After the separation, my wardrobe is modern

Lin Daqiang picked up a sauerkraut and smelled it, it was sour and not so pleasant, but he also believed what Lin Xiaoman said.

"Then, what did you tell uncle to prepare pickled vegetables? My family will prepare it first, and some people in the village want to learn it. Let your aunt teach them then."

Lin Xiaoman taught Lin Daqiang the method of pickling sauerkraut. Lin Daqiang was afraid that he would not remember clearly, so he called them when Lin Xiaoman's family pickled sauerkraut.

After talking about this, Lin Daqiang said another thing, "Didn't you tell me that you want to reclaim wasteland? I went to the county government to ask about it. The imperial court has recently encouraged people to reclaim wasteland, and the agricultural tax is exempted for the first year. Reclaiming wasteland this year , You don’t have to pay taxes next year, and the people in the yamen will classify the land when you start to pay the tax in the next year. If you think about it, uncle will go to the county yamen tomorrow and say it, and the county yamen will send people to measure the land.”

Lin Xiaoman was very satisfied after hearing this, "That's fine, I'll just trouble Uncle Daqiang."

"What kind words are you talking about, Uncle He? It's just that our village will be busy in the future, and I'm afraid we won't be able to spare manpower to help you open up wasteland. What are your plans? Do you want to hire people from other villages?"

Lin Xiaoman had already thought about it. Apart from hiring people from other villages to open up wasteland, she also had to collect hazelnuts. Right now, the people in Hedong Village can't find any manpower, so she must ask people from other villages.

"Well, it's okay to hire people from other villages, but I don't know them well, so I need Uncle Daqiang to help me find them."

Lin Daqiang grinned, "You can trust Uncle, Uncle must make you beautiful."

He has been the patriarch all these years, but this time is the busiest and the most tiring, but also the most fulfilling, his whole body seems to be full of energy, and he is afraid that if he is suddenly idle, he will be lost and panic.

After returning home, Lin Daqiang called all the people who were not assigned to work, and told the future arrangements, those who could weave mats would go to weave mats, and those who couldn’t weave mats would go to kang boards, and dozens of people were selected to go to the forest. Xiaoman's family learns to cook a kang, and they will be able to earn more money in the next period of time. Otherwise, when everyone outside has learned it, it will not be their turn to earn this money.

Even if the competition is fierce and prices are lowered, Pan Kang's income will not be so much.

In the afternoon, the wall of the east chamber was finished, and one person who had worked on the kang was left to teach those who hadn't done it, and the rest of them would build the wall of Lin Xiaoman's house.

Soon, those who had never cooked the kang also learned how to do it. When the kang was finished, they went out to build the courtyard wall together. Before it was dark, the nine-foot-high courtyard wall was built.

The next step is to wait for the beams to be erected on an auspicious day before plastering the inner and outer walls of the house.

The auspicious day was chosen five days later, and these people would no longer have to come to Lin Xiaoman's house in the next few days, and they could start working on the kang for the villagers.

Lin Daqiang got up early the next day and went to the city, and went to the county government to invite people to divide the wasteland in the village.

Lu Jin had just finished the trial of a case where a mother-in-law sued her daughter-in-law for being unfilial, and when she got off the yamen, she heard Qingshu say that the patriarch of Hedong Village had come to help Lin Xiaoman's family buy land, and she suddenly became energetic.

"The little shopkeeper wants to buy land? This is a big deal, you follow me."

"Yes!" Qing Shu took the order and asked, "Master, do you want me to tell you so that you don't have to prepare the master's meal at noon?"

"Do you still need to ask?" Lu Jin gave him an angry look, and Qing Shu ran out laughing.

Lin Daqiang came out of the county government office with two small officials who surveyed the land, and saw Lu Jin and Qing Shu standing at the gate of the government office in plain clothes, and Qing Shu was holding two horses in his hands.

Lin Daqiang hurriedly stepped forward to salute, "Caomin has met the county magistrate."

Lu Jin gave a weak hand, "There is no need to be polite."

After Lin Daqiang got up, he wanted to wait for Lu Jin and Qing Shu to leave first, but seeing the two old gods standing there, as if waiting for someone, or waiting for him to leave first, he had to test the authenticity: "If there is nothing wrong, my lord , I'm going first."

Lu Jin nodded to him, Lin Daqiang heaved a sigh of relief, and walked towards the place where the carriage was parked on the handlebars.

Lu Jin and Qing Shu also got on their horses. After Lin Daqiang got into the carriage with two small officials, he looked back and saw Lu Jin and Qing Shu following unhurriedly. Are you going on business?"

The two little officials shook their heads, "I don't know either."

They are just small officials in charge of land in the county government. How can they get the county magistrate to do?But looking at the appearance of the county magistrate, it looks like he is following them?

Could it be that the new officials took office and wanted to see if they, the yamen officials, had bent the law for personal gain?

The two looked at each other and smiled wryly at the same time. They both made up their minds that when measuring the land today, they must not tamper with the size of the land.

After leaving the city, seeing Lu Jin and Qing Shu still following behind, Lin Daqiang was overjoyed for no reason.

When his father was the patriarch, he had heard from his father that when the officials of the government came to measure the land, they would fiddle with the number of acres. The real amount of ten acres of land was less than nine acres, and some even less than eight acres.

The extra land will be assigned to the gentry and landlords or some nobles. Their people plant the reduced land but pay real taxes, and those rich people don’t know how much they can save in taxes a year.

But even if he knew that these ordinary people were helpless, perhaps the county magistrate was afraid that these people would tamper with the fields, so he personally came to supervise.

For a while, he was even more grateful to Lu Jin for his hard work for the people.

At this time, Lu Jin, who was grateful by Lin Daqiang, was listening to Qingshu's nagging, "Master, the barbecue I ate the day before yesterday was too delicious, what do you think the shopkeeper will cook today?"

"Just know how to eat! Outsiders think I have treated you harshly." Lu Jin is too lazy to read the green book, but what flashes through his mind is the roast chicken and roast lamb that day, but his favorite is the boiled fish.

It is so spicy that it can make people cry, why is it called Shuizhu with such a light name?

I thought to myself: How can I get the little shopkeeper to make it for him again?

It was still early when I came to Hedong Village. After entering the village, I saw busy villagers running around.What Lu Jin and Qing Shu thought of was: "What happened to the village?"

Lin Daqiang smiled: "No, no, our village has been a little busy recently, and the hospitality is not good, please forgive me."

Lu Jin's face collapsed. Before he could eat the boiled fish that he had been thinking about, Patriarch Lin told him that the hospitality was not good enough. Did he intend to take care of his meal?It's not that he doesn't give money.

Although he was not feeling well, Lu Jin still planned to make Qing Shu hungry when he saw Lin Xiaoman. If Lin Xiaoman was not so busy and they were all at her door, would she be ashamed not to cook for him?
Because he was measuring the land for Lin Xiaoman's family, Lin Daqiang led him directly to Lin Xiaoman's family in the west of the village.

Lin Xiaoman was cooking lunch. Although the new stove was ready to use, the stove was too low, and I was not used to bending over to cook. It was too hot in the house after a fire, so Lin Xiaoman decided to use the stove outside first.

Today, no one came to work at home, and people always came to watch the kang, so Lin Xiaoman didn't do a good job. He simply made a pot of white rice and fried pork with pickles.

After the snow falls, when it's freezing cold and everyone stays at home, she and Lin Erhu will cook delicious food at home.

If you don't want to do it, you can still go there to open a small stove, just think about it.