roccoschili Chapter 133 Village Wall
Chapter 133 Village Wall
After the braised pork business got on track, Hou Ji Lu Chu, which had originally planned to distribute profits once a month, decided to distribute dividends every seven days after holding a "company meeting".
There were three main reasons. First, it was too much money, at least forty or fifty dollars a week. My aunt Hou Cuiping had never received so much money before, and she felt very nervous when she had the money.
The second reason was naturally that my uncle and aunt were out of money. In order to buy household items, the two families spent all their savings and even borrowed part of it.
Except for lunch when everyone ate together, they ate separately in the morning and evening. After four or five days, the two families had no food left.
Of course, the most important reason is the third one, digging a cave. Because of the business, neither he nor his family had time to dig the cave. Even Hou Xiaoge's plan to level the earth slope above the cave was temporarily shelved.
Once people have money in their pockets, they have more ideas. Seeing that other villagers have already dug caves one after another, my uncle and aunt's families are very anxious.
Hou Xiaoge saw this and finally suggested that this year the accounts should be divided every seven days, and then once a month after the new year.
Naturally, everyone was very happy about this suggestion, and they divided the money in a hurry on the seventh night.
"During these seven days, not counting the stalls in the village, although I didn't make as much as on the first day, I still made a net profit of 64 yuan.
In this way, you can keep four dollars for pocket money and emergencies, and divide the remaining sixty dollars!
My family is 40% of the money, which means 24 yuan. Uncle and uncle-in-law, your two families are 30% of the money, which means 18 yuan each, right?" After counting the accounts, Hou Xiaoge divided the money into three parts and said with a smile.
"no problem!"
"against!"
"Okay then, you two can take the money! You take this money from mom." Hou Xiaoge pushed the two portions of money in front of his uncle's and his two families, and gave his portion to his stepmother.
"Get up, I'll keep the money." The aunt knocked back her uncle who was about to take the money.
"Ha ha!"
.........
Everyone burst into teasing laughter, making my uncle blush.
"Uncle, aunt, try to change all the French currency into silver dollars. If you can't, spend it quickly.
The French currency is getting more and more worthless. Yesterday I checked at the bank and found that the French currency has dropped to the price of one hundred yuan for one dollar. It has only been a few months! It has dropped three times.
I estimate that it will continue to fall in the future, so try not to keep legal tender at home, and spend it as soon as possible if you have it.
If the handling fee for dollars is too high, just change it to copper coins, which are better than legal tender anyway, after all, copper is also a precious metal. "Hou Xiaoge saw that several people were happily putting money on their bodies, and deliberately reminded them.
"Got it, I will exchange all these French currencies for food tomorrow.
I have been really hungry these past few months. Now that I have money, I feel uneasy if I don’t stock up 1,800 kilograms of food.” The uncle sighed as he touched the silver in his pocket.
"Me too. I will start buying and storing food tomorrow and hiring someone to dig a cave. It's getting cold now and if I don't dig now it will be difficult to dig when winter comes.
Moreover, there are many refugees wandering around our village recently. If we don’t dig, I’m worried that the cave house will be occupied by these disaster victims.” My uncle nodded and said.
“There are indeed a lot more refugees around here recently, and many homes in the village have been robbed. There were also people who wanted to steal children, but they were discovered in time.
We talked about this at the village meeting yesterday. Uncle Five and Uncle Seven said that we should gather everyone together to build the village wall after everyone has finished digging their caves.
You know what, the place that Heiwa chose at that time seems really good now.
There is a stinking ditch four or five meters deep in front of us, and a dirt slope behind us. Even if we dig a cave, it will be at least four or five meters high. Then, as long as we build a wall about a hundred meters long, the village will be much safer. "Hou Yangmin nodded and explained what everyone was worried about.
When everyone heard that the village wall was going to be built, they all smiled with joy and relief.
This is the benefit of sticking together for warmth. While other refugees were still hiding from place to place and finding it difficult to build even a simple shack, the cave dwellings in Nanjiagou Village were almost completed.
What the villagers of Nanjiagou are now considering is how to protect their new homes and have enough food to eat.
After dividing the money, the next day Hou Xiaoge's family hired villagers who had not found work to help dig caves and level the sloping land.
Hou Xiaoge only went to the stall to help occasionally, and spent most of his time at home watching the villagers dig the soil.
Even though they are all our own people, if we don't keep an eye on them, they will be more likely to cheat and be cunning.
Hou Xiaoge is well-known in the village for being difficult to talk to. With him watching, the villagers dare not cut corners when doing their work.
In the blink of an eye, it was already early November, and the Nanjiagou refugee team had been settled in Qin Province for more than a month.
Over the past month, most families have dug at least one cave, and built mud walls at least two meters high around the cave.
Needless to say, Hou Xiaoge's family had also leveled the several acres of sloping land above the cave and the three acres of land in the stinky ditch.
Because the soil was all good from the caves, it felt a waste to plant only twenty or so jujube trees. So Hou Xiaoge germinated several kilograms of wheat seeds in the cave in advance and planted them as soon as they sprouted.
In fact, according to the climate in Qin Province, wheat can be planted in late October, but it is almost ten days late. If Hou Xiaoge plants it directly, he is worried that the wheat seedlings will not be able to withstand the frost.
So we used warm water to germinate the wheat seedlings directly in the cave. After germination, the wheat seedlings grew very fast and had grown to seven or eight centimeters in four days.
Before an autumn rain, Hou Xiaoge and his family planted wheat seedlings while the villagers watched them.
Hou Xiaoge spent a fortune in advance to purchase three carts of cooked pig manure, so the soil is still rich in nutrients.
The wheat seedlings grew very fast in the soil. On the fourth day after being planted, they caught up with the wheat seedlings planted normally in the nearby fields. This amazed the people watching nearby.
As for why Hou Xiaoge's family believed in Hou Xiaoge, it was naturally because Hou Xiaoge ripened a batch of cabbage seeds and planted them in his own yard in early October.
It is now early November. After nearly a month of growth, the cabbages in the yard have grown to 20 to 30 centimeters tall.
By the end of the year, a yard of about one mu of land can yield several hundred kilograms of cabbage, so the family doesn't have to buy vegetables until next spring.
So when Hou Xiaoge suggested accelerating wheat planting, no one in the family objected, but instead actively cooperated.
"Now the farm work is basically finished, there are few odd jobs, and everyone's cave dwellings have been dug. The village will start preparing to organize everyone, young and old, to build the village wall tomorrow.
I am the clan leader. I will be in the village in the next few days. You are welcome to set up a stall! I have been learning for almost a month. There should be no problem with the scale, right? "In the evening, uncle Hou Yangmin called everyone together for a family meeting.
"Dad, I'm fine. I've become very good at recognizing the scale recently." The eldest cousin Hou Huanying was also very happy to hear that he could take charge of things on his own.
“Well! When weighing, it’s better to have a heavier weight than to give the customer less. The most important person in this braised meat stall is the person who weighs it, so you have to be careful.” Hou Yangmin patted his eldest son and reminded him.
"Uncle, have you discussed this with the villagers? How much money should be given if they don't go?" The family has a business, and Hou Xiaoge had already told Hou Yangmin that if the family members couldn't go, they would use money and grain to replace them.
"If you don't go, adults pay 10 cents a day to the village, children over eight and a half years old pay three cents, and children under eight years old don't pay." Hou Yangmin nodded.