Chapter Seventy-Three: Harvesting Grain

In the paddy fields about 100 acres east of Qingshui Village, only a short section of rice stubble has been left in the originally golden paddy fields like the sea. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 In the barn at the edge of the field, rice is piled up as high as a hill, and Wang Jin, Chen, and the long-term workers are counting the total amount of rice, because today is the date of delivery of grain agreed with Li Mingqian.

"In addition to the grain tax to be paid and what we eat at home, there are still 20,728 catties of rice in total." Wang Jin said after dialing the last abacus.

"That's more than last year!" Chen is very satisfied with this figure, "In the past two years, God has really helped, and the wind and rain have been smooth." ”

"Yes, if the situation is so good every year, no family will have to go hungry!" Uncle Xu said with emotion.

The other long-term workers also nodded their heads in agreement, their harvest this year is also good, and with the Wang family's salary, life is even more steady. But the premise of all this is that God appreciates face, and there is no disease and no disaster.

"Sister Jin'er, the carriage that collects grain is here!" There was a cry of bolts outside the barn.

Wang Jian immediately got up and walked outside the barn, and sure enough, he saw a dozen carts pulled by horses coming in front of him, and the bolt sat on the first car and had reached the door of the barn. The car was followed by two young men in brocade robes riding tall horses, which were very eye-catching in the countryside.

After the bolt shouted this sentence, he suddenly felt a chill in the back of his head, and his heart palpitated. He turned his head to look back, but he didn't see anything unusual, so he scratched his head and left it alone.

He jumped out of the carriage and walked towards Wang Hibiscus and the other long-term workers.

Wang Jian also walked towards him with a smile.

Just as the two were about to meet, a gentle male voice sounded: "Miss Wang! ”

"Li Gongzi." Wang Jin looked at him with a smile, and said with a slight salute: "I thought it would be good for Gongzi to send a steward over, but I didn't expect it to come in person." Jin'er didn't greet her, but she was sluggish. I hope that the son will not be blamed. ”

The girl was serious. Because the amount of grain harvested this time is not small, I will come over to take a look. Li Mingqian said gently, looking at Wang Jin's eyes, but there was a faint sense of banter, as if to say why are you so polite today?

Wang Jian ignored his eyes, still with a decent smile on his face, walked up to Chen's side, and introduced, "This is my mother." He pointed to Uncle Jiang and the others behind him: "These are my uncles and uncles from Qingshui Village, who came to help my family today." Then she looked at Li Mingqian with a smile, her eyes a little naughty and provocative. Isn't it a humble gentleman who likes to pretend to be submissive and gentle, then give you more opportunities to perform.

Li Mingqian raised his eyebrows slightly, the corners of his mouth curled, and then without hesitation, he bowed to Chen, Uncle Jiang and others, and said very respectfully and politely: "Hello aunt, good uncles and uncles, junior Li Mingqian." ”

Chen saw that he was dignified and extraordinary, and he must not be the son of an ordinary family. However, with Jiang Qingliu's Zhuyu in front of her, she was quite calm, and said with a smile: "Li Gongzi is polite." ”

But Uncle Jiang and the others were a little frightened, and they all smiled with smiles on their faces, and returned the salute to Li Mingqian, saying, "Be polite and polite." "But they have been dealing with the land all their lives, and where they can do this kind of courtesy, their actions will inevitably look clumsy and funny, and their faces will be even more embarrassed.

Seeing them like this, Wang Jian suddenly regretted his behavior of playing tricks on Li Mingqian.

She was a little depressed, stretched out her fingers, pointed to the barn and said lightly: "Since everyone has arrived, let's start inspecting the grain and loading the truck." ”

Li Mingqian nodded with a smile and said to a middle-aged man behind him, "Go ahead." ”

The middle-aged man bowed to Li Mingqian with a respectful expression and commanded the others into the barn.

Weighing, bagging, loading, for a time the barn was full of people, very lively. The middle-aged man was well-directed, and everyone was busy but not chaotic.

"Mother, you go back first, I'll be here here." Wang Jin said to the Chen family beside him, "You go back and make a pot of tea, and I will send it later, I estimate that they won't be able to finish the move, so they will have to sit here and wait." ”

Chen saw that there was really no place he could help, so he nodded: "Okay, my mother will go back and prepare some tea to be delivered." She glanced at the extraordinary boy next to her, and added, "Bring some more snacks." ”

"Look at Zhang Luo, it's okay if you don't bring it, and there is no shortage of our stuttering." Wang Jin grinned.

Chen glanced at her in disgust and went home first.

"Auntie, this is...?" A magnetic, gentle voice rang in his ears.

"I'm going to get the tea ready." Wang Jin said lightly, "I only have some coarse tea at home, and I hope that my son will not dislike it." ”

"The girl's tea, of course Li will not dislike it." The voice said with a smile.

Wang Jin looked at the workers who were moving back and forth in front of him and did not answer.

"Girl, are you angry?" The voice continued to itself, "Hmm... Shooting yourself in the foot is really infuriating. ”

This man is simply disgusting! Is it tolerable or unbearable! Wang Jin took a deep breath.

Li Gongzi said and laughed, I have nothing to be angry about. I'm thinking, it's still good to be a peasant, simple and hardworking, not like some scholars-" Wang Jian turned his head to look at Li Mingqian's very hateful smile, and said with a vicious expression, "Treacherous and cunning, inconsistent on the outside, obviously a big-tailed wolf has to pretend to be a pure little white sheep!" ”

"Hehe, what the girl said is very true, this big-tailed wolf pretending to be a little white sheep is really inappropriate." Li Mingqian didn't see a trace of displeasure, touched his chin and said slowly, "But if the little white sheep wants to pretend to be a vicious big bad wolf, it will be more dangerous." He looked at Wang Hibiscus with a glint of unknown meaning in his eyes.

"But at least let people know that this little white sheep can bite too!" Not to be outdone, Wang Jin glared back.

"Hmm... That's a little curious, I don't know what it feels like for this little white sheep to bite people? Li Mingqian raised his eyebrows and said meaningfully.

Is... I'm! Wang Jian crossed her arms and turned her head away, deciding not to pay attention to this person again. Her soft cheeks were puffed out and tinged with a hint of pink because of her anger, like a freshly ripened peach, which was particularly attractive.

Li Mingqian looked at the girl's beautiful side face, and a beautiful poem couldn't help but come to mind: the state is thick and true, the texture is delicate and even.

Not... It turns out that what is written in the book is so beautiful. An indescribable emotion in his dark eyes gradually swelled and slowly subsided.

The two were silent for a moment, and the middle-aged man came over and said to Li Mingqian: "Childe, this car is full, I will arrange for them to send it back first." ”

Li Mingqian nodded, seeing that the middle-aged man seemed to be embarrassed, he said lightly: "What's wrong?" ”

"This... Childe, we are afraid that it will take more than an hour to come and go this time, if Childe waits here, I am afraid that it will be..."

"You don't have to worry about this steward, I will take Li Gongzi to my house to rest and wait, and I will not slack off." Wang Jin said slowly.

"Thank you, girl." The middle-aged man seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and bowed to Li Mingqian again: "Childe, I'm going to go." ”

This middle-aged man led more than a dozen carriages, carrying tens of thousands of catties of rice, and gradually disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Uncle Jiang, you take the others to rest here, and I will trouble you later. I'll go home and bring you tea. Wang Jin walked up to Uncle Jiang and said with a smile.

"It's okay, it's okay, you still have guests to entertain, don't worry about us!" Uncle Jiang smiled and waved his hand, "Big niece, go quickly, don't leave the guests dry!" ”

Wang Jian nodded, and greeted the other long-term workers one by one, before he walked in front of Li Mingqian unhurriedly, and said with a light expression: "Li Gongzi, come with me." ”

She walked straight ahead, Li Mingqian and Suixing followed not far behind her, with a suitable demeanor and leisurely steps, completely looking like a noble son traveling.

From the barn to Wang Jin's house, you need to pass through most of the village, and there are uncles and aunts who are still working in the fields on the road, and there are more or less prying eyes sweeping by the door of people's houses.

Every time Wang Jin met a neighbor, he would come forward to greet him, and then very carelessly forgot Li Mingqian and the others aside. The two of them were not embarrassed or angry, nor did they care about those scrambling eyes, but looked east and west with great interest, and did not let go of a jujube tree that had not yet grown by the road.

Wang Jin couldn't help admiring this person's cheekiness, and was even more discouraged, so he didn't stay any longer, and hurried home at a faster pace.

When the few of them were about to arrive at the door of Li Laohan's house, the Zhang family next door was feeding the chickens in his yard. Seeing Wang Hibiscus coming from afar, she pursed her lips and muttered something in a low voice, and was just about to turn around and continue to work, when suddenly there were two more heroic figures in her sight. When she saw the luxurious clothes and extraordinary appearance of these two people, her mouth opened slightly, and she looked surprised, thinking of the handsome young man who had caught a glimpse at the door of Wang's house a few months ago, and her eyes when she looked at Wang Hibiscus were even more contemptuous and disdainful.

Seeing that a few people had already walked to the door of her yard, she couldn't stop rushing to the top of her head with a sour feeling in her heart, looking at the chickens at her feet who were impatient to peck at her, and couldn't help blurting out: "You brute, you know that you are eating from the bowl and looking at the pot!" It's not enough to eat the fresh vegetable leaves, but you also want to eat rice buds, which are also eaten by you lowly beasts? Be careful that eating it will choke you to death! ”

She said quickly and urgently, and her voice was not small, and the three people outside the hospital naturally heard it.

Li Mingqian and Suixing didn't know why, they just thought that the woman was ignorant and her words were rude, and they didn't take it to heart.

Wang Jin frowned almost invisibly, intuition that Zhang's words were related to him. However, no matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't connect this with herself, so she just thought that she was too careful, and she didn't stop walking over.

Li Mingqian followed closely behind her, subconsciously glanced at the woman in the courtyard, and when he noticed her eyes, he couldn't help but shrink his pupils. The star behind him suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and felt an extremely dangerous aura, but in an instant, this feeling disappeared quietly, as if it was just an illusion just now.

Li Mingqian looked at Wang Jin's slender back in front of him and squinted slightly.

Are there still fresh vegetable leaves?

Before Wang Jin arrived home, he ran into Chen, who was carrying a wooden barrel with stove tea.

"Mother, I'll take Gongzi Li to the house to rest." She immediately greeted her, helped Chen carry the wooden barrel and said, "Mother, you help entertain the guests, and I will bring this tea." ”

"How good is this, it's quite heavy, where can you carry it for a little girl?" Chen Shi glanced at the two people behind him, hurriedly shook his head, took the wooden barrel, and said to Wang Jin: "You call Mu'er out and let him help you greet these two sons." Mother passed first. ”

After speaking, without waiting for Wang Jian to speak again, he walked to Li Mingqian's side and said with a smile: "The two sons will come to my house to sit down first, and I will send tea back, and then treat them well!" ”

Li Mingqian immediately replied with a salute and said softly: "It's the two of you who are bothering a lot." ”

After Chen left, Wang Jin had no choice but to take the two people into the courtyard, into the main hall, and then serve the freshly boiled tea, bring out the dim sum of Baiwei Zhai that Wang Tang was reluctant to eat, and then immediately ran to the backyard to pull Wang Mu out of the pile of books, and fulfilled the obligations of the master for her.

Since listening to Jiang Qingliu's teachings last time, Wang Mu has also become interested in studying the matter of dealing with people and things. So although the reading was disturbed, there was no dissatisfaction, but carefully tidied up the clothes, and then went to the front hall in a hurry.

Wang Jin returned to his boudoir, sat on the chair, and spurned Li Mingqian, a sven scum, in his heart. Then he caught a glimpse of the stationery scattered on the table, and couldn't help but cry: If you want to say what it means to move a stone to your own foot, this is good!

Thinking that in two days would be the day to send a letter to Jiang Qingliu, she sighed and resigned herself to grinding ink and writing with a pen. Writing and writing, she was also immersed in the twists and turns of the pen, her expression gradually calmed down, and there were no more distractions of foreign objects in her heart.