farming in ancient times

Xiao Er wanted to have the county magistrate to eat at his home to impress the county magistrate, but he didn't want to dig a hole for the county magistrate. Now he heard the county magistrate's questioning.

The engineering man's head turned sharply, and he suddenly looked troubled, "My lord, I, I, I don't know what to say." But when he saw that the elder brother was about to speak, the second hand hurriedly grabbed the elder brother clothes.

County magistrate Bai didn't see Xiaoer's little move, but saw that the members of the Wang family were hesitant to speak, "You can say whatever you want, there are no outsiders here, we are not afraid!"

"I'm not afraid." Xiaoer said with a heavy sigh, as if he was making a big decision, then he gritted his teeth and opened his mouth, "Does your lord still remember the old man Duan who won your reward in the Duanjiazhai?

"Remember!" It didn't take long, the county magistrate personally gave the reward to the old man Duan, "What does the old man have to do with this plow?"

"Old man Duan is my grandfather." Xiao Er said.

"Ah? What a coincidence?" So it turned out that the Wang family had elders like Old Man Wang and Mrs. Wang Zhao, so how could there be such a sensible and polite grandson?

"Yeah, it's just a coincidence." Xiaoer said, looking at the county magistrate in embarrassment, "I heard that grandpa won the reward, so I thought about improving my field, so that we can also get the reward... ..”

"Then what?" County magistrate Bai didn't dare to speak when he saw Xiaoer's hesitation, "Just say, I'm not the county magistrate now, but an old man who came to your house for dinner!"

"My lord can't say that." Xiao Er said, scratching his hair, "My family doesn't have a plow, and I don't have the money to ask a craftsman to make a plow, so I just want to go to the iron shop to dig a plow wall, and I want to make a plow myself."

"You will?" Magistrate Bai asked curiously.

Xiao Er immediately fell silent.

"What's the matter?" Magistrate Bai looked at the Wang family members strangely.

Wang Dalang gave Xiao Er a hard look, seeing that he suddenly turned into a gourd with a sawn mouth, he said nothing.He told about Xiao Er's stealing from other carpenters, and when Da Lang finished speaking, his own neck was red.With such a thoughtful younger brother, Da Lang's head lowered a little more.

"Is this possible?" County magistrate Bai was dumbfounded, but when he saw Xiao Er's face blushing, he changed the subject, "By the way, why is your plow different from others'?"

Da Lang also wanted to know, and the ears of Xiao Shan and Wang Zhao also perked up.

"Well, the one in Guanjiang Town who knows how to make plows is that family. I'm afraid that people will know that I have learned their craft secretly. When I ask the uncle in the village to help me make the plow shaft, let him make it for me. Yes." As Xiao Eryi raised his head, "I was still worried that it wouldn't work, but I didn't expect, I didn't expect Butcher Gao to say that the plows in other people's homes are not as good as the plows I made."

"Of course." Butcher Gao is a general, the general who defeated the Rongdi clan, and was greeted by the emperor himself when he returned to the court.

County magistrate Bai was eager to know everything about the plow, so he asked, "What's the matter with the plow and shovel?

"When I went to plow, I saw a sheet of iron. I was afraid that people would know that I was making the plow secretly. Even if I asked the craftsman to sharpen the sheet of iron for me, and then put it on the plow wall, the blacksmith would not guess it. What am I going to do?" As he spoke, Xiaoer looked at the county magistrate a little uneasy, and kept praying in his heart, this statement is full of loopholes, you can't get to the bottom of it, magistrate.

The county magistrate wanted to continue asking, but seeing that Xiao Er couldn't explain clearly, and that Xiao Er secretly made the plow, he was thinking that Xiao Er must have lost his old nose when he was making this plow.

Facing the nervous Xiao Er, the county magistrate asked, "Xiao Er, if I ask you to make another plow, can you still make it?"

"Yes!" Xiaoer said with certainty, "I've been thinking about it for two or three years, and I've already engraved this plow in my head." Suddenly there was a pain in his thigh, and Xiaoer hurriedly said, "That's right, it's just the plow. It's a little troublesome when you shovel it up."

"It's okay, you can make it slowly." The county magistrate said and put down the chopsticks, "You can go to town with me later, let the blacksmith make another plow wall, and let the carpenter Feng make another pair Plow frame, if you have any troubles when making the plow, you can go to the county government to find me."

"Ah? So urgent?" Xiao Er's eyes widened.

"Yes!" There was Butcher Gao behind Xiaoer, and the county magistrate didn't dare to hide it from Xiaoer, "Don't think your plow is crooked and unattractive. It's easier to use than a straight plow when plowing dry fields. Once this plow is put into the paddy field, if the current plow plows one mu of land a day, your plow can plow three mu of land a day!"

"My lord, you are wrong, other people's plows can plow three acres of land a day!" Xiaoer said hurriedly.

"Hey, I'm just making an analogy, and I'm just saying what it means." The magistrate was afraid that he wouldn't understand, so he made a special gesture, "It means that your plow is very easy to use."

"Then what reward can I get?"

As soon as Xiao Er finished speaking, he received a slap on the head.When the county magistrate saw Xiao Er knocked his head on the square table, he hurriedly asked, "Xiao Er, how are you doing?" Then he glared at Wang Dalang, "Why did you hit your brother!"

"My lord, Xiaoer is ignorant, so I can't ask you to reward me." As he spoke, Wang Dalang gave Xiaoer another look. This cheapskate, Xiaoer who is obsessed with money, doesn't even look at who he is talking to. This is the county magistrate. Sir.

"Why not!" the county magistrate said loudly, "Xiao Er's plow can not only plow your land well, but also plow the land of tens of thousands of people's homes. Not only do you want to reward, but you also need to reward them heavily! "

"My lord, I don't want a big reward!" Xiao Er said hastily.

"Why?" The county magistrate was surprised.I heard from Bai Fu that the Wang family was so poor that they couldn't afford to marry Xiao Er, so there might be some reason behind this.So I asked, "What do you want?"

"I want, I want a cow." Xiao Er whispered.

"What? Xiaoer, you're crazy!" Wang Dalang raised his hand to hit his younger brother, but the county magistrate grabbed his arm as soon as he raised it.

Xiao Er still feigned fear and got up and ran behind the county magistrate, "Sir, I know how precious cattle are, I just want a calf, raise it bigger, next year my family will be able to use it for plowing, and my elder brother won't need it either." Pulling the plow. My family can open two more acres of land, and Xiaoshan doesn't have to go out to work.

My lord, you don't know, my elder brother's shoulders are worn out by the rope... woo woo..." As he spoke, Xiao Er burst into tears.

Xiao Er didn't want to cry, but he didn't know why the tears came out.

When County Magistrate Bai saw Xiao Er with snot and tears, his big eyes full of wit were filled with sadness, and people couldn't help but think that his son was two years older than Xiao Er. My son has never worried about his livelihood since he was a child, let alone cry.

"Okay, isn't it just a calf, I promise you!" The county magistrate patted Xiaoer on the shoulder, "Man, why cry!"

"I didn't cry!" Xiao Er hummed with her head down.

"Yes, you didn't cry, but you were blinded by the wind." The man did not flick his tears easily, and the county magistrate did not stubbornly expose him, "Bai Fu, go get your second brother a basin of water and wash his face. Go to town."

When Da Lang saw Bai Fu and Xiao Er running towards the well, the county magistrate stood up and murmured, "Xiao Shan, pinch Big Brother."

"Brother, I'll give you a slap." Xiao Shan tried his best to dig his ears and eyes, "Sister-in-law, I heard right, right? Your Excellency wants to give our family a cow?"

Before Dalang and Xiaoshan came home, Xiaoer was talking about what the county magistrate would reward him every day. When Wang Han heard that the county magistrate really rewarded Xiaoer with a cow, he suddenly came back to his senses. .

Seeing that County Magistrate Bai was about to leave, Wang Hanshi didn't care about the two brothers who looked like idiots, and hurriedly put the fresh bamboo shoots from the stove into bamboo baskets, "Bai Fu, take this with you."

"Sister-in-law, no need." Bai Fu waved his hands again and again, the younger brother's family is so poor, how could he want things from the younger brother's house.

"Take it, there are many on the mountain." Wang Hanshi faced Bai Fu as if he was facing the hill, only treating him as a young boy who hadn't grown up yet, "Hurry up, the adults are gone."

Upon hearing this, Xiao Er hurriedly shouted, "My lord, wait a moment."

"What's wrong?" Magistrate Bai paused.

"My lord, I want to ask you one more thing." Xiaoer looked at the county magistrate with some distress, and seeing the county magistrate told him to say, "My lord, can I say that I bought that calf myself?"

"Why?" County magistrate Bai felt that Xiao Er was a good young man, and he just expressed his incomprehension when he heard this, and there was nothing else in his eyes.

Seeing these mistresses made me feel relieved, "Well, I originally planned to buy a calf with the money from my marriage, but now my lord rewards me, if my grandparents find out, they will take it away."

"They dare to hold you who I reward you?" Magistrate Bai didn't believe it.

"They will say that there is smoke rising from the grave of Wang's ancestors, so I can be rewarded by adults."

"What's the point?" County Magistrate Bai stared, "Is there such a thing?"

"My lord, my grandparents are elders, I can't blame them, they will make a fuss anyway." Xiao Er's face changed slightly as he spoke, and he seemed to continue to cry.

County magistrate Bai looked at Xiao Er's red and swollen eyes, "Aren't they afraid to take it because you bought it?"

"I bought the cow with the money from my marriage. If they dare to take it, I will, I will let them marry me." As he spoke, Xiaoer saw the county magistrate smiled, and lowered his head a little embarrassedly, "My lord, I, I can't help it either."

"Okay, it's up to you!" Seeing that he was in such a difficult situation because of such a big matter, the county magistrate suddenly wanted to tell him that if you have any difficulties, you should go and talk to the general. Let alone one Wang Zhao family, there are ten Wang Zhao families. , can also be frightened silly by the person who climbed out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of ​​blood.

County Magistrate Bai knew that he couldn't say this, and the people in Gao Laozhuang didn't know that Butcher Gao was the famous General Pingdi.

Opening the door of Wang's house, he saw a person sitting at the door, "Who are you?" County Magistrate Bai asked seriously.

"My lord, I am the village head of Wangjia Village, I welcome you, my villain!" As he said that, the village head knelt at the feet of County Magistrate Bai.

When the county magistrate heard that he was not a relative of Xiao Er's family, he relaxed his vigilance, "Get up, I just came to see Xiao Er."

"Ah?" Village Chief Wang was stunned for a moment, seeing the county magistrate frowning, "Oh, the villain knows."

"Go back if you have nothing to do." The county magistrate immediately chased her away, and seeing the village head get up, he hurriedly said, "By the way, I heard that the last time Wang Zhao came to smash the door of Xiaoer's house, you came to drive her away. ?”

"It's a villain." Village Chief Wang didn't dare to think about it, and said honestly, "The villain saw that Mrs. Wang and Zhao didn't behave well, so I, that's why I chased her away."

"You're good!" said the county magistrate, lifting his foot, and patted the village chief on the shoulder in relief as he passed by.