Song Yuyan would not be so blind to ask Tang Zhi if something happened to his elder brother, she waited quietly for a while, Tang Zhi sniffled and asked, "Why are you asking this?"

"I want to ask his opinion on some things."

Although Tang Haogen didn't have to work the night shift, if something happened to the county government, he wouldn't be able to come back until very late.Instead of waiting for him to pass by the house after get off work every day, Song Yuyan might as well come to Tang Zhi and ask him when he will have a rest.

Tang Zhi was also not interested in asking what they were going to discuss, and said, "He won't rest until two days later, but if the yamen has something to deal with, he may not be free either."

"Then I'll look for him in two days." Song Yuyan finished speaking, but did not leave.

Tang Zhi felt strange and asked, "Do you have anything else to do?"

Song Yuyan pondered for a moment and asked, "Miss Tang, do you know where the bamboo forest near here can be cut down?"

Having said that, she blushes a little, "The kind that has no owner."

She thinks her subtext is - where is there a free lunch.

She was educated since she was a child not to be greedy for petty gains, let alone take possession of unowned things at will.So even though every plant and tree in these mountains and forests is ownerless and the people can cut them down at will, she will still feel ashamed of her actions.

Of course, she has no burden to gather the grass that grows by the roadside, riverside, and barren hills, but bamboo and wood are called public property in later generations, and even if there is no owner, they cannot be cut down at will.

People nowadays don't have any concept of public property. Except for the places where the government has obtained a title deed, the remaining mountains and forests are taken in and out by the people as if they were their own back mountains.Sometimes the government will intervene to prevent excessive logging, and most of the time the government will turn a blind eye.

Song Yuyan couldn't do it secretly felling, so he planned to find out with Tang Haogen first, and try to get the government's approval.Even if the government doesn't bother to take care of her, she can be regarded as having passed the enlightened path, and the pressure in her heart will be less.

Sure enough, after she asked this question, Tang Zhi was stunned for a moment, and then looked at her with puzzled eyes, as if asking how she could ask such a mindless question.

"At Kanfeng, two miles northeast of the county, there is a bamboo forest at the foot of the mountain that stretches to Puji Lake, but it's okay to cut down one or two poles. If there are too many, the government will investigate. Tashan, three miles to the southwest, also has a bamboo forest, and there is a bamboo forest ten miles to the south of the county. Baozi Mountain, but some woodlands there belong to the Chen family..."

Tang Zhi talked a lot, but the central idea was just one sentence - if you want to steal bamboo and wood, you'd better stay as far away from the yamen as possible.

Song Yuyan was afraid that she would misunderstand that he was going back to his old job, so he quickly told her his plan.Upon hearing this, Tang Zhi first asked, "Do you know how to weave bamboo?"

Song Yuyan bit the bullet and lied: "Well, I learned it with straw weaving."

Tang Zhi took a deep look at her, and didn't hold on to this point any longer, but said, "Are you stupid? How could anyone go to the government and tell the government that I'm going to steal bamboo and wood?"

Song Yuyan said: "This is not a crime warning, but a request for consent."

Tang Zhi didn't quite understand her vocabulary: "What?"

Song Yuyan had no choice but to explain in detail: "I am asking for permission from the government. If the government does not allow me to cut down bamboo, then I will buy it with money. If the government allows it, then one day I will be accused, but I am also Obtaining permission from the government does not constitute a crime.”

"So you are looking for brother for this?"

"Yes, it's just that I don't intend to ask Tang Dianshi to intercede for me. I just want to find out the government's attitude towards this matter in the past, so that I can have a countermeasure."

Tang Zhi calculated that a pole of giant bamboo is worth [-] to [-] renminbi, and dozens of bamboo baskets can be made, and the remaining bamboo tips and bamboo scraps can be sold for [-] renminbi and ten jin. .

But considering Song Yuyan's situation, if she was asked to buy bamboo back, she might lose money, so she said, "Then I'll let you know when brother comes back."

At the end, she asked again, "Then you don't weave your mat?"

"Brat, but the rainy season is here, so I need to find some work to subsidize my family."

Tang Zhi nodded, and was speechless for a while. She was used to being hostile and noisy with Song Yuyan. Now that Song Yuyan exuded a positive atmosphere, she didn't know what to say.

Song Yuyan didn't know Tang Zhi's thoughts, but Tang Zhi's mood was seldom so low in his memory. Out of goodwill and out of the neighbor relationship he had finally improved, he asked, "What's wrong with you? I saw you just now. Eyes are red."

Tang Zhi didn't have any problems, but she was always unwilling to show her weak side in front of Song Yuyan, so when Song Yuyan asked, she just kept her hips on her hips and raised her brows as usual, "You're wrong, why am I so popular? Eyes? Am I such a delicate person? Nothing is wrong with me!"

The youthful version of Aunt Lie.

Song Yuyan just imagined that Tang Zhi would become like Aunt Lie ten or twenty years later, so her mood was a little delicate, but no matter whether Tang Zhi would become Aunt Lie, they were undoubtedly good people.

Thinking that Tang Zhi had to hold up half the sky of the Tang family at such a young age, Song Yuyan was worried that it would hurt her self-confidence, so she said, "Yes, I misread and said the wrong thing, please forgive me, Miss Tang."

Tang Zhi: "..."

No one made herself angry, and no one quarreled with herself. She felt that she could live for many years.But why is it so awkward?

"Didn't you say you still need to weave straw mats, why don't you go back soon?" Tang Zhi didn't know what to say, so he quickly issued the order to evict the guests.

Song Yuyan said with emotion: "This child is so sincere, and he is worried that chatting with me will delay my straw weaving progress."

System: No, even if I don't have an EQ, I can tell that people don't want to see you.

……

The rainy season came as scheduled, but it came quietly, if it hadn't been for three consecutive days of drizzle, no one would have noticed it.

However, the weather is really bad. Occasionally, there will be a drizzle in the early morning, and it will stop suddenly at noon. When everyone sees the sun, they happily carry their clothes out to dry, but in an instant, dark clouds gather again, and it starts to rain.

The common people rejoiced in vain, but they could only worry about their wet clothes.

And Song Yuyan was mentally prepared. Although the newly made straw mat had no chance to be exposed to the sun, it would not be moldy.

The people who originally sold mat grass would also be affected by the weather. After all, after cutting the mat grass, do they have to be turned over by the sun violently?

However, the Shi family had long been anticipating the arrival of the rainy season, so they had already disposed of a lot of mats and piled them up.They don't worry that they won't be able to sell in a short time. After the rainy season, the business will come again.

Song Yuyan bought a lot of them when it wasn't raining and put them in the main room. The only thing she was satisfied with about the "extremely poor family" Song's family was that the house had tiles to cover the head, and she didn't worry about being like a thatched house. It was pouring rain, and it was raining lightly inside the house.

After Tang Haogen learned about Song Yuyan's behavior from Tang Zhi, he came to find her in his free time.As a result, he entered the house and saw that the main room, which was originally a barren house, became like a workshop, and the mats were piled up so that he had nowhere to stay.

It was Song Yuyan who moved the Eight Immortals table to make room for him before he sat down firmly.

Song Yuyan poured him a bowl of water, and without chatting, Tang Haogen went straight to the point: "Ah Zhi told me that you came to me for something, and that you wanted to know the government's opinion on the matter of bamboo cutting."

In fact, when Tang Haogen first learned of Song Yuyan's thoughts, the thought "Song Dalang is stupid" also flashed in his mind, but he quickly understood Song Yuyan's intentions:

Although everyone turned a blind eye to the behavior of neighbors sometimes secretly carrying a pole of bamboo back, it does not mean that the government approves of this behavior. Once the government investigates it, the crime of theft is not a small one.

After being caught for theft, a ring will be pierced behind the ear. For three thefts, a tattoo will be done on the forehead, plus three years in prison. For five or more thefts, the death penalty will be imposed. This is why the Tang family has never reported to the police. Song Yuyan's reason.

To know Song Yuyan's behavior, it was enough to be sentenced to death several times.

The matter of cutting bamboo is not as serious as theft, but it is not an open and aboveboard thing after all.Since Song Yuyan had already planned to turn his back on evil, he shouldn't leave anything behind.

Thinking of this, Tang Haogen ran to the wooden shop for the sake of Song Yuyan's mat and drank two bowls of wine with the supervisor there. After getting the other party's promise, he came to Song Yuyan.

Mingzhou has a large commercial port and a shipyard. Shipbuilding needs wood, so a wood yard is also set up.The lumber farm not only collects forest trees produced in Mingzhou, but also collects wood from other places, which provides enough materials for shipbuilding.

If the wooden shop came forward, the government would not care.Tang Haogen didn't need the supervisor to provide Song Yuyan with a lot of bamboo and wood, he only needed to leave half a pole of bamboo for Song Yuyan when he bought the lumber yard for logging.

As for such a trivial matter, the supervisor who bought the woodyard naturally agreed, and even Tang Haogen refused to ask Song Yuyan to spend money to buy it.

Song Yuyan owed the Tang family another favor, but unfortunately he is unable to repay it now, so he can only keep it in his heart first, and turn around and say to Song Yuban and Song Yuzhuan, "The Tang family is not related to us, but we are willing. Help us, we must remember this kindness and repay it in the future, understand?"

Song Yuzhuan nodded.

Song Yuban was still thinking about how to give Song Yuyan the straw mats he had woven, and ask her to sell them to Lin Yongming. Although he didn't want to listen to her chanting at the moment, he agreed with his heart.

The author has something to say: Yam: I am a law-abiding citizen!

Tip: If a friend with tattoos on his face and neck travels to the Song Dynasty, he will definitely be regarded as a criminal.

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