Water Margin Survival

The news that the Shanzhai was going to recruit people to open up wasteland on the island suddenly exploded among the family members and common people in the back mountain.

"Boss, boss, take me to have a look! Where did this news come from?" In the neatly built residence in the back mountain, an old man poked his head out and shouted straight out of the door.

Hearing the sound, a half-grown child ran back from the crowd, shouting, "Grandpa, just posted a notice at the gate of the compound! I'm afraid we won't understand, the village owner and his old man even sent someone to Read it aloud! One elder brother has been reading it since noon until now, and his mouth is dry, and the villagers have all sent water!"

After the child finished speaking, he stepped forward to help the old man who was walking out quickly, and the two of them wanted to go out to read the notice.At this time, an old woman heard the sound of her door, and she also turned out of the house, and said, "I said, my lord, I don't know how far the sea is, we are all old bones, and we will return after we go." Do you know if you can turn it back! I see this is so lively, let's not join in!"

The old man looked back at his wife and said, "You old woman! What are you talking about! Our family used to be in Zhujiazhuang, and we all rented other people's fields to live. The few sons couldn't bear the hardships, so they all walked behind us. Front! I thought there was no hope in this life, so that’s it! But I didn’t know that when I met a living Bodhisattva like the Zhaizhu, I didn’t dislike us. The old and the young are useless, and they accept our whole family without frowning. Go up the mountain! Without his old man, where do you get the food for your meals? Now we can help him, but shouldn’t we? You see you are always thinking about small things, do you know what you call it? This is called forgetting your origin! "

"Father, how can I forget my roots? You said that although I don't know anything, I also know the reason why it is difficult to leave my homeland! You said that we are already old, and we still leave our homeland. What kind of crime will we suffer at sea!"

"What? Leaving your hometown? Our ancestors migrated from one county to another, from one village to another village. At that time, why didn't anyone come to tell us the reason of leaving our hometown? Say it yourself, we were the ones who wished Are you from the village? Have you forgotten where I married you?" The old man stopped and turned back to his wife.

"Hey...you...why are you talking about this in front of the eldest son!" The mother-in-law blushed when she heard the words, and hurriedly waved her hands.

But the old man didn't answer, and continued: "We are running around like headless chickens, why? Isn't it because we want to choose a way to survive? Old woman, what do we have to do at this age? But this When the three boys grow up in the future, what will they live on? Have you thought about it for them?"

When the old man said this, the more he spoke, the more emotional he became, as if he had held back his words for a long time, and when he encountered an opportunity, he couldn't vomit:

"You don't even think about it! What a benevolent person the village master is, how could he cheat us ordinary people? If you think we are a burden, just ignore us, why recruit us up the mountain, it's delicious and delicious Is it just for the sake of trapping you and me? You still suffer! I say you old woman, the longer your hair is, the shorter your knowledge is, the more you live and the more you turn around!"

The child saw that the two elders were fighting, and the grandfather said that the grandmother could not get off the stage again, and immediately interrupted: "Oh, grandpa, grandma, don't quarrel! The village only recruited a hundred families this time. Everyone is so crowded, we still don’t know if we can go or not! You fell down here and quarreled among yourself!”

Seeing this, the mother-in-law didn't bother to argue with the old man, she looked at the eldest grandson, a little puzzled and said: "Boss, why are there so many people going, what do you think they are trying to do?"

"Grandma, you stay in the house all day and don't go out. Grandpa knows better than you! The owner of Renzhai said that as long as they are willing to go, each family will share one hundred acres of land, one cattle, and ten Shi Liang, these are free of charge, they are all given to us for nothing. I also mentioned that there is a family who has a headache and brain fever. In the first few years, he didn’t spend a penny on medical treatment. I didn’t hear clearly here. Years later, at most one drug fee will be paid!" The child explained to his grandma.

The mother-in-law couldn't help being moved when she heard the words, and said: "Did you say that you will pay the royal rations in the future?"

The old man became angry again when he heard this, and said: "I will give you a hundred acres of land for free, and I will give you cattle, rations, and farm tools for you. In the end, I won't take any money to see a doctor for you. In the end, you won't even have the royal rations You don’t even want to hand it in, you you... Don’t say it’s my old Wang’s family! Why are you so ignorant? I’m so mad!”

The woman blushed when she heard the words, and said after a while: "I'm just asking, and I didn't say no. Why are you so arrogant?" The strange thing happened right in front of her eyes, which made this mother-in-law unable to even raise the confidence to quarrel at this moment.

"It seems that we didn't pay any grain or miscellaneous taxes in the first three years! How much grain we collect is our own! The cottage will regularly send people to buy it according to the purchase price! Starting from the fourth year, according to the harvest of each family, One tenth is used to collect grain! There are still no other miscellaneous taxes, but every year during the slack season, each village will organize people to perform forced labor, repair canals and so on!" The child said again.

The mother-in-law said, "Hey, I'm speechless. What's the point of paying a small tax of [-]% plus hard work for exploited tenants like them?"It's just that she really can't believe that such a good thing will happen to ordinary people like herself who have no money and no power.

Fortunately, Wang Lun's reputation in the hearts of the villagers is not bad, otherwise people will definitely think about this matter in a bad way.

When the old man saw that his wife's family had died down, he immediately ignored her and said to his grandson, "Let's go, let's go and have a look, maybe we can even register for our family!"

The child nodded again and again, dragging his grandfather to go, only to see the mother-in-law hesitated for a while, stomped her feet, looked at the backs of the grandparent and grandson, and chased after her.

The grandpa and grandson had just rushed to the front when they heard a voice shouting: "Everyone, don't squeeze, don't squeeze! Listen to me!"

Looking at the huddled crowd in front of him, brother Yun couldn't care less about the gentleness he learned from the village master, and shouted hoarsely.

Seeing that brother Yun was in a hurry, the soldiers who maintained order nearby also shouted, and it took a long time to persuade the excited people.

Brother Yun didn't even have time to take a sip of water, so he jumped onto a big rock and said loudly:

"Folks, listen to me! My brother Yun is here to assure everyone that this time the land will be divided, it will never be just this one time! Everyone put your heart in your stomach! The place we are going to has a good radius Hundreds of miles, larger than the entire Yuncheng County! Even if all the folks in the cottage are moved there, it may not be full!"

The folks laughed out loud, and after a while they quieted down again. They all pricked up their ears, and Brother Yun continued:

"So, the number of [-] households set by the village owner this time is not the final number of people. It's just because the boat can't fit that many people this time, so we took everyone there in batches. After all, we can't just swim across the village. !? Everyone, be patient, don’t rush, don’t panic! Now, according to the village, village, and relatives you lived in before going up the mountain, you can go to a few gentlemen to sign up together. The village will try to arrange everyone in a group. The villagers in the village still live together and become neighbors when they arrive there, so that everyone can settle down and feel the same as before!"

When the people heard this, they were overjoyed, and hurried to visit. When they met relatives and old friends, they smiled and moved closer. After a while, the originally crowded crowd on this flat land divided into dozens of groups.There are countless noisy voices:

"Third boy, you son of a bitch, what are you doing in a daze! Hurry up and call your second uncle!"

"Fifth brother, is the brother-in-law of the ** family coming? It's just a good time to join us!"

"Lao Li, why are you standing over there? Everyone in our village is here!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry! My relatives are all here. In the past, we couldn't help it. We all lived far away. Now that we have the opportunity to live together, we really can't be separated anymore. I'm sorry, Xiwang! "

The grandpa and grandson also found the old neighbors in Zhujiazhuang. Everyone happily gathered together and waited in line for the gentlemen to register. The wait lasted more than half an hour, but everyone didn't feel tired at all. Instead, they chatted with each other enthusiastically, looking forward to the beautiful life of becoming a landowner of a hundred acres.

"Bodhisattva, living Bodhisattva! I've lived my entire life, but I've never seen someone like the village master. It's really a blessing from my previous life!"

"Old Wang, you've made it through. It's a pity that there are a few boys in your family. If you survive until today, won't you be able to live a good life for a few days?"

"Well... Fortunately, my three grandsons are still healthy. A few days ago, when Miracle Doctor Mou came to treat our old fellow next door, I asked him to take the pulse of my three grandchildren. Without delay, I took the pulse of my three grandsons one by one, and then you know what the genius doctor told me? He said that my three grandsons are fine, and they are in good health!"

"You still say it's not a blessing? I heard that Miracle Doctor Mou used to diagnose diseases for the officials. He went up the mountain because he admired the village master. Look at the three young children of your family who asked the doctor to diagnose the pulse of the officials. Life, blessed!"

"It's all thanks to the village master and his old man! A good man like him is lucky to be walking in this pond for the sky. If it is far away, what hope will we have in this life? Don't you think? ,Old boy!"

"But it's not how! When the old man raised the flag in this pond, he made us people with a radius of hundreds of miles all accept his kindness. If we will sit on the dragon chair in the future..."

"Shh... silence! Can you talk nonsense!"

"I just said! You old man is cowardly! Tell me, did Zhao Guan's family take care of you and me? Zhu Chaofeng, who is so rich, collects rent every year, has he ever been short of you and me? When the harvest is not good, isn’t it driving our tenants to death? Hmph! I’m about to go to sea soon, and those scourges of killing ministers can’t bother me anymore...”

After the old man finished speaking, there was a yearning expression on his face, as if his ancestors had been wandering around for generations, suffering so many years like a tree without roots, and finally, the auspicious words of ancestors' blessing appeared on him. (To be continued.)