Stepmother's Adoption Letter

Chapter 162
The village chief has only his wife, son, daughter-in-law and a grandson.

Yuan Lu and the others were brought home by her, and the village head's wife felt a beating heart when she came out to see such a big battle.

The village chief hurriedly said to his wife: "What are you looking at, the wife and young master of the Duke's Mansion are here. They haven't poured water yet."

People in the country don't drink tea at home, so the village chief's wife scooped two bowls of hot water from the stove and put sugar in the bowls.

Yuan Lu sat down in the main room and looked around the village chief's house. There was only a square table and a few benches in the main room.The walls and the ground are black.Even the village chief's family is barren, and the situation of other families in the village can be imagined.

The village head's wife put down the bowl and quickly hid inside.

The village chief wanted to dig through some melon seeds and peanuts to entertain them, Yuan Lu said: "The old man is not busy, I just came to see and ask you something."

The village head let out an "hey" and stood aside.Yuan Lu asked him to sit, but he refused, so he stopped forcing.

There were two bowls of water on the table, and Yuan Lu took a sip of them, not wanting to disappoint others.Brother Hong saw her moving, so he also took a sip. Although he usually likes sweets, this sugar water is obviously not tasty, so he swallowed it with difficulty.

Yuan Lu asked him: "How many families in your village are helping in our village?"

The village head said: "There are 23 households in our village, of which [-] households have more than two males. Ten of these [-] households have gone, but some of them have gone. Many, some people go less.”

"Then, how much can one person get?" Yuan Lu fixed her eyes on the steward when she asked. The steward raised his head and saw his wife was looking at him, then lowered his head again.

The village chief didn't see anything wrong with them, he just said: "There are hundreds of dollars a month, if you go to help in March, April, September and October every year, you can get five hundred dollars in total."

Yuan Lu nodded, five hundred dollars, plus the family has land, chickens and ducks, self-sufficient, and rests at home at other times of the year, and can also find some part-time jobs.This ordinary family can live a little better.

After the village chief finished speaking, he hesitated, held back for a long time, and then said: "Madam, please forgive me for being bold, but the annual tax payment is a little bit more? If you deduct it, you will only get three hundred dollars." .”

Yuan Lu sneered twice, and tilted her head a bit.The steward had already expected that he would not be able to hide it, so he bowed his head and remained silent.

Yuan Lu touched the clay bowl on the table and pondered for a while.

When she didn't speak, the village chief thought he had made a mistake, and became anxious for a while.The terrain of their village is not good, and the fields of the people in the village are not fertile, and the output is not high.It's really just enough for my family to eat and drink.That is to say, because it is close to Zhuangzi in the Duke's Mansion, the talents in their village have an extra job.If this offends the wife in front of him, everyone in the village will have to work on their own one-third of an acre of land in the future!

Yuan Lu smiled again, and said to him: "There is indeed a lot of tax money, so how about it, our boss will pay the tax money in the future, not you helpers."

The village head was overjoyed. Although his family had only one son, and there was no man to help him earn money, this lady gave a lot of money to many people in the village by two hundred yuan, which was really generous.

The village chief's wife and his son and daughter-in-law stood in the kitchen listening.His son was also very happy when he heard this, five hundred dollars!If it weren't for the fact that their family's land was passed down from their ancestors and cannot be abandoned, he would have to rush to grab such a good thing.

Yuan Lu seemed to have heard the voice of a child babbling in the house, and before leaving, she asked Qing Jiang to touch a small pouch and handed it to the village chief, "A little heart for the child."

(End of this chapter)