Chapter 413: ginseng
Chapter 413 Ginseng
At this time, many people were at Zhou Lizheng's home.
Zhou Li was in the yard, looking at the villagers and said: "You come to me, I can't help it. I have three sons in my family, all of whom meet the conditions. To be honest, I am also worried. My son will go to two soon. , I am also reluctant. I can’t afford a thousand taels of silver, you see, my hair is even more gray.”
A person in a family with five sons over the age of 15 asked: "If we separate now and I have five sons, it will be five families. In this way, each of them will have only one son over the age of 15." People, is this method feasible?"
Zhou Lizheng sighed and said, "I've thought about this a long time ago. Before Mr. Yin left, I asked him quietly, and he said no. From today onwards, the government will temporarily not accept documents for family separation. The specific acceptance time depends on the situation of the battle." Depends."
Most of the people's faces turned pale in an instant.
A woman pointed at an old lady and scolded: "It's something bad about you, old woman. I asked for a separation at the beginning, but you said that you were afraid that we would not take care of you if we separated, and would not give you the money. No difference."
"Originally, if we separated, none of your sons would be confiscated. Now it's all right, and you will have three sons. Your eldest and second are still in the Yongwang's fief and don't know whether they are alive or dead. Now the third to the eldest Seven is going to go to three, let me see what you do! If something happens to them, your grandchildren will hate you to death!"
The old lady cried and said, "How did I know about the conscription? If I knew, I would definitely let you separate your families. I didn't mean it."
"You did it on purpose. If your son doesn't come back, I'll watch you cry!"
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For a while, many old ladies and fathers in the village who insisted on not separating their families were complained by their sons and daughters-in-law.
After the villagers left, Zhou Li saw the three sons looking like they were in trouble, and sighed, "Old woman, go find all the money in the family."
Zhao said: "Okay."
Soon, Mrs. Zhao took out all the family money.
Zhou Lizheng counted it several times. The money earned in Yongwang's fief, plus the children's money earned in Liuye Village, and the bonus given by Nangong Anshan a few days ago, add up to only one hundred and fifty taels of silver. .
Zhao cried and said: "Father, this is far from enough. We have three children in our family, two of which must go. The total cost is 1,000 taels, and there is still a shortfall of 850 taels. With so much money, we have to go. Where can I find it?"
Zhou Zhenyang saw his parents were in trouble, so he took the initiative to stand up and said: "Father, Auntie, why don't you let me go, you can borrow some more money, and then keep the second brother. He is still young, he should stay by your side and fulfill his filial piety."
Zhou Zhenyun said: "Brother, why do you say that, you are the eldest son, you should stay at home, I will go."
Zhou Zhenyu said: "Big Brother, Second Brother, I can also go. I have also practiced martial arts before, and I am younger than you. Maybe I can survive, and our family can be reunited by then."
Seeing that their sons are so sensible, Zhou Lizheng and Zhao Shi's eyes were moist at the same time.
After thinking for a moment, Zhou Lizheng sighed and said, "Why don't we draw lots, it's more fair."
Just before Zhou Zhenyang and the others could speak, there was a sudden knock on the door.
Zhou Zhenyu hurried to open the door.
As soon as he opened the door, Han Dayu appeared at the door.
Han Dayu said: "Uncle Zhou Zhou, can I go in? I have something to talk to Grandpa Li Zheng."
Zhou Zhenyu nodded and let him in.
When he came to the main room, Zhou Lizheng saw that it was Han Dayu, and asked, "Dayu, what is the purpose of your visit?"
None of the children in Han Dayu's family are fifteen years old, so they probably didn't come here for conscription.
Han Dayu said: "It was Xiao Dong who asked me to come. She said that if she came, she would definitely make others dissatisfied, so she asked me to come."
Zhou Lizheng said: "Ashan asked you to come? Is there anything wrong with her?"
Han Dayu said: "Xiaodong's family said that if you don't want your family members to join the army, you can listen to her. Before going to work in the future, ask Uncle Zhou to go to the place where you often chop firewood. There can help you solve the problem of joining the army. .”
Zhou Lizheng wanted to ask a few more questions, but Han Dayu turned around and left.
Zhou Zhenyang said: "Father, what does Ah Shan mean? Could it be that you want to give us money?"
Zhou Lizheng said: "Probably not, if you want to give us money, Han Dayu can give it to us just now."
Zhao said: "Then what does Ah Shan mean?"
Zhou Lizheng said: "I can't guess. Although Ah Shan is small, she has many ideas. Anyway, there is only one day, and I will know the day after tomorrow."
"All right."
And the time soon came for Zhou Zhenyang to go up the mountain.
He would go up the mountain to cut firewood every few days.
So some people saw him walking up the mountain, and they didn't doubt it, and greeted him as usual.
Zhou Zhenyang soon arrived at his usual position of chopping firewood.
Seeing that there was no one around, and he didn't know what Nangong Anshan meant by calling him here, he had to cut the firewood first.
Just then, a white tiger suddenly appeared in front of him.
Zhou Zhenyang was startled, but he calmed down quickly, and asked tentatively, "Zitian, is that you?"
Zitian nodded, stepped on the spot where it was standing, and then ran away.
Zhou Zhenyang breathed a sigh of relief, he just tried to ask a question, but he didn't expect it to be Zitian.
Thinking of what Zitian did just now, he hurried over and started digging the soil with his hands.
After a long while, Zhou Zhenyang looked at the ginseng in front of him and became excited.
It turned out to be ginseng, and the little owner brought him here just to tell him that there is ginseng here?
Definitely is.
Great, if this ginseng plant is more than a hundred years old, then their family can keep a person from being confiscated even if they don't borrow money.
Zhou Zhenyang was so excited that his hands were shaking when digging up ginseng.
He didn't dare to hurt the ginseng whiskers, so he dug up the soil together.
He also forgot about chopping firewood, wrapped the ginseng in clothes, picked up the **** and ran towards home.
Nan Gonghong saw Zhou Zhenyang running towards him in a hurry, and frowned, "Why are you running? You're not chopping firewood?"
Zhou Zhenyang ignored him, ignored him and continued running.
Nan Gonghong snorted, "What's the big deal, you have two people from your family to join the army, maybe you will come back alive, I will watch your family members cry!"
When Zhou Zhenyang ran home, none of the family members had gone to work, and they were all waiting for him to come back to go together.
Seeing that he came back so early and hadn't cut firewood yet, Zhou Li was asking in doubt, "Boss, why are you back? Where's the firewood?"
Zhou Zhenyang didn't speak, but quickly closed the courtyard door and ran to the main room, "Follow me."
(end of this chapter)