She was about to leave when she looked at the rising sun and said, "Mr. Cai, why don't you work later and avoid the sun first."
Lin Zhiya didn't expect Cai Fuyuan to really listen to her. She put down the hoe she had just picked up and said, "Miss, you are right. Let me show you the fields here."
Lin Zhiya was slightly surprised, but Cai Fuyuan's words actually hit the mark. She had come here because the land was not suitable for growing crops.
Cai Fuyuan took out a straw hat and put it on Lin Zhiya's head. He said, "This will block the sun for the girl."
Cai Fuyuan said that it was to block the sun for her, and he was about to put the straw hat on Lin Zhiya's head, but he smiled politely and waited for Lin Zhiya to take it herself.
Lin Zhiya took it. This straw hat was the same one the villagers wore when they worked. It was totally out of place with her outfit.
Li Heitie felt uneasy and thought that Cai Fuyuan should not give such a simple straw hat to Lin Zhiya, which would make her unhappy.
Li Heitie said nervously: "I'll go get an umbrella."
Lin Zhiya stopped him, "No need."
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She and Cai Fuyuan walked in the middle of the road, one after the other. Cai Fuyuan walked to another more barren field and grabbed a handful of soil in his palm. "Girl, come and see."
Lin Zhiya was curious: "What's wrong? I don't see any difference."
Cai Fuyuan spread out his palms, and soil fell from between his fingers. "The land here looks the same as outside, but in fact there is too much of a substance in the soil, causing the soil to lose balance, making it difficult to grow anything."
Lin Zhiya: "…What substance is it?"
Cai Fuyuan answered without thinking: "I don't know. The universe is mysterious. Who can explain these things clearly?"
The two continued walking. There was a field with some crops growing, but they were all wilted and the food that grew was not pleasing to the eye and looked very forced.
Cai Fuyuan stopped here, pointed over there and said to Lin Zhiya, "It will become increasingly difficult to grow crops on this type of land. At first, you can grow enough to eat, but later on, nothing will be produced."
Lin Zhiya tore off a small piece of the crop, which was very prickly in her hand.
Although she had lived a poor life since childhood, she had always lived in the capital. This was one of the few times she saw crops, which made Lin Zhiya feel a little novel.
Cai Fuyuan: "Unfortunately, I am not an experienced person. I guess the soil is dead. After the last crop was grown, the next crop of seeds cannot get the same nutrients from the soil."
Lin Zhiya thought that he was not an experienced person yet...he knew too much for a scholar.
Cai Fuyuan turned around and faced Lin Zhiya, saying calmly, "Do you understand what I told you, young lady?"
Lin Zhiya was puzzled. "Maybe I understood."
Cai Fuyuan said, "The girl still doesn't understand. What I mean is that this place is not so easy to solve. The girl should leave. People's livelihood matters cannot be solved by words."
Cai Fuyuan: "The Li family told me that the girl came here to help them grow crops. She is from the academy and lives a life of luxury. She doesn't know that these villagers really have hope in their hearts. If she insists on not leaving, she will only add to her troubles."
Lin Zhiya finally understood. No wonder he wanted to take her to see the fields.
What he meant was: Don't let the villagers get their hopes up, or you'll be embarrassed.
This guy has been treating Lin Zhiya as a kind-hearted young lady who is here for fun.
Lin Zhiya looked at his pleasant face again and felt that it was full of harshness and contempt.
At this moment, there was a clanging sound of a knife, and the knife was placed in front of Cai Fuyuan.
The knife made a sound of breaking through the air, and when it was about to cut off his hair, it turned into a blade and hit Cai Fuyuan's shoulder.
It was Chi Xuanye. He drew out his knife coldly and warned Cai Fuyuan not to speak rudely.
Chi Xuanye had amazing strength. Cai Fuyuan was just a scholar and could not compare with him. He staggered and almost fell, looking very embarrassed.
Chi Xuanye sneered, "Speak nicely, if you can, then say it, if you can't, then don't say it."
Cai Fuyuan stood up, straightened his clothes, looked at Lin Zhiya, then looked at Chi Xuanye, with a strange expression of understanding.
Chi Xuanye spoke to Lin Zhiya with a smile, and there was a hint of ruthlessness: "If anyone dares to disrespect you again, I will definitely cut him."
Lin Zhiya: "...Thank you, General Chi, for protecting me."
Since the sword had been drawn, there was no point in continuing to talk to Cai Fuyuan. Since he had no intention of going to the academy and thought that Lin Zhiya had just come to the village because of a sudden impulse, Lin Zhiya had no intention of talking to him.
Lin Zhiya was going to visit Li's house first. On the way, Li Daya kept talking about grinding fine flour to make steamed buns for Lin Zhiya.
Cai Fuyuan bowed and said, "Go slowly, young lady."
Lin Zhiya and her group walked away for a distance and looked back. Cai Fuyuan was sitting in the field wearing a straw hat. It was unknown what he was thinking about and his back looked a little dull.
Lin Zhiya: "Master Yuan is right, he is really a weirdo."
They were almost at Li's house, and Li Dayaya became active. According to her, the ring from yesterday was sold overnight by Li Heitie, and the price was enough for them to buy a big house outside.
Li Daya: "When Daddy came back, everyone in the village envied us. Some people even accused him of stealing the money, but when we said it was given by a noble person from the academy, everyone believed us."
Li Heitie rubbed his hands and said embarrassedly: "The two girls help in the kitchen of the academy, Aunt Lin makes money by sewing in the academy, and her two daughters sweep the floor and do odd jobs in the academy... Everyone in the village knows that the academy is a good person."
Chi Xuanye led Han Ye away from the path beside him. Lin Zhiya was about to call him when she heard the eunuch say, "Young General Chi said he wanted to take his horse for a walk and would be back to Madam Zhao later."
Lin Zhiya saw him walking towards the woods and was half-believing and half-doubting, so she didn't ask any more questions.
Chi Xuanye was not heading towards Cai Fuyuan... and he was not going to assassinate Cai Fuyuan, so everything was fine.
After a while, Lin Zhiya arrived at the door of the Li family and found that there were a lot of people gathered there. The bustling villagers were standing at the door of the Li family waiting for Lin Zhiya.
Before she had taken a few steps, these people came to greet her. A chubby middle-aged man said, "Mrs. Lin, Mrs. Lin, you are our dear mother."
The chubby hand was about to grab Lin Zhiya's body, but Lin Zhiya dodged, and before the man could touch her, the eunuch behind her knocked the man's hand away.
The young eunuch shouted: "How dare you! Do you want to die?"
The man was startled and hid in the crowd.
Lin Zhiya now had time to look at these villagers carefully. They all looked like ordinary villagers, but some of them looked very sick and kept coughing.
Li Heitie explained: "The village doctor moved away, and I was sick for several months, with no place to go for treatment."
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