Xiaoyaoshanjun

Chapter 55 Sharing Eggs

The next morning, when Tian Buli and the five rabbits were meditating and resting in the yard, they heard shouting outside.

Tian Buli, who was sitting on a ball of grass and meditating, looked at the five rabbits.

"Let's see what's going on."

Black Rabbit supported himself on the ground with one hand, quickly stood up from his seat, and walked quickly to the front of the cabin.

In front of the house there is a bamboo ladder that was moved in when the house was built. The ladder is made of two thick green bamboos and more than a dozen half-meter-long horizontal bamboos.

The black rabbit, who looked like a girl, quickly climbed up the bamboo ladder using her hands and feet, and stood at a height of two meters looking down the mountain.

"Master, there are several people coming here carrying things."

Tian Buli knew that someone had come to deliver food.

"Okay, you guys go into the room and continue meditating, wrap your ears, and Bunny girl, just stand behind me and I'll handle it."

"Yes, master!" The five rabbit monsters quickly stood up and started to move.

After more than ten minutes, the people at the foot of the mountain carried their loads and slowly walked up the mountainside along the winding path.

The old man in the lead also has the surname Tian. This is Tianjia Village, where basically all men have the same surname, while most women have surnames from neighboring villages.

The old man came over with more than ten men and two women. When they were still some distance away from the top, the old man gave a serious reminder to the people around him.

"Don't talk nonsense later, I'll do the talking. Don't underestimate the young master. He has killed people before. The county lord and the people in Xiazhuang have to give him face."

A group of people quickly said: "Got it, got it."

The country people are afraid of the big shots in the city. Tian Buli used to be a villager, but he has been very different since he learned to read and kill.

Murders are not uncommon in the countryside. When people have an argument, they can't control themselves and beat others to death. This is often the time when people are most afraid of the government.

There are many people who have killed people, and a few can be found in every village, but there are very few who are not afraid of the officials.

Officials are powerful in front of country folk, and there must be something similar in the eyes of high-ranking officials in the court.

Tian Buli stood at the door with Rabbit Girl. It was not appropriate to tell anyone that Rabbit Girl was a monster.

When I become powerful one day, it won’t matter whether I am a monster or a human. It’s better to avoid trouble now.

The old man led his men to the front, and when they got closer, Tian Buli and Tu Niang both heard the chirping of chicks.

The old man said politely, "My dear, this is our rent for this year: twenty dan of grain, one dan of beans, and a basket of chickens."

Tian Buli smiled and said, "Just dump the wheat in the empty room to the west. Put the basket of chickens here. I'll keep the accounts. The farm gave me the accounts for this area last time."

Tian Buli took out a special account book, which recorded the land rental situation of the village.

The record was kept of how much land each household had rented, how much rent they owed, how much they had borrowed, as well as how much work and trouble they had caused.

This is what the land manager should do. Tian Buli did not change anything and continued with the previous rules and regulations.

The old man's family of three generations and more than a dozen people poured more than twenty loads of wheat into the empty house, and also put down a basket of chicks that had been hatched only a few days ago.

While these people were doing their work, Tian Buli called the old man over.

"Come and have a look. I have calculated the bill for you. Today we will collect 22 dan of grain, plus a basket of chickens and 40 eggs."

The old man walked up to Tian Buli, looked at the words he couldn't understand, and said politely: "Okay, okay, the young master is a learned man in our village, and everyone can trust him."

For illiterate villagers, people from their own village are more trustworthy than those outsiders who always scheme against them.

Tian Buli quickly put away the account book and went back into the house to check to prevent these people from using old grain or grain that was mixed with miscellaneous things. There was indeed a lot of grass and old grain in the wheat on the ground. More than 20 loads of wheat just filled up a corner of the house.

Tian Buli didn't say much. He closed the gate after letting them leave.

Not long after the villagers left, the four rabbit demons squatted around the basket together, looking curiously at the chirping chicks in the basket.

Tian Buli saw this and warned them, "Don't eat these chicks. You can't eat them now. You'll need them to lay eggs when they grow up."

"Okay!" All five rabbit monsters agreed.

Tian Buli couldn't tell which eggs were about to expire. Every household raised six or seven chickens at most, and he didn't know how many days' worth of stock these forty eggs would have.

In short, these eggs cannot be kept for long.

"Boil twenty eggs today and eat the rest tomorrow."

This is the advantage of having many mouths to feed. It’s just forty eggs, so you don’t have to worry about the shelf life.

The white rabbit asked curiously: "Master, there are twenty eggs. Can I have two?"

"I will teach you arithmetic tomorrow." After Tian Buli said this, he suddenly felt that arithmetic could not solve the problem of the little white rabbit eating eggs. This is a distribution problem.

As expected, the black rabbit understood the situation. After hearing the white rabbit's ignorant question, she quickly took advantage of her status as the older sister.

"You can only eat one. You are small and can't eat more."

Tian Buli couldn't stand the older sister bullying the younger girl, so he said directly: "Each of you rabbits will get three eggs, so that's fifteen. I will eat five of the remaining eggs. Because I need to replenish my energy, I will eat two more."

Black Rabbit immediately became sad after hearing this, "Why should I eat the same eggs as her?"

"Because White Rabbit helped me with work today!" Tian Buli made up a random excuse, "In the future, those who study faster, practice faster, and help me with work can eat more."

Tian Buli spoke up for the white rabbit and added: "We humans are just like that!"

Since it is a human rule, there is nothing the five rabbits can do about it and they have to obey it.

The little white rabbit laughed so hard that it couldn't close its mouth.

Tian Buli shouted, "What are you laughing at? Go to work quickly and don't delay your meal."

The five rabbit monsters quickly went to work, still maintaining their human form, and were responsible for cooking rice, stewing vegetables, and steaming eggs.

After eating, the five rabbits felt that it was too hot to wear clothes, so they turned into rabbits and went under a tree to cool off.

Tian Buli also took a mat and took a nap on the grass. Five rabbits huddled beside Tian Buli's head, taking a nap under the mottled sunlight and shadows of the trees.

After eating and resting, they had enough strength and started to go home at around two in the afternoon. They would use their fingers to pick up pebbles and bad wheat on the ground in the house, so that the rabbits could practice their fingering skills at work and better master the use of the human body.

Tian Buli was practicing Lei Ba Gong in the house, but he always felt it was difficult to enter that uncomfortable state when practicing alone.

In order to better enter the depressed state of stiff and numb limbs, he called over Rabbit Lady.

"Sit on me, press your butt against my chest, and help me practice!"

Rabbit Lady didn't quite understand what this was for, but she still obediently sat on Tian Buli, pressing her body against Tian Buli's, causing him to have blood circulation problems.

Xia Bayuan’s Lei Ba Gong was definitely not practiced in this way, but Tian Buli explored it on his own and soon found a new way.

Thousands of sails passed by the side of the sinking boat, Wan Muchun in front of the diseased tree.

The new Lei Ba Gong will surely rise like thunder from the blue sky!

(End of this chapter)