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Before dinner, Grandpa Qin returned home and learned about the Wenchang Marquis's name card. He sighed and said, "This is a truly precious gift."

A handwritten name card from a hereditary marquis with a very good reputation can save the lives of an entire family at a critical moment.

Grandma Qin also sighed: "When the second son got into trouble, if we had handed such a name card to the government, the government would have cleared his name no matter what."

Grandpa Qin: "It's all in the past. Let's not talk about it anymore. The most important thing is to put away the name card."

Grandpa Qin thought for a moment and said, "It's too valuable. Let's divide it up. We'll put two of them in there, and the remaining three will go to the second wife, the youngest daughter, and Xiaomi, one each."

The Jiang family will decide on the name card after Dalang returns.

Grandma Qin: "Yes, yes, yes. This way, if they get into trouble, they can use it to save their lives."

Before dinner started, Grandma Qin called Qin Xiaomi and the other two over, gave each of them a name card, and said, "Hide it well, and use it when you need to save lives."

"Yeah." The three of them responded.

But Qin Xiaomi said, "Grandpa and grandma, it's best not to use the name card. After all, if you use it, you have to repay the favor. This is the Marquis' Mansion, and the favor the Marquis' Mansion wants must be huge."

The lightest solution is to ask your family to help generate income.

If the situation is serious, your family may even be asked to join the army and rise up to become emperor.

Don't blame Qin Xiaomi for thinking too much. She was a queen in her previous life. She has seen many cases where nobles show favor to common people and then ask them to repay them with their lives.

Grandpa Qin and Grandma Qin were silent: "It is indeed difficult to pay it back."

Aunt Qin: "Then do we still need these gifts?"

"Use it. It's already been delivered. If you don't use it, it will be a waste." Qin Xiaomi smiled again and said, "In fact, you don't have to worry too much about repaying the favor of the Marquis' Mansion. Our backers are much more powerful than the Marquis' Mansion. We are not afraid of the Marquis' Mansion."

The whole family was confused: "What powerful backer do we have?"

Qin Xiaomi pointed above.

Aunt Qin: "Ancestor of the Qin family?"

Qin Xiaomi: "Yes, Your Majesty! Our family is making money for Your Majesty now, so of course Your Majesty is our backer."

Ah this?

That's right.

My family agrees.

Qin Xiaomi added: "I have another token in my hand, from the Northwest Army."

When offering her benefits last year, General Liang sent a team of Northwest Army. Before leaving, the Northwest Army gave her a token.

Aunt Qin was shocked: "Is this something I can listen to?"

Grandma Qin: "We are a family, there is nothing we cannot hear, and this matter should have been told to you and your wife."

It would be a lie for Second Aunt Qin to say that she was not touched. She just didn't know how to repay the Qin family.

"Grandpa and grandma, don't worry too much. If the Marquis's Mansion asks us to do something in the future, we will do it if we can. If we can't do it, we will report it to His Majesty and let His Majesty make the decision." Qin Xiaomi was quite a gangster: "After all, His Majesty is the master of the people of the world, and we have to listen to His Majesty."

Grandpa Qin and Grandma Qin: "..."

Qin Xiaomi smiled and said, "Let's go and hide the name card. After that, we'll have dinner."

"Hey." The family went to hide the business cards.

It was completely dark before we had dinner.

While eating, Grandma Qin asked, "Old man, how is the grain tax in the village?"

Grandpa Qin said, "Don't worry, we can collect all the grain. Only the Huang Duogui family, the Huang Xiaotian family, and the Huang Jingji family need to borrow grain to pay taxes."

Grandma Qin frowned when she heard this: "Why is Huang Duogui's family borrowing grain to pay taxes again? Did they pay back the grain seeds they borrowed from the Silifang during the spring ploughing this year?"

Huang Xiaotian's family had to borrow grain to pay taxes because of two major events: Huang Xiaotian's marriage and his father's death.

Huang Jingji's family had two daughters-in-law who had given birth to babies, and they had to take care of the kids, so they sold a batch of grain for emergency needs, so it was not enough to pay the grain tax.

But I haven’t heard of any emergency happening in Huang Duogui’s family.

The three children are all able to work, and Huang Ernu gets up early and goes to the mountains to chop firewood to earn money for the family. Why do they still have to borrow grain to pay taxes?

Grandpa Qin replied, "The deficit in grain was repaid by borrowing money from Huang Lao Er, which is equivalent to a debt. As for borrowing grain to pay taxes, it is said that the eldest son secretly bought a batch of grain to please the girl he liked, so he couldn't pay it."

Qin Xiaomi was shocked: "Huang Duogui's eldest son has a girl he likes? What girl is so unlucky to be chosen by him?!"

It is no exaggeration to say that whoever marries into Huang Duogui's family will be ruined in this life.

Grandpa Qin looked at the gossiping eyes of the whole family and replied, "I asked. Originally, they said it was from Shen Du's village, but when I said I wanted to ask, they said that lying and ruining a girl's reputation would lead to jail time. Then they changed their story and said they just secretly liked her and didn't dare to point it out. When I continued to ask, Huang Duogui's wife rolled on the ground and cried."

Ha, Qin Xiaomi sneered: "This is courting death. Grandpa, think of a way to kick his family out of the ghost village. If there is a family like this in the village, something bad will definitely happen in the village."

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They were all fleeing famine, and Grandpa Qin always wanted to give them a way out. He just said, "I have already told the villagers not to lend them grain to pay taxes. If they can't pay, they will have to do corvée labor."

"His family should still have the money from selling grain. After hearing this, he will definitely take out the money to pay the grain tax."

As long as the grain tax is paid and as long as the people are willing to change for the better, Grandpa Qin is still willing to give them a chance.

Qin Xiaomi thought, "Grandpa, things may not be that simple. We need to find out why Huang Duogui's family sold that batch of grain."

Grandpa Qin smiled and said, "I've asked the villagers to investigate. Grandpa also asked Village Chief Zhou and Clan Chief Lu to inquire. The town is so small, and everyone knows what's going on. We can always find out... I asked your uncle Jie and others to inquire about the county."

"Okay, stop worrying about his family's affairs. Stay away from his family and don't believe anything his family says."

"Yes, yes, yes." Jiang Xiaozhu nodded her head and promised, "I will never follow his family. I won't believe if they say Grandpa Qin is in trouble in the village!"

Grandpa Qin smiled.

Grandma Qin: "Can't you just hope that your Grandpa Qin will do well?"

"May Grandpa Qin live a long life, and he picked up money while walking!" Jiang Xiaozhu was very good at making things happen, and she made the old couple smile from ear to ear.

Qin Xiaomi admitted defeat.

The next day, at the new dye workshop, Qin Xiaomi met Huang Laoer's wife and specifically told her, "Keep an eye on Huang Duogui's family to prevent them from selling their daughter to make up for the grain tax."

Huang Duogui and his wife have wanted to sell Huang Ernv for a long time. This time, they are forced by their grandfather not to borrow grain to pay taxes, so his family is probably thinking of selling Huang Ernv at a low price again.

Huang Laoer's wife was smart. She smiled and said, "Thank you for the reminder, young master. I told my head of the family yesterday to have the villagers keep an eye on his family and not to sell their daughters. If he sells his two daughters, he will be expelled from the clan!"

After hearing this, Qin Xiaomi's eyes deepened and she smiled. She had a vicious plan, but she didn't know whether she should tell it to him.

Forget it. If her grandparents knew that she meddled in the Huang family's affairs, they would be furious.

One of the big rules here is that people from other surnames should not interfere in the affairs of other surnames.

However, Huang Laoer's wife had escaped the famine, and after seeing Qin Xiaomi's smile, she thought about it deeply.

When I got home from work that day, I told Huang Laoer and his son about how I had used the same trick against them.

After hearing this, Huang Laoer and his son sighed and said that if Huang Duogui's family sold their daughter, they would find a way to deal with Huang Duogui's family completely.

After all, this was a matter within the Huang family, so Qin Xiaomi didn't pay much attention to it. She was extremely busy now.

Mr. Wen Tao led several big merchants including Jie Kangweng and Shan Jia to urge them: "Mr. Xue, Deputy Envoy Yu, from the end of this year to June next year, many families will be getting married, and the workshop's supply is still insufficient. We must expand recruitment as soon as possible!"

As if he was afraid that the Qin family and His Majesty would forget about them, he came to urge them almost every two days.