Chapter 258 259 Dafeng Village

"Hey!" Guyu responded happily, and saw a gray-haired man walking from the house to the yard, waving his hands and shouting loudly: "Uncle, I'm back!"

Guyu's uncle stood in the yard, not believing his ears. He looked at Guyu who was getting closer and closer. He slapped his legs and shouted loudly: "Dad, Mom, come and take a look! Girl Yu is back!"

Before he finished speaking, the man had already run to the wooden door and opened it, with a smile on his face but tears in his eyes: "Yu! You are back!"

"I'm back, uncle, why is your hair turning white?"

Guyu stepped forward and held his hand, looking worriedly at his gray hair. Seeing his uncle looking behind him, he quickly turned around and pointed at Li Yu and said, "Uncle, this is my wife. My wife came back with me."

Uncle Gu bowed to Li Yu and said, "Thank you madam, we thought we would never see Yu Yatou again."

At this time, several people ran out of the house. Gu Yu ran in and knelt in front of an old couple, crying: "Master, grandma, I'm back."

Gu Yu's grandmother pulled Gu Yu up, hugged her and started crying. Uncle Gu ran in and said to the old man, "Mom, it's dark outside, and Gu Yu's master's house is still outside!"

Everyone ran outside the hospital again. Gu Yu wiped away her tears and pulled Mrs. Gu to walk in front of Li Yu and Jixiang: "Nai, this is my wife. Madam came to our village to visit. This is Brother Jixiang."

The two elders of the Gu family hurriedly greeted each other and Gu Yu pointed at the horse: "Master, look at the milk. Madam also brought grain and meat for you to share with the old and weak in the village."

Everyone's eyes widened when they saw several sacks of grain and a large load of fat pork carried on the horse's back.

Guyu's cousin swallowed his saliva and sighed: "Wow! How can you finish eating so much meat?"

Uncle Gu patted him and said, "Glutty boy, my wife asked your grandfather to give points to the weak in the village."

"Thank you, madam. You see, it cost you money." Mr. Gu and Mrs. Gu bowed gratefully to Li Yu, and then told Uncle Gu: "Quickly lead the horse to the yard and feed the grass that was cut today. Hello."

Seeing their helpless look, Li Yu smiled and waved his hand: "Old man, it's not worth anything. I just want to go out for a walk."

Everyone exchanged polite greetings and entered the courtyard. Jixiang and Guyu's two cousins ​​moved the grain and meat into the main room, and Guyu took a knife of meat and pickled vegetables and started cooking. Aunt Guyu brought hot water and said to Li Yu cautiously: "Madam, please wash your face."

Li Yu looked reserved and said gently: "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry to trouble you."

He blushed: "Madam, you are too polite. What's the trouble? Can you bring our Yu Yatou back to have a look so that her grandparents and uncle can rest assured? I will trouble you to take care of my Yu Yatou in the future!"

Li Yu saw the loving look in He's eyes when she talked about Guyu, and knew that this woman was sincere. Although this family was poor, there was a strong affection between the family members. Under the dim oil lamp, Li Yu discovered that the Gu family was completely bare. There was an old wooden table in the kitchen, a few wooden benches, and not a single other piece of furniture.

Li Yu picked up a green vegetable and began to choose it. He asked He who was choosing vegetables: "Sister-in-law, I heard from Guyu that your family sold the only two acres of land to her father for treatment, but I saw you The terrain here is relatively flat, how come your family only has two acres of land?"

He sighed and said, "Madam, you don't know, I heard my father say that there are about ten hectares of fertile land in the flat area of ​​our village, but those lands belong to the Wang family, and the rest are gravel and slopes. , we can’t afford to raise livestock and there’s no fertilizer, so even if those fields are opened, they won’t produce crops.”

Li Yu asked curiously: "Wang family? Is this the Wang family in Yunzhou City?"

Mr. He shook his head and felt a little strange. These wives from wealthy families didn't know how to farm. What's the use of asking these questions? He still replied honestly: "I don't know, I only know that it belongs to the Wang family. My family shares twenty acres of land with the Wang family. We split 30 to 70 acres, and the Wang family has 7 to 3 of us. The taxes are also paid by the Wang family. God will reward us with some wild vegetables and rice bran. If you can soothe your stomach, God will not reward you with food, so many families have no choice but to go to the mountains to find food. If there are too many beasts on the mountains, if you are not careful, you will be like your second uncle, who will die at a young age."

"Oh! Do those slopes and gravel lands also belong to the Wang family?"

"No, those are uncultivated in the wasteland."

At this time, Guyu prepared the food and brought it to the table to invite Li Yu and Ji Xiang to eat. Li Yu asked everyone in the Gu family to eat together. Mr. Gu said politely: "Madam, we have only been eating for a while, please eat quickly."

Li Yu saw Gu Yu's cousin looking at the sauerkraut stew, swallowing his saliva, and said to Gu Yu: "How can the three of us eat so much? You scoop it up and let your grandparents eat it too."

Guyu shook his head and said, "Madam, they won't be able to eat it if I send it to you. Besides, there's still some in the kitchen!"

After eating, Jixiang whispered to Li Yu: "Madam, I didn't expect them to be so poor. Life in Xishan Village is better than here."

"The fertile farmland in the village has been taken over by aristocratic families. They have no land of their own. They rely on the tenant Wang family's land for farming. The land rent is 30 to 70 cents. Even if they don't pay taxes, there won't be much food left in a year. In case of illness, The days can be imagined.”

Ji Xiang suddenly realized: "No wonder Gu Yu's cousin is thirteen, he is so young, but the land rent is too high! Our land tenants give them 50-50 cents, and we also have to pay taxes. The tenants are also living in a tight life. Baba’s.”

Guyu spread out the bedding and said to Li Yu and Ji Xiang with some embarrassment: "Madam, can I sleep with you tonight?"

Li Yu nodded, Jixiang looked at her and said, "What about me?" Gu Yu pointed at his cousin and said, "Brother Jixiang, you and my cousin are in the same room."

After washing their clothes, they went to sleep separately. The next morning, when Li Yu got up, he saw Mr. Gu returning with meat, followed by a dozen elderly people who said they were here to thank Li Yu. Everyone was polite to him. Next time, after Guyu laid out the food and ate it, Uncle Gu and Uncle Gu took Li Yu and the others towards the fields outside, followed by a group of villagers.

Uncle Gu pointed to the flat land and said, "This area belongs to the Wang family, and my family's only two acres were sold to his family."

Li Yu pointed to the land beside the mountain stream and the barren slopes and said, "Let's go over there and have a look."

A few people walked over there. Li Yu found that there was indeed more sand and gravel on the ground there, but the barren slope was not bad. It was the same as the hills in Old Man Hu's village. Li Yu took a hoe and dug a few places to look at it. Uncle Gu asked: "Where does the water from that mountain stream come from?"

Uncle Gu pointed to a mountain in front of him: "There is a hole there, and the water flows down from there. The water is even bigger during the rainy season."

When there is water, terraced fields can be built. Li Yu said to Uncle Gu: "When I was in Tongzhou, there was a Hujia Village. Their fertile farmland was destroyed by flash floods. Finally, the terraced fields built on such small hills can be cultivated for one season. If you plant a season of wheat and rice, the harvest will be pretty good.”