Early in the morning, when the villagers of Niutou Village were still asleep, two servants in ox carts knocked on the door of the village chief's house.

The village chief's daughter-in-law happened to get up early this morning to wash the urine ring of her little grandson, and when she heard the knock on the door and saw the servant, she was dumbfounded.

But she had some insight, and she quickly reacted and said attentively,

"Yo, what's the wind blowing today? It's hard for the official to come here so early, is the official thirsty? I'll pour you some brown sugar water to drink! ”

As he spoke, he quickly invited the two servants into the house to sit, and quickly poured out two cups of brown sugar water.

These two officials are tall and strong, and the short and fat person is called Zhao Fatzi, and the two of them saw that the village chief's daughter-in-law knew each other like this, and their originally flat faces eased a lot.

Seeing this, the village chief's daughter-in-law knocked on the side and asked the purpose of their visit today.

It turned out that the government in Lin'an County did not have enough grain in stock, so they specially sent officials to collect the grain from the nearby villagers.

The village chief's daughter-in-law turned black when she heard this.

These things have lost their conscience, and the lives of the common people are so miserable, and they still want to loot the people's fat and ointment.

Why don't you go down to the thunder and kill them?

She scolded her mother in her heart, but she didn't dare to show it on the surface, and she had to squeeze out a smile to make the two officials laugh.

Zhao Fatzi looked at the increasingly vicious weather outside the hospital, and complained impatiently: "This ghost is really getting hotter and hotter." ”

The village chief's daughter-in-law understood his voice, and hurriedly went to the other side to wake up her son, asking him to inform the villagers to put the grain in the dam.

Then he told his son in private that the villagers should not take too little or too much, and when the time comes, they will cry poor and see if it is useful.

Zhao Chuanyong didn't dare to delay, so he went without hesitation.

For the first time, these two officials came to collect grain from Niutou Village, and they were satisfied that the village chief's daughter-in-law knew each other so well.

Zhao Chuanyong got his mother's instructions, first went to inform the surrounding neighbors, then thought about it, and ran to Ji's house first.

Ji Lao Er and Ji Er's sister-in-law have already gotten up to clean up in the yard, today is the day when Shopkeeper Ye is going to come to pull wine, they got up early, and they also want to see how the wine is brewing.

Seeing Zhao Chuanyong standing at the door, the couple unexpectedly let him in: "Brother Zhao, what's wrong?" ”

Zhao Chuanyong told everything about it.

Ji's second sister-in-law changed her face immediately:

"The court really doesn't want us to live. How much grain can be used to pay taxes? We still have so many babies in our own house! ”

Zhao Chuanyong also sighed: "It's not, what should I do?" ”

His daughter-in-law just gave birth to a son for him, and Tian Ding encountered this.

Second sister-in-law Ji and second brother Ji frowned, and at this time, Mrs. Ji's angry voice came from the door:

"Chuan Yong has said, let this grain be taken no more, no less, and the two of you will go and measure the two buckets out."

Mrs. Ji's words are like a needle in the sea, Ji Lao Er and Ji Er's sister-in-law are like having a backbone, and the two of them will go to work after they respond.

Mrs. Ji said to Zhao Chuanyong, "Chuanyong, it's hard for you to come here to spread the word, you go and tell the news to other families first." ”

Zhao Chuanyong nodded and left, and it didn't take long for Ji Er's sister-in-law and them to get the second bucket of grain and take it out, Mrs. Ji thought about it, and asked Ji Lao Er to use a small jar to make a jar of wine.

This little jar was the last time they bought it in the city.

Ji Lao Er didn't know why: "Mother, what are you doing drinking?" ”

Mrs. Ji was furious, "When the old lady gave birth to you, didn't she give you a brain or what?" How do you know to open your mouth and ask, of course this is for those officials! ”

Mrs. Ji was still thinking about other things in her heart, if this thing was done well, it would be the whole village that owed them a favor.

Ji Lao Er's neck shrank when he was scolded by his mother, and Mrs. Ji couldn't cry or laugh even more when she saw him like this, so she said:

"You hold all these things, let's go to the dam."

The dam in Niutou Village is a very flat square, where all crops that need to be dried are usually here, and the officials usually come to collect the grain.

When the Ji family went, it was the first one, and many family members came one after another.

The expressions of every family are very solemn.

The food at home is not enough to eat, and now they have to collect food, and seeing that it is about to reach a time when there is no harvest, it is still a question whether the family can eat.

There are people who are familiar with each other next to each other, talking about the gloom of the future, Mrs. Ji has a net worth of a hundred taels of silver, and she doesn't care about this bit of food to that extent.

Looking at the sad faces of every family, Mrs. Ji had a straight face, and her waist was straighter than anyone else.

As a farmer who has been digging in the fields for generations to eat, it is a great thing to have a deposit of 100 taels of silver.

Besides, her son is filial, her daughter-in-law is capable, and she has so much wealth, she has a hard waist.

Standing in this dam, Mrs. Ji was still thinking about how much money this batch of wine could be sold today, although she had not been to school for a day, but the food and silver money were more slippery than anyone else.

After all the calculations, Mrs. Ji's waist became straighter and straighter.

In any case, my family will never go hungry.

Seeing that it was almost noon, the village chief's daughter-in-law and the official were late, and the two officers and soldiers squinted behind their hands and looked at each villager from the gap in their eyes.

Seeing that most of them were one bucket, one and a half buckets of grain were piled there, their faces were getting worse and stronger, and a pair of eyes were gouging out the villagers.

Niutou Village is already a relatively wealthy village in the surrounding area, and they could receive most of the grain from the budget side, but as it looks at it now, it is far from meeting expectations.

Zhou Zhuangshi lifted his eyelids, lazily watching one villager after another anxiously handing over food, and had his own plans in his heart.

I was ready to wait for the grain to be harvested, and I was bound to want to collect enough grain to return to the yamen as soon as possible.

In this way, it didn't take long to receive the Ji family.

Ji Lao Er smiled and handed the grain to the two of them, and the two saw that his family handed over two buckets of grain, and their expressions eased a little.

At this moment, Mrs. Ji glanced at her second son.

Ji Er's sister-in-law understood, and hurriedly stuffed the jar of wine into Zhang Fatzi's arms:

"Official, this is my family went to the city a few days ago to help the restaurant shopkeeper, the restaurant shopkeeper sent good wine, I heard that this wine and the taste of the wine in Fucheng are almost the same, how can we eat wine in the countryside, and I hope the official will not dislike it."

That's a very technical one.

As soon as he heard that it was sent by the shopkeeper of the restaurant, Zhao Fatzi took a look at it, and heard that this wine was similar to Fucheng wine, and it was even more addictive.

At this time, smelling the faint aroma of wine wafting from the jar, Zhang Fatzi showed his first smile from here:

"What family are you from? It's still very familiar! ”

Ji's second sister-in-law smiled: "Official, we belong to the Ji family!" ”

Zhou Zhuangshi also smiled: "Yes, yes, your family is smart!" There is also a lot of food to be delivered! ”