Good farming at the foot of Changbai Mountain

Chapter 124 Harvest
The family had a reunion festival in the town. On the morning of August [-]th, the old man took his family back to the mountain.Both Wenxuan and Wenchang went back to the school to study, but Wenhan had nothing to do for the time being, and there was still a while before going to the county school, so he followed back to the mountain.People have already come to the venue, and today is the day to make an appointment to start the club, of course it has to be early.

The Xu family also kicked the stick today. As soon as Zhixin came back, he led the family's male laborers to Shendi.Now that there are enough people in the family, the children can actually not be involved, but the Xu family's children will never be idle.Besides, this stick is the biggest harvest of the year, so how can the children miss it?So Mrs. Xue and Mrs. Zhu were left to look after the house, and the rest of them all went to Shendi, and even Mingyu followed.

When Mingyu saw that white and fat ginseng being dug out from the soil, he was shocked. "Oh, sister Jinghan, is this ginseng? It's so cute, it's white and fat, it's really like a little doll." Mingyu held a ginseng tree weighing about three taels in his hand, which was very strange fiddled with.

Seeing Mingyu's appearance, Jingxian said in a somewhat incomprehensible way, "Brother Mingyu, don't make such a fuss, okay? Look at this large ginseng field, it's full of ginseng, are you going to take that Is it possible to keep a ginseng plant until dark?" She forgot that she was used to seeing it since she was a child, and Mingyu is a child who has never even seen a crop, let alone a ginseng that grows in the ground.

Mingyu smiled a little embarrassedly, holding this ginseng but reluctant to put it down. "Then where do I put it?"

Jing Xian pointed to the sack in front, "Just put it in there, a lot will come out in a while, can you still hold them all in your hand?"

Mingyu was a little reluctant to put the ginseng in the sack, and then picked up ginseng from the soil with everyone.He was wearing Wenchang's old clothes. He was doing farm work, so he couldn't still be wearing clothes made of good materials.Seeing everyone kneeling on the ground, Mingyu followed suit, knelt on the ground, and asked why.

Jingxian told Mingyu about the hard work of this kind of ginseng, and she had to kneel down all year round to serve ginseng.When Mingyu heard this, he realized that the ginseng farmer had worked so hard to get this white and fat ginseng.Later, Jingxian also talked about the imperial court's exploitation of Shennong, and Mingyu became a little angry. "Damn it, isn't this too harsh? With so little ginseng soil, you have to hand in so much ginseng. After three years of hard work, Shen Nong has to hand in nearly [-]% of the ginseng. Isn't that unreasonable?" alive?"

Jinghan over there heard the conversation between the two little ones, couldn't help but smiled, and then said, "Mingyu, we can't talk about court affairs, so don't say that in the future. This year our family If you bought the land yourself, you don’t have to hand it in. However, you have to be careful. No one has done this before. If the bad guys find out, it might be troublesome. Who knows if they will specifically target us in the future? What kind of decree will you come up with?"

After hearing this, the two younger ones stopped talking and lowered their heads to pick up ginseng.

Xu's family has 45 feet of goods this year, and they don't have to hand them in, so they can probably produce more than 800 catties of sticks.In the afternoon, looking at the nine sacks filled to the brim, everyone's hearts were sweeter than drinking honey.

The old man looked at these mallets and felt so beautiful in his heart, "I didn't expect that when I was old, not only did I buy so much land at home, but I could also use these old mallets. I never dreamed in my life Well, whoops, won’t you be buying more and more from now on? This is a good time.” The old man has been farming and planting sticks all his life, and in his heart, nothing can compare to this reality.

The people in the yamen have long been guarding the gate of the chanchangzi. They have a book in their hands, and the book says how many sticks each household should pay this year.The villagers had no choice but to hand in the sticks and scales as required before they could leave the venue.To be honest, everyone who handed over the hammer will inevitably curse in their hearts.This is Shennong's painstaking effort, so who can not feel sorry for handing it in like this?
When the villagers had almost finished handing in their sticks, the leaders of the guards asked, "What about the Xu family? Why didn't the Xu family come to hand in their sticks this year?"

Village Chief Zhou, who had been standing by the side, hurriedly said, "Master, this year the Xu family didn't want ginseng, so there's no need to call for a stick."

The man stared, "Why don't you use the ginseng? His house looks at the ginseng field and planted mallets, isn't it very good? Why don't you stop the ginseng?"

The Xu family is not far away here, so they hurried over, Zhixin, Zhiming, and of course Wenhan.Wen Han stood in front of his father and cupped his hands at the guard, "Big brother, our family won't join the soil this year. The site will be changed from this year, and our family will stay here for another two years. The family doesn’t have enough staff, and it’s too far away from there, so I don’t want to ask any more. I don’t know if Brother Cha has anything else to ask?”

The officer looked at Wen Han, he was a boy of eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing very shabby clothes.He said contemptuously, "Nanny who doesn't even have full hair, go away and let your adults talk about it."

Wen Han didn't move, smiled, and said, "Brother Cha, I'm the eldest grandson of the Xu family, I can do these things, Lord, you can tell me if you have anything to do."

The guard was a little anxious, so he said something unpleasant, "You little bastard, I told your adults to come, didn't you hear me? Get the hell out of me, and be careful that I will kick you in the ditch." go inside."

Wen Han's complexion changed, and just as he was about to speak, he heard someone next to him say, "If you have the guts, try kicking, and we'll go to the county government office to beat the drums and file a complaint. Don't talk to you, majestic scholar." , Even if you meet the magistrate, you don’t need to kneel down. How about we go to the magistrate to make a judgment?”

When everyone turned around, they saw Jinghan and the others coming.Jinghan looked at the servant, and smiled contemptuously, "Brother, you have a reputation as a scholar, what's wrong? When you came back from Fucheng that day, didn't you go to the county government office? How could there be such a thing?" Kind of blind things don't know you?"

An officer next to him also recognized Wen Han at this moment, and hurried to the leader to say a few words.The leader's expression changed drastically after hearing this, and he hurried to Wen Han with a smile on his face, "I didn't recognize Xu Xiucai because of my clumsy eyes, please forgive me for my bad eyesight, you should be damned. A small punishment."

In fact, a scholar doesn't have much rights. At most, he doesn't have to serve corvee, he can see officials without kneeling, and nothing else.However, when Wen Han and the others went to visit the magistrate, there happened to be someone who was familiar with the Lu family sitting next to him, so the magistrate knew the relationship between the Xu family and the Lu family.Coincidentally, that officer happened to be serving at the side that day, so he knew more.He just quietly told the leader about the matter.The leader heard it, it's not bad, is the Lu family something that ordinary people can provoke?

Wen Han never thought of doing anything with his status as a scholar. Seeing the appearance of the person in front of him, although he was disgusted in his heart, he didn't show it on his face. "What did Brother Cha say? You just want to ask the matter clearly. But Brother Cha will have to pay attention in the future. If one day he misreads and offends someone he shouldn't, then I don't know what will happen." It's over."

The guard kept saying yes, and kept on paying for it, Wen Han waved his hand, "Brother Cha is tired enough for the day, and now all the ginseng has been collected, so go back to the yamen quickly. If there are so many ginseng on the road What's wrong, you can't afford to be a big brother?" Wen Han's tone was a little cold, he was really impatient to deal with such a person.

When the officer heard this, he hurriedly said goodbye to Wen Han, and then he and everyone tidied up all the carriages, and then drove the carriages away.

As soon as these people left, Jingxian snorted towards their backs, and then everyone went back to the house.There were nine big sacks in the room. If the sacks were full, they should be able to hold more than 90 kilograms of sticks. This was the first time the Xu family had a bumper harvest.

"Grandpa, in order to get more ginseng, we had no choice but to hand over so many sticks, and now it's hard work. There will be more and more sticks in our family, and grandpa will be so happy that he can't sleep Yes." Jing Han ran to the old man's side and said with a smile.

"Isn't it? At the beginning, I didn't think that our family would still have this day. Well, old man, even if I die, I can close my eyes. The ancestors of the old Xu family, I, Xu Chengkuan, are right You guys." The old man was full of emotions for a moment, Xu family ancestors had grown ginseng for a living, but no one could grow so much ginseng, this is the pride of a ginseng farmer.

"Grandpa, what are you talking about? What is immortal? Your old man wants to live a long life, watching his grandson marry a wife and have children, and then watch his great-grandson grow up. Our family will get better and better in the future, Grandpa just wait and enjoy the blessing." Wen Han moved to the old man's side, and described the bright future to the old man.

"Okay, okay, grandpa must live a good life. Seeing you all get married and start a career, grandpa will take care of his grandson." The old man was full of joy, imagining the beautiful scene of four generations living together in the future.

Mrs. Xue and the others have already prepared the meals, and now they are laying out all the meals and calling everyone to eat. "I've been tired for a whole day, so I hurried to eat, and I have to make goods tomorrow. With so many sticks, we have to work for several days. Finish eating soon, and everyone has a rest."

Everyone was indeed exhausted, they wolfed down their meals, and then went to rest.

(End of this chapter)