When Fang Cairong left, he directly asked Wen Yu to push him outside the courtyard. In order to avoid suspicion, he didn't take a look at Mu Qingnuan's side, but he had also been observing Mu Qingnuan's situation and heard the movement here.

Mu Qing warmed her hands and walked out, and at this time, Wen Yu also pushed Rong He into the courtyard.

"Lu Yan and I will take Aunt Wu to the woods again to collect some medicine." Mu Qingnuan said to Rong He.

"Let Ling Su and Ling Feng follow suit." Rong He said.

"Okay." Mu Qingnuan nodded, and said, "I'll be back in a while." ”

"Hmm."

Ling Su and Ling Feng each had a horse, Mu Qingnuan asked Lu Yan to take Aunt Wu on the horse, while she unloaded a horse from the carriage and rode it.

Since the woods weren't very far away, and the herbs they needed didn't have to go deep into the woods, it didn't take long to get there.

Mu Qingnuan asked Aunt Wu to identify the appearance of the herbs she needed and their growth locations.

Because people are old after all, their memory is not the best, and there are still a lot of herbs needed this time, there are one or twenty kinds, so it is not easy to remember.

Fortunately, there are some herbs that are grown together, so you don't have to go all over the place.

Mu Qingnuan is also a patient person, and it took about an hour for Aunt Wu to memorize all the herbs she needed.

"Girl, my wife really thank you. Without you, we don't know what we would do. Saying that, looking at the bold Aunt Wu, she couldn't help wiping her tears, "It's really that people like us can't afford to take medicine." ”

"It's fine." Mu Qingnuan shook her head.

Now that it was completely dark, Mu Qingnuan and they could be said to be looking for herbs with torches.

"I'll ask a question later, if you don't want to answer, don't do it." Mu Qingnuan said.

"Girl, do you want to ask the master of Qingcheng County about it?" Aunt Wu asked rhetorically.

Mu Qingnuan nodded, and shook her head again, "I want to ask how the taxes on your fields are collected?" ”

Not to mention other distant places, but the capital, including the neighboring counties around the capital, has indeed been smooth in recent years.

Since the wind and rain are smooth, and there is no locust plague, the harvest is indeed a thing. It's just that if the people still eat the last meal but not the next meal in the case of a bumper harvest, then there is only one problem...... That's something wrong with the tax side.

Hearing Mu Qingnuan suddenly mention this, Aunt Wu couldn't help it, and sat directly on the ground, and then burst into tears, "Girl, the emperor wants us not to live." ”

"Auntie, get up first, if you have anything to say to our young lady, talk to us." Lu Yan hurriedly stepped forward to help Aunt Wu up.

"Girl. We've had a good harvest in the past few years, and we shouldn't have gone hungry. But the county lord sent a message and said that we should pay a tax of three stones per mu of land......"

"Three stones?" Mu Qingnuan's eyes changed.

Generally speaking, the high-quality fields and in the case of good weather conditions, the yield per mu is only four stones, and the high-quality fields are generally only available to the officials, and the common people are generally medium fields or low-class fields.

The yield per mu of medium fields is less than four catties, while the yield per mu of inferior fields may be less than three stones. If there is a lack of rain or something like that, not to mention the three stones, there may be no harvest.

And the key is that after the war at the border was pacified, the emperor had already ordered tax reductions and exemptions.

Now it is time to receive one stone of grain per acre of land, and if there is a famine, not only do you not have to pay taxes, but you can also receive grain from the magistrates......