Chapter 227 You Casanova (9)_1
"Being an official sure makes earning money easy!" Pei Qian couldn’t help but grumble. Five hundred taels of silver was a lot, but if they had earned it themselves, it would certainly have been more than five hundred taels!
Pei Qin glanced at her, "If someone isn’t capable and has no skills, they can’t be an official – being one without ability would lead to a quicker and more miserable death!"
"Corrupt officials are to be beheaded, and in severe cases, their whole family’s heads are chopped off!" Pei Yuan nodded, this she had heard people say.
Despite that conversation, the siblings were still quite happy. After all, not to mention the cloth for clothes, their home now had an extra donkey, and with the donkey cart, they would no longer need to rent one when they went out.
But with the sudden addition of a donkey that needed feeding, the siblings now had the extra daily chore of cutting grass and shoveling dung.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the weather turned hot all at once, and the wheat in the fields ripened to a golden hue; the diligent and eager had already harvested a good deal of it.
After the wheat was harvested, taxes had to be paid. Only those with official titles were exempt from taxation. Pei Zongli had a title before, but it had been annulled after his death. Although his household was restored, the title, after being lost for nearly half a year coupled with considerable spending, had yet to be reinstated.
Old Pei’s house still had to pay the grain tax this year.