The whole family travels through time and space, and the three of them struggle together

After planting the saplings, digging the hilltop must be put on the agenda.

The next day, Zhou Dajiang went to find the village head Zhang. It would be too slow for just a few of them to dig the 30-acre hilltop.

Zhou Dajiang wanted Zhang, the village chief, to help him recruit some people. More people meant faster work. Besides preparing the land, he also had to dig rivers and ponds to raise fish. Oh my god, I can't think about it. If I think about it, there will be a lot of work!

Village head Zhang said straightforwardly that this was easy to do. I'll gather everyone in the evening and just tell them that everyone will be paid 30 cents a day for odd jobs, and 35 cents a day regardless of meals. You just need to prepare the money and I'll pay you once a day. It's not busy now, so people will come tomorrow.

Zhou Dajiang thanked Zhang, the village chief, and then he and Yu Fuan hitched a cart to the town's small money shop, where they exchanged a large sum of silver. Then, as his wife requested, they went to the cloth shop and bought a few rolls of dark, stain-resistant coarse cloth. After buying someone home, they had to prepare two sets of work clothes for her.

Chen Xiuying was also busy. She went to Li's and asked for some small clothes for little Xiangsheng that Dabao and Erbao didn't wear. Little Xiangsheng was only two years old, so he could wear all of Dabao and Erbao's clothes.

There are many advantages to hiring people. She didn't even have to help with the cloth Zhou Dajiang bought in the afternoon, as Yu Pozi and Qing'er made it for her.

Village head Zhang was also very efficient. When everyone got off work that day, he beat the drum outside the ancestral hall, and everyone then knew that Zhou Dajiang's family had bought the hilltop in the neighboring village.

Wow, they are no longer ordinary farmers, but have become small landlords.

Village Chief Zhang doesn't need to say much, but many families are now eager to establish connections with the Zhou family. I've seen both Village Chief Zhang and Uncle Zhou Jiu's son become small-time bosses at the factory. Although Dajiang hasn't come forward, everyone knows that this is Zhou Dajiang's arrangement. Seize this opportunity and show your face to Dajiang!

So, early the next morning, a large group of people stood outside Zhou Dajiang's house.

Some wanted to show off, while others simply wanted to make money. It was a great thing to be able to earn some money when you weren't busy. Almost everyone who didn't work in a factory came to Zhou Dajiang's house.

More hands means faster work. Villagers from the neighboring Yangliu Village watched as the Xiaomao Mountain, across from their homes and bordering the neighboring village, changed with each passing day. Approaching, they saw the mountain teeming with workers, unfazed by the cold, chatting and laughing as they toiled furiously. One guy dug furiously, as if the ground were a treasure trove.

At the foot of the mountain, they dug a pit! A few days later, they saw that it was not a pit, but a river pond!

There was a stone house not far from the river pond. Zhou Dajiang thought, no matter whether the retired veteran family that Xu Wu mentioned would come or not, since he had already arranged everything here, there was no reason to take it back. He would build the house first, and if it didn't work out later, he could go to the provincial capital to buy a few more people.

Just like that, Wu Chunsheng used the stones that Lou Ji and his friends had collected years ago, and added old bricks to build four more rooms. By the way, he also built a chicken coop and a pigpen at the bottom of the north slope.

The villagers of Yangliu Village stand in their yards and look at the mountains every day. These people are too restless. After resting from the south end to the north end, they rest on the mountain and then on the foot of the mountain. They have been resting for more than half a month before they stopped.

Of course there is no need to bother, because the work is done!

Zhou Dajiang looked at the house and pond in front of him, as well as the leveled land in the distance. It was finally done. The next step was to plant trees and farm!

Xu Wu also received a letter from the veterans; they were on their way. It was time to hurry up and get the chicks and piglets ready.

Chen Xiuying greeted Erwang's mother early in the morning. She had newly hatched chicks at home, and Chen Xiuying bought a hundred of them at once.

Chen Xiuying, a piglet, didn't know where to buy one and was about to ask around. Zhou Dajiang said he'd leave it to me, saying he and the butcher in town had learned how to make blood sausage together. He asked him to keep an eye out for it, and maybe the problem could be solved.

So, the next day, Chen Xiuying asked Mrs. Yu to make her specialty osmanthus cake, and then took five pounds of mutton she bought from Mrs. Gao, took Qing'er and Xiao Xiangsheng, Zhou Dajiang and Yu Fuan, and they set out from home in an ox cart.

Chen Xiuying went to her master's house and finished reading all the books he had given her. She then went to exchange two more books and asked her master to show them to Qing'er and Xiao Xiangsheng. Xiao Xiangsheng had always been thin, so Chen Xiuying suspected that he had worms in his stomach, so she asked her master to prescribe some medicine to kill the worms.

Zhou Dajiang took Yu Fuan to the pork stall of a butcher in town. The butcher was very enthusiastic when he saw Zhou Dajiang.

The young man thought to himself that he had to be enthusiastic. Ever since he learned how to make blood sausage from his childhood, the butchers around him couldn't sell more than him. Now that Zhou Dajiang had come to him for help, he had to make sure it was done.

The butcher's surname was Wang, and his full name was Wang Dahu. Wang Dahu patted his chest and said, "Brother Zhou, I'll take care of this matter. When I get some news, I'll go to your house to find you."

Zhou Dajiang thanked Wang Dahu, and went to the grain and oil store with Yu Fuan to buy a few bags of rice, flour and rapeseed oil. Since they were already on the way, they had to prepare everything that needed to be prepared.

After buying the seasonings his wife had requested, he went to the county government office to see Master Yang. Although his father-in-law and his family had decided to settle in Qingshangou, they still wanted a house in town. Since no one from the government office had come to notify them, Master Chen asked him to go and find out what was going on.

When Master Yang saw Zhou Dajiang coming, he was very happy. "Oh, you came at the right time. Your father-in-law's house has been built. When you have time, clean the house and they can move in."

Zhou Dajiang quickly agreed and said, "That's why I came here today." After thanking Master Yang, it was almost noon when the two of them left the yamen.

Zhou Dajiang took Yu Fuan to a noodle shop in town and had two bowls of noodles. He also packed two portions of cloud cakes for his wife and children, and then slowly returned home.

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The butcher was quick to act. He came to Zhou Dajiang on the afternoon of the third day. He visited several houses, but by the evening the two of them had brought back over thirty piglets in their ox cart. Since no one lived on Xiaomao Mountain, they had brought them all back for the time being.

Fortunately, the pigpen at the old house was empty. Zhang and Zhou's mother had been very busy at the start of the year. Besides feeding the rabbits and cleaning up their droppings, Zhang and Li would go to the workshop to make dolls when they had time to earn some money. Zhou Dahai couldn't spare the time for anything else besides the old cow, as the factory was too busy.

Tietou and Suotou are still in school and can only help Zhang with housework after school, so Zhou Dahai's family does not plan to raise pigs this year.

Zhou's mother was even more annoyed. She wished she could stay in the workshop every day, so she had no time to study pig farming. So, Zhou Dajiang took advantage of it and took Yu Fuan to temporarily put the piglets in the pigpen of the old house.

The very next day, Yu Quan planned to take his son to Xiaomao Mountain to stay for a few days and arrange for the chicks and piglets. When they arrived and came back, the retired veteran's family of seven also pushed a cart and swayed to Qingshangou.