It was late autumn when Di Renjie and Li Yuanfang were walking down the road in the country, looking at the fruitful fields. Li Yuanfang seemed very happy, but Di Renjie looked a little dignified!
"My lord, what's the matter with you? How do you feel that you are worrying about it?" Li Yuanfang asked with concern!
"Yuan Fang, take a look at how this place is like this?" Di Renjie said with some empathy!
"What's the matter? My lord, the harvest here is good?" Li Yuanfang asked puzzledly!
"The harvest is good, but what solar terms are you thinking about now?" Di Renjie asked!
"It should have just passed Hanlu now!" Li Yuanfang replied without thinking!
"The cold dew has passed, but the crops in this field have not been harvested. Once the frost has passed, these grains will probably rot in the ground!" Di Renjie said sadly!
"Ah? I really don't understand this humble job!" Li Yuanfang said ashamed!
"You have been in the army, so naturally you don't understand this farming thing so clearly! I think this border land, north of it is full of yellow sand, it is really rare to have such a harvest, but why are these people not in time? Reaping?" Di Renjie said suspiciously!
"Hi, sir, we can go to the village and ask if we know it?" Li Yuanfang said!
"Yeah! I have to ask! Let's go!" Di Renjie said and walked towards the village not far away!
The two came to the entrance of the village, and a broken corner of the stone tablet was engraved with the words Yangjiazhuang!
"Yangjiazhuang? Yuanfang, let's go to Yangjiazhuang and ask?" Di Renjie said, walking towards the village!
The village is not very big, the chicken barking and the dog barking, full of anger, Li Yuanfang followed Di Renjie, watching the surroundings vigilantly!
The two were walking. Not far away, an old man walked towards him, pushing a dilapidated wheelbarrow, followed by an old woman who was staggering!
"Yuanfang, look!" Di Renjie said, pointing to the two people walking towards him!
"My lord, shall we ask them?" Li Yuanfang said!
Di Renjie nodded, Li Yuanfang quickly stepped forward and stopped in front of the two!
"This old man, I'm bothering you!" Li Yuanfang clasped his fists and saluteed!
The old man looked up at Li Yuanfang and asked, "What's the matter with this strong man?"
"This old man
, What's your last name? Are you going to harvest in the field? "Di Renjie stepped forward, saw two sickles on the wheelbarrow pushed by the old man, and asked immediately!
"The young man's surname is Yang, what time is it? If we don't collect the food in the field, we will have to starve to death!" Old man Yang said with a sigh!
Di Renjie looked at the sad-faced old man Yang, and then at the old woman who followed him. Di Renjie sighed, "Brother Yang, why are you two going to the ground? What about the kids in the family?"
"Who is there anybody in the family? The child has been recruited to work. It has been more than half a year, and there is not even a single message!" Old man Yang said sadly!
Di Renjie suddenly fixed his eyes on the old man's two sickles, "I said, Brother Yang, your two sickles are old, right? The blades are all rolled, can they still be used?"
"If you can't use it, you have to use it! I originally wanted to exchange two new ones, but the blacksmiths in the ten miles and eight villages don't know where they are? Not to mention the sickle, but the kitchen knives in our house are almost curled up!" Said helplessly!
"What?" Di Renjie was shocked when he heard this, which reminded him of the disappearing iron shop in Shuozhou City!
"Sir, why is this place so strange? Not only does this old man go to work, but he doesn't even have a decent farm tool? When will this be cut?" Li Yuanfang said angrily!
"Brother Yang, your old couple went to the ground, and this is not enough?" Di Renjie said with concern!
"Oh! Whatever you can harvest, it's better than starving, right? It used to be a place where there was wind and sand, and the harvest was bad. This year is somehow, it's really good. Everyone thought this year was a bumper harvest. In the next year, who came to think that this grain is over, we just watched the oil flowing in the ground and couldn't get it back!" Old man Yang said sadly!
"Brother Yang, I will ask my apprentice to help you, shall we go to your house and have a look?" Di Renjie said!
"Ah? Really? That's great, thank you so much!" Old man Yang said flattered!
Li Yuanfang took the wheelbarrow from Old Man Yang, Di Renjie and Old Man Yang walked side by side in front, Li Yuanfang and the old woman walked behind!
"Brother Yang, you just said that there are no blacksmiths in the neighborhood? Why is that?" Di Renjie asked!
"They and the young people in the village are hired to work
I said that I will come back after two months of work, and the labor will give two taels of silver. If you can work as a blacksmith, you will give fifty taels of silver! Who wouldn't want to go with such a high salary? So the young laborers and the blacksmiths from the ten li and eight townships around here followed. At that time, it was a slack farming period. I wanted to come back in two months without delay in reclaiming the land. They all wanted to earn the money! "Old man Yang said!
"They didn't come back after they left?" Di Renjie asked!
"Yeah! After two months, we didn't see them coming back, thinking that maybe the work was not finished, and it was delayed for a few days, but we didn't care, but we waited for almost a month, and no one came back. Now everyone was anxious, so they went to Shuozhou City to find it, but there was still no result!" Old man Yang said angrily!
"Oh? Are they all taken to Shuozhou to work?" Di Renjie asked!
"That's not true. We went to Enyifang in Shuozhou City to find people. The people who came to hire these laborers were Enyifang!" said Old Man Yang!
"Enyifang? What do they want so many hardworking blacksmiths to do?" Di Renjie wondered!
"No, no, this Enyifang is a wine shop, but they also have a business, which is to do things for people. As long as you pay, they will do things for you. As long as you pay, they can do anything. !" said the old man!
"Anything is okay? Could it be that they also do murder and murder?" Di Renjie said in surprise!
"This little old man doesn't know. Anyway, our people were recruited by them. We naturally want to ask them for someone. But when we got there, not only did we not ask the whereabouts of the people, but the officers and soldiers coaxed us out! "Old man Yang said angrily!
"What happened later? Didn't you look for it again?" Di Renjie asked!
"Who would dare to go? There is Feng Ping in Fengjiazhuang twenty miles away, and his parents went to Enyifang to beg someone again. What happened? Feng Ping's father is now in jail, Feng Ping's mother Now it's no one to live, no dead to see, who would dare to ask for someone again?" said the old man Yang!
"Enyifang? Enyifang? What kind of tiger and wolf land is this?" Di Renjie said to himself!
"Oh, you tell me, I was planning to tell my son about marriage this year? But now I am a big man, I don't know where he is?" Old man Yang said depressed!