Chapter 165 Muramasa

Lu Xiaosi was very relieved about Lu Quan and was not afraid that he would make trouble and not pay the imperial rations.

But he forgot that their small village was one and the same. As long as someone made a fuss and refused to pay food, everyone would be in trouble together.

"Mother...mother..."

The sun had just moved westward, and Li Cancan ran home crying all the way, "Mom, my father has been arrested and sent to jail."

"What?" Aunt Li, who was busy in the vegetable field, thought she heard wrongly. She stepped forward and grabbed Li Cancan. "What did you say?"

Li Cancan cried with tears and snot all over his face: "My father...my father was arrested by the officials. They said he would go to jail because he didn't pay the royal rations."

"how so?"

Mrs. Qiu also hurriedly ran from her own vegetable plot to the Li family's vegetable plot. As she ran, she asked, "Guan Guan, where is my Xiaoqing's father?"

"They've all been arrested, the officials have arrested everyone." Li Canguan opened his mouth and howled, "Mom, hurry up and take our family's food to the emperor's, otherwise my father will be beheaded."

"Fart." Aunt Li slapped Li Cancan on the head. She didn't care that her beloved son had been beaten and fell to the ground, and hurriedly ran home, "Tantan, Li Tantan

, go and see, go and see what happened to your father."

The whole people in Xiaoxinzhuang were alarmed.

How come you were caught by an official? Didn’t you say you were going to a meeting?

Even if you pay the emperor's rations, you still have to give everyone time to collect the rations. How can you just arrest them?

Before everyone could run to Muramasa's village, Muramasa had already come running with several people panting: "Hurry up... quickly find a way to raise food. Several young and old men in Xiaoxinzhuang have been arrested by the poor man.

"

"what is going on?"

Lu Sheige supported the shaky Qiu family and looked up at Muramasa, "Uncle Muramasa, how could my father and the others be caught by the officials?"

Muramasa breathed heavily: "It was the two people in your village who said they had no food at home and made a fuss and refused to pay the public food. Then the police officer arrested them all."

Lu Shege continued to ask: "Did my father also say that he will not pay the royal rations?"

"No."

Muramasa glanced at the child who was not even taller than his chest, and couldn't help but frown slightly. He muttered to himself, is there no adult in this little Xinzhuang? Let a child ask questions.

"Your father didn't say we wouldn't be friends with each other. If two families in your village were arguing about not being friends with each other, they got into a verbal conflict, and the officials arrested everyone who went to Xiaoxinzhuang and took them to the town."

Grandma Chen came over on crutches and supported Chen Yaoyao's arm: "Why were you arrested even if you didn't say you wouldn't hand over?"

"Isn't this a riot?" Muramasa said with an innocent look on his face, "I didn't expect the police officers to arrest people. Who knows, I just said a few words. Those police officers came up and arrested people. We couldn't stop them.

Stay!"

Lu Sheige tightened his grip on Mr. Qiu's arm, and his face sank slightly: "Uncle Muramasa, did you only arrest people from our Xiaoxinzhuang, or were other people from Zhuangzi also arrested?"

Mrs. Qiu suddenly woke up and asked: "Yes, were we just arrested in Zhuangzi, or were others arrested as well?"

"Only..." Muramasa glanced at the men who followed him with an ugly expression, "Only the people from Xiaoxinzhuang were arrested."

This time, Mrs. Qiu didn't need Lu Sheige to remind her, and immediately asked, "Have you handed over all the royal grain from the rest of Zhuangzi?"

One of the men who came with Muramasa answered honestly: "How is that possible? Who knew we would have to pay the imperial rations? Our family has no rations."

Qiu pressed forward step by step: "Then the other Zhuangzi have agreed to pay the grain?"

Muramasa glared at the man beside him angrily, then turned around and regained his anxious expression: "No, we are not having a meeting to discuss, or discussing the river work, and the imperial grain matter, who knows what the big guys will say

With the rise of the government, those servants have arrived. You Zhuangzi people happened to be shouting that you have no food and you have to pay taxes. Whoever wants to pay will pay. Just like that, the servants heard it and arrested them."

Hearing this, Lu Shege couldn't help but sneer: "This is to scare the monkeys."

Li Cangua asked confusedly: "Why kill chickens and monkeys? How can I have time to kill chickens now?"

"You have to kill even if you don't have time, otherwise who knows who will fall on the head." Lu Shege ignored Muramasa's ugly face and continued to ask, "Uncle Muramasa, I want to ask, if my family collects all the food,

Can my father be released?"

Muramasa was stunned for a moment, then nodded a little helplessly: "Ah... it should be possible... it should be possible."

"Can it be done?"

Lu Xiangge was not willing to be fooled by this vague answer, "If I could, I would ask my mother to go back and raise food now. Even if we sell land and houses, we would have to pay a lot of this royal food. Uncle Muramasa, you

You have to give me a guarantee, will people be able to come out after handing over this food?"

"I……"

Now Muramasa also hesitated, he couldn't guarantee it.

Everyone became anxious when they saw that Muramasa refused to give the right answer: "Isn't it because he didn't hand over the imperial rations that he was arrested? Could it be that he was still not released after the rations were handed over?

"Yes, even if you shout that you won't pay the grain, you don't really want to pay it. You have to give it a certain amount of time. How can you arrest all the masters of our village? Now the masters are not at home, so we women are asked to take some children with us.

Where can I raise food?"

"That's right. You guys haven't even paid for your food. Why are you arresting people from our little Xinzhuang? Do you think we new ones are easy to bully?"

Everyone said something to me, forcing Muramasa to give an accurate answer.

Muramasa was surrounded by several women, and he felt very anxious. But after all, he had been working as Muramasa for more than ten years, so he could not be embarrassed by a few women.

Seeing that everyone was looking for him to explain, he shouted anxiously: "I came here to deliver a letter, but I made a mistake. You are relying on this imperial food and refuse to hand it over. As for the head of your family, you have to ask if he can come out."

Yamen, it doesn’t matter what I said.”

Mrs. Qiu still wanted to ask, but Lu Sheige pulled her back: "Mom, aunts, don't worry, I'll go to town and find someone to ask for news."

"You go? That won't work." Qiu refused subconsciously, "I'll go, I can row back and forth quickly."

This time Xiaosi fell ill, which scared Qiu and Lu Quan half to death. If something happened to this child, how would they explain it to Master Lu?

Especially Lu Quan, he swore in front of Lu Yuanshan's spiritual tablet that he would take good care of Xiao Si.

"Mom, I'm going."

Lu Xiangge squeezed Qiu's hand hard and winked at her secretly, "I'd better go to town and let Dr. Xie take my pulse. You can collect the food and copper coins at home first and take a look.

How much is left, this royal ration must be paid, otherwise my father and the others will definitely not be able to come out."

"Yes, yes..."

Muramasa no longer disliked Lu Xiaosi for being a half-year-old child. He hurriedly said, "You should think of a way to collect the imperial rations first. As long as the rations are paid, the poor men will have to let him go."

Lu Xiige knew that there was something fishy about this matter. Muramasa might have colluded with the officials and deliberately arrested the head of Xiaoxinzhuang to scare the monkeys. But now that several heads of state have been arrested, it is even more inappropriate to fall out with Muramasa at this time.
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