sbdcsierra Chapter 1080: A Lifetime of Being a Village Head
Chapter 1080: A Lifetime of Being a Village Head
After practicing for a while, he washed up, changed his clothes and went outside.
It was still dark, and torches were seen flashing everywhere in the village. Everyone was busy harvesting wheat in the fields.
This scene is really heartwarming.
Their family did the same in previous years. Every harvest season, they would get up in the middle of the night, eat pancakes, and go to the fields. They would work until dawn, and when the sun came out, they would have harvested a large area of land.
At noon when the sun is at its hottest, you can have lunch and take a break, and go home only when it is completely dark in the evening.
Although it was very tiring, because there was not much land at that time and there were so many people in the family, it only took five or six days at most to finish the harvest.
A few years passed like this. Later, the family's situation gradually improved. With the introduction of Wu Jiang's group, she became busier and busier. At first, she could still rush back to harvest the two acres of rice, but later she didn't even have time to go back to harvest the rice.
Thinking back now, when I was harvesting wheat during those years, I just felt exhausted and had no leisure time at all.
As she watched these people harvesting wheat, she actually found it quite interesting.
It turns out that if it’s not your own work, you can’t understand the hardships involved.
Erpang made a pot of hot tea, but tactfully didn't add any incense. The smell of harvested wheat is always better than the smell of soil.
Zhou Guo drank tea and watched the group of people harvesting wheat. He watched the sun rise little by little and the sky become brighter little by little.
They are all strong laborers and work very quickly.
After breakfast, Quanzi walked around outside and came back and said, "Master, all the farms have started harvesting wheat."
Zhou Guo said: "You watch here, I'll go look somewhere else."
Quanzi said, "You should stay here and I will go downstairs. Anyway, I often travel around and will not stay in one manor for long."
This village is the largest in Nanhe and has the most people. It would be best if there is one person guarding it.
Zhou Guo thought about it and agreed. She had already taken a rough look at all the farms before.
She has been living in the north for so many years and has been selling fertilizer for several years. Every autumn harvest, she would go to the countryside to check on each family's harvest. She has seen the fields of many farmers in the north.
Although we don't know the exact yield yet, it seems that the yield per acre of land in several farms will not be less than four stones and eight dou, and most will exceed five stones. Fertile land may even yield five stones and four dou.
The land in Nanhe is so fertile!
She has been farming in the north for several years. She has fertile land and can produce 5.78 dou of crops, but it is only in rice, not wheat.
This piece of land in Nanhe is indeed a hot commodity, with so many people competing for it.
She got bored of staying in this farm every day, so she would go to another farm or visit the shops. In the past few months, the business of the shops has gradually improved.
Business should be better after the autumn harvest.
Every day I watched the shop's income come in, watched the grain from the farm being collected bit by bit, watched the batches of grain from the threshing floor being dried, bagged and stored in the warehouse, and saw the empty granary being filled up little by little.
She felt her heart being filled up little by little, and the satisfaction of the harvest was incomparable to anything else.
It felt like watching your house fill up with gold bit by bit.
The wheat had not yet been harvested when Lai Zi Tou and several thousand of his brothers arrived driving ox carts.
When he saw Zhou Guo, he smiled and said, "Boss, we are here. Is the food ready?"
Zhou Guo looked at the people around him and asked, "How many people did you bring out this time? Where are they?"
The bald-headed man pointed backwards and said, "They are outside the village. Didn't you say you would take half of them? A group of them went there before, and there are many veterans mixed in this time. With their guidance, these people will get the hang of it quickly."
Zhou Guo looked outside and said, "Let them come in and help collect the food for two days, and then take the dried food south. Wu Jiang and Qian Duo will come to pick you up."
The bald man nodded and said, "Okay, we are just collecting food. Once we come, the remaining food will be gone in no time. Just wait and see."
When more than 3,000 people entered the village, the other farmers working in the fields were so scared that they didn't dare to speak. If they said something wrong and offended one person, wouldn't they be beaten into meat patties by so many people?
Everyone was trembling with fear, and even the movements of harvesting wheat were much slower.
Slowly moved to an inconspicuous place on the side.
There were not so many sickles, and only a few people could find sickles to harvest wheat.
The remaining bundles of wheat were carried to the threshing floor to dry.
Everyone has life in their eyes and does whatever they see.
Those who really couldn't find work to do would follow behind with baskets to pick up wheat ears.
The bald man said to Zhou Guo, "How are they? These people are all OK, right? They are all very hardworking and can do anything. They are not picky."
Zhou Guo nodded, "Yes, he is good. He doesn't take advantage of his status to show off. He also knows how to help."
Baldhead is quite good at training these people.
He was very happy and asked Zhou Guo, "Big Boss, has the Second Boss been staying in the south? Is he staying in that farm?"
Obviously, the boss has so many good jobs, but he chose to choose a small farm and stayed there willingly. I don’t know what’s the point. If he had known earlier, he would not have gone down the mountain. Wouldn’t it be better to stay on the mountain?
Zhou Guo said, "Don't underestimate that manor. If it is well managed with a lot of money, it will become the headquarters of several cities in the south. People will go there when they come and go. He will have many places to interact with people in the future."
The South is now only in the initial stage, with a makeshift team of just a few people. Who can tell what it will be like in the future?
After hearing this, Lai Zi Tou was really happy for Qian Duo. "I said that, the second in command can't be a village head for his whole life. No matter how well he does in the village, he is at best a village head. It's better for him to be a bandit leader in the mountains."
It's a waste of talent.
Although Zhou Guo felt the same way, he still felt that he should say something more for Qian, "He likes being the head of the village. It's rare for a person to be able to do what he likes.
Just like you like being the escort leader, and now you are the chief escort leader, you are full of energy every day, and every day when you open your eyes and think about what you are going to do today, it is what you love to do the most, and even your dreams at night are happy, right?"
The bald-head nodded, "That's true. I feel so energetic every day. I wasn't afraid of death before, but now I can't bear to die. I feel like I haven't lived enough. Even if it's for the escort agency, I can't bear to die."
He really likes this job and dreams of expanding the Haoguo Escort Agency into the largest escort agency in the world.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "So, you see, our second in command is living like you now. He is happy from the moment he opens his eyes every day and is happy all day long. How many people in this world can live like this?
If he wants to do something, just let him do it. While he was the village head, he didn't forget other things. He was in charge of the affairs of several prefectures in the south, and he did a good job. Compared with our Wu Daguanshi, he is not much worse."