"Caizi, you go and prepare the carriage first. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" Wang Zixing said to the little guy.

When the long-faced little guy heard this, he walked away quickly.

Is this a gentle and polite prince? It's so funny to give your next person a name!

Seeing Zhang Yun's smile on her face, Wang Zixing immediately knew where she was thinking.

"This is his own name, and I think it sounds like literacy and literacy." The prince laughed.

Yes? Zhang Yun was convinced.

"You master, not bad." Zhang Yun couldn't help but laugh.

The ladies around Wang Zixing are all gentle and lovely, and they speak softly. He looked at Zhang Yun, who was smiling happily and with a pure face, and saw that the eyes were crooked on the goose egg face, and the corners of the mouth were crooked, exuding a youthful and lovely atmosphere, and a strange joy arose in his heart.

"Has the third young master been living in his hometown?" Wang Zixing's father, Wang Wei, was an official in the capital, and his eldest brother Wang Ziteng was also in the Hanlin Academy. But Zhang Yun has seen him several times in Qingle Town.

"Yes, it's quieter to study in your hometown, so you will always be in Qingle Town before the palace exam." Wang Zixing's father and brother are both high-ranking officials, and it is difficult for him to study quietly in Beijing, so someone pulls him out every day, so he simply hides in the countryside.

"Oh." So that's the case, Zhang Yun nodded.

Wang Zixing looked at Zhang Yun with interest: "Miss Zhang Yun's family lives in Shoushan Village? I don't know where you got your ingenuity from? ”

Zhang Yun was stunned for a moment, this question is too direct! Looking at this smiling face that was exactly the same as Wang Xing, Zhang Yun said in his heart that he must have thought too much. She pretended to be mysterious and smiled: "This! Secrecy! ”

Seeing that Zhang Yun didn't want to say anything, Wang Zixing smiled slightly and changed the topic: "Now the dim sum shops in the capital sell cakes and jellies, which are very popular!" I have eaten it many times, it is really delicious, sweet but not greasy, and people never get tired of eating it. ”

Zhang Yun was really happy when he heard it: "Really? "She's a foodie herself, and she likes to think about all kinds of good food. How can you not be happy to hear such a compliment, especially from the mouth of someone who resembles your sweetheart?

Wang Zixing nodded with a smile.

"You can just call Ah Yun directly, Miss Zhang Yun sounds too awkward." Zhang Yun said.

Wang Zixing glanced at Zhang Yun in surprise, and was as good as a stream: "Then I will trespass, Ah Yun." "The name of this girl's family can't be said casually, Zhang Yun's previous friends are all daughters' families, so it's nothing to call "Ah Yun". Wang Zixing in front of him obviously misunderstood, but Zhang Yun didn't know anything.

"Ah Yun, don't call me 'Third Young Master', just call me Zixing."

"Well, Zixing." Zhang Yun shouted. She used to shout her name with her peers, so the atmosphere of the two talking and laughing became more harmonious!

"If you have time to go to the village, I will be ready to eat for you."

"Okay, Zixing will definitely go when he has time." Wang Zixing looked at Zhang Yun's obviously close smile, and was a little distracted for a while.

Turning a flower wall, the scenery in front of him suddenly opened up: Zhang Yun turned to the left once just now and walked forward, so he took a fork in the road.

Zhang Yun pointed to the front and said with a smile: "It turns out that you still have to go forward - I just specified that I went wrong from here." ”

Wang Zixing looked in the direction pointed by Zhang Yun and said: "The family has a large population, and the yard is a little large, and sometimes you will really get lost if you take it a few more times." When I was a child, I have been in the capital, I remember one time when I came back for the New Year, I got separated from the maid, I walked around the house for a long time, and I didn't find the way. ”

"And then?"

"And then? The people in the house searched for me for most of the day, and at night, they found that I was asleep in the meadow of Minghu Lake with tears on my face. "The lake that Zhang Yun saw just now is Ming Lake.

"Huh? I didn't expect that the well-dressed and gentle third young master would also have such a messy time. Zhang Yun couldn't help but smile and bent over.

The prince sighed: "Alas, who doesn't have a miscalculation? He smiled instead, "Actually, it's quite comfortable to fall asleep in the meadow, but there are too many mosquitoes, and the big winter ones have bitten my face all over the bag." The next day, I went to greet the elders with a bag full of faces. Also laughed at by a group of my siblings for a day. ”

The two talked and laughed, and seeing that they were about to arrive at the door, Wang Zixing asked, "Ah Yun is going home?" Is it easy to walk on the road? ”

Zhang Yun nodded: "I used to walk for more than an hour, but now I drive a carriage, but it will take less than half an hour to arrive." ”

"That's good, don't wait too long on the road."

"Young master, the carriage is ready." Caizi ran forward and said with a huff.

Wang Zixing said to Zhang Yun: "Ah Yun, go back early." ”

"Okay. Good bye. Zhang Yun waited for Wang Zixing to go out, and then went to lead the carriage and drove home.

The two men guarding the door looked at each other a few times, and went into the gatehouse with both hands in their hands.

When he arrived at the entrance of the town, Zhang Yun took off the golden hairpin on his head and put it in the box, and then rushed to the village.

There was a cold wind blowing on the road, and only occasionally people walked by, except for those who were in a hurry, that is, they carried a basket to pick up dung. At this time, there is no chemical fertilizer urea, and the best fertilizer is human and animal manure. Therefore, some elderly people and children in the village carry baskets on their backs on the road to pick up animal manure and use it in the fields.

If he hadn't had to pull things, Zhang Yun would have added a shed to this carriage a long time ago.

Last time, Lu Cai took a horse with him, and there was still this one left in the family. There is now a carriage for his own use in the workshop, and Zhang Yun's one is only used when he runs back and forth.

When I returned to the village, I passed by the wheat field, where many people gathered and many workers.

Zhang Yun sighed in his heart, what's wrong?

She got out of the carriage, squeezed around the crowd, saw Hongmei, hurriedly pulled it out, and asked, "What is this for?" ”

Hongmei said: "You went out today?" Seeing that Zhang Yun was anxious, he patted his head, "Look at my memory!" Pay taxes at the end of the year, this is. These days, you are often not in the village, and you don't hear the village chief playing the gong. ”

"The workshop is off this afternoon, and everyone is not working." It turned out that this was the case, it was good that something didn't happen, Zhang Yun breathed a sigh of relief.

"How are taxes paid?" Zhang Yun remembered that in his previous life, when he was very young, he had seen someone hand over food, but it was canceled not long after.

"Fifteen taxes one." Now that the imperial court is recuperating, the tax rate is set very low.

Seeing that Zhang Yun didn't care, Hongmei hurriedly said, "Don't you see that there are still people wearing official uniforms?" ”

"See? What's wrong? Zhang Yun wondered.

"This is specially sent to oversee the collection of taxes."

Zhang Yun suddenly remembered that the grain he harvested had been ground into flour by himself: "By the way, what if there is no food?" Converted into money? ”

Seeing Hongmei nodding, Zhang Yun went to the side, found the village chief, and asked how much tax his family needed to pay.

The village chief flipped through the account book and said, "This year's tax is sixty-two catties." "This is based on the average yield per mu per year, and the total amount of grain in two seasons a year.

"Your family owed 30 catties of taxes the year before last, and last year it was paid by the village, plus interest, a total of 160 catties. There is also half of the loss, a total of eight catties. He knew that Zhang Yun's family was different from the past, so he asked, "Does Yun Yatou pay grain or convert it into silver?" ”

Zhang Yun looked at the IOU in the village chief's hand, and couldn't imagine that his family owed the village two years of taxes, how did the previous sisters live? It's touching and sad at the same time.

"Convert it into money, there is not much food at home." Unlike most people's families who have half a year's grain and half a year's bran, Zhang Yun's family's rice and noodles are not enough to eat by themselves.

The village chief crackled for a while and sang: "672 Wen." "Is there still a loss in paying copper coins? But as far as these few catties of food are concerned, how can Zhang Yun speak? It would be too damning to suspect that the village would be deducted.

Zhang Yun nodded: "Okay, I'll go home and get it." ”

When he got home, Zhang Yun put the jewelry box away first. Then he took the copper coins and led his younger brothers and sisters to pay the taxes outside.

The copper money handed over by Zhang Yun saved trouble, the official sent a check, filled in the form, and it was over.

There was nothing to do left and right, Zhang Yun stood aside, watching other people's families hand over food.

Zhang Yun's family has the least land, and almost all other families are more than ten acres up, so they all carry bags on their backs. There was an official bucket on the ground, and a family stepped forward and poured the grain in the bag into it, and when it was full and spiked, it was enough to see that it was enough, and they were going back.

The grain collector shouted to him: "Wait. After that, he lifted it and drank it, kicked it on the official bucket, and the grain on the bucket fell on the cloth on the ground. This foot is stomped down in order to make the grain solid. "Fill it up again."

The villagers had no choice but to fall again, and the original loss on the ground seemed to have to be divided by these officials. Zhang Yun saw that everyone's faces were as usual, presumably this was the usual practice.

There are also a lot of people in Shoushan Village, Zhang Yun watched the excitement for a long time, and when he saw that there were still so many people, he led Xiaofeng Xiaoxiu back. Hongmei also followed.

When he arrived at the house and stomped his feet, Zhang Yuncai said: "There are so many ways to collect a tax, these people are not afraid of others saying that they release water like this?" ”

Hongmei patted her body, glanced at Zhang Yun in surprise, and said, "You forgot about this?" These labor money is very small, and it is worth collecting grain at the end of the year to earn some extra money! But it's hard for us, so we pay more food for nothing. ”

"Today, the county sent a messenger to inform, and tomorrow to collect taxes, are you coming to the workshop?"

"Collecting taxes? Don't you collect it every month? I'm not going. Zhang Yun said casually.

Hongmei shook her head: "This is different, the tax at the end of the year has to be doubled, and most of it is for the yamen." ”

Zhang Yun sat down: "Who did you listen to?" ”

"That's what Cao Jin told me." Hongmei saw Zhang Yun with a smile on her face, and said busily, "It was their shopkeeper who told you that they must tell you." The people of the province have offended the yamen. When the time comes, the people of the yamen will tell us how much to pay, and the shopkeeper is afraid that we will not know it for the first time, and if we offend them, we will be in trouble. ”

Is this also an unspoken rule? Zhang Yun frowned. Although the workshop has a lot of turnover every month, the wages of the workers are also high, and the profit is not high after removing materials and losses. Fortunately, the thirty tax is one, even if you pay twice more, you can still afford it.

Zhang Yun was going to make a joke about Cao Jin and Hongmei, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was not appropriate, and now was not the time, so he didn't say it.

"You remember to come to the workshop tomorrow morning, and the yacha is estimated to arrive in the morning."

After finishing business, Hongmei is going back. (To be continued.) )