The Liu family are all easy-going people and they welcomed Liu Ben's arrival very much. Liu Ben, who had been saving money and eating what was in the refrigerator since he was in a coma, finally had the most sumptuous meal since he woke up from the coma.

Although they were all pure farm dishes, they also had a strong local flavor and tasted very good. Liu Ben had a good appetite and was very satisfied with the meal.

"That's right. If you eat a lot, you will definitely have more strength to work." Liu Shuangying was very satisfied with Liu Ben's appetite. Seeing that he was so thin and small, he thought he would be a picky eater.

Liu Ben just smiled. In fact, he felt that he was not very full. After waking up, his appetite seemed to have increased a lot.

"Xiao Ben, what are your ideas next?" Liu Shuanghu asked while picking his teeth.

Liu Ben sat on a chair, his hand supporting his chin, and said seriously, "I want to farm."

"Really?" Liu Shuangying was a little surprised: "Not many young people are willing to farm nowadays. Xiaolei and Xiaosen don't want to farm either."

"We have plenty of fields here, so we'll be busy tomorrow!" Liu Shuanghu waved his hand.

"Ahem," Liu Yibiao said unhappily, "Whoever gets the land should farm it. No one should be lazy!"

Liu Shuanghu shrugged and said to Liu Ben, "I'll take you out to help you digest your food, and by the way, I'll tell you about what's going on in our village."

Liu Ben nodded and stood up.

"The heads of households in our village are all surnamed Liu," Liu Shuanghu said as he walked ahead. "Your grandfather is the current clan leader. He is responsible for managing the villagers."

"Aren't there any people with different surnames in the village?" Liu Ben asked.

"Yes, the daughter-in-law who married in from outside did not have the surname Liu. In the early years when the environment was not good, the village required all women with the surname Liu to marry into the family and not marry outside. At that time, there were many poor people outside, so there were also many men who married into the family. They did not have the surname Liu, but they would not be the head of the household. The head of the household could only have the surname Liu. This has been the rule in our village for hundreds of years." Liu Shuanghu said.

"So that's why grandpa is so angry because my mom got married?"

"It's nothing, actually. Not many people have followed this rule for decades." Liu Shuanghu turned around and smiled at Liu Ben, then continued, "It's just that my father is the clan leader. On the one hand, he doesn't want the village to have fewer people, and on the other hand, he just can't bear to let it go."

"Times have changed. Farmland is no longer so valuable, and our village no longer has any advantages. There are far more daughters who are married off than those who are adopted as sons-in-law. After they get married, they all form families with their husbands, so they are removed from the village household registration and have lost their farmland. But no one cares. They come back to live occasionally and no one says anything."

Liu Ben nodded: "Times have changed, and so have people's thinking. The rules are certainly not as rigid as they used to be."

After all, in this era, people who own land are no longer as popular as before.

But for some reason, Liu Ben felt in his heart that the land was still the most important.

A familiar middle-aged man drove a small truck over from the opposite side. Liu Shuanghu looked at him and greeted him, "Chengzi!"

He turned around and said to Liu Ben, "Just call him Brother Chengzi."

Isn’t that the middle-aged uncle who helped Liu Ben call people when he first came to the village?

Liu Ben was puzzled: "He is so much older than me, shouldn't I call him uncle?"

"No," Liu Shuanghu shook his head and said, "He is my junior, and you call him uncle, so he is of the same generation as me. Then his father is of the same generation as my father."

"……"Oh well.

Chengzi stopped beside them and said with a smile, "Did you recognize him?"

"Yes, let me introduce him. This is my nephew, Liu Ben. He just changed his surname and is a member of our Liu family." Liu Shuanghu said proudly.

"Really? That's great!" Cheng Zi exclaimed in surprise. He smiled and said hello to Liu Ben: "Then I'll call you Xiao Ben. Feel free to ask me for help if you need anything!"

"Thanks, Chengzi...Brother."

"Okay!" Chengzi smiled and drove away.

Liu Shuanghu took Liu Ben for a stroll. Every time he met someone, he specifically introduced to them that Liu Ben had changed his name and was now a member of the Liu family. In just a short while, the whole village knew about it.

"These dozen acres of land belong to our family. I just brought the children back and am preparing to harvest the first crop of rice this year. We are very busy. If you really want to farm, you have to get up at five o'clock tomorrow morning and go to the fields with us. Can you get up?" Liu Shuanghu asked with a smile.

"No problem!" Xiao Ben didn't know where his confidence came from.

Although he had never farmed before, he always felt as if he was very skilled at it and would be able to get the hang of it quickly.

The Liu family had many rooms, and He Mei quickly cleared out a room with better sunlight for Liu Ben, put in a new bed, and Liu Ben moved in.

Although I live in the village and the farming economy has been sluggish in recent years, my annual income was good in the past and I had a lot of savings. I have all the furniture and appliances at home. In addition, building a house in the village is not expensive, and it is quite spacious and comfortable to live in.

That night when he stayed there, Liu Ben still remembered to use WeChat to report the good news to You Ying.

Xiao Ben: "Brother You, I changed my last name to Liu Ben. I have successfully settled in my grandpa's house, oh no, my grandfather's house! XD"

You Ying: "Congratulations."

After chatting for a while, their relationship had really improved a bit, and You Ying was almost replying to messages. Liu Ben thought happily, "Does this count as making friends?"

Liu Ben used to be an introvert and didn't socialize much, so he didn't have many friends. He used to think it was okay to have no friends, but now he thinks having a friend or two to chat with is a good thing.

Xiao Ben: "Yes, I will start farming with Grandpa and the others tomorrow morning."

You Ying: "Then go to bed early."

Xiao Ben: "I know, Brother You!"

At five o'clock the next morning, Liu Yibiao, Liu Shuangying and Liu Shuanghu woke up naturally. They quickly washed and dressed, and then carried their farm tools to go to the fields to work.

To their surprise, Liu Ben had also gotten up and was waiting for them in the yard.

They looked at each other, and then tacitly understood and went out together with their farm tools.

The Liu family had many fields and a lot of rice that needed to be harvested. They divided the land into four parts, each of them taking a piece of land, and started working.

In the eyes of Liu Yibiao and his two sons, Liu Ben was a fair and tender boy raised in the city. He could not work for long and would probably get tired soon.

However, this is not the case.

Liu Ben was indeed very unfamiliar with the technique at the beginning, and he stumbled a bit as he imitated his grandfather and the others in using a sickle to cut rice. However, as he worked on one clump after another, it was as if he had turned on a switch. He worked harder and harder, and his speed became faster and faster. The sickle in his hand left afterimages, and the rice grains fell one by one. It seemed that it didn't take long before half of the field was neatly harvested by Liu Ben.

At this time, the sun had just revealed a hint of golden light.

Liu Yibiao was old and felt uncomfortable bending over for a long time. He stood up, glanced casually at Liu Ben, and then paused.

Liu Yibiao was shocked. What did he see?

Liu Ben had actually mowed more than half an acre of land behind him, and all of it was neatly laid out in a line behind him, without even a trace of dirt from dragging.

This scene was completely different from what he expected and made him open his mouth wide.

Liu Shuangying and Liu Shuanghu happened to be harvesting nearby and noticed something unusual about their old father. They looked up and followed Liu Yibiao's gaze and were also shocked.

Liu Ben was harvesting the ripe rice as fast as a fully fueled engine. He would put the rice behind him after harvesting a bunch, and take a step forward after harvesting a row. The rice behind him was always neatly arranged. He must have been doing this for a long time.

It's been so long, and you're not tired at all?

These old farmers must not lose to this young man, the three thought, and quickly lowered their heads to start harvesting.

In this secret competition, the Liu family actually harvested two acres of land, of which Liu Yibiao and his two sons harvested one acre, and Liu Ben harvested one acre alone.

Liu Ben looked quite energetic and didn't look tired at all. However, his grandfather, second uncle and third uncle were extremely exhausted.

"Huh, let's take a break and go back to have breakfast before coming back." Liu Shuanghu laughed.

They were really tired and really didn't want to continue competing with Liu Ben.

Liu Ben was still eager to try, but seeing that his grandfather and the others were tired, he followed them back.

"You are quite capable, kid. If we harvest quickly this time, I will ask your grandfather to give you a few plots of land to plant." Liu Shuangying said with a smile.

"Where's his land?" Liu Yibiao said dissatisfiedly as he walked. "When his mother left with her family, she exchanged all the land allocated to her for money. The land has been transferred to your seventh uncle's family. I don't have any land to give him here."

"Why would we need to divide it?" Liu Shuanghu said nonchalantly. "There's land everywhere in the village now. Just ask anyone and they'll be willing to farm it for free. Just don't leave it idle."

The older generation in the village all love their fields, but unfortunately they are old and not as good at farming as before, so a lot of land is left empty. Rather than letting the land go to waste, they would rather spend money to hire people to farm it.

"... Let's wait and see. If Xiao Ben really wants to stay and farm, I'll ask at the beginning of next year if anyone wants to sublet the land." Liu Yibiao was not so determined anymore. Indeed, the village was short of young people who wanted to farm, and many fields were empty.

"Okay." Xiao Ben smiled with his big white teeth.

During breakfast, Liu Ben's two newly recognized brothers, Liu Lei and Liu Sen, had just gotten up. After breakfast, they joined the busy farming work. Although Liu Rui was also awake, she was too weak to bask in the sun, so she did not go to the fields.

Second Aunt Wang Caiqing has a job at the village committee and needs to be on duty. Third Aunt He Mei and grandma have to prepare meals, so they don't do farm work.

"The conditions were bad before, but now, if we can avoid letting women go to the fields, we should do so. After all, the sun is very strong." Liu Yibiao still cares about the women in his family.

"Besides, farming is not popular now, and the price of rice is not high. I think it is normal for the three of them to look for jobs outside after graduation." As he said this, Liu Yibiao's eyes showed some regret.

Liu Ben smiled and said, "Grandpa, you really say one thing and mean another. It seems you're not very happy about it."

"You little bastard!"

Liu Shuangying smiled and said, "Dad just feels reluctant to leave the village after seeing its decline."

"Oh, I heard that our village used to be the richest in the surrounding area. Each person had three or four acres of fertile land, and the harvested rice filled the granary. In that famine era, food was money, and the whole village was rich." Liu Shuanghu sighed.

"Okay, enough of this nonsense, let's get back to work." Liu Yibiao had a fierce look on his face, but Liu Ben could see that his grandfather missed the village quite a bit.

For the rest of the day, Liu Ben was very energetic. An ordinary person could not harvest an acre of land in a day, but he seemed to have endless energy. He kept harvesting and harvesting without feeling tired at all.

At the end of the day, he harvested five acres of land by himself. Together with the efforts of his grandfather and the other four people, half of their family's land was harvested.

I should be able to finish it by working on it for another morning tomorrow.

"Hahaha, no wonder you eat so much. You are so capable that you can eat as much as you want!" Liu Shuanghu praised.

"Oh my goodness!" Zhuzi from next door was surprised: "Did your Liu Ben grow up eating harvesters?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Liu Shuangying drove him away.

"Harvester...Yes, why don't we use a harvester?" Liu Ben asked curiously.

"Look, there's our village's harvester!" Zhuzi pointed to a barely discernible red dot in the distance of the field and said, "There's only one harvester in our village, and every household needs one. There are so many people in the village, and we don't know how long the waiting list will take."

"Besides, my father is the clan leader, so I would feel embarrassed to compete with the clan members." Liu Shuanghu said with a laugh.

"Why don't you buy another harvester?" Liu Ben asked. Two harvesters would be enough for the village.

"Harvesters are expensive, and no one here knows how to use them. You need a harvester driver's license to own one."

"The money is actually not that bad. If the whole village can pool its money together, we can buy a few more. The main reason is that no one drives it. There are fewer young people in the village now." Liu Yibiao said, shaking his head.

Of course, you can also invite people from outside, but the price will be different and it may not be cost-effective.

It’s because the income from farming is already low, so the cost people are willing to spend is even lower.

Liu Ben thought for a while and said, "I'll take the test later." He had taken the driving test before, so this kind of agricultural machinery driver's license should not be difficult.

"You said it!" Liu Shuanghu patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "Take the exam as soon as possible, you can use it in two months."

Liu Shuangying: "If it's convenient, you can also take the test to get a combined driving license for a tiller and a tractor."

"Okay." Liu Ben was very confident in himself.

The villagers all grow two crops of rice. After harvesting, they have to plow the fields and plant the next crop. Liu Ben and his team harvest the fastest, so it is reasonable for them to use the tiller first. There is no need to consider the clan leader. After all, others have not finished harvesting yet, and the tiller is just sitting there anyway.

After harvesting the rice and plowing the land, and then planting rice seedlings, Liu Ben lived a busy and happy farming life in the village, putting aside all other things.

But the system didn't think so. It originally wanted the host to give up, but it didn't expect that the host was still living happily in the village. Moreover, although the host was obviously weak, he was actually quite capable in farming?

The system feels that this cannot go on. It has to give the host a little bit of temptation, a little bit of frustration, and finally see a little bit of hope, then he will obediently listen to the system and do his daily routine of bullying the scumbag!

One night, the system sneaked out of Liu Ben's head, secretly communicated with an unknown existence, and then secretly added some special settings to itself...

The author has something to say:

Two weeks ago, rice was harvested nearby. Every day, you could hear the rumbling sound of harvesters, and everywhere was filled with powder flying around after the straw was broken. It was foggy and I didn't dare open the window. It has gotten much better recently.

I bought some ramen yesterday to try. How should I put it? It wasn't bad, but I couldn't say it was particularly good either. It was just above average. For someone who loves to add more, the amount wasn't much. But when I go out to eat noodles, the price is about the same, and they're not as good as the ramen. So, I think the ramen is a good deal. ==