Erosion of bones and pets, forensic mad concubine

Chapter 1238 Hello, I'm Lost
Chapter 1239 Hello, I'm Lost
Xijin County contains dozens of villages, and each village has to pay township tax and land tax to the imperial court.

However, Xijin County has a special geographical location. It is located at the port of the entire Xianyan Kingdom. The villages are scattered and along the mountains and seas. Therefore, every time tax is collected, the yamen's tolerance has to travel through mountains and rivers, which is very hard.

County Magistrate Song served as magistrate of Xijin County for 12 years. In the first year or two of his appointment, his business was very difficult. The same reason was that the geographical location was not good.

But what's so bad about coastal cities?The air is good and the scenery is good. Even if people jokingly call it a wharf, as long as the economy is firmly grasped, it will be gold, platinum and platinum that no one else can envy.

But unfortunately, this Linhai state capital does not have such a good economy. What is the reason?Because of the sea.

No, there are rich products in the sea, and it should be very profitable to rely on the sea.

Of course, if this sea area is calm, there will be profits, but what if there are tsunamis and tornadoes in this sea area every now and then?
After countless accidents and natural disasters, Baishanzhou's economy is not bad, but it's not bad if it doesn't lose its pants.

Anyway, as long as you hear something in the capital, there is a flood again in a certain place, a mountain collapses in a certain place, and a certain place needs funding from the imperial court again, that’s right, 90.00% of the [-]% is Baishanzhou .

Baishan Zhoufutai is also very worried. After so many years, Xijin County will still be flooded in every mountain torrent, and the ground will be cracked in every landslide.

Song County Magistrate just came to Xijin County, and felt that he was being punished.

But he did a good job, and he worked hard himself. He seriously took Xijin County as his own business, and when he was old, he didn't want to go back to the capital anymore. The whole family moved to Xijin County, so Xijin County's economy is very important to him. In order to fight for the ownership of a village, he once quarreled with the county magistrate of Lin County, which is Lubai County, which is also under the Baishanzhou banner.

The matter was very simple at the beginning. Didn't Song County Magistrate go to inspect each subordinate village after succeeding?As he walked, he came to a small village full of rose flowers, and that village was called "Hongjia Village".

But who knows, the village head of Hongjia Village said that they are not a village in Xijin County, and their geography is not within the scope of Xijin County.

However, on the county government documents, it was clearly marked that Hongjia Village was under the jurisdiction of Xijin County.

The county magistrate of Song quit and insisted on paying taxes, but the village head of Hongjia Village said that we have paid them to Lubai County every year for decades.

County Magistrate Song was shocked, and immediately decided to seek compensation from Lu Bai County.

Lubai County is more economically developed than Xijin County, and the magistrate of Lubai County is still a distant cousin of Baishan Zhoufutai. How could he compensate you?Moreover, the Hongjia Village was actually built at the junction between Lubai County and Xijin County, so it could be justified to say that it belonged to anyone.

So, the matter came to Futai, and the master Futai's face turned black when he heard it, and he scolded them and told them to go back!

There are only eight households in Hongjia Village. For such a small tax, are you ashamed to blush and have thick necks?

After returning, the county magistrate of Lubai County was worried that his Futai cousin felt ashamed of him?In order to show his performance, he immediately sent a letter to Futai, saying, don't worry about Futai, we don't want this Hongjia Village, and give it to Xijin County.

And County Magistrate Song also happened to be a person with an official heart. He was also afraid that he would offend the master Futai because of such a small village. .

Master Futai received these two letters one after another, and finally made a judgment, and decided to give Xijin County a face. After all, it is a difficult county, and the economy is a bit too poor.

But before he finished writing his reply letter, Tingjiang State Government Station paid a sudden visit, so he put it aside in order to entertain guests from afar.

Then after a while, he forgot.

From then on, in Hongjia Village, no one from Lubai County came to collect taxes, and no one from Xijin County came to collect taxes. Hongjia Village became a special village with no one under its jurisdiction.

The village head of Hongjia Village estimated for two months, and knew that they were taking advantage of it. He was afraid that the advantage would grow wings and fly away, so he specially told the villagers that we should avoid going to the county town in the future, and avoid dealing with other surrounding villages. Don't let people know that we don't pay taxes, otherwise they will report us with jealousy.

Ten years have passed, and 12 years have passed. The current Hongjia Village is located in the deepest part of the Huaishan swamp. There are few people here, but there is a large area of ​​farmland and flower fields to the east.

This place is like a paradise, a small world independently developed.

Standing at the entrance of the village where the fragrance of flowers is pleasant, Xiao Li looked at the house in the distance that was slowly emitting smoke as the rooster crowed. people.

It was a little girl who came to open the door. She just woke up and was combing her hair. She held a wooden comb and tied one side of her hair, but the other side was not done yet. Seeing the completely unfamiliar boy of the same age outside, the little girl woke up all at once. He opened his eyes wide and shouted into the room: "Mom!"

Before the little girl's mother came out, her older sister came out first. She was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. The older girl wanted to scold her younger sister for bluffing early in the morning, but when she saw the stranger outside, she was also shocked. So I also shouted: "Mom!"

After being called out by the two sisters, the aunt who carried the pot and spoon finally came out. When she came out, she was stunned before she could speak, and then asked in a daze, "Who are you?"

Xiao Li is a polite kid. He immediately introduced himself respectfully: "Hi, I'm lost. I'm from Heishui Village. I want to ask, how can I walk back to Heishui Village? Can you tell me?" ?”

The little girl looked up at the older girl, and the older girl looked up at her mother. The family of three pondered for a while, and the old lady finally shouted into the room: "The child is his father, the child is his father!"

After a while, a hunter came out. After the family’s female family’s knowledge, he was not too surprised to see the little boy’s eyes: “It is difficult for us to go out here. Are you from Heishui Village? There is a village near us called Heishui Village. Water Village?"

The little girl who had never seen a stranger since she was a child shook her head in wonder.

The big girl who had seen strangers when she was very young but forgot all about them when she grew up also shook her head.

The child's mother recalled it for a while, and finally asked: "Is it the village of Miss Pink? Is that village called Heishui Village?"

When Xiao Li heard that they mentioned Hongfen, she froze for a moment, frowned and asked, "Do you know Miss Hongfen?"

The child's mother said: "I don't know her, but before her father died and her family was in decline, I went to her house to deliver ducks, but later I heard that the Su Mansion was closed by the yamen. , her mother also took her younger sister away, and she is still living in a brothel, it's really pitiful, but didn't it mean that there was an old friend of her father who redeemed her? She also moved to a village on the other side of the mountain, Is it your Black Water Village?"

Xiao Li stared at the aunt carefully for a while, making sure she was not lying, and said: "She passed away ten years ago."

The aunt was stunned, and turned to look at her man: "Really?"

The child's father was also confused: "How do I know, I can't go to the other side of the mountain after hunting animals."

The aunt thought about it, but she still couldn't accept it: "It's really a crime."

Then when she looked at Xiao Li again, the aunt was a little soft and kind: "You lost your way, although we don't know how to get to Heishui Village, but my man will go into the mountains soon, let him take you through the swamp forest and get there , you can go out of the mountain in a short distance, and then you can ask other people."

Xiao Li thought for a while, and finally shook his head: "Thank you, ma'am, but I'd better ask other people, don't send me off, just show me the way..." Then he looked left and right, thinking about who he would hit next door of home.

But the aunt said: "Don't look, we don't know, and others won't know, but the village head may know, the village head will go out of the village to sell goods in the county every month, I will take you to ask the village head."

The aunt is a passionate person, she took Xiao Li and took him to the biggest farmhouse in front.

But when she walked halfway, she saw that a certain courtyard was open. She was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly she was pleasantly surprised: "Grandpa Bai is back?"

The people in that farmhouse obviously also heard the voice outside the door, and after a while, a hunchbacked old man came out.

Aunt Xu smiled: "Grandpa Bai came back last night? Oh, it's been a long time since you came back. I thought I wouldn't see you again this year."

"There are some things, I just came back." That grandpa Bai said, his eyes turned to the little boy led by Aunt Xu, the old and the young looked at each other from a distance, then the grandpa Bai bent down and looked at the little boy Waving: "Come here."

Xiao Li was stunned, he didn't know this old man, but the other party was an elder, and he called him again, so he hesitated, but he still walked over slowly.

The yard of the farmhouse is full of low walls and fences. Xiao Li pushed open the half-covered fence door and walked in. Grandpa Bai took out the hawthorn candy from his pocket, handed it to him, and said, "You look good. Hurry up, it's so high in the blink of an eye."

Xiao Li blinked: "Huh?"

Aunt Xu outside the door understood, and laughed: "Grandpa Bai, this is not my baby, my baby is a girl, why did you forget?"

Grandpa Bai's smiling face froze suddenly, then he slapped his forehead and said, "Look at my memory."

Aunt Xu laughed and explained: "This is a child from Heishui Village on the other side of the mountain. He got lost. I am taking him to find the village chief. Such a small child lost all night, and his parents will die in a hurry."

Grandpa Bai nodded with a smile, as if to cover up that he had misidentified the person just now, and hurriedly pushed the child away: "Then go quickly, don't let the family worry."

Aunt Xu grabbed Xiao Li who came out again, and before leaving, she said to Grandpa Bai: "I'll ask my family to bring you some bacon later. You haven't been back to the village for a few years, and everyone in the village misses you."

Grandpa Bai smiled and nodded, standing there with his hands behind his back.

Xiao Li was still holding the hawthorn candy in his hand, and after thinking about it, although the grandfather admitted the wrong person, the elder gave him a gift, and as a junior, he still had to thank him.

He was about to turn around to say thank you, but he saw that the old man had already walked back to the house, and the door closed with a "click".

Xiao Li had no choice but to put the hawthorn candy in his pocket, deciding to eat it later.

On the other side, after Grandpa Bai returned to the house, he first looked at the injured female leopard occupying his entire kang, and then at the two unusually lively little leopards biting his quilt and dragging them all over the floor.

Finally, he turned his attention to the little baby girl who was crawling around on the kang, but her buttocks were bare, and she muttered worriedly: "Do I have to borrow two clothes first?"

No one answered his question, only the white wolf who was sitting by the bed raised his head and whimpered.

(End of this chapter)