There is no news in the mountains.

Although the Nangong family had been confiscated and exiled, the villagers in Shicun didn't know it at all. They pitifully guarded the food they harvested for Mr. Nangong, not daring to eat a bite, and suffered from cold and starvation.

Now, the village chief, Old Man Shi, and the dozens of officers and soldiers suddenly came to tell them that they were no longer serfs of the Nangong family, but became self-cultivated farmers who owned their own fields. This was like a golden rain falling from the sky!

The potatoes at home can be boiled and eaten to fill your stomach!

Divine food is no longer exclusive to the nobles of the aristocratic families, untouchables like them can also enjoy it!

No, they are no longer slaves with low status. Village Chief Shi said that the death contract of being slaves for generations has been burned by the eldest princess from the Ministry of Household Affairs! become free!

A pair of numb eyes gleamed with hope. They returned home, tremblingly took out a few potatoes, put them in the stove and cooked them. They opened them softly and gave one to the old man, one to the child, and one to the wife. The son alone swallowed his saliva and was only willing to eat half of it. He hurriedly ran to the village chief and officers and soldiers to go through household registration procedures, receive land deeds, and have their fingerprints pressed.

Mu Tingxue helped with household registration and land distribution.

Yan Yang helped distribute relief food.

Half of the villagers have no food at home. They handed over the harvested potatoes to Mr. Nangong last month. They only have some rice husks and Guanyin soil at home. A few dozen stones of food brought by the soldiers of the Zhenbei Army can save lives.

There is a winding gully in this mountain, and dozens of serf villages were built around the gully. The other nine villages heard that an official in Shicun was distributing land and grain, and they also came one after another. The workload suddenly increased exponentially, and the food was quickly distributed.

Before you know it, it's dusk, and the setting sun is melting gold.

It's time for dinner.

At the invitation of Tubeishi Village Head, Mu Tingxue and Yan Yang decided to eat potatoes at his house. Since they were experiencing rural life at the grassroots level, they should experience it thoroughly. The young couple eat whatever the farmers eat.

Village Chief Shi brought up a bamboo plate with four fragrantly boiled potatoes, the middle two of which were very large and weighed two kilograms. He also brought a broken porcelain plate with a cracked opening, filled with sunflower soup and two eggs. .

This is the most sumptuous dinner that a poor farmer can prepare. Those eggs are something my family is reluctant to eat except during the Chinese New Year.

"Two gentlemen, please use it."

Yan Yang noticed that the edge of the plate holding the sunflower soup was not clean, and there was something black on it.

But he didn't say anything, just filled a bowl of Gudu Gudu and drank it.

Mu Tingxue picked up the boiled potatoes and just took a bite when she heard the sound of swallowing hard.

She subconsciously turned around and saw seven naked and hairless children huddled on the earthen bed, staring directly at the potatoes in her hand, their clear eyes full of longing.

Mu Tingxue asked: "Lao Shi, has your baby eaten?"

Village Chief Shi smiled honestly: "Your Highnesses will use it first. There are potatoes and steamed buns on the stove behind the kang. The children will eat later."

Mu Tingxue said nothing.

She walked to the stove behind the kang and lifted the lid of the wooden pot. She saw no extra potatoes, only three dark and very rough bran dumplings. In modern times, it is not even fed to pigs because cornmeal needs to be added to the pig feed. This bran dumpling only has bran.

Mu Tingxue stretched out her hand to get the glutinous rice balls.

who ever thought.

The dumplings made from the shells and chaff of rice and corn had no stickiness at all. They shattered in her hands and the chaff fell all over the stove.

Mu Tingxue stood there stunned, staring at the broken rice dumplings without saying anything. After three breaths, she gathered the broken dumplings together with her hands, poured them into a bowl of sunflower soup that Yan Yang had filled for her before, sat back, and ate the soup.

Village Chief Shi was shocked: "How could this happen!"

The pupils of the seven children also contracted violently and their mouths opened.

This is the most noble woman in Yunhuang! It's the eldest princess! How could you eat something as lowly as bran dumplings!

Mu Tingxue and Yan Yang tacitly shared the potatoes on the table with the seven children who had been hungry for who knows how long. Three and a half potatoes, half for each child, wolfed them down and couldn't bear to spit out the potato skins.

"Didn't the sergeant share the food? Lao Shi, you didn't take it?"

"I took four potatoes for emergency help, and sent those who had sick people at home and old people who were about to starve to death to take the lead. People in the village were in bad shape." Village Chief Shi lowered his head and knocked the cigarette pouch on the upper of his shoe, knocking off the ash. , "Many people here are named Shi, and they should be helped when they need it."

Mu Tingxue couldn't calm down for a long time.

This hunchbacked man obviously didn't know a word and was far less knowledgeable than the children of the aristocratic family, but he was a respectable man with a heart as simple as gold, responsible and responsible.

They were exploited and oppressed. They were slaves for generations, but they were much nobler than their rich masters.

On the way back from Shicun.

Mu Tingxue and Yan Yang were both silent.

Mu Tingxue came from the 21st century. She grew up in a village. The school also organized and watched many educational films on the liberation of Tibetan serfs. She also studied history. She still has a little understanding of the life of ancient serfs who were oppressed by the noble class. What I understand is that it’s even more shocking when I see it with my own eyes.

But for the regent who came from a top family, as an unknowing oppressor, his outlook on life suffered an unprecedented impact at this moment!

Doesn’t the Yan family have any land to annex?

There must be.

Although the Yan family has been mainly military and political for generations, the clan is so large that it still annexed 50,000 acres of land. The first Emperor Gaozu only gave the first Duke Wu An a thousand hectares of fertile land.

As the head of the Yan family, after Yan Yang returned from Shicun, Mrs. Mingguo came to the Regent's Palace to visit her grandson.

"The Yan family's land deed and the family slave's death deed?"

Mrs. Mingguo was stunned. She didn't expect her son to mention this. He usually didn't get involved in the family farm business. "There are more than a dozen farms, and the Yan family has about five thousand slaves farming." Multiple people.”

At the dinner table, Yan Yang said, "Everything is fine."

Mrs. Mingguo thought she had heard wrongly: "Everyone has been farmed? Who will plant the fields?"

Yan Yang said: "They continue to plant the fields, and a family of five will receive fifteen acres of land."

Mrs. Mingguo opened and closed her lips, not quite agreeing.

"How can one give away land that has been passed down from ancestors to a family slave for free? Even if mother agrees, the elders and uncles in the family will not be happy."

"Mom, think about how the Nangong family's fields, the Tan family's fields, the Lu family's fields, and the household department were ultimately dealt with." Yan Yang reminded.

Mrs. Mingguo still didn't come back, and only said: "That's because they broke the law, their homes were confiscated, and their fields were confiscated. Her Royal Highness the Princess was kind and distributed them to the people who had no land..."

Yan Yang interrupted her and his eyes became extremely sharp: "This has nothing to do with kindness, that is the general direction of her policy. She is not targeting the Nangong family, but all the aristocratic families who own a large amount of land!"

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