It is July of summer, and the land of Guanzhong is busy.

With less than two months left before the autumn harvest, the strong men from all townships and villages returned home from the water conservancy construction site organized by the government and began their busy summer farming.

It’s not that I was not busy before, but it was not the busiest time before. If the family had a large population, some strong men could be transferred out to work for the government and earn wages and save a meal. For small households, it is a good thing to save a meal.

After getting up in the morning, Guo Deng got up and had breakfast, he arranged the farm work he wanted to do today for his five sons. After the breakfast was over a dozen people in the family, Guo Deng took his five sons to the ground with farm tools.

These crops dare not serve them all day and rely on them to make a living all year round, really afraid that something will happen to them.

In the past, my family had no land, and I rented the land from the landlord's house. Now there are a lot of land. The family has 240 acres of land, and a cow. The farm tools are all brand new iron farm tools. In the past, I was considered a small landlord.

It was noon, and the six men were so tired that they were panting and sweating profusely, and their stomachs were croaking. When they calculated, they felt that their family should have brought food, so Guo Deng called his sons to put down the farm tools and put the cows to eat grass. The men found a shade to sit down and rest.

Guo Deng is 48 years old this year and is still very strong. The youngest of his five sons is 18. They are all young men. They are all very strong and have a strong workforce. In the past, people said that Guo Deng is blessed. With so many sons, Guo Deng himself also thinks he is a good fortune.

In that case, the family can still ensure that they can’t starve to death with food. This is really not easy.

It seems that everything has passed now and it has been done. More than 200 acres of land are enough for the family to have enough food and drink. They can also have some spare money to eat some meat and buy some new things, and they can also save some money to save.

Life is much better than before, and now I don’t dare to ask for anything else, just hope that such a life can continue.

I chatted with my sons and laughed from time to time. After a while, I watched the old woman bring her daughter-in-law and grandsons to deliver meals.

At noon, the whole family gathered together for dinner. The boys were so hungry that they put their chests on their backs. They picked up the rice bowl of the old Gao and started eating in big mouthfuls. Guo Deng smiled and watched the children eat in big mouthfuls, and he also picked up the rice bowl full of wheat.

However, looking at the shiny piece of fat and shiny meat piled in the bowl, Guo Deng felt very moved.

"What's wrong with the head of the family? Why don't you eat?"

Guo Deng's wife Guo looked at Guo Deng holding the job and was stunned and refused to eat, so she asked.

Guo Deng looked at his wife, then looked at his children, and laughed.

"I remembered what happened before. When it was the worst time, everyone shared a bun. They were hungry and put on their backs. They could only drink water hard. How could water fill their stomachs? Now they can eat a full meal and eat meat occasionally. I didn't dare to think about it in my dreams..."

To sigh like this, the children of the Guo family also remembered the past that they had been unbearable to look back on.

"Okay, okay, now everything is fine, let alone those, now the emperor avenged us, distributed the land, and rewarded the big cows. If you can have enough food, I won't talk about these."

Guo patted Guo Deng on the back and said some comforting words.

Guo Deng nodded and said nothing, and asked everyone to have a meal together. After dinner, there was still farm work to do in the afternoon, and the daughters-in-law also had to go back to do textile work.

Now the government recruits women to make military uniforms for the army for winter, and they give them twenty cents to make one, shoes, hats and gloves, and they also pay for them. Those who are willing to work in the government workshop all day long are still responsible for food.

Now, if you have an idle person at home, you have to go out to find some money to make a living. The government is doing construction everywhere, and there are many ways to make money. As long as you are willing to work, there is no one who can't afford to eat.

A few days ago, the wife of Lao Zhang's family in the village did a quick and good job. She personally praised the village chief and gave her two taels of silver. The family bought meat and went home to make it. Each family in the village gave her a few yuan.

I won’t say anything about lazy people who refuse to work, and everyone will dislike them.

While eating here, I was talking and laughing, but suddenly a magistrate ran over there.

"Uncle Guo! Uncle Guo!"

The official rider shouted immediately after riding his horse.

"Oh, isn't that a boy from the Li family?"

Guo Deng looked over and saw the Li family boy in the village running back, and hurriedly stood up to meet him.

The Li family boy was one of the most promising people in the village. When the land reform was underway, the Li family boy was very brave. He rushed up and started working with the three masters' guards opposite him. He was beaten with blood on his face and kicked open the master's door.

I fell in love with the current village head who was the leader at that time, so I took it with me as a servant, and I could earn a salary every month and send hundreds of cents back to my family. The poorest old Li family in the village used to live a very good life now, and Old Li is living a very comfortable life now.

Li Kaifeng came down immediately, ran to Guo Deng, and said, "Uncle Guo, the village chief asked me to come back and tell you, asking you to bring everyone to prepare. Tomorrow morning, Shangshu Xu will come here with his work team and guide our village in the fight against locusts."

Guo Deng is the president of the Liulian Village Farmers Association in Xiyang Township, Sanyuan County, Xi'an Prefecture, and is equivalent to the head of a village.

"Oh, Xu Shangshu comes here in person?"

Guo Deng was shocked.

Who is Xu Shangshu? I am afraid no one doesn’t know about this place in Guanzhong. At that time, the land reform was in chaos. When the township presidents and presidents from all over the country brought big guys to rebuild their homes, Xu Shangshu brought people here.

Can you imagine it?

Second-rank officials and senior officials of the court led a group of third-rank, fourth-rank, fifth-rank officials to take off their official uniforms and put on short-term battles, and went to the underground farmland with the people. They did all their work, ate them together, ate the wheat rice, brown rice, pickled vegetables and stems that everyone ate, and then told everyone about locusts while working.

This locust has harmed the people of Guanzhong for a year or two, and it has not stopped for thousands of years. There are locust temples everywhere in Guanzhong. Everyone prays every day to kneel down every day, hoping that the locusts will not come before and after the autumn harvest, otherwise everyone will feed the locusts for the whole year.

Everyone hated locusts and was afraid of death, but there was no way. As soon as Xu Shangshu came, he began to explain the source of locusts and how to deal with them in a simple and easy-to-understand way.

"The Locust Temple is useless. If the Locust Temple is useful, the locusts will not come to visit us every year. Locusts are animals and things that are worse than pigs and dogs. Don't worship it, you will destroy it!"

Xu Shangshu told everyone this, and then Guo Deng was the first to respond to Xu Shangshu and persuaded everyone in the village to take everyone to smash the Locust Temple, saying that we should believe Xu Shangshu, and we can eventually destroy the locusts.
Chapter completed!