao nodded:

"Let's go and have a look, A Luo is also here, let's go as soon as possible."

There have been many disputes in Xiaoli Village these days.

One of the Feng family's tenants was released and returned to good status.

Although the original peasant households and the ex-registered peasant households were originally from the same village, they still need to get used to living together and farming together.

It is one thing for the government to let them open up wasteland.

And this caused Xiaoli Village to be divided into two factions.

The original farmers had fields, land, houses, farm tools, and sufficient manpower. They were very willing to open up wasteland. After all, the reclaimed wasteland belonged to them.

The opposition from farmers who have just recovered their good status is very fierce. They don't even know where the next month's grain is, so how can they think about the wasteland where grain can be grown next year or the next year?

Another provocation from the Feng family...

Not to mention that Xu Shu's policy could not be implemented anymore, there were several fights in Xiaoli Village.

And Xu Shu paid for help to spread the bad news of the Feng family.

Among other things, the Feng family was not wronged when Xu Shu picked them out to warn other wealthy families.

Check out these things.

Those who drive good people to death, those who smash or even slander merchants to force them to sell secret recipes at low prices, those who occupy farmland, those who allow their own farms and ordinary farmers to grab water and even kill several people, those who rape women...

Xu Shu was ridiculed. She, the princess, her mother, the princess, and even her most reckless father would not do these things.

Although their families also had tenant farmers and merchants and craftsmen who worked for them, they were often the ones seeking a blessing rather than resorting to any means of coercion or inducement.

Sure enough, the farther away from the capital, the more uncontrollable the behavior of the wealthy family.

Xu Shu hated Feng's family in her heart, so she let people spread the news more happily.

As a result, the Feng family, whose reputation was already tarnished because they killed their servants and made the steward take the blame, became even more despised.

The other wealthy families in the county may still feel sad that the rabbit died and the fox died, and they tried to find out Xu Shu's intention. Was it because they disliked the Feng family, or were they planning to launch an attack from the Feng family.

What's more, the old in-laws of the Feng family couldn't get into the princess mansion, so they approached County Magistrate Zhou and wanted him to make peace.

However, in Xiaoli Village, where more than half of the peasant households had been tenant farmers of the Feng family, these evil conditions reminded them of the memories of their suffering in the Feng family.

Among other things, these farmers had no place to stand at first because they borrowed usury from Feng's family, so they had to sell their whole family as tenant farmers.

Although they have been eating from the Feng family for these years, they can convince themselves over and over again that "it's not bad to be a tenant farmer of the Feng family, and they don't have to worry about natural and man-made disasters."

But in my heart, I was still somewhat unwilling to give in.

The village chief was assigned tasks by Xu Shu and the others, and he also felt that it was right to obey the government's orders. County Magistrate Zhou was considered a good official, and Her Royal Highness the Princess did not bully others.

He felt that the wind direction in the village had changed, and he also helped to beat the side drum:
"Yes, you have no land and no savings, but this is not because the government is sorry for you, nor is it because the newly arrived Princess Chengyang is sorry for you. In the final analysis, it is because of the natural disaster and the deliberate calculation of the Feng family.

You see, the Feng family only had a small farm in our village 20 years ago. 20 years later, [-]% of the land in our village has been seized by his family.

If you continue to cling to the Feng family for the sake of a mouthful of rice, in less than ten years, Xiaoli Village will be renamed Fengjia Village, and by then the government will no longer be able to control our life or death.

Do you think the Feng family at that time would have forced us to death like those people?

Li Erzhu, your daughter is good-looking. Do you think she has a chance of survival if she is attracted by the Feng family’s men, no, just the Feng family’s stewards? "

(End of this chapter)