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Chapter 605 Return
Chapter 605 Return
When they left, Hualei gave them steamed buns and brown rice. Now, their heads of families all went to work in the court to earn money.
They also have their own land and planted wheat, but it has not been harvested yet, so there is nothing urgent to do at home for the time being.
Because they were grateful for the steamed bread and brown rice that Hualei had given them before, which saved them from starvation and helped them get through the difficult period, so now they came to repay Hualei's kindness and do a month's work for her for free.
They said that although they were not as strong as the men in their family, they could do all the work in the fields.
This result was beyond Hualei's expectation. When she gave them the brown rice, she really just wanted to help them within her ability, and she never thought of asking them to return the favor.
So Hualei politely rejected them and asked them to go back. However, the next day, the women came again and brought the heads of their two villages with them.
The two village chiefs were both in their fifties or sixties, and one of them had gray hair. When they saw Hualei, they knelt down, which frightened Hualei.
After Qingqi and Qinghua hurriedly helped them up, they told Hualei the whole story.
It turned out that these people were from Donghe and Dongming villages under the Mobei County Government. They were the last group of people to be rescued.
After three days of suffering in their collapsed house, they were finally rescued and taken to the town. But when they arrived, the dugout was packed with people, leaving no room for them.
At that time, they were filled with sadness, for they were the last to be rescued, and their already anxious hearts became even more shaky, as they felt that they had no chance of survival.
It was Hualei who took the initiative to take out the oilcloth to shelter them from the wind and rain, and it was Hualei who took the initiative to provide them with hot soup and hot water to go with their meals.
When they left, everyone, young and old, was given steamed buns and brown rice. When the total was added up, the family of eight received more than 100 steamed buns and 40 kilograms of brown rice.
This made other people who had moved into the dugouts earlier envious, and also helped them get through the difficult period that followed.
Thanks to Hualei's rescue, except for the people in front who were crushed and frostbitten, all the people behind survived.
Now that the village has recovered, the men should have been the ones to repay the favor, but they all went to work for the court.
So the people from the two villages got together and the women who felt they still had enough strength took the initiative to come and work for Hua Lei.
After listening to the words of the two village chiefs, Hua Lei couldn't help but sigh that the people here were really too simple and honest. She didn't expect them to repay her, and the court didn't ask them to repay her, but they came anyway.
Looking at these people who were determined to repay her kindness, and thinking that her own fields were indeed short of manpower to open up and cultivate the land, Hua Lei proposed a plan.
He hired them to work on his farm, and after ten days, he would offset the rice and flour he had given him. Then he would be willing to help him again.
Then I will settle the wages with them according to 15 coins per person per day. In addition, I will provide two simple meals for free every day.
The two village chiefs were surprised and delighted when they heard this. Fifteen coins a day, seven hundred and fifty coins a month, although it was lower than the eight hundred coins a month that men earned.
However, if women could get this salary and two meals, it was really not low. After discussing it with the people below, no one disagreed.
Originally, I just wanted to repay a favor and didn't want anything in return, but this way, I found myself a job, which can supplement the family income, and my collapsed house can be rebuilt sooner.
Therefore, these women became the first batch of employees of Hualei Farm, working diligently every day to help Hualei to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land.
Because I feel that I am not as strong as men, I try my best to come fifteen minutes earlier in the morning and stay up twenty minutes later in the evening.
After Hualei had tried to persuade them several times without success, she let them go. However, she asked Pei Zhuangtou, who had just arrived in Mobei to manage the farm, to give each of them a steamed bun when they returned home so that they could eat on the way.
It is said that giving is mutual, and this is absolutely true. The people who got an extra steamed bun, when they knew that Hualei's rabbit farm needed fodder, gathered some grass for Hualei on their way back and forth every day.
Moreover, because of Hualei's generosity, the relatives of these women, after hearing about Hualei's situation, also followed her to work on her farm.
Moreover, among them, there were families who raised cattle. When Hualei was unable to rent oxen, they voluntarily brought their cattle over to help Hualei plow the soil, which made Hualei very happy.
You know, recently Minister Zhang has been counting the cows that can go to the fields every day. Even if Hua Lei was given fodder and wanted to borrow one or two oxen for working, Minister Zhang just avoided the question and was fooled.
Except for those cows that were really sick and could not go to the fields, the other cows were driven one or two by Minister Zhang to the official fields to plow the soil, and Hua Lei was helpless.
After all, the land that Minister Zhang bought himself did not have oxen to help him plow the soil. For someone like Minister Zhang who had no breakthroughs, Hualei could only give up the idea of borrowing oxen from the Ministry of User Affairs.
The people's oxen alone solved Hualei's urgent needs. One ox could replace several strong laborers every day.
Of course, Hua Lei was not stingy. In addition to providing the oxen with sufficient fodder every day, she also paid the rental fee for the oxen at a price ten cents a day higher than the price paid by the Ministry of Households.
Hualei is never stingy with kindness towards those who show her kindness. Therefore, when other noble families are still unable to open up wasteland due to lack of manpower.
The farm in Hualei changed every day, and it changed drastically in three days. After a while, corn was planted, rice was planted, and rapeseed was also planted.
Hahaha, Huabud really wanted to laugh out loud. The next step was to plant beets. Huabud had never planted beets before, so he read a lot of agricultural books in advance.
Moreover, when the villagers came to help Hualei reclaim the land, she asked them for all kinds of information and bought some seeds.
Sugar beets are grown in the north, but when people still have limited food and clothing, not many of them grow sugar beets.
Therefore, they didn't have many beet seeds at home, so Hualei had to buy them from each household, accumulating little by little. Now, Hualei has a large bag of seeds in his hand, but it seems difficult to plant a hundred acres.
After turning the field, spreading fermented fertilizer, digging ditches and leveling the field, it is time to plant the seeds. In order to save manpower, Hualei adopted the direct sowing method.