Chen Dajuan's maiden home is in Xiaochen Village, which is a clan-style village and one of the collateral lines of the Qingfeng Chen family. In order to integrate into Xiaochen Village more quickly, those who had school-age marriage children in their families wanted to marry the marriageable children of the aborigines of Xiaochen Village, or in order not to be bullied and excluded, the outsiders became in-laws and hugged each other.

As soon as Li Ping'an's grandmother settled down, she made the decision to marry her eldest daughter Li Dafang to Zhang Yu, who was also an outsider - not that she was in a hurry, but that the Dajing Dynasty had regulations for population growth, men should marry at the age of eighteen at the latest, and women at the latest at the age of sixteen.

This tax is very heavy, the money is consistent in the first year, doubled in the second year, and doubled every year on the basis of the previous year. If you can't pay this tax, the government will force you to marry, which is the so-called state wife and husband. But in this way, it is impossible to say who the government is matched with, it may be a leftover man and a woman who has no marriage match, or it may be a widower and widow.

At that time, they had just settled down, and they could have a few dollars, so they could only hurriedly marry Li Dafang, who was already nineteen, to an outsider in the same village.

Chen Dajuan's father and mother also thought about it this way, hoping that the two daughters could marry closer, preferably under their noses, so that their mother's brothers could also help one or two, and after some selection, they took a fancy to two young people of the same age as the two daughters in the more than ten outdoor households, one of which was Li Erlin.

The second elder has a good vision, and although the life of the two daughters after marriage is hard, they are also stable and peaceful, and they are happy.

The heavy rain was heavy, the dirt road was muddy, Chen Dajuan did not dare to walk fast with a bamboo basket containing eight pieces of money, and it took about half an hour to reach the house of the eldest brother Chen Dazhu. The courtyard and the hall were not closed, and looking in from the gate of the courtyard, Chen Dajuan saw that the three younger brothers were sitting around the table, as if they were discussing something.

Thinking that it was full of people, Chen Dajuan's footsteps did not stop, and as soon as she entered the yard, she was seen by Xiao Zhao, the eldest brother's daughter-in-law, who was sitting at the door of the kitchen in the east wing with three children and mending clothes.

Chen Dazhu has two daughters and a son, the two daughters are in front, the eldest daughter Lan'er is twelve years old this year, the youngest daughter Ying'er is ten years old, and the son Dawei is seven years old. They like their aunts, they are good to them, occasionally they will send some meat over, and they also sent cloth to their mothers to make new clothes for them before the Chinese New Year last year. There is also a cousin of Ping An, who often sends them a little snack.

In addition to being excited, they looked at the bamboo basket carried by the aunt and wondered if the aunt had brought them delicious food again.

The three men in the hall heard the shouts outside, stopped their discussion and looked outside, and saw that it was the eldest sister who came, and hurriedly walked out.

Chen Dajuan nodded and waved at his younger brother and daughter-in-law and nephews and nieces in response, and when he arrived at the eaves of the hall, he didn't wait for the three younger brothers to speak, and then uncovered the cloth covered by the small bamboo basket, "Your brother-in-law asked me to send it to you, a family of two dollars, and at the beginning of the year, he went to the county with his uncle and uncle to buy grain, and you went with him." ”

Although Li Erlin meant to ask her to tell her younger brothers and ask them if they wanted to go together, she didn't think about discussing it with her younger brothers, but took out the posture of the eldest sister, and her tone was unquestionable.

With such a heavy rain, it is safer to go together, and they can also help each other.

The three men had never seen so many copper coins put together, their eyes were straight, and they subconsciously wanted to refuse.

Chen Dajuan couldn't help but say, she always took out the money and stuffed it into the hands of her younger brothers, "Take it for you, and slowly return it to us in the future." ”

It is true that they need this money, and thinking that the eldest sister's family should have saved a lot of money by selling tofu and bean cakes in the past few years, the three brothers did not push it back. Chen Dazhu looked at his wife and child who were looking at this side under the eaves of the east wing, shook the copper coin in his hand vigorously, and said, "Eldest sister, I will definitely pay back these two coins within three years." ”

The eldest brother has expressed his position, and Chen Erzhu and Chen Sanzhu also hurriedly said that I am the same.

In the year when the wind and rain are good, one acre of high-quality fields can have a three-stone harvest, and a medium-sized field can have two stones, and each of them has two acres of high-quality fields and three acres of medium-sized fields, and a total of twelve stones can be harvested.

The land tax rate of the Dajing Dynasty was one tax, that is, they were yeoman farmers who owned their own land, and they needed to pay one-tenth of the output of the land to the imperial court.

Normally, one stone of new grain can be sold for 700 yuan, but if they sell all the new grain, they can sell it for eleven stones, and theoretically they can exchange it for nearly eight yuan. The reason why it is theoretically said is that it also depends on the fineness of the new grain, and the price of good grain will be slightly higher, and the price of poor fineness will be lower.

As long as they save some money and subtract the cost of salt and oil, they can have one or two dollars left in a year, and two dollars in three years, which is not a problem.

Of course, the premise is that the wind and rain are smooth and peaceful.

Chen Dajuan didn't say anything else, just nodded, and then said, "You guys hurry up and pack up and go to your brother-in-law, I have to go to my little sister's house." ”

With that, he covered the remaining two pieces of money with a cloth and walked into the rain. After seeing the eldest sister leave, Erzhu and Sanzhu also hurriedly took the two pieces of money back to their home.

Xiao Zhao came to Chen Dazhu's side at this time, looked at the copper coin in his hand that was threaded with a rope, and was silent.

"This is lent to us by the eldest sister, remember, I told the eldest sister to pay it back within three years." Chen Dazhu said.

Xiao Zhao nodded, looked at the pouring rain with a worried face, and hesitated: "Boss, why don't we buy less food?" ”

The kitchen was not far from the hall, and although the rain was noisy, she had also heard about what the Chen Dazhu brothers were discussing in the hall just now, and knew that they had been arguing about whether to use all the money to buy food.

With such a heavy rain, there is no sign of abating until now, and she knows that the summer harvest is almost certain, and she is afraid that there will be no money left this year, and she is unwilling to spend all the money. If there is no copper plate at home, in case anyone in the family has a cold and fever or something, they can't afford to buy medicine for Langzhong, so they can only be anxious.

Chen Dazhu sighed, "You watch the children at home, I went to my brother-in-law's house and went to the county with them to buy grain." ”

Although he didn't answer positively, Xiao Zhao heard Chen Dazhu's decision, his face turned pale for a moment, the thumbs and index fingers of both hands grabbed the corners of his clothes, and his nails were white due to too much force.

In fact, Chen Dazhu didn't know his daughter-in-law's worries, but he felt that his father was right when he was in the morning, it was good that there would be no disaster, if there was a flood, the more prepared he was now, the greater the chance of surviving.

He didn't want to die, he didn't want his wife to be separated, and he didn't want to make trouble, so he could only prepare as much as he could. Even if there is no disaster, the food that is now hoarded with all the wealth of the family can be preserved for oneself to eat, or sold to the grain store cheaply, and the loss will be a loss.