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Chapter 112 Don't let her lose the bet

Winter slack.

But it is also the time of the year when the people's corvee is the heaviest.

Qi State corvee is divided into servants and husbands.

Officers, as the name suggests, are free errands for the government. Among the officers, the most fearsome is the yamen servant. If you are unfortunately selected to do the job of escorting prisoners with the official guards, you will often go out for many years. Not only do you need to prepare your own rations, It will also make the family less strong laborers.

If the prisoner made a mistake during the escort, he would have to bear a lot of responsibility, and the common people would suffer greatly.

Husband’s labor, also known as forced labor, mainly undertakes local constructive labor hosted by the government, such as building cities, official houses, dikes, post roads, transporting materials, etc., with various types and high intensity.

In addition, officials will also take this opportunity to embezzle their husbands' servants to serve as free labor for their families.

In Tongshan County, as Chen Chu, who could faintly stand shoulder to shoulder with the Cai, Xu, and Ximen families, naturally also had this privilege.

In late November, Chen Chu organized nearly a hundred young men from four or five villages around Luliuxu to serve for his family.

However, doing forced labor in Luliuxu is quite different from other places.

In the morning, the conscripts also need to do some work, mainly to clean up the silted waterways during the dry season in winter, and dig shallow lake silt to return to the fields.

These labor-intensive tasks are not only done by hard laborers, but also by the young and strong from the escaped village, the members of the Luliuxu Joint Defense Team, the restless Yang Youtian, Liu Bo and other old people, and even some people who have seen Chen Dutou nod his head after returning home. Putting on a coarse cloth and mixing in it, and carrying a load of mud with Zhou Zongfa, a force laborer from the neighboring village, he was reprimanded by Zhou Zongfa for not being strong enough.

Chen Dutou kept apologizing with a smile, and afterwards Zhou Zongfa found out that he had reprimanded Chen Dutou, and almost fell ill from fright.

At noon, it is the favorite part of the laborers' big pot meal.

The big pot dishes are cooked in meat oil, and the steamed buns are eaten casually.

"Brother Fa, this meal is a bit crude."

Chen Chu, Zhou Zongfa and other forcemen squatted side by side at the base of the wall, each holding a large bowl, with three or five steamed buns strung on the chopsticks, said in embarrassment.

There are a large number of people who need to eat and chew, and it is the winter when Zhuangzi's output is the least. It is all supported by the money earned from Mao'er's fragrance and makeup workshop. Naturally, there is no condition for each person to have a bowl of meat like before.

"Hey, they're all talking nonsense." Zhou Zongfa, who didn't scold and didn't know each other with Chen Chu, took a bite of a big pot of vegetables, and ate half a steamed bun in two mouthfuls. We still need to bring our own dry rations. Now Chen Dutou provides two meals, and we can’t eat so comfortably even at home. No matter how hard you look in Tongshan County, you can’t find Chen Dutou’s righteous advocate home."

Chen Chu couldn't help but be speechless.

Recruiting people to work for free and eating a full meal are worthy of sincere praise. The people in this land are really gentle and kind.

In the distance, next to the open-air pot, Mao'er took Yunong, Hutou, and Cuiyuan and walked over with the bowls and chopsticks.

Mao'er filled the three of them with the few dishes left in the pot, scraped the bottom of the pot and filled only a little bit that just covered the bottom of the bowl, and then took them back to the house.

Hutou looked at his rice bowl, probably because he found that there was no meat to eat today, so he pulled his sister's sleeve and started to tease her.

The cat put down the bowl and chopsticks and slapped the tiger's butt a few times.
In fact, Luliuwei Agricultural Reclamation Group is a little tighter now, and it won't let the head mother also eat big pot dishes.

Mao'er and the others used to have a small stove in the back house, but when Chen Chu persuaded them, Mao'er said, "Why can't Mao'er eat this big pot of vegetables that officials can eat? Our back house saves dozens of dishes every day." Meat money, when officials do big things, they can get dozens of pennies more."

After dinner.

Forced laborers no longer need to work, and practiced in the queue under the leadership of the eldest son, Wu Kui, Liu's brothers and others in the first half of the afternoon.

In the second half of the day, I studied literacy in the literacy class.

There is no distinction between left and right in a lot of hard labor, and there are many jokes in standing in line, but compared to working, standing in line is undoubtedly extremely easy.

But this made them uneasy. They ate two meals a day at the master's house, but only worked for a long time.
The big plays in the evening are mainly "The White-haired Girl" and "Journey to the West".

A fire broke out in Caiwei Pavilion, burning the jobs of storyteller Liu Changqing, actor Liu Lingtong and others.

Cai Er spent so much painstaking effort to bring the big show to the stage. Naturally, he would not let Liu Lingtong and others go easily, but it hurts to keep them for nothing. It just so happened that Chen Chu took over the set temporarily and said: Before Weige reopened, let them temporarily live in Luliuxu.

The programs rehearsed by these professionals are naturally tens of thousands of times better than the performances of Lanxiang Academy.

However, in the new "White-haired Girl", Chen Chu deliberately played down the evil of the rogue "Zhang Gui", implicitly implying that what happened to the father and daughter of the Yang family was not only caused by the rogue, although he did not directly point out that it was the morals of the world and the country gentry. , The Daqi court is the root of the problem. But after all, it leaves a little room for imagination for the audience.

After watching the drama, the instructors of Luliuxu joint defense team members will also organize discussion groups based on villages.

"What kind of life was it in the past? In what winter did you not starve to death or freeze to death? If you look at the current Luliuwei, whose family can't eat enough and wear warm? Children can study for free in the school, and every year they send Two new clothes, and that nutritious meal, all without a single penny.” Liu Siliang, acting as the instructor of Zhoujiazhuang, was full of emotion, and gave examples from his side:
"Just talk about Aunt Liu's niece who cooks for us. She was a black and thin dirty girl half a year ago. Looking at her now, her face is pale and fleshy. What's the difference between a big family and a young lady in the village?"

"Hey! Why didn't our Zhoujiazhuang have such a good fortune to have such an owner. Our village drove us up to work before dawn that week. We wished to eat our flesh and blood." Zhou Zongfa couldn't help but sighed.

Needless to say these things, the forced laborers can also see that not only is the village clean and tidy in Luliuxu, but the villagers in the village are also significantly different from these disheveled forced laborers.

"Hey! Let's talk about what our boss said. The boss said that we should unite." Liu Siliang continued.

"Director Liu, are you very united?" asked another Zhoujiazhuang villager.

"Unity is to twist us into one rope and use our strength to one place. Like before, we didn't understand this principle, and we didn't dare to say anything when we were bullied by rogues. But now, we are united. As long as rogues listen Said that we are from the Luliuxu United Defense Team, and ran away, and if we ran too slowly, we would beat us up!

Brother Erhu, the captain of our joint defense team, also said, 'What a terrible life I lived in the past!Only when you meet the boss will you know how to live a personal life! 'Anyway, follow the owner and work hard, that's right! "

Zhou Zongfa heard the words and took a look in the distance, only to see Liu Erhu sitting on the steps with the eldest son Yao in the dimly lit place, talking about something, laughing heartily from time to time.

Zhoujiazhuang is next to Luliuwei. Zhou Zongfa met Liu Erhu last year. He had the impression that Liu Erhu was dull and timid. When he saw strangers, he would bow his head and dare not speak. When he was bullied, he would only laugh.
In just one year, this Liu Erhu has become Zhou Zongfa. I don't know what words to use to describe him. I just feel that Liu Erhu is different from before, but he has the mighty appearance of those high officials.

"Director Liu, you just said that you will work hard with the owner, but is our village still recruiting tenants?" Zhou Zongfa asked.

"There are only so many lands in Zhuangzi, and we will not recruit tenants for the time being. But our boss will open a sugar factory next year, and will recruit workers."

"Recruitment?"

"Well, by the way, our lady's workshop is being expanded these days, and we will be recruiting workers next month, but only women."

"Only recruit women? How can women come out to work?" Zhou Zongfa was a little disappointed.

"Why can't women come out to work? Do you think that our good days fell from the sky? We lived in a good family in Zhuangzi. Who doesn't mean that the men work in the group and the women work in the big lady's workshop. I Our ladies often say a proud proverb, "Women hold half the sky!"

As soon as Liu Siliang finished speaking, another Zhoujiazhuang villager next to him said cautiously: "Director Liu, is the one who ate the same pot of food with us today the eldest lady? She looks very kind."

"That's not right! We're going to be fine, Miss. Do you still remember the heavy snow that fell for two days and two nights in the first ten days of this month?" Liu Siliang asked.

"Of course I remember, the blind old man in Zhoujiazhuang froze to death."

"Our village is freezing to death!" Seeing the heated conversation here, a person in the discussion group in the next village turned his head and said.

"Hey, it's a pity that we didn't have such a kind person as our eldest lady." Liu Siliang sighed regretfully, and then said proudly: "After the snow, our eldest lady hurriedly took the woman to do it. Several sets of thick winter clothes were sent to the homes of widows and widows, and they also brought people to prepare firewood for the winter for old women without children and widows without men at home! This winter, no one in our village froze to death! Now the widows and widows in the village call The eldest lady is the empress of the Bodhisattva."

Cai Zhai entered the Nuan Pavilion on the first floor three times.

After Cui Yuan served the tea and withdrew, Cai Kun lowered his voice and said, "The officials sent by Henan Province to investigate Feng Changning have left our Tongshan County at noon today."

As the core member of the Cai family, Cai Yuan naturally told his two sons about the secrets after the fire in Caiwei Pavilion.

Cai Kun came here today to communicate with Chen Chu.

"Oh, so they didn't find any clues?" Chen Chu said.

"Well, we didn't spend less money to feed them."

"What about the household department? Why didn't the household department send anyone here?" Chen Chu asked strangely.

After all, the Ministry of Household Affairs is Feng Changning's natal family, and it is unreasonable not to ask about the accidental death of an expatriate official.

"I also only received news a few days ago that Wang Yan from Gongcheng County, Hebei Road gathered 7000 people to rebel, broke the county seat and killed the county magistrate, and has now fled to the west foot of Taihang Mountain. Because the incident happened not far from Tokyo City, At present, the court's attention is focused there, perhaps it was delayed because of it."

"I see."

At the end of Youshi.

Cai Kun bid farewell, and Chen Chu sent him off.

As soon as Chen Chu went out, the hard labor and joint defense team members who were discussing in groups outside got up one after another, and the names of "Chen Dutou" and "Dongjia" were endless.

Chen Chu smiled back one by one.

After being sent to the entrance of the village, Cai Kun glanced back at the brightly lit Luliuxu, and said in a low voice: "Chen Dutou, you need to keep a low profile. If someone sees you, you can't help saying that you have evil intentions."

Chen Chu smiled, too lazy to explain.

So what if he has evil intentions?In the past, he had to be cautious, but now he has less worries. After all, the 'five golden flowers' who are sworn brothers are grasshoppers on the same rope, and the other four can only help him cover up if they sense something.

Seeing Chen Chu's appearance of a dead pig not afraid of boiling water, Cai Kun had no choice but to sigh, and said, "In a few days, Hua'er's one-month confinement period will come."

"Oh?" Chen Chu looked up.

Cai Kun looked at the night, and said leisurely: "After this incident, my father will never let her have any contact with the family's business, and wants to place her in Zhuangzi outside the city, lest she will bring disaster to the family again by her audacity."

"Where is it placed?"

"I don't know either." Cai Kun shook his head, looked at Chen Chu, and said sadly, "My little girl has been arrogant and arrogant since she was a child. But this time, she has hurt herself so badly. Don't let her gamble." lost"

　Thank you, hell is not as bitter as the world, my classmates rewarded~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)