Smallholder Farming Daily

Chapter 152

And Mrs. Yang in the kitchen room began to curse again, "This Zhang Lizheng usually seems to be a good person, so why doesn't he handle personnel affairs this time! What is he in a hurry, can't he be transferred a few months later? I'll be there in another three months." The baby in the stomach came out, and he just transferred at this time, which made our family lose two people!"

Qian Feng had just comforted Pomegranate and had to come to comfort his mother again. He had a lot of work to do. He came to help his mother chop vegetables, "Mom, don't be angry. It's not good to be angry too much. The baby is still in the stomach." It’s not just you and Shiliu. In the ten villages that Zhang Lizheng manages, there are estimated to be dozens of people who are pregnant with babies, and some people will have babies tomorrow. Besides, they passed away last year. There are not many old people here, and the vacated fields are not enough to be distributed, so Zhang Lizheng rushed to give them at this time, and it is not easy for him to be this Lizheng."

When Mrs. Yang heard that someone was going to have a baby tomorrow and couldn't get the land today, she immediately felt balanced and stopped complaining.

Erxi and Shaoyao were so excited in their small tree shed that eating pickles felt like eating meat, because Erxi only got his own field when the family was separated on the second day of the Lunar New Year. Zhang Lizheng talked about this in front of him, and Zhang Lizheng also knew that whoever married a daughter-in-law would get a share of the land, so he gave Shaoyao's share to them.

Erxi put pickles in Shaoyao's bowl, "Shaoyao, it's spring now, let's grow some vegetables, and then take good care of our two-acre field and a few fractions of land, so we can have a full meal when the grain is harvested." It's time for dinner."

Shaoyao was eating happily, when suddenly the chopsticks in her hand stopped in mid-air, "Er Xi, you also know that we can be together thanks to the help of Qian Feng and Shi Liu. Now his eldest brother is lying at home, and there are still people in the village. Some people said that it was because Qian Feng made too much money and caused trouble for his elder brother, I felt uncomfortable listening to it, or..."

She took out a dozen or so coins from her pocket, "We got a hundred coins from the separation, you can use the ten or so coins to buy sugar and noodles, and send them to Qian Feng's elder brother's house, so you can show us Thank you both."

Erxi was a little bit embarrassed, "If mother finds out, she will definitely come to scold us, now father, mother and elder brother have already regarded Brother Feng's family as big enemies."

Shaoyao gave him a sideways look, "You're stupid, don't you know how to avoid it, don't let people see it? Auntie Taohua is also a careful person, she won't talk about it everywhere, she understands this."

Erxi nodded hurriedly, "Yes, the mother-in-law is right."

In the afternoon Erxi didn't go to work, but went to the town to buy some things and sent them to Qian Tong.

There was only Qian Tong in the family, Ge Taohua took the two children to the field, Shi Liu and Yang Shi also went to work in the vegetable field, Father Qian had to herd cattle and dig ditches, and Qian Feng was busy on the stone mountain.

Qian Tong usually didn't want his family to guard him, so he drove the two children away and let them stay with Ge Taohua, but now he was alone at home, and he felt very bored. The month will be longer.

He was a little surprised when Erxi brought something over, "Erxi, aren't you afraid that your parents will find out?"

Er Xi looked around at the door before sitting down in peace, "It's okay, I sneaked here. Brother Tong, take good care of your legs, and we'll go burn charcoal at the end of the year!"

Qian Tong smiled wryly, "These days are really uncomfortable. The end of the year you said seems to be not far away, but I dare not think about it. I always feel that it will be several years later."

"Brother Tong, who hasn't been injured on weekdays, just take care of them, and nothing will happen to you. Don't think too much about it."

Qian Tong nodded, "That's right, I'm raising it with peace of mind now, but the peach blossoms will suffer for several months."

"Sister-in-law has always been a capable person, this little hardship is nothing, don't you still have Brother Feng to help, I heard that he asked you to raise silkworms."

Qian Tong smiled, "If it wasn't for my second brother's help, I wouldn't even have money to treat my legs."

Er Xi was afraid that people would find out if he waited too long, so he said a few thoughtful words, and then said a few words of thanks to Qian Feng, and hurried away.

A month later, Qian Tong was able to get out of bed with a cane, and went outside to pick mulberry leaves and play with his two children when he had nothing to do. After just one month, he gained a lot of weight.

But at this moment, Qian Feng is worried. When the month is over, it will be time to pay the workshop workers. The food has been saved a lot in advance, but there is no money to share, and everyone can't be stable. their hearts.

In the past month, he brought two sets of stone tables and benches, some exquisite flower pots and pen holders to the county. The rough stone strips have been collected by the shopkeeper of Nanmen Stone Shop, but they were only sold for [-] yuan. Because Qian Feng led everyone to spend most of their time making small things.

The stone tables, stone benches and small things were also resold by the shopkeeper of Nanmen Shipu to the government, and the government wanted to put them into the post station in Linzhuang.But the government took the things on credit, saying that there was not so much silver in the treasury.

The shopkeeper of the Nanmen Stone Shop confessed to Qian Feng, saying that he only earned five pennies from the change of hands, which was not much, but he had no choice but to get credit from the government, and he didn't get any money.

As a person, he didn't want Qian Feng to come into contact with the government. He was afraid that Qian Feng would bypass him and sell things directly to the government in the future, and he would not be able to earn a penny.But it's impossible not to let Qian Feng get in touch with the government now, because the government's credit is likely to be delayed, and it may be delayed for several years.

Qian Feng did not go to the official who was called by the shopkeeper, but went directly to Mr. Qu.

Master Qu is a low-key person on the surface, and the furnishings in his home are very simple, no different from ordinary people's homes.

Qian Feng brought a chicken and a duck, and took out two hundred Wen coins and put them on the table. He took a sip of the tea brought by Master Qu and his mother-in-law, and said, "Master Qu, how could the government not take it?" Don’t you know how many shops there are in the county and each town, how much money is collected every year, and the taxes and grains handed in by farmers are piled up like a mountain.”

Master Qu sighed, "Little brother, I'm not the one who speaks for the county magistrate. Don't look at the money and food collected, you have to pay half of it every year, and the remaining half has to be paid to the guards." Originally, this was enough, and Curry has saved a lot of money over the years, but this time building an inn in Linzhuang is a big expense."

Qian Feng couldn't believe it, "Didn't you hear that the imperial court allocated a sum of money?"

(End of this chapter)