Space Lingquan: The Boss of the Last Days Dressed as a Peasant Girl

Chapter 22 Re-understanding the Xia Dynasty

The family had one hundred pence, and her son was going to do corvee work. She was worried that he would be hungry on the way, so she took all the money away with her son.

Now my family doesn’t have a single copper, so how can I find the money to hire part-time workers?

Seeing her embarrassment, Nan Yan took out a couple of silver coins from her arms and said: "I will help you pay for the part-time workers first, and then I will deduct the money when you have enough money to collect the rent."

In fact, she didn't need to say this at all. There were not only Zhou Xiaozi's family but four other tenants.

If she provides money to help Zhou Xiao's family and the other four families don't contribute, there will definitely be conflicts.

Now it is best for her to pay in advance and then deduct the money when the flowers are received.

It's up to her whether to deduct it or not at that time.

Lanhua didn't want to hire part-time workers, but thought that if they didn't clear the land quickly, Nan Yan would definitely take back the land.

After thinking for a while, Yin Qian murmured: "Don't worry, Miss Nan, I will hire someone tonight to cultivate another piece of land in the next two days."

"Well, you can make arrangements for the invitation. Now you guys are busy first. Fangfang and I will leave first." Nan Yan turned around and left, pulled the rope of Jueying again, and went to the mountainside with Zhou Fang to see if there was anything there.

There are no wild vegetables.

Lanhua looked at the people walking out and even said that she would go and hire part-time workers in the evening.

Nan Yan saw Zhou Fang hesitated to speak and asked, "Fangfang, what's wrong with you?"

Zhou Fang was worried about Nan Yan just now, taking back the land from Brother Xiaozi's house. She was originally thinking about how to intercede for Aunt Lanhua, but then she heard Sister Yan talking about hiring part-time workers.

Zhou Fang thought of Aunt Lanhua's appearance just now, and said with heartache: "Uncle Fugui and Uncle Dashan went hunting in the mountains to exchange money, and then both of them were gone. Grandpa Danu and his wife lost their son, and the white-haired man gave away the black-haired man. Within two years,

The couple died one after another.”

Zhou Fang looked at the mountains in the distance and continued, "When Grandpa Danu and his wife left, Brother Zi was not yet ten years old. Aunt Lanhua has been pulling Brother Zi over the years. They have grown up.

Some time ago, the government was collecting corvee, my second brother and I... didn't know that Brother Zi was coming back? Huh?" Zhou Fang couldn't say the next words.

Because the next words are too hurtful?

The men who went to do corvee service every year either lost their skin or came back with skinny bodies. There was even a poor man who did not have enough food and clothing to keep him warm on the way to the service, and died in the service before returning home.

On the road or in the field of service.

Nan Yan didn't know what to say.

She had never experienced corvee service, so she didn't know how to answer Zhou Fang's words.

In the end, he could only say dryly: "One day, people will no longer be afraid of doing corvee service."

Zhou Fang looked at Nan Yan with round almond-shaped eyes and said, "Sister Yan'er, are you serious?"

Nan Yan: "..."

She is not the king of Xia Dynasty, how can she know whether it is true or not? Now she can only give this girl a fantasy.

Nan Yan felt sorry for deceiving the little girl. The two of them said a few words about Zhou Xiao's family. Zhou Fang's sadness turned into a smile, and she happily introduced Nan Yan to the nearby mountains and rivers.

When Zhou Fang and Nan Yan reached the mountainside, they met several young girls from the village who also came to dig wild vegetables. After Zhou Fang said hello to the girls, she and Nan Yan went to dig in a deserted place.

Zhou Fang saw a piece of shepherd's purse that no one had dug yet and said, "Sister Yan'er, come here quickly. Haven't you dug the shepherd's purse here yet?"

Nan Yan carried a bamboo basket and a small hoe to Zhou Fang's location, and the two began to dig shepherd's purse.

The little girls from the village came to dig wild vegetables. Although they were digging wild vegetables, their eyes would glance at Nan Yan from time to time.

Nan Yan dug about a pound, but she didn't want the wild vegetables she dug out later. Instead, she put them in Zhou Fang's basket for Zhou Fang to take back.

Zhou Fang put a few shepherd's purses into her backpack and said, "Sister Yan'er, there are a lot of wild vegetables here, you don't have to give them to me."

Nan Yan: "I am the only one in my family now. I have too much to dig and can't eat it all. It would be faster if I dig it together with you."

Zhou Fang had just forgotten Nan Yan's house, and now she was the only one there. Seeing that Nan Yan was still digging, she could only talk to Nan Yan while digging wild vegetables.

The two of them dug about the same amount, and then went to the ground to look for seaweed sprouts.

Unknowingly, Nan Yan and Zhou Fang walked to the place where the village chief and the others were working. Wu saw Nan Yan and the two from a distance and shouted loudly: "Fangfang, you and Miss Yan'er come over to the field."

"

After thinking about it last night, Mrs. Wu was unwilling to continue calling Nan Yan Miss Nan. She felt that calling her Miss Yan'er was more affectionate.

Nan Yan and Zhou Fang came to the field, and Mrs. Wu said to her two daughters-in-law: "Boss, the second brother's family can have lunch at noon now. You two go and take out the lunch. We will go to have lunch now."

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Farmers usually don't go back for lunch if they work far away from the farm.

Wu and the others brought lunch to the field today.

In the morning, Mrs. Wu learned that her daughter was going to dig wild vegetables with Nan Yan, so she told Zhou Fang to bring Nan Yan to the field for lunch. Only now did Zhou Fang bring Nan Yan over.

Nan Yan didn't plan to have lunch in the mountains. She didn't bring anything to eat except some snacks and candies.

However, Jueying is hanging on the sack she brought from Naxi Town. Now it is not impossible to go to the sack and take it out from the space.

Nan Yan took out three large white flour steamed buns from the sack, as well as cold vegetables packed in oil bags, and the dried fruits she had prepared before, and distributed them to the grandchildren of the village chief's family.

When Mrs. Wu saw Nan Yan put down the things in her hands and gave some candies to her grandchildren, she smiled and said: "Miss Yan'er, candies are expensive, just keep them for yourself and eat them slowly. Where can I share them with these monkeys?"

eat."

Sugar may be expensive for the Wu family, but for Nan Yan, who has a large supermarket, it is really not a problem, so Nan Yan said: "Sister-in-law, aunt, come and have one too." She handed the candy to her.

To Wu.

After the meal, Mrs. Wu opened Nan Yan's bamboo basket and Zhou Fang's backpack. She saw the wild vegetables inside and thought that they, farmers, were used to eating such things and thought they were delicious. Nan Yan had never eaten these wild vegetables and didn't know if she could get them back home.

The habit of not being able to eat.

When Nan Yan saw that the village chief and the others were resting and continuing to farm, she stood up out of curiosity, took a look, and said, "Auntie, are you farming millet now?"

The Wu family doesn’t know what millet is, and what they are cultivating now is “corn”.

Wu: "Miss Yan'er, we don't grow millet, we grow corn, but what kind of grain is the millet that Miss Yan'er is talking about!"

Nan was stunned?

Also, she remembered that "Ji" was the main name for millet in history.

"Ji" is also called "millet", and millet has five colors, namely "white, red, yellow, black, orange and purple".

And millet is the name of later generations. Wu didn't know about millet, but it was actually millet.

Nan Yan: “Auntie, I’m talking about corn!”

Wu: "So you said millet is corn. We didn't know corn had such an elegant name."

Nan Yan chuckled, and then asked: "Auntie, after you plant the corn, will you plant corn next?"

"What is corn, Miss Yan'er?" Wu didn't know what corn was, she thought Nan Yan was talking about the elegant names of other crops.

Nan Yan was shocked.

She remembered that in history, corn first appeared in the Americas, with Mexico and Central America even earlier. Flower growers introduced it in the 30th year of the Jiajing reign of the Ming Dynasty.

(End of chapter)