vrcanaries Chapter 1046 People are coming
Chapter 1046 People are coming
Although the county magistrate said there was no need to give money, he still had to show his appreciation.
More importantly, she was exhausted. She didn't expect it to be such a sensation. The whole street was full of people. The risk was too great.
We will have to do it again next time, and we will definitely ask more yamen runners to stand guard. If they come once a month, all the money the shop earns in a month will be lost.
What the hell.
Although it cost a bit more, the stage was still built very successfully.
For several days in a row, everyone was talking about this play, and many people who didn't get in were very upset.
They are a famous opera troupe in Yunzhou. They are hard to invite on weekdays. The performance fee is not cheap and many restaurants cannot afford it.
It’s free and you can watch it on the street.
People who have been there also boasted about how well the opera was performed, how good it was, and how many people...
Zhou Guo felt better after listening to these discussions. She felt that all the money she spent was not wasted.
According to the date, it was time to start planting the crops in Song County, so I took Erpang and others back to Song County the next day.
Er Pang asked, "Master, didn't you say that each village head can do a good job? Why did you come to Song County to keep an eye on it?"
Zhou Guo said: "I have to see it myself to feel at ease, and I also have to see how the rice fields are prepared."
The most important thing is that she has to see if her pepper seedlings have emerged. This is the key point.
When she arrived in Song County, the first thing she did was to go to the vegetable garden.
I was surprised to find that the seeds had already sprouted and a few tender green leaves had just emerged from the ground.
Old man Zhang said, "Boss, we have been watching these vegetable seeds all the time. We dare not neglect them at all. They have sprouted one after another in the past few days."
Zhou Guo nodded and said nothing.
He went to check the fields again. Because there were so many people and livestock, a lot of the land had already been rented out, so the land they were supposed to farm had already been tilled.
The people following closely behind are doing the second and third passes, making the soil finer.
Ordinary people simply cannot do such intensive farming.
This is also one of the reasons why the harvest in the field can be high.
The rice fields have not been cultivated yet. After the wheat fields are cultivated, the female workers will sow seeds in the wheat fields in front while the male workers will cultivate the rice fields.
Don't delay either.
The temporary workers don't have that much land at home, so they can still recruit people.
When the village head saw Zhou Guo was there, he started recruiting workers in advance.
Many women also came to take up the work.
Before the Zhou family, I had never heard of any family hiring women for long-term or short-term work, and they had no chance to go out at all.
The village head was puzzled at first.
But later on, it was discovered that these women's work was not much worse than that of the men, especially when it came to tasks like planting seeds, covering the soil and weeding, women did a better job than men.
So this year we are completely separated.
Zhou Guo looked at the busy scene on the farm and went to work in the fields when he had nothing to do.
More often than not, I go to other counties to see how the spring farming is going.
When I come back I still have to deal with letters from all over the place.
Go meet a few people from time to time and have dinner with some people.
After being busy for half a month, the school closed for the busy farming season.
Li brought her family to Song County, leaving only Zhou Gu and a few others at home to look after them.
The old man said: "Song County has become my second home."
The time I spend in Yunzhou every year is less than the time I spend here.
Zhou Guo said: "There is a lot of land here. After another two years of planting, the land here will be almost the same as ordinary land. By then, it will be our family's largest granary in the north."
It is also the closest county to Yunzhou.
Because she has lived here more often in recent years, the house has been built better and better, and is almost the same as her home.
It’s not wrong to say it’s a second home.
Zhou Mai and Zhou Mi looked at the bustling farm and said, "Let's go over and take a look."
The two walked away hand in hand.
Zhou Suli and Li Lai also followed the two of them. The land here was much larger than that at home, and it all belonged to them. It was more interesting than Cangshan Village.
Li said, "Your eldest brother is not here, your eldest sister-in-law has to take care of the mountain products, and your eldest aunt has to take care of Xiaohua, so they are both busy."
Zhou Guo said: "I know, but you don't have to come every year."
Li said, "How can that be possible? I brought a lot of dishes that you like. I'll cook them."
For the next half month, the Zhou family settled in Song County.
During this time, Zhou Guo received a letter from the border. Considering that it was the busy farming season, groups of people would be heading south from the border in six days, so she was asked to send someone to pick them up.
She couldn't sit still any longer, so she left as soon as she received the letter.
Li was surprised and asked, "Where are you going? Are you leaving just because we're here?"
The family said they came for spring plowing, but in fact they were not here for Zhou Guo. She is very busy now and spends very few days at home in a year.
The family should take advantage of this time to get together. Why is she leaving after only being here for two days?
Zhou Guo explained, "I have something important to do. I have to go and do it myself. I also have to arrange things for the lower levels. It will take a few days. Mom, I'll be back in a few days."
Zhou Mai smiled and said, "Mom, just let her go. She wouldn't go out at this time unless it was something serious."
Zhou Guo nodded, "I'll be back in a few days."
Li had no choice but to say, "Go ahead."
She left with Erpang and others that day.
He went to the escort agency, found Niu Si and Lai Zi Tou, and told them: "According to the date, the first group of people will come out from the border in three days. You should prepare. These people are all from the army, so you must treat them well."
Both of them were very excited. After all, the escort agency was really short of staff.
Niu Si asked: "What do you mean by the first batch? Aren't all of them coming at once?"
"Yes." Baldy Head also had the same question. Why did they come in groups? Wouldn't it save a lot of trouble if they came all at once?
Zhou Guo said: "There are too many people, and they are all from the army. They may have the bandit spirit of the soldiers. If so many people gather together, it is easy for something to happen. We will arrange a group of people as soon as they come out, and disperse them. Nothing will happen if they don't gather together."
Xu Xiaobei made it clear in the letter, and this does reduce the danger.
Although she didn't think that these retired soldiers of the Xu family had the courage to do such a thing under the nose of the border, it was still better to be cautious in everything.
The two nodded, "That's very thoughtful."
Zhou Guo said, "Come, let's discuss how to accommodate this group of people. The letter said there are 660 people in the first group."
The bald-headed man said, "We can only know this after they arrive. Those who can walk and fight can follow the escort agency. Those who can't walk can only guard the escort agency, or go to the farm to do farm work. Didn't you say that there are not enough people on the farm?"
Niu Si said: "There is not much shortage of people in the escort agencies in the north. In Nanhe and the large area to the south, there are only one or two people in each escort agency, and some are even empty houses. We must hurry to fill them with people, so that when we go south, we won't have a headache about where to stay."
Mo Dadao: "What do you think about this matter, Boss?"