ebookland Chapter 195 Fault
Chapter 195 Fault
After the two teams left, the entire Longtan County began a new round of land reclamation and cultivation.
Pan Qingfeng was not there, so Lin Yiheng took his registration list and called everyone to gather at the open space in front of the county government office.
Lin Yuanzhi, Lin Tiezhuang and the team leaders of each team waited on the side and turned back to take away the people assigned to their teams.
Teacher Dao and the teachers from the school also came, holding the list of children that Lin Yiheng had copied for him.
Lin Yiheng knew that the teacher was going to take the child away, so he briefly introduced the child to everyone and let him go first.
Master Dao glanced at the excited crowd, cleared his throat and unfolded the paper in his hand.
"The following children whose names I read come out."
Everyone looked at each other, worried whether their children would be selected.
After a moment, more than twenty children under the age of thirteen stood up one by one.
After checking everything, the teacher said, "Follow me to the school to get books and supplies. From now on, you will start school at 7:00 pm and leave school at 5:00 pm. If you are not feeling well, you are not allowed to ask for leave!"
Led by the older ones, the children bowed to the two teachers.
"Follow the Master's teachings!"
Before leaving, some parents who were worried gave their children some quick instructions.
"Gousheng, when you go to school, you must listen to the teacher."
"Erwa, be more diligent and help the master with more work!"
"..."
Master Dao walked in front with his hands behind his back, turning a deaf ear to what was said behind him.
The teacher next to him frowned after hearing these words. What messed up the names were! He would definitely give them nice names later.
After the children left, Lin Yiheng stood up again. The team was divided into two groups as usual, with most people going to open up wasteland and a small group going to build houses.
After the teams were divided, everything went on in an orderly manner.
The second crop of grain has been planted.
Lin Yinan sent Liang Wen to the mountains to look for sugarcane. Their people said that they had seen a large sugarcane forest in a valley.
Although sugarcane is very sweet, the shell is too hard and difficult to chew, so they don't like to eat it.
"Lord City Lord, what are you looking for that thing for?" Liang Wen asked puzzledly.
Lin Yinan said, "It is used to extract sugar cane."
"Sucrose? Is it the same thing as maltose?"
"Yes, that's right. Once we make sugar cane, we can sell it."
Hearing that sugar made from sugarcane could be sold for money, Liang Wen and others were very excited, because the sugarcane forest they had seen before was not small.
After preparing dry food and water, Liang Wen, along with the secret guards and several men who came down from the mountain, stepped into the dense forest.
Lin Shuo led the team to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land. Under the guidance of people who had lived in Longtan County before, they went north from the city gate, passed through a forest and found fertile farmland behind it.
The fertile fields were full of weeds, and everyone was sweating profusely as they waved their sickles, cutting weeds that were taller than humans.
Some people took small hoes and dug up edible wild vegetables that were exposed on the ground.
"Mother Chunni, look at them secretly stuffing the wild vegetables they dug into their clothes." A woman came over and pointed at the people who had just joined the team.
"Let's go take a look."
Chun Ni picked up the basket on the ground and walked towards those people.
Those women were all brought by Pan Qingfeng. Chun Ni stood behind them for a long time without noticing them. She just stuffed the wild vegetables she dug into her clothes and hid them.
"take it out!"
Chun Ni's mother suddenly spoke, which scared them.
When they turned around, they saw Chun Ni's mother staring at them fiercely.
"What are you taking?" a woman asked in confusion, patting her chest.
Chun Niang's face was gloomy, her eyes narrowed coldly, "Put the wild vegetables you dug in the basket."
The other woman immediately refused to listen and shouted at the top of her voice, "What? Why should we give you the wild vegetables we dug ourselves?"
Seeing this, the people working nearby stopped what they were doing and looked over here.
Chun Niang glanced at the people around her. Among them were people from her own village, secret guards, guards from the Wu family, and some who had come down from the mountain.
"Don't you know that everything dug up from the wasteland belongs to the public?"
She was a little angry at this unruly woman.
"We dug it out with our own efforts, why should it belong to the public?"
Several women were fed up and began to question loudly.
"You are now working for the city lord. Do you have the nerve to embezzle his things?"
"It's just a few wild vegetables. The city lord won't mind."
"The wild vegetables we dug are also sent to the canteen to be cooked for everyone to eat. You can't do this. You must hand them over!"
Chun Ni's mother couldn't come up with any profound ideas, she just felt that they shouldn't do this.
The quarrel here alarmed Lin Shuo, who was teaching people how to plow the fields in the back.
He asked in a deep voice, "What's the quarrel?"
Chun Ni Niang told him in detail about the women's behavior.
After listening to this, Lin Shuo's face darkened instantly. "Didn't you listen carefully when Pan Qingfeng read the contract that day? The contract clearly states that during the working hours, you are not allowed to use your position for personal gain. These fields belong to the city lord, and the produce from them belongs to her."
"It's only the first day of work, and you're going to violate it?"
"It's just a handful of wild vegetables." The woman took out a handful of wild vegetables from her arms, threw them into the basket unwillingly, and said with dissatisfaction.
With her leading the way, the other two women also threw the wild vegetables they had hidden secretly into the basket, without daring to complain.
Lin Shuo glared at her fiercely and pointed at the crowd that had gathered around him. "Is it just a matter of a handful of wild vegetables? If everyone were to dig wild vegetables and pick wild fruits for their own selfish desires during working hours, who would do the work in the fields? Don't forget whose food you eat for three meals a day?"
He was so angry that he called the secret guards and said, "Send her and her family back to the county government office and have the chief steward send them away. We can't afford to hire such people."
The two secret guards were about to come forward to grab the people, but a man came out from the crowd, rushed forward and started punching and kicking the woman without saying a word.
"I told you to be greedy! I told you to be lazy! Why don't you think about Donkey Dan, who is still studying in school!"
The man was so angry that he collapsed on the ground. He stopped hitting the woman and pounded the ground with his hands and burst into tears.
"She's trying to kill me!"
The woman was frightened at this. She knelt down in front of Lin Shuo and kowtowed desperately, "Captain Lin, I was wrong! I won't dare to do it again! I beg you to be magnanimous and not drive us away."
Lin Shuo glanced at her and said to Lin Yisong and Wu Xun who were standing in the crowd, "Yisong, Xiao Wu, record their family's behavior and let the steward deal with it later."
"Everyone, go away! Hurry and get to work." Seeing that it was getting late, Old Lin waved to everyone.
The woman stood up, ignoring the man who was still slumped on the ground, picked up the basket and went to dig wild vegetables. She wanted to make up for her mistakes with her actual actions.
Their family cannot be kicked out. Ludan can learn to read and write here. As long as they work here for ten years, they can own a house and receive monthly bonuses.
The news was quickly passed on by the secret guards to Lin Yinan and his sister who were working in the county government office.
"Anan, it's harder to manage when there are too many people."
Lin Yiheng rubbed his sore brows. Everything he did now was beyond what he had learned before.