Locked: God is the matchmaker, neither you nor I can escape

Recently, the villagers in Dashan Village are busy as hell, except for the patients and the elderly who cannot get out of bed, or the young children who cannot take care of themselves, everyone is busy.

If Yan Yiyi didn't have the help of ten guards at home, she would not be able to handle her own 12 acres of rice. Moreover, it was the busy farming season, so it was not easy to ask for help.

Indeed, with so much farmland at home, it would be wise to keep more slaves at home.

During the busy farming season, Li's grocery store was closed, and Li's father came back to help. All the donkey carts and ox carts in the family were mobilized. Aunt Qi and several families who bought ox carts were much more economical this year, which made many villagers in the mountain villages envious.

The villagers who had already decided to use the money earned from selling sweet potatoes to buy ox carts became more determined after seeing this. The villagers who were hesitant at first also made up their minds. Even those who were unwilling to buy ox carts were shaken at this time.

The Li family's yard was originally large and was paved with blue bricks, which made it much more convenient for them to harvest and dry rice than for other families in the village. Yan Yiyi was successfully kept at home to dry the rice, while Xin Ye would come back early to cook, and after eating, he would send the food to the fields for others to eat. After eating, he would continue to harvest rice.

Hua Murong once again felt that doing farm work was more tiring than practicing martial arts!

He could not imagine that an ordinary farmer without any martial arts skills could complete such heavy labor without having enough food to eat. At this moment, he became more determined to become a high-ranking official who could ensure that the people of Zhao State had enough food to eat.

The secret guards, as well as Hua Bei and Hua Yiming, who were transferred from the secret guard camp to the light guard and obtained the surname "Hua", participated in harvesting rice for the first time. Even though they had plenty of strength, they felt very tired and hard, especially for their waists!

At this moment, they deeply admire the farmers who work in the fields, day after day, facing the loess and back to the sky.

It took more than a dozen people almost three days to finish harvesting the thirteen acres of land.

After completing the harvest, they were finally able to take a breath and dry the rice at home. After other villagers had finished harvesting, they boiled water into the fields, plowed the land again and continued to plant the second crop of rice.

Yan Yiyi seemed to have just realized: "Aye, we will go to Sand City after the Mid-Autumn Festival. Who will harvest our rice then?"

"Dad stays and takes care of it."

"Won't Dad go with us? Why, shouldn't the in-laws meet each other?"

Xin Ye thought of what Father Li said at that time and couldn't help but chuckled: "Dad said he was afraid that my parents-in-law wouldn't like me, and it would be embarrassing to go with them. Once I make my parents-in-law happy, it won't be too late to go next year."

Yan Yiyi thought about how Father Li insisted on not sitting in the main seat during the wedding ceremony last year. He has always been clear about his position, so he would not get involved in meetings with his in-laws.

Xin Ye had already lost his biological parents, so it was not considered rude to go alone.

Yan Yiyi and Xin Ye were helpless against Father Li's insistence, so they just followed his lead.

This year's taxes are less than in previous years, not because of the emperor's amnesty, but mainly because the prefect who previously embezzled the people's taxes was dismissed. The current prefect, Hong, is a good official who is honest and upright. He collects as much tax as the law stipulates.

Therefore, the people's support for Prefect Hong in the entire Liangguan County became stronger.

There were things going on above, but Yan Yiyi and others ignored them. After the villagers finished harvesting, they started plowing the land and raising seedlings without stopping.

Half a month later, Dashan Village started to dig sweet potatoes. Yan Yiyi's family had just planted the sweet potatoes, but she was busy organizing people to pick peppers.

Chen Yong once again led his master and others to Dashan Village to collect sweet potatoes. Each villager's sweet potatoes per acre were no less than 5000 jin. Chen Yong collected the exact amount of 5000 jin, and each household received 25 taels of silver. They could keep the remaining sweet potatoes for themselves.

You can also give them to relatives, but they don’t know how to use sweet potatoes to save seeds for planting. However, you can give sweet potato vines to your relatives and teach them how to plant them.

Chen Yong made it clear that the imperial court would not collect sweet potatoes next year, but the Li family would collect some. The specific amount and the price would be discussed with the Li family themselves.

There are a total of 103 households in Dashan Village. Each household planted one acre of sweet potatoes and was required to pay 500% of the cost of sweet potatoes as seeds, which is more than 5000 kilograms. Although some villagers produced more than 500 kilograms, the remaining balance was not enough to make up kilograms.

Yan Yiyi asked them to pay back the shortfall with silver, and the price was the same as the purchase price from the court, which immediately reduced the villagers' gratitude towards her by a large margin.

But no villager dared to default on paying Yan Yiyi. First, they were afraid of her fists. Second, they were afraid of her family background. Third, it was signed in black and white. If they regretted it, they would be thrown into jail. One must know that the Li family and the county magistrate had a very friendly relationship.

The villagers who didn't want to pay so much silver simply compensated with all the sweet potatoes in their homes and also gave up several taels of silver. Wow, after working hard for several months, they didn't even get to taste a bite of sweet potato.

There were also families who tasted the sweet potatoes, but they were not in a good mood, because they knew in their hearts that this year's sweet potatoes were really damn expensive!

What they eat are not sweet potatoes, but silver!

After harvesting the sweet potatoes, they planted the sweet potato seedlings again. The extra sweet potatoes were distributed to their good relatives. They also learned to say that Coix does not want money and wants the sweet potatoes in black and white!

Even if the price of sweet potatoes drops next year, it will not drop too much. At least we can still make some money. After the second half of next year, sweet potatoes probably won’t be that valuable anymore.

After planting the last batch of sweet potatoes this year, we will start to get busy with transplanting rice seedlings.

During this month, the whole village was busy and rushed for various tasks. At this time, Yan Yiyi's family was also busy chopping peppers and making chili sauce.

"Yier, after the chili sauce is ready, should we send it back directly for our parents to taste or wait for us to take it back?" Hua Murong had a scarf covering her face, but her eyes were still red from the smoke of the chili pepper and tears were streaming down her face.

"Mid-Autumn Festival is in a month. There is not much difference between a month earlier or later. Why bother making the secret guards run around?" Yan Yiyi disagreed. Chili sauce is not something that must be given as a gift. It can be a specialty that Xin Ye presents to his Yue family as a gift.

Hua Murong calculated the time. The things that were asked to be sent back before should have arrived, right?

"Huh? I always feel like we seem to have forgotten something, but I can't remember it." Hua Murong frowned and thought.

Yan Yiyi is not a worm in his stomach and has no idea what he is thinking, so why bother!

Since you can forget it, it proves it’s not a big deal. Just forget it.

Half a month later, Chen Youyou and Hua Feifan received another letter sent back by Hua Murong. After reading the contents of the letter, they were both speechless.

The content stated that Yi'er and her two younger brothers were not allowed to go there because there was no place for them to stay at home.

At this time, the two brothers of the Hua family, who had worked hard and slept in the open air and finally arrived in Liangguan County to rest for a day, sneezed loudly at the same time.