Sichuan has had the reputation of "the land of abundance" since ancient times, and has always been a famous and prosperous place in the world, and during the War of Resistance Against Japan, it served as the rear of the human and material resources of the whole Chinese, supporting the whole of China for eight years of resistance.

And now the war at the end of the Ming Dynasty has not yet burned to Sichuan, this piece of plastered land has been developed by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and it is still prosperous. Although it will take time for Dongxiang County in the Kuizhou area to recover its vitality due to the destruction of Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu one after another, Hanjia Village, like most areas in Sichuan, has a bumper harvest in sight.

Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, the villagers of Hanjia Village have been busy harvesting. This was the first real harvest since they established Hanjia Village. Although summer wheat was harvested this summer, it was not the main crop after all, and the harvest was not very impressive, and now, the harvest of this rice alone has already reached more than 1,000 stones.

If you stand on the highest peak in Dongxiang County, Motianling, and overlook Hanjia Village, you will see that the entire courtyard of Hanjia Village is covered with golden blankets made of new rice, and many figures have been shuttling back and forth in the golden sea of rice fields from early morning to evening.

The villagers were busy harvesting, and the soldiers of the Han camp were also busy training. Yang Ming and all the soldiers knew that the more times like this, the more they should not take it lightly, and the last time they were attacked by bandits during the summer wheat harvest was a lesson.

For this reason, instead of relaxing the training of the soldiers, Yang Ming also increased the number of drills for the villagers to deal with the sudden attack of the enemy, and a sentry post was also placed ten miles away from the village, and some children also took the opportunity of herding cattle and sheep to spy around outside the village.

Although everyone knows that there is a great danger lurking in the quiet Hanjia Village, they still can't suppress the joy of the villagers because of the harvest. Whether it is a three-year-old child or an elderly man in his eighties, they spontaneously run to each house to help with the harvest, in order to get the grain back as soon as possible, so that when the bandits attack or the heavy rain comes, it will not be too late to harvest.

The public warehouse of Hanjia Village, which nominally belonged to Yang Ming, was full, and since Yang Ming and the soldiers of the Hanjia battalion were still training, the villagers spontaneously repaired five granaries for Yang Ming, which actually violated Yang Ming's promise to only collect five warehouses of grain.

Seeing this, Du Xiaoyuan couldn't help but sigh: "As Xin Qiji's "Breaking the Array" said: I like to see thousands of waves of rice and grass, and heroes everywhere smoke at sunset. ”

The bumper harvest made everyone's mood much better, and Gu Xiaoyuan's courtesy to Guan Jiaren was not so repulsive. Even the arrogant Yun Die began to have a good impression of Guan Jiaren because of his politeness, and Guan Jiaren also tried his best to teach the children in the village, and many children were able to memorize the entire Analects under his education.

Yang Ming's trust in Guan Jiaren was also increasing day by day, and at the time of Guan Jiaren's initiative to apply and agree to him to take charge of the grain and straw of Hanjia Village instead of Zhang Yuanwai, Zhang Yuanwai took the 500 stone grain given to him by Yang Ming and the 3,000 taels of silver obtained by the bandits to the county seat to do business, in order to try to establish the first industry of Hanjia Village in the county seat.

Guan Jiaren's popularity is very good, and many villagers have a good impression of this showman, at least better than Zhang Yuanwai. There is nothing to say about his management of grain, not to mention that he is not in charge of his own grain but public grain. From the beginning of the first bag of grain harvested in Hanjia Village, Hanjia Village stipulated that the grain collected by the village should be obtained by itself, but a certain amount of public grain should be paid in a fixed amount.

The power to control the public grain belongs to Yang Ming, in fact, it is the tax collected by Yang Ming from Hanjia Village, which was previously handed over to Zhang Youcai and Zhang Yuanwai to manage, and many villagers are still worthless for Yang Ming, thinking that Yang Gongzi will suffer a loss if he does this, and now he has changed to a friendly person, and everyone thinks that this is good for Yang Gongzi.

Guan Jiaren's eyes lit up when he saw the more than 500 stone of grain every day, and he really wanted to send his family to transport the grain to his own grain depot now. So, Guan Jiaren began to check the tulou and warehouse every day, and at night he no longer held his maid to mess around, but picked up the lamp to draw the defense map of Hanjia Village.

Xu Shuixian knew that because she was a widow and a beautiful widow, she was looked down upon by the villagers, and she also scolded herself for being a vixen. Therefore, she did not dare to go to the cave with other villagers to receive literacy education, but she was not reconciled, and she would secretly go to study somewhere in the cave every night when Yang Ming was teaching.

Gradually, she found that she could learn without a teacher, and her knowledge had grown a lot, but when she found out that Du Xiaoyuan could talk to Yang Gongzi, she felt that she was far from enough.

So, Xu Shuixian made a bold decision, she decided to worship Guan Jiaren as a teacher. Among the several people in the village who are responsible for teaching culture, Yang Ming is too busy, and Du Xiaoyuan is someone she is embarrassed to do and doesn't want to get close to, Yun Die has always hated her, so she can only find Guan Jiaren, and she thinks like the village that Guan Jiaren will be as gentle as Yang Gongzi since he is a scholar.

Guan Jiaren was carefully drawing the defense drawings of Hanjia Village, and said with a smug smile: "What's the use of you Yang Ming setting up so many mechanical obstacles, as long as I send this drawing out, the retaining wall of this Hanjia Village is not useless?" ”

At this time, Guan Jiaren's servant came in to report that someone from Hanjia Village was coming to him, Guan Jiaren hurriedly collected the drawings in the drawer, changed his old and pleasant appearance, and said: "Everyone is a villager, why be so restrained, please come in." ”

Xu Shuixian walked in tremblingly. She has always had a sense of awe for the home of the scholar, and every time she went to the Yang Mansion in the past, she walked with her head down, not daring to say a word or take a second look.

When Yang Ming was still a young master, she worked as a rough little maid for Yang Ming for a period of time, so she also stayed in Yang's mansion for a few years. Since then, she has also become more aware of the rules in the home of scholars.

"The slave family is a group of Xu Shuixian in Hanjia Village, and I have seen Mr. Guan." Xu Shuixian bowed, Yang Ming divided the villagers of Hanjia Village into seven groups according to their household registration and place of residence, and lived in the seven earthen buildings in the village.

Guan Jiaren didn't expect it to be Xu Shuixian, he had seen Xu Shuixian from a distance before, and knew that there was a very handsome widow in Hanjia Village. He also thought about hooking up in the past, and thought that he would definitely be able to hook up with his charm and talent, but then he heard that this widow Xu had long been Yang Gongzi's confiner, and when he thought of Yang Ming's warning to him that day, he could only endure it temporarily.

But what I didn't expect now was that this Xu Shuixian actually took the initiative to come.

As soon as Guan Jiaren saw Xu Shuixian, he was fascinated by his beauty, and he forgot to order someone to make tea, but stared at Xu Shuixian's watery eyes, glanced at the turbulent and tall waves on Xu Shuixian's chest, and said secretly: "It's really a beautiful embryo, the man sees such a stunner, I'm afraid that few can bear it, no wonder Yang Ming's guy doesn't allow anyone to touch her." ”

"Sister-in-law Narcissus, please sit down, what are you looking for Guan", Guan Jiaren deliberately waved the folding fan, and a few lines of poetry on the folding fan dangled in front of Xu Shuixian without fear. But Xu Shuixian kept his head down, didn't notice the poem on it, and said timidly: "The slave family wants Mr. Guan to teach the slave family to read and write articles, as well as play the piano and paint." ”

"I didn't expect Narcissus to be so studious, it's okay to teach you, I don't know how Narcissus wants to thank Guan", Guan smiled and unconsciously touched Xu Shuixian.