After dressing up as a stepmother, I transformed the whole family into working in the fields

Having horses is different. From Liujia Village to the county seat, there is no need to set off with a torch early in the morning before dawn.

Qin Yao went out after breakfast and saw the county gate in an hour.

After paying the city entrance fee and livestock care fee, and leaving the horse in the 'parking lot' at the gate of the city, Qin Yao took a look at the sky and saw that it was midday break and went straight to the academy to find Liu Ji.

From Liu Ji's point of view, it hadn't been many days since the last time the two separated, and he didn't expect Qin Yao to come again.

No one else was in the academy. Qin Yao waited at the back door of the academy for a long time before seeing several figures coming together, laughing constantly.

The few people walking in front were one in their early twenties and the other in their thirties, both of whom were accompanied by book boys.

After that, it was Liu Ji who made the two laugh.

He still had the same white shirt he had when he left home, but it had obviously been washed once, and the color was lighter. It was all supported by his face, so that it didn't show through in front of the embroidered cotton shirts of the two people in front. Poor.

Liu Ji's mouth sounds very useful to outsiders, as long as it's not directed at family members.

Liu Ji seemed to have something in his mind, and with a flick of his eyes, he met Qin Yao's gaze in the corner.

His breath suddenly hitched.

First, he sent the two scholars to the academy, then slipped out of the back door, came to Qin Yao, and asked nervously:

Madam, why are you here?

Fortunately, he had just driven away the pipa girl in the restaurant who insisted on following the scholar. Otherwise, Liu Ji would have imagined his own tragic end.

Qin Yao looked him up and down, and there was a vague smell of powder coming from the tip of her nose. She raised her hand to fan him, folded her arms and sneered.

Before she asked, Liu Ji immediately confessed: Madam, please don't misunderstand me! I swear, I didn't do anything sorry for you. This is just for entertainment. You don't know how strict those two scholars are. I worked hard for several days, and today they finally relented and were willing to copy the answers to the exam papers for me.

It is not difficult to find out the scientific examination questions over the years. The gentlemen in the academy have collected them. What is difficult is the answers, especially the answers written by the famous scholars.

The examination papers are not disclosed to the outside world, and only the adults in the Academic Affairs Department who correct the examination papers know what is going on.

Seeing his nervous look, Qin Yao said funnyly: Why are you nervous? I won't hit you.

Liu Ji: . But you have thought about it!

Please help me inquire about something. Qin Yao waved to Liu Jifu and told him to go to his classmates to help inquire about the workshop.

Liu Ji was shocked after hearing this, You want to build a workshop?

Qin Yao nodded, impatient for him to ask more questions, and raised her chin towards the academy, Go quickly, I'll wait for you here.

She needs to find out first before she can decide whether to go to the government.

By the way, just to be on the safe side, Qin Yao decided to go to the restaurant and ask Shopkeeper Fan.

After watching Liu Ji enter the academy, Qin Yao turned around and went to the restaurant.

You're here again. It's different now that you have a horse! Shopkeeper Fan had no time to spare. He only had time to point to the backyard and signal Qin Yao to wait for him there.

It was a busy time in the restaurant, so Qin Yao waited for a long time before shopkeeper Fan came over.

There was not much time, so Qin Yao didn't waste any time and asked shopkeeper Fan directly if he knew if ordinary people building their own small workshops needed to register with the government and pay business taxes.

If you ask me, you're asking the right person!

Shopkeeper Fan laughed and said: The new law is much more relaxed for merchants. The kind of small workshops you just mentioned don't need to go to the government. You just go to Li Zheng and report it to ensure that you don't do anything that violates discipline. .”

So simple? Qin Yao was in a daze.

Shopkeeper Fan nodded, There have been years of war, and now Shengguo needs to recuperate most.

If the people want to regain their vitality, the first thing that needs to be relaxed is the various restrictions on business groups.

The civil affairs at this time encouraged the activities of merchants. The strict control of the merchant class in the previous dynasty has now been completely relaxed.

In the past two years, Kaiyang County has become more and more prosperous, and most of the credit is due to small businessmen and hawkers.

After receiving the accurate answer from Shopkeeper Fan, Qin Yao felt more confident when she came to the academy.

Liu Ji slipped out of the back door and informed her of the similar result.

But there is another clear rule, that is, small business activities with no more than 20 people and annual income of less than 500 taels can now be exempted from relevant taxes by the court.

But it is only temporarily exempted, and it has not been specified when it will be reinstated.

Madam, do you really want to build a water tanker plant? Liu Ji asked excitedly.

Qin Yao knew what he was excited about and wanted to go home and eat soft food.

He struck in a cold voice, Just because we want to build a factory, you should study hard and strive to get fame as soon as possible so that you can protect our family's industry.

I understand, I understand. Liu Ji raised his eyebrows. She was talking about our family, which means that he owns a share of the family's factory!

When it was time for class in the afternoon, Liu Ji saw Qin Yao asking about the situation and didn't mean to leave yet, only to realize something later.

He asked tentatively: Madam, you won't leave?

Let's go together after class. You go to class first. I'll take a walk around the city and come to pick you up later.

Qin Yao spoke very naturally and made clear arrangements for him, Remember to ask for leave from your husband. Anyway, the Ghost Festival is coming soon. I will take the busy farming leave together with the Ghost Festival. Five days of vacation is almost enough for our family to finish harvesting the rice.

As soon as Liu Ji heard about the autumn harvest, he put on a mask of pain on his face in advance. He wanted to return two days later because he could finish copying the answers to the exam questions given by the two scholars in these two days.

Qin Yao shook her head, I'm very busy now. The autumn harvest must be completed as soon as possible so that I can concentrate on running the factory. The plan has changed. I'll give you a few more days. Don't worry about asking for leave. It's my fault that I couldn't bring the reference answer home this time. I won't kill you.

Okay! With her words, he felt relieved.

Liu Ji went back to finish his afternoon class, and then asked for leave from his husband.

Qin Yao walked around the county town and bought a pound of salt and five pounds of rapeseed oil, a pot of sauce, and three pounds of meat.

The weather was too hot to hold the meat, so I couldn’t buy too much.

However, riding a horse is very fast, and it is convenient to go to the town to buy meat whenever you want.

Thinking that the next autumn harvest would definitely be very tiring, Qin Yao bought several pastries in a pastry shop to reward herself.

There are mung bean cakes, glutinous rice and brown sugar dumplings, lotus seed candies, and lotus sesame cakes. They all use seasonal ingredients, so you can eat them fresh.

There are also sugar water shops on the street, which specialize in selling various drinks, such as sugar cane sugar water, sour plum soup, mung bean water, plum blossom wine, snow bubble shrinking spleen drink and so on.

The variety was beyond Qin Yao’s expectation.

She thought people in ancient times didn't have drinks to drink, but she didn't expect that not only did they have them, but they also had a wide variety of them.

For example, she had never heard of the Xuepao Shuipi Drink, and it looked very high-end.

I went back to the academy and waited for Liu Ji to come out. After asking about it, I found out that it was a herbal tea with ice.