The agricultural officer has the responsibility to persuade farmers to ensure a good harvest. During the Harvest Festival, not only the weather in Gucheng but also in Nanyang County will be adjusted accordingly.

County-level agricultural supervisors control a wide range of weather conditions. Occasionally, if some details are not in place, it is up to the agricultural supervisors below to perform their duties.

Zhao Xing and Shen Zhui have to inspect and patrol in Anping Town these two days.

We walked around Anping Town and finally came to the village chief’s house.

Zhao Xing and Shen did not need to take care of the harvest statistics and tax payments. They mainly just asked about the situation casually.

The elder Li was over fifty years old. When he saw the two of them, he was not at all restrained and just went about his daily routine like his younger generation:

"This year in Gucheng is the same as in previous years, with good weather and a bumper harvest."

"As long as they work hard to farm, anyone can feed their family and have enough to eat."

"But there are always those who are lazy and good at eating. Let's talk about the 'Huang Silang' from Group 6. On weekdays, he is good at eating and lazy at cooking. He stays at home and gnaws at his old age. It's the Harvest Festival and he doesn't know how to help the family."

"Last year, his mother and father were both seventy and eighty years old, and they couldn't do it any more. They were about to watch the rice rotting in the field, but the villagers helped collect it. This guy didn't know how to thank him. Instead, he said that everyone was worrying about it...

Hey, no one is willing to help this year. He is lying at home like this again, refusing to go to work, saying that the imperial court will distribute relief grains to them..."

"The relief is old-age money given to his father and mother! He is a man in his thirties who has both hands and feet, and he actually said such a thing. It is simply shameless! Hey, Old Man Huang is really evil to have such a son.

ah!"

After hearing what Li Chang said, Shen Zhui became furious and immediately asked: "Where is Huang Silang's home?"

"He's not at home."

"Where is that?"

"Well, we're playing dice in the Niu Family Courtyard in front."

Shen Zhui stood up immediately: "It's so unreasonable that there are still people who dare to gather for gambling! Brother Zhao, let's go!"

"Here we come." Before leaving, Zhao Xing looked at Li Chang with Five Elements Observation. Although he kept staring at the other person's eyes with his bright eyes when the other person was talking, he still took another look.

He lowered his head and flipped through the almanac and found nothing unusual. Then he touched the little lynx and followed it with the caretaker.

"Are you Huang Shiro?"

As soon as Shen Zhui and Zhao Xing walked to the place, they saw a man with disheveled hair and unfocused eyes coming out of Niu's house.

They had seen the roster and portrait from the village chief, and recognized this man at a glance as Huang Silang.

"No, you have found the wrong person." Huang Silang bowed his head and started to move forward.

"Stop!" Shen Zhui shouted, "Why are you running?!"

Huang Silang stopped and could tell that these two officials were recalling the sneaky things he had done before and wondering which one had been discovered.

"Follow us." Zhao Xing confirmed that he was the real owner and got into the car again.

Huang Silang also wanted to climb onto the chariot, but was kicked down.

"Ouch~" Huang Silang fell to the ground.

It was not Zhao Xing and Shen Zhui who kicked it, but Shanmao.

It huffed toward the outside with a very dissatisfied expression.

This man stinks so much that he doesn't want Huang Silang to come into the carriage.

"Just walk," Shen Zhui said.

Huang Silang was unhappy: "Sir, if I go to the county seat for at least an hour, I won't die from exhaustion?"

"Not to the county seat, but to your home!"

Huang Silang rolled his eyes: "Didn't you arrest me, sir? I didn't commit any crime?"

Shen Zhui laughed angrily at him: "You don't know whether you have committed a crime or not?"

Huang Silang chuckled and said: "No offense, no offense... The little one is gone."

"Stop! Do you want to leave?!"

"Your father and mother are in the fields. As the son of man, you should take on these heavy tasks..." Shen Zhui said the truth sincerely.

Huang Silang had a look of impatience on his face, obviously he didn't listen at all.

These things sounded like cocoons to his ears.

Shen Zhui talked for a quarter of an hour, but Huang Silang just remained silent.

Zhao Xing pulled Shen Zhui: "Brother Shen, you go first in the carriage, and I will tell him that I am a farmer, and it is my duty to persuade farmers."

Shen Zhui nodded and got into the carriage.

Zhao Xing stared at Huang Silang and said, "Why don't you help your mother and father harvest Yuandao?"

"I'm lazy."

"..."

You are quite reasonable.

Seeing that the two people were not arresting him, Huang Silang became more confident: "If you have pity on my parents, why don't you give some money? Or help my family harvest rice..."

A person who is shameless is invincible. There is nothing to say to such a person.

Zhao Xing whipped him: "Go, let me go to your fields!"

"Hey, why are you hitting people? Hey, don't hit, don't hit, I'll go..." Seeing that Zhao Xing was not joking, Huang Silang immediately shrank his head and led the way.

Arrived in the field.

Sure enough, there were two old men working in the fields.

Huang Silang stood on the ridge of the field indifferently.

Zhao Xing didn't talk nonsense to him, and casually stuck a Fuxing straw man next to him. He then asked for a whip from Shen Zhui and handed it to the straw man: "Watch him harvest Yuandao. If he doesn't do it, give him a whip."

"What?" Huang Silang stopped working and said anxiously: "You are too lenient. What does it have to do with you whether I can farm or not... Oops, I'm beating people, officials are beating me!!"

Huang Silang lay on the ground, crying heartbreakingly.

A neighbor nearby heard the movement and came to see it, and immediately became happy.

"Well played!"

"Bah, shameless!"

"It's Huang Silang. The officer must have a reason for beating him."

When Huang Silang's parents saw their son being beaten, they rushed forward, but before they could plead for mercy, they were stopped by their neighbors.

The neighbors couldn't stand it anymore, so one can imagine how bad Huang Silang's character was.

"Are you going to do it?" Zhao Xing knelt down and asked, "If you do it, you only need to be tired for a day or two. If you don't do it, I have plenty of ways to torture you."

"The biggest officials in this area are the two of us. It's useless for you to sue us, do you understand?"

"Fuck it, I'll do it." Huang Silang got up. He couldn't bear the pain. Seeing that no one was speaking to him, he immediately recognized the reality.

Huang Silang quickly rolled up his trousers and got out of the field.

Forced to undergo "reform through labor" by Zhao Xing.

After a while, Huang Silang began to moan and groan, complaining that he was tired.

Zhao Xing doesn't like him either.

Tired and sleepy? Sleepyhead arranged to directly help Huang Silang regain his energy.

Want to be lazy? Give the fool a whip.

Zhao Xing also planted seven or eight straw men to guard the fields.

Once Huang Silang tries to escape, he will be caught immediately.

This wave of Zhao Xing's campaign is all about physical persuasion.

However, no one in the surrounding neighborhood objected, and they all applauded.

Many people even put down what they were doing to watch the strange scene of Huang Silang cutting the rice.

"Shiro, your posture is wrong. You will get tired easily if you don't bend down."

"Shiro, are you tired? This is what your father and mother have been doing for more than ten years."

"Huang Silang, there is a blood-sucking insect crawling on your leg..."

Huang Silang's feet shook and he quickly touched it with his hands, only to find that it was not the case at all. He immediately realized that he had been deceived and glared at the child angrily.

"Pa~" The whip hit Huang Silang's back.

"Fuck!" Huang Silang cursed in his heart and had to continue working.

He wanted to escape, but found that he was surrounded by straw men.

And the more he worked, the more energetic he became, and he couldn't stop even if he wanted to. In order to avoid this torture, he had to work conscientiously.

By the time they worked until dusk, Huang Silang became much more honest. He even knew how to show off in front of the two adults and helped his father and mother home.

"Brother Zhao, your method works." Shen Zhui looked at this scene and couldn't help but laugh.

"It's useless. Let's leave in two days. What will happen to him?" Zhao Xing lay in the car and played with the cat. "Unless we can keep pushing him and work for a year or two, and then be supported by a patient person like Brother Shen."

People, if you reason with them from time to time, you may be able to change them."

"Is this so?" Shen Zhui thought thoughtfully, "If I have the opportunity to be a political party in the future, I will definitely try the method you mentioned, Brother Zhao."

After dark, the two of them stayed at the Li Chang's house in Anping Town without returning.

Early the next morning, the two continued to patrol Anping Town.

During lunch, I asked the old village chief about Huang Silang.

"Huang Silang? He took advantage of the lunch break and ran to the Niu Family Courtyard."

"Went to Niu's house again?" Shen Zhui raised his eyebrows.

"Yes." The old man said, "Sir, you are kind enough to let him take a break at noon, but he even uses this rest time to have fun. He doesn't have much money, and he still wants to gamble... and commit crimes. ah."

"Where did he get the money?" Zhao Xing asked.

"I gave his mother a couple of dollars to buy the soup." Shen Zhui's eyes were filled with anger, "This Huang Silang is really abominable! Niu Gui is also abominable. Yesterday I warned them not to play anymore, but he didn't listen?!"

Niu Family Courtyard.

"Big! Big! Big!"

"Open! Two, three, four, little!"

"Hey, we lost again! What a damn bad luck!"

Huang Silang, with disheveled hair and dirty face, took off his shoes, rubbed his feet, and smelled between his noses.

Then he took out a silver coin from his boot and slapped it on the table: "Niu Gui, continue! I will beat you to death today!"

Niu Gui said: "Shiro, this is the last one you have left. I think you should keep it for use. Besides, don't you still have to work in the fields in the afternoon?"

"Want you to pity me? Keep going, faster!"

Niu Gui smiled slightly when he saw this: "Okay, then come!"

The dice shook inside, making a heart-shaking sound.

Huang Silang's eyes followed the dice cup up and down.

"Dang!" As the dice cup fell to the ground, Niu Gui pressed his hand on it: "Big or small?"

"big!"

"Open, one, one, two, Xiao Shiro, you lost again!"

Niu Gui smiled and accepted his silver coin.

"Bad luck!" Huang Silang slapped his thigh, stood up and left the gambling table. The other gamblers continued.

He lost all his money, but he did not leave. Instead, he found a place to sit down and rest outside the courtyard.

According to the rules, as long as you come in to play, you can have a meal at Niu's house.

Huang Silang closed his eyes and fell asleep soon.

The door of Niu's house was knocked open.

Someone hurriedly reported that official officials were coming.

"Official servants? What official servants? They're just a few petty officials. I'll go take a look, and you can continue."

Niu Gui ran to the door calmly.

I saw a young man at the door wearing a pair of iron rulers, a brown hat on his head, and cloud boots on his feet.

Next to him was a young man dressed in linen, and another person wearing a raincoat and a bamboo hat even though it wasn't raining.

"Shen Wusi, Zhao Sinong, what do you want?" Niu Gui opened the door and immediately recognized the two of them.

"Didn't I tell you yesterday not to get together for gambling?" Shen pursued. "Do you think my words fell on deaf ears?"

Niu Gui's expression remained unchanged, but he didn't deny it: "It's all a small fight, just a few tricks played by fellow villagers... You can't be so lenient, right?"

"Okay then, please invite me in to play a few games."

"You are joking. They are all idiots. How dare I play with you."

"Niu Gui, will you please invite us in?" Zhao Xing asked, "We are coming in now just for a casual look. If we come in after asking for an order, it will not be so easy."

Zhao Xing and Shen Zhui both have cultivation skills and have never entered Niu's house before. Now they also need Niu Gui, the master, to invite them in before they can enter.

Of course, if Shen Zhui carries a beheading order issued by the county government and an arrest order that are different, he does not need permission.

"Okay, you two adults, please come in." Seeing the tough attitude of the two men, Niu Gui could only say, please come in.

The invisible shackles disappeared, Zhao Xing and Shen Zhui crossed the threshold and entered the Niu family compound.

The Niu family is a large family with a lot of fields. At this time, there are many rice farmers taking a nap outside the hall. Some rice farmers also get paid to go in and play a little bit.

When they saw the official coming in, no one was afraid, and some even muttered and complained, which affected their luck.

"Sir, it's really just a little fun... there isn't much money on the table."

But before Niu Gui finished speaking, Shen Zhui suddenly pulled out his shaku knife, a ray of light flashed, and the gaming table was split into two.

"Wow~" The copper coins inside suddenly fell to the floor.

Niu Gui's face changed and he was too frightened to say anything.

His table was a mechanism made of hardwood, but he didn't expect it to be split apart from the air.

Niu Gui thought that Zhao Xing and Shen Zhui were just ordinary petty officials, and he ignored yesterday's notice.

Looking at it now, these two people are not easy to mess with.

"Take the stolen money and go to the military officials in town to collect the punishment yourself." Shen Zhui said coldly.

"Yes, I will accept my punishment." Niu Gui's attitude suddenly changed.

Shen Zhui didn't embarrass him. Indeed, he didn't have much money. It was just enough to divide Niu Gui's fine, so he didn't have to go to jail.

As for the remaining gamblers, it is enough to ask them to disperse after routine questioning.

"Where's Huang Shiro?"

"There it is."

Hearing the familiar voice, Huang Silang trembled in his sleep. When he opened his eyes, he immediately saw the evil star.

He immediately wanted to escape from behind, but it was already too late.

"Humph! You really deserve to be a son of a man!" Shen Zhui became angry when he looked at this man. My father and mother are in poor health and have been working in the fields since they were old, but he is gambling here?

Even if I use my money for soup and medicine to gamble, am I still a human being?

"Shen Wusi lost this." Niu Gui carefully returned the money.

Zhao Xing was asking the strangers outside the hall.

"Who are they? They don't look like people from this village."

Anping Town is not big, and there are even fewer accounts in Group 6. Zhao Xing also has a rough impression of who is in the group. After all, he often came to Anping Town before, but he came less after Xiaoshu.

"Zhao Sinong, this is the rice guest I invited from Sanwan Town. Isn't it the autumn harvest?" Niu Gui accompanied him with a smile. He also recognized Zhao Xing. Sinong's petty officials were more diligent than military officials when they went to the countryside.

Rice customers are farmers who travel to various places to help large families with large land harvest rice.

"Oh, what's your name?" Zhao Xing pointed at the two people casually.

"Little man Chen Deshun." The middle-aged man arched his hands. He had a plain appearance, protruding cheekbones, thick hands and feet, and there was dirt on his legs. He pointed to the woman next to him with a yellow leather barrel waist and a turban on her head: "This It’s the Wu Chen family who is a despicable wife.”

"I have met you, sir." The woman also bowed her hands.

Both of them fit the symbol of Daoke. Zhao Xing nodded and turned to Niu Gui:

"Niu Gui, don't do such deceptive things in the future."

"Yes, yes, I don't dare to do it anymore." Niu Gui nodded and bowed, "I will go and receive the punishment."

After Zhao Xing, Shen Zhui, and Niu Gui all left, the middle-aged men and women inside the courtyard wall stared outside with twinkling eyes.

"Is he Zhao Xing?"

"Yes." Chen Deshun nodded, his simple eyes becoming cold.

"Quite handsome." The woman licked her lips. "He is indeed handsome and has an extraordinary temperament."

"You must be forty-two smart, so do you." Chen Deshun snorted.

"I really hope I can catch him and bring him back soon." A hint of evil flashed in the woman's eyes, "It's best to catch a few more handsome ones like this. I've been holding it in for more than ten years. I must have a good time on the road."

"Go back..." Chen Deshun also showed a trace of desire in his eyes, "If I can go back smoothly, I will make up for the past ten years."

Shen chased Niu Gui to the village head and handed him over to the military officials who were on routine inspections during the Harvest Festival to pay the fine, and then returned quickly.

Huang Silang was taken to the fields by the first-order straw men, while Zhao Xing sat on the carriage, feeling a little uneasy.

"Brother Zhao, what's wrong with you?" Shen Zhui saw Zhao Xing frowning and couldn't help but ask.

"A little uneasy." Zhao Xing said.

"What's wrong?"

"I don't know." Zhao Xing shook his head.

There is no basis for this, and there is no movement in the almanac to ward off bad luck.

"Is there something wrong with this Niu Gui?" Shen Zhui asked in a deep voice. "Is there a demon nearby?"

Zhao Xing shook his head again. After entering the gate of Niu's family, he used the Five Elements Observation to see that Niu Gui was normal, including everyone in the Niu family's compound.

Bright Eyes didn't find anything special. Since leaving the city, his observation method has been activated whenever he sees people.

There was nothing unusual, it was just a vague feeling.

"Did I deduce too much with Lao Chen and get a little crazy? Everyone looks like a member of the Xuantian Sect?" Zhao Xing also had some self-doubt in his heart.

Even if he really encounters the Xuantian Sect demon, he won't be able to tell because the Xuantian Sect's hiding methods are very clever. It is the concealment method passed down from the ancient sect Xuantian Sect, and it has a method that can shield the evil-preventing Huangli, otherwise it will be impossible. It wouldn't be so difficult to find out if it has been lurking for more than ten years.

Ordinarily, even if I stand in front of the real Xuantian Cult demon, I shouldn't find anything.

But where does this feeling come from?

"The 'earth soul' among the three souls is the soul of cause and effect. This feeling is likely to come from the touch of the earth soul."

Since neither almanac nor magic could find out where this feeling came from, Zhao Xing decided to find the reason from another angle.

"Brother Shen, you drive, I'll take a nap first."

After Zhao Xing thought for a moment, he closed his eyes and began to fall asleep.
Chapter completed!