Quick Travel: Jing Yuan's Wanderings

The weather is getting colder.

As soon as the vegetables in the field grew to more than ten centimeters, Lieutenant General Jing Yuan began to pick them in large quantities and take them to the city to sell.

A small bundle costs 5 cents, and the bundles are stacked in a large bamboo basket.

Very good to sell.

After five morning markets, all the vegetables in the four acres of wasteland were eaten up.

Net income: 2500 coins!

It doesn't count as getting up early and working late in vain.

On the first day of November, I rushed to pick up my adopted daughter and brought her home.

From then on, Lieutenant General Jing Yuan lived a very regular and happy hibernation life with three meals a day prepared and served on the table.

While the well-behaved daughter was cooking, Lieutenant General Jing Yuan resolutely took on the job of washing the pots and dishes!

Jing Chuxia was so moved that tears welled up in her eyes!

When he had nothing to do, Lieutenant General Jing Yuan would take his well-behaved daughter to grow mung bean sprouts and soybean sprouts to sell.

Almost every household in Sucheng heats a kang in winter, and it just so happens that a book I collected before introduced how to build a kang.

Lieutenant General Jing Yuan was itching to make one, so he made one in his room.

Not to mention, as long as there is enough firewood, it’s especially warm!

No need to worry about being woken up by the cold at night anymore.

If the temperature is high enough, the bean sprouts will look more attractive.

That’s right, most of the big earthen kang is used to grow bean sprouts.

Jing Chuxia's eyes were full of stars. She begged her father to make one in her room as well.

If you grow more bean sprouts, you can sell them for a lot more money.

Yes, Jing Chuxia is such a money-grubber.

Lieutenant General Jing Yuan naturally had no reason to refuse.

The days go by!

Soon, the first snow fell.

In the original owner’s memory, every winter when there was heavy snow, many elderly people would freeze to death near the outskirts of Beijing.

Lieutenant General Jing Yuan slapped his head in annoyance.

He only remembered such an important thing at this moment. He deserves to be beaten!

After moving all the bean sprouts in his room to his adopted daughter's room, Lieutenant General Jing Yuan got dressed and resolutely walked into the wind and snow and went straight to the headman's house.

Upon hearing this strange story, the village head brought his eldest son and hurried over to visit in the heavy snow.

"Jing Yuan, before, you said that you were willing to teach the craft of making a kang to the villagers for free. Is that true?"

"real!"

"Okay, you are a man of integrity. This is a way to make a living!

Since you care so much about the village, the village will naturally not let you suffer any loss.

Each family will send one able-bodied man, each paying 100 coins, to study with you.

If you can't pay, just owe it first, do you think it's feasible?"

Lieutenant General Jing Yuan scratched his head, thinking about the future defeat of the Duke of Ying's Mansion, and decided that it would be better to integrate into the village as soon as possible.

He quickly refused with a smile.

"It's not worth it. From now on, my daughter and I will make a living in the village. Please just take care of us."

The head of the village laughed heartily, "Hahahaha... Don't worry, the people of Lijiawan are not the kind of ungrateful people!

I will never let anyone bully you!"

"Thank you, Chief!"

Since then, Lieutenant General Jing Yuan was very busy for several days, making the kang on site and conducting on-site teaching.

In the winter of the first year of the Yongkang period, earthen kangs quietly spread among the lower-class people in the suburbs of Beijing.

Lijiawan had a very prosperous year.

The villagers' gratitude is also very simple.

One day, Lieutenant General Jing Yuan was seen driving a mule cart and buying a large cart of firewood to go home.

The next morning, there was a huge pile of chopped wood in front of Jing Yuan's door.

At the end of the year, when the New Year pig was slaughtered, every household tacitly sent Jing Yuan a pig's hind leg.

Lieutenant General Jing Yuan took it happily and gave 200 to 300 coins depending on the weight.

On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the whole family, young and old, came out to pay him New Year's greetings.

Children are even worse, they kowtow as soon as they meet someone.

This made Lieutenant General Jing Yuan, who had not prepared much New Year's goods such as peanuts, melon seeds, and candies, very embarrassed for a while.

I just gave each person two cents as a New Year's money to celebrate the occasion.

Time flies by.

In the blink of an eye, it was June of the second year of Yongkang.

One day, Qian Banliang came to find Jing Yuan again and went to Northeast China to do business.