The seeds in the fields had already been sown, and the people were not very busy, so when the officials went into the villages and went from house to house to count the people, fields, and livestock, the other people could not help but poke their heads out of their low walls, and while looking and pointing in whispers.

"The one who looks magnificent, must be a nobleman!"

"How do you know?"

"What a majestic person the governor is on weekdays! Seeing him is like seeing a raccoon dog! ”

"Sure enough, it's a nobleman!" The daughter-in-law also praised, "The chief doesn't even dare to raise his head!" ”

“…… It's just weird, but the face is flat, but I don't see anything else. ”

“…… What's 'something else'? ”

"Think about it, when did the nobles from the county government come to our township in the past, and returned empty-handed?"

"That's right, that's called ......'noble people don't step on the ground'!"

If you step on it, you have to make up for it!

This compensation doesn't have to be anything, it could be a few chickens, it could be a few buckets of rice, or even a pig.

Fortunately, in the past few years, there have been many natural disasters, and most of the girls in the countryside are in rags, with yellow faces and thin muscles, and few of them will be favored by these "nobles".

The man also felt justified when he heard it, "Is it that Zhao Qi's chickens are not fat, so they can't look down on them?" ”

"Then he can't go home empty-handed, right? Do you think that in our country, whose livestock looks the strongest? ”

"Naturally, it's my ......"

"What are these words?" The daughter-in-law was shocked, "You are complaining that I fed the chickens in the house too fat!" ”

The man was also shocked, "It's important to hide first!" ”

"Hide?! Don't you be punished for hiding! ”

When the two were arguing, suddenly the sound of horses' hooves came from outside the village.

The person who came to their village this time was not a noble man with a lofty reputation, but a young man of twenty-six or seventeen years old, with a few knights. This Lang Jun is good-looking, and when he sees it, he makes people feel good.

…… But as soon as he arrived, the noble man with a magnificent instrument immediately changed his face!

Before the new Lang Jun got off the horse, he immediately greeted him!

First of all, a salute! Then hurry up and lead the horse for Lang Jun!

The arrogance and impatience on his face are gone! It's all replaced by a courteous and enthusiastic smile!

The posture just now is all gone! Especially that bow! I can't wait to hit the ground!

"What did he say! What did he say! ”

The earthen wall was in disrepair for a long time, and the baby cried again in the earthen house, and the daughter-in-law had no choice but to give up the gossip position to her husband in a gentle and frugal manner.

"I can't hear clearly!" The husband's eyes widened suddenly, "That Langjun! That Lang Jun is coming to our house! ”

The daughter-in-law suddenly rushed out of the house and panicked, "He must be a real nobleman!" What is a man like him doing in a place like ours! These two earthen houses, a few clay pots, what is there to estimate! ”

But now it has become someone else's house, and those heads poke out from the earthen wall and from behind the wooden door, and look at their house with schadenfreude.

In previous years, the nobles in the county government came to estimate the family, and they inevitably took away two chickens, a sheep or something.

The gentleman walked over to the tattered fence of his house.

Fortunately, fortunately, the women in the family have always loved cleanliness, not like such sloppy women, the dirt is too lazy to pour into the ditch, directly splashed on the road, and even for today's matter, it was specially sprinkled and swept clean.

Therefore, Lang Jun also showed a smile.

"Your house is very well cleaned and tidy."

Flattered, he felt that he should say something, but he fell to the ground with his forehead against the dirt.

"Raise your head," said the nobleman next to him, "the envoy is talking to you." ”

"Yes, yes." He raised his head cautiously, "Envoy, all my family's things are here." ”

After he finished speaking, he felt that it was not enough, so he added in a panic, "My two chickens are behind the house, and I never want to hide it from the nobles!" ”

…… It doesn't seem to be right.

Because the woman who ran out and knelt beside him with the child in her arms glared at him.

The envoy laughed.

"Get up and speak."

This envoy surnamed Tian looked gentle and elegant from a distance, but when he got closer, he saw a scar on his eyebrows, and those knights called him "general", and he was still a soldier who led troops to fight! This is even more surprising.

But the envoy was still very kind, first asked a few members of his family, how to spend this winter, and then asked him how the spring ploughing situation was, whether the seeds were good, the rain was insufficient, and the fertilizer was enough.

When he led the envoy to the back of the house and showed the envoy a few fat chickens in his house, the envoy even reached out and touched it!

He hurriedly picked up the chickens and showed them to the envoy carefully!

"Summer is coming," the polite-looking Lang Jun patted the chicken feathers on his hands, "you must clean the chicken pen frequently, be careful of chicken plague, and be careful of epidemics." ”

…… You still know how to feed the chickens!

…… Wrong! The point is that the envoy touched his fat chicken!

The daughter-in-law quietly pushed him with her elbow, and the man immediately understood.

If the lieutenant snatched his chickens, it would be considered unlucky;

If the official took away a few chickens from his house, it would be ordinary;

But this one is clearly a true nobleman! O envoy! O county guard! Treat him so kindly, so calmly! Think about it, ask the county guard to eat a few chickens, and you will be honored at home!

What's more, maybe if you make such a noble person who is in a high position and treats people generously happy, what else can you reward him!

Just do it.

"It's not that the villain boasts, most of the chickens raised in the county town are not as fat as the villain's family," he plucked up his courage and said cautiously, "How about the villain bring these to the envoy?" ”

When he asked, the young envoy's eyes widened in surprise, as if he wanted to laugh, but he didn't laugh out loud.

…… There was another sound of horses' hooves.

The officials, the officials, the envoys, and the knights looked over together.

…… The person who came this time was not so pleasing to the eye, he was a young man in old clothes, looking poor and sour, and riding a strong black horse with no stray hair, and the fur glittered in the sun!

The horse did not gallop, nor did he see dust under his hooves, but he came in a hurry, and before he reached the little courtyard of his house, he shouted there in a distant voice that seemed to be hoarse!

"Tian Yuanjun, whose chicken are you going to rob?" He seemed happy and arrogant, "But I got it!" ”

The official hurriedly stepped forward and shouted:

"Who are you?! How can you be so rude in front of nobles! ”

"Rude!" The lieutenant also shouted!

…… Would he like to shout along?

The daughter-in-law jerked him with her elbow again.

"Look at the envoy's entourage!"

The few relatives around the envoy were not angry when they saw this person, and their faces showed strange expressions.

…… It seems that he wants to laugh, but he doesn't dare to laugh.

But in the end, they stood aside respectfully and made way for their lord.

The county guard of 2,000 stones stepped forward, and naturally grabbed the reins of the horse and led the horse for the man.

The horse was clearly familiar with him and licked his hand.

…… The young man jumped off his horse, saw that they were still stunned, and waved his hand at them one by one in a good mood.

"I'll laugh with him," he said, "and I know that we have to pay for the Pavilion." ”

Tian Yuanjun had a slightly embarrassed look on his face, but he still couldn't hide the joy between his eyebrows, "How can the general be in person?" ”

"I heard that you simply ran to the countryside by yourself after you were tired of a few post overseers," the young man said with a smile, "and it just so happened that I came to Qiancheng to see how the city defense was being repaired...... Do you eat rotisserie chicken? My craft is very good, Xiaolang and Ah Cao shout every once in a while and want me to bake them to eat! I'm going to buy his chickens! ”

The fat chickens never survived the day, and were tied up and handed over to the young man to take away.

Despite its ill-fated fate, it still earned its ruthless owner three times as much money as an ordinary fat chicken.

Checking the money bag in his hand, the family silently looked at the figure of the group of people leaving, still a little melancholy in their hearts.

"My chicken could have been sold to nobles! I had a few words with him! Don't talk about Zhao Qi then, the lieutenant will envy me! ”

“…… But that, that young man, look at his dark horse, he should also be a nobleman, right? ”

"You see how much he looks like a nobleman!" Unconvinced, the husband argued, "Look at his lazy look! What is the difference between it and the idler basking in the sun at the entrance of the village! Who's an honest man eats and drinks like this! ”

…… Especially this is still Qingming!

The craftsmanship of the roast chicken with hanging fish is indeed very neat.

On the way she fled from Chang'an, she didn't know how many kinds of birds and beasts she had killed, so it was naturally handy to pack up a fat chicken, but after a while, it roasted a steaming fragrance.

It's just that the chicken won't be eaten by the two of them first.

A mound of sealed earth was piled up outside the city of Qiancheng, which was piled up by Guo Tu in winter, and when spring came, the newly sent officials and people to Qiancheng added some soil to it.

The roast chicken was for this mound of seals, and in addition to the chicken, there was also a jar of wine.

She wanted to say something, but she didn't know where to start, so she just sat in front of the mound in a daze.

Tian Yu was on the side, silent, seeing that she was wearing the old robe, like a very down-and-out scholar, sitting in front of her soldiers, silent for a long time, only poured a bowl of wine, and drank it.

Despite the newly added soil, a few grass sprouts had already grown on the mound.

Maybe in a year or two, saplings will grow here.

When he was old, Tian Yu thought, what would become of this sealed mound? What will become of those who will never grow old under the mound?

As he was so distracted, the sound of horses' hooves was suddenly heard from the north.

He looked up, and Lu Lian also raised his head, looked at the end of the dirt road, and quickly frowned.

At the end, more than a dozen horsemen appeared, and the leader of them was a scribe in his twenties, with a tall crown and a broad belt, with a tall posture, and his face was a little blurry at first, but gradually became clear.

…… Despite the ups and downs along the way, he was still a beautiful man who would be surprised to see.