At this time, the autumn is high and cool, and it is a good time to find a secluded place and travel!

Thirteen scholars dressed in shirts and long swords at their waists left Bianliang City together, and these thirteen people were not tourists looking for seclusion, but academy students who went outside the city to observe the people's feelings on the order of Zhang Junping.

"Brother Zhou, how can we experience people's livelihood?"

"Let's go on! Since the mountain chief wants us to experience farming, it is natural to look for the village where the farmers live! The one who replied was a young man who was six feet tall, tall and tall, with a tiger-backed ape waist and a dark complexion, and this young man's name was Zhou Min.

said that he has a dark complexion, but in fact, compared to other students, it is actually not black, it is a healthy wheat color, not the black of Bao Gong.

The nearest farmland is also five or six miles away from Bianliang City, and if it had been before, it would have been almost dark just by walking.

Fortunately, during this time, running every day, practicing aerobics, and eating in the academy, these thirteen people also practiced a good body when they arrived, at least walking much faster than before.

Five or six miles of travel took only two teas.

In ancient times, one cup of tea lasted between ten and fifteen minutes, and two cups of tea took twenty minutes to half an hour.

When I came to a farm in the west of the city, there were several people plowing the fields with oxen.

Zhou Min and his classmates stood still and looked at the old farmer's farm.

The thirteen scholars stood on the ground and looked at the old farmer's farmland, which was naturally very eye-catching, and soon attracted the attention of the farmer who cultivated the land.

Out of respect for learning, the old farmer handed over the ploughing oxen to his son and greeted him.

"How many talented brothers are here, is there something wrong?"

"My husband is polite!" Zhou Min saluted the old man before asking, "We are students of Vientiane Academy, and today the mountain chief asked us a question, asking us if we know when to plant and when to harvest!"

The student replied that he planted in spring and harvested in autumn, and said that there were poets in the Tang Dynasty who wrote poems, planting a grain of millet in spring, and harvesting ten thousand particles in autumn!

I was criticized by the mountain chief, saying that this is a ridiculous statement, and asked me to wait to come to the farm to experience farming! ”

Zhou Min did not hide it, but truthfully said the intention of his thirteen people.

"What this talented brother said about spring planting and autumn harvest is not wrong!

The old man was originally from the Northland, where is the spring planting and autumn harvest that Brother Xiucai said!

But our Kaifeng Mansion is two crops a year, and we are now cultivating the land in order to plant wheat, and the wheat will be planted at this time, and it will be harvested in May and June of the following year!

Then plant corn or millet and wait until the autumn harvest! Seeing that Zhou Min was a scholar and spoke politely, the old man replied patiently.

"Thank you, uncle! I'm waiting for the mountain chief to say the same!

Students still have questions, planting a grain of millet in spring and harvesting 10,000 grains in autumn is rated as ridiculous by the mountain chief? I don't know where it's ridiculous? ”

"This, although the old man has not counted, but a millet seedling will definitely not produce as many as 10,000 grains! If a millet seedling can really produce 10,000 grains, then we and other farmers don't have to starve! The old farmer had a yearning look on his face, and the expression was to say again, how good it would be if it could really produce 10,000 particles.

"Thank you, uncle! The student also had a reluctant request, the mountain chief asked me to wait to experience farming, that is, to experience farming, naturally I have to work myself, I wonder if the old man can ask me to wait for farming? ”

"Don't you dare, you are all Xiucai brothers, and you will all be admitted to the Jinshi in the future, how can you do farm work?" After hearing this, the old farmer waved his hand again and again.

"It's okay, old man, I'm not one of those rich children who come to stretch out their hands, and our families are all ordinary people in the city!" Zhou Min said as he rolled up his sleeves and walked to the field.

But he was unprepared, he tripped over the clods in the field, and almost fell on the ground, but fortunately, during this time, he followed Zhang Junping to practice martial arts, and his skills were quite agile.

"Good, good skills! Brother Xiucai is really good! The old farmer applauded.

"My husband also knows martial arts?" Zhou Min said curiously.

"Huh! When the old man was young, he also learned some crop tricks! The old farmer stroked his beard and smiled: "I see that a few talented brothers are different from other scholars!" ”

"We are all students of Vientiane Academy, so we are naturally different from other scholars!" Zhou Min puffed out his chest proudly.

"The old man has lived forty-six, and I have never seen a scholar talk to the old man so kindly! Those who read books don't even think about working in the fields! ”

"Our mountain chief said that if you don't even know how to do farming, how can you benefit one party for the first term of office! We are asked to experience farming, when to pass his test, and when to participate in the imperial examination! When he said that the mountain chief, Zhou Min showed a strong respect on his face.

"Chief Guishan is not a mortal, if all the officials in the world can be like what Chief Guishan said, they will be official ......" The old farmer was stuck at this point, forgetting what Zhou Min said just now.

"For one term as an official, for the benefit of one party!"

"Yes, yes! If all the officials in the world can do this, it will be a blessing for our people! ”

"Uncle, can you teach me to wait for farming now?"

"A few talented brothers, it's not that the old man doesn't want to teach you, it's really you...... This...... The clothes on this body are not suitable for farm work! The old farmer pointed to the shirts on Zhou Min and the others and said.

What is a shirt, it is the kind of clothing that has large cuffs and is wider than the waistband of the trousers.

"That's easy!" Zhou Min saw that the shirt on his body was indeed not suitable for work, and took off the shirt on his body with a random smile, wearing only a snow-white middle shirt.

The lower body is a pair of loose trousers, which is much more convenient to do this work.

The old peasants were stubborn, and they also felt that it was rare for scholars to cultivate the land, so they no longer discouraged them.

Let their sons teach them how to use a hoe to break up clods of soil that the ploughing ox has turned up.

It was always Zhou Min talking just now, and the old farmer arranged a good job for Zhou Min, leading the ploughing oxen in front, and the old farmer himself supporting the plough in the back.

Don't look at such a simple thing as holding an ox, there is also a lot of knowledge in it, first, you can't go fast, you can't go slow, second, you have to walk in a straight line, you can't turn around, so ploughed out of the ground, there will be omissions.

The students over there with hoes to break clods of soil can only take turns to work because there are so many hoes for them every day.

But in this way, they also suffered enough, and before it was dark, blood blisters appeared on the hands of the twelve people.

The old farmer plucked a cow's hair from the ox's tail and plucked the blood blisters for them.

"A few talented brothers, this farm work has also been done, and it is almost dark, why don't you stop here today? A few talented brothers hurry back to the city! Otherwise, it will not be safe on the road when it is dark! The old farmer persuaded Zhou Min and the thirteen to return to the city.

"Thank you for teaching me today, and I'll come back tomorrow to help!"

"This ...... Here, a few talented brothers will go to other homes to help! Old man, this little land, my father and son will be able to do it soon! As soon as he came back tomorrow, the old farmer hesitated and excused himself.

It is naturally a good thing to have someone to help with the work, but these thirteen people to help with the work are not as fast as the four of them.