A few days in advance, Xue Baochai was accompanied by Xue Pan and his servants to live in the farm.
Chongzhi Hall was going to experience the autumn harvest outside the city, and this news soon spread to the ears of students from the other five halls.
The Imperial College is divided into six halls, east and west.
Guangye Hall, Chongzhi Hall and Zhengyi Hall are elementary classes.
Chengxin Hall and Xiudao Hall are intermediate classes, and are for students who have been promoted from the beginner classes.
The Ruxing Hall is an advanced class. Most of the students in this class can directly participate in the imperial examination.
The professors from the other five halls also heard about this and came to see Yan Xingjing one by one:
“Brother Yan, with such a good opportunity, you can’t treat it differently!”
Yan Xingjing was somewhat helpless:
"This matter was initiated by Xue Pan, and the place we are going to is his family's farm. If you want to go, just ask him directly."
If so many people went to someone's house and made the other person busy, he wouldn't have the nerve to do it on their behalf.
When the five professors heard this, they knew that he would not stop them, and they all went to find Xue Pan happily.
Xue Pan knew his sister's plan long ago, so he naturally wouldn't refuse.
After all, Li Ning, Yan Zhiting and others are all in Shuexingtang!
When everything was ready on the farm, on the day of autumn harvest, the people on the farm started to get busy early in the morning.
The farmers were ready to go, preparing their tools and looking at the rice ears bent under the weight of the weight in the fields, with anticipation evident in their eyes.
These rice were all grown by them.
As they watched the rice ears grow and become full day by day, they looked forward to the day of harvest more and more.
Such plump rice ears, when harvested, will surely be more than what they have grown in the past.
But this is just speculation.
They are looking forward to the weigh-in results.
The students of the Imperial College had packed up early in the morning and then left the capital under the guidance of their teacher.
Xue Pan and the housekeeper of the manor received these more than a hundred people together.
As soon as he entered Zhuangzi, Yan Xingjing spoke:
"Mr. Xue, there's no need to prepare any refreshments. It's getting late, let's go to the fields first."
Xue Pan had this idea a long time ago.
Hearing what the master said, he immediately responded: "Gentlemen, brothers, please follow me."
When the group arrived at the fields, the farmers had already started working hard.
Several students looked at the situation in the field and couldn't help asking:
"Brother Wenlong, why are there women and children in this field?"
Whether it was the teacher or the students, everyone had a puzzled look on their faces.
Xue Pan thought of what his sister had said earlier, and turned to look at the children walking on the fields with their short legs:
"My sister said that the people in this village were originally from the same village. They settled here only after their hometown was struck by disaster.
"And this scene before us is their normal life. When it's harvest time, every family member, young and old, has to go to the fields to store the grain before the rain comes.
"However, there were very few elderly people who survived their escape, so there are no elderly people here."
After hearing this, the students fell silent.
Some people also curiously asked: "Why don't they ask for help?"
Xue Pan did not answer this question because he had asked it before.
He remembered that Nanny Xin only said three words to him lightly: "I can't afford it."
However, at this time, the teacher answered the student's question:
"Ordinary people only earn one or two taels of silver a year, which is less than three cents a day. Hiring one person would cost more than ten cents. How can they afford it?"
Now not only the student who asked the question, but also the other students were stunned:
“Are they so poor?”
They really couldn't imagine it.
Their monthly allowance of around 10 taels is not enough!
For a moment, no one spoke.
It was as if they saw for the first time the gap between rich and poor.
Even the servants in their families mostly lived a good life.
They thought that the worst that anyone could do was wear the cheapest clothes and eat vegetables.
Yan Xingjing did not say anything else. He rolled up his sleeves and said to Zhuangzi's housekeeper:
"Please give me a sickle, thank you."
The housekeeper had received Xin Guoguo's instructions and had prepared the tools aside.
Upon hearing this, he immediately asked someone to bring the sickle over and handed it to Yan Xingjing himself:
"Please, sir."
Yan Xingjing reached out to take it, weighed it in his hand, and then stepped onto the ground.
"gentlemen……"
The students exclaimed.
Yan Xingjing didn't look back and found a nearby farmer to ask for advice:
"Hello, could you please teach me how to harvest rice?"
The farmer had heard from his master that someone might ask for advice. Seeing the other party's quiet manner, he smiled naively and said, "Okay."
He was very happy.
Unexpectedly, one day he would be able to teach the teacher!
The two of them, one teaching and the other learning, have a very good understanding.
The students looked at Yan Xingjing with concern, watching him get started, from being awkward at first to becoming proficient later on, and then, getting faster and faster...
Xue Pan looked around the field several times but couldn't find the person he was looking for, so he simply helped a pregnant woman carry the cut rice ears to the side.
Yan Zhiting also took a sickle and went to a farmer for advice.
Even Li Ning had already gotten off the ground at this time.
Seeing this, the other students looked at each other, and finally had no choice but to follow.
With so many people, even standing on the ground would be a nuisance, let alone walking around.
A little kid was squatting down to pick up an ear of wheat when he found that a foot had stepped on the ear of wheat.
The little guy's eyes immediately turned red.
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