The happy little days of the Ye family

After the autumn harvest, there is nothing to do in the family fields.

Moreover, officials will come to collect taxes soon, so food and money must be prepared in advance.

The grain tax is fixed: 80 kilograms of rice per mu of paddy field, 140 kilograms of corn per mu of dry land, 200 kilograms of sweet potatoes per mu of sandy land, and 20 kilograms per mu of mountainous land.

Now the Ye family has 43 acres of paddy fields, 2 acres of dry land, and 5 acres of sandy land.

A total of 3440 kilograms of rice, 280 kilograms of corn and 1000 sweet potatoes are harvested from these fields.

After breakfast, Mr. Ye took Mrs. Ye, Ye Xilin and Ye's mother to the cellar where the grain was stored.

And everyone was holding many sacks in their hands.

Wang Chunyu is now seven months pregnant. Her belly is round and big, and her body is heavy and difficult to bend down. No one dares to let her do heavy work.

Ye Mu asked her to watch Xiao Qi from above and feed the chickens.

Mrs. Ye and Mrs. Ye are less powerful and are responsible for holding the sacks to hold the grain, while Ye Xilin and Mr. Ye are responsible for filling the sacks.

The four people worked all morning to pack all the grain into sacks, which amounted to dozens of sacks.

After loading, the four people sorted the food and put it away.

Sacks also cost 5 yuan each. There were dozens of sacks, and they cost more than 200 yuan.

Even though they were using old sacks from home, Mrs. Ye felt very distressed.

These sacks were given out together with the grain, and the family had to purchase a new batch of sacks.

Ye Xilin and Mr. Ye, who were responsible for loading the grain, were so tired that they could not straighten their waists.

The hands of Mother Ye and Mrs. Ye were sore and tired that they could hardly lift them.

Coming out of the cellar, Wang Chunyu had already prepared lunch. Smelling the fragrant smell of meat, several grunting sounds sounded in turn.

After working hard all morning, several people were so hungry that their chests pressed against their backs. Ye Xilin even felt that he could eat a whole pot of rice.

But no matter how hungry they were, they were not in a hurry to eat.

There is a layer of something on the rice that makes it itchy if it sticks to it. The four of them stayed in the cellar all afternoon and now they are itchy.

Ye Mu, in particular, didn't go to the ground much. Her skin was more delicate than that of many young women in the village. She just felt uncomfortable all over.

When Xiao Qi ran over to hug him, Mother Ye didn’t even dare to hug the little guy.

After taking a shower and changing clothes, Mother Ye felt like she was alive.

After lunch, several people took out their abacus and began to calculate how much money they would need for the barren hills and poll tax.

The dry land reclaimed at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain and Zhulin Mountain is classified as barren mountain in the title deed, so it is counted together with the barren mountain.

Mother Ye fiddled with her abacus for a while, then raised her head and said to the people in the room:

"On the land deed, there are 150 acres in Xiaohoushan and 160 acres in Zhulin Mountain. The two hills total 310 acres. A total of 6 taels and 2 yuan of tax will be paid."

Mrs. Ye nodded, this is the same as last year.

The two barren mountains at home have passed the five-year tax exemption period, and they will have to pay a tax of 5 taels and 6 yuan every year from now on.

Then, Ye Mu began to calculate the head tax that her family would have to pay.

Xiao Qi has just turned two years old, and Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye have just turned 50. These three people do not have to pay the poll tax.

The remaining Ye's father, Ye's mother, Ye Donglin, Wang Chunyu and Ye Xilin all collected the head tax at a rate of 60 cents each.

The head tax for 5 adults is 300 Wen in total.

The total cost of the barren mountain and the poll tax is 6 taels and 5 cents, all of which are paid by the public.

Mother Ye took out a small, half-used purse and packed all the money.

The tax collectors have bad tempers and are not easy to deal with. If they mess around, they will beat people.

The food and money will have to be handed over sooner or later, so it is better to prepare the things earlier, hand them over quickly, and still sell well.

With the 10 acres of paddy fields that Ye Qingqing gave her as a dowry, the Tang family now has 60 acres of paddy fields.

The Tang family has also become the family with the second most land in Taohua Village.

Naturally, the village chief's family has the most fields, with a total of 80 acres of paddy fields and 20 acres of dry land.

After Tangshan went to the village chief's house to pay the money to be exempted from corvee and military service, he went to the cellar where the grain was stored with Tang Xiaojing when he came back.

For 60 acres of paddy field, the Tang family has to pay a total of 4800 kilograms of rice.

Like the Ye family, the Tang family's dry land was reclaimed at the foot of the mountain. According to the land deed, it was considered a barren mountain and the price was 20 cents per acre.

The father and son worked in the cellar for a day before loading all the 4800 kilograms of rice into 54 sacks.

The Tang family has two barren mountains, Stone Mountain with 165 acres and Rabbit Mountain with 150 acres.

Ye Qingqing had already prepared the tax of 6 taels and 3 yuan from Huangshan.

Although this year's harvest is good, people in the village are mourning because they are doing corvee and military service.

In recent years, everyone has opened up a lot of barren mountains and wasteland, and has saved some money.

But if you spend money to exempt people from corvee and military service, your family will be drained, and many people are unwilling to do so.

People came to borrow food and money one after another. Mrs. Ye had chased away several waves of poor people in the past two days.

The so-called "helping the urgent but not the poor" means that if you really lend it out, you won't be able to get it back later.

Besides, these people have land and land at home, and they are really not that good at selling iron.

Mrs. Ye naturally didn't want to be taken advantage of, so she blocked these people from the door very hard, and didn't even let them in.

These people couldn't get in and were cursing at the door, but Mrs. Ye wouldn't open the door and there was nothing they could do to her.

There are only father and son and Ye Qingqing in the Tang family. Many people see that there is no strong and aggressive woman in their family, and Ye Qingqing is young and thin-skinned.

People who did not take advantage of the Ye family ran to the Tang family, and there was an endless stream of people who used to borrow money.

These people took advantage of their seniority and shamelessly morally kidnapped Ye Qingqing.

But these people are also elders after all, and Ye Qingqing can't do too much and is annoyed to death.

It was so noisy that Ye Qingqing couldn't do any embroidery, and Chenchen was also woken up several times.

Ye Qingqing simply carried Chenchen to Ye's house, and Mrs. Ye stepped in to drive away those shameless people who wanted to borrow money and food.

The father and son each left early and returned late, and went to hide in the mountains.

In fact, it’s not like hiding. There are still medicinal materials that have not been collected from the two hills at home.

Within two days, many able-bodied officials came to collect food and money.

Although everyone in the village was crying, they still cooperated when it came time to hand over food and money.

After paying the grain tax, the people who went to do corvee work also set out within two days. Suddenly, there were many fewer people in the village, and it suddenly became much deserted.

The autumn harvest has just ended. Taking into account the time spent on the road, Ye Qingqing estimates that the corvee workers will return around the Lantern Festival.

Although we can’t celebrate the New Year at home, it will not affect next year’s spring plowing.

The court was also particular about the time it chose to do corvee work.

After the autumn harvest, there is no need to do farm work, and it will not affect next year's harvest.

I'm a little tired, but I'm lucky that it won't affect next year's spring plowing.