Chapter 665: Fields
Lan Ziyi frowned when he heard this, and he asked:
"Why isn't it your field?"
When the farmer heard Lan Ziyi's words, he sighed and went to the ground, he reached out to grab the hoe he had just thrown to the ground to find some support for himself, but before the hoe arrived, the farmer's tears burst out of his eyes. Farmer's Road:
"I owe money to the Ji family, and I want to use the land to pay off the debt!"
So saying, the farmer sat on the side of the road and wept like a mourner. Lan Ziyi looked at the farmer who was crying uncontrollably, and knew that he would be unable to stop crying for a while, so he turned back to Taichengwei and said:
"The two brothers have worked hard, I know the way back, I'll do the rest by myself, you guys go back."
The two guards were a little embarrassed when they heard this, but Lan Ziyi smiled and comforted them:
"The people are afraid when they see you, and I have something to talk to them about, and it is inconvenient for you to stay with me. I have my three older brothers in my care, so there's no danger. ”
When the two Taicheng guards heard this, they were finally relieved, and they clenched their fists to say goodbye to Lan Ziyi, and then got on their horses and left.
Lan Ziyi sent Taichengwei away and beckoned the others to dismount, the Tao brothers needless to say, they got Lan Ziyi's order to roll the saddle and dismount, while Yueshan looked at the mud under his feet and said:
"What do Wei Hou and these peasants have to say?"
Lan Ziyi said:
"Crops are the foundation of the country, if farmers have no intention of farming, what will the people of the world eat? Now that the south is flooded and the north is drought, you don't know, Jiangdong is the granary of the country, so I naturally want to ask clearly. ”
Yueshan said disdainfully:
"Wei Hou is really worried about the country and the people, but as a leader in the army, he is in charge of the affairs of several middle halls in the military aircraft department.
Wei Hou wants to go down to the ground as you like, I don't want to step into the mud and stain my clothes. “
Lan Ziyi smiled when he heard this:
"Yue'er said so, are you going to go back to the city before me?"
Moon Mountain Road:
"Did Wei Hou drive me away because he forgot what happened yesterday?"
Lan Ziyi shook his head and sighed, he walked to the horse in the moon mountain and grabbed the reins and said:
"Okay, my eldest lady, you don't want to go back and don't want to go down, then I'll lead the horse for you"
At the same time, Lan Ziyi said to the peach and tiger on the side:
"Big brother, ask that brother for me."
When Tao Zhuhu heard this, he led his horse forward and said to the farmer:
"It's useless to cry, you just can't help it even if you cry blind. Get up, don't cry on the road, isn't it a shame for a big man to cry like this? ”
The farmer finally restrained his cry when Tao Zhuhu said this, and he stood up with his hoe, choked up and questioned Tao Zhuhu:
"It's useless to cry, is it useful to tell you? My land is almost gone, can you conjure up land for me? ”
Peach Chase Tiger Road:
"My young master can transfer the Taicheng guards as guards, so he naturally has great skills. If I can help you, you have to make things clear first, this is not the place to talk, you take us to your house, and we will talk slowly when we get there. ”
When the farmer heard this, he thought for a moment, as if this was indeed the case, so he took up his hoe again and took a step, and at the same time he said to Lan Ziyi and them:
"My house is in the village in front, if a few adults want to listen to my complaints, come with me."
Lan Ziyi led the horse and nodded to the farmer, and then walked with the three brothers to follow the farmer.
In fact, there was no need to wait in the village, and when he was walking on the road, the farmer explained the reason for the matter to Lan Ziyi and them. Things are actually very simple, that is, this farmer's family is short of grain, at the beginning of the year to borrow a sum of money from the Ji family, originally in the summer grain harvest to pay off the arrears, did not expect the first half of the year too much rain, the summer grain harvest is not good, and the court is facing the thief and the miscellaneous taxes, the farmer's family not only has no money to repay the debt, but also has to borrow another money from the Ji family, the two debts are added, the farmer calculated, even if the autumn grain harvest can not pay off the debt, then can only take the land to pay off the debt.
Lan Ziyi followed behind the farmer and quietly listened to the farmer tell him about his hard work. The farmer had never read a book, and his thinking was not clear, and he spoke upside down, one sentence in the east and one sentence in the west, and if he did not listen carefully, he could not understand what he was saying, in addition to speaking incoherently, the farmer was also very emotional, and he would cry out loud when he said that he was emotional.
But even so, Lan Ziyi still listened quietly, although Lan Ziyi had never done farm work and had little contact with farmers, he still understood the importance of land to farmers, and if the farmer's field was really used to pay off debts, then how would their family live in the future.
Finally, the farmer took Lan Ziyi to the village. From the distance on the road, the field village cooking smoke curling, it seems to be a beautiful picture of an idyll, but after entering the village, everything is different, there are few decent houses in the village, only the beams of the house are hanging in the air and the tiles are left, the walls are mottled, the rat holes are continuous, many houses are in disrepair, the beams have decayed, the whole roof is overwhelmed and recessed from it, and the house may collapse at any time from the outside.
But even if it has been dilapidated, there are still many people in the village, the sound of Lan Ziyi's horses' hooves attracted the attention of others, many children walked out of the dilapidated houses, the children laughed and played around Lan Ziyi and his party, it was not easy to see the war horse in Jiangnan Village, and the children were playing happily behind the horse.
Lan Ziyi and the Tao brothers laughed and played with the children, while carefully dispersing the children from the blind spot near the horse's hind legs. Lan Ziyi observed the children and said to the peach on the side:
"Fortunately, it's summer, and the children don't have to wear too many clothes, if they don't know if these little poor people have padded jackets to wear in winter."
桃淚虎 says:
"The face is yellow and thin, and the running is not energetic, and the children are afraid that they will barely eat."
The farmer heard Lan Ziyi's conversation and turned back and said:
"It's not easy to eat enough, it's good to have a mouthful of food, son, please, this is my home."
As he spoke, the farmer stretched out his hand and pushed the door and invited Lan Ziyi into the house. The farmer's home in front of him was no better than other people's homes, and as soon as he walked to the door, Lan Ziyi felt a heat wave blowing on his face, and such a large sun house had already been sunburned into a steamer.
Tao Zhutu stood at the door one step ahead of Lan Ziyi, he stopped Lan Ziyi and said:
"Young master, it's too hot in the house."
Lan Ziyi smiled and pushed away the peach and rabbit and said:
"I went down to the cabin yesterday, and today this house is nothing, doesn't it have windows?"
Saying that, Lan Ziyi stepped over the threshold at the invitation of the farmer.
As soon as Lan Ziyi entered the house, he heard an old voice scolding:
"You lazy bone, let you go to the field and you will be lazy for me again, you are so lazy, can you harvest the crops in the field this year?"
Lan Ziyi followed the prestige, only to see an old man walking towards the door with a crutch and scolding. The old man was not in good health, and he kept coughing in the middle of his words, and when he coughed, he couldn't speak, and when he couldn't speak, he was even more anxious to speak, and when he was in a hurry, he was so angry that he couldn't speak, and he couldn't even cough, so he just lost his breath.
An old woman next to the old man slowly patted the old man on the back, and the old woman said:
"Don't scold, what's the use of scolding."
Then a three-year-old child ran out of the back room, hugged the farmer's leg and said:
"Dad, I'm hungry and want to eat."
And the farmer was upset by the old man's scolding, and now he was still leaning up, where could he bear it, and immediately raised his leg to shake off the child, and the farmer scolded:
"I don't even have anything to eat, where is your food? Get out of the way and get out of the way. “