Chapter 15 Rent Collection by Landlords
The days of free and illusory always pass very quickly. Today is the day when I pay rent in the village. I got Yu'er out of bed early in the morning. I was confused and looked out the window. It was just bright and it was almost six o'clock. I really couldn't get up. I stayed in bed slowly. I attended another study class last night. I was tired for half a night and slept for at most three hours, which is six hours.
"Mr. Hurry up, when is the time? A good day is not good. Put it on quickly. Oh, don't move, catch a cold."
Hehe, I grabbed it and my energy came back immediately. I put on my clothes randomly. This ancient man was also strange. This linen silk and satin were expensive, and it even made the clothes three layers inside and three layers outside, and they were all in long gowns and jackets, so I didn’t know how to save money.
Just one word, wash your face and rinse your mouth for a single time, at most five minutes, it seems like you were back when you were working, so you were not so particular when you were in a hurry, and you could go out and become a person who could go out.
Uncle Li had been waiting at the gate of the yard. When he saw us coming out, he asked quickly. It was the first time I participated in such an event after us. I didn’t know what was going on. Anyway, I had discussed it with my wife. Yu'er knew that the head of the family had been sick anyway, and he was a little slow to react, and he also liked to forget things. I didn’t know if the rent would be forgotten.
At the entrance of the granary, there were a lot of people, carts, baskets, etc., and they were all ready anyway. There was a table of incense on the steps. It was dark and I couldn't see clearly. I guess it was an ancestor of the Ning family or an executive of a great god who was in charge of the granary.
Three incense sticks and a pair of waxes are the same as the process of worshiping ancestors in later generations. What was the process of coming down? I forgot. I looked at Yu'er. The woman nodded her mouth, but didn't understand. She glared at her and looked at her mouth shape. Oh, it turned out that she wanted me to speak, it was simple.
"Comrades, oh, no, fellow villagers, let's open the warehouse and collect grain now. Don't squeeze, come next to each other, Uncle Li!"
I was stunned when I looked at the shopkeeper below. It was OK. This was the effect. Anyway, it was a formality. I had nothing to do with me now. I asked Dayong to go back and carry the Xiaoyao chair, sit aside, and half-squinted his eyes. It was like a sleep.
The merchants all looked happy. I had heard from Uncle Li that this year is a good year, and the harvest has increased by about 20%. Every household has their own plans. This year is a fat year, and you can watch rice grains in your bowl. I guess you can have a dry meal during the Chinese New Year. The merchants are so real. If you have something in your mouth and stomach, you won’t make trouble with you. So I’m right in my food and clothing problem. And there are thirty workers in the Nanshan area, and the copper coins are really enough to buy white rice. A few days ago, Dayong also said that some merchants complained, saying why I didn’t draw any people from every household and insisted on choosing those families with strong people.
There is no way. The work in this land still needs people to do, and they all go to dig coal. The land is deserted. Not to mention that the government is coming to investigate, they will even be disappointed. The farmers, growing crops is the duty. As for the population, everyone will work overtime at night, and the population will be prosperous in the next ten years. There is no way, and the foundation is not good.
In the early morning, until halfway through the afternoon, Uncle Li prepared rice. Ning's rules, paying the rent, the God of the family is responsible for fullness. You can eat a bowl, and you can eat ten bowls. Anyway, we don't pay the medical expenses, but Dr. Xie is still there. If something happens to eat too much, it's better to have first aid.
Dr. Xie has been here in our Ning family for half a year and is not very busy on weekdays, but people from all over the countryside gradually know that there is such a person in Ningjiazhuang. If you have any acute illness or something, you are willing to come here to ask Dr. Xie first. If you can't do it, then go to the county to see the doctor in the clinic. In short, Dr. Xie usually treats the people outside the village. This makes Uncle Li very uncomfortable. Why do you have to treat the doctors of the countryside? I don't know which family pays for your offering. Speaking of this, I criticized Uncle Li severely. Do you know? This is humanity.
The spirit of ideology, whoever is from India or Canada can travel to us from thousands of miles away, specializing in helping people see a doctor, and the travel expenses are paid by themselves. This is the spirit of humanitarianism. If it is a revolution or something, it is the spirit of revolutionary humanitarianism. Looking at Uncle Li’s face, forget it, forget it, what do Dr. Xie likes to do, as long as he doesn’t treat people to death, by the way, I would like to say hello to Dr. Xie. This is a patient with too much difficulty, let’s keep a low profile and let the people in the county clinic work. The risk is too high. If you want something, your Dr. Xie’s sign is really ruined.
Doctor Xie was so distracted. He always thought of the parents. Looking at these patients, he seemed to see his own mother and mother. He was willing to not treat him. I was speechless and admired. What is this? Medical ethics, good comrade, I will give you an extra 100 entries in the year-end bonus, and we will also set up a reward system.
Uncle Li closed the granary and asked someone to remove the incense table. Seeing me lying in the free-standing chair, I quickly brought a big stone over, sat down next to me, and kept reporting each of them to me. It was all a troublesome thing. I quickly called Uncle Li and said no to him, and signaled Uncle Li to report to the charming beautiful woman beside me. We are so old man, these little things are really hard to deal with.
"Hmph, I don't care about the big things about autumn harvest, I just know how to be lazy." Yu'er said in a coquettish voice in my ear, pinching my thighs, I smiled, got up to tidy up my clothes, turned my head and said to Dayong who was standing stupidly.
"You make the decision on the big things at home. Don't worry, so I won't get involved. Hehe, Dayong, go around and see if there are any other tracing particles in the field."
After saying that, regardless of Uncle Li and Yu'er's surprise expressions, we broke free from Yu'er's claws and went to freely.
It’s not that I don’t care about housework, but mainly because I have something to do. I just lie on the free-standing chair and accidentally saw the cart pulled by the merchant. I suddenly thought of something in my mind. While I still have a clue, I hurriedly pulled Dayong to Master Zhou’s workshop.
The chariot is completely wooden with baskets of rice on it. I don’t know if it is not available in the farm. Why don’t you use a chariot with a baffle? You don’t need a basket to load rice in the car? Just load it into the car. Then, when you go to the door and put your legs in front, you will be safe and you won’t need to support it.
Who are we? Awesome people? Although the animals in the farm are used for farming, they look very precious. There are only about ten large animals in the Ning family. I have never counted them anyway. I heard from Dayong that there are five buffaloes, and the rest are donkeys and mules. Why don’t there be no horses?
I saw that there was a sense of contempt in Dayong's eyes, but I didn't dare to show it. Am I wrong?
"Horse is more precious than people. There are fewer children in Lingnan. Even the generals of the government soldiers don't ride horses when they go out, for fear of being tired."
Oh my God, the horses are treated so well here. Even the general doesn’t ride out the horse. I don’t know how fat the horse is. No matter what, it’s boring to talk about the issue of the cart at this moment.
Master Zhou warmly welcomed me as the head of the family. Although there was no delicious food or anything on the table, the price was enthusiasm. It sounded more comfortable than the little lords mentioned by Uncle Li and Dayong. Master Zhou was good and very good at being a human being.
I asked Master Zhou to bring a few of the best iron pieces in the workshop and looked at it. It was good, not much worse than steel. It was just that the output was small and it was very time-consuming and labor-intensive. It was useless on weekdays. However, the workshops of the county officials were very rare.
Leaf spring, iron beam, four wheels, thin iron cabin plate, and then the manpower is estimated to be suspended. Forget it, make the leaf spring first, and ask about the price of the scalper. We will ride the ox cart first.
Chapter completed!