Shi Xiaorui found the ewe a rope that used to bind vegetables, tied it up again, and answered Yu Qingzhan: "it doesn't stink if you wash it often, but if the weather doesn't get warmer, you won't wash it recently, so as not to freeze it."

Yu Qingzhan said: "your sheep are too delicate. Thank you for eating them."

Shi Xiaorui said, "don't eat it. I don't plan to eat it after a few days. I know what it's like for a gentleman to cook far away. Strange ingredients are OK. It's really hard to start with living things that have been raised for a few days. "

Yu Qingzhan said: "still you can live, every day has the fresh feeling. Sometimes I always feel that every day is almost the same as the day before, and I can't get excited when I think about it. "

Shi Xiaorui thinks: "otherwise you try to cultivate a hobby."

"Develop hobbies?"

Shi Xiaorui is more and more right, and she can't help persuading: "Xu Xin is busy every day. She doesn't have time to accompany you all day, and you don't have to just walk around him all day. You can at least pass the time by finding something you are interested in. If you can learn a high level, it would be better. You have a great sense of achievement. "

After hearing this, Yu Qingzhan also had some ideas, but he didn't know what to learn: "then help me think, what can I learn?"

Shi Xiaorui said: "don't just ask me, think about it yourself, you are really interested in it, otherwise you will have no fun learning."

Shi Xiaorui, this is the experience.

Her peers, who are about her age, are likely to have been tortured by various interest classes. The children who study in these interest classes are seldom because they are interested. Most of them are parents who are interested and then force their children to learn. It is conceivable that the efficiency of this kind of forced learning will be poor, and the performance will be basically not so good. In the end, there are few students who can be trained by interest classes.

Yu Qingzhan thought hard for a long time. He took Shi Xiaorui's hand and shook it back and forth: "I can't think of it. Please help me think about it."

Shi Xiaorui had to give her advice: "what do you think of Qin, Qi, calligraphy and painting? Which instrument do you prefer? Or do you like to do manual work and kill time? "

Yu Qingzhan didn't like it very much. He asked, "is there anything else?"

Shi Xiaorui doesn't know much about it. Her interest has been occupied by medical skills for a long time. The rest of her interests only move a little by passing the time occasionally. She can only say: "I know that. Otherwise, when you have time, you can think more, and you're not in a hurry. If you're not sure, you can try it yourself."

However, the cultivation of interests and hobbies need not be so anxious. The most important thing is to find more things to do and divert attention.

Just like moju, the anxiety that could not be controlled has almost dissipated recently after a lot of work.

However, the current weather makes people lazy to go out. The rise in prices makes it a bit inappropriate to go shopping, because Xu Xin's salary has not gone up with the rise in prices. He still refuses to go along with those corrupt officials. There is no extra gray income. Yu Qingzhan worries about the rise in prices every day when he buys things.

Shi Xiaorui listened to her trouble, is also strange: "Xu Xin's salary is so low?"

Yu Qingzhan said: "it's not true. Their salary is just enough to make a living. It can't be regarded as the money for the ceremony. Now we have to spend money on everything except the place where we live in the county government. Now when the price rises, it's really worrying. "

Shi Xiaorui heard straight smack tongue: "I thought their official salary will certainly not be low, the imperial court lost no one can lose them."

Yu Qingzhan said, "who are you with the imperial court? The emperor, their sons, their grandsons, and the beauties of the harem are their own people. Apart from spending money on themselves, they are distressed to spend the rest of their money on anything else.

Xu Xin's salary is still according to the standard set by Taizu at that time, and they don't think about how much silver an acre of superior farmland was at that time? Now it's at least ten times higher, let alone the rest.

This year, all of Xu Xin's rice is Chen rice. I can't eat it at all. I have to go to the grain store to sell the Chen rice cheaply, and then buy new rice with more money. "

The salary of officials in this dynasty includes not only giving money directly, but also giving grain. However, the grain only stipulates the weight, but not the quality. A county magistrate like Xu Xin can be said to be a county parent official in the county, but it's nothing to put on the court. Of course, no one will flatter him and make his salary into good rice.

At this moment, Yu Qingzhan can't help pouring bitter water into Shi Xiaorui.

As a county magistrate, Xu Xin's annual salary is only 45 Liang, less than 4 liang per month on average. Thanks to Xu Xin's lack of luxury, she can barely make ends meet.

Other local officials, if they want to increase their income but do not want to take bribes, actually have their own ways. The simplest way is to "kick the Dendrobium with a shower of tips.".

Because at this time, the tax is not only paid in cash, but also in kind. Farmers pay taxes directly on grain. The Yamen officers in charge of tax collection kick the container of grain, and half of the grain can be spilled. These spills are not included in the farmers' tax revenue, but are regarded as "normal" transportation loss and become an additional income.

The problem now is that although Xu Xin is not used to the practice of these yamen servants, their wages are lower than his, and they are not enough to live. If we can't raise the income of the Yamen officers through regular channels, but insist that they can't do it any more. I'm afraid that before the ethos of the county has improved, Xu Xin, the county magistrate, will first become a bare commander, and the command will not be moving.

Shi Xiaorui comforted Yu Qingzhan and said: "this is something that the whole court has not done. Xu Xin has great courage and courage to change. No matter whether he can succeed in the end or not, at least he has tried hard and will not be so sorry in the future."

This consolation to Qingzhan is because Shi Xiaorui is not very optimistic about the reform Xu Xin wants to do, because unless the imperial court rectifies from the top to the bottom, even if Xu Xin is willing to pay out of his own pocket to make up for the loss of income after the government officers do not do this to the farmers, when he leaves and transfers, the government officers' behavior will recover. If we don't solve the problem fundamentally, we will do nothing.

After discussing these not so easy topics for a while, I heard a heavy noise outside, as if something had fallen to the ground.

Shi Xiaorui and Yu Qingzhan quickly go out to check and find that it is a craftsman's apprentice who climbs to the roof and is throwing the tiles off.