New Shun 1730

After scolding the eldest son, the others also shrank back, not daring to show their heads.

The apricots have not yet turned yellow, and the wheat in the fields has not yet been harvested, but the weather is already getting hotter.

The several large elm trees outside the yard are also a legacy left by our ancestors and are for future use. In the event of a disaster or a lean period, your elm tree can save your life.

Under the shade of the elm trees, the whole family looked unhappy.

The key point is that the court is really overbearing in this matter. Those who want to move may not even have time to harvest the wheat.

Yesterday, the third daughter-in-law said a lot, saying that she had to leave anyway and the wheat would not be harvested. Now that the slurry has been irrigated and it is not yet yellow, why not take it home and cook the green wheat and eat it, or else leave it to those poor people who don't leave? Then the old man and the mother-in-law scolded her all over the face, and they said all the ugly words, which made me cry all night again.

Word came down from above that we must set off before the Dragon Boat Festival. Go to Jinan Prefecture and take a bus to Jiaodong. Take a boat in Jiaodong to catch the wind.

They didn't understand the specifics, they didn't know what kind of car it was, let alone what Qianfeng meant.

Even if we say that Linzi and other places where road paving, coal mining, iron smelting, and cigarette farming have begun, are actually not too far away from here.

But in this day and age, that is considered a very distant thing and has nothing to do with them.

What matters in daily life is these people and things in the village. Marrying a wife and marrying a daughter is the farthest thirty or fifty miles around.

And he also said that except for the gold and silver, and the baggage for each person, nothing else can be taken. Even if you take it, you will smash it or burn it when you get there, and you are not allowed to take it on board.

Eat and drink, and there are stops along the way to ensure you don't go hungry.

They say a broken house is worth a thousand dollars.

It is impossible to take away the pots and pans, tables, chairs and benches in this house, as well as the acres of farmland.

It's just a table and a box. It's impossible to say that they are all items passed down from ancestors. As a result, nothing was allowed.

The higher authorities also sent people and spoke several times, but to no avail.

Because this is a very real heartache: Can’t you take the house with you? Can't you take the cupboards and dishes with you? Can’t you take the table and chairs with you?

It is said that it is so good and so good to go there. If it is really so good and so good, why is it our turn?

The news came a few days ago that someone from the county was carrying a coffin to cause trouble. As a result, before he even got to the county government office, he was beaten and beaten by a group of gangsters. They also asked each family to call the eldest son to the county government office, where he was beaten with a slap and scolded.

The people above even said that it would be useless not to mention carrying a coffin, even if they actually hang themselves. He was hanged, and someone from above dug a hole to help bury him.

Since last year, this place has been in complete chaos. All taxes were waived, and grain was collected as usual, but it was not collected by merchants, but directly collected from the treasury.

Some wealthy households have been forced to move away, followed by many tenant farmers, pushing carts and pulling their belongings, and headed to Kanto first.

Starting this year, we will have to deal with middle-class families, that is, homesteaders.

After struggling until now, I was told that I had to leave before the Dragon Boat Festival, and I couldn't even harvest the wheat.

In just one or two years, dozens of elderly people from at least dozens of families were angered to death, and some actually hung themselves in front of the county government office, but it was of no use at all.

Now Wang Long and others know that they can't resist it, but now the old man just refuses to leave, saying that even if he dies, he must die in the old house. There is no way.

Under the shadow of the elm trees, some were crying, some were making trouble, and some big yellow dogs with blind eyes came to get in the way. They were kicked away and howled all the way away.

While there was a commotion, another gong sound came from outside, and someone shouted: "One member of the family that is to be moved will go to the county. Something happened again."

After the gong sounded, Wang Long cursed a few words and shouted to his wife: "Did you hear that? Hurry up and pack some dry food for me, I have to go there. There is trouble at home and urging outside, this life is really hard to live!" "

After venting his anger, the old man in the room shouted again: "Wait a minute, I'll go with you. Maybe a senior official from the county will come today, and I won't believe it..."

When he said this, his sons were so frightened that they knelt down and begged: "Dad, you can rest at home, okay? If the high officials go, not to mention you, they are those who have fame and fame. What’s the point of moving to Guandong?”

"There is no truth in this world."

After coaxing and begging, Wang Long finally settled down. Wang Long carried dry food on his back and went to the county with other families in the village who had to move.

When I got there, before I could inquire, I saw that the county was full of soldiers. Someone asked about it, asked them according to a list, asked Wang Long to write a name and sign it, and then asked them to go to a camp over there.

Wang Long arrived at the camp in a panic. Wang Long was also a little scared. Today's formation was really different from the past.

There were soldiers all around, with guns and bayonets hanging on them, which was extremely chilling.

After walking past, no one paid attention. A group of people randomly found a place to squat down, as if they were drinking soup at home in the evening, but they didn't carry their rice bowls.

If you know someone, get together to smoke and ask about each other.

I don’t know many people, so I hang out with people in the village.

Not long after Wang Long squatted down, he saw several people approaching from a distance. There were seven or eight big men with big shoulders and round waists, surrounded by a middle-aged man who looked to be in his forties or fifties. He looked like a high official at first glance, and he had never seen him before.

When he came closer, the official stopped and asked Wang Long which village he came from.

Wang Long was not afraid of people, but he was afraid of the pomp and ceremony of the officials. There was no ceremony and no one shouted silence. Even if he knew that the person in front of him was a high-ranking official, he was not so afraid that he could not even speak.

After asking, the second question asked by the official was also strange.

"Why do we have to migrate? Did the people in the county tell you about the Yellow River? Do you know why we have to relocate people?"

Wang Long nodded repeatedly. He had heard the reason at least twenty times, and he could recite it by heart now. He had seen the map of the Yellow River several times, and the teacher in the private school would tell them every now and then. It is said that he was paid by the higher-ups.

After answering, the official did not ask nonsense questions such as "Are you willing to move?" Instead, he asked: "Are your parents at home?"

"Yes."

"Have you been to school?"

"Can you read a few words?"

"Yes. Your parents don't want to leave?"

"Uh..."

Wang Long thought for a while and nodded: "Sir, my parents don't want to leave. They are too old and may not be able to withstand the hardships along the way. I heard that we have to take a boat, but we have never taken a boat in our lives? There are many brothers in the family. Can one of them stay here to take care of your parents in their old age?"

Unexpectedly, the other side asked: "How can you take care of your parents in their old age? The land will be requisitioned to dig rivers and lake embankments. Do you have to beg for food in your old age? You don't have to leave, but you can't farm the land. Since you are requisitioned, you must do engineering projects in your place."

After that, the official said: "You were born by your father and raised by your mother. I We are not so old and confused that we have to go when we are 70 or 80 years old. We are all 60 years old at most. We can endure the hardships, but we can bear it. Since we chose you, we know that there is no one in your family who is 70 or 80 years old. "

"Since you say so, it means you are filial. If you are really filial, you will go even if you are tied up when the time comes."

"I'll tell you clearly, either go now or go. If you don't go now, you will have to be recruited to repair the dike in the future, and the women will also have to be recruited to weave and work. How can it be better to go now and have food and drink?"

Wang Long sighed, "Sir, you said that it is a thousand times good. But the hardships along the way... I have also heard that if the Yellow River is not properly managed, it will burst sooner or later. I have heard this reason a hundred times. But it hasn't burst yet, right? It's said that we have lived a peaceful life for a hundred years..."

He gritted his teeth and finally said what was in his heart.

"If you ask me, my children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. If it really breaks in the future, it will be their fate. Why bother us? If it really breaks, can't we just accept our fate?"

"Besides, since I was born, I have never heard that the Yellow River flows through Shandong. My father has never heard of it, and my grandfather has never heard of it... If you don't mess with the Yellow River, it may not burst; even if it does, it may not rush here, right?"

"My lord, it's not easy. We finally hope that the canal transportation will be disbanded, the canal corvée will be stopped, and this Anshan Lake can be reclaimed. We thought that good days were coming, but how come it's been a few years and it's been messed up again?"