My whole family is punching cards in the farming article to survive

After going out to work for almost a month, Mei Dahu felt much relieved when he returned home with money in his pocket.

However, before entering the village, he specially stuffed two pieces of silver into the soles of his shoes, stepped on his feet repeatedly to make sure he couldn't see it, and then walked into the village.

Because Mei Berry's family lives at the head of the village, Mei Dahu can pass by their house when he comes back.

As soon as Mei Berry took out two warm eggs from the chicken coop, when she looked up, she made eye contact with Mei Dahu who was looking over.

"Uncle..." Mei Berry stood up and said hello, but Mei Dahu didn't have the "true feelings" like his wife and his mother, everything was shown on his face.

He nodded slightly, as if he had answered Mei Berry's greeting, looked up at the smoke rising from the chimney in their kitchen, and asked casually, "Where's your father?"

"My father went to the village head." Mei Berry's eyes fell on the package on Mei Dahu's back, she thought for a while, and then said, "Go to the village head to talk about the corvee."

"What, what?"

Seeing that Mei Dahu's mind was blank, Mei Berry deliberately said in surprise, "Huh? Uncle, didn't you come back to join the corvee?"

Mei Dahu:! ! !

At this moment, the toes that are heading home can't help but start to change directions.

He even forgot about corvée!
"Uncle?"

Seeing that Mei Dahu was about to start dyeing his face, Mei Berry yelled viciously to bring him back to his senses, and then sprinkled salt on his wound:
"Uncle, it's getting late, don't you want to go back and pack up? I heard that everyone is leaving the day after tomorrow~"

After hearing Mei Berry's words, Mei Dahu's face turned even paler, and he staggered and turned around to leave.

The leaving back looked too embarrassed, and even Mei Berry felt that Mei Dahu wanted to turn around for a moment and ran out of the village and never came back!
Mei Dahu ran away from the door of Mei Berry's house, and Mei Youqian, who had just handed over the money and walked back easily, saw the way he rushed forward.

oops~
This is indeed a father and daughter. When Mei Youqian recognized who was running over at a glance, he stopped him.

"Yeah, brother, are you back?"

At first, he didn't notice that the person walking beside him was Mei's second child, but who knew that the other party reached out to stop him, facing Mei Youqian's smiling face, Mei Dahu became nervous instantly.

The hand holding the burden was so hard that I could even see the veins on my back.

"Brother, did you come back to join the corvee?"

When it comes up, Mei Dahu rushes to say whatever Mei Youqian doesn't want to hear.

Who will rush to participate in corvee service?
"Hehe." Mei Dahu smiled, and glanced at Mei Youqian, "Aren't you the same?"

"Hey, big brother, then we are different."

Mei Youqian immediately shook his head, smashed his mouth, and said to the other party with a face of "a villain's ambition", "Our family has the final say, I said that I have emptied the family's wealth to pay for the corvee, and no one in the family said no." , brother, are you okay?"

"Aren't you going?!"

Mei Dahu realized that Mei Youqian did not participate in the corvee, and instantly opened his eyes wide.

There was an astonishing scream from his throat, very much like the struggling neigh of an old rooster being grabbed by its throat.

"Oh, not only me, but also the third child."

Leaning forward slightly, Mei Youqian leaned in front of Mei Dahu and spoke like a devil.

After finishing speaking, he raised his eyes to meet Mei Dahu's expression of seeing a ghost, and Mei Youqian finally couldn't help laughing.

With his laughter, a gloom suddenly came out in his heart.

It belonged to the original body, a kind of pleasure of revenge!

As a result, the laughter became louder and louder, and Mei Youqian even turned his head up to the sky and left laughing, leaving behind Mei Dahu who stood there with a dazed expression on his face.

Looking at the back of Mei Youqian leaving arrogantly, Mei Dahu suddenly raised his hand and slapped himself.

With a "snap", with burning pain, Mei Dahu took a deep breath and muttered: "God, I didn't dream..."

***
"Pfft hahahaha, you guys haven't seen Mei Dahu's bloody look!"

Even Mei Youqian couldn't stop laughing during dinner at night.

Mei Berry silently held the bowl away from the range of her father's laughter and saliva splashing.

"When I went to hand over the money today, I happened to see my father declaring Mei Dahu's name there, you don't know the incredible look on his face when he saw me handing over the money.

I was in a really good mood at the time, and when I came back, I ran into Mei Dahu again, whoops~ this damn fate hahahahaha! "

Mei Berry listened, but asked curiously: "Is my grandfather really willing to let uncle serve corvee?"

"Then what else?" Mei Youqian glanced at his daughter, "Do you think five taels of silver is easy to pay?"

"That's not..."

Mei Berry was a little awkward, she thought that her eccentric grandpa would still be eccentric in this matter, but in the end she just reported Mei Dahu's name without hesitation!

"Okay, okay, eat!"

Seeing that the big and small were not at ease eating, Wei Meili urged them.

"Well, shouldn't such a happy thing be shared properly? In my opinion, we have to celebrate~ Or... shall we eat meat tomorrow?"

Mei Berry's father, this is Tu Qiong's meeting.

"No, tomorrow I will eat stir-fried bean sprouts, cold cucumber, and braised winter melon."

But Mei Berry's mother is unmoved.

"Huh?" Now Mei Berry couldn't hold back anymore, "Do you really want to be vegetarian?"

Mei Berry also thought that her mother was just talking about it.

"Of course, do what you say, and eat less meat~" Wei Meili raised her hand and gently pinched the cheek of Meiberry, "Also, remember to take your dad to water the field at night, you know Is it?"

"Oh!"

After being reminded by his mother, Meimeimei remembered that the crops in their field were dying of thirst.

On the other side, the Mei family's old house.

"Father, do you really want to go to corvee?"

Just after eating, Mei Dahu looked pitifully at the old man Mei who was sitting on the threshold looking at the moon.

Old man Mei looked down at his son who was squatting aside, and sighed helplessly.

"The names are all listed. Tomorrow, ask your wife to cook you something to eat, pack it up and take it with you. This time it's nearby, not far away. I'll ask your wife to visit you when I'm free."

The old man Mei took the tobacco rod and took a deep breath of the dry cigarette, and he had already spoken clearly.

But Mei Dahu still didn't give up, and asked tentatively: "I heard...paying, paying silver can cover..."

"Five two and one person!"

Old man Mei directly shattered Mei Dahu's delusion, saying: "Every year, you can spend five taels every year? Sooner or later you will be forced to do labor. Could it be that you want me to take an old bone for you?"

"No, no, I didn't this time. But, but the corvée is so hard..." Mei Dahu's eyes turned red, he had really never participated in the corvée for so many years!

"I heard them say that corvée is very hard, every time someone dies, it's so hard... Isn't this killing my son?"

Mei Dahu never imagined that he would one day join the corvee, he was afraid just thinking about it.

"The second and third child have participated in so many corvees before, and they haven't died yet. Don't scare yourself. Besides, the family doesn't have any money anymore."

Mei Dahu was stunned. When the family bought four acres of land earlier, his father told him that the family had no money, and the four acres of land would be left to him when he was a hundred years old.

All that money was spent to buy the land. In a short period of time, it would be difficult for others to spend another five taels of silver.

He opened his mouth, but at the end he just sighed. He lowered his head slowly, and said in a dejected tone, "It's because my son is incompetent..."

After Mei Dahu finished speaking, he originally wanted to accept his fate like this, but he heard his mother say: "Boss, don't think so, your brother still needs to study in autumn and needs money~
Right now, the family really doesn’t have so much money to spare~”

Mei Dahu:? ? ?

So, it's not that there is no money at home, but that there is no money for him?
Old Man Mei: I have said so much for nothing! ! !