Chapter 7 Settling In

On the second day, the residents of Jishao Village, who were sleeping in the square, had breakfast, and began to quietly wait for the task assigned by the little flag officer, Lord Feng Jian.

Feng Jian stood in the middle of the crowd and arched his hand in all directions: "Fathers and elders, more than 300 people have settled down temporarily, and now the members of the self-post will build their own residences, and only after they have built their residences can they really settle down." The general of the cottage Xu has delineated the place for us to build a place to live, just on the southeast side of Huluyan Square, yesterday I and a few carpenters have checked on the spot, and there is a general plan for how to build a residence, and now everyone should follow the instructions of several carpenters to build a residence, and I hope that everyone will work together to build our own house. ”

Someone said loudly: "Although the small flag officials are assigned, don't say that building houses for us is building houses for others." As long as you give us orders, we will obey them. ”

Feng Jian looked at everyone: "All fathers and elders, remember that I, Feng Jian, will only do things that are beneficial to my father, and will never do things that harm my father." ”

After speaking, Feng Jian waved his hand and said, "Next, please ask a few carpenters to assign you." ”

The outpost householders were then divided into two groups by several carpenters and devoted themselves to the construction of their houses.

The young and strong laborers rushed to the area designated by the cottage to build a house, first began to remove the wooden piles and tamped the foundation, and the remaining 83 old and young guarded the materials of the outpost, and gathered the food of each family to make a good meal, and then delivered the prepared food to the construction site.

Feng Jian regarded himself as a strong laborer, rammed earth piling everywhere did not fall behind, Feng Jian took the lead, everyone looked more energetic, building a house and eating without delay, so the work efficiency is very high, only three days of effort, two rows of sixty wooden houses were built on the gentle slope, just wait for the roof to hang glued and covered with thatch.

It is a major event to build a house on the beam in the countryside, sacrifice the beam, set off firecrackers, and other procedures are indispensable, of course, these procedures are exempted in Huluyan, but the roof is hung and covered with thatch, and the whole self-sentinel old and young still get together to have a lively time, which is considered to celebrate the completion of the new home.

Feng Jian noticed that in the past few days, several carpenters have become the busiest people in their own posts, from the layout of the entire residence to the sewer ditch on the street to the thatched house in the house, these people have to do it themselves, several people have a clear division of labor, and one person with a group of young men is ready to obey the dispatch, which makes the whole self-sentry know them.

Among several people, Zhang Dalai has a wide range of knowledge and has put forward many good suggestions in the process of building a house, while Deng Ji has a more flexible mind and always likes to think and solve problems from another angle.

Huang Fuchun, on the other hand, is more down-to-earth and hardworking, not afraid of tediousness, and always thinks carefully about one thing before starting to do it.

The outpost can't be supported by Feng Jian alone, and some people with excellent performance will, intentionally or unintentionally, naturally become the backbone of the outpost. After a few days of contact, the spleen surnames of several people are also generally in their hearts.

All the wooden houses are a hall with two bedrooms on the left and right, and the outside of the house is an open space the size of a zhang, and the difference is only that the length of time is different because of the slope.

When the new house was completed, Feng Jian summoned all the sentinels, old and young, to get together and loudly announced the rules for occupancy: each wooden house from No. 1 to No. 60 was labeled with a number plate, and each family sent a person as a representative to draw lots to decide the ownership of the wooden house, and to move into the wooden house if they grabbed the number plate.

The process of dividing the house is going very smoothly, these new villagers have accepted Feng Jian's new measures of dividing the house, and happily lived in a new home.

After each family moved into the new house, Feng Jian convened the plenary meeting of the outpost again, informed everyone of his plans and plans for the future of his outpost, and announced that all the men over the age of thirteen in the outpost would be organized together and divided into several production and cultivation teams, and all cultivated land in the outpost would be collectively cultivated by production and cultivation teams in the future.

Everyone had no objection to Feng Jian's decision, and Zhao Shougang and Zhang Dalai even helped to come up with ideas to improve the planning measures.

Last time, there were 136 laborers over the age of 13 in the post, and after consultation, it was decided to set up five production and cultivation teams, excluding Feng Jian, each team happened to be 27 members.

Feng Jian ordered everyone to nominate five team leaders on the spot, and these few people who performed well were quickly recommended, and these people were also Feng Jian's favor.

Feng Jian immediately appointed Cao Anjian, Huang Fuchun, Zhang Dalai, Deng Ji, and Zhao Shougang as the leaders of the first to fifth teams of the production and cultivation team.

The responsibility of the five captains is to lead their subordinates to reclaim the land and farm, and take turns to lead the team to participate in patrolling and guarding the cottage.

The five squad leaders selected their respective team members on the spot, and in the end, there was only one person in the field who was not selected, and this person stood with an embarrassed face.

Su Su's face turned red, she didn't expect such an embarrassing thing to happen, no one picked herself!

I've been working hard these days, why don't the five squad leaders pick themselves? Do you feel that you don't work hard, or you bully your orphans and widows?

Dressed as a man, he does look thin and weak from the outside, and the fourteen or fifteen-year-old Su Su's body has just begun to develop in all aspects, coupled with the deliberate cover-up, a group of bitter Zhuang people will naturally not carefully distinguish it.

The criteria for the selection of the five squad leaders are all people who look strong as members of their own team, and Su Su, who is naturally thin and thin, is naturally not selected.

Su Su's mother had been secretly anxious on the side just now, Su Su was her daughter's family, and Su Su's father asked Su Su to pretend to be a man in order to avoid outside interference before going up the mountain, but this kind of thing was not good to say rashly in front of hundreds of people.

Now looking at Su Su's cramped and uneasy appearance, his heart trembled for a while, no one was selected to join the team, which meant that his mother and daughter would study hard to reclaim the wasteland and farm, thinking about the difficulties that the two of them would face in the future, and their hearts were full of sorrow.

"Alas! How to explain this. Su Su's mother sighed in her heart.

Raising his eyes and seeing this little flag official looking at him with a smile, for some reason, Su Su's eyes quickly filled with tears of grievance.

Su Su impulsively said to Feng: "In the past three days, I have contributed a lot to build a house, where is it unqualified, you are bullying!" As he spoke, tears flowed uncontrollably.

Zhang Dalai, the third squad leader, was more realistic: "Su Su, don't blame us, I feel that your body is too thin, and I am afraid that I will not be able to bear it in the future, so I didn't choose you." ”

Zhao Shougang, the leader of the fifth squad, comforted on the side: "Ahem, that Su Su... Our squad is full...... Don't cry, hurry up and beg Lord Feng. ”

Feng Jian saw Su Su suddenly crying, and said with some surprise: "No one here wants to bully you, don't cry, don't cry, don't worry, the outpost will not let you and your family live without a living, and will arrange your place according to your strengths." ”

Feng Jian thought about it and said: "Captain Zhang, they are right, those vigorous work is not suitable for you, you are our own little showman, in the future, you will specialize in private school, teach you to read and write to adults and children!" ”

Su Su thought that Feng Jian was perfunctory, and glared at Feng Jian angrily, this person is still bullying himself, the Zhuang people can't even eat, who will come to learn literacy.

Feng Jian thought about it and said: "After settling down, we will set up a literacy class at our outpost, Su Su, you are the most knowledgeable person in our outpost, and you will be the teacher of our outpost, this is true!" ”

"Really!" Su Su still didn't believe it, "Why let me be Mr. Literate, Uncle Hu Baocai is also literate." Saying that, his expression was a little cramped, and he looked at Feng Jian nervously.

Feng Jian rolled his eyelids, and said in a somewhat unhappy tone: "Uncle Hu will naturally have other arrangements, don't you want to make you a literate gentleman?" ”

Su Su gritted his teeth and hurriedly said, "Yes, thank you Little Flag Officer." ”

What the! The little flag officer wants to arrange for his daughter to be his own teacher! That's great! Su Su's mother was still worried about her future life just now, but in a blink of an eye, her daughter had a good place to go, and her mood fluctuated.

Su Su's mother hurriedly stepped forward and took Su Su's hand and walked to Feng Jian, and said excitedly: "My lord has arranged a good place for my family Su'er, the old woman and the woman... Su Er Xie Xiao Qi Guan. ”

As he spoke, he was about to kneel down and kowtow, Feng Jian was startled, and hurriedly said: "Su Su's strength is that he is literate and literate, which is exactly what he needs to run a literacy class, and my aunt must not do this." ”

Su Su's mother turned her head to Su Su and said, "Su'er is really ignorant, so she didn't come forward to thank the little flag official." ”

Su Suming glanced at Feng Jian, bowed his head and said, "Thank you for your appointment." As he spoke, he knelt down and thanked him.

Feng Jian didn't adapt to this era, so he knelt down and bowed at every turn, and hugged Su Su and said, "You're welcome, help your mother go back!" ”

Su Su sideways avoided Feng Jian's hand, and turned to look at Feng Jian with bright eyes, just as Feng Jian was also looking at her, his heart was shocked, and his eyes moved away in a little panic.

Seeing Su Su and his mother turn around and walk back, he advised: "Su Su, you can choose one of the vacant houses in your post as a literacy class and prepare in advance." ”

"Don't worry, sir!" Su Su replied.

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