Guchu County, Chengyuan County.

This time, it is far away from Tongzhou Provincial Capital.

The sky was a little gloomy and the weather was stuffy, but the heavy rain obviously did not fall immediately, and dark clouds were blowing towards the northeast.

On the fields on both sides of the mud, many farmers were planting seedlings in the fields and working hard.

Ning Jiang walked on the ground full of loess with a folding fan, behind him, followed by a sword inserted into his waist, and held two oil umbrellas just in case of a rainy night.

In fact, Xiao Meng began to feel that her brother used her sister as a maid.

Of course, although she felt a little whisper in her heart, she still habitually followed her brother.

"Brother," she asked in confusion, "what are we going to do in such a place?"

After arriving in Tongzhou, she felt a little strange when her brother took her away from Tongzhou with him and took a boat to the countryside of Chengyuan County.

Ning Jiang said, "Look for someone!" He walked to the side of the road and asked a farmer, who pointed to the distance.

In the direction the man pointed, Ning Jiang continued to walk forward with his sister. He saw several thatched huts on the yellow soil in front of him, and a fat man in brocade was scolding. Several yamen runners twisted a boy and pushed him while pushing him. One of the yamen runners put the iron rope on the boy's head.

An elderly, silver-haired old woman grabbed the fat man and kept kneeling down to beg. The man pushed his hand and the old woman fell to the ground. The young man turned around and shouted.

Xiao Meng couldn't bear to watch it, so she rushed up and helped the old woman up. Ning Jiang stepped forward and blocked the people: "What are you going to do?"

The yamen runners glared at him, but when they saw him wearing silk and skin, they looked like a young man from a wealthy family, and they had a slight sense of literary power. They were obviously a person with fame and fortune, so they didn't dare to make things difficult for a moment.

The fat man also glared at him with an arrogant expression: "You must take care of the official's affairs?"

Ning Jiang frowned: "I wonder what this person has done. Do you want to arrest him?"

The fat man said, "I am the magistrate of this county. He owes taxes and I am about to escort him to the yamen."

The young man's hands were cut back and he shouted: "I am already a scholar, so I can be exempted from land tax..."

The master sneered: "It's just a esoteric student, let alone even if you can reduce the land tax this year, you haven't paid it all last year."

The young man said angrily: "Tax money is 20 yuan per mu, land money is 20 yuan per mu, I have paid all the land tax stipulated by the court, but you are envious of the land tax. The total amount of money for the yu and the canal transportation is even heavier than the land tax. How can I afford it?"

The master scolded: "Everyone can hand over it, why can't you hand over it? Take it away!"

Ning Jiang shouted, "Stop! Since he is a person of fame, you can take him away as a prisoner, aren't you afraid that I will report this to the court? It's just a land tax. How much is he missing, I'll help him pay it all." He knew that it was almost the norm for local governments to add miscellaneous items to land taxes. Even if he sued them, it would be done in the whole country, and the court had no choice. However, the miscellaneous items attached to the land tax were actually heavier than the land tax itself. It can only be said that the face of the government here was really ugly enough.

However, he couldn't control such a thing, and the court could not solve it even if he had no choice but to do anything. What could he do as a scholar? He could only use the young man's fame and fortune.

The master glanced at Ning Jiang. In fact, tax money was just a trivial matter. He took the private money of a local gentry and forced the land to sell it.

However, he was not sure what the Lingluo boy who suddenly intervened in front of him was. Seeing that this man was meddling in other people's business, he didn't dare to continue to make things difficult for a while, so he had to hum twice and report a number. Ning Jiang paid the taxes he owed for the boy.

The master took the yamen runners away, and while walking, he hummed.

The young man got up from the ground, helped the old woman to the house to rest, and then came out, thanked Xiaomeng, and bowed to Ning Jiang: "Xiaosheng Baizijin, thank you for your help. I will definitely return the money you owe to me in the future."

Ning Jiang said: "Brother, you are polite. You and I are both scholars. We support and help each other. It is originally what we should do." While speaking, he looked at the boy who was about the same age as him. He saw that this man looked beautiful and handsome, and he looked like a typical scholar. He was also a little confused, thinking whether he was just the same name?

A weak scholar who can bully casually with a few yamen runners is really the "ghost military advisor" he knew in his previous life after the collapse of Confucianism and Taoism, and gathered seven rebels in the southwest, blocking the massive invasion of the Miao people in Xiling, winning a glimmer of hope for China's rise again, and eventually died under the throne of the Yuan Demon Emperor Da Zong Xie?

Although he was a little confused, his hometown and name were in line with each other. Ning Jiang could only guess that Baizijin was young and had not yet grown up. But no matter what, since this young man, as a literati, could have a place in the era of upside down and heroes in the future, he must have outstanding features, and it is always good to make friends in advance.

After his deliberate friendship, the two naturally "followed each other" at first sight. Then, Ning Jiang entered the house and paid homage to Bai Zijin's grandmother Feng for his younger generation.

In the evening, Ning Jiang asked his sister to buy wine and meat in the town, and drank and chatted with him outside Bai Zijin's thatched hut.

At this time, Bai Zijin already knew that the young man who helped him was also a native of Tongzhou. He was the head of Linjiang County in this palace examination. Because he was still several months before the autumn examination in September, he took his sister to travel around and study while studying and working hard, and came here unknowingly.

When Xiao Meng heard his brother's words, he actually wanted to complain, brother, didn't you say you were here to find someone? Why did you become a wandering place? And he said he was a wandering place, but why did I think you came here directly?

Although they are of the same age and are all new scholars, Ningjiang is the first among Linjiang County students, and Baizi Jin is just the "last student".

The epiphys were originally the "last of all students", and he ranked last among the epiphys, but he just barely passed the test. Ning Jiang intended to make friends, which naturally made Bai Zijin a little flattered.

Ningjiang saw that although Bai Zijin lived alone here with his grandmother, guarding three thatched huts and several acres of thin fields, his behavior and conversation were polite, and he was obviously not an ordinary family member, so he took the opportunity to inquire.

After Ning Jiang's inquiry, Bai Zijin put down his wine glass and sighed helplessly at the setting sun outside the mountain in the distance: "Brother Ning doesn't know anything. I was originally the descendant of the general. The ancestor Bai Chu, Xunzhi, the master of the Great Zhou Guozhu, the father Bai Boliang, and Xunzhi, the commander of the light chariot..."
Chapter completed!