Chapter 245: Beginning

Li Nong was at the forefront of their people. In addition to seventy or eighty older people, the other teams of three or four hundred were all strong men. Although everyone was really tired from rushing to the sky, the team's speed of progress did not slow down much. The life of the village households was ultimately just a word of endurance. They had to endure their work and lived a life. After enduring generations, they had to endure their ability to endure their sufferings. If they were tolerate their ability to endure their suffering, the Tangren Village households in Longmen County were really dissatisfied with anyone.

On the one hand, the rush to travel around the night is indeed a stimulation of hope in my heart. I have been suffering on the slope for so many years, but now I have hope, and anyone is very anxious. On the other hand, it is really for the sake of food calculations. The drought this year is too great. Who can save enough surplus grain in a small household? I don’t know how long it will take to be the first. Now every grain of food is very expensive and I can’t resist any waste.

The official document stamped with red stamps in the yamen clearly states that as long as you go to the designated place to start working, everyone's food will be supplied by the official family. Even if you want to make this big guy, you have to grit your teeth and hold back your fatigue. You will eat yourself on the way. You can save at least one meal if you get up half a day earlier. If you get up one day earlier, you can save three meals. The strong men like them are heavy-hearted, and the food saved by one meal is enough for the family to survive two famines in the house.

Eat and drink endlessly, and you can’t even make a lifelong poverty. What year will this year be? The food for the family for one or two days is not a decimal, and it’s worth it to suffer for the sake of this.

Everyone's situation is similar. People and people are in the same mind and the same mind, and the team is rushing quickly. Li Nong's family has a stronger foundation. In addition, he also got the food and salt that Mr. Tang promised to give that day. There was no need to work so hard to save one or two meals. But everyone in their time agreed to be the leader of him, and now it is not convenient to stop and rest.

No more time! Looking at the tall and majestic Longmen County wall in the distance, Li Nong breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, "It's finally coming." He walked forward, but his eyes didn't follow. This was the first time he had seen the county town in his life. It would be a nonsense to say it.

He is a stable person. No matter how he feels, he will not show anything on his face and mouth. But the team behind him is not good. Many farmers who saw the county town for the first time were shocked and amazed, God! How much soil should be used for such a tall, big and so thick city wall, and how much food should I ask for to pay for the tampering craftsmen to repair it?

There was a lot of surprises that I had never been here and I had never seen before. Those who had visited the city in the team would inevitably take advantage of this rare opportunity to show off. They flew and forgot to tiredly talk about the prosperity of the city. Although they were talking about the things that people in the county were most accustomed to, such as the most common things in the county town, which still attracted a lot of tsk sounds. Someone now discussed when they would come to visit this big county town after the food was reported.

Li Nong looked at the city wall while listening to the gossip behind, but gradually his good mood was gone due to novelty, and he felt a little nervous.

The reason why his mood changed was the eyes of those people in the city gate. From a distance, the people in the city gate looked at their erotic look at their ranks, and then they were curious. Li Nong was not unfamiliar with this condescending curious look - this kind of village households in their village always saw begging beggars from other villages.

Li Nong is honest and stubborn. The one he can't stand is this, "What's the blind man? Go quickly." After turning around and shouting, he withdrew his eyes and stopped looking at the city wall. He had already accelerated his steps and walked forward.

Behind their team, many curious idle men in the city walked out slowly, and the flower-studded ones followed the team while inquiring, trying to figure out what such a big formation was for.

After walking west from the city gate for about an hour, I saw a mountain pass on the roadside with two hillsides. Two men wearing soap suits stood on both sides of the mountain pass with flags in hand gestured to them.

Li Nong led a team of neighbors near the village behind him and followed the people in front toward Yamaguchi.

As soon as he crossed the mountain pass, Li Nong, who saw clearly the situation in front of him, couldn't help but open his mouth with a "ah", and the steps under his feet also stopped suddenly.

In front of me is a relatively flat river beach alluvialized by the river in the mountains. Compared with the hillsides that are visible everywhere in Longmen County, the hillsides that stretch across the river are obviously much smoother. Looking at this slope, according to Li Nong's experience of personally building terraces in Liuguan Village that day, it is really the most suitable for repairing terraces.

At this moment, the river beach in front of Li Nong had become a large construction site. The village houses who arrived first were back and forth, and the officials who walked through the different village house groups with books in their hands... All kinds of people were crowded together, and they shouted loudly. Not far away, a military tent that had lived in Liuguan Village last time was being tied up at a very fast speed. A large and scary marching pot was lined up along the riverside. There were also a few places where blacksmiths gathered. Blacksmith furnaces had been fully equipped, and some could faintly see a faint red light...

Such a busy and complicated scene is along both sides of the river, with no heads or tails above and no heads below. The most eye-catching thing is not these. On the contrary, the big red wax pole flags erected on the hillsides on both sides of the river. In winter, everything is bleak, and with the rare drought, the red flag on the withered hillside is particularly attractive. When the wind blows, the red flags tremble violently, like a burning fire.

There are many such big red wax pole flags, so numerous that they are countless. They are stuck on the hillsides on both sides, waving in the wind, and under the withered background, a burning fire is reflected on each other. These flags are gathered together with the scene of heat coming and going, causing the people who have just seen this scene to jump out of their boards, and they feel like they are holding something in their chest and want to vent their vent.

Although there were times when there were labor service in the past, they were always held by the officers. The merchants regarded it as the biggest labour. If they could be lazy, they would be lazy. Although everything in front of them was a bit messy, they were full of vitality, which made people involuntarily cheer up.

Longmen County is special. Even if you are in labor service, you won’t have to encounter such a big scene, let alone encounter such a scene. For a moment, the farmers behind stopped following Li Nong’s footsteps and looked at everything in front of you excitedly and curiously. They were first surprised at the scene, and then they felt a slight sense of worry in their hearts. They finally fell into the ground. They could make such a big scene. This time, the county government did not fool people, and then they felt worried. They didn’t expect that there were so many people coming in front. Those good seats for building ladder fields were snatched up by those who came first, right?

"Damn it, I shouldn't have had that rest in the afternoon yesterday, which delayed my journey." A sturdy man said loudly and urged Li Nong to come, "Uncle Li, you have a friendship with Mr. Tang. Can you tell him about it and arrange a good place for us?"

As soon as this statement was spoken, it immediately attracted a loud echo.

Just as Li Nong was about to say something, two officials walked over quickly in front of him. One of them was a clerk holding a book, while the other was a former acquaintance of Li Nong. The last time he arrived in Liuguan Village, this little man took it all the way.

These two people were obviously very busy. In the cold winter, they were sweating all over. "Walk in and out, how can the people behind here get in? Which village are you from?" When the clerk asked with a hoarse throat, the little toll recognized Li Nong. He smiled and stepped forward and pulled him up and was about to leave. "Your task arrangements and resting places are different from them. Come with me, and when you arrive tonight, Tang County Master will hold a banquet to welcome you."

The little donor said this, which made the group of merchants behind him feel envious and panic. What should they do if the leader has left?

"Mr. Tang actually remembers me!" The little tomb-man's words made Li Nong's heart suddenly feel hot, "Captain Lin, what should I do with my neighbors?"

"Liu Lushi is responsible for this matter. Don't worry, everything is arranged by the management." After explaining, the little token pulled Li Nong forward without saying a word.

Then Li Nong met the people from Liuguan Village again. The old acquaintances were both happy and excited to meet. That night, as the little donor said, the county magistrate Tang came to the place where thousands of farmers gathered to invite them. Although the reception banquet was a bit simple due to the conditions, his emphasis was enough to make up for everything else.

In such an environment and atmosphere, eating is secondary. That is, on this night, Li Nong learned the whole story of the big news from the Tang County Zun who was smiling and smiling, and knew his jaw-dropping but bloody plan. At the same time, he also knew his own task - they all became the leaders in charge of the village, and cooperated with the personnel assigned by the county government to manage the village households. In fact, this management task is secondary. More importantly, they had to pass on the experience of repairing terraces accumulated in Liuguan Village to their subordinate households.

This was the first time Li Nong became an "official" in his life. Everything today made him excited. He couldn't sleep at night. He felt that his heart was full of energy, so he wanted to roll up his sleeves and do something big, not only for his life to think about the good land he had for his whole life, but also for the repayment of Mr. Tang's value.

The real village household cannot say anything beautiful, just roll up their sleeves and work hard.

The next day, Li Nong got up early, and ate two large pieces of thick wheat cakes with the boiled ginger water from the pot outside, and then went to find his neighbors. The following day, nothing was said, "Dry": build soil, cut trees and build shacks. So many people lived here for so long, and it was not possible to have no place to live. Those military accounts were just an emergency response for the first time these two days. As Mr. Tang said, now everyone is looking for their future for themselves, and they can't bear to give up their hardships and point them at others.

Before the formal uphill, Li Nong and his servants worked for three days, solving the problems of eating and accommodation in the most simple way, and then targeting the assigned hillside, these hundreds of men began to wait for tomorrow with longing.

I can officially go uphill tomorrow to repair the soil for myself!

It was not until this time that Li Nong, who had stopped from excitement and fatigue, suddenly thought of a question: What should I do with stones? This is the least of the terraces. Although there are some on the mountain, thousands of farmers have to use them in large and small ways. How can these on the mountain be enough? Although I have heard people say in the past two days that there is a mountain of rocks more than twenty miles away, and the mountain is full of stones of all sizes, it is really too far away for more than twenty miles to point to the farmers under him to carry them on their own. This... is simply impossible.

Thinking of this, Li Nong, who had just taken off his big clothes, couldn't lie down anymore. He got up in his clothes and walked out of the lodge and went straight to find Wang Yunwu.

"Brother Li, why don't you rest so late?" Wang Yunwu, a civil servant who works with Li Nong, looked at Li Nong with a toad yawning, "What's so urgent?"

"Stone", knowing that he was not clear about what he said, Li Nong then added: "The dam of the terraced fields is built to a solid foundation only when it is built on the sun, and it is absolutely indispensable. The point on the hillside can be used up in less than two days. What should I do about this?"

When Li Nong heard this, Wang Yunwu's expression became strange. He wanted to explain something but didn't say anything after all, "Brother Li, don't worry, this Tang County Master has already made arrangements, and the stone will definitely be sent here."

"Send it here? Who will send it?" Ren Li Nong asked again, Wang Yunwu refused to say anything more. After going over and over again, the county master had already made arrangements, so there was no need to worry.

On the way back to the residence, Li Nong, who had not received any answers, kept thinking about this matter over and over again. Who would send it? He had to supply the stones for thousands of people. How many large animals would need to support it? How many people would be needed to just shout these large animals? Now so many Ding Zhuang are gathering here. Even if the county master is really capable of getting so many large animals, where can he find so many people to use?

This question that I could not understand and Wang Yunwu's strange expression flashed in Li Nong's mind, which made him, an old and Zhuangzi, who had little dreams, try the taste of "insomnia" for the first time in his life. It was not until the third update of the month that his mind hurts and he fell asleep in a daze.

The next morning, when the sky was just dawn, Li Nong was shocked by a shocking sound of gongs and drums. He turned over and put on his clothes and walked out quickly. He saw a big drum set up not far from the place outside the accommodation. It looked like it was not like the objects used by the people every day. At this time, a soldier in light leather armor was shaking his arms and beating the drum, looking up and down along the river. Every time there were the same arrangements between most of the miles. Dozens of big drums on both sides of the river were swung together, and the combined sound was blocked by the hillsides on both sides, which made the sound more and more thick. The sound of the drums in the echo of the valley was like the hammers on people's hearts. Not only did the remaining sleepiness disappear suddenly, but the force in the board was also awakened by the rumbling drum sound.

Amid the intense drum sounds, sleepy village houses emerged from countless simple shacks along the river. First, they looked at the sergeants beating the drums, and then looked at the hillsides opposite with red flags. The strong men who were still a little lazy in the morning suddenly became energetic as if they were being cast by magic. In a short time, the river channels sandwiched between the hillsides on both sides were filled with lively noise.

Linhe's big pot started to burn, smoke came out, washing and tidying up the farm tools. Almost everyone was busy with the matter at hand and couldn't help but look at the two slopes every now and then. After so much trouble, they finally got to do it today.

After dinner, before Li Nong was shouting with great thoughts, the farmers under his command could not wait to run up the hillside. They didn't know how many times they looked at the specific location in the past two days, so there was no need for anyone to provide any guidance.

As soon as these farmers went uphill, they were like tigers that had emerged from the cage. They worked hard according to Li Nong's previous assignment, and found stones to be brought together and moved them tightly, and everyone seemed to have endless energy to finish them.

Seeing this scene, Li Nong, as the supervisor of Xiutian, became even more thoughtful. According to their motivation, they were afraid that the combined stones that had grown on the hillside would be found in less than two days. What should I do until tomorrow afternoon?

In fact, before tomorrow was over, just as Li Nong was thinking about it, a farmhousekeeper had already asked about it. At this time, Li Nong couldn't say anything discouraged. He looked at Wang Yunwu, who had only been unheard of, and agreed in a deep voice, "Mr. County Master has his own arrangements for this matter, just wait."

Li Nong's voice was very loud, with a sense of inconvenience.

But after these days, these merchants had trust in him and Mr. Tang, who was also from a merchant family, and after hearing this, he continued to work hard without saying anything.

Looking at Wang Yunwu, who was counting the number of people and working as a reporter, Li Nong took a long breath and leaned over to pick up a large stone. He never stopped until noon, just to use the heavy stone to suppress Xupiao's thoughts.

When the work was over at noon, the merchants were happily discussing the progress of the morning. Li Nong, who was doing more solidly than anyone else, said nothing. After resting for a while, he went up the slope without saying a word.

Seeing the light passing by little by little, the arrangement of the county master was still not visible, and Li Nong's irritability became more and more intense, but the more he did, the more he worked, the more vigorously he worked. His older leader worked so hard that he could not force those strong men. He was so arrogant that he was in a position to do his work, and he did not dare to be negligent and relax at all.

But since this, there are fewer and fewer stones that can be found that can be used together.

Just as Li Nong could no longer hold back and was ready to find Wang Yunwu, he had to take out a solid foundation, suddenly a shout behind him, "Look," the village house that made this sound was like seeing a ghost, and he was shocked and lost his voice.
Chapter completed!