sovbooks Chapter 35 Big brother, Sweetie wants to marry you!
Chapter 35 Big brother, Sweetie wants to marry you!
Seven days later.
Outside Xianyang City, in Lijia Village.
This is a notoriously poor village, with barren land and dilapidated houses.
Most of the able-bodied young people in the village had fled to escape the famine, leaving only the elderly, women, and children behind.
A dozen or so horse-drawn carriages, loaded with sacks, were escorted by hundreds of black-armored warriors.
They drove into the village in a grand procession.
The whole village was in an uproar!
"Soldiers! Soldiers are here!"
The villagers were terrified and knelt down, trembling with fear.
Village chief Li Laohan even scrambled to his knees at the very front, banging his head on the ground:
"This humble subject...this humble subject greets Your Excellency!"
"I was unaware of your esteemed presence. What brings you here?"
The carriage curtain was lifted.
Fusu and Zhang Fan walked down one after the other.
Fusu looked at these villagers who were sallow-faced, emaciated, and dressed in rags.
His eyes were filled with reluctance.
Fusu quickly stepped forward and personally helped Old Man Li up.
"Please rise, sir! We are not here to collect taxes!"
"But I am here on the orders of my father, the Emperor, to bring immense wealth and prosperity to my fellow villagers!"
talking.
Fusu waved his hand.
The soldiers immediately unloaded the sacks from the vehicle.
It was filled with round, plump seed potatoes!
"These are divine seeds from the celestial realm, capable of yielding two thousand catties per mu!"
"Father Emperor specially bestowed this upon your Li Family Village!"
"You will be the first pilot site for this planting in our Great Qin!"
The villagers looked at the potatoes.
I heard that the yield is 2,000 jin per mu!
They were all stunned, but even more so, they were filled with fear and unease.
"Young...Young Master, this...this is a divine object!"
"We...we dare not accept it..." Old Man Li's voice was trembling.
Zhang Fan, who was standing to the side, smiled slightly and said something that drove the entire village completely crazy!
"Don't worry, folks!"
"As long as you grow it, the government will not charge you a single penny!"
"We'll buy it all up at ten times the price of millet!"
boom!!!!!!
At this moment, the entire Li Family Village fell into utter silence!
All the villagers were dumbfounded!
numb!
crazy!
They stared blankly at Zhang Fan, thinking they were hallucinating!
ten times?!
A buyout at ten times the price?!
After a brief silence!
"We're going to be rich!!! Our Li Family Village is going to be rich!!!"
Someone was the first to react and let out a deafening roar!
next second!
The entire village was in an uproar!
"Oh my god! Ten times! Did I hear that right?!"
"Waaaaah... Thank God! We're saved!"
"Thank you, young master! Thank you, immortal master! Thank you, Your Majesty!"
All the villagers were plunged into extreme ecstasy!
They knelt down again and kowtowed frantically to Fusu and Zhang Fan.
Their devout appearance was as if they were kneeling in worship of a god!
Zhang Fan and Fu Su exchanged a smile and stepped forward to help everyone up.
Looking at the villagers' faces, which had regained hope, Zhang Fan laughed loudly:
"Get up, all of you! If you want to get rich, then you'd better be on your toes!"
"From today onwards, follow me and let's make a name for ourselves!"
Zhang Fan gave the order.
The eyes of all the villagers in Lijia Village suddenly shone with an unprecedented light!
They are no longer the numb, desperate old people, women and children they once were!
now.
Stimulated by the acquisition price of ten times.
Everyone was like they'd been injected with adrenaline, brimming with inexhaustible energy!
Without any delay, Zhang Fan immediately began assigning tasks.
He also mobilized those several hundred black-armored elite soldiers.
These soldiers, who usually only knew how to kill the enemy, also took off their arm armor and rolled up their sleeves at this moment.
Some were responsible for cutting potatoes into chunks, while others were responsible for clearing wasteland with hoes.
The villagers, under Zhang Fan's guidance,
Learn how to mix wood ash and how to control the spacing.
The entire Lijia Village was bustling with activity and full of vitality!
Standing on the edge of the field, Fusu looked at all this, his heart filled with emotion.
He never thought of it.
one day.
I was able to see with my own eyes the pure and fervent hope that shone on the faces of the people.
Just then.
A small figure ran over timidly.
It was a little girl who was about five or six years old.
She had two pigtails and big, dark eyes, curiously observing Zhang Fan and Fusu.
In her hand, she was still clutching a flower that she had picked from who-knows-where.
The wildflowers still had some mud on them!
"Big...big brother!"
The little girl ran up to the two of them, looked up at them, and handed them the wildflowers she was holding.
She continued in her childish voice:
"You...you are good people, Sweetie is giving you these flowers."
Fusu's heart was instantly melted by this pure kindness.
He crouched down, just about to reach out and take it.
Zhang Fan, however, took the flowers first with a grin.
"Hey, thank you, our sweetie!"
He reached out and pinched the little girl's chubby cheeks, making her giggle.
Sudden.
Sweetie grabbed Zhang Fan's clothes.
She mustered all her courage, puffed out her small chest, and shouted with all her might:
"Big brother, when Sweetie grows up, I want to marry you!"
"Pfft!"
Fusu could no longer hold back and burst out laughing.
The villagers who were working nearby laughed good-naturedly when they heard the child's innocent words.
atmosphere!
A moment of unparalleled joy!
Zhang Fan was also taken aback, then burst into laughter.
He crouched down, looking Tian Tian in the eye, extended his little finger, and said earnestly:
"Okay! Let's pinky swear, you have to grow up quickly!"
"Big brother, we're waiting for you!"
……
The scene in Lijia Village is just a microcosm.
In the next few days.
Zhang Fan and Fusu led the elite troops of Qin.
I traveled to more than a dozen impoverished villages around Xianyang, such as Wangjiazhuang and Zhaojiagou.
Same seed potatoes!
The same promise of a tenfold acquisition price!
The same ecstasy and gratitude!
The entire outskirts of Xianyang!
They were all completely ignited by a "potato craze"!
Countless forgotten wastelands have been reclaimed.
For countless people who had long since given up hope, the flame of hope was rekindled in their eyes.
The "boiling frog in lukewarm water" plan is being carried out quietly.
It has spread across the board with an unstoppable momentum!
sunset.
The horizon was dyed a magnificent orange-red.
Fusu and Zhang Fan rode together in a carriage back to Xianyang Palace.
Looking out the window at the villagers carrying hoes and humming tunes as they headed home.
A complex mix of emotions and reluctance flashed in Fusu's eyes.
He remained silent for a long time, but finally couldn't help himself and whispered to Zhang Fan beside him:
"teacher."
"The people along this route are simple, honest, and kind-hearted."
"We...we used tricks on them, promising them great benefits, to lure them into working for us."
"Fusu felt a sense of...unease and remorse."
Upon hearing this, Zhang Fan turned his head and looked at Fusu.
A smile appeared on his lips.
Instead of answering directly, he asked in return:
"Don't you think these villagers have tasted the benefits?"
"Someone will definitely secretly hide some seed potatoes and plant them privately!"
"Then we found out, and they made you do a month of forced labor. Did you feel bad about it?"