Chapter 19: A Thousand-Year-Old Family (please collect it)
Manure lifting is to spread piles of farmyard manure evenly on the ground, and then let the cattle plow the land, and finally Farmyard manure is evenly stirred into the soil.
This is a unique taste of the countryside, which is unforgettable.
The smell of fermented farmyard manure is indescribable...
As a landlord, his own fields must be cultivated first. During these days, Yun's family went up to the owner and went down to the farm. Servants and servants all work in the fields.
The twenty-seven cattle of the Yun family are lined up in a row, plowing the fields in the vast wilderness, which is indescribable beauty.
Of course, Yun Zhao would have liked this scene very much if there were no scenes of tenants pulling plows and struggling to walk in the fields.
Later generations pay attention to dignity and the dignity of workers. They believe that workers should not be used as livestock and use as much machinery as possible.
In the Ming Dynasty, all the workers here wanted to become big animals.
Yun Yang was holding the plow in Yun's house, but his eyes were watching the tragic scene of his father and younger brother pulling the plow in front, and his mother holding the plow behind.
More than once, he asked his mother to drive the cattle for plowing the big house, and he asked to pull the plow, but his father refused.
Earning four kilograms of millet a day is very important to their family.
Yun Zhao was sitting on the ground playing with Yun Xiaomei.
There are always raised marks in the wet mud, as if something is crawling underground. In fact, the brown cutworm likes to shovel the mud because it has two huge shovel-like forelimbs. The ground arched out tunnels.
As long as Yun Zhao and Yun Xiaomei use wooden sticks to open up the soil at the end of the raised trace, a strong cutworm will appear in front of them.
Then the cutworm was tied up with a string, and Yun Zhao and Yun Xiaomei had tools to play with.
Put the cutworms into the mud and see whose cutworm digs a hole faster.
Usually after seven or eight rounds of repetition, the cutworm will be finished. At this time, Yun Xiaomei will happily put the cutworm into a cage and take it home to feed the chickens.
"That dead chicken can't lay eggs, and people love to eat eggs."
When Yun Xiaomei saw that the grass cage was filled with fat cutworms, she felt moved. hair.
Yun Zhao took it out of his arms and magically took out an egg, and put the egg in Xiaomei Yun's dirty hands with her longing eyes.
Then, this ecstatic little girl held the egg high and stepped on the soft soil and ran towards her mother like a leader.
Under the pressure of their daughter, the parents almost licked an egg. The younger Yun Shu only took a small bite, and the rest was eaten by the little girl. However, , but this egg brought great joy to the family. Even Yun Yang, who was plowing the Yun Zhao family's land, was particularly strong when driving the livestock.
Let Yunyang rush directlyIt is unrealistic for the Yunzhao family's cattle to leave their master's fields to plow their own.
Yun Zhao cannot ask for this, otherwise, the rules will be violated.
So Yun Zhao went to the fields himself, running around the spring-filled fields with Yun Shu and Yun Qi, the main force pulling the plow.
There are disadvantages to people pulling the plow, that is, the plowing is not deep enough, and it is only about half that of oxen. Even so, during the lunch break, Yun Zhao's two shoulders were also strangled by ropes. redness and swelling.
Yun Qi’s wife opened Yun Zhao’s collar, looked at the red and swollen shoulders and said with tears, “Young masters from rich families have suffered this before.”
Yun Qi takes a look. Yun Zhao shook his head and said, "That's right. It's not that it's right for him to help our family pull the plow, but it's not a bad thing if he can go to the ground and pull the plow.
In this world, it's not a bad thing. There are many things that I don’t feel sorry for when I sell my father’s land. Only by going through hardships can I know that it is not easy for my ancestors to accumulate family property.
If my father had not died in the war, my family would have had a good life. "
As he spoke, his eyes turned red. Looking at Yun Yang from a distance who still refused to take a break and continued working at noon, he seemed very proud.
In the afternoon, Yun Qi refused to let Yun Zhao help. There was a lot of work in the fields and he did not dare to rest. He wanted to speed up before his strength was exhausted.
The fields are full of people, and there are large white clouds floating in the sky above our heads, some of which are white and some are black.
The cattle in the field are still walking slowly, and the plowed land is clearly distinguishable from the unplowed land. The cattle, plus groups of people, are the painting of the earth. A person who draws on paper.
Yun Zhao dragged Xiaomei Yun to stand on a hill. The scene at his feet made him a little intoxicated. It was not until his mother called him loudly that he woke up from the poetic mood.
Take Yun Xiaomei and jump on the donkey cart that her mother is riding in to continue to patrol the Yun family’s territory.
"From the foot of the mountain to the big elm tree, it is the land granted by our ancestors. Our family does not rent this land to outsiders, and only members of our own clan can rent these fields. The Yunqi family That's it."
Yun Zhao stood on the donkey cart and put up the arbor and looked at it: "How many acres are there?"
Yun Niang said proudly: "One thousand seven hundred acres!"
“So many?” Yun Zhao was surprised.
Yunniang smiled and said: "That's it, not counting the dry land that does not rely on water. Our family still has 4,300 acres of dry land. Two firewood mountains and four ponds."
< p>Yun Zhao looked at the slopes in the distance, where more people were working."I heard from Uncle Qi that there is a landowner named Qian who is competing with our family for the mountains and ponds?"
Yun Niang said with a smile: "What does the Qian family mean? Our family needs to be patient in the past few years to bring good luck to my son."
Yun Zhao looked at his mother suspiciously and said, "If our family is unwilling to tolerate it, will the person named Qian have no chance of survival?"
Yunniang took out her handkerchief and wiped the sweat on her face and said, "Anyway,This is what Uncle Fu said. He never tells lies or nonsense. "
Yun Zhao thought for a while and suddenly remembered a question. Ever since he became smart, he discovered that in such a big Yun family, there were only two truly smart people, his mother and Uncle Fu. The rest Everyone is stupid, including the accounting clerk at home, and the managers are all extremely stupid.
This is very inconsistent with the status of the Yun family.
Yun Niang saw her son. He looked at himself and said angrily: "It doesn't matter what I do, no matter what the family is like, it will ultimately be yours. Now, just grab your hands and you won't be able to run away when you grow up." ”
Yun Zhao smiled and said: “I was worried about how these fools at home could keep the Yun family’s six thousand acres of fertile land. Now I understand. In other words, our family does not have to pay any taxes to the court. Tax, right?
Yun Niang smiled and said: "The government has long forgotten our remote and remote place. Since I got married, no one from the government has come to our home." ”
Yun Zhao took a breath of cold air again.
In his previous life, he was a small official in poverty alleviation. He knew deeply that when it came to paying taxes, no matter where he was, There is no room for negotiation in any dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, civil servants may have some advantages, but it would be too difficult for military attachés to evade taxes, unless they were officers and soldiers in the guard station.
Grandpa is a guerrilla general. The so-called guerrilla is the kind of army that has no fixed abode and can be deployed wherever necessary. It is the most unlucky kind in the army.
Now, listen to mother. What does it mean, Yunshi, there seems to be another side that Yun Zhao doesn’t know about?
The donkey cart took a full afternoon to circle Yunshi’s paddy field. When he returned home in the evening, Yun Zhao didn’t wait for dinner. Continue to pester the housekeeper Yun Fu.
At this moment, the housekeeper Yun Fu became extremely mysterious in Yun Zhao's eyes.
A hut was built beside the river. The fire was blazing, and a shirtless young man was forging iron. There had been a clanging sound for a while, and Yunfu was squatting on a bench and whipping his tampa.
See. When Yun Zhao came, the young man stopped the hammer and threw the gradually dimming iron piece into the stove. He looked at Yun Zhao without saying anything.
Yun Fu raised his leg and kicked the young man. : "Young master is here, and you don't know how to greet me? "
The young man raised his head, glanced at Yun Zhao and said, "Liu Zongmin is here to see you. ”
Yun Zhao curiously circled around Liu Zongmin. Liu Zongmin seemed to dislike turning his back to others, so he also followed Yun Zhao around.
Yun Zhao was very disappointed. I thought that the real giant bandit should be the kind of burly man written in the book who can stand on his fists and run horses on his arms. The person in front of me not only lacks the bravery of thieves, but is even a little shy. !
When Liu Zongmin saw that Yun Zhao was silent, he immediately took out a three-inch long dagger from a small box and gave it to Yun Zhao, with an honest smile on his face. p>
Small dagger madeIt is quite exquisite, with a hilt made of ox horn, which is very simple. The dagger has been sharpened, and it looks quite sharp.
Yun Zhao took the dagger and said to Liu Zongmin like an adult: "I wonder if the craftsman can make a long knife?"
Liu Zongmin frowned and turned to Yunfu. .
Yun Fu smiled and said: "If you can do it, do it!"
Liu Zongmin looked back at Yun Zhao and said, "You can do it! It's just that I don't have enough iron here!"