The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

Tu Gang rode a short old horse and arrived at Qingchuan City at the end of the second day. After entering the city, he went straight to Xianghao Xiao Taohong who lived in Xicheng. He stood in front of the door and opened the gate of Xiao Taohong's courtyard. There was a "bang bang" sound, and Xiao Taohong walked with her shoes on and muttered: Damn it! If you don't come early, everyone will go to bed.

As soon as the door opened, he was hugged by Tu Gang. Tu Gang gave a "chirp" sound on the little pink lips, kissed him, and said teasingly: "Baby, do you miss your brother Tu?"

Xiao Taohong stretched out a finger and poked Tu Gang's chest. She looked at Tu Gang with charming eyes and said softly: "What's the use of missing you? You can't come every day."

"I'm here!" Tu Gang picked up Xiao Taohong, carried her into the house, and rolled her on the bed. After Yun Xieyu settled in, Tu Gang asked Xiao Taohong, "Has a magistrate taken office in the Yamen?"

Xiao Taohong leaned in Tu Gang's arms, squinted her eyes, and said lazily: "Yes, I heard from Mrs. Huang next door that she is still a handsome and extraordinary young man. She also said that the county magistrate's wife is like a fairy, and the couple are very attractive. I can’t take my eyes away, why are you asking about this?”

"Nothing! Just asking casually! Let's rest. I'm exhausted after riding a mule all day."

Tu just fell down and was still thinking about Xiao Taohong's words: I have to go see a woman who looks like a fairy. If she is really as beautiful as a fairy, I will take her back to honor her elder brother.

Xiao Taohong listened to Tu Gang's sound of sleeping, and quietly sat up. She took out a waist tag from Tu Gang's bamboo basket, made a mark on a piece of clay, put it back quietly, and then fell down to sleep.

Zhou Jia went to the study. After first writing the letter to Qingzhou and the official documents to be submitted, he discussed with Mr. Qian the follow-up charter of the yamen. The two of them were busy in the study until late at night before drafting the charter. Zhou Jia said Mr. Qian smiled and said, "Sir, are you hungry? If so, let Ruyi's wife cook a bowl of noodles."

Mr. Qian shook his head and said: "It's better not to trouble my wife Ruyi. I used to eat two meals a day. I only started eating three meals a day after I got to the adults' house. You see, I have gained weight after walking with you all the way." ”

Zhou Jia politely raised his hands and said, "No, thank you for walking such a long way."

The two of them packed up their letters and went back to their rooms to rest.

Zhou Jia returned to the room and saw Li Yu's sleep-red face. He couldn't help but kiss her. Li Yu glanced at Zhou Jia in a daze and said lazily: "You're back! It's time to rest."

Zhou Jia put on her nightgown, got into bed and held Li Yu in her arms. After a while, she fell into sleep.

The next day, as soon as Chenshi arrived, Zhou Jia got up and handed the memorial, letters and official documents to Xu Chun, asking him and Xu Gui to rush to Qingzhou to spread the news as quickly as possible.

After several people had breakfast, Zhou Jia, Mr. Qian and Tu Dianshi went to the Yamen to run errands.

Li Yu asked Ruyi to go to Yahang to buy two rough ladies, and then go home to help Xiaoyu take care of the housework. He and Yang Wei drove the carriage out of the west city gate and walked out of the city.

Yang Wei sat on the rafters of the car, looking at the scenery along the way and swaying his legs.

Li Yu saw that some fields outside the city were deserted and uncultivated, and farmers were busy harvesting rice. Li Yu got off the carriage and walked to the edge of the rice field. He saw that the ears of rice were shorter than those seen in Xishan Village. Each ear of rice also has many shriveled seeds.

Li Yu thought to himself: With this harvest, one acre of land will probably only have more than two stones of grain after harvesting it. It’s okay if it’s your own land, but if it’s planted by tenants, you’ll probably go hungry.

A farmer harvesting rice saw an aristocratic woman with a child who looked like an eight or nine-year-old boy driving a carriage to the side of the road. Looking at his rice fields, the old man said to his daughter-in-law: "Daughter-in-law, Dongzi, go and see look."

The woman nodded, walked up to the field with the sickle, walked five or six steps away from Li Yu, and asked uneasily: "Madam, is there anything wrong with my rice?"

Li Yu looked at the woman's tanned face and smiled and said: "Sorry to disturb my sister-in-law from her work. There is nothing wrong with the rice. I just wanted to take a look. I would like to ask, how many acres of fields does your family have? Is it my own?" Is it still farmed by tenants? How much tax do you pay, can you have enough to eat?"

The woman looked at Li Yu's smile and was stunned for a moment, then said with a blushing face: "My little woman's family has five acres of land. Three acres of land are all her own. After paying the tribute, she can't even fill her stomach."

Li Yu looked at the woman and consoled her: "Then you don't have to worry about being hungry this year. Starting from this year, the court will exempt farmers in Qingchuan County from taxes for five years. According to your family's production, adding some coarse grains should be enough. Someone from the Yamen will come to inform you in a few days."

The woman's eyes lit up after hearing this, "How did you know, madam, about five years of tax exemption?"

The woman suddenly thought that the bandits were coming to collect food soon. She had to hand over 60% of the food. If the food was given to the bandits, the whole family would be hungry again. If they did not give it to them, their lives would not be saved.

The woman said sadly: "Madam, it's useless. You don't know the situation in Qingchuan. Madam, please go slowly, I'm going to cut the grains."

Li Yu saw the woman's eyes red and hurried back to the fields to get busy. He sighed, got on the carriage and walked forward. He asked several farmers who were harvesting, and they all said the same thing as the woman.

Li Yu thought angrily: It seems that the bandits are really confident when facing the people! Who is supporting them? The bandits were raised to commit such unscrupulous crimes.

Yang Wei raised his head and looked at Li Yu's depressed look. He ran to the field to pick up a handful of straw, made a straw cage and handed it to Li Yu, saying, "Madam, look at the cricket cage I made."

Li Yu looked at Yang Wei's smiling face and took the cricket cage, "It's well made. I didn't expect Ah Wei's skills to be quite good."

Yang Wei comforted Li Yu like a young adult: "Madam, don't be angry, they are timid and ignorant."

"Madam is not angry with them," Li Yu smiled, "Let's go back!"

When the farmers saw that Li Yu was gone, they all gathered together. The tall man said, "Did you listen to what the lady just said? She said that the court would exempt taxes for five years. Do you think it is true?"

The older man smiled bitterly and said: "Yang Dashan, so what if it's true? Think about it, it doesn't matter if the court is exempted from taxes or not. In addition to two years of drought, we haven't paid taxes to the court for two years. Oh, don’t forget, there is a small court in Qingchuan!"

The old woman said with red eyes: "Yes! It's all left to those bandits, and the government is so useless. In the past few years, bandits were captured every year, and a lot of money was paid, and even the bandits didn't have any clothes left. bump into."

"Alas!" The old man sighed heavily, "Yes! There is no hope, so let's leave it to the bandits and buy it safely!"

"Can you be safe? A few days ago, when the little girl from the next village was washing clothes by the river, she was dragged into the forest by passing bandits and was destroyed. Please be careful. The little girl at home is beautiful, so don't let her go out. .”

"Alas!" After hearing this, everyone lamented.

Tu Gang slept until the sun was very high, then he came out of Xiao Taohong's house and rode a horse to the gate of the county government office. When he saw that there was someone working inside, he believed Xiao Taohong's words and thought to himself: It seems that the third master and the Those brothers are in danger, so they should go back and talk to the boss first.