"Of course I'm in line! I'm here to pay the tax!" Uncle Luo rolled his eyes.

"Cough, girl Lian also pays taxes!" Shui Yunli did not dare to refute, and turned to ask Bai Lian.

Bai Lian smiled, "Yeah!"

"Master Shui, shall we go in?" Xiaoyue felt a little unhappy when she saw Young Master Shui and Bai Lian talking.

She looks much better than this ugly white lotus, how come this young master Shui has a calm attitude when talking to him, but he is so gentle towards this little girl.

"Go back first! Uncle Luo and I are with me." Shui Yunli refused lightly.

He really didn't dare to let Uncle Luo stand in line here alone. If there was any emergency, Lin Yuan wouldn't kill him!

The people around looked carefully at Xiaoyue and the jade-like son in front of him, and then looked at Bai Lian with envy.

What a blessing!

He even got into the relationship of the county magistrate's daughter!

"Master, why don't we go in together?" Xiaoyue looked at Bai Lian dressed as a peasant girl and said, "This way you don't have to wait in line, the line is too long."

Shui Yunli weakly asked Uncle Luo, "Do you want to go in?"

"Young master, hurry up! Let's queue up!" Uncle Luo frowned.

He also wanted to pretend to be a commoner to experience it!

Seeing that Uncle Luo was unhappy, Shui Yunli quickly said, "Then let's go!"

After speaking, Shui Yunli hurriedly walked into the county office. If something happened to Uncle Luo, he might be caught in the future!

"Young master, wait for me!" Xiaoyue saw that Shui Yunli was about to leave, so she quickly trotted to keep up, not caring about her manners.

The people in the queue all looked at Bai Lian and the others with envy. It was great to be able to talk to the nobles!

But there is still some incomprehension. The county magistrate's daughter has asked them to go in first and not line up, but they refused, which is really strange!

Mr. Li saw this scene in the back. He had seen that Shui Yunli, who lived opposite to Bailian's house with Uncle Luo and the others.

Speaking of which, he also felt that the other party might be a poor family, but it seems that this is not the case today.

Because the young lady just now is the daughter of the county magistrate. Seeing her look at Shui Yunli with a soft face, he doesn't believe him when she says he is a down-and-out son.

Old Man Li felt a chill in his heart. Why did Li Yongnian live better and better after he left home. In the past, when he was at home, he only knew how to cut wood to work, but now he can do business, and he has something to do with nobles.

Is it - he has been pretending to leave him on purpose before doing business.

I don't want him to get a little light on the father.

Thinking of this, Mr. Li became gloomy again.

The team moved forward little by little, Bai Lian followed slowly, and Uncle Luo frowned and asked Li Yongnian in a low voice, "Why so slow? Is it so slow when paying taxes?"

"Well, adults still have to weigh them." Li Yongnian nodded.

Uncle Luo is still a little dissatisfied, this efficiency is too low!

With so many people, you should send a few more people and divide them into several teams to receive!

Soon, it was noon, but they were still queuing up, but they could see that the first person was collecting food.

Li Yongnian took a few pancakes and distributed them to Bai Lian and Uncle Luo.

Uncle Luo bit the cooled cake and looked around carefully.

This is at the entrance of the yamen. There is a lot of grain in it. It is the tax that has just been collected. There are two officials at the entrance working lazily.

Another person called food.

Both of them looked lazy and worked very slowly, but the person who handed in the food didn't dare to urge them at all, instead they looked at the officials cautiously.

"Not enough, there is still a pound of grain." The official took a look at the scale, and then said to a younger boy.

"But, we have already weighed it at home! Did the adults see it wrong?" The young man asked cautiously.

His father was ill, so he came to deliver the food. Before he came, he deliberately weighed it with his family's scale, but he didn't expect it to be enough!

"Not enough is not enough, go home and take another catty!" The official said impatiently, and then grabbed the boy's food and poured it into the big sack behind him.

"Hey, my lord!" The young man hurriedly tried to stop, "Weigh again!"

Unfortunately, it was too late, Huang Chengcheng's corn had been mixed with the corn delivered by others.

"One pound short!" The fat official threw the broken bag to the skinny boy, "Next!"

"But," the thin boy wanted to say something, and then a middle-aged woman grabbed him.

"Son, go back and get it!" The middle-aged woman sighed and dragged the boy away.

Both mother and son were wearing tattered clothes with patches all over their bodies, and they were both thin and thin, which seemed to be the result of perennial malnutrition.

The people in line seemed to take it easy, and no one dared to speak to the mother and son.

No one dared to discuss in front of officials.

Uncle Luo was so angry that he was about to walk over to look for something, but was caught by Li Yongnian, "Brother Luo, don't go."

Uncle Luo wished to kill these two officials, but after thinking about it, he still didn't go. Instead, he asked Li Yongnian in a low voice, "How many pounds did you bring?"

"One hundred and sixty-eight pounds," Li Yongnian answered honestly.

In fact, his family should have paid one hundred and sixty-six pounds, but he brought two more pounds.

Because the government has an unwritten rule, those who pay 100 jin must give an extra 2 jin, and those who pay less than 100 jin must give an extra 1 jin.

"Do you do this every year?" Uncle Luo asked again.

"Well, keep your voice down." Li Yongnian looked nervous.

Uncle Luo glanced coldly at the official who called the grain, but did not speak.

This is all small, presumably the talent behind it is the most important.

Soon, it was Bailian's turn, and Li Yongnian put the food on the scale.

"One hundred and sixty-six pounds, just right."

It was clearly 168 jin, but the fat official said it was 166 jin, and then dumped the grain behind him.

Uncle Luo clenched his fingers slightly, wishing he could kill this official, Li Yongnian was carrying 168 pounds!

"Thank you, sir!" Li Yongnian nodded naively, then pulled Bai Lian to prepare to leave.

But after taking two steps, he found that Uncle Luo did not keep up, but just lifted his foot and walked into the county office.

"Brother Luo, come back quickly!" Li Yongnian turned around and dragged him in fright.

"Brother, you go back first! I have something to look for my son." Uncle Luo said gently.

Bai Lian had already guessed what he was going to do, so she dragged Li Yongnian, "Young Master Shui is in there, it should be fine."

Li Yongnian just remembered that the county magistrate's daughter and Shui Gongzi had entered together, and then he was relieved, but he warned again, "Then you hurry up and come out soon! We will wait for you for a while."

The yamen is a very solemn place. People who enter will have to peel off their skins even if they don’t die. This is the perception of most people.

The last few days are the days of paying taxes, and Uncle Luo was not blocked from coming in, because this is just the outside door, and some people can enter inside.

Anyway, the people who went in to make trouble would definitely not have good fruit to eat, so the two officials gave Uncle Luo a lazy look and didn't care.

"Okay, that brother will wait for me outside for a while." Uncle Luo smiled.

Li Yongnian pulled Bai Lian with a worried look and waited at the door.

Mr. Li thought with a look on his face, thinking in his heart how to make Li Yongnian come back.

It seems that this Uncle Luo is really someone who knows the yamen, so he has to flatter him.

"Leizi, you all go back first! I'll wait here for a while." Li Yongnian said when he saw that Leizi and the others had handed in the food, "Don't have too many people."

After all, there are many people waiting here, and it is easy to attract attention. If it is noticed by the official, it will be troublesome.

"Well, okay!" Lei Zi was a sensible person, and when he saw Uncle Luo talking to Young Master Shui, he knew that there should be nothing wrong, so he left first.

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