In the summer of the second year of Xingping, in mid-June.

The 2,500 or 600 people in Lu Ren's camp were all called to one place by Lu Ren. At this moment, Lu Ren stood on the high platform with his hands behind his back, his seemingly calm expression was a little smiling.

"Have you brought all the farming tools for harvesting?" This is Lu Ren asking loudly.

Two thousand, five or six hundred people responded with a bang.

Han Haotie, who was invited, walked to Lu Ren's side with a blushing face, and questioned in a deep voice: "Captain Lu, it's only mid-June now, and there are still two months before the August grain harvest, and the grain in the field is not ripe!" When you reap at this time, you are ruining the fields and the ridges! ”

Lu Ren had long expected that Han Hao would stand up and say such a thing, so he just smiled at Han Hao at the moment, and then turned his hands back, but he was holding a few bunches of rice ears in his hands: "This is what I picked from a few fields just now." Han Duwei, please be watchful. ”

Rubbing a handful of rice ears in the palm of his hand, he rubbed his hands together vigorously for a while, and then raised his fists high. And the next moment, grains of white rice poured out from Lu Ren's fist and fell to the ground like snowflakes.

Han Hao was stunned on the spot, subconsciously reached over and received a few grains, and after looking at it carefully for a long time, he said uncertainly: "This, this is really ripe rice......

Lu Ren smiled again, turned to Xun Yu on the edge of the high platform and said, "Xun Gong, it seems that Han Duwei is still not willing to believe it, so please ask Xun Gong to confirm whether this rice is ripe or not." ”

Xun Yu stepped forward happily, took the ear of rice in Lu Ren's hand, looked at it carefully for a while, and then nodded: "It is indeed ripe." ”

Lu Renfu said to Han Hao, who was still stunned there: "If Captain Han still doesn't believe it, you can go to your own camp and select some old farmers who know rice to identify it, and you can also choose the rice fields here at will." ”

Han Hao was already speechless, and only after a while did he shake his head and say, "No, no need......"

Lu Ren laughed proudly. After laughing, Lu Ren raised his arms and shouted to the people on the high platform: "Are they all hungry?" ”

"Yes—"

Lu Ren picked up the shelf, slowly walked down the high platform, and came to the queue of many tun people. At this moment, almost everyone in the tun people clenched the harvesters in their hands, and their expressions were extremely nervous, and even many people didn't even dare to breathe the atmosphere, and they squirmed their throats and swallowed saliva again and again in difficulty.

A little later, the temperature rose as the sun rose, and many people had beads of sweat on their foreheads, but no one raised their arms to wipe them, and they were all still staring ahead.

Looking at the front of the team again, Lu Ren glanced up at the red sun in the sky, and slowly raised his right arm in a tense atmosphere. And with the raising of his right arm, people's hearts also rose to their throats, and they all clenched the guys in their hands a little tighter.

The raised right arm suddenly waved down vigorously: "All the soldiers listen to the order!" Let's move forward! Rush!! ”

With this order, more than 2,000 people burst out with an earth-shattering shout, and the guys in their hands rushed to the rice field in front of them with all their might.

After a gust of wind and dust, Lu Ren, who waved his arm and gave the order, was still standing in place, but he kept slapping the dust on his body, and people couldn't stop coughing violently - I'm sorry, if you want to be handsome, you often have to pay a price. Lu Ren stood in this position, if he didn't rush forward, he would only be overwhelmed by the dust that people brought up when they ran.

After a while, Xun Yu covered his nose with his sleeve with one hand, and walked to Lu Ren's side with his big sleeve with the other hand, and smiled at Lu Ren, who was very embarrassed: "Yihao, it looks like you are very embarrassed." ”

Lu Ren is now disgraced and embarrassed, who made him a typical handsome now? Finally waiting for the dust to clear, Lu Ren let out a long breath, and after taking a few deep breaths, Xun Yu arched his hand and said, "Let Xun Gong see and laugh." ”

Xun Yu glanced at the people who were harvesting happily on Lu Ren's side, and then looked at Han Hao's camp on the other side of the river, and asked, "The rice you have here is so precocious, what about Han Yuanhei's side?" ”

Lu Ren said: "Oh, his head is mainly wheat and millet, and it can't be harvested until August and September. I've planted some here too, maybe a little earlier, but not much sooner. ”

Xun Yu looked at Han Hao, who was following behind, but Han Hao nodded to Xun Yu with a still blushing face. After being silent for a while, Han Hao arched his hand to Lu Renyi and said, "Captain Lu, I lost...... But I still don't understand, why can your rice ripen so early? ”

Lu Ren smiled and spread his hands again: "I told you a long time ago that there is no way to grow rice in the north of the (Chang) River. ”

Han Hao didn't say anything more. It should be said that at this moment, Lu Ren finally slapped Han Hao, a bad-tempered guy, in the face, so that Han Hao couldn't even speak.

However, Lu Ren obviously hadn't slapped enough of the slap, and raised his hand and pointed to the many rice fields: "Captain Han, please designate a few acres of rice fields at will." ”

Han Hao was stunned: "What are you doing in the field?" ”

Lu Ren said: "I'm not afraid that you will say that I am a villain, and I am a villain now!" I just want you to see again that according to my method of rice planting, a few stones of rice can be harvested per acre of rice field! ”

Han Hao's face became more and more pale, but probably out of the idea of not believing in evil, he really pointed to a few acres of rice fields at random.

Xun Yu on the side was a little dissatisfied with Lu Ren's style, and wanted to persuade him, but after thinking about it, he still gave up, and then as a referee, he came to the acres of rice fields that Han Hao pointed out together.

Because of the meaning of a little competition, these acres of fields were naturally harvested first under the supervision of Xun Yu and Han Hao, and the final result was that each mu had a rice harvest of nearly six stones, and the least was five stones and two jun. And such a number not only frightened Xun Yu, Han Hao, and Li Dian, but even those old farmers. You must know that millet in the Han Dynasty was generally "three stones per mu", and the yield of rice was slightly lower than that of millet due to the wrong planting method, but Lu Ren has now nearly doubled this number! What did this mean in the eyes of people at the time?

After they were dumbfounded for a long time, Xun Yu lightly stroked his beard and said to Han Hao: "Captain Han, can you admit defeat?" ”

In the face of such facts, Han Hao's bull temper can no longer be bullish. Secretly stomping his feet, Han Hao knelt down on one knee to Lu Ren, and squeezed out the words from between his teeth: "Captain Lu, Han admits defeat!" The things promised during the fight that day will be sent to Captain Lu's tent in the near future! ”

Xun Yu secretly pushed Lu Ren with his elbow, and then glanced at Lu Ren, meaning that you Lu Ren should not go too far. Lu Ren understood what Xun Yu meant, and although Lu Ren was still a little angry about what happened before, after all, he still had to mix for nearly five years, and he couldn't really tear his face too much, so Lu Ren quickly stretched out his hand to help Han Hao, and said with a smile: "Don't take it too seriously, I just didn't be understood that day, and now I use this to show my resentment." This gambling money...... It's just an angry word. ”

To be honest, Lu Ren's last sentence was very contrary to his will, but Han Hao was struck hard when he heard it, and said angrily: "How can Han be a debtor!" Captain Lu, please! Tomorrow at the latest, Han will personally send the golden silk to come! ”

As soon as he turned around, Han Hao strode away, leaving Lu Ren there and didn't know what to say, and after a while, he said blankly: "Don't be so serious, right?" ”

Xun Yu smiled on the side: "Han Yuan's heir is strong and fierce, so it will naturally be like this." Forget it, don't worry about him, you really surprised me a lot when it comes to Yihao! ”

Lu Ren scratched his head and smiled: "It's okay, it's good that you didn't disappoint Xun Gong." Hey, Xun Gong, let's calculate how much grain and grass I can pay for the treasury here, right? ”

Xun Yu said: "That's exactly how it should be. In fact, yesterday you sent someone to Juancheng to find me to come here to arbitrate today, and I still haven't fully believed it, but now I really want to shout to you, 'Yihao help me'." The grain and grass in the Juancheng treasury are almost exhausted, but at this time when the green and yellow are not harvested, the japonica rice here is ripe, which can solve my urgent need! ”

“…… I'm embarrassed."

Lu Ren couldn't speak for a long time, and said in his heart that I was almost out of food here a while ago, and I didn't call for help from you, but now you came to me to shout for help?

Xun Yu glanced around at the many rice fields again and said, "Yihao, you seem to have a lot of novelties here, can you take me to the fields to have a look?" ”

"Of course you can, but ......" Lu Ren glanced around him: "Can you let me wash my face first?" In fact, there are a few words that Lu Ren has been embarrassed to say, that is, when he stood in the crowd, he almost fell down several times. And in that case a fall...... This means that it is likely to be trampled into meatloaf.

"Damn, I'll never be so handsome next time!!"

Soon after, Lu Ren and Li Dian led Xun Yu to the field to inspect and introduce. The novelty in Xun Yu's mouth before was actually the foot-operated rice mill that Lu Ren had asked the craftsmen to make for a long time. This thing is often seen in modern rural areas, that is, it is a thing that separates rice into rice bran and white rice, and it is not difficult to make in terms of craftsmanship. However, it is much easier to use than the Han Dynasty to separate the chaff husk from the polished rice.

Xun Yu grabbed a handful of polished rice and looked at it carefully, put it under his nose and smelled it, then looked at the pedal rice mill and smiled at Lu Ren: "This thing is very convenient, it must have been made by you Yihao, right?" ”

Lu Ren nodded, there is no need to be too humble in this regard, and it is annoying to talk too much. However, at this time, Xun Yu took out a small abacus a few inches square from his sleeve, and after shaking it a few times, he counted it, and saw that beads of sweat were pouring out of Lu Ren's forehead. Because of this kind of Xun Yu, he really looks like Mr. Tent in those film and television dramas, and it is even more different from the image of "Wang Zuozhicai" in people's general images.

But seeing Xun Yu thinking for a while, he put away the small abacus, and said to Lu Ren with a little humility between his words: "Yihao, it's not that I am deliberately mean to you, it's really that I have a shortage of grain and grass there, so I have to collect more grain and grass from you to support it." So let's keep forty percent here, and I'll take the remaining sixty percent. ”

As soon as Lu Ren heard this, his face twitched: "Xun Gong! Your hands are too dark!! ”