Nong walked in front of their group, their three or four hundred people [seventy or eighty years old, the others are strong and strong men, although everyone is really tired of rushing to the road, but the degree of the team's progress has not slowed down much, the life of the village is a boiling word in the final analysis, work to survive, to live a hard life, to survive year after year, to say the ability to tolerate suffering, the Tang people in Longmen County really do not accept anyone.

On the one hand, it is the stimulation of hope in my heart, and after suffering on the slope for so many years, now I have a hope, and anyone's heart is also very anxious. On the other hand, it is really for the sake of food calculation, this year's drought is too big, who can save how much surplus grain in the small family, seeing that I don't know how much time to survive is the head, now every grain of grain is very expensive, I really can't afford to waste a little.

The official document stamped with a red stamp in the yamen clearly stated that as long as everyone arrived at the designated place and started to work, everyone's food would be provided by the official family, even if this big guy had to grit his teeth and endure being tired, he would eat himself on the road, and he would be able to save at least one meal if he was half a day earlier, and if he was a day earlier, he would be able to save three meals. Strong men like them have heavy mouths, and the food saved in one meal is enough for the family to survive two famines.

If you can't eat or drink poorly, you can't calculate that you can't be poor for a lifetime, what is this year? The Hun family's food for a day or two is not a small number, and it is worth it to suffer for this foot.

Everyone's situation is similar, people are of the same mind, and under the same reason, the team will rush quickly, and the foundation of Farmer Li is thicker, plus some time ago, he also got the food and salty salt that Master Tang promised to give him that day, so he didn't have to work so hard to save one or two meals to eat, but everyone in their group of people defaulted to him as a leader, and it was inconvenient to stop and rest now.

The age is not forgiving! Looking at the tall and majestic city wall of Longmen County in the distance, Li Nong breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, "It's finally coming", walking forward under his feet, but his eyes didn't follow, this is the first time he has seen the county seat in his life, it is nonsense to say that it is not unusual.

He is a person with a solid personality, no matter how good his heart is, his face and mouth will not show anything, but the team behind him is not good, and many villagers who see the county for the first time are stunned, God! How much soil does it take to build such a high, big, and thick city wall, and how much food does it take to build it?

I haven't been here and haven't seen an exclamation, the team has visited the city inevitably to take advantage of this rare opportunity to show off, foaming at the mouth and forgetting to talk about the prosperity of the city, although they are just talking about the number of people, eating more and so on in the county people are most accustomed to things, can still attract a tsk, at the moment there are people to discuss waiting until the head of the land reports the food, when must come to visit the big county.

Li Nong looked at the city wall and listened to the gossip behind, but slowly his good mood brought by the novelty disappeared, and he faintly felt a little panicked in his heart.

The reason for the change in his mood was in the eyes of those people in the city gate cave, looking at the eyes of those well-dressed people in the city gate cave from a distance, how they looked at their line of work, first with the vigilance of a thief, and then with curiosity, this kind of condescending curiosity Li Nong was no stranger to - this is the case every time the villagers in their village saw the villagers coming from the countryside to beg for food.

Li Nong is sincere. People are also stubborn. This is the most unbearable place. "What nonsense. Let's go". After turning around and shouting. He withdrew his gaze and did not look at the walls again. His feet had quickened and he was moving forward.

Behind their ranks. Many curious idlers in the city slowly walked out. Flower arrangers followed the team and walked forward while inquiring. I want to figure out what such a big battle is for.

After walking west from the gate of the city for about an hour. I saw a mountain pass on the side of the road. Two men dressed in soap clothes stood on either side of the mountain pass, holding flags in their hands and gesturing at them.

Li Nong led the team of neighbors from the village behind him, followed the people in front of him, and walked towards the mountain pass.

Footsteps have just crossed the mountain pass. Seeing the situation in front of him clearly, Li Nong couldn't help but open his mouth with an "ah". The footsteps also stopped suddenly.

In front of you is a relatively flat beach made up of rivers alluvial in the mountains. Compared with the hillsides that can be seen everywhere in Longmen County. The river stretches on both sides, and the slopes of the past are noticeably smoother. Look at the slope. According to Li Nong's experience of making terraced fields in Liuguan Village that day. It is really the most suitable for terraced fields.

At this moment, the river beach in front of Li Nong has simply become a big construction site, and the villagers who arrived first, leading the way back and forth to guide the tolerance of the command, holding books and books through the officials in different village groups...... All kinds of people are crowded together, you say I am shouting and shouting, not far away you can see a top of the last time in Liuguan Village lived in the military tent is tied up at a very fast degree, a large frightening marching pot along the riverside can not see the end, there are so many places are clearly blacksmiths gathered, a blacksmith furnace has already been set up, some faint red light can be faintly seen......

Such a busy and noisy scene along both sides of the river, no head and no tail, to say that the most eye-catching is not these, but the big red wax pole flags erected on the slopes on both sides of the river, everything is bleak in winter, coupled with a rare drought, such a big red flag on the yellow hillside

Attracting people, the wind blows, and the red flag shakes violently, like fire.

There are many such big red wax pole flags, so many that they are simply countless, and they are all over the mountains and fields on the slopes on both sides of the mountain to wave in the wind, and they reflect each other against a burning fire against the background of withered yellow, these flags and the hot scene of people running back and forth below are together, so that the people who have just seen this scene can't help but jump out of the body board with a strong force, and the chest is faintly like holding something and wants to shout to vent.

In the past, although there were times when there was a forced labor, but it was all guarded by the tolerance to star, the farmers regarded it as the biggest drudgery, and they could be lazy to dodge, where like now, although everything in front of them is a little messy, but it is messy and full of vitality, which makes people involuntarily refresh.

Longmen County is a special place, even if it is a conscription, it is not too big a scene, let alone such a scene, for a while, the villagers behind all stopped with Li Nong's footsteps, looking at everything in front of them excitedly and curiously, they were first surprised by the size of the scene, and then they felt that they were faintly worried that they had finally fallen to the ground - to be able to make such a big scene, this time the county government did not fool people, and then they were worried in their hearts, but they didn't expect so many people to come in front, Those good seats for building ladder fields won't all be snatched up first, right?

"***, I shouldn't have taken a break at the end of last morning, I delayed my journey", a stunned man hurriedly urged Li Nong after a loud voice, "Uncle Li, you have a friendship with Master Tang, can you talk to him and arrange a good place for us."

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately attracted a noisy echo.

When Li Nong was about to say something, two officials walked over quickly, one of them was a clerk with a book in his hand, and the other was Li Nong's old acquaintance, who was taken by this small tolerance when he went to Liuguan Village last time.

These two people are obviously very busy, and they are sweating in the cold winter, "Go in, go in, how can the people get in behind here, you are from that village?" When the scribe asked with a hoarse throat, the little man also recognized Li Nong, and immediately smiled and stepped forward to pull him up and was about to leave, "Your task arrangement and rest place are different from theirs, come with me, and when you are almost there tonight, Tang County will set up a banquet for you to catch the wind."

As soon as Xiao Tolerance's words came out, the group of farmers behind him were full of envy and panicked, what should they do if the leader is gone?

"Master Tang still remembers me!" , Xiao Tolerance's words made Li Nong's heart suddenly rise with a hot heat, "Lin Chaguan, what should I do with my neighbors?" ”。

"Liu Lushi is specifically responsible for this matter, you can rest assured that everything is arranged", after explaining a sentence in his mouth, Xiao Tolerance couldn't help but pull Li Nong forward.

Then Li Nong met those people in Liuguan Village again, and everyone was both happy and excited to meet the old acquaintance. That night, as Xiao Tolerance said, the county lord Tang came to the place where thousands of villagers gathered to feast on them, although the banquet was a bit simple due to the conditions, but his attention was enough to make up for everything else.

In such an environment and atmosphere, eating is secondary, that is, on this night, Li Nong learned the reason for this big movement from the mouth of Tang Xianzun, who was smiling and smiling, and knew his jaw-dropping but bloody plan, and also knew his own task - they all became the leaders in charge of the village, and cooperated with the people assigned by the county government to manage the villagers, in fact, this management task was still very secondary. More importantly, they had to pass on the experience they had accumulated in Liuguan Village in building terraces to their farmers.

This is the first time Li Nong has been an "official" in his life, everything today makes him excited, he can't sleep at night when he is excited, he only feels that his heart is full of energy, so he wants to roll up his sleeves and work hard, not only for the good land he has thought about all his life, but also to repay the importance of Master Tang.

The real dealers can't say anything beautiful, just roll up their sleeves and work hard.

The next day, Li Nong got up early in the morning, and ate two large pieces of thick wheat cakes with boiling ginger water in the pot outside, and then went to find his neighbors, and the following day there was nothing to say was a dry word, cutting down trees and building shacks, so many people lived here for so long, there was no place to live, those military tents were just the emergency that came to the first time in the past two days, as Master Tang said, now everyone is to give themselves a future, and they are reluctant to point to others.

Before the official uphill, Li Nong and his subordinate villagers worked for three days, solved the problem of food and housing in the most humble way, and after looking at the assigned hillside, these hundreds of men began to wait for tomorrow with longing.

Tomorrow you can officially go uphill to repair your own soil!

It was only at this time that Li Nong, who had stopped from excitement and fatigue, suddenly thought of a question, what should I do with stones? Although there are some on the mountain, thousands of farmers are gathered to use, how can these on the mountain be enough? Although in the past two days, I have heard that there is a rocky mountain more than 20 miles away, and the mountain is full of large and small stones, but more than 20 miles is too far away, and I have to point to these farmers to carry it by themselves, which is ...... It's impossible.

Thinking of this, Li Nong, who had just taken off his coat, couldn't lie down, so he got up and walked out lightly

After that, he went straight to Wang Yunwu.

"Brother Li, are you still resting so late?" , Wang Yunwu, a scribe who worked with Li Nong, looked at Li Nong with a toad yawn, "What's so urgent?" ”。

"Stone", knowing that he couldn't say it clearly, Li Nong then added: "The dam of the terraced fields is only strong when it is built up by the sun, and it is not necessary at all, and the point on the hillside can be used up in less than two days, what is the matter?" ”。

As soon as he heard Li Nong say this, the look on Wang Yunwu's face became strange, and he wanted to explain something but didn't say anything after all, "Brother Li, don't worry, this Tang County Venerable has already made arrangements, and the stone will be able to be sent over at that time."

"Send it here? Who sends? Ren Li Nong asked again, Wang Yunwu refused to say anything more, and it was said that the county lord had already made arrangements, so don't worry.

On the way back to the accommodation, Li Nong, who didn't get an answer, kept thinking about this matter over and over again, send it, who will send it? To supply thousands of people with stones, how many large animals would it take to support the land, and how many people would be needed to shout these large animals? Now that so many Ding Zhuang have gathered here, even if the county lord really has the ability to get so many big animals, where can he find so many people to use them?

This question that he couldn't figure out and Wang Yunwu's strange face flashed alternately in Li Nong's mind, which made him, an old farmer who had few dreams, try the taste of "insomnia" for the first time in his life, and he didn't fall asleep in a daze until the third watch of the month, when his brain hurt and he fell asleep in a daze.

The next morning, when the sky was just dawning, Li Nong was startled by the sound of gongs and drums that shook the sky, turned over and put on his clothes and walked out, and saw a big drum set up not far from the lodging place, which did not look like the daily land objects of the people, at this time there was a soldier wearing light leather armor who threw off his arms and beat the drum with a mallet, and looked up and down along the river, and every half a mile there was the same arrangement, and dozens of big drums up and down on both sides of the river were picked up together, and the sound of overlapping was blocked back by the slopes on both sides. As the sound became thicker, the sound of the earth in the echo of the hollow valley sounded like a mallet on the human heart, not only did a little residual sleepiness disappear suddenly, but the strength of the body was also awakened by the rumbling drum.

In the passionate drumming, sleepy-eyed villagers came out of the countless shabby shacks up and down the river, first stunned to look at the sergeants beating the drums, and then looked at the opposite side of the hillside with red flags, because of the morning sleepiness and some lazy strong men suddenly rose up as if by magic, in a short time, the river between the two sides of the hillside was full of lively hustle and bustle.

The cauldron near the river burned, the smoke rose, the washing and washing, the farming tools were arranged, and almost everyone couldn't help but look at the slopes on both sides while they were busy with the things at hand.

After eating, without waiting for the thoughtful Li Nong to shout, these farmers under his command couldn't wait to run to the hillside, and they didn't know how many times they had looked at the specific location in the past two days, and they didn't need any guidance at all.

As soon as these farmers went uphill, they were like tigers out of the cage, and they were busy according to Li Nong's previous assignment, looking for stones to gather stones and move stones tightly and methodically, and everyone seemed to have endless energy.

Seeing this scene, Li Nong, who was the guide of cultivating the field, was even more worried, and according to their enthusiasm, they were afraid that the self-generated stones on the hillside would have to be searched for in less than two days, and what would happen when it was next tomorrow?

In fact, before the end of tomorrow, just when Li Nong was thinking about it, there were already villagers asking about it, and at this time Li Nong was not good at saying something discouraged, so he glanced at Wang Yunwu, who was not far away, and agreed in a deep voice, "The county lord has his own arrangements for this matter, just wait."

Li Nong's voice was very loud, with a lack of restlessness.

But after the events of the past few days, these bankers have trust in him and the old man Tang, who is also from the banker, and they continue to work hard without saying anything after hearing what he said.

Glancing at Wang Yunwu again, who was counting the number of people and taking the bookkeeper, Li Nong exhaled a long breath and leaned over and picked up a big stone, and he never stopped until noon, just to use this heavy stone to suppress the floating thoughts.

At the end of the afternoon, when the family finished work and ate, those farmers were happily discussing the progress of the morning, but Li Nong, who was more solid than anyone else, did not say a word, and after eating and resting for a while, he went uphill again without saying a word.

Seeing Chenguang pass a little bit, the arrangement of the county lord is still not a shadow at all, and the irritability in Li Nong's heart is also heavier, but the more he works, the more fierce he works, the older leader he is so hard, but he forces those strong young men to be unable to do their work, and they dare not slack off at all.

However, as a result, fewer and fewer suitable stones can be found.

Just when Li Nong couldn't hold back any longer and was ready to go to Wang Yunwu, and had to find out the truth no matter what, he suddenly heard a shout behind him, "Look", the Zhuang Hu who made this voice was like seeing a ghost, and he was shocked and lost his voice.

Hearing this shout, Li Nong, who was beating in his heart, couldn't even take care of the stone he was still holding in his arms, and turned his head suddenly.