The people in the government were all stunned, and then they looked sad. They had so much money, but they couldn't even get a penny.
This time the conscription was very sudden. The money was set by the imperial court and distributed directly to various prefectures and counties. There were still people supervising the recruitment, so it was too late to do anything.
Naturally, the local government can operate from it, but when the incident occurs suddenly, the operating space is much smaller.
Looking at the white money at this moment, my heart is really bleeding.
"Which one?"
Lin Xixi said, "The head of the family on the mountainside, Chen Zhongqian, has a boy over six years old. If you count the three hundred taels clearly, my family will not be able to raise a child if the army is drafted."
"That's natural. As long as you have enough money, your husband-in-law won't have to join the army."
Lin Yuyi folded his hands and waited for them to count. He refused to listen to those excuses and asked them to count now.
If we go back now, or if we count again later, who will get the missing ones?
After counting the money, there was one more copper coin. The writer looked at each other and nodded, "The number is correct. Your family doesn't have to join the army."
Lin Yuxi took the voucher and was ready to go home.
Someone immediately came over and said, "Joy, how did your family earn so much money? Are you the one selling herbal medicine? You can talk to your aunt, and she will go with you to collect herbs."
Lin Yuxi glanced at her, "There are wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains. I want money rather than my life, but I don't know if my aunt dares."
Just as he was talking, several howls came from the mountain, which made people shrink their necks in fright, and the others behind them stopped talking.
Lin Xixi spread his hands, "Look, it's not that I won't take you with me, maybe you won't be able to see me someday."
She turned around and left, and everyone swallowed their saliva. Money is attractive, but you have to have a life to spend it.
Chen Hongchang waited until the end to register. The whole family came together, and everyone looked bad.
Mrs. Wu heard someone talking about Chen Zhongqian not having to join the army. When she asked, she found out that Lin Yuxi had actually given him three hundred taels of silver. She was so frightened that she couldn't breathe.
Three hundred taels, how much money is that?
This scourge of killing a thousand swords took out so much money without telling the elders, Sangmen Xing!
"Lin Joy, what a good Lin Joy, how can you waste the Chen family's money on her like this?"
Someone on the side couldn't stand the Wu family and said with a smile, "Oh, Auntie, this is money from the Chen family, but it's not a Chen family. I earned it myself, so I can spend it as I like."
"Zhong Qian is weak, how can he join the army? Joy is thinking only of her husband. Zhong Qian is lucky to have such a good wife."
Mrs. Wu pouted at the man, "What the hell do you know? Do you want to talk about my family's affairs?"
Chen Hongchang said, "Mom, since they gave me the money, I don't have to go. We are one family."
Mrs. Wu felt sorry for her son and decided to give up and get the money back.
Even if she doesn't come back.
"My lord, Chen Zhongqian is my grandson, my grandson. We belong to the same family, and we only need one person in total. Since he gave the money, there is no need for anyone in our family."
The official had enough people to get that sling of copper coins, and now he said with a straight face, "It's whatever the household registration is. It's him and you are you. If you don't want to go, I'll give you three hundred taels of silver."
Yang also hurriedly said, "We are from the same family. You will know if you ask. A lot of their money belongs to us."
The official sneered and said, "The elders are all here, so why are the families separated? They didn't even mention you when they gave me money. I can imagine that you treat them harshly on weekdays, and the benefits come to you right away? How can it be possible?
Such a good thing."
Wu still wanted to make trouble, but the official pulled out his sword and said, "Conscription is a national plan and an imperial edict of the emperor. Do you want to resist the edict?"
Chen Mingyi had just allowed the Wu family and the Yang family to have trouble, but now he immediately dared not do anything wrong. The Chen family could not afford such a heavy crime.
"I don't dare. Please calm down the official. My son is willing to join the army."
It was obvious that the officials would not listen to them, and there would be no benefit at all if they continued to make trouble. If he was accused of resisting the imperial edict, Chen Zhongda would never be able to take the exam for meritorious service in his life.
The official said nothing and asked someone to write down his name.
Wu still wanted to argue, but Chen Mingyi glared at her and told the family to go back.
Only after entering the courtyard did Mrs. Wu dare to scold, "Lin Yuxi, Lin Yuxi, the star of the mourning family, nothing good has happened to our family since she came in."
"Three hundred taels of silver, what's wrong with using this money? Why is she wasting money like this?"
Wu glanced at Chen Hongchang, "What on earth did you tell them and why didn't you coax them back?"
Chen Hongchang was in a bad mood, so he turned around and entered the house. Ms. Yang said, "Mom, you don't know the tempers of those two people? You just don't want us to have an easy time."
Wu patted her thigh and said, "If I had known they had three hundred taels in their hands, I would have gone there myself, even if Hongchang had joined the army. At least I would have kept the money."
"It's a good thing now. The money is gone, but people still have to go. It's really good that neither end is left behind."
Mrs. Yang said, "Mom, where did they get the three hundred taels? Didn't they divide the family into sixty taels last year? Why are they spending more and more?"
Wu snorted, "Didn't Zhong Qian win money in a competition with others before? He said he kept a hundred taels for himself, but in fact it must have been more than that. I said he was definitely not a fool."
"These two ungrateful people have so much money in their hands and don't know how to respect their elders. They have no conscience at all."
Chen Mingyi couldn't listen anymore and scolded her a few times, but Wu stopped talking.
Yang whispered, "Mom, do they still have money in their hands? They certainly won't take out all the money."
Wu's eyes lit up. Although she had suffered a lot from Lin Yuxi's family, she was short of money, so she still made up her mind to find an opportunity to find it.
In the afternoon, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law found an opportunity. Before they even got close, a beast roared from the mountain behind, frightening the two of them back.
Wu scolded, "Building a house in this place is a mental illness. Sooner or later, the whole family will be eaten by a tiger, huh."
She didn't dare to go, so she encouraged Mr. Yang to go, but Mr. Yang became even more timid, so the matter could only be left alone.
The next day Wu met Chen Zhongwen and said, "Zhongwen, should your eldest brother join the army or should you join the army?"
Chen Zhongwen said, "We are not going. My great-grandpa made meritorious service when he was young and was exempted from the military. We also want to serve the imperial court, but our family really needs to be taken care of, so we can only give up."
Mrs. Wu finally figured it out, but she was so angry after hearing this.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier if there was such a thing? After all, you are also a junior, and you don't take your elders seriously at all. You, Uncle Hongchang, still have to go at such an old age."
Wu pulled him and said, "Please let this thing out."
Chen Zhongwen smiled softly, "Why?"
"You are juniors."
Chen Zhongwen said, "But I don't think Uncle Hongchang is like an elder. I have never eaten a piece of candy since I was a child."
Wu gritted his teeth, he was so heartless, he only cared about himself, huh.