In the evening, the crimson sunset stained the whole sky, the sun was gradually setting, and the residual afterglow was still gorgeous, and the smoke of the threshing floor curled up, and a strong smell of meat wafted freely throughout the village.

Jiang Yan led the family to the place where the crowd gathered, and there were villagers walking together on the winding road, and when they saw Jiang Yan's family, they greeted each other with a smile, compared with the cynicism in the past, the villagers of Linjia Village are more in awe of Jiang Yan's family.

"Wangcai, what are you in a daze, be careful and watch the road."

Jiang Yan patted the stupid Wangcai, from the time he went out to the present, the young man looked stupid, and almost didn't fall into the ditch.

Wangcai scratched his head, smiled a little shyly, the excitement in his eyes was obvious, and his voice was a little tactful: "It's the first time I've earned my own wages, I'm the young master's house slave, I have been serving the young master since I was a child, although there will be monthly money every month, but this is the first time I have received a salary......"

As he spoke, Wangcai subconsciously stretched out a hand and touched it into his arms, where was the silver that Aunt Jiang gave her.

"Give it to you and you will take it, this is what you deserve." Jiang Yan smiled at him, she also knew something about the slavery system in this era.

Like Wangcai, the slaves whose parents sold themselves to large families in the first generation signed death deeds, and they were all domestic slaves raised from childhood to adulthood, and they were labeled as slaves as soon as they were born.

Among the slaves, there is also a difference between the life contract and the death contract, similar to the pawnshop, the birth contract has a time limit, and the family members have to redeem it when they reach the end of the year, and the death contract is a lifelong relationship, and the death contract must be buried by the master's family.

Speaking of monthly wages, if you are a slave of the employment relationship, you must be paid a certain amount of wages every month, which is equivalent to employment, and you can't be easily killed.

And a domestic slave like Wangcai, life and death are in the hands of the master's family, and the monthly money given every month is, to put it bluntly, pocket money or living expenses, and the master's family is not happy, so it is okay to give more or less or not give you directly.

Therefore, Wangcai was extremely excited, and the one or two pieces of silver that he touched his chest several times were the same as Shangguan Zixuan, smiling like an iron man.

"Xiao Jiang, here! Here, come here. ”

As soon as he arrived at the threshing floor, Zhang Yanzi immediately knocked on the big bowl in his hand, waved his hand to Jiang Yan's family, and his loud and high-pitched voice immediately attracted everyone to turn around.

At this time, the villagers have gathered one after another, the big pot of rice in the village is similar to the feast, a pile of more than a dozen people, around two wooden basins, a pot of meat vegetables, a pot of vegetarian vegetables, the rice is the new rice that has just been harvested today.

Because today, the county magistrate said that Linjia Village has been exempted from taxes for the past two years, and the village chief discussed with Li Zhengyi, and everyone has not eaten a meal of rice for a long time, so they simply eat the new rice that has just been harvested this year in today's big pot.

"It's the first time you've eaten a big pot of rice in the village, right?" Jiang Yan smiled at Qiao Le.

Qiao Le nodded implicitly, he was dressed in a long shirt, and he was surrounded cross-legged by a village, still looking dusty and unique.

Everyone brings their own dishes and chopsticks from home, without setting the table, and those who love to be clean bring a few pieces of rags from their homes to pad their buttocks, and those who are not particular about it will sit on the ground with a butt and eat with a large piece of chopsticks.

"It's the first time, it's rare to eat with so many people, and I haven't been so lively in years." His eyes sank, his eyes fell on the smiling and satisfied faces, the adults chatted excitedly while eating, the children couldn't stop eating with slices of meat, and some old people even burst into tears while eating.

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"Bell, bell!"

The village chief knocked on the bottom of the iron pot, and the villagers who were eating looked up one after another, but they were still eating the food in the bowl, just distracting themselves to listen to the village chief's next speech.

"Our village can have today, all of them are blessed by Aunt Jiang's family, everyone knows it in their hearts, I won't say much, in short, what will happen to Aunt Jiang's family in the future, our whole village, those who should help, those who should make their efforts, will give me a slip!"

The whole village echoed one after another, even if they were dissatisfied with Aunt Jiang before, now that they were eating this fragrant pork in their mouths, they had almost eaten that weird mind.

Today, the village killed three pigs, did not leave at all, all made a big pot of rice, not to mention that the whole village people eat meat and eat a good time, but to ensure that everyone can eat meat, just by virtue of this, the village is satisfied, young and old.

"The village chief is right! What will Aunt Jiang's family do in the future, my leper dog will be the first to help! ”

"That's it! It's the same with my Wang Mazi! ”

"I, Lin Tiedan, am also ......"

"Wang Defa is on call at the entrance of my village!"

The young men took a bite of meat and a mouthful of soup, swallowed the food in their mouths, and shouted excitedly to the village chief.

Jiang Yan's heart was warmed by such an atmosphere, although because of her relationship, Linjia Village's life was better, but it was still the result of their own hard work, if Linjia Village was a group of lazy and slack-slacker street runners, even if she had the heart, she would be powerless.

"Aunt Jiang, thank you, this is the first time I've eaten meat." The big baby was holding a sea bowl that was bigger than her head, her mouth was full of oil, her eyes were shining, and when she lowered her head, almost her entire head was buried in the bowl.

The second baby was also excited, her mouth was stuffed with food, and her cheeks on both sides were bulging, like two little hamsters eating Hesse.

"Eat slowly, be careful of choking." Qiao Le carefully smoothed the back of the two, he also knew a thing or two about his two little landlords, especially after getting along during this time, the two little landlords took care of him, obviously they were only two and a half old children, and they didn't care about their own food and clothing, but they still wanted to take care of him as an adult.

"These two children have a hard life since childhood, when the eldest baby was born, the poor family couldn't eat, and almost threw him behind the mountain, and then the days were better, not long after having the second baby, his father was conscripted to fight again, and he didn't come back, and his mother ran away with others, thanks to a good village chief, he gave some food every year, otherwise he would have starved to death." Zhang Yanzi looked distressed, and she was also very sympathetic to the eldest baby and the second baby, but her family conditions were not good, so she couldn't help much.

"I used to think that one day, we would be able to eat meat like this, and we wouldn't dare to hope for a full meal, if it weren't for you, now our whole village, maybe where to escape from the famine."

Zhang Yanzi's eyes were red as she spoke, she didn't dare to think about what their lives would be like now if Jiang Yan hadn't discovered the water source.

"Mother, don't cry......" The little dog hugged Zhang Yanzi distressedly, he didn't understand why his mother suddenly cried, but as soon as his mother cried, he couldn't help but want to cry.

"Don't think about this, as long as we work hard, the future will get better and better." Lin Jun also hugged Xiao Linzi and smiled and comforted gently.

Since the Lin family built the factory, several families have been much closer, and their feelings are better than with other villagers, plus they are all first-hand soap suppliers, and the communication between them is more frequent.

(End of chapter)