Chapter 413: Ginseng
At this time, there were many people at Zhou Lizheng's house.
Zhou Li was in the courtyard, looked at the villagers and said, "You come to me, I can't help it, I have three sons at home, all of whom are eligible. To tell you the truth, I'm worried. My son is going to go to two at once, and I can't bear it. and I will not be able to take out a thousand taels of silver, and behold, my white hair is more than that."
A family with five sons over the age of 15 asked, "If we split up now and I have five sons, that would be five families, so that each of them would have only one person over the age of 15?" Chinese Net
Zhou Lizheng sighed and said: "I have already thought about this, before Lord Yin left, I quietly asked him, and he said no, from today onwards, the government will not accept the documents of the separation of the family for the time being, and the specific acceptance time depends on the war situation."
Most of the people's faces turned pale in an instant.
A woman pointed to an old lady and scolded, "It's a bad thing for you old woman, I asked to divide the family, but you said that you were afraid that we would not take care of you if we split up, and I won't give you the money, and I won't divide it. Your eldest and second are still in the Yongwang fiefdom and don't know life and death, and now the third to the seventh are going to go to three, I see what you do! If something happens to them, your grandchildren will hate you to death!"
The old lady cried and said, "How did I know that I was going to be conscripted, if I knew, I would definitely let you divide the family, and I didn't mean to."
"You did it on purpose, if your son doesn't come back, I'll watch you cry!"
For a time, many old ladies and old men in the village who insisted on not separating their families were complained by their sons and daughters-in-law.
After the villagers left, Zhou Li saw his three sons looking like they were in trouble, and sighed, "Old woman, go and find out all the money in the family."
Zhao said, "Okay."
Soon, the Zhao family took out all the money in the family.
Zhou Li Zheng counted it several times, and the money earned in the Yongwang fiefdom, plus the money earned by the children in Liuye Village, and the bonus given by Nangong Anshan a few days ago, added up to only one hundred and fifty taels of silver.
Zhao cried and said, "The child's father, this is far from enough, our three children must go to two, a total of 1,000 taels of silver, there is still a difference of 850 taels, so much money, where can we find it."
Seeing that his parents were embarrassed, Zhou Zhenyang took the initiative to stand up and said, "Daddy, Auntie, why don't I go, you can borrow some more money and keep the second brother when the time comes." He is still young, and he should stay with you and do his filial piety."
Zhou Zhenyun said: "Big brother, why do you say that, you are the eldest son, you should stay at home, I will go."
Zhou Zhenyu said, "Big brother, second brother, it's okay for me to go. I've practiced martial arts before, and I'm younger than you, so maybe I'll survive, and then our family can be reunited."
Seeing that his sons were so sensible, Zhou Lizheng and Zhao's eyes moistened at the same time.
After thinking for a while, Zhou Lizheng sighed and said, "Why don't we use the lottery method, it's fairer."
Just didn't wait for Zhou Zhenyang and the others to speak, and there was a sudden knock at the door.
Zhou Zhenyu hurriedly went to open the door.
It's just that as soon as I opened the door, I saw Han Dayu appear at the door.
Han Dayu said, "Uncle Wednesday, can I go in? I have something to tell Grandpa Lizheng."
Zhou Zhenyu nodded and let him in.
When he came to the hall, Zhou Li saw that it was Han Dayu and asked, "Dayu, is there something wrong with you coming?"
None of the children in Han Dayu's family are fifteen years old, so they shouldn't have come here for conscription.
Han Dayu said: "It was the little owner who asked me to come over, and she said that if she came, she would definitely make others dissatisfied, so let me come and go."
Zhou Li Zheng said, "Ah Shan asked you to come? Is there anything wrong with her?"
Han Dayu said: "The little owner said that if you want the people in your family not to join the army, just listen to her, and before you go to work the day after tomorrow, let Uncle Zhou go to the location where you often chop firewood, where you can help solve it."
Decide the question of joining the army."
Zhou Lizheng wanted to ask a few more questions, but Han Dayu turned around and left.
Zhou Zhenyang said, "Daddy, what does Ah Shan mean by this? Are you trying to give us money?"
Zhou Li said: "It shouldn't be, if you want to give us money, Han Dayu can give it to us just now."
Zhao said, "What does Ah Shan mean?"
Zhou Lizheng said: "I can't guess either, although Ah Shan is small, she has a lot of ideas, anyway, there is only one day, and the day after tomorrow will know."
"Okay."
And the time soon came for Zhou Zhenyang to go up the mountain.
Every few days, he would go up the mountain to chop wood.
Therefore, when some people saw him walking towards the mountain, they did not suspect it, and greeted him as usual.
Zhou Zhenyang soon arrived at his usual location for chopping wood.
Seeing that there was no one around, he didn't know what Nangong Anshan meant when he called him, so he had to chop the firewood first.
At this moment, a white tiger suddenly appeared directly in front of him.
Zhou Zhenyang was taken aback, but quickly calmed down, and asked tentatively, "Zitian, is it you?"
Zitian nodded, stepped on where it was standing with his foot, and then ran.
Zhou Zhenyang breathed a sigh of relief, he just tried to ask, but he didn't expect it to be really Zitian.
Thinking of what Zitian had just done, he hurriedly walked over and began to dig the soil with his hands.
After a while, Zhou Zhenyang looked at the ginseng in front of him, and he was suddenly excited.
It's actually ginseng, and the little proprietor brought him here just to tell him that there is ginseng here?
Definitely.
Great, if the ginseng is more than 100 years old, then their family can keep a person from being expropriated even if they don't borrow money.
Zhou Zhenyang was so excited that his hands were trembling when he was digging ginseng.
He didn't dare to hurt the ginseng whiskers, so he dug up the soil together.
He didn't care about chopping wood, so he wrapped the ginseng in his clothes, picked up the hoe and ran in the direction of home.
Nangong Hong saw Zhou Zhenyang running towards him anxiously, and frowned, "What are you running? Stop chopping wood?"
Zhou Zhenyang ignored him, ignored him and continued to run.
Nangong Hong snorted, "What's the big deal, it's not like there are two people in your family to join the army, and it's not certain if you will come back alive, when the time comes, I will watch your family cry!"
When Zhou Zhenyang ran home, none of the family members had gone to work yet, and they were all waiting for him to come back and go together.
Seeing that he had come back so early and hadn't chopped wood yet, Zhou Lizheng asked suspiciously, "Boss, why did you come back?" Where's the firewood?"
Zhou Zhenyang didn't speak, but quickly closed the courtyard door and ran to the hall, "You come with me."