Rebirth of Shuangshu

Chapter 66 Harvest
Upon returning to Niu Shou Mountain, Lin Xiaoxiao first went to check the situation in the field.

Millet is doing well and sweet potatoes look okay.Millet can be harvested in half a month, and sweet potatoes will be about ten days later.

After not coming back for a long time, Lin Xiaoxiao invited the whole village to a dinner, including the beards.

In this era, there is still a regular Mid-Autumn Festival.People only worship the moon on the night when the moon is the fullest.

Lin Xiaoxiao planned to invite everyone to eat moon cakes at the moon worship festival, so she asked the aunts and girls in the village to help.

The mooncakes are eclectic, with meat fillings, soft-boiled ones, vegetarian fillings and so on.

Lin Xiaoxiao also prepared wine made by herself.

Fruit wine, due to the lack of sugar, has only been brewed for one year, and the alcohol content is not high, more like fermented fruit juice.There are all kinds of flavors, such as apricot, peach, plum and so on.

Lin Xiaoxiao even made a barbecue.

Seasoning and meat are exchanged from other savage villages, including venison, mutton, beef, roe deer and so on.

Of course hot pot is indispensable.The bottom of the pot is Lin Xiaoxiao's mushroom soup.

This year's Moon Worship Festival is the most sumptuous meal everyone has had since coming to Hua Country.There was a smile on everyone's face.

While eating, Lin Xiaoxiao met an unexpected person——Wen Shu.

Wen Shu is a traitor who betrayed Hu Zigui, why did he appear on Niu Shou Mountain?

Out of curiosity, Lin Xiaoxiao called Lu Nu over to ask.

The cause of the incident was the old Hu sacrificial vessel.

It is said that in the early spring, Hu Zigui went to the old Si Guo of Tancheng to cry miserably and complained. Afterwards, the old Si Guo secretly contacted the nobles in the capital.This summer, Si Guolao went to the capital himself and stayed in the capital for nearly two months.

With Du Wu and Wen Shu as two clues, it is only a matter of time before Shi Ben is found out as the big buyer.

After Hua Guogong came to power, business flourished, and the status of merchants improved.Regarding this matter, many nobles from the upper class originally opposed it.In the eyes of some nobles, Shi Ben's private purchase of illegal sacrificial vessels can be described as outrageous.

Si Guolao joined forces with some nobles who opposed large-scale business, and after some manipulations, Duke Hua had to arrest Shi Ben and search Shi's house.

As the leader of Shi Ben, Du Wu was also arrested, and some people related to him were also implicated.

Perhaps Wen Shu's intuition as a counselor played a role.

On the day Du Wu was arrested, Wen Shu happened to be looking for him.After witnessing the whole process in the crowd, Wen Shu didn't dare to go home and went straight out of the city.

Wen Shu only carried dozens of cloth coins with him at the time.A large amount of gold and silver was kept at home, but he was able to bear the pain to give it up. It has to be said that he was still somewhat decisive.

Wen Shu didn't dare to stay near the capital, so he could only go southwest.He didn't dare to enter the city, he only walked in the wild, and occasionally passed by the savage village for some food.

Maybe it's because Wen Shu's life should not die, but he actually met Shen Wu and A Chai who were traveling abroad.

Hearing about the changes in the capital from Wen Shu, Shen Wu went to the capital to verify the truth in person.Seeing Wen Shu's desperation again, Shen Wu was moved with compassion.

Wen Shu and Hu Zigui lived together for ten days.I heard he was honest and well behaved.

During the dinner party, Wen Shu was relatively silent, sitting just behind Huzi Gui, not talking to the people around him very much, and seemed a bit introverted, showing no signs of connecting with the villagers.After the village head greeted him, the two of them stayed far away and had no other communication.

Lin Xiaoxiao observed secretly, but didn't find anything suspicious about Wen Shu, so she didn't take it to heart.

Autumn is crisp and sunny, with a good harvest.

The day of the autumn harvest has arrived.

The whole village moved.From old to young, all out.Beard belongs to them is no exception.

Speaking of which, the first time she saw Hu Zigui standing in the field with her trouser legs and sleeves rolled up, Lin Xiaoxiao was still a little dazed.

Beard belonged to them and they planted four acres of land. There was not much farm work, and the production was enough for several of them for a year.But in Lin Xiaoxiao's opinion, it's a little less, after all, she has a habit of hoarding food.

After working for five days in a row, the millet was collected.The next step is to select the seeds and dry them.The villagers are already familiar with these procedures and can help Lin Xiaoxiao a lot.

Then came the day of sweet potato harvest.

This time it is still a whole village action.However, only one acre of sweet potatoes was planted, and it was harvested in one day.

With the harvest of this mu of land, Lin Xiaoxiao won't need to exchange points from the warehouse for sweet potatoes in the next season, and can divide more sweet potato vines to grow more land.

Before Lin Xiaoxiao took out the sweet potato, everyone was impressed by its sweetness.Later, everyone found that sweet potatoes should not be eaten too much each time, otherwise the stomach will be worrying.

This time everyone was shocked by the yield of sweet potatoes.

There was a lack of chemical fertilizers in this era, but Lin Xiaoxiao used all the composting methods she could think of, such as retting manure, plant ash, soil miscellaneous fertilizer and so on.

What she got was also amazing.This acre of land produced more than 4000 catties of sweet potatoes.Such output is amazing in this era.

Not only the villagers were shocked, even Hu Zigui looked at Lin Xiaoxiao from ear to ear.

Perhaps it was not until this moment that these people were truly convinced of Lin Xiaoxiao, a mountain girl.

Hu Zigui put down the scale in his hand, and saluted Lin Xiaoxiao solemnly.Lin Xiaoxiao saluted back.She knows what sweet potatoes mean to the hungry poor.

Sweet potatoes are full of treasures, and the roots, stems and leaves can be eaten.Lin Xiaoxiao has been looking forward to cooking millet porridge with sweet potato leaves for a long time.

It took almost a month for the autumn harvest to end.It didn't take much time to harvest, but it took a lot of time to organize later.

After all the processes are over, the villagers can finally rest.This year's farming mission is also over.

The village chief proposed to hold an autumn harvest celebration to celebrate this year's bumper harvest.Of course Lin Xiaoxiao agreed.

Harvest celebrations are more formal than whole-village dinners.

The village takes out the sacrificial utensils that have not been used for a long time. The village head and the village elders preside over it.

After the official ceremony, enter the celebration.They ate meat, drank alcohol, sang and danced around the bonfire.

Lin Xiaoxiao saw Wu Yong inviting Mei Ya to dance together, and whispered to her after Mei Ya came back.

"When will you get married?" Lin Xiaoxiao was of course referring to Mei Ya and Wu Yong.These two people often follow her, and she has long seen the ambiguity between them.

Mei Ya blushed and said: "Brother Yong said that he will go to my father to propose marriage tomorrow."

"Okay, I'll give you a big red envelope."

Maybe it was because she was too happy, but Lin Xiaoxiao felt a little drunk.

After the autumn harvest celebration, Lin Xiaoxiao rested for three days before recovering.

Then, she heard a bad news - Wen Shu disappeared.

It seems that on the day of the celebration, Hu Zigui and his group were also very happy, and even relaxed their surveillance on Wen Shu, and they didn't find him missing until they got up the next day.

They didn't even notice whether Wen Shu was running during the day or at night.

Although this incident ruined everyone's good mood, it didn't make people entangled for too long.

Even if Wen Shu ran away, he couldn't do them any harm. At most, it was a mispayment of trust.

(End of this chapter)