No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

When the family arrived, the most surprising person was Li Silang.

As soon as he returned home, he saw his mother-in-law cooking in the yard. Li Silang immediately turned into a wild horse and rushed towards his mother-in-law: "Auntie!!"

My youngest son is so enthusiastic, of course I am happy as a grandma. She hugged her youngest son, whom she hadn't seen for a month. He seemed to have gained a little more weight and grown taller. "Why are you so enthusiastic? I thought you would be too happy to be away from home. I felt that my parents couldn't control you anymore..."

After all, he is still a child.

Of course Li Silang would not admit that he did think so at the beginning.

The sun was setting little by little, and the neighbors were lighting up lamps. Li Aniang had already prepared the meal and was standing in front of the stove checking the mutton soup in the earthen pot. The heat was almost done, but Sanlang hadn't come back yet.

Ji Qingyue knew that Li Sanlang hadn't come back after dinner because he was delayed in his studies: "It seems that Sanlang won't come back until evening again."

They had been waiting for a while, and Li Aniang decided not to wait any longer. Ji Qingyue would return to the painting if she waited any longer.

Li Aniang greeted and set up a table in the room for everyone to have a good meal together.

Aniang Li brought a lot of bacon and sausages from the village. There was no shortage of vegetables here in Ji Qingyue. She went to the market to add some seasonings and spices. In one afternoon, Aniang Li made several large and delicious hard dishes. They all filled a large plate, and a few plates took up the entire table.

Steamed pork with garlic paste, spiced salt-skinned duck, sashimi and rich mutton soup that has been simmered all afternoon, and of course a plate of hot vegetables, served with multi-grain rice. No one can leave the table hungry today!

It turns out that you can only overcook food. Everyone here can eat, and a few people just added several bowls of rice.

Fortunately, I left food for Saburo in advance.

It wasn't until the sky completely darkened and Ji Qingyue returned to the painting that Li Sanlang hurried home under the cover of night.

Li Sanlang was certainly happy to see his mother and sister coming. He smiled and introduced the new college to his mother, while explaining the reason for his late return: "County Magistrate Zhou will go to the south soon to take up a post. The county magistrate is at the college today. There was a farewell party."

Li Sanlang's stomach was empty. After washing his hands, he looked at his mother-in-law eagerly: "At the banquet, we only recited poems and chatted, and we didn't eat much. Mother, where is the dinner you and I left?"

Ji Qingyue ate very full and stood on the bridge listening to their chat. From time to time he would ask: "The county magistrate is leaving, has the new county magistrate arrived?"

"I heard from Mr. Zhou, the county magistrate, that the new county magistrate is on his way to take office. He will arrive in Shandan before the ice freeze at the end of October."

After all, he will have to deal with the new county magistrate in the future. Ji Qingyue usually pays attention to the information on the county bulletin board, but most of the information he hears from Li Sanlang: "Do you know the identity of the new county magistrate?"

Li Sanlang ate the food left for him by his mother-in-law and recalled the news he heard at the farewell banquet: "I heard that he is the second best student in this year's new department. He is from the Hong family in Ganzhou, and he is also a disciple of Master Zuopushe..."

Ji Qingyue didn't understand, but Li Aniang and Li Erlang only heard a little bit of it, and they knew who Li Sanlang was talking about.

Li Erlang explained to Ji Qingyue:

Every place will have one or several families with outstanding power. To become such a family, not only must knowledge be accumulated over many years, but wealth and connections must also be deeply rooted in the local area. Good families will lead the development of local industries and benefit the local industry. Common people, a bad family is a disaster.

However, no matter what family it is, there are key figures who support it. As long as you mention "who am I a descendant?", everyone will suddenly realize that some families are so powerful that there is no need to mention family celebrities, because the family has been outstanding for generations. For famous people, just by mentioning their place of origin and surname, everyone will know that this person comes from a famous family.

The Hong family in Ganzhou is such a family. It is a well-known local family in the northwest and even the entire Dali.

Under Li Erlang's explanation, Ji Qingyue gradually understood the reason why Ganzhou Hong's talents were emerging in large numbers and sought after by people at the same time.

It is nothing more than one’s own excellence and the spirit of serving the people.

The Hong family also owes its fame to the Uighur people.

As long as the Uighurs invaded Dali, the entire Hong family stayed in Ganzhou. After thousands of years, the stars have changed, dynasties have changed, and monarchs have changed. The Hong family has settled steadily in the northwest and has been fighting with the Uighurs for hundreds of years.

Unlike other families that are rich in military generals, the Hong family has a large number of literati. The family's endless heritage and knowledge accumulation, as well as the mutual support among relatives, have created sons and daughters with extraordinary knowledge and courage. Even if they are not the first-class, they are all On the list.

Their struggle with the Uighurs was not a competition of martial arts, but a competition of strategy.

It is common knowledge in the northwest that the Hong family is rich in military advisors. They are not show-offs after simple training, but military talents who have been familiar with military science and passed the imperial examination and returned to the border defense.

"Actually, military advisors are more valuable than generals who lead troops to fight. Generals in Dali are often rotated and cannot be stationed in one place for a long time. However, military advisors wear official positions in order to analyze the military situation on the battlefield and even know the local border defense situation better than generals. When a war breaks out, the general will definitely try his best to protect the military advisors behind him, because according to the consensus between the enemy and us, the enemy will definitely try every means to kill our military advisors." Li Erlang told the key points that Ji Qingyue didn't know, and as he spoke, he longed for the battlefield. , he continued: "Because of this consensus, Dali has always lost more military advisors than generals. We all know that although the Hong family in Ganzhou has never produced a military general, the family's spiritual status is no less than that of the military general family, and there are not a few who died young. .”

War is cruel.

Li Sanlang nodded: "Especially fifty years ago, when Emperor Hui and the Uighurs were fighting for the border, there were battlefields along the entire northwest line. It was the Hong family who gave Emperor Hui good advice and formed a brave army with the defending generals to fight. Huihe will not dare to make any more noise in the next fifty years."

The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly. Don't ask the military advisor why he doesn't stay in the rear area. The purpose of following the general to the front line is to analyze the rapidly changing situation immediately. If he stayed in the rear area, waited for the military information to come in, and then passed on the analysis, the situation would have been solved long ago. It has become a different situation, and many years of experience tell them that military advisors who stay in the rear are more likely to be assassinated by spies.

Ji Qingyue nodded, that's it.

Military advisor is a high-risk profession here, with a short life span and no military power. Even if the military advisor is extremely courageous, the emperor will not be afraid of him.

The more Ji Qing understood, the emperor sent such a reserve military advisor to take over as Shandan County Magistrate, and the meaning of training was self-evident.

Military generals have military power but cannot stay at the frontier for long. Civil servants must make all preparations for war.

It's okay for a person with ordinary status to be the magistrate of Shandan County. Now that such a person with rich military theory but lack of practice and experience has come to take over the starting point of the trade road is a sign.

The layout has begun, let's see how the opponent makes his move.

In the past, when a new county magistrate took office, the people were always worried about the character and talent of the new magistrate. Now it is a descendant of a famous family. Neither Aniang Li nor the two brothers have any objection to the emperor's approach. On the contrary, Very happy.

I'm glad that the Hong family has finally trained a new talent, and I'm glad that the Hong family has finally returned to the northwest!

Still the same, as long as the enemy is Uighur, they would like to beat this group of foreigners so that they will never appear in their sight. It is best that they never hear the word "Uighur".

The people in the northwest were filled with hatred.

Although Ji Qingyue could not feel this hatred directly, he had studied modern history before, so he could understand why Erlang and the others hated the Huihe people so much.

That night, Li Aniang, Jin Niang and Xiao Silang slept in the bedroom, and Li Yu slept in the shop with the two brothers.

As soon as the sky dawned, Ji Qingyue got up early following the movement outside, because he had to pick cotton today.

Following Li Sanlang's scholarly schedule, he had breakfast at half past six, then climbed up the hillside with a sack to pick cotton.

He gave the finished manual cotton remover to Li Erlang and asked him to guide Li Aniang and Li Jinniang to practice using this machine to remove cotton seeds.

The three of them have a clear division of labor: one removes the seeds, and the other two pick out other impurities in the cotton after removing the seeds.

Aniang Li practiced for a while and immediately became proficient. She could quickly take off the cotton seeds by stepping on the pedal of the cotton docker.

In order to bring the cotton back early to make clothes and quilts, Li Aniang was very excited and kept pushing Ji Qingyue and Li Erlang. For lunch, she only had a meal of mutton cakes and used the leftover mutton soup from last night. Paired with pancakes bought in the alley.

After lunch, they were busy removing cotton seeds non-stop.

Poor Ji Qingyue, in order to keep up with Li Aniang's speed, wanted to turn into an octopus, even though he had become a skilled worker in picking cotton, he used the long-lost shadowless hand, even though the hand picking cotton was so fast that afterimages appeared. He could barely keep up with Aunt Li's speed.

In the evening, when the sky darkened until he could no longer see the cotton, Ji Qingyue could stop and rest. By then, he was too tired to talk anymore, and when he heard Li Erlang calling him to eat while lying in bed, he ignored him.

Now he just wants to sleep!

Ji Qingyue's original plan was to pick more than four hundred cotton plants in two days, but now he was forced to finish it in one day.

Li Aniang apologized sheepishly. When she got excited, she forgot that Ji Qingyue was not used to working like them. After a day of crazy cotton picking, she must be extremely tired.

Only then did Ji Qingyue realize the normal speed of doing farm work. Even if he helped the Li family cut corn during the autumn harvest, Aniang Li did not ask him to keep up with their speed.

Now I had a solid experience of doing farm work at a normal speed. My whole body felt like I had been beaten. I fell asleep just after lying on the kang for a while, and Li Erlang didn't hear him calling him to finish eating.

Until night, Ji Qingyue woke up from hunger.

He only had a meal of steamed pancakes at noon. When he woke up, he felt so hungry that his chest pressed against his back. He heard the watchman outside walking through the alley: "Close the doors and windows to prevent theft and theft!!"

Bang——Bang——

It was already the second watch, and Li Erlang and the others should have gone to bed. He might as well cook some porridge to satisfy his hunger, and then sleep until the sun basked his butt!

I'm glad that I've finished my work for tomorrow, and I'll have a good sleep until I get my money back.

"Yue Lang?"

Li Erlang is not awake?

"Aniang changed rooms with us and asked me to wait for you to wake up and bring you food."

Ji Qingyue only felt flattered.

"My grandma really didn't expect that today's work will be too tiring for you, because you have always been very capable in her heart." Li Erlang brought the dinner that had been warming on the stove. Sanlang and Li Yu were both fast asleep, and they whispered Let’s chat.

After Ji Qingyue fell asleep, they had been immersed in picking out impurities until three students who had returned from school joined them, and they were busy until late at night.

Ji Qingyue said that they were all filters. In fact, he had nothing to do with hard work and ability. "Stop laughing at me."

"How dare I laugh at Yue Lang." After a pause, Li Erlang continued: "On the contrary, Yue Lang, please don't laugh at me."

Ji Qingyue said "Huh" to express doubts.

Late at night, when it is always easy to express emotions, Li Erlang scratched his face shyly: "You are smart and have seen many things. If you were not trapped in a painting, how could we have known each other, and how could you have known each other?" Stay here. Just from the village to Shandan, I already feel that you have walked a long way, and I am afraid that I will be left behind by you. "

Ji Qingyue tilted his head in confusion and heard Li Erlang continue to emo: "You come from the sky, and your knowledge is deeper and broader than us. You can even see the sun, moon, stars in the sky and the juggling on the ground. Even if I try to catch up, I'm afraid I can only watch your back for the rest of my life."

Li Erlang has always looked confident. Hearing him look so melancholy made Ji Qingyue feel uncomfortable: "What are you talking about..."

Li Erlang sat in the darkness, facing the picture: "That's the truth. In the beginning, Shiro and I just helped a little, and Yuelang you were able to quickly turn the situation around. When I heard that you were leaving the village, I felt very unhappy. I wish, I’m really afraid that once you leave, you won’t come back.”

"How could it be, you forgot that I haven't repaid the favor yet?"

Li Erlang smiled softly, somewhat mocking himself: "What happened to Hu Suan has long been regarded as repayment, not to mention Yue Lang has saved our family many times. I didn't mean to lose my temper when you were leaving, but I just didn't know how to keep you." You, I don’t know how to face you..." His voice became smaller and smaller, and before Ji Qingyue could respond, it suddenly became louder again: "Now I know, you are in front of me, walking fast, we There is a gap across time and space, and if I still stop moving forward and stay where I am, the gap between you and me will only get wider and wider."

It sounds like they are running, not chasing or catching up.

Ji Qingyue felt a little distressed and a little funny.

"I have always said that I want to enter the military camp. This is not just a dream, it is the only way for ordinary people to rise to the top." Li Erlang knew that Ji Qingyue was going to Chang'an. If he wanted to follow him, in what capacity would he follow? Friend or servant?

He is not satisfied with these identities, but now he still does not have a good enough identity to be worthy of the smart and capable Yue Lang.

Should we give up because someone is too good?

This person is not him.

Even though he knew it was impossible to catch up, he still had to work hard to catch up. Playing a little tantrum like when Yue Lang was about to leave will only bore Yue Lang. Not only will it not let him stop, it will only drive him further and further away until the two of them are separated forever. When we get together to chat, the content will not be understood by each other. When chickens and ducks talk to each other and play the piano, that is when the distance in the heart begins to widen.

He couldn't bear the physical distance, let alone the mental distance.

Being silent is the scariest thing.

Li Erlang has been thinking about it for a long time.

"So I want to be the person who can stand behind Yue Lang. As long as you look back, you can see that I have been chasing you.

"I don't want you to wait for me either."

Ji Qingyue was a little touched in his heart. He knew the meaning of Li Erlang's words, but he still couldn't respond: "You..."

"Yue Lang, I have received a reply from Vice General Cao. I will stay in Ganzhou until the year before this year. My father and mother have also agreed." Li Erlang said lightly, "I will send my mother back tomorrow. Let’s go directly to Ganzhou.”

……

Ji Qingyue didn't know how to react for a long time. It turned out that this was how the person who was proposed to leave felt like this. "Then you...take care of yourself and don't get sick."

Li Erlang nodded: "Okay."