"It's okay. I haven't been a pampered young master since I was a child. Many times, my life was not as good as the villagers in the village. I can adapt to it. Thank you, uncle and aunt." Liu Jinqiao was thinking about finding a place to live a good life at the moment.
It would be the same to him wherever he went. Maybe living with this family would bring him different surprises in the future.
How can a person who knows and owns storage space be called an ordinary villager? This future father-in-law is really humble.
Yang Zhengsong agreed, but he did not take the child directly to the valley. Instead, he took the child back to the village and placed him there to recuperate. Then he went to the village chief and told him
Let’s take a look at the situation.
However, he did not tell the child's true identity, but said that he was the son of Lu Qingshang's maternal cousin. Because of the chaos outside, he was separated from his family and was injured.
Because before his mother went out to flee, she told him that if he got separated nearby, he should come here to find his cousin Lu Qingshang.
They happened to meet each other when they came back from the county town yesterday. Yang Zhengsong also assured the patriarch that he was an honest child, but he was not very good at farming. After all, their family was considered relatively wealthy, and their children also studied.
In the eyes of these ordinary villagers, scholars are different from them. With Yang Zhengsong's guarantee, the clan leader and the elders of the clan allowed him to bring people into the valley.
After all, it is still quite dangerous outside. Although those people have come to the village to look for it once, who knows if they will suddenly come again. It is better to be careful.
After Lu Qingshang returned to the valley, he told the villagers in the valley about the situation outside. When they heard that there were no young people outside, the villagers' faces turned ugly.
"Now there are many people begging on the streets of the entire county, and there are no open shops. Moreover, these beggars are all old people and children, and all of them are women. What's even more frightening is that the county government has also posted a notice that this year's tax will be increased by 10%.
." Lu Qingshang deliberately emphasized the last sentence, because this is the third time that taxes have been increased since last year's autumn harvest.
Originally, the tax set by the court was 25%, but when it came to the prince's fiefdom, it became 35%. Last year's autumn harvest was cut by half due to drought, but the tax was still increasing, from 35% to 45%.
, it has become 50% again, plus this time the annual tax has to be paid 60%. The crops that have already been reduced by half, if they pay 60%, they will have to pay 60% to the farmers who grow the land, so that they can afford to pay the tax.
"Is this King Yu crazy? He has never thought about the current situation. Paying 60% of the tax is tantamount to taking away the lives of these common people." The village chief angrily raised his hand
The cigarette pot inside was smashed.
"Now he just wants to fight all the way to the capital. He has never thought about whether the people in this fiefdom will survive. Fortunately, we ran fast, otherwise we would all be in trouble." Yang Changlin is a real farmer.
I don’t understand what’s so valuable about that position. I sit there in fear every day. Is it really that good?
"Come, come, let me introduce you to everyone. This is my wife's nephew. His surname is Liu and his name is Jin Qiao. He is fourteen this year. He comes from Huai County. Village chief, we have to hide well now.
You don’t know, my little nephew’s place is even more serious than ours. The men have been arrested, the food has been robbed, and some people in their village have even been beaten to death.” Yang Zhengsong just said in a serious tone,
After all, what will happen after this.
Huai County is a county in the opposite direction to them. Although it is not big, it has a large population. They have a large dock there, and generally larger merchant ships and cargo ships will stop there first.
The wharf here in Song County is relatively small. Generally, only things shipped to Song County will pass through this wharf. It is not comparable to the wharf in Huai County.
The people who were originally ready to make a move, wanted to wait until the storm was over, and the people who returned to the village suddenly became quiet. If they came back from time to time and grabbed food when they couldn't grab anyone, would they still be alive?
"Daughter-in-law Zhengsong, do you want to do it in the county?" An elder thought of the drought and wondered if it would affect other places.
"Fuck, I heard from people in the county that many wells have dried up. From the county to Huai County, basically no one has planted seeds this year because there is no water and they can't plant." Lu Qingshang also asked.
To the north of the county, it may be drier than here, because after the autumn harvest last year, there were only two snowfalls in the whole winter, which was not very heavy.
You know, auspicious snow heralds a good harvest, which means that the more snow there is, the better it is for these crops. However, after several months of winter, the two thin snows have no effect on the geographical winter wheat.
"Well, we will definitely not be able to leave in the past two years. Please quickly tell the people below to divide the land and prepare the seeds quickly, otherwise life will be even more miserable this year. Also send people to protect the water sources.
, Don’t be destroyed. You know, there are only two water sources in this entire valley. If they are dirty or destroyed, how can we survive here?” The patriarch quickly ordered the village chief,
It dispelled the thoughts of those villagers who wanted to leave, allowing them to farm here in peace and contentment.
"Don't worry! I will send people out every day to find out the news. As long as the war outside has calmed down, we will go out. It's not far from the village and we don't have to pay taxes. We can continue to farm here. Of course, we also need the land outside.
Planting, but not now. Now we are farming outside and cannot afford to pay taxes." The clan leader also knows that everyone has relatives outside and is very worried about it, but it is not suitable to live outside at all now.
Under the leadership of Yang Xiuwen and Yang Jinwen, Liu Jinqiao quickly became familiar with people of the same age in the village.
When Yang Yuqing saw the person brought back by her brother, she knew that this person was definitely brought back by her sister. This kind of appearance was exactly what her sister liked, but she didn't know what his character was like.
"Qingqing, come here and introduce you to a little brother, Liu Jinqiao."
Yang Yuqing's eyes widened when she heard the name. This thing turned out to be a big villain. His sister was so big-hearted that she even brought all the big villains back.
"You know who he is, right? Why did you bring him back?" Yang Yuqing reached out and pinched her sister's face, asking with a bit of hatred.
"I know, I know, how can I not know? I have to know the details before I can get it back. Let me tell you, he is my sister's child adopter. I gave him the betrothal gift and all my wealth is with me." Yang Yuling let her sister pinch her.
He looked at her face and held out his hand to show her the tattoo.