Five-year-old little girl: Mom has thousands of acres of material space

Jiang Xiaoxiao teased the little tiger for a while, then went outside to watch the construction process of the soap workshop.

Master Zheng is indeed an experienced mason. In just a few days, several bungalows have already begun to take shape.

Several kilns next to the bungalow have also been built, and firewood is being burned inside for the final baking process. It will probably take a few days and nights to be officially put into use.

The cement manufacturing project can also be put on the schedule as soon as possible. When the villagers come to have a banquet tomorrow, they can also take this opportunity to recruit more people to help.

Limestone for making cement is difficult to come by, and it takes a lot of effort to transport it down the mountain. Although her mother has space, she doesn’t have much time to go to the mountain to look for stones. Otherwise, the work of looking for stones should be contracted to the villagers...

Jiang Xiaoxiao decided to find time to discuss it with her mother at night. When she turned around, she saw Li Zheng walking hurriedly towards her yard with a pamphlet.

"Grandpa Li Zheng, what happened?" Jiang Xiaoxiao hurriedly stepped forward.

"Xiaoxiao, please tell your mother to take the money and go to the village entrance. Someone from the county government is here."

"Oh, okay." Jiang Xiaoxiao knew that the county government was here to collect taxes, so she hurriedly returned to the construction site to call her mother.

Li Zheng also notified Qiu Lianniang, Sister Zhao and others who were working in Jiang's yard.

Several people wiped their hands casually and hurried home in a hurry.

When people from the county government come to collect taxes, it is a big deal and cannot be ignored.

Jiang Wei returned to the yard and washed his hands. He took Jiang Xiaoxiao directly to the entrance of the village without taking a pound of food.

Walking on the village road, you can see two government officials in official uniforms standing at the entrance of the village from a distance. Behind them is a cart used to pull tax grains.

A long queue has formed at the entrance of the village. The villagers are carrying their own grains and weighing them on the scales one by one.

The two government officials sent to Yuhe Village were one fat and one thin. The tall and thin government official was responsible for keeping records, while the short and fat government official was responsible for collecting the poll tax.

After each household, the tall and thin yamen officer would cross out the name of the head of the household on the booklet.

When it was the turn of the Jiang family, the tall and thin government servant looked at the book in his hand, then looked at the mother and daughter, and said: "... Your family has just started its own business. It has no land and only has to pay the head tax. That’s it.”

Jiang Xiaoxiao counted eight hundred copper coins from the purse on his waist and handed them over.

The villagers looked on with envy.

If you don't have land, you don't have to pay the grain tax. The minimum age for the poll tax is six years old. Jiang Wei is the only one in the Jiang family who meets the requirements, so paying 800 cash is enough.

But envy is envy, no one really dares to imitate the Jiang family.

They are not as good at making money as Jiang Wei. If they lose their fields, let alone pay taxes, their families will not be able to afford food.

"...Okay, next family."

Sister-in-law Zhao walked forward with her two daughters. Like Jiang Wei, she did not bring any food. Instead, she counted a bunch of copper coins and handed them over to pay the head tax for mother and daughter.

The tall and thin yamen servant looked at the pamphlet in his hand, his face not showing any signs of surprise, but his heart a little surprised.

This Yuhe Village is really weird. Why are there so many women from independent concierges?

The booklet in the hand of the yamen servant can be said to be the household registration book of Yuhe Village. It not only records the population of each household in Yuhe Village, but also records how many acres of land the family has and how much food they have to pay every year to meet the standard. There is no room for falsehood.

However, there are always people who take chances.

"This grain of yours has been soaked in water and cannot reach the weight at all. Who are you fooling!" The tall and thin yamen servant touched the grain on the scale and immediately noticed something was wrong. Everyone heard the sound and looked at the grain on the scale. It was obvious that it was still moist, and some of it was even moldy due to moisture.

This kind of food, let alone paying taxes, can't even be eaten.

"Official, official..." Widow Xu was so frightened that she almost fell to her knees, "My family has all this food..."

"Did you know that this is a serious crime of deception and you will be punished!" Slender Gao's county magistrate scolded him sternly, "Who is in charge of your family? Let your husband's family suffer!"

"My lord, please forgive me!"

At this time, an old lady in the crowd suddenly knelt on the ground and opened her mouth to howl: "There is nothing we can do. There was a heavy rain not long ago and all the food was damaged. We didn't mean to deceive the official... …”

Everyone turned around and saw that it was Zhao Rascal's mother.

Something happened to Rascal Zhao some time ago. Although he recovered half his life from the mountain, he became a cripple. Now he is paralyzed in bed. Not to mention suffering, he can't even stand up.

"Who are you lying to!" the short fat man said angrily, "Why is it that other people's food is fine, but yours is flooded?!"

"me……"

Old Mrs. Zhao cried and howled for a moment, unable to speak. She couldn't say that her son was a lazy man. Other families were rushing to harvest food, but his son was lying down and sleeping at home.

She was frightened and frightened, fearing that her son would be dragged out to take the blame, so she turned around and slapped Widow Xu: "It's all your fault for being such a loser. If it weren't for you, Chunmiao's mother would not have left. Our family's food supply Then I won’t be caught in the rain until the end..."

Old Mrs. Zhao cursed and put all the blame on Widow Xu: "Sir, it's none of our business that the grain is soaked in water and becomes moldy. It's all because of this stinky woman who is too lazy to eat and let the grain rot in the ground. It's her too." Whoever deceived the official has nothing to do with my son..."

The villagers looked at this scene with some sighs. Everyone in the village knew what kind of character Rascal Zhao was. Old Mrs. Zhao was so cruel in blaming Rascal Zhao's fault on Widow Xu.

When Mrs. Zhao on the side saw this scene, a trace of joy flashed in her eyes.

She was thankful once again that she escaped from this home with her two daughters.

This was the best decision she had ever made in her life.

Otherwise, she would be the one to suffer all this.

"That's enough! Stop arguing. If you keep arguing again, I'll put you in jail!"

The short, fat yamen officer was so noisy by Mrs. Zhao's slaps and scolds that his forehead hurt, and he yelled sternly: "I don't care whose fault it is, if your food is not up to standard and you don't pay enough, I will send you to jail!"

Mrs. Zhao trembled and immediately silenced her voice.

Widow Xu was so frightened by the words "go to jail" that she hurriedly knelt down and begged the people in the village: "Please, whoever has extra food can lend me some, I don't want to go to jail..."

"I, our food is just enough..." The people in the village looked embarrassed.

This year's harvest was not good, and there wasn't much left after paying the taxes. There was no way to lend out the extra grain.

"Uncle Li Zheng, please save my family for the sake of the fact that we are all from the same village..." Widow Xu was completely at a loss and could only go to Li Zheng.

Li Zheng also looked embarrassed. His family didn't have any extra food.

His eyes subconsciously looked at Jiang Wei aside.