Behind me is the earth

Thank you sir for your consideration.

Hu Laosan relaxed and was deeply moved upon hearing this.

Being able to be exempted from rent means that everything grown on the land belongs to the tenants themselves. This is so powerful!

master!

Hello, sir!

The tenants I met on the road all respected Ren Pingsheng.

Not the kind of fearful awe, but respect from the heart.

Yesterday, Wujiazhuang was captured by living corpses. The entire farm, with more than a dozen households and more than 80 people, were all eaten by living corpses!

We people in Zhuangzi are all praising you for letting us build the adobe wall. The sight of the four-meter-high wall makes people feel at ease and sleep more soundly at night.

Hu Laosan said with emotion.

Ren Pingsheng nodded and said: We cannot be superstitious about high walls, and the militia must continue to train. This is an important part of protecting the estate.

Yes, the master is right.

Hu Laosan responded.

He generally has great respect for Master Ren. Not only because of the high wall, the tenants in Zhuangzi also felt it very clearly. Whether it is a vertical or horizontal comparison, since Zhuangzi changed his surname from Huang to Ren, people have become much richer than before.

First, there was a winter job. Each person was paid 10 cents a day and had to take care of two meals.

Moreover, every meal is full of oil and water.

You make money without spending any money!

Such days were unimaginable before.

Now after one winter, not only do every family have a lot of spare money, but their bodies have also become much stronger.

The benefits are not limited to these. There is a blacksmith in the village, and sledges, rakes, picks, iron pots, etc. are all cheaper than outside, and people with extra money can afford them.

With the carpenter, a large water truck has been installed in the river outside the village. When the fields are irrigated in a few days, water can be diverted into the ditch. There is no need to carry buckets of water.

The current life can be said to be the most comfortable and best in these years. Moreover, everyone has some expectations and hopes for the future life.

And this expectation and hope are all brought by this Master Ren.

The scale in the hearts of the people is sensitive, and if there is a weight pressing on it, they will naturally react when there is a comparison.

Therefore, this prestige has naturally penetrated into the hearts of every farm person, and the respect revealed in the eyes also comes from the heart.

After leaving Renjiazhuang, Ren Pingsheng returned to Qingcheng Town.

Dalu was sent outside Qingcheng Town and went to the official road to select people from the refugee team.

What are your names?

Zhou Ming was due to change his shift at the end of the week, and he had already taken four of his people to leave with Dali and return to Tenglong Mountain together in the evening.

My name is Hu Dahai, and I am the leader of one of the three teams.

My name is Liu Goudan.

My name is Huang Goudan.

My name is Zhang Gouzi.

Ren Pingsheng suppressed his laughter.

Four people, three of whom have the word dog in their names. At this time, nicknames are easy to make a living. Ordinary people are uneducated and cannot come up with any nice names, but the homogeneity of this name is too great!

Good name.

In the quarantine area, Ren Pingsheng squatted on the ground and chatted with these four simple teenagers.

Although the boys are young, they are all veterans who participated in the Battle of Tenglong Mountain and have seen blood. I have also seen his boss kill people with a flying arrow and a backhand shot, so he has great respect for his boss.

How many words do you know?

Ren Pingsheng asked, holding a branch and scratching it on the ground.

I know more than five hundred words.

Hu Dahai said.

I have more than two hundred.

I learned more than three hundred.

I... Huang Goudan scratched his head: I can write my own name.

He took a branch and stamped his name on the ground crookedly, with the word egg written wrong.

Yang Goudan, you can't do this. You are all the first batch with me, and you will definitely be reused in the future. If you are illiterate, your development will be delayed.

Ren Pingsheng took a branch and scratched out his egg, and neatly wrote a correct egg from the side.

Yes, I will definitely learn it when I go back.

Huang Goudan said with his head drooped.

Don't wait to learn it when you go back. You should learn it while you are in Ren's house. When you go back, I will give you a dictionary and you can learn from it.

Don’t think that studying is useless. Maybe it’s not of much use to you now, but if you are promoted to become an official in the future, you will need to read and write a lot of things, such as reading letters and writing letters, teaching subordinates, and issuing military orders. Which one does not require literacy?

There is nothing else to do in this quarantine. He was like a friend, chatting with the teenagers under his command.

From study to eating, from eating to daily life, from life to starting a family and starting a business in the future.

Sometimes the eyes of the teenagers were red, and sometimes they laughed. When the quarantine was over and they entered the city, the eyes of the teenagers when they looked at the carriage had become very friendly. Everyone held their heads high and were full of sunshine and confidence.

When he arrived at Ren's house, Ren Pingsheng asked Xiaowan to go to the front yard and gave Huang Gouzi a dictionary. Huang Gouzi, who got the dictionary, regarded it as a treasure. Others would not bear to take a look at it. He took it out every day to read it. He suddenly became the most literate among this group of teenagers!

Master, the pomegranate tree in the yard has sprouted.

Xiaowan, who returned from delivering the dictionary, looked at the pomegranate tree in the yard and shouted.

Ren Pingsheng came out with a book and went to the pomegranate tree to take a look. Sure enough, there were some green leaf buds protruding on the branches.

It was quite cold a few days ago, but the pomegranate tree has sprouted buds in the past two days. It seems that the weather is really starting to get warm.

I don’t know whether the flowers of this pomegranate tree are red or white.

After closing the book in their hands, the master and the servant were about to go to the backyard to see if the crabapple tree had sprouted, when Huzi suddenly ran in and shouted with surprise on his face: Master, Sister Xiaowan , Manager Liu Shu and the others are back!

You're back? Where are you now?

Ren Pingsheng asked in surprise.

Huzi replied: I am still in the quarantine area outside. I gave a few pennies to a person who has just been quarantined. He came in and reported to us in advance.

good.

Siqi, go to the kitchen and give instructions to prepare a table of dishes tonight... Forget it, go to Sihai Tower and book some fine private rooms, and we'll take care of them tonight.

good.

Si Qi responded, took the money from Xiaowan, and hurried out.

At about five o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Shu led the team and came in from outside the city covered in dust.

Master!

Thin!

Ren Pingsheng looked at Liu Shu, stretched out his hand and gently patted the dust on Liu Shu's body.

In the past, he always liked to be clean. Even if his clothes were shabby, they were always spotless.

When I came back this time, not only did my face look weathered, but my whole face looked tired. Even my body was covered with dust. It seemed that I had lived a rough life living outside in the open air.