I have become immortal, Taoist friends still need to be diligent

Li Mu was actually careful. He knew that the county magistrate was probably just going through the motions today, but as the first official to contact him, he was also the parent official of Qingping County.

Li Mu wanted to leave a good impression on Magistrate Zhao and get closer to him so that if anything happened, he could still have some connections, which would also make it easier for him to live a wealthy life here.

Yes, Li Mu had been planning to change himself and his family since last year when the whole village was preparing to form a group to beg.

Now Li Mu has truly integrated into this world, and he is content with what he has come to. Even if he cannot become a good minister and a famous general, Li Mu is confident that he still has a chance to become a rich man who eats meat.

Magistrate Zhao made Li Mu see this opportunity.

"Open the sickle~"

"Stab~Stab~"

Following Li Youliang's excited voice, more than twenty strong young men immediately began to harvest wheat one by one, including Li Dazhuang.

Speaking of harvesting wheat today, Li Dazhuang was the only one wielding a sickle in the Li Mu family.

"A life of hard work."

Li Mu looked at Li Dazhuang working and felt a little happy in his heart. Who made Li Dazhuang not change his words and kept calling him Tiedan.

Not to mention how embarrassed Li Mu was when the county magistrate called him Tiedan just now. Fortunately, Li Mu was thick-skinned and was not noticed.

Moreover, when Li Mu looked at Li Dazhuang wielding the scythe, he suddenly felt like Hei Wa was seeing him, which made Li Mu couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth.

"Child, have you ever been able to read?"

Magistrate Zhao was sitting on the chair assigned by the head of Tiantou Village. He took a sip of tea and turned to look at Li Mu, who was watching Li Dazhuang wielding his sickle, with a smile and asked.

County Magistrate Zhao was actually quite surprised when he learned at the county office that the winter wheat was proposed by a child. However, looking at Li Mu next to him who showed no signs of stage fright, he couldn't help but be convinced. Some people are born with intelligence.

It's not like he hasn't seen it before, otherwise why would he be admitted as a Jinshi in his thirties, while others in their twenties would still be from a poor family?

It really fits the saying: The gap between people is bigger than the gap between people and dogs.

"Sir, my grandfather and I have been learning calligraphy for more than half a year."

Hearing Magistrate Zhao's question, Li Mu quickly answered obediently.

"Oh, how many words do you know?"

"About three thousand."

"Ah, there are so many. It seems that you are still good at reading."

Although County Magistrate Zhao was surprised, he only thought that Li Mu could only read and not write, so he was not surprised. After all, he could read 2,000 words at this age when he was a child.

"It's just ordinary hard work, not smart."

Li Mu didn't explain, and Li Mu didn't intend to set up a "prodigy" persona. He just wanted to be a local tycoon, so he replied humbly.

In fact, Li Mu only studied for less than an hour a day. After all, Li Youliang still had farm work to do, and it was impossible to study with Li Mu for that long.

Moreover, the three thousand characters are just the words that Li Youliang knew about the three thousand characters and were commonly used.

Li Mu wrote it to the Plenary Session before the end of the year, but Li Mu didn't say anything.

Since he was born, Li Mu has discovered that his memory and comprehension abilities are very strong, much better than ordinary people. And as he grows up, he finds that his memory and comprehension abilities are slowly getting stronger.

I can even remember clearly how happy my peers were when they were three years old and playing with urine in mud.

But Li Mu didn't show off everywhere, but kept a low profile. Li Youliang praised him for showing off his talent at the right time, but Li Mu didn't reveal much.

Li Mu feels that he is not "the early bird that gets the worm." Instead, he is afraid that he is "the early bird that gets the worm."

I deeply remember a story: one of the seven birds on the tree was shot down with a slingshot, and in the end there were no birds left.

Li Mu didn't want to be the leading bird, he just wanted to be one of the remaining six. When he saw that the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, he immediately ran for his life without hesitation.

Soon an hour passed, and the wheat harvest was finished. The village chief knew that the county magistrate could not wait for the wheat to dry before threshing, so he asked everyone to thresh directly. Anyway, it has been sunny in recent days, and the wheat is not too wet.

"Your Excellency, the county magistrate, there are five acres of wheat land, producing 2,300 kilograms of grain. It is estimated that the dried wheat is 1,890 kilograms. One acre of wheat yields about three hundred to four hundred kilograms."

Finally, the intense harvesting, threshing, and weighing were completed in one go. The village chief came up with the results based on the estimates of several veteran farmers such as Li Youliang, and came over to report to Magistrate Zhao, who had already had dinner at the village chief's house.

"Okay, very good. You are tired. Go back and have a good rest. Come and watch the reward."

"I thank you, my lord."

When the county magistrate heard the village chief's words, he felt instantly at ease.

He very generously asked his subordinates to reward each young man who participated in harvesting wheat with one hundred copper coins.

More than 20 young adults were very happy.

You must know that a pound of wheat is only worth one copper coin. After half a day's hard work, they are equivalent to getting a hundred pounds of wheat. How can they not be happy?

Then Magistrate Zhao returned to the county seat.

Li Mu, on the other hand, looked at the ten cents in his hand and fell into deep thought.

Li Mu only remembered that Magistrate Zhao and him had a meal of chicken stewed with mushrooms at the village chief's house, which Li Mu had never eaten before in his life. The magistrate saw Li Mu devouring the food and stuffed Li Mu with ten cents.

He told Li Mu to buy candies for people to eat if he went to the town. He also touched Li Mu's head and told him not to tell anyone else.

"What the hell is this? I'm being treated like a gluttonous child."

Li Mu couldn't laugh or cry as he stuffed the copper coins into the brand-new cloth shoes on the soles of his feet.

This pair of cloth shoes was driven out by Li Mu's grandmother Zhang Caiyun overnight, for fear that his eldest grandson would feel inferior in front of the county magistrate.

"Hehe, dad, the county magistrate is really a good official. Not only did he let me harvest wheat for our family, but he also gave me a hundred coins. I didn't expect that I would still have money for harvesting my own wheat, hehe."

As soon as Li Mu returned home, Li Dazhuang slapped a small sling of copper coins on the table in a showy manner, and said to Li Youliang and the others with excitement.

"Huh, copper coins are nothing. I'm still in front of the county magistrate commanding more than 20 free day laborers to harvest wheat for us."

Li Youliang saw his son's excited face and felt very unhappy, so he retorted.

"You are the only one who has a lot of potential. I haven't been able to enjoy the blessings of a landlord for even a few days since I followed you. My eldest grandson must be my eldest grandson. When the time comes, I will be asked to become a wealthy landlord who can put out his hands for food and open his mouth."

"..."

Li Mu looked at his elders and could only pretend not to understand and grin.

"Mom and Dad, it's time to eat. Stop praising Tiedan. If you continue to praise him, you won't know what's going on."

Wang Lanhua walked in and saw the grinning Li Mu, and said jokingly.

"Hahaha, that's right, Lanhua, when you put it that way, it looks quite similar."

When Li Dazhuang heard what his wife said, he looked back at the silly Li Mu and laughed.

"..."

Li Mu couldn't laugh anymore. He felt uncomfortable seeing such a father on the table.

……

Three months later.

"Report~"

"Sir, the Li family is here."

"If you have food, you will be strong. Call out all your family members."

Li Mu, who was having dinner with his family, suddenly heard a high-pitched tenor voice, which seemed to be the voice of the village chief.

Isn’t the village chief already in his sixties? Why are you still so excited?

Li Mu didn't know if the village chief had taken any rejuvenating medicine, so he followed his family to the yard to find out.