At present, the county is divided into two places for conscription.

One is that the family can't come up with money, so it can only be the turn of the family, and whoever family will send someone to really work.

But the work done by these ordinary people is a little easier than that hired by wealthy people.

The officials considered that after all, it was free work, and it would be troublesome in the event of a fatality.

The other place is where the Xu brothers are located.

They were managed by the sons of the owners and the petty officials.

These small officials relied on the middle price difference, collected five taels from the rich and gave three taels of silver to the bottom, and then honored and honored the above, and tightened the rations of the workers below, so that they could make a lot of oil and water all year round.

And since you are hired for money, they think that if you collect money, you will have to work hard, so the designated dirty work should be distributed to this part of the people.

But even so, it is also the envy of the Xu brothers.

It's nice to live in the city, and they don't have a country force near home.

If you can be close to home, you won't be like the people in the city who can't live and hire someone.

They were in the countryside for forced labor, and usually had to travel far and squat in a col to dig for coal. I heard from the older generation that for a few years they would be sent to repair the city walls and build tombs, and they would be gone for a year or two.

Therefore, spending three taels of silver to hire someone to work for more than a month, and there is still so much money in a month, this matter is not only new in the eyes of the Xu brothers, but also thinks that this matter is too opportunity to be lost and will not come again.

After all, if they want to come to the county to find work in the future, Uncle Li Zheng may not necessarily open the way for them.

When I heard the owner's son ask the employees who are about to expire, "Do you want to continue to work?" The money can be raised next month, and then two coins of silver", the Xu brothers were tempted.

The increase is due to heavy rain, and it is dangerous to clean the sinus canals and become heavy.

Xu Youyin pouted his second brother: "Second brother, the money has risen, are you scratching in your heart when you listen to it?" I'm scratching, or we'll do it for another month. As long as you work for another month, it will be half of the small six, plus the previous six taels, how much do you calculate? How much did it cost to build our house? How much has the family saved over the years? Return the two taels of silver owed to her, and our family will be able to add two acres of fertile land next year. ”

Leave it for the fertile land.

Now in the year of disaster, the price of the land is cheap, if you are lucky enough to meet the person who sells the land, you can really buy two acres with more than ten taels of silver.

Xu Youliang squatted in the shed and pondered:

The firewood stored at home is enough to burn in winter, and his daughter-in-law can help his mother finish the farm work in the back garden.

So what are they going to do when they go back? Food is also wasted.

As for the mother's concerns, let the third child go back.

The third child is too hard to carry the wood, and he must go back to take care of himself and rest, just to bring back their wages that are due today.

"Done."

In these years, I am not afraid of hardship, and I am afraid that I will not be able to make money.

The second brother didn't dare to think about how good it would be to add two acres of fertile land next year and eat this winter, he was worried that the two younger brothers had not yet married a wife, and the two younger brothers had finished marrying their wives, and then their niece would get married, and there would be a place for the family to use money in the future.

When the two brothers got together to study it, and they had to make up the lies that fooled the old lady, the whip suddenly fell on the second child.

Originally, it was going to draw the fourth.

As the second brother, he instinctively hugged his younger brother from behind, and his back was whipped with his back.

The overseer said, "Tell you that you will not be paid until dark, and don't think that you can be lazy on the last day." Happy, can't you see that side is all alive? ”

The two brothers didn't dare to talk anymore, so they quickly took off their wet clothes, went naked, and lined up with sticks to dredge the mud.

The team had no protective gear, and later they had to use their hands to remove the mud and garbage from the canal.

It is said that the number of people who drown each year is not as high as the number of people who die from unknown diseases.

The fourth Xu Youyin is relatively thin, and he was called away when he was in line.

And this time when he went down to the Dou Canal, the accident came so suddenly, and the fourth brother almost lost his life like his third brother.

When Xu Youyin went deep into the narrow sewer, he was flooded by the sudden influx of sewage.

He struggled, and he couldn't hold his breath to hold his breath, otherwise the sewage would be in his stomach.

And with a large amount of sludge in the sewage, it is not something that Xu Youyin can change if he wants to ventilate, and he feels that all the eye-catching places on his face are blocked.

Thanks to his good water nature, he can still struggle and float until this moment when he can't breathe at all, if he doesn't kick his legs, there is not even a bubble on it before drowning, and the people above can't find out that he is about to die.

And he fluttered twice more and at least there was a voice, "What's down there?" ”

"Do your job, young lady is lazy!"

"I'm not lazy, it's really loud, I'm going to salvage him, I'm going to die."

Xu Youcang arrived at this time.

I don't know if he is enthusiastic or telepathic, seeing that the two people are stubborn but not doing business, he doesn't know who the person below is, so he unloaded the luggage roll and Yali and ran over, thinking that you will know what happened to the people below.

When Xu Youyin was pulled out of the sludge and was finally able to breathe, his face turned pale and his mouth was purple, and he kept spitting out sewage and sediment, and he seemed to see his third brother in a trance, and then his second brother also ran towards him, and the first thing he muttered was: "I want to go home." ”

The kid who broke his fingers before, excitedly settled accounts with his second brother, and kept saying that he wanted to earn another six taels and a half to buy a field, but he was so scared that he almost died outside.

The second and third children hugged their younger brother with red eyes, and responded loudly together: "Go home." ”

There was another incident that day that also made my brother decide to go home.

That is, after Xu Youyin picked up a life, another old man who was serving as a servant fell.

The old man is a maggot with rotten feet, and he sees that he crawls out of the foot to repel insects, crawling all over the surface of his feet and moving to his calves.

A worker asked the officials what to do.

The little official in charge asked rhetorically: "What should I do, if you have money, you will treat it yourself, and if you don't have money, you will bite the handkerchief and see your legs by yourself." ”

What about the money for healing?

"It's not for you three taels, to figure out what skills you have in addition to having brute strength, and why do you earn these three taels of silver if you don't have the ability, you have to think about it before you work, this is life money."

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That night, the Xu brothers got all their wages and squatted at the city tower, waiting for the city gate to open.

On a rainy day, the brothers didn't dare to think that there would be fellow villagers in this county.

For example, Uncle Lizheng's eldest brother's house is in the county, and Uncle Lizheng's father and mother also live here.

But they couldn't go, they used to have a hard time going out to even guide the way, let alone go for a night.

The brothers were even more reluctant to live in a big car shop, each person asked for twenty copper plates for a bunk, and they only spent forty copper plates to buy two five-pound carps.

If you have the money for that bunk, would it be good to buy fish for your family?

Later, the rain was so heavy that there was no place to hide, and I was really afraid of watering the pears.

In acid rain, the pears were not stored for a long time after the rain, so they were willing to spend ten copper plates to borrow a nearby residential warehouse and squat for a night.

You can't burn wood to start a fire in the ten copper plates, and you can only press the well with water by yourself.

So this night, my brother is very busy.

They were brushing the blood on their mats and washing their clothes.

The brothers also discussed, if there is no car tomorrow, they will rush to the rain, wait until no one on the road takes off their clothes, and let the rain wash the mud and hair on their bodies.

They want to return to their hometowns in fine clothes, so that their mothers can have face in front of the villagers and be envied.

"Ming'er can't buy a tarpaulin and wrap the pears well."

The tarpaulin can also be used as a rain shelter after the tarpaulin, which is not a waste of money.

"Yes, there are still fish, when we try to enter the village, we have to let it jump around."