The shape of your camphor tree in front of He Baozheng's house is as beautiful as its name, with a wide canopy, dense branches and leaves, and a majestic momentum. When the seasons change, it is like an old man who guards the gates of the years, standing quietly in his hometown. Its foliage is always green, and when you get old, the traces of time suddenly remind you that it is getting younger and younger.

Liang Chuan has sighed to He Baozheng more than once about the beauty of this camphor tree, and after three rounds of wine, He Baozheng will always tell the anecdotes of their ancestors in high spirits.

He said that when this ancestral hall chose to be prosperous, the ancestors invited the master to see the direction, or because of this tall camphor tree. The master said that the ancestral hall was built here, and the life of the descendants will be better and better after a hundred years, and there will be many nobles.

But a hundred years have passed, and the camphor tree is still there, and the bucket is as big as a canopy. The ancestral hall is full of dust, and the situation of the people in the village is not only not getting better, but it is not as good as it is year by year, and there are no nobles. When he talked about this, he didn't forget to scold the charlatan, the ancestors were deceived so badly. If I had chosen another direction, it is estimated that it would have been possible to bless my descendants for a hundred years.

There is no room for so many people in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, and Yi Niang asked everyone to come to this lush camphor tree to learn to make bamboo weaving together. Everyone surrounded Li Erhua, but because of Yi Niang, they could already be regarded as second-generation disciples, and a few people took a few village women to teach them one by one, starting from breaking bamboo and splitting the slivers.

Where there are women, there are rivers and lakes, and there are many rivers and lakes. He Baozheng made a rule, under this tree, you can't gossip about other people's houses, if you want to talk about it, go back to your own stove to talk. If there is too much gossip, right and wrong will come, and sooner or later this place will turn sour and become a concentration camp of gossip. If anyone breaks the rules, then ask him to leave, and leave the craft after leaving, that is, cut off his thumb.

He Baozheng used the family law of the clan ancestors and the rules set by you, this kind of agreement is quite binding in this kind of human society, otherwise there would be no matter in ancient times when the patriarch led the clan to dip people in the pig cage casually. broke everyone's rules and broke a finger without dipping her in the pig cage, which is cheap.

You can't do anything without rules.

As for the salary, it is paid at the end of each month, and everyone is piece-rated. In addition to Liang Chuan's own descendants. He Baozheng is responsible for arranging who goes to the mountain to cut bamboo and carries it down, and everyone will have their turn. As for the finished bamboo weaving, he drove the ox cart to the shop in Fengshan.

Now half of He Lu's people are working under Liang Chuan, how to say it, although Liang Chuan is afraid of these old ladies, he does not deal with them directly. But these village women are all very polite, and when they see Liang Chuan, they all say hello with a good person, and some of them don't chat with Liang Chuan, and their faces will feel very bright.

Liang Chuan and Yi Niang's days in He Lu are not short, but this change is too obvious, even at the end of last year, almost all the villagers will still pretend not to see them when they see them, for fear of being entangled. Now the feng shui is turning, and one by one they can't wait to pester the Liang Chuan family.

Liang Chuan doesn't want to deal with these villagers, let alone the fault of these villagers, if the indifference of the society is concerned, it can only be regarded as the tragedy of the times or the social system, human nature is evil but everyone is born good.

The men in the village didn't have much of a problem with their own women making this bamboo weaving. What can they say, Liang Chuan is now a capable person in the village, and his wife Yiniang also follows the big guy to make bamboo weaving every day, and she has to take care of all kinds of housework at home when she has time. He Baozheng, the head of the village, his wife and daughter are not the same as learning bamboo weaving. Everyone else is better than their own life, and they are still doing this kind of handicraft, so what reason do they have to look down on this craft.

So the current situation is that the men are doing farm work in the village, and the women are doing bamboo weaving under the camphor trees in the village, and everyone has something to do. Liang Chuan led the group of women up the mountain early every morning to cut bamboo and come back. There are still many people in the village who are worried because of the infestation of large insects in the bamboo forest, which killed many people last year.

Liang Chuan is now going up the mountain not only with his own firewood knife, but in order to prevent even his own big killing weapon, the two big board masters will be with him at any time. The momentum of the two big axes is really not false, every time Liang Chuan shows it out, holding it in his hand, everyone will gasp, this San Lang is really not a mortal, such a big axe, play so well.

There is a consensus that women in rural areas rarely look at men and look at their appearance, and they are so good-looking that they cannot be eaten as food. Only those with strong limbs and strong bodies are the most attractive. Such a man can not only work in the field and do a lot of work, but also turn over the clouds and rain in bed and cultivate the family's own land. So every time I see Liang Chuan's mighty posture, many village girls will always cast an inexplicable warm look, just like the unique movement of animals in spring, Liang Chuan has goosebumps, and his eyes dare not glance at these women.

When these people went up the mountain with Liang Chuan for the first time, it was much worse than recruiting younger brothers, a group of people were hiding behind Liang Chuan, and Liang Chuan opened the way in front of everything first, and they dared to follow behind and learn to do it.

The threat of the big insects to them is deep in the bones, and only one wind and grass in the bamboo forest can scare these women half to death, leaving everything behind and running out in a panic. The more this is the case, the more worried He Baozheng is, because in the territory of this big insect, the smaller the movement, the higher the safety. For these suspicious village women, He Baozheng repeatedly educated them several times, and everyone was able to overcome this kind of behavior that was very volatile.

A sentence directly poked into everyone's hearts, if you are afraid, don't go into the mountains, and it is safest to go home and stay. When I go back, I still live a poor life without enough food and clothing, what kind of work in the world is not a life-earning thing? Is the big bug terrible or the poor day terrible? There's no need to think about it!

Liang Chuan wants to teach them how to choose the right bamboo to do bamboo weaving, not too old and not too tender, this is the first step to do bamboo weaving, bamboo is not selected well, bamboo weaving is not good, the quality of bamboo weaving is not good. Li Erhua, the master, naturally does not have to go into the mountains to cut down the bamboo, but it is also the key to choose the best bamboo suitable for bamboo weaving, and Liang Chuan can only do it for him.

A few days ago, Liang Chuan took them to do things, Liang Chuan carefully explained which bamboos were good, and then put them down, and then let these people carry them home. They didn't dare to stay in the bamboo for a long time, and when they saw Liang Chuan cut down the bamboo first, the two women rushed up and carried the bamboo down the mountain first. The rest of the people could only wait for Liang Chuan to pick up the bamboo, as if it would be dangerous for their lives to stay in this bamboo forest for a while, He Baozheng was angry with their uncompetitive appearance, but what could he do, he didn't want to stay here for a long time to be honest.

Later, when there was more time to go up the mountain, everyone was not so nervous, man was a strange animal, and the spirit would not remain tense forever, and after becoming more and more accustomed to the environment of the bamboo forest, they began to get up at will. Everyone gradually forgot about the fear of this potentially dangerous area a few days ago, and even began to laugh at everyone's embarrassment in the previous days.

Liang Chuan looked at this group of people and was a little helpless, people are really forgetful animals, no bloody lesson happened in front of him, no one would pay attention to it. But he still kept reminding everyone that just cut the bamboo on the periphery, and don't go deep into the bamboo forest to avoid unnecessary dangers.

The more people came to the mountain, and gradually everyone found that this mountain is a big treasure trove. The most direct is the bamboo shoots everywhere! Although these spring shoots are getting a little old at first, they are still very good ingredients. After everyone went up the mountain, they were not busy picking bamboo, but first swept the ground to see if there were any bamboo shoots, dug a few back, and the day's vegetables could be saved.

He Baozheng is not good at saying anything about this, everyone is for a bite to eat, this bamboo forest is not anyone's house, who digs is not digging, as long as it does not delay everyone to do bamboo weaving, the others will turn a blind eye.

There are many products in the bamboo forest, not only bamboo shoots, but also bamboo rats and pheasants, and occasionally some wild fruits. Bamboo rats and pheasants are the best, get one or two back, the family will have two days of meat out, if there is no pick some wild fruits, go back to the child to eat, the child is also very happy.

The matter of going up the mountain to cut bamboo gradually got on the right track, and Liang Chuan didn't care so much. It's the children of Ma Dan, when Liang Chuan saw them recently, he felt as if they were preoccupied.

Ma Dan told him that his father had been doing more and more farm work recently because of the lack of rain, and that he might not be able to stay by the river all day to help him watch the fish, and that the children were now taking turns to stay by the river and watch the rest of the fields.

Because of the lack of rain for several days, the water level of Nanxi has begun to drop, and the sandy mudflats on both sides of the river are slowly exposed, and the width of the river surface has begun to narrow. At the beginning, Fan Dianyuan and his tenant farmers set up an orange tree by the river to scoop water according to Liang Chuan's suggestion, and it was quite easy to irrigate more than 100 acres of dry land.

But unexpectedly, the water level receded faster than the tide, and yesterday the orange tree, which saw that it could still hit the water, was clubbed on the sandy shore the next day. The orange tree is no longer needed, and you have to go to the river again and again to fetch water. Every day, from the time the sun has not risen to the time when the sun has set, I have been busy all the time, and these places can barely take care of them.

Even if there is an orange tree, this thing has to be waited by at least one person, selling a lot of strength to press the bucket into the river, and at the end of the day, people are so tired that they can put two arms like lead, and they can't slow down for at least three days, but the crops and sugar cane in the field will die without water for a day, let alone three days.

Just like He Baozheng complained to him, the unstable weather was really fatal to the farmers.