Chapter 701: Breaking Up Again?
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"If it's really difficult, if you want us to help, that's nothing. But we can't raise lazy people, that's harming him. Lian Shouxin was a little angry, calmed down a little, and then said, "Don't talk about others, just talk about step-ancestors, why is he so floating." It's not that I haven't endured hardships, and I don't know if it's not easy to come by? ”
"We have to let them experience it themselves, and know the hard work of the croppers, so that they can live a down-to-earth life in the future and be diligent and thrifty. I said yes at the beginning, and the old man also meant it. It's not that I haven't farmed the land, just those few acres of land, and they don't need the old man to do it at all. If you don't want to endure hardship, you want to make it ready-made, so you can't become a second-rate person in the village? At this time, let's help, it's not to help them, it's to hurt them. ”
"The old man is also a little confused now, and when he thinks about it, he will understand." Finally, even keep the word.
Lian Shouxin washed up, changed into a cloth shirt, and took Xiao Qi to the front yard to eat with the long-term workers. Zhang, Lian Zhi'er and Lian Man'er ate in the backyard.
At the dinner table, the mothers and sons had to talk about it again.
"The old man feels sorry for those on the one hand, on the other hand, I feel that the old man is not as good as before when he speaks. …… He couldn't move the people in the old mansion a little. Lian Man'er expressed her opinion to Zhang and Lian Zhi'er. She didn't say these words in front of Lian Shouxin just now.
As for why even the old man doesn't have the prestige of the past, in the final analysis, he can't blame others. This situation occurred after Lian Shouxin lost his temper in the old mansion last time.
"I don't understand, those old people, just a few acres of land, can do this. If the work of the big boss is not good, then how can the two of them be a laborer. The two heads of the family love to be a little lazy, but they really see the work in the field, and they are both okay. Shiro has been old for the past two years, and he can also be a laborer. Rokuro is smaller, but I heard that he is very powerful, and he works hard. Even if the step-grandfather and daughter-in-law can't work on the ground because of their small feet, these few people can do the work in the field. Zhang counted the heads of the old mansion and said.
Compared with the previous time when there was no separation, there is less labor in the old house, but there is also less land, and the ratio of labor to land now should be about the same as when there was no separation. But the current situation has appeared, and Zhang is very puzzled.
"Mother, you can't look at it like that." Lian Man'er thought about it, and said to the Zhang family with a smile, "Think about it, the big boss in the past was the big guy who tacitly agreed that he didn't need to go to the ground." Those who work in the fields are just a few of us. Needless to say, even my third uncle and their work is real. At that time, even if the two heads of the family were a little lazy, compared to us, and the old man was watching them by the side, it was not much worse. ”
"Now, on the side of the old mansion, there are only two groups of people, and the big boss has to go to the ground now, but they are on the ground, and the two of them may not be able to top the last one. With them next to them, can the people in charge of the second family be willing to work hard? ”
"That's right, the two heads of the family are capable of work, but they love to compare. In the past, they took advantage of us. Now compared with the big bosses, they are at a loss. Surely neither of them was happy. And Shiro, who is also a cheater. When Zhang heard this, he nodded.
"It's still their old house to compare with each other." Lian Man'er said, "I guess they are still competing with us in their hearts." Our family is willing to do it ourselves, otherwise we will hand it over to the long-term workers, then there is no problem. Besides, it's mules and horses, and they must think we're more effortless than before. ”
"What is the effort, there were only a few acres of land before, and now it is how much. Besides, I still have to take care of the old people, tired. Zhang said.
"That's the case, I'm afraid they won't think so." Lian Man'er said, "In addition, they are afraid that they will compare with my third uncle." My third uncle's family has no land, so I don't have to work in the field at all. They're definitely angry! The day before yesterday, Ye'er came to tell me, saying that the second master had listened to the third uncle, and wanted the third uncle to come over to help. ”
"He's embarrassed, too." Zhang snorted, "It's not that they calculate their own brothers, Ye'er and her father can almost die." Although they have no land now, they also have work in their hands. Besides, they are either really short of manpower or lazy. ”
"No, Ye'er is angry enough for this." Lian Man'er said.
"It's infuriating." Zhang nodded.
"But, then again, you can't be angry with that kind of person." Lian Man'er said again, "Whatever he said, it was the most worry-free that he didn't hear it." ”
"Yes." Zhang and Lian Zhi'er both nodded.
This is very reasonable, and it is easy to say, but it is not easy to really do it in the trivial things of daily life.
This autumn rain has added some hardships to the villagers. Fortunately, the weather was fine all the way after that, and the ground quickly dried up. In the mud ground that has been crushed by ruts, the dried mud has a fish-scale pattern, and some of them are thin sheets, which crumble when pinched. After two days of hard work, fortunately, the impact on the harvest was not great, and the farmers soon forgot the hardships of the past and fell into the joy of the harvest again.
Even Shouxin didn't lend the old house a car or a long-term worker in the end, and even the old man didn't go to the ground again, but just urged Lian Shouren and Lian Shouyi every day when the time came. These people finally harvested all the acres of land.
When the old man felt better, he went down to the ground to look at it again, but he almost had another stroke in anger.
Lian Shouren and Lian Shouyi harvested all the crops of the geography, but the work was too sloppy. Sorghum, millet and corn stubble were left more than a foot high. Sorghum ears are also clearly scattered in the ditches. Even the old man, as an old crop, naturally can't look down on it. Not only did I not like it, but I also felt quite embarrassed.
Even when the old man lost his temper in the field and returned home, he lay down on the kang and couldn't eat. This sulking lasted for several days before it slowly eased up, but his spirit decreased a little.
Gorou lived in Zhuangzi in Luojia Village for a few days, and when he came back, he heard about these things, but he just shook his head and sighed, but didn't say anything. Almost all of their crops were packed up and dried on the threshing floor. Lian Shouxin and Gorou took people to the vineyard again and began to pick grapes to make this year's wine.
When the wine was almost finished, Lian Shouxin began to lead people to prepare the land, send manure into the field, and prepare to plant winter wheat.
During this period, after the August Festival, this season's river fresh was sold at a good price.
The family was so busy that they barely touched the ground, and it wasn't until September and the winter wheat had been planted that they had time to catch their breath. After a busy month, not only did the family not complain, but they were all more energetic. Especially after dinner, when listening to Lian Man'er and Xiao Qi pulling the abacus beads to settle the accounts, even Shouxin and Zhang's couldn't close their mouths with a smile. Even a few Man'er didn't let it go.
"Another good year." Lian Shouxin leaned back, leaned back in the chair, stretched his limbs comfortably, and sighed.
The family chatted in small fashion.
"Erlang sent food to the old house and came to our house to sit for a while. You weren't there then. Zhang took advantage of the last light of the evening to make needlework, and at the same time kept his word to Lian.
"Did Erlang say anything?" Even Shouxin asked.
"I didn't say anything, I asked him how he was doing in the workshop, and he said it was fine." Zhang said, "Erlang is tired and thin. On this day, he went to work in the workshop every day, and he had to help his family collect the land in the morning and evening, that is, he was strong, and others couldn't stand it anymore. ”
"Erlang, this kid, life is hard." Even Shouxin's face was a little unsightly, and it took a while before he said a word.
"A candle burns at both ends, hey." Zhang didn't look up, so he didn't see Lian Shouxin's face at this time. "I heard that over there, I still look good every day, and I send food here, but I don't get a good face every time."
A candle burns at both ends, which is a common saying, which describes Erlang to work in the workshop while working in the field.
"What's the use of having a good face?" Lian Shouxin said, "He worked so hard for the old Luo family, if he didn't give him a good face, then don't live." ”
Lian Shouxin's tone was a little impulsive, and Zhang finally realized it. She raised her head and glanced at Lian Shouxin, then said nothing.
"Forget it, forget it, what's the use of talking about this." Lian Shouxin relieved himself, but he still asked Zhang, "Today Erlang went to the old mansion, and the two people in charge scolded him again?" ”
"Do you need to ask?" Zhang said, "This Erlang has a salary, and the food is delivered in time, and the two people in charge of the second family asked him for things, but Erlang didn't agree." ”
"No wonder the two of them are getting lazier and lazier." Lian Shouxin said, "With Erlang's ration every month, the two of them don't want to work even more." Give them more, and they'll fly into the sky even more. ”
"The wife of the second boss has started to visit the door again, and I heard that there is always a group of people behind the old man, the old lady and the big boss." Zhang said, "The food given by Erlang will be returned to the public middle school, and they will leave some clothes." I heard that these two families told people that the big boss's family depended on them to support themselves. ”
"They can't be trying to break up, are they?" Lian Man'er washed a few melons and put them in a tray, and when she heard what Zhang said later, she asked.
"No one listened to them." Zhang said.
"Score sooner or later, it's better to score late than early." Lian Man'er said.
"That's up to the old man. said he wanted to open it, but in fact, he still didn't want to open it. Lian Shouxin sighed. Even the old man has been holding on to the good days of happiness without separating the family, but he has to worry about it, and in the end it is not pleased.
"It depends on whether the big boss speaks first, or the second boss speaks first. I see that the opening of the second master is large. Zhang said.
"It's impossible to say it directly." Lian Man'er thought about it and said, "There must be trouble." ”
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