Mu Yangling and his aunt went to the field to harvest wheat together. This year's wheat ears were not long enough and the grains were not full enough due to lack of rain. Fortunately, there were no pests, and the harvest was still within acceptable limits.

Because Juntian and Yongyetian directly paid different grains, two soldiers were sent to check every five households.

Because it is randomly assigned, and it is assigned after being disrupted, no one knows anyone, and it is impossible to fake it. This is the first year, and everyone is not prepared, but I don’t know if there will be tricks in the future.

But I believe that Qi Haoran and the others also have a way. Mu Yangling only hopes that there will be no superiors oppressing subordinates, and it will be fine to force them to pay.

Seventy-two acres of wheat, they began to harvest from the top-grade land, and when half of the harvest was done, rice could also be harvested.

Compared with pasta, Mu Yangling is more accustomed to eating rice, so he decided to harvest the rice first, and the harvested things were piled up on wooden boards in three piles, and they were pulled to the field for threshing after drying to a certain extent.

My aunt had been working for so many years, and it was the first time that she had harvested so much wheat and rice, and it was the first time she had harvested so much grain. Although she was tired, she was very happy.

She counted with her fingers for a long time, and said happily to Mu Yangling: "Even if we pay the military rations, we can still have a lot of food left. If it weren't for each family having to ask one person to go to the front to work hard, it is actually not bad to be a military household. At least so much land can be obtained for free, as long as you are willing to suffer, you will not be hungry."

"That's our good luck," Mu Yangling said while pulling the millstone to thresh the rice: "I heard that the small flag under the name of General Lu Ji in Dongying can keep 40% of the grain. Thirty percent can’t be kept, and if you survive such exhaustion, one year’s harvest is enough for the family to eat, and if someone gets sick, or has a wedding or something, the whole family will have to be emptied.”

Shu Wanniang was stunned, and said: "Here, isn't it a rule to expropriate the imperial court? Isn't General Lu Ji afraid of being impeached by the imperial censor?"

The aunt sighed: "Isn't all officials like this? One protects the other, like we paid taxes before, and every year is heavy. Does the court still re-set taxes every year? Isn't the extra money going into the pockets of those officials? So what Ah Ling said is also true, thanks to the fact that we met General Qi, otherwise it would be better to be homeless and working outside."

Mu Yangling also said: "The censor and the holy majesty may not know these things, but they just turned a blind eye. The holy majesty will overhaul the garden every few years, and he likes rare stone paintings. The top one If you are so greedy, how can you not follow suit?"

"A Ling is more transparent than your mother." The aunt laughed.

Mu Yangling glanced at his mother, and said, "Auntie, my mother is smart, she knows it all in her heart."

Shu Wanniang dropped her paw of wheat and said, "You will compliment me."

Mu Yangling was grinning, and dragged the stone around for a few laps, when a soldier who looked like a soldier came to Mu Yangling, "Miss Mu, the little general wants to see you, pack up and come with us."

Mu Yangling's eyes flashed, he stopped and asked with a smile, "Where is the little general?"

The soldier pointed in the direction of the Fifth Battalion and said, "It's on the small road. I said I have something to discuss with you."

Mu Yangling glanced at the field and saw that most of the villagers in Chenggutun were here. He was slightly relieved, dropped the rope, and said to his aunt: "Auntie, you, my mother, and cousins ​​will fight here for a while. , I’ll be back as soon as I go.”

Mu Yangling stepped forward and moved the twin's chair to Shu Wanniang's side, and waved to old man Sun next door: "Grandpa Sun, the little general has something to do with me, please take care of my house."

Old man Sun was taken aback, and then said with a smile: "Don't worry, Ah Ling, I'll ask your uncle to grind it for you later, you go quickly, don't make the little general wait too long."

Mu Yangling nodded with a smile, turned back to the soldier and said, "Let's go, but I have to go home and change my clothes first, you see I'm so dirty and disrespectful to the general."

The soldier seemed to find it troublesome, but seeing that Mu Yangling was indeed dirty, it was hard to object, but he urged all the way: "Please hurry up, Miss Mu."

Mu Yangling nodded and said, "Don't worry, I'll be there soon."

Seeing that Mu Yangling and the soldier had left, old man Sun wanted to ask his eldest son to help the Mu family thresh. In the past half a year, everyone understood that the Mu family had a close relationship with the young general, and they had nothing to do with them. There is always nothing wrong with a good relationship.

But when he was about to speak, he felt that something was wrong. The little general came to Mu Yangling every now and then, either by himself or by the boy named Fei Bai. When Mu Yangling went, he never talked to the village People have talked too much, because the Mu family kept a low profile and did not show off or bully them because of their friendship with the little general. The people in the village have a lot of affection for the Mu family, and they are willing to help when they encounter anything, but this time Mu Yang Why did Ling specifically say something to him?

Old man Sun stopped his movements, frowned while holding the stick, and thought about the strangeness carefully, his eyes couldn't help falling on the wheat field of Mu's family.

The Mu family's actions are actually no slower than theirs. Although their family is small, they also plant less land than them. Their family has sown all the land with wheat seeds, but their family still has more than 60 mu of grassland and two Eighteen acres of cornfield, so the two of them harvested the grain on the same day.

But now the Mu family is one step ahead of them, because in the matter of threshing, Mu Yangling can stand up to five strong men alone, and it is not too tiring to pull the stone mill for a day, and their family has little wheat and rice. , the action will be faster, so why does the Mu family need their help?

Old man Sun couldn't figure it out, his intuition was wrong.

On the other side, Shu Wanniang turned pale with shock, grabbed her aunt and said, "Auntie, no, that soldier was not sent by the little general."

Knowing a daughter is better than a mother, she immediately noticed the strangeness in Mu Yangling's words and deeds, and wanted to ask, but Mu Yangling never gave her a chance to speak. No, after thinking about it again, the little general realized that the soldier was also abnormal.

The aunt was confused, "What do you mean the soldier was not sent by the little general?"

Shu Wanniang turned around in a hurry, and said: "Auntie, I can't understand these two sentences, I have to send someone to inform the little general quickly, and ask him to take someone to rescue Ah Ling." At this point, Shu Wanniang got up and pushed the two children to the aunt. She approached her mother-in-law and said, "Auntie, help me look after the two children. I'll go to the camp to find someone."

After hearing the general idea, old man Sun hurried over to hold Shu Wanniang, "You can't go, I remembered, Ah Ling may have found something wrong, what I said just now was to let me watch you, if you go out to touch When the villain is arrested, Ah Ling will be implicated."

The aunt understood the meaning now, and said in a panic: "Ah Ling was cheated away?"

"It's not that she was tricked away, she went with someone on purpose," Old Man Sun also recalled, and said, "She's risking herself, this girl is so bold."

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