"Second brother Qin, do you think this Ye Qiu is really a mountain bandit?”
Cheng Yaojin took a bite of a roasted sweet potato and asked.
If it was in the past, Qin Qiong would definitely say yes firmly, but now he was wavering.
One managed the surroundings in an orderly manner and continuously gave things to the commoners for free. Moreover, he could even make things that he had never seen before.
For example, this sweet potato. Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong had been to many places and had eaten all kinds of food, but this was the first time they had heard of this sweet potato.
"I don't know." Qin Qiong said.
Cheng Yaojin took another bite of the sweet potato and muttered to himself,""It's so f * cking delicious. I've never eaten such delicious food in my life. And it's so good at enduring hunger. I'll be full after eating two of these.”
"And I also heard that this sweet potato has a very high yield. If this thing is spread throughout the Great Tang, then the harvest of our farmers will increase by a large amount, and there won't be so many people suffering from hunger and cold.”
Although the Great Tang was flourishing, it was vast and there were still many places where people could not even eat.
The two of them continued to move forward while eating the sweet potatoes that the children had given them.
As they walked, a sudden thud caught their attention.
The two of them looked in the direction of the sound and saw a family of farmers harvesting rice in the paddy field beside them. Four or five people were harvesting, and one person was fighting.
The person who caught their attention was the one who was harvesting the grain.
There was a barrel-shaped object in front of the person who was working on the grain. The person picked up a handful of rice grains and stuffed them into the barrel-shaped object. After that, he stomped on the barrel-shaped object for a few times, causing all the grains on the rice grains to fall off at an extremely fast speed.
Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin were both northerners. They had never planted rice or harvested grain, but they had been out fighting all year round. They had never eaten pork and had seen pigs run. Naturally, they knew that they were harvesting grain.
However, what surprised the two of them was that the man was so fast. In the past, when they saw other people harvesting grain, they would surround a big box made of wood for five people, then pick up a handful of rice, and then continuously beat the wall of the box, using brute force to knock down all the grain.
This process was strenuous and thankless. Generally speaking, after a day of harvesting, one's entire body would be sore for several days.
When he was in Jiangnan, Cheng Yaojin had also helped farmers harvest grain. He still remembered that feeling. He would rather fight on the battlefield for three days and three nights than to harvest grain in the fields for a day.
However, the person in front of him looked much more relaxed.
This made Cheng and Qin feel very strange.
That was strange. He just wanted to know the reason.
The two of them did not even take off their shoes. They ran straight to the paddy field and came to the side of that person.
"Brother, what is this? Why had he never seen her before?”Cheng Yaojin quickly asked.
The person who was chopping the grain glanced at Cheng Qin and his wife. His gaze was the same as those children from before, as if he was looking at two country bumpkins.
However, his expression was very friendly.
"Are the two of you from outside?" the man asked.
Cheng Qin nodded at the same time.
"This thing is called a harvester. Look, as long as you put the grain into this and step on the harvester, the gears inside will easily shed the grain.”the man said.
Cheng Yaojin's eyes were wide open. He even went up to try. Sure enough, in less than three minutes, all the grains on the rice were removed.
Cheng Yaojin couldn't help but exclaim," This is really a divine weapon. With this thing, the efficiency of doing things will increase several times."”
"That's right. In the past, it took at least seven or eight people to harvest these few acres of rice. Four people cut and four people fight, and it took three or four days. Now that we have this thing, one person can fight. Not only does it save costs, but it also greatly reduces time.”the farmer said proudly.
"Where did this thing come from? Why haven't I seen it before?" Cheng Yaojin asked.
" It was invented by Ye Qingtian on the mountain. A year ago, Ye Qingtian came to our place and saw us working so hard. He couldn't bear it and said he would help us invent something. A few days later, he invented the harvester, which saved us a lot of time and energy. Ye Qingtian is really a savior sent by God.”
The farmer seemed to have endless words to say when he talked about Ye Qingtian. His eyes were full of respect.
Ye Qingtian, Ye Qingtian, Ye Qiu again.
Cheng and Qin looked at each other, their eyes full of shock.
What they had seen and heard this day simply made Cheng and Qin's worldview collapse.
A mountain bandit who cared for the people could not only get seeds that others had never seen before, but also invent all kinds of things that benefited the people.
Was this really something a bandit would do?
This Ye Qiu was too terrifying.
"Seeing that our place is so good, do you want to move here too?”the farmer said.
Cheng and Qin nodded subconsciously.
" In fact, it wasn't like this at all a year ago. Everything changed because of Ye Qingtian.”the farmer said.
"What do you mean?" Cheng Yaojin asked.
"Do you know the Wuan County Governor, Wang Shouzhi?”the farmer asked.
Cheng Yaojin nodded.
"That person is a big corrupt official who specializes in bullying the good and fearing the evil. He came to our place as an official for three years, but he didn't want to plead for the people. Instead, he plundered the people's wealth everywhere, causing us to be filled with resentment. The people's homes didn't have any surplus food, and they were plundered by him.”the farmer said.
"No way. I heard that Wang Shouzhi is an honest official.”Qin Qiong's expression gradually sank.
" What incorruptness? It's all a lie to you outsiders. If Ye Qingtian hadn't come and helped us defeat the government troops, I'm afraid we wouldn't have seen a living person here."”the farmer said.
At this moment, Cheng Yaojin and Qin Qiong's expressions were extremely ugly.
As a father and mother, no, as an official who pleaded for the lives of the people, he exploited the people everywhere. This was the official of the Great Tang.
As a mountain bandit, he had always thought of the people and managed this place in an orderly manner.
Why was that?
Cheng and Qin couldn't help but start to reflect. From the beginning to the end, perhaps their so-called bandit suppression this time was a huge mistake.
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