Siheyuan: I just want to live

Wang Dali stood at the entrance of the village, his eyes closely following the figures of the villagers hurrying towards the farmland.

After everyone disappeared from his sight, he turned around and spoke seriously to the guards around him.

"You guys, go to the granary and stand guard and patrol. You must be vigilant and don't make any mistakes!"

The guards answered in unison: "Yes!" and then quickly ran towards the granary.

After arranging the security, Wang Dali waved his hand and led the rest of the security guards towards the farmland.

Soon, Wang Dali and his group arrived at the edge of the farmland. He paused for a moment, looked around, and then decisively divided the crowd into several groups.

He assigned two groups of people to go to two fish ponds not far away to guard the safety of the fish in the ponds, while he himself, with the remaining two guards, went straight to the pig pen deep in the farm.

As soon as he stepped into the pigsty, a mixture of soil and the unique smell of livestock hit him in the face. Wang Dali frowned, but soon regained his composure.

He carefully examined every pig in the pen, from their expressions, coat color to eating habits, not missing any details.

Fortunately, after a careful inspection, nothing abnormal was found in the pigs.

At this time, the area around the pigsty was quiet, and there was no one else except the three of them. Wang Dali breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart was finally at ease.

He whispered to the two guards beside him: "We must be alert and guard this place well. We must not let anything happen to the pigpen!"

The two men nodded and said, "Captain, we understand! Please put it down!"

After hearing what the two guards said, Wang Dali stopped talking and joined them in guarding the farm.

At the same time, other villagers also entered the farmland, each of them scattered in family units, far away from each other.

At a glance, thousands of villagers are scattered like stars across this vast expanse of farmland.

Despite the large number of people, the farmland is so vast that it still looks somewhat empty and sparsely populated.

There is no doubt that when Chen Feng and three others were sitting leisurely by the fish pond fishing, several figures suddenly appeared around them.

These people held a cloth bag tightly in their hands, then squatted on the ground, searching the ground intently and anxiously.

It turned out that they were carefully picking up the wheat grains that were scattered on the ground!

At the same time, the Li father and son, who were fishing here with Chen Feng, inadvertently caught a glimpse of this sudden scene not far away.

The villagers moved skillfully and quickly, constantly putting the things they picked up from the ground into the cloth bags they were carrying.

The Li family father and son looked at each other, their hearts full of confusion. They really couldn't figure out what treasures these villagers were picking up that made them so engrossed and oblivious to the people around them.

So, the Li family father and son couldn't help but stare at these villagers curiously for a long time. They didn't even notice any fish taking the hook in the water, but they still couldn't figure out what was going on.

Finally, Li Guoyuan couldn't hold back his curiosity and looked at Chen Feng with a puzzled look on his face. Then he asked in a puzzled tone: "Chen Feng, who are these people in the farmland?"

At this time, Chen Feng, who was still concentrating on staring at the float on the water, suddenly heard Li Guoyuan asking him a question.

He was stunned for a moment, then slowly turned his head to look at Li Guoyuan, and responded: "People? Who?"

As he spoke, his eyes were still a little confused, as if he had not yet fully recovered from his state of concentration.

Hearing Chen Feng's words, Li Guoyuan pointed to a family who were picking wheat grains not far away.

When Chen Feng turned his head to look in the direction Li Guoyuan pointed, he instantly understood what he meant. It turned out that Li Guoyuan was staring at him intently, while his hand was pointing at the villagers who were picking up wheat grains in the fields.

Chen Feng quickly explained: "Uncle Guoyuan, are you talking about them? They are all villagers from nearby villages."

After hearing Chen Feng's answer, the puzzled look on Li Guoyuan's face did not completely disappear. He immediately asked: "Then what are they picking up? I see that they are all so focused and serious!"

Facing Li Guoyuan's continuous questions, Chen Feng did not show any impatience, but continued to explain the situation patiently: "They are picking up the wheat grains left in the fields."

"Wheat grains scattered on the fields? What on earth is going on? Why did this happen?"

Li Guoyuan frowned and muttered to himself in confusion.

Although Chen Feng had previously told him in detail about the background of this group of people and the work they were doing, this newly emerged question made him fall into deep thought.

Li Guoyuan couldn't understand why so many grains of wheat were left in the fields. You know, every grain of food is the result of the hard work of farmers, and such waste is simply a waste of natural resources.

Just as he was thinking hard, Chen Feng seemed to see the doubts in his heart and quickly explained again: "Uncle Guoyuan, you don't know!"

"When we harvest wheat on our farm, we use the harvester we imported from Big Brother. The efficiency of this harvester is amazing and the speed is amazing."

"However, as the saying goes, there are always advantages and disadvantages. It also has some disadvantages. Due to some reasons in the mechanical structure, a large number of wheat grains will inevitably be missed during the fast harvesting process and scattered in the fields."

After hearing Chen Feng's detailed explanation, Li Guoyuan's originally frowned brows finally relaxed, and a look of sudden enlightenment appeared on his face.

"Oh, so that's how it is. The scattering of wheat grains was caused by mechanical reasons. I have been wondering about this before."

Although he already knew the whole story at this time, Li Guoyuan had no idea how to solve the problem.

Because he knew very well that even the harvesters produced by Big Brother would inevitably have this problem of wheat grain spilling, not to mention those domestically produced harvesters.

Thinking of this, Li Guoyuan couldn't help but shook his head slightly and sighed secretly.

After figuring out the cause of the incident, Li Guoyuan immediately turned his gaze to Chen Feng and asked curiously, "If that's the case, then did your farm specially hire nearby villagers to pick up these lost wheat grains?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Feng waved his hands and hurriedly explained again: "Oh, Uncle Guoyuan, please don't misunderstand! Our farm did not hire these villagers to pick up wheat grains! They came here voluntarily!"

Hearing Chen Feng's words, Li Guoyuan raised his eyebrows slightly, his eyes filled with curiosity and doubt, and then he slowly spoke.

"Oh~ They came here voluntarily? Then you have to tell me in detail how they came here voluntarily!"

He looked Chen Feng up and down with interest, as if he wanted to find out some clues from him.

Facing Li Guoyuan's direct and inquiring gaze, Chen Feng first chuckled, revealing a slightly honest smile, then cleared his throat and began to speak.

"Uncle Guoyuan, this is what happened! Just after the summer harvest, I accidentally found a lot of scattered wheat grains in the fields of our farm."

"When I saw this, I thought to myself, if so many grains of wheat are left unattended, wouldn't they all be wasted?"

However, if we simply rely on our farm workers to pick up these grains one by one, the number we pick up will definitely not be too much. "

"Secondly, picking up wheat grains will delay all the farm work that was originally planned. After all, everyone has other heavy work to do on the farm. It's really not worth it."

Having said that, Chen Feng paused for a moment and continued.

"So, after serious discussions among several leaders of our farm, I finally made a decision - to invite villagers from nearby villages to come and help pick up wheat grains."

“And they were clearly informed that any grains of wheat they picked up would belong to them personally.”

"Look, just yesterday I released the news and today so many people came all of a sudden!"

After listening to Chen Feng's explanation, Li Guoyuan nodded in sudden enlightenment, indicating that he understood why these villagers would willingly come to the farm to pick up wheat grains.

However, after looking around, Li Guoyuan found that the tens of thousands of acres of farmland were full of villagers. Although they were scattered far away, he roughly estimated that there were several thousand of these villagers.

So Li Guoyuan asked Chen Feng again, "Chen Feng, how much food do you think these people can pick up from the farmland? Is it enough to cover their labor costs?"

Hearing Li Guoyuan's question, Chen Feng frowned slightly, and after thinking for a while, he slowly said: "Well... In my opinion, it should be human cost, right? But to be honest, I don't know either."

Then he added: "However, if it is a common family of five, they can probably pick up about ten kilograms of wheat a day."

"If I take these ten pounds of wheat and exchange them for grains from my neighbors, it might be enough for one person's food for a month."

Li Guoyuan listened to Chen Feng talking endlessly and couldn't help but turn around and give him a fierce look.

Does this guy really think that he is an arrogant official who knows nothing about the suffering of the people?

You know, in these difficult times, which household can have so much surplus grains to exchange with neighbors?

If you really want to exchange for coarse grains, you will probably have to sneak into the black market which is full of risks and uncertainties.

Li Guoyuan knew the ins and outs of this matter clearly, but he did not expose Chen Feng's lies on the spot.

After just a faint glance at Chen Feng, he turned his head silently, put all his attention back on the float in the water in front of him that was rising and falling with the waves, and began to concentrate on fishing.

Seeing that Li Guoyuan stopped asking questions and focused on fishing, Chen Feng tactfully stopped talking. He also withdrew his gaze and focused his attention on the fishing rod in his hand.