Chapter 1521: Control Yourself
“Let’s start there.”
At this point, the two of them walked along the official road towards the village.
From their current location, there should be only one village within a radius of one or two miles. The houses were scattered everywhere, with trees lined up in the middle.
There weren’t many rooftops, so it was obvious that there weren’t many households in that village.
Most of the roofs were thatched roofs or mud roofs, so they were not very rich. Unlike Da Ling, where every household had brick houses.
They could also see many mountains in the places they could see now. The mountain was not as big as the mountains in front of Locust Village, nor was it particularly long, but it was not small either.
As she walked, Jiang Yue suddenly heard a faint rustling sound in the grass by the roadside in front of her. She stopped in her tracks and gestured to Xue Yan to look in the direction she was looking at with her eyes.
Although Xue Yan was as alert as her, his hearing was not as good as hers. It was too far away for him. Even if he understood her hint, he still did not hear it. However, he saw that in the grass, there was a faint corner of a shirt exposed.
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan looked at each other, then tacitly took a detour together and went behind the bushes to take a look.
They tried their best not to make a sound. When they came to the grass five meters away from the grass, they saw two figures behind the grass, one big and one small, with their backs facing them.
The big one had a stocky build. While the thinner one was dark.
From their backs, these two people should be men. They were also dressed like men. They were both wearing patched coarse cloth shorts and straw sandals with holes in them. Although a gray cloth tied his hair up, it was obvious that it had been washed until it turned white.
Their trousers were rolled up and their legs were stained with mud, as if they had come from the fields…
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan looked at each other again, and they concluded that these people were farmers.
It was also at this moment that the dark, smaller farmer — who had his back facing them and was looking at the official road through the grass — turned his head and whispered to the big farmer beside him, “Shoushou, as your father, you should listen to me well. Don’t be rash. If someone that looks like they have a good family background passes by later, you have to listen to my command and then go up to them. Understand? We have to be smart when doing things.
“Don’t attack the moment you see someone. You didn’t even see what happened yesterday and almost beat up the village chief. Fortunately, the village chief only got annoyed that he couldn’t be bothered to argue with us. Anyway, the village chief is probably old and muddle-headed.
“After what happened yesterday, he got so mad he forgot to ask us what we were doing hiding here. We’ve been hiding here for three days. We leave early and return late. We’ve never been so diligent in farming. Why haven’t we gained anything? I’m a little anxious too, but you can’t be anxious.
“I’m your father. I can control myself if I’m anxious, but you won’t be able to control yourself if you’re anxious. It’s easy to ruin things once you become anxious.”
Jiang Yue and Xue Yan were both somewhat surprised. They did not expect that the small and so skinny one was the father.
Even though Sanfu was the tallest in the family, it was also because Xue Dafu’s father was originally tall.
However, although genetic factors played a large role, there were also acquired factors that could affect height.