Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 198: Village Dividends

"Alliance leader, you said it very well. I'll toast to you. Most of us have lost our homes in the famine.

My family of six all starved to death on the way to escape famine. If the alliance hadn't given me something to eat, I would have starved to death long ago. The Yanhuang Alliance is now my second home.

Now I eat and live in Yanhuang League every day. We are taught to read and write in the hall. My parents have never been so kind to me.

Leader, as you mentioned about joining the full-time combat department, I will be the first to sign up.

My life was given by the leader and the Yanhuang League, even if you let me die now, I won't even blink an eye." After Hou Xiaoge finished speaking, a young man of 18 or 19 years old shouted to Hou Xiaoge excitedly while holding a glass of wine.

"Good brother, work hard and don't cry about death all the time. Try to find a wife next year to continue the family line for your family." Hou Xiaoge is about 1.6 meters tall, but he has no problem patting people on the shoulders.

"Well! I will definitely marry a wife next year to continue the family line in my family." The young man looked excited.

"Did you hear me? Save the salary the alliance gives you. If I find out who lost the money in gambling, you better be careful.

After the New Year, I will ask the Women's Union of Wenshutang to introduce wives to everyone. Don't worry if a girl falls in love with you. "Hou Xiaoge stood on a stool with a loudspeaker and shouted to the surrounding disciples of the War Hall.

"Ha ha!"

"Alliance leader, I also want to find a wife. Can you find a few for me from the Wenshutang?" Tieli said innocently.

"You are already twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. You didn't know how to find a wife before, and now you want to get married? How many can you find? Don't you think your waist can't bear it?" Hou Xiaoge stood on a chair and held the microphone and scolded with a smile.

The people around laughed even more when they heard this and started teasing the hall master.

"Didn't I focus on practicing martial arts before? Don't I have time?" Tieli scratched his head with a red face.

"My friend, others may not know, but I do. You only know how to practice martial arts and have sold all your assets. If that girl dares to follow you, she will be left with nothing."

"Ha ha!"

"Humph! My monthly salary is over a hundred, plus the bonus, it's four to five hundred a month, I have money.

"Leader, introduce me to a pretty one, with a big butt, a face as pretty as Miss Wenjun's, and she should be literate and have big feet." Tieli said to Hou Xiaoge with a grin.

"My friend, you are probably looking for a college student. How could someone like you, a rough guy?" Several other hall masters who came with him teased.

"roll roll roll!"

"Haha! It shouldn't be a problem for Master Tie to find a college student now.

Wenjun, remember this? Go back and find a pretty girl like you for Tietang.

Of course, you need a big butt." Hou Xiaoge said with a smile to Wen Jun who followed.

"Understood, Leader." Although Wen Jun's face was red, he still nodded generously.

Wenjun had no choice but to blush because she had a small butt!

After returning from the war hall, Hou Xiaoge called all the hall masters together for a meeting, asked everyone to arrange their duty during the New Year, and finally gave each hall master 2,000 yuan in New Year's money.

"Wenjun, the alliance is temporarily in your hands. If anything happens, discuss it with the hall masters and make the decision on your own." Before leaving, Hou Xiaoge called Wenjun to the office and gave him some instructions.

"I understand, leader. You can go back without worry. I'll take care of everything." Wen Jun nodded with a smile.

After leaving the Yanhuang Alliance and resuming his disguise, Hou Xiaoge felt relieved. During this period of more than ten days at the end of the year, he had basically had no rest and was busy every day.

It is the 29th day of the twelfth lunar month, and it can be said that the Chinese New Year has already arrived. Most households have already made preparations and are waiting for the New Year.

However, as Hou Xiaoge walked along the way, he still encountered many refugees begging on the streets and sleeping in the fields and streets.

During the Chinese New Year a few days ago, Hou Xiaoge asked the Yanhuang League to provide free porridge for three consecutive days at several city gates and near the train station.

One thousand shi of wheat bran and cornmeal were consumed, and five thousand oceans were spent to purchase 1,600 quintals of sweet potatoes to distribute to the victims.

This is the best Hou Xiaoge has done, but times are like this. He tried his best to save the child and all he wants is to have a clear conscience.

Unlike the disaster victims on the road, the villagers of Nanjiagou and their relatives outside the village have made a lot of money during this period, and one or two kilograms of rice is more than enough to celebrate the New Year.

Take Li Dagou, who begged Hou Xiaoge for a living, for example. He has been earning a little over one or two cents a day for the past ten days, and he only needs to spend three cents a day to buy a lot of mashed sweet potatoes in the village to feed his family.

Now the couple has saved up two dollars. For the New Year, they bought a pound of pork and three pounds of apples. They ate the meat themselves and planned to give the apples to Hou Xiaoge and Wu Ye.

As for the families of Hou Xiaoge and his childhood friends, especially Yangwa's family, wow! They are really rich!

Yangwa's family was bold in seeking advancement. They were the first to engage in wholesale and were the first to stock up hawthorns before anyone else in the village. They even borrowed thirty dollars from Wang Maimiao for this purpose.

With sufficient supply, Yangwa's family can wholesale hundreds of strings of candied haws every day. Together with the sales of Yangdan brothers, the family earns three or four dollars a day.

The family savings now definitely exceeds twenty dollars, not counting the inventory at home.

When Hou Xiaoge left the village yesterday, he heard from the villagers that someone came to Yangdan's house to introduce a wife to Yangdan, and she was an educated local girl.

Except for Yangwa's family, the families of the other childhood friends were not so well off, but each of them had at least eight or nine oceans in income, so it could be said that they had all turned their fortunes around.

Although other villagers were not making as much, each family still earned three or four dollars. Some of those who worked in the village workshops made even more money, which was enviable, especially the five kilograms of fat meat distributed by the village workshop yesterday.

Hou Xiaoge is the initiator of the village workshop and the link of the Yanhuang League. The village held a summary meeting in the evening, and Hou Xiaoge was also called to the meeting to settle the accounts.

I heard that the village's net profit this year was more than 2,800 yuan, excluding taxes and other miscellaneous items, except for the inventory value of 3,000 yuan.

The profits scared Mr. Qi so much that he no longer dared to manage the accounts and said that he had to sleep with the silver box in his arms at night.

However, although this money belongs to the village collective, the villagers have no say and it is all handled by Hou Xiaoge and several clan elders.

Finally, after discussing how to divide the profits, except for the villagers who came later, each of the 75 households in the Hou family received ten dollars.

Buy four more pigs, give each person two pounds of meat, and have a pig-killing meal together.

He was not at ease with the money he earned, so he took out a thousand dollars from the remaining money and asked Hou Xiaoge to help buy eight muskets from the Yanhuang League to strengthen the security of the village.

When the news was announced the next day, the whole village went into an uproar. When the four pigs were pulled into the village, everyone ran around and shouted excitedly.

"There are five people in my family, so we can share ten pounds of meat. I used to worry that one pound of meat would not be enough to entertain everyone! Now we can't even finish it."

"Ha ha!"

"There are five people in my family, and we can share ten pounds of meat. It's still better to be in the clan!"

"From now on, I will do whatever the clan leader and the elders tell me to do. If anyone says something bad about the clan leader and the elders, be careful or I will get angry."

"Yeah."

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At noon, the villagers lined up to get the meat, ecstatic.

"After putting the meat in, bring your bowls and come over to eat the pig-killing meal. You will be paid after the meal." Hou Yangmin shouted to the villagers while sitting on the armchair.