After the separation, the little widow Xianggong returned from the capital

Chapter 34 Chapter 34
Qi Qi looked at the rolling river and frowned, thinking about what to do?
If the field is really barren, it will be barren. It doesn't matter. At most, you can post some labor and seed money yourself.

She went to the village head's house for dinner a few days ago, and she also took the opportunity to ask, for this kind of disaster-damaged and confiscated fields, after a process, the county government can also be exempted from tax.

Qi Qi asked again if he could just return the land to the county government and forget it. She didn't want it anymore, and it was annoying to suffer disasters every year and go through the process every year.If another county magistrate who is not easy to talk about doesn't grant tax exemption, then she can't pay back?

The village head shook his head, Gu Xiaoen asked this question a few years ago when he was alive, and he also went to the county government to negotiate, the answer is no, the court has no laws in this regard.

Qi Qi vomits blood, this is going to rot in her hands, the farmland must be plowed, and if it is left uncultivated, it will be punished, but there is no harvest every year, what about playing?
Such an unreasonable regulation, why didn't someone who understands come forward to revise it and solve it?

Qi Qi turned around and looked at the land again. Apart from her family's five acres, there were another twenty or thirty acres of land, and it was unknown who owned it.

Seeing people in those fields from a distance, Qi Qi raised his foot and walked over.

It's not far from the next door to her house, and when she got closer, Qi Qi recognized that they were the grandfather and grandson of Uncle Gu's family in the east of the village. When her family built a new house, they also did small labor.

This Uncle Gu's surname is Gu, but he has nothing to do with her family.

"Master, it's raining, why don't you go home and hide, it's not good to get wet and get sick." Qi Qi greeted with a smile.

"Hey, you are among the girls. Why did you come out? Go back quickly. Let's do more work while the rain is not heavy. We have a lot of land to manage. I'm afraid it will be too late." Uncle Gu was already graying at the temples, while working Huo was panting heavily while talking.

Since she returned to the village with the medical certificate, no one came to her for treatment except Liniang who came to her quietly.

Until one night, a child in the village had a high fever in the middle of the night, so they invited an old doctor. After seeing it, the old doctor shook his head and sent him to the town's medical center.

In the middle of the night, the children are already like this, so there is no time.

The child's mother thought of Qi Qi, and asked her to go and have a look, and if it didn't work, she could borrow her family's carriage to take her there.

When the child's family heard it, yes, her family has a carriage.

I went to invite Qi Qi immediately, and didn't have much hope at first, but when Qi Qi came, he immediately gave the child a few needles, and the high fever subsided a little, and gave the child pills for the mother to feed the child. Then wipe the palms, soles of feet, and armpits with warm water... Soon, the child's condition improved.

The medicine balls were made by Qi Qi himself during this period of time. There are medicines for reducing fever, colds, diarrhea, nourishing blood and health, anti-alcohol, anti-emetic, and detoxification... there are a dozen of them.

I didn't expect it to come in handy so soon.

The child was out of danger, which made the child's family very happy. Weeping with joy, they must kneel down and apologize immediately.

Qi Qi also fought this battle and officially became famous. From then on, people in the village who were not relatives of the same family would call her "Miss" when they saw her.

From Uncle Gu's mouth, Qi Qi learned that besides her family's five acres of land, the sixth wife's family had three acres, Uncle Gu's family had twelve acres, Yang Daqing's family had three acres, Li Erniu's family had two acres, and the remaining The odds and ends are all owned by people in the village, but most of them are leased to the few families in Dongcuntou for planting.

Uncle Gu was about to cry when he talked about his family’s [-] acres of land. At first, his family didn’t have that much land here. Later, someone sold the land here at a low price, so he bought it cheaply, thinking that as long as he worked hard, There will always be a harvest. Who knows that the floods have become more and more serious in the past few years. He smashed the land in his hands and couldn't throw it away.

Seeing his tearful appearance, Qi Qi felt very heavy.

In the Great Pei Dynasty, there was a head tax based on the number of persons, that is, the Ding tax; a property tax based on the household, that is, the household adjustment; a land tax based on the number of acres, that is, land rent; and a corvee and labor tax based on adult men. Military service; there are also various other miscellaneous taxes such as customs duties and city taxes.

For ordinary people, in fact, money is needed every day when they open their eyes, and their income comes from the production of the field.

After a year of hard work, there was no harvest in the fields. Isn't this killing them?

Seeing that he couldn't persuade them to go back, Qi Qi didn't say much anymore, and said goodbye to them, and continued to walk to the bank of the river. After calculation, the U-shaped notch and the edge of the river were about 2000 meters long, which is not too long. .

If a dam is to be built, the cost...she has to calculate it carefully.

After these days of planning, she knew that unless she left here, regardless of the neighbors here, otherwise, if she wanted to live a stable life, she would have to build dams and canals.

She had no money before, but now that she has received the reward from that adult, she has money, but she doesn't know if it is enough.

In fact, something that can be done with a little money is not a big deal.

What's more, this is also a matter of accumulating merit, and she is even more reluctant.

It is now late April, and the paddy fields that Yang Daqing has been transforming are almost ready, but the seeds or seedlings of the water eight immortals that he wants to plant have not yet been found.

Hey, she feels that it's all things, and the time is too tight, and she can't keep up with everything.

Seeds can only wait for news, and there is no other way.

In the afternoon, Qi Qi went to the village chief to discuss the construction of the dam with her belongings.

"What did you say? You want to build a dam?" The village chief raised his voice when he heard her coming, and stood up excitedly. "The cost of building the dam is not a small amount? Where did you get the money?"

"The last time I saved someone, I got some rewards, but I don't know if it's enough, no, I asked you to discuss it." Qi Qi smiled calmly, "You calculate for me, how much money is needed. If I can get it out , just do it, if you can’t take it out, this matter can only be postponed later.”

Gu Shanchong looked at her with a complicated light in his eyes. He really didn't expect that a woman would have such courage. Before, he underestimated her.

"Building a dam mainly requires stones and wooden piles, which are then connected with stone ingots or iron ingots, and joints are jointed with lime, glutinous rice, tung oil, etc. How high do you plan to build?" Gu Shanchong squinted his eyes while smoking blood dry smoke , figured it out.

"I asked about the water level in previous years. The bottom should be at least three feet high. However, can you use stones from the stone mountain behind my house instead of the stone strips? It can save a lot of money." Qi Qi suggested, In fact, the best way to build a dam is to use cement.

It's a pity that she doesn't know the formula very well, and there is currently no merit point for her to buy. The stingy system refuses to borrow merit points no matter what.

Hey, depressed.

"This is feasible, and it can indeed save a lot of money. I will discuss the wooden pile with the chief. The mountain behind the village is the property of the clan. There is nothing else. There are still a lot of trees." Standing up with the cigarette stick, "You go back first, I need to discuss with the patriarch first."

(End of this chapter)