mtlumby2d Chapter 370 Corvee
Chapter 370 Corvee
Before the afternoon, two servants came running from the yamen to report to the authorities that their young master had been beaten and the thieves had hidden in the mountains.
This time, it was Su's family who asked someone to let Su Xiucai go, and even Ye Dalang received five taels of silver.
Ye Dalang was happy in his heart but did not show it on his face.
He didn't go there in person, but asked his subordinates to go and take a look.
The bailiffs came back quickly. Su Xiucai had been beaten and his hand was disabled. His tendons were broken and could not be reconnected.
Mr. Su was very angry and Mr. Su could not take part in the imperial examination in his life.
Mr. Su had only this one promising son, and he cried his heart out while holding his son in the clinic.
The bailiffs went to find out what happened and took people to search the mountain several times, but they failed to catch anyone.
After Su Xiucai recovered, he went to the yamen several times, but they said they didn't see his face, but they were sure he was a member of the Zhao family.
Since he was beaten, the Zhao family has never appeared again.
The county magistrate sent people into the mountain several times, but nothing was found, and the matter was left unresolved.
The Su family has many sons. Originally, Su Xiucai was the most favored one, but now he has become a waste, and the other sons want to kick him out of the house.
Su Xiucai is not the legitimate son, but because he is good at studying, the wife and the legitimate son are oppressed to the point of suffocation.
After Mr. Su was deposed, Mr. Su no longer cared about him.
When the legitimate son grew up, he took this opportunity to gather the family wealth and sold all the servants who had originally served Wang Xiucai and his mother, finding excuses to do so.
The second steward of the Su family is Su Xiucai's man, and has helped his aunt suppress other wives and concubines many times.
This time when Su Xiucai fell from power, the first people to be betrayed were the second steward's family.
Ye Lizheng had been paying attention to what was happening in the city, but he didn't expect this unexpected surprise, which directly solved the problem of the second manager of the Su family.
The Su family was in serious internal strife and had no energy to take care of things at the dock.
It turned out that the shop opened by the second steward's son was also sold to other people by the Su family.
Kaoshan Village achieved its goal without much effort.
Ye Laosan gave the money to the village, and the village helped him to avenge his death, for which he was very grateful.
Ye Laosan's business has been good recently, and the people brought by the Su family also follow Ye Laosan to take work.
They are all out to make a living, and they will work for whoever pays them.
Ye Laosan paid back Ye Qing's money and had some money left, so he turned around and followed Ye Qing to buy land.
Ye Qing planned to buy land after the new year. There was no use having money just sitting there, so he kept some for building a workshop and used the rest to buy land.
Ye Qing is very free now. He occasionally goes to the dock to take a look, and the rest of the time he stays in the fields looking after the improved seeds.
This year's autumn harvest is very busy. Fortunately, I have Nanny Wang to cook at home, so I can take a break.
Xu Laosan's wife also came to help. With so many people working at home, she brought a few other women to cook for the farmhands.
The Ye family was not harsh. They provided meat and vegetables every day, as well as dry food, so no one who came to work was lazy.
In addition to the food, there is also the money from selling peppercorns with the Ye family, which is more than what they earn in a whole year.
The herbs on the mountain also need to be harvested. The Panax notoginseng grown in recent years has all been sold to herbalists from the border.
In recent years, the Great Zhou Kingdom has enjoyed good weather and the people have had a chance to recuperate.
In particular, the Ye family's improved seeds were promoted throughout the city by Lord Wu, and were very effective.
Lord Wu has already reported to the court, and I heard that Lord Wu is expected to be promoted again this year.
The wine produced by Zui Xiang Fang was sold to the capital city and was very popular among dignitaries.
The whole village is busy harvesting crops. The sky has been gloomy these days and people are in a panic.
The Ye family had a lot of land, and they worked in the fields at night. When it rained, the car couldn't get into the fields, so they had to carry the crops out on their backs.
Ye Qing helped to harvest the peanuts, which had to be harvested before the rain.
After it rains, the ground is full of mud, and the peanuts will also be covered with mud.
Boss Ye didn't let Ye Qing pick the peanuts. She took a small hoe and turned the soil behind to find the peanuts that had fallen on the ground.
Ye Qing likes this activity very much, and when he is on vacation, he will also come to pick peanuts.
Ye Qing was loosening the soil in front, and Ping An was picking up the dirt in the back. With the cooperation of the two, they could pick up a bag in half a day.
The whole village was busy working in the fields. There were fewer people doing odd jobs at the dock, and Ye Laosan also came back to harvest the crops.
For the villagers in the mountain villages who escaped famine, food was the most important thing to them.
They store grain every year, and when the new grain comes in, they sell the old grain.
Lord Wu sent people here in advance to wait in the village to receive the food.
The villagers will sell some of the remaining seeds to Lord Wu, and will not touch the seeds for consumption.
After finishing the autumn harvest, Ye Qing felt that he had lost several pounds.
She got tanned, which made Zhou feel distressed. She thought that she couldn't let her daughter, who was already so grown up, go out to work anymore.
Next is what children like most, going to the mountains to look for food, which are winter snacks.
Some diligent children would even sell a portion of their produce, but their families would not take the money and would keep it all as their own pocket money.
The whole village was busy. Just after paying the taxes, the yamen runners from the city came again.
The gong at the entrance of the village had not been rung for a long time, but it rang again at lunchtime.
The villagers walked towards the meeting hall in twos and threes, wondering what important announcement was going to be made this time.
Ye Qing watched as some people came out with bowls in their hands and chatted with the people next to them.
Judging from the expressions on everyone's faces, they were all very relaxed and not worried at all about the head of the village calling them together.
Ye Qing didn't know what the head of the village wanted to see them about. When he met the head of the village in the village yesterday, nothing was wrong.
When we arrived at the door of the meeting hall, we saw the village head and a group of yamen runners waiting there.
When I came over, the people who were still talking and laughing suddenly looked serious.
Ye Qing glanced at the bailiff, and found that it was the bailiff Zhang who was familiar with them.
Yi Zhang saw people coming and started to talk about the matter.
"Everyone, this year's corvée service has begun. Kaoshan Village is responsible for repairing the official road."
The people below discussed that they were still planning to work in the charcoal kiln, and it would definitely be too late after they finished their labor service.
Ye Qing looked relieved. They could use money to perform labor service, as they had done in the past two years.
The people around also looked relaxed, as everyone could afford to pay one or two taels of silver.
But before everyone could be happy for too long, Zhang the bailiff continued speaking.
"Every family must provide someone for corvée labor this year. You cannot use money to substitute for corvée labor."
When this was said, everyone's face turned green. It would take at least one month to do corvée labor, and that would delay how much money one would lose.
Besides, when their village arrived, everyone had split up and many people had to do labor service.
The villagers had considered this matter when they came here to settle down, but at the time the most important thing was to survive before they could consider the rest.
The bailiff Zhang had a stern face and scolded for a long time before he stopped everyone from wanting to ask someone to plead for them.
There are few people in Wu'an City, and the river has not been cleaned or the official road repaired in the past two years. This year, all of them must be repaired.
Boss Ye made up his mind. His eldest son was on duty at the government office and couldn't go. His second son was pregnant, so he couldn't go either. The fifth son was not at home, so he had to go.
Ye Qing also thought of this. Looking at his father's thin body from the autumn harvest, he was filled with worry.