Actually, it's not too much. d-m

In the Ming Dynasty, most of the landlords and gentry still paid attention to treating tenants well and being good in the township. Most of them are scholars, and they are the most important names, especially the names after their deaths, and no one wants to die to make people curse for a hundred years. In particular, some small and medium-sized landlords themselves have to go down to the land to participate in the work, and they are even more deliberately wooing some tenants who have good crops.

But this law doesn't work here in the Su family.

Because almost all the people here are tenants of the Su family, and almost all the land here is the real estate of the Su family. The Su family didn't have to treat them well at all, because they couldn't leave the Su family at all, they could only rent the Su family's land, and there was no other choice. And once they annoy the Su family and don't rent the land to them, there is only one way to die waiting for them - either starve to death, or become a homeless, and if they become homeless, eighty percent will also starve to death, and maybe if they die, they will let people divide their bodies and eat them.

Because of this, even though the Su family was vicious and mean, they also admitted it, and they didn't dare to have any disobedience and resistance

Although the people get up early and go to bed early, it is a busy time for farming, and they have to work in the fields while the sun has not yet risen in the morning. At this time, there is nothing to do when you get up, and your physical strength is wasted, so it is better to lie on the kang, so that you can eat less food if you are not so hungry so quickly.

Zhao Dahan's family in the east of the village is like this.

In the future, even if the world is not so picky, Zhao Dahan's family really can't be called home. A circle of what resembled a fence was inserted into the ground with dry branches, which was considered a courtyard wall, and a small piece of land was enclosed. In the middle of the land is a small thatched hut - or more accurately a shack.

There is only one room, that is, three or four meters square, the small one is pitiful, and the short one is pitiful, at most one person is high, it can be imagined that no matter what you do in it, you have to bend over. As long as it is a person of normal height, as long as you look up, you are afraid that you will hit your head. The roof is covered with a mess of thatch, and the walls are made of mud mixed with branches and thatch, and there is not even a single adobe.

In contrast, the simple and crude thatched huts outside the Rock Fort are simply luxurious like palaces.

A small doorway opened to the south, and the broken wooden door was closed, but there were two cracks in it, and the wind occasionally penetrated it. The walls of the openings on both sides of the door are covered with traces of smoke and fire.

The house was also low and cramped, and there was a stove in the southeast corner, so that the whole junction of the two walls was blackened - if these two shitty walls could be called walls. Not to mention, the walls here have a deep black color, which gives people a rather solid and sturdy feeling.

In the corner about a foot wide between the stove and the south wall, there was some firewood, branches and grass. Generally speaking, if it is an old house, sometimes there will be a big snake entrenched in it - this is not a very rare situation, even in the Chinese countryside in the next three or four hundred years - this snake is a good thing, it can be called a house snake, it does not hurt people, it does not steal from the house, it only catches house mice for food. Usually you don't come out, but if you look carefully, you can find a snake hole in the corner.

However, the situation in Zhao Dahan's house, I am afraid that the domestic snakes will not be able to raise them - although the domestic snakes do not eat food, but they want to eat mice, Zhao Dahan's family has a little bit of food, and it is solemnly placed in a jar and strictly guarded, and the mice can't eat at all, either they go out with two bags of tears, or they have already starved to death.

On the other side of the wall were a few hoes, rakes and the like, and the wooden handles of the hoes were already somewhat rotten. On the edge of the east wall, next to the stove, there is a water urn, and on the side of the water urn is a basket, which is covered with a small clay pot. The clay pot was filled with grain, which was done to keep rats out.

In addition to these, there is nothing else, it is really the best portrayal of the four words of the four walls of the family.

The floor in the room was damp, probably because the windows were not opened, and it was unusually dim inside, with only a few rays of light shining through the cracks in the door panels. There was a foul smell in the house, and the composition of this smell was very complex, with the smoky old smell of the old house, the smell of dampness, and a lot of urine and feces stench. The source of the latter may have been a toilet bowl placed next to the door.

Occupying nearly half of the room is a large earthen kang with the north wall and the east and west walls at the two ends. The kang is very large, but most of the land above is bare, and only one piece of felt occupies a small area on it - Zhao Dahan's family of four is crammed into this small felt, and they cover a quilt together.

I don't know how many years this quilt has been covered, and I can't see the original color, but now it's a deep black anyway, and it's covered with old patches. The quilt is not damp, I think it is the reason why it has been dried, but the edges are hard, and I can't feel the softness of the quilt at all - if Zhao Dahan has read Du Fu's poems, he will definitely agree with one of the sentences - the cloth has been cold as iron for many years!

Not only is it hard, but it also smells of mold and rancidity.

The quilt can only show that it has not been washed for a long time, and its owner cannot be blamed, but it is really because it is so old that as long as you dare to disassemble and wash the pulp, as long as these cloths are wet, they will definitely become wisps of rotten cloth - as for the back of the new one - where will the money come from? As for the rotten cotton inside, I'm afraid it will rot a long time ago.

Zhao Dahan's family just lay quietly side by side, and no one spoke.

They didn't actually fall asleep - they fell asleep yesterday before it was dark, because if they stayed up late, they were afraid that they would go to bed late and go hungry, and because there was no lamp oil at home. In these days, staying up late is a money-burning job. It's no wonder that they slept so early, and now they can still fall asleep, they have already woken up, but everyone gets up, and no one moves.

It's like you're dead.

Of course they didn't die.

It's just because, if you don't speak or move, you will consume the least physical strength. Simple peasants may not be able to say such things, but they understand the same truth. If you don't move, you're not hungry so fast.

Zhao Dahan is in his early Chinese New Year's Eve this year, his mother-in-law is three years younger than him, Zhao Dahan is not very good, that is, he is quite simple and honest, but his mother-in-law is quite beautiful and beautiful, in this ancestral village of Zhuang, it can be regarded as a beauty. It's just that Zhao Dahan is resentful of his wife - what's the use of being good? The stomach is not angry!

The two have been married for more than ten years, and Zhao Dahan's mother-in-law gave birth to two children.

It's all girls.

gave birth to two daughters in a row, not to mention in this era, it is some of the more conservative areas in later generations, and rumors are easy to spread. Every time Zhao Dahan's mother-in-law goes out, she can always hear the sound of pointing behind her back, and even with Zhao Dahan, she feels that she can't raise her head in front of others.

For this matter, his mother-in-law and two children were beaten a lot.

Zhao Dahan lay upright, squinting his eyes and not knowing what to think, in fact, he was thinking, is it better to have another baby, maybe this time he can give birth to a boy with a handle? Although it is no longer possible to support these four mouths in the family now, if he really gives birth to a son, he plans to sell one of his two daughters and return for some silver. In this way, my son will be able to eat better, and he will not be able to eat a meal of white noodles every few months.

Thinking of selling his daughter, he unconsciously tilted his head and looked at the right side.

He is on the far left of the four, on the right is his mother-in-law, on the right is the eldest daughter, and on the far right is the second daughter.

The eldest girl is thirteen years old this year, and at this time, it is time to make a promise at this age. And the second daughter is also eight years old. At this age, if you put it in a large family, you will naturally have your own boudoir, and the person who serves will live alone. Especially the eldest daughter, who is so old, but she is still huddled in a bed with her parents, it is really inappropriate to say it.

But what's the solution?

There is only such a kang at home, a quilt, and a felt, is it possible that it is frozen?

This man is so poor that he can't help it, so he doesn't pay attention to anything.

Zhao Dahan glanced over there and felt his movements, his mother-in-law also turned her head, Zhao Dahan glared at her in disgust, and his mother-in-law quickly lowered her head timidly. Although the two girls are unkempt, their faces are dirty, their hair hasn't been washed for a long time, they are messy like hay, and they are thin because they can't eat enough, but if you look carefully, you will find that these two girls are really beautiful.

Xu inherited their mother's advantages, and now they are all little beauties. Zhao Dahan glanced at it and nodded secretly, and said in his heart that this big girl would be cleaner when the time comes, maybe she could sell it for a few more dollars. After struggling for more than an hour, Zhao Dahan really couldn't bear it, his stomach was full of pantothenic acid, and the feeling of burning fire gnawed at his body and mind like ants, this kind of hunger, although it was far from reaching the extreme, had already caused his huge fear. About two years ago, his family ran out of food, and he was hungry for three whole months, and he could only eat a small handful of bran every day, and the feeling of hunger almost made him hate to chop off his hands and feet and eat them raw.

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