The wind was blowing the wheat waves, and Man Bao no longer felt much sensation. She felt that the wind was so refreshing.
She squatted on the edge of the field and blew in the wind. She felt that her body was no longer so sticky, and then she exhaled.
Bai Shan had already collapsed beside her, looking at the wheat field not far away and said: "Don't mention it, although this village is remote, the fields are pretty good. It seems that the wheat here grows better than outside."
Manbao nodded.
This village is remote. Bai Shan went down the mountain several times and never came to this small village because there is no road!
Not to mention the cars, even the horses couldn't get in. In the end, they left the horses outside when they were halfway there, leaving two people to guard the horses while the others came in carrying things on their backs.
When they got here and saw this wheat field, they didn't want to leave.
It's cooler in the mountains, and the wheat here matures later than outside. The harvest hasn't started yet, and there aren't many people in the fields.
Manbao felt that she had rested well. She put her hands back and started to spread her legs and look around. She said: "Although this village is surrounded by mountains, the mountains are not high. They are far worse than our place. It is just a small hillside."
, at least a road must be built to allow trucks to pass through, right?”
Bai Shan also thinks so, "You have to carry everything on your back, even if you have the best things, you can't make money."
Bai Shanwei, the Dong county captain next to him, asked, "How do their villages pay their taxes every year?"
County Lieutenant Dong: "...Carry it out, we only collect taxes at the county government office."
As for how it was shipped out, how did he know?
A group of people were enjoying the wind on the edge of the field, because the boredom of carrying things up the mountain had dissipated a lot. Although they were hungry, they actually felt sleepy.
Man Bao sighed happily: "The wind is so refreshing."
Bai Shan agreed, "Let's sit around for a while."
Lieutenant Dong County: ...I want to go into the village to eat.
It seemed that God heard what Dong Xianwei was thinking. A man carrying a hoe came out of the village and walked over to find a group of them. His eyes widened. Bai Shancai raised his hand, and he turned around and walked away.
The legs run away.
Bai Shan's hands froze and he couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zhou Man on the grass.
Man Bao had already sat up from the grass and said confidently: "He should have gone back and asked the village chief to greet us."
Bai Shan thought so too, so he stood up and straightened his robe and hair crown. After all, he was also a parent, so he had to be decent when meeting for the first time and not be too embarrassed.
The arrival of someone from Xiaoliu Village was even more unusual than the arrival of a carriage in Qili Village. So when the person shouted, someone immediately ran out of the village...
If they hadn't been carrying hoes, wooden sticks and kitchen knives, Man Bao would have felt that they had received a warm welcome.
Seeing how fierce they were, Lieutenant Dong County was so frightened that he jumped up from the grass. He immediately stopped in front of Bai Shan and Zhou Man with his servants and guards, and yelled at the people who were rushing towards them: "What are you doing? The county magistrate is here.
Who dares to be presumptuous?"
This sentence was said in Mandarin, but the villagers didn't understand it. They still shouted at them with a hoe in hand. Dong County Lieutenant could only shout again in dialect, and used a scabbard to push back the people who rushed towards them.
Pushing him away vigorously, he shouted with an angry look on his face: "You don't recognize the person, and you don't recognize the official uniform either?"
Just when the villagers hesitated and did not continue, but just pushed and shoved the government officials, the village chief came from behind panting, shouting: "Where are the bandits, where are the bandits? God damn it, as soon as the wheat is ripe, it will be gone."
Come……"
When I looked through the crowd and saw the official robes worn by Lieutenant Dong and others, I looked down at their boots. I was shocked and immediately shouted: "Oh, stop it, stop it, you bunch of fools, this is my lord."
, I admit my mistake, I admit my mistake, put the hoe down quickly..."
The villagers put down their hoes, wooden sticks and... kitchen knives and sickles in confusion. There was a noise, and everyone looked at Bai Shan and others with fear and suspicion.
Bai Shan and Man Bao both exhaled a long breath, scared to death.
The village chief stopped the villagers and asked them to step back before coming forward with a face of joy. Bai Shan was about to greet him, but the village chief held Dong Xianwei's hand, raised his head and looked at him with tears in his eyes and said:
"Sir, you are finally here. You don't know how long the people in the village have been waiting for you..."
Bai Shan:……
Lieutenant Dong was a little embarrassed, so he simply took the village chief's hand and pulled him to Bai Shan, saying, "This is the county magistrate."
The village chief looked at Bai Shan blankly, "Has our county changed its magistrate?"
Dong County Lieutenant had a black line on his head, and he was afraid that Bai Shan would misunderstand, so he said: "I was not a county magistrate before."
The village chief quickly explained: "Of course I know that you are not the county magistrate, you are the county captain. I have seen you."
Lieutenant Dong Xian's heart was raised. Thinking of what he shouted just now, he immediately said: "I have never seen you!"
The village chief lowered his head in despair, "Yes, I came back before I could see the adults."
He looked at Lieutenant Dong and Bai Shan expectantly and said, "Are you adults here to suppress bandits?"
He looked back and forth between the government officials and the guards, and asked: "Is the army outside the mountain? Do you want me to go out to greet them?"
County Lieutenant Dong began to sweat constantly. He was a County Lieutenant and he was in charge of the security of the county. Of course, he was not the main force in things like suppressing bandits, because there were still two patrol inspectors in the county.
But as a county lieutenant, he must know this situation. He should even dispatch people to suppress bandits. But why didn't he know that there were bandits in Beihai County?
He couldn't help but look at the county magistrate.
Bai Shan only glanced at Lieutenant Dong and knew that he knew nothing, so he told the village chief: "We are here to see the situation first. The army has not arrived yet, so please don't spread the word."
Upon hearing this, the village chief nodded immediately, and at the same time asked the villagers to be quiet and stop shouting, "No wonder the village chief didn't tell us in advance that the adults were coming. It turned out to be quiet."
Bai Shan glanced at the villagers and said: "Let's go to the village first. I want to understand with you...the situation of the bandits."
The village chief immediately agreed and took them into the village. Seeing that the government officials and guards were carrying a lot of things, he immediately asked the villagers to come forward to help.
Manbao followed them into the village and went directly to the village chief's house.
The village is quite tidy, with most of the walls made of mud and thatched roofs. However, the houses are slightly taller than those in many villages outside, and the yards are also spacious.
There are some long melons hanging under the eaves, as well as smoked and dried chickens. It can be seen that their life here is better than that in fishing villages such as Xiaowa Village.
Bai Shan was very satisfied and said: "I have seen the roster of your village. There are a total of thirty-nine households in your village?"
"Yes, there are few people in our village."
Bai Shan glanced at the people outside cheering and said with a smile: "Not too young."
Most of them are like Zhou Man's family, they have many descendants but they don't divide their families.
Bai Shan smiled and narrowed his eyes and asked, "Which mountain are the bandits you mentioned on?"