back to the field

The aftermath of the flood was dealt with until the late rice harvest in October. Affected by the flood, the harvest in Raozhou and other places this year was not good, but the imperial court reduced taxes by [-]% according to the disaster situation in Raozhou.

Thirty percent of the tax seems to be very little, but for the common people, it is good for them to have an extra bite of food.

Coupled with Tang Sixian's rice-fish symbiosis model in Zhenqian Village, the fry that have been raised for a few months have grown to about half a catty. If they continue to be raised during the winter slack, they will definitely grow to about a catty before the spring of the next year.

Anyway, if the fields are idle, they are also idle, and raising fish can also increase fertility!Therefore, many villagers are not in a hurry to catch those fish, but let them continue to be raised in the paddy fields.

There are more people raising fish, but it does not prevent Tang Sixian's fish from being popular as before. Due to the impact of the disaster, the price of goods has generally risen, but Tang Sixian's fish has never thought of raising the price.Her fish is more delicious than other fish, and the price is close, so the restaurant will naturally give priority to buying fish from her.

When Liang Beiwang was worried about the floods, their losses would be serious, but he didn't expect that there would be no losses. Not to mention, he also found many rare fish species in the fish pond.Originally, he wanted to eat it himself, but he was persuaded by Tang Sixian, saying that these fish species must have swollen stomachs, and they must be about to spawn. If they spawn in fish ponds, there must be many fry, and they will be raised by then. There is still time for those fry to be sold again.

In this way, those fish really hatched their eggs. Obviously some fish are not suitable for growing in fish ponds, but they hatched anyway, and a bunch of rare fry appeared.In order to protect them from being eaten by other fish, Liang Beiwang had to use fishing nets to isolate the big fish.

Of course, he would not know that Tang Sixian also put spring beads in the fish pond. No matter how delicate the fish is, they are very adaptable in the fish pond.

Tang Sixian learned that Tang Yu's restaurants were also short of ingredients due to rising prices, so he went to the farm in Poyang Lake to catch some whitebait and sent them to her to make small dried fish for sale.

Not to mention, since the sale of dried fish, everyone from the elderly with loose teeth to children as young as eight years old likes to eat it, and Tang Concubine's restaurant business has boomed again.

When Tang Sixian and Qin Zhen went to her place, they found that there was an extra female helper in her restaurant. After the woman introduced herself, she found out that her name was Cheng Huan. She was a widow. In this flood, her son was washed away by the flood.

Misfortunes never come singly, after her son was gone, her uncles and brothers moved their minds and appropriated her land assets for themselves.She was displaced and came to Leping County. When she saw Tang Concubine was recruiting, she came to apply.

"Those land assets, they take them as they say?!" Tang Si said enviously.

Cheng Huan said: "After my son was washed away by the water, everyone said that he would definitely not survive. The late husband died, and they adopted a child for the late husband, so all his property should belong to that child."

It is said to be adopted, but in fact the child still lives with his biological parents, but they have to take over the family's property on the grounds that the child is young and needs their help to take care of it.Even if Cheng Huan goes to the Yamen to seek justice, he won't be able to get it back. Who made that child an heir!Even the government thinks that incense is more important than everything else, and she has become an unreasonable party.

Tang Sixian said to Tang Concubine in private: "I thought my aunt would let me help her."

Tang Concubine said: "It's hard for an upright official to break up housework. Besides, it's not your housework. How can you help? Even if you help her, if she can't stand up, not only will she still lose her family property, but I'm afraid you will be implicated."

"It seems that my position in my aunt's heart is quite important." Downs said enviously.

Tang Yu squinted at her: "Otherwise, you want me to help an outsider instead?"

"That's not true..." Tang Sixian smiled.

Since Cheng Huan didn't ask her for help, she just listened to Tang Yu and ignored it.

In the beginning of spring, Cheng Huan's uncles and brothers heard from neighbors that even if an adopted son inherited Cheng Huan's husband-in-law's family property, her adoptive mother would still be able to take back the property.They were worried that she would take back the property, so they united to force her to remarry.

This matter caused Tang Yu's restaurant to affect her business.Concubine Tang asked Cheng Huan, "Do you want to listen to them and remarry, or stand up and take back everything that belongs to you?"

Cheng Huan said: "I didn't want to argue with them. If they wanted the property, they would take it. It wasn't my dowry, and it wasn't brought by me. But they actually forced me to such an extent in order to avoid future troubles!"

To be honest, she thinks it would be good to work as a helper for Concubine Tang. Tang Concubine has a vacant room here for her to settle down, as well as wages.She stays in this small restaurant on weekdays, and when she is free, she can go to the market with Tang Concubine for a walk, buy some ingredients and come back, living a peaceful and comfortable life.

Although I sometimes feel sad because of my son's death, I don't need to take pains to take care of the family's fields, and I don't need to prevent others from taking my things, and I don't have to worry about encountering thieves.She didn't want to live that kind of dreadful day again.

But why didn't she fight, and these people came to disturb her stable life?

She had heard about the fact that Tang Yu's nephew was an official, and she had heard about it after working here for so long. At this time, Tang Yu became her only hope.She said: "I just want to make a clean break with them, and I don't want them to appear in front of me again."

Tang Yu followed her to the government to report to the government and let the government handle it.

The government is also a headache, you say you have seized other people's property, forget it, after all, the adoptive heir, the heir has the right to inherit.But you still want to force people to marry. It sounds nice to say that it's for her sake, but don't you see that they don't want to?

Seeing that the government had intervened, this group of people simply reported to the government that Cheng Huan had killed her son.The witness who appeared from nowhere said that he saw Cheng Huan push her son into the river, which caused her son to be washed away by the water.

What was originally an ordinary case of fighting for family property turned into a case involving human life, and Cheng Huan was also arrested by the government for interrogation.

When Tang Sixian heard about this, he also knew that the means of solving crimes in this era is too simple. As long as there are so-called witnesses and mediocre and perfunctory officials, the probability of conviction is very high.

Fortunately, this method of judging the case is not without solutions. Since there are so-called witnesses, the truth can be found out from the witnesses.

So when Tang Sixian had an occupational disease, he wanted to disguise himself to inquire about the witness, but Qin Zhen said: "Nowadays, there are many people who know you, so it's easy to reveal your secrets, let me do it!"

"Ma'am, are you okay?"

"What do you think?"

Tang Sixian thought to himself, with Qin Zhen's cleverness and superb acting skills, it seems that he is more suitable for this bowl of rice than her.

Under Qin Zhen's in-depth investigation, it was soon discovered that after the witness helped to testify against Cheng Huan, life became easier.This kind of behavior seems to be taking money to do things, she easily found evidence to prove that he was bought.

With the evidence in front of him, the witness quickly admitted that he was instructed by Cheng Huan's husband's brother to wrong Cheng Huan so much.

The truth of the case came to light, the uncles and brothers who wronged Cheng Huan for killing his own son were punished, and they were forced to spit out some of the property they embezzled.Cheng Huan refused to raise an heir, but sold the part of the land she got, and then bought a small house in the county town, planning to spend the rest of her life like this.

Of course, she was still working in Tang Concubine's restaurant, and with these wages, she would never starve to death.

Since Qin Zhen once became Di Renjie, he has paid more and more attention to details.Once she asked Tang Sixian: "Why do I feel that there is less rice at home?"

Tang Sixian: "..."

She put it in the space to keep it fresh.

But she obviously couldn't say that, so she said: "Isn't it natural, you will lose as much as you eat."

"No, I know how much rice we eat every day. According to the amount of rice we eat, it is very clear which line the rice tank will reach in a month."

Tang Sixian: "..."

She just doesn't want the rice to expire, why is it so difficult?

"Is there a mouse?" She struggled.

Qin Zhen was thoughtful, and then gave her an order: "Then you find a way to catch the mouse."

Tang Sixian had no choice but to make a trap, then drip the spiritual spring on the food, and then guard it, waiting for the mice to come to the door.

Fortunately, after two days of guarding, she finally caught a mouse, and finally she was able to give Qin Zhen a job.

"Miss, mouse, I caught you!" She happily showed Qin Zhen the struggling mouse.

Qin Zhen: "..."

After being stunned for a moment, she let out a scream.Tang Sixian was so shaken by the scream that his eardrums were almost pierced.

"threw!"

"Throw it away, I'll throw it away right away!" Tang Sixian said without saying a word, he raised the door and threw it away, and then the wild dog who was playing in front of their house saw this and rushed up, and the mouse entered again before it could escape. Hukou.

Tang Sixian washed his hands with Lingquan, and ran back to appease Qin Zhen: "Lady, I have already thrown the mouse away, don't be afraid!"

"Get out!" Qin Zhen glared at her, if it wasn't for her, would he lose his composure like this?

And just thinking about it makes her feel hairy.

"You didn't ask me to catch you!" Downs said enviously.

"Did I ask you to catch it and show it to me?"

"If I don't catch it and show it to you, how can I prove that there is really a mouse in the house?"

"You still said?"

"..." Tang Sixian didn't argue with her.She didn't expect Qin Zhen to be afraid of anything, obviously this person is not even afraid of bugs!

Qin Zhen was so frightened that he forgot about the fact that the rice in the rice vat had become less.But when she asked Li He'er to clean up, she paid more attention to this aspect.

Originally, because they talked about hygiene and cleaned frequently, there were no rats in this house. Now after cleaning more diligently, the rat nests have been lifted, and Qin Zhen even sprinkled some poisonous herbal powder on the food, and the rats were poisoned. Many died.

Tang Sixian: "..."

She was afraid of bugs, at least she never thought of poisoning bugs—the main reason was that there were no pesticides.

"Miss, these things should be used sparingly. If a child comes to our house to play and accidentally eats these things as delicious food, then we will commit crimes."

After she persuaded her in this way, and Qin Zhen was busy with other things and no longer thinking about the mouse, these herbal powders gradually disappeared from the house.

But sometimes Tang Sixian likes to play tricks, sometimes she deliberately teases Qin Zhen: "My lady, there are mice."

Qin Zhen was so frightened that he stood up on the chair: "Hurry up!"

"Okay, I'll hurry!"

After Tang Sixian pretended to drive the non-existent mouse out, he quickly closed the door, and coaxed Qin Zhen: "My lady, I drove it away."

Qin Zhen's mood slowly calmed down. Although she felt that her current posture was really hurtful, she didn't want to come down.

"My lady, it's getting late, let's go to rest! If you are afraid, I will carry you there."

From the corner of Qin Zhen's eyes, she was looking at the surrounding floors, but unfortunately the candlelight was dim, and she couldn't see clearly in some dark places.So he nodded, lay on Tang Sixian's back, and was carried back to the bed by Tang Sixian.

"Miss, we've known each other for so long, and I realized that you are afraid of these things. Are you not considerate enough?" Tang Sixian asked her.

Qin Zhen regained his composure, thought for a while, and said, "It's not you who discovered it, but... only in front of you can I show this side."

Qin Zhen, like most women, is also afraid of mice, but no matter how scared she was before, she would not act so gaffe. At most, she behaved a little in front of others in order to show her fragility, but she was very well-measured .

Only in front of Tang Sixian, she was willing to remove all disguises and wanted to rely on this person.

"It's like I don't want to expose my weakness in front of people." Tang Sixian pressed Qin Zhen on the bed and kissed him intimately, "Only in front of you, I can let you know me with peace of mind and without any worries. of all."

Qin Zhen's fingers wrapped around hers: "You said it."

"Ok?"

"Let me know everything about you. You said it." Qin Zhen smiled, pushed Tang Sixian to the inside of the bed, turned over and pressed Tang Sixian under him.

Downs blinked enviously: "Young lady, do you know? You want me to teach you."

"I've seen pigs run, and I've eaten pork, so why not?" Qin Zhen brushed his fingers across her lips, and said with a smile, "Besides, you will have to pay for scaring me."

The author has something to say: Aunt's CP (probably) appeared.

Cheng Huan: When you enter the stage, you exit?Thank you.

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After dealing with the Tang family in the next chapter, the main text will be over, and then there will be some extras.

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感谢在2020-09-1915:15:29~2020-09-2012:07:48期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the landmine: Well, that's it, code name: little squirrel, 173266831;

Thanks to the little angels of the irrigation nutrient solution: 10 bottles with you; 2 bottles of Big Picture; 1 bottle of Guaiguai, Lu Renjiao, and Huahua World;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!