Zhou Dagu felt the chilling atmosphere for the first time in the sunset.
He stood at the door, not wanting to go in, but not daring to escape at will.
He stepped through the door and stood at the door: "Youran, this girl is my brother's friend. Please take good care of her. Xu Dian will come with me to find her. Zhao Da and the others will discuss what happened last night!"
It's not that he's afraid. His girl is so beautiful and smart, so what's there to be afraid of?
But this morning, the look in the girl's eyes as she handed him the sachet made him feel guilty.
Xu Dian followed Zhou Dagu and hesitated: "Brother Gu, nothing will happen to the family!"
"What could happen? My sister is so gentle!"
"But just now, when the lady killed the chicken, she killed it with one knife!"
Zhou Dagu's pace quickened: "Let's go back quickly!"
Zhoujia Village Ancestral Hall.
Sitting in the hall were the heads of the Zhou family and heads of various families in the village.
The three Xiaotaoyuan brothers, whom no one in Cai County looked down upon, were sitting in the guest seats.
The three brothers were always treated like gangsters wherever they went, but now they were able to sit next to the head of the Zhou family village and puffed up their chests unconsciously.
"Third brother, don't embarrass yourself by pinching your nose. Today we are not Zhao Da Li and Zhang San. We are Zhao Li and Zhang San!"
"Yes, listen to your second brother, you should behave like a member of the Communist Party of China!"
"Brothers, I'm not sure. Do you think Brother Gu will leave us alone? If he doesn't care about us, we will be in such a big position that we will definitely not be able to leave Zhoujiacun!"
"No way! Brother Gu is not such a person!"
There was a lot of noise outside the door and the crowd was excited.
"Brother Gu is here!"
"Taking great care of his future, he will seek benefits for our village as soon as he comes back. I heard that he also wrote some good poems!"
"What the hell, do you know about Dafu poems? These are poems that will be reported to Fufu Confucian Temple!"
"Oops! That's not to call Zhou Dagu, but to call Xianggong Zhou!"
Zhou Dagu raised his hands and said, "Dear fellow villagers, I haven't sought any fame yet, so I can't call you my husband, so I'd rather call you Da Gu Lai!"
"Brother Gu is joking. You are a literary star from the sky. Even if you are not a scholar now, can you still be far away? Maybe you can still be promoted to a high official! Oh, you can become a high official!"
"Since childhood, I've seen you have a lot of potential!"
"Brother Gu, you're here!" Zhao Da squeezed his way from the crowd to Zhou Dagu, squatted with his head lowered, and dusted Zhou Dagu's body up and down: "Come in quickly, Grandpa Zhou has been waiting for you for a long time! "
Zhou Dagu pinched his arm: "You don't have to be so polite, Member Zhao! Member Wang is rich and unkind. You took back the land they occupied from the Wang family, and now you want to distribute it to us poor military households. You are really kind-hearted!"
Zhao Da understood what he meant, but felt unconfident and helplessly put on his airs: "That's natural! Natural!"
In the Zhoucun ancestral hall, a small map has been hung for a long time, marking the land near Zhoujia Village in Cai County.
There were mostly military households in the village, and there were also scouts, so mapping was not a difficult task. As long as the purpose of mapping was reported to the Cai County government without marking military on it, it would not be illegal.
When Grandpa Zhou saw Zhou Dagu enter, he immediately stood up from his chair and rushed forward to greet him anxiously: "The Erzhuang family said they saw you coming back, otherwise we would be planning to go to the city to find you!"
"I don't know what happened in the city recently. This afternoon, the guards at Yumen Pass sent a team of sergeants to the villages to check if there were any outsiders. The world is in chaos!"
Zhou Dagu smiled: "We are all well-informed in our village, and there will be no chaos in our place. Let's talk about the happy news first!"
He had suspicions that the people coming to Yumen Pass were looking for Bai Huahong. Instead of letting people from the Yamen come to look for him, they sent people from the army. It seemed that the higher-ups should have found out the relationship between the Wang family and Bai Huahong. They were not too concerned about the Cai County Yamen. Don’t worry!
He calmly took out the documents from the Yamen from his arms: "I'm going to the Yamen today, and I've already discussed it with Director Zhang!"
"We can't leave all the Wang family's land to the three Yuan Wai and Xu Dian. After all, the Wang family is involved with many big families in the county government, and the county government is also very embarrassed. We have to make everyone feel at ease!"
Zhao Da cupped his hands in praise, and the joy in his eyes almost overflowed: "That's natural, that's natural. We can share some of the Wang family's ill-gotten wealth. It's already the result of Zhou... everyone's hard work. It's good if we can share it!"
Zhou Dagu didn't want to take the credit. Wang Yuan was easy to deal with, but the people behind him were difficult to deal with. Not only the Lotus Sect, but Master Zhang also said that he had some connections with people from Qingxue Mansion.
Zhou Dagu took a literary career. This kind of reputation was of no use to him. He only cared about his literary reputation!
"As originally agreed upon, the fields near Zhoujia Village will be distributed to the villagers, and they will also belong to our villagers in the future!"
The Zhoujia Village Ancestral Hall was silent for a while, and then burst into warm cheers.
"Okay! Are we going to have our own land too?"
"Thank you, Brother Gu! Will I also be a landlord in the future?"
"Thank you, Brother Gu! With the land, our two boys can have enough to eat. As long as we can take care of these acres of land, we can survive!" Poor people always think that they cannot survive. The reason is that I have endured too little hardship.
The villagers are the simplest. There are jealousies and fears of power among the villagers, and they also know best who treats them well!
But I have never understood that people who can endure hardship can only endure more hardship!
Zhou Dagu waited for the cheers to subside, then took a brush and drew a stroke on the map: "The saved land will be divided into ten parts, and each of you three will have two parts!"
"Divide these among yourselves!"
The three of them looked at each other and knelt directly behind Zhou Dagu. Their voices trembled and they did not dare to raise their heads: "Thank you, Mr. Zhou, our lives will be yours from now on!"
"We will go wherever you can find us useful in the future, up to the mountain of knives and down to the sea of fire!"
"You are the one who wants to kill me today. If I hesitate for a moment, I will cut off your head directly!"
This time, Zhou Dagu didn't stop them: "Get up! We are all outsiders. Don't kneel down all the time. Outsiders should behave like outsiders!"
The three of them were extremely happy. After bowing in front of everyone, they finally became Lord Zhou's people. From now on, they will be labeled as Zhou Dagu by others.
When I encounter danger again, I feel confident.
Zhou Dagu believed that he had a bright future, so naturally he would not care about the land in Cai County.
There is a traitor inside Da Ying and a demon outside. It is impossible to live a stable life as a small landowner.
He had already figured out that since it was impossible, he might as well enter the game with his own body. As a chess piece, he had to be the biggest, so that he could have a chance to influence the chess board.
If he was in business, he would definitely be the biggest profiteer.
If you are an official, you must be the greatest official!
"Xu Dian's land belongs to the ancestral property, so it is naturally left to him. However, he is kind-hearted, so I persuaded him to leave two pieces of the ancestral land to prepare for building the Xu family in the future!"
"There are still 20% left!" Zhou Dagu looked around and looked at everyone.
Zhou Dagu raised his head and looked at everyone in the Zhou family: "Everyone, there have never been deserters in our Zhoujia Village, and I have never run away for my life!"
"A hundred and ten people went out of Yumen Pass today, but I was the only one who came back. I know that countless people have doubted us behind our backs! I wonder why a weakling like me survived!"
"That's because they protected me!"
"They protect not only me, but also the last instructions they leave to their families."
Zhou Dagu took out a book from his arms: "This is a letter home written by me on the battlefield! It is all based on what they said personally!"
It was no longer quiet inside and outside the ancestral hall, there was a lot of people and the noise was endless.
