Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

Chapter 265 Arriving at Zhuangzi

The carriage was swaying along the widest dirt road between the farms. As soon as it arrived at the entrance of Zhuangzi, people from the village had already come to greet them.

Outside the gate.

"Greetings to the Second Young Master and Second Young Madam."

A burst of unorganized greetings rang out, and a group of people headed by Zhuangtou Gu Yougui and his wife had expressions on their faces that looked a little nervous and excited.

Gu Wenxuan, who was the first to get off the carriage, saw that they looked shy and had honest smiles on their faces, so he didn't dislike them. He even brought his tenants to squeeze in front and almost scared people.

Like Zhuangzi in Fucheng, the fields here are still leased to the original tenant farmers, and the land rent has been changed to the same 40-60 share as in Zhoujia Village.

It can be said that compared to the original owner of Zhuangzi who was divided into 50 and 50, he was not generally kind, so in such a short period of time, another tenant came to kowtow.

Gu Wenxuan had been staying at the Zhou Mansion in Zhoujia Village before. Zhou Banxia occasionally came to Zhuangzi and took a carriage back and forth quietly. This time when he heard that they had arrived, he rushed over to say thank you.

Fortunately, there were not many tenant farmers, just a dozen or so households, and not all the whole family came. Most of them were the heads of households, old and young, with one or two children coming to express their gratitude.

Waiting to enter the courtyard gate.

Facing the yard is still very clean and tidy.

It can be seen that Gu Yougui and his wife still put their efforts into taking care of this village.

Because the original owner of Zhuangzi was busy going south to take up his post, many things had not been properly handled in time, especially since this farmhouse was close to Zhoujia Village.

Maybe it was to please his husband (Zhou Huan), and many things such as furniture, porcelain, pots and pans were left behind.

In this way, in addition to the real money spent on the purchase of this farm, it also gave him and his wife a small advantage.

Not to mention that Gu Yougui, who had to instruct Gu Yougui before leaving, has not yet been able to arrange a guest room.

Zhi Ming was asked to accompany Gu Yougui and his wife to help everyone move their luggage and settle down. Gu Wenxuan and Zhou Banxia were just as impatient as everyone else and just wanted to go inside to drink some water or wash their faces and rest for a while.

It was indeed a bumpy ride along the way, and those who were shaken to pieces had already had enough.

Especially today, when I saw my destination, I rushed on my way as soon as dawn broke.

Not to mention horse-drawn carriages, even modern cars that can be driven for a day cannot be sustained by people.

Not to mention that the roads in ancient times were still dirt roads, full of potholes and bumps, and almost fell apart when the speed increased.

The quality of the carriage is okay, but even if you can lean on and lie down in it, you are really exhausted after a day.

The couple went directly into one of the small courtyards. Zhou Banxia hurriedly wiped his face, not even bothering to change his clothes, and collapsed on the kang of the main house without saying a word.

This small courtyard is the cross-yard of the eldest son and daughter-in-law of the original owner of Zhuangzi. It has three upper rooms, three wing rooms on both sides, and a back room behind it.

Zhou Banxia had taken a fancy to the location and beautiful view of this cross-courtyard before he came here, and asked Gu Yougui to hire someone to renovate the small courtyard in advance.

It is now the beginning of summer in May, when flowers are in full bloom. I don’t know who inserted the flowers, and the windows are open, and the fragrance of flowers comes into my nose.

After taking a bath, Gu Wenxuan changed his clothes and came out of the clean room. He saw Zhou Banxia closing her eyes and frowning, feeling very happy when she smelled something she liked.

He also sniffed vigorously, "Pomegranate, chrysanthemum, peach blossom?"

"No, it seems that the Saguo Begonia has bloomed and bear fruit." After saying this, Zhou Banxia laughed out loud, "I'm greedy and want to eat the Saguo."

"It's not bad yet, at least the fruit will be on the market in August or September." As she said that, Gu Wenxuan came close to her ear, "Have you eaten all the contents?" However, I didn't think I had eaten a few, so I just peeped when I remembered it. I took out one to taste and somehow finished the crab apples and peaches.

Zhou Banxia tilted her head and winked at him, and followed his example and whispered back, "They are all half green and half red on the tree. They should be there soon, ten days at most."

Understand, this means that the fruits on the two fruit trees in the front yard of the villa are not yet ripe enough.

Gu Wenxuan pushed her and lay next to her, "In the backyard now?"

Zhou Banxia reacted very quickly and closed his eyes and took a look inside, focusing on the backyard. "It's not good yet. It's the same as before. It seems we have to go to Zhending Mansion to find out."

Hearing this, Gu Wenxuan was not disappointed. Based on his speculation, he did not think that the second trip out here would reveal the remaining half of the backyard.

It didn't work before, and it definitely won't work now, but he was just thinking that if the white fog in half of the open space cleared, his wife would not be short of fruits to eat in the future.

Nowadays, let alone the two original fruit trees in the front yard, there is no land for planting. Even after transporting a basket of soil in, there is nothing to plant. It is the backyard.

The backyard is also very evil.

Now half of the open space in the backyard is a cement floor that cannot be smashed.

He remembered that even though the cement used at that time was of the best quality, it could not be so strong.

"It's okay, I'm not a kid, I'm just joking.

After lying down for a while, dinner will be ready. After eating, we will go to Zhou Mansion. It's strange, why hasn't Dajiang come yet? "

"It should be here soon. He must have been temporarily delayed by something, otherwise he would have been here waiting. Let's stock up on more fruits when they are on the market."

Still remember her craving for fruit? Zhou Banxia responded in a funny voice, "Yes", and changed the topic and asked him if Zhuangzi of Zhending Mansion was going to be transferred to Shunyi Escort Bureau.

It was Yun Chengming who escorted him out this time. Although he didn't mention the transfer of Zhuangzi in Zhending Mansion this time, didn't Yun Chengming also say that he was going to Zhending Mansion on his return trip?

With the establishment of the workshop, now more than just the work of transporting Yizi from Qinghe Village to Fucheng has been contracted by their Shunyi Escort Bureau.

The goods transported by the Zhao family to Zhending Mansion were also handed over to their Shunyi Escort Agency.

Uncle Yun said that the yard in the city over at Zhending Mansion was easy to buy, but Zhuangzi had been unable to find it.

After all, the escort agency does not need to choose a good location in the city, as long as it is large and close to the city gate, it is really difficult to get one without Zhuangzi.

Like the Zhending Mansion Zhuangzi she bought, she said she sent Gu Dachang to buy it, but in fact, if there were no senior management to make peace with it, no one would really care about her as a village woman.

To put it bluntly, let alone the province Zhending Prefecture, it is the territory of Dingzhou Prefecture. Even if she becomes the wife of Juren and there is no uncle behind her, Zhuangzi will not sell her.

Even if she spends money to buy it, she still has to see if she can hold it. She has no power and power, and when the time comes, taxes and other people in charge will appear.

For example, there are some dirty things in the most simple land taxation. Why do ordinary people mostly work on their private fields, while the scholar-bureaucrats basically work on their private fields?
Probably because of the land tax, they were divided into grades.

The taxes that need to be paid are very different between going up to the fields and going down to the fields.

In order to evade taxes, it is the most common and most common method of tax evasion for powerful people to use high-quality goods and substandard goods.

Like this Zhuangzi's field, she did not cheat.

The land tax grade reported by the original owner of Zhuangzi is still followed, but someone deliberately makes things difficult when measuring?