Escape from the desert

Chapter 217
The harvest of peppers is far less exciting than the earing of late rice. They only know that helping Aunt Jiang grow peppers can be exchanged for money, but they don't understand the magical effect of this pepper.

But rice is different. In addition to water resources, human beings are indispensable to life, followed by food. Food is the most important thing for the villagers. For the villagers, this is the basis for their survival.

At this time in previous years, after the autumn harvest was over and the village paid its taxes, the remaining grains had to be quickly carried to the town to exchange for coarse grains. Even so, this grains could not satisfy them every day.

In winter, many people in these ten miles and eight villages will starve to death every year, but this year is different. With this season of late rice, not only will no one in their Linjia Village die of starvation this year, but every year in the future, as long as every family Plant two crops of rice every year, and no one will starve to death again!
Before planting late rice, they still couldn't believe it, and even suspected that Aunt Jiang was deliberately tricking them into wasting their energy to plant late rice.

But now that the ears of rice have come out, all their previous doubts have disappeared, and now Aunt Jiang is their benefactor, the benefactor of everyone in Lin Family Village!
"Xiaojiang...you are the benefactor of our Lin Family Village!" The village head changed his tone in vain, the excitement disappeared instantly, his small eyes were filled with tears instantly, and the old face with many lines and horizontal lines was instantly filled with tears, and his voice was choked with sobs: "I'll go back now and let the old patriarch write the matter of the late rice in the genealogy."

Li Zheng, who was on the side, was also in tears, but he snorted coldly, glared at the old village chief with his teary eyes like sharp knives, and said in a crying voice: "Look at you, you are stingy! Not only this time The late rice, the water source in the village, the abundant pepper harvest, the private schools in the village, and the newly built roads, all of these are not because of Xiaojiang. Xiaojiang!"

Lizheng wiped away his tears, shrugged his stuffy nose, "Mr. Qiao is not good at painting, let me tell you, we will ask Mr. Qiao to draw a full-body portrait of Xiaojiang in a while, and hang it in the ancestral hall. Leave a genealogy to record all Xiao Jiang's contributions to the village, and we will support her in the whole village during the holidays in the future!"

The village chief nodded again and again: "Yes, yes, I will arrange it now!"

A group of people were full of tears, excited and moved, crying sporadically, listening to Li Zheng's words, and nodding their heads in response.

Jiang Yan: ...

Jiang Yan watched this scene speechlessly, the smile on her face had turned into numbness, there were so many flaws, she didn't know how to speak for a while.

There is an old house with blue bricks and white tiles in the center of the village, which is the ancestral hall of the Lin family. As far as Jiang Yan knows, the ancestral hall enshrines the tablets of the ancestors, and the portraits enshrined are generally portraits of those who have made great achievements in the past, but these people have all passed away. of!

And she is still alive!That someone is alive, and the portrait is placed in the ancestral hall for everyone to worship and worship!

Don't say she can't bear it, even if she can afford it!She doesn't have the guts either!
In the past, Jiang Yan didn't believe in ghosts and gods. She was an out-and-out atheist, so she didn't have to be afraid of walking at night, but after crossing, she dared not believe in these things.

With the mentality of being either trustworthy or not, she dared not walk at night at night!

"There is no need for portraits, village head, Li Zheng, I am not the only one responsible for this late rice. If it weren't for you, the village would not be able to grow late rice. I just made a suggestion, mainly thanks to you all!" Jiang Yan said to Said to everyone.

In the end, she quietly turned her head and said to Jiang Wen in a low voice, "Remember to tell Qiao Le later that no matter who in the village asks him for a portrait of me, don't draw it, and you aren't allowed to draw it either!" She didn't want to be hung up Go to the ancestral hall!
Along the small field ridges, there are many elderly people in the village. The number of people the Lin family needs to build a house gradually increases, from fifty or sixty people at the beginning to hundreds of people at the end. Therefore, most of the people who walk around the fields in the village are the elderly at home.

But if you are an old man, you are not really very old, you are only 50 years old, but in this era, 50 years old is considered an old man.

"Woooo! If I knew it earlier! If I had known, I would have dug two more acres of land! My family only planted one acre of land! I regret it, my new liver hurts..."

"Ah...me too! Was my head kicked by a mule back then! I didn't believe Aunt Jiang..."

"Woo... my family too..."

For a while, some people were excited and some were crying. Those who didn’t grow any fields at home knelt down and beat their chests regretfully, because they doubted that what they didn’t grow was not only food, but also their lives!
For farmers, food is life, a guarantee for their livelihood, and it is also something they use to exchange for money, so less food is not only food, but also a small amount of money!

"It's okay, okay! All the paddy fields in my family have been planted!" The small group of people who believed in Jiang Yan at first grinned widely, and looked at the rice in the field, even more so from ear to ear.

This late rice has never been short of water, and it has been carefully cared for by them. It grows better than the autumn harvest. Not surprisingly, the harvested grain must be more than the autumn harvest!

Each of the villagers said something, some were happy and some were sad, but most of them were grateful and fortunate. No matter what, at least the whole village could harvest a season of rice for nothing this year without paying taxes.

"Aunt Jiang! Thank you...you are my family's benefactor!"

"It's also my family's benefactor. If it weren't for you, even if I didn't pay taxes this year, my family's food would not last through winter. Now, with this season of late rice, my family can have enough food in winter!"

"My family is also..."

This year's autumn harvest is worrisome, and the quality is also poor. Villagers carry it to the town to exchange money at a lower price than other villages.

And as soon as the late rice of this season comes, even if they don't carry it to the town to exchange money, every household in Linjiacun will be able to spend the year in peace.

As they talked, those who planted a lot of paddy fields because they believed in Jiang Yan were all grateful to kneel down, and most of them were older than Jiang Yan, but they didn't care how much they wanted to kowtow to Jiang Yan A grateful nod.

Jiang Yan was so frightened that she hurried to help her. Unexpectedly, the village chief and Li Zheng also followed suit, and they both knelt on the ground.

"Xiaojiang, from now on, you can do whatever you say in Linjiacun. Although the village chief and I are older than you, our brains are not as good as yours. The two of us have led Linjiacun for so many years, and our lives are getting worse and worse. After you stand up, not only your family's life will get better and better, but the village will also get better and better because of you, from now on, the village chief and I will be at your command!"

Li Zheng was a small official arranged by the county government. He said that the village head had 1 support. Looking at the rice fields swaying in the wind, he immediately fell to the ground willingly, and was about to kowtow to Jiang Yan.

(End of this chapter)