Chapter 1634 Don't Want
After the village head finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and called a few children to go to the fields to drive away the locusts.
The children looked at each other and ran to the fields, wherever there was more grass. They shouted and ran over. Immediately, a group of locusts flew out from the grass, flew in the air for a while, avoided the children, and landed in the grass in the distance.
A few locusts were driven so fast that they rushed directly into the faces of the group of people standing still...
The village chief was horrified and was about to reach out to stop him, but Manbao and the other two had already reached out to grab him with their quick eyes and hands.
Manbao grabbed and squeezed, then pinched the struggling grasshopper, lifted its wings and asked, "It's not big enough."
The village head: "...Sir, I said the locust plague wasn't very serious, but these locusts are still quite fat."
Manbao asked, "Don't you have chickens and ducks in the village?"
The village head was stunned for a moment and then said, "Yes, I have it, but do you want to eat it, sir?"
Manbao pinched the grasshopper and said with a smile: "I'm not going to eat it, but this can be eaten."
Manbao looked at the grasshopper in his hand, but didn't hold it for too long. Instead, he threw it on the ground and stepped on it to death.
Bai Erlang was still a little reluctant to give it up, and pinched the one he had caught and said, "I remember when we were little, Li Zhong and Li Wei took us to roast grasshoppers. They were quite delicious."
Manbao looked down at the grasshopper's corpse, feeling a little regretful, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Bai Shan had already pulled a piece of grass to tie up the grasshopper in his hand and handed it to Bai Erlang, pointing to the road and said, "They are here too."
The head of the village and the villagers were a little nervous about these three young men and women, and they were a little dazed by their behavior.
Especially when Manbao stepped on the grasshopper to death just now, the village head always felt very strange.
Bai Shan pointed, and the head of the village and the villagers couldn't help but turn their heads to look. They saw four or five carriages slowly coming up the road. They were slightly stunned.
The people in the carriage seemed to have seen them as well, and stopped on the road closest to them, and then many people got off the carriage.
Manbao and a few others went to greet him, called out "Dad" to Old Zhou who was already walking over excitedly, and then saluted Mr. Zhuang and Mrs. Liu.
Madam Liu nodded slightly, looked around, and asked with a smile, "Is this your official land?"
Manbao agreed with a smile, and then introduced them to the village head, "These are the elders of the family. We happened to be taking a break at a nearby village, so we stopped by to take a look. This is my father, and this is my mother."
The village head was stunned for a moment and then immediately went to greet Old Zhou.
Old Zhou was also very polite to the head of the village, even a little cautious, which was a habit he developed at home.
Old Zhou looked at the ground more carefully. He stomped his feet on the ground, then found a stick and dug some soil, rubbed it in his palm, and then looked at the weeds all over the ground and sighed.
He looked around and found that this piece of land should be planted with rice. He carefully examined the ground and dug in several places but did not find fertilizer. He then dug in the dry land for a while but still did not find anything. He said to Manbao, "That's it! You still say you don't care about it yourself? Look at what has happened to this land?"
The head of the village was a little embarrassed, but the villagers were a little indignant. They opened their mouths to speak but were glared at by the head of the village.
Bai Shan saw it and nudged Man Bao, motioning her to go and see.
Manbao glanced at him and said to the village head with a smile: "The sun is strong, and the elders can't stay in the sun for too long. Please take us into the village to rest and ask for a bowl of water."
The village head naturally agreed. In the future, this large piece of official land would be under his jurisdiction, and these official lands were now all owned by Zhou Man, so it was inevitable that he would have a good relationship with her.
So the head of the village bowed and invited them into the village.
So a group of people marched into the village and went straight to the headman's house to rest.
The headman's son and daughter-in-law quickly boiled water and made tea to entertain everyone. Old Zhou simply pulled the headman aside to talk, mainly about farming.
It's such a waste of good land that they cultivate it in the same way.
Old Madam Liu smiled and lowered her head to drink her tea. Mrs. Qian also drank tea. After Old Zhou had muttered for a while, she interrupted him and asked the head of the village in a gentle voice how the harvest was this year, when to start sowing, and when to harvest...
"Customs vary from place to place. We're not from here, so we don't know what the climate is like here."
This year's harvest didn't belong to Zhou Man, but to the previous official. So the village head kept saying, "Master Zhou, you didn't see that the river here dried up before. It's just bad luck this year. After paying the rent, we still haven't received any money."
Bai Shan, who was looking at the furnishings in the house, turned around and asked, "Foot money? Is it the foot money for the poll tax or the foot money for the official land rent?"
"Of course it's the rent," the village head said. "These rents are to be sent to the capital, where they'll be collected by the officials in the government office and then transported to the capital. This requires rent. One liter of rice is required for every acre of land."
Bai Shan nodded slightly, looked at Manbao, and the two of them went out together.
Seeing that many villagers were gathered outside the wall of the headman's house to watch the fun, Manbao went out with Bai Shan, and the crowd immediately dispersed and moved away from them.
Manbao looked at the wary expressions on their faces, then reached into his sleeve, took out a handful of candy from the system space, and directly found a few older children who were younger than them and shared the candy with them.
This candy seemed different from the one that was distributed just now. The children who didn’t get much candy just now looked at the adults and then rushed over.
Manbao stuffed a handful of money into Bai Shan's hand. Bai Erlang, who followed him out, saw it and reached out to Manbao.
Manbao glanced at him and grabbed a handful for him as well.
Bai Erlang was distributing candies while muttering, "You clearly brought candies, but you just pretended you didn't. How cunning of you."
Bai Shan glanced at Man Bao's sleeves and pushed Bai Erlang, "Enough of the nonsense, let's go to the side."
Bai Erlang peeled a candy and put it in his mouth, then followed the two people slowly out and soon led the group of children to a place away from the adults.
Although they knew that Zhou Man was an official, the villagers were not so wary of her because she was a girl and young. Instead, they were very concerned about the adults in the house, such as Old Zhou, so they all gathered outside the house to watch the situation.
The three of them used sugar to attract everyone in the village, from the children who could walk to the young men who were not yet married.
There was a large group of people around him. Manbao looked at the few remaining candies in his hand, peeled and ate one himself, and gave the rest to two children who looked to be about two years old.
Then she curiously asked a young man, "Why are they all surrounding the village head's house?"
The young man glanced at Manbao and said, "You are noble people. My father said we should go and see whose land will be planted next year."
"You don't want to farm my land anymore?"
Without even thinking, the young man replied, "No."
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(End of this chapter)
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