After the rebirth, the cannon fodder left the plot

Chapter 17
Lin Hu seemed to have expected him to say this a long time ago, almost as soon as Shen Jingcheng asked the question, he gave the answer: "Don't worry, there are ten village chiefs, one every year, and the county arranges for you to spend a few years Then take turns, and then you will grow up."

Gu Jin: Why bother?Wouldn't it be good to re-elect someone as head of the village?
Shen Jingcheng: What do you want to do by giving positions but not rights? .

"There are only me and my wife in my family right now, so it's considered a widowed household, so it doesn't meet the conditions to be a village chief." Shen Jingcheng tried hard to think about the conditions required to be a village chief, and wanted to refuse.

"Widowed households refer to orphans and widowed mothers. You don't have no father or mother. It's just that you immigrated to a different place from your parents. You don't count as widows or orphans." Lin Hu retorted with a smile.

"Then I don't meet the condition of having a lot of food, I'm the only male in my family." Shen Jingcheng continued to look for reasons.

"Although there are not many males in your family, you have a lot of land. As far as your family's 60 mu of land is concerned, the original land length is not as long as yours." Lin Hu dismissed it again.

Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng looked at each other in blank dismay after being refuted.

If I had known earlier, I would not have opened so many lands. The money was gone, and the harvest was still unknown. The errands arranged by the government came first. Isn't this terrible?

"Work hard, our county magistrate is very optimistic about you." Lin Hu patted him on the shoulder and walked away. After walking two steps, he suddenly stopped and said to Shen Jingcheng: "Oh, by the way, your village is less than Liangjia, ten of them The first head of the household is Gu Changping. I have already told him that you will take care of the remaining four households for the time being, and you will choose another head after you get enough households. Also, Lizheng Village, which is on rotation this year, was also affected by the disaster. It’s not light, I can’t take care of you for the time being, and all the affairs of your village will be taken care of by you for the time being.”

After Lin Hu said this, he really left, as fast as if someone was chasing him.

Shen Jingcheng finally understood what this person meant after hearing this.

After arguing for a long time, the co-author wanted to hand over the disaster-stricken families in the village to him?How can the abacus be so accurate?

Shen Jingcheng looked at Gu Jin speechlessly, but Gu Jin didn't know what to say, and after a long time, he called quietly: "Master Li Chang?"

Shen Jingcheng burst out laughing at her calling, and opened his mouth to call out, "Mrs. Li Chang?"

At the sound of 'Mrs. Li Chang', Gu Jin felt his hair stand on end, rubbed the goose bumps on his body and said, "Stop screaming, I'm panicking."

Shen Jingcheng was so amused by her appearance that he wanted to laugh, but he still put on an innocent face: "You called me first."

Gu Jin grinned, but still couldn't figure it out, and asked him suspiciously: "Tell me, why did the county let you be the chief? No matter how much land our family has, you are still a child after all. How can there be nine children in this world?" How old is the child?"

"Let's keep an eye on our family's crops." Shen Jingcheng told her little by little what he thought of.

"Although the river has receded now, I heard that our village was not the only one that was flooded. Basically all the crops along the river in the county were flooded, which means that many people will have no harvest this year. Survival is a problem, and farming next year is another problem. But at this time, we and the Gu family happen to have so much land, and the crops are still growing well, but we don’t have to pay taxes yet. The county let me be the leader at this time, Entrusting the affairs of the whole village to me is probably because you want us to support these people?"

Gu Jin's eyes widened when he heard this, and he said in disbelief, "Isn't this too shameless? No one took care of us when we came here, and you want us to take care of others when something happens?"

"Then what can I do? The magistrate who destroyed the family and the county magistrate who destroyed the family, what people say, we ordinary people can only do it. What's more, the county has given me an official job. Now we are You have to take care of it, and you have to take care of it." Shen Jingcheng said helplessly.

In this world, only the family business has no ability, and anyone can come and make trouble for you.

Gu Jin was in a depressed mood when she heard that. The Song family was just an ordinary household before, and she had never faced such a thing. She thought that as long as she and Shen Jingcheng worked hard, they would definitely be able to live better and better in the future, but now it seems that they want to Living well doesn't seem to be that simple.

"It's okay." Seeing her worried, Shen Jingcheng frowned again, carried her to the edge of the kang and sat down, stood in front of her and tried his best to comfort her: "Don't worry, at worst, let these people open up wasteland for us like Gao Dazhuang and the others. According to the amount of food they do, we will open up more wasteland to plant winter wheat, and there will be no loss.”

"Then I'm angry too." Gu Jin was still angry, and suddenly raised his head and said to him, "Husband, let me study for you, you go to the test of merit, even if you only take the test of a child, those people dare not bully us like this."

She remembered that Song's second son was like this at that time. He just passed the test as a child student, and no one in the village dared to mess with their family. No one dares to gossip about her.

Shen Jingcheng paused slightly when he heard this, then nodded, and said softly: "Okay, let's study, but I'm afraid this year's situation won't work, next year, if the situation permits next year, I will go to study."

In fact, he was worried that Gu Jin would be alone at home. She was too young to live alone in the village.He wants to rent or buy a house near the school when conditions permit, and then take her to study together.

Gu Jin didn't know Shen Jingcheng's plan, but he knew that this year's situation was really terrible. If he traded food for work, even if his family had more than 60 mu of crops, and the whole village had a share, he didn't know what he would have left, so he could only wait. Let's talk about the grain next year.

What's more, even if Shen Jingcheng has studied, he may not be able to pass the exam. Haven't you seen so many people who can't pass the exam?She was too impatient.

Gu Jin felt a little guilty about what he blurted out just now, and leaned forward and leaned his head on his chest and said sullenly: "I'm sorry, I was a little angry just now, and I didn't care about what I said. Don't be stressed about studying. It’s good to pass the exam, but it’s okay if you don’t pass the exam.”

"Okay." Shen Jingcheng gently hugged her into his arms, but his eyes were full of firmness.

If he had the chance, he would definitely take the test for fame, even if he wanted to prevent people from taking the test casually, he would still take the test and try his best to take the test.

It's just that although the two talked so much and expected so much, the people who were flooded never came to the door.

One day, two days, one month later, Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng felt that maybe they were thinking too much, those people might still have food in store, so there was no need for them to worry about it.

However, not long after the two were relieved, when the peanuts in the field were about to be harvested and the cotton in the field began to turn white, eight or nine farmers suddenly came to the door.

"Xiao Lichang, you see that the crops in your field are almost ripe, and Yang Shitou and Gao Dazhuang may not be able to come over, do you want more people to help you harvest the crops? We don't need wages, you can give some grain seeds That's it." The man in the lead asked without much confidence.

Looking at the few people, although Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin were a little surprised, they also felt that the dust had settled, and they stated the conditions that had been set long ago.

These people came here just to try, but they didn't expect to succeed, so they nodded in agreement.

For them, the flooding of crops is distressing, but more importantly, they have no grain seeds. Seeing that they have no harvest this year, and they have lost a copper coin in their hands. If they can’t find a way to get some grain seeds, next year Even if they have land, they can only do it and see that they can't grow it.

Now that Shen Jingcheng is willing to promise to give food for work, it is undoubtedly great news for them.

They had seen it, and the crops in Shen Jingcheng's fields were growing very well, and almost all of them could be left to grow.

The autumn harvest began on this day. Peanuts, cotton, soybeans, sorghum, millet, and piles of full-grained grains were transported to the house of the two of them one after another. , These grains were distributed to each household little by little.

After everything was done, Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng looked at the few grains left in the house except for the seeds, and the land deed for more than 100 acres of winter wheat in their hands, and let out a long sigh at the same time.

Sixty mu of grain has been exchanged for more than 100 mu of land deeds, which can be regarded as gaining and losing.

(End of this chapter)