Lin Daqiang pinched a sauerkraut and smelled it, it was sour, it didn't smell so good, but he also believed what Lin Xiaoman said.

"Nacheng, what did you tell your uncle to prepare for pickled cabbage? When the time comes, my family will prepare to come out first, and there are people in the village who want to learn, so let your aunt teach them when the time comes. ”

Lin Xiaoman taught Lin Daqiang how to pickle sauerkraut, Lin Daqiang was afraid that he couldn't remember clearly, and called them when he said that Lin Xiaoman pickled sauerkraut at home.

After saying this, Lin Daqiang said another thing, "Didn't you tell me that you wanted to open up wasteland?" I went to the county government yesterday to ask, the imperial court recently encouraged the people to reclaim wasteland, and the first year was exempted from agricultural taxes. If you reclaim wasteland this year, you will not have to pay taxes next year, and you will start to pay as much tax as you will start after the next year, and then there will be people in the yamen to divide the fields into grades. If you think about it, Uncle will go to the county government tomorrow to say something, and the county government will send someone to measure the land. ”

Lin Xiaoman felt very satisfied when he heard it, "That's okay, Uncle Lao Daqiang will bother." ”

"What kind words did Uncle He say? It's just that our village will be busy with the pankang next, I'm afraid that we won't be able to spare the manpower to help you open up the wasteland, what are your plans? Do you want to hire people from other villages? ”

Lin Xiaoman had already thought about it, in addition to hiring people from other villages to open up wasteland, she also had to collect hazelnuts, and now the people in Hedong Village couldn't spare manpower, so she must ask people from other villages.

"Well, it's okay to hire people from other villages, but I'm not familiar with it, and I have to help Uncle Daqiang help me Zhang Luo."

Lin Daqiang grinned, "You can trust uncle, uncle must make you beautiful." ”

He has been the patriarch for many years, and he is the busiest and most tired for a while, but he is also the most fulfilling, and he seems to be full of energy, so he is afraid that he will suddenly be idle and panic.

After going back, Lin Daqiang summoned all the people who didn't arrange work, and said the arrangements after that, those who can weave mats will weave mats, and those who can't weave mats will go to play kang boards, and dozens of people will be selected to go to Lin Xiaoman's house to learn pankang, and they can earn more money in the next period of time, otherwise when the people outside have learned, this money will not be their turn to earn it themselves.

Even after the fierce competition, the price of each other will not be so much.

In the afternoon, the wall of the east chamber was built, and the people who had not been on the kang and the people selected by Lin Daqiang started to pan the kang, and those who had passed the kang stood next to the side to command, and soon these people who had not been on the kang also understood the principle of the pankang.

The next step is to wait for the auspicious day to be on the beam, and then plaster the inner and outer walls.

The auspicious day is five days later, and in the next few days, these people don't have to come to Lin Xiaoman's house again, and they can start to make kang for the people in the village.

Lin Daqiang got up early the next day and went to the county government to invite someone to come to the village to divide the wasteland.

As soon as Lu Jin finished trying a case of her mother-in-law accusing her daughter-in-law of being unfilial, she heard Qingshu say that the patriarch of Hedong Village came to help Lin Xiaoman's family buy land, and people suddenly became energetic.

"The little shopkeeper wants to buy land? This is a big deal, you come with me. ”

"Yes!" Qingshu took the order and asked, "Master, do you want me to say something, so you don't have to prepare your master's meal at noon?" ”

"Do you need to ask?" Lu Jin gave him a roll of the eyes angrily, and Qingshu ran out with a smile.

Lin Daqiang came out of the county government with two officials who measured the land, and saw Lu Jin and Qingshu standing at the gate of the yamen in regular clothes, and Qingshu was holding two horses in his hands.

Lin Daqiang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "The grass people have seen the county order. ”

Lu Jin nodded at him, "No need to be polite." ”

After Lin Daqiang got up, he wanted to wait for Lu Jin and Qingshu to leave first, but when he saw the two old gods standing there, as if they were waiting for someone, or waiting for him to leave first, he had to say tentatively: "If the adults are fine, I will leave first." ”

Lu Jin nodded at him, Lin Daqiang breathed a sigh of relief, and walked towards the handlebar style where the carriage was parked not far from the county office.

Lu Jin and Qingshu also turned over and got on the horse, and after Lin Daqiang got into the carriage with the two little officials, he looked back and saw Lu Jin and Qingshu following behind unhurriedly, and asked in a low voice: "Lord County Order, are you going on a business trip?" ”

The two officials shook their heads, "I don't know." ”

They are just small officials in charge of land in the county government, so how can they do what they do when they get the county order? But looking at the appearance of the county magistrate, why does it look like he is following them?

Could it be that the new officials took office and wanted to see if these yamen officials had bent the law for personal gain?

The two of them looked at each other and smiled wryly at the same time, and they both made up their minds that when they surveyed the land today, they would never use their hands and feet on the size of the land.

When he went out of the city, he saw that Lu Jin and Qingshu were still following behind, and Lin Daqiang was happy for no reason.

In the past, when his father was the patriarch, he heard his father say that when the officials of the yamen came to measure the fields, they would use their hands and feet on the number of acres, and the real hands of ten acres of land were less than nine acres, and some of them were even less than eight acres.

The extra land will be allocated to the squire, landlords or some nobles, who cultivate the shrinking land, but pay real taxes, and those who are rich do not know how much they can save in a year's taxes.

But they know that they can't do anything about it, maybe the county magistrate is afraid that these people will do something in the field to supervise.

For a while, I was even more grateful to Lu Jin for his hard work for the people.

At this time, Lu Jin, who was grateful to Lin Daqiang, was listening to Qingshu's nagging in his ear, "Master, the barbecue you ate the day before yesterday was too fragrant, what do you say the little shopkeeper will cook today?" ”

"You know how to eat! Outsiders have treated you harshly with me. Lu Jin was too lazy to read the green book, but all that flashed in his mind was the roast chicken and roast sheep that day, but his favorite was the boiled fish.

Obviously it can make people cry, why do you want to call boiled water such a light name?

I thought: How can I get the little shopkeeper to do it for him again?

When I came to Hedong Village, it was still early, and when I entered the village, I saw the villagers running around. What Lu Jin and Qingshu thought of was: "Something happened in the village?" ”

Lin Daqiang smiled: "No, no, it's because our village has been a little busy recently, and the hospitality is not good, please forgive me." ”

Lu Jin's little face fell, and before he could eat the boiled fish he was thinking about, Patriarch Lin first told him that the hospitality was inadequate, did he plan to take care of his food? It's not that he doesn't give money.

Although he didn't feel good in his heart, Lu Jin also planned to go to Lin Xiaoman to have a look first, in case Lin Xiaoman was not so busy, he could always cook something delicious for him.

Because he was surveying the land for Lin Xiaoman's family, Lin Daqiang directly led people to Lin Xiaoman's house in the west of the village.

Lin Xiaoman was cooking lunch, although the new stove could be used, but the stove was too low, and he was a little unaccustomed to bending over to cook, and it was too hot in the fire house, so Lin Xiaoman still used the stove outside first.

In the past few days, people have always come to the house, and Lin Xiaoman didn't do it too well, he simply made a single pot of white rice and made a pickle stir-fried meat.

After the snow, the weather was cold and frozen, and when everyone was at home in the winter, she and Lin Erhu cooked food at home.

If you don't want to do it, you can go there to open a small stove, and it's beautiful to think about it.