Before lunch, Zhao Shanlin arrived home with an ox cart.

Li Shi greeted him by the way, and the mother and son carried all the things on the ox cart into the hall.

When the two of them were done, they closed the door and sat in a corner of the room.

Zhao Shanlin stretched out his hand to untie his shirt and handed the money he sold today to the Li family along with the money bag.

Good guy, the money strap is full, not to mention the dead weight when you pick it up, and when you move your wrist, the bag will make that kind of rattling copper plate crashing sound.

Zhao Shanlin sat on the wooden bench in the main house, wiping the sweat on his body, and explained to the Li family today's entry into the city with a smile.

"Mother, I got five hangs and fifty dollars for selling fish and chicken food, and I got eight hundred and fifty yuan for the medicinal materials in the pharmacy, and after today's expenses, there are four hangs and three hundred dollars left, all of which are here, you see."

Li nodded, untied the hemp rope on the money bag, and took out the silver coins inside and counted them in his hand.

"That's right, mother," Zhao Shanlin thought of something, and suddenly said happily to the Li family, "The pharmacy has agreed that our family's herbs can be delivered every two days." ”

"That's a good idea, the herbs concocted at home finally don't need to find a place to store them."

The stone that pressed on his heart fell to the ground, and Li Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and his facial expression became vivid.

These childhood days, thanks to the fact that Li's craft of concocting herbs is getting better and better, their family has accumulated more and more dried herbs.

So many concocted and dried herbs were left unstored.

In the courtyard, they also have to worry about the smell of other creatures staining the smell of the herbs and affecting the quality of the herbs.

At the moment, it's good, every two days, they will be sent to the pharmacy together, but there is no need to worry.

"By the way, Boss, how is it in the city? Is it still messed up? ”

Li Shi thought of the embarrassed appearance of the four of them when they came back a few days ago, and still asked uneasily.

Zhao Shanlin quickly shook his head when he heard this, "I can't see anything right now." ”

Seven days ago, the news of the tax increase was officially posted.

Posted notices are everywhere in the city.

As soon as Pu Yi posted, the announcement news did cause a huge sensation in Changle County.

At that time, it was unfortunate that the four of them were delivering goods in the county, and they were inevitably affected when they came back.

But now some time has passed, and no matter how big the problem is, it has been forcibly suppressed by the county government, and the city has returned to its original appearance.

Saying that, Zhao Shanlin seemed to think of something, and then made up again, "But Brother Shan mentioned it, saying that a few days ago, there were those unsatisfied farmers who encouraged many people to go to the county government to make trouble together, but they didn't please them, and they were directly arrested by the county government's big men, saying that they were going to be arrested and forced to deduct taxes." ”

Zhao Shanlin hung his head, and his voice trembled slightly,

"Right now, the big guys are scared, and the city is looking at An Sheng very much, even for a while, and the streets are a little deserted."

The bustling downtown in the past has also quieted down with the news of the addition.

There was no bustle on both sides of the street, and the pedestrians on the road were all coming and going in a hurry, for fear of provoking something, which made Zhao Shanlin, who had seen the once prosperous, a little uncomfortable, and felt awkward.

After listening to this, Li was silent for a long time, and finally muttered in a low voice, "They are all hard-working peasant families, and who is better off than whom." ”

"If you say that you will be endowed, you will be endowed, the ghost thing that God kills, you will do evil!"

"When is the end of the day?"

“……”

When Zhao Shanlin heard this, his lips turned white with fright.

He quickly glanced at Li, and he didn't dare to take a stubble, so he shrank his head desperately, looking strange and pitiful.

Li was also dissatisfied for many days, and he couldn't control his temper, so he couldn't help but say a few more words in front of Zhao Shanlin.

But this is also complaining and complaining at home, don't look at Li's unforgiving mouth, but she doesn't dare to go out and talk nonsense.

Especially the mess outside right now, who knows if you will be arrested if you say it.

"Okay, you don't care about this," Li waved his hand, his expression looking quite tired, "It's not something we can manage." ”

"You just deliver the goods every day, and go home as soon as you finish delivering them."

"Don't talk nonsense, be dumb."

"Hey, what are you talking about?" Li Shi rubbed his eyebrows, "Okay, if you have nothing to do, go back to the house and rest first." ”

She didn't say much, she directly waved Zhao Shanlin away, "Just eat for a while, don't sleep." ”

"Eh, mother, I know."

Zhao Shanlin was relieved and quickly got up from the wooden bench.

Nodding carelessly, he hurriedly walked out of the main house, turned his head and rushed into his east room.

There was only one Li left in the main house.

Li sat on the edge of the kang, the silver money in her hand had been ready, she put the whole hanging silver money into the camphor wood box and locked it, and the rest of the loose money was repacked into the money bag by her and thrown into the pottery urn.

Ay......

Li couldn't help but sigh, thinking of the current situation, his heart suddenly felt sad.

Even if their family has earned so much money now, her heart is still not very steady.

Especially in the past few days, because of the addition, there has been chaos in and out of the city.

In general, the matter of endowment has a greater impact on their children's peasant families.

It's okay for them to go to Wow Village, but this time they have completely turned over by relying on the not bad river fish business.

Although there will be occasional fluctuations, it is generally calm.

But the other Zhuangzi around Changle County, especially the farmers who have no other output and only rely on God for food, are afraid that it will be difficult to endure this now.

Not to mention anything else, just talking about her maiden Li Jiawan, it just can't be done.

Her brother had come to ask for it once, and she had only given some money.

Now that the matter has not passed, this has begun to increase taxes again, if she does not help, her brother's family will definitely be ruined before it is over.

No, in the end, her mother's brother still relied on Zhao Fuxiang to catch up with the dark, and when others couldn't notice it, he deliberately pulled a cart full of food to save the emergency.

To put it mildly, this is what allows people to breathe a sigh of relief and continue to live.

Of course, this matter is not a cure for the symptoms, and her brother's family can't rely on her alone.

As the saying goes, "help the emergency does not help the poor", and now her brother's family has also begun to save themselves.

Even though the mountains are dangerous and full of fierce and brave beasts, in order to survive, her brother's family has to risk their lives to go up the mountain to hunt.

Survive on the prey for some money, otherwise what else can you do?

You must know that they are Lijiawan, but they are much poorer than Shangwa Village.

According to his brother, they now have hungry people in Lijiawan.

Ay......

Is this world really going to be chaotic?

Even the head of his own family, because of the severe situation in recent days, is still silent every day.

Li Shi didn't know, sighed again, and then went out to continue his work.

………

At lunchtime, the Zhao family gathered together.

For convenience, the Li family directly set up two tables in the hall, one for men and one for women.

The prepared meals are also divided into two portions and arranged separately.

In the center of each table, there are four flavor fish balls made by Lee.

Because of the river fish and chicken food, now in their home, no one will make a fuss whenever there is any fresh food, and everyone is very well adapted.

Zhao Shanhe saw that there was more food on the table that he had never seen before, and his eyes lit up, "Mother, what is it good this time?" ”

As he spoke, he sniffed and couldn't help but swallow his saliva, "It smells so good." ”

"Eat more fragrant," Li set the dishes and chopsticks, and distributed the multigrain cakes in the basin into the bowls one by one.

Zhao Fuxiang looked at the round garden pills in the center of the table, and said tentatively, "Are you going to sell the food to the restaurant?" ”

"Yes," Li nodded, "fish balls made from fish." ”

Without waiting for Li to continue, Zhao Fuxiang followed and said, "Yuqiu, it looks good,"

"Hey, in the past few days, the city has been in a mess because of the endowment, and the trade of river fish in the village has also been slack."

"In the past two days, the patriarch has often complained to me a lot, and I don't know if we can go to Wow Village this time."

"If this fish ball sells well, it can solve part of the trouble."

"Dad," Zhao Shanhe interrupted Zhao Fuxiang's words a little unhappily, "Our family's own business, why do we always think about others?" ”

"Didn't you already tell them all about the sale of river fish?"

Listening to his father's meaning now, he actually wants to tell the fish ball business, Zhao Shanhe is unwilling to do so.

Zhao Shanchuan......

Zhao Shanlin......

When the two elder brothers saw their third brother like this, they were frightened and panicked.

"Third child, you can't say that," Zhao Shanlin, as the eldest in the family, saw that his father's face was ugly, and hurriedly spoke, "Our family also relies on the clan and the village to live so smoothly now." ”

"Yes, yes," Zhao Shanchuan added, "The same surname and the same clan, the roots are knotted, and it is natural." ”

"That's the reason," Zhao Fuxiang glanced at Zhao Shanhe, who was sitting opposite him, with a heavy gaze, and his tone was not good, "Third child, your words are abrupt, why should you reflect on it." ”