When Xu Can went to work in the fields in the afternoon, he clearly felt that the farmhands were as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood, and they were rushing to work regardless of their lives.
When he saw the farmhand who was punished at noon, he ran past him happily carrying a load of seedlings.
Xu Can was stunned for a few seconds, blinked his eyes, and grabbed Chu Yuan who was about to get off the ground and asked, "That guy just now had two days' wages deducted by housekeeper Cao this morning, right? Why is he so happy as if he had found a treasure?"
Chu Yuan rolled up his trouser legs and stood in the paddy field, standing side by side with Xu Can.
"My Lord, you were resting at noon, so it's normal that you didn't know. After Old Madam Qiao knew about this, she exchanged the twenty cents of wages for half a pound of coarse grains and one ounce of fine grains every day.
Think about the food prices outside. The Qiao family is giving away food in disguise. Any refugee would work hard for it!"
"This must be a lot of food. Where did the Qiao family get so much food?"
"I don't know. Anyway, the old lady is not the kind of person who would starve her own family to please others. But this trick of winning people's hearts is really good. Rewards and punishments are clear, and they are always considered for them. No wonder they are trying their best to come to the Qiao family to work."
Xu Can wanted to say that he was usually nice to others, but before he opened his mouth, he felt a pain and an itch in his calves.
He lifted his foot and saw a yellow-brown leech stuck to his calf, trying hard to burrow into his skin!
"ah!!!!!"
Earth-shattering screams rang out in the fields, startling the egrets that were flying out to look for food, and scaring the field mice so much that they quickly shrank back into their holes!
Xu Can crawled to the edge of the field, stomped his feet hard, and slapped his calves with the soles of his shoes. It took him a long time to finally pick the sticky and soft thing off.
As soon as the leech let go, blood flowed out from the wound.
"What's wrong? What's wrong?"
Chu Yuan shuddered, threw away the seedlings in his hand, and hurried up to see his young master.
Qiao Xin and others who were not far away also ran over hurriedly.
The leeches on the ground twisted their bodies, exuding an air of unwillingness.
Qiao Xin waved her hand and asked everyone to disperse.
Look at Xu Can again. If she goes a little slower, the wound on her leg will soon heal.
Qiao Xin calmly broke off two sticks from the edge of the field, walked forward and picked up the leeches, and put them into the pottery jar.
Xu Can stood awkwardly in the crowd, feeling so ashamed!
But he has been afraid of these boneless insects since he was a child!
"It's just a leech, no big deal. If you see one, don't pull it with your hands, just slap it hard and it will fall off. There are a lot of these things in the paddy field.
Didn't anyone tell you to roll up your trouser legs when you went to the fields? If you go to the fields without any protection, who else will the leeches bite if not you? "
Seeing that he was really scared, Qiao Xin didn't force him. She thought it was quite good for a young man to be able to do this.
He said, "Forget it, don't go to the fields, just help plant the rice seedlings on the ridges, this job is just right for you!"
When Xu Can wanted to go back and rest, he couldn't say the words!
He glanced at the pottery jar in Qiao Xin's hand, the sticky touch was still in his mind, and he felt uncomfortable all over.
Seeing Qiao Xin taking it away, he asked rudely, "Why do you collect this thing?"
Qiao Xin put the jar in front of him and said, "Of course it's sold to the pharmacy for making medicine. Five cents a jar, it's not cheap! There's quite a bit in it, do you want to take a look?"
Xu Can waved his hands vigorously and refused: "No, no, no, you keep it yourself!"
"Then why are you still here? Are you scared out of your wits by a leech? Where's your carefree spirit when you drink prostitute wine?"
Xu Can consciously closed his mouth, turned his back to Qiao Xin, and resigned himself to starting to plant the rice seedlings.
Chu Yuantou gave him a helpless look and turned around to continue planting rice.
The Young Master had to follow Madam Qiao's words honestly, so how could a servant like him dare to refute him?
My Lord, you'd better be more careful and accept your fate. Old Madam Qiao will not let you lie down comfortably until the spring ploughing is finished!
Everyone in the Qiao family knows that Old Madam Qiao attaches great importance to this spring plowing. Haven’t you seen that every one of the Qiao family has gone out to work?
Even the captain of the guards they brought with them was obediently carrying the load and delivering the seedlings everywhere, wasn't he?
The youngest girl, Qiao Sanniang, was also busy at the open-air earthen stove with Qiao Silang and Qiao Wulang, collecting firewood, boiling water and delivering water.
How could the prince be the exception in the old lady's eyes?
Chu Yuan pulled the rice-planting horse that Xu Can used, sat on it, grabbed a handful of rice seedlings from the basket behind, and neatly separated a rice seedling and began to plant it in the muddy water. It was popularized by Su Dongpo in the Song Dynasty, and is still used in some places in the south that need manual rice planting. This rice-planting horse is really a good thing. It can not only plant rice seedlings, but also pull and spread rice seedlings. People sitting on it save time and effort. It is also fast, and you don't have to stand and bend over all day.
All the tools that could be used, such as rice-planting horses and wheelbarrows, were used.
While Niu Dabao and Niu Dali led their team of carpenters to participate in the rice planting, they were also ready to repair tools at any time and were very busy.
Village chief Li Zhong held the rice seedlings he had been allocated and couldn't let go.
That group of hunters all fled here from the south. Before that, their relatives and friends in their hometown grew rice.
However, the method adopted is to throw the transplanted seedlings into the paddy field. The seedlings will only be planted when it is time to replant, and then left to fend for themselves.
But even with such a simple and crude planting method, it is tiring.
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