After transmigrating into a stepmother, I transformed my whole family to work on farming

Chapter 526 Mid-Autumn Festival

Qin Yao successfully guided the villagers to vent their dissatisfaction by shifting the blame.

The hair was smoothed and the taxation work was carried out smoothly.

In fact, for ordinary people, they never dare to resist the imperial decree as long as it is not so excessive that it makes people unable to live.

Therefore, no matter how much dissatisfaction and grievances there are in the heart, under the pressure of the powerful imperial power, taxes should still be paid.

At most, there will be a few rebels in each village, causing a little trouble for the village chiefs.

For example, those who are short of money, those who pass off inferior products, and those who pretend not to understand what others are saying and refuse to comply.

In short, these lucky people have trouble every year.

In the past, the old village chief was in charge, but he didn't have that much energy as he got older, so he had to let them make trouble for now, and then deal with it after most of the food and tax revenue was collected.

But the results obtained by this method are too random.

Qin Yao will never allow anyone to cause trouble for her when she is doing things.

So starting from the day when the tax collection officially started, we first went to the households that had been disobedient last year, and tried to "move them with emotion and reason", and the battle was over in less than half a day.

Once the thorns were removed, the follow-up was much smoother.

The village ancestral hall also serves as a warehouse at the tax point. Qin Yao set up tables, chairs and scales at the entrance of the ancestral hall, and was the first to arrive and the last to leave every day.

After staying on guard for three days, Qin Yao felt that this was not the solution. She could not suffer heatstroke because the whole village was still waiting for her to lead them.

So, after dinner in the evening, I walked around the village with my hands behind my back.

We successfully captured five villagers who had followed in Liu Ji's footsteps, pinned them down at the entrance of the ancestral hall, and gave them to the village chief!
what?
Can’t write, read a scale, or do math?
"Do you want to see how big my fist is, village chief?" Qin Yao smiled evilly, leaning on the bamboo chair and turning her wrist.

The five unemployed young people were so frightened that they no longer dared to say no, study! Learn from death now!
While busy, the Mid-Autumn Festival is here.

Ninety percent of the rice in the village's rice fields has been harvested, leaving only some rice in remote fields that has not yet been confiscated.

During this period, God has been very kind and it didn’t rain heavily.

For the common people, this is a rare year of good weather and good harvest.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival, every household stopped for a day's rest, and the stationery factory also had a day off.

People bring out all the delicious food and drinks at home, and the whole family gathers together to celebrate this rare happy moment.

The old house asked Qin Yao and her family to come over to celebrate the festival, but Qin Yao refused. This year she wanted to have a good Mid-Autumn Festival at home.

"Let's make mooncakes!" Qin Yao said enthusiastically.

Sanlang immediately responded: "Mom, I want to eat mooncakes!"

Si Niang glanced at her little brother with disgust and said, "I'm so greedy for you."

But when he turned to Grandma, his expression changed to one of expectation, "Grandma, can you make mooncakes?"

Seeing Da Lang Erlang and Yin Le looking over curiously, Qin Yao spread her hands and said, "No."

Everyone: "."

"But someone will definitely do it." Qin Yao came to the kitchen door and tried to attract the attention of Mrs. Li who was busy making noodles.

Mrs. Li was not deaf, she had long heard the mother and son talking in the courtyard.

He turned back funny and said: "Wash your hands, and when I finish making the noodles and fillings, bring them to the main room, and we can all make them together."

The children suddenly became excited, yelling, rushing to the sink, lining up to wash their hands, and then rushed into the main room to wait.

Qin Yao and Yin Le also happily asked: "Can we help with anything?"

Mrs. Li ordered unceremoniously, "Madam, go light the oven. Miss Le, please clear the table in the main room. I'll be ready here soon." The master and apprentice nodded heavily, and that was the order!
When the main room and oven are ready, Li's raw materials are also ready.

Everyone gathered in the main room and began to learn how to make mooncakes from Mr. Li.

When using the molds at home, Dalang and Siniang excitedly picked up these molds and introduced them:
"This is the plum blossom mold and the fortune character mold we made last year with Uncle Awang!"

As he spoke, he suddenly became depressed.

Qin Yao looked up and saw that the four brothers and sister plus a little Lai Fu looked like they were missing each other.

"What's wrong? Miss Awang?" she asked funnyly.

The five children nodded. Uncle Awang has been gone for a long time.

Qin Yao smiled easily, "Counting the days, they should be back next month, very soon."

Siniang suddenly thought of her resentful father and muttered worriedly: "I don't know if my father will be the last in the exam this time."

Erlang was speechless.

Saburo whispered, "Sister, you can hope that my father will be second to last in the exam."

"Stop mumbling, Aunt Li is about to finish making all the mooncakes by herself." Dalang reminded helplessly.

As for A-niang and Senior Sister Le, each one was more useless than the other. Looking at the plum blossom mooncakes whose fillings were about to burst out of the crust, Dalang sighed deeply.

The little boy specially divided out a small bowl of stuffing and placed it in front of the master and apprentice, "Auntie, Senior Sister Le, you two can go and play by yourselves."

Yin Le was surprised: "Really?"

Qin Yao glared at her apprentice and pointed at the fried mooncakes in front of her, "What are you cooking? Don't you know that fine grains are expensive? You can finish them all for me after they are baked!"

Yin Le's eyes widened in disbelief. Master, why don't you look at how mushy the mooncake is in your hand?
Of course, I dare not say this.

Master is God, whatever the Master says will be done, it is a disciple’s honor to take the blame for the Master!

After brainwashing himself, Yin Le nodded solemnly, "Master, don't worry, my disciple will finish it."

Qin Yao nodded with satisfaction. Children can be taught.

Putting down the mold in his hand, "There aren't many left. I'll leave it to you young people to practice more."

After that, he retreated back to the house and lay down openly.

I took out my abacus and calculated the harvest of my family this year.

Yin Le took his four children to collect rent and got back 12500 jins of rice and 1100 jins of soybeans.

My five acres of watermelon land was sold for 72 taels of silver, and my five acres of rice fields produced 2300 kilograms of rice.

Grain tax exemption, so that’s all you get.

There was still a lot of surplus grain in the first half of the year. This time I added some and collected 24 jins of rice to stockpile. The remaining jins of rice were sold for taels of silver at the price of three cents per catty.

Keep all the soybeans for yourself. Li is a good cook and makes soy milk, bean curd and tofu in different ways.

You can also make soybeans and eat them as fresh vegetables in winter.

Or make more tofu and process it into dried tofu with various flavors.

Qin Yao actually thought about adding another item, such as taking out the dried tofu made by Li's and selling it in a restaurant.

However, after calculating the costs and benefits later, the price of spices is high, the production of dried tofu takes a long time, and the manpower is limited. In addition, there are already people in the town and county doing this, so the competition is very competitive. Even if it is exhausted, Li will not make any profit, so he decisively gives up. .

It’s better to cook it for your family.

After the last account was settled, the total amount of cash Qin Yao had on hand was on the abacus, one thousand one hundred and ninety-six taels.