royal robes

Chapter 131 Marrying the Right Person
"Master..." the old lady said cheerfully, "You have worked so hard. You actually woke up after sleeping for a day and a night. I thought you were all sick, but the family is poor and cannot afford a doctor."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm just too tired."

The old lady nodded: "It shouldn't be~ I think you are in good shape... two girls made you so tired? Think back when my old man was still alive..."

"Stop talking, auntie, I want to vomit." Zong Xin said shamelessly, "I just slept and didn't do anything else. Auntie, do you get up so early every day to cook?"

"That is, the children at home are small, and my wife and I are going to work on the farm. If we don't get up early, we will have to work until midnight. Otherwise, how can the family have food? Even so, there are no cattle or horses in the family, and it is all done by an old lady and a woman. , how can you be so busy? The autumn harvest is approaching, if you don’t finish harvesting the rice quickly and wait until it rains, the rice will not be edible.”

Zong said: "Wheat should be planted near Mount Tai. How to plant rice?"

"Well, some places grow wheat, some places grow rice. The solar terms are different, and the things planted are different. The family harvests twice a year. After the rice is harvested, the wheat is planted. The wheat is so ripe that it can survive the winter, and the spring will start tomorrow. It will be harvested. Then plant rice again, and harvest again in autumn.”

Zong Xin nodded and said: "How about the poor monk and another brother come to help? How can two grown men not do something after dinner? Just wait for me."

Zong Xin immediately went out to bring Zhao Kuangyin back, and Zhao Kuangyin almost woke up. After breakfast at the old lady's house, he took the farm tools to help harvest rice.

In fact, the rice should be harvested before the Mid-Autumn Festival, but the two women were slow to harvest all the rice in the fields until now.

Although Zong Xin and Zhao Kuangyin are not good at farming, they are martial arts masters. With their deep internal strength, even if their movements are not professional, they are much faster than others.

The old lady and the daughter-in-law at home used a sickle, Zongxin used a real knife, and Zhao Kuangyin also found a sword and chopped it directly in the field.

"Don't chop, do you think you are cutting vegetables? This is millet." The old lady said depressedly: "Have you never done farm work? The millet should be cut from the root, and then tied with rice sticks."

"Why?" X2
"Only the grains on top are edible, so of course they have to be transported home before threshing. Don't you even know about threshing?" Throw out the rice. Do you know that there are rice grains in the rice? The two big men have never done farm work, so I will say that you two are not worth it."

Both of them were very surprised. They didn't expect Mi to look like this.But when the millet was peeled off, it was indeed white rice.

After being taught by the old lady, both Zong Xin and Zhao Kuangyin knew what to do.So he started to cut off the rice slivers with a sword, and then tied some of them together.In fact, this movement is very simple, but the strength of most people's waist and hands is limited, so this kind of farm work is very laborious.

But to Zong Xin and Zhao Kuangyin, it was nothing at all. It didn't take long for them to mow all the acres of land, and every bundle of rice was placed very evenly.

After the harvesting, the two were still unsatisfied, and Zong said: "The old lady said that the grain needs to be threshed, right? Let's go and carry the mixing bucket."

"Correct."

"Don't~ you two two hundred and five, the mixing bucket is too heavy, and after threshing the millet...how can you carry it back." The old lady originally wanted to remind a few words, but before she finished speaking, the two two hundred and five had already run away.

Not long after, the two easily carried the mixing bucket to the field.In fact, it should be easier to carry these rice bundles back in bundles.And they threshed at home, and put them in sacks and put them at home immediately after threshing.Rice slivers without rice are also very useful. They can be used for roofing and lighting fires.

If you are threshing grain in the field, you have to carry the sack and mixing bucket back. Isn't this a waste of energy?Usually when you want to start a fire, you have to run back to the field to pick up rice slivers?I'm full.

But since it had already been brought over, the old lady didn't say anything.Anyway, these two young men have a lot of strength, so it's okay to waste a little bit.Let them put things back when they're done.

Threshing is much simpler, as long as you are strong enough to hold the rice and throw it into the mixing bucket, so that the rice can be shared with the rice sticks.Zong Xin and Zhao Kuangyin, two martial arts masters, did such a simple thing. They picked up a bundle of straw and threw all the millet into the mixing bucket.

Although the Mid-Autumn Festival had passed, the weather was still hot. Zong Xin and Zhao Kuangyin had already taken off their clothes and were working in the fields shirtless.The novice who has never done it can do it faster and better than the veteran who has been farming all year round.

To everyone's surprise, Zong Xin, a seemingly serious monk, still had tattoos. After taking off his clothes, Zong Xin saw a dragon tattooed on his body.Only Yaoyao knew about this matter, because she was the only one who had seen Zong Xin without clothes, but now Zhao Kuangyin and the farmer's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had also seen it.

The dragon pattern on Zong Xin's body was very beautiful. Its giant body was wrapped around his waist and stood over his shoulders. Finally, the dragon's head rested on his chest, with his face facing forward. There were no eyeballs in the two dragon eyes.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the peasant family can also see that they are not ordinary people. They can learn everything as soon as they are taught, and they have great strength and good endurance.There is only one thing I don't understand...that monk looks quite serious, how could he sleep with two women?But judging by his appearance, he has a good appearance and a standard figure, especially the muscles on his body after taking off his clothes are clearly defined, which makes the peasant mother-in-law and daughter-in-law wipe their saliva non-stop.

At noon, Zong Xin and Zhao Kuangyin beat more than half of the millet.

It could have been faster, but the farmer's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law had to put the threshed millet into sacks. The two women were not moving fast. Zong Xin and Zhao Kuangyin wanted to help, but the farmer's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were also very knowledgeable. It is better to leave this simple job to a woman. Men should only be busy with physical work.

Yaoyao and Dugu Xingyue came to deliver meals to Zong Xin, carrying several baskets and a bucket of rice in their hands.People who practice martial arts have a relatively large appetite, and they also do physical work today, so I deliberately prepared more for them.

"Don't be busy now, let's eat."

Yaoyao opened the basket, and besides a few vegetarian dishes, there was also a lot of meat, which looked very rich.

Dugu Xingyue said: "These are the pheasants and rabbits that I went out to hunt. I also fried the vegetables at home. You guys can have a taste."

"You young lady can also cook?" Zong Xin looked at Dugu Xingyue in surprise, looking like a good wife and mother.

Dugu Xingyue said: "Which woman can't cook?"

Zong Xin and Zhao Kuangyin turned their heads to stare at Yaoyao at the same time, she would not know how to cook.Yaoyao is a person with self-respect, so she pretended not to see it.But looking at Dugu Xingyue, I also feel ashamed. Dugu Xingyue is of good background, beautiful, gentle and virtuous, and her martial arts are so strong... The only shortcoming is that she is too old.

"Eat quickly, the food won't taste good when it's cold."

Of course Zong Xin and Zhao Kuangyin would not be polite. They were already hungry after doing farm work for so long.Each person started eating a bowl at once, and the farmer's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also sat down to eat together. The taste of these dishes was much better than those made by the old woman.Moreover, it is rare for farmers to find meat. The small village cannot afford to kill pigs, and it is troublesome to go to the town to buy meat. Of course, if you finally have a meal of meat, you must eat more.

After a delicious meal, Dugu Xingyue brought Zong Xin another bowl of tea. Zong Xin sat under a tree and drank tea, looking at a busy rice field.

The weather is hot, but the mood is cool.

"Who would have thought that having a good meal requires hard work." Zong Xin sighed: "Actually, this kind of life is not bad. I work in the fields under the scorching sun during the day, and at noon, a woman delivers the meal. After returning home at night, I hide under the quilt. It's good to talk in a whisper. Why do you want to fight for fame and fortune?"

Dugu Xingyue smiled and said: "Because someone wants to skip the first two procedures and go directly to bed."

"That's right." Zong said, "But once in a while doing farm work, I feel refreshed all over my body after sweating. Seeing that these rice is the rice we eat, I feel an indescribable joy in my heart. The world really must be based on agriculture , as long as you can eat enough, everything is easy to discuss."

"The ancestors of the Dugu Clan have been vigorously developing agriculture precisely because they were hungry, and set the ancestral precepts to never allow future generations to compete for world hegemony. Because the ancestors of the Dugu Clan hoped that no one in the world would be hungry, and the feeling of being hungry is too bitter. "Dugu Xingyue is also very touched by this.

"How does the eldest lady of the Dugu Clan know that love means hunger?" Zhao Kuangyin said: "You Dugu Clan have money and food, so I can't starve you anyway."

Dugu Xingyue shook his head and said: "No, the people of our Dugu Clan will fast for half a month every year. During this half month, we are only allowed to eat a small jujube a day, drink clear springs, and are absolutely not allowed to eat anything else. This is the ancestor of the Dugu Clan. Training, let future generations know what it feels like to be hungry, so that they can understand that the world is the most delicious, but a bowl of Anle tea and rice."

Admire, even Yaoyao admires it.People of the Dugu Clan don't eat for half a month every year. For those who practice martial arts, they can't stand it without eating. They can last for half a month.

"In the future, I will also open a field to grow food and vegetables, grow and harvest by myself every year." Zong Xin said with a smile.In fact, Zongxin is not short of money, but he just wants to find some things to do for himself. Growing vegetables and food is a good fun.

At this time, Dugu Xingyue was so excited that he almost pushed Zong Xin into the haystack. He was very excited when he saw Zong Xin doing the farm work. Although he had no brains, he was shirtless and sweated profusely. Doing farm work is so attractive.And the dragon tattooed on Zong Xin's body is really vivid. If he didn't wear a monk's robe, who would know that he was a monk?
The Dugu Clan was originally based on agriculture. Although Dugu Xingyue had never done farm work, he had special feelings for those who did it.Zong Xin's current state is simply the man Dugu Xingyue dreams of.

Dugu Xingyue was engaged once before to Li Shan, King of the Tang Dynasty.He has a high status and a chivalrous heart. He originally thought that he was his ideal husband, and he could follow Li Shan around to fight for justice.Although Li Shan's martial arts is indeed a bit weak, as long as he has this kind of heart, it is very rare.

But now it seems that I prefer people like Zong Xin.Although Li Shan has a high position and authority, he doesn't understand the sufferings of the common people at all. He only thinks that a good martial arts practice will make the world peaceful. How can the world be so easy to be peaceful?
Fortunately, Li Shan died before he passed the door.Although he stayed empty for several years, he was very lucky to meet Zong Xin in the end.

(End of this chapter)