Don't panic, the family boss is busy farming

Chapter 64 An Dong Tax
Seeing Mrs. Wang, the two sisters called out sweetly in unison: "Mother!"

"Where's Dad?" Wang asked and walked over.

Xu Yue held a bowl full of oil residue to A Niang, and replied: "Father went to the mill to grind noodles, and made pork dumplings for lunch. A Niang, this oil residue is delicious, try it."

Wang twirled one and tasted it, then pushed back all the oil residue, and let the two sisters eat it by themselves.

"Isn't it delicious?" Xu Yuehu asked.

Wang nodded, of course it was delicious.

But looking at the small stature of the two sisters, he said with a smile: "You are still growing up, eat more to supplement your nutrition."

Xu Yue and Xu Erniang looked at each other, feeling both warm and heartbroken.

With their small bodies, I'm afraid they will have to grow up for another ten years before they can grow up. It's been a long time~
Not long after the mother and son stayed in the kitchen, Xu Da came back holding the ground flour.

The old woman who was complaining about the mill when he entered the door scolded him for wasting time, and it took him a whole morning to grind every flour, which affected other people.

Xu Yue dipped her hands in some of the ground flour and looked at it. It was very fine, almost the same as the refined flour of later generations.

Immediately happily took the clay pot of flour and told Xu Da that the scolding was not in vain, "We will have dumplings right away!"

The family's eyes lit up immediately, looking forward to it.

Since the night when she settled down in the county, Xu Yue took out the leftover quick-frozen dumplings in the small kitchen of the laboratory and fried them for her family members.

With fine flour, this wish comes true in no time.

The development of pasta in Daqing has been very mature. There are people on the street who sell fermented milk. If you want to make buns and steamed buns in the future, you can also eat them.

Xu Dalang is in charge of rolling the dough, Xu Da is in charge of mincing the meat, Xu Erniang is in charge of lighting the fire, and Xu Yue is in charge of technical guidance and seasoning.

Mrs. Wang, who had been tired for several days, was ordered not to work by her family members, so she sat under the eaves with a small stove, quietly watching the family members busy in the kitchen.

When all the materials were ready, the family washed their hands and gathered around the kang to make dumplings.

Except for Xu Yue, everyone else is just learning, so the dumplings they make are all kinds of weird, but because they are made by themselves, they taste extraordinarily delicious.

Xu Da cooked two big sea bowls, dipped them in vinegar, and the family of five ate their fill, lying on the kang and sleeping in a row, satisfied and happy.

While lying down, there was a commotion outside the door, and then the courtyard door was slapped with a "bang bang" sound!
The five members of the family looked at each other and sat up from the warm kang. The mother and son stayed in the house, and Xu Da went out to open the door.

As soon as the courtyard door opened, two officials rushed in. Xu Da almost thought that he had committed something and was going to be arrested and put in jail.

In the end, when I asked, it turned out that they were here to collect taxes.

"Taxation? I don't know what kind of tax the poor man is talking about?" Xu Da asked carefully.

I thought to myself that before Liu Rong clearly said that they are newly settled refugees, they can be exempted from taxes and fees for one year, why did they suddenly collect taxes again?

At this time, it was also very lively outside the door. Many officials from Beicheng came to knock on the door to increase taxes and fees. Everyone was as confused as Xu Da.

Obviously, nothing like this had ever happened before.

An official was holding a gong in his hand, beating and shouting:

"The newly issued document from above is the Dong'an tax collected this time. Each household is based on the head. Children under ten years old are 50 yuan per person, and children over ten years old and under [-] years old are [-] yuan per person!"

There are a bunch of poor people in the northern city, their lives are already very difficult. Seeing that they can go out with Master Xu to earn some hard money, they still think that this year will be a good year.

But I don't want this paperwork to be completed, and I don't know what it is, and I have to pay an additional An Dong tax, which will make the family who is not rich even worse.

Xu Yue's family can afford this money, but this kind of muddle-headed way of increasing taxes makes people unhappy.

Moreover, the tax-free preferential treatment policy agreed before is useless at all.

Facing Xu Da's inquiry, the official who came to collect taxes pointed to the city gate and said, "Look, how many refugees are there from south to north?"

Master Xu's famous head official has also heard that his own kang is currently being coiled by the brothers of the kang gang led by Wang Dayou, so his attitude towards Xu Da is quite gentle.

He sighed: "Brother, let me tell you the truth, since the release of the announcement on taking in the victims of the disaster, only you two have come to our Hejian, and I have never seen half of the others."

"If there are no disaster victims, how can the policy of reduction and exemption be implemented?"

After all, I didn't want to waste any more saliva with Xu Da, and signaled him to pay the tax money quickly.

At this time, Liu Rong, an acquaintance, came in, and when he saw Xu Da, he smiled helplessly and said:
"The twelve counties in Hejian County are the same, and you are not the only ones. We officials also have to pay the Andong tax. Brother Xu, you should pay the money and go to the house to keep warm. This money is good for your family. It’s probably nothing to say.”

His eyes seemed to say, I know your family is not short of money, so don't pretend to be poor.

Xu Da didn't know that Liu Rong watched Wang's bring back so many prey with his own eyes yesterday. He just thought he was joking about bringing people to bed, so he smiled obsequiously, said nothing, and went into the house to get the money.

Xu Yue and Xu Erniang are under ten years old, they only need to pay [-] qian, Wang, Xu Da, and Xu Dalang are [-] each, and a family of five has to pay [-] qian.

Xu Yue took the money out of the research room, her heart, liver, spleen and lungs were hurting, and she had to entangle with Xu Da for two rounds, but Xu Da snatched it away, her face collapsed, and she fell into her sister's arms Depressed.

Mrs. Wang patted her little daughter's head reassuringly, "It's okay, tell your father to earn it back for us later."

Xu Yue felt better, and when Xu Da sent Liu Rong and others back, she couldn't help asking in confusion:

"Father, why do you have to add an extra An Dong fee? Could it be that the treasury of Hejian County is too poor to be opened?"

Xu Da shook his head, he didn't know much news, but when he was in the prefect's mansion a few days ago, he heard a little news about Yanzhou.

Xu Da poured himself a cup of hot water to moisten his throat, and asked:
"Do you still remember the reinforcements from the Yuan family of Jizhou that we met on the way to Puyang, East County?"

Xu Yue nodded, she still remembered that there was a young white-faced general in the Jizhou Army.

"Young lady, you said before that Jizhou was going to eat Yanzhou. You were right, but Jizhou probably didn't expect that a Xuzhou Cao family would be killed halfway, and killed Yanzhou Mu before the Jizhou army arrived, and then recruited them. The Red Scarf Army recruited them into their ranks."

"Now that the Jizhou reinforcements have not returned, I guess the so-called Andong tax that was raised this time has something to do with this matter."

Hearing this, Xu Yue immediately looked at Aunt.

　I was wrong and changed it. Southerners really don’t know that dumpling wrappers don’t need to be distributed. I’m sorry everyone! (This kind of common sense thing, subconsciously full of confidence, only checked the yeast, but didn't check whether the dumplings should be made of dough, slapped in the face...)
　　
　
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