The story of the struggle of the poor girl who crossed

Chapter 78
Leng Dong asked curiously: "Oh, the shopkeeper of Yingke Lai, I have heard of Yingke Lai Dumpling Restaurant. It is said that this dumpling is very unique and delicious, isn't it? Shopkeeper Liang came to the northwest, Could it be that you want to open a dumpling restaurant in our place?"

Shopkeeper Liang smiled and said, "Well, we will open a main store in Hongye City first to welcome customers. When the business of the main store is booming, we will open branches in other cities!"

Leng Dong said disappointedly: "Oh, you don't plan to open a shop in Luhuawan?"

Mai Xiang interjected: "When there are more residents in Luhua Bay, we will consider opening a branch here. It won't take long! Besides, even if we don't open a branch here, if Uncle Leng wants to eat dumplings, we can still eat dumplings." You can come to my house, and I'll make one for you to eat!"

When Leng Dong heard this, he immediately smiled: "Okay, I'm satisfied with just a word like yours! Let's go, I've brought someone to clean up the house, you can move in right away after you move your luggage in!"

Liang Gaoshan quickly thanked: "Thank you, thank you very much! Hurry up tomorrow, when we are all settled down, I will invite the village chief to eat dumplings at home!"

Leng Dong laughed loudly: "Okay, then I'll be thick-skinned and go eat dumplings! Let's go, I'll take you there. Your house is the first one in the east of the village. Well, there are three entrances in total, is it enough to live in?" ah?"

He glanced at the people behind him, and couldn't help being a little annoyed: so many people, a three-entry house is obviously not enough to live in!
Mai Xiang said: "Enough, we have three families in total, and one family lives in the courtyard, that's enough! As for Manager Liang, there are fifty nursing homes, and they will rest here for one night. I will go to Hongye City to find shops and houses, and settle down in Hongye City!"

Leng Dong couldn't help laughing: "Oh, it's just one night. It's still early autumn, so it's easy to handle. I'll borrow some more straw, quilts and straw mats from everyone. In the evening, the boys will make the floor in this hall, and make do with it." night!"

Shopkeeper Liang nodded: "Well, laying thick straw on the ground can insulate the cold air. It's a good idea for just one night, thank you to the village chief! This time, we brought a lot of things Come, when the village chief goes to borrow bedding, I will send a few people to follow and give some gifts to those people!"

Leng Dong waved his hand: "No, if you want to give a gift, you can wait until the bedding is returned. In this way, it can be seen that those people are warm-hearted people."

Shopkeeper Liang followed the good advice: "I will return it, just listen to the village chief. The village chief's proposal is very good and considerate!" If you give the gift first, and then borrow the bedding, even such a vicious family will probably borrow it.However, if this is the case, it will be difficult to see people's hearts in the future. If one does not do well, he will provoke those greedy people.

While talking, everyone arrived at the east end of the village.

The house assigned to Mai Xiang's family is located in the first house at the east end of the village, with a total of three entrances.The house is not very big, but both the front yard and the back yard are big. The front yard is about one mu, and the back yard is about three mu.

Fu Ling couldn't help sighing: "What a big yard!"

Leng Dong smiled and explained: "The most important thing here is land. If the yard is bigger, you can also plant fruit trees, vegetables and fruits, and it can also be used as a drying ground."

Liang Gaoshan nodded: "This is very good, very good! I like the big yard, where I can grow vegetables, melons and fruits, and raise chickens. The big yard is great, thank you, village chief!"

Leng Dong liked his simple and honest appearance very much, so he smiled and said: "Brother Liang, I should be a few years older than you, why don't you just call me Brother Leng! The name of the village chief seems to be common. Outside!"

Liang Gaoshan said with a simple and honest smile: "Okay, Brother Leng! We are new here, and we will definitely trouble you in many places in the future. I hope you don't think we are very annoying!"

Leng Dong said with a hearty smile: "No, how could it be? Although we met for the first time, when I saw your family, I felt that I hit it off!"

Mai Xiang also smiled and said: "Well, I also think that Uncle Leng hits it off very well!"

Liang Gaoshan said: "Uncle Leng, he is older than Dad."

Mai Xiang said obediently: "Okay, Uncle Leng! This house is very nice, thank you, Uncle Leng, for letting Uncle Leng worry about it!"

Leng Dong smiled and said: "This house is for your family, and the other two families have to build their own house. However, when the time comes, everyone will help together!"

After speaking, he said to Tian Sheng and Mao Lin: "I'm sorry, there is no ready-made house in the village. You two have to build the house yourself! After two days, when you have rested, you can start building the house! I look at the house There is also a large piece of wasteland nearby, why don't you start next to Mai Xiang's house?"

Tian Sheng smiled quickly and said, "Okay, I also think it's good. When we were in our hometown, we were neighbors with Mai Xiang's family. I'm very happy to be neighbors here!"

Mao Lin also said: "Well, I also think it's good, just listen to the village chief! When the time comes, I will trouble the village chief to help us find some people who can build houses. We don't pay for the wages here. If you know, please ask the village chief to help us set a price!"

Leng Dong enthusiastically said: "Okay, I will take care of hiring people! Thirty Wen a day, including a lunch, that's all!"

"It's only thirty yuan?" Tian Sheng couldn't help being surprised. You know, it costs sixty yuan to build a house in Liangjia'ao and provide two meals a day!
Leng Dong: "Every mistake, the wages are really not high, but everyone will be in the same village in the future, so we should take a little wages for fun. Don't be embarrassed, people in the village build houses like this. And, now There are a total of fifty families in the village, with about two hundred people.

The heads of each household are all veterans and former comrades-in-arms of mine.General Fang specifically told me to take care of Mai Xiang's house. You are brother Liang's friends, so I naturally want to take care of them too!Don't worry, my comrades-in-arms are all good and helpful!Not to mention paying wages, even if they don't pay wages, they will come to help! "

Oh, it turned out that General Fang ordered him to take care of him. No wonder Mai Xiang's family has a ready-made house to live in.

Both Tian Sheng and Mao Lin couldn't help but suddenly realized.

Leng Dong seemed to see through their thoughts, and explained with a smile: "Originally, Mai Xiang's family did not have a house to live in, but just two days ago, a family caused a catastrophe and caused public anger. The people in the house were all driven away, and this house was left behind. I quickly brought people to clean it up, and it happened to be for Mai Xiang's family to live in!"

That is to say, he didn't deliberately refuse to prepare a house for Tian Sheng and Mao Lin's family.In fact, he didn't know at first that there would be three families, and he thought it was only Mai Xiang's family.

That night, the village head's family sent a lot of rice noodles and vegetables.

Liang Gaoshan accepted it with a smile: "Thank you Brother Leng, thank you very much!"

Although, they also brought a lot of rice and noodles, but this is their wish, they can't let them move back home, right?That's not pretty either.

As a gift in return, Mai Xiang gave Leng Dong ten catties of dried fruit, five apples, one medium cotton cloth, and one medium coarse cloth.

The apple tree in the space is very miraculous, as long as one is picked off, the place will bloom immediately, it will bear fruit in one day, and the apples will ripen in two days.

Therefore, Mai Xiang picked ten apples in one breath and gave five to Village Chief Leng.In this barren land, it is estimated that the people here have not eaten fruit for a long time, right?Whether there are wild fruits is unknown.

Sure enough, seeing the red and big apple, Leng Dong couldn't help grinning: "Okay, my bamboo will be very happy to see such a big and red apple!"

Bamboo, Leng Zhu, is Leng Dong's youngest daughter, who is ten years old this year.

Mai Xiang laughed: "Just like it! Such a good apple is not easy to come by. Everyone in Uncle Leng's family will eat one. Don't give it away casually, so as not to cause trouble!"

Leng Dong was taken aback for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, I got it!"

Indeed, he had never seen such a good apple before.If others found out, they would all come to ask Mai Xiang, where did Mai Xiang find so many apples?Give it, but you can't take it out; don't give it, you will offend others.

However, after he got home and took a bite of the apple, he fully understood why Mai Xiang specifically told him.As soon as I ate this apple, I immediately felt a heat flow through my heart, which made me feel very comfortable.Moreover, the taste of this apple is very good.He can be sure that he has never eaten such a delicious thing in his life!

At this moment, he suddenly realized that there might be some mystery in this apple.Otherwise, why would Mai Xiang specifically tell him that?However, he hid this in his heart, not even his wife said it.

He couldn't let down Mai Xiang's good intentions. If he said it casually and caused her trouble, wouldn't it be his fault?To be a human being, you must have at least a moral conscience, and you can't be too arbitrary.When it's time to shut up, keep your mouth shut tightly.

Misfortune comes from the mouth, this truth, even a five-year-old child understands.

Mai Xiang's family lived in Luhuawan.

Shopkeeper Liang took thirty nursing homes to Hongye City, looking for a store to open to welcome customers to the Northwest Headquarters.Leave [-] nursing homes to help Mai Xiang's family reclaim the fields.

Mai Xiang's family was allocated a total of [-] mu of land, originally only [-] mu, but the village head said that Ban Xia was a scholar, so they could share more, so they allocated a total of [-] mu to Mai Xiang's family.

As mentioned earlier, people from Qinghe County who migrated to the northwest can get [-] mu of land each.However, the village chief said that there are not many fields left in Luhuawan.Moreover, there is a small river that flows all year round in Luhuawan. It is not a problem to irrigate the crops, the water shortage is not serious, and the land is much more fertile than other places.

Therefore, people in the Luhuawan area can only get ten acres of land per person.

The two hundred or so acres were left by the family that was driven away.That family has a large population, with three generations of grandparents and grandchildren. There are more than 20 people in total, and they have left more than 200 mu of land.

The [-] mu of fields are all connected together, and they are the most western fields in Luhuawan.On one side, next to the river; on the other side, next to the mountains.

Mai Xiang has been wandering around the field for several days.Sometimes, she couldn't help shaking her head.On the way home, I often frown.

Leng Dong noticed it, and went to find Mai Xiang: "Mai Xiang, you went to the field these few days to see, do you have any ideas?"

Mai Xiang: "Uncle Leng, just having a small river is not enough! We have to build irrigation canals, reservoirs and water cellars. This place is so dry, if there is a drought, it will be even more serious!"

"Water cellar? What is this?" Reservoirs and canals are easy to understand, but what exactly is a water cellar?Leng Dong expressed doubts.

Mai Xiang: "The water cellar is a water conservancy facility buried underground to store rainwater and snow water. At the place where the water flow gathers beside the Tianbian road, a bottle-shaped earthen cellar is dug, and the inner wall and the bottom are protected. Infiltration facilities, in addition to drinking for humans and animals, can also irrigate farmland, and also play a role in water storage and soil conservation. It is also called dry well.”

(End of this chapter)