Chapter Seventy-Seven: Just three words: hug your thighs
"The first pile, three hundred and twenty-five; the second pile, three hundred and eighty consistent; The third pile ......"
In the courtyard of the Xu Mansion, there are more than a dozen piles of copper coins on the ground. These are some of the oil and water that Xu Wenshan fished back in the county government, and it is a relatively small part, but this is enough to make Xu Changshui change color.
Xu Changshui scooped up a hanging copper coin and said, "Leather goods are so profitable? Why didn't I find out when I went to Shaxian before? ”
"Times have changed, father," Xu Wenshan said, "of course, this time I went not only to do the leather business, but also to do some small business in the local area." ”
Xu Wenshan went home this time for another important purpose, that is, to persuade Xu Changshui to dismiss some of the tenants.
"Father, I see that there are too many tenants in the family, only 200 acres of land, and I can't use so much labor at all, so it is better to lay off some of them." Xu Wenshan Road.
Xu Changshui smiled bitterly: "You don't understand." ”
If it's just for farming, not to mention 80 households, 40 households can also be planted. But the current situation was not created overnight. Most of these tenants have been working in the Xu family for generations, and whose son grows up and wants to start a family, he will divide a piece of land and leave, so there are more and more tenants in the Xu family.
No matter how many tenants there are, anyway, the Xu family and the tenants are divided in half of the grain, so the number of tenants has no impact on the Xu family. If these tenants are dismissed, they will have no livelihood, and they will come out to make trouble, so Xu Changshui said that Xu Wenshan didn't understand.
Xu Wenshan said: "I plan to build an aqueduct from the mountains to the village, if my father does not let the tenants go, I will be short of manpower here." ”
Xu Changshui couldn't help but retort: "Silly boy, how much does it cost to repair water conservancy, do you know in your heart?" ”
Xu Wenshan pointed to the money on the ground and said, "Aren't these enough?" ”
Xu Changshui was speechless, and said: "That's what the county magistrate should do, why are you rashly doing this?" ”
Xu Wenshan said: "The county magistrate doesn't care about things, we have to take care of our own life and death." Father, believe me. ”
Xu Changshui looked at his son and felt that he had really grown up.
He agreed to Xu Wenshan's request, and soon the news of the Xu family's dismissal of tenants spread throughout the village. Nearly 40 tenant families were forced off their land and displaced. There has been an unprecedented upheaval in the entire Luhegou.
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Wu Yi's life in the past few days seems to have gone straight from the earth to heaven, and then suddenly fell from the sky to the mud, and the whole thing fell off one by one.
In order to compete for the lottery of 5 yuan, he married Niu Huahua, a girl from Niu Shuangxi in his village, and he still got rich, but because he didn't win the championship, this girl not only didn't have sex with him, but also played tricks in front of him every day, and wanted to drive himself away, and stared at himself every day to prevent him from leaving.
Later, Xu Wenshan suddenly set up a Luhegou archery club, hunting every day, there is a good salary, although the woman said that she was suspicious, she finally stopped crying, but asked him to come up with real money within half a month, otherwise he would be divorced.
Half a month has passed, and there is indeed real money in hand, and the mother-in-law was almost crazy when she saw Wu Yi get back a bunch of money, but Wu Yi immediately told her that there would be no such good thing in the future.
Xu Gongzi's grain and oil store suddenly stopped accepting prey. In the past, it was okay, the Guo family would still collect prey, but now the Guo family went directly to the Xu family's grain and oil store to buy meat, and the hunters were simply cut off.
Like Wu Yi, who has cut off his livelihood, there are too many Luhegou. He found Li Dazhuang and Lei Laohu and discussed the way forward.
As a result, he found that Li Dazhuang didn't worry about money at all.
"My father is a coach of the club, and he gets a salary of more than 100 yuan a month." Li Dazhuang said.
"Instructor? Who goes to the club to learn bows? Lei Lao Hu asked.
"That's a lot. Didn't the people in the village see how much money the hunters made some time ago? They all sent their children to the club to learn bows, but they were willing to give apprentices, and some came to learn by themselves. ”
Wu Yi questioned: "Isn't it a hunting holiday now?" Do they still think hunting can make money? ”
Li Dazhuang said: "There are only two seasons of hunting, every spring and autumn, if you go hunting, you can make a lot of money, they are not like us, pointing to this to eat, they just want to make extra money." ”
Wu Yi and Lei Laohu looked at each other and smiled bitterly, they didn't expect that these farmers who farmed all day long would actually press them back on hunting. Those kids who learned to bow can't do it now, but they know that after a year or two of practicing in the shooting range, the bow art will definitely improve dramatically. And I have to worry about eating and drinking.
"Da Zhuang, what are you going to do? Like your father, go to the shooting range as an instructor? Wu Yi asked.
Li Dazhuang said: "Young Master Xu did ask me before if I wanted to be an archery instructor, but I refused. ”
"Why?" Lei Laohu and Wu Yi asked at the same time.
Li Dazhuang plucked his head and said, "I want to go to the escort team." ”
Xu Wenshan did say before that Luhegou was going to form a deer and crane guard team and called on them to sign up enthusiastically, but Wu Yi refused in his heart: Isn't this equivalent to being a soldier?
As the saying goes: a good man is not a soldier, and a good iron is not a nail.
A good man, why do you have to work for others?
Wu Yidao: "How good is it to be an instructor, why do you want to be a soldier?" ”
Lei Laohu patted Wu Yi and said with a calm face: "Zhuangzi's decision is right. You're afraid you don't know yet, do you? The Xu family laid off more than 30 tenants, and according to a family of three, that is a hundred mouths waiting for dinner! The young master of the Xu family has already stated some time ago that the escort team is a good way out, but there are only 25 places, if you don't fight for it now, I'm afraid you won't be able to fight for it in the future. ”
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After discussing with Lei Laohu and Li Dazhuang, Wu Yi became even more worried.
At night, he lay in bed and suddenly realized that it seemed that since the young master of the Xu family appeared on the scene, there had been turbulent waves in this peaceful small village, and he always seemed to be in the center of the waves.
He suddenly felt that joining the escort team was also a good way out, because in this way, he could get closer to the young master of the Xu family, and his back to the big tree was a good way to enjoy the shade.
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The headquarters of the Zhengdao Immortal League, Qingfeng View.
The headquarters of the Immortal League is changed every three hundred years, this round is Qingfeng Guan, and the next round is not necessarily where.
The female cultivator Ran Tinglan and the male cultivator Dan Tengzi have been delayed here for ten days.
They originally came to see if Lu Wuji died, and if so, what was the cause of death. But the only sentence from above came "Please wait for us to investigate", and they stayed here for ten days.
Dan Tengzi was already idle, so it didn't matter, but she still had to rush to cultivate, wasting time here, and her patience was about to be exhausted.
"Why don't I go back first, you can wait here alone." Dye Tinglan said to Dan Tengzi.
Dan Tengzi shrugged his shoulders and said, "It doesn't matter. ”
Ran Tinglan summoned the flying sword, and was about to fly back to the sect when suddenly a messenger came from the heavenly sword, landed on the ground, shook his clothes, and bowed slowly to the two of them.
After the two returned the salute, the man said slowly: "Two, the matter of your sect's disciple Law Wuji has been investigated clearly, and I will read it to you here." ”
"The shadow of the law is broken, and after on-the-spot investigation, his body has been found, and the remnants of Jindan have also been found. It can be ascertained that the disciple has passed away. ”
The messenger licked his lips and said, "According to the analysis of the cause of death, when the disciple eliminated the demon, he died with the monster. Due to the requirements of the Immortal League's secrecy regulations, the disciple's body has been destroyed by Danhuo. The incident has been dealt with and is hereby reported. ”
"Gone?" Dye Tinglan asked.
"It's over." The messenger handed the jade slip with the necessary information to Dye Tinglan.
Ran Tinglan breathed a sigh of relief, took the jade slip, arched his hand, and prepared to leave.
"Wait!" Dan Tengzi next to her suddenly stretched out his hand and stopped her, "I have a question!" ”