However, three acres of land is not a good land, and it is not a poll tax, but it costs a hundred dollars. Although it was out, Zhang Xing was still very surprised. This tax is so heavy that it's no wonder that every family complains about the tax. As far as she knows, Li Dahe's family doesn't have much land, but there are two adults in his family, and when the man is ten and the woman is twelve, he has to pay the poll tax.

Last year's flood only receded in August, and there was almost no harvest in Jianghuai and Huai, and this year's harvest has not yet arrived, not to mention Li Dahe's family, I am afraid that most of the families in Lizhuang Village have come up with this money.

"Apricots. Li Youshi looked inside the house and said, "According to me, your family's three acres of land are bad land anyway, and your sister and brother don't have time to plant it, so it's better to let them collect it." Just talk to your stepfather and transfer Jinbao to this side as well. This Zhanghe Town is much looser than our Quantang Town, and many people over there are thinking about transferring their household registration here, and the life here is much better than ours. ”

Zhang Xing listened, thought about it, shook his head, and said, "My father's grave is still over there, and the roots of Jinbao should fall in Lizhuang Village, and we can pay the tax on these three acres of land." "If Zhang Jinbao is transferred to Weijiazhuang, it will be an outsider, everything will be difficult to start, now Xu can still have a full stomach, when he grows up, Wei Yunhai and Ye Hexiang have gone one after another, and his life may not be easy. Lao Zhang's family has been in Lizhuang Village for many years, and the savings of contacts are not something that can be done in a while.

Li Dahe also nodded and said, "Xing'er is right, this root can't be lost unless it is a last resort, if you can afford to pay this tax." It's still good to hand it over. With that, he sighed again. His ancestors were all from Lizhuang Village, longer than Lao Zhang's family. But now he has to leave home, and he feels ashamed of his underground ancestors.

Zhang Xing glanced at Li Dahe, hesitated for a moment, and still asked, "Uncle Li, how much is your family's tax?"

Li Dahe smiled dismally, "What are you talking about? I can't afford to pay it." Li You's heart moved, he turned Li Dahe, and when he saw that he was still there, he hurt himself, so he had to speak himself. He said: "Although our family land is not much, only two acres of medium land and two acres of inferior land, but the poll tax plus other miscellaneous taxes, this is a lot of money, more than 100 yuan......

As soon as Li Dahe heard this, he knew what kind of delusion his daughter-in-law had made, and immediately interrupted her loudly: "What are you talking about?"

Zhang Xing calculated in her heart that Li Dahe's family tax was added to her own family, about three or four hundred dollars, and she could afford it. Although she knew that the money had been lost, and that it might not be returned, people had already found her, and she really couldn't bear to watch them leave their hometown and beg for food. Begging for food. She has also done it, and the taste of it is not something that can be said with the word "lowly".

Li Youshi was yelled at by Li Dahe, and his face turned red. Holding his daughter, tears fell straight down. Zhang Xing held her trembling hand and said, "Auntie." Don't go outside to beg for food, Jin Lian is still too young. I can't follow you all over the world, you go home first, and I'll figure out a way to pay taxes. ”

Li Youshi immediately raised his head when he heard this, looked at Zhang Xing with tears in his eyes, waved his hand vigorously, choked up and said: "Xing'er, can't, can't, it's the aunt who is not good, the aunt is ......" Li Dahe was also so anxious that he stomped his feet, and couldn't help scolding: "You mother-in-law, don't you want to think about Xing'er's difficulties?" and turned his head to Zhang Xing, but didn't let her get involved in her own affairs.

The husband and wife are both honest people, although they really hope that someone can solve their current difficulties, but they also know that Zhang Xing is still only sent to other people's homes, although it is to see that the Wei family is not short of food and clothing, and the family background is not bad, but after all, the surname of this family is Wei is not surnamed Zhang, and people can pay the Zhang family's taxes for Ye Hexiang's sake, but there is no reason to help them Li family.

They didn't know that Zhang Xing said to help, but he didn't ask Wei Yunhai for help, but paid for it himself. In the past six months, she has been picking mushrooms to sell, embroidering handkerchiefs, and painting patterns, and has accumulated a lot of money, and even painted a four-screen screen for the Splendid Pavilion a few days ago, and got a lot of money, which is more than enough to pay Li Zhang's two taxes.

Zhang Xing persuaded her, but she was only short of packing the taxes of Li Zhang's two families, and finally made Li Dahe and his wife suspicious, nodded, and planned to go home and wait for a few days to see.

As they were talking, Wei Minwen and Wei Minwu got out of school, and they rushed into the kitchen at once, and saw two people and a little girl sitting at their table talking to Zhang Xing, and they were stunned for a while. Wei Minwu reacted quickly, and first guessed that these people were about Zhang Xing's original acquaintances, and pulled his brother out of the country without saying a word.

Li Dahe saw two people who were tall and half the size of a horse coming in like the wind, and the wind was coming out like the wind. Before they entered the village, they inquired clearly, and there were two thirteen or fourteen-year-old boys in the family that Ye Hexiang married. I guessed that these two were about the two boys of Zhang Xing's stepfather. The two of them couldn't sit still, and immediately stood up and wanted to leave.

Zhang Xing pulled them, and there was no food at home for a while, and it happened that some time ago she was worried about the flood and made a lot of Li's flatbread. This cake is the most hungry resistant, but the taste is not very good. Several people in the Wei family were held by her to eat for a few days, and they didn't want to eat anymore. Today, only this loaf is left in the house.

Li Dahe's family is begging for food, and it is estimated that they will not dislike it. Zhang Xing grabbed seven or eight flatbreads, stuffed them all into Li Dahe's baggage, and told them to go home first, she would definitely go back to Lizhuang Village in the next few days.

Li Dahe's family left with gratitude on their faces. Zhang Xing looked up at the sky, and the Weijiazhuang private school was released early today. She went into the kitchen to collect the empty dishes, and Wei Minwen and Wei Minwu came in one after the other. Zhang Xing hurriedly fetched water, asked the two of them to wash their hands, and asked, "Why did you put it so early today?"

Wei Minwu raised his head to the sky and washed his hands, not knowing what he was thinking. Wei Minwen was also a little uneasy, and was called a few times by Zhang Xing, and then replied: "Mr. Liu wants the two of us to give it a try next year, and ask us to go home and ask what the family means." ”

Zhang Xing was also stunned, and it took a long time to come back to her senses, and said with a surprised smile: "That's a good thing." ”

To tell the truth, she knows very little about the imperial examination in this place, Weijiazhuang, this private school, gives her the feeling of a teenager's playground, the students here are big and small, the big eighteen or nineteen years old, the small one is eight or nine years old, a few days a day, that is a common thing, Mr. Liu is not strict, just teach to endorse, write.

Zhang Xing went to the private school several times, and several times saw Mr. above dozing, and the students below were chasing everywhere. Wei Minwen and Wei Minwu never took books after they went home, and the grasshoppers and grasshoppers in the bookbag accounted for more than the book paper. She hadn't heard them talk about exams or anything like that, and she still had some doubts in her heart, could it be that the imperial examination here was not the same thing as she remembered?

Now Mr. Liu, who is in the private school, asked Wei Minwen and Wei Minwu to go down, and she also wants to know what kind of play Lu Dao is in this game, and whether her two second-class brothers can make a name for themselves.

Wei Minwen responded to Zhang Xing's blank eyes. Wei Minwu suddenly said: "Are the two people who came here from your former village? Quantang Town, Li, Lizhuang Village?"

Zhang Xing couldn't help but turn his head to look at Wei Minwu. She had never told these two boys about her previous village affairs, where did he learn about these things?

"They're here to beg for food, right?" Wei Minwu said again.

Zhang Xing stared at Wei Minwu, shook his head, and said, "No, they came to me for something." ”

"What's the matter? Are you here to tell you that your land is going to be confiscated?" said Wei Minwu again.

Zhang Xing was sure that he must have listened to someone say something. "Who told you this?" Zhang Xing asked.

Wei Minwu wiped his hands and said, "You don't care who told me this, you better hurry up and find a way." The reason why the newly appointed village chief of your village is urging so much is that he actually wants to circle more land and give it to others as favors, you can't afford to provoke this person, so you'd better be careful. ”

Zhang Xing was in a fog by him, how could he let him go, dragging him and not letting him go. Wei Minwu was forced by her, and said impatiently, "It was Young Master He who told me." ”

Zhang Xing was stunned for a moment, Wei Minwu only knew Young Master He Yuanqing, when had he ever been to Weijiazhuang? But Wei Minwu didn't look like he was telling lies, and as soon as he heard this, he knew that he couldn't fabricate it. Zhang Xing asked again: "What else did he say? Who is that person we can't afford to mess with?"

"You go and ask Young Master He, he only told me this. Wei Minwu took advantage of Zhang Xing's inattention, pulled out his sleeve, and ran out.

When it got dark, Wei Yunhai returned home, and first heard Wei Minwen tell him about Mr. Liu asking them to go to the county test. When Wei Yunhai heard this, he was also very excited, and immediately made a decision, this time he must go down, and told his two sons to study hard during this time.

Zhang Xing waited for them to agree on this matter, and then told Wei Yunhai that Li Dahe's family came to the door today, and he wanted to go to Lizhuang Village, Quantang Town, tomorrow to have a look. Wei Yunhai often haunts the wharf these days, and has also heard a lot about the surrounding towns, although they were fine some time ago, but there are still a lot of floods in Quantang Town. Lizhuang Village is on the edge of the Huai River again, which must be difficult to spare

Now that the harvest in the field has not yet been settled, isn't it just forcing people to beg for food by urging them to pay taxes like this?

Wei Yunhai knows that Zhang Jinbao still has land in Lizhuang Village, and Zhang Xing wants to go and see it at this time, which is common sense. Wei Yunhai nodded and said, "It's okay to go and take a look, Jinbao only has three acres of land over there, and he doesn't need to pay the poll tax, Uncle will give you the money later, you pay the tax." (To be continued......)