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Chapter 630: Break the Pot and Recruit 150 People

There was a strong wind today, and the village was filled with billowing dust and smoke, so strong that people dared not open their eyes.

But it did not stop the old women in the village. They were walking towards the fields, carrying baskets and sickles and wearing colorful headscarves.

It was almost mid-October, the time to harvest the corn stalks and soybeans. Some diligent families had already harvested the land several days ago, while others were just starting now. It was not because they were enjoying a comfortable life, but because they really had no time.

The men are all working in the forest farm, so what should we do when there is a lack of labor at home? All we can do is to have a group of old women work together on the farm. Today I help her family harvest, tomorrow I help your family harvest, and the day after tomorrow I help my family harvest...

The Xu family's farmland was not harvested either. In the past two years, Xu Long was in charge of harvesting the land. Now that he is not at home, Xu Laonian and Liu Lizhen are not in a hurry. They just let the crops grow in the fields. They can't be lost anyway.

Every year when the land was to be harvested, Xu Ning would either fight with Xu Laonian or find an excuse to go out. He would be away for half a month. Only when all the land at home was harvested would he think of going home...

Yang Jun and his son did not come this morning. I heard from Ma Liu that the girl he hired was cooking at home. Ma Liu confirmed that Yang Jun did stay in the west room of the Xu family's old house last night. This shows that Yang Jun has no feelings towards Pan Xiaozhen.

After Xu Laonian and Wang Erli went to work, Xu Ning and others sat in the reception room to drink tea, and then waited for Yang Jun. He walked in and greeted everyone with a smile.

Liu Lizhen asked: "Jun, how is this girl's cooking skill?"

"Just make do with it. I think Baozhu is quite happy to eat. She made millet porridge and egg cakes and steamed some buns in the morning. She seems quite diligent."

"Oh, that's fine. You should think about it carefully. Don't let rumors spread in the village and make you upset."

Yang Jun said with a smile: "Why should I be upset? No matter how upset I am, I can't be upset because the child I have raised for 14 years is not my own."

"Look at how cheerful my brother Jun is now. He can even make a joke about this matter."

"What can I do about it? It's already a fact. Just say whatever you want. You can talk about it as you like. I'm not afraid of being embarrassed now."

He was a broken jar, and had completely figured it out. If someone else who cared about his reputation mentioned such a shameful thing, he would definitely turn his face against him, and even pick up weapons to fight, but Yang Jun didn't do that...

Of course, one of the reasons is that the Xu family has a favor to him, which is hard to say for others.

"Jun, do you have anything to eat over there? If not, I'll ask your sister-in-law to bring some over later."

Yang Jun nodded and said, "Auntie, I won't be polite. I really have to send you something. This morning I saw that the rice bag was almost empty and the cucumbers in the pickle jar were all very salty. What did that old woman do? She didn't have any plan at all. She ruined all the good things."

Meng Ziyan continued, "Then Lianfang, Huaer and I will go over and take a look later. Is Baozhu following the girl you hired now?"

"Yeah, they slept together last night. I saw Baozhu wasn't unhappy about it and seemed quite happy."

Xu Ning said, "That's fine, let's go quickly, those people in the hall must be getting anxious waiting for you."

Yang Jun took the cigarette from Li Fuqiang and said, "I'm wondering when I can go back home and harvest the corn and soybeans in the fields, otherwise they will be stolen in a couple of days."

Xu Ning turned around and said, "Don't we have people ready at Lengchang? Why don't you call them all to go back with you to collect the land, and then prepare some good food and wine for them in the evening?"

"Hey, Erning is really smart. This is a good idea! I'll just pull it over after we finish harvesting the land."

"Pull it over here and put it directly in my second uncle's house."

"Okay! When will your family reclaim the land?"

"That is, in the next two days. I have to go to various villages to pick up people in the afternoon. You drive the two tractors back to Qingyi, and I will drive this car."

"to make!"

Everyone arrived at the venue and saw the 23 people who had been picked up last night. Zheng Dazhi and Feng Ye were basically the leaders of this group of people, after all, they were all relatives.

After Yang Jun got off the car and stood in front of everyone, after his speech, everyone was radiant and energetic. Why? The reason was naturally that they heard that Yang Jun would give an extra 5 yuan as a New Year's red envelope for those who worked in Lengchang for three months.

I took them around the 28-corner yard twice and explained to them the process and procedures of the cornice, how to keep scores, etc.

Zheng Dazhi and Feng Ye followed Xu Ning and heard him ask, "What did you eat this morning?"

"There were some leftovers from last night, and I made some corn porridge and pickles this morning."

Xu Ning said, "The field has not been open for the past two days, so you guys should make do with what you have. When the field is open again, everything will be normal and someone will cook for you."

"Oh, that's good."

Feng Ye said: "It's not that bad. A lot of people ate a lot last night. They have never eaten so much meat at home."

At this time, everyone had already wandered to the 28-3 lenticular station. Yang Jun pointed at Liu Daming and said, "He is the head of the 3rd lenticular station. If you are assigned to the 3rd lenticular station, you have to listen to him. But the food in our lenticular stations is the same!"

Zheng Dazhi and Feng Ye took the initiative to approach Liu Daming and teamed up with him. The two of them led more and more people to greet Liu Daming...

"Everyone, listen to me! My family's land has not been harvested yet, and you are all free. Who is free to follow me to harvest the land? I will provide dinner and wine in the evening!"

Zheng Dazhi and Feng Ye were the first to respond: "Brother Jun, I'll go!"

Zhang Chunsheng, Pan Yan and others stepped forward and shouted, while the others looked at each other helplessly and nodded in agreement.

"Okay, let's go back and prepare some food, and then go to harvest the land in the afternoon."

After Yang Jun finished speaking, he turned around and asked, "Erning, are you guys going down the mountain now?"

"Well, where should we arrange for them tonight?"

"Just leave it to me. Don't bother my aunt and the others. Let Pan Xiao and my brother and sister-in-law help prepare four dishes!"

Xu Ning took the key from Yang Jun and said, "Then I'll go down the mountain and tell them."

Afterwards, Xu Ning and others drove down the mountain and left the two tractors in Lengchang.

The wind on this mountain is even stronger, making the leaves rustle. The dead leaves are blown down by the strong wind and then fly around the mountain with the wind...

After returning to the village, Xu Ning stopped the car when passing by the old house of the Wang family. He saw that Meng Ziyan, Sun Lianfang and Guan Hua had not left yet and were sitting in the house chatting with Pan Xiao.

There was a donkey-riding stage in the courtyard. When Xu Ning got off the stage and walked in, Pan Xiao came out of the house and greeted him timidly: "Hello, Mr. Xu."

Meng Ziyan said: "What Xu Baotou, from now on you can call me Second Brother, this is my boyfriend."

Sun Lianfang looked at her and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law, why don't you call me husband? Isn't it, Hua?"

Guan Hua shook her head and dared not say a word. Her sister-in-law was simply a gangster leader. She and Guan Lei were on good terms before they got married, but after they got married, she dared to say anything outside, sometimes making her and Meng Ziyan blush.

Now Meng Ziyan could accept it and even dared to say a few dirty words to Sun Lianfang.

"Isn't it time for you to call me Little Stone? If you keep talking back, I'll tell Little Stone to beat your butt in the middle of the night!"

"Oh, sister-in-law..." Sun Lianfang stamped her feet helplessly. Xu Ning pretended not to hear and said bluntly: "You three will help Pan Xiao prepare four dishes later. The people in Lengchang have gone home to help Brother Jun collect the land. We have to treat them to something good in the evening. Have you brought the food and vegetables?"

"Oh, okay! Here I bring it. I got two bags of rice and noodles. There are also some vegetables in the backyard."

Xu Ning waved his hand: "What kind of vegetables are those? There are only radishes and cabbages, and the eggplants are all covered with frost."

"We still have vegetables in the cellar of our old house..."

"Uncle Xu, please come in." Yang Yi ran out and took his hand and said.

"You're really different now that someone is taking care of you. Yesterday you were a kitten, but today you've become a porcelain doll."

"Hahaha, of course! Aunt Pan is better than my mom. I can make whatever I want to eat."

Xu Ning nodded, looked at Pan Xiao and said, "Don't prepare lunch at noon. I'll send some food to you and Baozhu later. You can pick some vegetables at home."

"it is good……"

Xu Ning looked at Meng Ziyan and said, "You three should go home early. Baozhu, do you want to go play with uncle?"

"I'm not going. Auntie Pan said she'd alter my clothes and pants for me later."

At noon, just as the table was cleared at Old Xu's house, Meng Ziyan, Sun Lianfang and Guan Hua went to deliver food to Yang Yi and Pan Xiao, and brought some beans, potatoes and pickled meat from home.

Xu Ning and Liu Daming got up and got into the car, and told Li Fuqiang, Guan Lei and Wang Hu to go to the back mountain to help Lao Jiang and Li Feng build a cellar.

The two men picked up Yu Kaihe and Lao Wei on the way, and then went straight to the four villages of Yongzi. From these four villages, they went eastwards and covered all the 12 villages in Qing'an. They made three trips in the afternoon and picked up more than 130 people in total, including more than 10 people recruited by Hu Zhiyong.

After sending them all to the lenting ground, Xu Ning let them stay there first. It was definitely impossible for all these people to live in lenting ground No. 3, so they were assigned to lenting ground No. 28 and No. 1 and 2, and Yang Jun would make a unified allocation tomorrow. However, a few vacancies had to be left in each lenting ground, because there was still a group of people from Malian Shuangfu Village who had not come yet.

After settling the workers, Xu Ning drove home to get some food. His mother, second aunt and others made three large pots of pork, cabbage and vermicelli stew, as well as cornmeal cakes. After he, Guan Lei, Li Fuqiang and Wang Hu sent them to the mountain, they had a meal with more than 130 people.

Yang Jun invited Zheng Dazhi, Feng Ye and their group to have dinner and drinks at the old house of the Wang family. There were four dishes in total, including stir-fried minced meat with pickled mustard greens, which also had some vermicelli and soybeans in it. This dish went very well with rice. There were also cold dishes such as stir-fried pork skin with dried radish, stewed potatoes with green beans, and mixed cabbage hearts.

Everyone was quite satisfied with the dish alone, and there were three pots of wine, so everyone could drink about 4 taels. They were very happy to get together and drink. They originally thought that Yang Jun could only make two dishes at most, but unexpectedly he had four, and the wine was sorghum wine, not corn wine diluted with water.

At around 7 o'clock in the evening, Yang Jun drove a tractor to take everyone back to Lengchang. At this time, Xu Ning and others had not left yet.

"Have you finished cleaning up?"

"Yeah! With more people, the work is quicker. We finished harvesting everything by five o'clock. But we didn't bring back the corn stalks. We brought over corn ears, potatoes, and soybean stalks."

"It's okay. We'll go back when we have time. There are 157 people in the field now, including them. How will you arrange it?"

Yang Jun nodded: "Okay! They all know Lao Shu and Lei Zi, right?"

"Yes, I took my uncle to pick them up, and they have already arranged a place for them to live. I was thinking of asking Brother Yong to come over tomorrow, and we can get together to discuss how to arrange work for them."

"Let's talk about it tomorrow. Let them go to sleep first. I'll pick up Hu Zhiyong tomorrow morning. We'll be at Lengchang around 8 o'clock."

……

The next day, around 8 o'clock.

There is not much wind today and the weather is warmer than yesterday.

After Xu Ning, Yang Jun, Liu Daming, Hu Zhiyong, Guan Lei, Li Ye and others arrived at the 28th lenticular yard, they asked everyone to gather at the 28th lenticular yard and also called the original workers of the th lenticular yard over.

More than 200 people gathered in the open space of Lengchang, all looking at Yang Jun and others.

"Erning, what do you say?"

"You can speak. I am not involved in management. You can all say a few words."

Yang Jun nodded and shouted to the crowd: "Attention, gentlemen! Let me introduce you first. This is Guan Lei, the head of the No. 2 field! Liu Daming, the head of the No. 3 field! Hu Zhiyong, the head of the No. 25-2 field! From now on, you will have to work under the four of us..."

He spoke for more than 10 minutes before getting to the point: "Yesterday, all the new gentlemen went to the gatekeeper to write their names. They mainly wrote three pieces of information! The first is your name and age, the second is your home address! The third is who introduced you here! Do you understand?"

"Boss Yang, we are doing well in the 28-yard, why do you want to move us to another place?"

"Don't worry, even if we change places, you won't make less money. Aren't there many new people in this field? You have experience, so I'll have to trouble you to guide them to work more and let them get familiar with the process of our field as soon as possible."

Someone shouted, "Boss Yang, can you give us more money to be your masters?"

Yang Jun frowned, but Xu Ning whispered beside him: "Don't be stingy at this time, just pay them like a master teaching an apprentice, and give each apprentice an extra 2 yuan! Lead them to do the work for more than 10 days and they will almost learn it."

"How can I not give it to you? You have experience. What is experience? Experience is money! If you hire one person to work, I will give you an extra 2 yuan. If you hire two people to work, I will give you 4 yuan. But the prerequisite is that you must teach them. If you hide your intentions, it will not work."

"Give me two dollars? Oh my god, Yang is a good man!"

"Not really. When Li, the boss, recruited some people, I was the one who led the work and didn't pay them a penny more..."

Yang Jun raised his hand and said, "Since I am in charge of the 28th floor now, then follow my rules! Besides, it is impossible for all these people to work in the 28th floor. Some of them have to go to the 17th floor and the 25-2th floor."

After everyone finished registering, Xu Ning, Yang Jun, Hu Zhiyong, Liu Daming, Guan Lei and others sat in a small shack, divided everyone into five groups, and sent them to five different places.

"Are we going to break up today?" Guan Lei asked.

Xu Ning nodded: "Hurry up and divide it. After that, we should get back to work. If we delay for a day, we will lose a day's money. We have already wasted so many days."

"Okay! Let them pack their things now."

Liu Daming asked, "Erning, how do you arrange for your two buddies?"

Xu Ning said: "First let them work as condoms for two months, and then let them work as Gui Leng. Then you and Shi Tou can each choose one and let them be your assistants."

"Brother, doing the work of cutting wood is more tiring than felling trees. It's really like carrying wood all over the mountain..."

"I've talked to them both, and it's settled."

After saying that, Xu Ning lay down on the small kang, while Yang Jun, Hu Zhiyong, Guan Lei and others walked out with the registration book.

First, everyone was divided into groups. Those assigned to No. 28-2 Lengchang did not need to move, as No. 28 and No. 2 Lengchang were close to each other and they only needed to carry their luggage and bedding and walk a few steps to get there. However, No. 17 Lengchang and No. 25-2 Lengchang were farther away, so Yang Jun, Hu Zhiyong and Li Ye drove everyone there.

Among them, Pan Yan's two younger brothers were assigned to the No. 17 leng field, and Zhang Chunsheng, the brother of Feng Ye's eldest aunt, was assigned to the No. 25-2 leng field. Feng Ye originally wanted to say something, but was stopped by Zheng Dazhi.

There is no way to talk about this matter since it has been decided. Even if you inform us in advance, Xu Ning will not agree with his personality.

(End of this chapter)