There was nothing to say all night, and on the second day, Qiduo's family got up at the beginning of the day.

Tang Hu slept at Tan Debao's place last night and got up early.

Breakfast is fragrant rice, digging lotus root is too hard, don't eat some hard goods, the body can't hold it.

After breakfast, the hour was almost up, and Tan Dejin, Tan Debao, Tang Hu, Qiduo and Liuju took their things and went out.

They went to Patriarch Tan's house first, and yesterday they agreed to gather there.

People rushed over one after another, and everyone greeted each other noisily.

The Tan family also came, but when they saw Tang Hu, they were all very surprised, especially Santao, who shook his body in fright, and threw himself into Yang's arms after screaming.

The villagers looked over to Santao, but they didn't know what was going on.

"You...... Why are you here? Yang's voice trembled and pointed at Tang Hu and asked.

Saburo and the others also recognized Tang Hu.

However, in front of people, they didn't dare to step forward to do anything to Tang Hu, for fear that they would be able to poke out the Lin family. Old Man Tan has confessed, everyone is rotten in their stomachs about that incident, and no one is allowed to say anything.

Tang Hu bowed his head to Yang very calmly, his face was calm, as if he didn't know her, turned around to talk to Tan Debao, and ignored it.

"Erniang, what's wrong? Do you know Uncle Tang? Qiduo hurriedly stepped forward and asked with concern, pretending not to know what happened last time.

"Qiduo, that person was sent by the Lin family last time, and he almost hurt your sister Santao." Yang gritted his teeth and whispered.

Qiduo's eyebrows twisted and said, "No, he is a friend of the fourth uncle before, and people have imagination." You may have misrecognized someone. Besides. The Lin family's incident. Don't shout, or everyone should know. Besides, we have these people here, what are you worried about, Erniang. ”

Yang's lips pursed, and after thinking about it, he thought that Qiduo's words also made sense.

Regardless of whether this person is from the Lin family or not, at the moment, they are all from Tanjiazhuang, and they are afraid that he will be able to make waves alone.

She had to comfort Santao softly. Let Santao not be afraid.

Qiduo looked at the stout and sturdy villagers, and then looked at the delicate three peaches and five apricots, and shook their heads, they didn't know how many lotus roots they could dig out.

After the people were gathered, everyone took their tools, got on a few ox carts, and headed towards Luhua Slope.

Old Man Tan also followed, he wanted to see the lotus root full of ponds with his own eyes, he was ashamed to think about it, and he was ashamed of the ancestral industry left by his ancestors. Fail to take care of them and let them become treasures and become waste.

Arrived at the pond. Qiduo introduced Tang Hu's identity to everyone, and asked everyone to follow him seriously to learn how to dig lotus roots, and strive for everyone to dig up complete lotus roots and make more money.

After the last, Qiduo added another sentence, after all the lotus roots are dug up, see who has good skills in digging lotus roots, and there will be additional rewards at that time.

Everyone laughed and asked what the reward was.

"Of course it's silver, as long as everyone does a good job, we will never lose everyone!" Qiduo said loudly with a smile.

"Good!" When they heard the silver, they shouted loudly.

Tang Hu asked everyone to take off their shoes and socks, roll up their trousers, and put on gloves, and then he began to go down to the pond to demonstrate how to dig lotus roots.

Three peaches, five apricots and four jujubes were twisted and pinched, unwilling to take off their shoes and socks, except for three or five women, these hired workers were all old men, and they were embarrassed to show their snow-white legs.

Qiduo pouted, the Zhao family shouldn't have let you come, but I can understand their thoughts.

Her eyes rolled, and she suddenly thought of the scene of helping to do farm work at home in her previous life, because she was particularly afraid of locusts, when she went to the field to plant seedlings, she was fully armed and tucked her trouser legs into her socks.

Although she was laughed at by the village at the time, she no longer had to worry about being bitten by locusts or scratching her feet with stones or splinters in the mud.

Qiduo approached the three of them and said what they had just thought.

The three peaches all applauded, and immediately took off their shoes, tied their trousers and socks together, and then got up satisfied.

In order to work today, the three of them deliberately found old clothes to wear, otherwise, they would be willing to put their clothes in the mud.

But Qiduo bets that the three peaches will have to lie down tired after a while.

Tang Hu stood in the pond, holding a small shovel in his hand, and explained as he dug it, "...... You see, now you can see that there is a lotus root underneath it, and you should no longer dig it with a shovel, but slowly peel off the hard mud along the lotus root that shows its outline with your hands......

Soon, the closely connected lotus roots were completely pulled out, and he held them with one hand and squeezed out the mud along the lotus roots with the other.

The movements are steady and skillful, and it seems that digging lotus root is a very simple task.

When someone saw it, they said, "Ah, that's easy, let's go down and dig it." ”

Tang Hu could understand their urgency, but he still smiled and waved his hand, and said, "Everyone, don't be bored, I still have a few words to remind you."

When we put our hands in the mud, we first have to touch it slowly, find out how long the whole lotus root is, and how long it is, and distinguish which side is the head and which side is the tail, and then remove the mud from it section by section.

Everyone must remember that it takes a lot of patience to dig the lotus root in order to successfully take out a complete section of the lotus root. If you are in a hurry, this lotus root will be broken, and as soon as the lotus root is broken, these mud will enter the lotus root hole, which is a pity.

Brother Tan's family is really very kind, I think back then, when I dug lotus root for the landlord's family, I only had fifteen literary wages a day, and I also asked to dig at least seventy or eighty catties of lotus root every day, otherwise I didn't get a penny.

Now, if you can dig seventy or eighty lotus roots a day, it will be more than 100 yuan, and I don't know how much more you will earn than we used to. Therefore, I hope that everyone can dig lotus root seriously and patiently, earn more wages for themselves, and at the same time reduce the psychological losses of Brother Tan's family. ”

The three brothers Qiduo and Tan Dejin were very grateful to Tang Hu for his words.

Someone in the crowd nodded, agreeing with what Tang Hu said, the wages given by the Qiduo family were indeed beyond their imagination, otherwise, they would not have been so active in running to work.

After everyone said yes, they went into the water one after another.

It's just that the water in this early spring is still very cold, and as soon as Santao got down, he snorted and immediately ran back to the shore, which immediately attracted everyone's coaxing.

"Three peaches. You delicate. Let's go home and embroider. ”

"Ha Lu Ha. yes, it's not fun in the mud. ”

Santao's pink face suddenly seemed to be ashamed as if he was about to drip blood.

Old Man Tan happened to come over, glared at her, and looked at Yang.

Yang pursed his lips, his heart was ruthless, and he pulled the three peaches and five apricots down the mud pond.

The four jujubes also trembled and went down with the Wu family.

Looking at the messy lotus ponds in front of them, as well as the black mud, Santao and the others really couldn't do it.

Right now. They all hated the Qiduo family a little, thinking that if Qiduo hadn't discovered this lotus pond, they wouldn't have come to do this kind of rough work.

"Don't stand, dig slowly, if you don't do it, your grandmother won't scold you to death when you go home." Yang whispered in his two daughters' ears.

The Yang family knew that the Zhao family gave fifty taels of silver to the Lin family, and the Zhao family counted this account on the three peaches, so the Zhao family's attitude towards the three peaches was very bad.

If it was in the past, the Zhao family would have asked Tan Damei to introduce Tan Guihua to her mother-in-law's family, and she would definitely not let Santao come out to dig lotus roots.

Three peaches and five apricots. I had to bend down and pretend to dig up there.

But even if it's pretending. After bending over for a while, it began to ache.

Everyone began to dig lotus roots, Tang Hu was not idle, he kept walking to everyone to guide in person, and the whole person soon became like a clay figure, and sweat broke out on his head.

The two brothers Tan Dejin also went down to the pond, and Qiduo took six oranges to look around.

Standing on the high hillside, as far as the eye can see, there is a desolation, and the little green is particularly precious.

Qiduo started to think, this should be all barren mountains, it's a pity to waste it like this, if they are planted with trees or something, can't they also increase some income.

No, barren mountains can not only be planted with trees, but also can be used to make some crops.

If this year's lotus root is easy to sell, the pond will definitely continue to grow lotus root, even if you don't plant lotus root, you can also use it to raise fish or something.

In the past, this pond was a piece of mud in everyone's eyes, worthless, but after today, everyone's opinion will change, if you really want to raise lotus root or fish here, you must no longer be stocked like before, you must let people watch, beware of people with bad hearts.

But just looking at these ten acres of ponds is too boring and boring, and it is also a waste of manpower.

If these barren mountains and slopes can be used to turn this place into an oasis, it should be a good plan.

"Duo, what are you thinking, so distracted?" Liuju saw Qiduo looking in one direction in a daze for a long time, and hurriedly pushed her and asked.

"Hehe, second sister, I'm thinking, it would be nice if these barren mountains and barren slopes were our family." Qiduo replied with a smile.

"Duo, what do you want these barren mountains to do?" Liuju asked with a glare.

"Of course it works, I'll tell you......" Qiduo put her arm around Liuju's shoulders and whispered her thoughts.

Liuju couldn't help nodding, secretly ashamed of his simple thoughts before, Duo has so many ideas, how could I not think of it.

Qiduo decided to be together as a family at night to discuss the matter.

After three hours, everyone in the pond was so exhausted that they had no strength to speak.

Qiduo announced that he was going to call it a day, but he couldn't be too tired, otherwise he would have to work tomorrow.

Some people wanted to dig for a while, but they were really tired, so they had to dig themselves into a basket and weigh them.

Because everyone is a novice, nearly 40 people only dug more than 2,000 catties of lotus root in total, but there are nearly 400 catties of residual lotus root, this probability is too high.

But Qiduo didn't say anything, after all, it was the first day, but when she was weighing the accounts, she was particularly concerned to see which people's skills in digging lotus root were better.

After keeping the account, Qiduo asked everyone to wait for her to go to her house to settle the bill, and the salary of the day was settled on the same day, so that everyone was more motivated.

"Everyone is digging lotus root on the first day, and today's residual lotus root will still be counted as two catties and a penny for everyone, but tomorrow I hope you can be patient, minimize the number of residual lotus roots, and understand that it will be done strictly in accordance with what we said yesterday." After weighing, Qiduo announced the decision.

"Seven girls, don't worry, today's hands are very raw, and those that are broken are accidentally broken at the beginning, and they will definitely not be tomorrow." Everyone was very happy with Qiduo's decision and immediately expressed their position.

Qiduo smiled and nodded, saying that everyone had worked hard.

The crowd departed.

"Alas, what can I do with these broken lotus roots?" Tan Dejin looked at several baskets of remnants and was worried.

"Dad, don't worry, I'll find a way not to let them go to waste." Seven flowers comforted.

"Who has dug up the most lotus roots today?" Debao asked.

Qiduo unfolded the account book, and his eyebrows fell down.

The worst performers today turned out to be the group of people from the Tan family, especially the three peaches and them, who were busy for three hours, and they didn't dig out a single lotus. (To be continued......)