Master Zeng Li sat cross-legged on the clay kang, holding a string of prayer beads in his hand, he used a string of one hundred and eight prayer beads, bowed his head and silently recited the mantra.

The mantra he recited can already be turned into reality in a virtual way, and the mantra words flashed faintly golden, appearing out of thin air, and then being included in the rosary, which looks extremely magical.

Mi Xiaojing didn't dare to disturb, just stood and watched Master Zeng Li recite the mantra.

Master Zeng Li, who is already in his sixties, is in excellent spirits, with two black silkworm eyebrows, a pair of shining eyes, and a patched coat on his body.

After a moment, Master Zeng Li raised his head.

"Mi Xiaojing, I'm going to Fenglin Village to collect rent today, and you should go with you. Go back and get ready, we're going to stay in Fenglin Village for two days. ”

Mi Xiaojing was stunned, and he was puzzled.

"Uncle Shi, it's not the duty of the prison to collect rent, why do you want us to go?"

"You don't need to ask, tell you to go, you go. ”

"Yes, uncle. ”

Master Zeng Li fiddled with the pearl in his hand.

"In the past few days, a caravan will go to Fenglin Village, and you can bring some of your mountain goods to exchange for something. ”

Mi Xiaojing was suddenly overjoyed, the caravan! Here in Xiyanmen, it is really difficult to see caravans, and it is generally in autumn that there is hope, because in autumn, caravans will enter the village to buy grain, at this time, each family has food, which can be exchanged for some daily necessities, as well as groceries or something.

Going to Fenglin Village to collect rent is actually a beautiful difference for the cultivation of Xiyanmen.

Mi Xiaojing immediately said goodbye and hurried back to his room, he had collected a lot of mountain goods.

Mi Xiaojing took a total of two large baskets of mountain goods, including a lot of pecans, hazelnuts, chestnuts, pine nuts, dried mushrooms and the like, as well as a small amount of dried wild vegetables.

There are a total of eight ox carts, two of which are full of mountain goods, all of which are the senior brothers and younger brothers of Mi Xiaojing, and some are the mountain goods collected by the long-term hired workers, and they bring more things, including a lot of game, dried bacon meat, and air-dried chickens and ducks.

A total of more than a dozen people went, led by Master Zeng Li, and a few disciples from the prison courtyard, Mi Xiaojing also sat on the ox cart.

Fenglin Village is relying on Xiyanmen to survive, the land here is reclaimed by the master of Xiyanmen, and then rented to the villagers to plant, rent must be collected every year, the people of the whole village, in fact, are tenants and long-term workers of Xiyanmen.

The cultivation of Xiyanmen not only has to collect rent, but also to protect the safety of the villagers. Every winter, there will be wolves or fierce beasts such as tigers and leopards in Xishan and Jingshan, and even terrifying spirit beasts will appear, and the villagers must be protected by the Yanxiu of Xiyanmen.

Every spring, Xiyanmen would send Yanxiu to reclaim new land, and in addition to planting it himself, he would also rent it to the villagers.

Every autumn, when the crops are ripe and the tenants of Fenglin Village harvest, after waiting for half a month, it is the day when Xiyanmen collects rent.

Xiyanmen is located at the foot of the West Mountain, opposite is Jingshan, a small river passes through the mountain gate, along the valley bottom of the West Mountain and Jingshan, from west to east, over a large area of maple forest, it comes to Fenglin Village, passes through Fenglin Village, and gathers until Jingxi Lake, this small river is also called Jingxi.

Along the dirt road by Jingxi, eight ox carts bumped all the way, and after about an hour, they came to Fenglin Village.

At the entrance of Fenglin Village, there is an ancient maple tree that has grown for thousands of years, which is already all red at this time, like a huge torch, erected at the entrance of the village.

The old village chief greeted him at the entrance of the village with a group of young men, and he came to Master Zeng Li and bowed down.

"The master has worked hard, and the masters have worked hard. ”

Master is an honorific title, and the same is true for master, and most mortals call Yan Xiu, and most of them use master or master.

The people followed the ox cart and went directly into the village, and then into the village chief's house.

The village chief's home is the largest in Fenglin Village, he was originally the agent of Xiyanmen, and he is a man of his word in Fenglin Village, and the new villagers who want to be long-term workers and tenants must be guaranteed by the village chief, otherwise they will not be able to be tenants and long-term workers of Xiyanmen.

The village chief's house is divided into the front yard and the back yard, a total of two houses, both are one bright and two dark, the middle is bright, the two dark rooms, the front yard is very large, and the back yard is where the family lives.

The front yard is actually a rent collection yard, eight ox carts go in, the inside is still very spacious, there is a livestock shed along the courtyard wall, the cattle of the ox cart rush to the livestock shed, and someone specially cut the forage to feed.

The mountain goods were also unloaded and placed in the wings, and when the caravan came, they could be exchanged for the goods they needed.

The village chief's mother-in-law greeted him attentively and set up a large table in the front yard to worship these masters for dinner.

Mi Xiaojing sat at the dinner table with a few senior brothers early, for them, this meal is definitely better than the food in Xiyanmen, Mi Xiaojing is also pitiful, he lived thirteen years old, but he has not eaten anything good, this time the rent is collected, if it is not for Master Zeng Li, he is not qualified to come, he is not a disciple of the prison.

White flour steamed buns, thin hand-rolled noodles, with a layer of red chili oil on top, and a layer of chopped green garlic, braised eggplant in oil, fried peanuts in oil, fried tofu, fried edamame and cabbage, although they are all roasted in vegetable oil, where can you see such oily dishes in Xiyanmen?

A group of masters are crazy, they are all big-bellied people, even Mi Xiaojing is extremely edible, that is, in a moment, a table of food will be swept away.

Master Zeng Li ate very little, he ate two steamed buns, and he didn't eat any dishes, looking at the appearance of the disciples, he couldn't help but shake his head and sigh, cultivated to his level, this kind of meal can no longer be tempted, he himself is profound, and he can resist the temptation of food.

Mi Xiaojing almost didn't eat his tongue, but his nature was good, and he soon realized that it was not good for cultivation, so after eating, he kept reciting the mantra to suppress the temptation of food to himself.

For Mi Xiaojing, as long as it is not unpalatable, food or something, that is the floating clouds in the sky, if you have an experience, you will not be tempted in the future.

Of course, when real food hits, Mi Xiaojing doesn't know if he can resist it, anyway, after reflecting and repenting, he will feel at ease.

In the afternoon, the rent was collected, all of them were big buckets, weighed, and poured into the bamboo baskets, and the baskets were placed on the ground.

In fact, the rent collected by Xiyanmen is not heavy, and the general tenants eat better than the masters of Xiyanmen, because they can eat meat, and usually raise chickens and ducks, sheep and pigs by themselves, and even some will go to the Xishanjing Mountain to hunt, and the masters of Xiyanmen are bitter, they can't eat meat.