Zhao Tiezhu watched Wang Erniu write his name crookedly, feeling envious in his heart.
As a blacksmith, Zhao Tiezhu has always admired literate and educated people.
"Do you have any relatives or friends in the city?" Wang Erniu asked again.
Zhao Tiezhu quickly agreed: "Yes, yes, my cousin Zhao Xiaomao is in Pingliang County."
When Wang Erniu heard that the person who came turned out to be a relative of his neighbor Zhao Xiaomao, he immediately said eagerly: "It turns out that he is a relative of Brother Xiaomao. He is moving bricks to build a house on a construction site in the city at the moment."
"After you enter the city, walk three hundred steps to the east and you will almost see their construction site."
Upon hearing this, Zhao Tiezhu thanked him and took his family towards the place pointed by Wang Erniu.
Along the way, Zhao Tiezhu looked at the uniform red-tiled houses rising from the ground in the city. There were many people carrying buckets of gray paste-like things to smear the walls.
Although Pingliang County is not prosperous, everyone is busy working.
Sure enough, after walking about three hundred steps, Zhao Tiezhu saw his cousin Zhao Xiaomao, who was building a wall with a trowel nearby.
"Xiao Mao~" Zhao Tiezhu shouted loudly.
Zhao Xiaomao, who was building a wall, looked back and found that the person calling him was his cousin Zhao Tiezhu.
Overjoyed, Zhao Xiaomao first ran to the supervisor, Mr. Qian, to say hello, and then ran to his cousin's family and said excitedly: "Brother Tiezhu, you are here!"
"Let's go, I'll take you to the county to register and settle down, and get food."
Zhao Tiezhu's father-in-law, Ge Laogen, excitedly took Zhao Xiaomao's hand and asked, "Xiao Mao, what are you doing!"
"Now people all over the county are building new houses here! When we built the city wall before, there were a lot of adobe bricks left. So our county magistrate asked the people in the county to use these bricks to build houses. Now there are all If the people in the city work together, they can build more than a dozen brick houses in one day!"
"By the way, our county boss calls this concentrating our efforts to do big things. This would have been unthinkable before." Zhao Xiaomao proudly told everyone about the events in the city.
Whenever he mentioned the county grandpa, Zhao Xiaomao's tone was full of respect.
When he came to a small brick courtyard, Zhao Xiaomao took out the key from his waistband and opened the door of his house.
"Brother Xiaomao, this courtyard is your home!" Zhao Tiezhu asked, looking at the houses in the courtyard with envy.
You must know that although Zhao Tiezhu and the others live in the more prosperous Pingyang City, their family of five can only live in two shabby thatched huts.
They couldn't even imagine such a spacious and bright house. This kind of house would cost at least three to five hundred taels in Pingyang City.
Zhao Xiaomao nodded and said: "Previously, the houses of the common people were burned down, so the county magistrate asked the city people to use the leftover bricks from the wall construction to build houses. As long as you settle down in this house, you will be assigned a courtyard. Right to use.”
"As for the ownership of the house, you have to rely on labor points and social contribution value to redeem it. When the labor points and social contribution value reach a certain amount, you can obtain the ownership of the house for free. At that time, you want to sell the house or whatever. what ever!"
After hearing this, Zhao Tiezhu's father-in-law waved his hands quickly and said, "I don't dare to sell such a good house given by the government!"
Zhao Xiaomao smiled coquettishly and said, "You go in first and put down your luggage. I will borrow a trolley and then take you to the government office to apply for settlement."
At first, Zhao Tiezhu didn't understand why his cousin Zhao Xiaomao wanted to borrow a cart?
But after they settled in the dilapidated yamen of Pingliang, Zhao Tiezhu finally knew the reason.
Because I settled in Pingliang County, the government office will really distribute food.
"Zhao Tiezhu, are you a blacksmith?" Sun Yufu, an old scholar who temporarily replaced Master Yang Xiu, asked.
"Yes, sir!" Zhao Tiezhu replied with a bow and a nod.
"According to the regulations of the present grandpa, all blacksmiths and carpenters with special skills can be rewarded with 200 kilograms of rice if they settle in our county. For your family of five, that is 600 kilograms of rice."
After saying this, Sun Yufu was ready to issue 600 kilograms of rice notes to Zhao Tiezhu's family.
At this time, Zhao Tiezhu's father-in-law Ge Laogen said in a low voice: "Reporting to the elder, I am still a carpenter. I don't know if I can..."
Sun Yufu glanced at Zhao Tiezhu's father-in-law, and then said: "You old man, don't scream, there is only one big boss in the entire Pingliang County, and that is our county magistrate, Mr. Zhou Yizhou!"
"Zhao Xiaomao, from now on you must have a good talk with your relatives about the rules of our Pingliang County!"
After that, Sun Yufu gave a batch of 700 kilograms of rice and a batch of 90 kilograms of rice to Zhao Tiezhu and Zhao Xiaomao respectively.
Zhao Xiaomao also nodded repeatedly and responded: "Master Zhang, I will definitely teach my cousin and his family the rules of our Pingliang County."
Sun Yufu nodded with satisfaction and asked Zhao Xiaomao to take Zhao Tiezhu and his family to the granary to collect food.
This bag of rice weighed 100 kilograms. Zhao Tiezhu's family of five looked at the seven bags of rice neatly stacked on the cart.
Their whole family was in a daze, as if they were still in a dream.
You must know that their family of five has lived a tight life, and they have never seen so much surplus food.
If these grains were placed in Pingyang City now, they would be worth hundreds of taels of silver.
After the official guarding the granary distributed the grain for Zhao Tiezhu's family to settle down, he took another bag of grain, opened it, took out 10 kilograms of rice, and handed the remaining 90 kilograms to Zhao Xiaomao.
This time, Zhao Xiaomao's whole family was even more stunned in the field.
What? What’s in the bag is not unprocessed whole grains! It’s Baihuahua’s refined grain rice.
As a result, the value of these 700 kilograms of rice will increase several times, reaching the value of thousands of taels of silver.
Zhao Tiezhu's father-in-law Ge Laogen looked excitedly at the hills of rice in front of him, and asked tremblingly: "Xiao Mao, am I dreaming? Are these grains given to us by the government?"
Zhao Xiaomao immediately corrected Ge Laogen's mistake and said: "What official gave it to you? Your magistrate in Pingyang City, will he give you so much food?"
"This is all given to us by Mr. Zhou Yizhou, the great master of Qingtian County in Pingliang County!"
Old Man Ge also quickly corrected himself and said: "Yes, yes...it is the food given to us by our great master Qingtian, Master Zhou Yizhou."
"For such a great kindness, I must give you a few kisses."
After that, Ge Laogen took his daughter, son-in-law and family and nodded several times in the direction of the sun.
