Zhao Ying knew that in Xiu Niang's eyes, he was a guy who could neither wash, cook, nor work in the fields, and couldn't even tell the difference between wild vegetables and wild grasses, or which mushrooms were poisonous and which ones were edible.

An ignorant fool from the city.

After hearing the word "elegant and interesting", Xiu Niang, who had ordinary features, snorted coldly with the tip of her nose turned to the sky: "Interesting, what is interesting? Can it fill your stomach? Let's eat!"

After saying that, he turned around and entered the house.

Her steps were not small, and her movements were clean and neat, making her look swift and powerful. It was like there was always an overseer with a whip following behind her, forcing her to never delay anything she did.

This is a habit. Zhao Ying nodded secretly.

The house is not big, there are only two rooms in it, one is larger and the other is smaller. The one with the stove is used as a kitchen and a dining room. Because there are tables and stools, it is also regarded as the main room.

There are wooden boards on the side of the wall away from the stove. At night, the bench in front of the table will be moved over, and the wooden boards will be put up to become beds. Various tools, sundries and harvested grains are piled in the two corners.

The other is a relatively small bedroom with a relatively decent bed, simple cabinets, dim light, and is a relatively private place.

The reason why Zhao Ying stayed here was because the male owner, Xiuniang's father, had some connections with Yipinlou.

During the Beihu invasion in the past, Xiuniang's father was robbed everywhere. The Tianyuan Ranger who was collecting food stabbed his leg and lay in bed for more than a month. Xiuniang's brother was angry and joined the army. On the one hand, he wanted to kill him.

The thieves wanted to avenge their father, and on the one hand they wanted to get an official position and eat royal food for the rest of their lives.

The family members don’t know whether Xiu Niang’s brother achieved the first goal. Anyway, he failed to achieve the second goal - the other party died on the battlefield.

Xiu Niang died in the war, but the compensation she deserved was not delivered. Xiu Niang's lame father went to the city to find the government.

How could he, a farmer, deal with the officials? After being deceived for several days to no avail, he finally had no way to complain, so he was beaten dozens of times in court and almost died on the way home.

A cultivator from Yipinlou, who was a businessman, rescued him halfway and sent him back to the village. After that, he would come to visit from time to time when he traveled to the countryside. The two parties have kept in contact and have a good personal relationship with each other.

This time, Zhao Ying concealed her identity as a relative of the Yipinlou cultivator, and came to the countryside to temporarily avoid the war.

Xiu Niang, who was immersed in eating, moved very quickly, without intending to increase her speed, but when she pulled the food, she was so fast and furious, as if she was in a war. When Zhao Ying first came, the other party had already put down the bowl and chopsticks before she had finished half the bowl of rice.

After chasing for three days, Zhao Ying still couldn't catch up with the opponent's speed. He couldn't understand how the opponent could do it so fast.

Zhao Ying volunteered to deliver food to the fields. Xiu Niang hesitated for a moment, looking at Zhao Ying with a look of distrust that made Zhao Ying feel like she didn't even have hands or feet.

But this is a simple matter after all. After glancing at the clothes that needed to be washed, Xiu Niang finally handed the basket to Zhao Ying:

"Be careful when walking. The road ridges are not as easy to walk as the roads in your city. If you knock over your rice bowl, your parents will be hungry today!"

Out of human dignity, Zhao Ying originally wanted to defend herself, but when she thought of her various unscrupulous behaviors in the past two days, compared with Xiu Niang, who was quick and capable and "all-powerful", she really looked too idiotic, so she had to be self-aware.

I chose to shut up.

The road in the crop field is indeed difficult to walk. It's not that the road is uneven. The key is not to trample on the crops or plowed areas. However, Zhao Ying is a practitioner of the Qi Control realm, so he will definitely not fall down.

Zhao Ying saw that most of the busy farmers were on the field ridges, eating mostly meals sent by their children. Although the rice was simple and light, the soup was light and watery, everyone still ate very enthusiastically.

After finding Xiuniang's parents and handing the basket to the sweaty couple, Zhao Ying wanted to care about each other, but because her understanding of rural life was not deep enough, she didn't know what to care about at this time and occasion.

Should I ask them if they are tired?

"The food at home is not good, I have to worry about you." Xiuniang's father saw Zhao Ying sitting on the ground without any pretense, a smile appeared in his eyes, and he took the initiative to chat before eating.

"It's your uncle who should take care of you. I can't do anything to help you. I'm just eating for free. I'm really ashamed." Zhao Ying said this from the bottom of his heart.

He had money in his pocket, but in a poor country, he had no place to use his money.

Facing these peasants with ragged clothes and dark and rough complexions, Zhao Ying did not have any sense of superiority like those in the city, nor did she ever think of playing the role of a superior savior and giving them a better life.

He has always kept Zhao Ning's teachings in mind. Now that he has come to the countryside, he must fully integrate into it and become an intimate of these lower-class people, truly understand the other party's difficulties and thoughts, and fight side by side with them.

The reason why he is unable to do anything these days is because he is trying to do everything. He wants to become a qualified revolutionary warrior who truly understands the sufferings of people's livelihood, rather than a so-called clear streamer who has never even held a hoe and can only talk eloquently.

But when things came to a head, he realized that not only was he unable to help, but the consequences of showing off his strength would only add to chaos.

For example, lighting a fire in front of the stove and extinguishing the fire, Xiu Niang had to wash the vegetables again if the vegetables were not clean, she hoeed her own feet, caught the big rooster bullying the chickens and trampled on the vegetables in the vegetable garden...

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The only thing he has done well in the past few days is chopping firewood. He has the foundation of a practitioner, and his strikes are quick and accurate. In the blink of an eye, he can chop a piece of wood into dry firewood of the same length and size.

But there wasn’t that much firewood at home for him to chop.

"Young man, don't belittle yourself. You are a scholar in the city and you will do big things in the future. It is normal for us to not be able to do the work in the mud, so there is no need to do it." Xiuniang's father said while eating.

Xiuniang's mother echoed from the side.

Not only did these words not comfort Zhao Ying, but they made his eyes darken.

From the conversation of Xiu Niang's parents, he noticed that the other farmers thought that he, a scholar, was superior to them, and felt that it was natural.

He now somewhat understood why the children of the aristocratic families and the Gong Gong princes in the court thought that they were taking good care of the people when formulating national policies, but in fact they still made the latter's life increasingly difficult.

The division between the upper and lower levels of the dynasty is too serious. The lower levels do not think that the upper levels are equal to them, and the upper levels do not think so. One accepts the rules of reality and chooses to endure silently, while the other feels that he has done enough when the other party does not resist.

Both the upper and lower classes lack a true understanding of each other. The so-called brothers and sisters are just people from two worlds.

Zhao Ying looked at the field, and finally her eyes fell on a simple shed beside the forest in the distance.

There were also people eating there, but they were not dressed like farmers. They were well-dressed and looked very capable. They were sitting on tables and stools, eating quite sumptuous meals, and chatting and laughing from time to time.

Zhao Ying knew that he was the landlord's servant and supervisor.

Xiuniang's parents were both tenant farmers who farmed for the landlord.

There are two big landowners in Baizhou Village, and more than 80% of the land and forests belong to them. Their family name is Tan and their family name is Lin. The people call them Tan Bancun and Lin Bancun.

In the next half day, while Zhao Ying was learning to work in the fields, she also asked Xiu Niang's parents about the situation in Tan Ban Village and Lin Ban Village, to understand their views on the two landlords, and to look for opportunities for a revolutionary war in Baihu Village.

Today's show's parents have a very simple job: weeding and plowing the ground.

Although Zhao Ying was very new to this and did not do anything right at first, it was not the first time he touched a hoe and he would not hoe his toes again.

Under the guidance of Xiu Niang's father, he learned quickly, and with his sharp mind and good physical fitness, he was able to basically master the skills in half a day, which was unanimously praised by Xiu Niang's parents.

They said that Zhao Ying was a scholar and did not need to do these jobs, but when Zhao Ying really started to work hard and did well, they were all happy to see the results.

The result of working was very good, but the result of knowing the details of the two landlords and looking for opportunities for innovation was exactly the opposite.

According to Xiuniang's parents, although Tan Bancun and Lin Bancun are not good people, they are not very bad either.

In the view of this couple, although the Tan and Lin families walked around the village and were not polite to anyone, that was because they were landlords, rich and powerful, and they had a tendency to treat the common people.

Go and have the qualifications to make the people bow their knees.

Other than that, there is no obvious bad record between the two companies.

They have never bullied men and women, nor have they killed anyone. During busy farming periods, the two families would work in the fields themselves and work together with the tenants. When the children of the tenants were well-behaved, they would not hesitate to reward them with some cakes and fruits.

In the past, the children of several tenant farmers were fooling around, dug up the fish pond of Tan Bancun's house, and let loose many of the fat fish they had carefully raised. The loss was said to be as high as more than ten taels of silver.

As a result, Tan Bancun just scolded the heads of those families, whipped them several times, and asked them to work more every day, but did not ask them to compensate them in full, forcing them to despair.

In short, the landlords, tenants, and villagers get along quite harmoniously, and there is no deep hatred between them. The common people do not have much favorable impressions of the landlords' family, but they are not very hostile either.

"The land of the uncle's family was bought by Tan Bancun's family, right? I heard that the price offered was not high." Zhao Ying asked about the pain points of Xiuniang's family.

Before the National War, Xiu Niang's family was a self-cultivated farmer, otherwise Xiu Niang's brother would not have joined the army. After the enemy died on the battlefield, Xiu Niang's father was beaten in the county government office and almost died. The injury was so serious that he lay in bed for a long time.

In order to help Brother Xiu Niang protect the family and the country, the family would stand out and make life easier for him in the military, and let him take away most of their savings.

Without Xiu Niang's brother's young and strong labor force, the family's work was already too busy. When Xiu Niang's father fell, mother and son had to sell land in exchange for money for soup and medicine.

A national war, corruption and perversion of the law by the government, and plundering by large landlords caused this family to suffer a great disaster.

"The price is not high, but there is nothing we can do about it. How can we care so much at that time? Tan Bancun is not a philanthropic person. He was just doing business when selling the land. It is rare that we did not take the opportunity to destroy our family."

When Xiuniang's mother mentioned the sad past, she looked sad and felt sad, "I heard that there was a big landowner named Zhao in Lin County. He would buy the fields of anyone he liked and kidnap the girls he liked.

If you dare not give it, you will collude with thieves and kill people in the middle of the night, and then take the opportunity to seize the field and the girl.

"Compared with the Zhao family, Tan Bancun is better!"

Zhao Ying was startled. He thought about it carefully, but he didn't expect that in the Linxian information Yipinlou gave him before, there was such a big landowner named Zhao: "Who did Auntie hear about this?"
Chapter completed!