Chapter 569

Gu's father and three or four male villagers helped put down the prey while explaining the current situation to Gu Zheng.

Sure enough, without Gu Zheng's judgment, the corvee for the second wave of canal construction was distributed again.

This time, even the top-level armour chief and the local governor can't stand the levy. If according to the frequency of conscripts like the imperial court, nearly half of the villagers will be dragged to the forefront of dam construction this second time.

Most of the people who went up in the first wave had already died. When the tears of countless widows were about to gather into the stream, the second tragedy was sent out.

As a conscientious County Lord, he told those who were sent out to work as corvees to let some energetic people in the village go to their relatives or big door families to seek shelter.

Even if he moved into the mountain, it would be better for him to rule ten households and nine empty spaces, with sorrows everywhere.

This is a conscientious official. He knows that if the imperial court's levy is not completed, he will be punished for dereliction of duty, but the county official still did so.

Therefore, the villagers in shiliba village under his rule, who received these reminders in advance, began to move.

Those who know their relatives go, and those who know the farms under the big door families go with their property.

It's better to be their tenants and private households than to die on the dam and separate their wives and children.

At this time, how can father Gu, who occasionally goes down the mountain to buy some groceries in the town, not hear the wind?

Taking advantage of no one's attention, he turned his head and went into the house of the village head whose worried hair was going to be white.

After hearing that Gu's father didn't go far away, he built a stockade in the mountains behind their village. The old village head's heart was even alive.

He pointed out that the most difficult families in the village were not that they didn't live well enough, but that at this time, they had no contacts and relationships, and they were about to die. They didn't hesitate to let Gu dad take them away for a moment.

"Go, go, let your families go into the mountain to explore the way. Although there is not enough land for us to cultivate, there are enough products to keep us alive."

"Not only you families, but I'll follow you into the mountain when you evacuate today."

"If it's really feasible, not only you, but also more than a dozen other villagers in this village who don't want to leave their homes and live under others will eventually follow you into the mountain."

"You know, as long as the clan of our old family doesn't disperse, the village won't be scattered."

"The barren land outside can be replanted when we return. We can push the reconstruction of those houses that have not been inhabited for a long time, but only the people in the village are the most precious."

"If there are no people in the village, what is the use of the rest of the things that have been desperately protected?"

Hearing what the old village head said, Gu Zheng's father's words of comfort all the way back to his belly.

In a village, the dignity of the village head and the terrible news delegated by the imperial court, under the blessing of the two, the four or five thinnest families naturally nodded one by one.

They felt the dark, lit torches, packed up the simplest soft clothes, and went up the mountain overnight.

After that, under the cover of the village head, he packed up the rest again and again and slowly moved to the mountain.

After seeing the cottage scene like Taoyuan, the village head who followed the last side of the moving army suddenly fell in his heart.

The old village head, whose spirit was different in an instant, also brought good news to the wandering villagers in gujia village.

When I had to, I also had people in the rear.

A clan surnamed Gu will not face the crisis of dissolution.

This is why when Gu Zheng returned a few days later, there were so many fresh faces in the cottage.

When Gu Zheng looked at the strong male villagers behind Gu's father and second uncle, he was also very satisfied.

Although most of them are old and weak, as long as they have these basic labor, the life of big guys will become better and better, and they will be richer in the mountains and forests.

Thinking of Gu Zheng here, as soon as he patted his head, he quickly took out a bag of Pueraria and handed it to Gu's party, who was better at cleaning up crops. He asked, "Dad, look what I found. There's a small piece not far from the stronghold."

"Do you think you can transplant it?"

Gu's father and second uncle shivered and separated these tubers. After looking at them one by one, they nodded hard and asked, "good thing, you can't let the pigs spoil it. Where is the land? Point it out to the two Zhuang in the village, and I'll let them take a shovel and dig it out."

"Hey!"

Just when Gu Zheng was about to say something, he felt that something had pushed his feet on his ass. when he looked back, he found that a group of children in the village, led by Gu Bao, were struggling to poke and hang on Gu Zheng's waist, forming a circle of Piglet's belt.

While stabbing, I still don't forget to discuss with each other.

"Hey, is the piglet your brother brought back dead?"

"I don't know. Big black pigs as big as my big brother have been killed. These cubs must be hard to escape. If you want to know, it's not easy. Let's poke them?"

This proposal is very good.

The children of these villagers, one after another, picked up their habitual sticks, found the most instantaneous pig and stabbed it.

That Gu Bei's hand is especially tricky. He pokes at the position of the immature pig.

The little pig who ate the pain didn't know whether he was beaten too hard by Gu Zheng's stone, or whether he was dizzy and sleepy too soundly due to the bumps along the way.

Caught off guard, the drowsy state was broken by the strong efforts of the outside world, and the awakened piglets made a terrible hum.

"Haw!!"

It was such a flutter that Gu Zheng found the existence of these skin monkeys.

He stared at the tail behind him and taught him, "monkey skin again!"

"Go, my Lord is discussing things. Don't come and mess up."

With these words, Gu Zheng took out a handful of Schisandra chinensis that had not yet had time to warm up, and stuffed a large number of Schisandra chinensis into Gu Bao's arms.

He asked: "go, share with the little friends in the village, and go there by yourself."

"Later, I'll give the pigs to our aunt to make a wooden pigsty. At that time, you'll take care of them. How do you want to play at that time?"

After hearing this, I saw the delicious red fruit again. What else is there to discuss?

The group of children scattered around Gu Bao and ran away without a trace in an instant.

At this time, Gu Zheng can say a few words to the people in the village.

He directed them to dig out the gifts of nature, took his hand when building the beams of new houses in the village, squatted on the empty field between the long and simple stoves like the collective kitchen, watched the most skilled pig butcher in the village, laboriously bled the rough and fleshy wild boar, emptied the inner cavity, peeled and cramped until the last bone and meat were separated, Finally, it turned into pieces of red meat on the chopping board.

After a simple cleaning up, the two reluctant pig hind legs were carried to the back by the most skillful woman in the village.

It is smoked into bacon with ancestral skills to serve as a meat reserve for old and young men in the village.

Today, this incomparably fresh pig killing dish will be the first feast for their village to officially settle down.

Because a man who created a stronghold returns, but also because of the prey he captured.

The "crackling" burning campfire formed a huge campfire pile with more and more firewood added by the people.