The moon sets and the sun rises, and it's another sunny day.

As soon as Yuan opened his eyes, he always felt like he had forgotten something, but he just couldn't remember it.

Li coaxed her by saying, "You just dreamed last night and forgot about it. There's nothing to think about."

Yuan felt that what his mother said made sense, so he stopped worrying about it.

After combing her hair, she went out to eat.

Because Fu Dabai was back, old Mrs. Yang asked Mrs. Li, who was cooking, to put minced meat in the porridge this morning.

A Yuan happily finished her meal, and Fu Dabai wanted to order some more for her.

Ah Yuan remembered what his father said yesterday and felt embarrassed to accept it, so he refused:

"Dad, please eat. You've been so good to me, you need to eat enough!"

Fu Dabai saw that he had fooled his daughter into not eating the porridge, and he felt guilty for a rare moment, and said politely:

"Ah, I'm your father, so I have to treat you well! You just eat it!"

Yuan held the bowl with a look of emotion on his face.

The whole family looked at the affectionate father and son in silence.

Old Madam Yang frowned and gave Yuan another bowl of rice. She said to her eldest son with disdain:

"You are sick! You made such a big pot today, and you said two bowls per person. I watched your wife talk to you, and your ears are stuffed with chicken feathers!"

Yuan's feeling of being touched disappeared in an instant, and he complained, "You fooled me again!"

Fu Dabai said embarrassedly: "You couldn't finish those two bowls, didn't I tell you that?"

That was exactly what happened. In the end, most of the second bowl of porridge went into Li and Fu Dabai's stomachs, but Yuan was very angry and didn't feel guilty at all!

After eating, he ran away and Fu Dabai tried to keep him in vain.

While cleaning the table, Li scolded with a smile: "Serves you right! You teased her! She must be angry now!"

Having said that, he shook his head and walked away.

Fu Dabai sat alone for a while, but Old Yang did not give him the chance to continue being alone. She hurriedly urged him to go to the county:

"Don't waste time here, hurry back, if the second brother is there, call him back as soon as possible."

Xiao Yang also looked at him earnestly and pleadingly.

Fu Dabai had no choice but to accept his fate and rush to the county: Who made him have such a younger brother!

"Alas, my life is miserable!"

Fu Dabai looked at his legs, which should have been spread out on the kang to rest, with heartache, and shook his head and sighed.

…

The adults are very busy, and Yuan is also busy.

Now that spring has arrived and flowers have bloomed, no one is staying indoors anymore, and Yuan can go out and see what's happening.

Although the matter of the dark house is very eye-catching, no one cares about it now because it is time to turn the soil.

After turning the land, you need to plow it, sow seeds, water and fertilize it...

Although the scene is lively and beautiful, the adults are more concerned about the year’s harvest.

In order to marry off his sons, Lao Fu's family sold a lot of land. When there was a famine, they couldn't pay the tax and sold a few more acres. Now the family only has 40 acres of land.

One acre of land only produces more than 240 kilograms of grain, but an adult needs to eat at least 600 kilograms of grain a year, and a child also needs 200 to 300 kilograms, and this is on the assumption that they are full.

However, part of the harvested grain had to be sold to earn money for paying taxes and daily living expenses. In fact, the grain they could eat was just barely enough to survive, and it was impossible for them to have enough to eat all year round.

In addition, one acre of land has to pay three liters of tax. One liter is about one jin and two liang, which means one acre has to pay three jin and six liang of grain, and forty acres of land has to pay one hundred and forty-four jin of grain.

But these 40 mu of land cannot be used to grow all the crops. A man who reaches the age of 13 can be allocated 20 mu of land as permanent land.

But these twenty acres of land are not given to you for free. You have to plant fifty mulberry trees, three elm trees, and five jujube trees.

The old Fu family only had 40 acres of land, but they wanted to plant 100 mulberry trees, 6 elm trees, and 5 jujube trees, so at least two acres of land could not be used.

I have to use the remaining money to grow some vegetables. It’s hard enough to feed the whole family. Besides, the children are still growing up and will eat more and more. What we grow in the fields is simply not enough.

Not to mention the taxes that have to be paid, the autumn grain tax is more than 100 kilograms.

In summer, women also had to pay summer taxes on silk, cloth, cotton and linen.

There is also the poll tax, which is 23 cents per child between three and thirteen years old.

Adults under the age of sixty pay 120 coins per year, and this is the amount of summer tax levied.

Therefore, the people of Lao Fu's family have to go out to work when they have nothing to do. If they only rely on the food from the fields, they will really starve to death!

Even if Fu Dabai and the others were not there, old Mrs. Yang was ready to take people to the fields today. Even old Fu Tou, who always hid and was lazy, was dragged to the fields.

Except for three-year-old A Yuan and Xingzi, and two-year-old cousin Niu Wa, all the children in the family are busy.

Dalang and Erlang want to go to the fields to help.

Sanlang Hutou, Silang Hunao and eldest cousin Tuzi had to clean the house and cook for the adults. When they were free, they would pull the grass growing in the two gardens in the yard as the adults would use them to grow vegetables.

Wulang Laimei and Liulang Xianmei have to take care of their younger sister Fubao.

Laimei is already six years old. If Fubao wasn't around, he would have gone to the fields with her, or weeded in the small garden at home.

But now that he has Fubao and Xianmei is only four years old, he can only take care of the children at home.

All the housework fell on the third child. Even though Zhao was always very kind to her sisters-in-law, she was very displeased with little Yang today.

What's more, because of Xiao Yang, Wang's legs were broken and they could not get out of bed, so the work assigned to them became even more tiring.

Oh, by the way, because Wang’s leg was broken and there was no one available at home, Xingzi and Niu Wa had to take care of her.

But what can two little kids who are not even as tall as thighs do? They can just pour some water and call for help if anything happens.

If Wang wanted to go to the toilet, she had to jump there by herself with a stick. Xingzi and Niu Wa could only help her get a toilet token.

All in all, Yuan is the only one in the family who has time to spare and go around.

But A Yuan didn't feel like she was idle at all. Not long after she ran out, she was called back.

After the adults went to the fields, the third and fourth brothers started to boil water, and Rabbit squatted in the small garden to weed.

After boiling the water, the two brothers asked Yuan to wait there for it to cool down. After it cooled down, they poured the water into water bags or bamboo tubes.

He then put the baby on Yuan's back and asked him to go to the fields to bring water to the adults.

Yuan, who was carrying a heavy load, almost fell to the ground after walking a few steps. Her two brothers took two of them off awkwardly, let her walk a few steps, and nodded.

Hu Tou said with satisfaction: "That's much better!"

Yuan touched the bamboo tube and water bag on his body and asked him, "Is this enough to drink?"

Hu Nao said, "Oh, they are not thirsty right away. You can just run one more time to quench their thirst. They can come back to drink at noon."

A Yuan was about to cry: Home is so far away from the fields!

Hu Tou probably felt it was not nice to order his sister around like that, but they still had to cook and didn't have time.

The Lao Fu family eats three meals a day when they go to the fields. They cook slowly, and if they don’t cook early, it might be too late.

So Hu Tou touched her head and encouraged her, saying, "You can do it! After delivering the water, you can go play!"

Hu Nao rummaged through his sleeves and reluctantly took out a piece of candy, broke it in half, and stuffed one half into Yuan's mouth:

"Here you go! My mom brought this back from my grandma's house during the Chinese New Year. I couldn't bear to eat it. Eat it and run faster. It will be gone soon."

Yuan had no choice but to nod, took a sip of the candy in his mouth cherishingly, and ran away quickly with his short legs.

The family’s land is behind the village, and it takes Yuan a long time to walk there.

Hu Tou Hu Nao watched them run away. Although he also wanted to go out and play, he first swept the house and the yard, opened the windows of each room for ventilation, and then went to help his sister Rabbit pull weeds for a while.

Prepare the food for cooking to avoid being in a hurry later.

Tiger Brain gave the remaining half of the sugar to the rabbit.

They had heard the reason why Erlang and his sisters had fought last time. Originally, they had the same idea as Erlang, but after thinking about it carefully, they felt that what grandma said was right.

So now Hu Tou Hu Nao also starts to care about his younger sisters and will share his food with them.

Even though Zhao didn't really want her sons to do this, she couldn't say it out loud, and she just usually favored her sons a little more.

As for Wang, although she favored her son, she was not very bad to her daughter. She was just willing to give more food to her son, but she did not completely ignore her daughter. She was only happy that her brothers and sisters were willing to take care of her sisters.

However, although he is strong and brave, he is willing to take care of his sister.

But they still didn't want to play with them. They were already half adults, and it would be foolish for them to play with little girls. Even their younger sister was not allowed to play with them. Don't even think about it!

The rabbit didn't want to play with them either. All the rabbit had eyes for were their snacks. Now that they were in its mouth, it immediately smiled happily at them.

Hu Tou Hu Nao: ...Well, stop laughing. Their sister is really the ugliest one in the family!

The rabbit is already five years old and knows what is beautiful and ugly. Although the people in the family are all pale and thin, they still have a good-looking foundation.

Only she, who is ordinary and ugly at first glance, is quite creative. It is said that she looks very much like her great aunt!

When the rabbit saw the expressions of his two brothers, he immediately stopped smiling, glared at them angrily, and immediately stopped being on good terms with them.

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