Happy Farmer's Life

There are only three rooms in the house. Now that Zhou Wen and Wang Wu have no place to live, Du Weiming thinks it is better to build two more rooms.Du Weiming went to the village head's house once, and the village head knew the situation at home. There was no place to build a cowshed on the right side of Du Weiming's house. The village head's house was not far from the left side of the house. I want to expand to the left, and I greeted the village head. Now there is not much work in the field, and the young men in the village are willing to come to his house to help. Everyone has seen the meals at Du Weiming's house when they built the cowshed last time. It is true. That's right, so this time when his family said they were going to build a house, many young men came to help.Too many people can't do good things. In the end, there were ten people left, most of whom were the ones who helped build the cowshed last time.

Building a house is no better than building a cowshed. The house is stronger.Everyone divides the work and cooperates. Some go to the mountains to cut trees, and some help to make earthen embryos. The better houses in the village are earthen embryonic houses, and some of the poorer conditions are thatched houses. There are really no such things as bricks in the village.Du Weiming thought about not renovating the house when conditions permit.Du Weiming's main task these days is to cook. There are many people and strength. With the help of everyone, the two houses were completed in 20 days.Two days before the completion, Du Weiming specially went to the town once. On the one hand, he sent the finished soap and body oil to the shopkeeper. This time, he gave away [-] sets at once, and put the rest at home.I also specially bought five catties of pork back home, and invited everyone to have a meal on the day when I was going to finish the work.

After the house was built, Du Weiming also felt very happy. Although he didn't have a cleanliness fetish, he was still not used to Zhou Wen and Wang Wu sleeping in the same room with him, and he felt that he didn't have much privacy.Tell everyone to come to his house for dinner in the evening, and everyone will go back to rest first.Du Weiming was busy, so he chose two catties of pork belly with moderate fat and leanness to make braised pork.Wang Wu chopped the rest into meat paste, and Zhou Wen went to the back of the village to dig out shepherd's purse. Du Weiming decided to make some shepherd's purse wontons.There are dumplings in this place, but no one has ever made wontons. Du Weiming asked Wang Wu to knead the dough. Kneading the dough requires strength. Wang Wu is more suitable for me because I have little strength.I found the salted chicken and bacon at home, fried yam with bacon, cut the salted chicken into pieces and steamed it.I went to the village chief's house once, picked some beans and came back, and invited his family to come over for dinner at night.Stir-fried green beans with olives and vegetables, stir-fried cabbage with spicy sauce, stir-fried green vegetables with mushrooms, fried pickled melon with eggs and so on.There was no room for so many people at home, so two tables were set up directly outside the house, and one table was full of dishes, all of them were strong guys. Du Weiming specially steamed some steamed buns because he was afraid that these would not be enough for him.

Du Weiming put a lot of thought into the stuffing of shepherd's purse wontons. Shepherd's purse was cut and washed, scalded in water, and squeezed dry with hands.After the mushrooms at home are dried and fermented, some of them are ready to be stuffed, and the rest is made into soup. This is today's soup base.The shepherd's purse was too dry, so Du Weiming washed the green vegetables again, dried them, chopped them together with the shepherd's purse and mushrooms, added salt and other seasonings, and finally added four eggs in it.Hundreds of wontons were wrapped, and after they were packed, they were placed in the mushroom soup and served out. This was to be cooked and eaten immediately. It was the first time for everyone to eat this thing. It was a joy to eat it with a spoon.Everyone ate a belly ball, and all the dishes were wiped out. Luckily, Du Weiming kept some of the hundreds of wontons in the cabinet for eating tomorrow.In fact, Du Weiming saw that some people took the corn bread back in their sleeves, so he didn't say anything.The food in the field is not ready yet, and everyone has nothing to eat, so just take it.

The arrival of Zhou Wen and Wang Wu made Du Weiming feel a lot easier. Although the family has added 7 mu of land, it is much faster than before with Zhou Wen, Wang Wu and cattle farming land. The [-] mu of land is a combination of corn and soybeans. The gaps between the corn plants are larger, and soybeans are planted in the middle.With the help of soybeans, corn can also grow better.This was what Du Weiming remembered later. Some soybeans were also planted in the middle of the original acre of corn.Two mu of land is planted with rice, and the remaining one mu of land is planted with peanuts and a small amount of sesame.After planting, most of the work in the field was done by Wang Wu. Zhou Wen mainly took care of the family's livestock, especially the cow, which was half of the family's property. Sometimes the field needed to be weeded or watered. Only the water will mobilize, and everyone will go to the ground together.

Du Weiming found that people in this era did not pay attention to fertilization, so the yield of crops was not high.Although there is no chemical fertilizer, some basic fertilizers can still make crops grow better. For example, plant ash and manure are excellent natural fertilizers.Du Weiming specially told Zhou Wen and Wang Wu to pay attention to fertilization. They didn't understand at first, so Du Weiming took them to do it once.Now all the cow dung and so on at home are left to wait for fertilization.

Plant ash fertilization is still convenient and clean, but manure is much more troublesome, and it cannot be fertilized directly. It must be fertilized before fertilization.The smell was also unbearable to ordinary people. Du Weiming specially made a mask in advance, but he still couldn't stand it. Wang Wu and Zhou Wen insisted on not letting them go to the field to do this work.Just kidding, how dare you ask Liu Jingyuan to do this job, I still don't want to think about it.The smell of fertilization was also heard in the village. Everyone couldn't figure out what Li Er was doing. Some villagers came to ask. Du Weiming said that it was fertilization and that it could increase the yield of crops. Everyone left in doubt.

Liu Jingyuan felt that he had to leave.Looking back on this period of time, it can be said that it was the first time in his life that he lived so carefree.Liu Jingyuan is the third son of the current emperor, and he is a brother of the current crown prince, and his mother is Empress Mu.But the empress passed away when he and his brother were still young, and his father had hundreds of concubines in the Sangong and Six Courtyards. After the empress left, their lives were not so easy.Fortunately, the emperor's brother is the crown prince, and his father really likes the emperor's brother and himself, and cultivates him carefully, but his second emperor's brother is not a person who is easy to get along with.The second brother is the son of the emperor's current favorite concubine Zhenfei. With the support of his prime minister father, Zhenfei has always been eyeing the emperor's brother.In fact, Liu Jingyuan really has no interest in the throne, but the emperor's brother is the crown prince, so he has to join in the battle for the throne.Fortunately, grandpa is a general and holds military power, otherwise the life of the two brothers would not be so easy.

This trip to Beijing is to help the emperor inspect the people's livelihood in Quzhou. The state capital of Quzhou has been on the line with the prime minister for the past two years and has been embezzling tax money.The letter said that there was a disaster in Quzhou and asked for tax reduction or exemption, but there was no reduction or exemption in private.Brother Huang asked him to investigate the matter after he got the secret report. Although it was an unannounced visit, they still sent people to hunt him down after they got the news. Fortunately, he escaped with the desperate rescue of the secret guard and met Wei Ming. .

Getting along with Weiming is plain and happy. Although Weiming is not old, he does things with tension and laxity. He has been calculating and living for many years. He has never lived such a leisurely life.Farming with him, teaching him how to read, climbing mountains together, and sitting down to drink tea and chat when free, this is an experience I have never had in my life. With the increase in contact with Weiming, I am often caught by his whim Feeling the difference, I don't know how many novel ideas there are in this little head.I really want to live with Weiming like this, but I can't do it now, I have to help the emperor get the throne, the time to part.

Jing Yuan searched for one night and told Du Weiming that he was leaving. Du Weiming didn't seem surprised at all.Although Du Weiming didn't know Liu Jingyuan's identity, he knew that Jingyuan would leave after he got well. His clothes, the knife wound on his body, and his whole temperament all indicated that his identity must not be that simple. Not the son who was injured by the robbers.

Liu Jingyuan left in the early morning, and Du Weiming left quietly while he was still sound asleep.Du Weiming didn't want to see the parting scene, so he deliberately didn't send Jing Yuan, but Jing Yuan's package was prepared by him the night before.Dry food, as well as homemade snacks, Jing Yuan also specially asked to bring some sets of soap and body oil.Having been together day and night for several months, the sudden separation was a little uncomfortable for both of them, but life still had to go on.