In ancient times, there was only the lunar calendar, and there was no AD. The so-called years of AD in later generations were actually counts used by later generations for their own convenience.

So in ancient times, there was only a certain dynasty, a certain year...

There are four seasons in a year, with awns growing in spring and busy summer. When summer and autumn alternate, it is actually the well-known autumn harvest.

That’s right, the autumn harvest begins in the summer.

Every year in the sixth month of the lunar calendar, a crop of wheat is harvested. This is called summer grain, and it is the most important period in the entire northern part of the Central Plains.

The entire summer and autumn harvest will last for two or three months, and it will not be completed until the Mid-Autumn Festival in August. The reason is very simple. The land in the Central Plains is too vast, stretching from south to north, covering tens of thousands of miles. Wheat needs light to mature, so each region

The harvest times vary.

Now it's Hebei's turn to harvest summer grain.

The first place to start is Wuyang County in the south.

In the early morning of this day, Gu Tianya was picked up early. He was not picked up to do work, but because he needed to put on makeup and dress up to perform the dance.

The female apprentice Tan Xiao seemed to be deliberately causing trouble. She smeared a thick layer of powder on his face and then scattered his hair to make him look disheveled.

When Tan Xiao's 'sinful little hand' was about to touch his master's chest, Gu Tianya finally couldn't bear it and spoke, reminding him in a cold voice: "If you are not afraid of being torn apart by your master's wife, then you can put your hand in and try.

…”

Tan Xiao stuck out his tongue and said mischievously: "Master's wife is not here. No one will know as long as you don't tell me."

Gu Tianya glared at her and scolded: "Don't forget your identity, and don't forget that I am your master."

Tan Xiao smiled evilly, revealing two cute little tiger teeth, and said seductively: "Master, sleeping with his apprentice, wouldn't it be more exciting?"

Gu Tianya was furious and looked around the room. He wanted to find a handy stick and beat the traitor to death on the spot.

Li Chongyi happened to be passing by in front of the door. This kid always carried a Tang sword. Gu Tianya shouted at him and said, "Chongyi, bring the sword to me, master."

Li Chongyi glanced at the door and was startled by the foundation on Gu Tianya's face. He suddenly pulled out the horizontal sword and asked sharply: "Who are you, monster, and dare to be in my master's room? You monster, look at my magical sword.

Prajna ma ma bomb..."

Gu Tianya angrily picked up a stool and threw it at him.

Li Chongyi smiled strangely and ran away with his head in his arms.

Tan Xiao covered his mouth with his hand and leaned forward and back, his smiling eyebrows squeezed together, and he said triumphantly: "Master, you actually asked him for a knife. You don't even think about whether he has the courage... He didn't dare to offend me, so he did it on purpose

I'll find excuses to make you angry and make you run away."

Gu Tianya's chest heaved with anger, and he said angrily: "You don't have a formal attitude, and you don't understand the etiquette of superiors and subordinates. Li Chongyi is not like a senior brother, and you, a junior sister, are not like a junior sister. If you dare to continue like this, sooner or later you will be expelled from the division.

Door……"

Tan Xiao stuck out her tongue, not daring to tease her master anymore. She reached out and picked up the eyebrow pencil, preparing to draw a picture for her master.

Gu Tianya jumped up immediately, with a livid face and said: "I can bear to put on powder, and I can bear to wear this outfit of a dancing master, but if you dare to draw my eyebrows, don't blame me for falling out with you now..."

Tan Xiao sighed, pointed at the sky outside, and said crisply: "Master, take a look for yourself, the sky will light up soon. The summer grain harvest in Wuyang County today cannot be unlucky for everyone. How many people in the county are there?

Thousands of people, as well as tens of thousands of displaced people, are all eagerly waiting for us. You have to endure it even if you don't want to."

Gu Tianya took a deep breath, frowned and asked, "Is it necessary to draw eyebrows?"

Tan Xiao nodded solemnly, trying to hold back his laughter and said: "This is an ancient tradition. Only great sages are qualified? Master, be good, don't be angry, let the apprentice draw your eyebrows, and you will look like Shen Nong after finishing it..."

His tone was like coaxing a child.

Gu Tianya had a look of helplessness on his face and could only sit stiffly and let him do whatever he wanted. However, his female apprentice had evil intentions and always touched him carelessly. She took advantage of the opportunity of putting on makeup and touched him seventeen or eighteen times.

Fortunately, makeup time has finally passed.

He was painted by Tan Xiao in a way that made him look less human...

…

At this time, the sky was getting brighter, and suddenly a postman asked from outside, saying respectfully: "Commander, it's almost time. The officials in the county government, the village chiefs of each village, as well as the village chiefs and township chiefs,

As well as the octogenarian and the blessed old woman, all of them are waiting at the edge of the field, waiting for you to go over and preside over the sickle-opening ceremony."

Gu Tianya sighed and stood up. He first took a look at his outfit. His long skirt was trailing to the ground. He must have had a feather crown on his head. He looked like a savage fool.

He walked to the water basin and looked down again, and found that his face was pale and looked like a ghost, especially the two eyebrows, which were painted by Tan Xiao to look more like a ghost. If he went out in the middle of the night with this outfit, he would probably even look like Yuchi Jingde.

The two of them, Qin Qiong, can't protect them either.

He is such a lively ghost king that even gods are no match for him.

He turned to look at Tan Xiao, sighed helplessly again, and said in annoyance: "Master, I really can't understand, can this ghost look like Shennong?"

"Why is it not Shen Nong? This is a qualification only a great sage can have."

"If Shen Nong goes out wearing this suit, won't he be beaten to death by the ancients?"

"Oh Master, can you stop being so verbose? People in ancient times couldn't even eat enough to eat. How could they have so many rules and regulations? These are all Taoisms figured out by later generations. Don't you know that your knowledge is as vast as the sea and the abyss?

"

"It's just because I knew it that I felt it was abhorrent."

"Damn it, you have to survive today. This is what the people are looking forward to. If there is no great sage dancing and begging to go to the warehouse, the people will think this is an unlucky sign..."

"Okay, I'm going to dance!"

…

The sky is vast and the earth is vast, but it is not as big a matter as the people eating.

If you tune to the master, just dance to the master.

It doesn't matter.

Anyway, with his face smeared with powder, no one could see his blushing. Gu Tianya left the inn all the way and ran towards the fields he had already chosen.

This land is county land. To put it bluntly, it is a place specially used for ceremonial purposes. Since ancient times, counties have county land, and prefectures have prefecture land. When it reaches the first level, there is also Tao land.

Even if it rises to the level of the imperial court, there is still three-thirds of the land, which is where the emperor is responsible for dancing. No one can escape this during the annual summer grain harvest.

The county fields in Wuyang County are also three miles and three miles apart, and they are growing wheat, which is the favorite of northerners. At this time, the fields are surrounded by a sea of ​​people, and countless people are waiting with breathless breath.

Beside the field, an old farmer was kneeling there with his hands on his chest. He was the farmer of this county field and had been responsible for planting this ceremonial field.

When Gu Tianya and Tan Xiao arrived, the farmer suddenly bowed to the ground and chanted loudly: "Nong, please use the sickle. Nong, please bless me."

The farmer he talks about does not mean that Gu Tianya is a farmer, but a Shennong. Gu Tianya now represents Shennong.

Gu Tianya took a sickle tied with a red string, walked down the field under the gaze of everyone, and then bent down to cut off an ear of wheat.

Just at this time, the wind blew, and the wheat in the fields rippled, and the golden color seemed to dazzle the human eye. Gu Tianya raised the sickle and wheat ears, looked up to the sky and shouted loudly: "Feng!"

"rich!"

"rich!"

"rich!"

Countless people roared together, and the sound was like an overwhelming force.

It was only early in the morning, but as soon as the sun came up, a heat wave swept across it. The temperature rose rapidly, making people feel hot all over. Gu Tianya, wearing clothes weighing dozens of kilograms, felt that his chest was suffocating. But when he saw countless people

With the longing in his eyes, he suddenly felt that he could endure the unbearable heat.

He is originally a farm boy.

Shen Nong's Dance was danced by him. He held a sickle in his hand, like a ritual vessel begging to be brought to the warehouse. He waved it wildly and yelled blessings. Suddenly Tan Xiao jumped out of the field and danced with Gu Tianya. She looked like

It is a butterfly, dancing gracefully and ethereal.

"rich!"

"rich!"

"rich!"

The common people kept yelling, and everyone had smiles on their faces, while the refugees who had fled the famine were looking at these people with envy.

The refugees have no land and cannot enjoy the joy of harvest.

The sickle-opening ceremony lasted for half an hour, and Gu Tianya, the great dance master, almost collapsed from dancing. Finally, it was time to harvest.

But thousands of women and children rushed into the fields and waved their sickles vigorously under the scorching sun. As if in the blink of an eye, dozens of acres of land were cleared to cut wheat.

Gu Tianya was soaked all over and fell to the edge of the field. Just as he was gasping for breath, he suddenly heard a movement behind him.

I heard someone speaking cautiously, with a special flattery in his tone, saying: "This year Wuyang County has Director Gu holding a sickle harvest, and the county's 140,000 acres of land will definitely have a good harvest..."

Gu Tianya looked back and saw that the county magistrate and the county magistrate were standing with their hands down. He waved to them and motioned for the two officials to sit down and talk.

The two officials were a little overjoyed and carefully put their buttocks on the ridge of the field. Judging from their reserved appearance, they seemed to be facing the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

Gu Tianya didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had no choice but to wave and say: "Sit closer and let's talk about something. You are so far away from me, are you afraid that I will kill you?"

The county magistrate and the county magistrate laughed and said in a low voice: "You don't know how to kill, but your female disciple is ruthless. If we are even slightly rude, I'm afraid we won't survive the night."

Gu Tianya chuckled, waved his hand and said: "There will be no Tan family anymore. She plans to return 50% of the family property. Once she does this, the Tan family will definitely separate from her. At that time, she has no power to threaten the county government.

official."

Unexpectedly, the two officials shook their heads repeatedly and said solemnly: "Even if she is alone, no one in Wuyang County dares to underestimate her."

Gu Tianya was slightly startled and said subconsciously: "Is my apprentice so majestic?"

"It's not prestige, it's reputation, or in other words, it's reputation."

"Okay, let's not discuss this. Let's talk about what you two want from me..."

"Well, please promise not to get angry first, otherwise your apprentice might try to trick us secretly if he sees you getting angry."
Chapter completed!