The serving disciples of the "Si Nong Palace" who collected the rent came.

It's just that the way this serving disciple appeared was different from what Xu Ke imagined.

Xu Ke originally thought that this rent-collecting dear disciple should be flying in the air, floating around, and the sleeves of his robe were flying, with a lonely dusty painting style on the cliff shore.

Right now......

Under the scorching sun, at the intersection ahead, a wild bull pulled a big cart, brought up billowing smoke and dust, and galloped all the way to "rumble".

"Appeal ......"

When the driver approached, the driver of the cart shouted and pulled the reins violently.

The speeding cart came to a halt suddenly, the wheels scraping a layer of dirt on the ground, and drifting, and the smoke and dust swept in like a wave.

it! Can ox carts play drifting?

Xu Ke stretched out his hand to cover his mouth and nose, and retreated again and again, avoiding the dust explosion.

"It's the first time I've driven this kind of car, and I'm not proficient yet, so I smiled. See smiled. ”

The driver on the ox cart jumped down with a "bang", pulled the placket of his clothes with one hand, fanned the wind, wiped his sweat with the other, and walked up towards Xu Ke.

Why can you drift in an ox cart, and you're not proficient? Isn't it heaven to be proficient?

Xu Ke looked at this "rent collector" who was slightly fat and round, and looked a little honest, smiled politely, and did not answer.

"Brother, is there any water? Take a bowl of water and drink it, it's hot to death. ”

This person walked up with a smile and greeted Xu Ke very "familiarly".

"Drink water? Yes. Yes. ”

Xu Ke nodded, "Come, senior brother, please come in." ”

Saying that, Xu Ke led the rent collector into the house, picked up a pottery bowl and scooped a bowl of well water, and handed it over, "The family is poor, and there is no tea to entertain guests, and I hope that the senior brother will not dislike it." ”

"What do you dislike?"

This slightly chubby rent collector, who has no shelves at all, and has nothing "smelly", reached out and took a sip of the pottery bowl and drank it dry.

Xu Ke smiled, it seems that the rent collector of this Si Nong Hall is quite easy to speak.

"Hah...... Refreshing and refreshing! Thank you! ”

Putting down the bowl, the rent collector thanked Xu Ke and began to get down to business, "You are Xu Ke's junior brother, right?" My name is Gao Zhengzhi, and I am a disciple of the deacon sent by the Si Nong Temple to collect rent, this is my deacon token, you can check it. ”

As he spoke, the rent collector was upright and handed over a waist card to Xu Ke.

"Senior brother said with a smile, where is the need to check?"

Saying this, Xu Ke picked up the waist card without hesitation, checked it carefully, and only after confirming that it was correct, did he return the waist card to Gao Zhengzhi.

"Senior Brother Xu, according to the records in the field book, you have planted a total of ten acres of Xiapin Ling Field this year, and the planting crop is silver leaf jute."

Gao Zheng directly crossed the waist card, took another book, opened the book to check the record, "There is no problem with this record, right?" ”

"No problem." Xu Ke nodded.

"That's good."

Gao Zhengzhi put away Tian Bo's booklet, smiled at Xu Ke, and said, "Senior Brother Xu, let's talk ahead." There are always some unwritten rules for collecting rent. ”

Unwritten rules? Isn't it the unspoken rule of deduction?

Xu Ke's brows furrowed, and he sighed in his heart. From ancient times to the present, no matter which dynasty or generation, farmers have always been the object of exploitation, even in the world of cultivating immortals.

It's so irritating! Am I going to have a "struggle for the truth"?

"Senior Brother Xu, don't worry."

Gao Zhengzhi saw that Xu Ke's face was not good-looking, and said with a smile: "I am upright by nature, and I can't do things that are deductible and exploitative, and I will not deliberately lower your silver leaf jute grade, nor will I deliberately increase the tenant rent quota." ”

"Thank you, brother! Senior brother is really upright! ”

Xu Ke breathed a sigh of relief and had some good feelings for this senior brother named "Integrity".

It is no wonder that since ancient times, the common people have longed for clean officials. This kind of doing things according to the rules and not deliberately exploiting them is already a rare clean official.

"Hehe, it's ridiculous!"

Gao Zhengzhi nodded with a smile and motioned to Xu Ke, "Senior Brother Xu, let's start!" ”

"Okay, senior brother, please!"

Xu Ke hurriedly led Gao Zhengzhi to the floor outside, and stood by the stack of silver leaf jute.

Gao Zhengzhi took out a needle-like magic weapon, and seriously tested each bundle of silver leaf jute to determine the grade of these silver leaf jute.

"Senior Brother Xu, after testing. The quality of your silver leaf jute is good, there is no inferior product, but there are very few excellent products, most of them are good products, and they are graded by good products, how about it? ”

"It's all up to the senior brother."

Xu Ke arched his hand with a smile, and had no objection to this grade recognition.

Gao Zhengzhi nodded, and took out a weighing balance and placed it on the ground.

Then, Gao Zhengzhi took out an animal skin bag, drove the magic weapon, stretched out his hand, and a wave of mana swept through, and the entire stack of silver leaf jute flew up and fell into this palm-sized bag.

"It's ...... Storage bags? ”

Xu Ke's face was full of amazement. This thing...... With Xu Ke's financial resources, he can't even think about it, it's too expensive to afford at all.

"Storage bags indeed."

Gao Zhengzhi smiled, and then let out another long sigh: "This is a sect artifact." We, ordinary disciples, want storage bags...... Hehe, I can't even afford the cheapest storage bag. Poor! Cultivation is so expensive! ”

"yes!"

Xu Ke has relatives and deeply sympathizes with this.

Storage bags store items, and only according to a fixed proportion, to reduce the weight of the stored items, is suitable for weighing.

Gao Zhengzhi put the storage bag on the balance and weighed it, and motioned to Xu Ke: "Senior Brother Xu, take a look, it is a total of nine thousand four hundred catties." ”

"Okay." Xu Ke nodded.

"Senior Brother Xu, according to the rules of the sect, you have to pay seventy percent of the tenant rent. It stands to reason that you only need to pay seventy percent of the 9,400 catties. But what about ......"

Gao Zhengzhi smiled, "This involves the 'unwritten rules' I told you. The rule of the Sinong Palace is that according to the quota of 1,000 catties per mu, you have to pay 7,000 catties of tenant rent. I can't change this rule, you understand, right? ”

"I understand."

Xu Ke smiled helplessly, and thanked Gao Zhengzhi, "Thank you senior brother for your care." ”

There is no additional stripping, and there is no deliberate suppression during quality inspection, which is already high integrity and "integrity of character".

As for the quota of 1,000 catties or something, how can Si Nongdian not take advantage of the rent?

"In addition to paying 7,000 catties of rent, you still have 2,400 catties of silver leaf jute left."

Gao Zhengzhi glanced at Xu Ke and said, "What are you going to do with these two thousand four hundred catties of jute?" If the sect buys it, at the current purchase price, one hundred catties of silver leaf jute and one spirit stone can be exchanged for a total of twenty-four lower-grade spirit stones. ”

So...... I've worked so hard for half a year, and my income is only twenty-four lower-grade spirit stones?

At this moment, Xu Ke has deeply felt what poverty is.

Twenty-four low-grade spirit stones, all used to buy spiritual rice, can't eat the autumn harvest season, let alone maintain the cultivation needs.

Farming is a dead end!