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Currently, the county is divided into two corvee places.

One is that the family can't get the money out, so it has to be the turn of the family, and the family will send people to work.

But the jobs these ordinary people do are easier than those hired by rich people.

The officials considered that, after all, they were working for free, and if someone died, it would be more troublesome.

The other place is where the Xu family brothers are.

They are managed by the owner's son and the petty officials.

These small officials rely on the price difference between the rich and pay five taels of silver to the lower ones, and then pay filial piety to the higher ones, and tighten the rations of the lower workers, so they can earn a lot of money all year round.

And since they are hired with money, they think that you have to work hard for the money, so the designated dirty work is to be distributed to these people.

But even so, the Xu family brothers are envious.

It's good to live in the city. They are rural people who do corvee work and are not near home.

If this can be done near home, it won't be like the people in the city who don't know how to live and hire someone.

They are rural people who serve corvee, and usually have to travel far away to squat in a mountain depression to dig mines and coal.I heard from the elders that they would be sent to build city walls and tombs for a few years, and they would go away for a year or two.

So spending three taels of silver to hire someone to work for just over a month, and there is still so much money in a month, this matter is new in the eyes of the Xu family brothers, and they think it is too opportunity to miss it again.

After all, if they wanted to come to the county to look for work again in the future, Uncle Lizheng would not necessarily guide them.

When the owner's son asked the employees who were about to expire: "Is there anyone who wants to continue working? The salary can be raised next month, and another two coins", the Xu family brothers were tempted.

The increase in money is due to the heavy rain, and it is dangerous to clean up the ditches.

Xu Youyin urged his second brother: "Second brother, the money has risen, don't you feel irritated? I'm irritated, why don't we work for another month. As long as we work for another month, we will be six and a half, plus How much did you calculate for the previous six taels? How much did it cost to build our house? How much did the family save in total over the years? Return the two taels of silver owed to her, and our family will be ready next year You can add two acres of fertile land."

Leave it for the fat.

In the current disaster year, the price of land is cheap. If you are lucky enough to meet a land seller, you can really buy two acres for more than ten taels of silver.

Xu Youliang squatted in the shed and thought:

The pile of firewood kept at home is enough to burn in the winter, and his wife can do the farm work in the back garden for his mother.

Then what are the brothers doing when they go back?Also wasting food.

As for my mother's concern, let the third child go back.

The third child carried wood too hard, so he had to go back to take a good rest and take a rest, just to bring back their wages that were due today.

"to make."

In this year, I am not afraid of suffering, even if I am afraid of suffering, I will not make money.

The second child didn't dare to think about adding two acres of fertile land next year and eating this winter. What he was thinking about was that the two younger brothers hadn't married yet, and after the two younger brothers got married, the niece would get married immediately. money.

When the two brothers got together to study and had to make up the lies that fooled the old lady, the whip suddenly fell on the second child.

It was supposed to draw the fourth child.

The second elder brother instinctively hugged his younger brother from behind, bending his back to bear the whipping.

The supervisor snorted: "Tell you, you can only get your wages if you work until dark. Don't think that you can be lazy on the last day. Have fun, can't you see that there is all work?"

The two brothers didn't dare to talk together anymore, so they quickly took off their wet clothes, topless, and lined up with sticks to dredge the mud.

This team of people did not have any protective equipment, and later they would directly use their hands to remove the silt and garbage in the channel.

It is said that the number of people who drown every year is not as many as the number of people who die from unknown diseases.

The fourth child, Xu Youyin, was relatively thin and thin, and was called away while queuing.

But this time when going to Dou Qu, the accident happened so suddenly, the fourth brother almost lost his life just like his third brother.

When Xu Youyin went deep into the narrow and shallow sewer, his mouth and nose were flooded by the sudden influx of a large amount of sewage.

He struggled, he couldn't care less about holding his breath, he had to hold his breath, otherwise he would drink all the sewage in his stomach.

And as there was a large amount of sludge in the sewage, Xu Youyin couldn't take a breath if he wanted to. He felt that all the places with eyes on his face were completely blocked.

Thanks to his good water skills, he was still able to struggle and float up until this moment when he couldn't breathe at all. If he didn't kick his legs, there wouldn't even be a bubble before he was about to drown, and the people above wouldn't be able to find that he was about to die.

And he thumped twice more, at least there was still a sound, "What's the sound below?"

"Go do your job, Miss Shaote's laziness!"

"I'm not being lazy, it's really loud, and I'm going to salvage it for him, I'm going to die."

Xu Youcang arrived at this time.

I don't know whether he is warm-hearted or telepathic, but seeing those two people are not doing business, he didn't know who the people below were, so he unloaded the luggage roll and duck pears and ran over, thinking that you'd get If you don't catch it, you'll know what's going on with the people below.

When Xu Youyin was finally able to take a breath after being dug out of the mud, his face was pale and his mouth was purple, and he kept spitting out the dirt and sand, and he seemed to see his third brother in a daze, and then his second brother also ran towards him, he murmured The first words uttered were: "I want to go home."

The boy who snapped his fingers before and excitedly settled accounts for his second brother, who kept saying that he could buy a field if he earned six and a half more, was terrified and almost died outside.

The second child and the third child hugged their younger brother with red eyes and shouted together: "Go home."

There was another incident that day that made the three brothers make up their minds to go home.

That is, after Xu Youyin took his life, another old man who was serving as a corvee fell down.

The old man's feet were rotten and maggots were born. He watched as the insects crawled out from the inside of the feet, crawled all over the feet and moved to the calves.

Some workers asked the officials what to do.

The little official in charge asked back: "What should I do? If you have money, you can fix it yourself. If you don't have money, you can bite the veil tightly and saw your legs yourself."

What about the money for medical treatment?
"I'm not giving you three taels. I figured out that apart from your brute strength, you also have some skills. If you don't have the skills, how can you earn these three taels of silver. You have to think about it before you work. This is hard money. "

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That night, the Xu family brothers got all their wages and squatted at the city tower, waiting for the city gate to open.

The three brothers didn't dare to think that there would be fellow villagers rushing around in this county on a heavy rainy day.

Uncle Lizheng's elder brother lives in the county, and Uncle Lizheng's parents also live here.

But they can't go, because they used to struggle to find the way out, let alone rush for a night.

The three brothers were even more reluctant to live in a big car shop. Each of them wanted [-] copper coins for a berth, and they only spent [-] copper coins to buy two big carp weighing five catties.

With the money for the berth, how about buying fish for the family?

Later, the rain was so heavy that there was lightning, and there was no place to hide, and I was really afraid that the pears would rot.

Acid rain and acid rain, the pears were not stored for a long time after being exposed to the rain, so they were willing to spend ten copper coins to borrow a nearby warehouse for a night.

In the ten copper plates, it is not allowed to burn firewood to make a fire, and you can only press the well water by yourself.

So this evening, the three brothers are very busy.

They were scrubbing the blood on the mats and washing their clothes.

The three brothers also discussed that if there is no car tomorrow, they will drive in the rain, and wait until no one is on the road to take off their clothes, and let the rain wash away the dirt and hair on their bodies.

They want to return to their hometown in good clothes, so that their mother will have face in front of the villagers and be envied by others.

"I can't do it tomorrow, buy an oilcloth and wrap the pears well."

The oilcloth can also be used as a rain shelter after the tarpaulin is passed, which is not a waste of money.

"Yes, there are fish. When we strive to enter the village, we must keep it alive and kicking."