Heartless Prince's Palm

Chapter 70 The Joy of Harvest

"Let Dahei go to rest, replace Xiaohei, and leave directly without going into the city."

Wait until noon?You don't need to ask and you have to spend money. Although she doesn't lack these, she doesn't want to waste time.

Taking advantage of no one's attention, Xiaoqing led the little black donkey out. The two look alike, and those who are not familiar with them can't recognize them at all. For convenience, there are more than ten donkeys raised in the space.

After a cup of tea, they went on the road again, and saw the waves of wheat rolling on both sides. Although the drought was severe this year, the farmers did not resign themselves to their fate. They were watering as much as possible, but the ears of wheat were not as full as in previous years, and there was still a harvest after all. .

"It seems that production reduction is a foregone conclusion. Will the emperor here reduce taxes?"

After going to the military camp twice, Xiaoqing also learned some new words, although she didn't understand them very well.

"Tax reduction? It's fine if you don't increase it. What are you fighting for? It's money. Those soldiers who are conscripted are not allowed to eat or wear clothes?"

The decline of every dynasty must be due to the fact that the people can no longer survive, and if there is a natural disaster after excessive expropriation, the emperor must be the one who is finished.

Xiaoqing suddenly thought of another question,
"There are so many lands in our family, do we pay more taxes, run fast, don't hire short-term labor, there are so many people in it, just find a few out."

It's not that Ye Xing hadn't thought about this problem, but she still rejected it in the end. After all, she is not a normal person. If something goes wrong, it will hurt her parents.

"How much does it cost to hire a day laborer? Don't be fooled. By the way, what do you do with the new ones?"

They captured a group of Kucha people and included them according to the standards of bandits.

"These people haven't been raised well, so they can't be used for the time being."

The two chatted, and time passed quickly. Two days later, they returned home. As soon as they arrived at the entrance of the village, they saw a scene of harvesting.

"Hey, Xing'er is back? Hurry up and go to your Zhuangzi, it's very lively today."

It turned out that four or five men were competing in the field. Uncle Xia said that the wages are calculated on the basis of mu. If they can finish cutting in one day, they will eat stewed meat in the evening.

Ye Xing nodded secretly, rushing to harvest, the most outstanding thing is grabbing, if the money is counted by the day, they must be slow in doing things, if it rains, a year's hard work will be over.

Xiaoqing was infected by this atmosphere, jumped out of the donkey cart and came behind Xia Zheng,

"Come on, I'll give you the sickle, you take a rest first."

After finishing speaking, with a coincidence, the person came to the side and stood beside Ye Xing,

"Didn't my father come back?" She looked around just now, not only were her uncles not there, but there was no sign of her father either.
"I didn't inform the master. I came back recently with a frown. It's difficult to do the work of the public."

Only Ye Xing knows that his father is not hard at work, but worried about the weather. Recently, the harvest has been rushed, and the people don't care to think about it. When there is no rain during the autumn sowing, everyone will panic. After doing the math, there are already three. There is no rain in the month, and the weather is not normal.

Xiaoqing is fierce, and after a while, he caught up with the man in front. The man is also from the village and knows Xiaoqing.

"Brother Qing, why are you here? Don't compete with us for jobs. Wouldn't it be good to be your boss?"

The Xia family has nothing to do with work, after all, they can't do it, but this one is too brave.

At noon, not only Mrs. Xia, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came, but Niang and Xueniang also carried big baskets. Grandmother and Ye Yue each carried a big basket with bowls and chopsticks inside.

"You're back?!" Seeing Ye Xing, several people were both surprised and happy, and Bai's eyes were red. These days, she couldn't sleep every day, and her husband was not around, and she suffered a lot.

"Aren't you leaving again?" After holding back for a long time, I only asked this sentence,

"Well, let's not go, you see I'm not well."

"Well, of course it has to be good. Look at your mother, how thin have you become?"

That's right, Mrs. Bai used to be very thin, but when the days got better, she put on a little weight, and now she's back to her original shape.

"Grandma, why are you not thin, do you miss me?"

She was joking with her grandmother and was patted by her cousin,
"Little heartless, grandma worships Bodhisattva every day to keep you safe."

"I'm begging Bodhisattva, let this little girl have nothing to eat, or she will come back early."

The people around laughed. The food was very rich. Although there was no meat, the steamed buns were free to eat. There was no limit. There was also a large bowl of pickles, which were fried with oil, and they were really fragrant when they were sandwiched in. A few mouthfuls made one big bun.

"How is it? Can we collect it at night? My meat is already stewed in the pot."

The old lady Ye was happy, and ran to the field. She was the main force in harvesting in the past, but this year she was not allowed to go to the field. Because of this, she even quarreled with her daughter-in-law.

"Grandma, you can finish work before dark, do you have any wine tonight?"

This is the grandnephew of the family, and he speaks a bit out of proportion. According to the custom, Ma Ke eats enough to eat, and it depends on the master's family whether there is meat or not. But no matter whether it is the last meal or not, they almost don't serve wine, because they have another family. .

"Where do you want to drink? Let me see, it's no wonder if you don't tear it up, your mother was still crying yesterday, saying that the leftover meat was stolen, I see, it's probably because you are greedy."

"Grandma, you are amazing, he secretly baked it, and when he went back, he told his mother to beat him up."

Hahahaha, the people around laughed even more happily.

This is also the joy of a good harvest, and Bai Shi is even more happy, helping to clean up quickly, Ye Xing took Xueniang back first,

"We went back to Panlong Mountain, and they are all well, and they are all thinking about you when we talk about you."

That place was her nightmare, and she never wanted to go there again, but the people inside treated her very well, and they heard that it was all safe, so she felt relieved.

"Butler Luo came here secretly once. There was not enough food in the mountains. My aunt opened a warehouse and pulled a lot."

"Well, no one saw it?"

No matter what Luo Zhang's status is, he can't communicate with each other clearly at the moment. If he wants to raise the banner, he will be a blatant traitor.

"No, it came at night."

At night, the two women slept together, and Bai also told,

"Butler Luo came here and wanted to borrow food from us. He thought the relationship between the two families was good, and he was also a decent person, so he discussed with your grandma. He took away almost two thousand catties and issued an IOU. "

According to the market price, it is only five taels of silver, so he is so nervous?Still need to borrow?

She suffered from insomnia that night, maybe she didn't like people around her, but Mrs. Bai slept soundly. She was relieved that her daughter finally came back.

A few days later, the wheat entered the warehouse, and she called Xia Zheng to discuss the autumn sowing.

"I'm going to plant winter wheat this year, have you heard of it?"

"Winter wheat? Usually, we should plant millet. After harvesting the millet, we can plant white cabbage. In winter, there are vegetables to eat. Have you heard of wheat planting in winter? Won't it freeze to death?"

"We can't freeze to death here, so we need to discuss it. We will plant buckwheat this year. It is drought-resistant and ripens quickly."

She has already prepared the seeds, which are the second generation of space, and will grow faster.

(End of this chapter)