It's already early March, late spring. Since the construction of the village, I have followed Gao Yun every day, learned to go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, learned to plant crops, and returned late and early. Between the green mountains and green waters, the spring breeze blows, and the birds sing in the mountains. Zhou Nan is also in a good mood, and every day he follows Gao Yun, thinking about what to eat, tender green shepherd's cabbage, and pickled wild boar meat dumplings; Five-colored purslane, go back to the cold salad to defeat the fire; A small white and green garlic scrambled with eggs; What other mountain trees, wild leeks, eat in a different way. In this village, the hunters all abide by the custom of not hunting, and they don't even catch fish, but Zhou Nan and Gao Yuan have a lot of inventory, and there are a lot of pickled fish and meat, and they have no problem eating until summer.

Zhou Nan's hair is also long now, and he can tie his hair in a bun like Gao Yuan. Zhou Nan likes the current dress very much, get up early every morning, comb the long hair first, tie the hair first, comb the hair, and then wrap the hair roots with a hair ring, so as not to let the hair roots loose and loose, and then form a bun, insert the hairpin into the hair ring hole, and then pull the hair tails, tighten the hair rings, fix the hairpins, and then put the hair ends hanging down and wrap them around the hair bun until the hair does not hang down, and finally put on the scarf. In the past, Zhou Nan watched costume dramas, and his favorite was this hairstyle. After freshening up, then put on a short coat at will, the lower body is trousers, and the feet are hemp shoes, which are basically similar to modern people. Zhou Nan is most uncomfortable with shoes, at this time, in addition to hemp shoes, people also wear leather shoes, that is, very rough shoes sewn from leather, and the leather shoes of later generations are not at the same grade at all. Later, Zhou Nan asked Gao Yun to sew a few more pairs of leather shoes for him, and also guided Gao Yun to sew the leather shoes closer to his feet, after having leather shoes, Zhou Nan rarely wore hemp shoes, and now that the weather is starting to get hot, he is planning to let Gao Yun sew a few pairs of cloth shoes to wear - anyway, there is no shortage of silk at home.

After building the wall, Zhou Nan gave himself a vacation, and he didn't travel here to suffer, so he was ready to relax for a while, if there was anything delicious to eat, in case he was crossed back one day, speaking of which, he only worked hard and didn't enjoy it, so he didn't die unjustly?

Gao Yuan, the two village masters, are busy every day and can't see people. Every morning, people are arranged to patrol everywhere, and they also check everywhere from time to time. Zhou Nan really can't see it, always embarrassed to rest by himself, seeing that Gao Yuan is busy alone, he suggested that Gao Yuan, don't have to go to patrol on weekdays, after all, the people of the family protection club still have to make a living, not a professional army, Gao Yuan listened to Zhou Nan's suggestion, more than 100 people of the family protection club, divided into three shifts, one class patrols every day, and the other two classes will go home to busy their own business, if there is an emergency, then the flag tower will be raised three flags, that is, the people who call the family protection club. The people in the village must rush to the wall to defend themselves against the enemy. If things are more urgent, fireworks should be lit on the wall. Seeing the fireworks, the whole village was going to rush over and go into battle together.

The people who patrol every day are provided with meals at public expense in the village, and the cooks are still like when they are working, and they call a few women in the village, and a few people receive rice and vegetables, make meals, and send them to the patrol offices when they are done. Originally, Lao Zheng Tou still thought that each household in the village would take turns to serve the guards every day, but later Zhou Nan felt that the households in the village were all poor people, and it was too difficult to feed thirty people at once, so he was ruthless and came out of the public expense. The people in the village have the strength and are not stingy to contribute, but they don't have the money to pay. Now that I see that everything in the village is done at public expense, when I contribute in the future, there will be no one to push back.

Although Zhou Nan has not done anything these days, his mind has not been idle, a while ago he just thought about building a village, and when the village is built, the cost of all kinds of affairs in the village, as well as how to support the expenses in the future, has become the first thing that needs to be solved. If it is a rich gentleman with deep pockets, who contributes money and goods in this mountain, and the people of the family contribute to build such a cottage, then it is the rich gentry who has real power in this cottage, and it is still this rich man who will contribute money, make ideas, and make decisions in the cottage in the future; But Gaojiazhai was different from this situation from the beginning, although it was the property captured by him and Gao Yuan who led the hunters, and the matter of building the village was also proposed by him Zhou Nan, but it was also the result of discussions with a few old people in the village, and he didn't want to be a bully village owner with a high emperor here, so he wanted to borrow the practice of later generations, so that this worry-free village was surnamed public and not private, so that people in this worry-free village could treat each other equally, and there was no dictatorship. All the village can provide for everyone is security, stability and a little care. Each family makes a living according to the old business, and it is up to each person to have enough food and clothing.

Therefore, Zhou Nan thought about using the remaining money after the construction of the village, plus a few hundred taels of gold and silver in his hand, as the public expense in the village, and then set aside a vacant land next to the council hall, anyway, because the area of the council hall is uninhabited, there is a lot of vacant land. The open land that has been set aside is divided into three parts, and the part that can be cultivated is to be used as public land, and the land that cannot be cultivated is to be planted with crops, and the empty land that cannot be cultivated is made into male animals, and all kinds of huts are covered with chickens, pigs, and sheep, and the horses are to be kept in it. At the beginning, the public land was funded by the public funds in the village, and the public land was cultivated by the whole village, and the public animals were also fed by the whole village people in turn. The harvest proceeds are all filled into the public treasury - the public treasury is built together with the council hall - the rice grain, meat, and eggs harvested in the public treasury are completely enough for the soldiers of the family protection society to eat every day, and the surplus part can also be used to help the widows, widows, old and disabled in the village. This is the general method that Zhou Nan thought. In this way, the public and private are separated, and instead of collecting rent and taxes from the people in the village, they can also do a good job in guarding the village and helping those in need in the village.

On the hillside, Zhou Nan and Gao Yun sat on a stone side by side, with the wild vegetables picked by the two of them, the sun shines on the mountain and the wilderness is a spring, all kinds of wild flowers bloom everywhere, there is no longer the dry yellow of winter on the ground, a piece of tender green, light green, dark green, yellow and green cover the original color of the mountain, all kinds of birds don't know when they came out all of a sudden, chirping and flying around, even the wind blowing in the mountains feels warm, Zhou Nan wiped the slight sweat on his face with a cloth, turned his head to look at Gao Yun beside him, I saw Gao Yun wrapping a tender yellow brocade handkerchief in a bun on the top of her head, two locks of long hair hanging down from her ears, fluttering in the wind, although her face was not powdered, her pink face was full of red, her nose was slightly pretty, and she wore a moon-white long skirt that looked more beautiful than flowers. Afraid that Gao Yun would see his demeanor, Zhou Nan was busy calming down, and told Gao Yun the idea of the public field and the public animals when he went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables, Gao Yun was kind-hearted, and naturally agreed with such a good thing, Zhou Nan forced Gao Yun to help him think about it, to see what was missing, Gao Yun asked strangely: "Da Lang, you think so much, it's not enough for others to appreciate you, who will think about taking advantage?" Zhou Nan couldn't help but blush when he heard Gao Yun ask like this, secretly blaming himself for bringing the ideas of those who guarded against people in the future here. Gao Yun saw that Zhou Nan was ashamed of what he said, and hurriedly comforted: "Da Lang Xiu cares, Da Lang must have a deep meaning in it, a woman in the slave family, I just hate to help Da Lang come up with ideas." He asked again, "Do the eldest brother and Dr. Zheng know about this?" ”

Zhou Nan shook his head and said, "I haven't told anyone else, I have accompanied you up the mountain these days, and I thought about it myself." ”

Gao Yun heard Zhou Nan say that he only told her, and he was overjoyed, but said: "Since there is such an important matter, why don't you tell Doctor Zheng that they know it as soon as possible?" Seeing that spring is approaching, everything should be done as soon as possible. ”

Zhou Nan nodded and said, "Then let's go see Lao Zheng Tou tonight." ”