Taoshui Village and Huoshen Village add up to more than 100 households, Li Li is living in Huoshen Village, but he is also in charge of Taoshui Village, he knows that he has no prestige in Taoshui Village, so these things will be told to Patriarch Ye first, and then Patriarch Ye will convey them to the villagers of Taoshui Village.

"This winter's ...... of the river," Patriarch Ye's brows furrowed tightly.

It is very difficult to serve the conscription, especially in the winter and summer weather, every year there are people who can't bear the conscription, and now the weather is getting colder, and the dam can be built to go down the river, the river is biting, and it is difficult for a strong man.

"There's no way, the order from the yamen, besides, if the Longjiang River floods, our Taoshui Village will also suffer. Li Lizheng also sighed, "There are fifteen days of hard labor, the twentieth of this month begins, and now there are more than ten days, let the family eat better, and go again to raise the strong, I won't inform you one by one, hard brother." ”

Patriarch Ye could only nod with a solemn expression.

The order issued by the yamen, if you don't go, you will be evading, not only to pay a fine, but also to be punished, and fifty boards will be taken down, and people's lives will also be gone.

"Grandpa Lizheng, how much is the proxy money this time?" Ye Yunshu was more concerned about this.

"One or two. Li Lizheng replied.

Ye Yunshu couldn't help frowning, the money for this generation of service has also risen, and it was only 700 yuan last year.

This is the case in the lower strata of the ruling class, which does not even have the right to say a word.

Li Lizheng left Patriarch Ye's house after explaining, and Ye Yunshu also said goodbye to Patriarch Ye.

When he walked under the big yellow horn tree at the head of the village, Chen Lao Liu happened to drive the ox cart into the village.

"Sixth Uncle Chen?" Ye Yunshu couldn't help but be stunned when he looked at him.

"Tiger girl. Chen Lao Liu sat on the ox cart and greeted Ye Yunshu with a smile, "Where are you going?"

"I went to the patriarch's grandfather's house and prepared to go back. Ye Yunshu replied, and couldn't help asking, "Did Sixth Uncle Chen just come back from the county?"

"yes. Chen Lao Liu nodded, "Take your sister Xiaoru back." ”

Although Chen Lao Liu is the sixth in line, but there is only one brother above, the Chen family had a hard time in the early years, four of the six brothers died, and the only thing left is Chen Lao Liu and Chen Lao Liu, one big and one young, the age difference is more than ten years, this Chen Lao Liu almost raised Chen Lao Liu as a son, and he helped a lot on weekdays, and Chen Lao Liu's life was better.

Mr. and Mrs. Chen opened a grocery store in the county, and the two had no children, and they loved Chen Xiaoru, the daughter of Chen Laoliu, who spent almost half of the year in the county's old family.

Because of the cold weather, Chen Laoliu's ox cart was also surrounded by cloth, and a thick quilt was used in front of him to make a curtain.

Chen Xiaoru heard Ye Yunshu's voice, lifted the quilt, poked out a head, and shouted, "Sister Yunshu!"

Although Chen Xiaoru is only nine years old, she already has the name of a small village flower in Taoshui Village, the little girl is white and pure, wearing a pink beaded flower on her head, wearing a powder blue skirt and gown, and a circle of white velvet rabbit fur on the collar of the gown, she doesn't look like a girl from a village family at all.

"Sister Xiaoru. Ye Yunshu also greeted with a smile, but he was shocked in his heart.

I'm a good girl, Uncle Chen will only come back now, who was the person who had a bump with the Yao family before?

Ye Yunshu found out that he knew a terrible secret.

"Sister Yunshu, come and play with me when you have time. ”

"Good. ”

Ye Yunshu nodded, and then Chen Lao Liu drove the ox cart away, Ye Yunshu looked at the ox cart, and then noticed that the cloth on the roof of the ox cart was dark green, and couldn't help but sigh, alas, what a big green hat!

To say that Chen Laoliu's daughter-in-law, Yao, is indeed good-looking, in Ye Yunshu's eyes, she is so much worse than Chen Yunniang.

The conditions of Chen Laoliu's family are good, and he also loves his daughter-in-law, Yao's clothes are better than the women in the village, not to mention the hairpin beads on his head, it is the rouge gouache that he often brings back, which is enough to make the women in the village red-eyed.

How many women in the village can wipe fat and powder every day?

Although Yao is already twenty-five or sixteen, and has given birth and raised, although his skin is not very good, he can dress up, with bright dresses and a little powder, and he looks no worse than those seventeen or eighteen-year-old yellow flower girls.

Yes, there are also many men in the village who look at the Yao family, but the relationship between the two has always been very good, and before that, Ye Yunshu had never heard of the Yao family getting close to any man.

Suddenly found out about this matter today, Ye Yunshu was really curious, who could let the Yao family risk being immersed in the pig cage and steal it from him?

When they returned home and talked about the weather and forced labor, Ye Zhengwen and Chen Yunniang also sighed that it was very dangerous to build a dam in the river in this winter, and maybe a few people would have to freeze to death.

But if the dam is not repaired, if another rainstorm breaks down one day, it will not be a matter for a few people, and several nearby villages will suffer.

The people in the village are all men in the family in turn, this year is the eldest, next year is the second, the Ye family has three sons, Ye Zhengwen was in the school before, and the second and third servants went to serve in the service.

The two brothers have only been there twice, but Ye Zhengwen has served three years of hard labor, that is, after he decided not to study, the family has a lot of grievances, so Ye Zhengwen went to the three years of labor in a row, and he almost didn't survive twice, or Chen Yunniang secretly used the dowry money to make a little bit of service to barely survive.

Later, the family was divided, Ye Zhengwen was busy with his livelihood, if the work in the account room was lost, the family would not be able to support him, so he used silver to serve in silver, and the service silver in these years rose from three hundred Wen all the way to one or two silver, especially this year's harvest is not good, where did the ordinary Zhuang family get the money of one or two silver?

"Why don't I go this year. Ye Zhengwen was a little distressed by the one or two silver substitute money.

"Don't. Ye Yunshu hurriedly said, "Dad, it's not like we can't get a tael of silver, I'll go to the county to sell baked cakes the day after tomorrow, can't you help me look at it?"

"yes, master. Chen Yunniang also stroked her stomach and said, "This world is not ordinary, your body and bones are not as good as others, if you go, if you look back, if you have three long and two short, how will our mothers live." ”

Ye Zhengwen looked at Chen Yunniang's stomach and stopped talking.

The old Ye family is also discussing the matter of service at this moment.

"Dad, I went last time, and this time I'll go to the third child. "Ye Lao Er doesn't know what else to discuss, hasn't it always been a turn, last year, he was the third, and this year he should be the third.

Ye Laosan said: "Dad, I just took a big job, and I can earn 500 yuan a month! If I go, won't this job be cheaper for others?"

Ye Laosan didn't lie, but he was lucky, there was a foreign master in the county who wanted to play a curved screen of red pine, and the work had to be done carefully, knowing that he was good at workmanship, he came up, but the actual salary was 800 Wen.

As soon as Ye Lao Er heard this, he immediately became unhappy, "Dad, you can't be partial! I also helped Master Xue Zhuangzi of Huoshen Village harvest wheat last year, so I still went!"