"This recruitment is mainly craftsmen, only fifty middle-aged men who are good at farming, and ten women who can cook.

Leave early tomorrow morning, bringing their own bedding and a change of clothes.

After the work is done, you will be sent back to Xin'an County, and the wages will be settled at the county government gate at one time.

If you want to go, hurry up and sign up! ”

Steward Sheng bowed his hand to Zhang Xianling and Jia Shuren who came out, and continued to look at the crowd of black presses.

The crowd that heard this, like boiling water, squeezed desperately forward.

"Squeeze anything, stand up!" Zhang Xianling roared, and all the people in the audience didn't dare to move.

"Scribe Jia went to help register, who dares to give the county order to drive out."

As soon as Zhang Xianling, who had a tiger face, opened his mouth, the official authority on his body was immediately revealed, and the scene was suddenly silent.

With the assistance of Old Man Hu and Scribe Jia, the list was quickly decided, and there were also three members of the Shi Liu family who were specially cared for by Ziyu.

Some craftsmen who lived far away did not get the news and rushed to arrive, but they were replaced by a few new craftsmen.

Steward Sheng looked at the list of craftsmen and was a little dissatisfied, because there were fewer people than last year.

"Lao Hu, my young master said that he would expand the house.

The making of furniture also has to keep up, and you send people to find more good carpenters and builders.

The work in the fort must be completed by the end of September. ”

"Okay, let my four sons take a trip." When Old Man Hu heard that he wanted to add someone, of course he should take a bite.

The people who are far away are all people who have a relationship with him, and they have dealt with him before.

What the two didn't know was that some of the people who got the news were rushing to the county seat.

The work of food and shelter is too important for them now, and it is also a lifesaver for many families.

The land is small and the yield is low, and no one wants to miss such a good opportunity if the family does not have enough to make ends meet after taxes.

The torches in front of the county yamen were not extinguished until dawn, and Old Man Hu also stayed here all night.

Those craftsmen who came late were grateful to Old Man Hu and Steward Sheng.

…

A merchant ship carrying the hopes of countless people left the dock of Xin'an County, and also took away the pillars of many families.

When the merchant ships docked at Daxia Bay, it took less than five days to go back and forth.

Steward Sheng didn't have time to report to Ziyu, so he was busy arranging people to live in the two rows of wooden houses built last year.

The six wooden huts where the cattle were raised were vacated when the weather warmed up, waiting for someone to move in.

Oxen, mules and red deer in uniform are the cattle pens that live in the mouth of the valley and are led by Sheng Xueyi.

People who come to the valley for the first time are curious to see everything in the valley.

Seeing that although there were people working in the field, they all had ruddy faces and were dressed several times better than them, which made a group of people who couldn't eat envy.

Those who came last year serve as a commentary for the newcomers.

…

"Wow~Wow!"

The snow wolf, who was guarding the high place, warned the stranger who suddenly appeared in the valley.

"Oh my God, there's a wolf!"

A sharp-eyed man exclaimed, gesturing to the two tallest cabins.

Seeing the white wolf, he stood up and came to the bottom of the valley, and many of them began to tremble in two arms.

No one wanted to be buried in the wolf's mouth, so they hid in the wooden house in panic and closed the wooden door, and two or three people joined forces behind the door without giving up.

"What's the noise, that's the snow wolf raised by my young master.

When you see snow wolves, don't provoke them, or you will bear the consequences. Sheng Xing warned.

When everyone heard that it was a snow wolf raised by Xiaodong, they didn't dare to have any thoughts.

Just imagine, a person who can subdue even a ferocious wolf will be a soft-hearted person.

Snow Wolf glanced at the deserted main road, returned to the gate of the compound and sat down in a row.

When the Ziyu who got the letter came out, Bai Yi, who was guarding the door, leaned over his head, rubbing and sticky.

"Stay at home, don't scare the people who do the work." Ziyu raised her small fist, her eyes full of threat.

The sticky white one, sticking to the side of Ziyu's legs, bared his teeth, revealing two sharp fangs.

"The flesh has grown a lot, and the skin is itchy again, isn't it?" Ziyu tugged at her two fangs.

The white wolf, who still remembered it vividly, shook involuntarily, and immediately sat obediently at the door, continuing to be its watchman.

…

As soon as the manpower arrived, it was natural to arrange work after lunch.

Ziyu stood on the edge of the field, pulled up her pants and went to the field, and said to Chen Da.

"The seedlings are half a foot apart, the rows are one foot apart, and every two are a nest.

It must be according to this scale, only large but not small, too dense will affect the growth of seedlings, thereby affecting the yield. ”

Chen Da, who hadn't reacted yet, saw the young master go down to the ground in person, and was so frightened that he hurriedly blocked the side.

Don't let outsiders see the snow-white calves exposed by the young master, and said in a panic.

"Young master, you just need to stand on the ridge and speak, the little one can understand."

"If there is a demonstration, it is said that the demonstration will come quickly, and the people will be assigned to complete the rice planting as soon as possible, and the planting of cotton should also be carried out at the same time."

Ziyu climbed up the ridge and walked out of the valley, the courtyard was packing up and moving, so she could only go outside to wash the mud on her legs.

Because they wanted to build a house in the courtyard, Ziyu and Xiao Luo moved back to their original wooden house, and they couldn't live in the noisy courtyard at all.

Yahuan, Xiuniang and mother-in-law each moved back to the wooden house in order to take care of the brothers' daily life.

The others stayed in the compound, after all, there was too much stuff in it and it needed to be guarded.

…

The next day, Steward Sheng took 5,000 taels of gold tickets and went to sea with the merchant ship again, and went to Dujiang Mansion to buy strong labor, poultry, fruit seedlings, and exchange for silver.

The construction and rice planting in the valley were carried out in an orderly manner, and the meat and rice were fed, so that the people who worked were full of enthusiasm and did not have the slightest intention of being lazy.

For nothing else, just to eat rich fish and meat three times a day, they have to work hard.

Many people are still thinking about the dried fish and dried whales sent last year, and they are bent on working hard, and the little proprietor is happy to reward them with some and bring them back to the whole family to eat.

There are five snow wolves working as overseers in high places, and the life of the working person is afraid of being targeted by the wolf eyes that want to eat people, and the idea of grinding foreign workers does not dare to have.

…

Everything in the valley was carried out in an orderly manner under Ziyu's plan.

Ziyu, who has lived in the mountains for a long time, does not know that earth-shaking changes have taken place outside.

In the south, there has been continuous spring rain since the beginning of spring, and there is a surprisingly large amount of rain.

It's as if God's stomach is really broken, and there is no possibility of healing.

Excessive rain has caused great inconvenience to crops and people's travel.

The wide Baili River is turbulent, the river water is turbid, and there are few boats of all sizes on the river surface that used to cross the river like carp.

The most common fish in Jiangfu City has become a rare commodity.

The most common carp and crucian carp have risen from the original five cents a pound to twenty cents a pound.

No matter how big or small, as soon as they appear in the market, they will be sold out by liquor stores or large households.

Some people braved the rain to go down to the river to fish, but the boat capsized and people lost their lives.

A series of accidents involving boat wrecks and deaths have made the supply of fish in Jiangfu even more scarce, and the price has soared all the way to 50 wen a catty, which is still scarce and expensive.

(End of chapter)