The won from the two villages banded together spontaneously and rushed out like shrews to drive away anyone from the Yan whenever they entered the village.
Ye Si and the bailiffs, being from the Yan themselves, certainly couldn’t go around fighting with the won. If word of this got out, it would make them, the n, look unreasonable.
Especially since these won were so terrifying. Before the Yan staff could even get close, without their hands having reached out, they would start screaming about being taken advantage of.
It started with the n of the village taking the lead, but now it had completely changed to the won stepping forward.
It was like this when Ye Si ca, and it was the sa when Ye Zi’an himself ca. What was even more laughable were the girls from the village who were deliberately charging towards Ye Zi’an and Ye Si, the Principal Clerk.
If they hadn’t dodged quickly, they might have been forced into playing out a scene where they had to take responsibility.
In light of this, it beca inconvenient for them to show up in person. The village n were shying away, and asking them to confront the won was like Cultivated Talent facing soldiers – there was just no way.
"Is their goal really just to avoid paying taxes?" Yang Chuxia asked after hearing this.
"I think it must be." He couldn’t think of any other reason why they would do this.
"How was the harvest for these two villages this year?"
Ye Er replied, "My lady, Mianyang mostly grows late-season rice. We start transplanting after the rainy season, stretching into late July. Unaffected by the rains and with plentiful sunshine, without locusts or insect disasters, the harvest was naturally good. And it’s even better than the early-season rice grown in other places."
"That’s strange. If the harvest had been poor, I could sowhat understand their reluctance to pay taxes. But the tax is sothing that hasn’t changed for many years, and their harvest wasn’t bad. If they didn’t want to pay taxes, why didn’t they make a fuss last year, the year before, or earlier? Why make trouble just now?"
This was what Yang Chuxia couldn’t understand, and Ye Zi’an couldn’t understand either.
"However, this incident happened when dealing with soone like Ye Si and your son. If we had a different County Magistrate, he wouldn’t care if the other party was a woman or not. He would just arrest them all the sa, as many as there were. Once the won are all locked up, those n hiding behind them would have to co forward."
Ye Er chuckled, "My lady, you don’t know how fearless these people are about being arrested. Especially those village girls who are terrifyingly bold, charging at n on purpose. If there’s a collision, the Cultivated Talent and Ye Si would have to take responsibility. If they didn’t, and the girls made a scene as if it were a matter of life and death, the matter would spiral out of control. That’s why Ye Si and your son have to stay away from these people, and that is exactly why Ye Si had sneak back to ask for your help."
"Ye Si asked you to co? Not the Cultivated Talent?" Yang Chuxia was surprised; she had thought it was Ye Zi’an who had sent for her.
"Hehe, please don’t be angry, my lady; Ye Si did this without the Cultivated Talent’s knowledge."
Yang Chuxia originally wanted to say sothing more, but thinking it over, she felt it pointless to say anything further now that she was here.
"How much farther is it to those two villages?"
"Still about two hours away, I guess."
"That’s quite far." She thought for a mont, then asked, "Are there any other villages near those two?"
"There are." Not knowing what she was getting at, Ye Er nevertheless replied, "Shoutao Village is nearby."
Upon hearing this, Yang Chuxia nodded her head.
"Where is the Cultivated Talent now?"
Ye Er shrank back and said, "The Cultivated Talent is with Ye Si. I’ll have to ask for your help later, my lady, to speak to the Cultivated Talent for . Otherwise, if he finds out I sneaked back to find you, he will have my hide."
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