Yan Feiyan straightened up, shook her two muddy hands, raised her arm to wipe the sweat on her forehead, supported her sore waist with one hand, and looked at the rows of green seedlings in front of her, joy couldn't help but bloom from her lips.

Sun Shao gave her this piece of good terrace, and advanced thousands of cattle and new farm tools to her, in just half a month, the men, women and children of Baihu Village went into battle, and the hard work of wearing stars and moons finally made up more than 2,000 acres of land. In order to rob the farmer, she, the owner of the village, also rushed to plant seedlings, do not try, I don't know, this rice planting work is really not an easy task, she only did more than an hour, this waist seems to be unable to straighten.

Looking at the progress, she is the slowest, even the lame Daddy Mu is faster than her, and the nimble Mu Zhiqiu's results are twice as high as her.

"Miss, are you tired?" Mu Zhiqiu finished planting the seedlings in his hand, and when he saw Yan Feiyan looking tired, he smiled and said, "You go to the top to drink saliva first, and then come back after resting for a while." ”

Yan Feiyan really wanted to rest for a while, but she was a little embarrassed to look at the people who were still working hard.

"Miss, don't look at it, it's the first time you do it, and you won't be able to support it for long." Mu Zhiqiu threw away the seedlings, washed his hands hastily in the field, and then strode over, pulled Yan Feiyan and said, "Let's go, I'll go and rest for a while, sigh hey, my old waist......"

Yan Feiyan was amused by her exaggerated appearance, and quipped: "Why are you like that annoying Yue Wang now, sighing at every turn?" ”

Mu Zhiqiu raised his eyebrows: "Is there one?" How could I be like that bad guy? ”

"It's the same thing." Yan Feiyan giggled. Mu Zhiqiu was also happy, touched his upturned nose, and sighed: "Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black, all because I followed Miss and often saw that bad guy, so I learned badly." ”

"It's you who learned badly, what are you doing with me?" Yan Feiyan glanced at her, raised her arm, and wiped a mud spot on Mu Zhiqiu's nose with her sleeve. The two walked to the ridge together, Mu Zhiqiu lifted a clay pot and poured two bowls of water, handed a bowl to Yan Feiyan, picked up a bowl himself, went down to the field again and walked to Daddy Mu, fed him to drink, and then poured himself half a bowl and drank it slowly.

Looking at the light green paddy field in front of him, Mu Zhiqiu said with a smile: "Miss, this year will definitely be a bumper harvest, and you won't have to worry about food in winter." ”

"Not necessarily." Yan Feiyan sighed.

"Why not necessarily?" Mu Zhiqiu said with a smile: "Although we only have such a piece of land, it is enough to feed the people in our village." ”

"You only think about the people in the village, but do you ever think about owing them a lot of money?" Yan Feiyan pointed to the ploughing oxen who were plowing the fields and said, "These cattle, these plows, what don't you need money?" This year, if the wind and rain are good, we will pay off our debts, and we will still have some food left for the winter, but if God does not take care of it, I am afraid it will not be enough. ”

The smile on Mu Zhiqiu's face dimmed, and he said after a while: "I know that he didn't have a good heart, and gave us the ox and plough on credit for no reason, it turned out that it was to collect rent." ”

"Without these oxen and ploughs, would we be able to make so much land?" Yan Feiyan smiled helplessly: "Grit your teeth today and return the money on credit, and it will be easier next year." ”

"Well, if you don't have to pay off your debts next year, it will definitely be a lot easier." Mu Zhiqiu nodded as if he had made a wish.

"I'm not worried about debt." Yan Feiyan subconsciously looked east, and in the distance was Jinguashan, Jinguashan was very busy now, and Sun Shao was building the city. Although Yan Feiyan couldn't see anything, she always felt that the shapeless King Yue must be inspecting his territory again.

"It's not a debt, what is it?" Mu Zhiqiu asked puzzled, and his apricot eyes widened.

"It's Yiren." Yan Feiyan hesitated for a moment: "We got such a good piece of land, the Yi people will be red-eyed, and they will come to grab it." ”

"How dare he?!" Mu Zhiqiu jumped up all of a sudden, patted his chest and said loudly: "He dares to rob us? See if I don't hack him to death. ”

"How many strong men are there in the stockade?" Yan Feiyan raised her head, looked at the indignant Mu Zhiqiu, and said angrily and funny: "Do you know that just for the treatment of those wounded, we owe him a lot of money?" ”

Mu Zhiqiu was dumbfounded, stunned for a while, then sat down depressed, angrily picked up a lump of soil, and threw it into the field, as if the paddy field was Sun Shao: "He is also too dark, how many buckets of grain did he use for a stone of alcohol?" It was sold for a sky-high price of 5,000 yuan. ”

"Will you do it?" Yan Feiyan asked rhetorically: "If you know how to do it, we will do it ourselves, and we don't need to buy it from him." ”

"I'm going to do it or yet?" Mu Zhiqiu pouted depressedly: "It's him who is too shameless, we just go to Dongye to buy it ourselves, and we don't need so much money." ”

"You're buying wine, not alcohol." Yan Feiyan corrected: "Wine and alcohol seem to be the same thing, but they are actually two different things, don't you see?" ”

Mu Zhiqiu didn't say anything. Of course, she can see that in the past, they used to use the wine bought from Dongye to heal their injuries, and the effect was a little better than salt water, so everyone liked to use it, and they didn't feel any difference, and now they bought alcohol from Sun Shao, and the effect was several times better than the wine they bought. Of course, there is also the credit of the medicine that Sun Shaosheng gave them on credit, but it is undeniable that the effect of this alcohol is indeed much better than that of wine.

It's good, but it's too expensive. Dongye's wine is 100 yuan a bucket, that is, 1,000 yuan and a stone, plus the cost of going back and forth, a stone of wine is about 2,000 yuan, but Sun Shao asked for 5,000 yuan for a stone of alcohol, and said that it was cheap for them, which was simply shameless, so Mu Zhiqiu was so angry that he secretly took out the portrait and stabbed it several times.

Angry is angry, they have no place to buy this alcohol, they can only be blackmailed by Sun Shao.

Mu Zhiqiu did not calculate the accounts, but in this way, Yan Feiyan's words are not false, he owes a little here, he owes a little there, and most of the more than 2,000 acres of land are planted for Sun Shao in the end. What's more serious is that those Yi people don't know this, they only see that Baihu Village has made a fortune, and they will definitely come over or borrow or rob it when the time comes, in short, they will have to get some light.

"That'...... We were attacked by the Yiren, didn't he care? ”

"He doesn't care." Yan Feiyan grimaced, and said hatefully: "He said, we are just neighbors, and we have not surrendered to him, and we are not his people, so he doesn't care." ”

Yan Feiyan was ready to bow to Sun Shao at the beginning, after all, Sun Shao's soldiers pressed the realm, and with the strength of the White Tiger Village for the rest of her life, it was impossible to stop it, but she suppressed this idea from the bottom of her heart, although Sun Shao used this piece of good land to settle grievances with her, but how could she easily bow to the enemy - even if it was a former enemy? To her surprise, Sun Shao did not ask her to surrender, he showed an extremely tolerant side, he agreed to the existence of Baihu Zhai's reading power, and there was no need to be a subject to him. Yan Feiyan was grateful at first, but now she realized that this may not be a good thing. Sun Shao said, since I am not a minister, I have no obligation to protect you, Yiren is here, I can help, but there is a price to help. Yan Feiyan didn't have to think about it to know that this price must be unimaginable for her.

Speaking of which, he still wants to force Baihuzhai to be a vassal to him and become her people, but in a different way.

Yan Feiyan originally had the mentality of dragging out one day at a time, but looking at the joyful and inspiring hard work of the whole village, and in the end, it might be an empty time, she still gritted her teeth with hatred. In her dreams, she didn't know how many times she strangled Sun Shao's neck, but what frustrated her was that even in her dreams, Sun Shao seemed to be unable to strangle, no matter how hard she tried, Sun Shao's face was still shaking in front of her, full of the hatefulness of the villain's ambition.

"Humph!" Yan Feiyan angrily splashed the water in the bowl on the field, and the mirror-like water suddenly writhed, and in a trance, it seemed that Sun Shao's smiling face flashed in it again. Yan Feiyan became more and more annoyed, lifted her muddy feet, and stepped into the water a few times, stepping on the muddy water splashing everywhere, Mu Zhiqiu was caught off guard, jumped up suddenly, and shouted dissatisfiedly: "Miss, you soiled my new shoulder, this is what Sister Bai gave me." ”

"Sister Bai, Sister Bai, just give you a beautiful dress, and you forgot that she used to be a small one?" Yan Feiyan glanced at her, but found Bai Hua standing in the distance with a smile, just hearing what she said just now, she couldn't help but be embarrassed, and wanted to explain, but she was embarrassed, so she had to turn her head and pretend to be unhappy.

"The owner of the village, are you still holding a grudge against me?" Bai Xuan walked over slowly, looked at the people who were busy in the field, and found Daddy Mu at a glance, so he shouted, "Daddy! Dad! ”

Father Mu raised his head and glanced at it, and said with a smile: "It's Bai Jun, is there something wrong?" How did you get here? ”

"The king invites you and the owner of the village to discuss matters."

"That's right." Father Mu turned his head to look at the remaining section of the field behind him, and hesitated for a while: "Can I finish these steps?" ”

"Okay." Bai Hua smiled and untied the war knife in his waist, bent down and took off his combat boots and snow-white foot clothes, rolled up his trouser legs, strode to Daddy Mu, snatched the seedlings in his hand, and said with a smile: "Daddy go up and rest, I'll come." ”

"Well, how does this make you a captain now." Daddy Mu hurriedly stretched out his hand to snatch back the seedlings.

"What kind of captain, I'm a personal guard next to the fifth general." Bai Yu chuckled: "I'll come, it's not like I haven't done it before." ”

Daddy Mu smiled, didn't insist anymore, Mu Zhiqiu came over, took Daddy Mu back to the ridge, helped him wash his feet in the water, put on straw sandals, after such a while, Bai Hua had already planted the seedlings more than a dozen steps away, strode back, washed his feet with his hands and feet, and put on his foot clothes and combat boots. Mu Zhiqiu glanced enviously at her pair of foot clothes embroidered with a small flower: "Sister, your foot clothes are silk, right?" It's beautiful. ”

Bai Yu glanced at it and said with a smile: "It's Linzi's ice silk." ”

"Bing Xuan? Isn't it cool, or you can't wear combat boots. Mu Zhiqiu's eyes flashed, and he asked curiously.

"Don't you know if you touch it?" Bai Hua stretched out his feet. Mu Zhiqiu glanced at her, quickly wiped her hand on her body, and then touched it carefully, the silky touch was cool, as delicate as the baby's skin, she couldn't help but exclaim: "Really, Miss, you touch it, it's really cool, but it's slippery." ”

"What is the identity of Colonel Bai?" Yan Feiyan glanced at her coldly, got up and left, and the disdainful words came from afar: "Ah Qiu, don't look at it, you can't afford it." ”

"Is it expensive?" Mu Zhiqiu didn't wait for Bai Hua to answer, and said affirmatively: "It must be very expensive, it is transported from Linzi so far away, and it is probably impossible to buy it without three hundred dollars." Before she finished speaking, her face turned red, because she didn't know where Linzi was, and at the same time she felt that the three hundred yuan was probably a low guess, although for her, it was already a sky-high price.

"Five hundred and thirty dollars." Bai Xuan said disapprerovingly: "This is a new product in Linzi, the first batch is only two hundred, Qingzhou Musun envoy specially gave it to the king, the king rewarded me with two pairs, and the fifth general rewarded me with a pair." If you like it, I'll give you a pair, and another pair to the owner of the village, just say that I sold it to you, otherwise she will definitely not accept it. ”

Mu Zhiqiu heard that it was the king of Yue who rewarded Bai Xuan, and immediately remembered that Bai Xuan's credit was to do the fine, his face just sank, and he heard Bai Xuan say that he wanted to give her a pair, and suddenly turned his anger into joy, and said embarrassedly: "How can I accept such a valuable gift?" You'd better keep it for yourself. ”

"It's fine." Bai Yu put his arm around Mu Zhiqiu's shoulders and laughed softly: "We are good sisters, if we have good things, we should share them." ”

Mu Zhiqiu felt that it was useless, but he really liked the pair of ice jackets, so he muttered: "You are good, now there are many rewards, we owe you a lot of money in the village, and I don't know if I can pay it back then." ”

"Who did you listen to?" Bai Hua smiled and looked around: "Tell the owner of the village, let her rest assured, the king will not force her to be cornered, if there is really a problem this year, can you apply to pay it back in batches, divided into three years, isn't it much easier?" ”

"Is that okay?" Mu Zhiqiu was stunned.

"Absolutely." Bai Wei smiled and said, "Where does the king lack your money?" He was afraid that he would give too many benefits to the village, and others would misunderstand. ”

"Misunderstanding what?" Mu Zhiqiu looked at Bai Yu blankly.

Bai Wei didn't answer her immediately, her eyes rolled, and she said with a smile: "I gave you two pairs of foot clothes, you are suspicious, if the king suddenly sends so many ploughing oxen and iron ploughs to the stockade, do you dare to accept them?" ”

Mu Zhiqiu nodded thoughtfully: "This is also true, there is nothing to be done, and it is either annihilation or theft." When the words came out, she suddenly remembered that Bai Hua was not from Baihu Village now, but the personal guard of Sun Shangxiang, the fifth general of King Yue's aunt, and it was very inappropriate to say this in front of her, so she quickly covered her mouth and glanced at Bai Hua with a weak heart. Bai Wei didn't think so, just smiled quietly.

Caught up with Yan Feiyan and Daddy Mu, and greeted each other with Guan Chao, who came to greet them, and the group rode on horses and rushed to Jinguashan, there are no horses in Taiwan, these horses were brought by Sun Shao, Mu Zhiqiu rode on horseback, feeling very fresh and arrogant, and the envious eyes of the people next to her made her enjoy it very much.

The sound of hooves was special, and after walking for half an hour, I came to the foot of Jingua Mountain. The original mountain road has been turned into a market after simple treatment, and the merchants have set up simple shelves on the roadside, and some have directly spread a piece of cloth on the ground, and put all kinds of goods on the cloth, shouting loudly, attracting the attention of pedestrians. Most of the people who come to buy things are the Yi people nearby, they carry their own mountain goods, look while walking, see what they like, stop and negotiate the price, simply point with their fingers, and call the interpreter if it is complicated, the white tiger village can understand a few words of Yi are not willing to work in the village, they can get more than 100 yuan of income when they do a day of interpreting here, much faster than farming to make money.

Mu Zhiqiu sat on the horse condescendingly, she could see the goods on the stall and in the tent next to her clearly, and she felt fresh, but when she touched the empty pockets, she could only sigh secretly. Suddenly, her eyes were attracted by a pair of foot clothes, and she pulled Yan Feiyan next to her, and exclaimed in surprise: "Miss, look, Bing Xuan!" ”

Yan Feiyan turned her head to look, sure enough, it was a pair of ice clothes that were the same as the foot clothes that Bai Yu had just wore, she glanced at Mu Zhiqiu, who had little stars in her eyes, suddenly grabbed the reins and jumped off the horse, took three steps and made two steps to step in front of the tent, pointed to the pair of foot clothes that were hung in the middle of the lonely and said, "Shopkeeper, look at this." ”

The round-faced shopkeeper who was talking about business with a black and thin Yiren hurriedly rushed over, and smiled before speaking: "Yan Zhai mainly looks at this?" ”

"Hmm." Yan Feiyan nodded. Although she was a little surprised that the shopkeeper actually knew her, she did not make any surprises.

The shopkeeper hurriedly took off the cage hanging on the pole, opened a frame, carefully took out the pair of foot clothes, and held them in front of Yan Feiyan with both hands. Yan Feiyan didn't pick it up, she pointed to the frame in surprise, originally she thought it was an empty shelf, but now she knew that it was a box made of two transparent crystals together, but the crystal was very pure, and she didn't notice it if she didn't pay attention.

The shopkeeper holding his clothes saw Yan Feiyan in a daze, so he reminded in a low voice: "Master Yan Zhai? ”

"You ...... Do you use such precious crystals for this? Yan Feiyan felt that this was a bit of a fuss, these businessmen really did not hesitate to spend money.

The shopkeeper didn't correct her, this is glass, not crystal, but she thinks it's better to be crystal, isn't the purpose of doing this to make people think that this pair of foot clothes is precious. He nodded with a smile, and sent it to Yan Feiyan with his hands on his foot. Yan Feiyan took it and looked at it carefully, and under the fierce words, the cool feel on these feet was really lovely.

"How much?" Yan Feiyan asked. She brought a piece of horseshoe gold with her, thinking that she should be able to buy this pair of foot clothes, saving Mu Zhiqiu from forgetting Bai Xuan's experience of annihilation for a pair of foot clothes.

"A thousand." The shopkeeper smiled even sweeter and held up a finger.

"A thousand?" Yan Feiyan sneered: "You don't understand me, right?" This pair of foot clothes is four or five hundred dollars. ”

The shopkeeper's face did not change, he looked at Bai Hua who was smiling behind Yan Feiyan and said: "Lord Yan is right, this pair of foot clothes can indeed be sold for five hundred and fifty yuan, but you have to have the emblem on this adult." ”

Yan Feiyan turned to the side and glanced at Bai Xuan, there was a badge on Bai Xuan's left chest, indicating that she was a lieutenant under the Fifth General. Naturally, she didn't have this, so she said dissatisfiedly: "Do different people have different prices?" How can you, the shopkeeper, do this business? ”

"Master Yan Zhai, this is not me doing this alone, you can ask, whether it is selling this foot clothing or not, as long as it is a merchant from the Yue Kingdom, it depends on the bid. My Vietnamese people come to buy it at one price, and if it's not my Vietnamese people, it's another price. This pair of foot clothes, I am looking at the fact that Baihu Village and our Yue Country are allies, and you are the owner of Yan Village, so I paid a thousand yuan for other Yi people, hehehe, if you are less than two thousand yuan, no one can sell it to you. ”

Yan Feiyan was confused by him, but seeing that he smiled so sincerely, he didn't know what to say. She said angrily: "A thousand is a thousand, I bought it." As he spoke, he took out the horseshoe gold from his purse and handed it over.

"You can't sell it now." The shopkeeper surprisingly did not take the gold, but shook his head, put away the foot coat again, and carefully put it into the frame and hung it up again. "If you are willing to buy it, you can pay a deposit of five hundred yuan first, and I will bring it to you next time. This pair is a sample, which can only be seen, not sold. ”

Yan Feiyan was really angry, her eyes widened: "If you don't sell it, I'll find someone else to buy it." Isn't it just a pair of foot clothes, you should be a rare treasure? ”

The shopkeeper was not in a hurry or impatient, and smiled more and more kindly: "Rare treasures are not counted, but this kind of foot clothes do not exceed five pairs in the entire Yizhou at the moment, and they are all used as samples, not to mention a thousand yuan, even one gold, and no one will sell it to you." ”

"Five pairs?" Yan Feiyan was stunned, Bai Yu has three pairs of school captains, how can there be no more than five pairs in the entire Yizhou? By the way, he should be referring to the market, Bai Yu was rewarded by Sun Shao and Sun Shangxiang, not counting the quantity on the market. She glanced back at Bai Xuan, stopped talking, got back on the horse in a huff, and walked away with the reins.

got on Sun Shao's boat and walked into Feilu, Sun Shaozheng was sitting in groups with Cui Qian, Chen Hai and others, drinking tea and gossiping. Chen Hai chewed a betel nut in his mouth, and ate a pair of snow-white and neat teeth red, which looked like a big mouth of blood, as soon as he saw Yan Feiyan and them walking in, he grinned happily, and scared Mu Zhiqiu, who was following behind, to hide back.

"What's wrong with Lord Yan Zhai?" Sun Shao saw Yan Feiyan's resentful look on her face, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Who messed with you?" ”

Bai Yu smiled and hurriedly leaned over to explain. Sun Shao laughed and rubbed his hands a little embarrassedly: "This is the rule I set, but I can't blame the shopkeeper, this ...... There is a difference between inside and outside, and of course it is cheaper to sell it to yourself. ”

(To be continued)