Pig Killer

Chapter 212

"Are you going to the fields so early? It's not even dawn yet!" Zhang Jixian asked in surprise.

"We all get up this early, going to the fields at daybreak." Huang Bochang said as he walked, "This is still late in the morning. In the summer, people get up even earlier."

"We all work from sunrise to sunset," Huang Zhongchang said, looking at the busy farmers working in the fields. "We have no rest all year round."

"Yes!" Huang Bochang smiled and said.

"Brother, yesterday you said you were going to attack other cities. Do you have weapons? I forgot to ask." Huang Zhongchang looked at him with concern and asked, "You won't attack with bare hands, will you?"

"No, no, we have big swords." Huang Bochang looked at him with a smile on his face and said, "There are a lot of them! Every household has one."

"Big knife? How big is it?" Zhang Jixian asked curiously.

"It's as long as my arm and wider than my palm." Huang Bochang gestured with his hand.

"This broadsword is banned by the imperial court." Zhang Jixian stared at him in astonishment and said, "How could every household have one?"

"Our swords are not used to chop people, but to cut wheat and corn ears." Huang Bochang looked at Zhang Jixian with his dark eyes and said, "To be precise, it is a guillotine."

"Guillotine?" Huang Zhongchang guessed affirmatively.

"Yes!" Huang Bochang nodded and said, "It is very easy to use. It is much faster than bending and pulling it with our hands." He smiled and said, "This big knife can be used directly after it is disassembled."

"You guys are really good at getting ready so early." Huang Zhongchang looked at him in surprise.

"No, no, these are farm tools." Huang Bochang looked at him with his dark eyes.

Huang Zhongchang really couldn't refute it, "Yes! He went to the battlefield with a hoe in hand."

"Let's go! Go move the food." Huang Bochang looked at them with a smile and said, "It's this wheat. You have to grind it yourself."

Zhang Jixian opened his mouth wide when he heard this and said, "Wheat."

"Yes! They're all wheat." Huang Bochang smiled and nodded when he heard that.

"Oh my God, it's all wheat." Zhang Jixian looked at him in disbelief.

"Although we have wheat," Huang Bochang looked at them regretfully and said, "we don't have that many stone mills, and you have to move them here yourself."

"We have more people, so we are not afraid." Huang Zhongchang said to him with a smile.

"Then you arrange some people!" Huang Bochang said to them with a smile on his face.

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"Brother Huang, we really do have wheat to eat."

"Yes! Xiaomai." Huang Zhongchang said to them with his bright eyes.

"Ouch! I've never eaten wheat flour in my life!"

"Woooo..."

"Don't cry!" Huang Zhongchang looked at them with sour eyes and said, "If we want to eat flour, we have to work hard!"

"Hey!" they responded in unison.

"Divide the work and cooperate. Those who go to cut trees should cut trees, and those who go to plant the fields should plant the fields. Those who go to move wheat should move wheat, and those who go to carry the millstones should carry the millstones..." Huang Zhongchang instructed them.

"Yes!"

Huang Bochang led them to the barn. The moment they opened the barn door, Huang Zhongchang and the others were stunned.

Huang Zhongchang stammered, "So many?"

"No matter how much, it won't be enough for you to consume. Don't forget that there are many of you." Shen Hui'e said as she stood at the door of the barn and looked at them.

"Who is this?" Zhang Jixian turned around and looked at Shen Hui'e and asked.

Huang Zhongchang gritted his teeth and looked at her and said, "My wife's surname is Shen."

Even a plain dress and a straw hairpin cannot conceal her beauty.

Honestly, it's pretty pretty.

"Mrs. Shen." Zhang Jixian clasped his hands and bowed respectfully.

Shen Hui'e looked at the man in the middle of a group of sloppy men, who was wearing a long gown with wide sleeves, and was gentle and elegant. Even his hair was meticulously combed, and her eyes were full of doubts.

"He is Zhang Jixian. We escaped from danger together." Huang Zhongchang introduced.

"Hello!" Shen Hui'e bowed gracefully.

Zhang Jixian looked at Mrs. Shen with his dark and stern eyes. She was different from the peasant woman he imagined. She did not look weathered and haggard from years of hard work. Instead, she looked very energetic. Although she did not look as strong as a man, she felt very powerful.

Mrs. Shen's eyes were exceptionally bright. She looked at them calmly and without dodging.

"You guys move it! I'll leave the rest for the weaving women." Shen Hui'e said to them with her bright and clear eyes.

Huang Zhongchang waved to his brothers to carry the food, and they stood aside to make way.

Huang Zhongchang looked at them curiously and asked, "How come there are so many?" He then asked with concern, "Do the people in the county have anything to eat?"

"Yes! The grain from this year's autumn harvest has not been touched since it was collected." Huang Bochang said directly, "We opened the warehouse to release the grain and distributed it to the farmers." He guessed with certainty, "I guess they didn't hand in the summer wheat harvest."

"That's not right! There's still a little too much grain." Zhang Jixian came back and said after looking at the entire barn.

"Our per-acre yield is high!" Huang Bochang looked at them happily like a child and said, "The average per-acre yield is more than 200 kilograms."

"So high?" Zhang Jixian looked at them in shock and said, "My family has excellent farmland and servants who take good care of us, but it's not this high."

A servant? Shen Hui'e's eyes flickered when she heard this. It turned out that he was a poor young man! She immediately lost her good impression of him.

The situation has come to this, we can’t lose this style.

"We raised a lot of pigs last year and had enough manure. During the critical period of crop growth, we applied enough manure, so the yield naturally increased." Huang Bochang said to them with a smile.

"Is this the summer wheat harvest this year?" Huang Zhongchang reminded him, "Didn't we feed the pigs?"

"We dug the river mud." Huang Bochang looked at them with a smile and said, "It dredged the river and provided enough fertilizer for the crops."

"River mud?" Zhang Jixian's dark pupils moved slightly.

"The river mud contains fish feces, rotting corpses, and rotten aquatic plants. Once they settle, they become excellent fertilizer," Huang Bochang said eloquently.

Huang Zhongchang raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at his wife. Could it be her idea again?

Since we are tied together and living in this chaotic world, the first thing is to survive, so we need to cooperate!

The idea of ​​digging river mud must have been proposed by my wife. My eldest brother must not know about it, otherwise the grain production would have increased long ago.

"I never thought about this." Zhang Jixian said honestly.

"This is all my brother and sister-in-law's idea. They really racked their brains to increase grain production." Huang Bochang looked at his brother and sister-in-law gently.

"The imperial court has repeatedly increased the grain tax. Who can bear this? We have no power to ask the higher authorities to revoke their orders, so we can only do something with the land." Shen Hui'e looked at them with clear eyes and said, "The wheat here is the harvest of our entire county."

"All of them were recruited." Huang Zhongchang raised his thick eyebrows when he heard this.

"They didn't leave us a single grain of wheat." Huang Bochang said angrily, "We used money to buy grain." He sighed, "But I didn't expect that the summer harvest grain was all in the barn, untouched. I can only guess that they wanted to make a fortune from the grain."

"It's a good deal for us." Huang Zhongchang said happily.

"We have too many people and we can't hold out for long." Zhang Jixian said with a frown.

"Recover your body first. Without physical strength, you can't do anything." Shen Hui'e said to them with her eyes like black jade.

"I will organize women to weave cloth and make clothes for you." Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her deep and penetrating eyes.

"Then I'll trouble you, Madam." Huang Zhongchang said with his hands clasped together.

"Who will farm this land?" Zhang Jixian asked with concern.

"You guys!" Shen Hui'e looked at him with clear eyes.

"I remember now." Zhang Jixian nodded when he heard it.

"Madam, rest assured. I will go back and explain the military discipline. It is forbidden to harass women. They must be polite and courteous." Huang Zhongchang looked at her with his dark eyes and said, "They will definitely do a good job. I will check when the time comes."

Is this guy really stupid or just pretending to be stupid! Madam yelled so fluently, Shen Hui'e complained in her heart, she didn't believe that he didn't see anything.

"Then let's split up!" Shen Hui'e said as she looked at them with her glassy eyes.

The fields outside the city were filled with the men and horses brought by Huang Zhongchang, plowing the land.

The looms in every household inside and outside the city made clanging sounds.

Those who cut down trees cut down trees, and those who build houses build houses.

What a busy scene!

As the water in the river was not too cold at noon, Huang Zhongchang and his companions planned to jump into the river to take a refreshing bath and shave their hair and beards clean.

This makes people look refreshed and energetic.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute." Huang Bochang ran to the riverside, stumbling as he carried his load.

"Brother, why are you here?" Huang Zhongchang looked back when he heard the words, and walked towards him wearing only a shirt and shorts.

"My sister-in-law has prepared some ginger for you to make ginger soup." Huang Bochang said to him while carrying a shoulder pole.

"Where do so many come from?" Huang Zhongchang looked at the basket on his shoulder pole, which was piled with ginger as high as a small mountain.

"Every household has asked for it." Huang Yuanji said quickly, "It's cold, drink some ginger soup to drive away the cold." Then he added, "It's all dried ginger, you can boil it for a while."

"Yeah!" Huang Zhongchang looked at him with a sour nose and replied, and then he said, "We took the ginger away, what are you going to do?"

"This ginger is a seasoning to remove the fishy smell of meat, but now we have fewer opportunities to eat meat." Huang Bochang looked at them and said with a smile, "It's useless for us to keep it, so you can use it first, don't catch a cold."

"Brother!" Huang Zhongchang looked at him with red eyes, his eldest nephew who came after him and was also carrying a load, and his son who came running over.

"Father, father, there is a lot of ginger, the ginger soup must be boiled thick." The big tiger looked at him with his black eyes and handed him the bag on his back, saying, "These are the clean clothes that mother prepared for you, remember to change!"

The bag was quite large. Huang Zhongchang took the bag on his back which was like a small mountain and said, "How many clothes are there!" It was heavy enough that he had to carry it with both hands.