Early spring in the world [farming]

The fields in the countryside near the mature late rice are golden and splendid, and there are only a few busy figures in the fields.The common people stole half a day of leisure before the busy farming season, sitting and chatting under the shade of trees beside the fields.

Chen Ahu passed by a farmer and stopped him: "Why are you going, Ahu? Come, come and chat for a while."

Chen Ahu leaned over: "Why don't you all have to work?"

"It's okay to take a day off after working so hard for half a year."

Chen Ahu also sat down when he heard the words, but he only planned to rest for a while and didn't plan to waste the whole day on it.

As soon as he sat down, the farmer who stopped him asked again: "I recently passed by the rice fields of Su's family and found that the rice grains are full and heavy, and the rice is better than the early rice. How did you grow it?"

Chen Ahu was a little puzzled: "That's how it was planted, how else could it be planted?"

"It's boring for you, you're all helping people, tell us what's wrong?" Another farmer laughed.

Chen Ahu explained his usual method of farming, but everyone didn't believe that he had a flash of inspiration, and said, "Could it be because of the fertilizer?"

Everyone came and asked with interest: "What kind of fertilizer?"

"The fertilizer used in our field is the manure piled up by Su Daochang. Maybe it is because of the fertilizer that the rice grows so well, and the same is true of the cotton back then..."

Some people have vaguely heard that Gu in northern Jiangsu built a latrine for composting, but many people have composted, and they have never heard of any family that can produce such good crops.

"It is said that the mushrooms sold in the village were also grown by Mr. Su."

"Speaking of this mushroom, I have eaten it. The woman in my family bought it for a few cents more expensive than ordinary mushrooms. She said that it has that effect. I didn't believe it at the time, but the taste of this mushroom is really delicious. After eating I felt hot in my lower abdomen. Later, I asked my mother-in-law to buy them again, but they were all sold out, and the price has also increased a lot.”

"Hey, Ah Hu, did you eat it when you were working in the Su family?"

Chen Ahu didn't understand why their topic changed so quickly, he shook his head: "The Su family seldom calls us to work, and only asks us to take care of the field, so I haven't been in Su's house for a long time."

The tenants obviously only rented the land of the master’s family to farm, which is a lease relationship. However, many master families will use various means as threats to force the tenants to do things other than farming. Just like the servants of the master’s family, they often have to do chores.

In July and August, before the cotton gin was ready, Lu Xuehuan called Chen Ahu's wife and daughter to clean the cotton. They were all without wages. Although the tenants felt bitter, no one dared to question and object, because of the morals of the world. That's it, everyone is used to it.

But later, with the cotton gin, one or two people can finish the cleaning of cotton. Su Beigu decided to pay the wages again, and said to Chen Ahu's wife and daughter: "Originally there are many fields, and farming is also busy. At this time, I call you Coming to do chores is really delaying farm work, you can just focus on the things in the field from now on, and you don't need to do the rest of the chores in the Su family's inner house."

Chen's wife felt that Su Bei Gu, the little master, was much more kind than the rest of the Su family, and she was sincerely happy.Also because the tenants of the Su family no longer need to help the master with chores, everyone has more time and manpower to take care of the farmland, and the crops will naturally grow better.

When everyone heard it, they immediately felt very envious and jealous. They were all tenant farmers. Why did the Chen Ahu family meet such a conscientious head household, but their head household tried every means to deduct and reduce their share?

"Does the Su family have any land to rent?" Some people want to refund the current land rent and ask the Su family to rent land.

Chen Ahu said: "It seems not, but Mrs. Qin has [-] mu of land under her name. I heard that the original tenant has saved enough money to buy the land. When this year is over, the [-] mu of land will have to be leased again."

From the perspective of the tenants, Tan Ruyi has already married into the Su family, so her [-] acres of land belong to the Su family, and the tenants must be treated like Chen Ahu.

They didn't know that Chen Ahu's family had saved enough money to buy a few acres of land, but a few acres of land couldn't support a large family. In comparison, being attached to the Su family could make the life of the Chen family better. After discussing with his family, he decided to continue renting the land of the Su family and quietly accumulate wealth.

Seeing that everyone is a tenant, Chen Ahu sympathized with them being oppressed by the master's family, and said: "Actually, you can go to your master's family and ask them to buy some farm fertilizer from Daoist Su. If the harvest is good, you can share There will be more food.”

The tenants were indeed a little moved, but one tenant couldn't help pouring cold water on it, saying: "A good harvest has little to do with us, because if an acre of rice yields two stones of rice, we can only get one stone. Assuming the harvest is better, If an acre of land can produce three stones of rice, then we can only get one stone in the end, why? Because the owner will definitely say that it is because the cattle, farm tools and fertilizers are all produced by the owner, so the owner should take the majority."

What he said made Chen Ahu fall silent.

It is true that under ideal conditions, the increase in harvest can increase the share of tenant farmers, but there are often a small number of reasonable and conscientious head households.

"It doesn't affect us too much!" Someone became excited, "We have a quota, and we only need to pay a fixed rent every year, and we don't need to borrow cattle or farm tools from the host. When the time comes, we will find Su The Taoist priest buys fertilizer..."

This is too hateful.However, more than half of the tenants in the village are fixed-rate renters. Although they are also easy to be exploited, they are not as attached to the main household as the tenants of the rent-sharing system. After working for a year or two, if they are not satisfied with the main household, they will be replaced. home...

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Su Beigu didn't know that Chen Ahu indirectly helped her sell the fertilizer. After she arranged a formation that could cultivate more bacteria, she asked Lu Xuehuan to hire someone who could grow mushrooms to take care of the three-acre mushroom field,— —Although Lu Xuehuan said that Tan Ruyi and Mu Xiuxiu could help, Su Bei Gu saw that Tan Ruyi was busy with a lot of things and had to study how to simplify the cultivation method, so he decided to spend money to hire someone to do the work.

She persuaded Lu Xuehuan: "Mother, the 'cutting expenditure' of 'opening up sources of income and reducing expenditure' does not mean that people are stingy. The money that should be spent should still be spent. Otherwise, what's the point of guarding the money and suffering a lot of crimes?"

When Lu Xuehuan heard her say "stingy", she thought of Su Sanxian. She didn't want to be a miser like Su Sanxian!

"Okay, mother listens to you."

Su Bei Gu smiled and said: "It's not that I listened to me, but that my mother figured it out."

The mother and daughter were talking when they saw Mu Xiuxiu rushing over and said, "Miss Tan, people from the Qin family came to find Mrs. Qin and said that there was something urgent, but after hearing that Mrs. Tan went to the field, the Qin family came I ran away, I was worried about what happened, so I will tell you first."

"Ah?!" Lu Xuehuan was a little confused and flustered, what could happen to the Tan family?And if he only looks for Tan Ruyi, but not the Su family, then something must have happened inside the Tan family.

Su Bei Gu said: "Mother, Sister Ah Tan is not here, I'll go to Tan's house to see what happened first."

Lu Xuehuan warned: "Hey, you, you have to pay attention to safety, no matter what happens, you have to take care of yourself first, don't be arrogant!"

Su Beigu smiled slightly and went to Tan's house calmly.

For this matter, many people gathered in front of the Qin family's gate, three floors inside and three floors outside, completely surrounding the huge doorway.

Su Beigu frowned, and raised his hand to push the two of them away. Just as the two were about to curse, seeing Su Beigu, who was dressed as a Taoist priest, immediately swallowed back all the words: "Daozhang Su, you are here!"

Hearing that Su Beigu was coming, more people consciously gave way to her, so she was able to squeeze through the crowd and stand at the door of Tan's house.

Su Beigu didn't go in right away, but asked the surrounding villagers: "What happened to the Tan family?"

"Daozhang Su doesn't know something. It is said that the Tan family stole Su Lizheng's money, and now he is leading a large group of people to the Tan family to recover the stolen goods!"

"The Tan family stole Su Lizheng's money?" Su Beigu knew it was unreliable as soon as she heard it, so she didn't stay any longer, pushed the door and walked in.

There were many people standing in the huge courtyard of the Qin family at the moment, and many of them were familiar faces, almost all of them were members of the Su family, but they were not close to the Su family, but closer to Su Sanxian.

At the door of Qin's workshop, Mrs. Zhong was sitting on the threshold holding a hatchet, as if she would chop anyone who dared to get close to her, but the people in front of her were scared by her and did not dare to move rashly.

In front of the main house, Tan Guan and Su Sanxian were confronting each other: "Su Sanxian, you have ulterior motives. There is no evidence to prove that I stole your money, yet you gather so many people to make trouble and want to destroy my workshop. You, You simply don't make sense!"

Su Sanxian was very angry, pointing at Tan Guan's expression of wanting to eat his flesh raw: "You stole my money, only you know that I put the money in the coffin, now the coffin has been pried open, it's not you who stole it Who else could it be?!"

The villagers commented: "I said, why is this Su Lizheng so stingy and stingy on weekdays? He has accumulated a lot of wealth, and the family has no property. It turned out that he hid the money in the coffin."

Now everyone knows that his money was hidden in the coffin, but it has been stolen. Even if someone wants to steal money now, there is no money to steal.

However, Su Sanxian's reaction did not seem to be fake, after all, his veins were bulging and his face was flushed with anger. If he was acting, how could he be so realistic?

Tan Guan said: "Who said I knew you put the money in the coffin? I only opened the coffin for you. Do you want to use the coffin to hold the dead or money, do you need me to take care of it?"

At this time, Tan Ruyi pushed through the crowd and ran back home. She was out of breath, and before she even had time to wipe off the sweat on her forehead, she stopped between Tan Guan and Su Sanxian and asked, "Father, what happened?" gone?"

Tan Guan took a deep breath and said, "Today Su Sanxian came to the door out of nowhere and blamed me for stealing his money."

"What do you mean by forcing you? You mean we framed you?" A man stood up.

"Of course it's a false accusation!"

The man sneered: "But we have witnesses, proving that you have frequently appeared near our cemetery recently, and you also wandered there after dark last night. Others are afraid to approach the tomb after dark, but you are fine, you are there every day Wandering around, if there is no conspiracy, what else can it be for?"

"You're bloody, I was just passing by! I went to the neighboring village to find a blacksmith to make parts for the cotton gin, and I came back late, so I had to take a shortcut, so I just passed by!"

As for why he went to the neighboring village to find blacksmiths, it was naturally to let the blacksmiths make parts separately, lest someone learn how to make a cotton gin and steal it.

Originally, he didn't intend to say it, but he was forced to say that this matter came from the point of proving his innocence.

Su Sanxian yelled: "If you search your house, you will know if there is a lot of money hidden!"

"Why are you so unreasonable? If there is money in my house, it must be yours? Then if I go to your house to find the money, can I also say that this is the money my family lost?" Tan Ruyi suppressed her anger.

Su Sanxian said: "Hmph, then report to the official!"

Su Beigu raised his eyebrows: Su Sanxian is not afraid of reporting to the officials, or he really lost money, so he has nothing to fear.Either he has sufficient evidence to prove that Tan Guan stole his money.

But when he heard that he was going to report to the police, Tan Guan frowned, as if hesitant.

Su Sanxian seized his handle and said, "Aren't you afraid of reporting to the police? You're guilty, and you still say you didn't steal my money?!"

Tan Guan said: "I'm not afraid to report to the police, but the trial of this case can take a few days quickly, and it can be a month slow, which will delay working hours..."

The Qin family cooperates with Dalang Chong's owner and needs to pay enough cotton gins within this month. If he is delayed by this matter, he will be overdue.

Maybe the owner wouldn't blame him for being late, but Zhixian had just learned about the cotton gin from him and became interested in it. If he learned that he was involved in a theft case, his impression of him would definitely be greatly reduced.

"What does this have to do with me, I just want to find out the truth!" Su Sanxian said.

Suddenly there was applause from the crowd. Everyone was attracted by the sudden sound and cast their gazes. It was only at this moment that Tan Ruyi realized that Su Beigu had come over, but why did she applaud?

Su Beigu came over, smiled slightly, and said, "This is right, it's better to find out the truth."

"Su Daoist." Tan Guan frowned, not understanding why she wanted to help Su Sanxian, was it just because they were relatives?

"My niece is here? You think I'm right, don't you?" With the Su family on his side, Su Sanxian became more confident.

Su Bei Gudao: "As a monk, I have no intention of intervening in this secular dispute, but seeing that you are arguing here and you can't reach a conclusion, so I am here to help you settle the case."

"Can you solve the case?" The man before was full of doubts.

Su Bei Gu recognized him as Su Sanxian's eldest son, named Su Zhengkai.There were also several sons of Su Sanxian present, but the sense of presence was not as strong as that of Su Zhengkai.

Su Bei Gudao: "You can try it. But I want to remind everyone that when the facts of the case come to light, will they be responsible for what they said now?"

"I can!" Tan Guan said firmly, "If I didn't steal it, I didn't steal it. If I lie, I will be struck by lightning!"

"I'm sure you stole it!" Su Sanxian was also very confident.

"Okay, if he stole it, then he will be punished by the government for the crime of theft. If he didn't steal it, then you will be falsely accused, third uncle, and false accusations will be reversed."

"This..." Su Sanxian hesitated.

Su Zhengkai cheered up his father: "Father, he must have stolen it. Who else but him? Don't be frightened."

Su Sanxian nodded, and then looked at Su Beigu closely: "Tell me, how do you want to solve the case?"

The author has something to say:

Daoist Su is going to make a big move.

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