It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 326

Jiang Ying brushed off the broken leaves hanging on her body and said, "You're still thinking about this? It's been a month already."

Dongshan Village still had one last soybean field to harvest this year. As the soybeans were almost ripe, Jiang Ying and a few others took time off to return to the village to help.

"This is the biggest incident in our county. How can I not be curious? I'm also worried that if things get really chaotic, it will affect everyone's farming."

Jiang Yan has already asked Grandpa Jiang Wang. The harvest of the crops she planted in the field this year was pretty good. It was not a bumper harvest by the standards of the past when the soil was still fertile, but the current poor condition was slightly beyond expectations.

Jiang Yan felt much more relaxed after knowing the result. Even if he just barely made it through, he still passed. The progress bar in his mind had already run one-fifth of the way.

Jiang Ying thought about this matter and thought that many insignificant news had spread throughout the palace, so he did not hide it:

"Master Fu ordered those families to return the extra land they had occupied, otherwise they would suffer. They then told the victims that the county wouldn't allow it, that the land wouldn't be rented out, and that the grain owed on credit must be repaid within a few days, including principal and interest.

The victims couldn't afford to pay it back, and when they were pressed, they remembered someone said they could go into the city and ask Fu Fu and the county magistrate to change their minds. If they didn't change their minds, the worst that could happen was that everyone would be killed."

Jiang Yan gathered up the yellowed bean stalks and spread them on the ground to dry. He still couldn't understand what she was saying. "No matter how much grain they've borrowed on credit, they can't afford to pay it back, including the principal and interest. So they dare to come into the city and cause trouble for the county government and the soldiers?"

People who were once so harshly oppressed by the county government and felt that they would lose half their lives if they got close to the soldiers suddenly rebelled... Is this considered a rebound?

Jiang Ying, knowing some of the inside story, frowned and said, "None of those people knew how to read. They didn't realize they were tricked into signing a fake deed. When they heard they had to pay ten times more, they panicked. They didn't dare to go to the county government to seek justice, but they didn't dare to deny it either. In the end, they were fooled into doing whatever they were told."

Ten times... Jiang Yan was listening to the oral version at that time. Those people could not read, so they naturally would not mention this when sharing.

She put on a serious face and said, "This incident tells us, first, the importance of literacy, second, the courage to default on debts, and third, we need to be clear-headed and not be foolish enough to be used as a tool."

"Where's number four?" Jiang Ying asked.

"Fourth, you should pick the softest persimmons to squeeze, between the Fu family and outsiders, but at the moment, outsiders are easier to squeeze."

"Then let's not do that. Even if it's easier to make, we can't afford it. You don't know that this time several counties outside also..." Jiang Ying's words stopped abruptly.

Jiang Yan stopped asking questions tacitly.

This was not the first time that the conversation was interrupted. Jiang Yan understood that it was inconvenient to talk about the rest of the content, but even if she didn't say it, she could guess that similar problems and disturbances had probably occurred in other counties.

But for some reason, this time, Jiang Yan's originally firm decision suddenly wavered.

Especially at midnight.

Jiang Yan tossed and turned on the kang, unable to fall asleep. Determination, regret, hesitation, confusion...all kinds of emotions were mixed in her mind.

Until she suddenly heard herself saying to a blurry figure, "Teacher, could you please skip these definitions and talk about something practical?"

"For example, in the ancient context, how could a poor farmer make his own pesticide to kill insects on his crops?"

“How do I determine soil acidity and alkalinity, and what nutrients should I add?”

"Without the help of instruments, how can an ordinary person with no talent for discerning weather and astronomical phenomena determine whether it will be sunny or rainy during the farming season?"

……

Relying on the fact that he was in his dream, Jiang Yan threw out a bunch of questions at once to relieve his depression.

Finally, she made a wish: "It would be great if high-yield seeds from the modern world could rain down from the sky. I want to plant them as soon as possible and escape as soon as possible."