The growth of the eldest daughter-in-law of the farm gate

Chapter 316

As Li Dashan's transportation team left, the people left behind were almost rested.

Master Zhang has completely taken over the carpentry work in Zhuangzi, and has been busy with his four apprentices these days. Some details in Zhuangzi needed to be reworked. Zhao Yunlan handed the already drawn drawings to Master Zhang. After the changes were completed, he had to go to the factory next door. The entire carpenter team had a lot of work.

Deng Yong is also busy here. Seeing that the autumn harvest is approaching, the peppers are about to be picked. Now he has to plant the fruit trees, flowers and seedlings before the weather gets cold. In the past few days, the apprentice, Qin Laoba and Lao Dengtou are digging the ground. Although Zhuangzi hired many villagers to do work, there was a lot of land and the work was complicated, so every day was busy.

Since Deng Yong came, Qin Laoba and Lao Dengtou consciously stepped aside and became assistants, helping Deng Yong wholeheartedly. But Deng Yong did not feel proud because of Zhao Dong's attention. He was still as humble as before. He knew that he was not familiar with the climate and soil environment of the North, so when he encountered problems, he humbly asked the two village leaders for advice. They get along harmoniously, have a clear division of labor, and do things in an orderly manner.

The other little girls are also not idle. Although the factory building has not yet been built, several girls have already begun to take turns burning plant ashes, refining lard, and making soap every day. It's just that this soap is not for sale. After all, except for Li Caixia, the other people are novices, and the soap they make is not optimistic. It is just a training stage now, and the training teacher is Li Caixia.

In addition to making soap, Zhao Yunlan also stipulated that she should take time to learn to read every day. Because Li Caixia knew a lot of words when she was in Lijia Village, she became the leader of several girls and was responsible for teaching everyone how to read. Of course, this The wages are also higher.

Zhao Yunlan returned to the school to teach after Zhuangzi's arrangements were almost completed. The second and third eldest children of the Li family still had to stay in Shiyang County for a short period of time. During this period, they could help with some things, which made Zhao Yunlan feel a lot more relaxed. .

The fourth child Mingzhi is the most relaxed. In addition to doing things at home and reviewing his homework, when he has free time, he will go out to the countryside with Li Mingren to walk around. Sometimes he will go to the county government hall to watch his elder brother handle cases.

Today was the last day of corvee work. Mingzhi followed Li Mingren to the river embankment. Li Mingren went to the river embankment to inspect and accept the project, and he also went to express condolences to the laborers who were doing the corvée work. On the last day of the corvée service, he asked the cook in charge of food to buy many kilograms of fat meat and tube bones to give everyone a bone. Soup, cook a meat dish.

"Sir, let's make the final filling now. Check for leaks and fill in the loose parts, and then reinforce them. It will be over before noon." Xie Changwang stood aside and reported the situation to Li Mingren.

Li Mingren had already walked along the river embankment, and it was indeed as reported. Moreover, the slave laborers did not complain too much along the way. When he met a few optimistic people, they even took the initiative to say hello to him.

"It seems that this change has made everyone feel a lot better." Li Mingzhi followed the circle and felt that there were no complaints on everyone's faces.

Li Mingren: "It may be the last day. Everyone wants to go home. It is indeed a lot easier."

Xie Changwang added from the side: "Sir, it is indeed because we have improved everyone's food and working hours that it is much easier for everyone to do corvee this time."

After all, Xie Changwang has been in Shiyang County for many years, and he has vivid memories of what it was like to serve in corvee service in the past years. This year, we not only prepared hot soup and hot rice for everyone, instead of the original two meals, we changed the working hours. We also gave the laborers half an hour to rest at noon to replenish their strength.

As for heavy work, it is not arranged for a group of people to do it, but a daily shift system, so that the heavy work can only be done once every few days, and everyone can have a chance to breathe. Of course, this year's management system is stricter. This does not mean that the officials can beat and scold the laborers at will, but that the servants in charge of the labor must restrain themselves more strictly and be fair and just.

Li Mingren would send someone to inspect every once in a while, and sometimes he even came to inspect secretly himself. Fortunately, he didn't find anything that disappointed him.

"The last bit of work, don't relax, everyone. The pot has been set up over there to prepare the soup. After today's work, you can go home with a full meal." Li Mingren suddenly raised his voice and turned to the person who was watching next to him. The entranced fourth child was startled.

"Okay, sir." A nearby man was moving a big stone. Before he put it down, he responded cheerfully to Li Mingren. Li Mingren stood on the river embankment all morning until the entire project was completed. Everyone lined up and finished their meals and sat together to eat the last corvee meal.

Taking advantage of the quiet moment when everyone was eating, Li Mingren said: "When we go back for the autumn harvest this time, the county government will send ten cows to each village to help. I know that some of these families only have a strong laborer, and they must be anxious to get ready for the autumn harvest. So this time the use of the ten cows will be given first to the families with less labor, and then it will be the turn of other families. The village chiefs have already returned to the village to inform them."

"Okay~" the crowd responded one after another, everyone was thinking about whether their own family should use the cow first.

"It's definitely not your family. Your eight brothers will have to be ranked behind me." A young man couldn't help complaining about these thick-skinned people.

The people next to me echoed, "That's right, no matter what, I am the one in front of your family. There are only three brothers in my family."

In fact, the use of cattle is not all allocated according to the number of strong laborers in the family. Strong labor is the main consideration, but the conditions of each family must also be taken into consideration. It is true that there are families with good conditions, but there are only a few people in the family. These families have enough financial strength to hire people to help with the autumn harvest.

So the use of cattle for the autumn harvest is not as simple as it seems. Sufficient investigation work was done in the early stage before the arrangement could be made. Of course, this matter was left to Chen Yiqing. This person has always been upright and is suitable for doing these things to ensure that this work is carried out impartially.

The topic went off topic, and Li Mingren saw that everyone had almost finished eating, so he told Xie Changwang to do the final finishing work, and he took Mingzhi back to the county government office first.

There are still a lot of things to do in the county government. In addition to sending ten cows to the countryside for the autumn harvest, Li Mingren will also take the lead in going to the countryside to help farmers. All these must be arranged in advance, and only in the past few days, but this measure has not been notified, because the villagers are afraid that they will be too nervous and miss the farming season in order to entertain the yamen servants.

When he arrived at the Yamen, Li Mingren directly called Cao Yingfa and Chen Yiqing to the meeting hall for a meeting. Li Mingzhi knew that they were talking about business, so he returned to the backyard of his own accord.

In the backyard, Li Mingyi was discussing the construction of the factory with Li Mingli.

"Second brother, third brother." Li Mingzhi came forward and looked at the drawings on the table.

"Hey, Fourth Brother, please help us see if there is anything wrong with this drawing."

Li Mingzhi: "Isn't this the drawing of the factory building? Huh! It seems that the location is different."

Li Mingyi said: "Yes, we plan to demolish the workshop at home and rebuild it into a factory like this. This is a drawing based on the topography of the home."

"Does sister-in-law know?" Li Mingzhi asked.

The third child: "I'm sure, my sister-in-law brought it up, so I discussed it with my second brother."

"Oh~"