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There are always buds to be released, and plum blossoms are full of mountains overnight.

Ten miles of north wind, thousands of miles of ice, distant mountains and trees are depressed, and the sky is full of haze, it is in such a cold and gloomy winter evening that the Liu family's new home is completed.

This is a courtyard with two entrances and two exits, built next to Qianning Temple. The front yard is for servants and maids to live in, and the back yard is for the masters to live, a total of dozens of houses, twice the size of Liu's old house.

Bluestone for the wall, mountain wood for the top, although the house is built very ordinary, but simple and generous, quite Liu Yuanshan's mother and sister love, the Liu family bought a long string of firecrackers that day, a thousand sounds, put for a long time.

According to the custom here, when moving to a new house, not only should you invite the respected people of the village to come over for dinner, but also entertain relatives and friends, and even the workers who worked to repair the house.

Liu Yuanshan was not stingy, and directly ordered more than 20 tables in the backing town to send to his home, so that all the old and young masters in the village came to gather together.

It's a pity that although people from the old mansion were invited, the Dong family didn't allow anyone to come.

In the evening, all the people who came to congratulate were dispersed in a hurry, although the new house looked good, but there was a damp smell inside, fortunately, there was no modern decoration to worry about excessive formaldehyde.

Rao is like this, Liu and Liu Yanran also turned red with excitement, especially Liu, looking at the huge courtyard, while stroking the corner of the wall and muttering: "San Lang has grown up and has the ability, and my mother will be happy in the future." ”

Liu Yuanshan smiled, showed an honest expression, looked at Liu Yanran and said, "Then we won't have to be bullied in the future, right?" ”

"No need!" Liu Yanran said.

"Whoever dares to bully Miss, I'll smash his head!" Xiaoqing followed Liu Yan and said with her little fist up.

"You're all good!" During this period of getting along, Liu Yuanshan found that although the SX family was in trouble, they were always from a white family, and they didn't have to pick their character and work, but he felt that he had bought this family back and made a lot of money. It's a pity that the children are too young to do a lot of things for them.

"Young master, madam!"

Sister-in-law Fan entered the room from the outside, stretched out her nose and sniffed, and said a little worriedly: "The dampness in this house is big, and if you live in like this, I'm afraid you'll get sick." ”

Liu Yuanshan smiled and said, "Don't get in the way, I have a magic weapon." ”

Originally, when building the house, he specially asked the mason to add a kang in the main house and the east wing, which was modeled on the big kang in the northeast countryside, which was originally used to prevent winter, although it is not cold now, it can also burn the kang to drive away the moisture.

That night, let Sister-in-law Fan take the girl to burn the kang in all the rooms, and a trace of heat passed through the flue, and the whole room was full of damp white smoke.

Liu Yuanshan's family did not move for the time being, and lived in the temple for two days, and only moved again after the kang completely baked and dried the room, and finally moved into a new residence.

In the new house, the Liu family lives in the main house, Liu Yanran lives in the west wing, and Liu Yuanshan occupies the east wing where the eldest son can live.

That's it, Liu is not used to sleeping alone, there is no way, Liu Yuanshan had to arrange for Xiaoqing to sleep with his mother in the upper room, Xiaoyu This girl followed Liu Yanran, serving on the one hand and accompanying on the other, the two little girls are very clever.

As for Fan's sister-in-law and Liu Da Liu Er, they live in the front yard, although the specifications are a little lower, but there are also houses with kang, which are warm in winter, which is 10,000 times better than the days when the streets are scattered.

"We've met a good guy!" Sister-in-law Fan said to Liu Da and Liu Er more than once that the Liu family not only provided them with food, but also let Liu Da and Liu Er study, which her mother never expected.

Although, as a person who has sold the deed, he cannot participate in the scientific examination, maybe studying is a good thing after all.

In the northeast corner of the backyard, there is a makeshift simple shed, surrounded by grass and trees, only near the main house one exit, there is no window in the shed, whether it is daytime or black, the door is dark. Here, it is the forbidden land of the Liu family, and only the three masters are qualified to enter.

Everyone knows that this is the most critical place for the production of osmanthus soap, and it is not spread.

Under normal circumstances, Liu Yanran personally filters the plant ash in the shed and then extracts caustic soda, and finally mixes caustic soda with vegetable oil.

Fortunately, Liu Yuanshan, Ergua and edamame collected a lot of osmanthus in the canyon before, and then Liu Yanran went to pick it a few times, and the dried osmanthus powder is enough for now, so the osmanthus soap is continuously produced. But the output is really not large, and it can produce dozens of pieces per day.

It's not that productivity is limited, but that Liu Yuanshan deliberately controls output.

A few days after moving into the new house, the gray sky finally couldn't hold back, and small snowflakes fluttered and swirled down, falling on the ground, on the firewood stacks, on the roof, and on the branches, instantly giving the earth and mountains a layer of color.

It was snowing, everything was silent, and the entire bald mountain was quiet and terrifying, and from time to time there were one or two roars of wild beasts from a distance, which made Liu Yuanshan quite worried.

Fortunately, he knew that these beasts were not owned by Balding Mountain, but lived in the Shennong Mountain further north, so he slowly relieved himself.

As soon as the weather was cold, the people in the village did not leave their homes, but in the past few days, a group of strangers came to Liujia Village, they wore soapy clothes and commanded, and when they arrived at every house, they knocked on the door very rudely, and then extorted money and food, and finally gathered together.

They are not robbers, they are not bandits, but they are more annoying than robbers and bandits.

This is a soapy official, who turned out to be a person from a household in the county seat, who came to collect the autumn endowment.

Taxation is the most fundamental driving force and economic source of every dynasty. After the autumn harvest, these people would go from house to house to urge the payment of taxes. Because of the limited manpower, every year when I arrive here in Liujia Village, it has already entered winter.

The agricultural tax of the Ming Dynasty was one of the thirty lessons, which was lighter than that of the two Han Dynasty. If it is converted according to the output of the field, one mu of land is calculated according to 450 catties of grain, and only 15 catties are collected.

However, this is only a tax paid by local officials to the state and the imperial court.

In fact, the taxes borne by the common people are much heavier, because there are losses in the middle, the benefits of county officials, the hard work of households, and miscellaneous things.