The blessing of the splendid farm family is married to the world

Chapter 14 Forest Tax

From An's house, walk a hundred or so steps in the direction of the village. It is a stone bridge leading to the fields outside the village. An Xu got up early in the morning, carried a bamboo basket, and went out with a shovel in his hand. .

After getting off the bridge, An Xu looked around and found that there were indeed a few confiscated crops in the fields on both sides, but from a distance, it looked like a green gauze curtain, only the northeast one.

An Xu walked over there, and after turning two corners, he walked onto a small field stalk, and the cousin who talked to her yesterday was already there.

Speaking of which, An Xu still doesn't know the name of his cousin.

There were more than a dozen slender sugar cane lying behind An Ao. Seeing An Xu, he said, "You don't have enough fertilizer on your sugar cane, and it doesn't grow thick. It shouldn't be easy to sell in the town."

An Xu knelt down and picked up a sugarcane head that was wobbly, and then broke off the still dizzy blue sugarcane head. He took a bite, but the sweetness was not enough.

This is without chicken manure.

Even if he has not learned the relevant agricultural knowledge, An Xu also knows that if melons and fruits want to achieve sweetness, some chicken manure on the base fertilizer is the best.

"Then I won't sell it," An Xu clapped his hands. It's not bad to make snacks for An Da Ni's brother. Anyway, she is occupying An Da Ni's body now.

An Ao was a little surprised, and looked back at his cousin, only to see that she had already picked up the hoe and dropped a sugarcane neatly, with a chic and fluent movement.

"It's pretty good," An Ao nodded, and it was the first time that he could see some beauty from other people doing this boring farm work.

An Xu raised his head and smiled, and said chattingly, "On the way out just now, I saw a kid herding a cow reading aloud with a book in his hand, but I didn't know whose child it was."

Thinking that she was envious of other people's family being rich enough to send their children to study, An Ao said about you: "Our place in Yipu has always had a strong academic atmosphere. If you want to send Xiao Chong to study, the pressure in Kaimeng is not too great."

An Xu thought for a while and said, "He doesn't stay at home all day, I'm afraid he won't be able to study honestly."

Hearing this, An Ao felt a little angry. You can use all the money you saved at home to pay for an irrelevant Zong Che to study in depth. How can you be so stingy to your own brother?
An Ao only said: "It won't cost you a lot of money to let him read and write. It will be good for him in the future. At least go out to do a job, so you won't be blind."

Hearing his earnest words, An Xu was a little certain that this cousin and the old man who led the cow when she returned to the village the day before yesterday were probably father and son, not only in appearance, but also in the tone of admonition.

"I thought so too," An Xu said, and by the way, made an excuse for his own changes in the future, "I can't live like this, I have to work hard to earn money, so that my younger brother and the Zong family boy will go to the scientific examination."

An Ao dug out a piece of sugar cane, and said with a smile: "That's right, be down-to-earth, don't always think about something unrealistic."

I want to rely on Zongche to be the imperial wife, but it's hard.

There were more than an acre of carrots planted in the nearby field. At this time, two middle-aged couples walked to the field with hoes on their shoulders. The man smiled and said hello to An Ao: "Da Ao, help your sister produce sugar cane?"

The woman next to her followed closely and said, "Isn't your family planning to put the Chinese cabbage in the cellar today? Do you need help with this little thing?"

The latter sentence is obviously referring to An Xu.

"Aunt Sanjin, that's not what you said," An Ao smiled as soon as he spoke. He was a very pleasing young man. "Our family has a lot of labor and can be busy. This is not too much sugarcane, and it can be transported to the house. It’s also a lot of physical work.”

An Xu felt warm in his heart when he heard that, he didn't expect An Da Ni to have such a good cousin.

Uncle Sanjin coughed, "We have to get some radishes out soon, why are there so many gossips?"

Aunt Sanjin finally stopped talking and squatted down to pull out the carrots, holding the big bamboo basket in one hand.

As the autumn wind blew, the field was so quiet that only the sound of digging sugar cane and pulling radish was left. Suddenly, Aunt Sanjin looked at An Xu who was busy busy again, as if bored.

"Da Ni, you are still short of Zheng San'er's family by more than 300 Wen." She asked suddenly.

An Xu heard it, and knew that the words were not kind, so he hummed.

Aunt Sanjin curled her lips, she kept working with her hands, and said, "Then why do you still offend the maids of the big family in the county? If a big family builds a village on the mountain behind our village, let alone the construction period , People in our village can earn wages. In the future, when people go to the village, don’t they have to buy food and drink from the village?”

"You don't need to touch anything, you can earn a lot of money every year." Under Uncle Sanjin's warning eyes, Aunt Sanjin insisted on finishing these words.

Ever since I heard the maid in the city settle the account, there are many people like Aunt Sanjin who are dissatisfied with those who disagree with An Dani and others to build a villa in the back mountain.

Hearing this, An Xu asked in confusion: "The rich man built the village, didn't he just plant trees, raise chickens and ducks, so that they can use it for their own use? Why do they need to sell things from the village? And the mountain was taken by them, Although we can earn wages for a while, can we still go in and out of the mountains and forests to collect firewood to find some wild things in the future?"

A few questions made Aunt Sanjin speechless, and she kept scolding An Xu in her heart, saying that she would definitely not be able to marry in the future.

"We can go into the mountains at will now, but we still have to pay a forest tax of [-] Wen per person per season," Aunt Sanjin said, "We have a rich man's village here, so the forest tax cannot be levied on us. Ordinary people are on their heads."

An Yu really didn't expect this. After harvesting the sugarcane for a while, the couple over there also pulled the radish to the other end. She quietly asked An Ao next to her: "As the saying goes, you can eat mountains by relying on them. Why do we still charge forest taxes here?" ?”

It’s really not easy for others to hear these words, An Ao also whispered: “In rich places, more taxes are always collected, not to mention that we have mountains and forests and fertile fields here, which take advantage of both sides, and more classes are more than enough. The way to make up for the deficiency."

An Xu nodded, the reason is this, but the forest tax of [-] Wen per person seems to be a bit stressful.

The purchasing power of a penny now is about the same as she was in modern times, but it is definitely more precious than a penny, because people at this time have much fewer ways to earn money than in modern times.

As for the degree of material development, it is even more incomparable.

Like An Dani's family of three, among other things, the forest tax alone costs 180 cash for two seasons.

If you rely on the pickled eggs sold by An Da Ni, the highest price is two yuan a piece, and you will get ninety eggs for 180 yuan.

Antani did not engage in large-scale breeding. There are only three chickens and two ducks in the family, including a rooster. The rest let them lay eggs every day, and it will take a month to save up to [-].

However, this does not include the cost of feeding chickens and ducks, the loss of marinating eggs, and whether Andani's family should eat one or two eggs to improve their meals.

If you want to get rich, you need a period of capital accumulation.

An Xu placed his hope on the pile of rock eggs, hoping that those he got home would hatch successfully.Or when she goes home later, she will make the bed and sleep with those stone eggs in her arms at night?

In these thoughts, the half-acre field of sugarcane was quickly harvested. An Ao broke the sugarcane into five or six bundles, carried two bundles and left.

Seeing the situation, An Xu couldn't let his cousin carry all of them. He bent down and lifted a bundle, put it on his shoulders and followed behind. Secretly sigh.

This An Da Ni is really capable if she is capable, but she is also really bad if she has a bad temper.

(End of this chapter)