Chapter 11 Preparing to open up wasteland
When it was getting late, almost six o'clock in the evening, Su Ze returned to the family temple with the snakeskin bag on his shoulders.
Su Ze had just hidden the snakeskin bag and carefully arranged the potatoes and sweet potatoes under the bed.
He watched with distress as a sweet potato was crushed into two pieces.
This must have been damaged when it was stuffed into a crack in the stone.
Just after finishing his work, Su Ze heard the voice of the little carrot-head Lin Cainiang outside the door:
"Brother, master calls you to eat."
Su Ze said in surprise: "Have you not eaten yet?"
Because there are only two meals a day, in the afternoon They usually have dinner at three or four o'clock. Su Ze thought they had already eaten, but he didn't expect that they were waiting for him to eat.
Lin Cainiang's stomach growled outside the door. It looked like she had been hungry for a long time. Su Ze stood up quickly, opened the door apologetically, and followed Lin Cainiang to the back canteen.
A tempting aroma came from the pot, and Lin Cainiang said happily: "Brother, master put in more rice today and cooked seafood razor clam porridge!" Aunt Jiu opened the lid of the pot, and the aroma of seafood porridge floated out, and the little carrot
tops He gave Su Ze a full bowl of porridge.
Su Ze took a sip, and when he chewed the chewy and smooth razor clam meat, Su Ze almost moaned in comfort.
After putting down the bowl and looking at the little carrot-head Lin Liangjun beside him who was devouring his food, Su Ze couldn't help but ask:
"Auntie, why is this kid still here with us? Doesn't he need to go back to eat?"
The little carrot-head Lin Liangjun jumped immediately He stood up and protested:
"I have a share of the credit for catching the razor clams! I have a share of the porridge! This is a matter of thunder and lightning!"
Aunt Jiu murmured: "Is it natural?"
The little carrot head jumped on the stool and said to Looking at Su Ze, he said: "How brave! You, a thief, are actually rude to me! Guards on your left and right, capture this thief quickly!"
Su Ze looked at the little carrot head with teeth and claws, and pressed him down on the stool. , said to Aunt Ninth:
"Auntie, I'll make tomorrow's breakfast."
Aunt Ninth glanced at Su Ze with her cloudy eyes, nodded and said, "Then I'll leave it to you."
After hearing the breakfast, Xiao Aunt said The little carrot head said again: "I want to come too!"
Su Ze said helplessly: "Don't you have food to eat in the health center?"
The little carrot head said: "You are not full! I can come over after eating at home. Eat!"
"Are all hundreds of households in such a difficult situation?"
Su Ze originally thought that Aunt Ninth was so poor because there was too little farmland in the family temple, and Aunt Ninth was too old to cultivate good land.
But seeing that all the men, women, and children in the guardhouse were all sallow and thin, and even Lin Liangjun, a younger brother from a hundred households, couldn't have enough to eat, Su Ze asked doubtfully.
Lin Liangjun said: "He's not my brother yet! He said that I am not a regular soldier of the guard station and cannot eat the meals of a regular soldier! I can only eat cold vegetable porridge at home every day!" Aunt Ninth noticed Su Ze's doubts and said
, Explained:
"Most of the food in the guard station is supplied to the soldiers. They have to drill every day and often go to sea for inspections. So Baihu has set a rule that the soldiers can eat three meals a day, and they have every meal." Rice and pasta."
Su Ze had some respect for this person he had never met before. As a leader of the health center, he could set an example. Although Little Luobotou was her biological brother, he still insisted on following the rules and did not open the back door for him. Eat a decent meal. Looking at the empty pot, Su Ze couldn't help but ask:
"It's so hard for everyone to support the soldiers, don't you have any complaints?"
This is also what Su Ze is confused about. Although the Changning guards are basically all named Lin, they have been together for several generations. After coming down, the villagers were still willing to support the guardsmen.
Aunt Jiu said: "Without Changning Guards, where would we be? Other places in southern Fujian are often plundered by Japanese pirates, and the county seat has been attacked. Only our Changning Guards can stabilize. This is all the result of hundreds of households and hundreds of households." Aunt Jiu
said Then he pointed at Lin Liangjun and said, "Don't listen to this kid's nonsense. Hundreds of households gave him half of their rations. Look at his head, does he look like he doesn't have enough to eat?" Su Ze looked at Bajiu
. The 15-year-old Lin Liangjun, who was almost as tall as the 15-year-old Lin Cainiang, nodded and said, "This guy just wants to have a meal." Aunt
Ninth glanced at Su Ze, and then said to Lin Liangjun:
"You want to come for dinner? Okay, but after eating, you want to learn to read with me, how about it?"
As soon as he heard that he wanted to learn to read, the little carrot head immediately showed a bitter look on his face.
He touched his belly and said, "My brother wants me to be literate, and Aunt Ninth, you also want me to be literate. What's so good about literacy?"
Aunt Ninth said sincerely: "Your family has been in the family for generations, but it's also like leading soldiers to fight. If you want to learn military skills, how can you lead a good army if you don't know how to read?"
The little carrot head covered his ears and said: "I know, I know! Then I will learn how to read with my aunt after breakfast tomorrow!"
Aunt Ninth nodded with satisfaction, Lin Liangjun, this guy舔完了碗，看着外面已经漆黑的夜色，连忙说道：
“完了，已经这么晚了！我要赶紧回去，要不然我哥又要揍我了！”
等到小萝卜头匆忙离开，苏泽又对Aunt Ninth said:
"Auntie, I see that there is a bit of wasteland near the temple, and I want to reclaim it. Are there any rules in the guardhouse?"
Aunt Ninth glanced at Su Ze in surprise. Although he was tall, he was very tall. He has the temperament of a scholar, so Aunt Ninth thought that he was a scholar and wanted him to temporarily perform the temple blessing.
Unexpectedly, Su Ze wanted to reclaim wasteland. Aunt Ninth said: " Creating wasteland is not easy. Can you really do it?
"
, you can be exempted from taxes for three years."
"If you want to open up that piece of land, then I will report it to Baihu with you. As long as you open up the land, Weili will exempt you from three years of land rent." "As long as you open up the land, we will file it with you
. If you don't miss your morning classes, then all the output of this land will belong to you. If you leave the health center in the future, this land will be bought by the health center at the market price to compensate you. How about it?" Su Ze nodded quickly, and Aunt Ninth went to work
. She is impeccable and fair, so it is no wonder that the entire health center respects her very much.
Lin Cainiang collected the bowls and chopsticks, and Aunt Ninth said again: "There are still some winter vegetables and rice seeds in the temple. You can just take them and plant them." Su Ze knew that
this was Aunt Ninth's kindness. For these poor people, seeds are very important. It is also a very precious thing.
However, he planned to plant potatoes and sweet potatoes on the newly opened fields, so he said, "Thank you for your kindness, Auntie, I'm going to plant something new." Aunt Jiu didn't say much. She just thought it was the whim of Su Ze, a scholar, and put away the bowl
. Chopsticks went back to sleep.
Su Ze was lying on the wooden bed, touching his sore waist. Who said that people in ancient times gave birth to babies at night when they had nothing to do?
Today, they just drove for a long time, and Su Ze was so tired that he couldn't even eat enough at night on weekdays. Yeah, how can I still have the strength to do that kind of thing!
Su Ze once again lamented that the pastoral life imagined by young bourgeois is really not pastoral or beautiful at all!
(End of chapter)