In this era when communications are basically yelling and public security is basically dependent on dogs, the people are extremely lacking in entertainment, and even the government killings can attract countless people to watch.

When everyone has nothing to do, they are extremely interested in gossip.

In the hillside of Lanxi, the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, everyone was busy asking and spreading the grudges and love dramas between the Li family and the Zhang family.

Various versions are flying around.

Li Xiao was resurrected from the dead and survived the disaster. Later, he joined the army and made great contributions in the border war and became an officer. Now he returned home in glory and avenged his dead father.

When Li Xiao was away, he met a high-ranking official who married everyone's daughter. Now he returned to Lanxi and knocked down the Zhang family.

Some people even say that Li Xiao was doing business abroad and made a lot of money. After he came back, he met the county magistrate. Therefore, with the support of the county magistrate, he directly took down Zhang Bapi, who was only supported by Zhao Lushi.

Is it a high level to crush someone to death?

Of course, everyone was also very interested in the Li family’s banquet yesterday, such as the three-piece big pot yard stand, stewed beef, stewed mutton, and boiled pork, and rice, and eating.

Some people even said that Li Xiao would run a school at home, so that the children of his own tenant could go to school for free, and even provide lunch for the children. If he had a good school study, he would still be able to enjoy a few buckets of millet in a month.

Li Jiapo and Li Sanlang, these words have completely become hot topics in Lanxi people’s mouths.

The news spread more and more widely. Many people started to run to Lijiazhuang, while some were just bored in winter and came to see the excitement.

Some people also think that changing the owner of the Li family’s house is closely related to their own life.

Early in the morning, Li Xiao got up very early, didn’t sleep well yesterday, and had food accumulation.

Get up early and continue to practice morning.

After exercising for a while, I felt a little warm, and many people came.

The earliest people came were the farmers in the ancestral tombs over there. These days, everyone has become accustomed to eating big pots of rice, and even arranged everything they do.

Just listen to the arrangements and do things, and then hold a bowl and eat when it's time to order.

Now Li Xiao has returned to the mansion and has only brought back a few people from Jiangnan. The dozens of people in the original village are still staying at home, only Doctor Zhao, Wanniang and Li Zhen have returned to the mansion together.

Without Li Xiao, they didn't know how to live this life for a while, so they came early.

Some people are still worried that Saburo has returned to the mansion, so there will be no food in the big pot from now on. Some people are forgetting Li Xiao’s promise to let his children go to school for free.

"Everyone is here. The frost was heavy this morning, so it was quite cold."

When Li Xiao saw that there were white frost flowers hanging on everyone's eyebrows, he stopped and called everyone into the room.

"Go into the house and bake it in the fire. The breakfast is already cooked, and it will be fine soon. I ate it yesterday too greasy. I drank some millet porridge and bone soup this morning."

An older Zhuang Han asked, "Sanlang, what are we doing today?"

"Well, don't stop working in the farm there. Keep repairing the houses that need to be repaired, and keep building several new houses ready to be built."

"Sanlang has returned to the mansion. Do you still need to build a house there?" someone asked.

"Continue to build the house there, and everyone lives in a crowded place. Some families still squeeze in a room when their children are older. Taking this opportunity, everyone builds a few more thatched houses. Then, if there are many people in the family, they will be assigned to live in the new house."

There is no cost to thatched houses, and the main thing is to order labor. Anyway, there is nothing to do now, and everyone is eating here, so Li Xiao arranged for them to build a few houses.

Some people want to say something but stop it, but it is mainly a problem of eating in the future. To be honest, now everyone is repairing houses and building houses together, but they cannot make money. As the tenants of the Li family, they still eat the owner's meals, and they always feel that they are not at ease.

But everyone is poor now. If you don’t eat your boss, you will have to go hungry this winter.

Finally, Old Man Huang spoke first, "Sanlang, now you have returned to the mansion. It is not appropriate for us to continue to eat here now. We cannot take advantage of the master's family in this way. We have discussed it before and feel that Sakuro has no debts now, the situation is better, and there is still some grain in his hand. Therefore, we plan to borrow some grain from Sakuro for the winter. We will repay it after the harvest next year's summer."

This was beyond Li Xiao's expectations. Everyone's life was so hard. They had just had two days of full meals, but everyone said they could not take advantage of the boss and were unwilling to continue eating for nothing.

Although the people are poor, they are very self-esteem.

It's unexpected.

"Uncle Huang, I said before that when my family was in the most difficult time, you took out some food from your family to help me pay off my debts and took care of Wanniang for me. Sanniang and the others, and I am a family. With me, Li Xiao, you won't let everyone be hungry."

"Sanlang, we understand what you said, but those are just what we should do. The seven or eight families in the village over the past years are all hungry people who have escaped famines and fled for many years. It was the heads of the Li family who took us in and placed us there. Without your Li family, we would have starved to death. If you are in trouble, it is also necessary for us to do some effort."

Another Liu Bo also said, "Yes, one code is one code, how can we tenants eat our boss's meals for free? This is not in accordance with the rules. If Sanlang is willing, he will lend us some grain and we will pay it back in the future. If Sanlang needs us to work hard, he will call us over and take care of the meal, or give some food wages, and we will be at ease. Although we are bitter and poor, we cannot eat our boss's meals for nothing. If we don't let others stab their backs, we will not be able to sleep at night."

"Yes, yes, Sanlang is willing to ask Mr. Yang to take our children to study. We are all grateful. How can we take advantage of Sanlang? Eat your free food."

No matter what Li Xiao said, everyone disagreed with coming here to have a big pot rice again. Although Li Xiao’s big pot rice was really delicious, everyone still held back.

Although people are poor, as long as they can still survive, no one is willing to give up their dignity.

"Sanlang, don't say anything more. The villagers are very clear about their intentions. What we want is not charity." Mr. Zhao also spoke at this time, "As the villagers said, if you lend food to everyone, don't limit the return date, don't collect interest. If you have a place to work in the future, we will calculate the wages according to the work. In this way, everyone will be at ease."

Li Xiao really has nothing to do with everyone now, and he hasn't figured out what to do. Everyone insists so much, even Mr. Zhao says this, and Li Xiao can no longer persist.

However, in the end he proposed another plan. First, everyone continued to build the house in the village and completed the house they were preparing to build. During this period, Li Xiao took care of everyone's meals and the wages were not forgotten. This was also a reward for everyone's help to them before.

Secondly, Li Xiao gave the eight families in the village over there, each of which was five stones of millet. The grain was not considered as borrowing, but Li Xiao rewarded everyone. The reward for everyone's care for Wan'er, Sanniang and the others, and for their gift for taking out the grain to help the Li family pay off their debts.

Although everyone didn't take out much food at the beginning, Li Xiao insisted on five stones per household. He originally planned to give more, but everyone refused to collect more.

If you save some food for a household of five stones, you can eat it for three or four months.

"The children will come here to study in the future, and they will eat and live in the courtyard, and the expenses of operating life are all covered by the courtyard. You can take one day off on ten days and go home. When the farming is busy, you can take one month off to help. In fact, I only study here, do some things and learn some skills."

Everyone was still very happy about Li Xiao’s change in reading for children. Anyway, the little kids can’t do much. If they all study and work in the compound, they would save the family a ration.

"What a good thing, just do what Saburo said!"

"Thank you, Saburo."

Li Xiao is also very complicated. These people are very poor, but they are also very simple. Sometimes they are petty and a little cunning. But many times, they still stick to their bottom line of being a human being. They stick to their duty and their conscience.

"If you have any problems in the future, I will ask everyone to come and help me. I will help you with work. I will take care of three meals a day and pay additional wages. If the wages are paid, please follow the situation and follow the market. Are you satisfied?" Li Xiao asked.

Everyone is not satisfied with anything. Such conditions are naturally satisfactory. You should know that other landlords sometimes ask tenants to do things, and usually only care about a meal and give some food or other wages.

Some landlords who even pay for the door don’t pay any wages, but take care of a meal, and then treat it as voluntary labor.

After saying this, everyone smiled again.

They felt at ease and were no longer taking advantage of their bosses. Although some old men such as Huang and Liu felt that Li Xiao gave each family five stone grain too much and felt that they were a little uneasy, Li Xiao insisted, and the young people were also very moved, and in the end they did not persist.

With this five-stone grain, you can spend this winter, and you can even save some food until the beginning of spring next year.

"It's time to eat, everyone hurry up and eat while it's hot." Da Biao came over to greet the meal.

After breakfast, the dozens of people who were originally eating in the pot of the Li family were divided into four parts.

Li Xiao, Wan Niang, Li Zhen, and Mr. Zhao, this is naturally the main family.

And like Yang Dayan, Dabiao, Tiezhu and other people from Jiangnan, their identities are relatives and friends of the Li family, or divisions. They have not registered with the Lantian government yet, and they are considered fugitives. However, now that Liu County Magistrate is here, it should not be a problem to help them become naturalized.

There are also some people who are eleven people left in the courtyard yesterday. These are all slaves. Zhao Lushi has agreed to transfer the contract to Li Xiao's name. Their future identities will be slaves of the Li family.

In the end, the merchants there were tenants from the Li family. In essence, they were also good people from the government, but they just had to plant the Li family's fields, which was considered employment relationship with the Li family.
Chapter completed!