farming in ancient times

While Xiaoer and Dalang were slowly sowing seeds, the villagers walking in the ditch also slowly stopped, and turned to bend over to dig something into the soil that the columbine cart passed by.I saw that everyone scraped away the upper layer of soil, and saw that the wheat seeds were evenly buried in it, and the wheat seeds in each row were similar, and they all started discussing, "This, this columbine is so, so amazing!"

"That's right, our county magistrate is very powerful. You can see that the curved plow made by Xiaoer's family is better than ours." A villager with a straight plow said to the village chief, "Morning Knowing that there is this columbine, my family, my family will not sow seeds so early this year. I went to the field to check earlier, and many seeds are still on the ground."

"Wang Mutou, what you said is an exaggeration. Who doesn't know that your family is more careful in farming than other Xiaoer!" The person who spoke smiled at the previous person, "Don't you just want to ask if Xiaoer was a former farmer? Do you know the columbine car?"

Xiao Er turned his head and smiled, "I heard Bai Fu say that the emperor's car was made by the emperor, and the county magistrate didn't know what a car was. You all know that Bai Fu knew me, and he let me do it for my own good. Sowing the wheat seeds later, I thought, a few days later would not delay the matter. Who knows, Bai Fu is for me to sow the seeds."

"Did you hear that, the emperor made this chariot?" The village head glared, and the villagers dared not discuss it.To these people, the emperor was like a god. The village chief immediately looked at Xiao Ergui's car with enthusiasm.A few villagers with good families began to discuss with each other, and if the car was not expensive, they would buy one for each family.

Carpenter Feng who was following at the side heard this, and after Xiaoer finished planting the four acres of land, he followed Xiaoer to Xiaoer's house, and Xiaoer said without waiting for him, "Uncle Feng, do you want to see the columbine car?" Is it?"

Carpenter Feng was a little embarrassed, "Xiaoer, I was thinking, people in our village might find someone to make a car in the future, if I can do it, then the villagers don't have to go to town."

"Then look." Xiao Er kicked Xiao Shan, "Make way for Uncle Feng."

The car was placed against the wall, and Xiao Shan hurriedly moved his buttocks, and asked, "Second brother, our family has been exhausted for a long time, do you want to cook something delicious?"

"You know how to eat!" Xiao Er glared at him, Xiao Shan quickly stood up, "I'll light a fire for Second Brother!"

"I don't need you, I'm here." Butcher Gao said.

Xiao Er raised his eyebrows when he heard this, "You just spoil him! Ever since you came to our house, Xiao Shan, tell me, what have you done every day?" Saying so, Xiao Er's face was not angry, Xiao Shan Carpenter Feng didn't dare to tease his second brother and elder brother Gao, so he said, "Uncle Feng, you see my second brother can chatter better than a woman, which girl would dare to marry him in the future!"

"Xiaoer is a good offspring, so he won't worry about marrying, and your family can host a wedding soon."

"My second brother is not willing to hold a wedding, he should say, how much money will be wasted." Xiao Shan curled his lips.

Butcher Gao laughed all of a sudden, "Xiaoer, do we call this a matchless couple?"

"Do you believe that I poured this hot oil on your face?!" Xiao Er held a wooden spoon, making a gesture to pour oil on Butcher Gao.

"Hey, I didn't say anything." Butcher Gao hurriedly hugged his head and begged for mercy.

While Xiaoer and Butcher Gao were arguing in the kitchen, the villagers of Wangjia Village were also talking about them in the kitchen.

It’s the time when each family is cooking, and you only need to move your hands and don’t move your mouth when cooking. Even Zheng Fengshi said to Zheng Daniu, “The life of Xiaoer’s family is getting better every day, and Niu Niuniang is not doing anything. Tell Xiaoer that we kissed you."

"What are you going to do?" Zheng Daniu asked hurriedly, remembering the embarrassment that the matchmaker gave Xiao Er last time.

"Our son-in-law's cousin just passed the age of Ji last month, so the head of the little face is doing well."

"Stop messing around, Xiaoer is now in the eyes of the county magistrate, haven't you seen that those idle old women in the village dare not talk to Xiaoer?" Zheng Daniu said, looking at her, "I'm When I was carrying water in the morning, I met a few old women, and I heard that they all said to help Xiao Er to make love."

Butcher Gao also heard this when he went out for a walk after dinner, and he abducted Xiao Er to the town the next day.Butcher Gao can prevent Xiao Er from hearing those gossip and gossip.

When Fangzheng saw them coming, he was surprised and said, "Xiao Er, how do you know that I have inquired about the place for you?"

"What?" Xiaoer knew that there was no rush. When he came over the day before yesterday, he didn't even ask. He almost didn't react when he heard Fang Zheng's words, "Okay? Okay?"

"Not yet!" Ren Yuan hurriedly said, "We don't have much land to sell in Guanjiang Town. We found out that there is a big family in the next town. His sons are now in the capital to do seafood business. The family’s [-] mu of paddy fields and [-] mu of dry land were sold, and then they re-purchased fields near Kyoto. But their paddy fields are all connected together, and the dry land reclaimed by ordinary people here does not have to pay taxes, so there is no tax. People are willing to buy that land.”

Xiao Eryi thought the same thing. At this time, there are few people and the land is vast, and the children born by each household have not yet grown up. Although the population growth has been faster than before in the past ten years, the speed of wasteland reclamation is far behind. population growth rate.

"Then did you ask how much the sixty acres cost?" Xiaoer asked hurriedly.

"They said 500 taels of silver." Fangzheng looked at Xiao Er carefully as he said, knowing Xiao Er's temperament, he was really afraid that Xiao Er would not be happy when he heard this.Xiao Eryi was not happy, the general had a wife and forgot his subordinates would have to take him and Ren Yuan to the knife again.

Sure enough, seeing Xiao Er frowned, Fang Zheng hurriedly said, "They are in a hurry to sell, these fields haven't been sown yet, I think the price can be lowered."

"I'll go and have a look with you!" With such a large amount of money, Xiaoer was worried.

"Don't go." Butcher Gao hurriedly embraced him, "Don't be recognized later. I'll leave this to Fangzheng and Ren Yuan." Then he said to them, "If you can't get the 400 taels of silver, you Don't come back either."

"Brother Gao..." Fangzheng burst into tears, "The land has already been sold at a low price. If we tell him 400 taels, we will be kicked out."

"It's what you deserve, I'll take care of two less people." Butcher Gao had kidnapped Xiaoer to play in the town, so he said, "We still have something to do, so let's go first. By the way, remember to buy a few when you go back to buy rice noodles." A good piece of fabric is reserved for Xiao Er to make an inner coat."

Seeing him finish speaking, Fangzheng left, and said "Pooh" at Butcher Gao's back, "The general doesn't see us anymore, and only his wife is in his heart."

"All right. Aren't you happy to see how alive the general is now?"

"...Happy!" Fang Zheng still clearly remembered what the general was like in the past. Except for being a little angry when facing the enemy, he was no different from a ghost at other times.

The two worked hard to get the land that Xiaoer wanted to buy, and happily took the rice noodles and cloth to Wangjia Village to find the general's meritorious service. Once they entered, the smiles on the two faces froze.

What did they hear? They didn't even sit down to rest when they entered the door, when they heard the general opening and closing his mouth, "Hey, you two came just in time. I'm going to plant seedlings at home tomorrow, and I was going to find you."

"Brother Gao, you really don't treat us as outsiders." Fangzheng's mouth trembled for a long time before he could hold back such a sentence.

"You think I'll treat you as outsiders?" Butcher Gao raised his brows, as if they would beat someone up if they talked too much.

"No, no." Ren Yuan shook his head again and again, seeing Xiao Er beside him, "Xiao Er, do you think the cloth we got is good?"

Xiao Er's eyes widened and the two of them pushed the cart in and stuck to it. When he heard this, he said, "Okay, I moved down?"

"Xiaoer, why don't you be an outlier?" Da Lang grabbed Xiaoer and said, "Brother Gao, you are too bad at living. This whole horse doesn't cost much money." He looked at Xiaoer with some headaches. Two and Butcher Gao, these two are a perfect match, one is stingy like an iron rooster, and the other is generous to his family like a boy who spreads money.

"Da Lang, I bought this for Xiao Er, not for you." The subconscious meaning is that you don't want to be burdened, because you are only here because of Xiao Er.

"You..." Da Lang choked, watching Fang Zheng and Ren Yuan quickly move the cloth into the second room.

Because the two had blinked at Xiao Er before, Xiao Er hurriedly followed after getting the signal.

Dalang and Xiaoshan saw the butcher and Xiaoer together, so that their back molars would not be crooked by these two people, they put down the cloth and left.

Xiao Shan was still young, the first time he saw the ye so smooth fabric, his eyes were straightened, and he looked back when he walked out the door.

Da Lang raised his hand and slapped him on the head, "Be good! Your second brother loves you so much, and you will be missing later."

"I just want to see it." Xiao Shan knew this, and when he turned around and saw Brother Gao, he grabbed Second Brother's hand, Xiao Shan shivered, and didn't know what good it was for a man to be with a man.

Seeing that the elder brother had walked away from Xiao Shan, Xiao Er asked, "What's the matter?"

"It's done!" As he spoke, he took out the title deed and put it in the small second-hand store, "It cost 450 taels of silver, but we even bought his house, including all the pots and pans. "

Xiao Er grinned amusedly, although it was 50 taels more than Butcher Gao stipulated, but Xiao Er knew that if he did it himself, it would be a year of the monkey to get it right.

Thinking about it this way, Xiao Er looked at Butcher Gao again, and was particularly puzzled by this guy's position in the army back then, why both of his subordinates were so quick to do things.

Butcher Gao shuddered at Xiao Er's look, "Xiao Er, what are you doing here?"

"Let it to tenant farmers." Although there is a lot of land here, it takes two years to raise it for reclamation. Some ordinary people choose to rent land if they really can't get rid of the pot.

Hearing that Xiao Er also leased the land to others, Butcher Gao had a flash of inspiration, and looked at Xiao Er's eyes lit up, "Xiao Er, you, give me the land, okay?"

Xiao Er doesn't know about Butcher Gao's net worth, and he also knows that he is not short of money. The last time Fangzheng and Ren Yuan gave him a hundred taels of gold, he didn't even move his eyelids. , "What are you going to do?"

"That?" Butcher Gao hesitated, thinking about Xiao Er's temperament, "Some of my comrades are like Fang Zheng and Ren Yuan, but they all have families..."

"And then?" Xiao Er asked.

"Many of them don't live well at home."

Xiao Er understood that the butcher was planning to rent his land to his comrades.Xiao Er respected the soldiers who defended their homes and the country, and was familiar with history books. Xiao Er knew about the "five random China" in the past, and also read the detailed records about "Ten Days in Yangzhou".

It was also because of this that when Butcher Gao wanted to live in Xiao Er's house, Xiao Er didn't hesitate to look at rice noodles and pork.

"If they rent my land, they won't be able to make their family richer, right?" Xiaoer asked.

"It's not the same. The land made by the curved plow is then sown with a columbine cart. If the time is more rushed, the paddy field can still grow two stubbles. Within two years, their life will be better." Speaking of this, Butcher Gao said, "Xiaoer, you should charge less for that renter."

"My family is not rich!" Wang Xiaoer was stingy in the first place, no matter how much Xiaoer respected the soldiers, he would not help others with rice noodles when his own people were eating chaff and vegetables. He didn't have such lofty sentiments.

"I'll make up for what you lack." Xiao Er said simply, but Butcher Gao accepted it even more happily.

"You can just give them the money and the land." Xiao Er gave him a look, sorry for being a jerk, crazy.

"They don't want Brother Gao's money." Seeing the general's anxious face, Fangzheng secretly cursed that he was worthless, and he became a strict wife before getting married. Is he still the great general who shocked the north?

"Hypocrisy!" Xiaoer looked down on this kind of person the most, let his wife and children suffer with him for the sake of so-called face and integrity.It is not shameful to accept help from others. If you are truly honest, you can return it ten times and a hundred times in the future.