On the 22nd day of the 12th lunar month, Changping County, the capital of the capital.

A cavalry team of about one hundred people rushed from the direction of the capital. The weather was cold and the war horses and people were breathing white air.

"Sir, why do you have to run to this place where birds don't poop in this cold day?"

Niu Zhuang rubbed his hands, then blew hot breath into his mouth, covering his frozen and stiff face. It was not only Liu Hongjian who was the newlyweds, but Niu Zhuang sat on the horse and complained.

"You're just talking too much!" Liu Hongjian turned around and glared at Niu Dabangchui, slapped his horse to a high ground, and looked towards Tangshan Villa.

"The emperor handed over the errands to me to promote good varieties, so he should go to the imperial village to inspect. This Tangshan Villa is one of the five hundred imperial villages held by the emperor, and it is also the closest to it. If you don't go here, do you want to go to Tongxian?

Lao Chen, how far is it from Natang Villa?"

The world was covered with whiteness, and the faint sunlight shone on the snow, and the thorny eyes hurt. Liu Hongjian raised his hand to block the sunlight and looked forward.

"Sir, go north and cross a hillside, and arrive in another quarter of an hour!"

"Walk!"

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Tangshan Villa, Changping County, Gyeonggi.

Tangshan Villa in Changping County has 200 hectares of fertile land, totaling 3,000 mu. Since the third year of Tianshun, Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, the farmland of Tangshan Villa has been included in the imperial village, and it has been more than 200 years now.

There are more than 100 tenant households in Tangshan Villa, all of whom live in a village next to Tangshan Villa, and are managed by eunuchs assigned by Danei and under the jurisdiction of the official school.

It is the middle of winter, and farmland falls. It is logical that tenants who have been busy all year round should be able to have a good rest at this time, but hundreds of villagers gathered on the square in the middle of the village, carrying hoes and other farm tools in their hands.

In the innermost part of the square, an eunuch wearing a three-mountain hat was lying on the chair of the Grand Master, and several tall and large official schools stood behind them.

"Eunuch Xi, this cold winter in 69th is not the farming season, so why do we do this meaningless thing!"

An old man carrying a hoe put the hoe aside and asked carefully.

"Hmph! You have to ask your boss Xu Baishun. Our family is incompetent and lacks food and clothing. He specially ordered this person to send his little daughter Xu Yuniang to our house as a maid and gave him fifty kilograms of food, which was also for his own good.

Unexpectedly, this guy not only refused to cooperate, but also hid the person. The Xu family couldn't find anyone. It must be you unlucky people who colluded with each other to hide the person.

Say! Whose family is Xu Yuniang in!"

Xu Baishun, who was mentioned by this father-in-law, was one of the many tenants in Tangshan Village. He was about 35 or 36 years old. He was righteous and was supported by other tenants.

There was a girl named Xu Yuniang. She was so beautiful that she was noticed by the eunuchs in Tangshan Villa. She wanted to receive the warm feet from the mansion. When Xu Baishun learned the news, she hid Xu Yuniang.

The eunuchs in charge were unable to search everywhere. Not only did they send people to beat Xu Baishun to death, but they also summoned all tenants to point out each other yesterday, and they were forced and tempted but failed. They even ordered the tenants to turn the ground in this cold winter to punish them.

"Eunuch Xi, the young people really don't know where Xu Yuniang is. Most of the young people's families have no surplus food. They only need grassroots and mixed grain noodles to make food every day.

I thought I didn’t need to plow the fields in winter and could eat less to survive this cold winter. Now everyone is hungry and weak, so how can I have the energy to do this farm work? I hope my father-in-law will be considerate and take it back and make a life!"

"Yes, my father-in-law, there is no way to turn the ground in the cold winter. The young people have lost their food at home. Let's leave us a way out!"

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Most of the tenants knelt in the snow and begged to the eunuchs in charge.

"Stop decorating our house here! Our family will leave this out today. Our family will not see Xu Yuniang for a day. You shelterers have to plow the fields for our family.

If you don’t go through the land of Tangshan Villa within seven days, you won’t be able to eat good fruits!”

The eunuch in charge is responsible for monitoring the cultivation of Huangzhuang's farmland and the collection of grain, as long as the grain collection task can be completed.

It can be said that on the three-point land of the imperial village, the eunuchs guarding the emperor are the heaven for many tenants, and the local emperor of the imperial village.

"Don't bully people too much. Are you not afraid of us going to the capital to sue the emperor?"

A younger tenant in the crowd finally couldn't stand being bullied like this and couldn't help but refute.

"Taking the emperor's complaint? Hahahaha! You guys are so bad, I'm afraid you haven't even been to the capital, right? You really have rebelled against you!

Come! Pull this person out to our family.”

Although these tenants cannot meet the emperor, if they go to the capital in groups, it will inevitably attract the attention of some officials. If these officials are exposed to the emperor, things will be difficult to deal with.

The eunuch's face suddenly became cold. The official school behind him immediately came out and the two rushed into the crowd and sent the tenant who had just spoken out.

"Are you going to sue our family for the imperial examination?" The eunuch at the garrison's voice was sharp and he spoke a bit sarcastic.

"Hmph, you castrated dog, a castrator without eggs, sooner or later someone will deal with you!"

This tenant was tough and refused to kneel down to beg for mercy even if he was escorted by the official school.

"What do you bastard say?"

My body and hair are the ones that are born with my parents. If I have no filial piety, I am the one who has no fertility. As a eunuch, what I hate the most is that others say that he has no eggs.

The eunuch in charge stood up from the Grand Master's chair with a whisk swaying.

"You are a castrated man, a castrated dog! Are you deaf?"

This winter is even colder than before. The family has no food to live. It is death if it is starved to death, and it is death if it is beaten to death. It is better to be more tough than death. The tenant seems to have sacrificed his life.

"You...you are so unlucky! If you don't give you some colors, you don't know how many eyes Mr. Ma has! I'll give our family a discount on his legs, but our family wants to see how he sue the emperor!"

After receiving the order, two official schools pressed the tenant to the ground. One of them looked cold and held a big jujube stick in his hand and raised it high on the tenant's knee.

"Ah——" the tenant let out a cry of sorrow.

A stick broke the knee of one leg. The official school holding the big stick did not receive the order from the eunuch, but actually swung the big stick and hit the knee of the other leg.

The tenant's legs were broken and fainted in pain on the snow. The blood instantly turned red in the snowy land.

"I want to sue our family? You untouchables can try it in the palace. There are people in our palace!"

The eunuch stood up and didn't look at the tenant who fainted in front of him. He stepped over his body and pointed at the tenant who was kneeling in front of him and said.

"Oh? I wonder who the person in the palace you are talking about?"
Chapter completed!