Women Wearing Men: The Growth Path of the Bastards of the Aristocratic Family

It is not so much a field as it is a relatively flat wilderness.

Because the line of sight was blocked by weeds and rocks, Gu Yunji couldn't tell how big the land in front of him was, sixty acres?Eighty acres?One hundred acres?It's all possible, anyway, it may not be exactly fifty acres.

He even suspected that Xue Liu didn't know how big this place was, and maybe he just drew a range with his fingers, and used it to exchange land with the Zhang family.Anyway, Xue Liu's purpose was to use all means to obtain the [-] acres of fertile land and dedicate it to Chen Xunzhou to curry favor with his superiors. It didn't matter whether the fields here could be cultivated or not, and the size of them was irrelevant.

Judging from Xue Liu's bewildered expression, perhaps he has never been here before, and it is not certain that this place is a wasteland without an owner.

Suddenly, Gu Yunji felt an unknown fire in his heart, and asked in a deep voice, "This is the fifty mu of paddy field that Xue Liu exchanged with you?"

Zhang Cuiying nodded slightly: "Yes, my lord. Although the area is large enough, my family does not have strong labor force to cultivate it. I alone have only opened up a small piece of land in the past three years. All of you, please follow me."

As she said that, Zhang Cuiying led the group to a mountain wall. The terrain here is relatively low-lying and prone to water accumulation. She built a few paddy fields here, which looked less than four acres. A shallow ditch.

Zhang Cuiying introduced: "Syria prefecture uses rice as the main crop, although there is also wheat, but the yield is not high, so I also grow rice. There was a canal built in the early years not far in front of it, which could divert water, but unfortunately it collapsed. It is blocked by rocks and cannot be used."

"Fortunately, there is a small stream here, so I started from here, and relying on this small stream, I reclaimed these few acres of land and planted a little food."

Gu Yunji glanced at the position of the creek, and found that its terrain was lower than that of the paddy fields, and asked in confusion, "But the stream is low and the fields are high. How did you bring the water here?"

Zhang Cuiying smiled shyly: "Water flows to low places, so naturally it can't be led to high places. I dug a few ditches beside the paddy fields, and then used buckets to carry the water from the creek here to store it. Rice is planted."

Gu Yunji was taken aback when he heard the words, and said in disbelief: "The water used to grow the four acres of rice is all picked up by you bucket by bucket? How much effort does it take?"

"What can I do if I spend more time? People have to eat when they live, and they have to farm if they want to eat. Now I am the only one in the family, and my husband and my daughter are pointing at me. Even if it is a hundred times harder than this, I will be tired." A hundred times, I have to do it too."

Zhang Cuiying looked sad, and she squatted down slowly while talking, stroking the uneven rice stubble on the field, and said in a sad tone: "It's a pity that the rice I planted so hard is finally coming to the harvest season. But he was cut off by the natives on the mountain overnight, and I couldn't even chase him back."

Xuzhou Prefecture is located in the southwest, and there are many ethnic minorities living in the mountains. In the early years, the Taizu established the country and absorbed the southwest. He made the original ethnic minority leaders serve as chieftains and allowed them to exercise autonomy within their respective jurisdictions.

However, the southwest mountainous area is vast, and the tribes of the ethnic minorities are also divided into different sizes. After the Taizu took over Daxia, there were always some scattered small tribes who refused to accept the teachings of the court or the rule of the chieftain, so they scattered all over the mountains and lived a life isolated from the outside world. These people are called "natives" by the local people.

The social system of the natives is backward, and they are basically still in the stage of slave society. They are not well-educated, have a language barrier, and are not good at production technologies such as industry and agriculture.Although they sometimes go down the mountain to do some simple trade with the local residents, for the government and the common people, the appearance of the natives more often represents trouble.

The natives often take advantage of the unpreparedness of the people and go down the mountain to steal the grain planted by the farmers in the fields. After finishing the work, they run away with the grain, and it is scattered in the mountains without a trace, and they cannot be traced at all.Sometimes in times of famine, they would gather small teams to rob the village in a grand manner.

The natives often harassed the local people and never confronted them head-on.However, they still live in the deep mountains and old forests, without their own people to guide the way, and outsiders can't find their base camp tribe. Therefore, the problem of the native people has not been effectively solved for so many years.

However, the number of natives is relatively small, and they dare not run too far, they seldom go to crowded places, and basically harass the villages at the foot of the mountain more.Zhang Cuiying's field is halfway up the mountain, so the distance is closer, so it is more likely to be harassed by the natives.

The fields cultivated through untold hardships, carrying the food that the whole family hoped for, were cut off by the natives overnight. No one can bear such a blow.

Zhang Cuiying caressed the rice stubble in the field with a dazed expression. Her thoughts had already drifted back to the morning when she found out that the grain had been stolen. She was once again enveloped by a great sense of despair—but she didn’t cry, her tears had already flowed dry.

Gu Yunji watched Zhang Cuiying's movements quietly, and his mood sank a little bit, as if he could empathize with her.Taking a glance from the corner of the eye, I happened to see Xue Liu poking around with a greasy pig's face, with a look of contempt in his eyes, as if he was a little impatient with the people who had stayed here for a long time.

Seeing this, Gu Yunji was instantly furious, and a huge burst of anger rose from his belly and rushed straight to Tianlinggai.He grabbed Xue Liu by the collar, dragged him to the side of the paddy field, and shouted at his face: "Xue Liu! Open your eyes and take a good look. This is what you said five times." Ten acres of good paddy fields!"

Xue Liu was staggered by his tremendous strength, lost his footing, and fell directly into the dry paddy field, grinning and wailing repeatedly from the sharp rice stubble.

Gu Yunji seldom got so angry, his eyes were red with anger, he pressed Xue Liu's pig's head to the ground, grabbed a handful of dirt, crushed it and sprinkled it in front of him, gritted his teeth and said:
"Look, how thin is the soil layer? Can it grow food? Even this thin layer of fine soil was sifted out by Zhang Cuiying bit by bit. The soil underneath is all small stones. Planting land, are you willing to exchange the [-] mu of fertile land on the river bank?!"

"Don't talk about fifty acres for twenty acres, even fifty acres for one acre, it's not worth it!"

Xue Liu was so drunk that the fat on his face trembled, his body trembled, but his cheeks were pressed and squeezed to the ground by Gu Yunji, unable to speak, he could only make some vague grunting sounds from his throat, flowing out His tears and saliva wet the soil and covered his face, making him look extremely disgusting.

Gu Yunji wiped his hands with Xue Liu's official uniform in disgust, then stood up, the more he looked at him, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help kicking his ass hard, causing Xue Liu to howl in pain.

The accompanying yamen servants, Chen Peishi and others did not say a word throughout the whole process, tacitly did not step forward to persuade or stop them, and watched Xue Liu roll out on the ground in a state of embarrassment.

After a while, Gu Yunji let out a breath slowly, calmed himself down, and said softly to Zhang Cuiying, "Let's go, take us to your house, I want to see your husband's leg injury."