The next day.

He Xuan had to be late, and when he got up, it was already time for breakfast.

For breakfast, as usual, sweet potato rice, as well as pickles.

Ordinary farmers, don't want to eat white rice.

Make sure that every meal is coarse grains.

Fortunately, Wang's craftsmanship is quite good, and the pickles are very delicious.

At breakfast, the Wang family also discussed whether He Xuan should go to see Song Sanjie: "Song Sanjie is indeed a good worker, and besides, she has a big butt and is easy to raise." ”

He Xuan almost hid his face, and thought silently in his heart, the original owner of the body, you, your mother, are really your mother.

Fortunately, after breakfast, the Wang family went to the town to continue to help the women of the Chen family make new clothes, and finally they didn't have to suffer from this person's nagging.

Father He Ming, Brother He Jin, and both of them are going to fetch water. At this time of year, late rice has been planted, but this year's weather is also strange, the weather is very dry, and there has been no rain for a long time. Fortunately, in Zhuqiao Village, there is a river passing by, and the water in the river, one load at a time, can be carried into the water, so that the late rice can survive.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Xiaoice River broke out and drought occurred in various places.

Zhuqiao Village is still located in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, and the northwest is even more miserable, and the disaster is even more serious, so that Li Zicheng can easily coerce tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people as soldiers.

Just when He Ming, the father and the eldest brother, He Jin, were about to go out with a flat pole and a bucket.

At this time, He Xuan thought about whether he should go out today and buy dozens of acres of land and plant them for the He family to fulfill the wish of the original owner's remnant soul.

But a group of about ten people walked in.

The person at the head is about 1.6 meters tall, but he weighs at least more than 200 pounds, and has a pair of eyes the size of mung beans, which makes people feel very uncomfortable when they look at it. He also wears a square scarf on his head, indicating that he is a scholar. But with such a fat belly and intestines, where is there a little bit of the elegant appearance of a scholar.

This person is Zhou Papi, the head of the Zhou family, the first landlord of Zhuqiao Village.

The Zhou family is in the entire Zhuqiao Village, but they cover the sky with one hand.

The current head of the Zhou family, Zhou Dafu, but his real name is often forgotten, and everyone secretly calls this person Zhou's skin.

Zhou Papi's favorite thing to do is to take advantage of the fire to rob and buy the land of the poor frantically when he encounters a drought and disaster year. Not only that, but sometimes the weather was too dry, and he took the only water source in the village, saying that it was his Zhou family, so that other land-rich people in the village could not carry water to irrigate the land.

At that time, these landed peasants will have a poor harvest or even a complete harvest.

For example, the farmers in Zhuqiao Village are mostly very poor and poor, so poor that they have little ability to resist risks.

If the harvest is out in a year, it really won't survive.

When the time comes, the land can only be sold.

And Zhou Papi jumped out again and bought the field at a low price.

Otherwise, how could there be 500 acres of more than 600 acres of land in the entire Zhuqiao Village in his hands.

In this way, Zhou Papi also became fatter and fatter the more he ate, and his fat intestines were full.

Not only that, but Zhou Papi is also very disgusting. The tenants who planted other land had to accept his harsh terms. For example, if he takes a fancy to a new daughter-in-law who has just married into a tenant's family, he will use various methods to sleep with that new daughter-in-law. And if the tenant wants to continue renting his family's land, he can only endure the pain and swallow his teeth in his stomach.

Zhou Papi also got some ten-year-old children and herded pigs and sheep for him, ostensibly to give these children a chance to make money. If the pig is lost or killed by a wolf, the compensation must be doubled. If you don't have money to accompany you, you will take the child's land and house to compensate.

As a long-term worker for the Zhou family, the food is also quite poor, and the porridge eaten can directly illuminate the figure.

In order to let the long-term workers give him more work, Zhou Papi once ran to the chicken coop in the middle of the night to learn the chicken's croaking. Other chickens will follow suit. In this way, whether it is a long-term worker or a short-term worker, he has to get up to work for him before dawn.

Zhou Papi is a person, he has to pick up a layer of skin when he has nothing to do, and he has to knock some meat down the inside of the mosquito legs, so the people in Zhuqiao Village don't want to have anything to do with Zhou Papi.

Zhou Papi came to He's house, this is not good news.

Father He, He Ming, Brother He Jin, all couldn't help but change their complexions.

He Father He Ming's face habitually had a humble smile: "It turned out that Zhou Yuanwai was here, I don't know what happened to Zhou Yuanwai?"

Zhou Papi glanced at everyone in the He family's mansion, his eyes swept over He Xuan's body, and he didn't care too much. Then, he raised his head and put his hands behind him: "Early this morning, the big red-necked chicken you raised ran into my vegetable field and ate a lot of my Zhou's vegetables." These dishes are not ordinary dishes, but a popular dish in the capital, called Tianzhen cuisine, I heard it, this is a treasure in the sky. ”

"This kind of heavenly dish, in the capital, sells for a few taels of silver for a catty. And your chickens have ruined my Tianzhen vegetables for at least ten catties. Tell me, what is going to be done? ”

Father He Ming couldn't help but be confused, the farthest place he went to was only the town, and he didn't know what the capital was like. Now I heard that the rich man of Zhou said that he had destroyed the Tianzhen vegetables, and he couldn't help but be terrified: "This ...... What should I do? Is it really so expensive to buy this day? A few taels of silver a pound, and meat is not so expensive. ”

Zhou Papi laughed in his heart, this person from the He family is really a bun. In fact, there are no heavenly dishes, to put it bluntly, they are all deceitful to the He family.

Zhou Papi spit a mouthful of thick phlegm directly on the ground of the He family: "Phew, you dirt bun, how do you know the mystery of Tianzhen vegetables, eating Tianzhen vegetables can eliminate most diseases, but it is better than medicine." You say that this kind of dish is not precious? It is expensive to sell it for a few taels of silver and a pound. That's right, in the eyes of a poor bastard like you, it's too expensive. But there are too many rich people in the capital, and they are all rushing to eat this delicious dish. ”

He Father He Ming couldn't help but panic, and said in a snort: "Then what should I do?"

Zhou Papi looked at He Ming's father, sneered in his heart, and scolded the fool: "What should I do? My ten catties of Tianzhen vegetables are worth dozens of taels of silver, and you pay for the silver, I think we are also in the same village, even if you are cheaper, it will be thirty taels of silver." It was worth fifty taels of silver. ”

Where could He Ming get this money, he was stunned at the moment: "I don't have any money." ”

"It's hard to do without money. Zhou Papi shook his head, and pondered with his hands: "Otherwise, you still have three acres of paddy fields at home, five acres of dry land, the price of paddy fields is ten taels, and the price of dry land is four taels, a total of thirty taels of silver, pay me for it, and forget about it." ”

Up to now, no matter how stupid a person is, he can see the intention of Zhou Papi.