On this day, Yang Changfa and Xiao Yue were busy cleaning up the vegetable patch at home, when they were called to the old house. After entering, I saw Wu and Old Man Yang sitting on the upper seat, next to Yang Lotus and Zhao Peng.

Yang Changfa shouted: "Daddy," and shouted at Yang Hehua and the others, "Eldest sister, brother-in-law is also back." ”

Xiao Yue also greeted everyone.

Old Man Yang waved them to sit down and said, "Changfa, how are you doing lately?" ”

Yang Changfa nodded, "It's all right!" ”

"You're far away now, and we can't take care of it, so it's good that you know for yourself."

Xiao Yue's heart rolled her eyes, how far away it was! It's only a few hundred meters away, and I didn't care about it when we lived together, let alone now.

Yang Changfa also followed and laughed, "We know." ”

Yang Lotus saw that her father had been unable to get to the point, and couldn't help but give him a look in a little anxious.

Old Man Yang saw his daughter's hint and asked, "Changfa, I heard your eldest sister say that the sauce business in the town is now profitable?" ”

Yang Changfa glanced at Xiao Yue and spoke, "We don't know what the business in the town is, it's not a shop we opened." ”

Old Man Yang continued to speak, "So you guys are at a loss, if you think that if you can sell the sauce you make, then the money you make will be all your own." ”

Xiao Yue knew in her heart that these people in the old house were probably all here for the sauce.

Yang Changfa said: "We haven't done business, what if we lose money? It's better to forget it and let someone else sell it. ”

A dissatisfied look appeared on Old Man Yang's face, "You haven't done business, your eldest sister's family hasn't always opened a shop, why didn't you think about letting them sell it at that time, and now the money is made by others." ”

Yang Changfa's face suddenly became bad, Xiao Yue patted his hand and motioned for him to dissipate, seeing that Yang Changfa's face was slightly relaxed.

She turned her head to Old Man Yang and said, "Dad, we didn't know that this sauce could make money at the time, and we were afraid of losing money, so we sold it to the big boss in the county." ”

When Old Man Yang heard this, his face became a little better.

Zhao Peng immediately spoke, "Dad, you are old and angry, and these second brothers and sisters are also for insurance." Then he said to Yang Changfa, "Second brother, now that the sauce is selling very well, you should sell it yourself!" This way you can earn more money. ”

Yang Changfa waved his hand, "We will only farm, and we should forget about doing business." ”

Yang Lotus smiled and said to Yang Changfa: "Second brother, it doesn't matter, you don't know how to do business, eldest sister, we will!" Well, let's buy your recipe for making sauce for 100 taels, what do you think? ”

Xiao Yue snorted in her heart, she earned about 1,000 taels in the first month of cooperation with Shen Junling, and this Yang Lotus spent 100 taels, and she also had a loss-making expression, and she was even more disgusted with the people in the Yang family's old house in her heart.

Yang Changfa was also full of anger, his eldest sister should treat herself as a fool.

Xiao Yue pretended to be innocent on her face, and said to Yang Hehua: "When I heard the words of the eldest sister today, I realized that we had suffered a loss, but we signed an agreement when we sold the company, and we had to lose money if we regretted it." ”

Zhao Peng said: "What's this, we will pay 100 taels, and you can use this money to compensate." As he spoke, he glanced at his daughter-in-law, and his eyes were full of imperativeness.

Xiao Yue was really speechless at Zhao Peng's words, and used 100 taels to compensate for liquidated damages, so she got nothing for herself, not to mention that the sauce earned more than 100 taels, she said with a sad face: "No!" If you regret it, you have to pay 10,000 taels of silver, and you have to give Fang Zi to others. ”

Yang Lotus and Zhao Peng glanced at each other and said, "This ..... How did you sign such an agreement? ”

Zhao Peng was full of the scene of making a lot of money with the sauce, and he wouldn't give up, and after a little muttering, he said: "That's it, you secretly sell us the recipe, so no one knows." ”

Yang Changfa said: "How can this be, we have already promised other people's things, how can we go back on our word." ”

Wu, who hadn't spoken for a long time, couldn't help it, "Bastard, why can't it, hurry up and give the recipe to your eldest sister, just give me the money." ”

Wu's voice made Xiao Yue's goosebumps rise, and Xiao Yue was angry when she said it, "No one will make this sauce except me, if the eldest sister's family also sells it, it will inevitably annoy the boss in the town, and then we will not only lose money, but also eat lawsuits, we won't do it." ”

Wu glanced at Xiao Yue disdainfully, "What's the matter with a lawsuit?" The third child is a county magistrate, are we still afraid that he will not succeed? ”

Yang Changfa ignored Wu's unreasonable trouble, and said to Old Man Yang: "Dad, the owner of Fuxingju knows the big officials in the capital, and it will be dangerous for him to move his fingers to the third official, not to mention that we are making sauces, but people still have to add things behind Fuxingju, this sauce will be delicious, as for what it is, we don't know, if you have to make a recipe, people will definitely not let me go, and then we can only tell the truth to others, you see this ......"

Old man Yang was silent, if he knew the big official, then he really couldn't afford to provoke him, in case the money was not earned, and let the third child lose his office, wouldn't it be a bamboo basket to draw water, he waved his hand and said: "Forget it, since you have already sold it, forget it, if there is anything in the future, remember to discuss with your eldest sister first, you don't understand the situation outside and are easy to be deceived." ”

Yang Changfa nodded.

Although Yang Hehua and Zhao Peng were dissatisfied, their father could only agree to what he said.

In October, the temperature difference between day and night is very large, Xiao Yue has been making jackets for the past two days, and the sauce made last time can be sold for three or four months, and the business of Liangpi is gradually getting worse because of the weather, and Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa will no longer sell it.

The autumn sun is not as hot as the summer, and it is very comfortable to bask in the sun, Xiao Yue and Aunt Yang are sitting in the yard doing needlework, and Yang Changfa is weaving baskets on the side.

Suddenly, there was a "dong dong" gong sound outside the door, and Lizheng's eldest son Yang Shu shouted while beating the gong: "There is something to inform, everyone hurry up to the drying field!" ”

Hearing the sound, everyone hurried to the drying field, Xiao Yue, Yang Changfa and Aunt Yang also locked the door and went to the drying field, and there were already many people by the time they arrived.

The three of them walked to the side of Daddy Xiao and Zheng, and Xiao Yue asked, "Daddy, do you know what is going on?" ”

Zheng shook his head, and Father Xiao said, "It is estimated that I will have to pay taxes or forced labor again." ”

Xiao Yue nodded.

After a while, Li Zheng stood on the roller on the edge of the drying field and shouted: "All quiet, listen to me, I received a notice in the morning, the county is going to build roads on the Nanshan side to levy labor, according to the capita, men 16-50 years old are in the range, if you don't want to go to a person 10 taels of silver." ”

The people below were chattering and discussing.

"What's the matter, labor has never been calculated by household, why is it counted by head this time!"

"That's right, our family doesn't have to go to three after this calculation, and if you pay the silver, you will have to pay thirty taels."

"That's it, the third child of the Yang family is not an official, why do you still treat the people of our village like this."

"Who knows? If this is the above opinion, he probably can't stop it. ”

"Oh my God, isn't it fatal to go to labor after the harvest just now?"

"That's it!"

Listening to the heated discussion of the people around them, Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa did not speak, their family must use silver.

After all, this labor is not easy to do, there are overseers around, and they can't rest when they are sick or tired, and someone will die of exhaustion every time they work hard.

However, it is a little strange that because the terrain on the Nanshan side is relatively steep, there are few people coming and going, so how could the county think about building roads there.

What's more, in the past, there was a male per household, but this time it was actually counted by head, and this kind of sign always made Xiao Yue feel that this time the labor was strange.

Yang Changfa and Daddy Xiao were also puzzled, but they didn't have the right to care about this kind of thing.

Xiao Yue felt that there was some secret behind that Nanshan, or that it was because of the selfishness of some people that this conscription was born. But she couldn't say, after all, it was just her feelings.

The people in the village were still talking.

Li Zheng shouted, "Okay, don't discuss it anymore, this matter has been decided, we will leave in three days, if you pay the money, you will come to me to pay the money, and if you send someone, you will gather at the entrance of the village in three days." ”

Xiao Chun and Xiao Xia of the Xiao family are still young, so they will only hand over to Daddy Xiao.

The Yang family only handed over Yang Changgui and Old Man Yang, not to mention that Yang Changfu was directly exempted from labor when he became an official, and Li Zheng just said that Yang Changfu handed over the money for the two of them. The people in the village were a little red-eyed, and Old Man Yang's face was full of pride, and his waist was straighter than ever.

After the notice, everyone went back to their homes, some families had no impact, and some people were gloomy.

On the way home, Xiao Yue had already heard several families arguing, it was estimated that it was to pay the silver or to send someone, or to pay a part of the silver, and who would go to the rest of the part, although it was just a small matter, but the ripples caused were very big.

This matter had no impact on Xiao Yue and Yang Changfa, and the two of them left this matter behind.

The people in the village also began to collect money everywhere, but the vast majority of them still chose to go to labor, after all, the villagers were used to doing the work, and 10 taels of silver was still not easy for them.

Yang Chang sent a trip to Lizheng's house and handed over his share of the silver, and the people in the village also paid the silver.

Three days later, the people who went to serve in labor also gathered at the entrance of the village and left, and the parents and wives saw off their sons and husbands in tears, and the village was quiet for a few days, and slowly regained its vitality.

Xiao Yue has been thinking about her new business for the past two days, she thought of the dumplings she missed in her previous life during the New Year, but there is no here, if you want to do business, steamed dumplings are a good choice.

Xiao Yue decided to try it for herself first, the dumpling filling is leek pork, and the chopping work is of course sent by Yang Chang.

She took out the white noodles and made the dumplings a little softer, and then woke up for a while.

Although he has never rolled out dumpling skins, Yang Changfa's learning ability is still very strong, and he will be able to do it in a short time.

Xiao Yue began to make dumplings, and one by one ingot-like dumplings appeared in her skillful hands, and Aunt Yang also learned to make dumplings on the side, and the three of them talked and laughed in the kitchen.

Yang Changfa's hands are fast, and he is more than enough to roll the skin for two people by himself.