Help and wages

Qin Zhongquan saw Lu Yu coming over and went down to the field, hurriedly walked over, and said to Lu Yu, "Mr. Lu, what are you doing here?" ”

"Help you with the work." Lu Yu's feet are also very white, and they look quite tender, but he is not afraid of the rice stumps in the field at all.

"Hehe, don't work hard Mr. Lu." Qin Zhongquan was wearing a straw hat, but his face and neck were still reddened from the sun.

Lu Yu smiled and asked, "You have planted so many fields, are you busy?" ”

"I can't help it, I have to work hard." Qin Zhongquan glanced back at the continuous rice fields and the brothers working in the fields, and said, "Mr. Lu eats here at noon, and we will go back to cook after we are busy for a while." ”

"Well, I'm here to help." Lu Yu said with a serious face: "Don't worry, Gang Leader Qin, I look thin, but I can do my job." "Lu Yu is really good at farm work, his hands and feet are fast and neat, and he is not tired, and one person can handle several laborers.

"Hehe, Mr. Lu, you are a guest, don't dare to let you work."

"You're still the leader, don't you go to the field as well." Lu Yu looked at the heavy ears of rice behind Qin Zhongquan, bent Dao He's waist, and said, "Seriously, Qin Gang Master will help me get a sickle, and I'll cut it for a while." ”

"This..."Qin Zhongquan hesitated for a moment, but still called someone to get Lu Yu a sickle.

Lu Yu doesn't have a lot of experience in cutting rice, but in the past two years, he has planted rice in the valley, and almost all of it has been cut by himself, so he still knows how to cut it. Lu Yu's hands and feet were extremely fast, and at this moment he found a rice field that had not been cut by anyone, bent down, and worked in a muffled voice.

The sickle was swung in Lu Yu's hand, and the rice was cut off and put down one by one, and the speed at which it fell to the ground was like flowing water to the ground

Together, all in one.

After mowing a piece of field, he didn't rest, Lu Yu went to the next field, and after cutting all morning, his hands and feet didn't slow down for half a minute.

At noon, there was a group of people who came to call Lu Yu to eat, and these people couldn't help but be stunned when they saw Lu Yu flying and cutting rice with a sickle, and they all forgot to ask Lu Yu to eat.

Later, Qin Zhongquan shouted: "Mr. Lu, rest for a while, you have done the work of five or six people alone." ”

Lu Yu didn't stop until he finished cutting the row in front of him, he walked to the shore and said with a smile: "It's not slow to cut, right?" ”

"It's not that it's not slow, it's too fast, it's not like it's fast." Qin Zhongquan said with a smile: "Mr. Lu, I have to pay you, you work for a day, and I will earn you the wages of five people." ”

A few people walked to the nearby village, and Lu Yu said as he walked: "Then you don't need to pay for it, if you have watermelon seeds here, help me get some to bring back." ”

"We have watermelon seeds, I'll wrap two packs for you when I go back." Qin Zhongquan asked, "What are Mr. Lu lacking in other seeds?" ”

"Do you still have water chestnuts here? Those of you in my family want to eat water chestnut, hehe. ”

One of Qin Zhongquan's brothers said: "There are water chestnuts, this is the time to do more, today I will pick up a full burden for Mr. Lu." ”

Someone said: "Pick up a full load, Mr. Lu is afraid that it will not be easy to get it back." ”

"What do you know? Not to mention a load of water chestnuts, even a load of stones can be easily carried back. ”

"Hey, the stone is not valuable, our valuable thing is grain, please Mr. Lu pick a load or two of the grain back?"

Qin Zhongquan said with a smile: "We can't eat enough grain here, and when the new grain comes ashore, we will transport a few truckloads to Mr. Lu." ”

Lu Yu smiled, and was about to excuse himself, but his heart moved again, and said, "Don't say it, Gang Master Qin, my family's food is really a little insufficient. Well, I'll just work here for a few more days, and then everyone will pay me every day. ”

Someone immediately said, "What is Mr. Lu's name?" If you don't help, can we still be stingy with you? ”

"That's right, Mr. Lu, if you want to say this, then we won't dare to let you help in the afternoon."

Qin Zhongquan also said: "Yes, Mr. Lu, what you said is not pleasant, even if you don't come, I also plan to send you some food over there." You have a lot of family, and I understand that there will definitely be a shortage of food. ”

Lu Yu's heart was hot, and he smiled faintly: "Then I will thank Gang Master Qin and all the brothers." To be honest, the food I grow on that little land is really not enough to eat. ”

"Hehe, Mr. Lu is still a little outside, this place is a little far away from your Yangshan Village, but although Mr. Lu takes this as his home, don't see it."

"Yes, Mr. Lu can't be polite to us."

Lu Yu smiled and nodded.

Because everyone in Tianhai Gang is very busy and tired, there are not many dishes on the lunch table, but the amount of oil is heavy, and it is very satisfying.

During the meal, Lu Yu remembered the Liang County Order, so he asked Qin Zhongquan: "The new Liang County Commander in our county, has he ever been to you?" ”

"I've been here, I just came here two days ago." Qin Zhongquan said: "This official seems to be quite good, he doesn't talk much, but he listens to it." ”

"yes, now it looks like he's a good officer." Lu Yu asked again: "Then did you say, how much rent do you have to pay?" ”

"I didn't say I wanted to pay it, I said I wanted to buy it from us. He also said that if we could not finish our food, we should go to the city and open a grain store, and he would find me a store.

No rent. ”

"That's pretty good, and it's good to open a store." Lu Yu knew that Qin Zhongquan had long wanted to open a store in the city, and he had opened it before, because Lin Siyan came back, and he didn't open it later.

Qin Zhongquan said: "Nowadays, there are few people everywhere and there is a lot of land, and there is enough food to eat, but because there is no business, those who do not farm can only starve. ”

"That's right, as long as Liang County can say that the people who grow grain are willing to sell the grain, no one will be hungry anymore." Lu Yu has long understood that if he only relies on one or a few people, no matter how he can't help a few people, he still has to rely on those parents to govern. Speaking of which, if the common people want to live a good life, they still have to look at the faces of God and the court.

After eating lunch and resting for a while, Lu Yu followed Qin Zhongquan and them to work in the fields again. was busy until the evening, and Lu Yu was going home.

Qin Zhongquan left Lu Yu to rest on the side of Pingze Lake for a night, saying that his trip back and forth was too far.

Lu Yu was no longer "modest", and said that he was fast, and he could rush home in an hour at most.

Qin Zhongquan and his companions were dumbfounded, and they all thought: "Fifty or sixty miles, you can arrive in an hour, is this still a human?" ”

Lu Yu thought to himself, these people are still making a fuss, if you know that I can go back and forth for hundreds of miles in an instant, wouldn't you be scared stupid?

Before dark, carrying a load full of fresh water chestnuts and a small jar of watermelon seeds, Lu Yu returned home.

As soon as he got home, Yan Xi'an came over and asked Lu Yu why he had only gone home at this time.

Lu Yu put down his burden and said, "Gang Master Qin, they are very busy there, I helped over there for a day." He smiled and said, "

I'm going to help for a few more days, they have fewer people and more things to do. ”

"Oh." Yan Xi'an was originally a little angry, but he was a little distressed when he heard Lu Yu say that he had done something for a day.

Yan Xiding and Lan Shaofang had already found a load of fresh water chestnuts picked up by Lu Yu, and the two cheered, squatted on the edge of the basket, and started eating.

Yan Xi'an also sighed, and said with a smile: "Uncle, these water chestnuts are your wages today, right?" ”

"Hehe, there's really a salary." Lu Yu asked, "Have you eaten?" Breakfast, lunch and dinner. ”

"Breakfast and lunch, we cooked it ourselves, hehe." Yan Xi'an also likes to eat water chestnuts, but she doesn't like them as much as Yan Xiding and Lan Shaofang, so she peeled two of them, one for herself and Lu Yu.

Lu Yu said: "Then I'll go make dinner, you haven't eaten dinner yet." ”

"Just eat water chestnut, uncle, you're tired for a day." Yan Xi'an said: "The corn tortillas we fried in the morning were all burnt, and Xiding still ate very delicious. ”

Lu Yu smiled, thinking to himself what Yan Xiding would eat tastelessly? He turned his head to look at the pair of young boys and girls who were concentrating on eating water chestnuts, and the ten fingers of the two of them turned like flies, and soon there were a bunch of water chestnut shells on the ground.

Lu Yu ate two, and suddenly had an idea, and said, "That, do you say that water chestnuts can be cooked and eaten?" ”

"Yes, let's cook." Yan Xiding stood up, wiped his mouth, and said, "It must be delicious, we don't have to cook at night, just cook water chestnuts and eat them." ”

Lu Yu thinks that the taste of raw water chestnut is similar to that of sweet potatoes and raw chestnuts, but water chestnut tastes sweeter, crisper, and easier to chew

If you eat too many chestnuts and sweet potatoes, your cheeks are easy to sour. So Lu Yu thought, sweet potatoes and chestnuts can be boiled, so water chestnuts should also be boiled and eaten.

Dinner was still going to be eaten, and Lu Yu asked Yan Xi to order them to wash some water chestnuts and cook rice and stir-fry vegetables by themselves.

There is meat at home, although it is not very fresh, but it is not bad. Lu Yu fried a few vegetarian dishes, added a few slices of salted meat, and made a loofah meat slice soup.

The water chestnuts were not cooked separately, and when the rice was almost cooked, the two dozen or so water chestnuts that had been washed were thrown directly into it. When the rice is cooked, the water chestnut is almost cooked.

For dinner in the evening, Yan Xi must eat water chestnut first, and Lu Yu also ate one.

The water chestnut is delicious, and the taste is not bad when cooked. Like boiled sweet potatoes, they are floury, but not as glutinous as sweet potatoes, chewy, and sweet.

Lu Yu ate two, then stopped eating, he said: "Xiding, it's delicious, I'll send some to your parents later?" "Mr. and Mrs. Yan live in the compound and come over occasionally.

"Okay, it's just a little less cooked." Yan Xiding is estimated to have started to grow hair, but he still hasn't enough to eat.

"Send some raw ones too, my mother likes to eat them." Yan Xi'an was also eating, and the water chestnut wanted to stay.

"Send more, so much, we can't finish eating, I'll take some more tomorrow and give it to you Brother Ming." Lu Yu was thinking, my brother-in-law Ah Li was only afraid that she was about to give birth, did she have to get her something delicious to send over?