Chapter 119 Can Fly

When Er Gouzi rode the goose back to Shekou Mountain, he first looked at Yushan, who was working steadily in the field.

He habitually looked at the spiritual medicine in the field.

"Huh?"

"Why are there two less spiritual medicines!"

Er Gouzi remembered that he had seen them when he left. When he went out and came back, the two spiritual medicines were gone.

"Yu~shan..."

"Master, I really didn't steal the spiritual medicine!"

Before Er Gouzi could hit anyone, Yushan had already started to argue.

"If it wasn't you, who else could it be?"

Now, no matter how nice Yushan said, he would not believe it.

Since the last escape, Er Gouzi had completely lost his trust in him.

Once a person has a stain, it can never be washed away.

Without saying anything, he caught Yushan and beat him up.

This guy used to be quite cowardly. Every time he was beaten, he confessed everything. Now he has become stubborn and refused to admit it.

So he beat him harder this time.

After the beating, Er Gouzi comforted Yushan with kind words.

Beating him was just a means, not an end.

The real purpose was to make him realize his mistakes and not make them again.

The beating really worked. In the following days, there was no more loss of elixirs.

Since returning from the county, Er Gouzi has been organizing spring farming these days.

A year's plan starts with spring. Many crops will have to wait until next year if they miss spring.

There are too many vacant lands in Anchang County now, and the tenants are not enough to plant them.

In addition to the real estate he bought from his previous grandfather, Er Gouzi has also bought some land one after another.

There are more than 1,000 hectares of land in his hands, one hectare equals 100 mu, which is more than 100,000 mu.

In addition, there are countless uncultivated barren mountains.

Let's ignore the barren mountains for now. It only needs thousands of strong laborers for more than 100,000 mu of land, and it has to support 10,000 or 20,000 people with their families.

The population was originally seriously insufficient, but he unexpectedly solved this big problem.

He was too soft-hearted the year before last, and spent a lot of food to feed more than 3,000 of his men. Hundreds of them died in the battle, and there were more than 2,600 left.

Now, these more than 2,000 people who have practiced martial arts can charge into battle in wartime and are a strong labor force in peacetime.

One person can do farm work for two or three people, and pull the plow faster than an ox.

These people are all slaves bought by Er Gouzi. Most of them are paid one penny each, and the indenture is still in their hands, so they don’t even have to pay for their wages.

The only disadvantage is that people who practice cultivation have a good appetite, a large appetite, and can work and eat.

Only these 2,000 people cultivated most of the semi-land in Er Gouzi’s hands.

Only a few remote and unconnected lands were rented out.

As for the tenants, he didn’t worry too much.

Last year, when Er Gouzi rode a goose to pacify the rebels in Anchang County, a large number of rebel soldiers were scattered everywhere.

Sima Yi was kind-hearted and settled these people in some villages and sent them some food.

These people have survived until now and are all the most sought-after strong laborers.

Most of the people who were settled by Sima Yi at the beginning became Ergouzi's tenants.

So the problem of lack of people for spring plowing on his side was solved.

However, Ergouzi still responded to the proposal of County Magistrate Ding and reduced the rent for the tenants.

The rent was reduced to 20%.

In this way, as long as there is a normal harvest, most tenants can have enough food and some surplus grain can be saved.

As for other landlords, they are not so lucky. They can't recruit tenants and their fields can only be abandoned.

Fortunately, the court exempted taxes at this stage.

But after three years, even the abandoned land will have to pay taxes.

People who have a large amount of land and no fame will still lose money.

As a last resort, they can only sell the land at a low price.

Ergouzi now buys as long as someone sells.

In the previous war, there was a shortage of food, and gold, silver and copper were far less valuable than food, so he hoarded a lot of gold and silver.

At the same time, under the call of County Magistrate Ding, the various caravans in Anchang County were really powerful and brought a large number of people from other places.

When these people arrived in Anchang County, they were so rare that they were scrambled by landlords from all sides.

Gradually, the population of other prefectures heard the news, and some of them took the initiative to move to Anchang County with their families.

When those outsiders came, they found that this was indeed a paradise, with only 20% to 30% of the rent, and the landlords were very kind and easy to talk to.

In particular, the parent official of Anchang County was a great master, not greedy for money, not making things difficult for the people, and treating people kindly.

It was difficult to find a better place than this in the entire Zhou Dynasty.

After several months of recuperation, everyone in Anchang County lived and worked in peace and contentment, and slowly regained some popularity.

So much so that those who made a living by trafficking in people were about to lose their jobs and had to move to other places.

However, Er Gouzi just came back from the field today, but he met a group of little beggars who blocked his way.

Er Gouzi thought they were asking for food, so he didn't care. He took out some red dates from his arms and was about to give them to these little beggars.

"Boss, we don't want red dates, we want to sell ourselves to you as slaves."

At this time, a little beggar came over and pulled Er Gouzi's trouser leg and said.

Er Gouzi saw that the child looked familiar.

He wiped the dirt off the child's face with his sleeve, revealing a dark, mature face.

Uh!

Isn't this Ah Hu's son who is very good at farm work?

"Why are you here? Where are your parents? And your uncles?"

Since Agui left, Ahu and his brothers have been left behind. They have never split up, but there are more than a dozen people.

"My father and uncles left one day and never came back."

"My mother married with my sister and exchanged a lot of delicious food for me, but I ate it all..."

Ahu's son simply told the story of his family.

It's a pity that Ahu's family is still very hardworking.

Agui sold 20 shi of grain and bought an acre of land.

Ahu wanted to take a bigger chance, but unfortunately he failed and his family was broken up.

"We want to sell ourselves to the boss as slaves."

This kid is smart. He knows that he is too young to be a tenant, so he thought of the old boss.

"By the way, what's your name?"

"I don't know. My parents call me Goushengzi. They say that such a name is auspicious and easy to raise."

Goushengzi shook his head in confusion. He didn't know if he had a real name.

Even if he had one, he couldn't write it anyway.

"How much do you plan to sell it for?"

"Are all of you the same?"

Several children nodded together, indicating that they wanted to sell themselves to Ergouzi.

"I heard that Dingjiazhuang also accepts children and gives one stone of grain per person."

"We don't want to go to Dingjiazhuang. The owner can just give us a little."

Several children are orphans near Shexi Village. They are familiar with this place and are a little homesick, so they chose Ergouzi's place.

"Okay, just follow me. I'll give you one stone of grain per person."

"Just go over there and report to Qiuyue."

Ergouzi pointed to the house where Qiuyue was.

Goushengzi knew Qiuyue, and he led the group of children there by himself...

At the same time, on the top of Shekou Mountain.

Yushan was digging the ground. Because he often watered the gourd with water, the weeds in the ground grew very fast.

He had to dig the ground and weed every three or five days, which made Yushan's life very fulfilling every day. He was never bored and had no worries.

He got up in the morning to work, ate something when he was hungry, and then continued to work. At night, he went to bed, and then in the morning...

In this fulfilling life, people are the purest, without distractions, and will not think about anything.

Yushan's hoe just dug next to a spiritual medicine, and suddenly, the spiritual medicine floated up by itself.

"Huh?"

How can the spiritual medicine fly?

Then he saw that the spiritual medicine was flying higher and higher, and it was about to float to the foot of the mountain.

Yushan hurriedly used both hands to catch it.

But he was too short and his hands and feet were short. He jumped several times in a row and didn't catch it.

Just like that, he watched the spiritual medicine fly away.

At this moment, another spiritual medicine flew from the ground and floated into the air.

Yushan hurried to chase after him, feeling annoyed and even angry.

Finally, he found the one who stole the spiritual medicine, and he got beaten up for nothing.

But the spiritual medicine was flying in the sky, and Yushan, with his small arms and legs, jumped several times, but still couldn't catch it.

Seeing that the spiritual medicine was about to fly down Shekou Mountain and escape again.

Yushan was not willing to accept this. If he didn't catch the thief, he would be beaten again when his master came back.

He jumped forward with all his strength...

"Puff..."

He was swung back by the big goose.

The big goose received the order from Ergouzi to watch over Yushan and never let him escape, and he was still very dedicated.

"You stupid goose, didn't you see that the spiritual medicine flew away?"

Yushan roared, losing the spiritual medicine and getting beaten again.

The big goose raised its head to the sky, disdaining Yushan's questioning.

The master only asked him to watch over Yushan and not let him escape.

He didn't say not to let the spiritual medicine fly by itself.

Although the big goose has some intelligence and can understand human words.

But it has only been one or two years since it was promoted from a mutant goose to a spiritual goose, so its understanding ability is limited.

Being able to follow Er Gouzi's instructions and keep an eye on Yushan and prevent him from escaping is already the limit of the big goose's understanding ability.

Maybe the thief who stole the spiritual medicine today wanted to provoke Yushan, and at this moment another spiritual medicine flew into the air.

Yushan hurried to chase him, but still failed to catch up. When he reached the edge of the mountain top, he was fanned back by the big goose's wings.

"Why do you keep stopping me, you stupid goose?"

"Didn't you see that spiritual medicine flew away?"

The big goose still raised its head proudly and disdained Yushan's anger.

His mission is to watch over Yushan, and no sweet words can shake him.

"Stupid goose, damn goose, braised goose, bald goose..."

Yushan was so angry that he could only curse at the big goose.

"Gaga...Gaga..."

With the arrogance of the goose and its limited vocabulary, it naturally couldn't scold Yushan.

"Bang!"

It knocked Yushan to the ground with one wing, stretched out its beak to peck at him several times, and then held Yushan's big ear tightly.