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Chapter 281

Zhang Yonggui's wife looks about seventeen or eighteen years old. Although she is young, she is completely different from the girls in the official families in the city because she works in the fields every day. She has dark skin and a stout figure, and she can't see any girl's appearance. As for her beauty, it has nothing to do with such a woman.

In fact, this is the appearance of wives at most ordinary people back then. Although they look vulgar, they work hard, respect their parents-in-law, and work hard. They are representatives of traditional Chinese women.

Let’s talk about something off topic. After entering the 21st century, many Chinese women were poisoned by Western ideas and had completely abandoned traditional virtues. Although there were indeed many scumbags in the 21st century, there were also many scumbags, and many scumbags were cheated and the divorce rate remained high.

When Zhang Yonggui heard his wife questioning, he laughed: "Wife, your man will never have to sell vegetables again in the future! Today, the city recruits Jinyiwei. I went to sign up and was selected. Your man will be Jinyiwei in the future!"

The woman was shocked, walked up and placed her hand on Zhang Yonggui's forehead: "I don't have a fever, it seems that I'm brain-related, right? Otherwise, how can I just talk nonsense?"

"Wife, what I said is true. I have really become the Jinyiwei! Why don't you believe me?" Zhang Yonggui shouted in a hurry when his wife Liu didn't believe him.

Liu was so angry that he turned around and walked back to the house, packed his luggage, and went back to his parents' home.

"Son, why are you talking nonsense? You got rid of your wife? Where can I find such a good wife? Why don't you catch her back quickly!" An old woman's voice came out of the room.

"Mom, you don't even believe me? What I'm telling the truth, I've really become the Jinyiwei." Zhang Yonggui defended anxiously.

The old woman got angry: "Nonsense! The Jinyiwei is the emperor's personal army, a great master who is more powerful than the county magistrate! The prefects in Nanning City have to give Jinyiwei face! Save you like this, can you still become the Jinyiwei? Who are you lying? You are an honest person on weekdays, why have you learned to lie? You must have lost the vegetable burden and made up a lie? If you lose the vegetable burden, our family will be hungry these days?"

Liu was so angry that she returned to her parents' home. Her parents' home was not far away, just in the village next to her. In fact, when she returned to her parents' home, she didn't really go back or not, but she really thought that her husband was sick and came to see her father.

In fact, Liu is a woman with a stingy mouth and a slander. Her husband Zhang Yonggui is a self-cultivating farmer. If it were in the early years, the self-cultivating farmer of the Ming Dynasty would have lived a good life. But later, if the taxes were getting heavier, the life of self-cultivating farmers was getting harder and harder. Zhang Yonggui is an honest man, and life would have been even harder.

Liu's father was a butcher, and his income was pretty good. Every time Zhang Yonggui's family couldn't make a fuss, Liu would use his parents' copper coins to subsidize his husband's family. Even once Zhang Yonggui could not pay the money for Liao pay, it was Liu who took the money from his family to help him, so that Zhang Yonggui would not sell his land.

Because of these things, people in their parents looked down on Zhang Yonggui. They believed that without their parents' help, Zhang Yonggui would have sold his property long ago and became a long-term worker in the landlord's family, and even tenants could not be used as a tenant.

However, the Liu family never thought that Zhang Yonggui's family had fallen to this point and the responsibility was not on him at all. Because in this era, self-cultivated farmers went bankrupt, and even rich peasants and small landlords went bankrupt everywhere. Because there were regulations in the court that gentry did not pay taxes, nobles did not pay taxes, and royal relatives did not pay taxes, as a result, all the taxes were on self-cultivated farmers, rich peasants and small landlords. The people were overwhelmed by the heavy taxes, but the court's inner treasury was still empty and the rats were about to run away.

Both Zhang Yonggui or Liu and other ordinary people can’t figure out these problems.

Liu returned to his parents' home crying. His father, Butcher Liu, came up to ask his daughter: "Boy, what's wrong? Is that bastard bullying you again? If he bullies you, labor and capital will vent your anger!"

"How dare he bully me! He was crazy today, talking nonsense, and pissed his daughter off to death. What should I do in the future?" Liu replied.

Zhang Yonggui was actually pretty good to his wife. No matter how difficult it was, he never had the idea of ​​divining his wife or renting his wife. In this era, some people who were so poor that they could not afford to marry a wife, had to divining his wife and renting his wife in order to continue the family line. In other words, there are also some men who already had wives, who, because there are many people in their families and cannot get rid of the blame, renting their wives to those who cannot afford to marry a wife, pass on their family line, and then go home after giving birth to a son.

Isn’t this a man who makes a cuckold and wears it on his head for a few copper coins? But is there a way? If he doesn’t do that, the whole family will starve to death. The suffering of the people in the late Ming Dynasty was something that people in the 21st century could not imagine.

As for the wife giving to another man, will the wife agree? Then there is no way for women. In this era, the concept of three obediences and four virtues makes women dare not resist at all. In order to survive in the family, women can only humiliately agree.

Emperor Chongzhen could not see the suffering of the people. If Emperor Chongzhen saw that the suffering of the people was so hard that his inner treasury was still empty and could run away, then I wonder how many officials would have to land on the ground.

The shamelessness of the Ming Dynasty's civil servants and gentry group had no bottom line. So Sun Chuanting, who was also a civil servants and gentry group, was unable to bear it in the end, and a group of gentry heads fell to the ground. Such a Ming Dynasty should of course be destroyed. Unfortunately, after the Ming Dynasty was destroyed, it was stolen by foreign races, which led to the opening of a dark era in China. China, which has always been ahead of the world, began to lag behind the West.

When his daughter heard that Zhang Yonggui was crazy, the Butcher Liu was so angry that he cursed: "Law and capital will go to this kid's house and force him to write a divorce letter! My daughter will marry another good family!"

Butcher Liu came to Zhang Yonggui's house angrily, and saw Zhang Yonggui kneeling in front of his mother, but he was still stubborn: "Mom, the child is not lying, the child is really a Jinyiwei!"

Seeing this, Butcher Liu walked up angrily and slapped his son-in-law in the face with a "slap": "Be an Jinyiwei? Just like you, don't urinate and look at yourself? Save you like this, and you are still an Jinyiwei? The Jinyiwei is the master Wuquxing in the sky. Not to mention the county magistrate, even the master Yi of the mansion would have to shake three times when he saw the Jinyiwei!"

At this moment, someone shouted outside: "Is this the home of Zhang Yonggui, the master of the Xinjin Yiwei?"

Butcher Liu hurried out and saw two yamen runners standing outside, holding official documents and household registration in their hands: "My brother, are you the family of Zhang Yonggui, the Jinyiwei?"

"Have you really become the Jinyiwei?" Butcher Liu was shocked. He remembered that he had just slapped his son-in-law in the face, and was so scared that he trembled all over: It's over, but I didn't expect that his son-in-law would really become the Jinyiwei! The Jinyiwei is a cruel character who kills people without blinking. He slapped him in the face today. If he holds a grudge, he will never know how big or small my family will die in the future.

Thinking of this, Butcher Liu said to the yamen runners: "It's this, I am Mr. Zhang's father-in-law."

The yamen runner smiled all over his face: "It turns out it's Mr. Zhang's Mount Tai, I'm so respectful!"

Butcher Liu quickly took out two pieces of broken silver from his arms and gave the two yamen runners one by one: "Thank you, the two masters, for coming to change the household registration for my son-in-law."

The yamen runner pretended to refuse, took the money, walked into the house, changed Zhang Yonggui's household registration, and then prepared to hand over the new household registration to the Jinyiwei.

After the two yamen runners left, butcher Liu "pu" knelt in front of Zhang Yonggui: "Son-in-law, it's all my fault that I have no eyes and don't recognize Wu Quxing. I was also anxious just now, and I thought you were talking nonsense. Mr. Zhang didn't remember the villain's past, so I just let me go for my daughter."
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