The Reborn Wife is Farming - Chapter 1169

Even if they sold themselves as slaves, Zhao Shi didn’t want to stay here anymore, so she begged Xiaobao to take them out of the village.

The little bear ran in covered in dew, looked at Xiao Bao, and Xiao Bao nodded and said, “Don’t worry, Aunt Zhao, we are going to the county town this time, and I would like to take you all the way, and I will call someone to report to the official , you go back and pack your luggage, we will leave tomorrow.”

Little Xiong walked around and said: “They have bad thoughts, I’m afraid it’s not good to let them know, it’s better to act quietly before the official sent.”

Mrs. Zhao kowtowed and said, “Thank you two young gentlemen, the women know that they must keep it secret, and they will definitely not reveal their words until the official messenger arrives.”

Otherwise, the whole village might be surrounded by them.

After the three of them finished planning, Xiaobao told Mrs. Zhao a few words before opening the door and going out.

At this time the morning glow had risen, the sky was dyed red, and the cold and fresh air poured into his chest, Xiao Bao felt that the gloom that had been suppressed all night had finally dissipated.

The village head quickly brought patriarch Zhang to come to ask for someone.

Xiaobao didn’t stop them from seeing Zhao’s mother and daughter, but said worriedly: “Niu Niu hasn’t woken up yet, the doctor said it’s not suitable to move at this time, and she needs to be injected with medicine in a while, why don’t you stay here until she wakes up?” Move.” No mention was made of the reason why Niu Niu was suffocating.

The village chief heaved a sigh of relief, quickly responded, and then asked him the time to leave in a circumstantial way.

Xiaobao said embarrassedly: “I didn’t sleep last night, so I plan to disturb you for another day, and leave tomorrow. Please forgive me for disturbing you.”

The head guard hurriedly took out a five taels of silver and stuffed it into the village chief’s hand, and said with a smile: “This is our living allowance, please accept it, and we have to trouble you for our three meals a day.”

The eyes of the village head were straightened. The best room in the best inn in the county town cost only 80 Wen a day, and 20 Wen a catty of pork belly. Even if their family ate a catty of meat every day, it was only 600 Wen. God gave them five taels of silver…

Holding the silver, the village head bowed his head and said: “You just stay here, tell us if you have any orders, and we will do it for you.”

Patriarch Zhang’s eyes kept looking at the silver, and he was not in the mood to persuade Mrs. Zhao to go back.

Zhang’s mother and Zhang Erzhu’s family saw that the patriarch hadn’t brought Mrs. Zhao back, their faces changed immediately, and they hurriedly asked, “Those foreigners are not willing to let them go?”

“What nonsense are you talking about?” Patriarch Zhang glared at them, took a sip of water and said, “They will leave tomorrow, I think they don’t really want to care about this matter, as long as they save people, the village chief means There is no need to offend them at this time, let Zhao Shi and Niuniu stay with them for a day first.”

Mother Zhang muttered: “That’s my daughter-in-law, what’s the matter with her staying among a group of men?”

“Send Niuniu back, do you have the money to hire a doctor to buy medicine for her?” Patriarch Zhang said angrily, “Let me put it aside first, Mrs. Zhao can remarry, but Niuniu must live. Let me know that you are going to kill Niu Niu, I will open the ancestral hall and sink you all!”

Mother Zhang’s complexion changed, and she dared not speak any more.

Patriarch Zhang snorted coldly, got up and was about to leave, stopped at the door, and asked, “Didn’t Dazhu leave more than twenty taels of silver? Come out as soon as possible, we can’t let Mrs. Zhao take my Zhang family’s Industry remarriage.”

Zhang’s mother nodded repeatedly, and said: “It’s good that Mrs. Zhao is not at home, I will take Er Zhu and them to look for them.”

Mrs. Zhao was hesitating whether to go home and pack up her things, when a guard came back and said, “The Zhang family is looking around for some money. Sister-in-law Zhao, I think you should not go back, otherwise you will never come back.”

Little Xiong raised his eyebrows and looked at Mrs. Zhao, “Where did you hide the money? I’ll get it for you.”

Mrs. Zhao said with a pale face, “Msanggong didn’t hide at home, he hid in the field…”

The money was hidden by Zhang Dazhu, and Zhao has never used it since it was hidden, so now there are only a few hundred copper coins scattered in her house, which are the money she earned from selling eggs and insoles, and the two coins that Zhang Dazhu gave her before. A silver hairpin, gold bracelet and gold earrings are still worn on her body, so it seems that there are really not many valuable things in her house.

Xiaoxiong heard about several family members last night, and has already figured out the Zhang family’s affairs. Speaking of which, the Zhao family is quite pitiful.

She was married to Zhang Dazhu when she was thirteen years old, but Zhang Dazhu was arrested and sent to serve in the military as soon as she married. Because she had no children, she was always used as an animal in the Zhang family.

But Zhang Dazhu was lucky, Qi Xiuyuan rebelled within two years after joining the army, Da Zhou became Da Qi, and the army he was in surrendered without even fighting the Qi army.

Later, he was dragged to the battlefield to fight with Xixia, and he was still Qi Haoran’s soldier. Although he was one of thousands, he was also his father’s subordinate. The mother and daughter have a good impression.

Zhang Dazhu made a small contribution in the war against Xixia, and he was not promoted enough, but he was able to get some rewards. In addition, after the establishment of Daqi, he could also get the military salary, and it would be a lot of money if he saved it. money.

Because it was a troubled time, his people had already gone into exile and were not in the original village. He found his mother and wife only in the third year of Taikang.

So he was lucky, many relatives were separated because of the troubled times, and the living ones might not be able to find each other in their entire lives, but it took him less than three years to find someone.

Later, Qi Xiuyuan issued an edict to exempt some people from military service. As long as they reached the age limit or were wounded and voluntarily retired, they could get a certain amount of money to leave the army.

For good people, Yongyetian is the same as good people, each person can get 20 acres, and the local government has preferential treatment for veterans and wounded soldiers who have retired and returned home, and they can exempt from taxes for five years or even longer as appropriate.

Zhang Dazhu’s reward, military salary, and the compensation he received after retiring were nearly a hundred taels, plus the spoils he got on the battlefield, when he returned home he had more than one hundred and twenty taels of silver.

Because he was away from home for a long time, Zhang Dazhu felt very guilty towards his mother. As soon as he got home, he took out money to build a big brick house for the family. Fortunately, he was not stupid, and the money was always in his hands, even if it was Zhao, At the beginning, I didn’t know how much money he had in his hand.

The son who had been away from home for nearly six years came back, but Zhang’s mother no longer had much affection for him. No matter how warm it was, the warmth between mother and son and brothers could not be maintained when Zhang Dazhu could no longer provide money, and Zhang Dazhu I also know that Zhao’s life has not been good these years.

After all, he was his wife who had been guarding him for six years, and Zhao soon gave birth to his first child, so Zhang Dazhu was very partial to his wife.

According to the combined analysis of all kinds of information overheard by Xiaoxiong, the complete outbreak of the conflict between the two families started when Zhang’s mother accidentally lost one of Zhao’s sons.

That was the son Zhang Dazhu had been looking forward to for many years, but his mother died accidentally, so the two families separated completely.

Zhang Dazhu was very talkative in the family, not only willing to give away half of the house, but also paid twenty taels of silver in one lump sum as alimony and severed ties with Zhang.

According to the analysis of the villagers and the Zhang family, Zhang Dazhu should still have more than 20 taels of silver in his hand, because when he came back that year, he said he had 100 taels of silver. After building the house and spending so many years, he gave another 20 taels of silver. , he only has so many at most.

But no one has seen so much money.

Farming the land all year round, after paying taxes and excluding daily expenses, saving three or four taels of silver is the best.

This is because the Daqi government is well-organized, the corvee is light and the tax is light, and the grain is high-yielding. In Dazhou, it is not bad if people can not starve to death.

Therefore, Zhang’s mother, Zhang Erzhu and others stared at the silver that Zhang Dazhu secretly hid, their eyes turned green.