Journey to the West Tiger Demon, mortals urge me to ascend the throne

Chapter 13 The White Deer Discovers Like-minded People
The village chief's house is too small to house the behemoths Zhao Lei, Bailu, and Heiyang.

The village head had no choice but to take Zhao Lei, Bailu, Heiyang, Li Jincheng, and Li Ergou to the ancestral hall of Lijia Village instead.

The ancestral hall in Lijia Village is about 70 square meters.

This space is still a little small for Zhao Lei who is four meters tall, a white deer (with antlers) who is three meters tall, and a black sheep that is more than two meters tall, but it can barely fit it.

However, Zhao Lei could only lean on the table in front of the god's card as a chair, while the white deer and the black sheep stood beside him.

After the village head's narration, Zhao Lei finally understood the current situation of Lijia Village.

The total population of Lijia Village is more than 600, which is considered a medium-sized village.

Among them, more than 200 men between the ages of 60 and [-] were arrested by the government and sent to serve in the military.

Some served in the military, and some went to pave roads and build bridges and other projects.

Nearly a hundred military service members have not heard from them for more than a year, including Yang Yang's father.But since no corpses were seen, and the court did not announce their deaths or provide them with pensions, the village chief still counted them.

The rest, if they are still alive, will probably come back to the village one after another this winter.

Because of their service time, some are one month, some are two months, some are three months.

Field rent can be exempted after three months of service.

Most of the families who have no land in their hands will serve for three months.

Half of the remaining nearly 400 people are between the ages of 60 and 30, but most of them are women.There are less than [-] males in their prime.It was the Lijia Village who sold pots and sold iron to collect enough money to help them exempt from corvee and stay to defend the village.

The other half are the elderly and youth or children under the age of 20.

And to feed these 5-600 people, at least 2000 mu of land is needed by farming alone, and that is still under the condition of a bumper harvest.

Lijia Village has 3000 mu of arable land.

But some of them have already been bought by those landlords.

Some are official.

The land belonging to his own village is more than 1000 mu at full count.

Coupled with various taxes such as poll tax, it can be said that Lijia Village really needs to live frugally in order to survive.

After all, the taxes and corvee in this era are really terrible for ordinary people like them.

How much to charge and how long to serve depends entirely on the idea of ​​the local government.

The imperial court said that the tax is one tenth, but often those who are officials will increase the consumption of fire (the consumption of smelting into silver) infinitely.

Therefore, even if everyone has some savings occasionally, they will save them for emergencies.

The harvest in Lijia Village has been bad for several consecutive seasons.

By this season, it can be said that ammunition is exhausted.

If there is another accident in this batch of harvest, they might have to become refugees, and then stage the tragic situation of being displaced and cannibalizing each other.

Therefore, Zhao Lei's arrival undoubtedly made things worse for them.That's why Li Jincheng put all his eggs in one basket and took the villagers up the mountain to kill monsters.

However, if Zhao Lei can really lead them through this difficulty.

To be honest, being raised by Zhao Lei doesn't seem unacceptable.

After the narration, the village head even had some expectations in his heart, and he was uncertain: "My lord, you, can you really help our Lijia Village to overcome this difficulty?"

Before Zhao Lei could answer, the black sheep on the side said arrogantly: "What's so difficult about this? When elder brother took us to avenge mother deer, not only did he seize the cultivation method from the squirrel spirit, but also a little cloud and rain formula! If you want to rain, as long as you learn the formula, isn't it just a matter of moving your fingers?"

The squirrel spirit is the little demon stationed on this hill.

Whether it was Zhao Lei's tiger mother, black sheep mother, or white deer mother, they were all killed by this squirrel spirit.So the first thing after the transformation, Zhao Lei took the white deer and the black sheep to kill the squirrel spirit to avenge the mothers.

And the long live fox king will send monsters to collect 'meat' regularly, which is also known from the mouth of the squirrel spirit.

The basic breathing method of the monster clan that the three brothers are practicing now was also seized from him.

In addition, there is also a little cloud and rain formula.

But Zhao Lei thought it was useless, so he didn't learn it.

The village chief's eyes lit up and he said excitedly, "My lord, is this true?"

Zhao Lei said indifferently: "I do have a little cloud and rain formula. After learning it, it is easy to call the wind and rain. But I have no plan to learn it."

The village chief was taken aback.

Li Jincheng and Li Ergou were also taken aback.

Immediately, Li Jincheng clasped his hands and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, why don't you learn? Is it possible that Your Majesty was dissatisfied with Jin Cheng for offending His Majesty before? If so, Jin Cheng will apologize to His Majesty here first. If His Majesty can rain water for the village, Jin Cheng After you succeed, you must obey your orders, and you will no longer have any doubts about your orders."

Zhao Lei waved his hand: "Since you are a scholar, you should know very well that it is better to teach people how to fish than to give them fish. It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach people how to fish. Even if I learned today, I will help you solve the problem of rain. But I can’t help you with rain for the rest of my life. If you want your village to live better, you should let them learn to think for themselves and how to solve the problem permanently.”

There is another point that Zhao Lei didn't say.

With the bird nature of the system, it is impossible to reward him with attributes every time it rains, and it is naturally impossible for Zhao Lei to help them rain in his spare time.

But, even so, it's better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish.It is better to teach a person how to fish than to teach him how to fish. This sentence was enough to shock Li Jincheng for a long time.

He even kept repeating this sentence in his mouth, as if he was comprehending the essence of the sentence.

It didn't take long.

When he raised his head again and looked into Zhao Lei's eyes, he was full of joy and excitement, and at the same time, he was even more looking forward to how Zhao Lei would help the village solve the water source problem.

No, if Zhao Lei can really help Lijiacun solve the problem without relying on magic, it may not only benefit Lijiacun!
This method is likely to benefit the people all over the world!

Even if his Li Family Village really became a victim in Zhao Lei's womb in the end, their Li Family Village would be worthy of the world!

Li Jincheng bowed his head and cupped his hands again and said, "Your Majesty, Jincheng has been taught."

On the other side, Li Ergou, who seemed to understand but half understood, saw this scene in front of him, and once again refreshed his understanding of Zhao Lei.

No matter what others said before.

Monsters are bad.

Monsters are cannibals.

He felt that the tiger demon in front of him was very different today.

It seems... It seems that there is a big difference from the monsters that everyone said.

And what surprised him even more was that since even Brother Jincheng showed a willingness to bow down to the knowledge of the tiger demon, a sense of curiosity rose in his heart inexplicably, and he wanted to better understand the tiger demon in front of him. , rather than listening to what others say.

Even he himself didn't realize that the way he looked at Zhao Lei was different.

There is a hint of admiration faintly.

However, no one noticed his strangeness, which doesn't mean that Bailu couldn't notice it.

And not only did he notice it, but he was also very clear about what it meant.

Because this look is the same as the look he and the third brother looked at their eldest brother!

Bailu unconsciously showed his aunt's smile.

I faintly feel in my heart that this is a meeting of like-minded people~

(End of this chapter)