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Early morning.

Luo Feng slept until dawn.

It was the most comfortable night he had slept in since he came to this era. Although the bed is very hard, and the straw is stuffed and covered, the straw is very fluffy and warm, and there is a fragrance of grass and trees.

Especially after taking a shower, there is no lice and fleas on his body, which makes him much more comfortable.

When he got up, he found his mother and sister-in-law spinning and weaving in the weaving room, and the loom chirping.

And Xiaoliu is nowhere to be seen.

When the sister-in-law saw him, she hurriedly came out.

"The second cousin has already returned to Licheng early in the morning, and when he saw that you were sleeping soundly, he asked us not to disturb you."

Qin Qiong rode away on a yellow horse, and when she left, she left a horizontal knife for Luo Feng, and also left ten pieces of meat for Luo's mother.

Luo's mother refused to ask for it, but in the end, he still left the money and rode away.

"Xiao Wu, you send the money to Licheng and return it to your cousin."

"Mother, since the second brother left the money, you can accept it. The two relatives don't have to see each other like this, the second brother is out in the army, and I will go to Licheng more in the future, and it is the same to take care of my aunt for the second brother. ”

Shiguan meat is much better, but Luo Feng feels that sometimes relatives don't have to see each other too much, money is just something outside the body, and it is more important for relatives to come and take care of each other more.

"Where's Little Liu?"

"I'm going to herd cattle for the Wang family."

Xiaoliu herds cattle for the Wang family every day, earns a meal at the Wang family, and has a salary of two rice millets for another month.

This pay is very low, but it is a good income for a country boy. If it weren't for Xiao Liu's natural strength and his talent for letting go of cattle, those cows would have listened to him very much, otherwise they wouldn't have this bucket of rice.

"Where's the little sister?"

"I'm pulling weeds in the field."

There are always things to do in the farmhouse, the work is the first day of the day, and the work is always done until the dark, even if it is a doll of a few years old, there is always something to do.

Luo Feng's family has 20 acres of mulberry and hemp trees, and the remaining 40 acres have to be planted in rotation, and more than 10 acres of fallow are every year, which is actually equivalent to only planting more than 20 acres of land every year.

Just these 20 acres of land, because it is a poor land on the hillside, it is often only possible to grow one season of grain, and some miscellaneous grains such as beans are mixed in between.

There are no cattle at home, in the past, the cultivated land was almost all ploughed by people, although the landlord's family also has cattle to borrow, but to borrow cattle have to pay cattle rent, cattle rent is very expensive, generally directly to the harvest of the land, the old Luo family has always been reluctant to borrow cattle.

In the past, the Luo family had a blacksmith shop, and when the farm was slack, it could also subsidize the family.

There are also no pigs at home, because piglets are not cheap.

There are only a few chickens and geese in the family, and the chickens lay eggs, and the eggs can be sold in the market for some needles and threads, while the geese can not only watch the house, but also sell them for money when they grow up.

Luo Mu looked at the clothes on Luo Feng's body, "It's a little short, go back and make you a new one." It's also cold, so you have to make a jacket and clip some silk wool to warm up. ”

Seeing that it was not early, Luo's mother asked her sister-in-law to cook.

The sister-in-law responded, so she went to the rice jar in the warehouse to measure the rice and cook.

Now there is a family of six in the family, but the sister-in-law strictly follows Luo's mother's instructions and only measures one liter of millet.

Such a liter of millet is actually only equivalent to six city taels in later generations, and it still carries a shell, and if you go to the shell, it will not even be half a catty.

"Mother, there is still food at home, you can make more."

"Sometimes you have to think about the time, although it is said that the autumn harvest is coming, but you can also see, there is no harvest in the field this year. Our family also has to pay the field rent and the grain of the warehouse, which costs fifteen stones, and five horses of silk and fifteen taels of cotton. ”

As a citizen of the Great Sui, although the Luo family did not get the same amount of land, but the rent was not discounted, no matter how much land you allot, the rent was levied according to Ding.

The Luo family has five Ding men, one middle man, the middle man does not pay rent for the time being, only serves mediocrity, and the rent of each Ding a year is three stone millet, which is adjusted to a horse of silk or one end of cloth, plus three taels of cotton or three catties of hemp.

This is fixed, and then there is another Yicang grain, Yicang grain is the local people's usual grain storage and disaster preparedness, but now it is actually equivalent to the land tax, is according to the family's wealth and the number of acres to pay grain, although the Luo family is poor, a year still has to pay grain to Yicang five stone millet.

In this way, the Luo family has to pay 20 stone a year, as well as 5 horses of silk, and 15 taels of cotton, which does not include some additional apportionment fees in the county and township.

This year, when several strong laborers in the family are not at home, this rent adjustment is a very heavy burden.

For about 20 acres of land, you have to pay 20 stone of millet rent, and it is estimated that after all the land is collected and paid, there will be nothing left.

No wonder it is said that the Great Cause Dynasty is becoming more and more unsuccessful, and there are more and more people who rebel, because although the court is rich, the people are getting poorer and poorer, and they can't even eat enough.

One liter of millet for one meal, two liters a day, and six buckets in a month, Luo's mother felt that it was already very expensive.

But Luo Feng calculated, just four taels of corn for a meal, six people eat, how can it be enough to eat, one person is less than one or two, this year there is less oil and water, and there is a lack of non-staple food, just rely on eating this meal, the amount of labor is still large, eat like this every day, you will definitely be malnourished.

"Sister-in-law, measure two liters of millet, there are so many people in our family, when the little sister and the sixth are still growing up, we can't let them not be full, as for the food, you don't have to worry about it, I will go to the county government office on an errand in a few days, and there will be money and grain at that time, and also, didn't the township chief and the mayor have promised to give me twenty acres of land yesterday, and our family will get better and better in the future."

"If your father and brother don't come back, I'm afraid that they won't be able to plant next year." Luo Mu said worriedly.

"After a while, my father and brother will definitely come back, you don't have to worry too much."

In the end, Luo Mu compromised and let the amount of one and a half liters of millet.

Luo Feng couldn't resist it, so he had to agree, this liter and half a liter of millet was actually only equivalent to 0.9 city liters, still less than a catty.

The sister-in-law measured the corn, and then went to the porch in front of the main house to make rice, where there was a mortar.

Luo Feng looked at it a few times and found that it was very simple, completely handmade and backward tools, a mortar made of stone with a thick basin mouth, half-buried in the ground, and then a scoop stick, a wooden stick with a bowl mouth, and a fist-sized head at the lower end.

The sister-in-law put the shelled corn into the stone mortar, and then held the stick with both hands, and repeatedly beat the corn grain, so that the shell fell off and separated.

Rice is not a craft and skills, but it is a very laborious job, Luo's mother has no time to lick rice, this work has always been the two sisters-in-law in the family to take turns to do.

When the corn is finished, you have to use a sieve to remove the chaff and filter out the stones and dust in the rice.

A rice stick is about one meter long, weighs five or six pounds, and it is really tiring enough to lick it three or four hundred times repeatedly.

It's too backward.

He remembered that Li Xiangzheng's house had a mill and a mill. The landlord's family in Wangzhuang next door also has, but to their house to mill rice and flour has to pay money or rice noodles, grinding a stone has to pay two liters, and most people are not willing to do it, so they have to use this primitive method of rice cooking.

"Mother, let's install a pedal mortar at home, it's much more labor-saving."

"It costs a lot of money to put it up." Roche Road.

"It doesn't cost much, after it is installed, we can save a lot of effort, we can also install a mill, so that it is convenient to grind rice and noodles in the future, and even help other people's families to grind rice and noodles to earn back some money."

Luo's mother and their sisters feel that labor is not valuable, although it is time-consuming and laborious to cook by themselves, but they do not need to invest in the cost first, and families like the Luo family do not have money to invest first, and they are slowly used to hand-scooping rice.

But Luo Feng felt that this was too cost-effective, not to mention the low effectiveness, and it was tiring. Moreover, pretending to grind, although it costs some money in the early stage, it can not only be used at home, but also can help others grind, whether it is to collect money or rice noodles, this processing fee will be a very good income, for a long time, the early investment can not be recovered, but also to earn more income.

"Sister-in-law, let me do it."

Luo Feng took a look and saw that his sister-in-law was struggling, so he took the initiative to step forward.

"Chungmi is a woman's business, Uncle still let me do it myself." The sister-in-law is very polite, she has been married into the Luo family for more than two years, but she has not given birth yet, not that she has any problems, but since she married into her husband's family, her husband has often been conscripted to go out to serve, and he has not been at home for many years.

"Anyway, I'm free now, let me come." Luo Feng directly snatched the stick and scooped up the rice.

At first, I felt quite relaxed, but after a long time, I gradually felt heavy when I held the five- or six-pound stick, and even began to sweat in the back.

One and a half liters of Chen Su, Luo Feng took half an hour to finish, and it didn't take so long for his sister-in-law to come.

"It took half an hour to scoop up a liter and a half of rice, which is really not as good as my sister-in-law."

"Rice is a woman's business." The sister-in-law smiled.

Sieve the good corn, then wash the rice, boil it in the pot, boil it, and then put the current seasonal vegetables such as sunflower cabbage and wead cabbage, and then mix some dried bamboo shoots and pickles into the cooking.

In the end, Luo's mother even took out a salted dried fish and asked her sister-in-law to cut it in half, cut it into crumbs and put it in the pot to cook together.

One liter of rice was cooked into a large pot of gruel.

The porridge is very thin, the thin can shine the figure of the person, and the chopsticks can't stand, the yellow corn porridge is mixed with green and yellow woad leaves, etc., and the smorgasbord is stewed, and it smells like a pig food.

Compared with yesterday's lard cooking, today's pot of millet and salted fish porridge made Luo Feng very unappetizing.

"Mother, after dinner, I will take my little sister and sixth brother to the fourth sister's house, and I will go to the fifth sister's house tomorrow."

"Just let Xiaoliu show you the way, Xiaomei doesn't have to go, Lu Yuan is in trouble. Look at how they are doing, what they lack at home, and when we come back, we can make up for their dowry. ”