Small Landlords of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 4 006. First Appearance of Taiping Road

Dinner was ready soon. The Han Dynasty still had two meals a day, so Wang Hao abruptly changed Zhao Yu's siblings' living habits to three meals a day.

"Cough cough...what the hell is this, sister-in-law, you...cough cough...is this going to poison...fufu...poison brother to death?"

There are only two small dishes in the evening shift, one is stewed chicken with mushrooms, and the other is fish head with chopped peppers.

The red millet pepper is spread all over the fish head, it looks like you can't help but take a bite,
Zhao Feng often eats tomatoes during this time, he subconsciously thinks that red dishes are sweet,

As a result, I put a handful of chili peppers in my mouth, and my whole face was flushed from the heat.

"I didn't expect my brother to like chili so much, this is a good condiment,
You only need to add a little when cooking, it can arouse people's appetite..."

Pepper is the first condiment on the farm. For condiments like garlic, the space has not yet unlocked the seeds.

Wang Hao is a little confused about this farm now. He has unlocked nearly half of the vegetables at the third level, but none of the fruits have been unlocked.
The key is that in addition to sales, the store can only see unlocked varieties, and there are no high-level seeds.

Wang Hao no longer grows white radishes. There are nearly [-] white radishes in the farm warehouse.
Now Wang Hao started to plant some high-economic vegetables in order to unlock more land for planting faster.

"Sister-in-law, are you going to repair the house tomorrow?
But tomorrow is a day when everything is inappropriate! "

After Zhao Feng swallowed the tea, he stretched his chopsticks into the saucer of the fish head,
The more you eat chili, the more you want to eat it. People like Zhao Feng who taste it for the first time will always feel eager to try it.

"I don't care about breaking the sun. If I don't repair it, the hundreds of catties of dried radishes may be broken in a few days. Will our family eat the northwest wind for the winter?"

Wang Hao used to pay for his meal from the ancestral graves. If he believed this, he would not be alive until now.

No matter what he does, the hundreds of catties of dried radishes at home are about to go moldy, and if this continues, he can only throw them away.

"When did you learn to hunt, sir?"

There was pheasant for breakfast today. Zhao Yu listened to the discussion between the two while holding his rice bowl.
Since Wang Hao's arrival, all these rules have been abolished.

What's the point of being a human being if you are not allowed to talk after a meal, but you have to drink to be able to do it?

"Hunting is very simple. I learned it a long time ago. Didn't I tell you?"

Wang Hao pretended to be very surprised and said, because Zhao Yu seldom went up the mountain,

Naturally, the meat at home is much less. They are usually hunters in the village, and they can only share some meat when they hunt big ones.

But in the last few days, Wang Hao came back with game almost every day, and Zhao Yu discovered that Wang Hao could also hunt.

Wang Hao didn't think it was strange at all. He had been in the mercenary army for a few years anyway, and he knew the most basic rules of survival in the wild.

Even if he is thrown in the wild for ten days and a half months, he won't starve to death, of course, the premise is that it doesn't snow.

"Isn't it just catching a few pheasants? How about I catch you every day after you want to eat it?"

Wang Hao put the chicken legs into Zhao Yu's bowl, and said to her with a smile on his face,
But in Zhao Yu's eyes, this move is very touching. In this era, women's status is very low after they get married.
Wang Hao let her eat at the same table, she was touched for more than half a month, and this time she took the initiative to bring food to her, she almost cried happily.

Brothers are like siblings and women are like clothes. Apart from Liu Xuande, few people can do such a thing, at least Wang Hao can't.

"It's really a downturn in the world, you are actually in front of the public..."

"Brother, don't be so exaggerated, okay? There are only three of us here..."

Just when Zhao Feng wanted to teach Wang Hao a lesson, Wang Hao blocked him. Wang Hao was unwilling to accept these corrupt ideas of Confucianism.

Zhao Feng originally wanted to teach Zhao Yu a lesson, but suddenly he heard someone knocking on the door outside the courtyard.

"Yang Lizheng, what's the matter with you?"

Wang Hao opened the courtyard door and saw that it was the old man Yang Jinzhong, who seemed to be holding something in his arms, looking around with a mysterious look.

"Can the old man go in and talk?"

Yang Jinzhong seemed to be wary of someone, Wang Hao invited him into the room to talk,
When Zhao Yu saw Yang Jinzhong enter the room, he got up and left to go back to take a bath first.

Although the whole family is happy and harmonious, they can ignore those rules,

However, there are outsiders present, so we still have to pay attention to these details.

"What do you think about this, sister-in-law?"

Zhao Feng sat on the chair with a deep expression and said, just now Yang Jinzhong talked with the two of them for half an hour,

What he said reminded Zhao Feng of the bet between Wang Hao and Zhao Yun.

Yang Jinzhong told Zhao Feng that the weather is cold early this year, and the geographical crops are not yet fully mature, and it may snow.

And the city has already issued a document yesterday, requiring the autumn tax to be paid by the end of this month. Basically, half of the people in Yangjiazhuang can't pay the tax.

The Han Dynasty divided land tax and household tax. Small villages like Yangjiazhuang had relatively little land tax due to inconvenient water conservancy and very little land that could be cultivated.

However, the household tax is a head tax, which is the basis of taxation in the Han Dynasty, and the common people cannot afford to pay twice a year.

Small villages like Yangjiazhuang can barely make ends meet by farming at ordinary times, and they are still hungry in the year of natural disasters.

How could it be possible to pay the autumn tax? This time Yang Jinzhong came to Zhao Feng's house and brought a few yellow headscarves.

Yang Jinzhong told Zhao Feng that as long as this year's autumn tax is postponed for a while, someone will come to rescue them in the next spring.

If Zhao Feng hadn't heard Wang Hao mention the Yellow Turbans, Zhao Feng might not have taken the Yellow Turbans seriously, but now Zhao Feng is a little afraid of these turbans.

The reason why Wang Hao didn't stop Zhao Feng from taking the turban was because Wang Hao knew that this was the trend of the times.
According to historical records, Zhao Yun originally joined Gongsun Zan, but because of his elder brother's funeral, he left Gongsun Zan and joined Liu Bei.
From this point of view, Zhao Feng should have died in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, but this time with Wang Hao, he was unwilling to let this happen, Zhao Feng was his brother-in-law.

If Zhao Feng died, it would be a great blow to his wife, Zhao Yu, not to mention whether Zhao Yun would remember him or not.

The reason why Wang Hao didn't stop Zhao Feng from taking the turban was because Wang Hao had seen many people with this turban in Zhuangzi.
Although I don't know if every family has it, but most people have it in their homes.
If Zhao Feng doesn't take off the turban, after the chaos starts, others will see the living standard of Zhao Feng's family,

Maybe Wang Hao's family will be torn apart by everyone. If Zhao Yun is there, don't be afraid.
But right now there are only Wang Hao and the three of them, and they really can't resist a person from Zhuangzi.

On the second day, Wang Hao went to the mountains to cut down many big trees, brought back a lot of thatch, and started to repair his house.

There are only five houses in the family including the kitchen. It took Wang Hao more than half a month to renovate the house, and then he stayed in the storage room and worked around.

In November, it snowed heavily in the north, and the soldiers who collected taxes in the city arrived as scheduled. After Zhao Feng paid the autumn tax, he was always in fear.
Although the family doesn't have much money, they still have plenty of rice and grain, but most people in Yangjiazhuang refuse to pay the death tax.
Moreover, they quarreled with the soldiers. At the end of the year, a group of yellow scarf fighters from Taiping Dao entered Yangjiazhuang and stayed at Yang Jinzhong's house for several days before leaving.

(End of this chapter)