Situ Yan sent Wu Guo away, and specially went to the village to thank him, "Uncle Wangfu, yesterday that person was an apprentice of my brother's master, and his family happened to be in the border city of Liaodong County. ”

"It's okay now, Brother Youzhu has a queen, didn't your brother say that he wanted to take you back?"

"My brother and his master are a businessman, and he is not at home all year round, my brother follows him, even if I live in the past, I can't take care of me, not to mention, I still have Brother Da Lang here, this is my home, and when my brother doesn't want to go to business, I still want him to return to this Lijia Village, and our family of six lives together."

"Yes, the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own kennels, and they are not as good as their homes. Let him come back early, with your brothers and sisters here, I'm afraid of a bad life. Muramasa is also relieved now, he doesn't want this clever little girl to go like this, now listening to this girl's meaning, she really regards Lijia Village as her home, and he is happy from the bottom of his heart.

"Brother still wants to see more outside, I haven't said when I will come back, but with his letter, my heart is much more steady." Situ Yan was reluctant to talk more about this matter, so she pulled the topic to Li Dalang's farming.

"Uncle Wangfu, my eldest brother is a ding, and I have to trouble my uncle to help me with this household book. And how to pay the tax for the conscription has to be annoyed, and the uncle told us about it. ”

"I'll go and do it for you tomorrow, Dalang's account is easy to handle, just pay 50 yuan."

The village is also about paying taxes with Situ Yan and Li Dalang in detail, Chengding will rent 100 acres of official land according to the household, and pay 50 stone of millet every year; cotton 1500 pounds; valley 20 stones; There is also a Ding tax and a household tax: 50 Wen per year for Chengding; 25 Wen per year. Situ Yan, an orphaned and young household, has to pay 25 wen a year according to the calculation of each trip. The household tax is 2 horses of silk per year, and these are to be paid in November.

Adult male Ding county government will also arrange for "garrison" (that is, to go to the frontier to engage in "guarding and riding the fortress") for one year, and "zhengshu" (that is, one year in the county as an officer (infantry), knight (cavalry) or building boat (sailor), receiving military training and being responsible for local security; In one year, he went to Kyoto as a guard, responsible for defending the capital, guarding the imperial palace and mausoleum, or serving the government. ), and every year there is also a month of "shifting" (i.e., doing forced labor in the county).

Situ Yan originally knew that the Northern Wei Dynasty was burdensome, but she didn't expect it to be so heavy. The more I listened, the tighter my brow wrinkled. It seems that she has to think more about making money, otherwise I am afraid that she will not be able to live this life. began to think about Xiao Jiujiu in his heart, "Uncle Wangfu, can all these conscripts be paid with 'more endowment'?" ”

"I haven't heard of it, I think as long as you have money, you should be fine, but the girl's 'more endowment' is getting more and more year by year, but it's not something that people like us can take out. Take this 'shift' service as an example, it is the least of these few, but if you want to 'pass the shift' last year, you have to pay 5 taels of silver, and I don't know what the situation is this year? In the past few years, it has been more and more year by year, and our days are really not as good as a year? ”

"As long as I can get it, it's a big deal that I can earn more this year, and I can't let my eldest brother go to the border." In Situ Yan's dictionary, as long as it is something that can be solved with money, it is not a problem.

"Don't worry too much, this big man just had a crown ceremony this year, and he usually won't let such a big baby go to the border. At least 18 years old. Muramasa was not comfortable for a while, and he still treated Li Dalang as a child.

"It's better to prepare early!" Situ Yan doesn't have the habit of cramming her feet temporarily, she likes to think about everything in front of her and do it in advance, so that she won't panic when things come to an end, and she can be fully prepared.

"Uncle Wangfu, can I ask for the piece of land in the northeast of the village next to the Great Wilderness Mountain?"

"Girl, that piece of land is thin, there have been no people in the past two years, the benefits of famine, I think there is still a piece of land in the southeast of the village, and there is only one year that no one has planted, if it is not a famine year, the yield is still good."

Situ Yan thought more, first, she felt that there would be a drought this year, so she thought that it would be close to the side of the mountain, first, it was convenient to dig wells, and second, it was convenient to dig water cellars and lead mountain springs. And she only wants to grow wheat, one is drought resistant, and the other is that the price of wheat is high, and then she can use the money from the sale of wheat to buy corn and millet to pay taxes. As for the daily expenses of the family, she didn't just look at Guantian to live. She didn't want others to know about this, so she asked for this piece of land, far away from the village entrance, and there were few people in and out, so naturally there were few things.

"Uncle Wangfu, the land in the southeast of the village is too far away from home, and it is inconvenient to take care of it, so you can promise me!" Situ Yan pulled the village and shook it lightly with some coquettishness.

Mura Zheng looked impatient, but farming is such a big thing, it is related to whether he can afford to pay taxes, he can't mess around with the girl, "Girl, this is going to be busy all year round, and I can't pay the tax by then, but I have to take the silver to pay it, this is not a joke, if I don't do it, I will go to prison and cut off my head." ”

Seeing that he persuaded him for a long time, Situ Yan still insisted on his own ideas, so he turned his head and persuaded Li Dalang, "Da Lang, you have to think about this kind of land, this land is fatter and thinner, but there are many things, you can't let the girl mess around." ”

"Uncle Murazheng, I listen to Xiao Wu, she likes that land, you can give it to me, I am confident that I can plant the land." In Li Dalang's heart, as long as the little sister likes it, he supports it, as for the thinner land, he doesn't care, he has helped the family farm since he was a child, and when the time comes, get up earlier and do more, it will always get better.

"You, you depend on her for everything, aren't you afraid of spoiling her?"

"No, Xiao Wu is obedient, our little five housekeepers." Li Dalang said smoothly, and the village sighed angrily, but he couldn't help it, the people in this kind of land had already chosen the land, and he couldn't stop it.

"Okay, it's up to you, but I'll say it first, if this year's income is not good, next year you will listen to me and replant the land in the southeast of the village." The village is thinking, let these two babies make trouble this year, even if the land is not planted well with this girl, it should be no problem to take the silver. When the two of them have had enough trouble next year, it's not too late to help them change the land, and he will keep that land for the two of them.

"Okay, listen to Uncle Wangfu. When you lend your cattle to us, you can rest assured that I will not give you any less money to rent the cattle, and you will be guaranteed to feed the cattle to your heart's content. Situ Yan saw that her goal had been achieved, and she didn't mind saying some small things to coax people.

"You're sweet-mouthed. Borrowing cattle is afraid that you will not be able to grow food, and then it will be up to you to see who you will cry with. ”

"If that time comes, I'll go to Uncle Wangfu's house to eat, can't you coax me out with a broom." A room full of people were amused by Situ Yan's jokes.

When he went home, Situ Yan took Li Dalang to look at the field again, the soil was still frozen, and he could see that it had been barren for a long time, overgrown with withered yellow weeds. Situ Yan looked at the direction of the wind, and then looked at the surrounding environment, the wind direction is not right today, you can't set fire to weeding, wait a few days to see.

and Li Dalang and a few people went home, these days to make dim sum was originally prepared for the New Year, this time to sell a little unexpected, and after the year to the beginning of spring farming, which family is not tightening their belts to live, leaving the delicious food for the field to work hard, and no one will use the surplus money to buy any dim sum to eat. Pointing to the rich families in the county, if there were no new ideas, these people would not have come to the door.

But now the land is still frozen, even if Situ Yan wants to plow, he has to think of making money in the county, and when no one is there, he enters the space ring and puts the things in place again, there are a lot of things that can be sold, but they are not suitable to sell at this time, and finally I saw a few big baskets by the wall, which are filled with big persimmons, "This is good, you can make persimmons to sell, this time of the year is when there are few fruits, and every family only stores some apples and oranges, I am afraid that I am tired of eating early, and I am just changing the taste of eating this." And the persimmons are easy to make, just in time to sell them on the fifth day of the second month. ”

I had an idea, took the big persimmon out of the ring, and called Li Dalang a few, "Brothers, this is what I picked when I went into the mountain before, this can be made into persimmons and sent outside, we will sell this in February." ”

"Xiao Wu, this thing is very astringent, unpalatable." Shiro remembered that Xiaomei liked this thing very much, and when he first picked it, he didn't take it seriously, and for such a long time, he had already forgotten about it, but he didn't expect Xiaomei to suddenly exchange this for money, worried that he wouldn't be able to sell it.

"I'm not afraid, it's that others don't know how to do it, my brothers listen to me, and when it's done, my brothers will taste it first, if you still think it's not delicious, we won't sell it."

"Okay, listen to Xiao Wu." Li Dalang felt that since the little sister said it, she would definitely do it.

Before noon the next day, Muramasa sent Li Dalang's household booklet over, and Situ Yan gave 50 yuan to Muramasa. With the household book, and the names of Erlang on it, the four of them are finally not black. In the future, you can pay taxes, pay food, serve in the army, and buy land.

Situ Yan and Li Dalang hurriedly for two days, first picked out the ripe flesh and hard fruit shape, and the shape of the fruit was upright and insect-free, found a knife to peel the skin, found a clean, well-ventilated and well-lit place, set up a straw mat, and put the peeled persimmon fruit up and stacked it on it.

Ten days later, wait until the flesh shrinks, the top of the fruit sinks, and then the first pinching of the cake turning, after 2 turns, the persimmon is the outside and soft on the inside, there is no sweating, you can frost. Place the calyx outward, first put a layer of dried persimmon skin in the jar and then put the persimmon, and so on until the jar is full, then seal the jar and put it in a cool place. The lower the temperature, the better it is to frost.

Until the day when the second dragon raised his head in February, Situ Yan looked at the three sealed jars of persimmons, thinking that on the fifth day of the second month of February, he could go into the city to sell things and make money, and his heart was very beautiful. In fact, she doesn't want much, she has a home, relatives, a tile to cover her head, clothes to wear when it's cold, and a meal to eat when she's hungry. In her previous life, she had too many dreams, but in the end she died in vain, and she couldn't even see the last face of her closest people, coming here, she just wanted to guard her relatives and live a peaceful life, as for what would happen in the future, she didn't dare to think about it, and she couldn't think of it, but at least she was happy in front of her, and the relatives around her were also happy, which was enough.

After the first month, the land finally began to loosen a little, and the cattle of the village family had to wait a few more days before they could be lent to Situ Yan, Situ Yan found a day to burn the wild grass in the official field, and first let Li Dalang drive a few mules to pull the plow, and turned over all the six acres of land in the backyard. In particular, the three acres of land where she wants to grow rice and raise fish have been turned over deeply.

In addition to boxing in the morning and reading books in the evening, the four brothers of the Li family are busy in the field in the backyard every day. Situ Yan wanted to help several times, but was driven back to the house by the four of them, saying that they would not let her suffer with her. Situ Yan had no choice but to make more delicious food and help a few people to replenish their bodies and grow their strength.