small farmer

Chapter 904 Karma (22)

"This yard is really big, did the Yang family have so many people before?" Uncle Er Niu asked with a smile.

"You kid is really uneducated. Under the landlord's lords, who doesn't have a few girls who are in charge, alas! Speaking of people in our village, before liberation, they were all farm laborers from their family!" The second uncle shook his head with some memories Said.

Although the land in Moon Lake is fertile, with thousands of acres of fertile land, these good fields and land are all owned by the landlords. Each villager has at most two or three acres of sloping land, and it is very barren. They all became farm laborers of the landlord's family.

"Second Uncle, I heard that when you were young, you let go of cattle for the Yang family, right?" Uncle Er Niu asked curiously,
Hearing this question, the juniors in the village stretched their necks, ready to hear what the second uncle had to say.

"Hehe, you kid, who said that? It's not me who grazes cattle for the landlord's house. That's the grandpa in the room of Ah Hong's house. He is ten years older than me. Since he was five years old, he has been graze cattle for the landlord's house." Niu, there was no wages at that time, and there were only two meals of corn every day, and I was often not full!"

"So scary?? The landlord's house is too wicked, right?" Everyone was filled with righteous indignation after hearing this.

Working for the landlord's family, not only was there no wages, but even food was not enough. If this were done today, people would definitely be sprayed to death, but in those days, this was a routine operation, and there were too few conscientious landlords.

"Unethical? That's not bad. The long-term workers in those days were miserable. They were simply slaves to the landlord's family. Not only did they not have enough food and clothing, but they were often beaten all over their bodies by the landlord's family!"

After everyone heard it, they couldn't help shaking their heads and sighing. It was really not easy to survive in that era.

"Did you see that little dirt bag over there?"

Looking along the fingers of the second uncle, there is really an inconspicuous little soil bag on the barren hill not far away, everyone's heart suddenly jumped, and some bad guesses were made.

"That is the grave of a long-time worker in the landlord's house. I used to graze cattle there when I was young. After your grandfather knew about it, he stopped letting me graze cattle there. Finally, after I kept asking, your grandfather told me I, it turns out that this is the grave of the long-term worker of the landlord's family, and the death of this long-term worker was very miserable..."

"It is said that one day, the workman of Yang's family was so hungry that he secretly dug up the sweet potatoes of the master's house. Unfortunately, he was unlucky and met the young master who came back from hunting on the mountain, so he was arrested and hung on a tree. It was just a beating. It is said that he was beaten for three hours. His whole body was covered with scars, his mouth was torn, and his tongue was cut off. , just collected the corpse for him, and buried it in the wasteland over there." Speaking of this, the second uncle couldn't help but sigh.

Everyone was surprisingly silent after hearing this story. Although the second uncle didn't say anything else, everyone knew that their ancestors must have been bullied by the Yang family, so everyone felt sympathetic after hearing this story.

"Then what happened to the Yang family?" Uncle Er Niu clenched his fists and asked the second uncle.

"What else can I do? After liberation, my family will be ruined!" The second uncle shook his head and smiled, his smile was full of complicated emotions.

Speaking of the ending of the Yang family, it is also karma,

Just like the big families in that era, a group escaped before liberation, and the rest of them ended up very miserable. The peasants who were turned over were criticized and struggled, and life was worse than death.

The house that was left to stick to the house has long since disappeared. The whole family, young and old, was shot one-third when it was first liberated, and almost all the rest died in the struggle, leaving behind three or two children. I don't know where it went.

However, it is said that in the early 90s, a group of people came here to seek their roots and ancestors. It is said that they seem to be the Yang family who fled to Wanwan. However, since then, no Yang family has returned to the village.

"Uncle Dashan, how many guest rooms are there in this yard?" Zhang Feng asked curiously as he looked at the guest rooms upstairs and downstairs, next to each other.

"Hehe, there are exactly 66 guest rooms!" Uncle Dashan said with a slight smile.

"Why are there so many?" Zhang Feng remembers that there were not so many when he first designed it?

"Isn't this because there are still funds left? That's why Professor Wang revised the design drawings and asked you to go to a meeting. You just forgot!" Uncle Da Shan looked at Zhang Feng and asked.

Zhang Feng smiled embarrassedly. He really forgot about it, because the village head and Uncle Dashan were watching the project, so he didn't have to worry about it at all, so he had long since forgotten about it.

"Come on, let's go into the room and have a look!" Uncle Da Shan led everyone up to the second floor, checking room by room.

The furnishings in the room are simple and unsophisticated, with a strong Republic of China style. It seems that Professor Wang has really put in a lot of effort, almost restoring the previous furnishings of the Yang Family Courtyard.

A large carved wooden desk, a dark desk, a stained glass window, and a small potted plant on the window sill.

On the walls of the room, there are also various calligraphy, paintings and handicrafts. Entering the room, there is a feeling of traveling through time and space, as if returning to a hundred years ago.

When everyone came to the hall, the uncle smiled and glanced at Zhang Feng.

"Xiaofeng, there is still a picture of a tiger descending a mountain in this lobby, so I need your help!"

"That's no problem. I still have a few paintings at my place. Uncle, just go and get what you need!" Zhang Feng said straightforwardly.

"Hehe, you really are, I'm talking about the picture of the tiger descending the mountain. According to the display of the Yang family back then, this is what hangs here!" The uncle smiled and shook his head.

"That's it, no problem, I'll draw it for you tomorrow, and I'll give it to you after it's framed!" Zhang Feng smiled, it was just a picture of a tiger descending a mountain.

"Hehe, I don't want to ask for another master for that matter. There were originally two porcelain paintings on the walls on both sides, but I can't find such things now. Why don't you make up for the two paintings!" The uncle patted Zhang Feng. shoulders.

Zhang Feng nodded. Two more paintings can indeed be hung on the walls on both sides. I still have a few pictures of lotus flowers and some pictures of rural landscapes. I believe it is more than enough to hang here.

"Let's go back, it's getting late!"

"Tsk tsk, I didn't expect it to take more than an hour to go around. The courtyard of the landlord's house is really big!"

"Of course, if you go to the palace for a tour, you won't be able to finish it for three days and three nights!"

Everyone checked the time, and it was nine o'clock in the evening in a blink of an eye, and they didn't expect that time would pass so quickly.

So everyone talked and laughed and went back home.

The project here will be completely finished in a few days, and all the rest is just finishing work within cleaning.

The B&B hotel in the village is about to be completed, and the uncle is busy again, starting to set up the management of the hotel, and the trained employees are about to take up their posts to welcome the opening of the hotel.

(End of this chapter)