I am a ruler in troubled times

From this day on, whenever Song Peiyu felt bored staying in the house, she would go out for a walk.

Over time, you can always meet people who are willing to communicate with him.

With a handful of hazelnuts, Song Peiyu learned about the origin of Lihua Village from Li Goudan's eight-year-old son and his little friends.

Probably before the fall of the previous dynasty, there was an iron mine far to the north of Lihua Village. In the iron mine, not only criminals and their families were beaten and abused day and night, but also those who were deceived by the government. refugees.

Later, the iron mines were looted by bandits from the west. Some refugees did not want to become bandits and no longer believed in the government. Taking advantage of the inseparable fight between the government and the bandits, they fled all the way to the border of today's Lihua Village.

Although the Lihua Village was remote at that time, there was a natural pear tree. The pears on the tree were big and sweet, so that the refugees who fled to Lihua Village, who were at the end of their battles, settled here completely. The so-called Lihua Village was also created by Here comes.

"My grandfather was at the foot of the green hill, so he could catch rabbits!" When Li Shuanzhuo mentioned rabbits, not only his tone became more serious unconsciously, but his eyes were full of yearning and curiosity.

Song Peiyu touched the wooden bead bracelet on his left wrist, and felt that Li Shuanzhu's expression and tone were familiar and kind.

Song Jingjue, however, already regarded Li Shuanzhuo as an ignorant liar, and said with a sneer, "Where is the pear tree you mentioned? How come I haven't even seen a single leaf."

Li Shuan stiffened his neck in disbelief, he didn't even bother to pick up firewood, and said loudly, "The pear tree only blooms but doesn't bear fruit, so I cut it for firewood, and the roots in the ground can be used as firewood when dug out and dried, and the land is too There is no need to open up wasteland, just sow seeds and it will be a field.”

Even if Song Jingjue was a young master who didn't touch the sun and didn't know what farming was, he was shocked by Li Shuanzhuo's straightforward attitude.

The pear tree is not well taken care of, and it is normal that it cannot produce fruit every year. What's more, according to Li Shuanzhuo's words, the pear forest has just had a bumper harvest, which saved the lives of the whole village.

He actually said that if he cut it for firewood, he chopped it down for firewood... a waste of everything.

Song Peiyu coughed lightly, put a bunch of dead branches that he picked up casually into Li Shuan's back basket, and asked casually, "Do you know who bought the land from when my uncle came to Lihua Village?"

When Li Shuanzhu heard the words, his simple and honest smile disappeared instantly. He picked up the full back basket and was about to run, but the long-legged and long-armed Song Jingjue quickly grabbed the other side of the back basket, allowing Li Shuanzhu to do his best. Even with all his strength, he couldn't take half a step.

"Let go of me! If you don't let go, I'm going to call someone!" Li Shuan held on to the firewood he had finally picked up, and turned around and kicked Song Jingjue's waist.

Song Jingjue snorted coldly, and within a short time, Li Shuanzhuo himself took the place of his precious carrying basket and was carried in Song Jingjue's hand exhaustedly.

"What are you calling people for? Tell them how you eat alone?" Song Jingjue said as he tapped the hazelnut shells piled up on the ground with his toes.

Song Peiyu watched the whole process of Song Jingjuan taming the bear child by force, his eyes were full of envy, why didn't he have Song Jingjue's natural power.

"My family went to the town to exchange that horse for a green ox. If you answer my question honestly, the green ox will be lent to your family when my land is plowed." Song Peiyu found a clean stone to sit on. Next, aboveboard temptation.

"Are you serious?" Li Shuanzhu clenched his fists. He has never seen what a cow looks like in his life, but he can always hear the adults in the village say that it would be great if there was a yellow cow in the village.

Li Shuanzhuo doesn't understand the difference between green cattle and yellow cattle. He only knows that if there are cattle for spring plowing, the family can plant more land, and there will be more food in autumn, so that they will not go hungry in winter.

The leftover food can not only be exchanged for new clothes, but also turned into copper coins. In the future, like his father, he will be able to marry women from other villages and have healthy children.

"When have I lied to you?" Song Peiyu looked at Li Shuanzhuo sincerely.

Li Shuanzhu didn't hesitate for long, and told Song Peiyu all the past events he had heard from the adults.

In addition to the first refugees who escaped from the iron mine, Lihua Village actually had a second batch of refugees.

Li Shuanzhu's grandfather was a refugee who escaped from the iron mine. Almost all of these refugees were strong and strong men.

Li Shuanzhu's grandma was the second batch of refugees, because she promised to marry Li Shuanzhu's grandfather, her only younger brother was able to stay in Lihua Village.

Song Peiyu and Song Jingjue exchanged glances, tacitly did not ask where the second batch of refugees who were not left behind went.

When the whole of Youzhou has changed, Lihua Village is no different from the surrounding villages except that it is extremely poor.

They have their own house and arable land, as well as their own home.

The government did not take pity on the difficulty for the villagers of Lihua Village to settle down in the troubled times, because the villagers of Lihua Village could not get the land deeds, and all the wasteland they had worked so hard to reclaim was taken away by the government.

The large tracts of land would rather be barren than allow the villagers of Lihua Village to cultivate it.

If the villagers want to plant those lands, they can only buy them from the government at the price of good land.

"My grandma said that the money they saved for more than 20 years was only enough to buy one mu of fertile land. In the end, they had no choice but to buy all the wasteland, which was not as good as the land that my family had already served. Because of these black-skinned devils , the whole village suffered from hunger for three years."

There were also lucky villagers who secretly cultivated the land that had been confiscated. When the government found out, they broke the legs of the original owners of the land, and burned all the young seedlings that had just sprouted in front of all the villagers.

Anyone who dared to cry aloud received a few whips.

"Master Song came to Lihua Village at that time. He bought all the fertile land in Lihua Village, which was stolen from us by those black-skinned devils who killed thousands of knives." Li Shuanzhuo gritted his teeth fiercely. When the village went through these things, he was still young, and he didn't actually have any memories. When he mentioned this past, his nose and eye sockets were sore, and he couldn't help wiping his eyes.

"But my grandpa and my grandma said that Mr. Song is a good person. If the person who bought the land in the village was not Mr. Song, the people in the village would not only be starving in those few years." Having said that, Li Shuanzhu stared at his feet. The scattered soil was stunned for a while, and suddenly kicked violently, and the dust raised up covered the sky and rushed towards the unsuspecting Song Jingjue.

"Li! Shuan! Son!" Song Jingjue covered his eyes in pain, and was furious immediately. He reached out to grab someone, but he miscalculated Li Shuanzhu's height. Li Shuanzhu was thinner than Song Peiyu four years ago, and directly Song Jingjue passed between his legs, and rushed towards Song Peiyu who was sitting not far away like an arrow.

The accident happened in a few breaths, Song Peiyu's hand paused on the cuff, and at the moment when he and Li Shuanzhu looked at each other, he changed into an open posture with both hands.

Li Shuan braked in time in front of Song Peiyu and did not hit Song Peiyu at all. He grabbed the arm that was close at hand, and whispered in Song Peiyu's ear, "You are a good person, I just tell you. I eavesdropped on my grandfather and me. Grandma said, Mr. Song said a few years ago that he would let my father and a few uncles take care of his funeral affairs, and after he left, the leftovers would be divided equally between my father and a few uncles."

"I've told you everything I know, don't forget to promise my cow!" Before he finished speaking, Li Shuanzhuo turned around and grabbed his baby basket and ran away like a gust of wind.

If he didn't remember Li Shuanzi's black and red ears and the two mud marks left on his sleeves, Song Peiyu would have suspected that he was hallucinating, but in fact Li Shuanzi ran away after kicking the dirt.

When Song Jingjue heard that Li Shuanzhu stopped crying and fighting, he immediately calmed down and took off the water bag on his waist to wash his eyes.

"Zhu Zi'an dare!" Song Jingjue opened his red eyes, and he raised his legs to follow the footprints on the ground to find Li Shuanzhu to settle accounts. Even Song Peiyu couldn't stop him.

Fortunately, the last sentence left by Li Shuanzhuo was informative enough to temporarily attract Song Jingjue's attention.

The village head has only one child, Li Goudan, and the range of uncles Li Shuanzhu mentioned is too large.

Now the attitude of the village chief's family towards the Song family is pretty good, so it's not certain what other people think.

In the eyes of the Song family, the hundreds of acres of land is troublesome, but to the villagers of Lihua Village, it is a huge property that two generations of them have spent most of their lives on and then taken away.

After getting the most wanted news, Song Peiyu started to live without leaving home again, waiting for Yinbao to come back from town with peace of mind.

After eating the only three eggs left at home, Yinbao did not return to the village on time.

Two days later, the five-day ration that Yinbao bought at a high price from the villagers before he left was gone.

Song Peiyu paid a special visit to the village head, and exchanged half a month's rations from the village head's house with the price of the last food exchange before Yinbao left.

I don't know if Li Shuanzhuo told about Qingniu when he returned home.

The village chief told Song Peiyu that his family had no more food to exchange for the Song family.

He also tactfully reminded Song Peiyu to be mentally prepared, Yinbao might not be able to come back because of an accident, or she didn't want to come back.

On the tenth day, Song Jingjue couldn't sit still.

He was not afraid that Yinbao would not come back, but he was afraid that when Yinbao came back, the spring plowing would be over.

The Song family doesn't rely on the things in the field for food, and it's okay to miss the best time for spring plowing.

But according to Song Peiyu's plan, it is clear that he is waiting to exchange this green ox for the Li family's father and son to plow spring for them. If Qingniu has missed the day of spring plowing when he comes back, or Yinbao didn't bring the ox back at all, what will happen to those lands? manage?

Song Jingjue intuitively felt that those lands must not be left empty, otherwise there would be unnecessary troubles.

Song Peiyu heard Song Jingjue's worries, and looked at him in surprise, "I didn't expect you to worry about these things."

Song Jingjue's eyelids twitched, he understood this sentence, Song Peiyu was definitely mocking him.

However, Song Peiyu refused to explain. No matter how much Song Jingjue asked, Song Peiyu only said, "I didn't intend to only lend the cattle to the Li family, and when did I say that I would lend them cattle for free?"

Song Jingjue was so dizzy, he simply asked him the only point he could grasp, "What if there is no cow?"

Song Peiyu looked at Song Jingjue with disappointed eyes for the first time, "Aside from the harvest in the field, is there no other place that can move the face of Lihua Village?"