Farmer's Cannon Fodder: Listen to me, the whole family, change the plot

"Yes, you're right, we should move to town!"

Old Mrs. Su had never thought about this before, because she had long forgotten everything Su Xikui had said and had no idea about it at all.

Not to mention, even if she had this awareness, she would still think it cost too much money.

As soon as Su Xigen said this, she remembered everything Su Xikui had said that year.

According to the laws of this dynasty and some local laws, if you want to settle down in the town without any assets, you must be a refugee and there is vacant land in the town for you to stay. If others want to settle down in the town, even if they do not buy a house, they need to pay a transfer fee of five taels of silver per person.

But in this case, they are individual households in the town, and the corvée they perform is the same as that performed by the country folk.

But in a case like Su Xigen, who wanted to settle down in the town but also avoid the corvée system in the countryside and perform the corvée of the town residents, it was not enough to simply pay the silver for transferring his household registration. He had to have his own house in the town and register his household registration there.

That's a lot of money.

Therefore, although Old Lady Su said this firmly, she still had concerns in her heart.

"But if we really buy a house in town and then transfer our household registration, it will cost a lot of money for our family! And if we do that, we will lose our land in the village! We are outsiders in Songjia Village, and it is impossible for the people in Songjia Village to keep our land in the countryside for us."

When she thought about this, Old Mrs. Su became a little worried.

Although she had a lot of money in her hands, once she met her darling Su Fuzhu, she spent the money very quickly.

Not to mention that after Old Man Su died, to a certain extent, Old Mrs. Su was not someone who was willing to suffer injustice.

Now, if all their family members go to the town, there are nine living people who need to transfer their household registration, and each person needs five taels of silver, which means forty-five taels are needed.

To buy a house in town that is big enough for nine people and a little better would cost at least sixty taels of silver.

Thus, forty-five taels plus sixty taels would require at least one hundred and five taels of silver.

This is still a minimum estimate.

It is not possible to find a house for nine people in the town so easily and for just sixty taels of silver.

So, the cost can only be more, not less.

Although in recent years, Mrs. Su had taken advantage of the first and second wives' mouths, and Su Fuju had good luck in not eating, the total amount of silver she had earned was more than what an ordinary farmer had saved, but it was still far from more than a hundred taels.

Taking into account the money that Su Xikui might hand over this month, and the money Su Laier would get from selling her body, the maximum total would be just over sixty taels of silver.

How can this be enough?

If Old Mrs. Su could think of these things, Su Xigen could naturally think of them as well.

When he spoke out his thoughts, it was already calculated.

And when he expressed his thoughts, he had no intention of bringing other people from the Su family along.

"Mom, it costs five taels per person to transfer to the town. You, me, Chuncao, and Fuzhu, the four of us will only need twenty taels. When the time comes, we can buy a small house in the town that is big enough for the four of us to live in. It will cost more than 30 taels to buy a three-and-a-half-room house. If you calculate it this way, the money you have in your hand will be just enough for us to move to the town, right?"

Su Xigen knew that Old Lady Su had always favored him, so when he expressed this selfish plan, he spoke of it as if it was natural and aboveboard.

But Old Mrs. Su didn't think there was anything wrong with what he said. After hearing his arrangements and plans, the expression on her face gradually became one of excitement and emotion.

Su Xigen noticed the change in the expression on Old Lady Su's face, and he began to talk more about the benefits of living in town with only his family of three and Old Lady Su:

"Mom, although Fuzhu is a lucky star, there is a fundamental difference between a lucky star that protects eight or nine people at once and a lucky star that only protects three people at once! The reason why our family is in trouble so easily now must be that the other people who were protected by us were greedy and secretly made wishes to Fuzhu when we didn't know. Fuzhu is small, and although she can fulfill their wishes, she can't bear so much, so something bad happened! If Fuzhu protected fewer people, it would not only be good for us, but also for Fuzhu herself!"

Su Xigen's ideas were all made up by himself, but they were well-made and logical, and when old lady Su heard them, she was convinced.

"Yes!" After listening to Su Xigen's words, Old Lady Su began to talk to herself: "It must be that those bastards were greedy and made big wishes to Fuzhu that he was too old to bear, so this led to the deaths and injuries in the family! This must be a warning from God to our family, thinking that our family was not good enough to Fuzhu, a blessed girl born with great blessings!"

Old Mrs. Su kept muttering these things to herself, and the more she muttered them, the more they seemed to make sense.

"Gen'er!" After muttering for a while, Old Lady Su grabbed Su Xigen's hand and said, "You are right. It must be because Fuzhu was tired. God thinks that we are not good enough in supporting, so so many things happened! Since we want to go to the town, we can't bring so many people! Otherwise, who knows who will be the next one to get into trouble? Those bastards are so greedy!"

"Yes, yes, yes, mother, you are right!" Su Xigen nodded repeatedly when he saw that Old Lady Su agreed.

Old Lady Su seemed to have made a great decision and patted Su Xigen's hand vigorously:

"We have to split up! After we divide the family, Mom will live with your family, and we will go to live in the town! This way, Fuzhu can live in peace and safety, and you don't have to worry about being asked to do corvée and move stones!"

Old Mrs. Su directly tied herself to Su Xigen's family. Her eldest son Su Xikui, whom she would occasionally mention in the past, had completely lost his place in her heart and mind.

Su Xigen was very happy and immediately suggested going to the town to call his elder brother back.

Although he knew in his heart that Old Lady Su was clearly biased towards him, he was also afraid that the division of the family would be a long process and that something big might happen the next day. He would rush to the town to call Su Xikui back and divide the family.

Fortunately, Old Mrs. Su agreed with his proposal.

"Go quickly! Call your eldest brother back from the town as soon as possible, so that we can divide up the family and move to the town sooner! Every summer, we have to do corvée labor! We must move to the town before we do the corvée labor! Mother doesn't want you to do the work of moving stones to build dams!"