After the village chief finished speaking, he stretched out his hand to recruit a few children and asked them to go to the field to drive out the locusts.
The children looked at each other, and ran to the ground, wherever there was a lot of grass, ran over with a shout, and immediately a group of locusts flew out of the grass, flying in the air for a while to avoid the children It fell into the grass in the distance again.
There were also a few locusts that were chased away in a hurry, panicked, and rushed directly to the faces of the group of people who were standing still...
Li Chang turned pale with fright, and was about to reach out his hand to block it, but the three Man Baos reached out to grab it quickly.
Man Bao grasped it, then pinched the struggling grasshopper, held its wings and asked, "It's not too big."
Lichang: "...My lord, what I'm talking about is that the locust plague is not very big, but these locusts still eat quite fat."
Man Bao asked, "Aren't there chickens and ducks in the village?"
The village chief was stunned for a moment and then said: "You have to raise it, sir, do you want to eat it?"
Man Bao held the grasshopper and smiled, "It's not me who eats it, but this one can be eaten."
Man Bao looked at the grasshopper in his hand, after all, he didn't hold it for too long, but threw it on the ground and trampled it to death.
Bai Erlang was still a little bit reluctant, he held the grasshopper he caught and said, "I remember Li Zhong and Li Wei took us to roast grasshoppers when we were young, and it was quite delicious."
Man Bao looked down at the grasshopper's body, feeling a little regretful, "You didn't say it earlier."
Bai Shan had already pulled a piece of grass and tied up the grasshopper in his hand and handed it to Bai Erlang, pointing to the road and saying, "They're here too."
The head of the village and the villagers were a little palpitated by the three young masters and young ladies, and they were a little dazed by their behavior.
Especially when Man Bao trampled to death the grasshopper just now, the Li Chang always had a strange feeling in his heart.
Bai Shan pointed, and the head of the village and the villagers couldn't help turning their heads to look. They saw four or five carriages approaching slowly on the road, and they were slightly taken aback.
The people in the carriage seemed to have seen them too, and stopped on the road closest to them, and then many people got off the carriage.
Man Bao and the others went up to meet him, called "Father" to the old Zhou who had come over excitedly, and then saluted Mr. Zhuang and Mrs. Liu.
Mrs. Liu nodded slightly, looked around, and asked with a smile: "Is this your job?"
Man Bao responded with a smile, and then introduced to the head of the village, "These are the elders of the family. We happened to have a rest in the nearby Zhuangzi, so we stopped by to have a look. This is my father and this is my mother."
The head of the village was taken aback for a moment and immediately went to salute the old Zhou Tou.
Old Zhou Tou was also very polite to the head of the village, even a little cautious, which was a habit developed at home.
Old Zhou looked more carefully. He stomped his feet in the field, then randomly found a stick to dig up some soil, rubbed it in the palm of his hand, and sighed as he looked at the weeds all over the ground.
He searched and found that this field should be rice. He carefully looked at the situation in the field and dug several places but found no fertilizer. He dug on the dry land for a while but found nothing, so he said to Man Bao : "That's it, you still say you can't take care of it yourself, can you see what the land is like?"
The chief at the side was a little embarrassed, but the villagers were a little annoyed. They opened their mouths to speak but were glared at by the chief.
When Bai Shan saw it, he bumped Man Bao and motioned her to watch.
Man Bao looked at him, and said with a smile to the head of the village: "The sun is hot, and the elders don't want to stay in the sun for a long time. Please ask the head of the village to take us into the village to rest and ask for a bowl of water."
The chief of the village is naturally willing. In the future, this large area of employment will be under his jurisdiction, and these occupations are now Zhouman, so it is inevitable to have a good relationship with her.
So the chief bowed and invited them into the village.
So a group of people entered the village in a mighty manner, and went directly to the village head's house to rest.
The village chief's son and daughter-in-law hurriedly boiled water and made tea to greet everyone, but the old Zhou head simply dragged the village chief to talk, mainly talking about farming.
Such a good place, they are so kind, it is too bad.
Mrs. Liu smiled and lowered her head to drink tea, Mrs. Qian also drank tea, and waited for old Zhou to mutter for a while before interrupting him, and asked the village chief in a harmonious voice how the harvest here is this year, when the seeds will start to sow, and when they will be harvested...
"The customs of this place are different. Our hometown is not here, and we don't know what the climate is like here."
This year's harvest does not belong to Zhou Man, it belongs to the previous official, so the village chief said, "Master Zhou didn't see it. The river here was cut off before, and this year is also bad luck. After paying the fixed rent, the money hasn’t come yet.”
Bai Shan, who was looking at the decorations in the house, turned his head and asked, "Foot money? Is it the foot money of the Ding tax, or the foot money of the land rent?"
"Of course it's the foot money for the fixed rent," said the Li Chang: "These fixed rents are to be sent to the capital, collected by the adults in the yamen, and then escorted to the capital, all of which need foot money. One liter of rice is needed for every mu of land.”
Bai Shan nodded slightly, looked at Man Bao, and the two went out together.
Man Bao saw that many villagers gathered around the wall of the Li Chang's house to watch the fun, so he went out with Bai Shan, and the crowd immediately dispersed and moved away from them.
Man Bao saw the alert look on their faces, then reached into his sleeve, touched a handful of candy from the system space, and directly found a few older children who were younger than them, and distributed the candy to them.
This candy seemed to be different from the candy that was distributed just now. The children who didn't get much candy just took a look at the adults and surrounded them with a roar.
Man Bao stuffed a handful into Bai Shan's hand, and Bai Erlang who came out after seeing it, stretched out his hand to Man Bao.
Man Bao glanced at him and grabbed him too.
Bai Erlang muttered while sharing the candy, "You obviously brought candy, but you pretended not to have it just now, which is really treacherous."
Bai Shan glanced at Man Bao's sleeve, and gave Bai Erlang a push, "So much nonsense, let's go aside."
Bai Erlang peeled a piece of candy and stuffed it into his mouth, then walked out slowly with the two of them, and soon led a group of children to a place far away from the adults.
Although I knew that Zhou Man was an official, but because she was a girl and young, the villagers in the village were not so vigilant towards them. Instead, they cared about the old Mr. Zhou in the house, so they all surrounded her. Check out the situation.
The three of them used sugar to attract children from the village who could walk to young people who hadn't married yet.
Surrounded by a large group of people, Man Bao looked at the few candies left in his hand, peeled off one and ate one himself, and gave the rest to two children who were only about two years old.
Then she asked a teenager curiously, "Why are they all surrounding Li Chang's house?"
The young man glanced at Man Bao and said: "You are noble people, my father said that I can go and see whose land will be planted next year."
"You don't want to plant my land?"
The boy replied without thinking, "I don't want to."