Bai Lizheng was anxious in his heart and his face showed anxiety, and Li Mao could see it clearly.
He spoke first, "Bai Lizheng, I advise you to accept it. The boss is in charge of so many people, so he must be very strict with rules.
Just think about it, if everyone changed their orders every day whenever they were dissatisfied, Qingping Village would have been in chaos long ago.
If you don't listen to my advice and insist on talking to the boss, then go and talk to him yourself. I'm sorry, I really can't help you."
Bai Lizheng didn't have the courage to go to Kang Yueran and talk to her, so he sighed and thought he had no choice but to accept it.
He grabbed Li Mao's hand again and said, "Thank you for your kind advice, Brother Li. I will come to get closer to you more often in the future." Li Mao was well-informed, so they had to get closer.
Li Mao withdrew his hand again, "Okay!" He had not had much contact with them before, but this time he had a clear understanding of the people of Sanhe Village. He secretly reminded himself to have less contact with them in the future.
Bai Lizheng took his men back.
Li Sangen snorted coldly, "What kind of person is this? He hides when there's no benefit, and tries to take advantage of the benefit."
Li Mao's smile faded, "Alright, we all live nearby, it's okay to just understand some things, don't talk nonsense everywhere.
I asked you and Ergen to learn Chinese characters from Sigen. How are you two doing?"
Li Sangen immediately became nervous. "My second brother is a good student. I'm not good at studying. Dad, why are you suddenly asking us to learn calligraphy?"
"Duan Fei, who came to our village to register the villagers, said that the registrants were selected from the disaster victims. Qingping Village is most in need of literate people."
Li Mao's wife, Miao, said anxiously, "Father, you can't send these children to Qingping Village."
"I'd like to give them away, but Qingping Manor might not accept them. Duan Fei said the boss bought land by the Haihe River to build a dock. If the children can read and write, I'll ask the boss to let them work at the dock. Who knows, they might have great fortunes in the future."
Farming is good, but he hopes that his children can see more of the world and find a way to settle down.
Li Ergen and Li Sangen exchanged a glance and shouted in unison, "Sigen, teach us how to read! Where's your meal? Don't eat yet. You'll starve to death if you don't eat. Come over and teach us!"
Young people are always full of energy and yearn for the outside world. Well, if they practice calligraphy well, they too can become managers.
Lijiaji Village and Sanhe Village are busy plowing the land and planting radishes.
However, there was crying in Liujia Village, and Kang Yueran personally brought people to collect grain.
There was a large scale at the entrance of the village, with many donkey carts parked next to it, and more than 30 young people.
There were 52 households in Liujia Village who participated in stealing sweet potatoes, and on average each household took 384 kilograms of grain.
Liu Lizheng's family was the first to pay grain, and he paid mixed flour.
After weighing the grain and loading it onto the donkey cart, Kang Yueran said, "The grain has been handed over, and I need to give you all my sweet potatoes too!"
Liu Lizheng pushed his son and said, "Go and get the sweet potatoes."
The remaining families began to hand over grain and sweet potatoes one after another.
Finally, five families said that they were too poor and had neither food nor money.
Kang Yueran was not polite, "If you have no food and no money, then you can use your land as collateral. If you say you have no land, I will go back and ask Mr. Guo, the clerk of the household department, to verify it.
If you cheat me, I will report you to County Magistrate Cheng. My brothers can't be fooled by you for nothing. When the time comes, you must compensate me double the current amount."
"That's nearly 400 kilograms! We really don't have that much food. If we give you the land, how will we survive in the future? Master, you're not collecting our food, you're taking our lives!"
Xiao Wuzi jumped out and said, "Bah! That sweet potato can grow to 10,000 pounds, which can save so many lives. What are your lives worth? Don't talk about death."
His eyes turned red, and he added, "If we had an extra 10,000 kilograms of food, my grandparents wouldn't have starved to death. Everyone's family has experienced death. Stop talking nonsense and hand over the food!"
The hunger had only just begun, and all the victims still remembered that feeling. Therefore, they showed no mercy to the people of Liujia Village who had wasted their food. "Xiao Wuzi is right. Everyone has experienced death. Don't scare us with death. Hurry and hand over the food."
Liu, the village head, knew whether these five families had land or not. He advised, "Just give it up. Don't bother making such a fuss. You can't beat her."
The five families looked at Kang Yueran and thought of the burly man. Three of them accepted their fate and finally added up all the food they had.
The other two families still refused, and Mrs. Ding rolled on the ground, shouting, "The Qingping Mountain bandits are killing people! The Qingping Mountain bandits are killing people!"
Xiao Wuzi was so angry that he wanted to hit someone. "What nonsense are you talking about, you old woman? How can you tarnish the reputation of our Qingping Village? I, I..."
Kang Yueran said impatiently: "Duan Fei, take the men from these two families back to Kaoshan Village and make them do hard labor.
Now a pound of mixed noodles costs twenty cents, and our wages are also twenty cents. So we will provide one meal a day, and divide it equally among the men for 384 days, and return it after they have worked enough."
Duan Fei smiled and said, "Great! It's time to clean up those toilets."
Kang Yueran waved his hand and said, "Wang Hai, you take your men to transport half of the food back to Kaoshan Village, and I will take the remaining half to Changming County."
Mrs. Ding's youngest son crawled up to Kang Yueran and said, "Master, please show mercy. We are willing to give you the land. We are willing to give you the land."
"Call me Master. Since you're willing to give me the land, go get the deed. The grain is worth seven ounces of silver, six hundred and eighty wen."
Mrs. Ding pushed her youngest son away and said, "I won't give you the land. It's your father's inheritance. I can't give it to anyone else."
She pointed to a family of four next to her and said, "I'm selling you my eldest son's son and daughter."
The two children, who looked about eight or nine years old, were trembling with fear.
Mrs. Ding's eldest son kowtowed to her and said, "Mother, you can't give your two children to others. Mother, I will work hard to earn money in the future."
He kowtowed to Kang Yueran again and said, "I will go to Kaoshan Village to work as a laborer, I will go to clean the toilet, I will go to pay for food. I beg the boss, the owner, please don't take my children away."
Objectively speaking, Kang Yueran felt that taking the two children away actually saved them; from a practical point of view, the bond between parents is very difficult to break.
"You have land, yet you dare to tell me you don't have any? Are you kidding me?"
The youngest son shook his head vigorously. "We dare not, we dare not lie to the boss, oh no, the owner. It's my mother's fault. It's my mother who refused to give us the land. Otherwise, the owner can arrest my mother and make her a laborer. No one in our family is as strong as my mother."
Mrs. Ding couldn't believe that her beloved youngest son would treat her like this. She pushed him down, sat on him and beat him. "You conscienceless bastard, I made you a laborer, and I shouldn't have given birth to you. You..."
"Alright! I'm here to collect food, not to watch you fight." Kang Yueran interrupted Mrs. Ding's scolding and pointed at her youngest son and said to Duan Fei, "Let him take you to his house to get food. Take as much as you can. If it's not enough, we'll talk to you later."
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