It's time to hand over the imperial grain.

Bai Jiaxuan and Lu Zilin organized everyone to hand over the imperial grain together.

Bai Jiaxuan's house.

Zhou Qiang stuck on the meal and ordered.

Xiancao is making oily noodles.

"Xiaoqiang is here, let's eat a bowl of noodles together, right?" Bai Jiaxuan greeted warmly.

Last time at Lu Zilin's house, Zhou Qiang helped Bai Jiaxuan again.

The relationship between Bai Jiaxuan and Zhou Qiang is better.

"Okay, Brother Jiaxuan, let's try the oily noodles made by my sister-in-law today." Zhou Qiang was not polite. He ordered the meal to eat the oily noodles made of fairy grass.

Zhou Qiang felt that the oily noodles made of fairy grass had the taste of home.

Of course, Zhou Qiang didn't come empty-handed, he brought some tofu he made himself, and handed it to the fairy grass who came over to say hello.

"Just make shallots and tofu." Xiancao had a good impression of Zhou Qiang.

Because, Zhou Qiang helped a lot with the marriage of Xiancao and Bai Jiaxuan.

In the eyes of the fairy grass,

If it weren't for Zhou Qiang, the marriage between Xiancao and Bai Jiaxuan would not have been possible.

If it weren't for Zhou Qiang, there would not have been such a decent wedding.

If it weren't for Zhou Qiang, the fairy grass cave room would have to stay alone in the empty room at night.

Therefore, Xiancao is very grateful to Zhou Qiang.

"Third brother, what have you been busy with lately?" Zhou Qiang greeted Lu San.

Before, when he built a vegetable greenhouse or something, Zhou Qiang asked Lu San for help.

Zhou Qiang is alone, he can't do some work, and he needs to find someone to help.

Zhou Qiang asked Lu San for help, but he didn't pay for it, so he let him eat a few meals.

"Nothing busy." Lu San answered, not saying much.

"Where's the black baby?"

"I don't know where to go." Lu San squatted on the ground and smoked a dry cigarette.

"Brother Jiaxuan, how is my uncle? Is your body okay? ”

"Okay. Last time, I had diarrhea and drank the yellow lotus you gave, and it didn't take long to get better. ”

"That's good." Zhou Qiang pulled a few homely words and began to get down to business, "Brother Jiaxuan, the county seat has not been right these days, I heard from the people who came back from the provincial capital that the years have changed, and the emperor is gone." ”

"What? The emperor is gone? Bai Jiaxuan was taken aback. Lu San on the side also looked surprised. They didn't know that the emperor was gone.

"Yes, it's a revolution, I don't know what's going on.

In the place where the emperor's grain was handed over, there were a few soldiers, and they also arrested people everywhere to cut their braids.

The former officials in the yamen are gone. "Zhou Qiang often goes to the county seat.

I saw short-haired soldiers in coarse cloth uniforms and carrying guns.

The officials of the previous Qing Dynasty yamen are gone.

"What? Grab someone and cut braids? Bai Jiaxuan and Lu San looked surprised again. The braids on their heads, which have been around for hundreds of years, have long been ingrained.

If you want to cut your braids all at once, it's hard, it's hard!

The braids on the head, in the twenty-first century, have many people who have not cut them.

"Fortunately, my braids are long gone, and no one has caught me." Zhou Qiang looked glad that he had shaved his bald head before.

"This is good, why is the emperor gone?" Bai Jiaxuan was still a little unacceptable.

"I don't know. Brother Jiaxuan, the emperor is gone, shall we still pay the imperial grain? ”

"Imperial grain?" Bai Jiaxuan also didn't know whether he should continue to hand over the imperial grain.

"Brother Jiaxuan, why don't we wait and let someone go to the county to see the situation, what's going on?" Zhou Qiang knew that going to hand over the emperor's grain now was tantamount to paying for nothing.

"Okay, then wait a little longer and see how it goes." Bai Jiaxuan nodded in agreement. Still, he had a confused look on his face.

His brother-in-law hasn't come back yet, and he still wants to ask his brother-in-law, the emperor is gone, what should he do in the future.

A moment later.

"Sister-in-law, the oily noodles you made are so delicious." Zhou Qiang has already eaten two bowls.

"What about the noodles, and I'll give you another bowl?" Xiancao didn't bother to eat yet, and was waiting on the side.

"Okay, then another bowl." Zhou Qiang was still not polite.

"Xiaoqiang, your tofu is doing well, I will let the third brother go to your place every day to change the tofu." Bai Jiaxuan also ate with a shiny face.

"Okay, I'll do more in the future." Zhou Qiang's tofu is better than other people's houses, and his reputation has gone out, and many people go to his house every day to change tofu.

Not a few days.

Lu San went to Zhou Qiang's house to change tofu.

"Xiaoqiang, you know no, I didn't pay the imperial grain."

"What's wrong?"

"Many of those who handed over the emperor's grain had their braids cut. Some ran fast and ran, but the imperial grain was lost. ”

"What? Lost the imperial grain? ”

"Yes, the imperial grain is lost."

"This imperial grain is lost, in a few days, what will the government do if you let the imperial grain be handed over?"

"Doesn't that mean that if you let the emperor pay the grain again, you won't starve to death."

"Third brother, we haven't lost our imperial grain, right?"

"I didn't lose it, I didn't dare to hand it over."

"Then take it a little longer."

"Yes, slowly." Lu San changed a large piece of tofu and went back.

The days passed.

this day.

Mr. Zhu is finally back.

Bai Jiaxuan hurriedly ran to find Mr. Zhu.

Mr. Zhu's place of residence is not in Bailu Village.

Rather, it is on a slope not far from the county seat.

There is a academy here, the White Deer Academy.

Mr. Zhu lives here.

"Brother-in-law, you're back." Bai Jiaxuan came running and sweated.

"I'm back." Mr. Zhu was dressed in a long shirt. He was a scholar of the Qing Dynasty. Scholars have to wear long shirts, which are different from the clothes worn by Bai Jiaxuan.

Bai Jiaxuan looked at Mr. Zhu and had a lot of words in his heart, but he didn't know what to say for a while.

"Listen to your sister, are you married?" Mr. Zhu asked casually.

"Yes, married."

"I heard that on the night you got married, you went to the ancestral hall?"

"Yes." Bai Jiaxuan nodded, not knowing how to explain.

"There is a descendant of Zhou Qiang, and he told you a story?"

"Yes."

"I heard your sister tell this story, saying that it was a descendant named Zeng Aniu" Mr. Zhu gave a general account of the story told by Zhou Qiang.

"That's right. Brother-in-law, I can't burn the fairy grass, right? Fairy grass can grow endlessly, right? Bai Jiaxuan asked what he had been worried about.

"You can't burn to death.

How can you burn to death?

You see, the weeds all over the place, year after year, have been growing endlessly. Mr. Zhu said with a smile.

Mr. Zhu felt that the story told by Zhou Qiang was very good, at least he could deceive Bai Jiaxuan and those villagers, so that Bai Jiaxuan would not be entangled in the problem of 'sleeping dead fairy grass'.

"That's good, I'm afraid of harming the fairy grass.

Brother-in-law, this woman is pitiful.

Famine did not starve to death, and plague did not die of disease.

Don't let me die of calamity. This is Bai Jiaxuan's heart knot.

He didn't want to kill the fairy grass.

He felt that he was 'hard to kill his wife', and he was afraid that he would kill the fairy grass.

"Don't worry, you can't die, the days are still long.

I heard that Zhou Qiang was only thirteen or fourteen years old? ”

"Yes, he was still a half-old child, and his parents died of illness half a year ago.

At that time, Zhou Qiang almost died of illness.

Later, someone wanted to forcibly occupy Zhou Qiang's land, so I went to help take care of it. Bai Jiaxuan helped Zhou Qiang a lot.

At that time, if there was no Bai Jiaxuan, Zhou Qiang's fate would probably be difficult to say. Of course, the premise is that Zhou Qiang is just an ordinary person.

"Should go and help." Mr. Zhu nodded, he was a little interested in Zhou Qiang. But I'm not in a hurry to see Zhou Qiang, I can always see him in the future.

"Brother-in-law, I recently heard that the years have changed, the emperor is gone, and the emperor's grain is still braided."

"Yes, the emperor is gone, and the world has changed." Mr. Zhu's eyes were deep and he looked at Chang'an City. He knows more about what's going on outside.

Even he was amazed at the changes outside.

There are more and more foreigners, and the influence on Bactria is also increasing.

However, the people of Great Xia live more and more unlike people.

"Brother-in-law, this emperor is gone, how will you live in the future?" Bai Jiaxuan never knew that the emperor was gone, what should he do in the future.

"Just do what you have to do."

"Brother-in-law, do you still have to pay the imperial grain?"

"Sooner or later, I have to pay it, but the name has to be changed, and it's not called Huangliang."

"You can call it anything, you have to pay food anyway.

Brother-in-law, we didn't pay the imperial grain before.

I heard that the imperial grain in several villages was lost, and many people were even braided. Bai Jiaxuan looked happy.

"Braids." Mr. Zhu shook his head with a smile and didn't say anything.

"Brother-in-law, it's good for you to come back, otherwise my heart will be empty." Bai Jiaxuan talked to Mr. Zhu for a while before going home.

Time went by day after day.

The large courtyard of Zhou Qiang's house was all used.

Greenhouse vegetables.

Small fish ponds.

Cowshed.

Pigsty.

Chicken coop.

Earth dragon breeding.

Compost outside the yard.

There are also tofu sheds, small breweries, and so on.

Zhou Qiang has done a lot of things.

The crops in the field, the medicinal herbs, and the ones that should be planted, were planted.

Zhou Qiang estimated the annual income, and felt that it was not bad, and hundreds of oceans should be no problem.

"Today's tofu has been changed, please be early tomorrow!" Zhou Qiang's tofu has been selling well.

There is an endless stream of people who come to exchange for tofu.

"Do you want to buy Tian Xiao'e in advance?" Zhou Qiang plans to find a helper.

"Xiaoqiang, why does your house still smell of alcohol?" Lu San asked. He just changed a large piece of tofu, which was specially left by Zhou Qiang.

"Third brother, I brewed some wine, you wait, I'll make you a pot, go back and you and Brother Jiaxuan to taste it." After Zhou Qiang finished speaking, he went to drink.

A moment later.

Zhou Qiang brought a small jar of wine.

"I can't do it, I can't do it." Lu San hurriedly refused.

"If you can't help it, if you think it's delicious, you will come and change the wine to drink." Zhou forced Lu San.

"What do you get for wine?"

"Anything, grain, beans, mountain goods, medicinal herbs, you can all exchange them." Zhou Qiang accepts everything, and those who come do not refuse.

He had saved a lot of things at home, so he sent them to the provincial capital and sold them.

Zhou Qiang has been looking down on the county recently, and he feels that the price is low.

He would go to the provincial capital to buy and sell things.

By the way, take a look at the changes outside.

"Then I'll go back and talk to the young owner." Lu San was just about to leave.

At this time, Widow Li came over.

"Xiaoqiang, are you short of manpower here? I can help you change the tofu. "Widow Li wants to find a job to do here in Zhou Qiang.

"No shortage, no need for sister-in-law." Zhou Qiang directly refused. He didn't want to have anything to do with Widow Li. He is a young offspring, and he can't ruin his reputation, otherwise he won't be able to marry a good daughter-in-law.

"If there is a shortage of manpower, I will say, I have nothing to do this day, I am idle." Widow Li is not in a hurry to leave.

"What has Brother Zilin been busy with lately?" Zhou Qiang asked suddenly.

"He's busy," Widow Lee almost said, "I don't know." ”

Widow Li hurried away.

The relationship between her and Lu Zilin has been going on for a long time, and everyone in the village knows that being broken by Zhou Qiang in front of her makes Widow Li a little embarrassed.

The days go on.

Zhou Qiang's small life is good.

Every day, I drank wine, ate tender tofu, ate meat from time to time, and made my own oily noodles, and the days were very beautiful.

On this day, Zhou Qiang was idle and bored, thinking about Tian Xiao'e.

"Tian Xiao'e is still too young, it is estimated that her father Tian Xiucai will not sell her."

"But it's not necessarily, it's better to take the time to go outside the customs and ask someone to ask."

"If you go to Guanwai, it's a little troublesome, and I'm afraid there will be bandits on the road."

Of course, Zhou Qiang is not afraid of bandits.

However, Zhou Qiang is a half-grown child.

A person ran away to the gate, met the bandits, and killed the bandits, which is somewhat unreasonable.

In addition, how did Zhou Qiang know that Tian Xiao'e in Tianjia Village outside the Guanwai?

There's so much that can't be explained.

Tian Xiao'e's matter, Zhou Qiang still needs to calculate.

I don't know when it started, and there were suddenly a lot of victims in Bailu Plain.

Zhou Qiang's tofu stall, Bai Jiaxuan came, and Lu Zilin also came.

"Xiaoqiang, you often go to the provincial capital, do you know why there are so many victims outside? It's not a disaster. Bai Jiaxuan asked. Lu Zilin listened on the sidelines.

Lu Zilin still has some opinions about Zhou Qiang. Before, Zhou Qiang won a lot of money from Lu Zilin and also stirred up the birthday banquet.

"I know, there are Qing soldiers from outside Chang'an City." When Zhou Qiang went to the provincial capital, he had already heard about the Qing soldiers.

"What? Qing soldiers? Bai Jiaxuan looked surprised. He usually only cares about working in the fields, and does not care about the outside affairs.

"Yes, I heard that the Qing soldiers are fighting back, and the 200,000 Qing soldiers will kill all the revolutionaries."

"Revolutionary?"

"Yes, the ones with braids."

"Cut your braids? I didn't pay the imperial grain, and our braids are still there. ”

"It's broken, my braids are gone, will you kill me as a revolutionary?" Zhou Qiang deliberately.

"No, you're young." Bai Jiaxuan didn't stay long, he went to find Mr. Zhu again. He wanted to ask, is the emperor coming back here? Are you going to pay the imperial grain?

Lu Zilin also followed.

What Bai Jiaxuan does, Lu Zilin likes to rush to do.

Bai Jiaxuan's house.

Bai Bingde looked anxious and said to Zhu Baishi: "Why didn't you stop him?" ”

Zhu Bai is Mr. Zhu's wife and Bai Jiaxuan's sister.

Just now, Bai Jiaxuan went to find Mr. Zhu.

Mr. Zhu was not there and went to Chang'an City.

There were Qing soldiers outside Chang'an City, and Zhu Bai's family was worried about Mr. Zhu, and the six gods had no owner, so they followed Bai Jiaxuan back to Bai's house.

"I, can I stop him?" Zhu Baishi asked rhetorically, and then said: "In the morning, he got the news that many Qing soldiers came here, saying that they wanted to wash Chang'an City in blood.

He was so anxious that he wandered around the academy.

said that he would go into the city to find that Governor Zhang, and ask the governor to find a way to withdraw the army.

It wasn't long before the governor's men came looking for him.

And he followed. ”

"Alas, it was Xiucai who met Bing, and it was unreasonable. Why did he have to hit the muzzle of the gun. Bai Bingde was worried about his son-in-law.

"Dad, this person still has to be stopped." Bai Jiaxuan's mother, Bai Zhao, is also worried about her son-in-law. I hope someone will call Mr. Zhu back.

"It should be stopped." Bai Bingde nodded.

"I'll go. I'm going to stop my brother-in-law coming back. Bai Jiaxuan spoke.

This kind of thing, most people avoid it.

But Bai Jiaxuan is not an ordinary person, he wants to pick up Mr. Zhu.

A moment later.

Lu San drove the donkey cart to the entrance of the village, and Bai Jiaxuan and Xiancao walked behind.

Bai Jiaxuan is going to Chang'an City.

Xian Cao looked reluctant, but she didn't stop Bai Jiaxuan.

Xiancao is not an ordinary woman.

Village.

"Alright, let's go back." Bai Jiaxuan said goodbye to Xiancao, "It's there, I'll come back with my brother-in-law." ”

"I'm happy." Xiancao said.

"Okay, let's go back." Bai Jiaxuan didn't hear it.

"I'm pregnant." Xiancao said again.

"Hmm" Bai Jiaxuan nodded, stunned for a moment, before reacting, "What?" ”

"I said I was pregnant." Fairy grass is pregnant.

"Really?!" Bai Jiaxuan's eyes widened, and the smile on his face couldn't be hidden.

"Really!" Xiancao was also happy. In this day and age, pregnancy is a good thing.

Bai Jiaxuan was happy and hugged the fairy grass.

"What are you doing? It's broad daylight. A voice came.

Zhou Qiang came, he smiled, "Brother Jiaxuan, sister-in-law, what are you doing here?" ”

"Haha, Xiaoqiang, your sister-in-law is pregnant." Bai Jiaxuan looked happy.

"What? Sister-in-law is happy? It's a good thing, it's time to have a good meal and celebrate. Zhou Qiang also smiled.

"I can't celebrate now, I have to go to Chang'an City." Thinking of Mr. Zhu, Bai Jiaxuan was a little worried.

"To Chang'an City? Why are you going? ”

"My brother-in-law went to Chang'an City, saying that he wanted to retreat from the Qing army."

"What? Mr. Zhu wants to persuade 200,000 Qing soldiers to retire? Zhou Qiang looked surprised, "This is a matter of losing your head." ”

"Yes, my brother-in-law doesn't want to go to war." Hearing that he was going to lose his head, Bai Jiaxuan looked worried.

Zhou Qiang looked admiring: "Brother Jiaxuan, Mr. Zhu's move is benevolent!" ”

"It's righteousness. I have to pick him up, though. ”

"Shall I go with you? I have been to many provincial cities, and the roads are familiar. ”

"No, I'll just go with my third brother." Bai Jiaxuan was worried that Chang'an City was in danger and didn't want Zhou Qiang to take risks.

"Multiple people with multiple ideas, I might be able to help if I go." Zhou Qiang said and jumped into the donkey cart of Lu Sancha.

"This" Bai Jiaxuan wanted to say something.

"Just let Xiaoqiang go." Xiancao felt that Zhou Qiang could be relied on at a critical time, and he could indeed help with ideas.

"Okay." Bai Jiaxuan agreed.

"You promise me that An Sheng will come back and not make trouble outside." Xian Cao whispered to Bai Jiaxuan.

"Don't worry, I'll be back with my brother-in-law."

Xiancao looked at Lu San and Zhou Qiang, "Third brother, Xiaoqiang, Jiaxuan has a hard temperament, and he won't turn around in case of trouble, you two persuade him a little." ”

"Hey." Lu San responded.

"Okay, sister-in-law, don't worry, I promise to take care of you." Zhou Qiang also responded.

"Then I'm leaving." Bai Jiaxuan said to Xiancao and jumped on the donkey cart.

"Drive!" Lu San drove away.

The fairy grass sent them away. (End of chapter)