It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 287

Jiang Yan was still in a daze after being woken up from the kang not long after falling asleep.

In his ears, he could hear Li Hao speaking earnestly to Jiang Ying and himself, but his mind was filled with the botanical content that had suddenly appeared in his dream just now.

There is no advanced knowledge, only a few recurring concepts such as plant parenchyma tissue, protective tissue, conductive tissue, etc.

Jiang Yan felt a little annoyed. He was dreaming, so why couldn't he dream of plants that were edible, useful, or had other special value...

Jiang Yan tried her best to dig out and analyze the information in the dream that might be useful. Li Hao's teachings fell on deaf ears. He only nodded in response when she paused in her words, and looked like he was listening very seriously and willing to listen to her advice.

A quarter of an hour later, Li Hao finally stopped talking. She patted Jiang Ying's head, which was clearly tilted in displeasure, and said, "Don't lose your temper. Think about the reasoning carefully. If you still don't understand, ask Jiang Yan and let her persuade you."

Catching the key words, Jiang Yan subconsciously nodded in agreement: "Yeah."

After Li Hao left with satisfaction, Jiang Ying spread her legs, which had been awkwardly pressed together to the point of numbness, and placed her right hand on her chin. After a long moment of thought, she finally asked worriedly, "Yanyan, do you think my grandma has found a suitable man and wants to marry me off?"

Jiang Yan turned around in surprise and confusion: "What did you say?" How did it suddenly get to this point?

Jiang Ying looked at Jiang Yan intently, gnashing her teeth as she said, "I knew you were distracted. You didn't listen to a word my grandma said. If you weren't listening and yet you're so excited, my grandma must be thinking she's right!!!"

Jiang Yan immediately begged for mercy and asked for forgiveness.

After a quarrel and a promise of an "unequal" clause, Jiang Yan had no good suggestions for Jiang Ying's future.

She simply said whatever came to her mind: "Are you asking your grandma to help you find a husband who is particularly handsome and has a particularly good temper?"

Jiang Ying shook her head without hesitation: "I don't want to leave home and leave my grandparents."

Jiang Yan: "Then, like Sister Jiang Zhi, take in a son-in-law?"

Jiang Ying then shook her head: "It's meaningless."

Jiang Yan: "Then no marriage?"

Jiang Ying was horrified and quickly covered Jiang Yan's mouth. "How could you have such an idea? This won't work. My grandparents will definitely chase me and beat me with sticks. And the government will come to collect the debt."

Debt collection, debt collection for marriage.

Women over 18 and unmarried men over 20 were subject to a hefty annual singles tax. The tax increased with age, reaching a maximum of five taels of silver per year.

Apart from the hidden population, criminals in prison, soldiers at the border, and dignitaries, these four categories of people can evade the punishment of this law. Even if they become slaves, they cannot escape the fate of debt collection.

If you fail to pay, the government will force you to match it.

Therefore, most masters would pay bachelor taxes to their trusted servants, while ordinary servants would be paired up based on their conscience.

Before this, Jiang Zhi was the only one in Dongshan Village who had to pay taxes for three years because she had been waiting for her fiancée to marry beyond the age limit. The tax increased from 250 copper coins to half a tael of silver, and then to 750 copper coins.

If she had not left Dongshan Village and hidden in the village before her 22nd birthday last year, and later married Brother Youqi, Sister Jiang Zhi might have married someone else because she was unable to pay the taxes.

Jiang Yan does not have Jiang Ying's worries for the time being, because she just turned fifteen today and still has a transition period which is neither long nor short.

Plus, she holds the firm belief that "five years of harvest can bring me home at the speed of light", so the mere single tax...

Jiang Yan pushed Jiang Ying's hands away, grasped her shoulders, and said seriously, "The most urgent thing is to earn enough money to 'pay off the debt' and redeem your future self!"