In Wanfeng County, which is under the jurisdiction of Lingnan Prefecture, a notice appeared in the most conspicuous place in the county this morning.

The notice said that a family needed to recruit a large number of peasant households to help harvest rice, with a daily wage of 50 yuan, food and housing, and settlement of accounts on the same day.

Such a big good thing suddenly made the county residents of Wanfeng County boil, and they found Luohua, who was in charge of registration, to inquire.

Yes, inquire.

No one dared to sign up directly.

Because the salary of 50 wen is really not a small amount, the farm work of helping people cut rice is only 20 wen a day, and 50 wen is equivalent to the salary they did for two and a half days before.

They couldn't believe it.

But no matter how they asked, Luohua after disguise only used one sentence to send away: "Fifty wen a day, including food and accommodation, settling the bill on the same day, only recruiting young and strong, the quota is limited, and you will leave when the recruitment is full." ”

There are even more hesitants now.

Which recruiter has such a bad attitude?

Think about it, people have the confidence to open such a high salary, and it seems that there is no need to give them a good attitude.

Just as these people were hesitating, a tall man squeezed into the crowd and said bluntly, "I'll go." ”

Luohua picked up the pen and asked his name, registered it, and then handed him a sign and asked him to wait.

With the people who took the lead, the people who watched behind them couldn't sit still immediately, and those who met the conditions also hurriedly squeezed over to sign up, for fear that if the action was slow, people would be full.

In the afternoon of the same day, Luohua took more than 100 people to find a place in the county to stay overnight, and the next morning, before dawn, he took these people and set off for the mountains.

The place is far away, so it is unrealistic to walk on two legs, and when Luohua came, he drove more than thirty ox carts.

Those men looked at the neat ox cart and swallowed their saliva.

What is the origin of this master's family, so many ox carts, how many fields?

After they had walked for most of the day in an ox cart, they felt a little uneasy when they found that not only did they not see the farmland, but they also walked deeper and deeper into the mountains.

The place Lin Ruan is looking for is far away from the people, and he has to pass through many mountains, and it takes a whole day just to travel in an ox cart, otherwise he may not be able to get to the place after walking for two days.

"I said, owner, where did your rice grow? Why did you walk for so long and not get to the place? If I knew it was so far away, I wouldn't have come. ”

Others were just as loud.

In the past, they helped people harvest rice, and they were all around the village, which was very convenient. And I've never heard of anyone who grows rice in the mountains.

If you take 10,000 steps back, even if you plant it in the mountains, it looks like there are no people around, and there is no road.

They really think that the situation is a little weird, and Luohua still has a foreign accent, what if this is a lie to them?

Luohua also had a little headache, so he had to talk about it before he appeased these people.

There was a delay on the way, and when I arrived at the place, it was almost midnight.

The moon is very round tonight, and thousands of acres of rice fields are in the moonlight, although it is not clear to see, but you can see a rough outline.

The evening breeze was blowing, and the fragrance of rice was bursting, which made these men who were originally all uneasy in their hearts suddenly relieved.

Lin Ruan heard the movement and asked Fei Yu to go out and arrange for those men to eat and sleep.

The house Lin Ruan had already been prepared, and there were several long rows of thatched houses, not far from the houses of Lin Ruan's master and servant, and it was no problem to live for hundreds of people.

The first day's meal was made by her and Fei Fu together, with meat and vegetables, not sumptuous, but definitely enough.

These men, who had been on the road all day, smelled the smell of meat, and their saliva was about to drip down.

After dinner, the men went to the row of rooms, picked random beds and went to sleep.

The next morning, as soon as it was dawn, the men took the initiative to get up.

When they stood on the edge of the rice field, they looked at the rice field that seemed to be in sight, and they were so shocked that they couldn't speak.

What shocked them even more was that the rice in this paddy field, the first ear of rice, was very large and full, and one ear of rice could reach three or even four or five of their own planting.

Such a pleasing ear of rice made the eyes of these crop men shine, and they were more excited than looking at the handsome big girls.

Luohua gave them a sickle and let them get busy.

As for himself, he once again went back to the county to continue recruiting.

With thousands of acres of paddy fields, these people alone are certainly not enough.

Lin Ruan and Fei Xu were in charge of preparing the meals.

These men work very fast, some of them are responsible for harvesting, some are responsible for threshing, and some are responsible for carrying the grain to the open field to dry the weeds.

The drying field is another place prepared by Lin Ruan, a large open space, it is definitely not possible to dry thousands of acres of grain at one time, but it is impossible to harvest so much rice so quickly, and the grain that is beaten down every day is dried in an area, alternating in rotation, which is naturally enough.

On the first day, more than 100 men harvested a total of nearly 300 acres of rice fields.

These people are very honest in their work, and no one is lazy. After all, the wages here are so high, there is meat at every meal, and it is not easy to find a job to eat well and earn a lot of money, and they don't want to lose their work because they are lazy.

And the yield of rice harvested on the first day also surprised them.

Nowadays, the best fertile land can make three or four stones (three or four hundred catties) of grain at most per acre, but here it can hit more than ten or twenty stones! This is simply beyond their conventional understanding.

But thinking of those oversized ears of rice, the men feel that this yield is quite normal, after all, the ears of rice are four or five times larger than ordinary people's, so what is strange about the yield of four or five times.

The thought in their minds now is whether they can ask the Lord's family how this rice was grown.

The simplest wish of the peasants is that they can harvest more grain in the fields, so that life can be better.

It's just that this main family is also quite strange, such a large rice field, there are only two "mothers-in-law" left here to cook, and there is no one else.

Isn't the lord afraid that the wild beasts of the mountains will come down and spoil the grain?

There is no solution to this problem, and they can only eat and rest with a stomach full of doubts, and continue to work tomorrow.

In the evening of the next day, Luohua led more than 300 people and ten cooking mothers-in-law back.

With the addition of these people, the speed of rice harvesting is several times faster, and nearly 1,000 acres of rice fields can be harvested in one day.

Lin Ruan divided more than 30 people out and asked them to drive the oxen to plow the land.

The front is harvested, and the back is plowed, so that after the first crop of rice is harvested, the second crop can be planted immediately.