Chapter 257: What a miserable girl
Xue Langjing swallowed her saliva and asked Xiao Er a little embarrassed, "Little Second Brother, is there any work around here that can work with anti-sacks or something?" I don't have any copper plates on me, so I have to earn some money to buy food. ”
As he spoke, he added a little shyly, "I have a lot of food, and I'm afraid I won't be able to eat if I don't have ten cents, hehe." ”
Everyone present didn't expect that this girl turned out to be a poor master.
Some people couldn't help but be curious, "Girl, I see what you are wearing, you are not from a poor family, and that sword and this set of bows are extraordinary at first glance, how can they not have a penny?" ”
"Yes, the girl is Orion, right? Look over there," the man said, pointing in the direction of the mountains and forests, "If you go in and hunt or something, you can earn more than if we go to the town to do a day's work, why did we end up like this?" ”
"Yes, yes, it shouldn't be like this!"
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There were many diners on the side, as well as pedestrians attracted by this side.
Listening to everyone's words and me, Xue Langjing explained the reason why he was like this, and by the way, he sold them miserably.
I only heard her sigh deeply, "Alas, this matter is a long story! ”
"You say, let's listen, maybe we can help you."
"That's it, girl, tell me about it."
Seeing a story to hear, whether it is the customers in the restaurant, the passers-by, or the shop boss all came out to listen.
"I'm a Soul Enlightener, some time ago, I encountered a bottleneck... So I promised my family that I wouldn't use hunting or unusual abilities to earn money... I didn't take a copper plate when I went out, so..."
That's what she said.
Everyone present was ordinary people, and they didn't know what the effect of this so-called experience was, and they didn't understand why they didn't let hunting and use strange abilities to improve their strength.
But they heard a few points from her words.
This girl came from a good background, but now she is penniless, and she cannot make money with the hunting she is best at.
For a while, the enthusiastic crowd thought of a way for her.
However, someone still couldn't bear to remind her, "Girl, carrying a sack or something, there may be one in the town, but there is no one in our village, everyone is a small people, and they don't need these, I'm afraid this job is not easy to find." ”
"Yes, yes, poor little girl, if you want to fight the sacks, you have to go to town."
"Huh?" Didn't even have a sack to resist?
You can't resist the sack, you can do something else, "Then, if there is a need to write a letter, or if there is something to write, I can write." ”
"We little people don't know a single big word, where can we use words, we don't have literate relatives, who to write to, basically don't have this need."
Xue Langjing still didn't give up and asked, "Then, is there any other work that can be done?" All I need is to earn some money for food, and when I have enough to eat, I will go to the town to find work. ”
Woo woo...
If she wants to cry without tears, she feels that she has been deceived by Zheng Linchu, and said that as long as she has great strength, it will be easy to make money?
She didn't have any work to do, so was she going to break the contract and go hunting on the first day she went out?
Just as she was struggling with herself, she finally heard a different answer.
A woman's heavenly voice sounded, "There are still recruitments, but I'm afraid that you are not suitable for the girl." ”
As she spoke, the woman looked her up and down, and looked at her dress, although she was a hunter, she was not the master of the field.
"I said Aunt Liu, look at what this girl is wearing, do you think she can be a valley guest?"
"Hey, the third son of the Qian family, look at what you said, everyone is willing to resist the sack, why can't they accept the harvest of grain? Can't learn, it's not a difficult thing, the main thing is not to rely on a handful of strength, people are capable, great strength, not allowed to do people's work for several days a day, one or two days can harvest an acre! ”
From the conversation between the two, Xue Langjing could hear that he could help harvest the rice.
Knowing that there was work to do, she approached the aunt of the Liu family and recommended herself, "This aunt, I will harvest rice, I used to plant millet at home, and I can harvest two acres in three days." ”
Two acres in three days? Really?
Hearing that she was really capable of this, the aunt of the Liu family, who had defended her before, couldn't help but glance at her a few times, to be precise, looking at her clothes, and asked with some disbelief, "I said girl, can you really go down to the field to harvest grain?" ”
This dress has to cost hundreds of dollars, and people who can wear this kind of clothes can really go to the ground?
Seeing that she didn't believe it, Xue Langjing, who was trying to earn money to eat, naturally recommended herself, "Our family background was not very good before, so we naturally wanted to go to the ground, but now that we are richer, we have changed to more expensive clothes." ”
Sure that she could really harvest the grain, the aunt of the Liu family clapped her hands, "Okay, this is a great thing, there is no other work in our village, that is, there is a great shortage of manpower to harvest the grain."
If the grain in this field is not harvested in a few days, the harvest season will really be missed, and many individual families are already short of labor, and now if they can't get the grain back, how can they have a good time this year, my God! ”
Saying that, the aunt of the Liu family couldn't wait for Xue Langjing's answer, so she hurriedly pulled her arm and walked towards the village, urging her as she went, "Little girl, hurry up, go, I'll take you there, auntie." ”
Along the way, the mouth of the aunt of the Liu family kept talking.
I think this is also a zealous woman, and most of them she spoke of were unemployed or under-employed.
Although she said all the way, in fact, there are only two things to sum up.
First, this year, the imperial court recruited a large number of soldiers, and many families were recruited soldiers, and even a few poor families could not afford to pay the filial piety silver, and even the only labor force was recruited, which also led to a serious shortage of labor at home.
In previous years, even if they were short of labor, they could spend some money to hire homeless people who did not have land at home to do short-term work and collect grain for their families.
But this year, all the displaced people went to Zhaojia Village in the next town to work as long-term workers, and they couldn't recruit short-term workers at all, so they could only watch the unharvested millet in the fields and be anxious.
It's not that the villagers don't want to help, but they are also busy with farming, especially those who have also been requisitioned and have less labor, if they help others, it will affect their own harvests, and they can only finish their own work first and then help others.
But now, there are not a few families that are busy, how to help them?
With no one to help and no one to collect it, what can be done to those who lack labor, especially those families with only old and weak children left at home?
As long as the woman has a little strength, it is a big deal to ask other families to help carry the threshing bucket and other tools, although the labor is insufficient and the movement is slower, but at least the grain can be harvested.
But what about these old people, or those who can't handle their legs? They don't even have the strength to thresh.