The practice of grading peasant households' land is extremely disadvantageous, and the imperial court and government cannot get more tax revenues because of this, but it gives traitorous officials the opportunity to cunning and harm the people and bend the law for bribes.

But Qiantang County has been quite clear over the years, and the evaluation of field products is once every ten years, because the land may change in ten years, the last time the twelve counties of Wu County evaluated the field products was seven years ago, and it has not yet reached the period of ten years.

Chen Caozhi comforted his mother not to worry too much, the twenty hectares of land of the Chen family in the West Building are all on the shore of Mingsheng Lake, so it is impossible to be rated as a top-grade field!

Two hundred years ago, there were almost no inhabitants in this area of Mingsheng Lake, because in the past, the lake was connected with the sea, the water was salty, and even the well water was salty, and later after the lake was separated from the sea, the water of the nearby mountain stream gathered in the lake, and over time, the lake gradually became fresh water, and there were gradually people by the lake.

Chen's mother Li said: "I'm afraid that Chen Liu in the North Building is secretly making trouble, and it is actually this Chen Liu who instigated your sixth uncle to plot to rob my Xilou Tian, Chen Liu is a knife and pen official in the county office, and he will not be empty and unfounded, so he has to be guarded against." ”

Chen Caozhi thought for a while and said: "Tomorrow, the child will talk to the fourth uncle about this matter, and the matter within the family will be solved within the family - mother, you have a good rest, don't worry too much, there are children, the children have grown up now, right?" ”

Chen's mother, Li, touched her son's cheek lovingly, and said: "You are only fifteen years old, you have to worry about family affairs, and you have to study hard every day, and my mother feels distressed when she looks at it - okay, the ugly child also rests early, and after walking such a long way today, don't stay up late to study, do you hear?" ”

Chen Caozhi retreated, and when he returned to his bedroom, he saw that the light was on in the study, Xiaochan and Qingzhi were waiting to accompany him to read at night, and then he remembered that he was in a hurry today, and he forgot to bring back the first volume of "Huainan Honglie Inner Chapter" selected in Ge Xianweng's study, and only went to pick it up in a few days, and immediately stepped forward and smiled: "Sister Xiaochan, Sister Qingzhi, my mother ordered me to rest early, and I won't read at night today, I am indeed tired, half a day and forty miles back and forth, I didn't feel it before, but now my legs are as heavy as lead." ”

Xiaochan immediately said: "Let Qingzhi pinch Xiao Langjun's legs." ”

"Ahh Qingzhi exclaimed: "It was Xiaochan who wanted to pinch Xiao Langjun's legs, but borrowed my mouth." ”

Xiaochan blushed and explained to herself: "I have served Xiao Langjun to bathe, what happened to pinching my legs?" ”

Chen Caozhi said with a smile: "How dare you bother the two sisters, okay, I'll go to sleep and get up early tomorrow to climb the mountain." ”

Back in the bedroom, Chen Caozhi massaged his legs a few times, turned his head and fell asleep, although there were troubles, but he believed that he could solve it, and he slept soundly.

When I woke up, I was refreshed, except for my legs were still a little sore, my whole body was full of energy, and after washing, I went downstairs as usual to prepare to go up to Jiuyao Mountain to practice blowing.

Laide was already waiting at the gate, and the young Ran Sheng and the one-armed Jing Nu were also there.

Yesterday, Laifu asked the Jing slave what kind of craft he would have, and he replied that he could strike iron, but now that he has broken his arm, he is afraid that he will not be able to beat iron.

Laifu didn't expect the old man and the young to be of much help, so he arranged for the two of them to temporarily guard the yard and take care of the three Luxi cows, and then go down to the field to help when the farm was busy.

The young man Ran Sheng also wanted to climb the mountain with Chen Caozhi, and Chen Caozhi agreed.

Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, is a figure of Kui Wei, standing on the ground, with both hands over his knees, although this young man Ran Sheng can't stand with his hands over his knees, but it's not much worse, it's really out of phase, and he can run, climbing mountains and crossing rocks like walking on flat ground, in fact, he didn't run much, but he didn't run much in front of Chen Caozhi and Laide in two strokes, standing there and waiting.

Chen Caozhi knew that Laide was also strong in his feet, and encouraged Laide to compete with Ran Sheng to see who would reach the top of the mountain first?

There is no suspense at all, Chen Caozhi, who is behind, looks up, Ran Sheng, who is tall and big, is as agile as an ape, and mountaineering is like running on flat ground and is fast, but Laide is holding back his strength but the farther away he is chasing.

When Chen Caozhi reached the peak, he heard Laide say unconvinced: "It's not a skill to be able to run, let's compare our strength, see who is bigger?" "Sixteen-year-old Lyde has a lot of brute strength.

Ran Sheng asked, "How to compare?" ”

Laide looked around, pointed to the big stone that Chen Caozhi often sat and blew xiao, and said, "It's better than this, if you can move this stone, I will obey you." ”

Ran Sheng asked: "Can you move Brother De?" ”

Laide said honestly: "I can't move it, I can only shake it a few times, I'm afraid it weighs more than 300 pounds." ”

The Jin system weighs about 350 grams per catty in later generations, and even an adult strong man can't move such a big stone.

Twelve-year-old Ran Sheng said, "I'll try." "Rubbing his hands, he bent down to pull the big stone, and suddenly exerted force, and the stone was several inches off the ground, but the force was not enough, and the stone fell back to the ground.

Laide said suddenly: "You are strong, you are strong, I am not as good as you." ”

Ran Sheng said: "This doesn't count, I didn't move it up, I'll try again." ”

Chen Caozhi stood under a dwarf pine, only to see Ran Sheng take a deep breath, slump down and raise his head, his eyes suddenly became blood-red, the corners of his forehead were bruised, and with a muffled roar of "Hi", he actually lifted the big stone to his chest and took two steps-

Laide was dumbfounded, and Chen Caozhi said: "Be careful, don't hit your feet." ”

There was a "bang" and the rock shook, and the stone fell to the ground.

It wasn't until he came down the mountain that Ran Sheng's red eyes returned to normal.

In front of the dock fort, Chen Caozhi met Chen Liu in the north building again, and Chen Caozhi greeted politely: "Seventh brother morning".

Chen Liu thought that Chen Caozhi finally couldn't hold his breath and was about to open his mouth to ask for help, he was proud in his heart, and sneered on his face: "Sixteenth brother, it's so happy to get up early to climb the mountain." ”

Chen Caozhi said: "This time the evaluation of the field property, I don't know which county official presided over it, the seventh brother must know." ”

Chen Liu didn't want to answer, but after thinking about it, if he didn't answer, he would be misunderstood by Chen Caozhi, what does this young man know, if you don't answer, he thinks you don't know, so he said: "I naturally know, it's the county Lu master book, Lu master book personally told me the day before yesterday." ”

"Oh, Master Lu said it to you himself." Chen Caozhi repeated, and said: "If I ask the seventh brother to tell Guan on my behalf, how much silk do I need to prepare?" ”

Chen Liuguang looked at him and asked, "You beg me?" ”

Chen Caozhi said lightly: "Sort of." ”

Chen Liu looked at Chen Caozhi's detached and indifferent appearance, and he was not happy, he should also have the appearance of asking for someone, would he be smiling on his shoulders, isn't he Chen Liu like this in front of Master Lu, bullying Chen Caozhi's young age, and said bluntly: "Ten acres of land, the calligraphy and painting are under my name, and I will say on your behalf, and the miscellaneous labor will be exempted for you in the future." ”

Chen Caozhi nodded: "Understood." "Turn around and go.

Chen Liu thought that Chen Caozhi was going to ask his mother, and said: "Guan said that it should be early, don't hesitate, otherwise it will be too late to regret it." ”

Chen Caozhi didn't reply: "Seventh brother wait, I will invite you to the ancestral hall to speak in a while." ”

Chen Liu looked at Chen Caozhi's tall back and walked towards the west building, and felt that his heart was still unhappy, although ten hectares of land were about to arrive.

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