Red sleeves slapped him, screamed, quickly covered his hands on his hips, and couldn't help but blush, listening to Dong Ce's words, his heart was happy, and he went to the front yard without saying a word.

Dong Ce looked at her back and smiled slightly, he had already figured it out, whether it had feelings or not, but in front of people, gentle and considerate, he just let go and enjoyed these things.

He wiped his body and hair clean, and went back to the house to change into clean clothes. At this time, the eldest girl and the second girl also got up, and the eldest girl came to the backyard to clean up the net bucket of the two and put it out, and the two-foot-high net bucket was similar to the two small spittoons in her hands. Seeing Dong Ce, she also saluted honestly and said to the master.

Dong Ce never put on a stand when he shouldn't, and said hello with a smile.

After a short time, the meal was ready.

Red Sleeves brought a tray, and the two ate in the main hall, breakfast was very simple, just two bowls of millet porridge, a bowl of small pickles, and a few steamed buns.

Looking at the natural way the red sleeves eat, it is obvious that this is how they eat in Su Ri, which shows that this family is not very wealthy.

Dong Ce is extremely adaptable, he can eat fine clothes and jade food, but he can't eat bran vegetables, this hasn't reached that point yet!

After a full meal, I went to the kitchen in the front yard to find the eldest girl.

The eldest girl and the second girl are gobbling up themselves, they are eating that kind of black cake, with a small amount of sorghum corn mixed with a lot of wild vegetables of the novel ybdu, which is really worthy of the name of eating bran vegetables. However, these two people are thick and not picky, and they eat pickles with pickles, and each person has a big bowl of white water.

In these days, no matter what you eat, as long as you can't eat dead people and can eat enough, it is a kind of happiness. In April of the seventh year of Chongzhen, there was a great drought in northern Shaanxi, and there was no harvest.

Seeing Dong Ce coming, both of them stood up, but they were stupid, but they didn't know what to say.

Dong Ce smiled slightly and said, "Big girl, after you have eaten for a while, gather all the tenants of our family." Waiting in front of the Shadow Wall. ”

When the eldest girl heard this, she hurriedly said, "I'm full!" ”

Then he wiped his mouth, took the jujube stick with the pestle on the wall in his hand, and ran away with a pestle.

Dong Ce shook his head when he saw it, no matter how she said it, she was a woman, what were she doing with a jujube stick all day long? And no one robbed you in this fort?

Shaking his head and walking out, after a while, the second girl tiptoed to the door and glanced at it as if he was a thief, and when he was sure that he was gone, he sat down and patted his chest gently.

Compared with Sun Ruhu, Dong Ce is gentle and elegant, but they have a fear of Dong Ce, and they don't know why.

About a tea time later, the eldest girl came back to report that she had brought someone here.

Dong Ce nodded, followed her past, bypassed the shadow wall, and at a glance, he couldn't help but laugh.

In front of the shadow wall, seven or eight ragged men and women stood there, and the eldest girl and the second girl stood on one side, holding jujube sticks, and they were menacing, like the head of the prison overseer.

Shaking his head, Dong Ce carefully looked at these tenants.

There are a total of four tenants in his family, which are exactly four men and four women, namely Feng San and his wife Xu, Zhao Tai and his wife Zhao, Liu Qi and his wife Zhang, and the other is Sun Liuzi and his wife Wang.

Dong Ce glanced at it, and his face sank: "Why didn't Sun Liuzi come?" ”

In the past few days, Dong Ce's name has spread in Shilipu, as if he is a more fierce character than Sun Ruhu, everyone is obviously afraid of him, as soon as he speaks, he is trembling, his body shrinks back, he doesn't dare to speak, and they all set their eyes on Wang. Wang's voice was full of tears, and he said tremblingly: "Brother Dong, oh no, the owner, the man of my family has broken his arm, and he is raising it at home at this time, so he really can't work!" Please, don't pursue it, I've done all his work for him! ”

As he spoke, tears poured down, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

A trace of unbearability flashed in Dong Ce's eyes, but he said with a calm face: "Okay, this is what you said." Sun Liuzi's pickled affairs, I won't pursue it with him. But the rules are the rules, you can't mess up, these jobs, but you have to do it alone, if you miss the harvest, I won't spare it! ”

"Yes, yes, Xie Dongjia is gracious." Wang was grateful, and kowtowed a few more times, and his forehead was blue.

Dong Ce glanced at everyone and said slowly: "From today on, I am your owner, you can work with peace of mind, the rent collected is still fifty percent, more work, less work, no work!" None of this will change, and you don't have to worry about it. ”

After he said these words, it was obvious that several tenants were relieved, and they all said that they had seen the owner and met the courtesy in a mess.

"But let's talk about the ugly things in front, a few days ago, because of Sun Ruhu's matter, you didn't go to the field, and the agricultural time was delayed for two days, and our field was already much later than other people's homes, so we had to work harder, so as not to delay the agricultural time."

The crowd hastened to respond.

Dong Ce asked the eldest girl to accompany Wei Hongsleeves at home, and took the second girl and a tenant out by himself.

There were two cows and a horse parked at the door, and there were some farm tools, the cattle and horses were shiny and shiny, very strong, and obviously fed well.

The cattle and horses are all Sun Ruhu's family property, but they are not willing to spend their own forage efforts, so they are all fed in the tenants' homes, not only that, once the feeding is not good, they will immediately be scolded and beaten angrily, and these tenants dare not do their best.

One hundred and thirty acres of land, a house, a horse, two oxen, some farm implements, four tenants, and two subordinates. This is all the property in Dong Ce's hands now.

He originally thought that Sun Ruhu had been the general banner for so many years and should always save some family business, but he didn't expect that this was not the case at all.

Yesterday, I found out that in addition to these real estate that could not be sold, there were only eight taels of variegated silver, two stones of millet, eight buckets of white flour, twenty catties of eggs, and five smoked chickens hanging in the kitchen.

It turned out that Sun Ruhu was a good gambler by nature, and there was no casino in Shilipu, or the people in Shilipu were poor and had no money to gamble, so he went to Zhenqiang Fort to gamble, and once again went to Yanghe Acropolis. Ten bets and nine losses, not to mention that he is still unfamiliar with life there, naturally he lost this time, plus he has to raise Shi Jin, these five thugs who have no land, no land and no work, it is really windy on all sides, left and right, it is already good to be able to save this little bit of family foundation.

These food and money, plus Dong Ce's monthly military salary, if it is tight, it will be enough to support the next season's grain harvest, but Dong Ce is in urgent need of money at hand, which is not enough at all.

The tenant named Liu Qi trotted two steps, knelt down beside the horse, and the whole person knelt on the ground, looking at Dong Ce with a flattering smile on his face: "Boss, you get on the horse!" ”

Dong Ce was stunned at first, and then he realized that this Sun Ruhu was just a sesame little official, and the shelf was really not small.

He also had no intention of changing, as soon as he stepped on Liu Qi's backbone, he got on the horse lightly.

Liu Qi stood up, led the horse, and walked in front proudly, with a villainous expression, and when he looked at the other tenants, his chin was raised.

When other tenants looked at him, they were envious, and they only hated themselves for being slow to react.

It turned out that this errand had always been the patent of Sun Liuzi in the past, and he also relied on such small means to please Sun Ruhu, so he shared ten acres of land more than other people's families. Don't underestimate these ten acres of land, with the same yield, when it comes to the season of grain, you can get a lot more, and your life will be much more generous.

Everyone was secretly annoyed in their hearts, I was afraid that Liu Qi was going to get benefits, why didn't I react just now?

The group walked towards the outside of the city, and everyone who saw it looked sideways, and when they saw Dong Ce sitting on the horse, they could only sigh from their hearts - Dong Erlang was really good.

Soon they were outside the city, crossing the field path to the edge of their own field.

It turned out that the 230 acres of land, of which 130 acres were leased to these tenants, and the remaining 100 acres were planted by Sun Ruhu himself.

What Dong Ce gave to Xu Ruwei was the 100 acres, but the deed was still in Lingyidu's home, but there was no way to get it now. Dong Ce didn't feel very distressed about sending those fields out, anyway, he couldn't plant them if he kept them, so why not exchange them for an official position?

When he got to the ground, Dong Ce said: "One hundred and thirty acres of land, forty acres for Sun Liuzi's family, thirty acres for Feng San, Zhao Tai, and Liu Qisan's family, sister-in-law of the Wang family, you can't be busy with these forty acres of land alone, so give ten acres of land to Liu Qi's family!" ”

Liu Qi was overjoyed, and he was busy thanking her, and the Wang family didn't have anything to say, after all, with the pickled things that Sun Liuzi did, Dong Ce would take her out lightly, let alone cut out ten acres of land.

Everyone looked at Liu Qi, their eyes were full of envy, and they wondered how to please the owner.

Their expressions Dong Ce were in full view, in his previous life, Dong Ce was not weak and obedient to more than a dozen stores and more than 100 employees, not to mention rectifying them.

Liu Qi is so flattering, so good, Dong Ce naturally has to make a reward, so that others can follow suit, and it is always Dong Ce who benefits in the end. He has never been stingy with this kind of benefit.

"The ploughing cattle Liu Qijia and Feng Sanjia use it first. Zhao Tai, you, your mother-in-law and the sister-in-law of the Wang family will help carry the water first. Dong Ce waved his hand: "Okay, let's go to work!" ”

And they all got busy.

In this vast land in the north of Shanxi, the most planted millet is millet, that is, millet, which is commonly known as millet among the folk. Although wheat has occupied an absolute position among the crops in the north, this ancient and thick land still adheres to tradition.