In the era of the Ming Dynasty, ordinary people had two meals a day.

If the number of times is less, the amount of food at each meal will naturally increase, at least to ensure the physical strength of the laborers at home.

But at dinner this night, Tang Xidong obviously found that the porridge in the bowl was a lot thinner, and then looked at the sorrow hidden in Liu Lianqing's eyes, Tang Xidong naturally knew that there was not much food in the cottage.

Once the cottage does not enter, it is faced with the situation of eating the old bottom.

There are more than 1,000 people in the cottage, and the daily consumption of food is more than 1,000 catties, not to mention that the quality of grain production at this time is not good.

Since last year, there has been little rain, and even the terraced fields in the village have been uncultivated, and this place in Shanxi only produces one season of wheat a year, plus it is mountainous, the fertility of the fields is insufficient, and the yield is not high.

Nowadays, not only the cottages are short of grain, but the entire north is short of grain, the transportation is dilapidated, the grain in the south cannot be transported to the north, and the landlords and big grain merchants hoard grain, the peasants can not survive, there are only two ways out, one is to be a homeless person, and the other is to rebel.

The condition of Luoliang Mountain is relatively good compared to other places, but it won't be long before I am afraid that such a day will not last.

Even, recently, there has been a discussion in the cottage: it is better to join the anti-army.

Of course, it's just a few people who think so, after all, rebellion is to kill the head.

But all this has nothing to do with Tang Xidong for the time being, because he is just an idler in this cottage.

There are many ways to change the situation of the cottage, but Tang Xidong needs to change these people's views of himself first, otherwise no one will pay attention to what he says.

In fact, he doesn't have to stay in this place where there is no future, but firstly, the body before he came affected him, and secondly, this is the first place to receive his soul after he came to Daming, probably because of the will of heaven.

There was nothing to say all night, and with the fire kang, Tang Xidong slept peacefully.

Early in the morning, while still wrapped in the quilt, I heard a call from outside the house: "Mr. Tang, Mr. Tang......"

Opening his hazy sleepy eyes, Tang Xidong woke up, and remembered that he had promised the teenagers yesterday to go and make a fire for their house today.

So, after washing his face and changing his clothes, Tang Xidong left the house.

It was still cold in the morning, but the teenagers couldn't wait, but their faces were a little blue from the cold.

So Tang Xidong beckoned them back to the house, and then added firewood to the stove, and it burned vigorously.

Tang Xidong was idle, only to find that there were five more children who came today, and thirteen children entered the house, which was crowded.

Everyone greedily enjoyed the warmth of the house, and the children who had never seen the fire on the kang crowded closer to them, and they were amazed.

"Do things, you can't be in a hurry, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, it's still cold at this time, let's go together in a while, there are many people to do things, hurry up, and someone among you can live on the kang tonight." Tang Xidong looked at the children in front of him with a smile.

After a while of warmth, Tang Xidong took the children and walked towards the mountain.

"Mr. Tang, I told my mother about the kang yesterday, but she didn't believe it, can you tell my mother about it later?" The skinny child from yesterday had a little uneasiness on his face.

"Needless to say, my house doesn't lock the door, you might as well take your mother to take a look, as long as she sees it, she will naturally agree to make a fire." Tang Xidong patted his head and smiled comfortingly.

"Liu Jucai, hurry up and take your mother to the gentleman's house to have a look! Sir, since Liu Jucai and his mother don't agree, it's better to go to my house first, my family has the final say, and no one objects. "The big man Tang Sanxian, pulling Tang Xidong's arm, wants to occupy the first place.

Looking at Tang Sanxian's expectant eyes, Tang Xidong nodded and agreed, so the group was taken to their home by the excited Tang Sanxian.

Most of the houses in the cottage are bricks and tiles mixed with stones, burning bricks is a troublesome thing, and the cottage is not a long-term residence in the eyes of most people, so it will naturally not bother to take care of it.

But these people think like this, many years have passed, and what doesn't last long slowly becomes long.

Looking at the world, there are probably not many places to live.

I slowly took the cottage as my home!

A landless peasant is equivalent to giving up the opportunity to live.

These honest peasants gradually became infected with the habits of some mountain bandits, and slowly discarded their farming skills, and were content to seize the harvest after the efforts of others.

All of this was discovered slowly by Tang Xidong after he came to the cottage, but Tang Xidong had no right to blame all this he discovered.

People can blame many things, but they can't blame the other person for survival.

Tang Sanxian's house is dilapidated compared to the neighbor's house, his father died early, leaving orphans and widows, his mother is not a diligent person who runs a family, and even Tang Sanxian has become idle, and the family naturally does not take care of it much, but fortunately, Tang Sanxian has not lost that innocence and simplicity.

When Tang Xidong came, Tang Sanxian's mother was sitting at the door with her neighbor chattering, and she didn't take care of Mr. Tang, who knew how to make a fire kang introduced by Tang Sanxian.

In Tang Wang's eyes, she hadn't seen what the fire kang was, but she had seen this idler-like nerd, so naturally she wouldn't have any respect and goodwill.

So Tang Sanxian was a little embarrassed, it was the age of a good face, and seeing that his temper was about to come up, Tang Xidong lowered his face to stop him, and coldly reprimanded: "The world is big, filial piety is the greatest, you have to change your stinky temper in the future, you are such a relative." ”

It's strange to say, the two haven't been in contact for a long time, but it was just yesterday afternoon, but Tang Sanxian, who was angry, nodded obediently very obediently.

Since he came to the Tang family, he naturally started to make a fire kang.

There were more than a dozen teenagers to help, and the Tang family didn't have any furniture, so the house was soon cleared out.

The best thing about the Tang family is that the dilapidated bricks and stones left over from the wall are still left, and there are a lot of things left.

This time, Tang Xidong did not do it himself, but commanded the teenagers, and after demonstrating in person, let them do it.

The teenagers are interested, and only by doing it can they realize the achievements and master the skills of the fire kang.

But if you want them to practice, it naturally takes time to polish it.

So it took almost a morning, everyone in the yard was in full swing, and the Tang family's fire kang was calculated, the same, first light the firewood, and dry the soil kang hot, otherwise the temperature will be low, and no one will live at night.

After finishing the work of Tang Sanxian's family, it was time to eat, but Tang Wang's family didn't seem to be preparing a meal, Tang Xidong ate a lot of rabbit meat yesterday, and his stomach was not hungry.

In the busy process before, Liu Jucai had already taken his mother and sister to Houshan to experience the benefits of the kang firsthand, so the whole family agreed that the kang should hurry up and ask Mr. Tang to serve it for them.

The Liu family, the same thin Liu Zhang's family was very polite, thanked him again and again, and asked Tang Xidong and the others to stay for dinner after they were busy.

This time, without Tang Xidong opening his mouth, a group of teenagers entered the house like bandits, moving all kinds of worthless items out, clearing the field, and looking for materials everywhere.

There is no shortage of stones on the mountain, but it takes a lot of effort to move them in the stone pile, but what can be done with effort is not difficult for this group of half-sized children.

The stone is there, the mud is reconciled, and then the flue is started, the flue is still technical, after all, the slight position is not right, the smoke can not be discharged or run slowly, the teenagers are not familiar with it after all, or have to rely on Tang Xidong to get started, Tang Xidong is still the same, while the disk to the teenagers, talk about the height, the direction, the size, and the flexibility according to local conditions.

Teenagers who absorb new knowledge, everyone listens very carefully.

This made Tang Xidong very pleased, this is what he wanted.

In fact, these children have nothing to do with him, but thinking of their loneliness and the happy smile when he ate the roast rabbit last night, he is very willing to do something for them.

What I want to do most is probably to subtly correct their previous inferiority and reshape their conduct.

It is not to ask them to be good people, and to be good people, which is equivalent to murdering them in this troubled world, but to let them have a clear and accurate understanding of their own life, the environment, and the outside world.

I hope to help them live better in this troubled world.