"Has all the food been loaded?"
The person who spoke was Liu Ji, the head of the village.
"Chief, they are all installed."
Liu Laosan pointed to the five carts in front of him and said, "Except for the necessary rations and seeds, all other food for each family is here."
Speaking of this, Liu Laosan, who has been farming for most of his life, still felt a little reluctant. He gently stroked the straw bag filled with grain with his hand. Even on the night he married his wife thirty years ago, he was probably not so gentle.
"Liu Laosan, you'd better tell the truth."
Liu Ji was a little impatient and had to keep tearing the drooping skin on his face with his hands.
Although this scene was a bit scary, Liu Laosan didn't care.
Liu Ji now only looks like a dark and skinny old man, but Liu Laosan knows that on the day when the emperor's edict arrived in the village, Liu Ji, as the largest landlord within a hundred miles, was still a fat and wealthy old man. Well, he looked very blessed, the kind that you would want to hang him directly at the door to pray for blessings during the New Year.
Later, Liu Laosan saw with his own eyes the official who delivered the imperial edict enter Liu Ji's yard. The two chatted for a long time, and they had not finished talking until Liu Laosan had ground two baskets of flour.
In the past, officials would simply drop off their documents and leave, at most offering a few words of advice, such as, "This is a matter of great importance to the higher-ups; we must act quickly," or, "Don't rush this matter; the higher-ups are just acting rashly. Just wait a few days and it will naturally fade away." But they would never linger for so long at a village head's house...
It can't be that they don't recognize the words on the imperial edict, so several people are looking up the dictionary in the room, right?
What's more, Liu Laosan saw with his own eyes that the officials went in with gloomy faces, which definitely meant that it was not a good thing. If it was a good thing, the voices of announcing the good news and the hands asking for rewards would have been reaching out from five miles away.
It was unknown how much time had passed, but it was a very long time, so long that the widow of the Jiang family, whom Liu Laosan had been secretly watching, had finished washing clothes and went home. Liu Laosan didn't even notice that the two officers had just come out of Liu Ji's house.
Liu Laosan noticed that Liu Ji, who was seeing the official off, had a face as pale as the bottom of a pot, even worse than when the official had just arrived.
Speaking of which, Liu Laosan and Liu Ji are relatives. Although he is considered half a tenant of Liu Ji, Liu Laosan often thinks that he is just helping his relative rather than renting his relative's land, and what Liu Ji gives him is not wages but a favor between relatives.
With this in mind, Liu Laosan was able to say some things to Liu Ji that tenants and landlords could not say.
He felt that he needed to go over and ask what had happened, to see if he could comfort Liu Ji - nothing was difficult in the world, after all, the Liu family still had five full warehouses of grain, it was impossible for such a rich family to be unable to overcome such a hurdle.
But when Liu Laosan was still five steps away from Liu Ji, he saw for the first time the richest man in the world (in his opinion) collapse.
Liu Ji, who always had a warm smile on his face and would even say hello to a dog when he saw one, suddenly jumped up. Although it was not noticeable without a close look given his size and weight, he also jumped a bit, then pointed to the sky and cursed. In just half a cup of tea, all the swear words in the central countryside of the Daliang Empire came out of the mouth of this kind old man, and some harsh words even appeared more than once.
Liu Laosan was stunned. He was not worried about being punished by God for cursing Him. He had cursed God many times when his life was not going well over the years, but God either really didn't mind or really had no choice. In short, God didn't kill him directly with thunder as the legend said.
Since Liu Laosan will not die, then Liu Ji will not die either. Our thoughts are so simple.
What he cared about was that after this scolding, the amiable image Liu Ji had created in the village for decades completely collapsed, and this was what Liu Ji cared about most.
Why doesn't he cherish it?
Seeing that all the neighbors had gone out to watch, and some even started pointing and talking, Liu Laosan wanted to persuade everyone who was watching to go back, but he had no idea where to start.
Just as he was getting restless, Liu Ji stopped complaining to God, sat down on the ground at the door, and cried out in great sorrow, "Your Majesty, my Majesty."
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Could it be that His Majesty Xia Junao has finally passed away?
That’s not possible. Your Majesty is in the prime of life. I heard that many palace maids in the harem were given to that Majesty Lin Hai. How could he die in such a sudden?
Could he have been assassinated? That doesn't make sense. Wasn't His Majesty already in Dawn City with the other His Majesties? How could something like that have happened?
Could it be that something went wrong in Dawn City? Or was the Dawn City Alliance a conspiracy?
Liu Laosan thought of many things at once...
Liu Ji quickly clarified the misunderstanding he had caused. He wailed, "It is my incompetence that has caused Your Majesty to take this extraordinary risk and suffer this great humiliation... Your Majesty, you are the ruler of a country and are responsible for the entire country. How could you go there in person... And you're talking about borrowing? What are you borrowing? My life and property belong to Your Majesty. I will do my best for Your Majesty..."
After such an unclear clarification, Liu Laosan became even more confused.
He knew that Liu Ji had taken the imperial examinations when he was young, but his best score was last among the students, so he was destined to have no chance of officialdom. In the end, he could only spend some money to get a lowly position as a village head, just to satisfy his desire for officialdom. With such a position, he was not worthy of calling himself a minister before His Majesty.
What’s more, Your Majesty asked Liu Laosan to borrow something?
What else could possibly attract His Majesty's attention to Liu Lao San? It couldn't possibly be his daughter, who ate and slept all day, whose only skill was picking her nose, and whose dowry was 500 kilograms of grain, yet no one was willing to marry her?
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