Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Rice Field
That Wang Laizi trembled for a while, feeling that he only got up after the person left, he covered his ass with one hand, and his thighs with the other hand trembled badly, shrunken, but stared at Sheng Rong and Jiang Yuanyuan who were far away.
The people around him were laughing, Wang Laizi climbed from the field to the road, he shrunk his tail and limped home, and the child who was bullied by him had already run away.
Returned to the field just in time for dinner, lively eating, a group of people have poured into their own room to start doing things, although recruiting more than 60 people, but the number of people is barely enough, every day the house is lively, a group of people are working and talking, different people are responsible for different work, are very busy.
In fact, some time ago, I have been teaching these people how to do it, and it is still a matter of the past few days, they are in a hurry to get twenty sets of quilts next month, so they don't dare to be lazy, and the work in their hands has not stopped.
Jiang Yuanyuan was helping to pull the silkworm hat, and while she was doing what she was doing, she listened to the people around her gossip about what was happening around her.
These people are all from different villages, and they are still a little unfamiliar with each other when they start working, but they are all familiar with each other when they come in, and all small groups are together, and there are different fresh and strange things in different villages every day.
"Speaking of which, the scholars from our village have recently returned!" A girl sitting not far from Jiang Yuanyuan said, "I heard that the examiner failed, and after coming back, he was decadent at home all day...... What do you mistake for a fish...... What did Huaicai ...... say, her mother would feed him with a bowl all day long, like a three-year-old child! ”
"The scholars of your village?" Another slightly older man, with the woman's head crossed, said, "It's Wang Xiucai, right?" ”
"yes, yes, it's him, you don't know ......"
"Shh
A low voice of conversation sounded behind her, Jiang Yuanyuan felt a little bored, put the silkworm hat in her hand aside, and she continued to do what she was doing.
In fact, how Wang Rujun is, it is not easy for her, she is not Wang Rujun's who, who cares about him!
"Is the head of the house here?" There was an inquiry outside the door, Jiang Yuanyuan came back to her senses, she peeled off the last silkworm cocoon in her hand, wiped the water on her apron, and went out to see the situation.
"Who?" Jiang Yuanyuan walked out and saw that it was Uncle Qingyuan who had rented their land, "Uncle Qingyuan, why are you here!" ”
"Huh! Yuanyuan. Uncle Qingyuan walked over in three or two steps, sweating on his forehead, "It's good that you're here!" That's right, the village chief said that this rice farm needs to be rescheduled, and now the number of people in the rice field is being counted! Although I have rented your land, I still want you to arrange the days, no, they are all lined up, I will come to you quickly! Otherwise, there is no place for the rice in this field to dry! ”
"That's it! Cheng, I'll go with you. Jiang Yuanyuan nodded, she took the apron around her waist and put it on a shelf at the door.
"Yuanyuan, what's the matter!" Jiang Xuan shouted in the room, he was carrying things, and it was inconvenient to come out.
"What about the location of the rice farm in the village! I'll go and I'll be back later. Jiang Yuanyuan said to the house, and hurriedly followed Uncle Qingyuan to the rice field at a trot.
Uncle Qingyuan's surname is Wu, the Wu family is the largest surname in their village, and the direct lineage is the next one, and now there are sixty or seventy people living in the village, the population is too much, and many people are not easy to shout, Jiang Yuanyuan still doesn't know what the seniority of some of these people is, and the people she knows and shout a lot are only those who are closer on weekdays and have some dealings with their family.
followed Uncle Qingyuan to the rice field, and the people here came one after another, Jiang Yuanyuan saw that there were still people running here, although it was only a family that sent one or two representatives, but this large group of people was still enough.
"Ahem!" The village chief climbed on a haystack, he waved his hand to signal everyone to calm down, and when he looked at the people who looked at it, it seemed that they were all about the same, and there were two people running behind, he hurriedly waved his hand, "Hurry up, hurry up!" ”
The two people also ran here, and the village took out the paper and looked at it, as if he was looking at the number of people, and he looked at it a few times and seemed to be unable to see clearly, and he didn't bother to look at it, so he directly put away the paper and prepared to speak.
"That's right!" The village's hand was raised and pressed down, signaling everyone to be quiet, "I didn't mean to waste everyone's time, the main thing is this matter!" Once a year, you all know it. ”
It seems that the petty officials are more verbose, and the village chief didn't get to the point after a bunch of digressions, and a group of people were a little impatient to listen to it, chatting about their own affairs.
"Village chief, hurry up and say what's the point, we still have to do things after we divide it! Don't talk about these superfluous. A man couldn't help it, he still had a hoe in his hand, and said anxiously.
"Yes, yes!" The man next to him chimed in.
"It's done, it's done! If you don't like to hear it, I won't talk about it, that's it! The village took out the paper in his hand again, "From the beginning of spring this year to the present, there are two families divided at the time of the spring harvest, and there are few people at that time, but until now, four more families have been separated, and now there are six families, and eleven families have been divided, so what!" We're going to have to divide this paddy field into a few places! ”
"Why are so many families separated every year! In this way, our time in the rice field was divided again! A woman couldn't help but say.
Jiang Yuanyuan stood at the back and listened embarrassedly, there are more people in their village, nearly 100 households have been counted one after another, and the population is two or three hundred people, which is several times more than that of several nearby villages, but their rice farms and rivers and ponds are not as many as the people in the next few villages, so these public resources are very small, and they basically have to divide one point every year because of this matter, and make a fuss.
"That's it!"
"These families are divided into their own time, why do you want to divide our time!"
It seems that there is a person at the beginning, and the people around are noisy.
The second aunt suddenly came out from the side at this time, she exhaled and patted Jiang Yuanyuan's shoulder.
"Yuanyuan! I discussed it with your second uncle and decided to leave after the New Year. The second aunt said, a little sad.
"It's okay aunt." Jiang Yuanyuan smiled, "You can still spend the New Year with us!" ”
"If we're free, we'll come back to see you." The second aunt reached out and flicked Jiang Yuanyuan's forehead, "It's really not long-hearted at all." Do you want to go with us? ”
"Hee-hee." Jiang Yuanyuan rubbed her forehead.
"Don't make noise, don't make noise!" The village chief shouted from above, "Actually, think about it, there are still so many places here, they are all about the same, although the time is fragmented, but it is almost the same, almost the same, their family is finished, this time will soon be vacant, and the time you go to borrow their house again, it is the same!" ”
The noisy crowd obviously didn't sell it, but there was no way, and after two commotions, it was quiet.
"That's right! We used to do it too! It's a four-day cycle, this time I pondered it, it's almost a five-day time cycle, and from tomorrow onwards, you will line up one by one to register the time of your family, and follow the line, more than a dozen households a day. With a wave of his hand, the village chief jumped down from the haystack, and in an instant he was overwhelmed by a crowd of people, and he could hear him shouting in line.
"Tut-tut." Jiang Yuanyuan shook her head and slowly walked to the end of the line and lined up.
The second aunt followed Jiang Yuanyuan with tears and laughter.
There are still many families in the village who do not have fields, they are generally carpenters or masons, or hunters like the three brothers of the Wu family, but there are very few hunters, and more carpenters and masons are few, so many people do not have to queue up.
"Hahaha!" The silver bell-like laughter attracted Jiang Yuanyuan's attention, looking for prestige, it was a little girl, hiding behind the haystack and laughing, and a few children hung their heads in frustration, and the children hiding next to them all came out, laughing happily one by one.
Looks like it's peek-a-boo.
The children are still very happy to play in this rice field, it is safe here, and the adults are not worried, so they let the children run here, sometimes helping to do something, and it is also a lot of fun.
"Yuanyuan!" A familiar voice sounded in her ears, Jiang Yuanyuan smiled stiffly and looked over, it was Wu Jing, one of the three Wu family girls who went up the mountain with her, she stood glutinously and smiled at her, pursed her lips, her eyes dodged, and she seemed to be very embarrassed.
"Wu Jing, what are you doing there! Hurry up. Wu Lian shouted in the distance, she glanced at Jiang Yuanyuan and turned her eyes disdainfully.
Wu Jing looked left and right, nodded at Jiang Yuanyuan, and hurriedly ran to her sister Wu Lian.
Jiang Yuanyuan retracted her eyes, just as the crowd moved forward a little, and she also walked forward.
"Hey! Yuanyuan. Another girl patted her shoulder, Jiang Yuanyuan was a little dazed, and after thinking for a while, she remembered who this person was.
Wu Chun, the eldest daughter of Widow Wu.
"Is there something wrong?" Jiang Yuanyuan said.
"No, I just want to ask you, are you still short of people?" Wu Chun squinted his eyes, looking very innocent, "You know the situation of my family, I can't find something to do now, so I want to go to you to do things, I can do anything, can you help me!" Well? Aren't we good sisters? ”
Jiang Yuanyuan was silent for a second.
"Sorry, I don't know exactly what is going on in your family." Jiang Yuanyuan raised her eyebrows, "Moreover, we don't need people now, you can come back when the next batch of recruits comes." ”
After a pause, Jiang Yuanyuan said thoughtfully: "Besides, the two of us don't seem to know each other very well, are we very familiar with each other?" I don't remember knowing each other very well! ”
"Me!" Wu Chun didn't expect Jiang Yuanyuan to be so ruthless, her face turned red, and later, she said to herself, "Have you forgotten, we used to dry rice together!" ”
Jiang Yuanyuan recalled that she used to help dry rice very rarely, and she went there a few times, and she was sure that she had not spoken to others, but she really couldn't deny that they had dried rice together, and the people who dried rice in this field for a day were not equivalent to drying rice together!
With a clear heart, Jiang Yuanyuan decided to give this person a little face.
"Yes......" After speaking, Jiang Yuanyuan stopped talking and took two steps forward.