Yayu asked, "Is there anyone in the family?" ”

Yu Qing shook her head.

Ya Yu asked again: "Then which one of you is attached to the house?" ”

Yu Qing shook her head again.

Yayu sighed and said, "There is no one in your family, and there is no one to turn to, sixty percent of the production of your small grange has to pay taxes, and the rest has to be paid to the tenant farmers and the grange, and there is not much left!" ”

Yu Qing's heart was half cold when she heard this.

She knew that the taxes in ancient times were very heavy, but she didn't expect it to be so heavy, and she actually had to hand over sixty percent of the harvest to the imperial court~

It is no wonder that there is a saying that harsh government is fiercer than a tiger.

"That'...... How much can I have left? ”

Yayu stretched out a finger: "Yicheng." ”

"How much is one percent?"

Seeing that Yuqing didn't understand anything, it was too difficult to talk to her, and there was business coming to the door, so he didn't want to pay attention to her anymore, so he threw down a sentence: "You can count it yourself!" And he left.

Yu Qing slandered in her heart, if she could calculate by herself, she didn't need to ask him.

She turned her head and asked Hanshan, "Do you know how much harvest our small grange has produced?" ”

Hanshan said: "One acre of land has about 300 catties of grain, two achievements are 30 catties, and 180 acres are about five or six thousand. ”

Yu Qing was surprised, she didn't expect the yield of grain per mu in ancient times to be so low.

At the end of the year, only five or six thousand grains fall into their hands!

There are five adults and two children in their family, and they get one or two hundred catties of food a month.

The cost of five or six thousand catties of grain to maintain the size of the family is somewhat stretched.

She originally planned to buy two servant women to go back to serve He and the others.

Although they are down, Yuqing doesn't want the He family and the sisters to live too hard, but now this situation is probably not going to be a subordinate.

Han Shan saw that Yuqing was listless, so he said: "Master, we can find someone to rely on, and we can pay half of the taxes every year, and the family can live a very comfortable life." ”

Yu Qing hung her head and said, "It can only be like this." ”

I don't know if it's the people in the old house who let out the wind and are not allowed to help Yuqing's family.

When Yuqing begged to come to the door, those people either refused her or offered a sky-high price.

Five days passed, and no one was found, so Yu Qing simply gave up.

Seeing her worried, He comforted her and said, "Anyway, we have a small grange, so we don't have to worry about food and clothing, which is already good."

As for the subordinates, we don't want them, we are already down, how can we still be like before? ”

Yu Chun also said: "Shiro is only thirteen years old to hold up the portal, and it is really hard.

Although the three of us as sisters can't help much, we can still do this housework such as laundry and cooking.

So it doesn't matter if you don't invite someone at home, Shiro Hugh has to worry about this matter. ”

Yurou also said that they were not afraid of hardship? And I was happy to be able to help Yuqing lighten the weight on her shoulders.

Yu Chun shook Yu Qing's hand? His eyes were firm and said: "The whole family is concentric, and its benefits are broken?" There is no hurdle that cannot be overcome! ”

Yu Qing smiled bitterly: "That's what you said? But the eldest sister is already seventeen, so she has to say that someone is married immediately? You have to prepare a decent dowry for the eldest sister.

Without a good dowry, the eldest sister can't marry into a good family.

And the age of the second sister and the third sister is not young? Do you want to get married in two years? They also had to prepare a rich dowry. ”

Thinking of the dowry of her three sisters, Yu Qing felt a lot of pressure.

She is not afraid of living a life of coarse tea and light food, she is afraid that a group of sisters and sisters will not marry well.

In ancient times, a woman's marriage was like a second reincarnation? If you don't marry into a good family, I'm afraid your life will be over.

She can't help but provide her sisters with solid material security.

Yu Chun's face flushed with shame? Biting his lip, he said, "From tomorrow, my sister will do needlework at home to earn money to buy a dowry, second sister and third sister?" What do you think? ”

Yuyu is gentle and kind to listen to her.

Yu Qing was moved, but how much money can she earn by doing needlework? And how much dowry can be bought?

I still have to find a way to earn a dowry for my sisters on my own.

Thinking about it? She plans to raise rabbits to make a fortune.

Because she had raised rabbits in her previous life.

I thought I was buying two pet rabbits, but I bought them home and raised them for a while only to find that the bad merchants sold her for meat.

Meat rabbits are extremely reproductive? How many litters of rabbits do you have a month, and they grow up fast? It can be slaughtered in three months.

The key is to raise a rabbit just to feed it with forage? It is low cost to raise.

Got your mind? The next day, Yuqing and Hanshan built a thatched house in the backyard to raise rabbits.

It took Hanshan several more days to catch two big gray rabbits.

However, Yu Qing entered the computer in the space to check the characteristics of the male rabbit and the female rabbit, and found that the two big gray rabbits caught by Hanshan were all male.

But years ago, Hanshan didn't have time to go up the mountain to catch rabbits.

Because there is still one day before the New Year, after the New Year, I have to go out with He to buy New Year's goods.

On the day of the New Year, I have to eat the New Year's dinner.

Yu Qing had nothing to do at home, so she accompanied He to the market to buy some meat and vegetables and come back to cook the New Year's dinner.

As the saying goes, if you have money, you don't buy wax moon goods.

As the year approaches, the price of everything has gone up, especially food.

Take mutton as an example, it has only been a few days and a pound has risen by dozens of dollars.

He walked around in front of a few mutton stalls, but he couldn't make up his mind to buy it.

But if you don't have mutton to eat in the New Year, is this still a festival?

Yu Qing saw that there were several meat stalls selling pork, so she wanted to buy pork and eat it back.

She prefers pork to mutton, after all, she comes from a modern society that eats pork.

Yu Qing took the corner of He's clothes: "Mother, let's go buy pork." ”

"Ahh Is pork good? He asked suspiciously.

Although pork is the main meat on people's tables in modern society, it was not in ancient times.

In ancient times, the status of pork was awkward, the poor could not afford to eat it, and the rich disdained to eat it.

For this reason, Su Dongpo also wrote a poem:

Huangzhou is a good pork, and the price is as cheap as dirt.

The noble refuse to eat, and the poor do not understand how to cook.

Get up in the morning and make two bowls, so full that you don't care.

It means that the pork in Huangzhou is super cheap, and the poor and the rich don't eat it, so I'll have two bowls in the morning, and I'll eat it to my heart's content, so don't mix it up.

Yu Qing nodded and said: "It's delicious, the pork ribs can be braised in braised bones, and the hind leg meat is chopped into stuffed dumplings, which are even more delicious than mutton-stuffed dumplings." ”

He Shi said angrily: "It's like you've eaten pork." ”

Yu Qing smiled and said, "Although I haven't eaten it, I've heard others say, mother, let's buy some and try it back." ”

At her instigation, He went to a pork stall and asked the price, which was much cheaper than mutton, so he was moved, bought a few catties of pork ribs and a few catties of hind leg meat and prepared to leave.

saw Yu Qing staring at the large pile of pigs on the pork stall with bright eyes without blinking.

He asked puzzledly, "Why are you staring at that thing?" It's time for us to go. ”

Yu Qing had a little excitement on her face, and whispered in her ear: "Mother, I may have found a shortcut to make a fortune." ”