dressed as a scholar

As the saying goes, we work at sunrise and rest at sunset, but in fact, farmers in the countryside can't wait for the sunrise to work.

The sky is still dawning, and the black tiles on the grass roofs of the villages in the distance have already smoked. Although the countryside is much quieter than the county town at night, it is very lively in the early morning. The sound of chopping firewood makes it difficult to sleep peacefully for a while, especially for those who raise roosters.

There are also roosters in Zhuangzi. Fang Yu asked someone to drive the rooster away to eat in the yard outside the students' dormitory. After a while, the rooster began to call at the top of its throat. After a while, you could hear the door of the dormitory opening and closing. With the sound, some people couldn't bear it anymore and started fetching water to wash up.

I rested for half a day yesterday, and the students woke up this morning with some energy back, but nowadays they wake up earlier than going to the academy in the city, and some people still can’t get up, but it’s a group life after all, even if it’s tolerable There was the sound of chickens crowing outside, but everyone in the bed had woken up, even if I was lazy and lingered on the bed for a while, I would still get up.

But even though he got up late and lay down for a while longer, he had to pay for it. By the time he got to the cafeteria, there was not much breakfast left.

Student Su Yang's house is very close to Hande College, and it takes less than a quarter of an hour to walk out. Because of this convenience, he can sleep more hours than other students.Now that I have come to Zhuangzi, it is really difficult to get up in time.

Shenyou went to the cafeteria to get two steamed buns and a bowl of white rice porridge, and started to eat it in a hurry. At first, he thought that he might eat some kind of rough noodle buns, but unexpectedly the food was not bad.

Just when he was complacent, he heard the students who were going outside after breakfast talking.

"The noodles this morning are quite fragrant. I heard that the noodle soup is made from free-range black-bone chickens raised in the Zhuangzi. The taste is so strong."

"I came a little late, and the noodles and dumplings are gone, but fortunately, I also got a bowl of preserved egg and lean meat porridge and fried dough sticks, which are very warm and delicious."

"You guys just have fun, these are all gone when I came here, I ate a bowl of bean paste and two buns stuffed with tofu and meat."

"Master, you don't lie to me, the food in Zhuangzi is really good."

Su Yang was articulate when he heard that, looking at his porridge and white steamed buns, he seemed to be in the same cafeteria as everyone else, he quickly grabbed him: "Brother Lu'an, why do you have such a rich breakfast? In private Did you give money to the cook in the village?"

"Saishasai, the master won't give you two rulers if you know." Seeing Su Yang's foolish expression, Jiang Lu'an sat down and kindly said, "I only found out when I came here this morning, actually. The breakfast prepared here in the morning is very rich, as you heard just now, there are all the things they said, but the quantity is limited, the earlier you come, the more choices you will have, and the later ones will naturally disappear."

"Ah!" Su Yang took a bite of steamed bun bitterly: "If I had known, I wouldn't have wasted my time."

Jiang Lu'an, who was full, patted Su Yang on the back with a smile: "Brother Su, you'd better eat quickly, the cook will come and clear the table for you later, so you won't be able to eat until noon."

"I'll come early tomorrow too!"

After the meal, Fang Yu first took the students to give lectures on farm tools in the storage room. It is said that sharpening a knife is not a mistake for woodcutters, and only after learning the tools can they go to the field.

"In the spring, if there are no farming tools in the farming family, the farm laborers will come to register in advance to borrow the farm tools. After the farming is over, the farm tools will be returned intact. The returned farm tools will be inspected one by one. Make some compensation for the price.”

Fang Yu wandered around the warehouse holding a book: "The salt and iron industry in my dynasty is almost in the hands of the imperial court. Nowadays, many farm tools are made of iron, and the price is quite high. Many farm workers cannot afford farm tools. This can only be borrowed from farmers. There should be no one in your family who does not have land, and since you have these things, you must study carefully when you go to the countryside.”

"Whether you will enter the official career and become an official in the future, or you can only inherit the family business without becoming an official, it is very important for you to understand how to learn farming and mulberry farming."

The students looked at the coir raincoats and straw hats hanging on the wall, the sickles and hoes placed in the baskets on the ground, and some objects big and small that they had never seen before. These things, such as coir raincoats and straw hats, can still be seen in the market in rainy days, but many young masters don't even go to places where ordinary people often go shopping. Looking at these things, it can be said that they are very few , not to mention those production tools that can be called "professional".

For this reason, Fang Yu also patiently explained to everyone one by one the farming tools. For example, in the southwest area, taking Yuncheng as an example, the main farming tools are plows, hoes, and sickles: "Like the north There is a kind of columbine cart in the area where wheat is planted, which is divided into one leg to seven columbine, two of which can sow the most evenly, and they are used for sowing wheat and sorghum in Xunri."

"We haven't used it. If we go to the north and see it in the future, don't be ashamed to say that the master has never talked about it." Fang Yu flipped through the information he had found before: "Come and see."

Fang Yu is good at extending explanations. After introducing the farm tools, he called the best farm tool in Zhuangzi to teach the students how to use them. After listening to the explanation, everyone was already eager to try it out, just like a physics, chemistry and biology class. , Honestly speaking about theoretical experiments, students can't help but want to do it themselves.

Seeing that all the people are devoted to the use of agricultural tools in full swing, Fang Yu finally managed to drink a cup of spring tea. There are far more lessons to be taught here than in the academy. It's an extension, saying that he is dry mouthed.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Fang Yu said: "I have already talked about what should be said today. I have divided the land with you in advance, and each person has three points. If there are too many, you can't do it. Today's goal is to turn over all the land. , each person can receive three farm tools to use."

Everyone excitedly went to grab farm tools. Sun Yuan carried a hoe and a sickle, which were the most basic configuration.In fact, having these two is enough, and I don't understand why the master asked to take three. I didn't realize it until I saw Zhao Wanxin wearing a big bamboo hat, and I quickly grabbed a straw hat and put it on.

Fang Yu sent the students to the door, and saw that the sun outside was already high. Although it is not too hot now, he was sweating after a long time working in the field. He looked at the time, and he could do two in the morning. Half an hour's work.

"They all went to the ground?"

Qiao Hezhi came this way and saw Fang Yu standing at the door with his hands behind his back.

"Go. Let the stove burn more hot water, they will use it when they come back."

Qiao Hezhi smiled and said, "I have already ordered it."

Fang Yu nodded and saw that Qiao Hezhi was holding a small basket on his arm. He was wearing very plain clothes today, without a hairpin, and a deep crimson cross-neck gown. He really looked like a little brother from a peasant family. .He leaned forward and whispered, "Where is Brother Qiao going?"

Qiao Hezhi raised his eyebrows and covered his mouth with a chuckle when he heard the sound. Peasant families like to call their little brothers by their surnames. He had heard Sheng Jia call Qi Qiu a brother before. Outsiders joked that Sheng Jia had a farming breath, but he was I feel that calling like this is very affectionate.

"Don't be mean, the student heard the joke." He shook the basket: "I heard the Zhuang woman said that there are fresh fruits and vegetables in the field, so I thought about going to pick some and come back to cook."

"I'll go with you."

"Aren't you going to stare at the students?"

"Being a coolie has nothing to talk about and stare at. The left and right fields have already been divided into hands. If you don't finish your work, you are not allowed to come back for dinner. I will go and have a look at it later."

Qiao Hezhi nodded, handed the basket to Fang Yu, then went to take his arm, and the two went to pick vegetables together along the Zhuangtian trail.

These days, the fields are lush and green, not only the vegetables and melons planted, but also a lot of wild vegetables. The tenant farmers have not come to hoe the land, not because of laziness, but because the wild vegetables in these vegetable fields can be eaten, and they can be used to feed livestock. Secondly, it is also possible for the farm laborers to take some back to eat by themselves.

Qiao Hezhi cut some wild herbs and put them into the basket: "For dinner, they can be used to fry bacon or make soup. The students live affluent lives in the city. Compared with ordinary good fruits and vegetables, these wild vegetables are more pleasing to them."

"You just get used to them." Fang Yu was picking Chinese toon at one end. These days, the Chinese toon is so tender that it can be cut off without pinching it with a fingernail. : "This year's toon tastes very good, and it is freshly picked. It can be used as scrambled goose eggs at night to clear away heat and fire, and tonify qi and blood."

He put his head down and took a long sniff of the toon in his hand, already thinking about the umami taste.

"If you like, I can also make toon tofu meatloaf for you."

Qiao Hezhi straightened up after picking some wild vegetables. He squatted for too long and his eyes turned black. The wild flowers in the vegetable field were blooming well. Strings of small white butterflies were intertwined and entangled in front of the cabbage and flew very low. He was about to poke it. The butterfly that landed on the cabbage suddenly felt a thump in its heart and fell back into the vegetable field.

"What's wrong!"

Fang Yu hurriedly put down the toon and went to help him: "Are you sprained?"

"No, no." Qiao Hezhi shrank towards Fang Yu, pointed at the cabbage and said, "There are a lot of small caterpillars on it."

Qiao Hezhi looked at the three or five caterpillars on the white cabbage, three clusters could be as big as a little finger, and one cabbage could have a dozen or so on the white, so soft that one's scalp felt numb.

"There are so many butterflies in this field that come from this caterpillar, and some of them have cocooned."

Fang Yu stretched out his hand and tore off a butterfly chrysalis. Compared with the softness of the small caterpillar, the chrysalis was harder. It could be swayed by flicking its tail, but if it was squeezed hard, it could burst out with one hand.

"Don't be afraid, this chrysalis is quite cute."

Qiao Hezhi shrank his neck and dared not touch the little butterfly chrysalis lying in Fang Yu's palm: "No, get rid of it quickly! There are too many caterpillars in this vegetable field, and I can't walk because my legs are weak."

"It's really cute. This chrysalis can grow butterflies. Take some back and raise them. Then the butterflies will fly into the house."

Fang Yu pinched Qiao Hezhi's finger and wanted him to touch it, but the person who didn't want to scare him just slapped the chrysalis on his hand and dropped it on the ground.

"Oh, it's gone now." Fang Yu couldn't find the chrysalis, and he looked regretful: "It's a good thing that the young master was not born in the countryside, and he is afraid of bugs, so how can he cultivate and manage the vegetable field."

Qiao Hezhi patted Fang Yu away, raised his eyebrows and said angrily, "Then you still scare me."

"Okay, okay, I won't scare you anymore. There are peach and plum blossoms on the edge of the field, and they are blooming just right. I'll pick two handfuls for you and take them back to put in vases."