Volume 1 A Small Mountain Village in the Cracks Chapter 13 The Busy Farming Season
In March, it is the season when everything grows, and the croppers should start busy with farm work, but the farmland in Lijia Village is still barren and no one comes to plant.
Except for the elderly and the children who were waiting to be fed, there was not a single adult, neither man nor woman in the village.
The villagers did not flee, after all, the poor family could not leave their homeland. Almost all the villagers followed Li Laosan to hunt, and the offering of more than 8,000 taels was not something that could be done by sitting at home, and it was better to go to the depths of the mountains to hunt some wild beasts and monsters.
Although the farmers did not dare to resist the king of the mountains, their desire to survive was no worse than that of ants. is obviously desperate and like ashes, but even if he knows that he can't save his life, he still writes it in the palm of his hand.
The hunting team is the only life-saving straw in Lijia Village today.
After Li Laosan and the men of the hunting team hunted day and night, although it was far from eight thousand taels, they had already saved the money that they thought would take five months.
Now Lijia Village has enough three thousand taels of silver, and with the savings of each family, it should be able to barely make up four thousand taels.
There was still half a gap between the eight thousand taels after the doubling again, and almost everyone in the village moved, even some clan elders joined the hunting party.
The hunting team is now divided into three teams, one team is led by Li Laosan, mainly going into the deepest part of the periphery of the 100,000 mountains to capture the most valuable demon beasts. A team led by a small divine doctor mainly went to the mountains with many herbs, hunted wild beasts, and collected some herbs for money.
The last team was led by a veteran of the Yuan Qi Realm who had the hope of attacking the True Martial Realm when he was young, mainly relying on experience to capture some beasts of special value.
Three teams of people were dispatched at the same time, and it has been more than half a month since they left Lijia Village, and it is estimated that the time will be about to return.
When they come back, they must leave a few people behind, even if it is only two or three strong mothers-in-law. ’
Granny Ma looked at the farmland in the south of the village and felt a little distressed, some weeds had grown in these farmlands, and a few acres of farmland had been turned over, but more farmland was still barren.
It took great difficulty for generations to open up this thousand acres of farmland, how could it be so wasted?
Granny Ma gently rubbed her waist, supported the plow to drive the big yellow ox, and walked towards the untilled land next to her.
On the ridge, there are more than a dozen children playing, the oldest is only four or five years old, and the youngest is still wearing a belly pocket with a bare buttocks, obviously just walking.
Except for those swaddling babies, all the children left in Lijia Village who can walk are here. As for the infant children, they are still in the village, with those elders who have difficulty moving, and are being taken care of by another elder with quick hands and feet.
Granny Ma was driving the oxen, and before she could even turn over a ridge of land, she heard a child shout, followed by all the children.
Granny Ma is getting older, and her health has not been as good as before recently, and her ears are a little disobedient. She looked up at the children, only to see them pointing into the distance and shouting, not knowing what they were shouting.
Seeing this, Granny Ma hurriedly turned around and looked, only to see a figure walking here outside the dense forest under Mantou Mountain in the distance. The man seemed to have two heads on his head, and in his hand he was dragging something even larger than him, what seemed to be the corpse of some beast.
Seeing this, Granny Ma didn't care about plowing the land, so she threw the cattle in the field and ran quickly to the children on the ridges.
As soon as she rushed to the ridge, she immediately picked up the two youngest children and said to the other children: "Run, run, the monster is coming!"
Granny Ma deliberately suppressed her voice, as if she was afraid of alarming the monsters in the distance, and when the children heard Granny Ma's words, they followed her and ran quickly to the village, only one child did not move.
"Mother-in-law, that's not a monster. It was a fluffy moose, and Li Jiaotou caught one last time, but it wasn't as big as this one. ”
Granny Ma didn't hear it behind her ears, but the girl in her arms heard it, and repeated it loudly to her twice before she could hear it clearly. Granny Ma looked back and realized that the giant beast being dragged did look like a velvet moose, but the monster she was talking about was not the furry moose.
Granny Ma gently kicked the child at the back and said, "Don't you see the monster next to the elk?
When such a child was curious, he heard that there were two heads, and he immediately looked back as he walked, even the two children in Granny Ma's arms were no exception. The children's eyesight is much better than that of Granny Ma, and after looking at it for a long time, I didn't see any people with two heads, only an uncle carrying a grandfather on his back.
The uncle seemed familiar.
The child's memory is good and forgetful, but he hasn't seen him for three months, and his impression of Tang Yi is very vague, and it took a while for someone to remember who it was.
"Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, isn't that the person who lived in your house before?"
'Little Miracle Doctor?'
Granny Ma was slightly stunned, squinted and looked back, at this time Tang Yi was not so far away, but Granny Ma still couldn't see clearly. Judging from the size and clothing, it should not be the little miracle doctor, the little miracle doctor should be thinner and shorter, not as strong as this person.
She gently kicked the talking child, "You're wrong. Youkai are accustomed to being ecstatic, so they must have cast a spell on you. ”
The child rubbed his buttocks, but instead of leaving, he turned to look at Granny Ma and said, "I heard that person didn't steal your coffin book from Granny Ma?"
As soon as she heard the coffin book, Granny Ma didn't know who it was? She hurriedly looked back again, and the more she looked at it, the more she felt like it, and only when the visitor came to the ten zhang area did she recognize that it was Tang Yi.
Granny Ma was first overjoyed and then shocked, and hurriedly walked towards Tang Yi and said, "Didn't you let you go to Fancheng, why did you come back again?"
Tang Yi put down the old Li behind him first, moved a big box from the back of the moose, put it in front of Granny Ma, and said with a smile: "Things started because of me, everyone is busy making money desperately, how can I, the main master, run." Do you say yes?"
After speaking, he opened the box, only to see that the box was neatly stacked with layers of silver ingots, and I don't know how many there were. Granny Ma took out a silver ingot and weighed it, a full scale of silver ingots of ten taels.
"This ...... How much money does this cost?" said Granny Ma, her eyes widening and stammering a little.
Tang Yi smiled, put the box back on the corpse of the elk, took out a cloth bag from his arms, and said with a smile: "It's a thousand taels, but it's for the village." These are the honors of your mother-in-law. ”
Granny Ma took the money bag and knew the specific amount as soon as she weighed it, and there were more than 100 taels of silver. In addition to silver, there should be hundreds of copper coins.
"This ...... This ......" Granny Ma had the heart to hand it back, but she had never seen so much silver in her life, so she was really reluctant.
Seeing this, Tang Yi gently pushed Granny Ma's outstretched hand, and said, "Accept it, Granny Ma, this is my previous house money, and I will have the house money in the future." What's the matter, isn't the mother-in-law too little? Or don't you want Tang Xiaozi to continue to live in your house?"
Granny Ma gritted her teeth, after all, she confiscated it, but she just took out two silver cakes of three or four taels from it, returned the money bag and all the silver coins in it to Tang Yi, and said: "The money that you don't deserve will be greedy if you take it, and then you want to take more, and slowly the good people will be consumed into bad people." ”
When Li Lao, who was carried back by Tang Yi all the way, heard this, Granny Ma, who had a straight face, bowed and praised: "Sacrifice small profits and all righteousness! good, great good!"
"Chenglu is lazy to eat, let Lao Tzu carry you, now it seems that you are a gentleman. Tang Yi muttered in a low voice, and when he saw Li Lao turn around, he hurriedly waved his hand, pointed to the bamboo chair behind him and said, "It's not me, it's what it said!"
Seeing that the little old man rolled his eyes and ignored himself, Tang Yi breathed a sigh of relief.
He is really a little afraid of this old gentleman, it's not that he can't beat him, with this old gentleman's figure, I'm afraid that he can kill him with one punch if he doesn't use his strength, right?
The reason why he was afraid was because this Li Lao was too good to speak, even with Tang Yiwen's strength to hang up and spray his teammates, he was speechless by this old gentleman.
Granny Ma looked at Tang Yi, then at the old gentleman, and said suspiciously: "This is...... Ling Zun?"
When Elder Li heard Granny Ma's words, he looked at her in surprise. The word Lingzun is not used everywhere, ordinary people are more accustomed to saying 'your father' or 'your father', only those scholars of the Zhongding family will be accustomed to using the word Lingzun.
Without waiting for Tang Yi to answer, Li Lao nodded first and smiled: "Yes, yes." Sister-in-law, the dog is in trouble these days. ”
Tang Yi rolled his eyes when he heard this, but he didn't refute it, he just abandoned his 'father', supported Granny Ma with one hand, and walked towards the village with the other hand holding the body of the elk.
Those children were not afraid of life, and when they saw Tang Yi helping Granny Ma over, they all crowded in front of the corpse of the elk, and the bold ones climbed up, sat on the corpse and were dragged back to the village by Tang Yi.
The tail of March quietly left, and April's head burrowed into the mountains, and in the blink of an eye, it was five days, and it was the third day of the fourth month.
In the past few days, Tang Yi has helped Granny Ma to cultivate all the farmland in the village, and is staying in the field for watering and irrigation.
Of course, only Tang Yi and Granny Ma are responsible for the work, as for his cheap old man?
The old gentleman was hiding on the ridge with the children and playing. Of course, the old gentleman will not admit that he is playing, he is educating the next generation, and he has not heard that 'young people are easy to learn and old people are difficult to succeed, and not an inch of time is not light'.
Tang Yi didn't even believe a single punctuation mark in what Old Man Li said, didn't he see how cheerful this old man was playing with the children? They even had punishments, and if they lost, they would be impeached. Danjigi, is this educating the next generation? What do you let those girls do?
Tang Yi was doing farm work while slandering, and as soon as he finished changing the ditch, he heard the sound of footsteps in the mountains and forests in the distance. The footsteps were very chaotic, and there were about more than 100 people. In addition to the sound of footsteps, there seems to be the sound of horses' hooves.