The moonlight gently sprinkled on Yu'an's immature face, and Shu Yan said with a smile: "Our little Yu'an is so good, grandma is not a person with perseverance, but Yu'an is." ”

Yu An smiled shyly, Shu Yan reached out and touched Yu An's head.

The two of them returned to the house and slept soundly.

The next morning, the yard was so sunburned that the smokeless charcoal had dried, and they were all light and fluttering, as if they had no weight.

Sui Ying found a back basket, packed the charcoal fires one by one, and then pulled the forsythia to Xiangcheng to sell.

The two men continued to the mountains to chop wood.

Shu Yan was watching the three children at home, she and the children finished lunch and were about to go to the house to rest, but saw the village chief come in with a small official.

Shu Yan's face suddenly became nervous, she quickly asked Yu'an to enter the house to hide, and got up to meet her in the courtyard.

The village chief was a hunchbacked old man, and after seeing Shu Yan, he hurriedly pointed to the little official and said: "This is Lord Li who has come to collect taxes, although your landlord has moved to the city, but he has rented the land in the village to you, and you need to pay 30% of the tax." ”

There is not much grain on two acres of land, and if they are taken away by 30%, they will definitely not have enough to eat this winter.

Shu Yan opened his mouth and said: "My lord, but we bought this wheat from the landlord, and it was bought according to the market price. ”

The little official obviously didn't want to know so much, and he interrupted Shu Yan's words very rudely.

"You go and ask him yourself, if you don't pay it, then you will be punished, you have to think about it."

Shu Yan, an old arm and legs, naturally couldn't bear such suffering, so he could only tearfully take out the wheat he had worked so hard to harvest and let the people of the public gate carry it away.

Seeing Shu Yan's stunned appearance, the village chief immediately sighed and said in a low voice: "Although the harvest is good this year, there will be a war again, and the government is collecting grain, so if you have spare money, go to the city to buy some and prepare it." ”

After the village chief finished speaking, he left, Yu An ran out of the house, he looked at the lack of food, suddenly collapsed a face, he said quite seriously: "If I become the emperor, I must not let them exploit the people so much." ”

Shu Yan smiled and touched Yu An's head, but who knew that there was a man standing outside the door at this time, very thin, with a pair of sharp eyes.

It was the talent who exchanged food for books with Shu Yan under the tree that day.

Xiucai said in a low voice: "What kind of emperor should you be a little child?" ”

Shu Yan hurriedly said: "The child is unscrupulous, but it's you, a scholar who enters someone's house, and you don't know how to knock on the door, where have you learned all the etiquette, righteousness and shame." ”

This Xiucai was quite embarrassed by Shu Yan's words, but he still said cheekily: "I heard that the neighbor said that there is often the sound of reading in your house, so I thought that there must be books hidden in your house, so I came." ”

When Shu Yan heard this, he suddenly felt helpless, it seems that this kid is still a book lover.

Xiucai smiled and said: "I still have some food at home, I know you don't have enough to eat, I'll give you some food, change some books and see how about it?" ”

Shu Yan was suddenly helpless: "You kid, the winter in the northwest is so long, everyone is stocking grain, and you are not afraid of starving to death?" ”

Xiucai waved his hand, and he said with a smile: "If the food is not enough, I will go hunting in the mountains, and it is a big deal to eat tree bark, and I will not die of hunger." ”

This Xiucai is so thin that he is hungry all year round.

Shu Yan said helplessly: "We really don't have books at home, and we can read because our children have learned before and can memorize them." ”

Another reason is that Sui Ying has an excellent memory, but all the books she has read are basically remembered in her head.

When Xiucai heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, he pulled Yu'an and was about to speak, but Shu Yan pulled the person directly outside.

This talent is wrong, and he can't be allowed to harm Yu'an.

Shu Yan crossed his waist and looked at this Xiucai very fiercely.

"My grandson is going to sleep, you poor sour hurry up and let me go, the child can't sleep enough, that will affect the height."

After Shu Yan finished speaking, he closed the door, and Yu'an looked at the Xiucai outside the door with some curiosity.

"Grandma, this brother is so strange, he seems to be crazy about reading."

Shu Yan took Yu'an's hand and said softly: "You don't have to be like him, you are stupid to read, read thousands of books, then you have to travel thousands of miles." ”

The grandparents obediently went back to the house to sleep, and in the afternoon, a few young people came back, this Sui Ying had a smile on his face, obviously sold a lot of money, and brought a lot of delicious food to the children.

Forsythia squinted his eyes and seemed to be thinking something, Shu Yan couldn't help but ask: "Didn't you beat people up when you sold charcoal?" ”

Forsythia shook her head.

"It's fun to sell things, and the voices of rich people are very good."

At sunset, the two men came back, Cheng San caught a pheasant this time, and the two came back with a lot of firewood.

Cheng San asked Shu Yan with a smile: "Godmother, there are more and more people chopping firewood on this mountain, can we still do smokeless carbon?" ”

Shu Yan shook her head, and she said, "Do it a few more times, don't sell it when you buy some food, and stock up on firewood for the winter." ”

According to Shu Yan's understanding of the degree of involution, within half a month, the price of smokeless carbon will be lowered.

After half a month, the firewood and food at home were ready.

Shu Yan also clearly felt that the weather was getting colder and colder, and they all had to put on cotton clothes.

Most of the families in the village are burning smokeless carbon, which has raised the temperature of the whole village, but it is still cold.

Cheng San and Bai Guichen often go to the mountains to fight in the wilderness these days, so Shu Yan pickled these prey and prepared to hoard them for consumption in winter.

As the days passed, the village was really much richer than before, but it was the poor and sour talent who always squatted in their house and eavesdropped on Yu'an reading.

One day, Shu Yan got up from the bed and found that it was white outside, and when she opened the window, she saw a white expanse.

Shu Yan shouted.

"It's snowing?"

Cheng San and Bai Guichen came out of the house, the two of them were thinly dressed, but they were startled by the air conditioning outside the house.

Cheng San took a few steps back tremblingly, and put on his big padded jacket when he returned to the house, he saw his godmother, and then said with a smirk: "Godmother, it's snowing." ”

Shu Yan said helplessly: "I'm not blind. ”

Cheng San stretched out his hand to catch the snow, and at this moment Asura came out of the house, ran happily into the snow, and then grabbed a handful of snow and ate it.

It's like a happy little beast.

Forsythia lying on the bed woke up slowly, she sighed, looking at the letter in her hand, she really didn't know what to do.

At this time, there was the laughter of children outside, and Forsythia's heart trembled slightly.