Volume 1 Peaceful Coexistence Chapter 115, Levy of the Grain Tax
"Knock knock" knock on the door.
"Yanran opened the door, what happened?"
When the surrounding neighbors heard the movement, they ran over one after another, for fear that Ni Yanran would be in trouble.
Ni Yanran was also brought out by the knock on the door, and hurriedly opened the door.
After the men, women, and children outside walked in, they saw the food in the same place, and Liu Chengfeng standing aside.
The young man who liked Ni Yanran ran forward and punched Liu Chengfeng in the face, Liu Chengfeng fell to the ground, and the young man rode on Liu Chengfeng's body and punched Liu Chengfeng vigorously.
"You stupid boy, dare to bully Yanran, see if I don't kill you today!"
Ni Yanran looked at Liu Chengfeng, who didn't fight back, hurriedly ran forward and pushed the young man away, picked up Liu Chengfeng, and scolded loudly: "Wu Yong, you want to kill him, get out!"
The young man named Wu Yong was a little confused when he was scolded, and said aggrievedly: "I'm helping you." ”
The Nissan patriarch stepped forward and asked Ni Yanran, "Yanran, what the hell is going on?"
Yanran shook her head and said, "I don't know, the silly boy looked like crazy when he saw the food on the table, and poured all the food on the ground." ”
The Nissan patriarch looked at the chicken and duck meat on the ground, and said: "After the land is divided, the people who are alive are not only our Miao Jiang people, the silly boy should have come from afar and lost in the sea, it seems that they are not the meat of animals, and it is possible that they have been oppressed by the orcs, so they escaped." ”
Ni Yanran looked at Liu Chengfeng in her arms, and said with some distress: "The stupid boy's life is so hard, I won't make these chickens and ducks in the future, and I will mainly focus on green vegetables in the future." ”
Wu Yong was still a little unhappy, pointed to Liu Chengfeng, who was a little flustered, and said, "Let me tell you, if you dare to bully Yanran, I will definitely not let you go!"
After Wu Yong was pulled out by the Nissan patriarch, Ni Yanran calmed Liu Chengfeng for a while, then cleaned all the food on the ground, and then went to the kitchen to make some light meals, and then pulled Liu Chengfeng down to the dining table.
Liu Chengfeng picked up the dishes and chopsticks and took a bite, Ni Yanran was also relieved, so she also sat down at the table and began to eat.
Ni Yanran looked at Liu Chengfeng's demeanor and said, "I don't think you look like a fool, you look white and clean, although you can't speak, you haven't done anything stupid." ”
Liu Chengfeng still ate by himself, without speaking or looking at Ni Yanran.
After eating, Ni Yanran took out the wine she bought outside this afternoon and gave it to Liu Chengfeng.
"I didn't want to give it to you, drinking alcohol is not good for your health, but I always feel that you have something in your heart, that's why it will become like this, if you drink and you will feel more comfortable, then you can drink, I hope you can cheer up one day." ”
Liu Chengfeng took the wine into his room, lay on the bed and drank it in a big gulp, and fell asleep unconsciously.
It was noon the next day when she opened her eyes again, and Ni Yanran didn't know where she had gone, and she had already finished drinking her wine.
Liu Chengfeng got up to solve the problem of drainage, and at this time, Ni Yanran came back, covered in mud, and still holding fresh vegetables and wine in her hands.
Liu Chengfeng saw that Ni Yanran still had abrasions on her face.
Ni Yanran took the initiative to say: "I went to plant rice, I accidentally fell and hit the ground with my face, I saw that you were still sleeping in the morning, so I didn't call you, so I will cook for you." ”
When Ni Yanran spoke, she also showed a very good-looking smile, Liu Chengfeng was a little moved in his heart, he didn't do anything, he drank and slept every day, he didn't expect this Ni Yanran to be so good to himself.
Liu Chengfeng, who had eaten lunch, returned to the room and continued to talk to Ni Yanran about the wine he had just gotten.
"Silly boy, I'm going to do farm work in a while, you can go out for a walk if you have nothing to do, don't hold back at home, get some fresh air." ”
Ni Yanran went out after speaking, and Liu Chengfeng, who was in the room, could clearly hear Ni Yanran's conversation with others.
"Sister, you can eat this meat, if the stupid boy doesn't eat these things, it's bad at home, you take it and give it to the children, the children are in the process of growing their bodies. ”
"Yanran, you are too good to that silly boy, what can the silly boy give you? I think Wu Yong is good, although he is not as good-looking as that silly boy, but he can do farm work for you, the current world, only those who stutter can do it, what's the use of being good-looking." ”
"I can't say that, without this stupid boy, we would all have to die on the sea. ”
"Yanran is really a poor girl, no one has to support you when you are bullied, does the injury on your face still hurt?"
"It doesn't hurt, I'll get busy first. ”
Liu Chengfeng sat on the bed against the wall, listened to their conversation, and understood that Ni Yanran was bullied by others, but Liu Chengfeng still didn't want to care about anything, because he felt that he couldn't manage anything now, and if he could, the mainland would not become what it is now.
In this way, Liu Chengfeng passed a month in a muddle, and Liu Chengfeng still remembered things on the mainland from time to time, but Liu Chengfeng also integrated into life here.
Liu Chengfeng, who has never been out of the house, was taken care of very well by Ni Yanran, Ni Yanran was very tired every day, all of this was in Liu Chengfeng's eyes.
On this morning, Liu Chengfeng didn't drink, put down his three-foot sword, walked out of the door of the room, and saw that Yanran had just cleaned up and was ready to do farm work.
"I'll bring it to you when I come back at noon, stay at home, and I'll be back soon." ”
Liu Chengfeng pretended to be dumb for a month, as if it had become a habit, and still didn't talk to Ni Yanran, and then followed her out of the house.
Ni Yanran saw Liu Chengfeng stepping out of the door, and said with some joy: "Silly boy, you are finally willing to go out." ”
Liu Chengfeng smiled at Ni Yanran, and Ni Yanran said with some surprise: "I'll just say you're not stupid, you still know what I'm talking about, but it's a pity, if you weren't dumb." ”
Liu Chengfeng followed Ni Yanran to the rice planting field.
The other people who were working in the field saw Liu Chengfeng coming, and they joked: "Yo, the stupid boy is out?"
Even Wu Yong said: "How can this kind of work be done by a boy like you, who drinks and sleeps all day long, hurry up and go back to the bar." ”
Wu's words caused everyone to laugh.
Ni Yanran said to Liu Chengfeng: "Don't listen to their nonsense, since you are here, help me do some work, you can just help the fallen rice up." ”
Liu Chengfeng bent down and began to work after listening, Ni Yanran looked at Liu Chengfeng, who could really understand what he said, and was very happy.
Liu Chengfeng's heart is also very comfortable, and if he changes his lifestyle, he changes his mood, which makes Liu Chengfeng find himself again, he does not fight, he is not distressed for peace, and he lives a life of abundant food and clothing by himself.
Suddenly, a few men came, not with him, but the original villagers of Ankang Village, holding vegetables and rice in their hands, and gave them all to Ni Yanran, Ni Yanran was not polite, and accepted them all directly.
The men looked at Ni Yanran with squinting eyes, and Liu Chengfeng suddenly felt a sour feeling in his heart when he saw this scene.
Wu Yong, who was also doing farm work next to Liu Chengfeng, gritted his teeth and said, "These hooligans!"
Then he pulled Liu Chengfeng and said: "If it weren't for the sake of supporting you, Ni Yanran wouldn't have asked for their things, and let Ni Yanran accompany them every day to talk and laugh!"
At the same time, several parents came, as if they were coming to catch the rape, and knocked out the vegetables in Ni Yanran's hands.
"You shameless vixen, you seduce other people's men here every day, are you embarrassed! It's not enough to be beaten by us every day? I don't know how to change?!"
The men hurriedly grabbed the woman who came over and said, "Oh, how can the girls talk so hard, who is the vixen!
"Oh, dare to talk back to me for a vixen! We still have three children waiting to eat, you are good, give this vixen everything you eat and drink, you see I won't kill this vixen today!"
Wu Yong and Liu Chengfeng saw that the woman was about to beat Ni Yanran, and ran forward at the same time, but before they could run, another child came.
"Let's go back, everyone, the patriarch's children have come to collect the grain tax, and the village chief has asked everyone to go back. ”
In this way, the women hurriedly ran back, and they did not embarrass Ni Yanran.
Liu Chengfeng came to Ni Yanran, opened her sleeves, and saw the new and old injuries on his arms, Liu Chengfeng suddenly shed tears, he knew that this was all to support himself, he took other men's food, and was beaten by those men's wives.
Ni Yanran hurriedly withdrew her hand and said with a smile to Liu Chengfeng: "I'm fine, who told you to be good-looking, I'm willing, go back quickly." ”
Wu Yong stood beside the two of them and said two words angrily, "Create evil!"
Liu Chengfeng knew that Ni Yanran was so good to herself not because she was good-looking, but because she survived by eating something on her ship, Ni Yanran was a good woman who knew how to repay her kindness.
Another point, Liu Chengfeng can feel that Ni Yanran has some feelings for herself, so she takes care of herself so meticulously.
After following the group back to the village, they saw a group of people, like well-trained soldiers, with guns in their hands, all of which were earthen guns, which should be used for hunting, and there should be no problem in killing people when they are close.
There are four people in the group carrying a sedan chair made of bamboo, on which sits a fat and greasy man, but he looks very white, but his appearance is ugly, one has big eyes and one small eye, the point is that the mouth is crooked, and the big buckteeth are disgusting to look at.
At the back of the line, there are more than a dozen empty carts, which should be used to collect grain taxes.
One of the gray-haired old men walked out and said to everyone: "Every family has a thousand catties of grain a year, whether it is rice, vegetables, chickens, ducks, fish and meat, as long as you can make up enough for 1,000 catties." ”
Looking at the villagers who had been prepared a long time ago, Liu Chengfeng knew that this was the usual practice here, otherwise he would not have handed over the grain so happily.
But here's the problem, the thirty or forty people who fled from the Eastern Side don't have that much food to hand in.