Farmers' group pet: the blessings of powerful ministers are soft and deceitful

Chapter 58 Mental Arithmetic Ability
It took about an hour and a half for this field to store water.

Jiang Shi sealed the openings on both sides, and before it was dark, he leisurely went home with the hoe on his shoulder.

Every year, the fields allocated here have to worry about water diversion, but the fields in other places do not have this problem, and the neighbors are very talkative.

In the next half month, every household started planting rice seedlings, and the roads in the fields were full of busy villagers.

Lin Ru was afraid that Jiang Shi would be tired, so she helped plant seedlings for a day, and Jiang Shi didn't need her to go the next day.

Said he could do the job by himself.

For the [-] mu of land, he was nimble and planted it in a few days.

Jiang Ning originally wanted to help, but before she got married, she said she wanted to help her find a good family, but she was afraid that her husband's family would dislike her, so she never let her go to the fields.

Now that you are married, you don't have to worry about these things.

But Jiang Shi still loves his daughter dearly, and he didn't let her worry about the affairs in the field, just let her tidy up the house at home.

In the past few days, the village has been busy working in the fields, and some things about growing crops were inevitably discussed at the dinner table.

After speaking, he passed the conversation to the harvest in the field.

Shen Chenlan was a little curious: "Father, how much rice can our field produce?"

Most of the people who talk at the dinner table are Lin Ru. He is not interested in what those women are talking about, and most of the time he just eats with his head depressed.

When I was a family of three, I felt nothing.

Ever since a son-in-law came, he chatted a lot at the dinner table, and he didn't understand those who sell ready-made clothes and embroidery.

Sometimes even if I want to interrupt, I don't know where to pick it up, so I just don't say anything.

Now that the son-in-law asked about growing crops, he realized that he finally had something to say.

So he coughed lightly and said: "One mu of land is about three shi meters. Our family has a total of 45 mu of paddy fields. As long as God doesn't have any troubles, we can have [-] shi meters. If we take care of it occasionally, we can go there. Fifty shi, the current grain tax is [-] shi, and every time we have to pay three shi of rice, we have two kinds of rice this year, and we have to pay six shi of rice a year."

Shen Chenlan was thoughtful after hearing this, and asked again, "Then how many stones of rice does our family eat in a month?"

Jiang Shi glanced at him and said, "One person is about ten buckets a month, you can calculate it yourself."

Shen Chenlan: "..."

This ancient unit of measurement is not common to him.

Lin Ru looked at Shen Chenlan from the side, thinking that her son-in-law would not be able to figure this out.

So he kindly asked, "Is there anything you don't understand?"

Shen Chenlan hesitated for a moment, and asked seriously: "How much is a stone?"

Lin Ru pursed her lips and smiled, "One stone is ten buckets."

Knowing this, Shen Chenlan calculated in his mind that it was much faster.

Who hasn't practiced mental arithmetic in primary school.

He blurted out: "Then our family could store 48 shi of rice a year."

Now that he's here, I'm afraid he can only save 36 shi of rice a year.

After all, when he came here, he didn't say that he would give his family another five acres of land.

Here Jiang Shi was stunned, surprised that he could figure it out so quickly, and thought of testing his son-in-law again.

Said: "Our family has paid the food tax, and except for those we keep for ourselves, the rest can be sold in the town. The market price is nine Wen a bucket. Look, how much money can our family have left in a year?"

Shen Chenlan began to do mental calculations while listening, and as soon as Jiang Shi finished asking, he already had a rough idea in his mind.

He said honestly: "Before I came, there were about four taels left in a year. After I came, there were only three taels left in a year."

(End of this chapter)