It’s the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, Shangjun, Baishui Village!

This winter is very cold and the weather is getting colder!

A boy about seven or eight years old, holding a fishing rod in his hand and tied a bone spur in his hand, was fishing on the shore.

The cold wind whistled, making the little boy tremble!

There is nothing I can do. The New Year will be in a few days, but there is no New Year’s goods at home!

My father has been away from home for more than half a year, and only he, his mother, and grandparents are left at home!

At the Tieniu family next door, his father worked in a glass factory. The family had already used a coal stove and burned honeycomb coal, which was a rare thing.

I heard that the stove can be burned all day without turning off the fire!

Thinking of the coal stove at Tieniu's house, the little boy felt a little colder, and his hands and feet seemed to be slowly losing consciousness!

"Ye'er, fish, hurry up and take the bait. In a few days, it will be the Chinese New Year. I can't even eat any meat, right?"

The little boy held the fishing rod and prayed secretly in his heart.

Others, Tieniu's family has prepared several kilograms of meat!

"Ergou, Ergou..." In a vague way, there seemed to be a shout in the little boy's ear.

It's a cold weather, who will run out without any trouble? The little boy just thought it was because he heard it wrong and ignored it.

But after a moment, the shouting sound became clearer.

The little boy turned his head and looked! A thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy was running towards this side.

"Don't shout, don't shout, don't scare my fish away!" Looking at the person running over, it was Brother Zhuzi from the next neighbor's house, the little boy called Ergou, said hurriedly!

"Stop fishing, go home quickly, huh, huh..." The boy must have run anxiously, and was panting in a daze at this moment.

"Go home? Has something happened to my house?" Hearing this, Ergou immediately stood up and his face changed drastically.

"No, it's your father. Your father came back from the Great Wall. He also brought ten kilograms of meat, rice, vegetables, coal stoves, honeycomb coal, and sheepskin clothes, and a lot of things..."

Zhuzi opened his mouth and shouted loudly.

"Really!" Hearing that his father was back and brought a lot of things back, Ergou shouted happily, put down the fishing rod in his hand, and ran home!

Ouch!

However, I just ran two steps and fell to the ground.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhuzi next to him immediately stepped forward and helped Ergou up and asked.

"It's okay, I, I just sat for a long time, it was so cold that my feet were numb..." With Zhuzi's support, Ergou limped towards his house.

After walking dozens of feet away, the perception of the legs slowly recovered, and then he started trotting!

Before he got home, Ergou found that there were many people watching the fun in his home.

Wait for Ergou to run in and take a look!

Sure enough, a large piece of pork, red meat and white fat meat made Ergou swallow!

Also, the mother next to her is lighting honeycomb coal, brand new coal stove, rice, noodles, and these things!

"Dad, are you back?" Ergou shouted happily at the sight of so many things.

"Well, I'm back. Where did you go in such a cold weather?" A man in his thirties asked!

"I, I'm going fishing! I thought you couldn't come back during the Chinese New Year, so I wanted to catch two fish and stew fish soup for the Chinese New Year!" Ergou replied!

"You, you..." Looking at the child who was only seven or eight years old in front of him, seeing his little face flushed with cold, the man felt a sense of sorrow in his heart for a moment and tears came down!

"You don't have to go fishing anymore. Prince Fusu has a kind deed and abolished the corvee service system. My father is now building the Great Wall with food and accommodation, and he still has wages. I'm just buying a lot of New Year's goods back?"

He hugged the child tightly in his arms, and the man's voice was choked.

"Today, we will take some meat and some noodles, and we will make dumplings today!" It was rare to come home, and we had to celebrate it well, and the man announced.

"The head of the family, you have to keep these for the New Year before eating?" the woman next to her said reluctantly.

"It's okay, I've eaten. I've bought so much. I'll buy it after I finish eating! The price of meat has dropped by 30% or 40%! The prince's salary is quite a lot. In addition, I've brought you good things!"

With money in his waist, the man became much tougher in his words. Then, a large piece of white thing was ground out of his bag.

"What is this?" asked the woman who was burning coal strangely.

"Do you smell it? This is made of soap mixed with spices, specially used for bathing. After washing, your body will be fragrant!" the man introduced!

Speaking of this, he leaned into the woman's ear and whispered: "You have a good wash tonight. I will fight you for thirty rounds!"

"You, you..."

The woman hadn't tasted a man for a long time. When she heard this, she felt like there were a few ants crawling in her heart. However, her face turned even more ashamed when she said this in the blue sky and the sun!

"Prince Fusu, it's true that he is kind. The only male in the family was taken to build the Great Wall. Their family is considered poor to the end. Unexpectedly, they are now one of the richest families in our village!"

"Also, this flour seems to be invented by Prince Fusu. In addition to making dumplings, you can also make buns, fry fried dough sticks, and cook dough noodles..."

"By the way, I'll buy two kilograms of meat tomorrow. Recently, Yumenguan Market has indeed brought back batches of cattle and sheep. The price of these meats has dropped by 30% or 40% compared with previous years!"

...

The neighbors were all the neighbors in the village. When the people who built the Great Wall came back, they brought a lot of things back and all came to see the fun.

I saw the people who came back bought so many New Year’s goods with my own eyes, and everyone was very envious.

You can buy ten kilograms of meat! It’s such a luxury!

Most of the people who built the 100,000 corvee labor service in the Great Wall returned to their hometowns. Therefore, the same situation has been happening one after another in many places!

After the reform of the corvee service system, about half a year has passed. There are food and accommodation on the construction site, and there is even sour plum soup in summer.

Even when I have nothing to do, I will spend some money at the Yumenguan Market, or even find a place to sleep with a few women.

However, the wages for half a year are nearly two thousand yuan.

Most people can bring hundreds of dollars home to celebrate the New Year!

With these original corvee labor and the workers now go back, these changes naturally make everyone around them envious.

Even people who were originally afraid of being too afraid to avoid corvee labor asked if they still need people to build the Great Wall? Can you go with a relationship and build the Great Wall by yourself!

In addition to these workers who built the Great Wall, there are also glass factories, wineries, soap factories and other places. Shangjun and Xianyang have built many factories, and naturally recruited many workers.

Of course, relying on Yumenguan Market, there are also many smart people who are more flexible. They naturally make some money by purchasing goods to become traders.

If you have money in your hands, you will naturally have to buy something for the New Year!
Chapter completed!