After being forced to marry a butcher

Chapter 85

Threshing wheat and raising dust are not easy tasks.

Later, when the wheat was almost crushed, Li Qingshan listened to Liu Yu again, went to the county town and hired two people to help raise the field.

After a few days of busy work, the wheat was bagged and put into the warehouse for the first time.

In fact, this is not the end. When the weather is good and the sun is poisonous, we still have to pull out the wheat and re-dry it to dry and raise it.

But at that time, there is no need to pull out all at once, and a dozen bags of wheat will be sent in turn, so that if it rains, only their family can be busy.

At this time, people with a lot of land are still busy, and no one dares to eat the newly harvested wheat until it has been weighed and taxed. Therefore, the three large stone mills in the village are of no use at the moment.

Taking advantage of this free time, after the big horse mule helped Li Qingshan finish plowing the land, Liu Yu took the big horse mule who was now very obedient to him to the village ancestral hall to grind pea flour.

The five acres of land he allocated did not produce much wheat, but peas were not too small, weighing more than 400 catties.

According to the current amount of jelly sold by the shop every day, the powder made from these peas should be enough to sell for a month.

However, there is too much bean dregs from the grinder, and the pigs and mules at home can only eat so much, and the mules have to rest after being tired for so long, so the willow fish only grinds about 30 catties a day. Even with the ones prepared before the wheat harvest, it is guaranteed that when the big stone mill is not easy to use later, the pea flour for the shop will continue to be used.

After plowing and fertilizing the land, autumn grain will be planted. The nine acres to the east will be planted with millet as usual, and the five acres to the west will be planted with summer soybeans this time.

But no more interplanting, let alone the harvest of wheat, sorting after harvesting is very troublesome.

This year's jelly is very profitable. From now on, the 5 acres here will be planted with peas in spring and soybeans in summer. After harvesting soybeans in autumn and summer, they will be fertilized several times so that they can be grown.

The whole month of May was basically spent in the busy summer, during which Li Qingshan took Liu Yu to the county medical center to ask the doctor for a pulse check.

The doctor said that Liu Yu's pulse condition was extremely stable and his complexion was good, and the whole family was very happy.

Today, it's finally time for the summer grain to be weighed.

After weighing, you can pay the grain tax and eat new grain, and the whole village is full of joy.

Li Qingshan also came back early this day, and wanted to make arrangements for the payment of grain taxes by the Li family.

In previous years, only the head of the village had an ox cart in the entire Taoyuan Village. His surname was Wu, so he followed Wu first.

This year Li Qingshan has a mule cart, so he can no longer call them Li and leave them alone.

When the elders of the Li family heard that he was going to take over this matter this year, they all felt very embarrassed, saying that he gave them the honor of Li's surname.

However, Li Qingshan doesn't really like to hear this. Firstly, he took on this job purely because he felt that it was too hard for the people in the village to carry grain all the way to pay taxes in the hot weather. Since he had a mule cart, he could help as much as he could; secondly, the word spread It is inevitable that there will be suspicions of provoking disputes between the two surnames, and it would be bad to cause trouble.

But elders are elders after all, Li Qingshan is not easy to refute what he says, so he just listens to it.

The summer grain is still taxed at 20 and 1. Li Qingshan's 9 mu of wheat produces about 1,400 catties of grain, and the other 5 mu pays 2 liters of grain per mu, which adds up to a bucket. This time, a total of 83 catties will be paid. More food tax.

His family lives in the northwest corner of the village, and the village chief will be the first to be weighed from here.

After finishing the scale, Li Qingshan waited at home.

After that, whoever's family has finished the scale, carries the marked grain tax, and puts it on the mule cart. After a while, he will help pull it to the county government to pay the grain tax. Qi's man just took a step first, saving a lot of energy. It happened that he was at home, and when Liuyu made pea yellow, he entrusted him with the job of

crushing boiled peas.

But at that time, he was so busy, and he was very tired during the day, so he just thought about it and didn't take any action.

Now that I'm free, Liu Yu is not so tired anymore. Cong Chunhua came back tonight, so I did a little more at a time.

Sprinkling sugar on willow fish, Li Qingshan crushed peas, I don't know what the young couple muttered, after a while they all laughed.

Seeing this, the old lady Guan who was teaching the three girls how to embroider behind her couldn't help laughing.

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Li Qingshan's family has little land, and the food tax is only about 80 catties, but most families have to have 200-300 catties.

Therefore, it is almost enough to gather three or four families.

For the latter, Liu Yu arranged for people to put the food and taxes in the yard in order, and the men started first.

The woman or husband who came with the man at the side and wanted to sit in the yard for a while after the man left saw it, and said happily, "Brother Yu, you are more virtuous." Liu Yu smiled, and went back to the house to get a stool and a

mat Invite people to sit in the pergola.

This pergola was specially built for him after he was busy in summer a few days ago, Li Qingshan saw that he was doing a lot of sewing work recently, felt that the light in the house was not good and it was hot.

Mats were tied on all sides, and when the sun came in at noon, the mats were lowered to provide shade. Anyway, it is ventilated on all sides, but it is cool.

It is comfortable to drink tea, blow the hair, do needlework, eat some snacks, and take a nap in the afternoon. Recently, both he and grandma like to stay here.

Several women and husbands also felt good when they came in, and they all praised, "Hey, this pergola is well built in your house, it's so cool." Liu Yu offered someone some tea and said, "If my aunt likes it, I can also

build one at home."

"Hey." The aunt took a sip of tea and said, "If my house is as big as yours, I'll wake up laughing from my dreams." Thanks to Li Qingshan's father's

good skills, a lot of money, and a big homestead circle. Because there are few people in the family, although there are not so many houses built, if you want to build more in the future, there is room for them.

Therefore, Li Qingshan built such a pergola for Liu Yu in the yard, it's not a problem at all.

While Liu Yu was talking with the aunts and aunts, more and more people gathered in the yard, and the women inevitably talked about Cong Chunhua again, "Your mother hasn't come back once in ten and a half months, I really miss her! "

Liu Yu smiled and said: "My mother is the same. She said that no one talked in the county, so she was in a panic."

The fact is that Cong Chunhua quickly became one with the aunts, aunts, and old grandmas in that area. In order to be able to talk to her for a while, he helped her burn several times.

"Oh, what's so good about the county town! I heard people say that you have to pay for every night fragrance!" "You have to

buy firewood!"

Everyone chattered, and the topic quickly changed, "Hey, Brother Yu Son, why doesn't your family sell jelly this year?"

"That's right, you don't just sell it in the county town, you also sell it in the village! That being said, I always want to eat that jelly mixed with sesame sauce!"

As long as the pea powder is prepared well, it is easy to make jelly, and the villagers will not let him mix it in order to save money.

There is no reason to promote the door-to-door business, Liu Yu said: "That's okay, I will do it tomorrow." For a while,

the aunt said she wanted two catties, and the aunt said she wanted one catty. After all, the harvest has just been bumper, and the food is plentiful and the mood is good. Who doesn't want to eat something that they don't usually eat?

As he said that, Li Qingshan came back with the first batch of men who went to pay the grain tax, and there were happy expressions on the faces of several people.

"What's the matter?" The woman who asked the question murmured in her heart. Even if the food tax was paid and the matter was settled, there was no need to smile so happily. After all, this was giving away her own food.

Before Li Qingshan could speak, a man behind laughed loudly and said: "This year's corvee money will be waived!" Everyone was stunned, and those who

reacted quickly began to ask excitedly, "What's going on, what's going on!"

" "It is said that the empress is happy again, and the emperor will be exempted as soon as he is happy!" "

Oh!" The cheers of the crowd reached the peak, and the corvee money is three hundred cash a year. What can I do with the saved money ? good!

A lot of people asked Li Qingshan if he would kill pigs. Today, after paying the grain tax, he can grind new wheat and eat new grains. He has to cut three to five catties of meat, so that the whole family can eat well!

On such a festive day, Li Qingshan was also happy, and happily said: "Kill!"

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On a day of great joy, no one can make others unhappy.

Therefore, this time grinding the new wheat, the people in the village were very friendly. No one occupied the stone mill for a long time. They all grind enough to feed their own family today and then stop, so that everyone can taste the taste of the new wheat.

Willow fish followed suit and washed its own new wheat.

But before the wheat is dry, the person who has paid the grain tax first and has ground the new wheat will send the noodles, "Your mule is occupied, eat mine first.

" A scoop of it turned out to be quite a lot. Liu Yu dug some pea flour to make jelly, and prepared to give it to others as a return gift when the meat is sold later.

He started to be busy in the morning, until the afternoon when Li Qingshan stopped by to pick up Cong Chunhua and Li Suzhi, and then he finished all the work.

Cong Chunhua got off the car again with big bags and small bags. Before she got off, she said to Liu Yu: "Yuer, brother Yu, mother bought the buttered abalone from Baiweizhai, eat it while it's hot!

" The snail is named for its flat shape resembling an abalone and the long one resembling a snail. It melts in the mouth and tastes very good.

In addition, there are all kinds of sweet and sour candied fruits, which can be used as snacks for willow fish to relieve boredom.

Where can I eat so much again? Looking at the large and small packages of willow fish, he couldn't help laughing, and ordered Li Qingshan to take out the finally shaped pea yellow hanging in the well, put it on the stone table in the arbor, and cut it.

The pea yellow color is light yellow, transparent and pure, and looks very good-looking. It also melts in the mouth, delicate, cool and sweet, very refreshing.

While eating, Li Qingshan went out to call for help to carry the pig.

The villagers who got the letter, the men came to join in the fun of slaughtering the pigs, the people in the house came to hang out together, and the children knew that something good was going on, and they ran around without fear of being disliked by the adults.

It was lively at this time, just like the Chinese New Year.