Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, Tian Gui sighed, "Ah! The people and the land here are so kind; we were absolutely right to come here!"
Tao'er's mother brought over water and looked at Xiaoman and Errui: "Hurry up and tidy up the house. You should also go help Xu Genyou's family!"
The families helped each other with the work, and whoever finished their work would quickly go and help the others.
Tian Gui knew in his heart that although he was helping the village chief guard the land, the village chief was not using him for nothing.
They had previously borrowed a lot of grain and money from Village Chief Jiang.
Although the group was supposed to help each other, the couple already owed a favor to Village Chief Jiang for lending them grain. Now, Errui and Xiaoman were helping them with chores, and they hadn't even had a bite to eat. The couple felt very guilty.
"Hey! I'll definitely work harder for Village Chief Jiang from now on, and I'll pull the weeds in the ditches more often."
The family raises rabbits, and the three children usually weed in Jiang Village Chief's fields, keeping the farmland clean and tidy.
The villagers have been busy these past few days, but Jiang Zhi's family's second crop is half a month late, so they're not busy yet.
With nothing to do in their own fields, Errui and Xiaoman didn't sit idle. They helped this family and that family, carrying loads of corn from various plots of land.
For families lacking physical strength, moving all these things back home is no easy task.
Jiang Zhi also came down the mountain to help.
Xu Genyou's family had a lot of land to cultivate, and there was a lot of work to do. Several women would pick the corn and deliver it to the edge of the field, while the men were responsible for carrying it home.
Li Laoshi didn't want to do heavy work, so he led the old mule carrying grain. Both of them were lazy, and they walked slowly.
Reaching the edge of the field, Li Laoshi didn't rush to bag the vegetables. Instead, he chased after a startled rabbit, exclaiming, "Hey! This fat rabbit's adding to the vegetables!"
Although Xu Gen worked in the fields every day, rabbits still inevitably came to eat his corn.
Jiang Zhi came out carrying half a basket of corn, wiped her sweat, and yelled at Li Laoshi: "Li Laoshi, if you don't want to work, go and keep watch in the village, so that no fools will steal it."
Xujia Village is located next to the main road. These days, every household has piled up corncobs outside their shacks, for fear of them being stolen.
Li Laoshi chuckled: "Sister Jiang, there are people around. Who would dare to steal anything from the village? Don't worry!"
Not everyone in the village goes to work in the fields; some people always stay at home to watch over things.
Staying at home... actually, what Jiang Zhi is worried about is those people who stay at home.
Not only can grain be eaten, but it can also be exchanged for money, namely, the gleaming silver laid out before you.
Food is essential to human life.
Now each family has only a few shacks, and the harvested grain can only be left there. If someone has bad intentions, there will be plenty of opportunities.
With Jiang Zhi keeping things under control for the past six months, the village has been relatively peaceful. Never trust human nature, especially now that we are in the midst of a famine.
Would Li Laoshi not have thought of these things?
He knew it, of course, but he didn't care because it didn't concern him.
Those grains in the village weren't Jiang's wife's grain.
“Go back! Walk around the village. If anything happens, I’ll hold you responsible.”
Jiang Zhi chased away this cunning and deceitful person.
The old mule doesn't need anyone to lead it; it just follows the porter around. Li Laoshi is a lazy bum when it comes to work; it's better to put him back to guard the house.
Li Laoshi wasn't angry at being chased away by Village Chief Jiang; he just happily left.
Leading a mule isn't tiring, but it involves walking a long way up hills and over hills, which is tiring and hot. It's nothing compared to wandering around the village.
As soon as Li Laoshi left, Tian Shi bent down and came out carrying a large basket full of corn: "Auntie, there's not much left in the field. You've had a long day, so go back and rest!"
Pi also came out carrying corn, her hair disheveled and her face flushed, saying, "Auntie, you're getting old, let us do this!"
Xu Gensheng, a member of her family, was in the group. Since Xu Gensheng's family was harvesting corn, he naturally came to help, and she followed along. At this time, she spoke very casually, not afraid of upsetting the older Jiang Zhi.
However, Jiang Zhi was one of the older women in the group, and of course, there was also the even older Liu Shi.
Jiang Zhi didn't waste any more time with the Pi and Tian families. The plot of land they were on was the last one, so there was no need for so many people to break it up in the field. Instead, they needed people to quickly transport it home.
She packed her basket and headed back.
Just a few steps from the edge of the field, I ran into a little girl running towards me in a panic.
This is Xu Genyou's youngest daughter, only seven years old. She used to follow him around in the field picking up the corn that had fallen.
"Chunxi, why are you running?" Jiang Zhi saw that Chunxi looked frightened and her little braids had come undone and were swaying back and forth.
Upon seeing Jiang Zhi, Chunxi immediately stopped and hurriedly said, "Grandma Jiang, I need to find my mother and grandmother!"
"Oh, they're still in the little field, they'll be done picking soon and heading back, you don't need to go looking for them anymore."
Jiang Zhi casually asked, "I'll go ahead first. The other women will carry some back too. There's no need for Chunxi to run off to call for help."
Ke Chunxi said with a sob in her voice, "My father wants my mother to come back quickly. It's my aunt who brought people back to take cotton, and she also wants to take corn with her."
"What? You said someone's coming to pick up the things?" Jiang Zhi thought she must have misheard.
"It's my aunt! She came with several people, saying that our family took her grain and that my father should return it to her!" Chunxi said, wiping away her tears, and ran into the mountains crying loudly.
She couldn't understand it. Her aunt and uncle had already left, and they had worked hard to cultivate the land they left behind. How could her aunt, who hadn't done anything, be allowed to take the grain?
Jiang Zhi was also furious. She was the village chief of Xujia Village, and Wang Xiaoju really didn't respect the village chief and wanted to openly lead people to rob grain.
He was furious and walked with lightning speed, ignoring his exhaustion, and quickly returned to the village.
Before anyone even got close, a commotion could be heard.
Someone was shouting angrily: "Genbao, tell me yourself, when we divided the family property, didn't you say that I could farm the land and that the grain from the land would be given to my mother to support her in her old age?"
That was Xu Genyou's voice. Soon someone chimed in, "Genbao, you're a man who can pee standing up, but after being egged on by a woman, you can go back on your word. You've got some thick skin! Much thicker than our little yellow ox that's only a few months old."
That sleazy voice belongs to Li Laoshi.
Without hearing Xu Genbao's response, the young woman's sharp and arrogant voice first scolded, "This is a matter for my Xu family, what does it have to do with an outsider like you?"
You eat and drink wherever you want, stay in other people's houses and eat their food. You're just a dog that my Xu Family Village took in. A dog catching mice is meddling in other people's business. If you don't behave yourself, get out of here, or I'll skin you alive.
Wow! Jiang Zhi wanted to say something impressive. Before she could even chase Li Laoshi away, someone had already bypassed her, the village chief.
After turning past a few steps and passing a shack, the scene on the field immediately became clear.
Scattered corncobs on the ground, Xu Genyou and Li Laoshi, armed with wooden sticks, blocked the group. The leader was Wang Xiaoju, who was gesturing wildly with her hands on her hips!
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