The day after Mei Youqian came back, the door to his house was indeed crowded again.
Because there were too many people in front of her house, Mei Berry couldn't stand it, so early in the morning she took her mule kid, who had been away from home for many days, out for a walk.
The mule was very happy because it didn't have to pull the cart, and Plumberry didn't restrain it. It ate grass and leaves as it wanted.
In the end, Mei Berry watched the mule cub rush all the way to the foot of the back mountain to have fun.
Meiberry simply found a clean big stone and sat down, yawning and watching the mule cubs eating grass.
"So early today?"
As soon as Meiyou came out of the mountains, carrying two pheasants in his hands, he saw Meibei herding their mules here.
"Sister, it's very early for you to go up the mountain so early. There are many people in front of my house, and they are all asking my dad about what they have experienced during this time!"
After Mei Bei finished speaking, she said with some envy: "Sister, your home is in a really good location. I guess not many people come to inquire about it, right?"
"Yeah. It should be."
Meiyou's genius was bright when she woke up in the morning, and no one would come to her house to ask questions at that time.
Even if there was someone there, the time would be behind her.
"That's great~ah~" Mei Berry opened her arms and stretched again, sighed, looked at Mei You and asked curiously, "Sister, do you know that Chen Baodan was sentenced to ten years of mining?"
"I know." Mei You pondered for a moment and said, "It's hard to judge. I wish him good luck~"
Mei You is also satisfied with this result.
At this time, being punished with labor for committing a crime is more severe than 007's fortune.
The sun was getting stronger, and soon after Meiyou left, Meiberry also felt a bit of heat, so she called the mule boy home.
But when Meiberry passed by the threshing floor in the center of the village, she saw many villagers gathered there and talking.
The crowd also included her parents, uncle and aunt.
These days, is it so difficult to listen to gossip?
Meiberry subconsciously thought that his father was here specially, and then he called everyone to tell everyone about the things that had happened before.
Before she even got close to her parents, Mei Berry had already imagined in her mind the image of her father wearing a long robe and mandarin jacket, standing in the middle of the crowd, laughing and doing stand-up comedy.
Well, her father's image in her mind is so changeable.
But soon, Mei Berry saw the villagers dispersed, each with a frown on their face.
That expression didn't look like he had heard something good.
Even the expressions on the faces of Wei Meili and Mei Youqian seemed to become serious.
It wasn't until she looked at the backs of her uncle and aunt that they hurried away that Meiberry came back to her senses and hurriedly took the mule to meet her parents to ask what happened.
"We'll talk about it when we get home."
As soon as Meiberry returned home, she was shocked by the news brought by her parents.
"Corvee?!"
Mayberry's voice suddenly rose a few degrees, and then some fragmented pictures flashed through her mind.
In the Mei family's old house where the family was not separated, her father and third uncle seemed to take turns, missing each other for a month or two every year.
When he reappeared, her third uncle or her father returned home as skinny as if they were half dead.
"Then, my father is the only adult male in our family now!"
Once she is in prison, every household will have an adult man who will be her father without even thinking about it.
"Is there any other way, such as paying money?"
"Yes, yes, but only five or two people per person."
"We have it at home."
"But others don't know that our family has it. Where did we get this money? It's just a dig. What will our family do if someone targets us?"
Mei Youqian thinks a lot, wealth does not reveal wealth!
It's only been a few months since Hao Duanduan separated, and he already has five taels of silver?
"Is it possible to ask you to do corvee service?"
"Oh, this time it's about digging the river, right at the doorstep of our house, the section from Lihu Town to Jinbai County. The surrounding villages all go there for recruitment. It's close, so there shouldn't be any problems!"
Mei Youqian waved his hand. He naturally saw the original service in Mei Erniu's memory. It was indeed tiring, but not to the point where he could not bear it.
"The corvee is also paid, five cents a day. But you have to bring your own dry food."
Mayberry: "Dad, listen, is this corvee work done by humans? Are you still laughing?"
When Mei Youqian described the treatment, Mei Berry disagreed even more, and said, "Just for five cents a day, and it doesn't include food and accommodation, no way!"
Wei Meili listened to the conversation between father and daughter, her frown never letting go, and she hesitated for a long time before saying: "Our family made some money from the tea we sold earlier. Go to Gaoqu County, and the county magistrate will reward you. If you scrape together a pen of money, you can save money and have something at home."
What Wei Meili said seemed to be true.
But everyone present knew that she was talking nonsense.
For example, there is really no reward from the county magistrate, but Wei Meili now says that there is.
"That's right! Just put it together and you'll have it!" Mei Bei's eyes suddenly lit up, and she imitated her mother who was also a drama queen and sighed, "The money I got so well is gone again."
Mei Youqian: "..."
Mei Youqian was moved by the look of the mother and daughter. With his nod, Wei Meili immediately concluded that their family had stopped eating meat and fish recently, and they had to pretend to be more like it!
Mayberry:? ?
Mei Youqian:! !
"You have to pretend to be more serious, you know?" Wei Meili glared at the father and daughter who seemed to be dying if they didn't eat meat, "The family has no money and they still want to eat it?"
"Oh, sister, do you think... is it necessary?"
Meiyou, who almost encountered the same problem as the Mayberry family, and also decided to spend money to eliminate the disaster, was currently walking with Mayberry in the lushly wooded mountains in the afternoon to cool off.
When Mei You heard Mei You's complaint, he thought for a while and shook his head.
"right?"
"Um."
"By the way, sister, do you want to compare your family's reason for five taels of silver with our family's, the reward from the county magistrate, and the money you earned from hunting?"
"No, but if someone really wants to ask, you can say so."
Upon hearing Mei You speak so simply, Mei Bei was stunned for a moment, then asked in great surprise: "Sister, when you were planning to spend money to offset this corvee, didn't you think about how you would answer when others asked where the money came from? Bar?"
Meiyou nodded and admitted this without hesitation.
"My father and my mother have been suffering from financial losses all year round. We can no longer suffer like this."
Meiyou and his family mentioned the corvee at that time, and Meiyou directly decided to offset the corvee with silver for this reason.
When Mei Berry heard Mei You's reason, she blinked: "That's it?"
"Otherwise?" Mei You didn't know what Mei Bei was wondering about. After thinking about Mei Bei's question just now, he said, "Whether our family has money or not, what does it matter to others?"
"Hmm... wouldn't it be bad if someone spotted me?"
"They can give it a try."
Meiyou's strong self-confidence comes from her strong strength, and she doesn't care what others think about her having so much money.
Now they have five taels to explain. When winter comes and they get their first dividend from selling soap, will they have to explain so much money to others?
Mei You thought so, and told Mei Bei so. Mei Bei was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but laugh.
"It's true that we think too much. You can't make enough money. Every time you make a sum of money, you have to tell others how you made it. It's really tiring~"
At that moment, Mei Berry also suddenly became enlightened.
Their family's money will only increase, and it is impossible for them to have to account to others for every amount of money.
After chatting with Meiyou for a while, Meiberry, who felt much more relaxed, suddenly rolled her eyes and remembered another thing.
"What do you think we should do over there at the old house?"
In the original memories of Mei Bei and Mei You, the corvées in Lao Mei's family had always been done in turns by Mei San Ma and Mei Er Niu.
Now that they have separated their families, what will happen to Lao Mei's family this year?
"Do you think grandpa will feel sorry for uncle and go to the hospital alone?"
"I think uncle might be there."
While Mei Mei thinks that Old Man Mei will go, Mei You thinks that Mei Dahu will go.
"Grandpa seems to be partial to the uncle and the others..." Mei You spoke slowly, expressing her feelings, "But in fact, what he likes most is himself."
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