The Peasant Girl’s Splendid Manor

The Chinese New Year has just passed, the temperature has not yet risen, and there is not much work in the fields. Even if it is done later, there is still time. Therefore, when the news spread that the Mo family hired people to reclaim the mountainous areas, and the young and strong laborers were paid thirty cash per day, the women were paid twenty cash per day, and even half-year-old children were paid ten cash, the adults and children in the village couldn't wait to I came to the houses of several village chiefs and rushed to open up wasteland in Liuyang Village.

Some families have a large population and many people who can work, so it is not a problem to find three or five people to open up wasteland. Therefore, the number of men, women, and half-grown children in several villages who are free to open up wasteland totals 1,200 people.

Although several village chiefs hope that everyone in their village can be elected, which can increase their income a lot, the barren hills do not belong to their family, and they do not pay the wages. It is impossible for everyone to agree with the Mo family's request, so , after several village chiefs listed the names of those who signed up, they handed the list to Mo Yan.

Mo Yan really doesn't need so many people to open up wasteland, but except for the people in Liuyang Village, she doesn't know the villagers in other villages, so she doesn't know who is capable and who likes to cheat. In the end, she simply let all these 1,200 people come to open up wasteland.

On the 20th day of the first lunar month, the villagers took off their thick cotton-padded clothes, stepped on the worn-out shoes from when they went to the fields, and took sickles and hoes to the more than 20 barren hills of the Mo family. They threw off their arms and started to open up wasteland in full swing.

The barren mountains are full of withered yellow weeds and unproductive shrubs. It is very convenient to burn them with fire. However, this not only pollutes the air, but also makes it difficult to control the fire due to the strong wind on the mountain. Otherwise, it will burn deep into the mountains. , fire must not be set off.

Therefore, manpower is needed to use sickles and axes to remove weeds and trees, dig out the roots, and then dig tree pits. When the weather gets warmer, the fruit seedlings are planted.

The young and strong laborers were responsible for cutting down the trees and digging out the roots. The women used sickles to cut the grass and dig out the roots. The half-grown children collected the branches, weeds, etc. and piled them up in designated places. The branches and roots can be burned as firewood, while the weeds and grass roots are fertilized on the spot and used as fertilizer for fruit seedlings.

Mo Yan asked the acquaintances Lin Da and others to keep an eye on what happened on the barren mountain. Those who work honestly should stay. If anyone cheats and cheats, he should be paid and asked to leave directly. After three days, out of the 1,200 people from other villages, only less than 700 remained.

The remaining people vaguely understood something, and worked harder and harder. Only when it was time to take a break would they stop to take a drink of water.

Among those who were eliminated, there were a few scoundrels. They were not willing to be driven away, so they even banded together to make trouble at Mo's house. Mo Yan directly released the hairballs without even showing their faces, and those few people were frightened by the hairballs. He fled and never dared to come to the house again.

With the animal tags personally given by the current saint, let alone just to scare people, even if the auspicious beasts of the Mo family really bite people to death, their deaths will be in vain. If you hadn't come looking for trouble, how could the auspicious beast bite you alone?

The work is not heavy, and the wages paid by the Mo family are higher than those in the city. In addition, there are too many people, so they do not provide meals for people in other villages. However, the Mo family will give a cooked meal to the half-year-old children every day. egg.

Now, the Mojia chicken farm produces nearly two thousand eggs every day. Consuming an extra hundred eggs a day is nothing, but for farmers, eggs are precious commodities. Even if they raise chickens at home, no one would part with them. Give your child one daily.

Therefore, the Mo family's move moved the children and their families very much, and they worked harder and harder.

With more people and greater strength, it took less than a month to clean up more than 20 barren hills. The tree pits dug were of the right size and depth according to the type of fruit seedlings, which made Mo Yan very satisfied. When the wages were finally settled, each person was given an extra three days' wages.