He smiled and glanced at everyone: "We have to get this!" ”

Everyone was extremely excited when they heard the benefits, and they all said: "It can only be us!" ”

Everyone dispersed, and Qian Yichuan also walked towards his house-

His house was the second in the area from west to east, with a low courtyard wall about three feet high, built with adobe, covered with thatch, and the cracks in the adobe were smoothed with mud. A thick wooden stick is used as a support at intervals to make it strong. In the center of the courtyard wall, directly south, there was a door, if that was the gate: two pieces of wood, six feet long, the thickness of the calf, and not very straight, smashed into the ground, divided on the left and right. There is a branch on it, which is considered a beam. The so-called door panel is not standing at the door to see the situation inside.

Such a yard, such a door, there is no defense and protection at all, if you really want to be a thief, I am afraid that everything in the house will be stolen. But you really don't have to worry about it, under the rule of Rock Fort, the law is strict, and no one dares to steal at all. Of course, even if you want to steal, there's really nothing to steal. Every family is generally poor, and it is most appropriate to be poor. Even the grain is eaten as soon as it is distributed, and there is very little left.

He entered the courtyard, looked around, there was silence, and he knew that his Hun family had not returned.

Then he habitually walked to the right.

There was a bullpen, and it seemed to be better than a house where people lived. Wooden balustrades, with hay on the ground, roofed with wood and covered with thatch. The big bull seemed to know that his master was back, and he screamed twice with big eyes. Qian Yichuan walked quickly, although the cow could directly eat the grass in the trough and on the ground, he still picked up a handful of grass and handed it to the cow.

The big cow lowered his head and ate while rubbing his head against him.

This cow is perhaps their most precious possession. In addition, it is a flat pole, two hoes, a pair of plowshares, and a pair of ploughshares. A pair of yokes and two mats. It's all hair-on.

After feeding the cow, Qian Yichuan lifted the waist of the cotton pants up, squatted down on the threshold, habitually stretched his right hand forward, lowered his head and mouth to move forward. But he suddenly realized that he no longer had the old dry tobacco pouch in his hand, and he couldn't help sighing, and a trace of loss flashed on his wooden face with deep wrinkles on his forehead.

Qian Yichuan is good at smoking dry tobacco, which is a habit developed when he was a child. When he was young, his family was still wealthy, his family was in Yulin Mansion, and his family had more than 20 acres of land, half of which was watered by the river. This is rare in northern Shaanxi, which has always been arid, and every time the father of Qian Yichuan sighed, he said that this is the yin virtue accumulated by the ancestors! Twenty acres of good land is not considered to be rich and expensive, and the family has not been able to hire tenants, but the family of Jishan is still worthy of it. As the so-called family of goodness must have Yu Qing, it has been settled down for hundreds of years, and the family has some small assets.

When he was seven years old, his family renovated the adobe house into a large tiled house, with blue bricks and tiles inside and out, and it looked bright and magnificent. It is also comfortable to live in, and Qian Yichuan himself can feel that since the renovation, there are many fewer fleas in the house. It is worth mentioning that their family is the second family in the village to live in a tiled house, the first is Zhou Yuanwai in the east of the village, and the family has a small 200 acres of land and three or five tenant farmers. Don't dare to compare, don't dare to compare.

Qian Yichuan's father loves to smoke, and if he has nothing to do, he squats on the threshold of the door of his house, smokes and smokes, and greets the neighbors who come and go. Since I built a tiled house at home, I prefer to squat at the door.

Qian Yichuan learned to smoke dry tobacco with his father at the age of eight, and has never taken it down since.

When he was sixteen years old, his father and mother told him that his daughter-in-law was a girl from Zheng Zhuang'er, fifteen miles away from their village. He had never seen the girl before, but when the old lady saw her, she came back and said yes, saying that the girl's eyes were big, dark and bright, and she was in good spirits when she looked at her. The butt is also big, and it is easy to give birth at a glance, and maybe you can add a piece to the family in a year. Although she is not rude, she is clever and diligent, and she is a woman who can work.

Isn't it those talented men in the city, isn't this what is the way to marry a daughter-in-law?

Qian Yichuan didn't have any ideas, his mother said yes, and he thought it was good.

On the morning of the wedding day, Qian Yichuan's father passed on his old smoking gun that he had not left for 20 years to his son.

This old smoking gun is Qian Yichuan's father's favorite object, and he went to the city 20 years ago and bought it for a large price of five taels of silver -- you know, their family spent only 20 taels of silver to renovate the tiled house. At that time, Qian Yichuan's father didn't have any money, and he knew that this thing was ridiculously expensive, but when he saw it, he couldn't move anymore. gritted his teeth and bought it, and was nagged by Qian Yichuan's wife for three years.

The two-and-a-half-foot-long sour branch wood tobacco stick, the fist-sized, heavy copper smoke pot, is said to be a cigarette holder made of Hetian nephrite, and a tobacco pouch and cigarette pouch made of indigo satin. Five taels of silver, the value of the flower. Qian Yichuan and his father both think so.

Cigarette pouches are inseparable from cigarette pouches, and old men can't do without old ladies!

Since then, this smoking gun has become Qian Yichuan's favorite, and he can't do without it.

The days after marriage are very happy, although they are not vigorous, but for ordinary people like them, peace and security is the greatest blessing. Sure enough, as the old lady said, the daughter-in-law Zheng is very capable of giving birth, and after only one year of marriage, she gave birth to a big fat boy for him, and after another two years, she added a daughter.

The two old people were happy, sitting under the eaves with their grandchildren in their arms all day long, basking in the sun, squinting and just laughing.

Small days and harmony.

He is in his Chinese New Year's Eve this year, and the best memory in this life is to stay in that time period, when it was still Wanli year.

Later, as he got older, his days became more and more sad, and in this world, Qian Yichuan became more and more incomprehensible.

After years of severe drought, there was no harvest in the fields, and even food could not be eaten. But the taxes collected are getting heavier and heavier, and the poor masters of the government are becoming more and more like wolves and tigers, and the people who can't pay the taxes are all given to the government to play boards, put on the flail, and throw back the half-dead who are tossed, and they have to think about how to pay the taxes.

Qian Yichuan is an honest man, he never dared to owe government taxes, and his original family was also well-off, so there was no need for this, but his life became more and more difficult.

In order to pay taxes, the family's house was sold and supported for two years. Later, he sold the land with water dripping with blood in his heart, but what he didn't expect was that there was less land, but the tax paid was not less. Dad was angry, so he went to the county yahu room to find someone to theorize, but he was beaten to death, and when he was older, he was beaten to death! After hearing the bad news, the family was stupid and took his father's body back for burial, but within a month, the old lady also went. buried the second elder, supported it for another three years, and the days could no longer last.

There was a drought for thousands of miles, there was no drizzle, there was no output in the field, and officials were rampant everywhere.

Other families have begun to sell their sons and daughters and wives, and in those days, Zheng's eyes were full of fear and reluctance when he looked at Qian Yichuan every day.

But what is unexpected is that Qian Yichuan, who has always been silent and doesn't seem to be able to kick a fart with three feet, actually made a bold decision - don't want the land, run away!

The husband and wife left their vain home with their five children and their parents, begging and going into exile.

Qian Yichuan's father said that Chuan Tong Chuan, Qian Yichuan, in fact, is Qian Yichuan, and this name is so that the child can make a fortune in the future. Qian Yichuan never thought that he would fall to this point.

Two years later, they arrived at Fort Rock.

Thinking of this, the corners of Qian Yichuan's mouth couldn't help twitching, and Mu Ne's face was distorted, as if he had thought of the most terrifying and terrifying thing.

There were only two of them.

All five children died. But none of them were eaten by Qian Yichuan, and he didn't exchange them for children with other people's families.

Even if his hungry stomach twitched and he was about to die of pain, he never beat the child's idea.

Although he even looks a little stupid, he has his own bottom line: this is my child. Despite this insistence, it seems so small and ridiculous.

It's over, it's all over.

Qian Yichuan sighed softly.

He looked back at his room.

These are two adobe houses, very simple, but the walls are thick enough and strong enough, plus the thick quilt and the residual heat of the ondol, can more or less withstand the cold wind of winter.

There is no doubt that the people under the rule of the Rock Fort are very poor, they have no savings, the houses are dilapidated and low, and they cannot be sheltered when it rains, and it rains heavily outside and light rain inside.

But they did not have the slightest worry or fear, on the contrary, although they were very tired after a tiring day, but everyone's face was full of tiredness, and the eyes were full of hope and expectation.

It was a beautiful vision for the future.

They don't have to worry about the government coming to urge them to collect taxes that can never be paid, they don't have to worry about being taken to the front of the yamen and put in a big flail for fear of being taken to the front of the yamen, and they don't have to sell their children or even sell a few acres of thin land handed down from their ancestors to pay taxes.

Those hellish days of suffering are over! Although it is simple here, it is frank and comfortable! If you want to be poor, wasn't it poorer before than now? And everything needs to be compared, here, it is much better than the life of the displaced people in the past few months or even years. Although tired, as long as you are willing to exert your strength, you will have food to eat - full of food! Besides, didn't the chief of the first chief and the old men who are in charge of things all say that they are doing this now for the sake of planning for the future. The city wall is repaired and built strong, so that it can resist those damned Jiannu and the rebels. After the barracks are repaired, the eldest master can train the soldiers and protect everyone's land and property.

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