Li Zheng said excitedly: "Okay, it's really good to have a Beijing official as a backer for us, I'll go tell a few clansmen." ”

After walking a few steps, he turned around again, lowered his voice and asked Helan Yue, "Yue girl, do you know how many officials the Hubu Shangshu is?" ”

He Lanyue thought for a while, "It should be an official of the first or second grade." ”

Rizheng nodded and turned to leave.

The mouth is still muttering, the county order is a seven-grade official, then this household department is a first-to-second-grade official, my God.

Lizheng's legs were weak and he stumbled, and he almost fell into the ditch.

Helan Yue, who watched it, was also taken aback.

"Uncle Lizheng, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, nothing at all."

Li Zheng's brain went blank like this, and his feet were like stepping on cotton, and he left with deep and shallow feet.

Helan Yue has been following him, really worried that he will fall into the ditch with one foot in the air.

She followed Li Zheng out of the ridge all the time, and when she saw him walking home, she turned around and left and went to Su Qinyan's yard.

told Su Qinyan that Li Zheng agreed to sell all the corn seeds screened this year to them.

This matter was settled, and the people in the village were very happy when they heard about it.

Li Zheng finally couldn't resist the temptation, broke four large and plump corn in the field and went home, cooked it and ate it among the whole family.

The sweet smell wafted into the yard of the house next door, and the child was hungry for corn.

There is a beginning, just like the water that has been released from the floodgates, as long as the people in the village have planted corn, they have begun to break a small amount of corn and go home to taste it.

And the children of the families who did not grow corn were also noisy.

The villagers who grow corn in the village are happy and looking forward to the harvest.

Now Li Zheng told them that the corn with full grains screened out could also be sold as seeds, which made them smile from ear to ear.

And those long-tongued women and the people in their families have long since repented of their bowels.

In addition, the children in the family are crying and trying to eat corn.

The concubines in the family took advantage of this to make a big fuss and forced their parents to split up.

None of the elders of these long-tongued women's families wanted to live with them.

It was as if they were isolated from their families and the villagers.

I heard about this incident, and I specially told those who patrolled and guarded the entrance of the village to keep an eye on these broken mouths, and they must not be allowed to leave the village.

lest they go outside and talk nonsense before the corn is harvested.

In the evening, in the dead of night, in addition to the people on duty at the entrance of the village, the people who patrolled the fields also went to rest in the hut not far from the entrance of the village.

At this moment, four figures quietly sneaked into the ground.

But soon they left.

For several days, these four figures were busy at night.

At this time, some attentive villagers in the village also began to find that their corn was decreasing.

Every family values this corn, and the amount of corn that can be broken back and eaten is also limited.

But now they found that the corn in the field was inexplicably less.

This grain is the life of the peasants, and they quickly told Li Zheng about the situation.

Rimasa also attaches great importance to it.

He found a few trustworthy clansmen and hid quietly in the ditch at night.

In the dead of night, the four men came out to steal corn again, and were caught by Lizheng.

lit the torch and saw clearly that it was the four of them, the dog and the mother.

Li Zheng asked the four of them to be locked up directly in the ancestral hall.

On the second day, the whole village was notified to go to the entrance of the ancestral hall.

Li Zheng and the clan elders thought twice, now is the critical moment, they can't be expelled from the village, they can only beat them with twenty sticks first, let them take care of them, and wait for the corn to be harvested before punishment.

And he found the corn which they had stolen, and gave it to the owner.

This incident also made Li Zheng more cautious, and the closer to the maturity of the corn, the more protective measures must be taken.

He asked the villagers to take care of their corn during the day, and arrange for people to take turns patrolling at night.

The first is to prevent the people of the village from breaking back the unripe corn and wasting food.

The second is to prevent people from other villages from coming to steal corn.

Recently, even the people in the village have not been able to go out casually, especially the women who are going back to their parents' homes.

Although everyone complained about this matter, the thought that this was also to ensure the safety of their own food gradually subsided.

It rained again, and after five or six days of exposure to the sun, the corn in the field was finally ripe.

The harvest days are full of joy.

Because the harvest began today, the private school also had a three-day holiday.

Although it is not like the time when the wheat is harvested, there are still people who go to the village to buy pork, but everyone is full of energy.

Watching the corn being broken down one by one and transported to the barn, everyone's faces were filled with festive smiles.

The day was busy and hard, and everyone didn't feel tired at all.

In the evening, a fire is lit in the threshing floor, and everyone sits around their corn pile, laughing and peeling the corn.

Helan Yue's family grows a lot of corn, and there are many people who break corn.

Helan Yue's family, the three of her aunt's family, plus the Dong family's sisters and brothers, as well as Luo Li and Changfeng, and even Chu He and they came over to help.

After a busy day, I finally finished harvesting all the corn in the field.

Taking advantage of the cool evening, they sat on the ground and quickly peeled off the corn husk.

Chu Xiaohe and the others also followed the customs, tied their clothes around their waists, and sat on the ground to work, without the delicate appearance of a son of a family.

In this hot weather, after two or three days of exposure to the sun, you can start threshing.

The people in the village are very excited now, and they want to know very much about the yield of corn after threshing.

With this in mind, the action of breaking corn kernels is getting faster and faster.

Even some brothers in the family who have a good relationship are comparing themselves to see who is faster.

The women, who felt that the sun was too strong on the threshing floor, would also carry the corn to the shade of the trees on the side with a large dustpan.

In the past few days of threshing corn, all the hands of the He family have been swollen and their skins have been worn out.

Wen Chongming's hands with fine skin and tender meat were even more broken.

Su Qinyan said that during this time, he waited for the private school to come over after school to help, and when he wrote these days, his hands were slightly trembling.

Wen Chongming also sent medicine to the He family in time.

Finally, everyone endured the pain and threshed all the corn.

Everyone was excited, and in full view of everyone, Li Zheng also took out the scale, starting with his own corn.

The more he weighed it, the more frightened he felt, and when all the corn was weighed, the villagers who counted the numbers on the side counted the number and were about to report it, Li Zheng covered his mouth excitedly.

And it was at this moment that they heard the sound of horses' hooves galloping towards them from far and near.