"Hmm" The patriarch was stunned and took down the smoking pot in his mouth. What happened to the children of their tribe, there was hope

Seeing the uncertainty on the patriarch's face, Li Zheng smiled and said, "Guishu, don't you think there have been a lot of housework in our clan in the past two years?"

"Think about it, in our clan, my sister-in-law and daughter-in-law are much more noisy than when my father was there."

"Isn't it bullying you to be young" Old Man Mu, who didn't care much about the idle affairs in the village, still didn't understand.

"Guihe" Li Zheng shook his head: "You haven't thought about the juniors"

"Why didn't you think about it," Old Man Mu became more and more puzzled: "I think about it every day!" It's not that you don't know the situation in our family, I suffer every day and can't keep my eyes together all night."

Li Zheng and the patriarch glanced at each other and uncovered the scars.

"Something to say." The patriarch banged on the smoke pot and said.

Seeing the two cousins like this, they really didn't think about it, Li Zheng smiled and said, "You believe me, you really haven't thought about it."

"Think about it, when my father was here, you got a few acres of land."

Thirty-five acres of paddy fields and thirty-two acres of dry fields. The patriarch said in his heart.

"Two acres of paddy fields and two acres of dry fields," Old Man Mu said in his heart.

"What you gave to Yejun is a few acres" Mu Yejun is Mu Guishu's second son, and he has already split up. In this world, the eldest son is important, and it is a common market here to divide the family business into seventy percent. The patriarch has three sons, and the third has not yet married and has not separated from the family.

Patriarch Mu Guishu: Five acres of paddy fields and five acres of dry land.

Li Zheng pondered and said: "You still have 30 acres of paddy fields and 27 acres of dry land."

"And you have four grandchildren, right now, maybe five, and even, maybe six, seven in the future."

"Guishu, have you ever thought about how much land they will have in the future?"

On a sunny day, Mu Guishu suddenly found that even if his four grandsons are counted now, except for the eldest grandson Mu Baozhong, the other three grandsons, paddy field and dry field, each of them is not enough for three acres of land.

Three acres of land, a year's output, and paying taxes, are only enough for three people to barely eat. This means that when his grandson becomes a family, he can only raise one son at most. If two are born, someone will starve.

The grandchildren are getting poorer and poorer these days, and they are worse than their own generation.

Doesn't it say that there are many children and many blessings? How so?

Old Man Mu thought about himself from this, and it was also a ripple of cold sweat.

"People, they all look forward to the younger generations' better life than themselves, but as a result," Li Zheng sighed, "children, everyone can get less and less land."

"This family is poor, don't the daughters-in-law have to quarrel?"

"Everyone wants to fight for their children."

"If you don't fight, you can't live."

"Cang Liao really knows etiquette. The words of the saints, yes. ”

"It's good that I have this now." Mu Yantang pointed to the dendrobium and said, "Children, you can plant dendrobium"

"Even if dendrobium is cheaper in the future, it will be the same as sweet potatoes, one pound a penny. The children also have a livelihood. ”

"Our village, woodland, and dry land are more than 3,000 acres."

"A large area, a hundred acres of land have been made of ancestral land"

"Speaking of which, our father is still very bold, and he directly occupied a thousand acres of woodland as ancestral land."

"Now Ze is descended!"

Because the Mu clan came early, before the village sold the land at that time, they occupied a whole hill early: the top of the hill was used as a cemetery, the mountainside was built as a ancestral hall, and the foot of the mountain was divided into pieces -- according to the head of the clan, it was distributed to each male grandson of the clan over the age of 12, for them to build a house and buy household goods when they got married in the future, as well as ordinary firewood for heating.

"There are probably less than 2,000 acres of empty woodland. Except for those that cannot be moved, they are all hills below eight acres. In this way, in the village, there are about 100 hills to buy. ”

"In short, this forest land can't be owned by every household."

Hearing that there could be no one in every household, Mu Guishu and Old Man Mu sighed in their hearts, and immediately knew that when it came to future generations, the battle in the village would not be small.

"If this matter is made public, the price of the mountain will be renegotiated."

"If you have a mountain you like, you might as well take the opportunity to buy it quickly."

"Hurry up Ming'er, we will handle the title deed."

As soon as Li Zheng said that he could buy it, the patriarch and Old Man Mu knew that this matter was inseparable, and they breathed a sigh of relief, and the patriarch said: "If that's the case, I'll buy two pieces as well."

Old Man Mu also bought two pieces.

They are not greedy. We all know the truth. It's not that there are no rich people in the village, but the village has been suppressing the price of land and homestead land, in order to let ordinary people have land to plant and have a place to live.

"It was given to the two mountains in front of Luojing. About seven acres in one piece, eight acres in one piece. "The incident happened suddenly, and Old Man Mu could only find the mountain he was familiar with.

"In the middle of the four hills, I dig a pond and store water."

"I wondered, if the price of this dendrobium does not come down. Someone has to be in the mountains to keep watch. ”

"You reminded me," said Lizheng, "that being said." I'll buy one for you, too. ”

Although Li Zheng is concerned about the clansmen, he will not give up the benefits in hand - he also has a large family to support.

Hearing that he was about to buy it with himself, Old Man Mu was more relieved.

As soon as the words were decided, Old Man Mu went home immediately, and he wanted to hurry up and go to the public riverside to collect dendrobium.

And Lizheng, the patriarch is also, hurriedly scattered his children and grandchildren, daughter-in-law, and harvested the dendrobium along the public river, and his own land is not in a hurry, anyway, a piece of grass on it is his own.

Luozhi went to Mu Ying's house......

The next day, Li Zheng, the patriarch, the old man Mu, and the fourth uncle Mu went to Xinglintang to sell the dendrobium together, and went to the yamen together, according to the previous agreement, Lizheng Mu Yantang's family fruit was to buy two pieces of land in the same place as the old man Mu, and the patriarch Mu Guishu bought two mountains with a total of 27 acres near his family's dry field, and the fourth uncle Mu bought the land in a hurry, and chose a 17-acre forest land next door to the old man Mu.

Among the few plots of land, Old Man Mu's land is the smallest, with a total of just over fifteen acres. But he didn't care. One is that the family has a small population and limited labor. If the land is bought, it is impossible to plant. Second, Luozhi has a Zhuangzi, and there are hundreds of acres of mountain and woodland in the Zhuangzi, which is enough for him to plant.

In short, as long as you earn money, you are not afraid of anything.

The ancestral hall of Mujia Village posted three notices in one go.

The first is the punishment of criticizing the gossip of the mouth, if someone commits "talking too much," from today onwards, all the people will ask for the clan law, when they think of the clan law, everyone's skin is tight, and the taste of being smoked is not comfortable.

The second, Mu Guihe's family is a new man, named Mu Luojing, 12 years old, according to the clan rules, originally to divide the paddy field into three acres of dry land and two acres, (see this everyone put their hearts to the throat), because Mu Guihe took the initiative not to divide the field to the household according to the clan rules, therefore, to XX, a total of one acre of mountain woodland, the ceremony of joining the clan was held at the end of the year to worship the ancestors.

The third one, my obedient, the people who read the third one have long since disappeared, and they all went to dig dendrobium.

Mujia Village, which has always been lively and noisy, has quieted down, and now no one has the heart to care about other people's affairs, and the "gossip center" by the well platform in the village has been automatically closed.

Families, men, women and children all went out collectively, and the fields and mountains and forests were full of people digging dendrobium.

When everyone was busy in the fields and forests, the materials for the house that the Luozhi family had booked had arrived, and the boundary stones had also arrived, but because of the addition of three more mountains and forests, another batch was booked.

There are eighteen boundary stones in a mountain woodland, eight in the wasteland, this thing is very heavy, fortunately there is Luojing, this is not a thing, he took Luo'an to take Luo'an in addition to cutting the dendrobium today.

The old man was even more busy, cutting dendrobium, building grass sheds, and building thatched houses.

The old man wanted to build five straw huts in one go.

One is used to support the stove and make the whole meal.

One is used to stack materials.

One is used to live in a family of four.

One is used to live craftsmen.

One makes thatched houses.

Thatched houses must be built, and there are many people who repair them, and it is not possible to do without thatched houses. Moreover, the thatched house can accumulate fertilizer, and with the accumulation of fertilizer, the crops can grow better.

Suddenly there was a big movement in the barren clearing, and the villagers who were working outside immediately noticed it

took advantage of the rest to walk over and approach, and after seeing that it was Old Man Mu, the heart of this gossip immediately retreated by half - Old Man Mu has a high rank, and their grandfather is the same generation.

For other people's prying eyes, Luozhi's family didn't care, and they couldn't hide the matter of building a house horizontally and vertically – rather than others spreading it, it was better to correct their own name and be generous.

Seeing that he was probing his brain behind people, Mu Yejun, the second grandson of his eldest uncle Mu Hong's family, immediately shouted: "Ye Jun!"

It's not okay to be named by the elders and not say hello. Mu Yejun came over honestly and called people affectionately: "Uncle Guihe."

Then a few small ones also greeted him, "Uncle Ye Jun is good." ”

"Okay, good," Mu Yejun replied with a smile.

"What about your father" Old Man Mu asked Mu Yejun, and then without waiting for him to answer, he ordered: "In a few days, our family will build a house."

"Go and tell your dad that he has to come and help."

Mu Yejun's father, Mu Guishu, is the old man's cousin, and the old man Mu built a house, so he had to be there.

"Hey!" Mu Yejun agreed, and hurried home, he had to tell his father to go quickly, and then follow his father and eldest brother to help. By the way, I have to go to his uncle's house to tell him, otherwise, if he pulls them down, he will definitely be complained to death by his aunt.

With the little horn of Mu Yejun, in the blink of an eye, there were twelve more working men in the wasteland of the Luozhi family - in addition to Lizheng Mu Yantang and his eldest son Mu Yinglong, the patriarch Mu Guishu and his eldest son Mu Yexian, the second son Mu Yejun and the two brothers of Old Man Mu, Mu Guizhou, Mu Guihai and their sons and the grandsons of Chengding. Even, at the end of the day, Old Man Mu's second uncle, Mu Hong, also came, he smoked a cigarette pot and squatted with Old Man Mu.

"Guihe, you have done a great deed and merit for your clansmen."

"I used to advise you not to complain, but if you don't listen, you don't catch anything good."

"How good it is now, how good the days are, the Mu clan is grateful to you"

"Now who doesn't get a hundred taels of silver in the hands of the clan, you have achieved everyone"

"You, don't complain about your father in the future, it's not easy for him, they haven't separated from each other in Guizhou, and there are many rights and wrongs for this person."

Mu Guizhou is two years younger than Old Man Mu, and is the first son of his father Mu Hu's successor Zhang.

Luozhi's great-grandfather, Mu Hu married two daughters-in-law before and after, Dong and Zhang, and gave birth to four sons and two daughters.