In the memory of the people of Baibao Village, this is the second time in more than ten years, the first time was a few days ago, but everyone was not as panicked as a few days ago.

How much can be left of the harvest of a hard year, it depends on this rent payment, although everyone says that this is the imperial grain and national tax, but the most stupid military households also know that thousands of households and commanders will take the lion's share, but it has been the case for so many years, everyone thinks that this is a matter of course, and the real key is Li Zongqi.

Li Zongqi Li Ji is the head of this village, the big and small affairs in the village, the busy farming and thieves, etc., all the matters assigned by the old men of the guard, taxes and servitude, etc., all have to be presided over by this Li Zongqi, and the autumn harvest and rent tax are sent to the above, and Li Zongqi is also responsible, and he will use his own house and the borrowed cart to send the collected grain out.

The cost of this big car, the cost of dealing with the grain collection managers of the old man's family, and the cost of Li Zongqi's own family should also be added to the autumn rent tax.

Fortunately, Li Zongqi can only rely on seven or eight families in the village, and the oppression is too much to cause public anger and cannot be ended, and the villagers also have the opportunity to negotiate if they gather, so when it comes to the autumn harvest, everyone's attention is all on this, and the Tatar invasion is too ethereal and distant, and the grain is the most real.

The second smoke did not last long, it was lit at noon, and it was cut off in the afternoon, and the grain harvest in Baibao Village ended on the second day of this smoke, and the villagers of Baibao Village were not completely unconcerned, every family was renovating the cellar, and they had to make a few more pieces of multigrain cakes that could be stored for a long time, according to people who had returned from neighboring villages and farther places, every village around them was in a similar state.

“...... In the past, our family was always bullied when paying rent, but this time the Li family was kind...... "At dinner, Zhu Da heard his father Zhu Shishi's emotion, and when he heard this, he remembered the discussion of his parents in the past, the Zhu family is small, there is nothing to rely on in the village, and every time the rent is paid and the labor is apportioned, it has to suffer, but fortunately, the village is not big, and there is no one who looks up and looks down, and there is no urging too tight, and it is considered to be in the past.

The Zhu family is used to Zhou Qingyun coming over to partner with them, and they are also used to having fish for breakfast and dinner, everyone's mental state has changed a lot, after Zhu Shishi sighed, Zhou Qingyun was a little depressed, and said in a sullen voice: "Uncle Xiang will come back tomorrow, I can't come over to eat." ”

In the past few days, Zhu Da's parents have a good impression of Zhou Qingyun, the three of Zhu are very dull when they eat, but Zhou Qingyun is a lively character, talking about the world, talking about what Xiang Yue led him to do, and then rushed to help with the work, the guard of the Zhu family's parents has gradually dispersed.

"Qingyun, I will have to come to eat at home in the future, don't see outside." Zhu Da's mother said something, which moved Zhou Qingyun very much, and she didn't say anything for a long time, just nodded heavily.

Zhu Da saw that something was wrong, but his father didn't say why after he sighed, and his mother was so kind, and after seeing Zhou Qingyun away, he returned to the house, and his father Zhu Shishi asked: "When you come back to the old man tomorrow, do you still want to learn from the teacher?" ”

According to that conversation, it is estimated that the hope is already very slim, but it is still necessary to try, this is the only hope that can be grasped in front of him, Zhu Da nodded seriously, he was also ready to deal with the blame and persuasion of his parents, but he did not expect that this time his father Zhu Shishi was only there and shook his head.

“...... I didn't treat our family too hard this time, it was actually because our Xiaoda and Zhou Qingyun had a good time, they thought that our family and Xiang Lao Han were getting closer, this is really ......"

“...... Or let the child learn martial arts, Xiaoda and Xiaozhou are smiling together, there is no one of the same age in the village, our Xiaoda has always been lonely, how good it is to have a companion......"

“...... Forget it, that old man is alone, I have heard a little about the Zhou family, do you want our son to be like that......"

The night talk of his parents that Zhu Da heard before he fell asleep answered the questions at dinner, and he could hear the wavering in his parents' words, and in the whispered night talk of his parents, Zhu Da fell asleep.

In the end, it was late autumn, and Zhu Da already felt cold when he got up early on the second day, and the water in this weather was boiling, and the danger of catching a cold and wind chill was very great, speaking of which, he didn't worry about eating fish these days, because at noon the day before, Zhou Qingyun thought that fishing in the puddle was too slow, so he directly took a bow and arrow to shoot, and the harvest was really a lot.

At the beginning, Zhou Qingyun basically couldn't shoot, and then he figured out the trick, the problem of nine out of ten shots is not big, generally after shooting one, the fish in the river will be scattered, but this is not a problem, it is a big deal to change places, two people get more than a dozen fish, and the size is not small.

The fish is caught, but it still needs to be cleaned up and disposed of, and it has to be cooked, Zhou Qingyun is not ambiguous, and Zhu Da has a two-to-one and five, and directly divides it, plus a few caught in the puddle, it is not a big problem to eat for the next few days.

Zhu Da is not unbalanced about this, of course, fishing with tools is faster than digging pits, this means of digging pits and fishing is the skill of survival in the wilderness, that is a self-rescue method without any tools, how can it compare to this bow and arrow rapid fire, of course, if there are fishing nets, let alone fishing.

The process of shooting fish opened Zhu Da's eyes, this Zhou Qingyun's archery skills are really not ambiguous, the bow is half as tall as Zhou Qingyun, every time he shoots an arrow half-open, almost no arrows, if there is any flaw, he does not dare to touch the water, he can only stand on the big rock on the shore and shoot with a bow, and then Zhu Da goes down to catch fish.

"Wet the water and open the glue, the bowstring is not tight, this bow will be abolished, and it will be beaten to death by Xiang Bo when the time comes!" Zhou Qingyun explained very clearly.

Fortunately, everyone was busy handing over food in the past few days, and no one noticed that the two and a half children brought back the fish, but a few cats were very enthusiastic and were all sent away by the fish offal.

When dealing with the fish, Zhu Da made his parents and Zhou Qingyun stunned again, he built a wooden shelf in the yard, smoked it with wheat straw, and then hung the fish on the stove to be smoked and roasted, a method that could keep the fish as long as possible.

"Xiaoda, don't go into the water when it's cold, your body will only be fine for a while, don't catch a cold again."

Zhu Da hesitated to agree to his parents' advice, and replied with a smile: "When I get a few fish back, I will come back to help my father and mother gather firewood and grass." ”

Approaching winter, the wheat straw in the field has to be brought back to make fuel, and it is necessary to walk a few miles to the foot of the mountain to collect some dead branches and dead wood, Datong has a lot of coal, and the price of coal is not very expensive, but for the low-level peasant and military households, they are not willing to spend a penny, Zhu Da has seen people selling coal in the past few days, but the business is very bad, only Li Zongqi's family bought some.

Now that the farming is busy, it is already the slack season, Li Zongqi handed over the grain and brought back the message in the guard, this winter's labor is ten catties of firewood and grass per family, which is not a burden, everyone feels relaxed, and the number of people wandering outside the village has also increased.

There is always a tempting aroma coming out of the Zhu family's house these days, cats and dogs are used to gathering in the past, all kinds of signs prove that the Zhu family has a lot of meat, saying that it is a wild boar meat sent to the family, this everyone no longer believes, and the Zhu family is young, and the actions are in everyone's eyes, if there is something wrong, that is, this Zhu Da walks towards the river every day, and there must be a harvest to follow.

When Zhu Da jogged out of the village, there were more than a dozen people following him at a distance of dozens of paces, most of them were children, and there were also young people who were idle, of course Zhu Da noticed such a big movement, and he couldn't stop it, in fact, after the villagers noticed the river, it was difficult to keep this secret that was not a secret.

Got the fish out of the puddle, Zhu Da didn't clean it up, he directly used reeds to thread the gills of the fish, and carried it home, all of which were clearly seen by the people behind, and everyone still recognized the fish, and they were all very surprised.

"Zhu Da, do you still eat fish in your family?"

"This fish is also edible?"

"Is it really wild boar?"

The onlookers did not believe that the aroma of the Zhu family was wafting out of the fish, but they had their own guesses, this judgment made Zhu Da stunned, thinking that this secret could be kept for a while, but there was no impermeable wall, and his own house was in full view, and there were not many means of self-preservation, and it was estimated that this practice could not be kept secret for too long.

After seeing the river fish in Zhu Da's hand, the villagers and children immediately felt bored, and no one followed back to the village, so they dispersed outside the village and wandered around and played.

Before entering the village, Zhu Da saw the villager Zhang Da who lost the sheep again, and was looking helplessly at the entrance of the village, speaking of which the big sheep was already an interesting story in the village, the Zhang family raised a female goat, it is said that this ewe is docile, never thought that this sheep always likes to run, when eating grass outside, he was accidentally broken free of the rope and ran into the mountain, and began to be anxious Zhang Da's family, the cost of raising sheep is not small, this is a loss of money, where can you run back into the mountain, nine times out of ten was taken away by wolves.

I never thought that this goat ran and came back, so that Zhang Da's family was pleasantly surprised, and then ran again, and even bit the rope and ran away secretly, several times ran back, so that Zhang Da's family was helpless, raising sheep in order to sell milk, killing reluctantly, but so always running, God knows when he can't come back, but the days of tossing for a long time, Zhang Da is also a little numb, lost and waited at the entrance of the village, basically can come back.

Put the fish away at home, said hello to his parents, Zhu Da went straight home, he and Zhou Qingyun had an agreement, he went over to cook fish at lunch, and the two of them had lunch together, three full meals a day with fish, enough to support a lot of exercise required for a strong body.

I arrived at the door of Xiang's house, but I met Xiang Yue and Xiang Laohan, it was really a coincidence, Xiang Laohan, who had been away for a few days, happened to come back, Xiang Laohan left alone, but two people came back, and the other person was a young man, pushing a wheelbarrow, and there were two cloth pockets on the car.

Xiang Yue found that Zhu Da was in front of his house, and couldn't help frowning, thinking to himself if this kid still wanted to apprentice, but at this time, Zhu Da's attention was on those two pockets, and then thinking about Xiang Yue's behavior in the past, he knew what Xiang Lao Han did.