People say that the country is easy to change and difficult to change, and this old saying is true.

Miao Rencui sprouted in a few days, and it was fashionable to hide at home, but after the autumn harvest, she went to the dam to enjoy the shade, but she was ridiculed by the three aunts and six mothers-in-law.

Miao Rencui is not a good stubble, he quarreled with others a few times but lost, once the opponent quarreled and could not win, he immediately moved out of the clan rules to ridicule and ridicule Miao Rencui.

After being wronged outside, he naturally lost his temper with Boss Chen when he went home, and he began to get nervous again after a few days of living at home.

Grandpa Chen and Grandma didn't dare to speak out, Boss Chen's temper was sloppy, and Chen Ping was scolded twice by his mother, not to mention the Chen Qing brothers and sisters.

Although she no longer dared to beat Chen Bi secretly, she was sneering and mean in her words. Since Chen Qing suffered a secret loss last time, he has become more calm and rational in handling things, and he is still the one who suffers the loss rashly, so he has to endure it, and what the eldest aunt said is deaf to the wind.

Chen Bi is at home every day, since she was a child, she has practiced the ability of automatic filtration, the brother and sister did not say a word, and after eating silently, they brought the rice bowl into the kitchen nest, and waited for the uncle's family to finish eating, and then got up to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

"This autumn harvest is over, you should also hurry up and find a job, don't waste food at home!" The eldest aunt was still worried about Chen Qing's promise to go to the landlord Liang's house to do short-term work.

"I know," Chen Qing agreed with a calm face.

The wheat that was drying in the yard had been hulled and put into the barn, leaving a small part to eat for the family, and the rest had to be sent to the town for money.

The rice is dried on a dam built by the village. Wait for the landlord's family to collect rent, part of which must be paid, and then the tax will be deducted, and the rest will be their own grain.

Mr. Chen's family has 6 acres of paddy fields, and they have tenants of 3 acres of paddy fields from the landlord of Liang. Half of the harvest of these 3 acres of land must be handed over as rent, and the rest of the harvest can be exchanged for money.

This Liang landlord can be said to be the largest landlord in Qingping Town, and even if there are a few small landlords in Shili and Eight Townships, it can't catch up with the fields of the Liang landlord's family.

In the countryside, if there is a hundred or ten acres of land, you can be called a landlord, and the person who rents his land must call the owner in a proper manner.

And how much land the Liang landlord's family has, but no one can say, only know that most of the surplus labor in the nearby villages have tenanted the Liang family's fields. Moreover, those who want to tenant his land have to ask for a relationship, otherwise this field will not be tenant in their own turn.

This field is the source of food for the croppers, if you don't get food, you won't have to eat, especially if the family has a large population, if the field is not enough to eat, and then you don't share two acres of land, then you really have to starve to death a few people. Most landlords have to collect 6 percent of the rent, and the remaining 40 percent is enough for rations, so naturally there is no surplus grain to exchange for money. And just like that, the farmers have to rent, there is no way, there are still babies at home who are waiting for dinner, do they starve to death if they don't share the fields?

As long as there is abundant labor, who doesn't want to fetch more grain? Even if 40 percent is less, but if it is left for rations, won't the family's output be exchanged for money?

The landlord of Liang only collects 5% of the rent, which is why many people want to tenant his land. In the farm, the cost is all about copper plates, and the copper plates exchanged for one acre of land are enough to tear a coarse cloth clothes for the family, and eat them as food, which is enough for the whole family to eat and drink for a month.

The most important thing is that the fields of the Liang landlord's family, whether they are paddy fields or dry fields, are high-quality fields, and a small number of medium-sized fields can also have high yields as long as they are served well.

The farmers in the eight townships were polite when they saw the Liang family, and so was Chen Qing, who was tenant with the land, and Chen Qing was able to say a few words to the head of the Liang family. Although the principal is a member of the Liang family, he is a weighty figure in the eyes of the tenants.

The countrymen are not like the servants bought by the people in the city, because this Li San has become a long-term worker of the Liang landlord's family in the eyes of the farmers, in fact, Li San and Wei Liang are both domestic servants bought by the Liang family. On weekdays, I guard the door and do some heavy work, and when I collect rent, I accompany my master to transport grain and keep accounts.

Li San is also a spirit, Liang Zixian put forward a principal when he was busy with farming, and he was in charge of bookkeeping and grain collection on weekdays, and after the lease period was over, Li San also mentioned the name of the person, and then Liang Zixian decided who to tenant to.

It was because the peasant family was hoping to please Li San, and Chen Qing was praised by Li San for serving the fields well, but he could also say a few words to the head of the Liang family.

This time the rent collection is still Liang Zixian led Li San to Chenjiagou to collect rent, every autumn harvest can not draw manpower, it is inevitable that the whole family will mobilize, and several brothers will be divided into several roads and each village to collect and then transport to the town to sell together.

Chen Qing begged Li Laosan for work, so he followed the short-term workers hired by the Liang family to load the grain into the truck. The grain is packed in a large bag made of hemp rope, and a sack weighs more than 100 pounds after being sealed, and Chen Qing has some difficulty carrying it, but fortunately he has grown a lot taller this year, otherwise it is really not good to resist this sack without anyone to help him.

Loaded with ox carts, Chen Qing entered the city with the grain transport team. There are only 4 people in their team except for the owner and Li San, if it weren't for the lack of manpower, Li San would not dare to recruit Chen Qing to work.

Chen Qing took a closer look at the owner, Liang Zixian had a simple face, no different from mud legs, at most, he was better dressed, and his body was not as strong as the croppers, but the skeleton was big enough and tall enough, it was estimated that there was no shortage of food at home, and he looked good in terms of height and complexion.

"You are also 15 this year, this body is still strong, but you are a little shorter, I have to be half a head taller than you when I am as old as you" Li Sanren is tall, but he spoke softly.

"The farmer has a good body and bones, but it doesn't matter if he is tall or not" Chen Qing complained silently in his heart, it would be good for his little brother to grow so tall, if he didn't eat hard, and when he was a child, he drank a lot of goat's milk with his father, and it is estimated that he would be as short as those little brothers in the village.

"That's right, but you also have to take care of your body, you're still a little thinner" Li San pinched Chen Qing's shoulder and said with concern.

Thanks to the fact that there are no Chen Jiagou people in these short-term jobs, otherwise Li San's actions would be completely rude little brother! Chen Qing would not have nothing to do and say that he was a brother, otherwise the work he got would have been lost.

It's not that the little brother can't come out to work for a short time, the little brother in the village is half a master, and there are not a few people who come out to work in the farm, but no one will hire the little brother for heavy work, and the salary of the little brother and the master is not the same.

When he arrived in the town, Chen Qing helped unload the grain to the warehouse, and soaked it and stacked it against the wall. The landlord of Liang and the shopkeeper of the grain shop calculated the pounds of silver taels, and led everyone back to Chenjiagou, and ran again to collect the rent of Chenjiagou.

Li San instructed everyone to wait for the owner at the entrance of the next village tomorrow, and the five of them thanked the owner and returned home to rest.

Chen Qing went back and forth to Qingping Town twice, and resisted heavy work, his body was naturally tired, and he fell asleep on the bed before it got dark after dinner.

For 10 days in a row, a village was collected every day, and finally the principal informed that the rent was collected, Chen Qingcai sighed that the land of the landlord of Liang was not ordinary, and the rent collected in these ten days alone could guess that there were more than 400 acres of land, and I heard that there were many farmers who paid the money directly.

If Chen Qing knew that there were more than this group of people collecting rent, it was estimated that it would not be as simple as smacking his tongue.

It is more cost-effective to pay rent than to pay grain, so most of the people who are rich in money in the family are paying silver, and only those who have no cash to pay like the uncle's family will hand over 5% of the output.

Chen Qing received a total of five coins of silver, that is, 500 yuan, which is a good job anywhere. The landlord of Liang was really generous, but unfortunately Chen Qing did not dare to be greedy for this money, and handed it all over to the eldest uncle, but the eldest aunt was very happy, and asked Chen Qing to inquire more, if the landlord of Liang hired a short-term worker, he must grab one.

Before Chen Qing finished his short-term work, he had to be busy transporting his surplus grain to the town for money, but fortunately, all the grain that should be sold was sold, and the ox cart was idle. Chen Qing borrowed a car and worked with Boss Chen to transport the grain to the town.

A year's harvest after deducting miscellaneous taxes such as land tax and Ding tax is only sold for 10 taels of silver, according to modern calculations, a copper plate = one dollar, and 10 taels of silver is 10,000 yuan. The farmer's hard work all year round is just to have food and clothing, and he has to provide a scholar for this condition, without Chen Qing's brothers and sisters to subsidize the family, this day is really impossible.

(Custom: The land tax is about 10% of the output per mu.) The tax is for men: 120 wen per year for the age of 15 to 56, and half of the tax is paid for women and younger brothers. Children between the ages of 7 and 14 are taxed at 20 wen per year. In order to catch up with the military service, you also need to pay a poll tax when you buy a head. In addition, each household needs to pay household tax, i.e., silk, cotton, linen, kudzu, etc., and the tax is paid according to the regional output.)

(The household tax is a heavy tax, and most of the brothers who are not in good conditions in the farm family live together under the name of the elderly, just to avoid the household tax.) Military service is also drawn on a household-by-household basis, with one male per household. For example, Chen Lao's family pays 460 yuan a year for 7 people, 6 acres of paddy fields and 10 acres of dry land pay a total of 1 tael and 6 yuan, and the household tax is 2 taels, a total of 4 taels and 60 wen. ）

As soon as he got the money, he took out one or two to repay the debt, which made Miao Rencui feel distressed. However, the son is such a one, so he has to be close to him first.

As soon as Chen Ping saw that his family had money, he immediately asked Ah Niang to buy clothes and add pen and ink. Miao Rencui couldn't grind him, so he had to give him 50 yuan for him to spend carefully. He personally went to the town to tear a piece of cotton cloth for his son to make a long shirt.

Most of the peasant families wore short shirts, which made it convenient for them to work. Scholars and students want to wear caftans to show their temperament, Miao Rencui will not be wronged by his baby son no matter how much he pities the silver, he can't afford to buy brocade, and this cotton cloth can still be torn off.

Chen Bi pouted, watching her eldest aunt happily make clothes for her son, for so many years, the eldest aunt didn't even pull a piece of sackcloth for the brother and sister.

"Come on, it's not that we can't afford to wear it, it's just that we're afraid of attracting thieves, and it's cool to wear in summer" Chen Qing thought secretly, this is much more expensive than cotton cloth in modern linen, grinning at the corners of his mouth, he has been more and more unable to remember modern things recently, only occasionally a flash of inspiration evokes his memory, but he never thinks deeply, lest he can't live a good life if he thinks too much.

Seeing that autumn is about to pass, after the frost falls, the weather suddenly turns cooler, Chen Qing's brothers and sisters have already put on two layers of clothes, and they have to change their jackets when they start winter. Chen Bi has grown up in the past few years, her clothes have changed every year, and all the clothes she wore before her death have been removed, so she has to put on a pair of sleeves and trousers.

Chen Qing wanted to tear a piece of cotton cloth for Abi to make new clothes, but he couldn't agree to the eldest uncle, and spending private money would cause trouble, so he had to aggrieved his sister to wear patched old clothes.