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Chapter 942: Territory (3)

Old man Ba ​​raised his waist and stared at the man who got out of the big carriage in a daze. He took off his outer robe and wore only a short jacket. He then took the sickle from his old woman.

This man was not a person who had put in the effort at first glance. He had more than a dozen followers, and they all had a knife. Look at his body, although strong, he was fair, even whiter than the big girls he had seen in the town. Is this a way to work?

"This gentleman!" Mr. Ba secretly looked at the strong men standing with a knife behind the man, staring at him with a fierce look back. The gentleman in front of him smiled, not like a bad person. "These things are all done by us countrymen. You are a noble person, how can you do these things?"

Li Ze waved his sickle with a smile and said, "Master Ba, don't underestimate me, I can also harvest wheat."

After saying this, Li Ze carried the sickle and strode towards the wheat field.

Ba Ye was stunned and didn't know what to do. Behind him, three women and four dolls, were all standing there like stakes, and they were so scared that they dared not move.

Chen Wenliang walked up to them, reached out to take out a pile of silver dollars from his arms, handed them to the old woman who was obviously a little stupid, stuffed the silver dollars into their hands, and said, "My young master is mainly here today...uh...this will experience life, so, this..." Chen Wenliang turned to look at Mr. Ba, and then said, "My master is an old man at first glance. Our young master is just a whim. If you can make him retreat, then I have so many silver dollars for you, what if?"

Seeing the white silver dollars, Ba Ye's eyes lit up. When he lifted the sickle, he turned around and strode towards the wheat field. The young master, it was just a whim, and after he destroyed his energy, he naturally lost interest.

When Li Ze walked to the edge of the field, he turned to look at Zhang Xun, Chen Wenliang and others, and shouted: "What are you doing there? Let's do it together! Let's help Ba harvest the wheat today."

Zhang Xun was stunned and pointed to his nose. Seeing Li Ze nodding affirmatively, he smiled and shook his head. He walked to the women aside, took a sickle from their hands, followed Li Ze to the wheat field. Chen Wenliang was stunned for a moment, so he had to take a sickle and follow the two of them to go out of the field.

A dozen guards looked at me, and I looked at you. The remaining few sickles were definitely not enough for them. Everyone choked and pulled out the knife at their waists and walked over.

Li Ze does know how to harvest wheat.

Zhang Xun will do it too.

On the contrary, Chen Wenliang really doesn't. Li Ze has to set an example for the world because of his spring planting and autumn harvest every year, and he has to go to the field to do it for a while. Zhang Hui claims to be a farming family, and Zhang Xun has also had these things since he was a child. Chen Wenliang has been devoted to his studies since he was a child. Not to mention farm work, nor does he let him get involved in the easy housework. The whole family puts hope on him, and he does not let down the hope of the family. He does rely on reading to make a name for himself. But he really doesn't understand these farm work.

Seeing the others getting out of the field and immediately started to work, he looked for a while before he began to harvest clumsyly.

But knowing how to do it doesn't mean doing it well.

This move immediately distinguished the difference.

Li Ze and Zhang Xun both reached out to grab a wheat pole, swung their knife to cut off a bunch, put it aside, and then cut off a bunch. Although the guards were holding horizontal swords, these people took out the momentum of going to the battlefield to chop people. The two stood left and right, and with a wave of horizontal swords, they fell down a piece of them. Then the other person followed behind them and gathered the fallen wheat together. After a while, one person behind them stepped forward to replace one, three times, and maintained sufficient physical strength.

However, these people did not forget their responsibilities when harvesting. When they were in a wheat field, some of them were fast, some were slow, and some even pulled behind Li Ze and the other two, forming a circle of encirclements, surrounding Li Ze in the middle.

The old hand-hand moves of Ba Ye are different. Although he is in his early sixties, he bent down and put his left hand together, and then he will fall down with a large piece of wheat. Then he hooks his right hand and a large piece of wheat will fall down. Then he puts his feet on the ground and collects them forward, and a large piece of wheat will be piled up.

In a blink of an eye, Li Ze, who was shoulder to shoulder with Ba Ye, could only see Ba ​​Ye's butt, and after a while, he pulled further and further away.

Several women and babies on the ridge of the field also came to their senses, ran over quickly, followed behind everyone to pack up the cut wheat, tied the wheat into bundles with vines, and then carried it to the edge of the ridge. Although the women were small, their strength was really not to be underestimated. A large bundle of wheat was raised with a sheep fork, bent over and carried it on their shoulders, and then they strode to the edge of the ridge of the field, neatly tidy.

"It's true that you have specialized in your skills!" He raised his hand and wiped the sweat on his face. He looked at the dense red dots appearing on his exposed arms. Feeling the itchy feeling, Li Ze sighed. Mr. Ba was almost caught up with his three-person guards.

"Prince, it's almost done, please rest." Chen Wenliang slipped to Li Ze and whispered. "It won't take long for the guards to finish the cut."

Li Ze looked up at the sky and smiled and said, "One more person will give you more strength. Although I am slow, I can cut one more bunch of more bunches, so I can cut one less bunch of bunches. Work, Chen Wenzhou, you can fall to the end. Don't work hard!"

The guards who were originally pulling behind saw Li Ze pointing their fingers at him, and could only helplessly speed up and instantly surpassed Li Ze and others.

Chen Wenliang looked helplessly at the place where he rolled up his sleeves, which was covered with red spots like Li Ze.

Mr. Ba really wanted to scare Li Zehao away at his own speed and exchange some other silver dollars from Chen Wenliang, but the handsome man in front of him, although he cut it slowly and looked extremely hard, he actually kept surviving. Moreover, his guards were really not slow. It seems that he could harvest all the wheat fields at home today.

In this way, the remaining silver dollars cannot be made, which is a pity. The only gain is that the women and children at home can suffer less fatigue.

When the sun sets on the horizon, all the wheat fields at Baye's house were finally harvested.

Li Ze let out a long sigh. To be honest, he was really exhausted. This is much more tiring than he usually practices martial arts. Now Li Ze practices martial arts more of a habit, a kind of physical exercise, and is completely incomparable to the long-term work of roving his waist in front of him.

With his hands touching his waist and looking at the bundles of wheat on the edge of the field, Li Ze felt a sense of pride for no reason, although he had only cut such a leap.

"Master Ba, come here to rest and talk to me for a while. Leave the rest to them." Li Ze waved at Master Ba and said.

Mr. Ba dared not to go over, and walked to Li Ze. Li Ze sat on a bundle of wheat. His exposed arms were red at this time, but they were not as itchy as they were at the beginning. He glanced at Mr. Ba's dark arms and a somewhat relaxed upper body flesh, and there was nothing wrong.

"Master Ba, where are you sitting? Chen Wenliang, get some ice drinks, oh, everyone will get a glass."

The carriage that Li Ze was accompanied was filled with ice for a long time, and the drinks of various flavors were prepared. Hearing Li Ze's greeting, Chen Wenzhou wiped the sweat from his face, called a guard, and hurried to prepare.

Li Ze handed a glass of ice drink to Mr. Ba and said, "Mr. Ba, take a sip and get rid of the fatigue!"

Mr. Ba drank it all in one mouthful, but suddenly opened his eyes wide. After a while, he smacked his lips. The women had the same expression. The dolls even stuck their tongues to lick the wall of the cup. Seeing this, Chen Wenliang didn't need Li Ze to greet them anymore, and immediately made a big pot for them, and each of them had a full cup.

"This is iced, so you can't drink too much! You can only drink another drink." He whispered.

"Master Ba, why haven't you seen a strong laborer at home?" Li Ze asked in a small mouthful of ice drink.

Mr. Ba sighed: "Mr. I originally had two sons, but in a war, the original official Latin captured both sons. He never came back after he went there. Now, there was only the old couple in the family, two wives and three babies, hey!"

Li Ze suddenly fell silent and said for a while: "Is life still acceptable now?"

"It's much better now." Mr. Ba's mood also fell down. "A new official came, but it was different from the previous one. He distributed land and built a new house. The family has a total of 70 acres of land! Life is much better."

"The land and new houses are given for free by the government?"

"Of course not, the government said, these are sold to us. If we don't have money to buy, we will lend us some money to us, but we don't have to make any profit. We have to pay back a portion every year and pay it back in ten years. I'm fine. I'm working hard to live another ten years and pay off the debt lightly. These land and houses belong to my family. If I can buy some property for my descendants in my lifetime, I will die without regrets."

"Seventy acres of land, can your family grow it?"

"The government is still very good now. When spring plowing, people will be sent to help. Our county magistrate here will bring people to help me farm during spring plowing this year!" Mr. Ba said proudly.

"Then what do you think the current officials are more like the past officials?"

"That's not comparable!" Mr. Ba waved his hands repeatedly: "The current Guan'er is our real parents. I have lived a life and it's the first time I have seen such a person! We are the people at this time, hoping that this county magistrate will always be an official in our place! But we must not get him away."

Li Ze laughed: "What if he is promoted? What a good thing? You don't want him to leave?"

Mr. Ba was stunned for a moment before whispering: "According to my selfishness, I naturally don't want him to leave. If someone else comes, who knows what the situation will be!"

Li Ze smiled and said, "Don't worry, Master Ba, even if you change the official, the government's policies will never change."

"That's good." Mr. Ba said: "The last time the county magistrate came to our house, he also said that the biggest official in our Tang Dynasty is Mr. Li. These things are all done by Mr. Li, so that we can do them with confidence. As long as Mr. Li is still alive, these things will never change. So we all set up a tablet of Mr. Li’s immortality at home, and we all hope that Mr. Li will live for a hundred years!"

Li Ze laughed happily, "Then what do you think Mr. Li looks like?"
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