Chapter Seventy-Six: The Situation Is Unclear
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When the time comes, the people who have settled down will gather directly at the yahang in the town and send them directly from the yahang to the boundary where they should be stationed.
On the twenty-third of the year, some villagers who had gone to investigate came back and said that there was something going on in the imperial court, and the matter of conscription was put aside for the time being.
As for how long this matter can be put on hold, the people in the yahang did not give an exact answer.
In the blink of an eye, February has arrived. However, the spring moon, which should have begun to warm up, was stunned and snowed heavily for three days and two nights.
After the snow, instead of rising, the temperature became colder. Especially in the overcast sky, it looks as if another snow is going to fall every moment.
Looking at such a scene, the experienced old man said that this year's spring cold came strangely, and he was afraid that the spring plowing would be delayed.
Just as the old man said, the snow covering the earth did not melt one after another until the beginning of March.
By the time we were able to plow, it was the end of April. Meng Ge's land is all raw land, so they can only change the fertilizer of the law.
When the snow melted, Meng Ge took his two younger brothers to the woods and brought back a lot of rotten leaves and floating soil. Dig a few pits and soak them with the little manure bought from the village.
When it was time to plow, the fertilizer was just enough to be soaked.
Since the people in the village farm, they all use the sowing method. This method of cultivation has long been eliminated in the south.
Meng Ge saw that the weather was already warm and would not freeze to death of the seedlings, so he began to raise seedlings in a corner of the field.
After that, Meng Ge took his two younger brothers and sprinkled wheat seeds and sorghum. It's those beans and beans, they also grow a lot.
Nearly 30 acres of land, except for the seven or eight acres that could not be used to grow grain, and the thirteen acres that were turned into paddy fields, the rest were planted with sorghum and wheat and other things in Mengge.
When Meng Ge and the others were farming, the people in the village were also farming one after another, so they didn't ask anyone to help.
Fortunately, when Meng Ge and Yu Yang were in the south, they had more or less contact with farming. So this kind of land is really nothing to them.
By the time Meng Ge and Yu Yang planted all the dry land, the farming in the village was nearing its end. The main reason is that they use the sowing and planting method in the rice field, which is very time-saving and labor-saving.
As before, all the people from the Wang and Zhu families came up to help Meng Ge plant seedlings.
Looking at Meng Ge's new planting method, the people of the Wang and Zhu families were amazed. Under the hand-in-hand guidance of Meng Ge and Yu Yang, the speed of rice planting in both families was much faster.
However, the people in the village said that Meng Ge was tossing around. The yield of rice grown in that way is definitely low. First of all, they are not dense enough. Secondly, the seedlings were pulled up and planted again, which hurt the roots again.
Fortunately, the Meng Ge sisters and brothers completely ignored the persuasion of others, and used this method to insert all the thirteen acres of land. In the following half a month, many elders in the village paid attention to the growth of Meng Ge's rice.
It wasn't until they saw that the rice of the Meng Ge family had turned green and was growing very well, that the dissatisfaction of the elders subsided.
When the land was planted, Meng Ge set out to build his big house. The bricks and tiles were burned by the craftsmen of the village as early as a few years ago.
As for the timber, someone in the village also helped to find it. This time, I'm afraid it's already dried.
As soon as the news came out that Meng Ge's family was going to build a big house, many people in the village came to the door and asked for help.
Meng Ge was in a hurry to live in a new house, so he didn't pick people carefully. It is only said that you will be paid according to the amount of work done.
When he was out of the year, Meng Ge went into the mountain three more times. Almost every time, I can earn thirty or forty taels of silver.
When the people in the village saw that Meng Ge and the others were very good at hunting, they knew that their family was not short of money. Especially Tang Xiaomei. She looked at the bricks and bricks that had been carried up the mountain, and she was so jealous.
When Meng Ge's family was stepping up the construction of the house, the people from the yamen came again. They said that this time, the imperial court had really been reorganized, and the conscription officially came in August, so that all families could prepare.
At this time, it was only early June, and the big guys had already calmed down a lot. The yamen said similar things no less than five times.
When it was time to build a house, Meng Ge took a good look at the life with an elder in the village, so he hurried into the mountains and brought back two live roe deer and a male stag that had not yet reached adulthood.
As for the wild ducks, they caught no less than thirty.
In addition, Meng Ge also asked the people in the village to put nets in the river, and caught a lot of river fish and raised them in a small mountain pond.
Meat is no longer a problem. After all, Meng Ge also ordered a pig in the village.
Fresh vegetables, Meng Ge's family grows them themselves. Because he expected to build a house, Meng Ge planted more than an acre of vegetables and vegetables.
Little cabbage, spring cabbage or something, I can already eat it. As for those melons and beans, they haven't been put on the shelf yet, and they can't be eaten for the time being.
After solving the problem of meat and vegetables, the only thing to worry about at present is the food problem.
The three of them have good appetites, especially Menggo. So, after the year, I went into the town to buy a lot of grain.
However, there is far from enough food left to supply so many people for a month and a half.
In order to save a lot of trouble, Meng Ge took advantage of the big market in the town to catch a market and bought back more than 2,000 catties of grain.
Among them, there are 500 catties of good rice noodles. 300 catties of white flour and 200 catties of rice. The rest is some coarse grains.
For example, millet, sorghum and thick noodles. Meng Ge also bought dozens of catties of soybeans, planning to send some bean sprouts and grind some tofu to eat.
Seeing that Meng Ge bought so much food from outside the mountain, Tang Xiaomei said that Meng Ge would not live.
"In our village, can't we get those 2,000 catties of grain? If you want me to say, you should tell the people in the village, and if you make do with it, you can make up 5,000 catties of food. In Tang Xiaomei's words, there is a lot of resentment.
Meng Ge laughed stupidly and didn't squeak, seeing that Tang Xiaomei was so angry that she wanted to scold.
Finally, the better days have arrived. An elder in the village opened the dish with rooster blood at an auspicious time, and the young and middle-aged people in the village waved the guy in their hands and started working in full swing.
The women of the Wang and Zhu families who cooked at Meng Ge's house were the women of the Wang and Zhu families, as well as Tang Xiaomei and Tang Simei.
It is said that Meng Ge didn't plan to invite Tang Xiaomei, but she came up cheekily and said that she was here to help.
Fourth Sister Tang really wants to help. After all, the alienation of the Meng Ge sisters and brothers from their family had already made the sophisticated Tang Lizheng and Liang Qinglong aware of it.
Since Meng Ge didn't shout out about the matter, it is enough to prove that Meng Ge still saves face for them and doesn't plan to make a fight.
For this reason, Li Zheng, the old slippery head, planned to have a good relationship with the Meng family through Tang Simei.
The construction of the Menggo family's house has begun, and the crops planted in the field should be covered with grass.
Every day, Yu Yang took Meng Mao and a few children from lonely families in the village to weed in the field.
This saved Meng Ge a lot of things. Meng Ge only needs to plan at home every day and becomes a supervisor.