"That girl is very tough!" The county Cheng glanced at Shen Zhanghua's face and kindly persuaded him.

"There are just a few female dependents in her family, five acres of wheat, where can she eat?" Shen Zhanghua asked suspiciously.

"Although she paid five acres of taxes, she only planted three acres of wheat." Du Huaibing came up and said. He knows very well the people of Dujiagou and what crops are planted in the fields.

"According to her wheat harvest, three acres is more than enough." Shen Zhanghua frowned.

"Hey, who doesn't raise some poultry and livestock, just her big dog, I'm afraid she eats more than people." Du Huaibing smiled awkwardly. He deliberately concealed it for Du Mei, knowing that the taxes paid by small traders and hawkers were much higher than those of the villagers.

"Lead the way, I'll go and see the real thing." Shen Zhanghua glanced at him, didn't say anything, raised his feet and left.

Du Huaibing had no choice but to take two quick steps, bow his body, and rush to the front to lead the way.

The three of them walked outside the courtyard of the Du family and met Xie Shi going out to wash clothes with a basket. Xie hurriedly curtsied, she was full of joy, thinking that the patriarch had brought the county lord to her house. You must know that Du Jiagou has been able to produce three golds for many years.

Du Huaibing waved his hand with a sad face, Shen Zhanghua bowed his head slightly, and walked past her like a gust of wind, and the county man twisted his head to the side and ignored her.

"Snort." Xie saw that the three of them went to Du Mei's house, she grinned, her black eyes rolled up, and she twisted her waist and went to the river.

Du Mei paid the food and went home. After eating, the three small ducks went. She was in the kitchen at this time to cook bone broth for tomorrow's vegetables, and the rich aroma of meat was overflowing.

"Erjin's family." Du Huaibing ran two steps and came up to call the door.

He craned his neck to look at the courtyard, where the black girl didn't seem to be at home. Now the black girl will not bite him because of her gratitude, but she is always uneasy when she sees such a behemoth swaying around.

"Patriarch, why are you here?" Xu was embroidering a screen in the house, and hurriedly dropped the needle and thread.

"Your wheat harvest is good, the county lord will come and see." Du Huaibing took advantage of Shen Zhanghua's inattention and glanced at the Xu family.

"Huh? Oh. The last time Xu threw himself into the river, he was rescued by Shen Zhanghua and the officials, she recognized it, and she didn't have time to think about the meaning of Du Huaibing's eyes, so she hurriedly saluted sideways.

Shen Zhanghua thought that the life of orphans and widows was not good, but he didn't expect it to be so bad. In the small courtyard, except for the main house, which is connected to the original house, the other utility rooms and small sheds are very simple and dilapidated, but they are still clean.

Xu introduced Shen Zhanghua, Du Huaibing, and the three of them into the house, and the house suddenly looked cramped. There was no tea at home, so Xu poured them three cups of sugar water.

"What are you burning in this house, it's so fragrant." Shen Zhanghua glanced at the stove.

"It's nothing, it's just a boiled bone." Xu glanced at Du Huaibing a little weakly.

"I'll take a look." Shen Zhanghua saw it in his eyes and got up quietly.

"No, no, the gentleman is far away from the kitchen, how can the county lord's daughter go to that smoky place." Xu Shi was in a hurry, and stood up to stop him.

"It's just a bowl of bone broth, if you want to eat it, I'll serve you a bowl." Du Mei heard the voice, came out of the kitchen, leaned against the door frame and said.

"No, no, how can the county lord eat such vulgar food." The county shook his hand again and again.

"Meizi, since you're at home, come and talk to me about Maizi." Shen Zhanghua

Sit back down.

"Didn't I say a long time ago that I won't sell it?" Du Mei only felt that her scalp was numb, and it felt terrible to be targeted.

"Your wheat is really good, the lord only likes it, don't be ignorant!" The county Cheng listened to her words and said in an official and majestic manner.

"Is it difficult, do you still want to force it to buy?" Du Mei sneered.

"Just tell me why you can't sell it." Shen Zhanghua waved his hand at the two of them, signaling them not to engage in pointless disputes.

"My sisters are growing up, they can't go hungry, and the price you give is too low, I will wait for the summer to sell it to the grain sellers, and I will have to add at least 20% of the price." Du Mei didn't want to sell grain, but he was talking in jargon.

"You have three acres of land, you can collect ten stones of grain when you are full, and if you deduct more than two stones, it is only more than seven stones, and then deduct what you eat, and the rest is only five stones. Shen Zhanghua really folded his fingers and carefully settled accounts with her.

"If he doesn't come, I can go, what's so difficult?" Du Mei pushed back without thinking.

"You ......" the county Cheng pointed his finger at Du Mei, angry for Shen Zhanghua.

"Is Meizi at home?" A woman's voice outside the hospital.

"Yes, yes, fat aunt." Du Mei left the people in the house and greeted him.

The fat aunt was carrying a bag in her hand: "Meizi, I borrowed your rice last time, and now it's time to pay it back." ”

"Fat aunt, why are you in such a hurry." Du Mei was a little stunned, she didn't rush it.

"Hey, there is borrowing and repaying, it's not difficult to borrow again. You take the liters and measure them, and ten liters is no less! The fat aunt stuffed the bag into Du Mei's hand.

"Wait until I give you back." Du Mei wanted to turn around and go back to the house to get it.

"Don't mind, I still have something at home, you help me tear up the same, I can't trust you." The fat aunt turned around and left in a hurry.

Du Mei checked the bag, the amount should be enough.

There are many ways to measure the amount of liters. People who pay attention to the point, whether they borrow or repay, must be piled up in the shengzi, and the average person is at least Qi Shengzikou, and the adulterous person will deduct a handful of them when they reach the shengzikou. When Du Mei lent it out, it was Du Jiasuo and Du Zhong piled up with spires.

"Sister Meizi." As soon as Du Mei turned around with the bag, he heard a timid voice behind him.

"Big girl, what's wrong?" Du Mei turned around and saw Huang Daya standing outside with a basket of wet clothes.

Huang Daya's family is the poorest in Dujiagou. The second stunned family is poor, because he is not doing his job properly, he is not working hard, he is from Dujiagou, he can make noise, he is hungry, and it is common to do some petty theft. In addition, his mother Mrs. Cao is spicy, and the villagers can't avoid it, stealing some cabbage, and no one is honest with her, so the mother and son can also have a full stomach.

And Huang Daya's parents fled from other places, and in the first few years, they relied on the skills of being sugar men, and slowly bought land and built houses in Dujiagou and settled down. But there are unforeseen circumstances, the year before last, Huang Daya's father went out to set up a stall, and somehow, he offended the ruffians and hooligans outside, and was kicked by the ruthless man and broke his waist.

Huang Daya's mother sold the land and land, and it was easy to leave her father alive, but she could only collapse on the bed, and she had to be served by someone to eat, drink and Lazar. And her mother was anxious and afraid, she had a cough and had no money to treat it, so she fell into the root of the disease, coughed and wheezed, and her head and feet were almost curled up in one place.

The father is disabled and the mother is sick, and Huang Daya only has two sisters. She is 13 years old and her sister is only 5 years old

The family only lives on one acre of thin fields, eats and grabs medicine, and life is really difficult.

"Sister Meizi, I really can't pay back the rice you lent us at home, can I help pay you back?" Huang Daya was stunned for a long time and said with a red face.

"What are you talking about, I didn't force you." Du Mei was wondering about the fat aunt, there was a big girl here again, and she wanted to know what was going on.

"No, I was washing clothes by the river just now, and your third aunt said that the county lord came to your house to buy wheat and asked us to return the loan to you quickly." Huang Daya has a thin face and yellow muscles, and her small body is like a dried vegetable. A pair of eyes like frightened quails, looking evasively.

"I never said that. You can go back with confidence, you don't want to return the rice. I'll give you back the note the next day. Du Mei was kind enough to reassure her.

"How's that going to work?" Huang Daya was a little unconvinced, more of a surprise.

"Really, of course what I said is true." Du Mei compares her heart to her heart, her family is miserable, and the family is healthy.

"Thank you so much, Sister Meizi." The corners of Huang Daya's eyes were moist.

Huang Daya left gratefully, Du Mei sneered in her heart, you are a Xie family, and you are making a trick behind your back. Knowing that she wouldn't sell wheat for the sake of ducks, she asked the grain borrower to come and repay the grain at this time, isn't this an obvious way to tell the county lord that she has a lot of food at home.

Du Mei turned around and was about to go back to the house, but saw Shen Zhanghua standing under the eaves with an expression waiting for an explanation, Du Huaibing stood behind him with a bitter face, and her mother was even more at a loss to look at her.

Obviously, he couldn't hide it anymore, Du Mei simply put the bag returned by the fat aunt into the barn, and Shen Zhanghua and the county Cheng followed in.

"Oh my god, where did you get so much rice?" The county looked at the sacks piled on the ground in disbelief.

"I took over the big job of the Yunshang Embroidery Village in the town, this is a deposit." Du Mei said calmly. At that time, when she took over the job, there was a lot of commotion, and this matter might also spread to Qinghe County.

"It's you." The county man looked the tall and thin Du Mei in front of him up and down, with an unconvinced expression.

"Aren't all deposits paid in silver, and rice paid?" Shen Zhanghua pinched a few grains of rice in an open sack and put them in the palm of his hand.

"At that time, the family was starving, and I just wanted to have a full meal, so I asked the shopkeeper for rice." Du Mei didn't want to tell Shen Zhanghua that there were more than 100 ducks at home.

When this man saw that her wheat was good, he tried by all means to buy it, and if he saw that her duck was good, he also wanted to buy it, so how could he get it! What's more, the merchants' taxes are high, how can she afford it now?

"You're not all for people to eat, are you?" Shen Zhanghua carefully examined the rice in his hand, put it back in the sack, and clapped his hands.

"No, the black girl and the chicken in the yard also have to be eaten." Du Mei said without blinking.

"Well, how about I exchange the six stones of wheat I just bought for your five stones? It's much more cost-effective than if you go out and sell it in the summer. Shen Zhanghua stared at Du Mei, as if he wanted to look into her eyes.

Saying that it was sold to grain dealers was just an excuse for Du Mei not to sell. Now that I have been forced to this one, six stones for five stones, which is also a good result.

"Meizi, the county lord gave you a lot of face, not to mention the highest grade when he handed over the grain, just six stones for five stones, and he has already added two percent. After the summer, I don't know what kind of market it is, so it's better to settle down now. Du Huaibing was afraid that Du Mei would not be able to turn the corner for a while, and collided with Shen Zhanghua again. 2k reading web