A few days later.

There were so many people in the village community at once, which made everyone in the village community quite uneasy at first.

Hundreds of years of identical village communities have never been so lively, and the people of the village community have no idea what these people are coming to do.

They are different from those in the city, the people in the city can at least hear some news, and the news that the village community here can hear is from the Tian Zheng and tax collectors sent by the feudal lord.

It is a centuries-old tradition to take care of business before managing private affairs when planting in spring and harvesting in autumn and when farming is busy, this tradition has become a matter of course.

It's like the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and I never thought about what it would be like if the sun rose in the west and set in the east.

Liang's father can be regarded as a long-term war, the Qilu War, the Xiangziniu Rebellion, the people have not seen the army, but every time it is just a reincarnation.

The only thing that has changed may only be the descendants of whose family the owner of the fief is, and what remains unchanged is the same life.

But this time, the arrival of the Mo family made the people feel a little different in just three days.

In three days, not much can be done, but some insignificant little things can still be done, and the most important thing is that these insignificant little things are already upside down in the eyes of the people, and no army has ever done this.

At this time, it was summer, and it was inevitable that it would rain, so after the company of the righteous master arrived, they took advantage of the sunny weather to repair the houses of several families in the village community.

The houses in the village are all thatched and platen, and they are very simple, but if the thatching is not in order, if it rains, the water soaked in the yellow-brown sap of the thatch will fall into the house.

To repair a house, you need to cut the grass to dry, wait until it is dry, and then lay it on the roof to form a smooth stubble so that the rain can run down.

Grass is not easy to dry, but it is still possible to mix mud.

The soldiers and soldiers are all from the peasants, and the military camp of the righteous teachers is not just a military camp but a school of the entire Sishang atmosphere, and the soldiers have learned a lot of messy skills in the military camp, and it is simple to reconcile the mud.

It was such a trivial matter that made the work of the Mo family who arrived here less than a few days easier to carry out.

At least, the people feel that this is a group of good people, and this group of good people will never harm themselves.

On that night, as soon as the sun had set, a bonfire was lit in the village community, and a group of people sat around.

Shu Guitian and a few classmates found a clay pot filled with water and boiled it around the campfire.

Taking off their shirts, several young people took advantage of the heat of the boiling water to put their shirts up, and under the heat fumigation, the lice hidden in the clothes crawled densely to the neckline.

The less skillful fingers squeezed it up and made a gurgling sound, and some particularly loud sounds were particularly loud.

If this is at home, there will definitely not be so many lice, and even if there were, most of them would have been scalded to death by hot water during laundry, and it would not be the turn of these young people to do it themselves.

In recent years, there have been more and more habits spread from the Mo family and righteous teachers to Sishang, washing clothes and bathing with soap is one of them, and very cheap toothbrushes made of lime powder and soap powder and pig bristles have gradually become popular in Sishang.

At this point, the young people were a little overwhelmed, but the older inkers knew what to do with these annoying parasites, so they squeezed the annoying lice with their somewhat unskilled hands.

When they came to the village, they stayed in the homes of the common people of the village.

The family where Shu Guitian and others lived, a family of seven, an old father, a husband and wife, five children, and the eldest one is still out with the army.

The father had about nine children, several of whom died at a young age, and only five survived.

Because a woman has too many children, she is sick and can't do any work.

The eldest son grew up easily, and caught up with this campaign and went out with the army.

There is a large place in the house, and Shu Guitian and the others live in some grass piles, which are naturally inferior to the wooden beds at home, but if you don't consider the parasites that bite people who can't sleep at night, it's actually okay.

There is only one thing, which is really difficult for these young people to get used to.

The people here only eat two meals a day, one meal in the middle of the corner and one meal in the evening, and the people of the Mo family also eat according to the habits of the village community in order to communicate with the people.

There is also a hierarchy of eating, of course, mainly because of the underdevelopment of productive forces. More than 100 years later, it is still four meals for the Son of Heaven, three meals for the princes, and two meals for the common people, to show the difference between nobility and rank.

In fact, 20 years ago, Sishang also had two meals a day, but as the Mo family took root in Sishang, almost half of the people in the Sishang family had the experience of serving in the volunteer division, and some habits in the army, such as three meals a day, were also brought back to Sishang.

After eating three meals a day for several years, the two meals a day are really unbearable, and a few people are hungry at night.

Hunger is a wonderful feeling, the more you think about it, the more hungry you become, and when you are very hungry, but you can't feel it, then you can fall asleep.

The feudal lord of the village is an old gentleman, abiding by everything in the past, muskets and glassware have already begun to circulate in the Qilu aristocratic circle, and the old nobles still don't use it, not to mention those crops such as ink jade and ghost fingers with deep Mojia symbols.

Villages and communities are not as closed as cities, and if many people are not drafted with the army, they may see the scenery above their heads for the rest of their lives.

The seclusion here is especially acute because of the conservatism of the lord.

The few meals that Shu Guitian ate here were really hard to swallow. Cooked wheat grains are not boiled with peeled, milled, slippery wild vegetables...... It's not that there is no such meal at home, but at least even if you boil carrots, you will always have two drops of oil in them and still have some taste.

I always feel that I can't eat enough food here, as if it is difficult for my stomach to retain these foods without any fat.

Sun Pu's original intention was not to make them remember the bitterness and sweetness, but the reality is that after only a few meals, some people have already thought about the sweetness at home, and they have a more dim understanding of the original slogan-style "benefit the world".

The bonfire was stirred, and Shu Guitian bit a rather large lice to death with his teeth, and muttered, "Wake up early tomorrow and go to the river to bathe." ”

There are still things to do during the day, I can't get out of my body, I have to measure those lands, I am busy and dizzy, and what I have learned in textbooks really has to be put into practice, and it is really not something that can be mastered in a day or two.

They have soap on them, but they can only wash their faces these days, and the school in Sishang is a bath every ten days, but now there are no such conditions here, and the time is tight, so they really can't spare time.

After a few mutters, a child dressed in a simple shirt that was obviously a modified old volunteer military uniform held a snake in his hand, ran to Shu Guitian and the others, and said, "Roast, it's delicious." ”

Liang's father's dialect is somewhat similar to Sishang, although it is different, but it is not incomprehensible, this child looks at the snake greedily, but does not forget to give some to the people who live in their house, which can be regarded as the best reward that a child can think of.

When Shu Guitian first came to live and eat at this house, the three children had no clothes, and they were too young to wear clothes, as is the case with most children in the village. If it's winter, the cat spends the winter in the haystack, and when it's older enough to put on an old linen shirt.

The righteous master couldn't stand it either, so he got a batch of spare military uniforms in his backpack and bags, and distributed them to people in the village who couldn't even wear clothes.

The children were overjoyed, and the adults in the family also became more close to the Mo family.

At this time, although there is a lot of land and hemp plants are everywhere, they have to pay cloth taxes every year, and they need to do some farm work, and they may not be able to prepare enough clothes for their families in the end. Originally, until Mencius traveled decades later, Qilu's cloth endowment still existed, especially at this time.

In "July", it is sung: No clothes and no brown, why do you die. It's not a disease-free moan.

The child used a snake to return for that outfit, and the smell of snake meat from the barbecue was pervasive, and Shu Guitian felt that the snake meat would be so fragrant for the first time.

Based on this time, a small piece of roasted snake meat should be regarded as the thing that Shu Guitian wants the most.

On the other side of the bonfire, the people of the village community repaid the Mo family here with an open heart, and for Sun Pu, the open heart of the people was also what he wanted most.

"yes, it's hard. Where can it not be bitter? ”

"When I go to the field in February, I have to do the work of the public field first. You have to be in a hurry to plant crops, but when you are busiest, you have to finish the work of the public land before you can be busy with yourself. ”

"In the summer, we should first weed the master's field, and five days a month should be devoted to the master's house."

"In autumn, you must first harvest the master's field before you can harvest your own. After paying the taxes, he had to hurry to repair the house for his master, and cut the grass to prepare food for the master's horses in winter. ”

"In winter, we have to practice martial arts, and when it freezes, we have to dig a yin cellar and hide ice for our masters. It is necessary to chop firewood, hunt, and every year the village community has to pay tribute to some wild things, and if it is less, it will be punished, and the wild things are used by the master to sacrifice and meet guests, and they cannot be missing. ”

The father of the child who caught the snake before, with a bitter face, reflected red under the bonfire, finally had some color other than black and gray, and told Sun Pu full of dissatisfaction and pain.

As sung in "July", the life of the feudal peasants is like this, the nobles exploit the feudal obligations, the peasants have their own means of production, but need to fulfill the obligations for the feudal lord before they can do their own business.

Not slaves, not sharecroppers, but more like serfs in between. If you can't stand it, you can naturally escape, but the cost of fleeing is too great, so there is the "harsh government and fierce tiger" that Confucius lamented in the sun of Mount Tai.