Xiao'er returned to the door of her house and happened to meet Shen Chengyao, "Dad, where did you go, and you're only coming back now?"

"Xiao'er is back, I just came back from the village chief's house. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info "The father and daughter entered the house together.

Seeing that they were all back, Liu set the meal, "Coincidentally, you're all back, let's eat first." ”

Xiao'er washed her hands and face before sitting down at the table, "Did Dad go to the village chief's uncle's house to invite someone to open up the wasteland?"

"Well, the village chief promised to help us talk about it tomorrow, and it just so happened that tomorrow the village chief will also gather the villagers to talk about paying taxes and doing labor. ”

"How much will you pay this year?" Liu asked.

"It's also the same as last year, and this is also because the past two years have been bad, the court has taken care of the people, and taxes should be raised next year. Shen Chengyao said what the village chief said.

"What about servitude? When will it be served? How many people will come out of each family?"

"In a household with two or fewer adult males, one male is produced in each household, two males in each household with three to four adult males, and three males in a household with five or more adult males. You have to leave in five days, you have to go for a month. ”

"We have picked the day to build the house, and my father happened to be unavailable at that time, can we pay the silver to replace it?" Recently, there are so many things that need to be dealt with in their family, if Shen Chengyao goes to serve in labor, then the house will not have to be built.

And labor is a very hard thing, there is no salary to get, what is done is to dredge water conservancy, build roads and build bridges, these jobs are all work for the benefit of the people, so there is no salary to get, there will be temples, this will have ten yuan a day's wages, so many people are unwilling to go to labor, but this is also a lawless thing, it is mandatory.

"It costs 20 taels of silver. Shen Chengyao was actually very hesitant in his heart, it was a bit too much to pay twenty taels for not going to serve in labor, and he was a little reluctant, but go ahead, the family happened to open up a wasteland and build a house, and many things needed him to manage.

"Even if it's fifty taels, we have to pay it, and we can't do without my father when we open up wasteland and build a house. "For those who do not want to go to servitude, they have to pay twenty taels, and the treasury should be empty, and they want to take back some silver from the rich people, after all, whoever gives up twenty taels of commoners, must have to do as many jobs as he can save twenty taels.

"We can not build a house yet. ”

"No, I'm going to live in a new house. Xiao'er listened to Shen Chengyao's words and directly played the child's scoundrel.

"I'm also going to live in a new house. Jing Hao seconded.

"Then pay twenty taels. Shen Chengyao saw that his children did not agree, so he compromised.

"The eldest brother's family is also back today, probably also for the sake of servitude. Liu diverted the topic.

"The eldest brother's family has to have two people to serve in labor, and neither the eldest brother nor Wen'er has ever been to serve in labor. I guess I went home to discuss what to do. "In the past, everything that was done with labor was Shen Chengzong, and Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu went together. The people of the big house have never been to serve. This year, the big house and the old man have to go to the two of them to serve in labor, if the old man goes, then Shen Chengguang and Shen Jingwen will have to be drowned by someone with spittle.

Sure enough, after eating, it didn't take long for Shen Chengyao to be called to the room.

"Dad, mother" Shen Chengyao came to the upper room to greet his parents first, and then said to Shen Chengguang: "Big brother's house is here." ”

"The third brother came here to sit" Shen Chengzu was also called to the room.

"The third child heard that you bought land and built a house, it's okay, but I didn't expect that the first person to buy land and build a house after the separation was actually the third child, did you buy one acre or two acres of wasteland, are the mud bricks ready?" Shen Chengzong's tone when he said this was not good, it could be said to be bitter, sarcastic, and sarcastic.

"If you can't speak, don't speak!" Old Man Shen glared at Shen Chengzong.

Shen Chengyao didn't take his brother's sour words to heart, he sat down next to Shen Chengzu and asked, "Is there anything Dad is talking about when he asks our brothers to come here?"

"Isn't your eldest brother in town, and the news is coming soon, and you have to start paying taxes and doing labor in the next two days, so I want to ask you what your plans are. ”

Shen Chengzong asked the brothers of the Li family to help with the north and south transactions, and all the money was invested, so he said, "My family has no money, and they have lost everything, of course they can only pay food and go to service." ”

"Fortunately, our Hua'er is only 13 years old, and she is still a year short of being 14 years old, so she doesn't have to go to the service. In previous years, I went to do it for a month and almost lost half my life. He deliberately looked at the big house and the family gloated. The family split up this year, and the Dafang family can no longer escape the fate of hard labor. In previous years, there was always an old man to protect him, saying that scholars, although they were not admitted to Xiucai, but they were children, how could they go to labor.

"My family can't do without people to build a house, and if I want to pay taxes, I will pay grain directly, and labor will be replaced by silver. ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, and then came back to his senses, probably Shen Chengyao didn't know that those who didn't want to serve labor this year had to pay twenty taels, and in previous years, it only took five taels to replace labor with silver.

"If you don't go to service this year, you have to pay 20 taels per person. ”

Shen Chengyao didn't react when he heard it, he already knew that Shen Chengzong and Shen Chengzu were surprised.

"Why is there so much more silver this year, how much is the tax paid?" Shen Chengzu asked busily. Although his family has few people, according to previous years, after paying taxes on the production of the land, there is only a small surplus of food and clothing for the family, and if the taxes are increased, then food and clothing will become a problem.

"Taxes haven't changed, they're still 30 percent. Old Man Shen shook his head.

Shen Chengzu breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, "I also plan to directly hand over the grain and go to labor." "Twenty taels of silver, don't say that his family doesn't have so much, he is reluctant to come out, he goes to work outside, he doesn't have 20 taels for a year, let alone a month, just to do a month's heavy work, he is used to it, and he doesn't feel anything.

Old man Shen and Shen Chengguang were quite surprised to see that Shen Chengyao didn't have any big reaction, Shen Chengguang's eyes rolled, the third family is developed?20 taels of silver can be taken out.

The old man sighed: "This family also has a bad family, in previous years, it was enough for each family to produce three people, but now our family has five people." Jing Wenna is still a half-old child, he has been studying since he was a child, and he is a child, so he can't go to labor, so he didn't have to break his body and delay his study. Your eldest brother also has to take care of the shop, but he can't go, and I can only go to the big house. ”

"What are you talking about, you are all old, you go to serve a month of labor, I don't know if you have the life to come back, what are you doing to give birth to so many sons, let them give some money, you don't have to go, if they don't come out, I will immediately go to the government to sue him," Shen Zhuang looked at the three sons sitting below sharply with a pair of eyes.

Shen Chengzong stopped doing it when he heard this, "Mother, this family has just been separated, you also know that the ten taels of my family have been lost to Steward Hu, where is the silver in my family, I am powerless, if I can be separated, I will go for my father without saying a word! Young people have to go to the service to exercise their bodies, let an old man go, and don't want to be an official in the future." After saying this, he glanced at Shen Chengguang again.

"What are you talking about, second child, I'm going there by myself, it's no one's business. Old Man Shen was not happy to hear this to bury his eldest grandson.

Shen Chengyao didn't speak, although he felt that it was not good for the eldest brother and the eldest nephew to pay such attention, but he also knew that his father had hurt them to the heart since he was a child, and the eldest nephew went to serve in labor, he also felt that he couldn't do it, and his father was going to go, which was normal. My family also discussed it just now, if Old Man Shen goes, he will pay five taels of silver. Five taels of silver will go up the mountain more later, and it will soon be earned.

Shen Chengzu was also embarrassed, but his mother said so, what can he do, after the separation, the 10 taels of silver in his family have not been used much, and there is also silver. Alas, he also planned to save a few more taels to build a house. Now it seems that the plan to build a house has been put on the back burner.

"Anyway, I don't have any money, Dad, you know, if you really want to come out, ask the third and fourth children, the third child has the money to buy land and build a house, can't he afford to pay ten taels or eight? "Apparently someone forgot that he had just buried someone to build a mud brick house.

"Okay, the third and fourth, you will go out for ten taels, and you will disperse if you have nothing to do" Shen Zhuang was too lazy to listen to their nonsense, and directly ordered to drive people out.

Shen Chengyao and Shen Chengzu were stunned when they heard this, this is to make him both out?!