The scenery outside Jianglingfu City is very pleasant. On the endless plains, the rice fields that have been harvested long ago are now drying under the scorching sun and turning into patches.

Those with oxen would hold the plow and wave their whips, plowing the hard rice fields, weeding, fertilizing, and removing the rice roots.

The remaining sharp rice roots were thrown to the roadside. Ordinary people were reluctant to part with them, so they plucked them out one by one and carried them home to use as firewood.

Those who are fast have already begun to raise seedlings and prepare for planting autumn rice. Those who have no cattle at home are always not as good as those who have cattle. Those who have few young men are not as good as those who have many young men.

In such a farming era, it’s no wonder that boys are given priority over girls. In fact, the contribution of physical labor is different. Even if it is caring for the family and raising children, in the eyes of the world, it is far less valuable than producing food.

Looking up at the sky, the bright sun was blinding. Ma Liudan wiped his sweat. The linen clothes made at home had been mended for several years. Although life was difficult, he could survive at least.

He was a refugee from the north. He was originally a family of six. His three children could not withstand the disease during the escape and died. My mother could not survive it either. She left when she was in her forties. He and his wife died again.

Gave birth to two.

"You bastard, what are you doing? Stop playing in the water and come dig the ground!" He couldn't help but yelled loudly when he saw his eldest son swimming in the river with his butt naked.

"Come on!" Although the son was naughty, he knew that if he sweated more, he could eat more grains of rice, so he walked over with nothing on and plucked out a handful of water plants.

Feeding the buffalo at home.

"Put your pants on, if it looks like that!" Ma Liudan couldn't bear to look at it and said, "This one is pointed. If it scratches your balls, your life will be ruined."

"Yes, Ma Daniu, if you break your balls, the Ma family will become extinct. Then the few acres of land in your family and this cow will belong to someone else!"

At this time, Fan Dashi, who was carrying a wooden plow on his back, walked over slowly. He had a dark face, broad shoulders, and a big stature. Seeing the conversation between father and son, he couldn't help but laugh.

"Bah, Fan Dashi, you're a guy who spits bad things out of your mouth and can't say anything good."

Ma Liudan laughed and cursed, turned around and kicked his son again, saying: "Did you hear that? Put your pants on quickly. If you lose your balls, you will have to go to the palace to eat royal food!"

The son touched his head and smiled honestly, unable to understand the adult topic for a while.

"How much rice was produced this year?" After the joke, Fan Dashi put down the wooden plow and sat on the ridge of the field, asking.

"The weather has been good this year, and God has given us food to eat. Five acres of land produced ten three-stone rice. After the husks were removed, there were still ten or so stones left. I only paid five buckets of imperial grain, and I couldn't be hungry!"

Ma Liudan said with a smile. He glanced at his lively son and the wrinkles on his face seemed to have spread:

"The boy is almost six years old. After autumn, I will find him a husband to study. I can still get a few buckets of food. If I don't want to get a Jinshi or something, just being a scholar can make me sleep and wake up with a smile."

"Have you heard that if you are a great master, study hard and become a scholar? You will no longer have to do corvee service in the future. You will not have to kneel down when you meet the great master. You will be able to call him a brother!"

Fan Dashi also laughed after hearing this: "We don't have many scholar masters in our county. If a big man becomes a scholar, he will also become an official. You, the Ma family, should stand up!"

"But, Daniel, if you are a scholar, don't imitate Zhang San. Bah, mentioning his name makes people sick!"

"What's wrong with him?" Ma Liudan was very puzzled after hearing this. Zhang San used to be a farmer, and he was from the next village, but he got the honors and became a civil servant, and he never contacted him again.

In his heart, he longed for his son to become a big shot like Zhang San!

"Bah!" Fan Dashi spat, smeared his boogers on the soles of his shoes, and said, "This guy used to be very diligent, plowing and tending the fields every day, and sold a lot of money. Now he has studied for a few years.

, when he became a Juren, he became arrogant and treated us as weeds without even looking at him. He also came out of our mud legs."

"It doesn't matter. The key point is that this guy became a civil servant, so he curried favor with Mr. Cheng and Magistrate of the county and took away our land!"

"It's such a good year, how can we seize land? How can anyone be willing to sell it?" Ma Liudan asked curiously.

"Huh, the grain in our fields was sold by Mr. Wu in the past. He was the biggest grain accountant in the county. He offended Mazhi County and sold the land and ran away. Mr. Cheng bought his grain account and took over everything.

Our grain, summer grain and autumn grain, can only be sold to him."

Fan Dashi said angrily: "In our county, Mazhi County is the only one. Mr. Cheng has the support of Mazhi County, so he and Zhang San, who has become more powerful, got some new deeds. I got the news a few days ago and sold grain to

They must sign a new contract or they will not receive food."

"This..." Ma Liudan scratched his head and said, "Don't we have to get all the deeds?"

"It must be done, but that bitch Zhang San, together with Mr. Cheng, got the deed saying that our food can only be sold to their family, and fifty years after our death, we can only sell it to him.

Home."

"Besides, if there is a disaster in this field and they cannot receive food, we will have to compensate them."

"If someone offers to buy our land, he can help us sell it, even if we don't want to sell it."

Speaking of this, Fan Dashi became even more angry and shouted loudly.

"What does this mean? We become tenants. This field belongs to our family. We just entrust him to sell grain. How can we become tenants?"

Ma Liudan shook his head and said in disbelief. Although he didn't understand, he knew that he had worked hard to dig out this land. How could he give it up so easily?

"Then don't sell grain to Mr. Cheng! Where can't you sell grain?"

"Huh, it's not just Mr. Cheng, but other gentlemen in the county are also looking forward to it. As long as we don't resist, we'll just go along and the deeds will all be the same. How do we get it? All the food and drinks at home are made with the money from selling grain!"

"Is there any royal law in this world? Let's go to the eldest master and sue him." Ma Liudan said angrily.

"How to sue?" Fan Dashi sighed and said, "Mr. Cheng is rich and powerful. He can hire the best lawyers in the county. He also has many lawyers in his family. How can we win the lawsuit?"

"That Zhang San, after gaining fame, tricked the villagers into signing the deed together. His family's grain can be sold at a high price, and he was even awarded a lot of land by Master Cheng!"

"Then let's sue together. There are so many people in this county. If we don't believe it, we won't win." It's about life and the future of the family. Ma Liudan lost the cowardice of the past and said with a red face.

"Hmph, we originally talked about making trouble together on the 5th, but many people started to falter and accepted their fate. They were even afraid that Mr. Cheng would not collect the grain, so they backed down."
Chapter completed!