The rest of the villagers listened to He Laoguo's words, and some of them were poor, and immediately shouted: "Uncle Laoguo, wait for us, we will go too." ”

All of a sudden, three men caught up with He Laoguo, and wanted to follow him to Gu's house to have a look and talk about this wasteland.

Some villagers also scolded them: "A group of things that see money, even if they sell tofu and make money, they still live in old mud houses, and they are searched at a glance, don't work hard to finish your work, and you don't get the money in the end!" ”

He Laoguo ignored their uneasy and kind words, and only said to the three people who followed: "A few days ago, Qin Gu Luotian's family was still collecting soybeans, and all they gave were cash, and it was impossible to drag our wages for clearing the wasteland, don't listen to them, it's only right to make money." ”

Can you make money gossiping around the big mill every day?

The men of the three families were originally worried that Qin Gu and Luo Tian's families would be in arrears, but after listening to He Laoguo's words, they were relieved a lot.

He Laoguo told them again: "Although those families are fleeing from the famine, they have the ability, and when they get to the Gu family, don't say anything annoying, and don't look around." That tofu belongs to other people, it's none of our business, even the Lu family and Zou County can't take away the things, don't think about it, work honestly, and you can make some money for the family. ”

He Dazhuan said: "Uncle Lao Guo, don't worry, our family is honest and responsible, not ours, we don't care." ”

He Shengzi also said: "Old uncle, don't worry, we are not a family like the Lu family, we only work, and we don't worry about the Gu family." ”

He Shengzi is only sixteen years old, his father and mother died early, and the brothers and sisters lived with their grandmother, but their grandmother is old and in poor health, and his sister is only eight years old.

But the odd jobs are not so easy to find, sometimes there are no more, most of the time, He Shengzi is wandering around the shallow mountains of Dafeng Mountain, looking for some wild vegetables and wild fruits, or catching some game to live, and the life at home is very difficult.

So he is a person who wants to follow He Laoguo to the Gu family to do the work of clearing the wasteland.

When He Laoguo heard this, he nodded: "It's good that you know it in your hearts." ”

Not long after, He Laoguo took the three men of He Dazhuan, He Shengzi, and He Tugou to the Gu family.

"Brother Gu, are you at home?" He Laoguo stood outside the courtyard gate of the Gu family, stretching his neck and asking.

"Yes." The third grandfather went to open the door for He Laoguo and welcomed He Laoguo and them into the courtyard.

He Laoguo was eager to make money, and immediately asked about the wasteland.

The third grandfather was also very straightforward, and said directly: "We asked someone to open up the wasteland this time, not according to the number of days, but according to the mu, open one acre of wasteland, and give 300 yuan." ”

This method was said by Xiaoyu.

Xiaoyu said that if the wages are calculated by the number of days, it is inevitable that there will be those who steal and cheat, and they must be counted by the mu. In this way, the people who open up the wasteland will definitely work hard, after all, they will get the money early after doing it early, and if they are lazy, it is the people who will suffer the loss.

"Three hundred dollars!" He Shengzi stood up excitedly and asked the third grandfather: "The third grandfather of the Gu family, what you always said is true?" Open an acre of wasteland, really give 300 yuan? ”

This 300 yuan is a lot, and he sells coolies for a month's wages.

And he has opened up wasteland, if he is diligent, gets up early and works greedily in the dark, and opens an acre of wasteland, it will only take three days to work, and he can earn 300 wen in three days, which is a lot of money.

He Laoguo had already come back to his senses and scolded He Shengzi: "Who is the third grandfather of your Gu family, can you still be tricked, if you say three hundred yuan per mu, it is naturally three hundred yuan per mu." ”

He hurriedly said to the third grandfather: "Brother Gu, we will do this work, you can rest assured that we will leave it to us, and we will definitely do it for you." ”

The third grandfather looked at their excited looks, and continued: "After this wasteland is opened, we don't raise the land, we have to plant seeds directly, so we have to turn it over five times, and we have to sprinkle grass ash in the middle to fertilize the ground. ”

He Laoguo didn't say anything, but he should come down: "This is how it should be, we must do it according to your requirements." ”

As long as this wasteland is cleared once, the rest will be much easier.

When the third grandfather saw that they were willing, he called Gu Dafu, and took them to the wasteland in the back village with Gu Dafu, pointing to the wasteland and saying: "These are the wastelands that our family wants to open, the leftmost one is my family's, only three acres, and then the one that comes over is the Dashan family, there is a six-acre family, and the Luo family is also six acres......

Gu Damu, Gu Dalin's brothers, Gu Dafu's brothers' family are all six acres, Qin's family is five acres, Tian's family is three acres, a total of 35 acres of wasteland, and several of them have contracted all the wasteland that can be opened in Houcun.

In the past half a month, their families have also intermittently opened ten acres of wasteland, and now there are twenty-five acres left.

He Laoguo They heard that there was so much wasteland to be opened, and their eyes were shining, twenty-five acres, three hundred yuan per acre, that was more than seven taels of silver.

He Laoguo was very warm-hearted, and said to the third grandfather: "Brother Gu, don't worry, we will start working now, and we will definitely open this wasteland for a few of you before the seeds are planted in March." ”

The third grandfather nodded: "Okay, then you can work." ”

He also talked about the meal: "Our family is busy with work, and there is no one to cook, so we can only take care of your one meal a day, which is a bean cake made at home, three per person, and there is no more." ”

The people take food as the sky, and this peasant family is busy all day, just for the sake of eating, so you have to make this matter clear, otherwise you will be able to gossip about a meal.

"Eh, Brother Gu, we know." He Laoguo never expected that the Gu family would give them a working meal, and they were so happy that they couldn't keep their mouths shut, this work was really worth it.

After the third grandfather explained the matter to them, he took Gu Dafu home.

He Laoguo and the others also went home immediately, took farm tools, and then brought the labor that could work at home, and went to the back village to open up the wasteland for Qin Gu and Luotian.

The people in the village were very disdainful when they saw that He Laoguo and they really went to open up the wasteland for those families, but they were surprised when they heard that the wages given by those families were 300 yuan to open an acre of wasteland, and they were surprised after taking care of a meal.

But after being surprised, he began to laugh sourly, saying that He Laoguo and several of them were deceived, how can there be such a good thing in the world?

"If you open one acre of wasteland, you can have 300 yuan, and you can take care of food, who are you bluffing? Those few must have deceived Uncle Lao Guo and them, and when the work is done, they will definitely not give money. ”

There are also good deeds, who ran to the wasteland, and reminded He Laoguo and them with 'good intentions', telling them to stop doing it, and they won't get paid when they finish it.

He Laoguo didn't hear it, and only worked by himself.

At noon, Gu Dafu took Gu Dexing and picked up a load of bean dregs cake and soybean milk, and greeted He Laoguo and them: "Uncle Laoguo, come over for dinner." ”

He Laoguo and the others saw that the Gu family was sending food, so they rushed over and saw a load of bean dregs cake and two jars of soy milk, and they couldn't stop laughing.