Light Keeper

Chapter 331 This Mission Is A Little Difficult 8
All of a sudden, the whole village was a sensation, catching such a big wild boar was much better than catching that roe deer.

Even when Zhang Orion was alive, he didn't have such a record!
Everyone hurriedly helped Song Shuyun move the wild boar back.

As soon as she entered the house, Song Shuyun hid in the kitchen and vomited blood.

She supported her body with her mind, leaned against the stove and could not move for a long time. After waiting for a long time, she took out the medicine from the space and took it.

The effect of eating it this time was obvious. Although it didn't make her alive immediately, she calmed down a few breaths and then stood up straight.

Zhang Dalang and Zhang Erlang are still dealing with the visitors, Baozhu has already sharpened his knife under the eaves.

The wild boar was already dead, so bloodletting became a problem, but no one cared, everyone saw only such a big lump of meat and didn't know how long it would take to eat it!
Because the wild boar was too big, Song Shuyun simply called everyone over, and everyone helped to deal with the wild boar quickly.

Song Shuyun kept a small half for her family to pickle, and the rest of the good meat was divided among the family who came to help, and the rest of the pork intestines and bone minced meat were stewed in a large pot with pickles, and everyone ate happily. pause.

After dividing the meat this time, the Zhang family's status in the village rose instantly.

The next morning, Song Shuyun got up before dawn. Before the child woke up, she took the long knife exchanged for the space of the Lord God, peeled and deboned half a pig, cut it into long strips, and burned a large pot Boil water to boil all the salt in the house into brine.

Then she lit a big fire in the yard, set up a simple shelf not far away, and smoked the pork that had been smeared with salt water into jerky.

The smell of bacon wafts through the whole village.

Some people still wanted to help, but Song Shuyun refused them all. This job is not easy. The family of four worked hard for three days before finishing everything.

That afternoon after everything was cleaned up, Song Shuyun personally cooked a meal of bacon and rice for the children, and also made two side dishes with lard.

To be honest, the taste is not very good, the taste of wild boar is quite different from that of domestic pig, but with such a meal, Baozhu was crying.

Although Baozhu is called Baozhu, she is the one who suffers the most among the children in the family. She lost her father when she was young, and her two elder brothers are also children. Zhao Sanniang didn't discipline her much. And always hungry.

Dalang Erlang still has memories of when his family was in good condition, but Baozhu only remembers his hungry stomach and endless odd jobs.

By the time the fourth bowl was eaten, Song Shuyun was terrified, fearing that she would spoil the child to death, but the obedient and obedient Baozhu lost her temper with Song Shuyun for the first time, and would not let go of her job.

Song Shuyun had absolutely no experience in coaxing children, so she couldn't understand after persuading her for a long time.

At this time, she suddenly had a question that she had always hated since she was a child, and wanted to ask Baozhu.

She wanted to ask, did I give you face!
But in the end, he swallowed the question back, threw the child to Zhang Dalang, gathered the few firewood left at home, and hung the bacon one by one on the eaves.

Baozhu had had enough crying, so she sat under the eaves and drooled while looking at the bacon strips.

Song Shuyun didn't have time to talk to her. This winter was very cold. She was going to renovate the house. Seeing that the land was about to be acquired again, many things in the house were gone.

You can exchange needles and threads at a neighbor's house, but you have to go to the county town to buy things like salt and sugar.

When Song Shuyun wanted to go to the county seat, she felt a headache.

Nowadays, there are many miscellaneous taxes. In addition to the city tax, you have to pay the city tax when you enter the city. You also need to pay the brocade tax, the cloth tax, and the linen tax. If you go to buy and sell things, you also need to pay the sales tax. food tax.

If you spend copper coins, you have to pay a copper coin tax, and when you spend silver coins, you have to pay a silver coin tax.

There are three steps, one pavilion and five steps and one post in the city, not for the purpose of defending the country, but for the convenience of tax collection.

One hundred city defenses and five hundred tax officials.

People in the village want to buy something in the city. Originally, one copper coin would be enough, but after a round of taxes, it will cost about four copper coins.

Now the Zhang family has no money at all, and the various taxes can only be paid with grain. Song Shuyun wants to buy salt, so she has to carry a lot of grain into the city.

The Zhang family has a two-wheeled cart, but the donkey has been sold long ago. If the cart can only be pulled by manpower, Song Shuyun has experienced the last wild boar incident and already knows where her limit is.

It is obviously unrealistic to carry food on your back.

The county seat is nearly forty miles away, and Song Shuyun's footsteps will take about two and a half hours to walk there.

In the past, there was no need to go so far. A village more than ten miles away from here would have a big market every once in a while, and everyone was willing to go there to buy things.

But a few years ago, after the imperial court promulgated the market order tax, the market there could not continue to open, and everyone had to go to the county town to buy whatever they needed!
Song Shuyun had no choice but to ask Zhang Dalang to take two pieces of meat and go to the village to exchange some copper coins with someone. Now copper coins are the most valuable thing.

She went to the county seat with copper coins and some smoked meat she kneaded.

Such a poor and tiring life is constantly wearing down Song Shuyun's will, causing her to neglect her own tasks several times.

It was also because she had been free for the past two days that she remembered that she would kill those dozens of soldiers in the spring of next year, so she had to prepare some things herself.

Because there are people rebelling everywhere, the control of metals becomes more and more severe.

It is obviously unrealistic to buy swords and daggers, so she can only buy two small files to go back.

The Zhang family has a simple hand crossbow, which was passed down from their ancestors. Song Shuyun studied it for two days, posted some questions, and gained some insights, so she was going to improve it by herself.

She carried a lot of things, which weighed thirty to forty catties, which was already her current limit.

Fortunately, she didn't have many things to change, only some salt and files.

She went out before dawn, and it was just past half time when she arrived at the county seat.

Zhao Sanniang seldom goes to the county seat. Zhang Hu once brought her here twice when he wanted to please her.
The city wall of the county is not high, about four meters. It is made of bricks, and some places have been damaged. The handwriting of Qibao County on the gate is a little blurry. Song Shuyun's eyesight took a while to recognize these words.

There are notices posted at the gate of the city, all of which are famous bandits in the mountains.

The bandits here have no bottom line, are not kind, and will not steal from the rich and give to the poor. Song Shuyun glanced at them, wanting to remember the appearance of these people, thinking about being more prepared in the future.

It turned out that the portrait above had no features other than a nose and eyes. She sighed and immediately understood that this was obviously not a real attempt to suppress bandits.

(End of this chapter)