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The two of them returned to Yangjia Village in Uncle Yang's car, her grandmother put the silver obtained from the seller into her arms, her eyes kept staring at the front, the momentum of vowing to live and die with the silver, the momentum of the fish dying and the net was broken, the Spring and Autumn were so frightened that she didn't dare to say a word to her grandmother along the way, and her uncle was even more so, driving the ox cart straight, and didn't dare to go back, for fear that Yang Li would scold him for worrying about the money she sold. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
Chunqiu looked at her uncle's aggrieved face, and thought that she couldn't help, at this time, don't talk about Chunqiu's good granddaughter, even if it is the God of Wealth, it is useless.
When she got home, Yang Li jumped off the ox cart with her vigorous pace without waiting for the ox cart to stop, and then ran back to her house quickly, leaving Chunqiu on the cart alone and stunned.
In the next few days, Yang Li learned from the uncle who delivered the buns that the loach business in the pilgrim house was actually doing very well, and even sold out.
Although their Yang family sends loaches every day, in the end the supply is still in short supply.
Yang Li knew that after discussing with the old man Yang, he told the whole village the news, of course, he couldn't say that the recipe was sold by them, but that someone in the town collected loaches, ten cents a catty, the villagers were stunned and then happy after hearing it, you must know that the loach fish is available all year round, who doesn't have a few dozen catties in the field, but I didn't expect this thing to be sold for money, and everyone is grateful to the old Yang family for telling the news.
Spring and Autumn saw her grandmother's hidden merit and fame in her eyes, and her mother's foresight in her heart, anyway, the news couldn't be covered, so it was better to sell it. Otherwise, they will be so busy with their own work, and sooner or later they will be isolated by the villagers.
And this is not worth mentioning compared to the seller's eighty taels and one.
By the way, the seller's eighty taels, Yang Li did what he said, and gave Yuan forty taels, after all, they were all thought up by the Spring and Autumn Period, and Yuan was really shocked when he got the silver, and her daughter really brought back a big ingot, a whole two twenty taels of silver, and the year number engraved at the bottom was clearly visible.
Chunqiu proudly said that this is not a thing, she will have a lot, where is this.
Of course, just because they are so happy doesn't mean that the Gu family is also happy, the loaches sold in the Spring and Autumn Period Gu don't know the specific number, but she is still angry. You must know that her family doesn't have any money at all, and when she goes back, she scolds the spring flowers who are eating crispy loaches on one side, and she knows how to eat and eat all day long.
This inexplicable scolding only scared Chunhua into crying, Yang Li scolded Gu after hearing the movement, and after scolding, he gave Gu the business of filling soup dumplings, Gu was angry at first Yang Li scolded her, but after she took over Yang Li's business, she suddenly didn't joke about a mother's call so intimate, Gu thought in her heart that she couldn't envy this business, but she just had money to make.
Spring and Autumn watched the farce at home, and he was also tired.
In the blink of an eye, the Yang family received a bad news, which can be regarded as bad news for the entire Yang family village, and this year's conscription is coming.
Conscription and taxation were two serious things in ancient times.
Conscription refers to the labor activities engaged in by the state in ancient times to engage in all walks of life without compensation, which is called conscription, including two parts: forced labor and military service.
Forty-six open tax, refers to the field tax, most of the ancient taxes are agricultural taxes, although the commercial tax is heavy but very little. It is mostly grain rather than money, and even if money is levied, most of its meaning is converted into grain prices, and the harvest per mu is handed over to forty percent.
Because when the flood came, the town's yamen sent people to inform the Lizheng of each village, requiring each family to send a young and middle-aged laborer to do free forced labor, of course, orphans, widows, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled can be exempted from forced labor.
When their family received the news in the spring and autumn, everyone also had a sad expression, not that there was any danger to life, but it was not good to eat and drink for more than half a month, and it was unbearable for individuals, especially this year because the quota was not enough, there was no way to pay the tax exemption, and Grandpa Yang had just left, which meant that their Yang family was going to definitely have a person.
For this matter, except for the Spring and Autumn children, the adults of the Yang family held a simple meeting in the Yang Li family's house.
"You have also understood what your uncle said, this year's conscription is inevitable, you three brothers discuss it, see who is going? The meaning of the eldest brother is obvious, like the old man and me, people don't want it" Old man Yang sat on the side of the kang, his tone was a little helpless, he originally planned to go this year, who would have thought that it would be like this, so he had to bow his head and smoke a dry cigarette for a while.
"Dad, what are you talking about? How can this let you go, this matter should be done by my son, I..." Yang Weimin looked at the old man Yang with a sad look on his eyebrows, and couldn't bear to open his mouth, but as soon as he said that he was going, he was pinched by Gu Shi beside him.
Yang Weimin was a little puzzled, turned his head to Gu and said, "What are you doing, I haven't finished speaking, what are you pinching me for?"
Gu Shi looked at her husband with a stupid expression, his face was distorted, and his heart and liver ached, this dead ghost thought that conscription was a good thing, and he didn't want to die, he didn't see any movement on the side, why is he so lacking in heart, Gu Shi glared at Yang Weimin, which means that you give me honesty, don't have you anywhere.
"Dad, mother" Gu Shi glared at Yang Weimin, and then looked at Yang Li and Old Man Yang on the kang with a smile, with a smile on his face, but his tone was a little reluctant, "My family went to the year before last for the people, oops, it can be thin and skinny when it comes back, no matter how it is this year, it will not be our family's turn, besides, for the people, I have to go to the town to deliver buns every day, and I don't have time" Gu said with a smile, "Mother, it's not that I don't want to, this is also for the stones and the army, otherwise the cost of the bundle is too expensive" Gu thought to herself, the business of steamed buns can still be done for about half a month, and her family will be considered a little bit of a family at that time, but she can't let Yang Weimin do conscription at this time.
When Yang Li heard Gu's words, how could he not understand what the other party meant, and he was even more angry in his heart, saying that the youngest son and eldest grandson were the top of the old lady's heart. Among the three sons, Yang Li likes Yang Weisong the most, and now the Gu family actually wants to let her top son Yang Weisong do conscription, and it is also a loss that she can think of it, Yang Li stood and looked at Gu's eyes with sparks, this shameless thing.
Gu is not afraid, her youngest son is the top of her heart, and the eldest son can be harmed at will, but she doesn't agree.
Yuan and Yang Weibai looked at the battle situation in front of them from the side, and sighed in their hearts, Yuan didn't need to think about it to know, the sister-in-law spoke like this, this time it must be her husband.
"Mother, just let me go, I'm so old, it's really nothing" Yang Weisong said, he was also embarrassed, the previous conscription was all for him, he was already 15 years old, and he couldn't let the eldest brother and second brother bother so much.
"Oh, mother, look at the third brother who said that he was willing to go, I'll just say it, last year the second brother went, today it's the third brother's turn, mother, you can't be partial, the previous conscription didn't let the third brother go, the third brother is also 15 this year, and he is about to marry a daughter-in-law, but he can't raise it in front of a child anymore..." "Okay, don't talk about it" Yang Weimin couldn't stand it anymore, stretched out his hand and pulled Gu Shi on the side, his face was also a little embarrassed, he didn't see that her mother was going to go to the ground desperately, you can say a few words. "What are you pulling me for, what I said is the truth..."Gu Shi was not satisfied with Yang Weimin's approach, who was she for, but Gu Shi was still a little afraid of Yang Li's family, seeing Yang Li's eager to eat her gaze, Gu Shi lowered his head and didn't say anything more, reached out and touched Yang Weimin's arm and pretended to be dead.
"Say, why don't you say it? Isn't it very powerful? Who is this for?" Yang Li saw that Gu stopped talking, so he started scolding, "Old lady, I have raised them for so many years, why do you go to do a job, do you want them to die, what do you mean by your mother-in-law, do you mean that I want to hurt people? You continue to tell me..."
"Hmph, my mother is not distressed..."
"Be louder, and then say" Yang Li saw that Gu still dared to speak, and his tone instantly increased.
"Mother, I'll go, I'll go" Yang Weisong looked at the posture of his sister-in-law and his mother, and he didn't know what to say.
"What are you going to do, your mother and I are not dead yet" Yang Li replied to Yang Weisong, and then glared at Gu.
Yang Weisong had no choice but to keep his mouth shut.
"Mother, don't be angry with my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law is also for the good of my eldest brother, let's go, it just so happens that I have nothing to do, my eldest brother is busy with buns, and my younger brother has been sick before and his body is too weak, so I'll go" Yang Weibai said on the side, if he didn't say it, this farce would not be over. After Yang Weibai finished speaking, he glanced at Yuan's apologetically, Yuan's face was not dissatisfied, she knew in her heart that her husband was definitely going, and at the same time glanced at her brother-in-law Yang Weisong, looking at the other party's apologetic eyes, Yuan's reassuring smile, Yang Weisong's physique is a little like Yang Chunming, he looks a little handsome, and his body is still long and thin, Yuan thought that he really couldn't do conscription, when she entered the door, the little uncle was still young, and she also took care of each other, so she naturally knew the other party's temperament, and although Yuan felt sorry for her husband, she was relieved when she thought of the little uncle's physique。
"For Bai, are you in good health?" Yang Li turned around after hearing the words of the second son, it was the second son who went last year, and she planned to go to the eldest this year, but she didn't expect Gu to say this, and she didn't know what to do.
"Mother, it just so happens that there is nothing more prey on the mountain, and it is nothing to do when I go to work for half a month and come back, won't Brother Yang also go?
"Come back and make it up to you" Although Yang Li is partial to the third child, he also cares about the eldest and second child.
"It's okay, mother, I'm not at home at that time, if there is something in our room, I might let my mother take care of it more" Yang Weibai said a little honestly.
"Don't worry, you and me"
"Well, then it's decided, the conscription is the day after tomorrow, and the second daughter-in-law will go back and clean up" Old man Yang decided.
"Eh, Dad, my daughter-in-law knows" Yuan agreed obediently.
"It's okay, let's all go," Old Man Yang continued.
When they heard this, they all left the house.
"Second brother, you still let me go" Yang Weisong walked behind, grabbed Yang Weibai's hand, and said a little embarrassed.
"What are you talking about, just your physique, what should I do if something happens to my mother" Yuan continued, looking at Yang Weisong's embarrassed appearance, he reached out and patted the other party's shoulder, and said with a smile, "The second sister-in-law has always treated you as a younger brother, this is nothing, your second brother is in good health, don't take it to heart, if you really don't want to go, when your second brother is not there, just help your sister-in-law more"
"Sister-in-law" Yang Weisong looked at Yuan's and bowed his head silently.
Yuan smiled and looked at Yang Weibai, Yang Weibai rubbed the other party's little head, "Go back quickly, your sister-in-law still has to pack my luggage."
"Then I'm leaving, my sister-in-law must call me if she has something" Yang Weisong finished speaking to Yuan, and then ran away without a trace.
Yuan shook his head and smiled, he was still a child.
"Okay, let's go back to the house" Yang Weibai reached out and grabbed Yuan's hand, pushed the door and went in.
"The weather is okay this time, don't bury your head in the work, rest more..."Yuan Shi instructed while packing up the things he wanted to take.
"Okay, don't worry, I'm fine, I'll be back in half a month" Yang Weibai took Yuan's hand, put it in his hand, looked down at Yuan's and said.
"Actually, I'm relieved, but I'm not sure," Yuan covered his heart and said, every time Yang Weibai went up the mountain to hunt or went out, she was afraid, for fear that something would happen to him, you know, she Yuan Zhifang was the only one left.
Yang Weibai didn't speak, reached out and hugged Yuan's waist and patted Yuan's back, how could he not know Yuan's worries, but there was no way.
The two of them stood like this, and they didn't speak, and for a moment the air was silent...