Chapter 251: People's hearts

The busy summer season is the happiest time of the year for the farmers, although they are busy, but seeing the yellow and clear wheat from the field to the drying field into the warehouse, this heart is always a lot more settled. If the wind and rain are smooth, it is fine, but if there is a flood for a while, a drought for a while, and a locust plague for a while, then it will be in vain all year round, no matter how much effort you spend. Therefore, although some people have a lot of complaints about the government's large-scale liquidation of the White Lotus Sect, the harvest in hand is real, and it would be a fool to put down the sickle in hand and go to the government to reason.

Especially the villagers whose relatives were released in the name of blind obedience, now every household is burning high incense. After all, it is a great blessing to be able to escape the great sin of the head. The old Yang Tou of Zihe Store sighed at the good luck of his nephew Xu Er, and nagged at his son Yang Gou'er. Seeing that half of his wheat had been harvested, Liu Da, a craftsman with exquisite craftsmanship, came to him again to discuss the next soybean planting, so he turned his mind in a different direction.

"Soybeans are planted at this time, but they are harvested in late autumn, which misses the wheat of the next year, so what will be planted next year?"

"Next year, of course, it will be sorghum or cotton." Liu Dale looked at the yellow and clear wheat grains in the basket, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, I won't cheat you." Let me ask you, if you grow wheat in this land for several years in a row, the yield will not go up, but you will need more fertilizer in the field? Between these two seasons, there is a variety of soybeans in one season, and the fertilizer in this field can be saved, and it also makes soybean money for nothing, and fertilizer the land, isn't it killing two birds with one stone? People harvest two seasons in two years, but you harvest three seasons in two years! ”

Although Lao Yang Tou has planted the land all his life, he is not a person who sticks to the law, and he feels reasonable when he listens to it. But when I think that the summer tax is wheat and the autumn grain harvest is millet, I have to complain. After all, now he has opened two acres of wasteland, and those two acres of land are naturally at his own mercy. When the tax is to be collected five years later, it is necessary to plant wheat, kapok and mulberry trees according to the acres of land stipulated by the imperial court.

"Speaking of which, there is another way to make money, and that is to raise silkworms." Liu Da is now more effective than the old man in Zihedian Village, and gradually has some confidence, "The silkworm I'm talking about is not a silkworm that eats mulberry leaves, but a mountain silkworm." There are many mountains and slopes in our Qingzhou Mansion, and it is not easy to use it normally, but it is impossible to release silkworms. As long as the mistletoe, tsubaki, zerchu, oak and other trees can be planted, they can be stocked, and they can get huge profits without reclamation. ”

"Oh, it's not, Brother Liu, you're reminding me!"

Lao Yang patted his thigh, and his face showed irrepressible joy: "You have to quickly mention this method to Lord Xiao Zhang, we have as many barren mountains here, and it is most convenient to raise mountain silkworms." By the way, Brother Liu, do you know how to raise silkworms? ”

"I'm a half-ass, I also know a little bit, I also know a little bit about that, if I want to specialize, I'm afraid I still have to let Xiao Zhang go and find a few masters." Although he was humble, Liu Da still looked proud, "But Lord Xiao Zhang also seems to have taken a fancy to this barren mountain, what did he say about planting jujube pears, persimmons and walnuts...... All in all, we have a lot of mountains in Qingzhou Mansion, and it's a pity to waste it! ”

The two old men were talking energetically, but the curtain outside was gently opened, and a beautiful girl came up with a thick wooden plate and two large bowls of herbal tea. Lao Yang Tou picked up a bowl of goo and drank it all, but Liu Da stared at her for a while, and then sighed: "Xi'er, your voice is better now, and it's not a way to accompany me, a lame old guy, all day long." If you don't go back, your grandfather will be in a hurry. ”

"Uncle Liu, the adults have already sent a letter to grandpa, but grandpa only brought a hard message, and he never even looked at me. If I go back, will the people in the village still tolerate me? Xi'er put the plate on the wooden table, and then said with a wry smile, "I don't want to go back and listen to those gossip, if Uncle Liu doesn't want me to take care of it, I will find a job in the government or other places in the future." ”

"You girl is stubborn, a daughter's family, and she has so many ideas!"

Liu Da shook his head helplessly, but he didn't want to say anything more. But the old Yang Tou next to him raised his head and looked at this girl who followed Liu Da in and out all day long, and was quite moved. While he was secretly thinking, the curtain was suddenly smashed open, and it was none other than his nephew Xu Er who rushed into the house in three or two steps.

"Uncle...... Uncle, it's not good! ”

Lao Yang Tou casually put down the coarse porcelain bowl in his hand, wiped his hand on the clothes around his waist, and then stood up and asked, "What's wrong?" Is there a fight for farm tools, or is it a fight for land boundaries? Or is it that family fights so hard that their heads are bleeding...... Wait, it can't be that you made trouble in the first place, right? Why don't these people know how to stop! ”

"Neither!" Xu Er angrily snatched Liu Da's bowl of herbal tea that he hadn't had time to drink, poured it all into his mouth in one breath, and finally wiped his mouth and said, "I just came back from Qingzhou, and I heard that the political envoy Du was arrested by Jinyiwei, saying that he was going to be sent to Beijing!" That's not all, I heard that even Lord Xiao Zhang ......"

"What's wrong with Lord Zhang?"

Seeing that the three people in the room asked in unison, Xu Er was slightly stunned, and then he didn't think much about it, because he explained: "I went into the city to sell vegetables this morning, and my mother said that I should go to thank Lord Xiao Zhang, so I went to the mansion and walked around, who knew that I happened to see the people of Jinyi Wei at the main gate and put the Lord Du in the carriage." I heard from the onlookers that someone sued Diao in front of the emperor, so Du Da was escorted to Beijing, and even Xiao Zhang seemed to be implicated because of this, and I heard that he was going to be summoned to Beijing for questioning. ”

Lao Yang Tou was suddenly a little confused: "That time you were unloading the stone shed, didn't you hear that no one ran away, and the official army won a big victory?" After careful calculation, how can this be a credit and not a sin, and how can it be implicated for no reason? ”

Xu Er couldn't help but think of the twenty boards he had suffered in the yamen, and at that time he felt that the beating was wronged, but now that he thinks about it, compared to losing his head, it can't be lighter. Therefore, in the face of Lao Yangtou's question, he hesitated for a while, and then said dejectedly: "I heard that it is because Lord Xiao Zhang released us people after passing the hall." ”

"It's the evil that caused it, it turned out that you brainless guys did it!"

Lao Yang suddenly beat his chest and sighed for a while, he no longer had the heart to discuss with Liu Da what kind of soybean to raise silkworms, and hurriedly sent the anxious Liu Da and Xi'er out of the door. When he returned to the house, he found that his son Yang Gou'er had also returned from work and was talking to his nephew, so he simply squatted at the door and sulked, and even the big yellow dog raised at home couldn't shake his head and tail to recall his thoughts.

"Uncle, I knew I was wrong, but at that time, I ...... Wasn't there a lot of people who believed in this at that time? ”

"If you hadn't met a noble person this time, your head would have fallen off, what's the use of knowing that you're wrong? Lord Xiao Zhang released a large number of people, and Lord Du grabbed and released a large number of people, if they were ruthless, you would all have died a long time ago! That Buddha mother was magical at the beginning, but after something happened, there was no one left! ”

Xu Er's face turned red, and then he simply asked directly: "Then uncle, what do you say I should do?" ”

"Alas!" Lao Yang Tou really couldn't answer this question, all he could do was to slam the thick into a fist and slam it on the earthen wall, and sighed, "I don't know how Lord Du is, but since the good governance of the pioneers, such as reclamation and borrowing seeds and cattle, was proposed by him, how can he also be a good official." Not to mention Lord Xiao Zhang, he has done a lot of good deeds since he took office, why can't he be a good official for a long time? Just now, your Uncle Liu said a lot of ways to farm and make money, I really hope that Lord Xiao Zhang can continue to stay! ”

As he spoke, he stood up straight, and then turned back to his son and nephew and said, "Inquire about the good days, if Lord Xiao Zhang really wants to go back to Beijing, we have to give him a ride." ”

A few people here were sighing over this, and some people over there were clapping their hands at the sudden message. Tang Sai'er didn't expect that there were so many lofty mountains and mountains in Qingzhou Mansion that Binhong would not hide, but he just hid in the useful stone unloading shed that he kept, and he didn't expect that the officers and soldiers would not stop doing anything, and all the villages and the two nearby stone villages would be burned and cut down by fire. But what was even more ruthless was that Du Zhen, if he hadn't attacked again and again with lightning speed, she wouldn't have even had the kung fu to deal with it, and could only watch the strongholds in Sixiang being uprooted one by one.

"It's best for the Dog Emperor to kill them all, then he can relieve his anger!" Tang Qingshuang walked back and forth in the room several times, and suddenly stopped and looked at her cousin and said, "Third sister, everyone is waiting for us to watch us now!" If you don't let us save our brothers who have been imprisoned, or if we continue to wander around the countryside, everyone's faith in us will be gone! The government will only force it step by step, and we have no way out! ”

"How could Binhong know about the stone shed? How could the weapons we hoard be hidden in the Grange of the Han Palace? Also, when did our White Lotus Sect need to deceive people into joining the gang? ”

Tang Sai'er asked three questions in a row, and when she saw Tang Qingshuang stunned there, her gaze suddenly became extremely sharp: "Only the people closest to me know about the stone shed, that is to say, someone leaked out of this place!" The weapons we hoarded were hidden in the Han Wangfu Grange, which could naturally be said to be dark under the lamp, but I thought that someone was eye-to-eyeing with the people of the palace! As for the deceitful people who join the gang...... Those sect leaders are only bent on expanding their own strength, and completely forget our purpose! Even our sect is unstable, what else are you talking about, others are waiting for us to watch us! ”

"Third sister!"

"You go find Yue Changtian!" Tang Sai'er took a deep breath, and didn't look at Tang Qingshuang's shocked look, "The third thing has nothing to do with him, but he happens to be the one who knows the first two things, except for him, I really can't think of anyone else leaking the hidden secret." ”

Sure enough, Tang Qingshuang stumbled out of the door, and turned back in less than a quarter of an hour, and there was no blood on that delicate face. Under Tang Sai'er's gaze, she held back a sentence for a long time: "Brother Yue...... Brother Yue is gone. ”