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

Chapter 21

Bai Yunxi looked at the fourth child's embarrassed look, his face darkened,
"Shut up, fourth brother, do you still know that you are a brother? If you want to be a brother, you have to act like a brother. Don't let my brother see the joke."

You cub, still want to fish in troubled waters like before, but there is no way.

"Although we have nothing right now, as long as we work hard, we won't starve to death. Mother has already thought about it. Starting tomorrow, we will open up wasteland together."

There are laws in the Song Dynasty. As long as it is unowned wasteland, whoever develops it will own it. Reclaiming wasteland is a great achievement.

Therefore, after being registered, you can be exempted from paying land tax for three years.

Even so, any family with spare money would rather spend money to buy fertile land than work hard to open up wasteland.

Because the barren land is barren and labor-intensive, the yield has not increased, and the output value of one mu of land is not enough to feed a person.

Even if the land tax is exempted for three years, no one is willing to do it.

Sure enough, when they heard about opening up wasteland, the sons were stunned.
"Mother, the wasteland is not so easy to develop. Besides, the current wasteland is not close to the water source, and the weeds are overgrown, and there is no food at all."

Bai Anyan frowned, and was the first to disagree.

"My son thinks that if he has the time to open up wasteland, it is better to rent a few acres of good land. Even if it is harder, after paying the rent, there will be some left."

"Mother, what the second brother said is right. Land reclamation is tiring and hard work, and there is no harvest in the end. It is purely thankless."

This time, Bai Anyi didn't make trouble, and directly agreed. I don't know if he was thinking too much, but he always felt that her mother was different since she kowtowed.

'I must let my mother suppress the idea of ​​opening up wasteland. My mother is confused, but they are sober. '

Bai Yunxi looked at one or two resisting expressions, his face darkened,
"In order to treat your father's illness, we sold all the good land in our family, and now there are only two acres of dry land left, where we can grow some beans, sweet potatoes, etc., and just make supplements. If we want to rely on it to fill our stomachs, it is better to dream faster."

Now that he has made up his mind to open up wasteland, Baiyunxi doesn't give a few cheap sons a chance to intervene.

"As the second child said, you can rent the land. This is indeed a way, but as far as I know, you need to pay [-]% of the rent for an acre of land. After a year of hard work, the harvest is less than half."

"Compared to opening up wasteland, the income from renting is just a little bit more, but the land you plant is not your own after all. As farmers, what's the matter if you don't have any land in your hands? Do you want to be tenants for the rest of your life?"

"But mother, the wasteland is full of weeds, not to mention it's difficult to clean up, and it may not be profitable. If you work hard for a year and don't get any crops, it's a waste of time."

As Bai Anyi said, he stretched out his arm and touched Bai Er Er,

"Second brother, what do you think?"

"Cough~, mother, what the fourth brother said is reasonable. The risk of land reclamation is too great. What we need most now is food. If we rent the land, we can borrow food from the landlord. Although we will pay half of the interest when repaying it, we can do it right now." Make sure the whole family is not hungry."

Bai Yunxi looked at the sweat on the anxious forehead of the second child, and knew that the method she thought was the safest.

But she didn't want to accept it. The family lived too comfortably before, without any sense of urgency.

"You also said that there is interest in borrowing grain, so you do the math. It's summer now, and we have to wait until after the autumn harvest for rent. Paddy fields need to be raised in winter, and the next year's rice transplanting will have a good harvest. The harvest will not be until the end of June. gone."

(End of this chapter)