The brothers and sisters were chatting, and suddenly the voice of Xiuniang calling the eldest girl came from the room.

The eldest girl answered crisply and walked in.

The mother and daughter whispered in the house, and then saw the eldest girl walk out alone, walked into the grass shed where the sundries were kept, and pulled a basket, as if they were going out.

Han Chuxue hurriedly grabbed her, "Sister, where are you going?" ”

What they said in the house just now was not heard by others, but Han Chuxue, who has the best eavesdropping skills such as divine sense, could hear it clearly, and her mother asked her eldest sister to borrow rice and eggs.

I want to know that these things are definitely not what Xiuniang wants to eat, but because she borrowed them because of herself, not to mention that the cold and early snow that has been in the valley is no problem if she doesn't eat, even if she still wants to eat, she can't make the already poor family even worse for herself, so she will stop the big girl.

The smile on the face of the big girl she was pulling became a little unnatural, "I—I want to dig some wild vegetables." ”

The simple peasant baby never lies, but this time it is her own little sister who deceives, and this look is revealed without guessing.

The cold snow didn't break, and he pretended not to see it and smiled, "It just so happens that I also want to walk around and see what the surroundings are like, so as not to go the wrong way next time, eldest sister, I'll go with you." ”

For such a high-sounding reason, it really makes people unable to say a word, and the big girl has to scream, and she doesn't know how to react.

At noon, when Xiuniang wanted to borrow eggs, Xiaomei had already stopped her, so this time they wanted to hide it from her, but if she also went with her, this matter would not be hidden.

Han Chuxue knew what she was embarrassed about, but she didn't break it, and pretended not to know and took the big girl's hand, "Sister, let's go, I haven't dug wild vegetables yet, just learn from you, we are a family, you can't know everything, but I don't know anything." ”

"Okay, good ......" She said this, and the eldest girl didn't dare to say that she wouldn't let her go, so she had to let her go in a daze.

Dazhu and Erzhu glanced at each other for unknown reasons, and the eldest girl's expression was a little strange.

In the end, the clever Erzhu patted his head, and didn't he know what was going on?

So he turned around and chased after the two, "Second sister, little sister, wait for me, I'll go too." ”

He has actually dug up wild vegetables, since the little sister wants to learn, how can he be a brother and ignore it, maybe he can also dig out bird eggs.

Of course, a certain donkey who loves to join in the fun did not hesitate to follow, and the wild vegetable thing, to be honest, has never eaten it, so it should be a long experience.

Dazhu, who was left alone, touched the back of his head a little without knowing what to do, looked up at the sky, the hour was still early, in the morning because the little sister suddenly came back, the land was not finished yet, he still went to prepare the land.

So he turned around and walked into the straw hut, picked up the hoe and went out.

Under the leadership of the eldest girl, the three of them and a donkey went around the ridge and walked to the bottom of the hill, and did not go up the hill but walked along the foot of the mountain.

April is the time when all kinds of wild vegetables grow the most tender, but the Han family lives by eating wild vegetables, and the wild vegetables near here have not been dug up many times, and they have not found it for a while, until they see a bush of tender green plants that are familiar with the cold early snow, and the big girl walked up and squatted down and dug up with bright eyes.

Han Chuxue followed up, looked at it carefully, and was surprised, "Sister, can you eat this dandelion?" ”

No wonder she felt familiar just now, she had picked it up and played with it when she was a child in her previous life, but she had never heard of this thing being edible.

Erzhu on the side couldn't help but smile when he looked at her confused little appearance, "Little sister, this is mother-in-law, of course you can eat it." ”

The big girl who was busy digging vegetables also took the time to nod at her.

Dare to love, this is the mother-in-law Ding who appeared very high in the previous farming texts!

Han Chuxue silently covered his face, and the farming idiot really couldn't afford to hurt it.

Then, under the leadership of the wild vegetable digging expert, Han Chuxue, a farming idiot, worked hard to identify all kinds of wild vegetables in the countryside.

Before they knew it, the three of them had come to a field, and the big pillar was hoeing the ground in it.

Seeing Dazhu, Erzhu immediately raised his hand to greet the eldest brother, and Dazhu, who was busy, looked back and saw that they were coming, carrying a hoe, patting the soil on his body, and walked over.

"Little sister, how did you get here?"

The eldest girl smiled a little bitterly, "The wild vegetables over there are gone, and we will come here while walking." ”

As for why the wild vegetables were gone, Dazhu knew it, and he didn't know what to say.

The atmosphere became a little heavy, and Han Chuxue hurriedly opened his mouth to divert the topic, "Big brother, this land is our family?" ”

Because his family was too poor, according to the previous farming texts, Han Chuxue thought that his family had no land and no land. But now that I see Dazhu busy with farm work, it is obvious that this land has nothing to do with his family, but I don't know whether he rented it or bought it.

Speaking of crop land, Dazhu immediately laughed, "Yes, all the way to the five acres of land is our family's mouth field." ”

Han Chuxue followed his gesture and looked forward, the size of the ancient mu was not the same as the modern one, so five acres of land was not too big, but it was not very little.

According to her observation today, the family is not the kind of person who is lazy and lazy, with this land, why is the family poor like that?

"Big brother, what do you mean by mouth dividing fields?" It doesn't sound like you bought your own land.

Dazhu looked at her with some surprise, "The mouth division field is the field that the government has allocated to our family." ”

Hey, at the mention of this, she seemed to be a little impressed, "That means that this field is actually not our family's, but it is just given to us to plant, and it will be returned to the government in the future, right?" ”

When she studied history in her last life, it seemed that the fields of some dynasties were like this.

Sure enough, Dazhu nodded, "Yes, after Ding, there will be three acres of Yongye land, so there is no need to return it to the government." ”

"What is it called Ding, Yongyetian?"

"Ding is to pay taxes, Ding does not have to pay taxes, Yongye Tian does not need to be repaid, and can be left for generations."

Dazhu didn't say it in detail, but roughly, Han Chuxue still understood that Ding should be a strong laborer, and Yongye Tian was actually a pension field.

And in this explanation, she also caught a key word - tax!

I still remember a sentence in the charcoal seller: Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger.

The Han family obviously has a share of the land, but they can't eat their stomachs, is it because there are too many taxes and miscellaneous taxes?

"Brother, are the taxes very heavy now?"

Although the cultivator ignores the affairs of the world, if she is really harsh and unkind, she still has to summon the master and seek justice for the people of the world.

"What should I say?" Dazhu scratched his head with some distress, and it took a while to organize the language, "Our household rent is eight liters per mu, and the adjustment is one horse of cloth, three taels of hemp, and there is also labor, each household serves for one month every year, and if it can't produce Ding, it will produce a stone of millet or wheat or grain, and a horse of silk." ”