Shennong Sequence

Chapter 82: The Border Patrol Inspector Being Entertained
Village chief Zhao actually hoped that Zhao Yun, who was born in Zhaojiazhuang, would ask him to do more things for him.

In this way, the relationship will become better after a few interactions.

"But it doesn't matter."

Zhao Yun was not polite and said directly:

"Village Chief, you also know the situation of my family. My father is an old gambler. I hope you can help take care of him in the future."

"In addition, as my uncle said when he returned the money:
If my father dares to leave Zhaojiazhuang and report it, I will give him a reward! If you break my father's legs and drag him back from Zhaojiazhuang, I will give him a reward of one or two taels of silver! But if any scoundrel in Zhaojiazhuang dares to drag my father to the city to continue gambling, I will kill him!"

"I believe you should understand what I say."

Zhao Yun and Village Chief Zhao witnessed the death of hunter Zhang Sheng together, so Zhao Yun's words carried considerable weight with Village Chief Zhao.

In addition, Zhao Yun also directly revealed that he was the commander of the military farm in the garrison.

This status is not small.

Village Chief Zhao is not the village chief for nothing, his eldest son is also sent to the city to learn martial arts! So, he naturally knows some secrets of the world, and that being the manager of the guard post is not that easy!
In front of Zhao Hanxiang and Zhao Yun in the room next to him, he agreed directly:
"Okay, from now on I will call on the villagers to supervise your father. If he dares to run away, I will personally chase him back."

This is exactly what Zhao Yun wants: the village chief’s deterrent power over the villagers!
"Then I'll trouble you, village chief! In addition, I have five taels of silver. I hope you can go to the gambling house where my father gambles and tell them to take the fields and leave the house to my family.

I also hope to use the remaining money to buy some refined rice and flour from your family for my parents to eat.”

"Okay, these are just small matters." Village Chief Zhao nodded, and with a turn of his eyes, he mentioned Zhao Liang: "My dear nephew, do you know how Zhao Liang came back to tell you about your story?"

Zhao Yun nodded and said, "I heard about it this morning. Let him jump around for two days. I'll tell you one more thing to thank you for helping to look after my family. The barbarians from the Canglan grassland are coming. Make all preparations in advance."

Village Chief Zhao's expression became serious for a moment.

"I've heard recently that the barbarians are coming, but I've also heard that the court has sent imperial censors to patrol the borders, and has made adjustments to the garrisons, provincial camps, and border garrison troops. It should be safe, right?
Besides, we are still thousands of miles away from the border town. Even if the barbarians break through, they shouldn't be able to affect us, right?"

Zhao Yun didn't expect that the village chief Zhao knew quite a lot.

But he still shook his head and said:
"The news I got is that it hasn't rained in the Canglan Grassland this summer. Those barbarians may have gone crazy from the heat. Who knows how many tribes they will bring to break through?
Therefore, we must prepare in advance. If something happens, please bring my parents and my uncle's family to the garrison, and I will arrange accommodation for you."

"Why hasn't it rained the whole summer?" Village chief Zhao became anxious when he heard the news.

This is a big disaster!

No wonder even the border inspector who hadn’t appeared for many years was sent out.

The noble families of Zhao, Meng, Ying, Wang, Zhang, and Lu also took the opportunity to talk to the small landlords, saying that they wanted to entertain the censor and asked everyone to contribute some money...

This is also the reason why Village Chief Zhao knew the reason why the Border Inspector came to this remote village.

"My dear nephew, the grasslands are just waiting for the summer rain. Now there is no rain, but it is a disaster! We really need to prepare in advance!"

Later, Village Chief Zhao felt that instead of going into the city, it would be better to go to the guard post.

The defensive power of the garrison is much stronger than that of Yanshan County!

Moreover, there are soldiers in the garrison, and as long as there is food, it is basically as stable as a rock!
It's not as easy to breach as the city wall.

Therefore, being able to go to the guardhouse is definitely much more cost-effective than going to the city.

In this case, Village Chief Zhao naturally sided with Zhao Yun.

In the evening, Village Chief Zhao came back from the city. He took the lead and quickly dealt with Zhao Hanxiang's debts in the gambling house. He also redeemed Zhao Yun's family's land.

At the same time, they also brought a lot of rice and flour to Zhao Yun's home, which was beyond Zhao Yun's expectation.

The reason why Zhao Yun didn't care about that little piece of land was that he didn't want his old mother to have nothing to do and to continue working in the fields every day.

So, Zhao Yun discussed with Village Chief Zhao:
"Village chief, let's put it this way. This land will be in my name. You have tenants there, right? Rent the land to them. When the harvest comes, after deducting the tenants' share, the remaining half can be left for my parents to eat."

"also!"

After that, when Village Chief Zhao left, the area outside Zhao Yun's house became lively.

Many villagers looked at Zhao Yun's family, which seemed to have become wealthy in an instant.

Looking at the brocade clothes Zhao Yun was wearing, one had no idea how rich and powerful Zhao Yun had become in that garrison.

They could only repeat what others said, saying that the Zhao family had become prosperous, that they envied Zhao Yun, and so on.

Some people even wanted to establish such a relationship, so they went to Zhao Yun's mother and said that Zhao Yun was already old and it was time for him to find someone who was close to him and take care of the family business...

Zhao Yun listened to these aunts and uncles talking around the door. His parents were happy, but he felt a little annoyed.

However, the people in Zhaojia Village basically all have the surname Zhao, and everyone is related to each other.

It wouldn't be good to kick people out.

So he let his mother stay at home and be happy, and Zhao Yun took advantage of the evening to go out, took a walk, and came to his uncle's place.

When Aunt Yu Zhifeng saw him, a smile appeared on her originally cold face.

"Yun'er is here. His father is still in the room. I'll go call him."

"It's okay, Auntie, just do your thing. I have too many people at home, so I came to your house to have some free time."

"That's fine."

Aunt Yu Zhifeng looked at Zhao Yun's clothes again and could only sigh, "He's become rich."

Then, he thought about his brother Zhao Xing, who was still in the city, working as an apprentice to a carpenter. He wondered if he could get some benefits from following this brother...

Zhao Yun looked at his uncle's house. Generally speaking, the two brothers of his father's generation had obtained quite a good fortune after dividing the family property from his grandfather.

The two brothers each got more than 20 acres of land, and each brother also had a three-room house.

This kind of life is considered to be of high standard in the entire Zhaojiazhuang.

His uncle even has a tenant who helps him farm every year.

And now, the two brothers should have been at a similar level, but his family was in a state of ruin because of that gambling addict who had been doing it for five or six years, and had ruined the entire family business.

"Uncle, I will be back at the garrison tomorrow. I hope you can keep an eye on the situation at home. Also, the border may be unstable during the fall and winter of this year, so you should pay more attention to it.

If anything goes wrong, take my parents and follow Village Chief Zhao to run to Wuyang Guard Station as soon as possible."

"After decades of peace, is there going to be war again? Okay, I'll pay close attention..."

Afterwards, Zhao Yun began to stroll along the fields again.

Feel the conditions of the underground energy and veins between the farmlands.

(End of this chapter)