Wanli 1592

Chapter 1309 A Day in the Guo Family
It was summer and July, and the land in Guanzhong was busy.

With less than two months to go before the autumn harvest, young men from all townships and villages have returned home from the water conservancy construction sites organized by the government and started their busy summer farming work.

It's not that I wasn't busy before, but it wasn't the busiest time before. If the family has a large population, some young men can be dispatched to work for the government to earn wages and save a meal. For small families , It is also a good thing to save a meal.

Guo Deng got up in the morning and had breakfast, and arranged the farm work for the five sons in the family today. After a lively breakfast with more than a dozen members of the family, Guo Deng took his five sons to the field with farm tools.

These crops don't dare not take care of them for a day, and rely on them for food all year round. I'm really afraid that something will go wrong with them.

The family used to have no land, and they rented and planted the land of the landlord’s family. Now there are many fields. The family has 240 mu of land, and there is a cow. The farm tools are all brand new iron farm tools, which used to be considered small. Landlord.

At noon, the six old men were panting and sweating, and their stomachs were growling. After calculating the time, they thought it was time for the family to bring food. Going to graze, some old men found a shady place to sit down and rested.

Guo Deng is 48 this year, and his body is still very strong. The youngest of his five sons is eighteen years old. They are all young men. They all have great strength and work hard. People used to say that Guo Deng is blessed with so many sons. Guo Deng himself felt that he was lucky.

Under such circumstances, it is really not easy for a family to have food and not die of starvation.

It seems that everything is over now, and they are in their early years. More than 200 mu of land is enough to feed and drink a family, and there is still some spare money to eat some meat to buy new things, and to save some money.

Life is much better than before, and now I don't dare to expect anything else, I just hope that this kind of life can continue.

Chatting with the sons, laughing from time to time, and after a while, I watched the old woman bring her daughter-in-law and grandchildren to deliver meals.

At noon, the whole family gathered together for dinner. The boys were already hungry, their chests stuck to their backs, and they picked up Lao Gao’s rice bowl and started eating big mouthfuls. Guo Deng watched the children eat big mouthfuls with a smile, He also picked up a bowl full of wheat rice.

But looking at the big piece of shiny fat meat on the pile of rice in the bowl, Guo Deng was filled with emotion.

"Master, what's the matter? Why don't you eat?"

Guo Deng's wife, Mrs. Guo, looked at Guo Deng holding the rice bowl in a daze but refused to eat, so she asked.

Guo Deng looked at his wife, then at his children, and smiled.

"Thinking of the past, when it was the most difficult time, everyone shared the food of a steamed bun. The hungry chest stuck to the back, and they could only drink water. How can water fill the stomach? Now I can eat enough, and I can eat occasionally Serving meat, I never dared to dream about it before..."

Sighing like this, the children of the Guo family also remembered the unbearable past.

"Okay, okay, everything is fine now, let's not talk about that, now the emperor has avenged us, divided the land, and rewarded the big cow, and we can eat enough, so let's not talk about it."

Guo Shi patted Guo Deng on the back and said some comforting words.

Guo Deng nodded and said nothing, calling everyone to have dinner together. After the meal, there was still farm work to be done in the afternoon, and the daughters-in-law also had to go back to do textile work.

Now the government recruits women to make winter uniforms for the army, and they pay [-] yuan for making one, and they also pay for making shoes, hats and gloves.

Nowadays, anyone who has idlers in the family has to go out to find something to make a living. The government is doing construction everywhere, and there are many ways to make money. As long as you are willing to work, there will be no shortage of food.

A few days ago, the daughter-in-law of the old Zhang’s family in the village did her work quickly and well. She was praised by the head of the township and rewarded with two taels of silver. The family bought meat and cooked it at home. piece.

Not to mention lazy people who don't want to work, everyone despises them.

They were talking and laughing while eating, and suddenly an official came running over there.

"Uncle Guo! Uncle Guo!"

The officer shouted as he rode on the horse.

"Yo, isn't that the Li family boy?"

Guo Deng glanced over to see the boy from the Li family running back from the village, and hurriedly stood up to meet him.

The Li family boy is one of the more promising ones in the village. When the land reform was carried out, the Li family boy was very brave. He rushed up to fight with the guards of the three old masters on the opposite side, and his face was covered in blood. The first to kick open the door of the master's house.

The current township head who took the lead at the time fell in love with him, so he took him by his side to be a servant, and he could earn a salary every month, sending back hundreds of Wen to his family. The poorest old Li family in the village used to be now Life is going very well, and old Litou is living a very nourishing life now.

Li Kai got off his horse, ran up to Guo Deng, and said, "Uncle Guo, the village chief asked me to come back and tell you that you should bring the big guys to prepare. Tomorrow morning, Xu Shangshu will personally bring the work The team came over to guide our village on how to exterminate the locusts."

Guo Deng is the chairman of the peasant association of Liulian Village, Xiyang Township, Sanyuan County, Xi'an Prefecture, equivalent to the head of a village.

"Hey, Xu Shangshu came here in person?"

Guo Deng was taken aback.

Who is Xu Shangshu? I am afraid that no one knows this Guanzhong land. At that time, after the land reform, it was in a mess, and when the township leaders and presidents from all over the country brought the big guys to rebuild their homes, Xu Shangshu brought people here.

Can you imagine?

Second-rank officials, high-ranking officials of the imperial court, and a group of third-rank, fourth-rank and fifth-rank officials took off their official uniforms and put on bunts, and went to work with the common people on the underground farmland. They did all kinds of work, and everyone ate together Maifan brown rice pickle stalks, and then tell everyone about the locusts while working.

The locusts have plagued the people of Guanzhong for a year or two. It has not stopped for thousands of years. There are locust temples everywhere in Guanzhong. Everyone prays and worships every day, just hoping that the locusts will never come before and after the autumn harvest. Otherwise, everyone's hard work and rations will be fed to locusts for a whole year.

Everyone hated locusts and was terrified of them, but there was nothing they could do. As soon as Xu Shangshu came, he began to explain the source of locusts and how to deal with them in a simple and easy-to-understand way.

"The Locust Temple is useless. If the Locust Temple is useful, then the locusts will not come to visit us every year. The locusts are animals. They are inferior to pigs and dogs. Don't worship them, but destroy them!"

Xu Shangshu told everyone like this, and Guo Deng was the first to respond to Xu Shangshu at that time, convincing everyone in the village to bring the big guys to smash the Locust Temple together, saying that if you believe in Xu Shangshu, we can eventually destroy Drop locusts.

Now that Xu Shangshu is going to personally come to this small village to teach everyone how to get rid of locusts, can Guo Deng not be excited?

(End of this chapter)