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Chapter 14 Household Registration

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    The chopping board is piled with pieces of meat of different sizes, soaked in oil and blood all year round, and the chopping board is a shiny dark red.

    The butcher was shirtless and wore only a leather apron. He listened to the customer's request, raised the knife and dropped it, causing the bones and flesh to separate, causing the chopping board to shake a few times.

    "What do you two want to buy?" The butcher kept cutting the meat cleanly with his hands, but his face was facing Dongqing and Jinyu.

    Jin Yu glanced around, "What are the prices?"

    "Lean meat is 16 cents, pork belly is 17 cents, fatty meat is 18 cents, and pork legs are 20 cents. They are all priced at the same price. Today's pig was just killed. It's fresh. Do you want some?" The butcher turned the pork with the tip of his knife.  Each one showed Jin Yu how fresh the pork was.

    Jinyu wanted to buy lean meat and pork belly, but Dongqing stopped her, "Buy more fat meat and a little pork belly."

    Fatty meat can be used to make oil for cooking, and the remaining oil residue tastes good and is not greasy. Pork belly can be used to make some oil and also have some lean meat, which is much more cost-effective than buying lean meat.

    Most of the mainstream customers are poor, so the price of fatty meat and pork belly is more expensive than lean meat.

    "It's up to you." Jin Yu did not disagree with Dongqing. The living standards between his hometown and here were too different. In this situation, it was obviously wiser to listen to Dongqing.

    "Here are eight pounds of fat meat and two pounds of pork belly." Jin Yu decided to eat two pounds of pork belly during the Chinese New Year, and the fat meat was left to be refined into oil and eaten slowly.

    After buying all these, I only have about 60 copper coins left. I don¡¯t know what else I can buy. I can¡¯t just eat two kilograms of meat during the Chinese New Year.

    Dongqing was about to negotiate with the butcher, but she was short of a few cents. From the corner of her eye, she saw some residue and discarded waste piled on the side of the chopping board, "Brother, can you give me the one over there?"

    The butcher was stunned. They were the broken bones and meat that fell when he chopped the meat, the wood residue stained on the chopping board, and the leftover lung lobes and large intestines from the last sale. They had deteriorated and smelled slightly.

    These things are inedible and are considered a natural loss of his pork business.

    "Just take it if you want it." The butcher didn't know what Dongqing wanted the residue for, and he couldn't exchange it for money. It was useless to keep it, so he might as well do it as a favor.

    "Thank you, brother." Dongqing smiled brightly. Humans can't eat these things, but they can be eaten by the three wolves after boiling them casually to remove some of the smell.

    The three wolves are wolves after all, and their bodies will collapse if they only eat food.

    Jinyu knew what Dongqing was thinking, so she took out a piece of straw paper she just bought and wrapped the residue in it.

    Dongqing walked and calculated with Jin Yu, "I saw my sister-in-law taking the salt shaker. There is no salt in it. Let's buy some salt and we will talk about the rest. There are vegetarian dishes in the vegetable field at home, including radish, cabbage, green vegetables and potatoes. My sister-in-law is also preparing today.  Grinding tofu, there shouldn¡¯t be much to buy.¡±

    "Okay." Jin Yu secretly appreciated that Dongqing was thoughtful and could know that Cuizhi often went to the fields to pull vegetables and noticed that there was no salt in the salt jar.

    The two went to a grain and oil shop and bought half a catty of salt, which cost them sixteen cents. Jin Yu only had forty-six cents left on her body.

    Passing by a shop selling needlework and cloth, Dongqing pulled Jin Yu's sleeve, "Can Ican I borrow the forty cents from you first?"

    "Okay." Jin Yu didn't think too much and handed all the remaining money to Dongqing's hand without even asking why.

    Dongqing couldn't explain how she felt when she took the money. Jinyu trusted her so much that she handed the remaining money to her without blinking.

    Turning around and walking into the shop, she wanted to buy a piece of shoe upper cloth to make a pair of shoes and give them back to Cuizhi.

    I chose a relatively wear-resistant cyan fabric, a few skeins of thread that could match cyan, and an embroidery needle. In the end, I only had five copper plates left in my hand.

    Dongqing returned the copper plate to Jin Yu, and on the way back, she went to the village chief's house and asked Chen Junran to get the book.

    He patted the mottled wooden door gently to explain his purpose. The village chief answered the door, "Er Gou, come in first. I heard from Jun Ran that you also want to pass the imperial examination. Well done. A man should have his ambitions in all directions."

    "Uncle Chen is serious, I'm just giving it a try, there's no ambition or lofty sentiments." Jin Yu didn't dare to finish her words. Before she succeeded, everything she said was just empty talk.

    Chen Junran brought Jin Yu a stack of blue books of different thicknesses. Jin Yu took them and asked how to naturalize Dongqing and what procedures needed to be followed.

    Chen Junran did not tell the village chief that Dongqing was pretending to be stupid.

    The village chief looked at Dongqing, who had lowered his eyes behind Jin Yu, and said, "Household registration is established every three years. I will report the new local population to Li Zheng, and then submit it to the county government for naturalization. Your father and I are  Old friends, I can report it for you. But this girl has not paid taxes for the past sixteen years. Naturalization requires the payment of the farmer's tax of one tael per year, which is a total of sixteen taels.The deed was turned out.

    Jin Yu took it in his hand and saw that the writing on it was in traditional Chinese, but he could understand most of it.

    The terms of the deed of sale are very comprehensive. It looks like it was made by a wealthy family. It contains the name, age, birthday, how many times it has changed hands, the previous owners, and the names of the slaves.

    Dongqing¡¯s contract of sale was very simple. She stayed at the Liu family, and then followed Princess Xiang to Prince Xiang¡¯s Mansion. Her name was always Dongqing. The birth column only recorded the year, because Dongqing did not know her specific date of birth.

    The government did not record the slave status in detail. It only had a rough number so that it was easy to know the population of the country.

    When someone is willing to sell himself, Renyazi draws up a deed of sale, and both parties press their fingerprints to reach an agreement.

    After that, Renyazi changed hands and sold the people to serve others and became slaves. After being sold to Goulanyuan, they were registered as lowly. The owner was registered and the deed of sale was held by the owner and could be transferred and sold at will.

    As long as the deed of selling oneself is there, the person is not a good citizen. Once the deed of selling oneself is destroyed, he can only become a refugee unless there is a way to naturalize.

    Slaves and lowly people had no human rights, and the population suffered huge casualties, with significant increases and decreases every year, and government control was not strict.

    Dongqing was sold, and her name has been removed from the slave registration in the Xiang Palace. If she has a chance to escape from slavery, she must first have her own deed of sale.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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