HLnovel Chapter 29 Register Now
Chapter 29 Register Now
When Tian Tian returned from the county, she found a place to hide when she was almost at the village entrance.
In those days, salt cost thirty coins per pound, and sugar cost fifty coins per pound.
She bought a pound of salt and a pound of sugar from the system, which only cost her twelve coins.
Pour the salt and sugar into the earthenware jar I bought from the county...
As he carried the load back to the village entrance, he immediately attracted the attention of the villagers.
"Tian Tian." Tian Zhigao stood up from the crowd, came to Tian Tian's side, and looked into the bamboo baskets on both sides of the carrying pole.
Seeing the pottery jar in the bamboo basket, he even reached out to take it.
Tian Tian twisted the carrying pole, causing him to miss his target.
The villagers behind him laughed gleefully.
"Tian Tian, I'm your uncle!" Tian Zhigao put on a stern face, adopting the demeanor of an elder uncle. "Who taught you to be so disrespectful?"
Tian Tian took a few steps to the side. "We've already severed all ties. Who are you, my uncle?"
Tian Zhigao scoffed, "So what if we sever ties? Your father is Tian Zhiyuan, and you, Tian Tian, are a descendant of the Tian family."
Tian Tian frowned; she didn't like this way of putting it.
"I am a descendant of the Tian family, aren't you?"
"Then whose uncle are you?"
Tian Zhigao was taken aback.
he...
"Haha, Tian Tian is right, Tian Zhigao, you're not a member of the Tian family, you're not really Tian Tian's uncle."
"Zhigao, have you forgotten what your real father's last name is?"
Do you remember what your original name was?
Tian Zhigao didn't bother to look at what was in Tian Tian's bamboo basket anymore; he turned around and started arguing with the gossipy people.
Taking advantage of the opportunity, Tian Tian quickly picked up her bamboo basket and headed home.
*
"If no one is willing to do it, then we'll go to the county to hire someone." Tian Tian had the same idea as Liu San Niang when she learned about building the stove.
"I'll deliver the goods this afternoon, and I'll hire people," Liu San Niang said.
Tian Tian nodded, "Auntie, could you please hire two more people for us to repair our roof and build a big kitchen?"
Making bean curd sheets is the most important thing now. As for the other things that can be done by hiring people, do so as soon as possible.
"no problem."
"I also ordered the bricks and sand I needed."
Tian Tian nodded absentmindedly, still thinking about what Tian Zhigao had said.
"Auntie, our family and the Tian family have severed all ties... The village chief wrote a letter severing ties for us, does that mean it's done?"
Lu Tao and Tian Xiang raised their faces.
Liu San Niang was also somewhat surprised.
Tian Tian was very worried when she mentioned Tian Zhigao.
"Sweetie, are you worried... that the Tian family won't acknowledge the severance agreement once they find out you have money?"
Tian Tian had this concern.
Liu Sanniang thought for a moment, "For villagers like us... severing ties usually doesn't require going to the government to record it."
"but..."
She looked up at Lu Tao and said, "However, if the Tian family wants to divorce his wife, it would be best to go to the government office to make a record."
"Remove your mother's household registration from Lao Tian's house."
“Sister Lu, you are a widow and widow. After severing ties with the Tian family, you are entitled to live independently.”
“As long as you register your household separately, your three children will be under your household registration, and from now on... the Tian family will have no say in your family's affairs.”
"Also, Tiantian, before you married into the Cheng family in Shiqiao Village, did you change your household registration?"
Tian Tian looked at Lu Tao, who shook her head blankly.
Little did Lu Tao know, she was so frightened that her mind went completely blank.
Tian Xiang thought for a moment, then said firmly, "It hasn't been changed."
"The arrangements for Tian Tian were made in a hurry, and there wasn't time to change her household registration."
Liu San Niang clapped her hands happily, "That's great! The village chief is your witness to severing ties with your family. Just have him go to the county government to handle it for you."
*
In the afternoon, Lu Tao and Tian Tian went to Tian Bonian's house together.
"A separate household?!" Tian Bonian repeated in shock after hearing their words.
"So eager to register a separate household?"
Tian Bonian genuinely considered Lu Tao's family's situation, saying, "Tian Zhicheng is a scholar who has passed the imperial examination; he can be exempted from taxes and corvée labor."
"Why not wait until next spring to register the household?"
Every year after the beginning of spring, the county government begins to collect taxes and conscript laborers.
Their family was exempt from one tax and corvée labor service.
Lu Tao looked at Tian Tian.
Tian Tian immediately decided, "I won't wait any longer, I'll register the household now."
Tian Bonian glanced at her, then spoke to Lu Tao again, "If we register our household now, we'll have to pay household registration tax next spring, plus other taxes and corvée labor..."
Household registration tax is a tax that every adult needs to pay each year.
“Since you are all women, your household registration tax can be reduced by more than half. The three of you will still have to pay at least one tael of silver.”
“You don’t own any land, so you don’t need to pay land tax.”
"If there are no men in the household, the corvée labor can be reduced by more than half, and it can be offset with silver, which is another tael."
"If we register a household again next spring, we can save at least two taels of silver."
Lu Tao mentally calculated that from yesterday afternoon to this morning, they had made a total of twenty-five catties of bean curd sheets. After deducting their costs, they received 1,200 coins, just eight hundred coins short of two liang...
Since Tian Tian insists on her establishing a household, then...
“Let’s register the household now!” Lu Tao nodded firmly. “Village chief, let’s register the household now.”
Tian Bonian wanted to persuade them further, but seeing the resolute expressions on the mother and daughter's faces, he could only sigh, "Alright."
"I'll go to the county tomorrow and get this done for you."
Lu Tao handed the letter of divorce from the Chu family to Tian Bonian, saying, "Village Chief, the household registrations of my Xiang'er, Tian Tian, and Jing He must be registered under my name."
Tian Bonian: "Don't worry, there's no problem."
*
"I saw two earthenware jars in her bamboo basket, but I don't know what was inside." Tian Zhigao almost got into a fight with the villagers in the morning, so he didn't go out in the afternoon.
He was sunbathing in the courtyard with Tian Zhongqing, Wang Yulan, and Tian Jinzhi, while Wang Xiuying and Guo Xiuyun were working in the kitchen.
"What can you put there?" Wang Yulan muttered dismissively.
Tian Jinzhi chimed in, "That's right, that family of orphans and widows, brother, you should stay out of their business, lest you bring bad luck upon them!"
Tian Zhigao gave Tian Jinzhi a disdainful look, "What do you know? That day, Liu San Niang said that Lu Shi was helping her make money."
"I heard from Guo's wife that they haven't slept at all these past two nights, they've been busy in the kitchen."
Wang Yulan was somewhat incredulous. "Zhigao, did you hear me correctly?"
She considered herself the mother of a scholar and rarely went to the village entrance to gossip with those ignorant village women, so she was unaware of these matters.
“I heard you right!” Tian Zhigao said with certainty, “Guo’s wife spoke very convincingly.”
"Mother, do you think... they might actually have some way to make money that they're deliberately not telling us, and then... deliberately severing ties with us so they can go out and do it on their own?"
"If that's really the case... Mother, we'll be at a huge loss!"