Traveling through time and space to become a child, supporting the family by catching fish and shrim

When he pushed open the door, Chen Lang's hands were shaking a little.

At this moment, Chen Lang truly felt what it meant to feel like a long time had passed since you last saw someone.

crunch...

The door opens.

Li Xiuzhi, who was holding Guoguo in the yard, suddenly raised her head, and the joy in her eyes instantly flooded.

"Xiuzhi, I'm back." Chen Lang said gently.

Before Li Xiuzhi could say anything, Guoguo, who was sleeping in her arms, moved first.

The little girl stared at Chen Lang for a while, rubbed her eyes, and looked at him for a while again.

Then he jumped out of his mother's arms and stumbled towards Chen Lang.

Chen Lang hurriedly squatted down and hugged Guoguo in his arms.

"Daddy!"

After shouting, Guoguo began to cry: "I miss you."

The little man's tears wet Chen Lang's collar and his heart.

Chen Lang's voice was choked with sobs: "Daddy misses you too, and your mother."

He picked up Guoguo and walked to Li Xiuzhi.

This time, Li Xiuzhi took the initiative to hold Chen Lang's hand and put it on her face.

"It's been a hard journey."

In my arms is my good daughter, in my palm is my beloved wife.

Life has come this far, what more could one ask for?

Guoguo finally couldn't resist the sleepiness and fell asleep on Chen Lang's shoulder, sobbing.

Chen Lang carefully placed her on the bed. Just as he was about to get up, he noticed Guoguo's little hand was still tugging at his sleeve. When he looked up again, Guoguo had opened her eyes again, her eyes full of grievance and uneasiness: "Daddy, don't go."

Chen Lang touched his daughter's forehead and said gently, "Daddy won't leave. Go to sleep."

These words were like a shot of tranquilizer. Before he finished speaking, Guoguo's head tilted and he fell into a deep sleep.

Chen Lang covered her with a quilt, kissed her little face, and slowly retreated to the door.

As soon as he turned around, Li Xiuzhi hugged him tightly.

The fullness squeezes the chest and the waist fits in the palm of your hand.

In this situation, no one can withstand it unless he is a top-notch man like Liuxia Hui.

Chen Lang leaned back slightly, aimed at Li Xiuzhi's lips with the help of the moonlight, and kissed her hard.

Soft and sweet.

The best rain in the world is nothing more than this.

As the saying goes, when spring breeze, rain and dew meet, it is better than countless things in the world.

Both Chen Lang and Li Xiuzhi have been suppressed for too long.

This kiss was like opening the floodgates of a dam, and the flood roared out, unstoppable.

[Everyone doesn’t like the process, so I’ll skip it for you]

After the clouds cleared and the rain stopped, Chen Lang ran to the room naked and quietly took away two mattresses.

I was so focused on what I was doing that I didn't think about anything else. Now that I've stopped, I realize that the haystack in the woodshed is really piercing my butt...

I felt much better after putting on the mattress.

Chen Lang took Li Xiuzhi into his arms and said with emotion: "Xiuzhi, I feel that my life is complete."

Li Xiuzhi's skin was still flushed red, and her eyes were full of tenderness and gentleness.

She also didn't expect that the outbreak after so many years would be so violent.

Although she originally planned to spend this night in her new home, after a short two-day separation, she could no longer control her longing for him. All plans and arrangements went to hell.

Of course, in addition to the original longing, there was another thing that also contributed to Li Xiuzhi's "impulsiveness" tonight.

"Erlang, I have a few things to tell you." Li Xiuzhi said in a low voice, touching the stubble on Chen Lang's chin.

Chen Lang grabbed her hand and kissed it: "Speak, your husband is listening."

"Do you want to give Guoguo a little brother?"

"Then we have to work hard."

After saying this, he turned over and prepared for the second expedition.

Li Xiuzhi gently pushed him and said angrily, "You're annoying! I'm talking to you seriously."

Chen Lang returned to his previous position and said, "Oh, what is it?"

Li Xiuzhi slowly sighed: "We can't do the fish, shrimp and crab business anymore."

Chen Lang raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "As expected."

Li Xiuzhi was stunned: "You thought of this a long time ago?"

Chen Lang smiled and said, "Ever since Zuixianlou developed a new way to cook fish, shrimp and crabs, I expected that they would increase their efforts to purchase fish, shrimp and crabs sooner or later."

"And Xu Kun, having suffered such a huge loss, must be eager to seek revenge."

Li Xiuzhi said, "It's pretty much what you said. Not long after you left the village the day before yesterday, Xu Kun came to the village entrance again to collect fish, shrimp, and crabs. He paid three cents more per pound than us."

Chen Lang said, "After the villagers suffered a loss once, they probably won't change their allegiance right away."

Li Xiuzhi said: "That was the case at the beginning, but on the second day, the situation changed."

"What do you mean?" Chen Lang asked.

"Corvee labor..." Li Xiuzhi hugged Chen Lang's arm tightly. "The county government issued a notice that this year's corvee labor will begin immediately after the autumn harvest and will last for about a month."

"Corvée labor is too hard. The women in the village all want to save more money for their men so that when they go to the corvée labor site, they have money in their pockets and it won't be too hard."

"Sometimes a copper coin can save a life."

Chen Lang nodded: "If that's the case, I can understand."

Li Xiuzhi said, "This isn't the end of it. On the afternoon of the day the notice was issued, someone from the government office came again and asked us to collect the "People's Fun Tax."

This word confused Chen Lang. He scratched his head and thought for a long time before saying, "Do we have this kind of tax in Dayan?"

Li Xiuzhi's tone grew increasingly bitter. "The officer said this year is the Empress Dowager's seventieth birthday, and they want to celebrate with the people. They're collecting a tax of thirty wen per person."

Chen Lang's eyes widened: "Fuck!"

"That damn old woman in the palace calls this 'sharing joy with the people'?"

Li Xiuzhi quickly covered Chen Lang's mouth and said, "Erlang, keep your voice down! If someone hears such outrageous words, there will be great disaster."

Although Chen Lang felt that Li Xiuzhi was making a big deal out of nothing, well, it's better to be safe than sorry. There's no shortage of people in this world who eavesdrop and tell tales.

After Chen Lang divided the family, there were only three people in the family. According to the standard of thirty cents per person, it was less than one penny of silver, which was nothing to them.

But what about other villagers whose families are not as well off?

The average population of each household in Hezhong Village is six, and the largest is twelve. This tax is an unbearable burden for them.

This means that all the money they earned from fishing and shrimping recently has to be contributed to the dead old woman in the village!

If corvee labor is added...it would be even more terrifying.

This rotten world really doesn't allow ordinary people to be happy.

Chen Lang was filled with righteous indignation when he suddenly felt a chill on his shoulder. He looked down and found that Li Xiuzhi was crying.

"Xiuzhi, why are you crying?" Chen Lang asked in surprise.

Li Xiuzhi cried and said, "Erlang, you are in such a weak condition, and I am afraid of you doing corvée labor."

Chen Lang held his forehead with his hand, his face dull.

He remembered that students were not eligible for exemption from corvee labor.