The people of Tianjia Village have been busy for a year, just for this autumn harvest after the most deluctant, and the harvest is over. As a result, half of the grain had to be handed over to the imperial court. The summer solstice estimated that the Shimoda family had five acres of fertile land, and each mu produced two to three stones of rice, and five acres was fifteen stones according to the more, and there were still seven and a half stones left in the tax.

That is, about 750 catties, and one catty of rice can produce about 72 taels of rice, so that the Tian family has 5,252 taels of rice. A laborer must eat at least eight taels of rice a day, and ten adult laborers of the Tian family, plus nine granddaughters, consume at least one hundred and twenty meters a day.

The 5,252 taels of rice were enough for the Tian family to eat for forty-four days, and this was still when all the grain was left. If there is something more to this, and the family needs money to sell it and get some food, there is nothing left. Therefore, this bit of food is simply not enough for the Tian family to receive new grain next year, and the Tian family can only rely on vegetable porridge every day to satisfy their hunger.

Xia Zhi had to sigh, the yield per mu in ancient times was too low, and how could an average yield of 1,000 catties per mu in modern times, and at most 300 catties in this Dawu Dynasty, this must not be a little negligent in serving, otherwise it is conceivable that the decline in output is doomed. It's a pity that Xia Zhi doesn't know how to do farming, otherwise he can help the Tian family increase the yield, so that this ancient grain can be more productive, which is also a good thing.

The only way to increase the overall income of the field family is to increase the overall income of the field family by treating the symptoms but not the root cause of the rice crop, and it is also necessary to buy more fertile land and open up more dry land for irrigation to grow rice. I don't know what is going on in the Dawu Dynasty, not only is there no wheat, but there are not even all kinds of beans, otherwise you can open up dry land to grow beans, peanuts or something.

Daddy and the three uncles of the summer solstice are ready to pull the grain to the town today and pay the taxes. Moreover, Daddy Xia Zhi discussed it with Uncle Xu and Tian Shutang's family last night, and the three of them together can take care of it.

It's just that when he walked in front of Xu Tian's house, Xia Zhi didn't expect Xu Tian's to come over so cheekily, so he had to let Xu Lao Er also join them. I was lazy, ran into the house and closed the door directly. Boss Xu saw his second brother standing there pitifully, so he had no choice but to load his grain onto the borrowed ox cart and set off together.

Zhilu said that his father and they were going to pay taxes today, and Xia Zhi had been currying favor with his father since last night - he wanted to go into the city with the ox cart. Originally, Tian Laosi did not agree, but Tian Laosi couldn't bear the soft grinding and hard bubbles of the summer solstice, so he had to surrender and agree. So from getting up in the morning, Xia Zhi solemnly handed over her fish to her aunt, and then got on the ox cart and set off into the town with her father.

This is the first time that Xia Zhi came to Tian's house without walking into the town by himself, and since Xia Solstice came to Tian's house, Tian's family seems to have often entered the town. Xia Zhi is going to come this time, isn't this the end of the autumn harvest, Xia Zhi plans to go to the embroidery village to get a little line, it is estimated that the previous style of the yarn has not made money, but the summer solstice can also play other yarns, and the summer solstice is also ready to embroider at the collar this time.

Xia Zhi asked Ah Niang about them, and knew that in this era, ordinary village women only have some needlework, so it may not be difficult for them to make a pair of shoes and make a dress, but embroidery is to go through special training, unless the family is rich, otherwise ordinary women will not. Therefore, the grandmother and the three aunts of the summer solstice, including the aunt of the summer solstice, will not.

This embroidery work is not difficult, it's a big deal to buy it yourself, and when the summer solstice comes out, you put the money of your sisters in your pocket. The difficulty lies in how to make her a five-year-old girl grow up smoothly and show it, Xia Zhi said that she was a little embarrassed. However, Xia Zhi is not a tangled person, 'depending on the situation' and 'the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge' are her left and right words.

Along the way, Xia Zhi saw many people like them, who used ox carts to pull a cart of grain and go to the town to pay taxes. And most of the people are the same as the Tian family, several households in twos and threes.

Xia Zhi sat on the ox cart and followed Daddy into the east gate, turned left directly, walked along the city wall, and at the end of the road, I saw rows of people queuing up to pay grain tax, and a few people at the front of the crowd were weighing the grain handed in by everyone, and two people were sitting next to them, looking at the grain handed in, nodding non-stop, Xia Zhi estimated that they were people like the master.

After the grain was aligned with the group, someone stepped forward to move the handed in grain into a blue brick house behind them, and Xia Zhi guessed that it might be a granary.

Looking at the long queue, Xia Zhi was suddenly deflated, how long will this wait, now the time, how can it take an hour for this queue to hand over the food, tossing and tossing in the embroidery village, and when it gets home, it will not be dark, the summer solstice does not want to walk at night, so she Tian Laosi discussed: "Daddy, why don't we go to the embroidery village first, let the uncle and the second uncle and the third uncle watch here, otherwise wait until the food is handed over, and go to the embroidery village, it is estimated that we will have to walk at night!" ”

Tian Laosi heard his daughter's words, looked up at the sky, it was indeed not early, so he nodded and said: "Okay, you just stay on it, I'll go and talk to the uncle, I'll come in a while!" After speaking, Tian Laosi turned around and walked to Tian Lao's side and whispered to him, Xia Zhi saw the uncle nod, and then said something to Daddy, and his own Daddy nodded and walked towards her.

Tian Laosi took the summer solstice from the ox cart, and took the summer solstice to come to the embroidery village before the life, when the summer solstice walked into the embroidery village, he found that there was no change in the embroidery village before, there was a counter in front of him, and some embroidery and winds were hung on the left and right, among which there were also summer solstice they sent. If I have to say that there are changes, it must be that there are more customers the first few times. At this time, the proprietress was bargaining with others behind the counter, and when she saw Xia Zhi coming in, her eyes lit up, and she wanted to put down the things in her hands immediately, but others didn't let her go, so she had to solve the current matter before coming to them.

Xia Zhi only now knows that the owner of this embroidery village is surnamed Ma, when he was a child, there were many sisters in the family, and his parents were patriarchal, and almost all of the good ones were given to the family to eat, and the female baby always ate some leftovers and cold rice, so she was always hungry, and later her parents sold her for their son.

Fortunately, the boss of this horse has a strong temperament, does well in the master's house, learns the art of embroidery, saves enough money not only to redeem himself, but also to put many years of silver into this embroidery village, so that there is today's view. It's just that she was old when she came out, and she only married a lame husband, so she was in charge of this embroidery village inside and out. This is also the reason why she said that there were many sisters in the family at the beginning of the summer solstice and that she couldn't eat enough every day, so she agreed to come down.

Xia Zhi Zhilu said that these were still learned from the conversation between the two women when Tian Boss sent a letter to Xiuzhuang once, and when Tian Boss went back and sighed with the Tian family, it was not easy, and other people's money was not blown by the wind. However, what Xia Zhi thought at that time was that he was fortunate to come to the Tian family, otherwise according to other families like the Tian family, he might have sold many female babies.