"Then no one really cares about Huoxiang." Tan Jiexing knocked melon seeds next to him and replied casually.

Even Tan Qingqing doesn't care about Huoxiang.

"You can live well on your own, what do you care about others? I'll sell the silk flowers, and you can continue to make trinkets at home. At the end of the month, I will pay you. ”

Huo Lan shook his head, "I'm already grateful to have you take in the girl." If I take your money again, girl, then what will I become? ”

"One yard to one yard." Tan Qingqing said, "What should be meant is still what is meaningful." Alright, here we go. ”

After Tan Qingqing and Tan Jiexing went out to sell all the silk flowers and came back, it was already midnight.

When people walked to the door, there were all the sounds of burning kang, burning wood, eating melon seeds, knocking peanuts, chatting, talking, and eating.

Tan Qingqing tilted his head and looked, it turned out to be the eldest uncle and second uncle, and the eldest uncle and the second uncle were cooking in and out of the fire.

"Big uncle, second uncle, why are you here too?" As soon as Tan Qingqing entered, he called sweetly.

As soon as Gardenia and Fu Niang saw Tan Qingqing, they hurriedly beckoned people over, and took out a copper plate wrapped in a red cloth bag from their sleeves and stuffed it into Tan Qingqing's hand.

"This is my and your aunt's heart, you take it."

Niang Yu did not wait for Tan Qingqing to say the New Year's greeting of "Wishing you prosperity", so she continued, "You, you said that you were infected with the wind and cold, and you died at home for seven or eight days in a row, and you did not come out to walk around with your neighbors. This red envelope, I'm afraid it's confiscated, right? Take it, although your second aunt and I will give you 200 yuan, it is not as much as your aunt gave you. But it's also a little bit of our heart. ”

In just a few moments, Tan Qingqing received three red silk cloth bags.

As Gardenia said, there were two red silk cloth bags containing 200 copper plates. Only in the other red silk cloth bag, instead of copper plates, two silver tickets with a denomination of fifty taels were neatly folded.

Really.

Shen Meilan's shot has always been very generous.

But Tan Qingqing looked at this red silk bag, which was a little difficult to do.

"My aunt came to talk about my marriage during the day, and I left without listening. What's going on next......"

"Oh, that's what you said." Gardenia told her not to worry.

"Your uncle said, what about your marriage, after all, he said that it doesn't count. You still have to wait for your father and mother to come back before I can help you decide. As for the kid from the Feng family, if he is willing to continue to wait, then continue to wait. Anyway, if you really don't want to get married, no one can force you, right? ”

Gardenia told Tan Qingqing not to be upset about this anymore.

This is the New Year, you should be happy.

"By the way, I forgot." Gardenia suddenly found two red silk cloth bags from the placket, "This is what your aunt and your sister-in-law prepared for you." It's also two hundred dollars per bag. As for me, I'm afraid that there are too many copper plates and I accidentally dropped them, so I took them apart for you and looked at them. ”

When the eldest aunt said this, she was a little nervous.

Tan Qingqing smiled indifferently, "The eldest aunt is afraid that she doesn't know how many copper plates to pack, and she is afraid that she will give less, so she opened other people's red envelopes to see, right?" The elders give red envelopes, which are not too little, they are all hearts. Qingqing won't be so stingy. ”

"That's good, that's good." The eldest aunt was not nervous in an instant, and her expression relaxed a lot, "The food in the pot is not hot yet, I will warm it up for you, you and Jiexing remember to wash your hands and eat quickly." ”

Seeing that Gardenia was leaving, Tan Jiexing hurriedly stretched out her little hand, "Auntie, you sent a green and red envelope, what about mine?" ”

Who knew that when facing Tan Zhuxing, Gardenia was no longer as polite as she was to Tan Qingqing.

"Go, go, didn't you give it all to you when you went to our house for dinner? You took a copy in advance, and now you still have the face to continue to ask for it? Shame on you. ”

Tan Jiexing stuck out his tongue at the eldest aunt "slightly" and grimaced.

This grimace was not only not disgusting, but it made Gardenia laugh.

It added a lot of life to the yard.

After eating, everyone dispersed.

Tan Qingqing finished boiling the bath water and rested on the bed for a while, but his mind was still thinking about the matter between the old Taishou Li Yude and the new Taishou Xue Ruiming.

And as he pondered, he fell asleep.

When she woke up again, it was already dawn.

It was just early in the morning that the city was in a hurry. The level of noise is far more lively than usual.

When Tan Qingqing got up early in the morning, he was busy washing and burning the pot to heat the kang, making breakfast porridge and eating breakfast.

When she finally filled her stomach and walked out, she found that many people had gathered on the sign outside, and she didn't know what the big guys were looking at.

Tan Qingqing was dressed neatly and squeezed into the sign, only to understand that their newly appointed Taishou was not doing official duties well in the daytime, and he was convulsive here again.

At a cursory glance, the general meaning of this sign is: the front-line fighting is tight, food reserves are scarce, and military supplies are still scarce. Every household must pay more taxes. On a per capita basis, each family pays 10% more tax than usual.

For example, in the past, one person had to pay a tax of 800 yuan a year. Now at least one person has to pay 880 wen a year.

That's 80 more.

Don't underestimate these eighty articles. For many ordinary people, these 80 yuan can be used for a month or two.

"Why do you raise taxes again? Didn't you mention it a few years ago? ”

"That's it! During his tenure, Li Taishou never raised taxes. Why does this new Taishou ask for more of our money as soon as he comes? And according to the meaning of this proclamation, we must not only pay more, but also pay more. Last year's grain shortage, there was no food in all places, and it was not easy for us to keep the grain. The winter wheat that was planted last year will take several months to harvest. Who knows if the surplus grain in the family will last until the winter wheat harvest after we hand in the grain! ”

"Yes, yes, yes!"

Others chimed in.

"Even if we have to pay more grain, when Mrs. Li is in office, he will let us harvest the new grain and then increase the endowment. Who the would rob us of the money and food in our pockets when we are not in stock! Will this new Taishou manage the city-state? It can't just be a bloodsucking worm with too much skin, right? ”

Everyone was noisy and muttering.

After all, people who can get along in big city-states are not fools.

The smallest courtyard in this town is a few hundred taels of silver. Since everyone can come up with so much money to settle down in Yuzhou City, how can they be stupid and kind?

Xue Ruiming has just taken office, and he has done such a stupid thing, and I am afraid that the anger of the people will not be extinguished.