Chapter 579: Temporarily Obsessed
If we find out when we are about to grow seedlings, wouldn’t it be too late?
The amount of seeds in more than 300 acres of paddy fields is not small. How can it be easy to replenish them?
It would be even more difficult if the Zhao family interfered and even attacked the seedling fields at night.
Unexpectedly, Ding Erzhu often wandered around and noticed something unusual and caught the two tenants red-handed.
How can you try to destroy other people's seeds?
Ding Erzhu immediately asked someone to tell Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan.
Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan were shocked when they heard this, and they went to Zhangjia Village that day.
Naturally, it was impossible for these two tenant households to stay any longer.
They were the party at fault, and it was only natural for Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan to take back the land they rented to them. Not sending them to the authorities was the utmost they could do.
It should be noted that spring ploughing is not only the top priority of every household, but also the top priority of the entire court. After all, people need to eat, and the first priority of a country is to ensure that people have food in their bowls.
If people don’t have enough food to eat, there will be unrest and rebellion.
Therefore, seeds and oxen are extremely important things.
It is forbidden to slaughter oxen for working. Even if you raise the ox yourself, you cannot kill it whenever you want. Otherwise, you will be arrested, fined and imprisoned.
The same goes for seeds. Anyone who dares to deliberately damage seeds is also committing a serious sin.
The wives and children of the two tenant households knew nothing about this and they cried and begged on their knees for mercy.
Qiao Xuan asked the women from Lin Mian's family to help them all out. She couldn't bear to hear or see these things, but she would not change her decision.
The families of those two people may be innocent or not so innocent, it doesn’t matter.
If those two people dared to do such a thing, Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan would never let their two families stay.
Your roots are shallow to begin with. If you don't make an example of someone to scare the monkeys and set up rules when something happens, don't even think about managing others in the future.
Shao Yunduan’s future is to take the imperial examination and pursue a career in government. How can he have the time to take care of these things?
After getting everyone out, Shao Yunduan and Qiao Xuan stayed behind to question the two masterminds, and Ding Erzhu also stayed behind.
"Who ordered you to do this?"
When Shao Yunduan asked this question, Ding Erzhu was stunned.
He didn't expect this, he thought these two people were just doing bad things.
The two tenants were also startled and lowered their heads in silence.
Shao Yunduan shook a ten-liang silver note.
"Tell the truth, twenty taels per person, take your family and leave Heshan County. If you don't tell me, you will get nothing. You haven't accomplished anything, no matter what benefits the person behind you promised you, do you think you can still get it?"
Qiao Xuan added: "We actually have a rough idea of who it is, but we just want to confirm it from you! If you don't want to tell us, that's fine."
These two people were bewildered and did such a thing, but they were caught red-handed and their lives were ruined. They were extremely upset, and after hearing what Qiao Xuan and Shao Yunduan said, how could they bear it?
If they did something like this, the news would spread quickly, and it would be impossible for them to rent someone else's land. The only way out was to leave Heshan County.
There is a huge difference between having twenty taels of silver and having none.
One person immediately said, "It was the housekeeper of the Zhao family in the west of the city who came to me and said that he would give me 20 taels of silver after the matter was completed, and would also let us rent the Zhao family's land for a low price."
"Me too."
Butler Zhao was not afraid of this matter being exposed at all. Lord and Madam Qiao did not value Qiao Xuan, a concubine's daughter. The Shao family was just a country family. What did the Zhao family have to be afraid of?
(End of this chapter)
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