Xiao Changyi said: "Well, it should be soon." ”

Generally, the government collects taxes and grains within two months after harvesting rice, but now more than a month has passed, and it is almost two months, so it is time to collect taxes and grain.

Taxes and grain are levied on a per mu, and generally farmers pay grain, but they can also pay money instead of grain.

However, it is more expensive to pay money than to pay food.

The grain here refers to rice, not polished rice that has been licked, and the tax is paid with money, although it is more expensive than grain, but it is much cheaper than buying polished rice.

The tax levied on one mu of land is half a load of grain, and no matter what your harvest is, you will pay half a load of grain, that is, fifty catties of rice. The market price of rice is 8 wen yuan a catty, and 50 catties of rice is 400 wen yuan.

If you pay money, it is 500 yuan per mu.

And polished rice is 20 yuan a catty, generally 100 catties of rice can be scooped out of 60 or 70 catties of polished rice, and 50 catties of rice can be scooped out of more than 30 catties of polished rice. More than 30 catties of polished rice are worth more than 600 yuan.

Quiet and Xiao Changyi still have some money on hand, plus now that there is grain again, the rice is much faster, so it is impossible for Quiet and Xiao Changyi to hand over the rice, but choose to pay the money.

As for the rice at home, Jing Jing and Xiao Changyi had already thought about it, and stayed at home to eat the rice by themselves.

Jing Jing even planned to buy some rice from someone and then make it herself, which is much more cost-effective than buying polished rice directly and coming back to eat.

Thinking so, Jing Jing said to Xiao Changyi: "Xianggong, let's go to Xiaolan's house to see if their rice is sold, if it is sold, we will buy it all." ”

Because the stone mortar rice is too time-consuming and laborious, only a little polished rice can be scooped out every day, and there are other farm work to be done every day, and you can't stay at home every day to make rice, so generally few farmers can scoop all the rice at home into rice.

Farmers generally divide their rice into three parts, one part pays taxes and grains, one part is used to polish rice with stone mortars and sold for money, and part of the rice is directly sold to rice shops at the market price of 8 cents a catty.

There are people who specialize in rice cooking in the rice shop, and they do this every day.

"Hmm." Regarding buying rice, Xiao Changyi has no opinion.

If they don't buy rice and come back to cook it themselves, they will have to buy polished rice at that time, because there is not much rice at home, so they can't eat it for a long time.

Then, Jing Jing and Xiao Changyi went to Anjia Village to find Shi Xiaolan, Shi Xiaolan said that he originally planned to sell a hundred catties to the rice shop, but now it is just right to sell it to them.

Then, Jing Jing and Xiao Changyi bought a hundred catties of rice with Shi Xiaolan.

Quiet originally wanted to tell Shi Xiaolan that if it was rice cooking, she could come to her house to cook grain and tread rice dumplings, which would be faster, but then she thought about it and felt that this was not good, her house was not a rice milling field, and there were always people cooking rice in her yard, even if she wasn't annoyed, she was afraid that her family would be annoying.

Her father-in-law is very cold, and she doesn't like to deal with people at all.

And she also prefers the two-person world with her, and she doesn't like that there are always people tinkering in the yard of her and her husband.

Therefore, Quiet didn't tell Shi Xiaolan about Gu Long and stepping on the mill.

However, she planned to do it in her heart, and when she had time, she would draw the picture of the grain long more carefully, and let Shi Xiaolan take the picture to find someone to do, even if Shi Xiaolan's family couldn't afford to make this grain, then Anjia Village would work together to make one, and it would be faster for a village to use a grain for a village than to use a stone mortar for rice.