Uncle Liu is the master of the Liu family, and with Uncle Liu's words, Liu Chenxing is not worried about getting an apology.

It's a pity that a good pile of paper was all damaged by Liu Baoer, and I couldn't find a paper to practice calligraphy for a while, after all, paper is still a precious thing these days, and ordinary people don't even have half a sheet.

Beginner calligraphy, post first.

First of all, the advent - put the template in front of you, look at the stroke, write a stroke.

Secondly, back - do not look at the template, just write down the words based on impressions.

Finally, when writing the template, the pursuit of the spirit and the overall charm and artistic conception.

Of course, Liu Chenxing is still facing at this stage, and he can barely recite a few words.

Liu Baoer destroyed not only unused paper, but also a notebook given by Uncle Liu.

The so-called "words have no 100 days", a few days ago when she cut wheat, she had not practiced words for many days, and now she is unwilling to delay any longer.

Fortunately, she now has a good memory and can practice calligraphy "on her back".

So every morning, Liu Chenxing dipped his pen in water on the wooden board and wrote down the characters by impression.

Learning together can promote people's progress, Liu Qingshan is still quite tired at the end of the day because he has to go to the ground to sow seeds every day, but he can't help but be greatly encouraged when he sees that his five-year-old sister who doesn't need to take the imperial examination is practicing calligraphy so hard.

So he got up half an hour early every day, and practiced calligraphy on the stone in the courtyard in the bright blue-gray skylight.

Liu Qingshan has been enlightened for many years, and he has already had a certain foundation in practicing calligraphy, so he is now not only practicing calligraphy, but also writing the poetry textbooks he has learned.

When people get older and sleep less, and they get up frequently at night, Liu Laozhang didn't get up early in the morning, and found that Liu Qingshan was alone early in the morning by dipping water in the stone next to the well water to practice calligraphy.

Probably the silent writing was too concentrated, and Liu Qingshan did not find Uncle Liu.

Uncle Liu had no intention of calling Liu Qingshan, so he stood under the corridor of the main room, looked at it for a long time, and finally sighed, and turned back to the room in silence.

After that, Uncle Liu seemed to deliberately avoid it, and he never appeared early in the morning.

also rarely appears in front of people, as well as Liu Baoer.

After all, they are all little ladies, and they know that they are embarrassed, so they first admit in public that they have done bad things, and the place where they were slapped by the Wang family on their faces is still swollen and tall, and they are embarrassed to see people.

Therefore, Liu Baoer is locked in the big house and does not want to come out except for three meals a day every day.

It is also a bit miserable to be beaten like this by the biological mother.

But Liu Chenxing thinks that she is not a virgin, not to mention that Liu Baoer has not apologized to her so far, or expressed a little apology, why should she be a good person in vain?

Liu Chenxing was so happy that her ears were quiet, and she stopped a lot in front of her, and finally no one troubled her from time to time.

After another five or six days, the planting of the species was finally completed, but without waiting for everyone to be happy, Li Zheng summoned the villagers of the whole village to inform them that it was time for each household to prepare for this year's imperial court service.

The imperial court stipulates that those who have reached the age of 20 shall serve 20 days of forced labor every year. Those who do not perform for military service shall be paid three feet of silk per day to offset their forced labor.

Three feet in one day, sixty feet in twenty days.

Ten feet is one zhang, and four zhang is one horse.

Sixty feet, that is, six zhang, one and a half horses.

In other words, an adult male who has reached the age of 20 can pay one and a half horses of silk in lieu of service.

This kind of forced labor, which is clearly stipulated by the laws of the imperial court, is regular service, and its scope of service has always exceeded the jurisdiction of the prefecture and county, and most of them are large-scale forced labor, such as building palaces, mausoleums, military transportation, etc., and the intensity of forced labor is very large.

Like the modern and widely circulated story - Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall, there is a mention of ancient servitude.

During the Qin period, the conscription was heavy, and her husband was captured to build the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger, cold, and exhaustion, and his bones were buried under the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu was wearing cold clothes, went through hardships, and came to the Great Wall in search of her husband, but got the news of her husband's death, and then there was a story of Meng Jiangnu crying on the Great Wall.

Although it is a love story told, it also objectively reflects the heavy labor of the ancient people.

Moreover, the service is unpaid, and during the period, you have to bring your own food, and the place of service is far away, and it takes several months to go back and forth, which not only delays the agricultural work, but also wastes time and effort and has no income.

In addition, the current medical care is low, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, and many places on the road are wilderness.

Therefore, nowadays, almost all the people choose this way of accepting silk from the imperial court instead of serving.

A horse of better quality silk has a market price of 500 wen per horse.

The cost of an adult man's annual service on behalf of silk is 750 wen, which is equivalent to paying about 38 wen to the imperial court every day, so that he does not have to travel long distances to serve.

The imperial court also stipulated that Ding Nan could be exempted from military service at the age of 50.

Mr. Liu was over 50 years old in his early years and did not have to serve.

The Liu family reached the standard of being over 20 years old, and only Liu Qianli and his three brothers had to pay the silk for the service, a total of four and a half horses, that is, 2,250 wen.

A bucket of wheat is thirty-five wen, and one bucket is equivalent to nine catties.

That is to say, the three brothers of the Liu family paid for one year, and converted into wheat, which required about sixty-four buckets and five hundred and seventy-six catties.

At that time, one acre of land could produce one stone of wheat, that is, ten buckets.

The Liu family's six and a half acres of land can replace the servitude of the three brothers.

Not to mention that now that the wheat has just been harvested, it is not difficult to take out less than seven acres of land to produce on behalf of the service.

In addition, there is Liu Qianli and Liu Baili's money every month, as well as the income of the women in the family weaving, and the conscription is a major event, and the old couple of the Liu family have already prepared the money for the servants, that is, the spring ploughing invites people to farm so urgently short of money, the old man Liu is pressed with this money and does not dare to move, after all, no one can guarantee that the wheat can be harvested smoothly this year.

The Liu family has prepared the money for this year's male service, and the rest of the village has done the same.

It's just that unlike the Liu family, a son who is a master of art and is bold enough to earn money, and the other is in the county town wine shop to receive wages, most of the farmers in the village have little cash in their hands, and now they have to hand over the silk for service, they simply handed over the grain, and then some people in the village went to the county seat to change the silk, and just handed over the silk to the county lieutenant by the way.

Uncle Liu is well versed in the way of life, and he will not do that eye-catching thing, so he will naturally hand over food with the flow.

"Order it, just ship it away." After counting the amount of grain that should be handed over repeatedly, Uncle Liu finally waved his hand reluctantly and asked his second son to transport the six and a half stone of wheat away in an ox cart.

The wheat is new this year, so it should be able to get a good price.

Keep the old grain for your own family to eat.

Uncle Liu sighed and turned back to the courtyard.

Outside the courtyard gate, Liu Qianli set up an ox cart, and his son and daughter sat on the left and right.

He is not as reluctant as Uncle Liu, but he feels that if the grain is handed over, he can breathe a sigh of relief even if he completes one of this year's tasks, right?

"Sit down! Let's go! Liu Qianli shouted, and then set up an ox cart to deliver grain.