Chapter 98 [Such a Strong Wild Grape]

Little Jamal was scolded, but he was used to being scolded by his master, so he didn't feel embarrassed. He just scratched his hair and giggled. Belsinger couldn't do anything with him. He calmed down and said again.

"It's your job to organize people, but can a dozen male servants in our family clean up hundreds of acres of orchards? It's the slack season now, and the strong laborers in the village who don't work in our factory have nothing to do all day and sleep in the house. They are too lazy."

"Give them 50 rupees a day to organize them to work in the orchard in the back mountain, and they can also make a little money. Our workload will be completed quickly, so it's impossible to organize people in one day. Now you go and do what I say."

After getting permission from his master, little Jamal stood up with a smile, said goodbye to his master, and ran out in a hurry. He went back to his room to find the electronic loudspeaker that his grandfather used to issue orders, and then went to the village and shouted with the electronic loudspeaker.

"Hey, strong laborers in the village, please pay attention. Our Master Singh is really dissatisfied with the dirty environment of the orchard on the back mountain. We are going to organize people to clean up the orchard on the back mountain. The daily wage for each adult strong laborer is 50 rupees. Please sign up as soon as possible. There is no upper limit on the number of people. Anyone can participate."

When the old and young men who were sleeping in the house heard this, it was like hearing a call. They put on their clothes and ran out in a hurry, and then surrounded little Jamal and asked all kinds of details. Little Jamal was very smart, although he was impatient. But he considered things carefully. Seeing the crowd of more than 30 people, he found a cool place to squat and said.

"It's like this. I almost tripped when I was carrying the master down the mountain yesterday. Everyone who goes up the mountain to hunt wild animals knows this, so today the master plans to clean up the orchard on the back mountain and cut down all the old fruit trees."

"Clear the weeds and bushes, and put those stones together for use later. Every strong laborer can participate in this activity. There is a salary of 50 rupees a day. Although it is not much, it is also an extra income."

"Another and most important point is that people who go up the mountain to work must bring their own tools, machetes, axes, and iron saws, because there are too many people. The Singh family does not have so many tools to give you, so you have to bring your own. Whoever participates in this labor will gather at the gate of the castle tomorrow morning and wait for notification. You know it all."

Simple and clear, bringing your own tools to the mountain to cut trees and weed with a daily salary of 50 rupees is also an opportunity to make extra money. Anyway, you can do it when you are free. You can earn 500 rupees in ten days, which can buy a lot of things for your family.

In addition, the area of ​​the orchard on the back mountain reaches hundreds of acres, which is not a secret that everyone knows. The main thing is to clean up and clean up. It takes two months. This is a good deal. Who wouldn't be tempted? So after Mr. Jamal finished the notice, these idle old and young men returned home and began to look for things in the boxes.

Living in this small mountain village, axes, iron saws for felling trees, machetes and hoes. These are all necessary tools for life. Who doesn't have them? It's not difficult to prepare tools, but these tools are more troublesome to maintain. Some iron saws are rusted, and some axes are bent. They need to be sorted out before they can be used.

At more than seven o'clock in the morning the next day, these lazy people who usually don't sleep until 12 o'clock had a good breakfast early. Bring the kettle at home, and some dry food, most of which are pancakes, rolled with some vegetable salads, which are delicious and filling. Then take the tools and come to the door of the Singh family castle together, one by one find some cool places to squat or sit on the ground waiting to start work.

Today, Master Singh got up very early. Of course, it was the first time he got up so early, and he would definitely breathe heavily and reluctantly eat a little breakfast. Then, regardless of Lina's obstruction, he asked the mule Brooke and Jamal to prepare the sedan chair and lead people up the mountain to tidy up the orchard.

But Lina didn't expect that she couldn't stop Belsinger from leading the team to work, but she followed him up the mountain with several strong male servants carrying things. The maids followed behind with various wooden boxes, and more than 40 adult men over 15 years old went up the mountain in a mighty manner.

When they arrived at the orchard on the back mountain, they cleared a flat area at the foot of the mountain, and then Lina directed the male servants to build the pergola. Then they put the bamboo lounge chair and the bamboo coffee table under the pergola, and the maids opened the boxes in their hands and took out various kinds of tea.

There were also silver pots and silver basins for washing hands, which made Belsinger's resting place very luxurious and practical, just like an outing. Of course, the work had to be done bit by bit, starting from the foot of the mountain. Jamal led the team to knock down the fruit trees that were aging and produced sour fruits one by one.

All the leaves were cleared away. As for the unripe fruits on the trees, the Singh family would not want them. However, the villagers did not mind collecting the unripe fruits, carefully pulling out the real grass to cover them and take them home to their families to taste at night.

In the past, unless there was a specific festival, the villagers would eat ripe fruits even if they fell on the ground. So it was quite difficult for the villagers to eat some fresh fruits. All the branches and leaves on the felled trees were cut off, and branches thicker than fingers were collected and exposed to the sun.

After drying, these branches would be cut into sections and bundled in the woodshed. These branches are all good fruit woods, which are perfect for barbecue. It would be a waste to leave them on the mountain and let them rot. As the saying goes, there is strength in numbers. In one morning, 30 fruit trees were felled and all cleaned up. As for the roots growing in the soil, they needed to rot little by little and then be dug out.

This is how the morning was spent. At noon, the villagers ate the food they brought and drank some clean water. And Master Belsinger sat under the pergola with Mrs. Lina and washed their hands with a silver pot. Then the kitchen maid would bring the prepared food up little by little, and after eating and drinking, they would continue to work in the afternoon.

It was so comfortable to lie in the pergola for a long time, enjoying fresh fruits or tea. After a morning of sleep, Belsinger was refreshed and could no longer lie down. He planned to get up and stretch his muscles, accompanied by the human mule Brook. Wandering around in the orchard at the foot of the mountain, he selected some fruit trees that could be left and marked them.

Just after turning the foot of a mountain, I didn't expect to see a small valley, with green grape vines climbing all over the cliff. Moreover, these grape vines were more than ten centimeters thick, and it seemed that they had grown here for some years.

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These grapes were densely connected, but these grapes were very small and dark purple. This is the best raw material for making wine. Wild mountain grapes did not expect to grow so many in this valley. There were hundreds of them, and the number of densely connected grape bunches on them was countless.