"Oh~"
Tian Jing drawled lazily, and as the sound of schadenfreude-filled discussions began again, she spoke faintly, "Based on what this rascal comrade said, you can sue every household in Kū Shān."
Tian Jing's words immediately silenced all other voices, the surroundings becoming as quiet as if no one was there.
"Reasons? Evidence?" Li Zhengguo's voice was light and joyous.
"Reasons? Isn't it that all households in Kū Shān have married underage women? Evidence? Just check how old the first child of each family is, and count backward, wouldn't that work?"
"There's also a witness, Comrade Er Laizi, who is a good comrade upholding women's rights with righteous indignation."
"Cooperate with him seriously, you must catch all the bad guys who have wronged female comrades."
"Okay," Li Zhengguo's joy was almost too obvious, "I will definitely cooperate seriously with Comrade Er Laizi."
Silence!
After the silence came the uproar.
"Er Laizi, you scoundrel, you can't get a wife yourself, so you're talking nonsense."
"Er Laizi, you're jealous that Zhengguo is lucky and found such a pretty little wife, but you can't drag us all down with you."
"Er Laizi, what's the use of being jealous? Zhengguo was a soldier, you scoundrel can't compare to him!"
"Er Laizi, Zhengguo being able to marry such a capable wife is his ability, what right do you have to be jealous of others, you lazy person who earns four or five work points like a woman."
"That's right, you don't even deserve to be jealous of Zhengguo."
Everyone jointly denounced Er Laizi.
Besides the younger generation, which woman didn't have her first child at sixteen or seventeen? After all, women before the founding of the People's Republic of China married at fifteen or sixteen.
Unless infertile or late in pregnancy, it couldn't be guaranteed that there wasn't a relative in the family who was pregnant back then. No wonder Zhengguo's little wife said *all* households? Indeed, no one could escape.
This little wife is formidable. It's best to provoke her less in the future. She can even use things that violate the law in daily life to counterattack, making everyone have to stand on the same line with her. A little wife who understands the law and knows how to use it reasonably is not to be trifled with.
Er Laizi was startled by the sudden shift in sentiment. Why was everyone denouncing him?
"I would never cooperate with Li Qiazi. Why are you all talking about me like this?"
"Bah! You're still arguing? Beat him."
"Right, beat him, let's go together, see if he dares to talk nonsense again?"
This Er Laizi, no wonder he took a lot of money out and didn't marry a wife, it turns out he's so stupid.
In the current situation, there was no need for him to cooperate at all. If today's words reached Director Qi's ears, the entire Kū Shān would be in trouble.
Tian Jing slightly lifted an eyelid and saw the crowd forming a circle and heard the howls within. She patted the back she was leaning on. "Let's go home."
"Mmm!" Li Zhengguo responded resolutely, going home, going home. Su Dan Novel Network.
Seeing Li Zhengguo carrying his little wife away, the crowd who had been beating Er Laizi also let go.
Each giving Er Laizi, who was crouching on the ground holding his head, a kick, they quickly dispersed. They wanted to go back quickly and tell their families to not easily provoke Zhengguo's little wife.
It was bumpy and uncomfortable, and having left the crowd, Tian Jing asked Li Zhengguo to put her down. This time, Li Zhengguo was no longer stubborn. They were already in the village, and too many people were watching. The local customs couldn't accept such intimate actions.
Although he knew the current customs, Li Zhengguo didn't want to walk separately from Tian Jing. He slightly stepped back, letting Tian Jing walk ahead, introducing her to the village layout along the way.
Kū Shān got its name from the large mountain behind the village—Kū Shān. A river, the Kū River, flowed by the village entrance, which she hadn't seen because she was asleep earlier.
Kū Shān was a village built not far from the foot of Kū Shān Mountain. Most of the villagers were refugees who had fled hardship. They felt that with the mountains and water and the Kū River blocking the village entrance, it was the best place to escape in times of war and chaos.
But now, not only could the villagers not hunt, but Kū Shān belonged to the state. The game hunted at the risk of life had to be handed over to the production team and then purchased with work points. Who was willing?
The village was built along the foot of Kū Shān Mountain in a row. Any new house plot was along the end of the village, continuing westward.
Because the original thirty-odd households had only become fifty-odd households after several hundred years, the village didn't think there was a need for planning.
The biggest reason was that the mountain land couldn't grow grain, so all the daughters wanted to marry out, and very few women were willing to marry in. Every household would have one or two unmarried men.
The village's land was between the back of the village and the foot of the mountain.
In front of the houses were each family's private plots. Although the policy stipulated three fen of private land, the land here was barren, and the production team never managed it. As long as it didn't delay the production team's collective work and you had the strength, you could cultivate as much land as you wanted, as long as you could grow grain and didn't open it in front of someone else's door.
It wasn't that no one had tried. After working themselves to death at home, opening one or two mu of land, after spending money on seeds and labor, the harvested grain wasn't enough to cover the extra food eaten during the hard work and the cost of seeds, so they gave up.
The Li family was at the end of the village. When Li's father was separated from the family, he was allocated land at the end of the village. That's right, dividing the family meant dividing the household, and after dividing the household, they could get three fen of residential land.
The Li family only had three dilapidated thatched huts and two kitchens with walls made of bamboo strips plastered with mud, which were even more dilapidated than the thatched huts. They didn't even have a fence.
They had also cultivated private land, but it wasn't profitable after growing the crops, so they gave it up. They only planted some commonly eaten vegetables in the private plot by the door. It was sparse and looked like it was about to wither.
Seeing the dozens of yellow-green spinach plants in the field, Tian Jing turned to look at Li Zhengguo. Were these the winter vegetables of the Li family?
Li Zhengguo felt uncomfortable under Tian Jing's surprised gaze. "There are quite a few small stones in this land, and the fertility is insufficient, so it has become like this."
Tian Jing didn't know how to farm. The original owner in the Tian family only took care of household chores and didn't farm. At most, during busy farming seasons, she would go to harvest and carry paddy and wheat. As for how to plant and cultivate the land, the original owner knew nothing.
Although she didn't know how to farm, she had basic common sense, so Li Zhengguo's explanation was not wrong. It's just that.
"Comrade Li Zhengguo, since there are quite a few small stones, why not pick them out? If you have the strength to cultivate a large area of land, why can't you carefully organize these three fen of land by the door?"
"Tch," a female voice sounded, "It's easy to say. Mix white sesame seeds and black sesame seeds together, and then try to sort them out yourself!"
Tian Jing looked up along the voice and saw two women with short, ear-length hair standing in front of two dilapidated, low houses on the west side, with bamboo strips exposed.
One, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with a softer facial structure than Li Zhengguo, was Li Min.
The other, a woman of about twenty, was holding a little girl who looked over a year old.