Li Zheng brought it to collect taxes, in fact, Li Zheng is the same as the village chief, but in this book, Li Zheng manages the village chief.

There were three officials, two of whom carried knives, pulling an ox cart, and the children happily chased the ox cart.

When the gong is struck, the autumn tax is mainly rice, and 20 percent of each mu is collected.

The yield per mu in a good year can reach 300 catties, and the annual difference is more than 100 catties.

This year, only three acres of Li Yunlan's five acres of land are paddy fields, with a yield of 260 catties per mu, and the dry land is peanuts and beans and sweet potatoes that have not been dug up.

After paying the tax, you have to eat until the summer of the next year, the main person tax is too high, the field tax is collected twice a year, and the person tax is also, one hundred and twenty Wen per person at a time, which is not counting women, it is said that the head tax of women is also collected in the south.

The county order of Songjiang County is still honest and upright in comparison.

Li Yunlan watched the little official weigh the rice, took the money, and drew a stroke on the household book, indicating that the family tax had been paid.

When the village chief and the officials of Lizheng Village were gone, Qiu Degui looked at a hole in the West House grain circle and said, "Tomorrow I will sell it and replace it with miscellaneous grains." ”

Li Yunlan doesn't want to eat miscellaneous grains, but with such a large number of people in her family, it is not enough to eat until next summer's harvest.

"Why don't sell it, keep it and eat it, there are many children in the family, and it's not good for them to eat grains all the time, peanuts are sold, let's go to the mountains to find herbs, if it's not enough to eat, let's buy some food."

Qiu Degui disapproves a little, but this year's father's new funeral, he didn't dare to refute his mother's words too much, for fear that she would have something to do.

Also, the last time he sold herbs gave him some confidence.

"Mother, when the ground is turned over and the wheat is planted, my second brother and I will go up the mountain with you."

Li Yunlan nodded, and at noon Li Yunlan asked Liu to take two bones from the jar and stew the soup, and she carried the basket on her back and went up the mountain.

Liu stewed the bones and carried the basket to the vegetable field.

Chen went to the hall to get a stool, and when he saw that the door of the West House was not locked, he pushed the door and went in, the rice was in the mat, the peanuts were in the bucket, and there were two pockets of soybeans, a bag of all kinds of dried vegetables, and the most important thing was that one of the two jars of meat had been opened, and the smell of meat wafted out, hooking her heart.

Before, she didn't dare to touch the meat, because the lard was sealed, and if it moved, it would be obvious, but now there is a jar that has begun to eat, and even if she takes it, there is no mark.

She clutched her chest, looked into the courtyard, and then went to the gate of the courtyard, and took a cloth bag from her room and a large bowl from the kitchen.

Then she entered the Westinghouse lightly, filled a bag of peanuts, gently lifted the lid on the altar, and the smell of meat came to her nose, she swallowed her saliva, not knowing whether she was nervous or smelled of meat.

I didn't dare to take more, two ribs and two lumps of meat, half of them were missing at once, but she was too nervous to notice.

After covering the jar, she went out of the West House, covered the door, and quickly returned to her room, where she sat on the edge of the bed and gasped.

He took a small round basket, put things in and covered it with a cloth, and shouted outside, "Baoyu? Baoyu? ”

Qiu Baoyu heard his mother's shout, so he came out of the eldest mother's house.

"What's the matter?"

"Why are you standing there? Hurry up and come back and look at my brother, my mother has something to go out. ”

"Oh!"

Chen fed Chenggong and let Baoyu watch, and walked back with the basket on his shoulder.

With a heart, he quickened his steps and walked towards his mother's house.

When I arrived at my mother's house, only the old lady was at home with her nephew bolt and stone, and everyone else went to the ground, including the two little nieces.

"Milk, sister-in-law is back."

You heard the cry of the little stone and poked his head out of the pigsty.

I saw the little daughter carrying a basket to the pigsty, although the clothes were old and there were no patches, the little face was white and red, the skin was also a lot more delicate, and the person was also fatter, and it looked like the life was very good.

"What's going on here?"

"Look at what my mother said, I can't come to see you, just let my sisters-in-law clean this pigsty, come out quickly."

Chen opened the corner of the basket to show her mother, and You Shi's eyes instantly widened: "Where did it come from?" ”

"I got it from home, I should have taken it earlier, and the family has been delayed, this is the meat of the wild boar in the village, about 30 catties."

"God, there are so many, it's still a girl's intimacy, what you eat thinks about your mother's family, your mother has given birth to you in this life, and our family hasn't seen meat for a few months, so it's spoiling for your nephews." You Shi said, his eyes kept staring at the basket and did not move.

"Mother, don't sweep it out, I have to go back after I vacate the bowl?"

"Well... Okay, my grandson can't leave you, your mother-in-law is generous this time, or you have to give birth to a son, otherwise you can't raise your head in your mother-in-law's family, my girl has the ability and caring, my mother's heart is sweeter than eating honey. ”

Chen still had some drumming in his heart, but he was soon unable to find the north by the old lady's compliments.

I suddenly felt in my heart, yes, I gave birth to a son for your old enemy, shouldn't I take some meat? Do you have to break off the relationship with your parents if you get married? How can parents be ungrateful.

When Li Yunlan and Chengcai arrived home, Liu was pacing in the yard with Chenggong in his arms, and the children were grinning and crying.

"Where's Chen? Why are you coaxing? ”

Liu Shi was already sweating: "Baoyu said that her mother went out, and she didn't say where she went, and she successfully fell off the bed." ”

Li Yunlan stepped forward to see that there was a bag the size of a pigeon's egg on Chenggong's forehead, which was already bruised.

She remembered that when she was a child, when she knocked or fell on her head, her grandmother would touch some lard on it, saying that it would disappear quickly, so she also picked some lard and successfully touched it.

Mingyue hugged Baoyu, Pearl shouted with her sister, and Baoyu's eyes were already crying into peaches.

This Chen is really, and he takes her words as a deaf ear.

Xiao Chenggong slowly cried tired and fell asleep under the coaxing of his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in turns, and he was still smoking when he fell asleep, pitiful.

Baoyu was also tired of crying and slept next to Chenggong.

The brothers also came back for lunch, the courtyard was quiet, Qiu Degui went into the kitchen to see Liu's cooking: "Why are you still cooking, mother?" Are you back? ”

"Coming back, in her own room." And then I told it all over again.

Qiu Defu also entered the kitchen: "Sister-in-law, where is Baoyu Niang?" What about the kids? ”

Liu said that the child was in his mother's house, and he was about to leave when he heard it, but Qiu Degui grabbed him: "Brother and sister are out, do you know where to go?" Let a three-year-old child take care of the child, and she can do it, you go to speak carefully, my mother must be angry. ”

Qiu Defu agreed, and went to the upper room.

He was lightly moved: "Mother? Are the kids sleeping? ”

Li Yunlan waved her hand at him and asked him to go out, and she herself went out of the house and took the door: "Your daughter-in-law is getting more and more excessive, the child will leave and leave, and she won't say a word anywhere." ”

Mother and son walked to the hall and sat down.

"When she comes back, I must tell her, I guess there is something in a hurry, so I didn't say hello."

"I told her last time, she didn't listen to a word, you can't do it, no matter how you say it's not right to beat someone." After Li Yunlan finished speaking, she saw that the door of the West House was not locked.

Because it was full of grain, I was afraid of rats, so I usually locked the door.

"It's not worrying about either of them." With that, she got up and locked the door, and walked up to Qiu Defu, and she turned around and went to unlock it again.

"What's wrong, mother?" Qiu Defu asked as he watched the old lady's movements.

Saying that, he followed up, everything was left as it was, and there was no change in it, Qiu Defu saw the peanut pocket and said, "Who has touched this pocket?" ”

Li Yunlan looked at him and asked, "How do you know?" ”

"I tied this bag, and now that it's changed, someone must have stolen it." After saying that, his brain exploded, no.

Li Yunlan went to see the altar again, one jar had not moved, and the other jar was already half missing.

"The eldest daughter-in-law... Old everybody's? ”

Liu Shi came out of the kitchen after hearing the shouting, and Qiu Degui followed when he heard that the voice was wrong.

"What did my mother call me?"

"You go and see the altar."

Liu Shi opened the lid with a puzzled face, and half of it was missing, and immediately said: "Mother, you told me to take two bones, and I took two, but I didn't take more, why is there so much less?" ”

Qiu Defu's face was flushed: "Sister-in-law has nothing to do with you, it must be my family's mouth, just the day the meat was divided, she asked me to ask my mother to take the hanging meat to the child's grandmother's house, I didn't agree, I didn't know she would steal it." ”

Li Yunlan was just about to say something, but the success of the east room cried again.