The north wind is blowing, the snow is falling, and the weather is very cold.

Eight hundred miles of Yimeng Mountain, by Yi Mountain, Mengshan and other high mountains carry countless hills, the mountain is high and steep, the mountain is steep, the peaks and peaks are continuous, the mountains are stacked, for outsiders, the cliffs here, the boulders are craggy, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, the waterfalls flow springs, the streams are deep and the streams are clear, the Yi River, the Shu River linger like a belt. Wenfeng Mountain, Fulai Mountain, Yushan Mountain, Maji Mountain and Seventy-two Gu, majestic and beautiful, beautiful scenery.

However, for Weishan, who was born and grew up in Si, it is a place with inconvenient transportation, closed information, poverty and backwardness. Since he was a child, he hoped to leave this place one day and see the world beyond the mountains.

His home is in the mountains of Linyi, and to this day, there is no big road, only a small road, which can go over the mountains and mountains to the mountain village.

Carrying a heavy burden, he walked fifty-eight miles in the mountains in one breath, and beads of sweat gradually appeared on Wei Shan's back.

Although the burden on his shoulders was heavy, his steps were still strong. When he was ten years old, he said goodbye to the days of collecting firewood and grazing cattle in the village, and followed his father to step on this mountain road for the first time, leading to the world outside the mountain.

From the mountains to the mountains, a wider world, but the world outside the mountains, although vast, does not belong to him. He was just a baby from the mountains, and his father took him out to send him to a fellow village that came out of the mountains in his early years. The same village worked in a landlord's house in Yishui Prefecture, Qingzhou, and his father entrusted the relationship with the same village and sent him to work in the landlord's house.

Although he was only ten years old, his poor family in the mountains could not support him, because there were several younger siblings in the family. The children of the poor were in charge of the household, and the ten-year-old had to earn his own food, and from then on he herded cattle and sheep in the landlord's house, and then went to work in the fields. Do it for several years.

Until last year, there was a change of dynasty.

The mountain village also reduced rent and interest, the family's debts were cleared, and he also left the landlord's house where he had worked for many years and went further to Qingdao. The same village that took him out back then went to Qingdao a few years earlier. Working on the wharf over there earns more money than the landlord's family.

Wei Shan worked with his fellow villagers in Qingdao for more than a year and earned a little money. However, this time he put down his busy work in Qingdao and rushed back to his hometown in the mountains, not because the New Year was approaching.

The road is rugged and difficult to walk, and it has not changed for many years, and one person walks on this road, listening to the birdsong echoing through the valley, looking at the familiar mountain roads everywhere. Wei's heart was full of intimacy.

In the past, I always wanted to get out of the mountains, away from here, and never come back, but now, after a long time away, I always feel very kind.

In winter, the road is always so difficult to walk, and the rain and snow turn the already rough and narrow road into a muddy stream. Fortunately, he had known about this situation. I wore a pair of leather boots, or the mud would have been over the upper of the shoe for a long time.

When we got to a bend in the mountain. Wei Shan stopped, there was a big stone on the side of the road, it was very smooth. Passers-by like to stop here when they pass by.

Placing the burden on the stone, he sat down and took out a cigarette stick and a bag of shredded tobacco from his purse. I have been working at Qingdao Wharf for more than a year. Wei Shan has indeed gained a lot of knowledge. Qingdao has changed day by day in the past two years, with hundreds of shipbuilding industries, and the port has also prospered day by day because of sea trade and shipping.

The wages of workers in Qingdao have also been rising, and the corresponding prices have also risen a lot.

Wei Shan worked diligently in Qingdao and saved a sum of money. He usually has no other hobbies, and in his free time, he likes to drink a small bowl of tea in the big bowl of tea shop on the edge of the dock, and then listen to the newspaper reader in the tea shop read the newspaper and listen to the news of the world.

In addition to drinking a large bowl of tea and listening to newspapers, he also has a hobby of smoking. This is also learned from the workers in Qingdao, usually the dock work, very hard, the workers will like to drink and smoke. However, Wei Shan doesn't drink, he is easy to get drunk when he drinks, and the most important thing is that it costs money to drink.

Smoking is cheaper, and instead of buying rolled paper cigarettes, only buying cheaper shredded tobacco and smoking it with a dry tobacco stick, it doesn't actually cost a few dollars.

Sitting on the big stone, Wei Xin filled a pot of cigarettes and smoked beautifully.

When he came home today, he deliberately wore a new dress, a very thick blue cloth coat, and a woolen woolen vest inside. The hair has also been freshly trimmed, the face has been shaved, and the beard has also been trimmed, and the whole person is very energetic.

This year is the second time he has gone home, if under normal circumstances, people in the village who go out usually rarely go home, it is normal to go back once a year, and even for the sake of livelihood, it is common to go back once every two or three years.

Although the dynasty has changed, the family in the Yimeng Mountains is still living a bitter life haha. Even if the imperial court reduced everyone's taxes, and let the landlords reduce rents and interest rates, the mountains are too barren.

The land in the mountains has little output, and there is still little land in the mountains, and there are few real landlords. Their family did not have an acre of their own land, and they had been relying on tenants for others. However, there are few fields in the mountains, and even the tenant fields are less than a few acres.

Wei Shan, who has already seen the world outside, knows very well that if they live the way they lived, they would always be like this, and they would be bitter for the rest of their lives.

After smoking a bag of cigarettes, Wei Shan knocked the cigarette pot clean on the stone, then put it away, carried the burden and continued to come up.

In the mountains in winter, it is almost a hue, gray.

What development can be achieved by staying in such a big mountain nest? Living on tenant cultivation of a few acres of land a year, the output is low, and you have to pay rent for a little grain, and the rest of your own is not enough for the family to eat.

And there is no other income in the mountains, and the mountains are full of trees except stones, but even if there are trees, there is no road to transport them out. At the age of seven or eight, boys were sent to the landlord's family to herd cattle and sheep, and girls were even given to others as child daughters-in-law at the age of eight or nine.

And when the son grows up, getting married has become a big and difficult matter, and he needs to borrow all his relatives and friends, and sometimes he can only rely on changing relatives. The daughter-in-law married back, and the family owed a lot of debts.

Every time Wei Shan walks on this mountain road, he will think that there will never be a chance to turn over here. The outside world is changing, but the mountains are the same.

In fact, there have been some changes, the last time he went home, he found that there were fewer people in the village, and only some old people, women and children were left in the village. His father told him that the county sent people down to organize the young men in the village to go out to make money. The county organization took them out. In fact, it is to open mountains and build roads, build cities and embankments in Yishui Mansion.

But unlike the conscription in the past, it was voluntary, and there was money and food. The round-trip travel expenses, food and lodging, the county covered it, and worked in the field. It is said that there is a basic salary every month, and even in the event of rain and other situations that cannot be started, if the work is not started, there is at least a basic salary, and the basic salary is at least one silver dollar in January.

And under normal circumstances, you can get almost three silver dollars a month, and you don't have to pay for food and housing. That's the equivalent of a dime every day.

Although this is not as good as Wei Shan's work at the Qingdao wharf, he is also familiar with it there. Now I can earn at least four silver dollars a month, and I can save the rest of food, drink, and lodging.

But for most people in the village, it's a good idea to go out and make money like this. They can earn three dollars in a month, which is more than they have earned in the previous year.

All the young men in the village went, and many half-grown children and half-old men scrambled to go.

But after all, this will not change the poverty in the mountains.

There is no good land in the mountains, there are many mountains and few fields, and there is no land of one's own, so it can only be given to people forever. Not even a tenant. Although there is now a way out to carry out the work, it is better to have your own land after all.

But he has a piece of land of his own. This was just a fantasy in the past.

There are few fields in the mountains, and the land is still expensive, so how can you buy the fields?

But now, there is an opportunity in front of them, and if they want to, they can have a field of their own. When he confirmed the news. Immediately rushed back to his hometown overnight.

As soon as he thought of this, he couldn't help but speed up his pace a lot.

A village appeared on the hillside ahead, the village is not small, there are more than 100 families, but almost nothing has changed in more than ten years. Gray thatched roofs, loess walls, almost every house is like this, low houses are crowded on this hillside, and there is not even a decent stone-walled house.

Looking at the village that was getting closer and closer, he sighed in his heart, why is there no flat land.

At this time, he couldn't help but remember the news he heard in Qingdao, as long as he went to Guanwai, if he went to Liaoxi Province, one person could get 20 acres of land, if he went to Yanbei, one person could share 30 acres, and if he went to Monan, one person could divide 50 acres, and if he went to Liaodong, one person could divide 60 acres, but in Liaobei Province, one person could share 100 acres.

A hundred acres of land are said to be good land, and the flat fields are all black land. Chopsticks can sprout when inserted into the roots, except for the cold spots in winter, there is no other difference.

But as soon as he thought of one hundred acres, his heart couldn't help but tremble. They also said that if you really have the ability to cultivate more than 100 acres, it will also be yours to cultivate. Moreover, when going to immigrants, the imperial court will also be responsible for their relocation and resettlement, and even to the land, the first three years of reclamation are tax-free.

He doesn't care if he is exempt from tax exemption, what he cares about is that one person has a hundred acres of land.

If their family moved to settle down in northern Liaoning, and his family now has eleven people, wouldn't they be able to get 1,100 acres of land? Eleven hectares, and the land in their entire village combined, there is not so much.

He thought that he was afraid that he would not be able to grow so much land. But I also heard that at that time, the imperial court will lease them cattle and horses and the latest steel farming tools, although there is more land, but the land is good, contiguous into blocks, convenient for farming, one person to cultivate a hundred acres, not a problem.

If the newly cultivated land is cultivated in rotation, the land is divided into three plots, two plots per year, one piece in rotation, and more than 30 acres of land for 100 acres a year.

His heart has long been occupied by each person's 100 acres of land, and he will never forget it.

Although I work in Qingdao, I can earn four silver dollars a month, which is much better than digging in the soil. But in his heart, he still dreamed of having a field of his own since he was a child.

If my father and brothers had known the news, they would have been willing.

He made up his mind that even if his father and brothers refused to leave their homeland, he would definitely leave. After seeing the world outside, he was not so attached to this small mountain village in his hometown.

The sun was gradually setting, and Wei Shan had already reached the head of the village.

The village is quiet, and in the past winter, everyone is always fine, either roasting at home, or going up to the mountains to pick some herbs, or going to the mountains to cut wood and burn charcoal. In the past, in the evening, the village was always bustling with activity, with smoke rising from the chimneys on the roofs of every house, children playing outside, and adults gossiping about the gossip of the west.

But now, the village is empty.

Wei Shan, dressed in blue cloth, appeared, and finally attracted the attention of the villagers. The three masters of the village looked at him from a distance, and it took a while to confirm that it was him.

Shouted loudly from afar. "Oh, the eldest baby of the fifth family is back, why did you come home at this time, and she still carries such a big burden, what is it?"

Wei Shan also shouted the third master from afar.

"Third master, there's something to do when you come back. At a while, my family will come to sit and have dinner together, and I will bring wine back from Qingdao and drink two glasses later. ”

"Okay." The third master hurriedly replied with a smile.

Wei Shan greeted the three masters and walked towards his house at a faster pace. On the way, he met a few village masters, and he also greeted them one by one and asked them to come to the house to sit in a while.

Wei Shan walked to the door of the house and pushed open the familiar firewood door, where his gray-haired mother was chopping pigweed in the yard. Early. The family used the money he brought back from working in Qingdao to buy four piglets, and the family raised pigs. These four pigs are not raised for their own food, but for sale, which is a rare way for the family to make money.

In the past, when the family owed a lot of debts, they couldn't afford to support them.

The courtyard door rang, and Wei's mother turned her head and saw that her eldest son had returned. Throwing down the knife, he hurriedly stepped forward.

"Big baby, why are you back?"

"Have you eaten?"

Wei Shan put down his burden. smiled, "I have something to do when I come back, but I haven't eaten yet." ”

"I'll cook for you and make cakes."

"Mother, I brought some vermicelli back, you take more of it. After a while, I called the three masters to come to dinner together and talk about things. ”

Wei Shan's mother looked at the several large bundles of gray fans he took out of the baggage, and said busily, "This is the fan, spend a lot of money." Hey, what are you doing with that money, you have to save if you have money, you haven't married a daughter-in-law yet. ”

"It's made from sweet potato flour, it's not worth a lot of money, and it's all given by my co-workers. You just boil the water and put it down to cook, just like you boil noodles. Wei Shan introduced fans to his mother.

"Mother, my father and my brother are still building roads outside?"

"Well, a few days ago, Xiaoshan in the east of the village came back once, saying that the construction site is very busy over there, and everyone has to work overtime to catch up with the work, and they have to repair until the end of the year before they can take half a month off. But busy is busy, but there is extra money for overtime. Speaking of this, Wei's mother felt very relieved, she had been poor for most of her life, and she was more eager for money than ordinary people.

"Where's the girl, mother?"

"Oh, I've gotten the sheep, and I'm probably coming back soon."

There are many sisters in Weishan, which is also a tradition here, although the family is poor, the poorer the child, the more children are born. His mother gave birth to more than a dozen children, died a few, and had nine children, but in the mountains, it was not much.

Wei Shan is the eldest of several brothers, but he still has four older sisters, and his mother gave birth to several without a handle in a row, which made his father anxious. Fortunately, later, after giving birth to Wei Shan, she gave birth to several sons in a row.

The four sisters are all married, and they are all married to nearby villages, and they are all poor. There is only one sister in the family, who is already twelve, and three younger brothers, ranging from eighteen to fourteen, who are now following their father to build roads. Originally, he planned to do something for his brother in Qingdao, but now he has other plans.

"Dawa, did you come back to find a job for your brother in Qingdao?"

Wei Shan worked in Qingdao and earned four silver dollars a month, which made him a capable man in the village, and many people hoped that Wei Shan would take their children to Qingdao.

Wei Shan thought that it was better to work for others than to work in Qingdao.

He rushed back this time to discuss with his family that he wanted to mobilize everyone to immigrate to Guanwai, and even after choosing a place, he went to Liaobei Province. When he was in Qingdao, he heard a lot of news, and knew that there were many immigrants in western Liaoning, southern and other places, and the good land must have been picked up by others.

And he also heard that the part of Liaobei Province is a great plain, and the land is more fertile than that of Liaoxi, let alone Monan. And there are many fields there, and the farther away is farther away.

Now there are immigrants everywhere, going to the northeast outside the border, to the plugging.

There are even special names now, such as those who go to Liaoxi, Liaodong or even Liaobei, which is called Guandong. And if it is out of Zhangjiakou, Xuanfu to Yanbei and Monan, it is called to go to Dongkou.

If it is from Shanxi to Suiyuan and Ningxia, it is called Xikou.

The imperial army is now conquering the east and west, and the Hu people outside the Great Wall have also surrendered, and the imperial court has established many new provincial capitals, opening up a large territory, and is in need of immigrants.

Regardless of whether you go to the east or the east or the west, the conditions for immigration are extremely good. The imperial court encouraged the people to emigrate outside the Guanwai, and the conditions were very good, and they could divide the land if they went, which was extremely attractive to many poor people like Wei Shan who did not have land.

Rather than guarding the small mountain nest of poverty and being poor for generations, it is better to leave the country and move to another place.

The news of Wei Shan's return soon spread throughout the small mountain village, and the old people who stayed in the village rushed over, even many women also came, and the people in the mountain village were not as many as the rules in the outer city.

Wei Shan took out a lot of things to entertain everyone, and those who came were considered his elders.

Shredded tobacco, wine, and even some candy for the kids. These new gadgets brought back from outside caused everyone to be amazed.

"Dawa, did you find your daughter-in-law outside?" An aunt said with a smile.

"Yes, if it weren't for the cigarettes, alcohol and sugar, it would definitely be a happy event."

Wei Shan smiled, "There is a happy event, but it's not a daughter-in-law, it's a bigger happy event." ”

"What a happy event, let you leave Qingdao with a lot of money and run home." The third master asked. (To be continued.) )

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Recently, people have been uncomfortable, and they haven't saved the manuscript, so sad.

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