Dressed as the head of the lazy village

After burying Wang Chengliang in the morning, and having nothing to do in the afternoon, Wang Dawei decided to inspect his territory.He has been dealing with all kinds of trivial matters since he traveled here, and he hasn't taken a good look at his future living environment.

Life in ancient times was really boring. There was no internet, no mobile phones, and no friends to gossip and chat with. Wang Dawei was so empty that he wanted to find something to do.

——He is also very curious, what do the villagers in Lazy Man Village do to pass the time when they are not farming?

As the wealthiest village a few decades ago, Lanhan Village still has a vast territory: the house where they live is the center, and the land within a radius of ten miles belongs to Lanhan Village, and many villagers still have land in other villages.

All these lands were collectively leased to Wujiazhuang, which was originally poor. As a result, the people in Wujiazhuang became richer and richer, and now they have surpassed Lazy Man Village many times.

Wang Dawei stood on the ground, watching Wu Gaoshu and the people from Wujiazhuang working in the field.Most of the fields in Miaozhu Prefecture are paddy fields. Rice has been harvested before, and potatoes can be planted for a season if the land is turned over.

In theory, Miaozhuzhou can produce three crops a year, but not many people do this.One is that it is too tiring, and the other is that such planting wastes the land, and the fertile fields become thinner over time.

Even the government collects grain tax on the basis of two crops a year, but the people in Wujiazhuang often cultivate according to three crops.You can't grow serious food, so it's good to grow some vegetables, and you can earn more money.I'm used to living a hard life, but don't you have to plan carefully to get rich?

Even now that Wujiazhuang has become rich early, the habit of bearing hardships and standing hard work has been engraved in their bones and has become an instinct.

Wang Dawei squatted on the ground and sighed, extremely envious.

Look, this is a serious farmer!What kind of stuff is that group in my village? ?If I dress up as the village chief of Wujiazhuang, I can wake up laughing in my dreams!

Wu Gaoshu collected the sugar cane for a while, and when he looked up, he saw Wang Dawei squatting on the ground and sighing.He wanted to pretend that he hadn't seen it—since Wang Dawei suppressed and dealt with Wu Sanzhuan last time, Wu Gaoshu was not happy to see this new village chief of lazy people.

But thinking of the news heard in the county, Wu Gaoshu silently cut off two sugarcane knots and walked towards Wang Dawei: "Why do you come here when you have time?"

Wang Dawei was surprised that Wu Gaoshu would come to say hello.The last time they met was not very pleasant, Wu Gaoshu was so generous as to treat himself to sugar cane.This sugar cane is not the fruit cane that is eaten as a fruit in modern times, but sugar cane with rough fibers.The taste is poor, hard to chew, and the sweetness is as sweet as fruit cane.

After all, the official name of Lanhan Village is Tianganer Village, which is famous for its abundant water and soil and the extraordinarily sweet sugarcane it grows.

"My uncle used to worry about everything in the village. I'm just getting started, and I don't know how much land there is in the village. Just take a look, so I know what's going on in my heart." Wang Dawei gnawed two bites of sugar cane: "It is said that In the past, my grandfather made a fortune by leading the villagers to grow sugar cane. How can I see that you don’t grow much sugar cane?”

Only about half of the dry land is planted with sugar cane, and the rest is planted with Luo Han bean, also known as broad bean.

Wu Gaoshu smiled wryly and said, "We also want to grow sugarcane." Planting sugarcane will save trouble, and when it is planted in Qingming, it will be harvested in Mid-Autumn Festival, and it will be available until Qingming next year.Beans need to be planted two or three times a year: "It's not your village that only harvests grain, not sugarcane..."

The food can be eaten directly at home, but the sugarcane has to be sold in the city, and the people in Lazy Man Village don't want to sell it.

The beans grown in Wujiazhuang are basically rented to Lazy Man Village, and the sugar cane is their own income.

Wang Dawei: "..."

Once again, I felt the late symptoms of lazy cancer of the villagers.

Wu Gaoshu and Wang Dawei squatted side by side on the ground, hesitated for a while, and said, "I went to the city yesterday and heard that you are going to sell Zhao Shitou's land."

Wang Dawei nodded: "Zhao Shitou's family lost their minds and killed my uncle. After the unanimous vote of the villagers, they are not worthy of staying in our village and have been kicked out. Some of the houses and fields were sold to pay taxes, and some were confiscated."

Wu Gaoshu was not surprised by this result at all. He didn't have any thoughts about the ending of Zhao Shitou's family, but he had his own thoughts: "I was planning to buy the four acres of paddy fields. I remember that Zhao Shitou's family was still alive. There are ten acres of dry land...can you sell it to our village?"

Land is the foundation of farmers. Since it is a good field, it has always been priced but not marketed. It is not something you can buy if you want to.Now Wujiazhuang has become rich from the land of the Lazy Man Village, but the accumulation of land is still not much, and he is always uneasy.

After finally waiting for Wang Dawei to sell the land of the Zhao family, Wu Gaoshu was very moved.

Wang Dawei didn't expect Wu Gaoshu to make such a request, he was taken aback for a moment, and quickly said: "No."

"The reason for selling these four acres of land is because we are in a hurry to pay the grain tax. Our village, as you know, is not short of money." The reason why the people in Lazy Man Village have been able to feel lazy for so many years is also because they can rely on rent collection. No worries about eating and drinking.They are crazy to sell the roots that can make money and keep them from working.

Besides, Wang Dawei had other plans.If it succeeds, the land tenanted to Wujiazhuang will be slowly taken back next year, let alone sold.

"I think these four acres are too much to sell. Originally, selling one or two acres is enough to pay taxes. Selling two more acres is to repair houses in the village for emergencies."

Wu Gaoshu was very disappointed.When he met Wang Dawei, he always had a premonition: this kid is much better than his uncle, and he might bring Lazy Man Village to turn over.

Although he didn't think those lazy people could make waves...but the existence of Wang Dawei made him feel that the interests of his village would be endangered.

Wu Gaoshu got up sullenly, without saying hello to Wang Dawei, and went back to his field to continue harvesting sugar cane.

Wang Dawei didn't mind either.He had some awareness of Wu Gaoshu's thoughts, but so what?Tenant land is a matter of money and goods. In order for Wujiazhuang to continue to develop, Lazy Man Village should not show dedication and maintain the status quo, right?

His name is Wang Dawei, not Wang Weiwei.

He stood up from the ground, patted his buttocks, and was about to go back, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw a group of people emerging from the woods, and they went around in the direction of Wujiazhuang.

With a thought, Wang Dawei turned around and followed.

It was time for work in the afternoon.The men in Wujiazhuang are all busy in the fields, while the women, children, old and young are sewing and washing at home. There are not many people walking around in the village.

Before it's time to cook, even fewer people go to the vegetable fields behind the village.Three or four naked refugees rushed into the vegetable field and quickly pulled vegetables into the basket.

These three or four people were men in their prime of life, Wang Dawei estimated the strength of the two sides, did not move forward, but stood far away from the vegetable field and coughed.

The person who was frantically pulling vegetables froze immediately.

The leader was a black-faced guy in his mid-thirties who looked up and saw Wang Dawei, his eyes turned red with fright, and he felt a little bit wronged.

"I...we didn't do it on purpose..." The black-faced man looked down at the vegetables he was holding in both hands, feeling that his statement was not convincing.

Several other people also tied their hands and didn't know what to do, terrified.

Wang Dawei couldn't bear it: "Are you refugees from Yazhou? I just saw a lot of people from a distance. Where are you hiding?"

Those people's eyes widened: "We, let's go now...don't call people..."

These people are indeed refugees from Yazhou.They couldn't enter the county town, and the government didn't release food for disaster relief, so they could only wander in the countryside.In order to survive, they also formed a gang, with a clear division of labor when traveling together, relying on the owner to steal a little, and the west family to get a little for food.

In this day and age, uprooting a few vegetables from other people's vegetable fields in the countryside is actually not considered stealing, but it can't stop them uprooting too much. In a blink of an eye, half an acre of vegetable fields will be plucked bald.Over time, there is no nearby village that does not reject these refugees.

In particular, several families lost chickens, ducks and other poultry, and even organized young and strong people to drive these refugees far away.

Although there is no evidence that the chickens and ducks were stolen by refugees, it is always a mistake to be careful.

Wujiazhuang sent people out to fight refugees before.I was also very hungry today, and I realized that the young and strong in the village were not there, so I dared to take the risk: "I really only stole food, we never took money, at most we got some more food..."

Wang Dawei sighed: "This is already too much." He pointed to the vegetable field that had been mopped up by several people: "People also have to live, you have pulled them all clean, what do you let them eat?"

Several people lowered their heads in shame.

"Stealing things, you will be caught sooner or later. Just like now. You are all refugees with no way to guide you. If you are twisted to see an official..." Before he finished speaking, several people showed terrified expressions , I just knelt down and begged him for mercy.

Wang Dawei thought for a while: "If it's just vegetables, wouldn't the wild vegetables in the mountains also wrap your stomach?"

"We also went to the mountain to look for it. We ate everything we could eat, except grass roots and bark..." the black-faced man said awkwardly.There are quite a few of them.

Wang Dawei thought of the wild vegetables all over the mountains and plains in the back of his house, and they were left for nothing: "You go five miles north, and there is a village over there. The back mountains are full of wild vegetables, and no one picks them."

The man was stunned, with hesitation visible to the naked eye on his face: "Ah? I know that village, I heard it's quite poor? Someone went to us before, and the houses in the whole village were all broken. They stole two The bowl was also broken, so everyone didn't go there anymore..."

They couldn't bear to steal from such a house.

Wang Dawei: ...

Okay, a village that even refugees look down on. 【Smile