The next day at noon, the sailor entered the cabin and reported that the ship was approaching Zhoushan.

Xiao Bobai took the chart and pointed it to everyone. After saying that Zhoushan was going to the northwest, it was Hangzhou Bay. If the wind was smooth, it would be ashore tomorrow morning. Chang Sihao looked at the mark on the chart. Hangzhou Bay was a bit like a horizontal triangle. The tip on the left pointed to Hangzhou, and the lower right corner was Zhoushan where it is now, while the sharp corner on the upper pointed to three words: Songjiang Prefecture.

He asked, "Is there a place called 'Huating' under the jurisdiction of Songjiang Prefecture?"

Xiao Bobai nodded: "Yes," pointed his finger at a small dot at the junction of sea and land below Songjiang Prefecture: "This is Huating. The place is not big, but it is very rich."

Chang Sihao pondered for a moment and said, "Brother Xiao, old housekeeper, I wonder if I can ask you for help,"

Xiao Bobai glanced at the young master and turned around and said, "Shaojian Chang, please say something," Chang Sihao said, "I have something to do, I want to ask you to take me to Huating off the boat. In addition, Neizi Yin'er, I hope you can help take care of you for some time." Xiao Bobai looked at the young master again, and Xiao Jin Shiyue turned his head: "Wow, your wife wants me to raise it, it's not good."

Chang Sihao smiled: "I am you, you are me, my wife is your wife, I'm afraid of eating a few meals,"

Xiao Jinshiyue was happy: "Ha, you kid is not at all. You have been with me for a few days, but you have learned to take advantage of it. Lao Bai, look, it is easy to ask God to send him to God," Chang Sihao laughed, Xiao Jinshiyue said: "It's a pity that you are willing, I am willing, but I am afraid that our wife will not want to make a mess, and it will make a mess." Chang Sihao said: "It doesn't matter. Shuangji, after I get ashore, you can go to Hangzhou with Mr. Xiao and explain it to me.

, steadily Yin'er," Li Shuangji nodded half-willedly, feeling that he was stupid enough, but compared with him, these two people seemed even more abnormal. Xiao Jinshiyue looked up at his chin: "I used to eat relatives for free, but this time it was finally my turn to eat me for free. Welcome..." Li Shuangji was confused again and said, "Are you willing or not? You should say retribution at this time," Xiao and Chang laughed.

When Chang Sihao got off the boat in Huating, the Xiao family gave him 200 taels of gold and some scattered silver for his flowers. Chang Sihao told Li Shuangji to wave goodbye to everyone. Seeing that the big ship was far away, he moved the treasure bag on his neck to his back, wrapped the sword with cloth and carried it on his shoulders, rolled up his sleeves and trousers, pretended to be a countryman, and went straight to Huating County.

When we arrived outside the county town, the clouds in the west were rust and the sunset was clear. It was already dinner time. The earthen road leading to the city gate was covered with mud fermented from rain. There were a pool on the left and a pool on the right, like a hundred and ten cows just passed by. There were low sheds on both sides of the road, with sticks on the sheds and ropes on them, and square and round in shape, like an umbrella-like cemetery, covering the voices below.

People coming from the street often have gray or blue clothes, most of which look similar, and they look very monotonous. Chang Sihao avoids the mud and jumps while walking. Suddenly, he hears a squeaking sound. There is a scramble in front of him, and pedestrians flash, making it an alley. It is crazy in the middle, and it seems like a black dog is coming out. When he is exposed, Chang Sihao is afraid of splashing mud and water, so he goes sideways and feels like something is leaning against his butt. There is a sound of bowls and dishes, but the dog in front of him slips and rolls on the mud and rolls on his shoulders.

Inside, a half-sized child was chasing from the alley, with his body open, like a monkey swooping on the dog, grabbing it a few times, and turning it over. People around him came back to see the child hooking his neck and rolling himself into a mud child, and they all laughed. Chang Sihaochu was worried about him, afraid that he would be bitten by the dog. When he looked carefully, he realized that he was holding a pig, but the pig was thin and slim. After rolling the mud, he looked like a dog, so he laughed.

"Welcome, your noodle tea is here. What else do you need? Although I have to ask, the characteristics of buns and oil cakes in our store are very famous,"

Chang Sihao heard this as if he was saying it to him. When he looked back, a man wrapped in a cloth head was cheering for himself with a bowl of steaming noodles and tea, wearing an apron on his body. It turned out that he had just avoided him and was letting him into the tea stall. The butt was on his side. The stall owner was wrong and treated himself as a guest. He couldn't help laughing at him when he was in trouble and could do business. He just had his stomach empty, so he sat down. The mud kid caught the pig and happily hugged the pig in front of him and tiptoed. There was a small braid on the mud behind his head, as if he had just pinched the handle of the mud pot that had not been passed through the stove. It turned out to be a girl.

Chang Sihao ordered a few cakes and chewed them with noodles. After finishing the bill, the stall owner saw that he was paying for the silver, his eyes lit up, and quickly put them away. He smiled and said, "Brother isn't a local, are you going to the city?" While pulling the money box, he handed over a few blank notes.

Chang Sihao was shocked and thought to himself that I didn't even say anything, how did you know that I was not a local?

The stall owner smiled and said, "Most of us locals have to pay the bills with notes, but not many people use silver."

"Notes, what's the note?" Chang Sihao asked, and saw the notes in his hand handing forward, he realized that he wanted to use these notes for himself to make changes.

The note was two fingers wide, and after taking it carefully, it was written in the regular form with several numbers such as grain kilograms and millet kilograms. There was a red stamp printed at the bottom. Sweeping the eyes, there were also such white notes in the money box with half mouth next to it. I couldn't help but say wonderingly: "This can be spent on money," the stall owner closed the box and said: "Hey, you're asking this strange thing, why don't you spend on money? This is the note of the Xu family. Just look around. Take this whole ground in Huating County, and you can go anywhere you go," Chang Sihao said: "Xu family, which Xu family,"

The stall owner said, "Yeah, you don't even know how the Xu family lived. Isn't that the prime minister of the dynasty? The home of Mr. Xu, he is the country of loyalty, and his two young men are kind and loving to the people..." He asked again, "Hey, brother, you live quite far away, do you have land at home?"

Chang Sihao replied, "Oh, I live a little farther away, and there are dozens of acres of paddy fields at home."

The stall owner said, "Are you still growing your own land? Oh, that's a pity. How much does it cost to pay for a year?" After sucking his teeth, Chang Sihao saw that his eyes were incorrect and pretended to sigh, "Oh, the tax is very heavy, but what can I do?"

"Hi," the stall owner seemed to be in a state of spirit, leaned closer to sit down and said, "Where are you going to 'dedicate', I will be the referee for you, so you will not suffer any loss."

Chang Sihao asked: "What is the offer,"

The stall owner said, "Why haven't you even heard of giving out? Oh, the countryside is so closed," he rode a stool and moved forward again: "Putting out means you take out the land and give it to the Xu family, and then the land will be returned to you to plant it, and the grain will be paid as well, but in the future, you won't have to pay the tax."

Chang Sihao asked, "Why don't you have to pay it?" The stall owner said, "Because the land belongs to the Xu family, you will certainly be exempt from taxes," Chang Sihao said, "Then my land is gone, what are my benefits?" The stall owner smiled and said, "Even if you don't pay the account, why are you farming? You still harvest grain? You have land, farming, and most of the grain you harvested is paid. But after you don't pay the land, you nominally lose land, and you still plant the original land, and you don't have to pay taxes after harvesting the grain. Isn't this much better than before?"

Chang Sihao said: "But the land has become the Xu family, and they still have to pay taxes, so they can't ask me for food," he said.

The stall owner said, "Oh, you are really a man. The land of the imperial officials and the nobles of Wang Zong is a cash register. If you do not report to the official and become a naturalized person, you will be exempted from taxes. If you pick up the grain, you will just hand over some of the Xu family. The rest will be your own. It is more appropriate to pay taxes. Do you understand?"

Chang Sihao suddenly realized and thought: "So that's the case. The Xu family took over the farmers' land through the method of 'dedication', and at the same time brought all the country's taxes into their own pockets. Although the people "lost the land", they "get affordable" and will not make the conflict too intense. This method is really fucking."

The stall owner saw his shocked look and smiled and said, "I think it through this time. Let me tell you that after giving, you don't have to worry about anything. Look at the clothes worn by the people coming and going, all of them are from the Xu family. The gray clothes are tenants and the blue clothes are Zhuang Ding. If you are willing, you might just give yourself too. In the future, you can do your business with the Xu family. Maybe you can get a job with half a job." Then he said, "If you come to give, he will help you recommend it."

People must do it, and Chang Sihao knew that he was so enthusiastic that he would have to be able to get some oil in the middle. He immediately collected the note for change and pretended to think about it. He stood up and said goodbye, and walked under his feet. He thought to himself: Seeing that there were so many people wearing gray and blue clothes on this road, they all belonged to the Xu family. How much land they had to offer? After a while, when they saw that it was close to the city gate, someone next to him stopped him with a smile: "Little brother, it's hot, do you want to get rid of the fire?"

There was a small table next to him, with teapots and tea bowls on it. Chang Sihao's ingredients were a tea stall. He waved his hands and continued to walk forward. After a few steps, there was another tea stall, which was also a common decoration. Someone stopped him and asked, "Little brother, do you want to remove the fire?" Chang Sihao took more than ten steps and was stopped four or five times. He was so angry that he finally stopped himself and said, "Do you think I have fire?"

The man's cheekbones were bulging, and his skin was scarred. When he smiled, the hills suddenly rose and the gullies were squeezed, as if his whole face was creating a new world: "Look, isn't this fire coming up? Don't worry, don't worry, take a look first, and then go home if you are not satisfied," he said, and then pulling behind him.

Chang Sihao looked in that direction and saw a small shed made of firewood branches and thatched grass not far away. There was a small door on the side and three small round holes as big as fists on the front. The bumpy face led him to the front and smiled and said, "You choose, you choose," Chang Sihao was very curious. He looked in the round hole with his hands. He saw that under the dim light, there were seven or eight women in the shed, sitting or standing, thin and dirty hair, as if they hadn't washed for a long time. Some had grass sticks on their faces, some had blue eyes and bloodstains. The ground was black and wet and pills were like mud, emitting an unpleasant smell. There were broken boards on the two bricks at the corner, with sparse hay mats on it, like a pigpen bed.

Tuo smiled at him: "How about it, do you like it? Seven old money at a time, please make sure you get out of the fire,"

Chang Sihao frowned and said, "Seven old money,"

Tutu face sucked his lips in embarrassment, and his whole face brought out a miserable expression, as if the landform that the mudslide had just passed by: "Hey, this is still expensive. We are the average price. You have been walking around here. How dare I ask for your lie? Seven money can't be missing anymore."

The smell of this small shed makes people want to vomit. Chang Sihao moved his head a little and looked back at the places around him. There was such a small shed behind the small tea stalls. It seemed that it was the same business. He thought to himself: "There are such brothels in the world, which is simply a joke." He shook his head and turned around to leave, but was grabbed by the dull face. He smiled and said, "Wait, wait, wait," and greeted him in the shed: "Fourth uncle, Fourth uncle, Xiao Tingting,

"A woman responded: "Washing the pig," said Tudou's face: "Washing what pig? Hurry up, the guest is here," the woman agreed, and pulled out a girl behind the shed. The girl was eight or nine years old, with thin arms and belly bulging, two red dots on her wet chest, and a yellow little pulling cloth covered her lower body. She was barefoot at the bottom, with dirty hands in her mouth, gnawing on mud nails, raised her pair of lonely big eyes, and looked at Chang Sihao timidly.

Geda looked left and right, as if he was afraid that the "comrades" next to him would see it, so he covered his mouth and bowed his back halfway, and whispered to him: "This guest, the price is really not missing. In this way, you can choose any one in the shed and then take advantage of my niece. The child is a little smaller. When you don't carry the new corn, you still have a tender spirit after all,"

Chang Sihao looked at the woman who looked like a farmer's aunt: "This is your fourth uncle,"

"Fourth Uncle Madam"'s head was itchy at this moment, and five black fingers were crawling in the hair, looking like a soaked earthworm loosening the soil. When he heard this, he thought he was willing to pick himself up, so he quickly wiped his hair and wanted to put together a look of "I hope you and mercy on your slaves". Gedu Face knew that there were customers who liked the "good family" and thought there was a chance, so he nodded quickly: "Ming matchmaker is just marrying, and I'm close to the fourth Uncle Madam," Chang Sihao pointed to the girl who called "Xiao Tingting": "She is your niece," Gedu Face Big Thumb Brother picked up: "If you want to change it, you'll share your niece,"

Chang Sihao said: "You ask them to pick me up together,"

Listening to this, Geda's face felt a little wrong, and suddenly became extremely serious: "Brother, do you believe me, can you still tell lies? It's really different for relatives, and you must be at home."

Chang Sihao clenched his fists a few times underneath, and he really wanted to beat him up, but he knew he couldn't, and suddenly he had a thought: "Miss Cheng doesn't know where he is sold now, are you doing this kind of thing?" The thought moved, and the knot in his heart became even more blocked. He wanted to give the child some money and knew that it would not fall into her hands. Even if he had kindness, he couldn't control the world. For nothing, he gritted his teeth and turned around and left. The people at the other tea stalls stretched out their ears from afar. Seeing that he refused to play with such discounts, he didn't come to provoke him. He looked at his back for a moment, but he was not discouraged. He shouted again: "Come on, the sky is hot, go away the fire," and replied as he was busy recruiting others.
Chapter completed!