There was a quarrel in the courtyard, and some of the people talking outside the courtyard poured into the courtyard of the Lu family, and some stood outside the courtyard to watch.

Seeing that Aunt Ma was making a fuss about asking Grandma Chen to lend food to her family, Qiu couldn't stand it and went over and pulled Aunt Ma away.

"Okay, what's the noise, the Chen family doesn't even have a strong laborer, how can his family lend food to your family?"

Grandma Chen didn't get angry, she only sighed: "Don't make any noise, no one will have a good time after handing over this imperial grain, so don't you talk about it." ”

"Am I going to make a noise?" Aunt Ma turned her head and cried at Qiu, "Our family has more than ten people, only three acres of land, how can there be grain payment?" Or, sister-in-law, you and Brother Lu will discuss and discuss, your family has a lot of land, your family will lend us some grain, and we will pay it back next year. ”

Qiu Shi was so angry that he pushed her away: "My family has no food." ”

Even if there is, her family doesn't borrow it, Shengmi endou Mi hate, she has never seen such a faceless person.

"The second one, what are you making trouble?"

Seeing that his brother and daughter-in-law were unreasonable, Ma Lao actually pestered Qiu's to borrow grain, his rough face was red to his neck, and he shouted at Lu Lao Er behind the crowd, "Second brother, you are dead, and you don't care about your daughter-in-law." ”

Ma Lao Er cowered behind the crowd and didn't say a word, he felt that his daughter-in-law was not wrong.

Their family has a large population and eats a lot, and the grain collected from the three acres of land, in addition to the grain of the shopkeeper Li plus the one who pays taxes, the rest of the grain is exchanged for brown rice, and it can be pasted until the beginning of spring.

Now if their family pays the imperial grain, they may not be able to get by this winter.

The Lu family has a lot of money, and the family eats more than the big guys, so it is better to borrow some grain from the Lu family and hand over the imperial grain first.

"What am I doing?"

Aunt Ma saw her man shrinking into the crowd, jumped higher and higher, and rushed at Boss Ma, "Boss Ma, you have a bad conscience, who am I borrowing food for?" Didn't you have to borrow it because you didn't have food at home? Don't you know if there is food at home? If you don't borrow food, you can't sell the baby in it, right? If you want to sell it, you will first sell your Ma Lanhua and sell it for food. ”

Ma Lanhua, who was originally standing with Lu Xiaoqing, heard this, and her little face turned white.

She hid behind Lu Xiaoqing at a loss, as if the second aunt would not see her and would not sell her.

"Fart."

Ma Lao was so angry that he trembled, he was naturally an eldest brother who couldn't entangle with his younger brother and daughter-in-law, and when he saw Aunt Ma rushing over, he hurriedly dodged and hid behind Zhang San, "You crazy woman, I won't tell you, second ...... Second, you're dead, and your ears are stuffed with donkey hair? Does your daughter-in-law care? ”

Ma Lao Er saw that Ma Lao was looking for him everywhere, so he hurriedly slipped out of the crowd and ran out of the yard.

"Alright."

Zhang San was forced to stop Aunt Ma helplessly, "What kind of nonsense, if you don't have grain, you will sell your land, why should people lend you grain, can't you see how much grain Lu Quan's family has?" His family has the most land, so he got so much grain, and after paying the imperial grain, his family has no food to eat, so he lends the grain to your family, and then people sell their sons and daughters? ”

The people who were originally a little moved by what Aunt Ma said also fell silent, yes, the Lu family has a lot of food, but the Lu family also has a lot of land. Thirty catties of grain per acre of land, the Lu family will not receive enough to pay this imperial grain this year, let alone lend it to the big guys.

"I didn't say that I had to ask the Lu family to borrow it, it's not ...... It's not that there is really no food at home. ”

Aunt Ma squatted on the ground and cried with tears, "How can there be food at home, I went to the town to change the brown rice after receiving the grain, there are many people in the family, and my family is not even willing to change the old rice." When the new grain came down, he was not even willing to give the child a full meal, and the family drank it every day. We also thought that if we bought land and built a house, our lives should be better. Who knew that we had to pay the imperial grain just now, wouldn't it cost our family's life? ”

Although Aunt Ma was having a good time, her words did enter the hearts of the big guys.

As soon as the autumn harvest came, almost most of the people in the village took the new grain to the town to exchange for brown rice, and those who had a slightly better life also took it to exchange it for old grain, in order to be able to eat a few more full meals.

Now they have to pay the imperial grain, and those who don't have food at home have to buy it, and now they buy grain, but it's not the price they sold to the grain store at the beginning.

This is repeated again and again, and I don't know how much grain I lost in it.

Seeing that Aunt Ma finally stopped making trouble, Zhang San finally took away some anger: "Don't make any noise, didn't Cunzheng say that he went to a meeting after lunch?" It's not our family or two who don't have food, let's see what the big guys say when the time comes. ”

"Yes, it's not that our family has to pay the emperor's grain, if we want to pay it, everyone must pay it, I don't believe that every family can still have food."

"That's it, let's go back, it's too unseemly to make noise in the Lu family's yard. We can't be driven to death, we all go back and discuss and discuss. ”

"Let's go, let's go, didn't Muramasa say that he still has to work to pick up river workers? This imperial grain can't be relied upon, and the river workers have to pick it, who will go to your family? ”

As everyone spoke, they left the courtyard of the Lu family in twos and threes.

Zhang San was the last to leave, and before leaving, he patted Lu Quan's shoulder, and the two lowered their voices to discuss a few words.

He and Lu Quan both knew that this imperial grain had to be handed over, and today the village was bringing the messenger to remind them.

When the time comes, if everyone is really making a fuss about not paying food, those poor masters must first take Xiaoxinzhuang to fight.

Who told them to be new?

They are different from the other Zhuangzi in the village.

The land of the people in the Zhuangzi is their own, no matter how good the land is, at least they still have a harvest, so they will not buy grain and pay taxes.

Unlike them, the new households, the grain that Shopkeeper Li collected for them, and the grain that was exchanged for the grain collected for the Lu family at the beginning, these grains have long been replaced by everyone with coarse grains, and if they want to buy new grain, they don't know how much silver money they need.

Even if you have some money at home, but you can buy food, how will you spend next year?

After lunch, several heads of small Xinzhuang families hurried to the village Zhengzhuangzi two miles away.

Li Cancan sneaked in: "Little Four, let's go listen to it too?" ”

Lu Xiaoli slapped Li Cancan on the arm: "What are you going to do, Xiao Si is just sick, and he can't go out to blow the cold wind." ”

"Fierce woman." Li Cancan muttered in a low voice, turned around and ran out, shouting as he ran, "Lu Xiaosi, you girl, listen to your sister all day long, you don't go, I'll go with them on the winter solstice." ”

Hearing this, Qiu Shi hurriedly came out of the stove room and advised: "Little Si, you are not allowed to go, the village is more than two miles away from us, it is freezing this day, you can't blow the cold wind." ”

"Mother, I know, I won't go."

Lu Xiaosi is not worried about this year's imperial grain, their family has money and food, and the most they can do is to pay another one.

It's just that the big guy's life is just better, and now he has to pay an extra imperial grain, and his family is empty.

It's really hard work for more than half a year, once back to the pre-liberation period!

(End of chapter)