Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Lin Yinan woke up as early as when Yun Shijiu turned over. She wanted to see if Yun Shijiu would speak.

After searching for a long time, Yun Shijiu ran out of patience and began to poke her nostrils with his hands and slap her face hard with his hands.

Unable to pretend any longer, Lin Yinan slowly opened her eyes, her eyes gentle and loving.

"Good morning! Nineteen."

When she heard her mother calling her, Nineteenth Girl's little mouth pouted in grievance and a few tears rolled down her eyes.

Lin Yinan quickly got up and hugged her, "Mom is here, be good, Nineteen, don't cry."

Yun Shijiu sobbed and leaned into her arms. Lin Yinan coaxed her for a long time before she stopped sobbing.

Just as he was getting ready, he suddenly felt a heat on his hands. Lin Yinan looked down and saw that the sheets were slowly getting wet.

"Nineteen, you..."

Nineteen raised her big wet eyes, clear and innocent, and Lin Yinan's reproachful words were immediately stuck in her throat.

Just at this moment, Qianxia pushed the door open.

"Girl, you're awake!"

Yun Shijiu reached out his hand to Qianxia as if he had seen a savior.

"Hey, the young lady peed."

"Yes, I peed all over me."

Lin Yinan got up, made the bed, and glared at the little scoundrel unhappily.

The little rascal shyly buried his head in Chinatsu's arms and didn't look at her.

Qianxia found some clothes for Yun Shijiu to change into, and said, "Early in the morning, Shanque Niang and Shitu Niang sent over a lot of bacon and dried mushrooms."

She had learned from Qianwu last night what had happened in Changyi County, so when they brought something over in the morning, she did not refuse.

"If it's sent to you, just keep it. Cook it later and ask Dr. Guo to come and eat together." One has to accept other people's kindness.

"Did Guo Xun see Shan Que's face?"

"I saw it. His face was covered with the green medicine prepared by Doctor Guo."

Thinking of the appearance of the titmouse, Chinatsu found it both funny and pitiful.

Before long, everyone in the entire village knew what had happened in Changyi County.

However, they did not have extra time to discuss - the busy farming season had begun.

Farmers don’t have much free time in their lives, especially during the busy farming season, when all the people in the village, young and old, rush to the fields before dawn.

The terraced fields were reclaimed and planted for the first time, and rice was also planted for the first time.

This concerns everyone's food and clothing issues in the second half of the year, so they dared not be careless and all came to help.

In the first few days, Lin Shuo, Wu Song and Chen Shi were extremely busy as they had to teach everyone how to harvest rice.

There were two or three who were sold from wealthy families. They were clumsy and either cut their hands or hurt their ankles.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly. It took about one and a half months from harvesting and threshing to drying.

The newly opened terraced fields have proper fertilizer and water management, and weeding and pest control are done in a timely manner. Although the yield per mu is not as high as that of Longtan, it is much higher than that of ordinary plantings, reaching about 180 kilograms per mu.

When the per-acre yield came out, the entire village was excited.

After the new grain was dried and registered and stored, after a month of hard work, Lin Yinan waved his hand and let everyone rest for three days.

Soon after, other crops were harvested one after another.

In the medicinal field opened up for growing medicinal herbs, many of the herbs planted by Guo Xun survived.

The bumper harvest from the terraced fields completely dispelled the last bit of doubt in his heart. Despite Hong Mu and others' attempts to keep him, he brought his family to the mountain village, and the family was finally reunited.

After resolving matters in Chi'an, Lin Yinan prepared to pack his luggage and return to Longtan.

The day before leaving, Chen Gu came to visit with generous gifts, including ten fat pigs locked in cages, squealing.

"Mr. Chen, you are too polite. You just came and brought such an expensive gift." Lin Yinan said politely.

Chen Gu laughed loudly and said mysteriously, "City Lord Lin, you are joking. This is not a gift from my Chen family."

"Oh? Apart from the Chen family, who else is so friendly to me?" She really couldn't think of it.

"It's the county magistrate of Changyi County."

"So is the case closed?"

"Yes, the county magistrate interrogated them strictly, and found nearly 20 children's bodies in a mass grave outside the city. Their hands and feet were all broken, and none of them were intact."

Qianxia, ​​who brought in tea, almost knocked over the teapot in her hand when she heard this. This was too scary!

In ancient times when there were no anti-inflammatory drugs and medical standards were low, once an infection occurred, it would be fatal.

Chen Gu's face was solemn as he continued, "According to the last statement of the traffickers, out of ten children who were castrated, less than one survived. The child that looked like a bear was the toughest and was their most successful one in the past two years. Unfortunately, he was trampled to death by the frightened and mad pigs in the end."

"The child traffickers should be chopped into pieces to vent public anger." Qianxia poured a cup of tea for Chen Gu and said angrily.

Human traffickers have been hunted down and killed throughout history. Lin Yinan thought of the children he had rescued, "Have you found the families of the remaining nine children?"

"The traffickers insisted that they were all kidnapped from Nanzhou Prefecture, but that's not true. The two older ones were able to tell us their home addresses, but the others were too frightened to tell us anything. Also..."

After a pause, a trace of pity flashed across Chen Gu's face, and he continued, "A young child died in the county government office two days ago, and his parents have not been found yet. The doctor diagnosed the cause of death as being in fear for a long time. Once out of that environment, his internal organs relaxed, and he died."

So, most of these captured children would either die of infection or die of fear.

It's hard to survive anyway.

She remembered that history books said that human trafficking has always been a serious crime. Thinking of this, Lin Yinan frowned and asked Chen Gu.

"Then how will the county magistrate sentence me?"

Chen Gu took a sip of tea, put down the cup, and looked at Lin Yinan, who had a cold face.

"According to the laws of past dynasties, anyone who cuts and mutilates a living person must be severely punished. The county magistrate has reported this to the Nanzhou Prefecture, who sentenced him to death by slicing after the autumn. The Nanzhou Prefecture approved it, and the criminal was executed in the streets of Changyi County yesterday."

Qianxia clapped her hands and praised, "Well done, it really makes people happy."

"That day, City Lord Lin and his men destroyed the old bandit gang that was carrying human traffickers. The county magistrate was grateful for City Lord Lin's kindness and righteousness, so he specially took the eight pigs from the butcher's house, and I added two more to make a total of ten pigs and sent them to City Lord Lin."

He then explained why he came to deliver the pig.

"Then you'd better obey my order. Go back and thank the county magistrate for me." Lin Yinan said with a smile.

She was naturally happy to get the reward of ten pigs.

Chen Gu looked at the large and small bags of luggage outside the living room and asked, "City Lord Lin, are you leaving?"

"Well, we've been out for a long time. It's time for us to go back to Longtan."

Since he was leaving, there must be a lot of things that needed to be packed. Chen Gu hurriedly stood up and said goodbye, and Lin Yinan saw him off to the door.

Before getting on the carriage, Chen Gu remembered something and turned back to ask Lin Yinan, "My father asked me to ask City Lord Lin, what you said last year about buying sugarcane, do you still mean it?"

"Of course it counts. Please tell Master Chen that we will take as much as the sugarcane can be harvested."

"In that case, after the sugarcane is harvested, I will definitely send someone to deliver it to Longtan."