I Was Called a Poor Widow, But I Relied on My Supernatural Powers To Fight Back In Ancient Times

Chapter 194 Arrival at the government office

Just as they were chatting and joking, two people dressed as government servants appeared at the door.

 “Excuse me, fellow countryman, where does Bai Lizheng live?”

Baiyunxi hurriedly walked over, looked at the two guards, and quickly opened the door.

“Are the two officials here to survey the land?”

 The two of them nodded,

“The day before yesterday, Liushuwan Baili was going to the county government to report that someone wanted to open up wasteland and needed to measure the land. We made an appointment to come over today.”

"That's a coincidence. Our family is going to open up wasteland. Please come in and sit for a while. I'll ask the children to call Lizheng over."

As Bai Yunxi spoke, he turned around and ordered Xiaosi, "Go and call your lobbyist, and tell him that the government officials are here."

 After that, he ordered Du to make two bowls of sugar water, and took the opportunity to inquire about some farm policies.

 After a while, Xiao Wu and Bai Yunsong came over together. They exchanged a few words and then went to Dongshan Mountain together.

Looking at the two yamen servants carrying tools on their backs and holding measuring ropes and rulers in their hands, except for the angle of the bend, which requires a ruler to measure the rope, they all measured the rest with their feet.

 One step is a step, two feet is a step.

It was the first time Baiyunxi saw this method of measurement, and she thought it was quite novel. She watched them walking in a straight line and recording, and then turning and recording. Although she didn’t know how to measure, I heard that the land measured by this method was very accurate.

 Half an hour later, the measurement results of Dongshan Mountain came out, which was pretty much what she expected, with exactly eighteen acres of land measured back and forth.

After taking notes, they turned to the western hillside and looked at the wasteland that had been opened. They were surprised at the scene in front of them.

"Is this the wasteland you created?" It looked quite standard. This was the first time they saw such wasteland.

"Yes, this was opened a while ago." Baiyunxi nodded, without hiding anything, and directly said that these are terraced fields, which can facilitate irrigation.

 Listening to Baiyunxi's introduction, the yamen servant said in a serious tone.

"You have opened so much wasteland, can you plant it all? I will say something ugly first. If your wasteland has no harvest in three years, you will have to pay taxes according to regulations."

Bai Yunsong listened to the yamen servant's tone and frowned at his cousin. Just as he was about to speak, he was interrupted by Bai Yunxi.

"My lord, please rest assured. Since we have worked hard to open up wasteland, we must be able to plant. My lord has also seen that our family's life is not easy, so we want to open up more wasteland to grow food and harvest more food? How can we be willing to waste it?" "

“And we have a large family, and we have more than twenty acres of land.”

Hearing Baiyunxi’s assurance, the government officer glanced at the family members following her. They were all boys and they really needed fields to support themselves.

Walking along the wasteland for a circle, when he saw the reservoir on the edge, the yamen servant stopped and said, "You dug this later, or it was already there."

Baiyunxi has been following the government office. When he heard the inquiry, he explained directly,

“There is no water on the sloping land, so for the convenience of irrigation, we specially dug a reservoir.”

Listening to Bai Yunxi's narration, the government officials nodded. Anyway, it was already explained, and they only needed to know the stakes.

According to the measurement method just now, the two people took the tools and walked around the wasteland, recorded the data, and then squatted on the ground to measure.

After a while, one of the government officials raised his head and said, "Looking at how well you have opened up the wasteland, I will not count the reservoir for you. By the way, I will also add that piece of land to you, for a total of ten acres."

 (End of this chapter)