Sir, why is your painting style so normal?

Chapter 60

Suddenly, the sound of gongs was heard outside the courtyard, "Dang Dang Dang..."

Zhao Miaomiao stopped the needle and thread in her hand, seeing her mother-in-law and the others running out one after another, she also got up and followed.

I saw a man in official uniform walking along the road. He was holding a gong in his left hand and a wooden hammer in his right hand. He knocked hard several times and shouted, "I heard you clearly. This year's autumn grain tax is the same as in previous years." ! Hurry up and prepare the taxes and grain, as well as the capitation tax, and go to the village entrance to pay the tax!"

It's fine if there is no tax increase. The old lady Chen felt relieved and shouted, "Old man, what are you two doing stupidly? Why don't you go back and move the food and pay the tax."

Old man Chen responded to Chen Shoushan.

Mrs. Chen turned back to her room, found a wooden box from the corner of the wall, opened it, and took out the money bag she had prepared earlier, which contained a total of 660 Wen.

She went out of the room and handed it to Old Man Chen, "We have six adult males and six adult females. All children have to pay the adult tax except the little chubby one."

Zhao Miaomiao watched her father-in-law and fourth uncle carrying grain out to pay taxes.

Farmers have to pay at least two taxes a year, land tax and per capita tax.

Field tax is levied on a certain percentage of the harvest per acre. Field tax includes summer tax and autumn tax. It is usually levied in the second month of the grain harvest. The main tax collected is grain tax. Those who do not have enough grain can use money to offset it.

Person tax is paid according to the population. Adults who reach the age of 16 need to pay 120 coins; those who are four to 16 years old need to pay 20 coins; women who do not marry over the age of [-] have to pay five counts, that is, they have to pay six Baiwen.

Therefore, many families plan to marry off their girls early, fearing that keeping them will increase the burden on the family.

Zhao Di will be 16 years old in the coming year, and the marriage has not yet been settled, and Mrs. Chen is also a little anxious.

It’s not easy to talk about marriage with daughters in the old family. Mrs. Dong has given birth to several daughters in a row and has no sons.

Upset!I don't want to care about the marriage affairs of Zhaodi and others, but I leave it to Dong. Who knows what this idiot will choose to upset others.

Marrying in this girl's family is like reincarnation for the second time, she can't just find someone's family and marry Zhaodi off.

Old Mrs. Chen frowned and became angry when she saw Mrs. Dong. She, a step-grandmother, had to worry about her step-granddaughter's marriage, and it wasn't all this bastard who didn't behave like a mother.
Mrs. Chen pointed at Mrs. Dong's nose and cursed, "You are a useless thing, you will always cause trouble for my old lady. My old Chen family has been unlucky for [-] lifetimes, so I married you. Stuff..."

Mrs. Dong didn't understand why her mother-in-law scolded her all of a sudden, she was so wronged that she burst into tears, tearing while tearing off the vegetable leaves quickly.

Zhao Miaomiao's eyebrows twitched, and she didn't know why her sister-in-law made her mother-in-law unhappy.

Seeing Mrs. Dong being scolded, Fatty Li was overjoyed, with a big fat face smiling so hard that she couldn't see her teeth, she cursed in her heart for asking you to work hard to please your mother-in-law and run on others!
The corner of Wang Hongmei's mouth twitched, and her four younger siblings looked so funny.

Mrs. Chen scolded Mrs. Dong severely, let out a sigh of relief, then calmed down and thought for a while, went back to her room, took her things and went out to find a matchmaker.

In the evening, the food was served on the table, and everyone in the Chen family sat down, waiting for Mrs. Chen to distribute the staple food.

Old lady Chen didn't move her hand for a long time, she kept staring at Zhaodi for a while, and then turned to Laidi again.

Zhao Di was so frightened that her little face turned pale, tears were about to fall.

Laidi squeezed her palms nervously, feeling scared in her heart.

Chen Shoujia laughed dryly, "Mother, what's wrong with Zhaodi and the others?"

The old lady Chen said with a dark face, "Boss, you two, look at what they are wearing? The beggars in the county are all dressed better than the two of them. Those who don't know will think that the old lady treats your daughter harshly!" "

Zhao Miaomiao looked up and saw Zhaodi's clothes. She frowned and sighed. Her uncle and sister-in-law didn't care about their daughter. Her little aunt couldn't help much. Making a linen dress would cost dozens of yuan. Cotton clothes cost more than a hundred, and if she gave this, she had to give that too!

Chen Shoujia turned his head and glared at Mrs. Dong, and scolded, "The cloth that mother gives every year, his mother! Where did you use it?"

Mr. Dong lowered his head and stuttered, "I just want to hoard some money and sell the cloth."

Mrs. Chen had already guessed that if Zhaodi was young, she wouldn't care about this shit!

She scolded with a straight face, "You are already talking about the girl you are kissing, and you are still dressed like this. Do you still want to marry your daughter?"

Chen Shoujia looked angry and raised his hand to hit Ms. Dong, "Mom, I'll teach her a lesson, don't be angry."

Dong lowered her head, "Mother, please forgive me!"

Zhao Miaomiao shook her head. The uncle really didn't take the responsibility, so he put the responsibility on the sister-in-law.

Chen Shouxing smiled silently, the big brother's words certainly won't fool his mother.

Sure enough, Mrs. Chen rolled her eyes and roared angrily, "Stop me, you bastard! You treat me like a fool like your father. I don't believe Mrs. Dong did this, you don't know!"

Old man Chen: "..."

Chen Shoujia withdrew his hand in embarrassment, his mother was too easy to fool, of course he knew about it, and he asked Dong to do it, and he also wanted to hoard some money.

Dong wiped her eyes and cried.

Mrs. Chen snorted and said angrily, "You two can sell cloth if you like. I don't care about you, but your girls can't get married after a year's delay. You have to pay the tax for a year yourself." If you delay for two years, you will pay for two years. If the marriage is still not settled next year, prepare your money!"

Chen Shou's family froze. He didn't want to prevent his daughter from getting married. He just thought about himself more. When he thought that there was only one year, his head hurt.

Seeing his headache and irritability, Mrs. Chen felt relieved. Whoever's daughter is worried, don't think about throwing her hands away to the old lady.

Dong's tears were so frightened that she stopped, and she would exclaim in surprise, "Mother, how can we pay for it, how can we have money!"

Mrs. He sneered, "How come you have no money? Aren't you selling cloth? Look at Zhaodi's clothes. They haven't worn new clothes for several years. My sister-in-law must have a lot of money!" "

I thought my sister-in-law had no private money like her, but I didn't expect my sister-in-law to hoard money, how could this work!
My sister-in-law doesn't have much money!

Fatty Li's eyes widened, thinking that she had just saved money from her private house not long ago, only a dozen cash, her fat face was wrinkled, and she was unhappy!

Why do you want a son if you pay for money!Dong cried, "Father and mother, you have pity on me, my husband and I have no son, so we have to hoard money for a son..."

Everyone in the Chen family: "!!!"

Chen Shoujia quickly slapped Dong Shi on the face, and interrupted her, "Dong Shi, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Dong was slapped, calmed down, and quickly covered her mouth, feeling very uneasy, she had missed half of what her husband told her to keep a secret, her parents and the others probably didn't guess it.

(End of this chapter)