Being scolded as a poor widow, I relied on supernatural powers to counterattack in ancient times

Chapter 194 The Official Arrival

Just as they were chatting and laughing, two people dressed as yamen servants appeared at the door,
"Excuse me, fellow, where does Bai Lizheng live?"

Bai Yunxi hurried over, looked at the two guards, and hurriedly opened the door,
"The two officials are here to measure the land?"

The two nodded,
"The day before yesterday, Liushuwan Baili was going to the county government to report that someone was going to open up wasteland and needed to measure the land. We made an appointment 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 child to call Lizheng over."

As Bai Yunxi said, he turned around and told Xiaosi, "Go and call your hall uncle, and tell him that the people from the government office are here."

After that, he ordered Du Shi to fill two bowls of sugar water, and took the opportunity to ask about some field policies.

After a while, Xiao Wu and Bai Yunsong came over together, and after exchanging a few words of pleasantries, they went to the Dongshan slope together.

Seeing the two yamen servants carrying tools on their backs, holding a measuring rope and a ruler in their hands, except for the angle of the corner that needs to be measured with a ruler, the rest are all measured by footsteps.

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

It was the first time for Baiyunxi to see this method of measurement, and he thought it was quite new. Watching them walk in a straight line and record it, and record it again when they turned a corner. Although I don't know how to measure it, I heard that the land measured by this method is very accurate.

Half an hour later, the measurement results on the Dongshan slope came out, which was similar to what she expected, and the measurement was exactly [-] mu of land.

After making a record, several people turned to the west mountain slope, looked at the wasteland that had been opened up, and looked at the scene in front of them in amazement,
"Is this the wasteland you developed?" It looked quite standard, and this was the first time they saw such a wasteland.

"Yes, this was developed a while ago." Bai Yunxi nodded, not hiding anything, and directly said that this is a terraced field, so that it can be easily irrigated.

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

"You have opened up so much wasteland, can you finish planting? I will say the ugly thing first, if your wasteland has no harvest after three years, you must also pay taxes according to regulations."

Listening to the servant's tone, Bai Yunsong frowned at his cousin, and was about to speak when Bai Yunxi interrupted him.

"Please don't worry, my lord. Since we are working hard to open up wasteland, we must be able to plant it. The lord has also seen that our family's life is not easy, so we want to open up more wasteland to grow food and collect more food? How can we be willing to waste it? "

"Besides, we have a large family, so it's no problem to have more than ten acres of land."

Hearing Baiyunxi's assurance, the yamen servant glanced at the family members behind her. They were all boys and they really needed land to support them.

Walking up the wasteland, when he saw the cistern on the side, the yamen officer stopped, "You guys dug this later, or it was already there."

Bai Yunxi has been following behind the official office, and when he heard the question, he explained directly,
"There is no water storage on the slopes. For the convenience of irrigation, we specially dug a reservoir."

Listening to Bai Yunxi's narration, the government office nodded. Anyway, the words have been explained, as long as they know the stakes themselves.

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

After a while, one of the yamen servants raised his head, "Seeing that you have developed the wasteland so well, the reservoir will not be counted for you. By the way, that piece of land will also be added to you, a total of ten mu."

(End of this chapter)