Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Food Problem

The words of the farmer were not very smooth, but the patriarchs of the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village heard them clearly.

In the uproar of the weapon fight a few days ago, it was not the green hand shopkeeper that everyone in Yu'er Town thought would win.

On the contrary, it was the chief Wang Liang who everyone was not optimistic about, and this incident really made all the patriarchs of the great ancestral halls feel a sense of evil energy.

But no matter how much I don't believe it, no matter how much I feel that there is an evil energy.

This matter has already been settled, and the blue-handed shopkeeper should also die in the fight.

Since then, there will never be a green hand shopkeeper and his green hands in Yu'er Town.

It can be regarded as a great good deed for the township to remove a scourge.

In the past, in the hearts of the patriarchs of these great ancestral halls, he was just an old man with mud legs.

Immediately it was different, not only his strength was recognized by all the patriarchs of the Great Ancestral Hall.

It was the fact that he had removed a scourge for the township, which made all the patriarchs of the great ancestral halls sincerely grateful to him from the bottom of their hearts.

After all, over the years, these big ancestral halls have not been harmed by the green hands of the shopkeeper.

The patriarch of the Great Ancestral Hall thought of the cotton carriage that went east just now, and the dignified family had gone to give a dry gift, and they were still doing something here in a daze.

Without saying a word, they immediately rushed back to their respective homes as quickly as possible, and hurriedly asked the eldest son to bring a dry gift and send it over in person.

Since the three brothers of the Wang family got married, they have separated from each other.

Old man Wang has always lived with his eldest son, and still lives in that dilapidated earthen house.

Although the family has a lot of money now, he can earn nearly 20,000 taels of silver all year round.

But at Wang Changmu's insistence, no matter how the second king and the third king persuaded him, he refused to build a house with blue bricks and green tiles.

As the saying goes, the first thing you have to do when you return home.

Repair the old house and repair the ancestral grave.

Wang Changmu is not short of money now, but he insists on not doing it for only one reason.

The original intention of his founding of the Mao Society was to bring down the bureaucratic and gentry class who were drunk with people's fat and people's ointment.

is like a copy of "Farewell to Taizu" given to him by his son Wang Youzhen, which wrote too many hard days living in caves.

If he, the leader, did not have the determination to endure hardships with the common people, how could he lead the comrades of the Mao Institute to go on without forgetting their original intentions, and finally overthrow the bureaucratic and gentry class.

We will build a new China that will always put the interests of the people first.

Renovating an old mansion is nothing but a hypocrisy.

With this silver, it is better to use it to buy materials for his son Wang Youzhen for experiments.

When the second and third children saw that the eldest brother Wang Changmu was so resolute, they sighed in their hearts and didn't say anything more.

The stewards who came to give gifts and the eldest sons of the patriarchs of the major ancestral halls saw the dilapidated earthen house of the Wang family, and none of them showed contemptuous expressions.

If this had been put before, before this fight had happened, they wouldn't have bothered to look at it.

Not to mention personally coming to give a gift to Old Man Wang, the other party has such a strong strength, even if he sleeps in a thatched house, he will be respected by them.

There is no corresponding strength, and it is magnificent, but it is just coveted by others.

Old Man Wang already knew in advance that someone was coming to give gifts, and when they came to the entrance of the village, they were all blocked outside the wooden bridge.

Look at a small river outside Yanchi Village, after more than half a year of excavation, it has basically taken shape.

If they wanted to enter Yanchi Village, they had to do so through the drawbridge.

But when he came in, he was stopped by more than a dozen young and strong salters.

The stewards and the eldest sons of the major ancestral halls did not take it seriously, and they have not been stable until now, especially after Sun Baohu, Dung Duan, Caokou and others were robbed by Xiangma and Haikou one after another.

Changyi County also became incomforted, with such a sense of defense, it is no wonder that Old Man Wang was able to win this weapon fight.

Old man Wang got the notice of Qingzhuang Yanding, and immediately returned home with the second Wang Yanren.

At home, he accepted the gift from the Wo family himself, and asked his second son Wang Yanren to record it on mulberry paper.

When there is a red and white wedding in the other party's family in the future, they will return it according to the gift list.

It was three days after sending away these housekeepers and the eldest sons of the major sects, and in the past three days, people have been coming to give gifts one after another, and the silver they gave is still very thick.

The least had a penny, and the most reached five taels of silver.

When all the stewards and the eldest sons of the Great Ancestral Hall had left, Old Man Wang took twenty or thirty young and strong saltmen to inspect the village three or four times.

After making sure that there were no people lurking in the village to inquire about the news, I returned to the small pier at the mouth of the glue sea with confidence.

When he returned there, he also had to go to receive gifts, and the merchants heard that he had defeated the shopkeeper of the green hand.

One by one, they were also given a dry salute to celebrate the old man Wang for becoming the grain chief of the three villages.

Although the Dingkou of these three villages is not as large as the next village under the hands of the Wo family, in the hearts of these businessmen, the weight of the old man Wang is already very light.

Wang Changmu, Wang Youzhen, father and son, have been busy finalizing one thing in the past two days.

Send a bag of grain to the families of all the salt ladies who came to participate in the fight, after all, it is almost winter, and with this bag of food, they will no longer have dead people in their family.

It is not difficult to count the roster, who has been there and who has not, it has been recorded long before the fight.

The young and strong salt Ding of the three villages, except for a part of the three villages left, all the rest are rushing to pass.

The difficulty lies in how much food should be given.

More is not good, and less is not good.

After two or three days of discussion between the father and son, the amount of food to be given was finally finalized.

A family gives 100 catties of food, which is enough to ensure that the whole family will not starve to death this winter.

It just so happened that they could eat all the reserve food in the spring, and continue to work hard to complete the various livelihoods arranged for them by the Mao Society.

The roster was finalized, as was the amount to be given.

The rest of the matter was handed over to Wang Yanren, and he asked him to personally arrange the delivery of food.

As soon as Wang Youzhen said it, Wang Yanren refused the matter.

discussed whether Wang Youzhen would send it over in person, or whether every family would send it to them by hand.

Wang Youzhen understood what the second uncle meant, and the second uncle asked him to buy people's hearts.

After all, on this day when winter is very close, sending even a handful of grain is a blessing in disguise.

This kindness is great, and it is equivalent to the life-saving benefactor of their whole family.

Wang Youzhen originally didn't want to go, he wanted to spend all his time inventing the steam engine, research the steam engine as quickly as possible, and let China enter the industrial age as soon as possible.

This kind of thing is not as good as his father, which is also conducive to him spreading Taizu's thoughts.