The splendid business map of the peasant girl

Chapter 74
Touching the left cheek that had been slapped, Shi Yunxie suddenly remembered that little face that refused to admit defeat and always implied calculations. Yan Chen couldn't help shaking when he saw Yan Chen's hand holding Mo Wanggui. He has seen it a lot, but he has never seen such a terrifying one!

"Mom, I'm here, you go and rest first." After the Spring Festival, the half-acre pond began to be cleaned up. Mo Shiyao, holding a shovel, was standing on the edge of the fish pond and digging endlessly. Then Liu asked for a while.

"Mum, it's okay, this fish pond is probably useless if it is cleaned up, Yaoyao, what are your plans?" Naturally knowing that her daughter-in-law is not a thankless role, Liu raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her forehead , took a breath.

"Let's clean it up and raise fish!" The corner of his mouth curled up, and he smiled confidently, and Doomsday Yao spoke lightly.

A good fish pond can only be used to grow lotus roots?joke!She didn't believe that this good pond couldn't raise fish. Originally, there was only half an acre of fish pond on barren hills in this house, and it was a crime to waste resources like this.

"...Ah?" Looking at the muddy pond under his feet, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart that there is a long way to go. It's rotten like this and he still wants to raise fish. If he didn't understand the rumors of the end of the world, Liu would definitely think it was talking in sleep.

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, the village chief summoned us to go back!" The voice of Uncle Li from the next door came from far and near, and he looked at Mrs. Liu, and Mo Shiyao raised his eyebrows silently. What is going on? ?

"His uncle, what's the matter?" Why did he come to your door for no reason?Liu couldn't help being puzzled.

"The village chief said that the little money paid in the twelfth month of last year was not enough to repair the ancestral hall at the head of the village. No, every family is trying to raise money!" Sighing, he turned around and hurried back, Uncle Li trembled. Shaking his sleeves still stained with mud, it was obvious that he had just been called back from the field.

The three of them kept catching up step by step, and almost all the people in the village had arrived. The village head, Liu Chengcai, had a wrinkled face and a majestic expression on his face, scanning the crowd back and forth. Although he looked disdainful, he didn't dare to say anything.

"I want to talk to you today about the repair of the ancestral hall in the village. Last year, the family also paid money. The old man saw that last year's harvest was not good, so he didn't say much. Now that the work has started, the money is It’s a lot worse, thinking about the beginning of the new year, I’m afraid I have to make up some more.” With a light cough, Liu Chengcai narrowed his wrinkled old eyes, and said in a formulaic voice.

"Last year, our family paid more than one or two taels of silver. There are more than seventy or eighty families in the village. Village chief, is this enough?" Seeing that no one dared to speak, the man sitting on the far side shook Sleeves responded rather unfairly, and his tone was not much better.

He has long been displeased with the village head, not to mention that the land tax collected is increasing year by year, and even the ancestral hall built every three years has to be charged more than one or two taels of silver, and now it is not enough!Do you think these honest people are fools?
Looking at the man who suppressed his anger in a blink of an eye, he automatically filtered the information in his heart, and secretly smiled with appreciation.

Zhou Shouchang from the north of the village went out to serve as a soldier for three years. I heard that he was seriously injured and was wrapped in a straw mat and thrown on the battlefield. Later, he miraculously survived and returned to the village to work as a farmer. He was also a lot tougher than ordinary people, but he just endured it because he was concerned about the prestige that Liu Chengcai had accumulated in Xiangbo Village for so many years.

If it is received by your subordinates, it will be a big help, right?
"What do you know? This ancestral hall has been built for hundreds of years, and it's already rotten. How can it be so easy to repair now? To put it lightly, do you think that the old man can still steal it from me? Glaring at Zhou Shouchang, Liu Chengcai snorted.

"Since the village chief said so, why don't we just demolish the ancestral hall and build a new one, and our family will pay some money, which will be enough, right?"

Hearing this, he raised his head and looked at the source of the sound. It was the talented and virtuous man who came to his home to inform Qiao Xiaoqing that he was seriously ill. Law refused.

Just as Liu Chengcai was about to speak, he was taken aback by these words, and the base of his neck began to turn red.If it is really demolished and then repaired, I am afraid that I will have to put a lot of pads on it, right?It's better to just repair it indiscriminately!But these words could only be tumbling silently in his heart, and Liu Chengcai was a little annoyed for a while.

This lousy scholar has nothing but benevolence and morality, and his words are particularly annoying!

"I see that he is a good uncle, what do you guys think?" Without waiting for Liu Chengcai's reaction from embarrassment, he sat on the sidelines and watched with cold eyes from the very beginning. , and then didn't speak again.

"I think it's not bad. Although more money has been paid out, the newly built ancestral hall is better than the renovation. Even if we raise more money, it's okay!" Zhou Shouchang took the conversation, and Liu Chengcai's The back road is completely blocked.

"Yes, yes, I see that what the second brother of the Zhou family said makes sense!"

"No, it's better to pay so much money to renovate the old ancestral hall!"

"..." Seeing that Mr. Liang and Gan Youde had both made such outstanding appearances, everyone joined in and suppressed Liu Chengcai's next words.

Good guy, with these two highly regarded people sitting in the town, the village chief really can't take much advantage.It's just that it was expected that Gan Youde would open his mouth, and it would be strange for Mr. Liang to intervene. Not only did Mo Shiyao find it strange in his heart, but Liu Chengcai couldn't help but snort secretly.

The surrounding discussions gradually subsided, and the post-mortem rumor suddenly stood up——

"Everyone and the village chief are here today, and Shiyao happens to have something to do, why don't we talk about it together." The cold voice quickly suppressed the noise in the yard, saw this with a faint smile, and looked at Liu Chengcai inexplicably , until the eyes of the latter flickered, he turned his gaze back, and continued: "There has always been a rule in the village that one's own land cannot be bought and sold at will, but it has never been said that even free borrowing and repayment are not allowed. From everyone's point of view, it is not true ?” Facing the crowd, he threw out some words loudly, and then glanced leisurely.

Although Liu Chengcai wasn't very smart, if he didn't understand her intentions after hearing this, then he didn't have the qualifications to be the village chief for so many years, but when he understood, he would be even angrier.What a stubborn little widow, she turned a corner and wanted to use the villagers to put pressure on him. It really wasn't a cheap lamp!

"The third daughter-in-law of the owner's family really didn't set any rules for borrowing land, and no one borrowed land from others for no reason, right? Besides, this land was allocated by the imperial court. Although there is no clear regulation that no private lending is allowed, the government did not You can borrow it, but how can these ordinary people offend you? It’s a taboo to find someone to borrow land among the three daughters-in-law. The old man saw that you were young and never pursued it. Now when we come to this point, we have to make a total calculation. Already!"

(End of this chapter)