A misty rain painting the hometown

"Can you come and help me build the village? I can't find a craftsman."

Li Honglue was surprised, how could Gu Ji not hire a craftsman if he was rich?

"I can't build a village, but I can help you find a craftsman."

"Then can you go back to the village tomorrow and help me measure the land?"

Li Hong hesitated for a moment, then seemed to have made up his mind.

"it is good."

Guji then drove out of the way.

Going back to Guzhong Village, Gu Ji made a detailed plan of what he wanted to do at the end of the year. Two thousand acres of wasteland would be needed to build the village, and at least [-] acres of land would have to be reclaimed. Now he is slowly repairing the periphery.

First of all, we need to reclaim [-] acres of wasteland near the old Guli house and cultivate seedlings.Then build four rows of long thatched sheds for raising cattle, and build a wide road to the top of the southern mountain. Li Hongde built a small thatched tent tent on the grassy slope, made a big wooden frame, and hung some notices of Maowu Yougong. Some standard wooden signs.

The next day, Li Hong resigned as an apprentice carpenter in the county seat and returned to Guzhong Village.Wang Qin also breathed a sigh of relief.Gu Ji went to Li Zheng and Gu Shuang helped to invite three widows from Gu Zhong Village, Gu Wei, Gu Zhan, and Gu Quan.

He discussed Li Hong with Wang Qin again, and the five of them went to Nanshan to survey the land.The foot of Nanshan Mountain has a radius of seventeen miles.When walking back to the original point, Gu Ji asked the four of them to go home for lunch first, while he went back to the old Gu Li House to cook a big bowl of noodles.In the afternoon, another ten miles of mountainside was surveyed, and Gu Ji had obtained the general layout of Nanshan, outlining the courtyard, fruit forests, and wide roads.Before dawn, Gu Ji went to the Xiangji Timber Shop, spent ten taels of silver, and bought fifty logs with a diameter of about [-] cm, which were dried in the shade, and the store delivered them to the head of Guzhong Village.

After a light rain, Gu Ji went back to the village and found Lizheng and invited four villagers to carry the logs to the grassy slope, no matter what to eat, and the wages were 45 renminbi.

He himself is painting wooden shelves, tent tables, straw sheds, cattle straw sheds, and making notices.The next morning they found Li Hong and the other four.

Li Hong carried the big wooden box, which contained a whole set of carpentry tools.Before lunch, the wooden shelves are ready, and the simple four-legged panels are like tent tables and benches.

In the afternoon, the four of Li Hong set up thatched huts, while Gu Ji went door-to-door to harvest straw, a load of twelve bundles worth five cents.Before You, similar tents and thatched sheds have been organized.Gu Ji and Li Hong explained in detail that the next day they invited five stonemasons, three carpenters, and forty villagers to pave wide roads, reclaim thirty wastelands, cut shrubs, shake grass, burn grass and trees, and apply ash and fertilizer.The matter of building a four-row cattle straw shed.Li Hong is in charge, and Gu Wei, Gu Quan, and Gu Zhan are in charge.Regardless of the food, the mason's wages are 130 Wen, the carpenter's wages are 130 Wen, the stone-lifting villagers are 45 Wen, and the others are all [-] Wen.Hang up the notice, post the roll call page for the classification of the types of work, and tell Li Hong in detail about the work.

In the morning, Guji went from village to village to purchase straw, and piled up nearly fifty large haystacks at the foot of the mountain, and in the afternoon he cultivated the seedlings with ash manure.

Forty days of work, the rain and snow stopped, and it cost nearly a hundred and ten taels of silver. Half of the road was repaired, half of the cattle shed was built, and the wasteland was only [-] acres, and all grass ash was applied. Guji sorted and buried three acres of land for planting buds.

In the last ten days of the twelfth lunar month, in addition to reading and practicing calligraphy, in addition to waiting for the government examination, Guji also has a plan to build a village according to the springs, mountains, wide roads and the orientation of the villa.

Gu Ji asked Aunt Li about sending Li Hong to become an official. Li Hong thought he was too old and didn't want to go to a private school. Gu Ji went to the Confucius Institute and summoned Old Master Wang to explain the matter in detail.Speaking of Li Hong, Old Master Wang was also quite sorry, saying that as long as people are willing, he will accept anyone.

Gu Ji went to Tiantou to talk to Li Hongxi. After two years, there were still four classmates. Li Hong's eyes flickered.

"Is someone out of town?"

Seeing that there was a sign, Gu Ji told the story of Zhao Shu and the others.Li Hong immediately agreed to go to the private school to learn from each other.

On New Year's Eve, Gu Ji celebrated the New Year alone. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, the idle villagers scrambled to come back to work. Because only 40 people were needed, latecomers had to give up.Stonemasons and carpenters are still the original eight people.When the Lantern Festival was over, Gu Ji took over as the head for two days. Li Hong went to the county for an exam and worked for another 52 days. The previous plan had been fully implemented.The four-row cowshed can house a hundred cows, and the horses can also be tied up in it.

Gu Wei, Gu Zhan, and Gu Quan ran to the cowshed for the past two days, feeding the horses, cleaning up the manure, and fertilizing the fields.Gu Ji stroked his forehead, built a bed in the cowshed with thick quilts, and the three of them added two sets of thick winter clothes, built two large stoves, added three pots, kitchen utensils, buckets, etc., bought five hundred One chick and two piglets called three people to plant a five-acre vegetable field, take care of the cowshed, fertilize the fields, and take turns guarding the shed at night.Five hundred Wen per person per month.

Li Hong is in charge of the three people's food purchases, pork and chicken food, and wages distribution.Li Hong twitched his mouth when he heard this. He had been an apprentice for four years, and he was exhausted all day.Three people raise 15 chickens, feed two piglets, feed one horse, take care of five acres of vegetable fields, apply three acres of field fertilizer, and one person earns five hundred cash per month. ?In the first four months, he also received a total of [-] taels of silver, and the debts owed by the family have been paid off after a year. Now there are still [-] taels of silver left. In previous years, he would not have dared to dream of this.

For the thatched tent tent, Gu Ji handed over thirty ten-liang banknotes, account books, a set of high-quality brushes, ink, paper and inkstone, and Li Hong.

"Brother Li Hong, please take care of me in the future. I won't delay your studies. After the government test, Gu Ji will go to the south and return before early October."

Li Hong complied and took away a stack of banknotes.

The next day, he took Li Hong to the county town to buy a couple of new carriages and carts.

On April 2000th, the government examination had ended a few days ago, and Gu Ji drove a carriage from Fuyun Inn in Jianan County to Caoying County.Four more "letters", totaling [-] taels of banknotes were taken from the Qinshu firm. This time, the receipts were not exchanged, and they were all placed in Meiyuan.Asked about the Qingqiu mansion, everything is as usual, Gu Ji is very lucky.

The next day, I resigned from Qingqiu and headed south all the way. It took me 150 days to arrive at the county government office in Laiming County. I bought [-] acres of land on the hillside at the east end of the village with the county magistrate Xingjun. I handed him [-] taels of silver notes and took the title deed. , Ling Xingjun called him, and personally took people to the county street, where he met several business owners.Laiming County is a poor county, and Ling Xingjun was released here the year before last. It was the first time he saw a rich family buying hundreds of acres of mountain land, and he seemed very eager.

Gu Ji immediately bought a hundred shade-dried logs, and the store delivered them to Xiniu Village.Fifteen craftsmen in the wooden workshop and fifteen craftsmen in the stone workshop were hired, and five carriages were rented.Purchased a large amount of ingredients.

In front of Xiniu Village, Gu Ji took five horse-drawn carriages straight to Falcon County Collection five miles away, and paid 50 taels of silver for a month at the Guike Inn.Thirty craftsmen and five coachmen all stayed in the inn. The inn provided lunch for 35 people, and the coachman picked up and transported 30 people.The starting point of the next day is Maowuyou, starting and leaving work.Thirty craftsmen paid a deposit of 20 taels each in advance.

Gu Ji went back to Xiniu Village, went to Lizheng Hu Yizhi, and asked him to help find 45 porters and [-] poachers, regardless of food, and the wages were [-] Wen and [-] Wen respectively.They took in Pei Fei, Mei Fang, Niu Jin, Wu Mugui, and Qin Hua, five orphans and widowers, before returning to the deserted courtyard.

It was unitary time, and the four of Zhao Shu were having dinner.Gu Ji jumped out of the carriage, gulped down two steamed buns, wiped his mouth, pointed to the food on the table, and signaled them to continue eating, while he scooped up the noodle soup from a bowl.

After taking a bath, all five of them went to bed early.

Early in the morning, Gu Ji got up to make a meal, Pei Fei hugged Qin Hua, and brought Mei Fang and the others.There were nine people crowded at the dinner table.

"Zhang Zhixuan took Wu Mugui, and Qin Hua went to let the three horses go. Gong Fan taught Niu Jin to cook lunch for ten people, and you four elders went to mow the grass. I'm busy."

At the head of the village, Gu Ji picked up thirty masons, Hu Yizhi brought fifteen porters, and fifteen diggers to the back slope of the deserted courtyard. Gu Ji took out the map of building the foundation and building tiles and cowsheds, and explained the details.The mason drew the lines of the four major septic tanks, and the carpenter drew the foundation lines and sewage ditch lines.Fifteen diggers and hoeing.The logs also arrived, and the fifteen porters went to carry the logs.In the afternoon, various fortifications were launched.The next day, Gu Ji went to Falcon County to order another [-] watts.

The sky is already hot, and the mountains and fields are quiet.On the back slope of the deserted courtyard, the workers all left work two quarters of an hour before noon, and started work half an hour later in the afternoon.Hearing about the situation in the deserted courtyard, Tong Hao, the innkeeper of the Guike Inn, only had enough money for food, and the craftsman worked hard, so he finished the work one day ahead of schedule.Looking at the luxurious cowshed and deserted courtyard, Lizheng Hu Yizhi kept shaking his head.

After cleaning the four rows of cowsheds, Gu Ji began to buy dry straw from village to village, and put haystacks in front of and behind the cowsheds.

At the beginning of July, Guji went up to the mountain to see the cattle. A large herd of cattle lay down and stood near the four of them. Some were grazing, some were taking a nap, and some were licking their calves.

"Why so many?"

"There are 52 cows, and the spring cows have brought them, and the young ones have also called eight big cows."

Zhao Shu looked at Gu Ji, and someone in the village was quite puzzled to see them cutting grass and feeding cattle.Now that there are so many cattle, Zhao Shu and the others also want to know what Gu Ji will do.

Gu Ji went to order 44 ox nose rings, a heavy wooden case, bought three bundles of hemp ropes, cut 44 long ox nose ropes, prepared the grass ash, found two big trees next to them, and pulled the linoleum cloth, Lure cattle into wooden sets.Across the tree, he hugged the bull's head, put on the Suo Niu nose ring, and wiped the wound with clear oil and grass ash.Put on one end, take it to another mountain, tie it up and release it in the wild, wear a nose ring in the morning, take it back to the cowshed in the evening, and put dry straw on it.For ten consecutive days, all 52 cows were put into the pen.

After half a month, the mouth healed, and the cattle got used to being led in and out.The four of Zhao Shu went into the mountains to look for cattle.Guji is going to send the cattle back to the north.On July 28, Gu Ji rented twelve carts in Falcon County, loaded them with high-altitude straw, tied four big cows to the rear of each cart, and left 500 taels of silver in the deserted courtyard before setting off from the deserted courtyard alone.Along the way, the village bought grass, and the eight calves ran forward and backward.All the caravans encountered along the way gave way.

In the first ten days of September, Gu Ji and his party went to the outskirts of Caoying County. Because they couldn't cross the river, the team of carts and oxen all detoured into Lijin County by trail.

On October 52, [-] cows entered the grass cowshed.After paying each driver ten taels of silver and sending them away, Gu Ji slept soundly for a night.

The next day Hong Shengshi visited with a boat.The two of them only looked at the grass cow shed on the grassy slope, and asked Gu Ji what the purpose of raising cattle was.The two only thought that he was used for slaughtering meat.Wang Qin was invited to entertain the two of them for lunch, and he himself ate at the Old Coulee House.