It is difficult for the farmer's sister

Chapter 13 Handing in Land Fu (the seventh day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar)

Not long after the end of the autumn harvest, the yamen servants who collected the land tax entered the village.

Su Changsheng, the village head of Sujia Village, greeted the yamen servants into the yard, "My lord, isn't it the time to collect the land tax?"

The yamen servant took a sip of tea before speaking. "Because of the severe drought in the north this year, the Tian Family sympathized with the people and decided to reduce or exempt half of the land tax this year. I'm just waiting for today's notice, and it will be taken away in seven days."

Su Changsheng was overjoyed. Normally, [-]% of an acre of land needs [-] catties of grain. This year, [-]% of the crop would only need [-] catties.

Su Changsheng thought to himself, "This year everyone saves some food, enough to harvest next summer."

In this dynasty, the fields produced very little.Thinking about modern times, an acre of land can easily contain thousands of jin. In this dynasty, an acre of more than [-] jin was considered a fertile field.

After sending the yamen servants away, Su Changsheng hurriedly notified the heads of each family to prepare food and pay the land tax in seven days.

There is no adult in Su Rui's family, so Su Changsheng came to the door in person, "Miss Rui, prepare one hundred catties of wheat and fifty catties of rice, and gather at the gate of the village's ancestral hall in seven days' time."

"Thank you, the village chief, we will be there on time," Su Rui thanked.

"You should call me uncle. Although your father and I are not from the same tribe, and our age is quite different. But the relationship has always been good. If there is anything you can't solve, you can come to the village to find me." Su Changsheng was ready to go After leaving, there are many things in the village. In the early years, many victims came from the south to settle down, so there are even more things.

"Thank you Uncle"

"Yeah." Su Changsheng waved his hand and left...

Su Rui's family didn't harvest much food on the three acres of land, because they didn't irrigate several times during the drought, so the harvest was only about [-]% of the previous year...

In Su Rui's limited memory, in the past years, the officials were very strict in collecting land taxes, and there were a few small stones in the grain, or they had to be beaten back if they were not dry enough, and replaced with good ones.

Therefore, Su Rui decided to replace all the crops grown in the field with those grown in space.If those yamen servants look down on those produced by space, then according to this dynasty, they really can't find a better one.

With the help of her siblings, Su Rui packed two [-]-jin bags of wheat and one [-]-jin bag of rice and put them in the corner.

The rest of the grain was put into the granary and sealed, and the grain in the secret room was not taken out. Anyway, the grain in the cellar was eaten first.

In the middle of the night, suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums outside, Xiao Liu, who was asleep, trembled in fright, and burst into tears.

Su Rui quickly picked up Su Chennan and coaxed her. "Touching the hair won't scare you, rubbing the ears will scare you for a while. Chen Nan is fine, let's go to sleep."

"Sister, what's wrong?" Su Ying rubbed her eyes.

Su Rui got up and put on her coat and said, "It's okay, you can go to sleep. Sister, go and have a look."

As a man in the family, Su Chenrui immediately got up, "Sister, I'll accompany you."

"Okay, you accompany eldest sister." Su Rui was relieved.

There is a lantern at home, and the Su family siblings carry it up and walk to the village.

I saw bright lights at the entrance of the ancestral hall, and there was a lot of shouting.

Seeing Aunt Hua and Aunt Lin standing together, Su Rui hurried over.

"Auntie, what's the matter?"

"Why are you two children here? Go back quickly, this is not something you should know!" Aunt Lin changed her usual gentleness and rushed Su Rui and brother home.

Su Rui asked "???"

"Daughter-in-law Chang Ying, tell them if you have nothing to do. Now that you know, it won't do them any harm." Aunt Hua said flatly.

"Hey, such dirty things. I'm too embarrassed to say..." Aunt Lin was very embarrassed.

"Your brother-in-law got involved with Widow Liu in the east of the village, and was caught by his brother-in-law."

Su Rui and Su Chenrui were stunned. "This, how is this possible?"

In her impression, Su Changan usually put on a serious face, not like someone who would steal.It's really indescribable...

Aunt Hua looked contemptuous, "I can't see it, they were all caught and raped in bed. Mrs. Li was still shouting that she was framed."

"Okay, you all know what's going on, go back quickly." Aunt Lin started to drive Su Rui and brother home.

On the way back, Su Rui suddenly said something. "Brother, when you grow up, elder sister will find you someone who is like you."

"Eldest sister, what are you talking about? How old am I?" Su Chenrui was ashamed.

"Hehe, it's almost time to see your wife in a few years." Su Rui stroked Su Chenrui's head.

Early the next morning, when Su Qiang came to play with Su Chenrui, he brought a follow-up.

"The widow of the Liu family hanged herself last night. Uncle Chang An was beaten up by the younger uncle of the Liu family and Liu Ping, the widow's son, and he paid five taels of silver to solve the problem." Su Qiang said with a candy in his mouth.

Su Rui sighed, this is no hanging.He was obviously strangled to death by Liu's uncle and her son Liu Ping...

The status of women in ancient times was really low. Those who stole were directly killed by the clan, and they were not reported to the government.

The [-]th is coming soon, early in the morning.Su Ruibie and her younger siblings lifted the bag of wheat onto the wheelbarrow, and pushed it unsteadily into the village.

At this time, the gate of the ancestral hall was already full of people.

"No, no, no, the quality of your food is too bad, and you won't accept it when the council official arrives." Su Changsheng shouted.

"Village Chief, this is the only food in my family."

"Mr. Lin, it's not that I don't accept it. It's that the government doesn't want it when it comes." Su Changsheng has no choice...

Mr. Lin’s family is still somewhat different from Su Rui’s. In the early years, because he was an outsider, the family had too little land. The Lin family’s son went to the mountain to open up wasteland. When it rained heavily, he accidentally fell down the hillside and died. This time, their family ran out of food due to the drought. , and starved to death of his daughter-in-law and eldest grandson. At this time, only his little granddaughter Lin Lijun and him were left in the family. The already poor family was even worse.

Su Rui couldn't bear it, and told her siblings to line up.He followed behind the grandparents of the Lin family, and only stepped forward when he saw that there was no one else.

"Grandpa Lin, sister Lijun."

The Lin family looked back and saw a strange girl asking strangely. "Girl, who are you?"

Su Rui smiled, "I'm the boss of Su Changming's family, Su Rui."

Mr. Lin suddenly realized that this is also a poor person. "Su girl, what's the matter?"

"Grandpa Lin, I have nothing to do. I just want to see that you are worrying about food. My family still has some better quality food, which I can lend to you. I will return it to us next year." Since Su Rui chased him out, he just wanted to make a good relationship.

Mr. Lin was surprised. "Why do you want to help us?"

Su Rui paused for a moment before saying, "Because when I saw Sister Lijun, I thought of our siblings. If we didn't have kind people to help us, we probably wouldn't be able to survive. So..."

Mr. Lin understood Su Rui's unfinished words. "The old man thanked Miss Su here."

"Then Grandpa Lin sent the food home, take the bag and follow me home to get the food."

When she got home, Su Rui told Mr. Lin to wait in the yard for a while. She went into the space to pack the grain and took it out before asking Mr. Lin to come in to carry the grain.

When she returned to the entrance of the Su family's ancestral hall, Su Rui whispered to Mr. Lin, "Grandpa Lin, don't tell anyone that you borrowed food from my family."

Even the old man nodded, "Well, the old man remembered."

"Elder Sister, what did you do? We'll be here soon." Su Ying finally saw Eldest Sister come back.

"It's not here yet." Su Rui sees that there are still five to arrive at her home.

Lin Lijun waited for Su Rui to go far away, then pulled her grandfather's sleeve and said softly, "Grandpa, Sister Su Rui is a good person."

Mr. Lin watched the interaction between Su Rui's siblings from a distance.

"Yes, you have to remember that the kindness of a drop of water should be repaid by a spring."

"Well" Lin Lijun understands that it is not difficult to add icing on the cake, and sending carbon in the snow is the most precious.

(End of this chapter)