"Dad, please eat more meat and take care of yourself. We will harvest rice next month and then harvest hemp. If you have no work to do, we won't hire anyone."
At Wang Laolian's home, his mother-in-law gave him meat to eat and talked about the upcoming harvest.
Last year, his family followed the example of Xiaqiu Village and planted a crop of rapeseed and ramie, and then planted rice and jute, borrowing livestock from Xiaqiu Village.
Coupled with his wages and the things provided by the village, life suddenly became comfortable. The key was saving money on his father's medicine.
He left Xiaqiu Village and has been working for the government, going to various places to teach others about silage pond construction and silage production.
There is no need to teach now, it is too late to repair the silage pond, he returned home at midnight last night.
"Where is the third child's family?" Wang Laowen asked about his younger brother. He originally had two younger brothers, but the second one died in infancy.
The third child is studying, which is different from him. In the past, his father always subsidized the money for the third child’s family.
The third child is only responsible for studying and does no other work. The third wife is pretty good and will do any work in the fields.
"I went out. I met a new classmate during the Hungry Ghost Festival. I have to attend a cultural gathering today and I got two hundred coins from my father."
Wang Laowen's mother-in-law suddenly became depressed when she talked about this matter.
"Oh! It would be great if I was admitted to the Juren Examination!" Wang Laowang became sad because his younger brother was not good at studying and was hanging out with a group of scholars all day long.
Only when my father was injured did he study at home. He had no money! Now that things are getting better, they go out to date again.
Fortunately, the family was not separated, so he didn't have to give the money to his parents. His father was injured in a fall and took out all the money. Now he saved it by working in Xiaqiu Village.
"Our dad is still taking other people's medicine, and he doesn't go over to say thank you. He looks down on it...forget it."
Wang Laowen's mother-in-law stopped as she said that as her sister-in-law, she should not blame her brother-in-law.
"Wang Laowei, Wang Laowei!" A shout suddenly came from outside.
"Who is it?" Wang Laowen asked loudly.
"Who do you think I am? Pack your things quickly and go to Yingtian Mansion and Xiaqiu Village to look for me. Uncle Wang, you go too! I'm leaving and going to the next house."
After the people outside shouted, there was no movement. When Wang Laowen heard the three words "Xiaqiu Village", he suddenly became energetic.
"Quick, I'll take a few bites and you help me pack my things." He urged his mother-in-law.
His wife didn't bother to eat, so she immediately went to find clothes for him. While searching, she said, "If we are looking for him at this time, will we still have time to come back to harvest rice?"
"If that doesn't work, just hire someone and give me 20 cash a day, regardless of food. I make at least 30 cash a day there, and they double it, and my family saves food rations."
Wang Laowen chewed the vegetables and said, pouring the vegetable soup into the rice bowl, leaving the meat untouched and keeping it for his mother-in-law and children. He had meat to eat in the past.
Just eating the soup, he took a bowl of rice into his stomach in several mouthfuls, wiped his mouth with his arm, and shouted to the house over there: "Dad, I'm ready here."
"I'm fine now." The other end responded.
"Dad, his uncle, are you going to work again?" the third daughter-in-law asked from her house.
"Let's go. Say hello to Xiaqiu Village. We have to stop everything. We are still taking their medicine! The kindness is not over yet."
Wang Yiqian stood in the yard, holding a package in his hand. He did not take any tools, as Xiaqiu Village would provide them.
Wang Laowen followed him out, turned around and shouted, "Look after your home, don't make trouble with your mother, or you'll get beaten up." Then he picked up his father's package and left.
In the evening of the same day, 201 people got on the bus from Xiaqiu Village, chatted and rushed to Xiaqiu Village to change boats.
In fact, it is claimed that there is a river in the county that leads to Xiaqiu Village, Juxi. In the past, it was downstream, but people were unwilling to take a boat, and it was upstream when coming back.
Unless a large amount of cargo is being transported, it is easier to go with the current and return with an empty ship.
The craftsmen team is leaving now and will reach the village before midnight. They can reach Nanjing before dawn tomorrow.
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"This thing is great! You can turn it around any way you want." Zhu Yuanzhang, who was about to eat in Kunning Palace in the imperial city of Yingtian Mansion, fiddled with the food delivery cart.
His second son, Zhu Xiang, sent it back and said it could be used at the construction site, so he bumped it back and forth and drove the car back and forth.
Empress Ma looked on and asked, "Where did Zhu Lichang's words come from?"
"Many people don't know. Later, Wang Guangyang told him that it came from Cheng Cuiyan, a poem remitted by Yang Shi. He has learned so much! It's a pity that Biao'er can't follow him to do business."
Zhu Yuanzhang is dissatisfied with some people. Aren't you all learned and rich?
See what people in Xiaqiu Village teach? I made a good tool and sent it to Peng'er, who also learned something.
"Every day, what Chen'er learns is shown to Biao'er and other children, and they happen to learn it together. This thing needs to be big and strong for use on the construction site, and the iron wheel is very good. Eat!"
Queen Ma put the food on the table and said hello, stop playing.
"Their royal craftsmen will arrive tomorrow. Ask them about the palace's construction. They are the most familiar with bricks and concrete."
Zhu Yuanzhang joked that those craftsmen learned a lot of skills in Xiaqiu Village, including the application of various new tools.
"You have to give people more money for processing." Empress Ma was worried that the craftsmen would be hired for nothing.
"We gave him the materials to build the library, but not the money. Hey hey hey hey!" Zhu Yuanzhang lied and was very happy.
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The Xiaqiu Village kitchen team went to bed early last night and posted the above in advance, and they woke up early today.
They fry scallion pancakes. They fry the pancakes one at a time in a big pot and then take them out and cut them. This is the easiest thing to do.
There are four large pots for frying pancakes, one for boiling eggs, and another for making soup. When a pot of soup is ready, it is immediately poured into the wooden barrel next to it to keep it warm.
Others cut and mixed pickles, and waited for the milkman to come and boil milk for the children.
The guards helped set up the tables and stools. More than 200 people were coming today, and they happened to take advantage of the lunch box location here.
From today on, no meals will be delivered to the library, and those who work will eat here.
It was still dark when the fleet arrived, and the people waiting at the dock to carry work and transport things were called out and looked on eagerly.
When the ship docked, a group of people carrying packages got off, and those waiting for work continued to sleep mumblingly.
The craftsmen helped move things down from the boat without hiring a car. As soon as the rope was broken and the wooden pole was threaded, two or four people could carry it away, and the same was true for carrying the glass mirror.
This time there was food delivered, edamame. The 200 acres of land where soybeans were harvested and soybeans were planted were started to be made into silage, and some edamame were picked along the way.
Everyone carried the things to the shop together, and the store manager came out to greet them: "You are all here, and I am tormenting you so late at night."
"I stared at it while I was sitting in the car. When I got on the boat, I went straight to sleep. Now I am very energetic. Did we buy such a big house in our village?"
Wang Yiqian is the team leader. He does not work, but instructs everyone to put things at the door, and someone will come and pick them up later.
"It's bigger than this, otherwise I won't look for you. It's ours across the street, and it's diagonally across the street. There's a house to be built there."
The head of the village said that lanterns were carried between two houses, not colored glaze lanterns, because they were afraid of being robbed.
No matter if someone is keeping watch, they will run away after grabbing something, and smash the lamp after catching it.
