The north wind blows, snowflakes float, and the weather is very cold.∽↗∽↗,

The towering Yimeng Mountain is composed of Yishan and Mengshan and other high mountains, with countless hills, high mountains and steep slopes, dangerous ridges, continuous peaks and stacked mountains. For outsiders, there are cliffs, rugged rocks, towering ancient trees, towering waterfalls and springs, deep streams, clear streams, Yihe River and Shuhe River linger like belts. Wenfeng Mountain, Fulai Mountain, Yushan, Maji Mountain and Seventy-Two Gates are majestic and beautiful, with beautiful scenery.

However, for the ****, who was born and raised here, this place is a place with inconvenient transportation, closed news, and poor and backwardness. Since childhood, he hopes to leave this place one day and experience the world outside the mountain.

His home is in the Linyi Mountains. Today, he cannot have a big road. There is only a small road that can cross mountains and ridges to lead to the mountain village.

Carrying a heavy burden, I walked fifty-eight miles in the mountains in one breath, and sweat gradually appeared on my back.

Although the burden on his shoulders was heavy, his footsteps were still strong. He had been used to walking this path. When he was ten years old, he said goodbye to the days of harvesting firewood and herding cattle in the village. He followed his father on this mountain road for the first time and led to the world outside the mountain.

From the mountains to the mountains, there is a wider world, but although the world outside the mountains is vast, it does not belong to him. He is just a child from the mountains. His father took him out to send him to a village that came out of the mountains in his early years. The village worked in a landlord's house in Yishui Prefecture, Qingzhou. His father entrusted the relationship between the same village and sent him to the landlord's house to work.

Although he was only ten years old, he could not support him in a poor family in the mountains because he had several younger brothers and sisters at home. The poor children had to start a family early, and the ten-year-old children had to earn their own food. From then on, he herded cattle and sheep at the landlord's house, and then went to the fields to work for several years.

Until last year, the dynasty changed.

The village in the middle of the mountain also reduced rent and interest rates. After the family's debt was cleared, he also left the landlord's family who had worked for many years and went to Qingdao further afield. The same village who took him out then went to Qingdao a few years ago and took the work on the dock there, which earned more money than the landlord's family.

**** worked in Qingdao for more than a year and earned a little money. However, this time he put down his busy work in Qingdao and rushed back to his hometown in the mountains, not because the end of the year was approaching.

The road is rugged and difficult to walk, and it has not changed for many years. Walking alone on this road. Listening to the birds singing echoing in the valley and looking at the familiar mountain roads everywhere, Wei Qin felt intimate.

I used to hope to get out of the mountains and stay away from here and never come back again, but now, I always feel very friendly when I leave for a long time.

When winter comes, the road is always so difficult to walk, and the rain and snow turn the already rugged and narrow road into a mud stream. Fortunately, he knew this situation. He wore a pair of leather boots, otherwise the mud would have gone beyond the uppers of the shoe.

When I arrived at a bend of a mountain, **** stopped. There was a big stone on the side of the road, which was very flat. Passersby always like to stop and rest here when they passed by.

Putting the bag on the stone, he sat down and took out a cigarette pole and a bag of tobacco from his purse. After working at Qingdao Wharf for more than a year, he has indeed gained a lot of knowledge. Qingdao has changed every day in the past two years, with hundreds of shipbuilding industries. The ports are also prosperous one day because of sea trade and sea transportation.

The salary of worker workers in Qingdao is also rising continuously, and the corresponding prices have also risen a lot.

**** He worked diligently in Qingdao and saved up some money. He usually had no other hobbies. In his spare time, he liked to drink a big bowl of tea from a boy at the big bowl of tea shop next to the dock, and then listened to newspaper readers in the tea shop reading newspapers and news all over the world.

In addition to drinking big bowls of tea and listening to newspapers, he also has another hobby, which is smoking. This is also learned from his colleagues in Qingdao. It is very hard to carry work at the dock. The workers like to drink and smoke. However, if they don’t drink, they are easily drunk when they drink, and the most important thing is that drinking costs money.

Smoking is cheaper. If you don’t buy rolled cigarettes, you can only buy cheaper tobacco and use a dry tobacco pole to smoke. In fact, it doesn’t cost much.

Sitting on the big stone, Wei Xin packed a pot of cigarettes and started smoking beautifully.

When he got home today, he specially wore a new outfit, a very thick blue cloth, and a wool vest spun with wool. His hair had just been trimmed, his face had been shaved, and his beard had been trimmed, and he was very energetic.

This year is his second time going home. Under normal circumstances, the villagers who go out rarely go home. It is normal to go back a year, and it is even normal to go back once every two or three years for a livelihood.

Although the dynasty changed, the family in the Yimeng Mountains still lived a hard life. Even though the court reduced everyone's taxes and asked the landlords to reduce rent and interest rates, the mountains were too barren.

The land in the mountains is already produced very little, and there are not even a few real landlords. Their family does not have a mu of their own land and they have always relied on renting land for others. However, there are few fields in the mountains, and even if they rent the land, they will not have a few mu of them.

****, who have seen the world outside, are very clear. If they live in the past, they will always be like this, and they will suffer forever.

After smoking a bag of cigarettes, **** knocked the cigarette pot on the stone, then put it away, carried the bag and continued to come up.

In winter, the mountains are almost in the same color, gray.

What development can you do if you stay in such a mountain nest? You can live by planting a few acres of land a year, and the output is low. You have to pay rent for a little grain. The rest of your life is not enough for the whole family to eat.

There is no other income in the mountains. There are stones and trees all over the mountain, but even if there are trees, there is no way to transport them out. Many children are born, and the boy will send them to the landlord's family to herd cattle and sheep when he is seven or eight years old, and the girl will even give them to others as a child bride when he is eight or nine years old.

When the son grows up, getting married becomes a big and difficult task. He needs to borrow all his relatives and friends, and sometimes he can only rely on changing his relatives and friends. When the daughter-in-law gets married, the family will owe a lot of debts.

****Every time I walk on this mountain road, I think that there will never be a chance to turn around here. The outside world is changing with each passing day, but there is no change in the mountains.

In fact, some changes began to change. Last time he went home, he found that there were many fewer people in the village, and only some elderly women and children were left behind in the village. His father told him that the county sent people to organize young and strong men in the village to go out to make money. The county organized them to take them out, which was actually to open mountains and roads in Yishui Prefecture, build cities and embankments.

But unlike the past labor and labor, this is a voluntary trip. It is a voluntary trip. It is a food and food. The county takes care of the travel expenses, food and accommodation when it comes to the field, and the work is calculated on a daily basis. It is said that there is a basic salary every month. Even if it is raining and cannot start work, if the work starts less, at least there is a basic salary, with a monthly salary of at least one yuan silver dollar.

If you can get about three silver dollars a month under normal circumstances, you don’t have to pay for your own food and accommodation. This is equivalent to having a dime of silver dollars every day.

Although this is not as good as **** working at Qingdao Wharf, he is familiar with it. Now he can earn at least four silver dollars a month, and spend the rest of his food, drink and accommodation.

However, for most villagers, it is already quite good to have a chance to go out and make money like this. You can earn three yuan a month, which is more than they did in the previous year.

All the young and strong people in the village went there, and many half-old boys and half-old men competed to go there.

But this will not change the poverty in the mountains in the end.

There is no good land in the mountains, there are too many mountains and few fields, and there is no land of your own. So you can only rent the land forever, and you can't even rent it. Although there is a way out to go out and live, it is better to have your own land after all.

But having a piece of your own land was just a luxury in the past.

There are fewer fields in the mountains and more expensive fields, so how can I buy them?

But now, there is an opportunity in front of them, and as long as they are willing, they can own a piece of their own land. After confirming the news, he immediately rushed back to his hometown overnight.

When he thought of this, his pace couldn't help but speed up a lot.

A village appeared on the hillside in front. The village was not small, with more than a hundred families, but there were almost no changes in the past decade. The gray thatched roofs and loess walls were almost the same. The low houses were crowded on this hillside, and there was no room for decent stone walls.

Looking at the village getting closer and closer, he sighed in his heart. Why is there no flat land?

At this time, he couldn't help but remember the news he heard in Qingdao. As long as he went outside the pass, if he went to Liaoxi Province, one person could get twenty acres of land. If he went to Yanbei, one person could get thirty acres of land. If he went to the south of the desert, one person could get 50 acres of land. If he went to Liaodong, one person could get 60 acres, but if he went to Liaobei Province, one person could get 100 acres.

One hundred acres of land are said to be good land, flat and broad fields are all black soil. Chopsticks can sprout when they are inserted into the roots. There is no other difference except for the cold spots in winter.

But when he thought of a person with a hundred acres, his heart was trembling. They also said, if you really have the ability to reclaim more than one hundred acres, you will also farm. Moreover, when you go to immigration, the court will be responsible for their relocation and resettlement, and even when you arrive at the land, the reclaim was tax-free in the first three years.

He didn't care whether he was tax-free, what he cared about was that one person had 100 acres of land.

If their family moved to settle down in Liaobei, and his family now has eleven people, wouldn’t they be able to get 1,100 acres of land? Eleven hectares, the land in their entire village is not so much.

He thought that so many lands would not be able to grow at that time. But he also heard that the court would rent them cattle and horses and the latest steel farm tools. Although there were a lot of land, the land was good, and it was convenient to cultivate it. One person would not have a problem.

If you take the land you have first cultivated, if you take turns to cultivate the land, divide the land into three pieces, and cultivate two pieces each year, and take turns to take one piece, and if you take a turn to take more than 30 acres of land a year, you will take more than 30 acres of land a year.

**** I had long occupied all the land for each person, and he never missed it.

Although he could earn four silver dollars a month when working in Qingdao, which was much better than digging food from the soil. But in his heart, he still dreamed of having a piece of his own field since he was a child.

If my father and brothers knew about this news, they would definitely be willing.

He made up his mind that even if his father and brothers refused to leave his hometown, he would have to leave. After seeing the world outside, he was not so attached to this small mountain village in his hometown.

The sun gradually sets, and Weishan has already reached the entrance of the village.

The village was quiet. In the past, in winter, everyone was always fine. They either cooked fire at home, picked some herbs at the mountain, or went to the mountains to log wood and burned charcoal. In the past, in the evening, the village was always very lively. The chimneys on the roofs of every household began to rise, and the children were playing outside, and the adults were having fun and chatting about each other.

But now, the village is empty.

The appearance of the **** in blue cloth clothes finally attracted the attention of the villagers. The third uncle at the village head looked at him from a distance, and it took a while to confirm that it was him.

Yuanyuan shouted loudly, "Oh, the big kid from the Laowu family is back. Why are you coming home at this time and you are carrying such a big bag, what is it?"

**** also called the Third Master from afar.

"San Master, I have something to do when I come back. I will come to my house to sit down and have dinner together. I brought wine from Qingdao and drank two glasses later."

"Okay." The third uncle replied with a smile.

**** said hello to the third uncle and accelerated his pace to walk towards his home. On the way, he met several village uncles. He also greeted them one by one and asked them to sit at home later.

**** walked to the door of the house and pushed open the familiar wooden door. The gray-haired mother was chopping pig grass in the yard. At the beginning of the year, the family bought four piglets with the money he brought back from working in Qingdao and raised pigs at home. The four pigs were not raised for themselves, but for sale. This is a rare way to make money at home.

When my family was in debt, I couldn’t afford to raise it if I wanted to.

The gate of the courtyard sounded. Wei's mother turned her head and saw that her eldest son was back. She threw down the knife and hurriedly came forward.

"Big baby, why are you back?"

"Have you eaten?"

**** put down his bag and smiled, "I have something to do when I'm back, but I haven't had a meal yet."

"I'll cook for you and cook cakes."

"Mom, I brought some vermicelli back, you can take it with you. I will call the third uncle and the others to have dinner together and want to talk about it."

****Mother looked at the large bundles of gray fans he took out from his bag and hurriedly said, "This is the fan. Spend a lot of money, hey, what is spending that money? You have to save money even if you have money. You haven't gotten married yet."

"This is made of sweet potato flour, and it is not worth much. And it is all given by my colleagues. Just boil the water and put it down and cook it, just like cooking noodles." **** introduced the method of the vermicelli to my mother.

"Mom, are my father and my brother still building roads outside?"

"Well, I came back once a few days ago, saying that the construction site there is very busy now, and everyone has to work overtime, and they have to work until the New Year before the New Year to take half a month off. However, busyness is busy, but there are still extra money to work overtime." Speaking of this, Wei's mother felt very pleased. She has been poor for most of her life and is more eager for money than ordinary people.

"Where is the girl, mom?"

"Oh, I've gone to herd the sheep, I'm probably coming back soon."

**** There are many sisters, which is also the tradition here. Although every family is poor, the more children they give birth to. His mother gave birth to more than ten, several died, and there are still nine children, but in the mountains, it is not very many.

**** is the eldest among his brothers, but he still has four sisters. His mother gave birth to several uncared ones in a row, which made his father anxious. Fortunately, after giving birth to ****, he gave birth to several sons in a row.

All four sisters were married, and they were all nearby villages, as poor as they were. There was only one younger sister in the family, now twelve, and three younger brothers were from 18 to 14, and now they were all working with their father outside to build roads. Originally, he planned to do something for his brother in Qingdao, but now he had other plans.

"Big baby, did you find a job for your brother in Qingdao when you came back?"

**** worked in Qingdao and earned four silver dollars a month, which made him a capable person in the village. Many people hoped that **** could take their children to Qingdao.

****, however, thought that taking on jobs in Qingdao is also working for others, so how can I compare to having my own territory?

This time he rushed back and discussed with his family that he would mobilize everyone to immigrate outside the customs. Even the place was selected, so he went to Liaobei Province. When he was in Qingdao, he heard a lot of news and knew that many immigrants had already been there in the southern part of the western desert of Liao, and that good places must have been picked out by others.

And he also heard that the land in northern Liaoning Province was a large plain, with more fertile than in western Liaoning, let alone the south of the desert. Moreover, there were more fields there, so far away.
To be continued...