After the marriage was severed, I fled with my golden finger to protect my mother

Chapter 509 Population Tax for Everyone

"Go in and search to see if there are any suspicious people!"

Following the order from the leader, the yamen runners immediately responded loudly and ran into the yard.

"Wait a minute, sir, calm down, calm down..."

Yuxiu was of course very angry that someone dared to cause trouble at her home. When she was about to stop him, Su Wan quickly came forward with a smile.

"We are new here and don't know the rules. We will use these to treat the officials to a glass of wine as our apology..."

She took a bulging purse from Linglong and stuffed it into the hand of the yamen runner with a smile.

"Oh, this young lady is quite a good person..."

The bailiff weighed the purse in his hand and looked at Su Wan with a forced smile. His eyes lit up immediately when he saw her beautiful smile.

"Since you are sensible, the brothers will give you this face today."

He waved to the people around him and said with a smile:

"They said they'd treat us to a drink, so let's not go in and just get down to business."

The others all laughed knowingly, and a man behind them came out immediately with an account book in his hand.

"Your family should pay the population tax, twenty coins per person..."

When he said this, not only were the other people in the yard stunned, but even Yuxiu was surprised.

This so-called population tax, as the name suggests, is simply a tax that everyone has to pay.

But as far as she knew, the Yuan Dynasty did not have this tax.

"You are joking, sir. When we entered the city yesterday, everyone paid money..."

Su Wan thought she had heard it wrong, so she quickly explained with a smile.

"Not only did everyone pay the entrance fee, they also paid for the carriage and the horse..."

There was some sarcasm in her words, but the bailiffs didn't hear it at all.

Besides, even if I heard it, I wouldn’t take it to heart.

"Haha...you said it yourself, that's the entrance fee, right?"

The bailiff sneered and glanced at Su Wan with his eyes slanted.

"The entrance fee is to let you enter the city gate, and the population tax is another type that everyone in the city needs to pay. They cannot be confused with each other."

He raised his voice slightly when he spoke, and during this period of time, he also had a clear understanding of the situation in the yard.

"If you, as a servant, can't make the decision, then let your master speak out."

"Besides, these new taxes were ordered by our princess. Anyone who dares to disobey and refuse to pay taxes will not be allowed to live in Chen County and must leave immediately."

Before he came out, he had already made all the necessary preparations, and he knew exactly how many new people there were in the family.

He turned his gaze towards Yuxiu, his eyes full of scrutiny.

A girl who looks ordinary, but can afford such a big house, and has so many servants at home, it seems that it must be no simple matter.

Good man, he is putting the blame on himself again.

Yuxiu laughed out of anger, the people in Chen County are really nice!

"Why bother the master with such a small matter? Wouldn't it be a dereliction of duty for us servants?"

Seeing him looking at Yuxiu, Su Wan quickly stepped forward and blocked his sight with her body.

When Su Wan heard that he had mentioned Princess Kangning from the capital again, she knew that these people came prepared.

It was not appropriate for ordinary people to get involved in the affairs between nobles, so she decided to keep the peace and quickly send the person away.

"Linglong, did you hear what the officials said? Go get the money quickly and don't delay their business."

She gave Linglong a look, urging her to get the money quickly.

Anyway, all the silver and money that everyone collected when they came out of Miao Village is here.

She had counted carefully with Linglong before, and found that in addition to the money that Yuxiu said would be distributed to everyone, there was still more than one thousand taels of cash in the box.

Not only that, she also took out the stack of silver bills on the shelf in the boss's study, totaling more than 20,000 yuan.

Of course, she had told Yuxiu about the silver note, but Yuxiu asked her to keep it for herself first.

Because of this incident, Su Wan's gratitude towards Yuxiu became even stronger.

I wonder if there is any master who could hand over such a large sum of money to a newly hired servant?

She remembered that when she was in the Su family, her mother was the housekeeper, and the maids had to come back and report to their master even if they wanted to buy a hair ornament or something.

In order to live up to Yuxiu's trust in her, she felt that she had to be more attentive, so she stayed up all night and wrote many methods for housekeeping.

"Wait a minute, the number of people in your family is wrong. How come there are two more people? Then don't forget to pay the population tax for two more people..."

Linglong turned around and was about to leave when she was stopped by the man holding the account book.

At this time, the servants heard the noise and came to the yard, including Liang and the child she was holding.

"No, sir, you are mistaken. This woman is just here with her child to ask for water. I don't know them. I will leave now, I will leave now..."

When Liang heard that she and her child also had to pay money, her face turned pale and she wanted to leave with her child in her arms.

She took the child to drink some rice porridge and rest for a while, and the conditions of both of them improved a lot.

At this time, the child's high fever had subsided and he looked in good spirits.

The other person had taken me in for a while out of kindness, and he gave me water and medicine, which was really a bother to me.

I don't have the nerve to make others spend more money.

"Why are you leaving? We are not blind!"

Seeing that she was about to run away with the child in her arms, the bailiff scolded her with a dark face and chopped down at her shoulder with the knife in his hand.

Originally, she thought that these people came to cause trouble just because her family was new here, but now they even dared to hit her. Yuxiu didn't want to endure it any longer.

Although the big knife was still in its scabbard, it would still be hard for a thin woman to withstand it.

The cup of copper coins in his hand flew out and hit the yamen runner's wrist.

"Bang!"

"Ouch! It hurts me so much!"

As the sword fell to the ground, the bailiff let out a shrill howl.

When everyone turned around, they saw that his left hand was tightly clenched around his right hand, with a lot of bright red blood seeping out from between his fingers.

Drop by drop, it fell into the cracks between the stone slabs on the ground, which was very shocking to see.

The Liang mother and son were already trembling with fear, sitting on the ground and not daring to get up.

In front of her, there was a shiny copper coin that was spinning around and it took a while for it to stop.