It didn't take long for more than a dozen people to come out of the village in a hurry, led by a little old man with half a hundred hair, although he was on crutches, he also walked fast.

Li Erlin looked familiar, and when the little old man approached, he remembered the identity of the other party, and immediately shouted excitedly: "Uncle Jianghe, I'm Erlin!" ”

When Li Jianghe heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then carefully looked at the man in front of him, and gradually connected with the childish face in his memory, and he was also a little excited.

"Erlin? Are you really Erlin? ”

Then his gaze swept over the Li family beside Li Erlin, "Are you Da Lin?" You're Da Fang! This is...... Sister-in-law? ”

"Huh!" Mrs. Zhou's eyes flashed with tears, and she responded tremblingly.

Li Dafang, Li Erlin and Li Silin also greeted Li Jianghe one by one, Li Jianghe responded again and again, and then said: "Don't stay outside, second brother, hurry up and bring someone to help your aunt and them move things, and go back to the village first." ”

A man walked out behind Li Jianghe, looking at the crowd opposite with some embarrassment, and they didn't seem to need his help with their little things.

But since my father ordered, I had to do something, so I grabbed the cart pulled by Li Silin, and Li Silin still wanted to shirk it, so Li Yinshan said: "You are Silin, don't be polite to me, you still have the strength to pull the car in Yinshan." By the way, why didn't you see Sanlin and didn't come back with you? ”

Li Silin sulked for a moment, "When I fled back then, the third brother was gone on the road. ”

Li Yinshan was stunned for a moment, and asked in disbelief: "Sanlin is dead?" ”

"Dick!" Li Jianghe snorted his crutches and shouted angrily, and then said to Mrs. Zhou with a forced smile, "Sister-in-law, let's go back to the village first, and then talk about things slowly." ”

Before turning around, he glared at Li Yinshan again, this second child is really elm brain, didn't you see just a few people saying hello, they came back, and the others didn't come back, can't you think of the reason?

Even if you have to ask, you shouldn't ask at this time.

"His seventh uncle, it's okay, my third brother and his father disappeared before they got to the place, more than ten years have passed, we should be sad and sad, it's his second uncle and third uncle...... "Mrs. Zhou sighed, "Don't mention it yet, let's go." ”

The small dirt road into the village was not long, and they said as they walked, and soon arrived in the village, knowing that Li Erlin had fled the flood and planned to settle down, Li Jianghe did not express his position, and this matter was indeed not something that he could decide as a village head.

Generally speaking, if they want to settle down in Mingxia County, they should go to the county seat first, and if the county order collects displaced people, they will register and then make unified arrangements. Even if they can't settle down, as long as they can afford to raise them in Zhutao Village, they can live in Zhutao Village after they do a good job of registering the foreign population, but after the disaster is over, the county government will send someone to drive them back to their hometown.

However, regarding the temporary settlement of Li Erlin and his party in Zhutao Village, Li Jianghe said that there was no problem, although there were only about 40 households in Zhutao Village, it was not a big problem for them to eat and live for two or three days.

"Second Brother Li, I bother you to tell Village Chief Li that he doesn't need to worry about your settlement." Since Li Jianghe and Li Erlin spoke local dialects when they communicated, Steward Wang couldn't understand it very well, and he didn't know if Li Jianghe could speak official language, so he could only tell Li Erlin.

However, Li Jianghe understands official language, and without waiting for Li Erlin to tell him, he looked at Steward Wang, "Who is this?" ”

In fact, I have wanted to ask for a long time, Li Erlin and his party are all dirty, and their clothes are simple, and there is a person in the crowd who has high-grade and outstanding temperament, just like a crane in a flock of chickens.

Li Erlin only told Li Jianghe that this was the housekeeper of a large family he met on the road, and he didn't say much about the rest, mainly because the status of the Wang family was too high, even if he said it, Li Jianghe might not believe it, and if he did, he was afraid of scaring him.

"In that case, then I don't have to worry about it." Li Jianghe bowed his hand to Steward Wang to express his gratitude, and then said to Li Erlin, "There is still a lot of wasteland between the village and the foot of the mountain, and some farmland has been abandoned before, and the population in the village is not enough to plant, if you stay in the village, you need to open up the wasteland yourself." If you plant grain, we have just finished planting, and each household still has a surplus, which can also be lent to you, and you can hurry up and open one or two acres to catch up with the autumn harvest, although the harvest of the newly cultivated farmland will not be high, but it is better than no harvest at all. ”

Li Erlin translated Li Jianghe's words to the people who were originally from Xiaochen Village, there was no way, even if Li Jianghe could speak official language, only Chen Songhui was among those people in Xiaochen Village, and it was a bit difficult for others to understand, let alone listening to the vernacular of Mingxia County, which would only sound more difficult.

This is also why some people are reluctant to flee the famine, the same state has a different accent, not to mention settling in a more distant and unfamiliar place, the language barrier is difficult to communicate, and life is out of place.

After listening to Li Erlin's words, everyone was overjoyed and full of enthusiasm. They were all ready to do coolies or tenant fields to survive the second half of the year, but now that they heard that they can still open up the wasteland and sow seeds, can they not be excited?

The Great Jing Dynasty encouraged the cultivation of wasteland, and whoever reclaimed the wasteland belonged to whom, and the existence of fields meant that there was a harvest. As Li Jianghe said, even if the harvest is not high, it is better than no harvest at all.

So one by one, the Li family taught them how to use the words of Mingxia County to say "thank you", and it was not difficult to learn the simple two syllables, and in the blink of an eye, a group of people thanked Li Jianghe with an accent and the words they had just learned.

Li Jianghe almost couldn't parry, so he quickly diverted the topic and discussed their accommodation. For the first two days, you can stay in the aboriginal house in Zhutao Village, the conditions are not good, but there is also a top four walls to shelter from the wind and rain, but if you want to settle down, you must not be able to borrow it for a long time, and they must also have their own house.

Considering that they still needed to open up the wasteland, Li Jianghe proposed that he go back and discuss with the people in the village to see if he could organize some people from the village to build bamboo huts for them to live in temporarily, and then see if they should be replaced with wooden houses or earthen houses when they are idle after the autumn harvest.

It can be said that he did his best to settle Li Erlin and his party, and Li Erlin and others were naturally grateful to Li Jianghe, and this village chief was also too good, and he thought about them everywhere.

But then they found that not only the village chief is good, but the villagers are also very good, for Li Jianghe's assignment, the villagers have no objections, very cheerful and enthusiastic to take away the family assigned to their own temporary food and temporary residence, although it is difficult to communicate with each other, but they get along well no matter how they look at it.

"Uncle Jianghe......"

Li Erlin was grateful, and was about to say thank you, but as soon as he shouted out the salutation, he was stopped by Li Jianghe.

"Needless to say, thank you, Uncle is very happy to be able to come back. And you are indeed in difficulty now, we can help more if we can, and we will have more strength to help horizontally and vertically. You will also live in the village for a long time in the future, and it is more important for everyone to live a good life in harmony than anything else. ”

Li Erlin swallowed the words of thanks back into his stomach, and said with a smile: "I want to introduce my daughter-in-law and children to you, so that you can recognize people, and when the New Year comes, the children can ask you for a copper plate." ”

Li Ping'an's eyes widened instantly, as if he had just met his father.

Ruyi was heartless, his eyes lit up when he heard it, and he ran forward to hook Li Erlin's legs, and looked at Li Jianghe with a smile on his little face.