Wei Ren thought hard and drew a direction for his future.

As he was pondering, he suddenly heard the sound of a leaf around him, and then it seemed as if something had fallen.

Fang wanted to look around, but suddenly he was hit by something on the top of his head, and a sharp pain came, and Wei Renshi, who was in pain, couldn't help but cry out in pain, holding his head and hurriedly jumping away.

While jumping away, he thought to himself that Newton was smashed on the head by an apple, and smashed a new world of physics. This son was smashed this time, isn't he going to smash a new Tang Dynasty?

Before Gain's thoughts dissipated, he was suddenly smashed, and it was only then that such a strange thought suddenly came to him.

"I'm sorry! Sorry! This Lang Jun is really sorry, I really didn't see anyone under the tree, old woman! A voice came from behind the tree, Wei Renshi followed the sound and looked up, but saw an old woman hurriedly coming down the slope from behind.

She was already very old, she walked tremblingly, and hurried down, dragging a long bamboo pole in her hand, and she kept stumbling under her feet, and almost fell down several times.

"Grandma, don't panic, don't get in the way." Wei Renshi looked at the old woman who came over and said.

The old lady kept apologizing to Wei Renshi until recently, Wei Renshi saw that she was old and the clothes on her body were also shabby, and knew that she was also a bitter cold person, so she smiled and said: "Grandma, is it too early for you to hit acorns now?" This acorn is not cooked, so it will take another two or three months to do it. ”

"Xiao Langjun is fine, it's okay! But scared the old woman to death! The yellow-haired old lady breathed a sigh of relief, then sighed again, and replied, "The old woman knocked down a few to see the color of this year's acorns." If the growth is good, it will be able to survive this winter. If the growth is not good, you have to sell the big girl. ”

Wei Renshi didn't expect that he would hear such terrifying and terrifying words when he asked casually, and he was stunned.

"This ...... This acorn has something to do with selling girls! Wei Renshi asked in surprise.

"I have to pay taxes at the end of the month, and then the official will come to collect them, and the harvest at home this year is not good, and it will rain again on the day of harvesting, and I am afraid that there will not be a grain of grain left after paying the tax." The old lady burst into tears as she spoke, and said, "Then you have to borrow grain, and you have to pay taxes after planting in the autumn, and after paying taxes and returning grain, there will be nothing to spend the winter." If the acorns grow well, you can still eat acorns to survive the winter. If it doesn't grow well...... The old woman's grandson, who is only full moon, wants to pass the winter, so she can only sell the big girl for some food. ”

Wei Renshi looked at the few acorns that fell on the ground.

Although this thing can be eaten, and the starch content is second only to grains, and even the nutrients such as fat, protein, and vitamins are slightly higher than grains, but whether it is made into acorn noodles or acorn powder, it is difficult to digest and absorb when eaten, so no matter how nutritious it is, it is useless.

Moreover, it tastes astringent, and eating too much can also cause central nervous system poisoning.

Survive the winter on this thing......

The old woman bent down to pick up a few unripe acorns that fell from the ground, confessed to Wei Renshi again, and dragged the bamboo pole away.

Wei Renshi suddenly lost interest, turned around and went down the mountain, returned to the side of the mountain and waited.

After waiting for a while, Boss Shi and the others all came down together.

"Back to Xiaolang, the charcoal here is easy to dig, and after digging less than a zhang down, I saw that it was all charcoal." Boss Shi came over and said to Wei Renshi, "Several of them are similar. ”

Wei Renshi looked at the situation outside and had expected that the coal seam would not be too far from the ground, but he didn't expect it to be so close.

It's no wonder that people here can dig up charcoal with a few hoes to carry back to light the fire.

"Let's go back." Wei Renshi nodded and said, ready to go back and draw the drawings of the manual coal hammer and coal stove.

Along the way, you have to pass through several villages to get back to Changgu.

Wei Ren saw that there was already Si Cangzuo with the county government to collect taxes and grain in the village.

At this time, the two taxation laws had been in force for many years, and the original policy of leviing on the basis of currency, because the imperial court levied money and the circulation of coins in the market was insufficient, the phenomenon of heavy money and light goods appeared, and the peasants had to sell silk, grain, or other products at a low price to pay taxes, which increased the burden, so they also ordered many times to change the currency calculation and levy to the conversion in kind.

Moreover, with the passage of time, in order to show their "political achievements" and gain promotion, local state officials greedily set up extortion in the name of extortion outside the quota of the two taxes, and extorted extortions outside the regular taxes. The two-tax law practically no longer exists.

"Poor master, this is really a stone, the old man has weighed it, if it is really not enough, but I dare not bring it!"

An old man's shout attracted Wei Renshi's attention, and he followed the sound to look over.

"Less fucking fart! It's clearly five buckets! An errand officer pointed at the old man and scolded: "Yes, yes, I will lie to you, you can see this name for yourself!" ”

The old man wanted to cry without tears, and hurriedly said: "It's really a stone!" What a stone! It's so bad, you can see it when you look at it......"

"Do you want to pay or not?" Another errand officer next to him scolded and pushed the old man away: "Come on, detain this broken goods for me!" If you don't pay your taxes according to the number, you will go to the board and do hard labor! ”

At this time, a young man seemed to be unable to look at it, walked out, and said to the officer: "A few poor masters, I can testify for him, when he came out, it was really a stone, and this stone was loaded into a cart, and there were also a number, if it was five buckets, how could it be full?" ”

"Where's your turn to fart! Which household are you, weigh your tax grain! One of the officers looked at him disdainfully and said.

But he saw Si Cangzuo, who had been silent for a long time, come over and said to the old man: "Your tax grain is still five buckets away, if you can't hand it over, eating boards and doing hard labor is indispensable." In the same county, a certain person can help you, rent you five buckets of grain, let you pay the tax grain, and allow you to pay it back after the autumn harvest. However, when the time comes, you will have to pay more, will you do it? ”

Seeing that the shackles had been stuck on his neck, the old man was so old that he caught a board like this, and he died directly, not to mention going to hard labor.

"Willing to rent! Willing to rent! Two lines of tears rolled down the old man's eyes, and he had no choice but to nod his head in agreement.

When the servants saw that the old man agreed, they loosened their shackles, and one of them brought them over to draw the grain for rent.

The rest of the officers pointed at the young man who had just spoken, and said, "Next, it's your turn, pull your tax grain over and weigh it!" ”

The man pushed the cart over, unloaded the grain, and put it on the scale. The officer next to him immediately glared at him, and said evilly: "Okay! You also dare to steal tax cuts! Look at this scale, where is there a stone here? It's clearly five buckets! ”

Wei Renshi clenched his fist, took a few deep breaths, and let go of his hand.

"Humph!" A cold snort suddenly came from behind him.

Looking back, Boss Shi's eyes were full of anger, staring at the gang of errands.

At the end, he suddenly became depressed, and the anger in his eyes turned into unwillingness and helplessness, and said: "It's this trick everywhere!" ”

"Uncle Shi?" Wei Renshi asked.

"One stone of grain is used for five buckets, and the remaining five buckets are rented out, and their own grain is greedy, heh, they still have to rent their own grain and pay rent to these killers." Boss Shi gritted his teeth and said.

"Where?" Wei Renshi asked again.

"Everywhere!"