Travel through ancient times to discuss life

In an ordinary house in Qingcheng, Zhao Chu and shopkeeper Qian sat face to face.

"Treasurer Qian, thanks to your help this time. I will explain to the eldest son when I go back." Zhao Chu said familiarly.

"Where, where, I just know that that person took something. As for where that person is, you have to find it." Zhao Chu is the eldest son's baby brother, and he has the eldest son's trust to handle such an important matter. Son, shopkeeper Qian is just the shopkeeper of a tavern, so naturally he won't put on airs for Zhao Chu.

"After this event is completed, the Eldest Young Master will need a lot of manpower for his business. The shopkeeper Qian has managed the tavern very well. I will recommend it to the Eldest Young Master when I go back, and maybe I will transfer you back to you. Yuancheng, after all, is the capital of the country, and the money it earns is how many times that of this small city, what do you think of the money shopkeeper?" Zhao Chu threw out a bright bait, not afraid that the money shopkeeper would not bite.

"In this case, I would like to ask you to say a few more good words for me in front of the eldest son. Just rest assured that the second son, I will not reveal my words." Shopkeeper Qian really showed his loyalty.After the two chatted for a few more words, Shopkeeper Qian took his leave and left.Zhao Chu sat in a daze for a while, somehow remembered the person he met in the tavern today, obviously very angry, his little face was flushed with shame (fog), his little fists were clenched tightly, but he didn't dare to make a move, simply So cute (fog).Sure enough, if he looks good, he is likable, otherwise why would he help him.

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It’s the end of February now, and since the snow began to melt in spring, the old farmers have been busy polishing their farm tools and thinking about which land to plant. The whole family has to plant at least ten acres of land to earn food. It takes six or seven days to be busy, not to mention those with a lot of land, and it takes more than ten days to plant day laborers.After finally finishing the work, those with better conditions want to cut a piece of meat to improve their food, and those who come and go again and again have become a serious festival. At this time, there will be pig butchers in the village to sell meat. Originally, the Han family came to the city because of cattle. It's convenient, the meat is all prepared, but yesterday when Han Xia suddenly came back and used it, the aunt took her daughters-in-law to cut the meat.The uncle took his brothers to help the house beams of the acquaintances. Han Xia originally wanted to follow, but they stopped him, so he gave up. Anyway, the days are still long.

At the moment, there are only four people left in Lian Huzi's inner family.Huzi is five years old this year, and it is the time when he is mischievous. He can't sit still in the house for a moment. If he wants to go out to play, Han Xia won't listen to him.It just so happened that Grandpa Han had already finished talking to Grandma Han about today's events. Grandma Han packed up half a basket of eggs and packed some sugar, and was going to send them to Li Zheng's family as a thank you gift, and by the way, return today's money to Li Zheng's family , and discuss it again, let Lizheng and Mr. Han go into the city together to have a look at Shopkeeper Qian tomorrow, and then go out with Huzi.

Only Grandpa Han and Grandpa Han Xia were left, and Grandpa Han was going to talk to Han Xia about buying land and settling down.

"Xiao Xia, I can see it too. I guess you have a lot of money on hand, but you can't save the money on hand. You still need land." Grandpa Han said.

"I was just about to ask you, I've been living in the south and I don't know how much land is in the north, so I'm planning how much land I want to buy." Han Xia originally wanted to ask grandpa first, and the time will be saved by that tooth One side of the word.

"Fine land is generally 15 taels of silver per mu, medium-sized land is about [-] taels of silver, and ordinary fields cost seven or eight taels of silver. Naturally, wasteland is cheap, but our place is close to the capital of the country, and there has been nothing in the past ten years. There are few lands for sale, and all the wasteland that can be opened up, I'm afraid it's not easy to buy." Grandpa Han looked worried.

"I'm not afraid of it. I asked shopkeeper Han before, and he said that there is a dentist he knows who can help me inquire. Originally, it was agreed that I would go to the store in the future, but now it's like this, I'm afraid I can't go, grandpa Aren’t you going tomorrow? By the way, ask me, it’s also good to ask Lizheng.” Han Xia is not very worried, after all, the news about the treasurer Qian is better, since he said that he can buy Zhuangzi, there is also a place where he wants to come of.

"That's good, Lizheng is familiar with the people in the dental shop, and there is also the matter of the house. I don't think you need to rush to build a house. You can live with our old couple first." Grandpa Han actually wanted to make the present I left this piece of land to my grandson, but I was afraid that the elders would have opinions, so I decided to do this first. After all, this land is also to be bought.

"Grandpa, I think this house is a bit small and it's not convenient to live in. I want to build a bigger house, so let's live together." Han Xia comforted the old man thinking that he wanted to live with his grandson, "However, I only have a few hundred taels of cash in hand, and it would only be enough to buy a few tens of acres of fertile land."

Hearing that his grandson wanted to buy dozens of acres of fertile land, Grandpa Han was very surprised, "I was afraid that you would not be able to survive here. It turns out that you are rich, so that's fine. Later, I, Tori, will help you find out. Slow down Buy slowly, after all, good land is not available all the time. In my opinion, you don’t have to buy only good land, it’s also worthwhile to buy medium land. Although it’s worse than good land, it’s not much worse. You have money You don’t need to tell your grandma about it, she doesn’t know what her last name is when she starts chatting with others, and she’s not used to telling the truth.”

"Okay, don't tell grandma before you buy it. When we have land, we will rent it out and become landlords." Han Xia thought that tens of acres was already a lot, but Grandpa Han poured cold water on it.

"With tens of acres of land, after paying the tax, you will not die of starvation. How can you be a landlord? Every landlord owns hundreds of acres of land."

"Grandpa, scholars don't have to pay taxes, right?" Han Xia asked suddenly.

"That's right, the [-] mu of land under the name of a scholar doesn't pay taxes. Li Zheng's family's land is now under the name of Zhengquan. We need three mu of land to cover the two mu of land. Why, I think Exam for a scholar?" When Han Xia was naturalized, he said that he was not an official, so he was naturally not a scholar, so Grandpa Han asked such a question.

"No,... my brother was originally a scholar in the south." After speaking, Han Xia got up and went to his room to take out Han Li's documents and other items.

"Oh, it's all fate." Grandpa Han looked at those things, thinking that he had a grandson who was a scholar, but he left early, and thinking of his second son's death in a foreign country, he felt swollen and panicked, going back and forth Touching the thin document.Finally sighed, "Forget it, let's go, follow me to Liu's house at the head of the village, if it weren't for his house, they probably wouldn't be able to find you so quickly." Grandpa Han called Han Xia to go down to the cellar with him. He took out a small pile of sweet potatoes, filled half a bag of miscellaneous grain noodles, and put ten eggs in a basket, and asked Han Xia to carry them on his back and went out to the direction of the mountain.Walking all the way to the village, I met a lot of villagers. Grandpa Han greeted them cheerfully, and introduced Han Xia by the way. In short, Han Xia was called to the end by his grandfather and uncle all the way, and his seniority was so young.Han Xia, who was only nine years old, wanted to call him uncle, knelt down, okay?

After finally reaching the outskirts of the village, there were no people left.Grandpa Han introduced Liu Hai and his family to Han Xia. It turns out that Liu Hai is another common surname in the village. They were all emptied out, and the funerals were only held with borrowed money and the help of the tribe.It's only been two years now, Liu Hai has to pay back the money and the younger brothers and sisters under Raba are living very hard.Grandpa Han and Liu Hai's grandfather have a good relationship. The Liu family has taken good care of the Liu family since they have no elders, but their own life is not well-off. They only send some food when they are out of service, and they only send some eggs at ordinary times. This is better than others It's so much better, when they are hungry, they wait for this to be cooked.

The two were talking, and they arrived at the door of a house.The house of this family is not very dilapidated, and the yard is well-kept. The yard is so big that everything is planted, leaving a small path in the middle. Chickens should be raised in the backyard, and there are chickens crowing from time to time.

"Is Haizi at home?" Grandpa Han shouted from outside the fence.

"Here you are." A dark-skinned, skinny man came out of the room, "Master, why are you here?" It looked like Grandpa Han had a smile on his face.

"I can't take a look if I have nothing to do. Besides, you helped us find Han Xia, so I have to thank you very much." As Grandpa Han pointed at Han Xia, "This is Han Xia. He just came back from the south. Xia is called brother."

"Brother." Although he is only one year older than Han Xia (actually two years younger, but Han Xia has already confirmed that he is 16 years old), it may be because he has to support a family, but he seems to be several years older than Han Xia.

"Hey, come in and sit down, sir, you brought these things again." Liu Hai was quite generous, maybe these things were really important to them, and he didn't make much excuses.

"There are not many things, just keep them." While talking, several people walked into the house.

After entering the house, I realized that this house is really poor. There are only two stools and a cabinet in the whole room, and the drinking bowls for entertaining guests are cracked.

Han Xia put the basket on the ground, and imitated Grandpa Han and sat on the edge of the kang.There are two boys and two girls at home.The girls were mending clothes, and the boys were originally in the backyard, but they also returned to the house as soon as Grandpa Han and Han Xia entered the house.Liu Hai asked the children to call Brother Han Xia, and let them go to play, talking to Mr. Han and Han Xia by himself.

"Haizi, have you finished planting your land?" Grandpa Han couldn't leave the land with three words.

"I finished planting a long time ago, and there are only three acres of land in total, plus half an acre of wasteland at the foot of the mountain." When mentioning the land, Liu Hai became a little troubled. Such a small amount of land may not be enough to pay the taxes and rations.

"I've been free for the past two days. I'll let your brother and the others go with you to open up another piece of land." Mr. Han also felt that there was too little land.

"No need, it's not easy to open up half an acre in that place, no more. I'll find another place."

"Have you rented land this year? I haven't gone out to look for work these days. In two days, Han Ping and Han An will go out and let them take you with them." Mr. Han said again.

"No, there are a lot of people waiting to rent the land. They see that our family is a strong laborer and refuse to rent it to us. In the past two days, I went to the mountains to try my luck and caught something, and only earned a few copper coins." Speaking of this Haizi is a little discouraged.

"You can't go into the mountains now. This wild animal that has been starving for the winter is no joke. You haven't learned the skills of hunters, so you dare not go deep."

"I didn't go any deeper, but turned around the edge. There's nothing I can do about it." Liu Hai blushed in embarrassment, "I'm not afraid of your jokes. The things at home are enough for two or three days. When it's time to go out and look for work."

"I brought you some food, you eat first, it must be enough for you to eat for ten days, and then you can pay for your work wages, so you won't go up the mountain." Grandpa Han said seriously.

"Why don't you take me up the mountain." Han Xia, who had been silent all this time, interrupted.

"Why do you go up the mountain? Your small body is not enough to cause trouble." Grandpa Han said with a frown.

"Grandpa, don't worry, my natural strength is stronger than ordinary people. My father also asked the master to teach me some kung fu. Although I don't know how to hunt, I can definitely protect myself. I am not very accurate in archery, and I can also use sticks." Just kidding, we don’t go into the deep mountains, we just walk around outside.” Han Xia really wanted to go to the mountains to have a look, so he made up some nonsense reasons, but he is really good at shooting arrows, isn’t that because he has supernatural powers.

"Well, tomorrow, many people in the village have agreed to pick wild vegetables, and you two will follow everyone into the mountains tomorrow, as long as you are a little further away." Grandpa Han thought of Han Xia so easily. He carried two buckets of water back home and walked fast without spilling it at all. He believed in his kung fu skills and thought that Liu Hai's family was really short of money, so he nodded and let the two of them go to the mountain.

As soon as Han Xia heard this, she happily pulled her bangs to figure out when they would meet up tomorrow. After the two discussed it, Grandpa Han and Han Xia returned home.