"It doesn't hurt to have a drink." Father Chen nodded and acquiesced.

Picking up a clean pottery bowl and pouring a layer of rice wine, Chen Ping sat down, the mouth of the bowl shook under his nose, a little sour.

The high degree of distilled liquor will not appear until after the Song Dynasty, and the general degree of rice wine at this time is about 5 to 20 degrees, which is about the same as the degree of beer. However, the difference in taste is still relatively large, people who drink beer for the first time will feel a smell of water, a little bitter, but this rice wine is sweet and sour.

"Not bad." Chen Ping tasted it, and it was the first time he drank rice wine.

Chen Ping looked up again, but saw Lai Dongxi and Grandpa looking at him strangely, and even Chen An and Xiaoniang were even more envious.

"I'm going to drink it too." Chen Zhen muttered, leaned forward in Liu's arms, and hit Chen Ping's wine bowl with one paw.

Thanks to Chen Ping's constant attention, he only sprinkled some wine, and the bowl was held in the end.

Chen Zhen licked the rice wine on her fingers, her little face was excited, her lips grinned, and then changed color, revealing an expression of disgust.

"I just said I couldn't drink it." Liu smiled and wiped the wine stains off Xiao Niang's hands and reproached.

The dish is in line with the taste, Lai Dongxi chewed the beef, and said to Chen Ping: "If your baby drinks for the first time, I really don't believe it." Have you ever drunk it secretly? ”

Such a natural action can only be done by the old drunkard in the wine shop, and Chen Ping's gesture of smelling the wine just now is no different from the old drunkard who drinks all year round in the wine shop.

"Don't dare to deceive Uncle Lai, this is the first time. With such a family, how can you still have money to buy wine? In fact, it is no wonder that Chen Ping, after all, Chen Ping in later generations is also doing engineering, there are a lot of entertainments large and small, and he will habitually pick up the wine glass and smell it, so that he can know the quality of the wine, and he is prepared.

The wine Chen Ping is not disgusted, but he is still a little stunned when he pours wine for entertainment.

"It can't be that Yuan Liang took you to the wine shop." Lai Dongxi smiled and said, "Don't worry about the reward, wait for the end of the month, and there should be news." Quyuan plough is made for cultivating land, which can benefit the township, which is a great merit. ”

Chen Ping didn't say anything, even if he had emotions in this matter, he had to put it down, the snake on the ground was not easy to mess with.

"You hunted the hare?" The hare was in the corner of the hall, and when Lai Dongxi came in, he saw it, "You caught it from Liuhe Mountain, right?" There are beasts of prey in the mountains, so don't go too deep. ”

"Well, I'm just hanging around the side of the mountain." Chen Ping nodded, and Father Chen and Liu Ke both looked over, "By the way, pick up some firewood for the family, this is the main thing." It was luck to catch a hare. ”

Two hares, one pheasant, is this still luck? Lai Dongxi shook his head, there are several hunters in his village, and sometimes the income from entering the mountains in a day is not as good as Chen Ping, and the children who can make farm tools like Quyuan plough are really capable.

If you know that there are four hares in total, your expression will definitely be even more exciting.

"Is this rabbit going to be sold?" Lai Dongxi said, "Tomorrow I will send rent to the county, you can go with me." ”

The second thing I did today was to rent rice, and the rent for the autumn grain and Yicang should be paid. In the early years of the emperor's reign, the tax was stored separately from the grain of Yicang, and the tax was transported to the state for storage, and the grain received by Yicang was placed in the Benli Society.

But later, there was a lot of loss and waste of grain in the Yicang of the various communities, and this rule was changed, and the grain of the Yicang was handed over to the state warehouse together with the rent and tax, and deposited in the granaries of the states.

The tax and grain of the various lishe are escorted into the county by the governor of each lili, and then the county is transported to the state, and the state is then escorted to the major granaries, and the responsibilities are clear.

"This rabbit is meant to be eaten by itself, so it won't be sold." Tomorrow will be one day earlier than the day agreed between Chen Ping and Chen Yuanliang, and it will be one day earlier, and it will be okay, "Uncle Lai, can I take your car to the county tomorrow?" ”

"Yes, you can wait for me on the village road tomorrow, and the grain truck will pass through the intersection." It's not a big deal to bring someone, and I came to Dongxi to respond.

Halfway through the meal, Liu took away his own dishes and chopsticks and carried Chen Zhen into the east room.

"In the afternoon, you take the tax and the grain from the Yicang and go to Xiatu Village. The two ears of rice in the field also need to be harvested as soon as possible, and in a few days, the field canal should be repaired. Lai Dongxi added some wine to himself, and poured the rest into Chen Xiaoyi's bowl, "If the time is tight, it doesn't hurt to postpone it for two days." ”

"The two boys can also harvest the rice, it's okay." Chen Xiaoyi is also a good wine, just because of the family's financial constraints, and Chen Ping's illness, he hasn't touched it for two months, took a sip of wine, and said, "Chief, are you going to reclaim that Liuhe Mountain?" ”

There are many people and little land, and although Baitu Village has divided half of the population towards the west side of Liuhe Mountain, the surrounding land is still not enough. Every year, a section will be reclaimed in the direction of Liuhe Mountain, more or less, and there is always a little hope.

But it's hard to say where the reclaimed fields belong. Chen Xiaoyi has an idea, getting more land means more income.

"Well, I paid this tax. I plan to organize the villagers to go into Liuhe Mountain again, and the fields are not enough. Lai Dongxi put down the chopsticks, the beef was delicious, the stomach was only that big, and he touched the ground beef in his mouth, "Do you have an idea about that place?" ”

"You see, my family pays a one-and-a-half-bed rent every year, but they only get ten acres of open air, and the mulberry field is only three acres, which is still far from eighty acres of land." Chen Xiaoyi said about the difficulty, "Just these fields, when it comes to capital arrangement, they are still middle households. That's unreasonable. ”

The middle household means more righteous rice, which is actually secondary. Chen Xiaoyi is worried that in the next few years, when Chen Ping and Chen An brothers reach adulthood, they will not be able to take a military service.

With Chen Da as an example, Chen Xiaoyi did not want the Chen Ping brothers to serve in the military and become guards.

"It's not just your family, you look at the Chen Shun family in the village, that's really poor. There are only two acres of land in the west of the village, raising nine people, and they still live like this? This is the real household, you look at your house, how good, this is a three-room mansion, worthy of the middle household. Dongxi can't make the decision on the matter of asset arrangement, all he can do is register, and the final seal is the county order, persuading, "Your kid is also angry, and the days will only get better and better." Look, isn't that even beef? I'm a mile long, and I haven't tasted beef for a long time. Your life is more nourishing than mine. ”

After a few sips of wine, Chen Xiaoyi's face was a little red, and he talked a little more than usual. Taking advantage of the strength of the wine, the usual thoughts were released in my mind: "That Chen Shun's family was not like this in the past, and it was not because there were many children and a large amount of use, so he sold the field and exchanged it for two acres of thin fields in the west of the village." ”

According to the regulations, the open field is not allowed to be sold without permission, and when people are old or die, they must return the fields, and then the county will grant the land in a unified manner, which is to return the land.

However, in reality, there is some room for movement, and the relocation from the narrow township to the wide township can also be sold. With such a provision, loopholes naturally arise, and land annexation is also quietly carried out, but because of the strict legal system, the people can barely survive, and this mouth has not been torn open.

Chen Shun's family did not take advantage of this loophole, and used a private deed to plant their open fields to Aunt Li's family in exchange for urgent food.