Old Man Gui snorted heavily and said, "Which woman doesn't care about her mother's family? She can't be blamed entirely for this, your eldest sister doesn't care about us? But why don't you want to think about it when your brain grows on your head? At the beginning, when your daughter-in-law asked you to help your in-laws, why didn't you use other methods? Can you ask your eldest sister to take out a loan to your in-laws and let your in-laws buy Japanese slaves? But how do you do it? Now that I see that other people's lives are good, I complain, why don't you take a look, what have you done for more than a year? Gui Er, Da Niu, Luo Hu, and San Fat, are busy with the work in the field every day, and they have to go to night school, so I have learned so many skills, it is me, an old man, so old, don't I also take the time to go to night school to listen to Mr. reason? What about you? Have you been there once? How do you want to live your life in the future? Forget it, you are not such a piece of material, just forget it, you have planted 300 acres of land well, with these lands, the daughter-in-law can still work in the workshop to make money, you are enough, don't quarrel anymore. ”

Mrs. Gui didn't agree with the old man's statement, she still felt sorry for her son, and said, "How can you not be noisy? You see, the children are living well, and they all have thousands of acres of land. There is also business, craftsmanship, and monthly money, but Guida only has these 300 acres of land, and he still has two children to support, and we have an old couple to support, what do you say? ”

Gui Laohan said, "What's wrong with us? Aren't we all already residents? The two of us are residents of Yuxia's application, her family has a lot of land, Gui Da's two sons and two children, 300 acres of land, three residents, in the future, another 100 acres of land can give the little child a resident hukou. The children all went to school, and they didn't need money, and they saved money at home. Our old couple has two taels of silver every month sent by Yuxia. Not enough for us to eat? It's enough to eat for a year. If you are sick, you are not afraid, they are all free to see from the hospital. What else are they afraid of? ”

Mrs. Gui said: "You also said, there is a child who has not been registered as a resident, and it looks like another one is going to be added, although this one is added, and the city lord's mansion gives a subsidy of silver, but doesn't this child also have a field?" That's about 200 acres of land. Seeing that the fields on the edge of the city are so expensive. Can we afford it? I can only go to open up the wasteland, and now I am clearing the wasteland, but the place is getting farther and farther away. Gui Da is he still going to buy a carriage? It's all money. How can you not worry? ”

Gui Laohan didn't say anything.

Mrs. Gui said: "I think, it's not too late, Gui Da will take out a loan now, plus the family's money will be gathered." Go a little farther away and open up the wasteland. Isn't Gui Er opening up wasteland? Why don't the two brothers go to one place to open up the wasteland, so that they can still have a care, what do you think? ”

Gui Laohan thought about it and said, "I heard a story from my husband in the night school. It's not too late to say it's a remedy. ”

After that, I told the story again.

After Gui Laohan finished speaking, he said: "I think it's not too late to make up for this matter in our family, Gui Da, if you are greedy." You will also go to reclaim the wasteland, and go with Gui Er. Preferably, buy a few more Japanese slaves. Also, it's better to have nothing to do at night. I went to night school more and played less. ”

Gui Da lowered his head and was embarrassed, and said, "What Dad said is that I will go to Gui Er tomorrow to talk about it." ”

Old man Gui snorted.

Mrs. Gui said, "You go and talk to Gui Er." Gui Er's wife is not like your wife, and people are still encouraging Gui Erduo to open up the wasteland. ”

Gui's daughter-in-law couldn't sit still, so she hurriedly found an excuse to go back to her room.

In the evening, Gui Laohan happened to rest, and the old woman Gui said: "Gui Da is not here, I will talk to you about Gui Er." ”

Old man Gui asked strangely, "What's the matter with Gui Er?" ”

Mrs. Gui said: "Look, my aunts know how to make a craft and do a business after selling the land, but what about Gui Er? I have also invested in the master to learn the craft, after coming to Qingchun City, I was busy clearing the wasteland, and I didn't take care of it, but now there is a big manor outside the city, and the land on the edge of the city does not need to be planted, and it is sold, and there are Japanese slaves at home to do work, and he doesn't want to learn a job, or do a business, and accompany his pregnant wife at home, what do you say about this? Look at his wife, they are all the same as embroiderers in the workshop. Needless to say, our Yuxia is already an official, and her monthly income is very high. Even Jin Xia and Yin Xia are also big stewards, with ten taels of money per month, and the other is a small steward, with five taels of money per month. However, look at the eldest daughter-in-law, until now, she is still a second-class embroidery girl, living for 800 yuan a month. Not to mention this, at least she is pregnant, isn't she still working in the workshop? However, Gui's second wife is good, and now she is still a third-class embroiderer, with 500 yuan a month. Not to mention, once you are pregnant, it is like getting an official, you are delicate, and you don't go to work in the workshop, and you also hire a mother-in-law at home to do housework, so you can be a young grandmother? It's all the same from a Zhuang family, why are they squeamish? Forget it, he actually let Gui Er serve him, and went to live outside the city to become the owner of the manor? ”

Old man Gui snorted and said, "Do you think I won't be angry when I hear it?" My aunts all know how to be motivated, but our two sons don't know how to be motivated, so what can we do? Of the two people, none of them liked to go to night school. How can you understand the truth without reading? Forget it, I don't count on them anymore, I just hope that my grandchildren will study hard and have a good future in the future. ”

Mrs. Gui said: "The son I gave birth to is not bad, Gui Da and Gui Er are both honest and responsible, both are hardworking and capable, but the daughter-in-law I married is not good, which is like this." No, I have to take care of everything, no matter what, this family will be ruined by the two daughters-in-law. ”

Gui Laohan shook his head and said, "The housekeeper's daughter-in-law is your mother-in-law's business, and I don't care." I think, now, the two brothers can open up the wasteland and farm, and it will be okay to have a big manor in the future, if you can discipline the daughters-in-law well, that is the best, if the discipline is not good, each son can have a big manor, and our days in this life are enough to live, compared to where is it in Da Chu. ”

Mrs. Gui said: "You say the same, our life is much better than in Dachu, I see, the village chief's family in the village is not as good as our current life." We now have rice and steamed buns every meal, and every other time it's meat, fish, can there be such a day in the village? We still have so much land, even the rich man's family in the village does not have as much land as ours. ”

Old man Gui smiled.

The next day, Gui Da went to Gui Er, and the two brothers summed it up, Gui Er also went to buy some wasteland, Gui Da went to take out another loan, bought a Japanese slave, bought a carriage, and also bought a thousand acres of wasteland on the edge of Gui Er's land, so he took people to open up the wasteland.

Da Niu was busy buying shops and doing business, and Luo Hu was busy opening a sugar workshop. The family is busy.

Seeing that the New Year is coming, there is still a family in the city, and it is too busy.

That was the family of the prisoners of war. Now Kumar's family has lived in a temporary house for freemen. When they applied, it happened that the family of freedmen had cultivated the wasteland better, sold some of the land on the edge of the city, opened up hundreds of acres of wasteland in the suburbs, and bought a small house in the city with the remaining silver. I became a resident, but now I have moved away and live in my own small house. The three-room room was empty. It happened to be for Kumar's two to live in.

Kumar was the first freedman. After regaining his freedom, Kumar ignored the excitement and continued to work in the quarry, and worked harder. The rule of the quarry was that the slaves worked for 500 dollars a month, and if they exceeded the workload, they could be paid more. If the freedmen worked, it would be six hundred dollars a month, and the wages for the excess work were more than for the slaves.

With a high salary, Kumar is full of energy and works harder. In the morning, just after dawn, he had already arrived at the construction site. In the past, it was the overseers who led the slaves to work, but now, Kumar has become a free man, so naturally he can not live in a tent, and he can apply for temporary housing. However, Kumar did not apply, and he could not rest assured that his wife and children would still be living in a tent. However, there is no need to act in unison, in order to make more money, he can redeem his wife and children one day earlier, and he simply lives in the quarry. Thus saving time back and forth, he was the first to pick up the hammer every day, to start quarrying, and the last to finish his work, if it were not for the fact that there was no light in the quarry, he could not work at night, he would have been working day and night.

Because he worked hard and was a good person, many prisoners of war were willing to listen to him, and he took many prisoners of war to work, which were all seen by the overseers. They felt that Kumar was already a free man, so they appointed Kumar as the leader of the ten prisoners of war, thus adding another fifty dollars a month to Kuma. In this way, Kumar worked diligently every day, exceeded the workload every day, and was paid more every month.

His wife, Melillon, is also very diligent in working on the construction site. The days passed quickly, and now the New Year was approaching, and both of them had become free people. I applied for a temporary room. I no longer live in tents, and I start living in clean and tidy temporary houses.

Although she lived in the new house, Mellan was not happy because neither of their children could live with them. Both children were slaves, and they had to study in the slave school every day, and every day was a half-day course and a half-day job. Of course, these jobs are not heavy, most of them are things like collecting firewood and weaving. But the pain of not being able to see the child still tormented the couple. (To be continued)