The story of the struggle of the poor girl who crossed

Chapter 90 Meeting 1
The three of Chen Dong took the old patriarch away, and soon came to Luhua Bay, and successfully found Liang Gaoshan's home.

Liang Gaoshan had just finished eating and was taking a walk in the backyard when Huang Lian suddenly came to report: "Daddy, the old patriarch grandpa is here!"

"What? Old patriarch, did you admit your mistake?" Liang Gaoshan was surprised and happy when he heard his son's words, and he couldn't believe his ears.

Huang Lian: "Daddy, why am I lying to you? That's really the old patriarch. There are several people here, including the old patriarch's son. I know all those people. They have all been to our house in Liangjiaao. Home!"

"Let's go and have a look!" Liang Gaoshan stubbed out his pipe, striding towards the front yard.

Sure enough, the old patriarch came!
Liang Gaoshan couldn't help tears welling up in his eyes, and asked loudly, "Uncle, when did you come to the Northwest?"

The old patriarch: "I just came here a few days ago. I have been busy building the hut these two days, so I didn't have time to find it. The hut was built yesterday, so I have time to bring someone to find you! Hey, Gaoshan, you Life is good! This place in Luhuawan is great! Your Maixiang family is also very promising, and it is the pride of our old Liang family! This time, if I hadn’t heard about your Maixiang, I would I don't know where to find you!"

Liang Gaoshan said with a smile: "Have you heard what happened to Maixiang?"

The old patriarch: "I heard that your family, Mai Xiang, is a strange woman in Rongguo, the first good girl to join the army in place of her father. Moreover, as soon as your family's Mai Xiang entered the barracks, she became a sixth-rank school lieutenant. She is a heroine! Because of this, I went to the guard, and then Mai Xiang asked her soldiers to send us here!"

Liang Gaoshan: "Hey, why didn't this girl send you here in person? Speaking of which, she hasn't come home for a long time!"

The old patriarch waved his hand: "I don't blame her. The father-in-law in the palace came to read the imperial decree. She is cooking, and she wants to greet that Eunuch Li and General Zhao! By the way, your Mai Xiang is now a general. I listen to her." The soldiers said that she is now a general from the fourth rank! Wow, this child is very up-to-date, she is the pride of my old Liang family!
Gao Shan, you gave birth to a good daughter, and you are amazing!Pinellia is also very promising. Whether our old Liang family can develop and grow in the future depends on Mai Xiang and Pinellia!With the two of them taking the lead, I have confidence, and I no longer feel how miserable it is to come to the Northwest!With the role models of Mai Xiang and Ban Xia, the children of our old Liang family will surely be able to gain a firm foothold in the northwest and lead the people to live a happy life! "

Ban Xia nodded at the side: "Eldest sister is really good, she has become the first female general in this Rong country by virtue of her own ability. Grandpa patriarch, I will also work hard and strive to pass the Juren exam before the age of 15." A primary school will be built in Luhuawan soon. Please ask me to be your teacher. If the children in the village want to go to school, they can also come here to study. I will suggest to the village chief to build some dormitories so that children from other villages can Stay!"

The old patriarch was overjoyed: "Really? There are more than a dozen boys under the age of ten in our village who came to the northwest. If these children don't go to school, they will become blind in the future."

It never occurred to me that in this desolate northwest, children can also have the opportunity to study.The distance of three hours, whether it is far or not, is not close.If you can live in the school, it would be great!

After dinner, Liang Gaoshan went to the village chief: "Village chief, the patriarch of my hometown is here, and they settled down in Zaozigou, dozens of miles away. Now, there is an urgent need to build a house, village chief, can you help me?" Find a dozen people who can build houses, and go there to help? The wages will not be small, just fifty copper coins a day, including three meals a day, okay?"

The village chief was a little embarrassed: "The weather is getting colder now, and there is no house to live in at night, which is a bit difficult!" It takes six hours to go back and forth, and it is definitely not possible to come back to stay at night.

Liang Gaoshan said, "Why don't you get seventy copper coins a day?"

Village head: "Okay, then it's settled, I'll help you find a dozen young and strong boys!"

Seventy copper plates, that is very high.In his hometown, it costs only thirty copper coins a day to build houses for others.Moreover, it includes two meals a day, not three meals.

When Liang Gaoshan returned home, he said to the old patriarch: "Uncle, I made an agreement with the village chief. He will help find a dozen people who have built houses. Seventy copper coins a day, including three meals a day, you see good?"

The old patriarch sighed: "Okay, I agree! Seventy copper coins are not expensive for people to sleep in the open at night in this kind of weather."

What I'm looking for is someone who can build houses, so that the speed of building houses can be accelerated and the quality can be guaranteed, which is better than anything else!Moreover, the villagers did not need to pay for the construction of the house, and it was all paid from the 2000 yuan given by Mai Xiang.No matter how much wages are paid, the villagers have nothing to say.The weather is getting colder and colder, the sooner the house is repaired, the sooner everyone can move in.Otherwise, if the weather is cold and it rains again, if you live in a shack, you will suffer.

In the desolate northwest, if you get sick, it's no joke.Here, there is not even a doctor.Being sick is almost like waiting to die.

After discussing it, Liang Gaoshan settled down the old patriarchs, and everyone slept peacefully overnight.

Early the next morning, Liang Gaoshan took a dozen young and middle-aged men, the son of the old patriarch, and several people from the clan to Zaozigou.As for the old patriarch, he was forced to stay by Liang Gaoshan.Now, it is already late autumn, Zaozigou only has shacks, and at the age of seventy, the old patriarch will suffer from frostbite in a few days.

The old patriarch didn't insist too much, and stayed in Luhuawan after listening to Liang Gaoshan's words.

Mai Xiang entrusted the cook in the barracks to help buy a thousand catties of coarse grains, namely cornmeal and sorghum rice.In addition, I also bought three hundred catties of Chinese cabbage.For this reason, five large freight wagons were dispatched from the barracks, and Mai Xiang paid an additional 30 taels of silver for the shipping fee.

After the food was bought, it was placed in the barracks without even unloading the cart.Early the next morning, Mai Xiang took a day off and took three soldiers to personally deliver the food to Zaozigou.

In one day, tens of thousands of earth bricks have been laid in Zaozigou.

When the food came, the villagers finally breathed a sigh of relief.

If the food does not come, everyone will starve.If there is no food, if you can't eat enough, how can you have the energy to build a house?
To build the house, Mai Xiang's suggestion was adopted: earth brick walls, walls made of concrete, about one meter above the ground, and walls built with stones.The houses are all built with adobe bricks, and the roofs are covered with thatch or straw. When there is money in the future, they will be replaced with blue tiles.

Fortunately, there is little rain in the northwest, so there is no need to worry about heavy rain outside and light rain inside.

Mai Xiang stayed in the village for two hours, chatted with the villagers for a while, comforted them, and then left with three soldiers.Before leaving, she left 20 taels of silver for several particularly difficult families.She also left a message that Liang Jiaao's children went to school, and she would subsidize each of them with ten taels of silver every year as the cost of buying pens, ink, paper and inkstones.

The people in the village watched her go far away, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, feeling a lot more at ease.

Today, Mai Xiang is already a general from the fourth rank, and the only female general in Rongguo.From this point of view, even the emperor trusts and values ​​her very much!From this point of view, it is not too difficult for the old Liang family to rise in the northwest.

At the very least, the children will have a school to attend in the future.The tuition fee for one year is only two taels of silver.With the ten taels of silver she gave, it was more than enough for one year's expenses.

With gratitude, excitement, and beautiful longing, the villagers stood in groups at the entrance of the village to see off, until they could no longer see Mai Xiang, they still stood in the distance, watching for a long time.

With the help of the people in Luhuawan, all [-] simple farm yards were built in just one month!At this time, it is already early winter.At this time, all the members of Lao Liang's family lived in the Xingzhaizi.The people in the nearby villages couldn't help being very envious. Everyone immigrated here together, but there are still many people who haven't started building houses yet!

In other villages, there is a queue to build a house.

The people who were in the back of the lottery didn't have the shadow of the house.

People in Zaozigou have houses to live in because they have enough food and professional help.Therefore, the house was built quickly.People in other villages, because of lack of money, lack of food, and no helpers, naturally progressed slowly.

After learning about this situation, Mai Xiang suggested to Zhao Yan: "General, there are still many immigrants in the Lushan area who don't have houses to live in. How about sending some soldiers to help build houses?"

After hearing this, Zhao Yan agreed without thinking too much: "Well, what you said is right. As the supreme commander of the Lushan area, the common people have no houses to live in, so I have a duty-bound responsibility and obligation. In two days, go to The soldiers who built the reservoir are coming back! That’s it, let’s recruit 100 people to help the common people build houses! After the people who built the reservoir have rested for two days, send them out to help build houses!”

The people sent to build the reservoir were basically from farmers, and many of them had experience in building houses.Therefore, they were sent there to ensure the quality of the reservoir.

Mai Xiang nodded: "The general thinks very well, so let's do it this way! I will also go to Luhuawan and Zaozigou to mobilize, so that the dozen or so folks in Luhuawan and Zaozigou who can build houses will also go Help other villages build houses."

Zhao Yan disagreed a bit: "General Liang, the weather is so cold now, and people might not buy the free labor!"

Mai Xiang: "That's good. I will lend a sum of money to those villages in need and let them pay it back within three years. How about this?"

"General Liang, you are such a kind person! So, very good, I thank you on behalf of those common people!" Zhao Yan was very moved.

This fourteen-year-old girl is so kind and simple, so he has no way not to like her and admire her.It is his great honor that such a good female general is actually his subordinate!

Zhao Yan waved his hand vigorously: "Nowadays, there is no such annoying fan, now you and I have the final say. That's it, we send soldiers to participate in voluntary labor, eat their own, and bring their own tools. No wages either!"

Mai Xiang: "How about this, I will donate 200 taels, and we will dispatch [-] soldiers to build houses for the people. No matter how long it takes, each person will subsidize one tael of silver, which can increase everyone's enthusiasm! General, do you think this is good? "

Zhao Yan couldn't help but sighed: "It's good, but it's just going to cost you again! I said, this is the last time, you can't always be so generous. Your money didn't come from the wind, This day is long for you, and your money should also be kept for emergencies!"

(End of this chapter)