On the way to the town, Xu Tianxin finally had the opportunity to have a general understanding of the town he was in.

Originally, the area and population distribution of Helan Town were so many that they were famous in Fucheng.

For example, there are more than 100 households in their village, there are more people in Wangjiagou, and Leijiawo is also in the early 100s, and there are as many as 12 villages with more than 100 households in their town, which is tens of thousands of people. Counting the permanent population of those small villages and towns with dozens of households, it stands to reason that Helan Town is eligible to establish a separate county.

But for some reason, it is still managed by Pingzhou County.

Xu Tianxin guessed that the tax may be too low, or it may be that the imperial court has always made other arrangements for the ownership of Helan Town and even Pingzhou County.

So how should such a large township be managed? Their town is quite far from the county, so they can't go to the county to report everything.

Liu Laozhu was very interested in Xu Tianxin, so he explained: "There is a town bureau yamen, called the governance office. It's bigger than the river mooring place I took you to that day, and you'll see it in a moment, on East 2nd Street. The biggest official is Zhenting, and he is in charge of us. ”

Xu Tianxin immediately understood, in modern times, it is called the town mayor, and here it is called the town pavilion, and Liu Bang used to be the pavilion chief.

"Then does he have rank?"

"Yes, our town is different from other small towns, and they are the nine products of the Eight Classics."

Liu Laozhu never told anyone, his dream had always been to be a town pavilion.

can be majestic, regardless of their integrity, there are many more Lulu.

He doesn't have a background like Wang Lizheng who looks down on a small town pavilion and doesn't look down on that little bit of money, he can see it, the main thing is that we don't earn black money for killing people and overselling goods, and only two taels of silver on the surface a month are not enough?

"Like us, we have a lot to worry about all year round, only Lu Su, charcoal, and roll (travel), which is not enough for this old cow to eat.

And if there is a grade, there will be everything, so much that you can think of spending money, they will make up for it, and even the servants will make up 400 copper plates every month. ”

These words really make Meizhuang unimaginable.

Liu Laozhu is also envious every time he mentions it.

Here, if you want to raise a maid at home, if it is not in the form of renting short-term and long-term labor, but in the form of buying and selling, you will have to pay a lot of servant taxes to the servants you buy every year. Unless the family is very rich, otherwise the thought of having to pay a lot of taxes to the servants to eat and drink, will make you feel wronged, and you should do the dirty work at home yourself.

Liu Laozhu turned his head to look at Xu Tianxin, and gossiped: "Your Uncle Zhao also has a rank. Except for the town pavilion, he is the only one with a grade in the town, and the rest are called officials, do you know about this? ”

Xu Tianxin was in the live broadcast, and when he heard that he no longer watched his family swiping the screen, he quickly shook his head at Liu Laozhu.

"Turn around and tell you that he is from the ninth grade. He used to do everything he did in our town. What are all heads, do you understand? "Liu Laozhu also went to the county last time, and he only knew it when he heard other Li Zheng mention it.

Xu Tianxin thought to herself, she should understand, because the family members in the live broadcast room responded one by one:

Who is that, Wu Song, isn't he the head of the capital, in charge of more than a hundred people, he belongs to the last level of the establishment.

That Zhao Dashan was transferred from the military camp to the local area.

Some family members asked, speaking from Jiupin, what level does Zhao Dashan want to be in modern times.

Someone replied: Township section level deputy.

So a few hours away is not lonely for Xu Tianxin at all.

Liu Laozhu said here that she wanted to answer, and she also had to be distracted by watching her family chatter in the live broadcast room.

Arriving at the entrance of the city tower that used to be a Piao and floated over, the crowd of people still wore tattered clothes, and there were also many cattle carts that pulled feet and waited for people.

Liu Laozhu first found the bicycle to go to Lei's nest, handed the other party five copper plates, and asked him to help carry a letter and hand it to Lei Lizheng.

The letter involved unacceptable content, Liu Laozhu is painting.

He drew a big king running in a car, followed by a group of small kings. Another stone tablet of Wangjiagou Village was drawn, with a Wang Ba headless next to it. I want to tell Lei Li that there is no one in charge of Wangjiagou Village at present. People are dragons without a leader, and he paints kings without a head.

With these two pages of painting, the third page of blank paper is just a short line of words, he wants more and more cattle to feed the mules and oxen, which can be exchanged for fish, or can be bought with money, but he must owe it first, and then pay it back at the end of the year.

Then Liu Laozhu dragged the ox cart and drove Xu Tianxin and Meizhuang to the governance center.

Xu Tianxin didn't expect that the yamen of the town office was quite large, and it looked much more formal than the river berth.

The river mooring house I went to that day was set up by the river, like a house where ordinary people lived, with a large yard behind it to store fishing salt.

And there are gates, instrument gates, main halls, meeting halls, and halls as the central axis, with a big sign on the right side of the "Tax", and on the left side of the corresponding hanging is "Catch thieves." ”

Xu Tianxin felt that Grandpa Liu should be using Uncle Zhao's name to save face.

Because Grandpa Liu suddenly introduced her loudly: "The left side is all under your Uncle Zhao's control." ”

The servant who led the way in front of him immediately turned around to look at her, and led them to the empty corridor between the two rooms to wait.

There's a row of stools, and ...... Wear the hall.

When did Xu Tianxin start to feel pitiful for Grandpa Liu?

After sitting on a cold bench and waiting stupidly for two hours.

The official who led the way brought them three cups of hot water, and Grandpa Liu actually said to her and Aunt Meizhuang happily: "Usually when I come, someone can only bring hot water on nine cold days." It will be sent this season, which can be seen for the sake of Zhao Zhutou's face. ”

Then the three clerks who handled the land deed and the house deed tax finally came back, and Liu Laozhu signaled Meizhuang and Xu Tianxin not to follow up first, and he waved his hand before going in.

Then Xu Tianxin saw that Grandpa Liu bent over and smiled at those clerks who obviously had no rank, and turned around and took the initiative to help people close the door.

At the moment when he was about to close the door, Xu Tianxin heard Grandpa Liu calling those people one brother at a time, chatting about New Year's greetings, saying that those people were very hard.

What is the hard work, listening to the meaning of the leading officer, it seems that he just came to work.

Xu Tianxin and Meizhuang glanced at each other, thinking in their hearts: I don't know if I can do it. They bought wasteland this time in order not to leave a handle for others, and the procedures were quite complicated.

When she was at home, she heard her grandmother say that she should ask Grandpa Liu to pay for the number of acres of wasteland first, and then give a certificate to prove that there are too many roots in the wasteland to open up the wasteland for farming.

And if they buy wasteland directly according to the house, the area they buy is too large, in that case, the inside and outside will add up to double the amount of silver.

After a stick of incense, when Xu Tianxin saw Grandpa Liu waving his hand and asking her and Aunt Meizhuang to go in, he was still coaxing the clerks: "Trouble a few brothers." ”

"Can you write?"

Liu Laozhu hurriedly came over to help Xu Tianxin and Meizhuang sign autographs, "These are all our village children, I will sign."

It's just that when he bent over, Xu Tianxin had already signed his name according to his handprint, and he also helped Aunt Meizhuang write it.

The three clerks looked at Xu Tianxin with some surprise, but Liu Laozhu didn't even care about the surprise, because he was blocking it with his body, signaling the two children to quickly pick up the official deed with three big red stamps, and even his share.

On the other hand, he said to the three clerks: "Let's go, brothers, ten miles of fragrance." ”

"You old guy, you trouble us so much, only ten miles of fragrance? You're embarrassed too. ”

Liu Laozhu's face was full of smiles, and he gritted his teeth in his heart: "It's wrong, what kind of head am I?" The old man has a scoop, and he must be in Liuhelou! ”

Xu Tianxin saw that on the land deed, it was written that her family's eleven taels of silver had just been spent, and if she had a treat, it would be Grandpa Liu who spent the money himself.

In the private room on the second floor of Liuhe Building, Xu Tianxin took advantage of Xiao Er's cooking efforts to squeeze in together, and there was a live broadcast through the screen to Lizheng's grandfather had already drunk half a jar of wine, and watched the shop's small two altars and one jar move up, and estimated that he would be drunk today.

The family members in the live broadcast room sighed: It can't be avoided in modern times, let alone in this hierarchical ancient times, it's really difficult to do something.

Xu Tianxin silently withdrew from the private room, but Xiao Er called out to her at the stairs, handed over two oiled paper bags and said: "Your grandfather bought it for you, he said that if you don't want to wander around, just wait downstairs, and if you want to wander, you can come to him after an hour." ”

Xu Tianxin told him to go outside to buy some things. When I opened the oil paper bag downstairs, I realized that it was a meat bun stuffed with pork and green onions.

She hasn't eaten pork since she crossed over, not to mention, it's so fragrant, the oil has soaked in the bun skin.

And she and Aunt Meizhuang have four buns per person.

Liu Laozhu: He can invite those people to dinner, and he still needs the money for the buns of the two children downstairs.

Xu Tianxin only ate one, and wrapped the rest in oiled paper, planning to take it home to his grandmother and aunt.

Meizhuang ate two, and there were two left, and she planned to go to the village and leave in the arms of Aunt Sexu. You ask her man? She used to be delicious, but men were too used to it, and she was changing.

But today is destined to be a day that makes the family members in the live broadcast room feel bad.

Meizhuang led the ox cart and waited outside.

Xu Tianxin was urged by his family to buy the toothbrush and toothpaste that he was thinking about, grandma didn't bring money this morning and told you to buy it home, but when you walked into a little red rouge shop, you got a cold reception.

The proprietress of the rouge shop knew at a glance that Xu Tianxin was not a customer group.

Because of her parents, this girl's hair can be so bad as withered grass, and she can afford anything in her store?

There is also dark skin, which means that she has been engaged in manual labor since she was a child, and it also means that the girl in front of her does not even have the slightest possibility of a miraculous encounter in the book, for example, which lady is in trouble. What's more, he is still dressed so torn, and there are two on his body...... The proprietress counted the patches on Tian Xin's body.

So when the shop girl was about to go over to greet the customer, she stopped her.

"Do you have a problem?"

"Shopkeeper, I want to buy tooth powder, where is it, can you take a look."

Xu Tianxin really couldn't tell which small clay pot was filled with tooth powder, and he didn't even have experience in memory.

At this time, she was quite surprised in her heart, these bottles and cans are so beautiful, watch more quickly, and show them live to her family.

Is this small basket filled with the legendary bath beans?

It seems to be nectar water.

Xu Tianxin's hand, unconsciously touched a small ceramic jar in the shape of a gourd, she was just about to ask what was contained here, she really liked this small jar, the proprietress of the rouge shop snatched it, and covered her mouth with a handkerchief and said: "This is face fat, it costs two taels of silver." The cheapest tooth powder also costs half a tael of silver, and the tooth powder is bought back with a tooth towel, do you still want to see it? ”

Xu Tianxin is the rouge shop that left in the live broadcast room with two different voices of the family.

One is: just buy it, let her open it, put the tooth towel one by one, and let her serve the bureau, Ma Dan.

One is: don't buy it, this is awesome for her, something great, and the toothbrush is designated to look like a shoe brush, and she wants her to do that thing, let's go home and make it ourselves.

Xu Tianxin was more embarrassed by the proprietress to cover her mouth with a handkerchief, as if she was afraid of something strange on her.

She didn't buy it, she had salt, and it wasn't impossible to wipe her teeth and rinse her mouth with willow branches when she went back.

And this little episode is not a matter in Meizhuang's eyes, the whole village does not brush her teeth, like she is still a particular one, rinsing her mouth with grass and wood gray water or charcoal water.

But when Xu Tianxin was driven away by the bookstore Xiaoer again, Meizhuang felt a little uncomfortable.

Because she could guess from Xu Tianxin signing the document for her just now, and Liu Jingdong, who had settled accounts for the village before and was better than studying seriously, Tian Xin was young and extremely smart. If you can send it to study well, plan to buy a few more books to learn, Tian Xin is more than enough to be a big shopkeeper.

Meizhuang wondered: How many books should I buy? She didn't understand any of that. She still has the last five taels of silver left by her father and mother here, do you want to go back and persuade the eldest mother to buy books for Tian Xin, no matter how difficult it is, don't delay the child's learning.

Meizhuang thinks that she can learn it by reading a book, isn't there such a sentence, there is a golden house in the book.

In the end, the day ended with Meizhuang carrying Liu Laozhu home.

The car board was also full of Liu Laozhu's vomit.

When Mrs. Xu heard Meizhuang say that her granddaughter was asked by the bookstore junior if she wanted to buy a book, and if she didn't buy it, please go out; heard Meizhuang say that her granddaughter was so worn that she didn't even buy tooth powder, and she was looked down upon by the dead old lady in the rouge shop in the town; When she heard her granddaughter say that Liu Laozhu was choked by those people who handled the title deed, she was silent for a long time.

On the second day, she and Sibo once again provoked the village girders.

Mrs. Xu waved her arms and commanded the villagers: "Pickled cabbage, pickled vegetables, more horse grass straw, more Wula grass, more mushroom picking, use all the money in your hand to buy food, now start signing up to buy ......"

The fourth uncle was on crutches and shouted to the strong laborers: "Pick the leader, go up the mountain to cut the purlin wood and put the beams, hand in the adobes of each family, and dig the foundation." The loess on the straw roof is a wall, and the loess kang is stronger than the bed, build me such a house! ”

The people in the village were very confused, and they intuitively felt that they had contracted some big work in Erdaohe Village, and they didn't see that Li Zheng came back after drinking like that last night.

At this time, Liu Laozhu threw everything in the village and began to walk on the road of writing IOUs everywhere.

He knocked on the door of the Bai family, a wealthy Xiucai family in Shili and Eight Villages, and the Bai family had a clay pottery workshop, explaining that he wanted to buy a lot of large jars, and the defective products would be used for his own use, that is, ......

The Bai family took over the words, and it was not easy to sell anyway, so they would use it first, and then calculate the money at the end of the year.

Liu Laozhu hurriedly wrote an IOU to someone, and he was so grateful in his heart.

On this day, Liu Laozhu also wrote an IOU of seven taels of silver to the well drilling team, and wrote six IOUs for exchanging fish for adobe to Lizheng for helping to collect adobe in various villages.

But he settled all the brick money for the adobe kiln first.

Because he saw that there were many boys from Erdaohe Village who came out to work in this black brick kiln.

These boys ate too much black dry food that would kill people, drank soup that was not much stronger than swill, and their wages were only twenty copper plates a day and they didn't go home, and they were all black and thin and not human-shaped, and they told their families that it was good to be outside, and they were all here.

I heard that I can't go back now, and the black brick kiln doesn't pay the wages, which makes people bear the stupid boys.

So when Liu Laozhu bought bricks, he talked to people, I want so many bricks, and I can pay them off in a lump sum, but you have to settle the wages of the children in my village and let them go immediately.

And many of the boys working in the black brick kiln in Erdaohe Village have also seen Liu Laozhu. But to be honest, they didn't have any hope for Li Zheng, and they didn't even complain about their grievances, they just continued to work numbly.

But I never expected that after a while, the owner of the brick kiln called everyone to stop.

"Erdaohe Village, come and settle the salary, you are coming to pick you up and go home!"