The biography of Gu Qi, a poor girl

"When you come back, ask Liu Yong to arrange more people, and the horses and chariots should not stay within [-] miles of the dry forest house."

"Do you want to bring medicinal materials this time?"

"Take, except for the rice grain, the rest should be packed with medicinal materials."

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The heavy rain in Lushan County only stopped for seven days, and soon the second continuous torrential rain poured down again.

Fortunately, taking advantage of the good weather during this period, the river mud in the lower river pond has been completely emptied, and the water level has dropped by half.

The first-level main water canal and the second-level secondary water canal outside the village were also completed the day before yesterday, and the remaining third-level water canals are not in a hurry. We only need to let the farm laborers who are in charge of the hired fields divide the wasteland after daily reclamation. A part of the energy is just taken out at will.

Thanks to the continuous heavy rain, the soil quality of these wastelands is much softer than before, and it also saves a lot of effort for the laborers.

After the villagers of the original Wangjia Village were included in Shanghetang Village, most of them were recruited by Gu Qi to be responsible for the reclamation work of the newly included fields in the surrounding area, and even the villagers of several nearby villages signed the contract of employment.

This time, the wasteland in Xiataikang County, which Gu Qi has earned intermittently, is five or six thousand mu, requiring a lot of manpower.

If it wasn't for the fact that the money was not enough, and the food sent by the Escort would have to be supplied by the three commercial firms in Lushan County, the remaining amount could be supplied to the farm for expenses, and the manpower to be recruited would only increase. many.

Now there is no other way, and we can only start working on the key points first.

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Closer to home, the second rainstorm in Yuzhou was not weaker than the first one, but because all towns and counties have made preparations, the losses this time are basically within the controllable range.

After all, after the first heavy rain, the villages that were too low to evacuate had been washed away, and the villages and towns that were in danger at any time at the semi-junction also evacuated most of their population to a safe zone.

In addition, He Yong and Wang Hebin also arranged a lot of people to take advantage of the clear weather in the past few days to clean up the river mud in the main rivers and rivers near many towns and counties under the jurisdiction of Lushan County, so that the water level of the rivers in the entire Lushan County All fell sharply before the second wave of heavy rain came.

Xu was to repay the benefits of going to Xiahetang Village every now and then to have a meal of red oil bacon noodles, He Yong sent a lot of river mud back and forth.

Knowing that Sihai doesn't have enough manpower, carts and horses, He Yong wisely didn't let the people from Sihai be responsible for transporting the river mud this time, but directly sent the servants of the yamen to drive them to Xiahetang Village.

This move made the villagers of Xiahetang Village even more awed by the people of the world.

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If it was said that it was still for respecting money and eating for a living; those who are now are afraid of power.

In their village, they usually don't see the servants once a year, but they have met several times in the past few days. There are also the general judges from the county who often come here. The magistrate of the county is even taller, how can this make the villagers of Xiahetang village panic.

Of course, in addition to being in awe, the villagers of Xiahetang Village also felt a little more joyful, even elated, because of the politeness of these officials.

After all, their village was overwhelmed by the people of Shanghetang Village in the past, and it was also because the head of the Xu family in Shanghetang Village had a good relationship with the magistrate of Taikang County.

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The village head of Xiahetang Village, Xu Dongfu, is also in a very good mood these days.I thought that life was going to be difficult, but I didn't expect that the nobleman from the sky not only fed the whole village, but also merged the original Wangjia Village villagers into Xiahetang Village.

The villagers of Wangjia Village got the money they used to sell their houses and land, and all of them were very well off. When they entered Xiahetang Village, they had to spend money on renting and buying houses.

There are many empty houses without owners in Xiahetang Village. These houses are either sold or rented out, and the money obtained naturally has to be collected by him, the village head.

Although Xu Dongfu couldn't be greedy for the money, but a village's sufficient book money is the confidence of the village, and it is also the confidence of him as the village chief.

In addition to these, what made Xu Dongfu even more happy was that just a few days ago, two weddings were held in the village.

One is that Xu Youliang, the youngest son of Xu Sandong's family in the village, married Qian Xiaohua, the eldest daughter of Qian Ping'an's family in the neighboring village of Qianjia Village.The other one is that Wang Laoliu's family, who just moved into the village, married a daughter to Ma Jingmin, a bachelor in the village.

This is a good thing to add blessings to the people in the village.

Although the conditions are limited, neither of the two families can buy bright red clothes and red quilts, so they simply opened a few tables and invited the villagers to have a meal. But for Xiahetang, who hadn't held a wedding for two full years, the excitement still made everyone in the village very excited.

Besides the village head Xu Dongfu, Wang Fugui, the patriarch of the Wang clan, also felt much better during this time.

The scene of the previous heavy rain submerging Wangjiacun was like a nightmare. Wang Fugui was so scared that he could not eat or sleep well for several days, and worried that Xiahetang Village would repeat the same mistakes as Wangjiacun one day.

Fortunately, God blesses, there are noble people in Xiahetang Village to help. The noble people helped open the canal and dug the river mud. The terrain has been raised, and two new drainage ditches have been added on both sides of the village road. Now, no matter how heavy the rain is, the village cannot be flooded.

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Compared with the joy in Xiahetang Village, Luoshan Village is now in a world of ice and fire.

The farms outside Luojia Village have recruited a lot of farm laborers in Luojia Village since they changed their owners, making many families who had a difficult life at home have enough to eat.

This is a good thing.

It's a pity that this good thing is not exclusive to Luojia Village.

Although the farm is close to Luojia Village, it is not far from several other villages. When hiring farm laborers, they selected the best of the nearby villages.

Calculated piecemeal, the people in Luojia Village only accounted for a quarter of the farm's existing farm laborers.

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Luojia Village is a large village. Because it is close to the county seat of Lushan County, it is one of the villages directly under the jurisdiction of Lushan County. Because of its good location, it is naturally richer than other villages.For this reason, even if there are no farms outside the village to recruit farm laborers, most of the villagers in Luojia Village used to live fairly well.

In the spring of this year, many families in the village obtained a lot of grain seeds from the county town by virtue of their connections. Just before the heavy rain, the seedlings of several families were about to emerge, and good days were just around the corner. The patient caught half of the villagers in Luoshan Village by surprise.

The terrain of Luojia Village is not low. Although there are several rivers nearby, one of them runs through the farm outside the village and has little to do with Luojia Village. The other few rivers are cleaned and repaired by officials before the rainstorm. .

Logically speaking, the risk of this rainstorm in Luojia Village is not great.