O innate holy body of the land! Better to be a dog of peace than to cause chaos...
Who else could it be? Of course it’s the agricultural official.
When Nong Xi was looked at like this by Shen Zhiwei, a layer of sweat broke out on his forehead, not because of the heat, but because of fear.
He heard the king's dissatisfaction with him from his words. If he could not give the king an explanation, his position as the agricultural official would be in jeopardy!
Nong Xi had been an agricultural official for many years. Before his country was destroyed, he had never thought that his position as an agricultural official would be unstable.
His ancestors were also glorious in the past. How could nobles and untouchables be the same?
But once his country was destroyed, he became a slave and had to lower his once proud head. Fortunately, he later regained his superior status by virtue of his identity as an agricultural official.
Nong Xi had never thought about doing a good job in this position. The small country he was originally in could not withstand the attacks of those big countries. The Zhou emperor was now just a child. If it were not for her title as the emperor, how could the princes tolerate her occupying the Jingchang area?
The Zhou Dynasty was destined to fall. Instead of being loyal to the Zhou emperor, he should first consider his future path.
Mai, Nong Xi naturally knew him.
But the untouchables didn't know him, and the emperor, who had never left the palace, had no way of knowing him either.
If at this moment, there were to be a punishment from heaven, it would surely be a fatal blow to the emperor. He could use this incident to contact his old friends and make a living in those big countries with some merits.
Instead of being trapped on this farm with only a few people, dealing with the dirt and the untouchables every day!
Nong Xi secretly hated the emperor, wondering why he knew Mai!
"Nong Xi, you really disappoint me."
Shen Zhiwei shook her head. After she had just asked the question, Nong Xi was sweating profusely and looked extremely guilty. When he looked at Meng Nu, there was even unconcealable contempt and hatred in his eyes.
With such a mentality, she was afraid that the crops on her farm would be tainted by this guy's condescending thoughts.
Nong Xi knelt down with a thud and immediately confessed his guilt: "Your Majesty, please forgive me. I haven't seen wheat seeds for a long time, so I didn't check it at the time and I made a mistake!"
At this point, he clearly understood that this reason was untenable, and immediately argued again, "I was also worried that something bad would happen in the fields, which would bring trouble to the king..."
"You'an, you handle it."
Shen Zhiwei was too lazy to listen to Nong Xi's lame excuses. She was just kind, not a fool. Nong Xi's abacus beads were about to hit her in the face.
Hu Youan bowed and responded with a "yes", then led people to take Nong Xi away. She would interrogate Nong Xi carefully. Did Nong Xi do bad things because he was a bad person himself, or was he instructed by someone?
The former should be punished accordingly, and the latter should be investigated carefully for the slaves who entered the farm with Nong Xi.
We even have to check Taibuyang who sent Nongxi here.
Seeing Nong Xi being dragged away, a skinny slave in the crowd lowered his head, as if he had seen a scene he didn't want to see. The people around him thought he was frightened and whispered a few words of comfort to him.
Shen Zhiwei didn't pay attention to the other people around her, all her attention was on Meng Nu.
She walked around the field where Mengnu was working and found that the crops there were growing very well, no worse than the crops in her field.
You know, her crops require careful cultivation, and even fertilizer, and she specially selected a batch of the best quality seeds.
As a result, the crops grown in the field tended by a group of people were not as good as those grown in the field tended by Meng Nu alone.
Shen Zhiwei's eyes were shining as she looked at Meng Nu. She must have encountered the innate holy body of farming!
"Your Majesty, I also used fertilizer, but it was made by fermenting dead branches and leaves from the mountains!"
Meng Nu was afraid that the king would think that her family had not taken good care of the king's fields, so she hurried to explain. She didn't know why the crops in her own fields grew better. It was obvious that the fields were similar and the land was not very fertile.
The only difference was that she used a little more compost than other people's private plots, and the composting method was what Shen Zhiwei had told them before.
"Don't be nervous. Perhaps the crops in the land have their own ideas. They think you're caring for them diligently, so they're growing vigorously. But you still need to look carefully and distinguish the difference between your private plot and others. That difference will be the key to a good harvest for everyone next year."
Shen Zhiwei was particularly patient with Meng Nu. She guided her to think and discern, and she hoped that Meng Nu could delve deeper into the field of agriculture.
Mengnu felt the king's extraordinary tolerance for her. She was stunned for a moment, and an indescribable bitterness welled up in her heart.
She seemed to have returned to her childhood.
Common people's parents were very busy and there was no extra cloth at home, so some four or five-year-old children often ran around naked. Meng Nu was different from other children. She would do things at home within her ability to share her parents' work.
She would also squat in the open space, look up at the sky, and wonder why it was so blue. She would lower her head to look at the grass on the ground, and wonder why they grew much better than the crops that were carefully tended in the fields?
But this kind of thinking gradually disappeared as she grew older.
She began to work like her parents, weaving, cooking and working in the fields as soon as she opened her eyes every day. These tasks took up a lot of her time, and she didn't dare to relax for a moment.
Until the king reduced the burden of taxes on them, reduced the amount of land they had to cultivate, and gave them some private plots.
Without so much to do, she gradually regained her former thinking ability.
"Yes."
Ms. Meng imitated Hu Youan's response and bowed in response.
Shen Zhiwei did not do anything else but told Meng Nu to think carefully. After coming up with the answer, she told the head of the farm directly that she would come over to listen.
This was an opportunity for Mengnu to meet the emperor, and it was her ladder to heaven.
Meng Nu agreed in a daze. She didn't really understand how rare this opportunity was. She only knew that at this moment, a spring suddenly appeared in her heart, and her previously dry thoughts rushed out of the spring, turning into gurgling streams, nourishing the barren land in her heart.
One day, she will have her own world.
When Shen Zhiwei returned to the palace, she thought a lot while sitting in the carriage. When she came out of the farm, she asked Meng Nu how old she was.
Ms. Meng said she didn't understand, she only knew that the farm had a new owner a year after she was born.
Shen Zhiwei calculated in his mind that Meng Nu was born a year before the previous king ascended the throne, and the previous king reigned for twenty-four years.
Meng Nu already had many children, and she raised two of them. She even had white hair on her forehead, but she was actually only twenty-five years old.
Twenty-five years old. Before Shen Zhiwei traveled through time, it wasn’t long since she turned twenty-four.
Meng Nu was only one year older than her. The modern Shen Zhiwei and Meng Nu of the Zhou Dynasty were of the same age but had different fates.
In this era, Ms. Meng was already very lucky.
It is better to be a dog in peacetime than a person in troubled times. After Shen Zhiwei came to this world, she has never missed everything in the modern world like she does now, even though she is just an ordinary person in the modern world, she is not the emperor and has never had the power of life and death.
She still misses the modern era.
The emo time ended after Shen Zhiwei got off the carriage.
Because Taibu Yang led a group of people and knelt on the ground in front of the palace gate.
When Shen Zhiwei got out of the car, he thought he had traveled through time again due to the system!
She looked back and saw, yes, it was the carriage she had just ridden in. She looked ahead again and saw the palace corridor she had walked many times.
So what is the purpose of these heads kneeling on the ground in front of the gate?
Before Shen Zhiwei could ask, Taibu Yang, who was kneeling in the front, took two steps forward with tears and snot, and shouted loudly that he was guilty.
I'm here to apologize.
Shen Zhiwei's heart, which had been a little excited just now, instantly fell back to its original place.
I waited in vain, thinking that this was an attempt to force the emperor to abdicate.
"Stop howling at the door! Did you kill all the pigs I gave you?"
Shen Zhiwei was too lazy to watch Tai Buyang's singing, reciting, acting and fighting, and just opened her mouth to stop Tai Buyang's crying.
The officials kneeling behind Taibuyang almost laughed out loud when they heard this.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Even if I were to kill myself, I would never kill your pigs." Taibu Yang hurriedly explained, "I heard that the agricultural official was a spy from another country. If Your Majesty hadn't been so clever and saw through his disguise, the matter of the Heavenly Punishment would have been very troublesome."
Shen Zhiwei chuckled. She asked what this guy was doing here. It turned out that he was afraid that she would suspect that Nong Xi was a spy he had sent in.
He was afraid that the fire caused by Nong Xi would burn him.
"Don't worry, just do what you need to do. In two days you will lead your troops to the shores of the East China Sea. Don't hurt your knees by kneeling. Get up now."
Shen Zhiwei didn't care about spies or not. The Zhou Dynasty had reached this point, and it had been infiltrated by the princes like a sieve with holes everywhere. There was no need for spies, and no secrets could be completely concealed.
Besides, Shen Zhiwei didn't care how others dug up the Zhou Dynasty's foundation. The faster they dug, the sooner she could go home.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your mercy!"
Seeing that Shen Zhiwei was indeed not angry, Taibu Yang bowed deeply and stood up from the ground.
The officials who followed him to apologize also stood up and thanked him at the same time. They were minor officials working for Taibu Yang and were considered to be Gui Yang's retainers. They had a relatively low status and could not bear the king's anger.
Shen Zhiwei said a few words of comfort, his attitude as gentle as ever, and then went into the palace.
Gui Yang was very respectful in front of Shen Zhiwei. When Shen Zhiwei's figure completely disappeared from his sight, he immediately straightened up and angrily scolded the clerks.
"How could they have done such a thing! They actually allowed spies from another country to sneak into the slaves destined for the king! It almost caused a disaster!"
"Taibu, calm down. The origins of those slaves are correct. They may have already infiltrated the group before this."
Gui Yang understood that he was implicated. The small country was destroyed and he was also cheated. He was really angry!
"Even the agricultural officials became citizens of another country. No wonder they were destroyed! Fortunately, the king is merciful and did not blame us."
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