The Empress' Livestream - Chapter 249
Chapter 249: Streaming in a Different Map (IV)
“This is not okay, Langjun…” Xu Ke moved swiftly and intended to stop Jiang Pengji, who was about to help with the field work.
Her noble, aristocratic identity wasn’t his concern. He only worried that she was going to cause more trouble to the others––especially in a scenario that everyone was already busy working their brains out.
Jiang Pengji turned over and asked Xu Ke with confusion, “Why are you stopping me? There are no monsters in the field.”
Meanwhile, the viewers all turned into mentors and began to coach her on how to do the work verbally. Even though she didn’t have a clue earlier, she would be able to do it with their instructions. She felt like she was being looked down on by Xu Ke, especially while she had the guides.
Xu Ke was speechless. He responded after a while, “Your noble identity doesn’t allow you to get dirt on yourself. It is just not appropriate.”
Jiang Pengji tilted her head, looked into his eyes with a weird look, and finally said, “You don’t make sense!”
Xu Ke’s face turned red with embarrassment. He waited a bit and said to her, “It is rather busy already. You’d better stay away from this work so you don’t make a larger mess.”
Jiang Pengji had nothing to say to him…
She was too bothered seeing the “LOLs” on the bullet screens. The viewers normally would feel bad for Xu Ke, but it was her turn to be sympathized with.
Laosiji Lianmeng: “Lol, we should hold a memorial service for this straightforward boy. He really has the guts to say it out loud.”
Zuizhan Baishegeng: “I almost choked earlier when I was drinking. Xu Ke was asking for death. He shouldn’t have said it out loud, even though that was exactly what he thought. The host had a nasty look for him. Xu Ke really needs to be careful just in case our host is going to get him in trouble.”
Mowu Huanxi: “#Chin-resting emoji. Please follow the scripts, dude. He should be touched by her actions, as the script says by now. The host swallowed her pride and got down to do field work with you guys. It is her way to share joy with average citizens. This is a critical merit to be a wise master, but somehow he despised it.”
Yun QImiao: “Who still remembers the origins of our host? Did she ever seen crops in her era?”
The viewers genuinely doubted that she could distinguish which were the seed-heads and which the were the straw.
Jiang Pengji was shocked by the questions. Indeed, she had never seen real crops, but it was nothing different from the viewers who had never seen a running pig but they had all eaten pork.
But they still shouldn’t scorn her knowledge, okay?
Host V: “But you guys are giving me instructions by sending the bullet screens, aren’t you?”
Laosiji Liangmeng: “We did Booble search for most of the information, but we have no idea if it will be useful or not.”
Jiang Pengji didn’t know how to respond to that…
Nai Baobao: “I’m actually curious. The era our host is from still has agriculture, right? But is it all automatic for harvesting?”
Jiang Pengji stared at Xu Ke silently. No one was comprising. She squatted on the edge of the field with a gloomy mood and she watched the rest of them work while she held her chin in her hands.
It appeared that she was defeated by Xu Ke; it was shown by the fact that she was chatting with the viewers.
Host V: “Do you know what the definition of a farmer is in my era? That means wealthy!”
The viewers were astonished by the idea and the bullet screen were covered by exclamation marks.
How wealthy could one get by planting crops?
Jiang Pengji pondered and she described the general concept of it for her viewers by using a metaphor.
Host V: “You have all seen the map of Dongqing’s territory, right? You guys have a basic understanding of the size of the country I assume.”
The viewers nodded to that. It was kind of hard to miss, especially since the map was hung on the wall of her study room.
The country was estimated to be about one-sixth of the Hua Country’s territory or a bit more. The conclusion came from a data analyzing expert in the streaming room after he collected and analyzed the data of different aspects that the host provided.
And then?
Host V: “The size of the country is equivalent to that of a medium or small sized farm, approximately.”
The viewers were startled by the metaphor.
In other words, the realm that Dongqing Emperor dominated had no comparison to a small or medium sized farm owner.
The viewers had nothing more to comment…
Laosiji Lianmeng: “I’m probably drunk and watched some fake stream. It has completely changed the concept of farm owner in my mind.”
Xiao Xiaogui: “Me, too. I’ve started to recognize that my identity as a rural citizen is valuable.”
Yueguang Baohe: “Me, too. And as an urban citizen, I feel a sense of awkwardness.”
It was hard to imagine a farm that was as big as one-sixth of the Hua Country territory. However, how did one farmer take care of such a humongous farm? He should be able to, right? But it was still a scene the viewers couldn’t picture.
Laosiji Lianmeng: “Hold on, I might have come up with something horrible. Our host’s era has big-a** farms that indicate that the earth is not good enough to fulfill the farm owners’ needs. Is it possible that there is an agricultural planet?”
In other words, the host’s era was fully interplanetary. It was very likely that there were many planets suitable for creatures to survive, just like most of the Star Trek novels. Some planets were to be used for agricultural purposes, which was how the farmers circled their farms and became filthy rich.
With his reminder, all the viewers in the streaming room felt thrilled by the prospect.
Jiang Pengji didn’t get the point of why they were so thrilled. She was just sitting still, watching several farm hands gather and work with each other on one field.
The viewers in the streaming room couldn’t picture how the farm owners in her era managed huge farms that equalled to the size of Dongqing. They had never seen that with their eyes, and it was the same for her. Before she saw the harvesting scene, she had no clue how famers harvested their crops.
Xu Ke felt slightly apprehensive when he noticed that Jiang Pengji was sitting quietly. He compromised and said to her, “If you are really curious, you can ask one of the farm hands who is familiar with the work to assist and give you some guidance. These crops seem like nothing particular, but it could cause a strain of your lumbar muscles or bad injury on your hands and feet if you are not harvesting the right way…”
Jiang Pengji looked at him, leaned her head to the side, and said, “Then you go get me a farm hand.”
The viewers knew nothing, but they were copying and pasting the content they searched for from Booble. They were no better than her.
Xu Ke had no choice but to stand up and find her an experienced farm hand. He was hoping that his master could stop making a fuss and back off when she encountered difficulties.
“Why don’t we use tools?” Jiang Pengji had limited knowledge about the ancient time. She had never ceased doing research about the information of the current era from either books or hearsay. Seeing was believing, however, and it was impossible to imagine something without seeing the real substance.
The experienced farm hand replied to her with reverence and awe, “To respond to you, Langjun, we do have tools but the tools are rare and pricey––so are the farm cattle. Usually, three or four families would share the tools and the cattle. We have to take turns completing the harvesting work. But it is not unbearably slow if we are all experienced in doing it…”
They relied more on human labor instead of the force of tools.
Jiang Pengji took a glance at the direction the farm hand pointed out to her. She only spotted a primitive tool that a farmer was using, which made her frown.
It was hard for her to believe that the method based on human force would work efficiently at all.
Not to mention those big farm owners––even those small farm owners were reluctant to assign a single person to harvest the crops in their farm because they knew he wouldn’t get much progress, no matter how long they gave him.
The truth was that agriculture was not mechanized enough in the current era, which led to an undeveloped stage in which only human labor could be used instead of any assistance from external force.
