Farmer's Little Girl

Chapter 81

The system searched and said, "in history, there is a provision of substituting silver for service. As long as you have money, you don't have to go."

Man Bao's eyes lit up and told her parents the good idea.

Old Zhou tou and Qian Shi didn't understand how she knew all this after a sleep.

However, old Zhou tou thought that the child had always been smart, so she thought of it herself, so he said, "there is not so much silver in the family. Can we use silver as a substitute? Even the village head's family can do it. "

Qian explained to man Bao more carefully and carefully: "it's said that the money from the first service can marry a daughter-in-law. It takes at least four or five years for a family like us to earn enough money to marry a daughter-in-law. It's still a large family that can save such money. For your grandfather's generation, marrying a daughter-in-law for your father will cost half of their life savings."

Man Bao was distracted and cheered, "Dad, it turned out that you married your mother and spent all your grandparents' money."

Man Bao hasn't seen her grandparents, but during the New Year holidays, especially during the Qingming Festival, her parents don't mention their grandparents to them. In her father's words, it's about remembering their ancestors. People can't forget their roots unless they remember their ancestors.

Koko said it was called ancestor worship.

Large families record the deeds of their ancestors in the genealogy, and future generations can pursue their ancestors as long as they read the genealogy. But most people pass down their ancestors' deeds by word of mouth.

Few people can record their deeds in the genealogy or genealogy.

When man Bao was listening, he secretly made up his mind. When she learned more words, she would write down the deeds of her parents in the genealogy, so that her parents would be the first generation ancestors of their family.

Man Bao likes listening to the stories of his ancestors best, so he looks at her parents with a small face.

Qian knew what she was thinking as soon as she looked at her bright eyes. He couldn't help nodding her nose and said with a smile, "yes, even if I spent all the money, I didn't have much. Your mother had to live a hard life as soon as I entered the door."

Lao Zhou turned around and smiled at her.

Qian was looked at by man Bao's bright eyes, which also recalled some memories and said sadly: "in fact, at the beginning, the days were OK, but I was unlucky. Just a few months after I became pregnant with your eldest brother, our family was taken out of service. First, your grandfather went to apply for service. As a result, your grandfather was ill, and your father took over. The day chosen by the county magistrate at that time was even worse, just in time for spring, When your grandfather was ill and your father was not at home, I went down with your grandmother with a big stomach and just planted all our land. "

Old Zhou tou couldn't help saying, "most of the people who served in those days had to die half their lives. The county magistrate... Alas ~"

Man Bao was curious, "Dad, what do you do in service?"

"Dig soil, build water conservancy and strengthen dams."

She was puzzled. "Is it more tired than farming?"

"How is that the same?" Old Zhou said, "work at home, take a rest when you are tired, go home when you are hungry, take a rest in the shade when the sun is big, and go to the ground when the sun is not so hot. At home, no matter how poor you are, it's good to have saliva to drink and a piece of cake to eat to serve. That's not what you want. "

Old Zhou said, "if you want to work early in the morning, you can't spare too much effort. If you work too hard, the whip of the official will come down."

"Breakfast is basically a small piece of cake. Not to mention the adults who work hard like us, even the little children like you can't eat enough. Everyone has to bring their own dry food and eat together. However, some people are poor and the dry food they bring is not thick enough. They can only save food. How many people lie on the dam because of this province."

For old Zhou tou, on the one hand, it's tiring to be dead all the time during military service, but we also have a lot of hard work. Besides, we're not tired when planting in spring and harvesting in autumn in order to grab the sky with God.

In the final analysis, we still can't rest and eat short.

When they rob the sky again, they avoid the most poisonous hour of the sun, and there is enough water, and the food at home can be eaten by the people who go down to the ground as much as possible.

Old Zhou tou finished and looked down at the girl with clean eyes. He felt that he had said something he shouldn't have said to his child.

So he patted her cerebellar bag and said, "it's an adult's business. Your child should go to school."

Man Bao was a little depressed when she went to school with a small bookcase on her back. She felt that the county magistrate was very bad. How can she work without giving people enough to eat?

In the past, her brothers built houses for the villagers, and the food was full.

Bai Shanbao was so happy that he took a rest all day yesterday. His mother made him delicious snacks. He specially left two pieces for man Bao.

He gave the dessert to man Bao and said, "your sugar is also delicious."

Then he looked at her eagerly.

Man Bao took the dessert and ate it. Because he was worried, he didn't recognize his voice and nodded perfunctorily.

Bai Shanbao was unhappy, but he couldn't ask man Bao to give him sugar, so he asked, "what do you think, isn't Hugh Mu happy?"

Man Bao sighed like a little adult: "my third brother is going to serve."

Although Bai Shanbao knows more than man Bao and reads more books than man Bao, he really doesn't know what service is.

So he asked, knowing that military service is the duty of all families, he scratched his cerebellar bag and said, "do my family also want to serve?"

Man Baoli said, "of course, how many men are there in your family?"

Bai Shanbao said, "just me."

Man Bao looked at him sympathetically, "then you're poor. You're going to serve."

Bai Shanbao is a little anxious and excited. I feel like an adult, but I feel that the unknown is frightening.

Bai Shanbao said, "I have to go back and ask my grandmother."

Man Bao said, "it's going to be a long time. Let's ask Mr. Sir knows a lot of things. "

So the two children went to ask Mr. Zhuang.

Mr. Zhuang didn't expect that the two children had paid so much attention to labor. After thinking about it, he sent the two children back to school and decided to give them an answer at noon.

The two children ran back to school.

At noon, Mr. Zhuang took the two children to the yard and opened a small stove while eating.

If we want to talk about labor, we have to talk about taxes, national construction, and the investigation of the political achievements of county magistrates

Of course, the two children are still young. Mr. Zhuang did not follow the book, but gave them an example, "the country is like a big family. You are also a member of the big family. Do you have to have someone to work to help you build the rice, water, clothes and house you are going to eat, drink, wear and live in?"

This is very simple and easy to understand. The two children nodded again and again.

Mr. Zhuang touched his beard and said with a smile, "do you want to give money to these workers?"

The two children continued to nod, which they understood.

Mr. Zhuang said, "that's it. The country is the same. If it wants people to work, it has to give money. If it wants money, it has to have money first, so we have to pay taxes; It also adjusts resources. For example, the eldest son's family suffered a disaster, but the second son's family was full of grain. As a mother, she would take some grain from the second son's family and give it to the eldest son, so that his family could get through this difficulty first... "

Mr. Zhuang briefly talked about the state's institutions. He talked about them briefly before. When he talked about the post of county magistrate, he was more detailed, so he talked about taxes and labor.

Man Bao and Bai Shanbao both listened with interest and soon forgot the time.