At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 12, Chen Lin with light in his eyes
  Although the death of a loved one is sad, life goes on, and they also bring good news.

Because they had served in Binhai Chidao for more than a year and a half this time, the government kept them safe, and the Chen family did not have to contribute anyone to serve in the corvee for the next ten years.

This is an unexpected surprise for the villagers in Chen's family. Without corvee work, they can spend more time making money, and the days ahead will be better and better. Although the taxes in Da Qin were heavy, the people could still bear them.

What really made it unbearable for the people was the endless corvee in Qin. During the two southern expeditions, Chidao was built, the Lingqu canal was opened, and the Great Wall was built. Even if the world was unified, the corvee service did not decrease. On the contrary, the places where the corvee was performed became farther and farther away.

The place where Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others were doing corvee work was Yuyang County, and the straight-line distance between Yuyang County and Daze Township was more than 2000 miles. It took three months to walk to the place where they were doing corvee work, and the round trip time was more than half a year. Even if Chen Sheng and the others were not They rebelled, but one trip to the corvee would waste more than a year. These people were all the young adults of the same family. If they were absent for such a long time, their fields would definitely be abandoned and the family would most likely go bankrupt.

In October, the wind blows in the rice fields and makes a roaring sound. The ripe rice is glowing with golden luster and shining in the sun.

The villagers all smiled when they saw this scene. The ears of rice were heavy. This year is a good harvest year, and they can have several full meals.

Xu Fan's elementary school was on holiday, and the students followed their parents to harvest food in the fields.

Xu Fan also took a sickle to help Chen Lin harvest grain. After all, it was Chen Lin who helped him gain a foothold here step by step since he traveled to this world. Chen Lin has helped him too much, and now he naturally wants to help. Chen Lin does what he can.

Although Xu Fan had a good idea, he was a city kid. He had only harvested a handful of rice since he was a child. After harvesting 4-5 acres of rice in the fields, his waist became too tired.

After seeing Xu Fan's embarrassment, Chen Lin smiled and said, "You are a scholar and you are not used to doing these menial tasks. You are strong enough to carry the rice back to my house."

Ah Sheng also laughed and said, "Master, you don't know everything!"

Xu Fan said angrily: "The ruler is short. I have no experience in harvesting rice, so I am naturally not as good as you. But don't be lazy. Master, you can see that the rice you harvested is not even half of that of your father. It doesn't matter. Isn’t it a bit too much to be inferior to your sister?”

When Chen Xiu heard Xu Fan's compliment, her face turned red and her head lowered even further.

Ah Sheng sped up and said, "I just didn't show my strength!"

Chen Lin said angrily: "Slow down, don't cut yourself!"

Xu Fan followed them, tied up the rice with straw, and then piled it into two straws. Finally, he said: "I'd better do some hard work and thresh these rice grains."

"Alright"

Xu Fan picked up the rice on a pole and walked towards Chen Lin's yard.

Arriving at Chen Lin's yard, Xu Fan found the threshing tool, a wooden shelf with a few bamboo strips on top and a bamboo basket underneath. He used a winch to trap the unthreshed rice and kept beating it on this simple threshing machine. When placed on the shelf, the rice will fall into the bamboo basket.

Xu Fan smashed three such straws, and the millet on them was completely removed by him. However, the efficiency was very low. It took more than a dozen times to get all the rice off.

Xu Fan thought of a pedal thresher, which could remove the millet from a straw without much effort and time. It's a pity that this requires steel to make gears, curved rods, and iron bar rollers. These components are real high-tech in Daqin. Not only the amount of iron used alone determines it, the pedal thresher is not barren. The Chen family can afford it.

At noon, Chen Linsan and his son also came back carrying a huge straw. Asheng put down the pole and rushed into the water tank at home to drink water.

Xu Fan stopped him and said, "How many times have I told you that diseases come from the mouth, and you should drink boiled water! If you drink cold water like this, you may get a stomachache."

Drinking boiled water can be regarded as Xu Fan's small transformation of the world. Xu Fan knows that medicine in this world has only just sprouted, and there are too many diseases that cannot be cured. Xu Fan does not want to suffer from a small diarrhea. La Shi, so he didn't pay attention to many good living habits in later generations, but now they are implemented more strictly, and drinking boiled water Xu Fan has also popularized it to the villagers.

Initially, the villagers didn't care, but one time, Widow Qin's son had diarrhea and was not getting better. Xu Fan remembered that montmorillonite powder seemed to be made from clay in later generations and had a miraculous effect on treating diarrhea, so Xu Fan thought it was a dead horse. Unexpectedly, the live horse doctor actually cured him. From that time on, Xu Fan became a famous doctor in the eyes of the villagers in the Chen family. And with the halo bonus of a famous doctor, of course the villagers listened to Xu Fan's words.

After drinking boiled water, the Chen family's minor illnesses and pains were reduced, which further enhanced Xu Fan's aura as a famous doctor. As a result, the Chen family became the first village in Da Qin to provide universal boiled water.

Asheng said: "Well water quenches thirst more."

But he still put down the ladle and went to the hall to get a bowl of cold water and drank it.

Then he poured a bowl of cold boiled water for his father and sister.

After drinking the water, Chen Lin wiped his sweat and said, "I heard Master Xu's words. After drinking boiled water, few people in our Chen family have gotten sick."

"The sun is too strong at noon, so we thresh rice in the yard and then go to the fields in the afternoon."

Xu Fan asked: "Brother Chen, how much grain can your family harvest this year?"

Chen Lin smiled happily and said: "This year's harvest is good. I estimate that one acre of land can earn about one stone and two bushels of millet. This year, we can collect about 60 dans of millet. The court's field tax is 2 bushels per acre. You only need to pay 10 dans because you rent it." We have 30 acres of land, and we have agreed with the owner that the rent per acre is 3 dou, and if we pay 9 shi of rent, plus taxes such as the imperial manuscripts and oral calculations, we can keep 30 shi of rice this year."

It’s no wonder that Chen Lin is so happy. Each of his family of three can share 10 kilograms of rice, which is equivalent to 600 kilograms of rice per capita. Although shelling will reduce the rice by 3%, it is still more than 400 kilograms of rice. Their family only needs If you live frugally, stay safe from illness and disaster, and do some odd jobs, without doing corvee work, you can have a full stomach and a little surplus next year.

Chen Lin continued to smile and said: "I have already thought about it. Taking advantage of the fact that there are no corvees in the Chen family in the past few years, I will use my extra efforts to reclaim more wasteland. According to the government's policy, no tax will be collected on wasteland for the first three years. , I strive to cultivate 10 acres of wasteland every year, and my family’s farmland will double in three years.”

Chen Lin looked at his two children and said: "Axiu has reached the age of getting married. I should save a dowry for her. A Sheng is almost of the age of getting married. The wedding gift money should also be prepared, and this house should be repaired." Wait, otherwise even good girls will look down on my family."

When talking about the good days in the future, Chen Lin's eyes are bright. In his opinion, his family's life will get better and better.

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