Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Knowing that they were coming back, Mrs. Zhao, her mother-in-law, and Yunmu were waiting at the city gate early.

The carriage stopped and the two of them walked forward to ask Yun Mo, who was driving the carriage.

"Mo'er, where's Nineteen?"

Lin Yinan leaned out of the carriage holding the sleeping baby in her arms, and Yunmu quickly reached out to take the child from her arms.

"Nineteen, let grandma hug you."

"Mom, Nineteen has fallen asleep. Please get in the car and carry him. Walking is tiring."

Yun Mo got off and helped them into the carriage. There was a lot of luggage behind the carriage. After they got in, Lin Yinan got off and walked with Yun Mo.

The three of them surrounded Yun Nineteen and kept looking at him.

Lin Shuo at the back had a look of disappointment on his face. In his mother's eyes, his status was not even as good as Nineteen.

The couple pulled their horses into the city and greeted familiar villagers from time to time.

Lin Yiheng came hurriedly after finishing his government affairs, and Lin Yinan handed over the affairs of A Ming and A Liang's families to him.

We had lunch at the Yun family. Li Huishan and Yun Yan had already prepared lunch, so we could start eating as soon as we entered the house.

After returning home and seeing the familiar Yun Junding, Yun Shijiu no longer clung to Lin Yinan like he did in Chi'an.

No matter what others said to her, she would grin and smile, and there was a hint of pity in everyone's eyes.

Lin Yinan knew that aphasia was caused by mental stimulation. As his daughter grew older, her symptoms had improved a lot.

She believed that with time, through gradual guidance and some rehabilitation training, Nineteen would be able to speak.

After dinner, Lin Yinan rested for half an hour and then went to the government office to handle official business.

Pan Qingfeng brought a stack of account books and said, "City Lord, this is the summary of the grain harvested in the first quarter. Please take a look."

I hope the hurricane a few months ago will not affect food production.

"How was the harvest this year?" Lin Yinan asked.

Pan Qingfeng: "The villagers have their own experience in planting. This year, the average yield per mu of paddy fields is about 250 kilograms, and the highest is nearly 280 kilograms."

“Everyone has worked hard to achieve this harvest.”

Pan Qingfeng added: "The rice planted in the second season has already headed. For some fields that are not fertile enough, Uncle Lin suggested that we keep them for half a year, or plant other crops, and then plant rice in the spring of next year."

As for what to plant, Lin Yinan doesn't need to worry at all. Uncle Lin, Ding Gui, and Chen San have been farming for a lifetime and are very experienced.

As the two were talking, Lin Yiheng came in with a thick booklet.

"Anan, we have informed distributors in various places about the court's taxation of salt, and they have no objection to it."

Pulling over the abacus on the table, Lin Yinan's fingers quickly dialed on it, "After deducting 30% of the tax, they can still make money, and salt is a necessity for people's livelihood. The world is difficult now, even if there is only 10% profit, they are unwilling to give up."

Lin Yiheng frowned and said, "It's just that our profits have decreased."

Chi'an has to support so many people, and now money needs to be spent on everything. Looking at the food consumed every day, he is worried!

"For the future, we need to make arrangements early," Pan Qingfeng added.

Lin Yinan has basically decided on the future development of Longtan.

She said calmly, "Don't worry too much. We don't lack food now, and we can be self-sufficient in other aspects. When the war subsides, we will look for opportunities outside. Now we just need to prepare the grain tax to be paid at the end of the year in advance."

Then, Lin Yiheng talked about the expansion of the sugar refinery and brewery.

"This year, there is a bumper harvest of lychees. Villages nearby and even around Changyi County send lychees here. The cellar dug by Yunnian has long been full. In order to speed up the work, Miss Yun and Miss Huang posted a recruitment notice in the city and recruited a group of women to help. It took two days to process all the fruits."

"If there aren't enough people, we'll hire more people, and those who get the job will be paid on time."

Lin Yiheng looked at his sister who was becoming more and more dignified, and said hesitantly: "The clan leader has guaranteed that Lin Chunmei and her sister will also work in the winery. Anan, if you think..."

"Are they lazy and greedy?" Lin Yinan interrupted him.

"That's not true."

"That's fine. I'm not the kind of petty person."

Lin Yinan has always been generous when it comes to hiring people.

"The sugar factory is still under construction and will be completed in another month."

Lin Yinan reminded him, "Build two more warehouses for storage. The Chen family has informed us in advance that they have planted a lot of sugarcane this year."

"Okay, I'll go back and tell them."

"Not only the material warehouse, but also two more sets of juice extraction stone mills and other equipment will be added."

Lin Yiheng took notes in another small notebook. There were many things to do and he was afraid that he would forget them due to being busy.

The three of them chatted about many management details, and the afternoon passed like this.

Towards evening, Luo Shouxin came in carrying two large bags of things, his voice filled with uncontrollable joy.

"Anan, come and see what good things I brought?"

After putting down his things, Luo Shouxin's sweaty face was filled with a smile and he casually wiped the sweat off with his sleeve.

His skin was more than two shades darker than the other men in the chamber.

Lin Yinan stood up, poured him a cup of tea, then bent down to untie the bag on the ground.

"Brother-in-law, what's in this?"

Luo Shouxin drank the tea in one gulp, "You'll never guess!"

Lin Yinan reached into the bag and pulled out a handful of dark brown seeds with some flocs on them.

“Cottonseed?!!!”

After filling a pot of water, Luo Shouxin put down the cup and gave Lin Yinan a thumbs up.

"Anan is really knowledgeable! Yes, this is the seed of the kapok tree!"

The kapok mentioned by Luo Shouxin, also known as the white cotton tree, which people now call cotton, came from the Western Regions.

If they could grow cotton, they could spin it and weave cloth themselves, which would save them a lot of money on purchasing cloth in the future. If they grew good cotton, they could make a lot of money by selling it.

She searched for a while, but could not find any memory of Linjia Village growing cotton in the past.

Lin Yinan looked at Luo Shouxin in confusion, "Brother-in-law, where did you get so many kapok seeds?"

Luo Shouxin: "I exchanged a few kilograms with the refugees. This thing used to be grown in the Western Regions. Some people in the north of our country also grow it, but fewer people grow it in the south. I heard that some people grow it in the south, so I went to the surrounding counties and towns to buy some, and finally collected these two bags."

"But growing cotton is not easy. I need to call my second uncle and his friends to discuss how to grow it."

As far as she knows, cotton, as a natural fiber crop, may encounter various pest problems during its growth, especially in the humid and hot south.

Lin Yiheng didn't go out when he knew his second uncle had returned. He asked the guards to go and invite Lin Shuo over.

Lin Shuo quickly arrived at the county government office. When he saw the two bags of cotton seeds, he was stunned and felt a little embarrassed.

"I've heard of this thing, but I've never grown it."

In her previous life, Lin Yinan loved shopping for clothes online. When she found that many merchants liked to label the ingredients of clothes as Xinjiang cotton, she specially checked the entire process of this cotton from planting to harvesting.

So, she gave Lin Shuo a suggestion, "Second Uncle, if we want to grow kapok, should we do the same as rice, raising seedlings first, and then dividing the plants and planting them in the field?"