After the evil sister took over, all the best went crazy

Su Rongrong has always known that corvée labor in ancient times was a heavy topic.

She was silent for a while before asking, "Miao Miao, did your family and Tao Ya's family both pay directly to waive the quota?"

“Yes, Taoya’s family is not big, so just give five taels.

But my family is large and we have never divided it before, also because of the corvée labor issue.

In the past, a family only needed to send one person to give birth, but who would have thought that this time the number of people who would give birth would be determined by the number of people in the family.

This time my family is going to produce three, which will cost fifteen taels at once.

My grandmother said that our family worked hard for decades and only saved more than 30 taels.

Just with this one move, half of it was gone.

I heard from my grandfather and my father these days that we still have to send our children to school.

If my family had a scholar now, we wouldn't have to spend so much money."

When Liu Miao said this, she sighed and looked at Su Rongrong with envy.

"Rongrong, when your parents were alive, your family was the most well-off family in our village.

Your father is a scholar, so corvée labor and taxes have nothing to do with you.

The land you purchase will yield as much as you want every year.

The land of my house looks similar to yours, but my house is bigger than yours.

But there are so many people, and if we divide it up, there will be very little space left for each room.

There is also the grain from the fields, which not only has to feed more than 20 people in our family, but we also have to pay 30% of the land tax regardless of whether the year is good or not.

If my family hadn't rented more than ten acres of land every year, my second brother would have been a waiter in a teahouse in the county town.

My mother and her family raise pigs and chickens at home, while my other uncles and cousins ​​would go out to find work during the slack season.

With only the land we have now, my family will definitely not have enough to eat.”

After Su Rongrong heard this, she thought for a moment and said, "When they return my land to you, I will rent a few acres to you if you are willing.

The rent is the same as Taoya's, 50% is enough."

Liu Miao just said this at random, and didn't actually think that much about it.

Now when she heard that Su Rongrong wanted to rent the land to her family, she finally reacted.

She immediately said a little embarrassedly: "Rongrong, I didn't mean that.

I'm complaining to you, not because I want to rent your land.

I just want to say that it would be better if someone in the family had achieved success.

I'm not afraid of you laughing at me, but I'm already fourteen years old and my mother and others are anxious to find a husband for me.

Because of this, I told my mother and grandmother that if possible, I wanted to marry a scholar, or marry into a scholar's family.

Unfortunately, it is not easy to produce a student near our village, let alone a scholar."

In fact, just before yesterday, Liu Miao was still thinking that Su Jinhong was a person with a talent for studying.

After he passes the imperial examination, based on his relationship with Rongrong, he will ask Jinhong for a favor and transfer her family's land to his name.

Unfortunately, it seems that it is not possible now.

The only person in their village who had a hope of passing the imperial examination had his life ruined by Qin.

Just thinking about it made her feel a pain in her liver.

In my heart, I wished that when Su Rongrong beat someone up, I could also beat up Qin...

Su Rongrong really wanted to rent the land to Liu Miao's family.

When I heard this, I said, “After my family gets the land back, neither I nor Manman will be able to plant that much.

I have decided to rent the two acres of land that I took back from Su Dashan's family to Tao Ya's family.

If I set up a female household, I would only have to pay half of the original land tax before Jinhong turned 15.

Your family has to rent one outside every year, so instead of renting it to others, I might as well rent it to you.

This way I can rest assured and your family will also save trouble.”

Liu Miao didn't expect that she was just accompanying Su Rongrong out, thinking of lending a hand, but ended up solving her family's problem of renting land for the next year.

She subconsciously wanted to refuse, but she opened her mouth and couldn't say no.

Rongrong now has six acres of paddy fields and five acres of dry land.

If we take back the clan land from the Su family, then all these lands added up would be at least more than 20 acres.

Rongrong is not even fourteen yet, and Manman is only a little over ten years old.

Jinhong had always been studying, and even though he helped with farm work, he was not as capable as his peers in the village today.

It would be better to rent the land out directly than to rely on the three siblings to farm it.

Otherwise, even if they can pay to hire people to help during spring plowing and autumn harvest, what about weeding and pest control on a regular basis?

*

It was a bit cold in the morning in mid-to-late September, and even the wind blowing in our face was a little chilly.

However, as soon as the sun came out, the temperature instantly became very comfortable.

Baili Zheng's carriage was specially modified and is very shockproof.

No matter how fast the car goes, the people sitting inside will not feel any bumps.

In addition, the horses that pulled his carriage were the best thousand-mile horses from the northern border, so their speed was much faster than ordinary horses.

It takes an hour to travel from Sujia Village to Lanxia City by oxcart, but Baili Zheng's horse carriage took only more than two quarters of an hour, less than three quarters of an hour.

Su Rongrong originally thought that it would take at least an hour to get into the city.

As a result, thanks to Baili Zheng, she not only spent less time on the road, but she didn't even have to queue up to enter the city.

With Master Yang around, she felt like she was taking the VIP channel.

After the carriage entered the city, they didn't even have to wait to go to Jishiditang. Under the guidance of Master Yang, they came to a quiet and spacious alley.

Soon, the carriage stopped in front of a house, and several people were standing outside the house.

The woman standing in the front was about forty years old.

She was wearing a dark green thick skirt and had a kind smile on her face.

After seeing the carriage stop, she looked around the carriage and then looked at Master Yang who had already dismounted.

Master Yang did not introduce them immediately, but stepped forward and whispered, "Madam, the young master is here.

But there is a wounded person in the carriage, so I would like to trouble you to send someone to Jishitang to ask for a doctor first."

After he finished speaking, he saw the housekeeper standing beside Madam Wang leave, then he turned to Baili Zheng and said:

"Sir, this is Lord Wang's wife. She knew I was going to invite you this morning, so she came here to make arrangements.

Come in and take a look. Do you like it? If there is anything you don’t like, just let me know.”

Mrs. Wang never expected that the prince of the Duke of Huguo's Mansion would have a purple face and even one of his arms hanging in front of his chest.

She was a little shocked, but her good upbringing kept a kind smile on her face.

"I, Wang Lin, send my regards to the prince. I hope you like the house I have prepared for you."

Her master has been working here diligently for more than ten years, and his annual evaluations are basically average, and even above average are rare.

Now, the gentleman in front of her just wanted to come here, and with just one word, her master was promoted.

The master always said that this was how life would be, but she still held on to hope.

Well, this time is a vivid example!

She thought that as long as she could have a good relationship with the gentleman in front of her, perhaps her master would be able to make some moves before retiring.

It's a pity that she heard that this gentleman's backyard was clean, otherwise she really wanted to send him a few beauties.

Even if he falls in love with her engaged little daughter, it would be fine.

As long as I can enter his backyard, not to mention being a concubine, even being a maid is fine!