The village chief's house is too small to accommodate the behemoths Zhao Lei, White Deer, and Black Sheep.
The village chief had no choice but to take Zhao Lei, Bai Lu, Heiyang, Li Jincheng, and Li Ergou to the Lijia Village Ancestral Hall.
The Lijiacun ancestral hall is about 70 square meters.
This space is still a bit small for the four-meter-tall Zhao Lei, the three-meter-tall white deer (plus antlers), and the two-meter-high black sheep, but it can barely fit in.
However, Zhao Lei could only use the table in front of the God's Lord card as a chair to lean against, while White Deer and Black Sheep stood beside him.
After the village chief's narration, Zhao Lei finally understood the current situation of Lijia Village.
Lijia Village has a total population of more than 600 people and is considered a medium-sized village.
Among them, more than 200 men aged 20 to 60 were captured by the government and sent to serve.
Some are serving in the military, and some are doing projects such as paving roads and building bridges.
Nearly a hundred people serving in the military have not been heard from for more than a year, including Yangyang's father. However, since no corpses were seen and the court did not announce their deaths or provide them with pensions, the village chief still counted them among them.
The rest, if they are still alive, will probably come back to the village one after another this winter.
Because some of their service time is one month, some two months, and some three months.
If you serve for three months, you will be exempted from land rent.
Most families who have no land in their hands will serve for three months.
Of the nearly four hundred people left, half were between twenty and sixty years old, but most were women. There are less than 30 males in their prime. It was Lijiacun who scrapped pots and sold iron to collect enough silver to help them escape from the corvee and stay to defend the village.
The other half are the elderly and young people or children under the age of twenty.
To feed these 5-600 people, if we only rely on farming, we will need at least 2,000 acres of land, and that is even if there is a good harvest.
Lijia Village does have 3,000 acres of cultivated land.
But some of them have been bought by the landlords through tyrannical tactics.
Part of it belongs to the government.
The land that belongs to my village is only over a thousand acres.
Coupled with various taxes such as the head tax, Lijiacun can be said to really need to be frugal in order to survive.
After all, the taxes and corvee in this era are really terrifying for common people like them.
How much to charge and how long to serve depends entirely on the whim of the local government.
The court said that every ten taxes were taxed, but often those who were officials would increase the fire consumption (the consumption of smelting silver) to an infinite amount.
Therefore, even if everyone occasionally has some surplus, they will save it for emergencies.
Lijia Village has had poor harvests for several consecutive seasons.
By this season, it can be said that we are running out of ammunition and food.
If something unexpected happens to this batch of harvest, they may become refugees, and then the tragic situation of being displaced and cannibalized will be staged.
Therefore, Zhao Lei's arrival will undoubtedly make things worse for them. That's why Li Jincheng made a desperate move and led the villagers up the mountain to kill monsters.
However, if Zhao Lei can really lead them through this difficulty.
To be honest, being held captive by Zhao Lei doesn't seem to be unacceptable.
After finishing the story, the village chief even had some expectations in his heart and said uncertainly: "Your Majesty, can you really help our Lijia Village overcome this difficulty?"
Before Zhao Lei could answer, the black sheep on the side said arrogantly: "What's so difficult about this? When my eldest brother took us to avenge Mother Deer, not only did we seize the cultivation method from the squirrel spirit, but also a copy of Xiao Yun Yu Jue! If you want to make rain fall, as long as you learn the technique, isn't it just a matter of moving your fingers?"
The squirrel spirit is the little monster stationed on the top of this mountain.
Whether it was Zhao Lei's tiger mother, black sheep mother, or white deer mother, they were all killed by this squirrel spirit. So the first thing after transforming, Zhao Lei took the white deer and black sheep to kill the squirrel spirit to avenge his mothers.
The Long Live Fox King would regularly send monsters to collect 'meat', which he also learned from the mouth of the squirrel spirit.
The basic breathing method of the demon clan that the three brothers are now practicing was also captured from him.
In addition, there is also a book called Xiao Yun Yu Jue.
But Zhao Lei felt it was useless, so he didn't learn it.
The village chief's eyes gleamed and he said excitedly: "Your Majesty, your Majesty, is this true?"
Zhao Lei said nonchalantly: "I have a Little Cloud and Rain Jue. After I learn it, I can control the wind and rain. But I have no intention of learning it."
The village chief was stunned.
Li Jincheng and Li Ergou were also stunned.
Immediately, Li Jincheng raised his hands and said anxiously: "Your Majesty, why don't you learn? Is your Majesty dissatisfied with Jincheng for offending your Majesty before? If so, Jincheng should apologize to your Majesty here first. If Your Majesty can bring rain to the village, Jin Cheng Once you succeed, you will definitely obey your orders and will no longer question your Majesty’s orders.”
Zhao Lei waved his hand: "Since you are a scholar, you should know very well that it is better to teach a person to fish than to give him a fish. It is better to teach a person to desire than to give him a fish. Even if I learned it today, I will help you solve the problem of rainfall. problem. But I can’t help you with rain for the rest of my life. If you want your village to live better, you should let them learn to think on their own and how to permanently solve the problem."
There is another point that Zhao Lei did not say.
Due to the nature of the system, it was impossible to give him bonus attributes every time it rained. Naturally, Zhao Lei couldn't just help them make rain.
But, even so, it's just that it's better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish. This sentence was enough to shock Li Jincheng for a long time.
He even kept repeating this sentence in his mouth, as if he was comprehending the essence of the sentence.
It didn't take long.
When he raised his head again and looked into Zhao Lei's eyes, he was full of joy and excitement. At the same time, he was even more looking forward to how Zhao Lei would help the village solve the water problem.
No, if Zhao Lei can really help Lijiacun solve the problem without relying on magic, then it may not only be Lijiacun who will benefit!
This method is likely to benefit people all over the world!
Then even if his Lijiacun really becomes a victim in Zhao Lei's belly, their Lijiacun will be worthy of the world!
Li Jincheng bowed his head again and said, "Your Majesty, Jincheng has learned a lesson."
On the other side, Li Ergou, who seemed to understand but not understand, once again refreshed his understanding of Zhao Lei when he saw the scene in front of him.
No matter what others said before.
Monsters are bad.
Monsters eat people.
He felt that the tiger demon in front of him was very different today.
It seems...it seems to be very different from the monsters everyone talks about.
And what surprised him even more was that since even Brother Jincheng showed his willingness to be inferior to the tiger demon's knowledge, he felt a sense of curiosity in his heart, and he wanted to better understand the tiger demon in front of him. , instead of listening to what others say.
Even he himself didn't notice that the way he looked at Zhao Lei was different.
There was a hint of admiration in it.
However, just because no one noticed something strange about him, it didn't mean that Bai Lu couldn't notice it.
And he not only noticed it, but also knew very well what it meant.
Because this look was the same as the look he and his third brother looked at their eldest brother!
Bai Lu unconsciously smiled like an aunt.
I vaguely felt in my heart that I had met a like-minded person~
