Standing on the mountainside overlooking the house, the door of the house and the pond are crowded with people again.

Han Xiufeng knew very well why the villagers went, and he also knew very well that Xu Yunshan and the others still had a lot to say. However, he didn't want to worry about these things at home and in the village, and at the same time, he also wanted to take this opportunity for Han Xiushan to really establish the prestige of the Han family as a family, so he simply didn't go back, but accompanied his father-in-law and Fei Erye to climb Ciyun Mountain with Pan Er and others, and went to Ciyun Temple to have a few sticks of incense by the way.

Han Da didn't wait for his younger brother, but waited for the news that his younger brother would not come back for lunch, and saw that the villagers were gathered at the door and were reluctant to leave, and then thought of what his brother said last night, so he could only invite Xu Yunshan, Wang Jingcheng and Chen Huagui into the hall for tea, and then began to meet the neighbors who came to visit with things.

"Come one by one, don't worry!"

Sitting in the center of the hall for the first time like an old man, Han Dazhen was a little nervous, glanced back at his daughter-in-law who was also excited, looked at Wang Si who had just squeezed in and said, "Fourth, you can come here, what do you bring!" ”

"A little heart, a little heart, I can't plant your land, and then receive the favor of Master Han in vain. The cloth I rewarded yesterday can make a few clothes. Not only did I reward the cloth, but I also rewarded several catties of salt and brown sugar, and I was not willing to buy so many things during the Chinese New Year......"

Han Da took the chicken given by Wang Si, handed it to his mother-in-law, and then took out dozens of copper plates from the money bag he had prepared earlier, and stuffed them into Wang Si's hand: "I said that it was a reward, why don't you want to go?" Your family is pointing to those three old hens for money, I can't ask for your chickens for nothing. ”

"What's going on, I'm honoring the old lady, and I'm giving it to the old lady to make up for her body."

"I received your heart, and your family is not easy, don't be polite to me."

Han Da forced the money into him, and thought of his brother's explanation last night and said, "Although you planted eight acres of land in my family, you also have a lot of family." Otherwise, let your three girls come to serve my brother and sister, my brother and sister have to take two babies alone, and there is only one girl by her side, so I can't be busy. ”

Seeing that Wang Si was stunned, Han Dasheng was afraid that he would misunderstand and hurriedly said: "It's not for you to sell your sons and daughters, but to hire your three girls to work in my house and pay you every month!" ”

Xu Yunshan didn't realize what kind of identity Master Han was until this moment, and how could he care about these trivial matters in the village, and at the same time realized that Master Han was planning to let Han Dazheng be in charge, so he immediately coughed dryly: "Fourth, what are you still doing, others can't think of this errand, why don't you kowtow to Uncle Han quickly?" ”

Wang Si reacted, hurriedly knelt down with a puff, and said excitedly while kowtowing: "Uncle Xie Han rewarded my three girls with food, and Uncle Xie Han rewarded money." ”

"Don't don't, don't be like this, folks, kowtow, get up quickly."

……

Everything is difficult at the beginning, and it is much easier to meet the first folks and the later folks.

The Han family already has dozens of acres of paddy fields, and this year they will buy another 100 acres, and it is impossible to rent all of them to tenants for cultivation, so they have to plant 30 or 40 acres of their own family. Not only do you have to hire long-term laborers when the farm is busy, but you also have to buy a few cows, otherwise you won't be able to plow. Master Duan said that the tea houses in the city were also short of people, and he even planned to open a workshop in Ciyun to specialize in roasting tea.

Although there are only more than 50 households in the village, there are more than 400 men, women and children in the village, and many descendants and babies do not have a livelihood, so hire one or two according to the situation of each family, or let the children in the village help herd cattle, give people food to eat, and give people a way to live.

The baby of Xu Sanzhu's family is smart and clever, and Fei Erye is old and there is a lack of a baby around him, so he becomes a scholar of the Han family; The four daughters of Widow Chen's family are handsome and quick-working, and they happen to have no mother-in-law with Li Kui, an additional foreign commissioner of Heying who came from Han Xiufeng from Zhili......

Just like that, the arrangement was discussed one by one, and more than 50 households discussed and arranged it at noon, and they were all elated, which was really happy.

After sending those villagers, only Xu Yunshan, Wang Jingcheng and Chen Huagui were left.

Han Da thought about the things that his brother explained last night, and while inviting the three of them to the table to eat and drink, he said: "Uncle Xu, my brother said that our Ciyun is too far away from the county seat, and we don't know what is going on in the city, and we are often deceived by people even when we pay the land and silver. So I discussed it with Duan Jingcheng, and planned to arrange for two young people who could speak and write to go to the county government on an errand. ”

"This is a good thing, a great thing for the benefit of the township! Xiushan, I'm not afraid of your jokes, I've always had this idea, but I've never been embarrassed to tell Duan Jingcheng, and I'm even more embarrassed to talk to Master Han. ”

"Xiushan, what do you think of my fifth child?"

"Okay," Han Da never thought that there would be a day when he would arrange for others to go to the yamen on an errand, he felt like he was in a dream, and after thinking about it, he said excitedly: "Choose a junior to go to the county yahufang to help, and a junior to go to the county yamen to help the class." There are no people who can do without our Ciyun on the horse gang, and Master Pan can talk about the affairs of the horse gang, so let's see if I can ask Master Pan to help, and arrange a future student who can write and calculate to go to the horse group to do the book office. ”

"Don't talk about sending one offspring, even if you send three or five to it, we have a lot of land in Ciyun Mountain, so we have to find a way to find a livelihood for the juniors."

……

Just when Han Da discussed the major affairs in the village with Xu, Wang, and Chen for the first time as the head of the family, Chen Hu, who had just come out of the fast meal in Ciyun Temple, looked at the woods all over the mountains and sighed: "Fourth master, although there is not much land that can be planted in this area of your hometown, there are many trees and many trees, if you cut it down and transport it to our Taizhou, how much can it be sold for!" ”

"There are a lot of trees, but you can't cut them if you want to."

"Why can't you cut it?"

Han Xiufeng took a few steps forward, found a stone stele, looked at the words on the stele and read: "According to the Ciyun Temple, there is a god forest, and the group, township, bao, and A are publicly discussed, and they are forbidden for a year, and they are not allowed to enter the mountain to cut down." For this reason, it is forbidden to show that no matter the people of the village, etc., they will not wait to go into the mountains to pick without permission, nor shall they graze pigs and sheep, trample on the sacred tree, and the villagers will always obey it. ”

"Sacred Tree!" Chen Hu felt a little mysterious.

Han Xiufeng had long been accustomed to it, looked at the woodland of his own family from afar, and said with a smile: "Not only can't the trees in Ciyun Temple be cut down, but the mountains and forests of your own family can only be harvested for leaves and dung, picking up branches and burning fires, and they can't be easily cut down." ”

"Why can't you cut down your own trees?" Ge Erxiao asked puzzled.

Without waiting for Han Xiufeng to speak, Second Master Fei patiently explained: "Although it is said that the mountain eats the mountain, but the mountain has a mountain god, and the tree has a tree god, not to mention that the earth dragon has just turned over, even if there is no earth dragon to turn over, it can't alarm the gods in the mountain." Therefore, even if it is the mountains and forests of your own family, you must follow the virtues of your ancestors, the way of your predecessors, and forbid your family forest, otherwise your family will not go well, and you will even fall into the middle of your family. ”

Chen Hu thought about it and asked curiously: "What should I do if I build a house by myself and lack wood, is it possible that I have to go out to buy trees even though my own family has trees?" ”

"That's not necessary, you can cut it, but you can't cut it more, and you have to worship the mountain god and tree god before cutting it, and you have to chant it."

The more Chen Hu thought about it, the more funny he felt, secretly thinking that people couldn't survive and still care about what trees, and then looked up at the endless mountains in the distance, as well as the lush mountains and forests on the mountains, and couldn't help but murmur: "Fourth master, if there are thieves here, it's really not easy to suppress them, if they drill into the mountains, where can we find them?" ”

"There are more mountains in Guizhou than on our side, so those thieves and bandits in Guizhou who commit rebellion are not so easy to suppress."

"I just heard from you that the bandits are going south, won't they come to our side?"

"It's going south now, but it's really two whether it will come to our side."

Duan Jiqing went to Guizhou once when he was young, and said worriedly: "I'm afraid that the bandits have the guidance of a master." ”

"Dad, what do you mean by that?" Han Xiufeng asked with a smile.

"This is not simple, rebellion and chaos are the same as the most lacking is not people but money and food, Guizhou has no three feet flat, no three sunny days, how can we be rich in Sichuan. Although we have more mountains and less land here, but the area around Chengdu is full of fertile land, if they have the guidance of a master, if they kill us from Sichuan, they don't have to worry about money and food anymore. ”

"It's really a shame that you don't lead the troops, Dad."

"I have only been to Guizhou and Chengdu, and when I was in the government, I helped transfer the money and food of the officers and soldiers."

Speaking of the banditry in Guizhou, Pan Er couldn't help but ask: "Fourth master, didn't the emperor order you to go back to your hometown to help organize the group exercise, whether to do this group exercise or not?" ”

"Yes, Fourth Master, we can't let those bandits kill here." Chen Hu couldn't help but say.

"Changsheng, you haven't been back for a few days and can't stay?" Han Xiufeng glanced back at Pan Er, then turned to look at Chen Hu and the other stinky boys and said, "I told a few of you on the road, whether it is Ba County, or the entire Chongqing Mansion, there is nothing lacking except for group training, there are already so many What is the point of doing it again?" ”

"Fourth master, it's not interesting to do it at home, but you can select some capable people from each regiment to train a township warrior to go to Guizhou to quell the chaos!" Chen Hu made up his mind from the moment he married Shang Hong'er, how can he be the deputy general of the general of the Shangstaff, and only the deputy general of the Shangshen General can return to his hometown to glorify his ancestors in the future, and he really doesn't want to stay in the mountain nest to give birth to a baby and take the baby to waste his time, so he said with a fluttering eyebrow: "I inquired before I came, Xiangyong is not a green camp or a Eight Banner, as long as there are thieves and bandits, you can go where to help the Tongguan army quell the chaos, isn't that Jiang Zhongyuan in Hunan, I heard that he once led 800 Chu Yong to Guangxi to kill Changmao!" ”

Han Xiufeng didn't expect him to be so belligerent, and couldn't help asking, "Then do you know where Jiang Zhongyuan is now?" ”

Chen Hu subconsciously asked, "Where is it?" ”

"I have been martyred a long time ago, and now in Huangquan, do you want to go?"

"Dead!"

"What do you think," Han Xiufeng patted his arm, stared at him and said meaningfully: "It is said that one will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, in fact, there is also a saying called 'Those who are good at fighting die in soldiers, and those who are good at swimming are drowned', in your old words, how can you often walk by the river without getting your shoes wet!" There have been a few victorious generals throughout the ages, who can guarantee that they will only win battles and not defeat them? Therefore, we must not only think about making achievements, but also think about our wives and children. ”