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Chapter 16 Don't Be Superstitious About Past and Present Lives
"Now everyone thinks that we are a couple. If we don't pretend to be careful in addressing, it will be troublesome if our identity is discovered. You won't blame me for being abrupt?"

"It's okay for you to call that in front of outsiders, but can't you call me by my name in private?"

It's too nasty to be called a lady!
"Details determine success or failure. I have observed that no one in this village calls them by their first names. As a scholar, I am called a lady. It is more appropriate to be polite."

"Then let's call it that first. After all, the title is a trivial matter. We still have to discuss the immediate issue."

Chen Qingqing doesn't stick to trivial matters, which is in his favor.

Yu Buli drooped his eyes to hide the slight joy in his eyes, her little things might be the big things he would fight for his whole life, who could say for sure.

"I weighed the pros and cons last night. Judging from our current situation, although staying will face a little difficulty, the overall risk is less than going out."

Chen Qingqing put down the bowl and analyzed it for him.

"According to the information we have obtained so far, the country has just been established, and the order has yet to be stabilized. In this turbulent situation, there must be many places like Haojia Village where the etiquette is broken and the music is broken."

The current situation is unstable, food and clothing for the people are difficult to solve, let alone order, coupled with the fact that the clans from all over the country are united, it is inevitable that the two strangers will be excluded and bullied. Hao Si dared to try to kill them with a sickle, which is very clear. .

"We have a special status in Yujiagou, and the status of our ancestors is quite prestigious. Although Yujiagou is facing difficulties now, if we can solve this difficulty, this is the most suitable place for us to recharge our energy and accumulate strength. By the way, help They are doing me a favor, after all we have borrowed Yu Xiucai's identity, so we owe nothing to each other."

She said the last point very lightly, as if she said it incidentally, but Yu Buli knew that the last point must be an important reason for her decision-making, Qingqing is a warm-hearted person without cold-bloodedness.

The meal last night had already made the two of them feel the difficulties of the village.

These people are not afraid of losing their lives, so they only count on Yu Xiu to come back to carry on the family line, so as not to let the family lose their incense, but this is impossible.

Yu Xiucai had been bitten to death by a wolf, and the ancestors they expected were two fakes.

"We borrowed the identity of Yu Xiucai, so we can't bring the dead back to life, but we are fully capable of keeping the people in this village. We can't help them with the matter of spreading branches and leaves, but we can do it by letting them die by themselves. Their current predicament is that they cannot pay the grain tax, and I have two ideas now."

Chen Qingqing took out her overall view as Party A, and looked at the problem of Yujiagou from a higher-dimensional perspective.

"The first way of thinking is that we collect enough money to pay for the grain in a short period of time and hand it in. According to Man Shan, the tax is 2 buckets per mu of land, which is [-]% of the grain harvest. Have you read the article here? How big is the bucket, how many catties is equivalent to ours?" Chen Qingqing asked.

She knew that Yiyu Buli was careful, and she must have seen all of this this morning.

"A bucket is about 20 catties."

"That's 2% of the tax. It's just 2% of the tax. The food and clothing of the farmers should be no problem. Even in a dry year like this year, the harvest has decreased. Everyone tightens their trouser pockets, at least they don't starve to death. But the problem It’s all about land distribution.”

Man Shan said that each household in Yujiagou can be allocated 60 mu of land, but many of them have never been opened up.

If there were no wars and conscription, the strong laborers in the family could still open up wasteland and reclaim land, but the strong laborers are not enough, and the land that can be planted is limited. There are only a dozen households left. It is not bad that a family can plant 20 mu of land. No, food and clothing are very difficult, but the grain harvested by the upper level is still harvested according to the amount of 60 mu.

"60 mu should pay 120 dou of grain tax, but their actual output, there is no one who pays the full amount at the end of the disaster year, 200 dou per household. This year's harvest is not good, and it will be damaged. If all the income is not enough to pay the tax, the whole family will be hungry. die."

After this bloody account was settled, Chen Qingqing's face tightened.

"I heard that the current imperial court was a peasant uprising that overthrew the old regime. Buli, do you believe that an emperor who was born as a peasant would intensify his exploitation of the peasants after he came to power?"

Yu Buli shook his head.

"This may not be what the emperor meant. Yujiagou is as high as the sky and the emperor is far away. Now it's a waste of time. During times of turmoil, the higher-ups don't care about such a far away place. This method of crazy taxation and wealth collection is more like a local government. Because, what's more, it was done by low-level officials."

Chen Qingqing nodded, his observation skills were very keen, that's exactly what happened.

"We went to Haojia Village yesterday, and it was also drought. The situation there was not as serious as Yujiagou, so I boldly opened up a God's perspective. Is it possible that Yujiagou's current predicament is caused by someone covering the sky with one hand? , just want to get rid of this village? To benefit from it?"

The overall strength of Yujiagou is relatively weak, and it is easy to be bullied. Man Shan also mentioned that several lands in the village are divided away from the water source, and there have been disputes with the neighboring village over the water source. Pressing and beating, the temperament of the whole village can only be described in one word, useless.

"If your hypothesis is true, then the first way of thinking, trying to find a way to collect money to pay food, is not applicable."

Chen Qingqing raised the corners of her lips, so she had a second plan.

"Find out who is in charge of collecting food, and use him as a breakthrough."

Yu Buli raised her eyebrows, she clearly wanted to catch the low-level officials, but she had been a member of Party A, how could she speak so lowly, she could only understand it but not express it in words.

The two of them exchanged glances, which was to set the direction.

"Buli, why do I have an illusion, as if we were once close partners?" Chen Qingqing's mind reappeared that strange sense of déjà vu.

The degree of cooperation between him and her is really too high. No one in the project team she leads understands her thoughts as well as he does, as if they have cooperated many times.

"Maybe we were a couple in our previous life—"

"Sister and brother! I think so." She was trying to find a reason for the weird tacit understanding between the two.

"Live well in front of the present and grasp the present moment." He stood up and said to her coldly, "Don't be superstitious about past and present lives."

Chen Qingqing looked at his back, is he awkward?

A man's heart is a needle in the bottom of the sea, it's too difficult to understand.

Man Shan led the two boys over to say hello, and Chen Qingqing asked him many details about the food collection.

The identity of the grandma of the clan is really useful. If Chen Qingqing was just an ordinary woman, how could Manshan tell her so much, and it was too late to avoid suspicion.

But since they belonged to the ancestors, they didn't have so many scruples, so they naturally asked what to say.

Chen Qingqing got an important message from him. The person in charge of collecting grain was the head of the village, and the head of the village was still a familiar name.

Hao San.

Chen Qingqing suddenly realized that this logic was right.

　Thanks to Hongjie for the 5000 coins

　　Speaking of this chapter, you can take a look at it casually. I calculated it carefully with a pen. God knows how difficult it is to calculate it with a math scumbag like me. In order to avoid bugs, I really checked the information carefully. Xiaoben remembers, with respect to the spirit of professionalism, doesn’t it deserve a monthly ticket to encourage it!Isn't it worth a message to praise me!

　　
　
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