I turned the cold palace into a paradise

Chapter 158 Tax Refund 1

After seeing Song Li and Song Luo off, Yun Yue fell asleep. She had slept for less than five hours in total in the past few days. She had to think about the affairs of the prefecture, visit Jiang Man, and discuss the next construction with Huang Shide and others. She couldn't bear it any longer.

Lingyao Siyin looked at Yunyue who was still frowning in her sleep, and felt so distressed that she walked out quietly.

"Master, you have worked so hard." Ling Yao said to Si Yin.

"Well, there are still too few people." Si Yin frowned, thinking about how to help Yun Yue reduce the burden.

"I'll go make some soup for the master first, so she can have some nourishment when she wakes up."

"Then I will add some gold charcoal to the master's room so that the master can sleep warmly!"

Yunyue slept until noon the next day.

I was so dizzy from sleep that I didn't wake up until I washed my face with cold water.

"Why didn't you wake me up?"

Lingyao handed over the towel and said with a smile: "Everyone told me not to call you, saying that they wanted you to sleep more and have a good rest."

"Master, are you awake? I'll go get you some chicken soup!" Si Yin poked his head in when he heard the voice, then ran away in a hurry.

Yunyue chuckled, feeling warm in her heart.

After drinking the hot chicken soup, Yunyue went to the meeting room.

Huang Shide, Zhang Yuankai, and others were already waiting here. There were also Ouyang Shu, Huang Jiaojiao, and Liu Lu.

"Why are you all here?"

"Aunt Wang said that there are a lot of things to do in the city, and you can't handle it all by yourself. Let us all come and help." Ouyang Shu said with a smile.

"Where's Aunt Wang?"

"Auntie Wang said that although the village is on the right track, there still needs to be a leader, and there are so many children, so Auntie Wang, Old Madam Yu, and Doctor Ge all stayed."

"You all come, have you arranged everything for your students?"

"No need to make any arrangements, it's already winter vacation." Ouyang Shu

"Yeah, I was so busy."

Yunyue smiled and asked everyone to sit down, then looked at Zhang Yuankai and asked.

"The city gate is open?"

"It's already open."

"Is there anyone who left with his family?"

"Not many."

Yunyue smiled with satisfaction, it was just as she expected.

"The family business is here. No one is willing to leave the home they depend on for survival unless they really can't make ends meet."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

So let’s discuss some of the next things to do.

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Dayu County.

"Mom, it's so cold..." a thin boy cried.

"I'm hungry, Mom, I'm hungry." Another older child also shouted.

The woman hugged the two children tightly in her arms and wrapped them tightly in a thin blanket: "Son, come to your arms."

It's just that there was a leak in the house, and the cold wind seemed to blow into the gaps between bones, making people feel so cold that they can't survive.

The man sitting next to him suddenly stood up.

"Dad, what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to the mountains to see if I can find anything." The man looked at his wife and children with heartache.

"No, Dad. It's snowing heavily now. Going up the mountain at this time could kill people! No! We can't go!"

"If I don't go, our family will freeze to death and starve to death!"

"That's not OK!"

"you……"

"Bang, bang, bang! Is anyone there? Zheng Laosan, are you home?"

When Zheng Laosan heard someone calling him, he wrapped himself in thin clothes and opened the door. The cold wind mixed with heavy snow blew on his body, making him shiver.

The gate of the courtyard is now supported by only a few wooden sticks, so you can see the people outside clearly at a glance.

"Official...Official?" Zheng Laosan looked at the men and women in official uniforms standing outside the door. He hurried out in fear to open the door and welcome them into the house.

The child in the woman's arms looked at the people coming in and couldn't help shrinking back into her mother's arms. The woman wanted to get off, but was held tightly by the children.

"Sir, I have already paid the tax. My family has no money left. I don't know what the official is going to do. If they ask for more, they will only have these few lives left."

The leading woman looked at Zheng Laosan, who was wearing only a single layer of clothing, and then looked at the woman and child wrapped in a thin, torn quilt on the bed, and couldn't help but frowned.

"We are from the county government, and we are here to deliver something to you on the orders of the new prefect."

"Sending something?" The man felt that he could not understand what she was saying.

"Bring it in." Basho shouted to the people in the carriage outside.

The officer behind him immediately went over and took down two full cloth bags and a quilt from the carriage and walked in.

"Put the food on the table. Put the quilt... on the bed." Basho commanded.

The officer nodded and walked over carrying the bed. The children, who were still frightened, all stuck their heads out.

The man was overwhelmed by the sudden appearance.

"Are these for us?"

"Yes, let me see the tax you paid. You paid one tael of silver and five hundred coins in tax a few days ago, right?"

"Yes……"

"Okay," Bajiao took out a tael of silver and a string of coins from his backpack, counted out half of it, handed it to Zheng Laosan, and said, "This is the tax you paid. I'm returning it to you now. Keep it."

"Refund..." Zheng Laosan's eyes were filled with disbelief. Not only in his lifetime, but even from his grandfather and three generations before him, he had never heard of a tax refund.

"Yes, the new prefect, Master Yue, knows that the disaster is serious and everyone is having a hard time, so he specially arranged for us to return it to you. These food and quilts are also for you. I hope you can survive this winter. By the way, there is another good news, that is, our Chengnan Prefecture will be tax-free for three years. From now on, everyone can live a good life..."

"Okay, I won't say any more. A notice will be posted in two days. You can go and see it for yourself then. We will leave after the things are delivered to us, and we will also visit other people's homes." After saying that, he led his men out the door.

The man stood there in a daze, holding the silver.

The woman on the bed saw that the police had left and her man was still standing there in a daze, so she got off the bed barefoot in anxiety.

"Sir, please come in and have some hot water before you leave."

"No need, go back quickly and don't catch a cold." Basho waved to them and got on the carriage.

Zheng Laosan finally reacted and grabbed his wife and ran to the door and kowtowed to them: "Thank you, thank you, Master Yue..."

After the carriage drove away, the couple supported each other and went into the house.

The two men opened the bags, one containing flour and the other containing millet.

The woman ran to the bed again and untied the thread on a section of the quilt, revealing a full mass of cotton.

"Husband, am I dreaming?" The woman pinched the man hard.

Zheng Laosan grimaced in pain: "My wife, it hurts!"

"Husband, this is not a dream! We can survive!!! Our whole family will survive this winter!" The woman cried and laughed while hugging her children.

Zheng Laosan was very terrified: "My wife, how can there be such a good official in the world? Is there a trick?"

The woman pinched him again: "Look at our situation. What's the trick? The things the officials sent today are enough to buy your life! And you still want to trick us! Don't you see who we are? If you ask me, this new prefect must be a bodhisattva! By the way, what was the prefect's name just now?" the woman said happily.

"Mom! I heard it, it's called Master Yue!" The older boy's eyes were full of admiration. He didn't know who Master Yue was, but he remembered the man who gave his family rice, flour and quilts.

"Mom! Dad! I want to eat!"

"Okay, okay! Eat! I'll let you eat your fill today!"

"Hurry, hurry, kneel down and kowtow towards the direction of the city. Kowtow to the new magistrate!" The woman pressed the two children to the ground.

The two children happily kowtowed heavily in the direction of the city.