Traveling to Daliang Kingdom starts from falling into the water

After hearing Gu Erzhu's promise, not only Zhou Banxia but also Gu Wenxuan felt relieved.

His father's ability to think about problems and take action are actually beyond the average person.

His grandfather was not only blind, but also blind in heart. He was always proud of his eldest son.

It's not that he is partial to me as a son, and his uncle is not worthy of carrying his father's shoes.

After chatting for a while, it was getting late, and there was no need for Gu Erzhu and Liu to urge the young couple to go back to their room to rest early, and Gu Wenxuan and Zhou Banxia didn't stay any longer.

After leaving the main room, I went to chat with Gu Erlang. It was getting late, so I went to the backyard to chat with Li Chunsheng, who had not communicated with him for some time recently.

This brother-in-law is indeed a very good person. It was late at night and he was asked to rest early and wait until he was busy tomorrow. The couple really worked hard in two shifts.

After finishing these trivial matters, Gu Wenxuan was lazy that night, taking advantage of his brother-in-law's going home tonight to hug his wife and sleep more.

The next day it was back to normal.

Go to school on time.

He immersed himself in books again. When Shen Shi came back from school, his father was not as fast as usual, and the land he wanted was already in his wife's name.

Now that Gu Erzhu has met many people in the county government office, his work efficiency is naturally faster. It does not waste much time to take Gu Yangming (Li Zheng) to the county government office.

I did want to inquire about the results of the county examination, but considering that asking too many questions would lead to too many things, and one more thing would be worse than one less thing, I finally gave up and returned to the village quickly.

home.

He handed the household registration deed and money bag to Mr. Liu, changed his clothes and hurried out to the wasteland to see how everyone was doing.

He was really busy, but he was always happy in his heart. He exerted all his strength, and without the carriage, Gu Erzhu felt that he could run back and forth from morning to night without getting tired.

Patriarch Gu and Second Master Gu worriedly came over to take a look. When they heard what their nephew said, they were sincerely happy for their nephew and even laughed happily.

Patriarch Zhou, who was not willing to be upstaged by Patriarch Gu, also moved here from the field owned by Zhou Shushun and his daughter, and heard the laughter of the old man first.

Where's the crutch?

in hand.

Why, you can't say it anymore and you're going to take action?

The snow had melted, and the village roads that we usually walked on, even the best gravel roads, were a little muddy. Unfortunately, the place where we were staying was a piece of wasteland that had been cleared yesterday.

Three old men who were over fifty and almost sixty were here, looking at the busy people in front and around them, each chatting and laughing accompanied by his son or grandson.

Zhou Banxia had no idea where the three old men had gone. He only heard Mrs. Liu say that many people in the village took the initiative to go there to help this morning.

There is a custom in the village.

Whoever builds a house, unless the relationship between the two families is at loggerheads and there is no human contact, basically each household will still send someone to help with the door.

But this custom is only to build a yard and build a house. Not to mention Zhou Banxia, ​​even Liu didn't expect that there would be people helping to clear and level the land now that spring plowing was about to begin.

Ma Dazhuang coordinated the work of digging ditches to clean up the mud and improving water conservancy for future irrigation. The Ma family was responsible for the wages and food of those people first, and the three families would share it after the work was completed.

As for the wasteland in the woods, it belonged to Zhou Banxia's personal property, and the plasterer Gu Erzhu was looking for was the Zhou plasterer who had previously renovated his yard.

This person is also Zhou Banxia's uncle.

It was equivalent to Gu Erzhu deliberately asking the other party to direct the hired personnel to clear and level the land, so that he could clear and level a part of the wasteland first and start building the workshop as soon as possible.

Therefore, the wages of Shushuzi are calculated separately, but the Ma family is still responsible for the food if both parties work at the same time and are inconsistent. After all, the Ma family has Zhuangzi, which not only has many permanent workers, but also many servants. They were the most experienced in cooking in a big pot, so Gu Erzhu and Zhou Shun did not refuse Ma Dazhuang's kindness.

At the same time, the three families also made rough arrangements for three meals a day based on the guests' appetite.

The food is still okay.

Millet cereals, black flour pancakes and other staple foods are enough, and one meat dish is included in three meals a day.

In the past two days, Mrs. Liu sent Aunt Cai and her mother-in-law to help with the stove set up there. It was not easy to let her mother-in-law take care of all the work, and she would also go around.

Like yesterday.

Before noon today, she and Li were at Majia Village and learned that many people in the village ran to help. Regardless of whether they should be paid, since people came to work, they had to provide food.

Mrs. Li listened to Zhou Shun's advice and was smart enough to leave things alone. She said early on that she would hand over her three children to her mother-in-law.

Mrs. Liu had no choice but to ask her other mother-in-law to prepare more meals. She also mentioned it to Zhou Banxia when she came back, but it was impossible for Zhou Banxia to go out.

Not to mention that the old daughter-in-law has no time to spare at home. She has to be busy with embroidery work, rush to make her son's spring clothes, and often go to the backyard to take a look.

There are young and old men everywhere in the fields, as well as people from outside the village. If such a good daughter-in-law is offended by some Meng Lang, it will be too late to regret it.

In addition, Mrs. Liu was also worried that when her old daughter-in-law went out, she would meet some unscrupulous man crying in public and asking for money. The old daughter-in-law was too shy to refuse.

All in all, favors are favors, come and go, but it must not set a precedent to save the urgent rather than the poor. It is better to lock the old daughter-in-law at home.

Zhou Banxia, ​​who was "imprisoned" at home, didn't think much about it.

With the idea that birds of a feather flock together, and that no matter how sensible children come and go, she will hire a little girl to come to her house to pack the soap and put it into boxes. Otherwise, once the soap is made, it will be delivered on time at the end of the month. Next month will be tough.

This batch was first recommended by Danniu and Sanniu, and then checked by Xiao Baoya. She finally recruited ten young girls from the two surnames Zhou and Gu who were not from very good backgrounds but whose family members were reliable.

In this way, the temporary grass shed that was erected years ago in the backyard has been occupied, and there is no place to shelter from the cold wind for a few more girls to work.

Of course, if she refuses for this reason, there will definitely be many little girls who dare to say that as long as there is work to do, it will be okay to work in the open air.

But it doesn't work here. It's really hard to figure out whose responsibility it is.

As for moving to the inner courtyard or the front yard to work?

Even worse.

Not to mention it would disturb the family's daily life, and it would be inconsistent with etiquette.

Seven-year-old boys and girls sit on separate seats.

She didn't want to hear or see out of nowhere that a little girl from the Zhou family was throwing herself into the arms of the son of the Gu family, or that a little girl from the Gu family was having an affair with Da Jiang.

After arrangements have been made for ten little girls to station in the backyard to pack soap and boxes, they can barely keep up with the speed of the older girls, Sanniu and others, and they are not moving around randomly. The county examination results are about to be released.

Zhou Banxia can see history repeating itself again.

Early in the morning, before dawn, Mrs. Liu had already started to clasp her hands in the yard, praying nonstop for the blessings of her ancestors, the blessings of Confucius, the blessings of Buddha...

Zhou Banxia was not nervous at first, but seeing that her mother-in-law was more cautious than before, burning incense and kneeling down, she seemed to be infected, and she started praying silently.