If the soil is gone, the tree will become rootless, and it will only be a matter of time before it falls.

"Our farmers are the best in the world, 99% of them are hardworking and willing to work, hoping to live a good life through hard work with their own hands, and they will always have the next generation in their hearts, hard work and resentment."

Jia Baoyu squatted down, looked at a child less than a meter tall, and took out a piece of candy wrapped in paper from his pocket, "As long as there is a bite of food to eat, they will not rebel, but now they are not even given a chance to live." ”

Jia Baoyu peeled off the candy wrapper, and then handed the red candy cube to the child's mouth.

The child looked at him with a look of fear, and then stared at his parents with wide eyes, not knowing whether to take it or not.

Li Gui opened his mouth and said: "Second uncle, this is my father-in-law, you can take it, don't worry." ”

The surname Li in Heitu Village is a big family, except for a few foreign surnames, basically they can be relatives.

The child took the candy cube and filled it into his mouth, probably for the first time in his life to eat such a sweet thing, and the child's eyes immediately bent into crescents.

Jia Baoyu patted his head and continued to walk forward with Li Gui.

I want him to be in Rongguofu, extremely extravagant, from top to bottom, eating and drinking, that is according to the highest standards, big fish and meat do not eat, just like to eat some exquisite.

The eggplant turtle that Grandma Liu came to Daguanyuan for the first time to eat, put the eggplant that came down and put the skin on the stick, as long as the meat was cleaned, cut into shredded nails, fried with chicken oil, and then used chicken breast meat and mushrooms, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, five-spice dried curd, all kinds of dried fruits, all cut into dices, simmered dry with chicken broth, collected sesame oil, mixed with bad oil, sealed tightly in a porcelain jar, and took it out when you want to eat, and mixed it with fried chicken and melon.

The extravagance of Jiafu can be seen from this.

This is just the declining Jia Mansion, and when Rong Guogong was there, he didn't know how to be extravagant and wasteful.

It is estimated that just one table of food is enough for the people of this village to eat for a whole year.

There are hundreds of nobles like Jiafu, and if you look at the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, I am afraid that there are not tens of thousands.

So many people rely on the people at the bottom to provide for them, but the people can't even eat a mouthful of food, this Great Zhou Dynasty is really exhausted, and it has reached the point where it has to be overturned and rebuilt.

"Second master, here's it, this is it." Li Gui reminded Jia Baoyu, who was pondering, that if he didn't speak, he was afraid that this master would hit the door.

Jia Baoyu came back to his senses, but saw a dilapidated scene.

This Li Ruyue's house has no walls at all, it is all enclosed with dead branches and rotten leaves, and the houses closest to the village are three or four hundred meters away, and the yard is quite clean, because there is not even a single hair, and the straw on the roof is messy, and Jia Baoyu can see that there is a big hole leaking on it.

"This is Li Ruyue's home?"

Jia Baoyu has opened his eyes today, this kind of place, I am afraid that many kennels in later generations are stronger than it, although it is stronger than those workers' kennels, but compared with other thatched houses in the village, it is still much worse.

Jia Baoyu even doubted that if the wind was stronger, it would not blow off the roof.

There was a woman squatting by the well in the courtyard, chopping wood, her thin body, as thin as a hemp pole, and the machete in her hand was thicker than her arm, and the people who watched it were terrified.

Li Gui coughed dryly and shouted, "Auntie! Ma'am! ”

Li Gui's voice was very loud, which shocked Jia Baoyu's eardrums, and the woman slowly turned her face, as if she was a little surprised who would come over early in the morning.

Jia Baoyuxin said that this woman is Li Ruyue's mother, at least she has to be an old woman.

Unexpectedly, this woman doesn't look very big, she is only about thirty years old, she looks simple and pure, which makes people feel very comfortable.

She stood up slowly, about 1.6 meters tall, wearing a fat cyan cloth shirt, plus a pair of gray pants, completely covering the curves, the whole person looked a little thin, but there was a feeling of closeness.

"You are?"

This woman obviously doesn't have much contact with others, and she doesn't even know Li Gui.

Li Gui felt that he had lost face and wanted to scold a few words, but considering Li Ruyue, his expression softened again: "Auntie, I am from the south of the village, and the village chief Li Fugui is my father, I want to ask if Uncle Li is at home?" ”

When she heard that it was the son of the village chief, the woman suddenly shouted happily, "Daddy, daddy, the son of the village chief!" ”

The woman shouted a few times, but there was no movement in the house, and she turned and went into the house.

Li Gui rolled his eyes angrily: "I didn't know to open the door first when I saw a distinguished guest, what an ignorant stupid woman!" ”

Jia Baoyu said with a smile: "It's good to know that it's good to run into the house on a rainy day, don't be too demanding, it's not your wife left and right, what are you bothering about." ”

"The second master is really joking." Li Gui didn't want to continue on this topic, so he hurriedly said, "Second master, old Li Tou has come out." ”

Jia Baoyu looked over and saw an old man with gray hair, much whiter hair, and little black walking out, this person's right eye was cloudy, and he was actually half-blind.

Li Jiacheng leaned over, bowed slightly to Li Gui and said, "Young Master, what are you doing today?" The little girl has already gone with you yesterday, is it possible that you have to serve for one night today? ”

Li Gui's old face did not change color, and said with a smile: "Old Li Tou, I am here to give you good news today, my young master has fallen in love with your daughter, and from now on, let her serve my young master, which can be regarded as flying on the branch and becoming a phoenix, and your family's tenant rent will be free in the future." ”

Li Gui took out a booklet from his arms and handed it to him: "This is the title deed of your family's twenty acres of paddy fields, from now on, the fields and bones will be yours." ”

In ancient times, the fields were the lives of the common people, so they were divided very carefully.

The field bone is also called the bottom of the field, and the skin of the field is called the field surface, which is the name of the north, and it is another name in the south of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

A field can be divided into bones and skins, and can be bought and sold separately.

To put it simply, the field is the right to use, the field bone is the ownership, most of the farmers in Heitu Village own the field skin, and the title deed of the field bone is in the hands of Li Fugui.

It sounds complicated, but it's also complicated in practice.

But there is no way, the common people have no other way to live, they only rely on land for survival, and sometimes when they are paying taxes and bearing forced labor, there will also be prevarication.

There is no clear system in the countryside, and sometimes whoever has the biggest fist can occupy more land, which is why in the countryside it is necessary to have sons, the more sons the better, and the more brothers the better.

Li Jiacheng looked at the title deed in his hand blankly, and said with a bitter face: "Young master, I, I can't read, I don't know any of the words on it, you better take it back, let my daughter accompany me for another night, I don't want this thing." ”

Li Gui glared at him and said, "Old Li Tou, are you stupid to work, and you don't want the title deed given to you for nothing?" ”

Li Jiacheng said: "It's not that I don't believe you, it's really that my daughter has been married to the son of the pig killer Li Erniu, and their big fat pig has long been eaten, and the little old man has sold all the twenty acres of thin fields, and he can't afford to pay for his two big fat pigs."

Li Erniu is a straightforward person, and he can't come and kill people with a knife. ”

In the end, it is a village, and he knows the roots, Li Guixin said that he had already chased Lao Tzu with a knife, and Lao Tzu almost met Lord Yama today.

Jia Baoyu on the side said, "This old man, you don't have to worry about these problems. ”

Li Jiacheng glanced at him suspiciously, and Li Gui hurriedly introduced: "This is my son-in-law, a noble man from the capital, and my son-in-law has taken a fancy to your daughter."

We have already been to Li Erniu's house, and he also agreed to withdraw from the marriage, and you don't have to pay back your two big fat pigs, my young master has already paid back 20 taels of silver for you. ”

Li Jiacheng was taken aback, 20 taels of silver? You can buy two cows!

Looking at Jia Baoyu again, his eyes changed, and there was a flattering look in awe, "It's really an honor for the little girl to be favored by her son." ”

He turned his head and shouted at the back room: "Child, mother, give your clothes to Ruyue, our family is going to sell a golden phoenix!" ”

What's that?

Jia Baoyu was stupid when she heard it, why did the family have to change their clothes when they went out, and their daughter had to wear her mother's clothes?

Does Heitu Village have this custom?

Li Gui explained with a smile: "Of course there is no such custom, but Lao Li Tou's family is too poor, the whole family only has two clothes, Lao Li Tou wears one, and the others wear one together, and those who have no clothes can only hide on the kang at home." ”