After Xiao Jiu's operation, the rich man of Jar Village was frightened, and the subsequent grain collection process was much smoother.

Xiao Jiu asked Jin Zi to take two villagers to check the land and barns of the rich man Sun and several wealthy households, and arranged for a few people to be scattered around to prevent anyone from making trouble.

As for this obedient rich man Sun, Xiao Jiu did not embarrass his interest, and separately ordered his subordinates not to harass the rich man Sun and the families of other farmers in the village.

It takes a lot of time to check the land and grain, and in this gap, Xiao Jiu has a casual chat with the rich man Sun, but unlike Xiao Jiu's ease, the rich man Sun's forehead is covered with beads of sweat the size of beans, and he is also careful to speak.

When the gold was thoroughly checked, it was already evening, during which all the people and horses of Hare Mountain had lunch at the house of the rich man Sun, and the rich man Sun did not dare to slack off, so he slaughtered the fat pig in the family directly and entertained Xiao Jiu.

As for the results of the gold inventory, Xiao Jiu was not worried that the villagers of Jar Village would deceive him, because the two villagers selected by Jin Zi looked like poor peasants in the village who had settled down at a glance.

When the gold, which had been running for a day, returned to the house of the rich man, it was already dark.

According to statistics, the rich man's family has a total of 103 acres of land, but the grain output per mu is less than that of other villagers' fields.

In addition, this year's climate is dry, so the yield is not high, and when converted, each mu can produce about 200 catties of grain, and if the year is better, it can still produce 300 catties.

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Jiu began to order the collection of grain, and asked his subordinates to use a wooden bucket to start loading the coarse sack they brought.

Three or five big men took turns to fight, and it took an hour to finish pretending, and in the end, Xiao Jiu was very considerate to give Sun Caizhu a discount, and only loaded about 2,000 catties and let his subordinates stop.

Previously, Xiao Jiu roughly estimated that with the current scale of the cottage, it would consume about 15,000 catties of grain every year.

If every village can harvest grain smoothly like the jar village, then the grain in the village will be enough to eat for two years, and there will be a surplus.

Xiao Jiu was in a good mood, but the rich man Sun was bleeding from his heart, and now the food from his family was almost worth the share paid by the entire village in the past, for him, this was naked blackmail.

But all this, the rich man Sun was powerless to resist, and even thanked Xiao Jiu for only accepting one percent of his grain, obviously he could grab it directly, and politely "collected" it with him, which is also another form of "politeness", so that in addition to the official grain, bandit grain, and the grain that employs long-term and short-term workers, he can still have two or three percent left.

By the time the grain of the rich man Sun was finished, the sky had already darkened, and the remaining rich households were almost confiscated by a few other mountain bandits.

Next, it was time for Xiao Jiu to fulfill his previous promise, and the villagers who had been gathering next to Sun Cai's house were also eagerly looking forward to it.

Subsequently, Xiao Jiu took his subordinates to pull out bags of grain from the rich man Sun's house, stacked them at the entrance of the village, and asked each family in the jar village to draw a man to gather.

Naturally, those villagers did not refuse, and a group of people from Wuyang walked towards the entrance of the village, waiting to see if Xiao Jiu would really fulfill his promise.

Soon, almost all the villagers had gathered, Xiao Jiu stood on a protruding stone, looked at the hundred and ten villagers in front of him, and said.

"Since ancient times, there has been death, and people cannot stand without faith."

"Old and young masters, although I, Xiao Jiu, am not a gentleman, I also asked myself and said that I would do it, and I will fulfill what I promised before."

"If the family has less than five acres of land, each family will send a man to come and line up to receive food, but they are not allowed to make trouble."

After speaking, Xiao Jiu jumped off the stone, crossed his arms, and looked around coldly.

The bandits of Hare Mountain also played the role of security guards, and under the command of Zhang Ben and Jinzi, they maintained order and distributed food in an orderly manner.

When the people of the jar village saw that Xiao Jiu really wanted to give them food, they all lined up tacitly, and they didn't even make any sound, just waited quietly with all kinds of containers.

The whole process of distributing the grain lasted about half an hour, during which the whole formation was orderly, and no one dared to cut in line or make noise.

After receiving the food, they all spontaneously gathered aside, not daring to make a movement.

Xiao Jiu roughly calculated, more than 100 households in the entire jar village received about 2,400 catties of grain, and the total amount sent out was less than 600 catties, which was considered a lot of harvest.

After the whole grain distribution process was over, Xiao Jiu looked at the people of the jar village gathered together, and felt that it was still necessary to knock on these rich households who were forcibly collected grain, so as to save themselves from leaving on their front feet, and these landlords demanded back the grain they had sent.

Xiao Jiu still had the same grim face and began to speak to the crowd.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the food that should be harvested today has also been collected, and the food that should be distributed has also been distributed, and now we should also go back to the cottage."

"But I'm still a little worried, don't leave just now, you people who have handed over the food, you will come back the food I sent."

When those landlords heard Xiao Jiu's words, they instantly raised their hearts to their throats, shook their heads again and again, and said that they didn't dare.

But Xiao Jiu didn't believe the words of this group of people, and now they were coerced by their own might, they didn't dare to resist, but when they left, when they faced this group of honest people, they wouldn't be the weak look in front of them.

So Xiao Jiu continued.

"Folks, you have all heard it, and no one will ask you for the food that has been sent to you."

"Who would dare to reach out to you to ask for it."

"If you let me know, I will also let them know if I, Xiao Jiu, am muddy or not."

After that, Xiao Jiu ignored the trembling landlords, prepared to get up and get on the horse, take the bandits from the cottage, pull up the grain, and set off to return to the cottage.

As soon as he got on horseback, one of the people gathered at the entrance of the village suddenly knelt down and cried out in his mouth: "Lord Qingtian." ”

Immediately afterwards, all the villagers were led by the man, and they all knelt down and shouted.

Xiao Jiu looked at the scene in front of him, and was very relieved in his heart, the bandits of Hare Mountain who followed Xiao Jiu down the mountain also had a kind of satisfaction and honor in their hearts.

It turns out that this is what it feels like to be respected?

But Xiao Jiu still yelled at the people kneeling down with a cold face: "All stand up, don't kneel." ”

"No one deserves your knees, and neither can I."

Everyone who knelt down looked up at Xiao Jiu one after another, their faces puzzled.

Listening to Xiao Jiu again, he said: "I, Xiao Jiu, have no ability, and the food I gave you is only enough for you to eat for ten days and a half months." ”

"But I have something I want you to remember."

"It's not a shame to come from a humble background."

"No one can take it for granted that they will stand on your head and show off their might."