In the harvest season of autumn, the barren fields around Wubao finally bear grain again, and the golden crops blow by a gust of wind, like a surging wave, which makes people's hearts feel hot.

That is the food that keeps people alive.

"Lord, it seems that the harvest this year is good." Wu Ke walked slowly behind Xiao Jiu.

How is the food growing in the fields? It's just a matter of raising your eyes when you go out, but Xiao Jiu insists on coming to see it in person.

He had no choice but to follow.

"good?"

Xiao Jiu asked back, looking at the seedlings with a few grains hanging sparsely in the palm of his hand, he really couldn't feel the definition of "good" in Wu Ke's mouth.

Sensing the little lord's doubts and disbelief, Wu Ke added, "This field has been abandoned for many years. It is not easy to be able to produce this kind of food in the first year after it is reclaimed. I think it is the result of the land's cultivation over the years."

Xiao Jiu was silent. It was not easy for people to farm in ancient times.

Then he suddenly asked, "Have you applied fertilizer?"

"Huh?" Wu Ke was confused and didn't understand what Xiao Jiu meant.

"May I ask, my lord, what do you mean?"

"If the soil is not fertile enough, you can pour some human and animal manure into it to increase soil fertility."

Look at how skinny these rice seedlings are, not as strong as weeds.

Wu Ke was startled, "Where did your lord hear this statement?! It's simply ridiculous!"

Seeing that the fields were clean and sparse, Xiao Jiu also guessed that they might not have done this. Now that he got the definite answer, he was surprised, "How do farmers grow food?"

Wu Ke's answer was to plant the seeds, water them, weed them, and then harvest them when they mature.

Those who tend to the fields more diligently will irrigate more, catch more insects, and keep the water in the fields sufficient, so that the harvest will naturally increase.

Xiao Jiu: "..."

"Next year, try the method I told you."

After being confused again and again, he finally said, seeing the shit-eating expression on Wu Ke's face, he was secretly helpless.

I thought to myself, it seems I can’t miss the spring planting next year.

After holding it back, Wu Ke reluctantly responded, "...Yes."

Whoever makes a person the master is a servant.

"By the way, my lord, the tenant farmers who were driven out of the farm a few days ago came to complain again. How do you plan to deal with this matter?"

Wu Ke originally just tried to mention it to divert Xiao Jiu's attention, lest he come up with any shocking ideas.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Jiu looked uninformed, "What kind of tenant farmer?"

"You don't know?" Wu Ke was startled, confused and weird, and said, "My lord, those families did something wrong a few days ago. Ah Sheng said you would punish them severely, so I expelled them all from the farm."

"What? You don't remember?"

For a moment, Xiao Jiu was sure that he had no memory of this matter.

The only possibility is...

*

At night, waiting for rest.

Ah Sheng made the bed for Xiao Jiu, turned around and called softly, "Master, it's getting late, it's time to rest."

Xiao Jiu sat on the chair with her eyes closed, as if asleep, motionless and silent.

Suddenly, he whispered, "Ah Sheng."

A sentence without any meaning.

After Ah Sheng heard this, he looked at the desk and met Xiao Jiu's newly opened eyes. Those deep eyes were looking at him quietly.

In the dim room, the two people looked at each other.

Seeing Xiao Jiu looking at him without speaking for a long time, Ah Sheng lowered his eyelids and wondered, "Master?"

"Just now, I have been thinking about a mistake I made."

Xiao Jiu's voice gradually dropped, "An... extremely terrible mistake."

horrible?

Hearing this description, Ah Sheng's train of thought paused for a moment, and he thought for a while before asking Xiao Jiu what kind of mistake it was.

Because Xiao Jiu didn't take the initiative to say it, he had better not pry into his master's thoughts.

"Ah Sheng, I went to Wubao today and heard something."

Xiao Jiu: "A few days ago, the tenant farmers who were kicked out of the village came back to make trouble. They said that they were wronged and that someone framed them and made them go wrong."

Hearing this, Ah Sheng's drooped head suddenly lifted up, and he looked at Xiao Jiu opposite with slightly widened eyes.

Xiao Jiu's voice and tone had not changed from the beginning to the end, but when it fell into Ah Sheng's ears again, it was like thunder, shaking his mind.

He asked, "Ah Sheng, do you think I should believe them or simply kill them?"

"They are your former friends."

With a "pop" sound, Ah Sheng knelt down and kowtowed three times, trembling all over his body.

I don’t know whether it was because of the fear of being exposed or because of something else, but his voice trembled, "Yes... it was Ah Sheng who was wrong! Ah Sheng should not have concealed his master! Please punish him!"

"well……"

A faint sigh came from the room.

Xiao Jiu looked at Ah Sheng who was kneeling in front of him with an incomprehensible expression, "I will give you a surname. Your name is Xia Sheng now. You and the previous Ah Sheng are two people. Why are you still holding on to the grudges of the past?

"

He inquired and found out about Ah Sheng's severance of relations with his friends.

Now, those children and their family have all been kicked out of the farm, and their lives are miserable. Is this really an accident?

Or did Ah Sheng do something in the process?

After a moment of silence, Ah Sheng bit his lip, holding back the fear in his heart, and slowly raised his head.

"Master, do you know why the villain's finger was broken?"

"I...I broke it by force!"

Looking down at his mutilated left hand, Ah Sheng spoke with difficulty and smiled bitterly. The pain at the broken finger was still fresh in his memory, and the scene of that day was also vivid in his mind.

The pain that day went deep into my bones!

He will never forget it in this life!

"I was born to survive, but there was no place for me anywhere. I lived like a wild dog. During the few years I stayed with them, I experienced the joy of living."

"But they also taught me that humans are humans after all..."

His voice gradually became lower, and suddenly he shouted in a deep voice, "That's how it is after all!"

Same hypocrisy!

Just as fickle!

The same ugly face!

The endless hatred in his heart made him almost bite his silver teeth, his expression was gloomy and fierce, and his eyes were full of malice and extreme hatred.

"I gave them my fingers as compensation, severing the friendship in the past. But they..."

He sneered and slowly clenched his fists. The smile on his face was twisted and a bit weird, "But they later wanted to get back together with me?"

"Hahahaha...hahahaha." Ah Sheng laughed wildly, his eyes full of madness, and he stopped loudly.

"How can there be such a good thing in the world!"

Recalling the scene at that time, he wanted to vomit.

Seeing that he was following Xiao Jiu, he felt that he was so successful, so he approached him privately and recognized him as his elder brother, and shamelessly wanted to get to know Xiao Jiu through him?

It seemed like nothing had happened before, and those vicious words were not from them.

But a broken finger will never grow back, it will always remind me of what happened that day.

If they had nothing to do with each other from now on, Ah Sheng would not seek trouble from them anymore. The bad thing is the greed of human nature...

What did they take his pain for?

Is this a joke?!

"Those who love want to live, those who hate want to die..."

Xiao Jiu stared at Ah Sheng for a long time and sighed quietly, understanding the madness in his eyes.

He has never been a good person, his love is very deep, but his hatred is equally terrible, but he still doesn't understand that love and hate are one, and insists on treating them separately.

If you hurt others, you also hurt yourself.
To be continued...