"Hugh will definitely not rest, after all, the sixth brother still has to take the Xiucai test, but the second aunt wants to go back to the Zhang family again, so it is not so simple."

He was convicted of two felonies.

First, it almost caused the incense to be cut off in Zhang's family's room.

Second, Du Tuhu first gathered a crowd to make trouble in the Zhang ancestral hall, and then invited Zhang Papi to interfere in the public trial of the Zhang ancestral hall, and slapped the Zhang family in the face.

For private reasons, the old man wants to give an explanation to the long house. Yu Gong, if the old man does not punish the Du family, then the Zhang family will stand on the opposite side of the Zhang family.

Therefore, it is logical for the old man to deal with Du's family.

"Xiao Jiu, grandpa asked you to go to the living room."

"Here we are."

The two were talking about something, when they heard Sanya knocking on the door, Zhang Jiuxin went out of the door, and Sanya lowered his head and went to the backyard with chicken food.

......

"Sit!"

The old man asked Zhang Jiuxin to sit on the chair on his right hand, looked at Zhang Jiuxin carefully, and then slowly spoke: "I have heard everything that has happened in the past few days, and you have done a good job." ”

Zhang Jiuxin shook his head: "Grandpa, when the second aunt was arrested for public trial, the grandson did not follow Grandma Qian's instructions and went to the village chief's house to plead, and the grandson was also at fault." ”

Instead of letting Qian blow the wind on the pillow, it is better for her to take the initiative to ask for guilt.

The old man chuckled: "Although you repelled those strong men in a few words, but you are so young, the Du family has committed such a serious crime, how can you go to the village chief's house to end it." ”

"That's what Grandpa said." Zhang Jiuxin smiled obediently, she mentioned this just to prevent the old man from settling accounts after the autumn.

Zhang Jiuxin's generosity made the old man stunned, and then Lao Huai said with relief:

"Okay, very good, you have been trapped in that room by your mother before, I haven't seen you a few times a year, I thought you were a cowardly person, through Du's trouble, what you did is enough to prove that our Zhang family men are not bad!"

The old man looked at Zhang Jiuxin appreciatively and said, "Say it, this time you have made a great contribution, whatever reward you want, just say it." Grandpa will definitely satisfy you. ”

"Grandpa, I want to read the books of sages and take the road of the imperial examination." Zhang Jiuxin got up and respectfully bowed to the old man.

"No way!"

Before the old man could speak, Qian, who was hiding outside and eavesdropping, broke in:

"Now the family is so poor that they can't open the pot, how can there be any money left for you to toss, I think Xiao Jiu is sick and confused. Old man, you can't fool around with him. ”

Zhang Jiuxin just looked at the old man fixedly and didn't make a sound.

"Knock Knock"

The old man closed his eyes, tapped the crescent table with his right hand a few times, stopped Qian's nagging, and said slowly:

"Old woman, now that the year is over, you can take stock of our family's income and expenditure this year."

The Zhang family has always been a big house for bookkeeping, and the second house for money.

The bolt who was standing outside the door and waiting to listen heard this, and took out the account book locked in Xiao Jiuniang's room.

"Old man, I'll talk to ......," Qian still wanted to speak.

The old man said lightly: "Read"

Qian glared at Zhang Jiuxin fiercely, and said reluctantly:

"Our family has a total of five acres of paddy fields, 1,000 catties of early rice, 800 catties of late rice, 3 catties of early rice, late rice tastes better, the price rises to 4 catties of money, a total of six taels of silver."

In the past few days, Zhang Jiuxin also heard from the plug that in this era, an acre of land yielded an average of 4 stone of rice, that is, about 240 catties.

The Zhang family started to engage in farm work only after the backwardness of the family, and the rice fields of other families were not more delicate than those of other families, and the fertilizer was also insufficient, so the average output was only 200 catties.

Qian turned the page and continued: "Da Lang pays 500 Wen per month, I earn an average of 200 Wen per month for weaving, and Da Lang's daughter-in-law earns 100 Wen per month for embroidery, eleven months, a total of eight taels of silver and 8 yuan, plus the old man, you usually go to the mountains to hunt and earn, we have a total of 24 taels this year." ”

Zhang Jiuxin sighed silently, 24 taels seems to be a lot, but the rice income calculated by the Qian family just now did not subtract the taxes, in fact, after counting it carefully, the family can only barely get filled.

Because, two taxes must be paid a year, the summer tax is levied on wheat, the autumn grain is levied on rice, and Zhenwen reformed the tax in the early years and implemented the "one whip law": the summer tax and autumn grain are no longer collected in kind, and they are all converted into silver and handed over.

Of course, this is convenient, but for the self-sufficient farmers and women who have no source of silver, it is troublesome, and they have to exchange rice and wheat for silver, and every tax month, the rice and wheat are pressed to a very low price, and they cannot be sold at the due price, and they suffer a lot.

In addition, there is a poll tax, and those over the age of three must pay 100 yuan per person per year, regardless of gender.

In addition, the family also needs to send a man to the place designated by the imperial court every year to serve the conscription, and he needs to serve 20 days of conscription every year, which is all done in vain, without compensation, and the work is heavy, if it is not a strong labor, he will be seriously ill when he returns.

The Zhang family has always used silver to do the work, which is another big expense.

Not to mention that the sixth brother in the second room is studying in the town, and it costs one or two halves a month, plus every New Year's Day, he has to give a gift to the master, as well as the cost of daily food, pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

For this reason, the Zhang family's original family road was left behind the remaining dozens of acres of land, only more than ten years later, and now there are only five acres of paddy fields left.

Zhang Jiuxin felt that although this was a big expense for the Zhang family, it also had a lot to do with the fact that the Zhang family could not operate.

"Old man, look at it, there is only one hundred wen left in the account, if you hadn't come back from hunting this time and earned another tael of silver, we wouldn't even have the money to buy Xiao Liu's master's New Year's gift, how could there be any money left for Xiao Jiu to study!"

Qian patted the account book, looking like he was going to eat Zhang Jiuxin: "Old man, if you insist on Xiao Jiu studying, then it's okay, just let him go to Songmu Nunnery." ”

"Presumptuous!"

The old man's confined eyes opened suddenly, and Zhang Jiuxin, who was shocked by a murderous aura, took several steps back.

"Are you taking my words as a deaf ear? As I said, even if you starve to death, you don't want to use Hui Niang's dowry again. ”

Qian was embarrassed in front of his grandchildren, stunned for a long time, and cried "wow":

"I'm not alive anymore, I'm weaving and working day and night, serving your family, I'm coming, it's not as good as half a finger of others, what's the point of me living, woo woo woo ......."

Qian was obviously really sad, turned around and walked out of the living room and went to the backyard.

Zhang Jiuxin's heart was shocked, this was the first time she heard the old man mention her grandmother Lin Yanhui, and obviously her grandmother occupied a very important position in the old man's heart.

But why, grandma took her second sister to live in Songmu Nunnery?

"Xiao Jiu, you want to enter the academy and take the imperial examination, with this heart, grandpa is very satisfied and happy."