Child Bride’s Peaches and Plums Are All Over the World

Danshan Village is only a small village of about 30 households. They are the only village within a radius of 20 miles that is still here. There used to be two small villages near their village, but everyone has moved out a few years ago.

Because almost all of the land here is mountainous, it is too difficult to fill the stomach by farming.

Many people from their Danshan Village have also left, and there are only about 30 households left. The whole village lives a life that is almost isolated from the outside world.

Except for two men on horseback who came to buy some corn and cabbage with them some time ago, they may not see a stranger for several years.

In the past two days, there was heavy snowfall, not only the road out of their village was blocked, even the official road two kilometers away from them was blocked by snow, but the villagers were not anxious at all, except for the dilapidated houses at home. Braving the snow to repair it, most people are enjoying the winter leisurely.

If the road is closed, the road will be closed, and they will not leave the village. It will be fine when the sun comes out and the snow melts.

So when they saw a group of people shoveling away the thick snow accumulated at the entrance of their village, leaving only a layer of snow on the ground, the villagers' eyes widened.

Who is this who is full and has nothing to do to shovel snow?

The villagers looked at the group of distressed people holding wooden shovels with "crazy" eyes, but the knights on the opposite side couldn't help crying after seeing the villagers.

Under the power of Yuan Shanting and others, they had to shovel snow for them. Because they heard that there was a small village on the 15th mile of the official road that went down south, and then turned into a small road about 2 miles away, in order to get rid of Yuan Shanting and others. Due to the threat of human beings, everyone unanimously decided to dig to the small village.

After the road was dug through, they bought hundreds of catties of grain from the villagers and ate one bowl after another. Let's see how Yuan Shanting and the others threatened them with grain!

The knights rushed forward and took out silver to buy food.

The villagers looked at the silver in their hands with jealousy, but shook their heads, "Our village has no food!"

All the heroes: ...

A honest-looking chivalrous man was pushed out, and he said to the wrinkled old villagers with a smile on his face: "Big brother, we are sincerely buying grain from you, as you can see, it snowed heavily two days ago , We have been trapped in the mountains for several days, and we heard that there is a village here, so we deliberately shoveled the road here, just to buy some food."

The villagers hesitated, but after thinking about it, they cruelly rejected their request.

The knights gritted their teeth and took out some silver, and one even took out a small ingot of gold.

The villagers' eyes were red, but they still didn't dare to agree.

All the knights were so angry that they felt that these villagers were not honest at all, and that's not how they raised their prices by sitting on the ground.

In the end, an old man who was helped out tremblingly on crutches said: "Forgive me, distinguished guests, it's not that we intend to raise the price, it's because we really have no food."

"It's only been winter for less than two months, how long will it take for the autumn harvest? Who will believe that there is no food?" A knight-errant blushed and shouted, "If you don't want to sell, then you don't want to sell. Why bother to lie to us?"

The old man turned his head and said to the people behind him: "Jin Zi, go and take out your pot and the grain bag."

The young man named Jin Zi glanced at the menacing knights on the opposite side, responded softly, and immediately turned back to the house—his house was at the entrance of the village, and the house behind the villagers was his house.

Soon he came out with his mother-in-law, he was carrying the grain bag, and his mother-in-law was carrying the pot.

Under the sign of the old man, the two opened the pot and the grain bag.

There was a dark lump in the pot, and the chivalrous men didn't understand what it was when they saw it. The first thing they thought was that the cooking skills of this house were poor, did they make things mushy?

And in the grain bag is the chaff that has been ground to pieces, most of the knights still recognize this, they frowned slightly.

The simple and honest knight reached into the grain bag and grabbed a handful of bran, only to find that there were some rice grains mixed in the bran, but there were only two or three grains of rice in the bran, which was almost negligible.

But farmers cherish food, not to mention these poor farmers wearing patches and tired patches, even rich farmers will not let Kangli who feeds pigs be mixed with rice grains, so this is their food!

All the knights fell silent, silently looking at the bony, sallow and emaciated villagers opposite.

"After paying the tax, we don't have much food left. If you had said a few days earlier, maybe the big guy could give you a lot of food, but a few days ago, two men on horseback came to the village to buy some corn, and they also told the village. You also paid a high price, and the thirty or so households in our village only collected two bags for them. Now we have mixed the remaining rice into the chaff, not to mention it is difficult to pick it out. You can’t eat bran all year round, it tastes much better if you mix it with 20% rice grains.”

The chivalrous warriors who have always been unrestrained and happy, suddenly felt depressed, as if a stone had been pressed on their hearts.

Zhao Ning, who was determined to be a good official and already had a reputation, was even more sour. He asked Gu Jingyun who was standing in front of him in a low voice, "Sir, are there any officials who are greedy for coolness?"

Gu Jingyun looked at Bai Yitang.

Bai Yitang shook his head and said, "No."

He looked around and said: "This place is full of mountains, and there are hardly a few acres of arable land. Most of them are poor because of too little land, and the late emperor has increased taxes year after year..."

Bai Yitang didn't finish his words, but everyone already understood, and couldn't help but secretly clenched their fists.

Gu Jingyun said: "Go and call the people behind. We will camp here tonight and continue our journey tomorrow morning."

Hearing the rumors, the knights in front of the rivers and lakes hung their heads honestly to move things and set up camp. They had no choice but to buy food, so they had to be controlled by Gu Jingyun and others.

Gu Jingyun waved to Zhao Ning, "Come with me to meet the village chief."

The village chief was the old man on crutches just now. Seeing so many people stationed at the entrance of the village, he couldn't help but clenched his crutches tightly, his eyes filled with worry.

They were short of food, he had been hungry, and he had seen hungry people. If one bad situation happened, their village might be destroyed.

The village chief was worried, when he looked up, he saw a boy leading a young man walking towards him.

The young man bowed to him politely and said, "Hello, old man."

"Son, this is it?"

Gu Jingyun straightened up and said with a smile: "Old man, I brought my students out for study tours, and I like to ask about customs and customs wherever I go, please forgive me if I disturb you."

The old man's eyes swept from Gu Jingyun to Zhao Ning, and he was slightly surprised to see him standing behind the young man with his hands folded respectfully, but he quickly came back to his senses.

With so many people popping up suddenly, he had to inquire about the news, and these two people also needed to know some news from him, so the two sides could just exchange.

The old man immediately turned sideways with a smile and said, "Guests, please come in quickly, please come in quickly."

The old man confiscated Jin Zi's house and led the two of them in. First, he had to sit here, and second, he didn't bother to walk to his house in the center of the village.

The smile on Gu Jingyun's face became more sincere, and he followed the old man into the house.

"I think the young master is a scholar, but those who carry weapons seem to be from the Jianghu, why did the young master walk with them?"

Gu Jingyun said with a smile: "All of us are trapped in the City God's Temple. There are people from all corners of the country, even officials."

The old man was surprised, "There are still officials?"

"Yes, they escorted some things and passed by here, but unfortunately they were also blocked in the Town God's Temple," Gu Jingyun said with a smile: "Fortunately, they have a lot of food, otherwise everyone would have started a quarrel."

"Then why those people still buy food from us, just buy some from the officials."

Gu Jingyun laughed loudly and said: "They don't sell it, but they are willing to take out food for everyone to eat together, but everyone has to listen to them to shovel off the snow so that the carriage can pass. With such restraints, they all want to buy food and go their separate ways.”

The stone hanging in the old man's heart was loosened. With officials around, those Jiang Hu people should not do things like killing people and stealing goods, and they have food!

Few people would do anything utterly devoid of conscience if they were not hungry.

Seeing this, Gu Jingyun twitched his lips and asked, "Old man, we saw a small village along the way, but it only looked like seven or eight families, but it has already disappeared. The Town God's Temple is so big, we thought there would be people around here. There are quite a few villages."

Generally, the temples used for this kind of blessing will not be built far away from human habitation, so it is not normal to have such a long distance from this official road to have a small village.

The old village chief sighed: "There used to be several villages here, but they all dispersed."

The village chief pointed to the lush mountains and jungles outside and said: "Young master also saw that our place is full of mountains, the dense forests in the mountains are dangerous, and there is too little wasteland for reclamation. In the past ten years, the tax has been increasing year by year. Seriously, everyone left because they couldn’t survive anymore, and it’s not their hometown anyway, so we’ll just change places after leaving.”

"Not your hometown?"

The old village head nodded, "Except for the few households in our village, the rest are all refugees arranged by Emperor Qianyuan. At that time, there was a war at the border, and many people in the north went south. Emperor Qianyuan ordered the government to arrange refugees on the spot. There are only a dozen or so households in our village, and more than half of them are hunters. Most of the families are boys, and it is too difficult to marry a wife."

"It was my grandfather who was the head of the village at the time. When the head of the village asked him if he could arrange for refugees, he nodded and said yes, and he chose nine families with more daughters to live in. Those outsiders were also willing to integrate into the village as soon as possible. Let your daughter marry in the village, and you can take care of her if she is close." The village head sighed: "Who knew that the county would be so moved by this, that all the refugees assigned by the county would follow this official road. After the arrangement, those who did not have a village would form a new village from refugees. The surrounding area is full of mountains, so you have to open up wasteland first if you want to cultivate land. It was a good thing during Emperor Qianyuan’s time. The refugees who have settled down are also exempted from taxes and duties for two years, and after that they have to pay very little tax. The highest tax is only 30 yuan, and the lowest can be as low as 50 yuan. Although the land is barren and there is little land, but Everyone can live on, but since Concubine Lan became favored, the court's taxes have become heavier day by day."