"You're welcome, sir, I'm leaving!" Doctor Gong got up and got out of the fire shop. Ning Sanmei smiled at the door and said with a pity: "Doctor Gong, how much does this medicine cost?" "No!" Doctor Gong had a sense of comfort in giving favors, and waved his hand with a smile, "Mr. Gu is the only scholar in our village and the enlightenment teacher of my little grandson. He rarely comes to me for treatment all year round. Now he is injured in order to persuade the fight, so I'll give some medicine, which is also a little bit of intention. Anyway, it's all picked on the mountain. It's not worth it!"

"Then I thank you for your kindness!" Ning Sanmei replied with a smile, and kept sending Doctor Gong to the stairs of the stilt house before coming back.

Although Zhuang Hui felt a headache, he was more concerned about what kind of world he had come to at this moment. He looked at Ning Sanmei coming in and asked, "I really can't remember many things. Can you tell me?"

Ning Sanmei remembered what Gong Langzhong said just now. Although her heart was heavy, she showed a romantic smile on her face. She thought of the buds that had just bloomed. She turned her head and sat on the stool beside him, turned her face and looked at him softly: "If you can't remember anything, please ask me, I'll tell you."

"You said before, your family is my tenant?"

"Yes, my house is not far behind your house. You are my boss, and I have to plant your land. Do you remember?"

I didn't expect that I would still have land to rent for others to plant and collect rent, so wouldn't I become a landlord? But five acres of land are really not a landlord, and at best they are a middle-aged peasant.

Zhuang Hui asked again: "Who else is there in your family? If you come to take care of me, don't you care about your family?"

"I have parents and two older brothers at home. I am the third brother, so I call me third sister. I have two older brothers at home to take care of you, so don't worry. So I have time to take care of your daily life. But it's not in vain. Hehehe."

Zhuang Hui asked again: "Is my surname Gu?"

Ning Sanmeixi said: "Yes! Do you still remember this? It's great!"

"What's my name?"

The smile on Ning Sanmei's face froze immediately. It seemed that Mr. Gu had not recovered. So she quickly made a smile: "Your name is Gu Yezhou."

(For the sake of narrative convenience, I will no longer use the name of Zhuang Hui before traveling through time, but instead use the name of the scholar who resurrected his corpse in ancient times, "Gu Ye Zhou")

Gu Yezhou asked: "Am I a gentleman from the village school?"

"Yes, you are the only scholar in our village. The only private school in the village is what you teach. Because you have to teach and you don't have time to farm, you scholars can't farm, so you rent all five acres of land to my house to farm, and you pay rent to your house every year. There are more than a dozen children in the private school. Uncle Mo's granddaughter Lancao is also there. He is the only girl. Uncle Mo said that it is good for women to read a little book and learn to read, but it's great that I don't have this blessing."

"Are my parents gone?" There is no one else in the family except them, so this is easy to guess.

Ning Sanmei nodded solemnly: "Yes, sir, your parents got sick when you were fifteen years old, and you are the only one in the family."

"Do you remember what dynasty or emperor in ancient times? Or a famous minister?" Gu Yezhou asked his most concerned question. As long as Ning Sanmei said the name of an ancient celebrity she knew, she could infer from it what era she had roughly came to.

However, Ning Sanmei shook her head blankly: "You have never told me. I don't know."

Gu Yezhou was very disappointed. But it was no wonder that a peasant woman from a mountain village would not care about who became the emperor, just take care of her own land. It seems that it is impossible to find out the news about the times from him.

Gu Yezhou asked about some things about the village, and Ning Sanmei said it one by one.

Finally, Gu Yezhou asked: "I heard before that I was injured because of water fetching. I heard Uncle Mo say that all the wells in the village have dried up, and only the well at the entrance of the village still have water. So, is it a serious drought?"

As soon as she talked about this issue, Ning Sanmei's face was covered with haze: "Yes, it didn't rain much since last year, and until this year. Last year, there were a few light raindrops occasionally. This year, it was not a single rain. It was dry and cold all winter. The harvest last year was not good, and a mu of land was less than 200 kilograms. This year, I'm afraid I can't even get one hundred kilograms! Alas!"

Gu Yezhou smiled bitterly in his heart: Why did he come to a village with severe drought? It seems that he is afraid that even eating enough will become a problem.

As he spoke, the iron cauldron was steaming and the porridge was already cooked.

Ning Sanmei got up, took a blue-edged earthen bowl from the cabinet and placed it next to the fire shop. She clamped it with an anti-scalding pad woven with bamboo strips, picked up the iron cauldron, poured all the porridge inside into the earthen bowl. She then picked up a small jar in the cabinet and put it in the bowl, held it, and handed it to Gu Yezhou.

Gu Yezhou didn't pick him up and asked, "You gave me all the porridge, what would you eat?"

Ning Sanmei smiled, her big eyes with long eyelashes bending into a crescent moon: "Silly! I always go home to eat. - After your parents passed away, my family rented your land to plant. I agreed at that time that I would cook, wash clothes, clean the room, and take care of your daily life. You will collect less rent for my family of 100 kilograms of rice every year. Can't remember? You have waived our family of 100 kilograms of rent, and I still eat with you. How can there be such a cheap thing in the world!"

"Why didn't there?" Gu Yezhou said with a sarcasm, "The maids are all ate their masters, so how can they bring their own food?"

"I'm not your girl!" Ning Sanmei chuckled, her pretty face full of a blushing smile.

"The maids are like this, but it should be even more like this if they are not a maid. I should buy you for food! In the future, you add another bowl of rice and make porridge and eat together. Since you come to take care of me, let's share the joys and sorrows together! And when I'm done, you can eat at my house as well. Live here and you don't have to go back."

"Really?" Ning Sanmei was in surprise, her beautiful eyes were full of brilliance.

"Of course it's true. You can eat, stay with me in the future."

"But..." The glory in Ning Sanmei's eyes slowly disappeared, "Your food is not enough to eat, and with me, it is even less enough to eat."

Gu Yezhou smiled confidently: "Don't worry, believe me, I will find a way to make money. We don't have to eat rice bran or wild vegetables!"

Gu Yezhou was full of confidence. No matter which dynasty he traveled to, it would not be too difficult to make money to support his family with his rich knowledge from modern society. In addition, his historical knowledge is also good. If he does it well, he might even be able to change history and become a sensational figure.

Ning Sanmei smiled and said, "Sir, the most capable, of course I believe it."

"Then you can make porridge quickly."

"No need, aren't there any bran cakes in the kitchen cabinet? I'll just eat that!" After that, I opened the cabinet and sure enough, a few rice bran cakes were placed inside. I took one out and put it in my mouth, and started chewing it with great effort.

Gu Yezhou was a little strange: "How did you know there was a bastard in the cupboard?"

Ning Sanmei blinked her big eyes and looked at him: "I serve you and cook and wash clothes for you. How could I not know?"

Gu Yezhou nodded: "Well..., my feet are a little cold, it seems that the quilt is not covered well. Please help me with the quilt."

Ning Sanmei quickly put the chaff in her hand on the stool next to her, and then knelt beside Gu Yezhou. Her petite body passed over Gu Yezhou's legs, supported her with one hand and tidied the quilt for him. On her slender waist, which was strangled by the belt, the chest that was originally slightly raised turned into two graceful arcs because of this posture, like two little white melons that had just grown.

She didn't notice Gu Yezhou looking at her, but just quickly sorted out the quilt, knelt straight, sat on her calves with round buttocks, looked at Gu Yezhou sideways, and saw Gu Yezhou holding the bran cake in his hand, which had bitten away half of it and was chewing it hard.

The rice bran cake is very astringent, and it is difficult to swallow after eating it. It is something that Guyezhou had never eaten before traveling through time, and it is very unpalatable.

"Sir, why did you eat the bastard? Give it to me!" Ning Sanmei reached out to grab it, but Gu Yezhou put the bastard in his arms and looked at her: "Is this bastard made of rice bran? What are you eating?"

Ning Sanmei laughed: "I don't have this blessing. Our family eats the cakes made from shepherd's purse picked from the mountain. It's not as good as rice bran you still have! - It's not that our two families have no food. Except for the big families in the village, they almost all have no food. There is not much hope for the harvest this year. Now it's good to eat shepherd's purse. I'm afraid that even the shepherd's purse will be dug up after the New Year."

Gu Yezhou said: "Uncle Mo and his friends compensated for enough food to eat?"

"It should be said that it will take you for how long!" Ning Sanmei said with a smile, "Sister Huaixiang and I only take care of you until you can get out of bed and downstairs. You will take care of yourself. If you only eat rice and don't mix with other food, it will be enough for four months."

"How much food can be harvested in the field?"

"Your fields are all good paddy fields. In the usual year, you should be able to make about three stones (360 kilograms) of rice per mu. After a severe drought, the yield will be reduced. This year, one acre of land can only harvest more than one stone of rice, and five acres of land is five stones. If it is made into rice, it will only be three stones of white rice."

"How much rice rent do you pay me?"

"After deducting the rent you reduced by your girl, I will give you two stones (320 kilograms) every year, which is enough for you to eat. However, after the drought, there is not enough food. Last year, the harvest was less than two stones per mu. You said that the harvest was reduced by half, and the rent was also reduced by half. So last year, I only collected half of my family's rent, and it was only one stone of five stones (180 kilograms) of white rice, so this year you don't have enough food, and later you can only eat cakes made of bran. Remember?"
Chapter completed!