The ox cart walked smoothly on the avenue, and the cattle made a "moo" cry from time to time.

After Zhao Fuxiang's words came out, on the ox cart, the atmosphere between the four people visibly condensed.

A cold air lingered around them, enveloping the four of them.

Zhao Shanlin, Zhao Shanchuan and Zhao Shanhe were all frightened by Zhao Fuxiang's words.

The three of them turned their heads and looked, you look at me, I look at you, no one dared to speak.

Zhao Fuxiang turned his back to the three brothers and didn't look back, but his tone of voice was much stiffer than before, "When you enter the village later, what should you say and what you shouldn't say, do you still need me to teach you?" ”

That's a bit of a weight.

Although Zhao Fuxiang spoke in a small voice, his words were so powerful that the three brothers trembled together.

In the end, Zhao Fuxiang turned his head violently and stared at the three people behind him with his slightly cloudy eyes.

Out of the corner of his eye, he skimmed over Zhao Shanlin and Zhao Shanchuan on the side, and finally fell on Zhao Shanhe, and added coldly, "Shut up all of them, especially the third child, and be a dumb person for me when I go back!" ”

Zhao Fuxiang stared at the three sons, the eldest was honest and responsible, the second was honest, and the third was mediocre.

As they just said, although it is true, but that is what they can say?

Zhao Fuxiang has lived for so long, and naturally thinks more than the three of them.

They were originally outsiders in the village, and they fled and had an unstable foundation, although they were taken in by the kind-hearted Lizheng decades ago, but at the same time, they also planted a lot of trouble.

Especially in recent years, the contradictions between the two sides have been particularly prominent.

The younger generation in Shangwa Village all grew up and married and started a family, and the most involved in this was the land and homestead issues at the time of separation.

The geographical environment of Shangwa Village is good, but the wave sent out forty years ago has allowed them to occupy most of the surrounding fields and hillside woodland.

At present, Shangwa Village is facing a situation where there is almost no land to divide.

To give a simple example, when Zhao Fuxiang came over, Li Zheng directly and generously gave him one and a half acres of homestead land to build a house, and then gave him five acres of paddy field and eight acres of dry land for labor and survival.

Later, Zhao Fuxiang married Li, and the two worked hard for many years, and have expanded the five acres of paddy fields to ten acres, and the eight acres of dry land to fifteen acres.

Of course, a small part of the extra land was bought and sold in the village, and most of it was obtained from land reclamation.

However, there are not many ownerless wastelands in Shangwa Village, but there are many people who want to reclaim them, so that now there is no wasteland, and most people still want to open up wasteland for farming, but they only use their own hillside woodland.

It is also because of this that less than eleven acres of their old Zhao family's original fifteen acres of hillside woodland are now left, and the few that are less have been cleared for grain.

And the remaining eleven acres of hillside woodland, not only to supply their old Zhao family with firewood, but also to build a house with timber for furniture, for the sake of future generations, they can not continue to open up wasteland.

Not surprisingly, Lao Zhao's fields will maintain this amount and will not change for a long time.

Thanks to Zhao Fuxiang and Li's good time, and they are both capable people, they saved most of the family's family business early.

But right now, if you want to continue, it's very difficult.

As early as when Zhao Shanlin got married, they could also divide two acres of paddy fields and one acre of dry land as the subsidized land in the village and the clan.

After arriving at Zhao Shanchuan and Zhao Shanhe, they could only use one mu of paddy fields as farming, but there was nothing left in the village.

In the future, Lao Zhao's family did not have a man of appropriate age to start a family, and naturally there was no such field subsidy.

Zhao Fuxiang is not blind, he can naturally see the relevant situation of other people's families.

Take Zhao Shanping, a cousin of Zhao Shanlin's clan in their Zhao clan, who just became a relative two years ago, and the clan only paid for the purchase of a vegetable garden with three points of land, but there was no subsidy for even one acre of paddy fields.

That's the problem of the clan.

It's not just the clan that's hard to do, it's even more difficult in the village.

Because the fields in the village were not divided enough, the new Zou Li directly stopped the field subsidy for men to marry for the sake of most people in the village.

If you want to get the fields in the village, you can only buy and sell them for money.

You must know that those paddy fields in the village are not that kind of good fields, they cost eight taels and one acre, and the best paddy fields are twelve acres and one tael, which anyone can afford?

Dry land is cheaper than paddy field, but it also costs five taels and one acre.

A family, calculated based on a husband and wife with a pair of children, in order to provide food and drink for the four mouths of the family, at least three to four acres of land can be produced.

Among them, there are also deductions for taxes, daily expenses, New Year's holidays and other expenses.

Wanting to save money to buy land in such a heavy life is tantamount to cannibalism and dreaming.

This is not the end, in recent years, the younger generation who have separated from the family, the homestead has also changed from the original one and a half acres to one and a half acres, and then from one acre and two to one acre, until now, only seven homesteads remain.

Thinking of this, Zhao Fuxiang sighed directly, and the anger in his heart leaked out.

These days are getting harder and harder.

Zhao Fuxiang drove the ox cart with a complicated expression.

Could it be that after decades of peace, is it going to be chaotic again?

"In short, this matter can't come out of your brother's mouth, it's not good."

Due to land friction, it is inevitable that these outsiders who have fled will have quarrels with the villagers on weekdays.

Now, if you quarrel with the same clan and clan for this matter, won't it make people see a joke and give the handle out plainly?

"Dad, I know, I know."

was stared at by Zhao Fuxiang's cold eyes just now, how dare Zhao Shanhe say anything, the whole person lowered his head, and he couldn't do it.

The reply was even more stumbling, his eyes were wandering, and he bowed his head indiscriminately regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one.

"Dad, it's not just our family that sells fish, even if we don't talk about it, then the others"

Zhao Shanlin scratched his head, and said in his heart that although his father's words were true, they couldn't hide it.

The fish sellers are all from the village, and several of them are natives of Shangwa Village.

It's not their Zhao family, how can they have the heart to hide it for them.

At the moment, they have not yet arrived home, and I am afraid that the news has already spread in the village.

"I know what you said, when you enter the village, the eldest and I will go to the patriarch's house, and the second and third will go home first."

Zhao Fuxiang added faintly, this is to tell the patriarch about this matter, and the patriarch will solve it.

Zhao Shanlin, Zhao Shanchuan, and Zhao Shanhe looked at each other and nodded,

"Dad, I know." *3

………

The ox cart staggered into the village.

Zhao Fuxiang took Zhao Shanlin to get off the ox cart first.

"Second and third, you two hurry back, don't say anything, wait for me and your eldest brother to come back."

Before Zhao Fuxiang left, he did not forget to tell Zhao Shanchuan and Zhao Shanhe two sentences.

Zhao Shanchuan and Zhao Shanhe naturally nodded yes.

The patriarch of the old Zhao family's generation is Zhao Fuxiang's cousin Zhao Furui, who is two years younger than Zhao Fuxiang, fifty years old this year, and his body is very tough.

Although he manages the chores of the entire family, on weekdays, Zhao Furui will also follow his family to work in the fields.

When the refugees fled, Lao Zhao's family escaped from a total of 12 households, with a total of 56 people, including 28 men.

At the beginning, he and Tang Li went to the county office, and the men, except for the five who were too young, all settled according to their heads, and each person was divided into five acres of paddy fields, eight acres of dry land and fifteen acres of hillside woodland.

Now after forty years of development, their old Zhao family has also grown.

There are 30 families living in Shangwa Village, with a population of 316, of which 108 are males.

When there are more people, there will be more things.

Not to mention other families in the village, just their old Zhao family, there are many people, and there are a lot of bullshit stoves that pop up on weekdays.

Zhao Furui has not had much life since he became the patriarch of the Zhao family.

On weekdays, he either has to deal with the big and small things in the clan, serving in the hall and repairing the hall, or he is busy dealing with trivial and trivial neighborhood disputes in the clan.

Especially when the old Zhao family fled, they basically lived in the southwest corner, and they were not far away, so there were many more contradictions.

Zhao Furui just finished dealing with the dispute over the courtyard wall of the two families next door today, and he has a headache.

As a result, I heard the eldest son in the family say that Zhao Fuxiang was here.

Zhao Furui hurriedly sat up from the kang and put on his shoes and went to the ground.

"Boss, why is your Uncle Fuxiang here?"

Zhao Furui hurried to the courtyard and asked his eldest son Zhao Shanzhou beside him.

"I don't know, but my Uncle Fuxiang didn't come easily, there must be something important."

Zhao Shanzhou shook his head, he didn't tell his father that Zhao Fuxiang's face didn't look very good, and there was a strong fishy smell on his body, he should have just come back after selling fish.

Not going home, and running to their house while eating, must be a big deal.

However, Zhao Shanzhou didn't dare to say anything, so he simply replied and followed behind Zhao Furui.

As soon as the father and son went out, they saw Zhao Fuxiang and Zhao Shanlin who were in the courtyard.

The four of them met and saluted each other.

"Second brother, why are you here?"

Zhao Fuxiang is the second in the family, and Zhao Furui is the same generation as Zhao Fuxiang, so it is appropriate to call him the second brother.

"Patriarch," Zhao Fuxiang said with a calm face, first looking around, "We have to go into the house and talk about this." ”

Zhao Furui saw that Zhao Fuxiang was so solemn, and called him by title, and his expression became nervous, "Then let's go." ”

"There is no one at home, the second brother has something, so it's better to go into the house and say."

As he spoke, the two of them walked into the house one after the other.

Zhao Shanzhou and Zhao Shanlin watched, and also hung their heads and followed.

But in the end, it is still a step behind.

Zhao Shanzhou secretly pulled Zhao Shanlin, lowered his voice and said, "Brother Shanlin, what is Uncle Fuxiang going to say?" ”

Zhao Shanlin glanced at Zhao Shanzhou, and did not deliberately hide it, "Today, our brother and father went into the city to sell fish, and saw Uncle Fucheng, something happened to him." ”

Zhao Shanzhou heard this and had a headache.

Zhao Furui in the house was even more angry by Zhao Fucheng's approach, this that Zhao Fucheng did was really disturbing.