Generals take care of their children: The master mother leads the system to farm

After sending Li Long away, Gu Jingyan sat quietly at the table for a long time.

After he had finished several cups of tea, he spread out the rice paper.

He wrote a few letters and ordered Leng San and Leng Si, who were waiting in the dark, to deliver them.

He rubbed his forehead, but he couldn't ignore his wife's skills.

He thought that in the future, no matter what she wanted, said, or did, he would obey her.

……

Gu Jingyan's letter was sent from Lin County.

It was delivered to Leng Yi the next morning.

Li Changle was surprised when he took the envelope, "Is your general such a loyal person?"

Only one day after she set out, the first letter arrived in her hands.

Leng Yi: ...He also wanted to ask, the general is not such a person.

Ouyang Siyuan carried a hoe and walked into the yard from outside. He looked at the envelope in her hand and said, "Sister-in-law, Jing Yan's efforts have finally paid off."

Li Changle opened the letter with a smile on his face and began to read it.

The further you read, the funnier it gets.

Who told her not to take out the golden finger for no reason?

Now he comes to me first.

You want grass seeds?

She handed the letter to Ouyang Siyuan as Gu Jingyan said, "Look, he said that this matter has been approved by you, and the King of Northern Mengkang is in Gu Jingyan's hands now."

She closed the door, opened the system and checked the seed purchase list.

Grass seeds grass seeds...

Have it.

Alfalfa.

Gray wheat straw.

Yellow bamboo grass.

Pennisetum.

endive.

Gu Changle: "System, this service group has even gone abroad, can there still be contribution point rewards?"

The system responded promptly: "Host, no, at this stage, the group services that leave the territory of Li County will not be rewarded even if they enjoy the benefits of the system products."

Li Changle: "Oh, you want me to be an unknown hero."

system: ……

It won't benefit if the host doesn't have contribution points, but it is a Madonna system after all, so it needs to have a structure.

"Host, just treat this as training to improve your Madonna Index..."

Li Changle: ...

She clicked on the torrent list.

Alfalfa contributes 2 points per acre.

Gray wheat straw is worth 2 contribution points per acre.

Yellow bamboo grass has 2 contribution points per acre.

The price is the same as the previous seeds.

She picked these three types of grass seeds that are more cold-resistant and drought-resistant, and placed an order for 50 acres of each, which means 150 acres of all three types, and 300 contribution points.

All are perennial forage.

After you finish eating one crop, another crop will grow three to five days later...

One acre of grass is equivalent to the wild grass on three or four acres of grassland.

Li Changle opened the door and was thinking in her mind, although there would be no contribution points as rewards, could she take the opportunity to ask for a few lambs and cowboys?

Her Leshan Ecological Farm needs all kinds of poultry.

As soon as she stepped out of the door, she was pulled back by Ouyang Siyuan, "Sister-in-law, will this work?"

Li Changle: "Didn't Gu Jingyan say that? There are many wastelands on the border, but the wind and sand are also strong. The harvest of crops in previous years is not as good as that of other places. It is better to grow some grass and exchange some calves and lambs with Northern Mongolia and raise them by ourselves. We can have some meat all year round. Or we can raise pigs. We can also sell grass seeds when the time comes.

Besides, our army's horses also need fodder, and the grass seeds I have here are simply excellent, they can eat them till the end of time."

Ouyang Siyuan couldn't help but laugh and cry when he saw that she talked as if she had already eaten fresh beef and mutton.

“Draw a pie a day.”

Ouyang Siyuan stuffed the letter back to her and said, "Go ahead, go ahead. I think the emperor will support you."

Leng Yi shipped out several hundred kilograms of grass seeds the next day, trying to get them to Gu Jingyan as soon as possible.

Li Changle began a daily routine of cooking and taking care of the children. Sometimes she would go into the greenhouse to see how the sweet potatoes were growing, and sometimes she would take the brother and sister to Wangjia Xiaoshi to play.

Li Changle also discovered that Li Shixi had become a little teacher.

The weather was getting colder, and Wang Dahu no longer allowed his two sons to go out for a walk to look for firewood. Sometimes when Li Changle took the children to Wang's house, they would meet them.

These two children are not often seen. They are either playing with their friends in the village or helping their family collect firewood or something.

During these two encounters, Li Changle discovered that they were learning to read from Li Shixi.

Li Changle: "..."

Any other child would be more motivated and active than her.

When she read the vernacular books and letters from the Great Yan Dynasty now, she felt dazzled and had to guess a lot to understand the general idea, let alone write.

……

It snowed at night.

Li Changle closed the doors and windows, added charcoal to the brazier and carried it into the house. He then brought a bucket of hot water and went into the house to soak the feet of the two siblings.

"It's freezing cold. Fortunately, I have enough firewood and charcoal, otherwise I would be freezing cold as a dog."

"We will push the yard open and rebuild it in the spring of next year. We won't use beds in our house. We will use kangs instead. It is said that sleeping in pits is warmer in winter."

Then he asked, "Whose idea was it to teach Zhuzi and Guzi to read?"

Li Shixi wiped his feet with a dry cloth and got into bed again. "It was my idea. They don't even know how to write their own names, and they can't read them. Auntie, can I give a piece of water writing cloth to Zhuzi and the others so that they don't let others see it?"

Li Shixi has been following Yu'er under Li Changle's supervision for more than a month. It is not impossible for him to find some other fun things to do now.

It's this thing called water writing cloth. She's a useless person and can't explain the principle behind it, but it does save money because you don't even need ink or paper.

"Okay, you decide."

After soaking his feet, Li Shixi slipped into the side room and slept with Ouyang Siyuan.

Yu'er is a little girl who likes to sleep. She took a nap for two or three hours during the day. Now that she finished soaking her feet, she curled up in the quilt and fell asleep.

It was snowing outside, and even while lying in bed I could feel the biting cold wind through the earthen wall.

-

At dawn, the system's voice broadcast prompted that the task had been completed.

The task of leading the prince to farm was finally completed.

In addition to the 10 contribution points rewarded for farming task progress, there are also 666 limited-time task rewards.

I spent 300 contribution points on grass seeds yesterday, and I doubled it back today.

Li Changle looked at the system homepage and found that his current contribution points were nearly 2500.

When all the sweet potatoes and wheat in Leshan Village were transported away, the system issued a reward of 1000 contribution points for the limited-time task of producing acres of grain.

It has been more than a month since I traveled to the Great Yan Dynasty, and the system balance has finally broken through 1000 and reached 2000!

Li Changle, the good-for-nothing from China, said: It’s really not easy!!

Then she remembered Ouyang Siyuan's words about returning to Kyoto safely, so during breakfast, she told him that the sweet potatoes were ripe and could be dug.

"It would be bad if a crop suddenly appeared in the spring. Your Highness, please send someone to inform the magistrate of Li County. Let them know that our Crown Prince has been squatting on this sweet potato field for a month."

So I finally planted the sweet potatoes!

Ouyang Siyuan imagined what she said, and suddenly he felt that, well... the sweet potatoes were really grown by him with great difficulty.

-

The magistrate arrived quickly.

I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince discovered new varieties of grains in a village under his jurisdiction, and watched them mature and are now ready for harvest.

How can I wait any longer?

This is a free achievement!

As soon as he received the news, he hurried to Lushui Village with a group of yamen runners.

Ouyang Siyuan in the Li family courtyard was eager to get started, picked up a hoe and a basket, and walked towards the greenhouse. "It's finally time to harvest. Although I've been busy working on a hundred acres of land, I've never worked with a hoe before."

This sweet potato greenhouse is the one where he works most diligently.

Li Changle smiled, "Remember to bring some of these greenhouse sweet potatoes back to His Majesty when you return to Ping'an, and tell him that these are the sweet potatoes you grew with great difficulty and brought back from the north as a gift to him."

Ouyang Siyuan laughed loudly and entered the greenhouse. "You know what, this is really possible! When he was young, he had the quirk of watching farmers working."

Li Changle: "Your Majesty advocates hard work and advocates farming and weaving. He is a good and pragmatic emperor. Your Highness should not take this as a joke."

Ouyang Siyuan bent down to tie up the hem of his robe and slowed down his movements. He chuckled, "I'll just take it as you praising him. I'll take your words to heart!"

"In this regard, my father is better at being an emperor than I am."

Li Shixi ran out of the courtyard, "Uncle Ouyang, I'm here to help you too."

The careful child changed his cotton coat and shoes for old ones.

Yu'er was wearing a cotton-padded jacket and wrapped up like a ball. He also ran out with his short legs, "Brother, wait a minute. Yu'er wants to help too. Uh..."

Leng Er stopped the young master from falling onto the snow in time, with veins on his forehead throbbing.

Li Changle suppressed his laughter and said, "Why are you helping? The more you help, the more trouble you will cause."

As he spoke, he dragged the person to his side and said, "Just stay and watch, that's considered helping."

She said to Ouyang Siyuan: "You better be careful, don't let your hoe hurt your feet instead of digging up the sweet potatoes."

Ouyang Siyuan: "...Can't you just hope for me to be good?"

Wu Xin: "Master, how about you just be my subordinate?"

Although they are not good seedlings for farming, at least they are stronger than their master.

"Go away, I'll take your turn when I'm tired!"

……

There is quite a commotion in Lushui Village today.

When Leng Yi, accompanied by Magistrate Li Huaitong and a group of yamen runners, arrived at Lushui Village, they saw no one at the entrance of the village.

When we arrived at the Li family courtyard, we found that there were three layers of houses inside and outside. Everyone ran to the greenhouse to see the novelty.

Muramasa stood in front of the greenhouse and looked inside. "Oh, the old man is relieved now. The crops have really grown!"

Hu Wang stood beside him, pointing at the baskets of dirt-like things at the entrance of the greenhouse, and asked, "You say this is food?"

It was as if what Hu Dexian had just told him was a fantasy.

He also knew that Hu Dexian had been guarding these sheds for a while, but he didn't know what was inside that was worth his help in guarding.

Hu Dexian's eyes wrinkled with laughter. "Uncle Wang, you don't know that I have already secured sweet potato seedlings for the villagers to plant next spring."

"The sandy land at the foot of the mountain behind our village will be productive next year. Madam Li said that crops must be grown on sandy land to taste better, hahahaha."

The situation in Li County is relatively good. After being busy with farming all year round and paying various taxes, the county can barely survive the lean period of the next year.

But when the weather is as dry as it has been in the past two years, there is no food to grow at home.

They endured almost a year longer than the people in Guangji County, but fortunately there was not much displacement.

Instead, they also accepted many refugees from their hometowns that were hit by severe drought.

If the drought continues for another year or two, Li County will probably fall.

Every household in Lushui Village owns an acre of sandy land.

If every family collected more food and stored it, there would be some surplus food for next year.

If you have food in your hands, you will not be worried.

After hearing this, Hu Wang looked at the pile of sweet potatoes and said nothing more.

Madam Li...

As if to respond to the sigh in his heart, outside the crowd who were gathered densely and talking in low voices, a voice passed through the crowd and reached the ears of Hu Dexian and the other man, and also reached the greenhouse.

"The county magistrate has arrived!"

There was a sudden silence, and everyone turned to look behind them.

Mr. Magistrate?

Isn’t that the official in charge of Li County?

In an instant, people knelt on the ground, one by one, from the Li family courtyard to the door of the greenhouse.

As for the county magistrate, most people may not meet two high-ranking government officials in their entire lives, especially the farmers who have only known how to serve their one-third acre of land all their lives and rarely even go to the county town.

Li Huaitong held his official robe in one hand, stepped over the villagers and raised his hand, "Everyone, don't be so polite, get up quickly."

When they reached the shed, they saw Hu Dexian and Hu Wang also kneeling on the snow and preparing to stand up. Li Huaitong hurriedly gave Hu Wang a hand:

"I have no intention of disturbing you all. I just heard that a new variety of grain has appeared in Green Water Village. This is a great thing, so I have to come and take a look."

"It's really great news! County Magistrate, please..." Hu Dexian led the people into the shed, and when he turned around, he whispered to Li Huaitong:

"Your Highness is digging for food with a hoe inside."

Li Huaitong paused, "???"

Hu Dexian smiled bitterly, "Your Highness must take care of this shed yourself. Several people in the village are already busy working on the other two sheds."

The people in the village he mentioned were the four brothers of the Wang family, Hu Chunshan, Hu Liangmu and others, plus Li Ze, the son of Doctor Li.

Li Huaitong's eyes twitched. What the hell was this ancestor doing?

Li Changle listened to the noise outside and took the fish out of the greenhouse. In front of him was a man wearing an official robe and an official hat. He had a straight look in his eyes and looked anxious.

He was stunned when he saw the woman walking out of the greenhouse with the young child.

"Who is this?"

Hu Dexian stepped forward and introduced, "Mr. Magistrate, these two are General Gu's wife and daughter. This is Madam Li."

Li Huaitong's eyebrows jumped, "It's...Mrs. Gu..."

Gu Jingyan had just taken King Kang of Northern Mongolia away from prison yesterday. He also greeted him in front and said that his wife and daughter were still staying in Li County. If anyone came to ask for help from the county magistrate, he would go to the county magistrate to take care of them.

He agreed readily at that time and didn't say no.

now……

Li Huaitong's eyes flickered as he looked at Li Changle who nodded to him gracefully, and the ground behind her where sweet potato vines were faintly visible.

He bowed to Li Changle in return, "Mrs. Gu is polite. May I ask, ... are you inside?"

Everyone behind him pricked up their ears, and he didn't dare shout out Ouyang Siyuan's identity.

Li Changle nodded to Li Huaitong, made way for him and said, "Please come in, sir."

Just then, Ouyang Siyuan dug up a lot of big sweet potatoes with his hoe and was extremely excited.

"Li Huaitong, hurry up and call your yamen runners over to weigh it!"

Oh, when I return to Beijing this time, I must brag about it to my father, the Emperor. This trip is worth it.