Li obediently stretched out his arm to check the doctor's pulse, the doctor touched his beard and carefully checked the pulse, quickly withdrew his hand, and congratulated with a smile: "Congratulations to the old lady, the eldest lady is happy pulse, it has been almost two months." ”

Zhulan paused and said with a smile: "There is another population in the family, a good thing, Liu Ya gives the doctor a happy money." ”

Zhulan now has some bits and pieces of silver in the box, and in half a year, she trusts Liu Ya a lot, and now Liu Ya can touch the silver money, which was not allowed before.

The doctor got a tael of silver for the happy money, and another tael of silver for the visit, and said that the pregnant woman needed to pay attention, and Steward Ding sent the doctor away.

Li waited for the doctor to leave before he relieved himself, "It turns out that I am really pregnant." ”

Zhulan looked at the Li family's state is not very good, the pressure on the Li family is indeed quite great, although the Li family is the same as Wu Chun's daughter-in-law Wu, they are both peasant women with a loud voice, but Wu Chun is a general appointed by the emperor and the second-in-command of the garrison, even if someone despises the Wu family, no one dares to say it to his face.

The Li family is different, the boss has no official status, and he is not famous, in the final analysis, the confidence of the Li family is given by the boss, don't look at the Li family's arrogance, she will also be anxious, plus the Zhao family and the Dong family are coming, the anxiety is even more serious.

Zhulan said as kindly as possible to the Li family: "You are a double body now, you can tell the kitchen what you want to eat, tell your mother what you want to buy, and your mother will find it for you." ”

Saying that, Zhulan motioned to Liu Ya to bring the money box, and Zhulan opened the money box and took out two ingots of five taels and handed them to the Li family.

"You take these ten taels of silver, now there are more shops on the street, and there are shops opened by foreign merchants, you can buy whatever you like."

Zhulan felt that giving Li's silver money would make Li's mood much better, and she didn't give Li's silver money in the past half a year, but Li didn't spend it.

Li Shi held two ingots, "Mother, can I really spend it?" ”

"Of course you can!"

Li Shi cried again with tears in his eyes, "Mother, you are really good to me. ”

Zhulan was silent, Li's mood swings were a little big, hey, it's a stressful crying baby, "Okay, it's not early, you guys go back and rest!" ”

Boss Zhou is in the joy of being a father again, he has a child again, "Don't cry, let's go back and rest." ”

Li Shi dodged Boss Zhou's hand, "I'll take the silver myself, take your hand away." ”

Boss Zhou, "......."

He just wanted to hold on to his daughter-in-law.

Zhulan was happy, and at this time she was still thinking about silver, and it seemed that the anxiety was not too serious.

Half an hour later, Zhou Shuren came back, and Zhulan asked, "What did you eat at Yamen at night?" ”

Zhou Shuren washed his face, "Lord Chen's preparation is naturally not bad, and their Jiangnan chef is really good at cooking." ”

Zhulan has also eaten the meals of Lord Chen's family, it is indeed exquisite and delicious, the officials of Lizhou City, the richest is Lord Chen, Lord Chen is not a local tyrant, that is a real hero, there are many unique books in the family, and some of the precious solitary books can be worth tens of thousands of taels, not counting the books accumulated by these generations, just say that the industry, there are many Zhuangzi in the south of the Yangtze River, Zhulan has always thought that there is only one tea garden, but I didn't expect that there are two tea gardens in Chen's family.

Counting the shop and house, Master Chen's family is really rich.

Having said that, Lord He's family also has silver, but Lord He is a lady who has silver and relies on his father-in-law.

Zhulan said faintly: "The emperor specified that he hoped that they would be able to donate silver out of their own pockets, but you came to stabilize the situation and didn't calculate them." ”

Zhou Shuren changed his clothes: "Why do I think the emperor wants to raid the house more?" ”

Zhulan, "........ You're right. ”

Zhou Shuren stretched his waist, "The autumn harvest has begun, and now we have arranged for tax collection, so I can be idle for a day or two." ”

"I thought you would write an excerpt to apply for tax exemption this year, but I didn't expect you to apply for a tax of 10%."

Zhou Shuren said: "It's not good to be exempted directly, you are exempt this year, and I hope to continue to be exempt next year, only one percent will be collected this year, and I will not be reluctant to receive half of it next year, but once it is directly exempted and one and a half percent, it will be full of complaints." ”

Zhulan sighed that this is the human heart, and changed her words: "This year, the pond was dug, the water for irrigation in the field was enough, and it was another year of good wind and rain, and this year was a bumper harvest year." ”

At the beginning, one-third of each household was sweet potato seeds, one-third was potatoes, and the remaining one-third, half of which was corn and half of soybeans.

Even if you pay 10% of the tax this year, although you can't eat enough, at least you won't be hungry.

Zhou Shuren not only went to the outside of the city, but also went to several nearby counties, this year is indeed a bumper harvest, he also went to see the fat pigs, because you can get the coarse grain to feed the pigs in the yamen, the pigs are good, too, every seven days there are special officials to go door to door, and the people do not dare to embezzle the grain to feed the pigs.

He doesn't even need to look for a businessman, a businessman will come to the door, and the popularity of sausages is always short of pork.

Zhulan and Zhou Shuren lay down, Zhulan didn't remember until she fell asleep, she forgot to tell Zhou Shuren that he has a grandson or granddaughter again, forget it, let's talk about it tomorrow.

On the second day, Zhou Shuren heard the news and said that he knew, and then it was gone, and there was one more grandson in Zhou Shuren's heart, one more to teach one more to prepare a bride price, multiple granddaughters, well, to prepare one more dowry!

The days passed quickly, and the autumn harvest was over in a blink of an eye, Zhulan's family did not grow potatoes and sweet potatoes, but planted corn, wheat and rice in the field, and the land in Lizhou City was really not as fertile as the Northeast, and the grain yield was really low.

If Lizhou City does not develop some other industries, even if there is no war, Lizhou City will be the bottom of all Zhili Prefectures.

Zhulan's family didn't sell any grain, and after drying it, it all went into the grain house.

Zhou Shuren's taxes were also collected, and there was really not much grain in one percent, but Zhou Shuren stipulated that one percent of the grain, one-third of sweet potatoes, one-third of potatoes, and the remaining one-third were corn or other things, and it was not allowed to hand over all sweet potatoes or potatoes.

The main reason is that sweet potatoes can't be stored in the granary, and they don't need to sprout in the previous year.

Zhulan looked at Zhou Shuren and frowned, "Aren't all the taxes on grain collected?" What are you worried about? ”

Zhou Shuren said faintly: "The tax is collected, but most of them are sweet potatoes and potatoes, I want to send someone to learn how to make vermicelli with silver, and then come back to teach some businessmen who want to do vermicelli business, of course, the premise of free learning is to exchange grain for potatoes and sweet potatoes in the granary." ”

Zhulan likes to eat hot and sour noodles, and she also likes to eat potato noodles, why didn't she think about buying some noodles and coming back to eat, "Don't you think about it all, why are you still worried?" ”

Zhou Shuren smiled, "I'm worried about who will take the money to learn, this candidate is not easy to choose." ”

Zhulan thought about it for a while, and patted Zhou Shuren on the shoulder, "I can't help you, you can think about it yourself!" ”

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