newbobooks Chapter 159 Entering the Mountain
Chapter 159 Entering the Mountain
I wanted to let him live a good life with no worries about food and clothing, but when the words came to my lips, I felt that I might not have the ability to get rich. Only with this kind of land, I can learn a little bit and it can be of some use. He will definitely have no problem having enough food to eat.
The old man stared at her and said after a while, "Can't you brag a little more? You can't even brag. At least you should have meat for one meal, a glass of wine for each meal, and a full meal every day... That's fine. In this world, being able to have a full meal every day is considered a good life."
The last sentence had a heavy tone, and Zhou Guo, who spoke in a low voice, almost didn't hear it.
She said seriously, "I'm being pragmatic, not bragging. If you want to hear bragging, that's terrible. If I have the ability in the future, I will conquer this country and make you a Duke. I will let you eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks every day, and there will be three or four people to serve you when you go to the toilet. You don't have to do anything..."
"No, no, no, please don't!" The old man stopped immediately after hearing this, "I'm not so blessed as to become thin! And can you just say that? Don't say it outside. If someone with ulterior motives hears it, they will punish you and arrest you immediately, saying you want to rebel. Rebellion is no joke. No one in this family can escape. You must remember this."
Zhou Guo just spoke quickly, not wanting to see the old man's sad face, and only realized where he was after he finished speaking, "I know, I just said that. If one day I become a general, then you will have a good life."
Old man: "...Anyway, you can't say that again. If you hear me say it again, you will have to practice for two more hours every day."
"Chengcheng, I understand. I will definitely remember it." She expressed her determination.
As soon as he finished speaking, the people who went to the village came back.
There were other people who came back with them, including Wang Fugui and people from other families. The beams of every house needed to be replaced, even the best house in the middle had its beams replaced. After all, no one had lived in it or renovated it for so many years, and the beams had long been rotten due to years of exposure to the sun and rain.
Li also came back with Chen, followed by two women from the village, all carrying backpacks and baskets, and it seemed that they were going into the mountains.
All of them were carrying tools and had their sleeves and trouser legs rolled up, obviously they were also going into the mountains.
Seeing this, Zhou Guo hurried into the house and took all the saws, axes, machetes, etc. He also took two hemp ropes and picked up two sacks next to him. "Let's go, Master, into the mountains to hunt."
The old man put down what he was holding, stood up and followed him.
Zhou Gu took his younger brothers to dig yellow mud at home, Zhou Xing cleaned up the wasteland next to the house, and Zhou Guo and his group went into the mountains.
Chen introduced: "The mountains around the village are all owned by someone, and have been passed down from generation to generation. On weekdays, people go into the mountains to collect firewood, collect medicinal herbs, and pick wild mushrooms without anyone noticing. But you can't cut down someone else's trees. If you want to cut down trees, you have to buy them from them. There are also unowned forests, but they are a bit far away. It takes most of the day to go back and forth, and if you cut down a lot of trees, you have to report to the county government."
"You just need to cut a few beams, and there's no need to ask for help. Sometimes, if a family in the village wants to build a house and there are no suitable trees in their own mountains, and they don't want to spend money to buy them, they have to go to distant mountains to cut trees. It takes a lot of effort to cut and transport the trees, and they have to ask for help. If a family has good connections and you need them urgently, you can find trees in your own mountains to exchange with them. When the trees grow up, they will belong to them. But this requires a good relationship between the two families."
She talked on and on, passing by one mountain after another, and kept introducing them to people, telling them who owned this mountain and who owned that mountain. In short, almost all the ones that were nearby were owned by someone.
Zhou Guo was very surprised and asked, "Aunt Chen, why do you all have mountains?"
Chen smiled and said, "They were all handed down from our ancestors. They were probably divided among the villagers."
"I've only heard of dividing the land, but also dividing the mountains?"
"Silly child, isn't there not enough land to divide? The only way to divide the land was to divide the mountains. Later, neither the land nor the mountains could be divided. I am not very clear about it. These are what the old people in the village said. They said that in the beginning, we had so much land here. Every household had 70 or 80 acres, and it was impossible to plant all the land. Later, for some reason, the families' land gradually became less, and those good pieces of land in the village slowly became the property of other people." Chen couldn't help but say a lot again.
Everyone fell silent after hearing these words.
Who isn't like this? Many of them had their land gradually sold or mortgaged, and as time went by, the land became someone else's.
Li was also thinking that if it weren't for this incident, her family would probably have to sell the land next.
No one spoke, so Zhou Guo had to ask again: "Aunt Chen, which hill is your home on?"
Speaking of this, Chen slapped her thigh and said, "Ours is the farthest away, but the wood on the mountain grows the best, and there are many wild mushrooms in the forest. Every autumn, everyone goes to the mountain together. There are patches of wild mushrooms on our mountain. I haven't been there this year. Today I plan to go into the forest to take a look. What do you think? You can go with the aunts. You are a little kid, not even as tall as a saw. Why don't you join us in the fun of cutting trees? You can't help at all. You might as well come with us to look for wild mushrooms. The pine mushrooms in the mountains are out at this time."
She continued to mumble a lot.
Zhou Guo wanted to laugh. This auntie talked a lot, like a chatterbox. Even if you didn't say anything, she would find something to say.
At first, there were voices from other people in the team, but gradually no one spoke anymore and only her voice could be heard.
After walking for about half an hour, Chen pointed to the farthest mountain in front of him and said, "Go this way. The mountains over there are ownerless. If you want big trees, you have to go up the mountain. The trees at the bottom of the mountain are not yet mature. They still need some years to mature. We have to go this way."
She also called Zhou Guo who was standing beside her, "Guo Guo, come on, let's go into the mountains with the aunts to look for wild mushrooms. What can a little girl like you do with them?"
Zhou Guo really wanted to go, but she couldn't leave because she had contributed today. "Aunt, you guys go ahead. I have to go help my uncle."
The three women on the opposite side laughed and said, "What can you do to help? Just don't make things more complicated."
The two groups separated here.
Zhou Guo and others continued to move forward.
After walking for a long time, the mountains in the distance still looked so big.
As the saying goes, a horse will die if it runs too fast. It looks very dangerous to walk up the mountain, and the mountain road is rugged. It is not a human task to transport timber from here.
"Damn, this wood is so far away. If I had known earlier, I would have bought it in the village. How do we transport it out?" Someone started to worry.