Thinking of this, he waved his hand angrily: "How do I know this?" I've already told you what the above commanded! ”

"How to arrange it is your business, I don't care, but there is one thing I want to remind you, there must be someone in the Ye Lao Er family in your village!"

"Okay, you can handle the matter yourself, I've already brought it, let's go back!"

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Cunzheng, who was frowning and thinking about the truth, hurriedly said: "Lang Jun came all the way here, it's really hard, a little money, take it to a small bar?" ”

As he spoke, he took out a money bag from his bosom and stuffed it into the other party's hand.

The messenger flipped the money bag, felt the weight of it, and the look on his face looked much better.

After thinking about it, he said to him: "I think Murazheng, you still have to ask this Ye Lao Er's family, whether you have offended anyone, I am not afraid to tell you, this time the conscription, only Peach Blossom Village has!" ”

After saying this, the messenger didn't stop any longer, strode out of the house, leaving Zhang Cunzheng behind him, standing there with a shocked face.

"Father, what are we going to do?"

"Yes, father, is it true that you want to tell the villagers this bad news?"

"That's right, father, this year's weather is not good, if you add this matter, how can others survive?"

"Who did Ye Lao Er provoke? Do you want us to suffer together? ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Cunzheng came back to his senses in an instant, and stared at his daughter-in-law who was talking with serious eyes: "You must not tell others this!" ”

"It's all from the same village, who is Ye Laoer, you still don't know? I think there must be someone who sees that they are living a good life, and this is why they have a bad heart! ”

After saying this, his eyes swept over the son in front of him, and a trace of exhaustion appeared on his face.

waved his hand at them: "Go, this matter can't be delayed, you guys, use gongs to gather people together, I'll tell the big guy about this!" ”

"Yes, Father!" The men in the house glanced at each other, took their things, and went out of the house.

..............

Zhang Cunzheng's sons are very mobile, and they were instructed, and according to the previous operation, one person was in charge of a place.

Beating the gongs and drums, he shouted: "Everyone pay attention, there is something important in the village to tell you, and everyone who hears it will go to the open space in the middle of the village....."

Just knocked all the way, shouted all the way, and a few people quickly walked around the whole village.

In the new house, Ye Hao, who was busy in the west wing, raised her eyebrows when she heard the sound of gongs and drums outside the gate, and there was a hint of curiosity in her eyes: "Grandpa Zhang, what do you have to say?" ”

Xing Shi next to him was also puzzled, packed up the things in front of him a little, and stood up: "I'll go with your father to listen!" ”

Ye Hao thought about it and stood up: "Mother, I'll go too!" ”

I don't know why, she always feels that there is something unusual in this, or go over and listen to it, so that this heart can be put down.

"Sister, I'll go too!" Ye Xing, as her sister's most loyal admirer, has always been where her sister goes, where she goes.

Except for Ye Ming and the others, who were still in the school and did not go home, the other four people all came to the open space in the center of the village.

When I arrived, there were already a lot of people here, and at this time, they were all gathered together in twos and threes, talking in low voices.

"Hey, you said that Uncle Zhang suddenly brought us all together, what's the matter?"

"You say, could it be because of the things in the field? Could it be that Uncle Zhang got some news from where he knew if the rain could come down after the beginning of spring? ”

"What are you dreaming about? Uncle Zhang is a human, not a god! ”

"Then why do you say that? Is there anything else important to do now? ”

"How do I know that?"

Ye Hao listened to the voices of the people around her, and saw Zhang Cunzheng with a serious face with sharp eyes, and walked to the stage.

I saw him stretch out his hand and press down, and shouted loudly: "Ahem, everyone be quiet, be quiet!" ”

Seeing that everyone else's eyes were all over, and no one spoke again, he continued: "Calling everyone over today is a very important matter to talk to the big guy. ”

His eyes swept over the people in front of him, undetectable, and he stopped on Ye Hao's family, and he didn't sell it, so he said directly: "Half an hour ago, the messenger in the county government found me. ”

"Ahem, it is said that our village is going to send 50 people to serve in forced labor, there are more than 100 families in our village, and many of them have already served a conscription the year before last, and this time they will come out of the homes of people who have not served last time."

"Whoever has been there, who hasn't been, I have the bottom here, the big guys are more conscious, don't let me call someone in person!"

"Of course, if you have money at home, you can be exempted from this forced labor by paying the money, or the same as before, one or two silver per person!"

As soon as his words fell, the people below directly fried the pot.

The gossip said, "What? Conscription? Now is the critical time for the crops, and if you go to serve this forced labor, who will take care of the grain in the field? ”

"That's what you're talking about, Uncle Zhang, did you hear it wrong?"

"That's right, even if it's a forced labor in the past, I have never gone at this time!"

"Yes, I am the only strong laborer in my family, if I go to serve this forced labor, the food is not taken care of, and our family will starve to death!"

There were people who reacted quickly, and they asked directly: "Uncle Zhang, which villages are there to serve as forced laborers?" ”

"It's too sudden, isn't it? Why didn't you hear the news before? ”

Zhang Cunzheng listened to the noisy voices in front of him, frowned with a little headache, and reached out again to press down: "This matter was decided from above." ”

"We're just ordinary people, we can only do it, the big guy should go back and discuss it carefully, and see who will do this in the end, disperse, disperse."

The crowd gradually dispersed, and Ye Hao, who was standing in place, frowned involuntarily from hearing this.

Corvee? This is the word that this body remembers, and it has changed color.

Compared with the ancient times of her previous life, the conscription of the Great Chu Dynasty was not too heavy, and the frequency was about once every three or four years.

Since Ye Hao can remember, the Ye family has served three times in conscription, his father has served twice, the third uncle has served once, the fourth uncle was still young at the time, there is no need to mention it, as for the eldest uncle, he has not served once!

Every time my father went to serve in the conscription, it was the saddest day for the family.

Obviously, my father was serving for the sake of the family, but my grandmother would change her way and deduct their family's food.

The conscription usually lasted two to three months, and every time my father came back, he would lose weight because of the hard work of the conscription.

And their family, obviously did not go to serve as a conscription, but they would also lose a lot of weight.

Therefore, it is clear that a tael of silver is nothing to their family, but when she heard this word, the look on her face was still not very good-looking.