The Agricultural Tycoon of the Red House

Jia's mother was eager to know the truth, so she patted the table and echoed Jia Lian: "Say it! Otherwise, I'll sell you to a kiln!"

The attacker was afraid, so he had to bite Mrs. Wang out.

Mrs. Wang categorically denied it, "You bastard, nonsense! Mother, my daughter-in-law didn't order her to do these things at all. Who knows what she was planning to do in Lian'er's yard? She couldn't be sure because she saw Lian'er's handsome appearance and had a crooked mind She is embarrassed to say that she is afraid that you will be punished severely, and she will bite me back. She is a liar, and you must not believe her!"

Mrs. Wang is not simple and honest now, she speaks cleverly to clear herself up.

Mother Jia sneered and listened to Mrs. Wang's shirk of responsibility, and then looked at Xiren's young appearance, how old is she, and she has the intention of serving Jia Lian in Israel?It is too ridiculous.

Jia Mu ordered the attackers to be beaten out directly and assigned to foreign barbarians.As for Mrs. Wang, Jia's mother refused to talk to her at all, and sent her back coldly: "Well, go and rest after reciting scriptures, there is no need to come to my place to say hello."

Mrs. Wang understood that Mother Jia began to dislike her, and was startled again and again, and was helped away by the servant girl in panic.Within a few days, she became depressed and bedridden.

Afterwards, Jia's mother thought of the peony in Jia Lian's courtyard, and thought that this maid should be Jia Amnesty's roommate in Jia Lian's house. Since Jia Lian was willing to stand up for her, she must be a wonderful girl.Then Jia Mu asked Jia Lian to bring her when she had time, and told her to have a look.

Then, Jia Lian brought a pot of peonies to see Jia Mu.

"There are more than 100 pots of peonies in my yard. It is difficult to move them all, so I brought the most distinctive one. This flower is called Black Oiran. It is short and chrysanthemum-shaped. Look at the buds, which are round, but There is a purple halo, moist and delicate, and the petals will not flatten when they are in full bloom. Look here, there is an ink halo at the bottom, which is very beautiful." Jia Lian's eyes lit up, staring at the peony in front of him with excitement, and his explanation was very good.

Mother Jia "..."

She stared blankly at the peony flower, and after a while, she slowly turned her head and stared at Jia Lian suspiciously.

"The peony you mentioned is this peony?"

"Well," Jia Lian still kept his eyes on the flowers, and looked at one of them very carefully, then his expression froze, and he held the flower and said excitedly, "The pistil petals turned into green colored petals."

Mother Jia: "..."

Jia Lian immediately began to talk to Jia Mu about the situation of other peony mutants in the academy, and elaborated on the value and significance of the new varieties brought by these flowers.

After listening for a long time, Jia's mother was really tired, and waved her hand boringly to signal Jia Lian: "Go back quickly."

"By the way, your aunt is still sick and there is no housekeeper. Send a message to your wife and ask her to take care of her for two days."

As a result, the power of housekeeping temporarily fell into Mrs. Xing's hands.

Mrs. Xing picked up a big bargain, she couldn't stop smiling from ear to ear.

When Mrs. Wang heard about this, she was so angry that she fell off the bed and fell to the ground, becoming even more ill.

Jia She heard that his son made Mrs. Wang so angry that she couldn't get up on the kang, so she ran over happily to praise her son, "You are promising, and this is a comfort to your mother under the nine springs!"

Jia Lian saw Jia She's blushing face, dark circles under his eyes, and an overindulgent appearance, so he didn't bother to pay attention, and turned his head to go about his own business.

Jia Amnesty waited for a long time. Seeing that his son was too busy to respond to him, he became unhappy, and ran to Jia Lian to vomit alcohol, "I'm talking to you, did you hear me?"

"The father was so drunk that he didn't go to rest, but came to talk to his son about these things. The son was very pleased." Jia Lian casually sarcastically said.

"You—" Jia She heard that he was about to scold Jia Lian, but he was silenced by Jia Lian's words.

"The old ancestor asked you yesterday, 'Are you still drinking flower wine and ignorant?'"

Jia She's heart skipped a beat, he was afraid of no one in the house but this old woman, he looked nervously at Jia Lian, waiting for him to say something.

"I said that you are 'old and eager to learn, full of ambition', and you are reading books at home these two days."

"Good boy, well said!" After Jia She praised her, she kept shaking her head, "No, your words are too high, she might not believe it."

"It was a bit exaggerated, so I added later that you read Mandarin Chinese books, but the old lady was very happy to hear that, and said that as long as you know how to read books, she will be satisfied."

"You really say that?" Jia Amnesty became beaming, he happily twirled his beard, and all the previous resentment towards Jia Lian dissipated.

"It's just..." Jia Lian deliberately prolonged his voice, so that Jia She looked at him very nervously, "The old ancestor said later that he told you to tell her the story in the speech book when you have time."

"Tell a story? You boy, I don't have any stories to tell. Aren't you cheating on your father?" Jia Shen trembled when he thought of Jia Mu's cruelty to him.

"This is easy, the scriptures are ready for you," Jia Lian picked up a copy from the table and handed it to Jia Amnesty, "It's about a girl from a small family who accidentally got transferred to a rich family to work as a servant girl. The story is full of twists and turns and bittersweet plots, it is the kind that all the female relatives love to hear. You should read it carefully in the past two days, and then retell it to the ancestors."

"Ah?" Jia She twisted his mouth and looked at the book in his hand in embarrassment.

"Father looked carefully, the old ancestor was looking forward to it."

Jia Lian smiled at Jia She meaningfully, and asked Xing'er to help Jia She go back to rest.And he still has a lot of things to do in Zhuangzi, so he left the house directly.

There have been some spring droughts recently, and Jia Lian has been inspecting the crop growth, and then arranged for suitable farms to dig canals to divert water.

Today he inspected the last one, Xiaozaozhuang.

Accompanied by Guanshi Zhang and two farmers, Jia Lian inspected the surrounding terrain and found that it was difficult to lead the canal in this area.There is a big river ahead, but it is not easy to open a canal to get here because it is separated by two mountains.He squatted down, grabbed the soil on the ground, and found that even if the spring drought was solved, the harvest in this place would not be very good. The land was thin, and the soil was not nutritious enough to grow good crops.It would be better to stop planting for two years and let the ground grow grass and fertilize the soil, but in this case, people in a large village will not have enough food to eat.Animal husbandry can also nourish the soil, but the problem of water source still cannot be solved.

Jia Lian saw that there was a mountain on the other side, so he walked straight there, and sure enough, he saw a weed ditch with water flowing by the side of the mountain.Jia Lian went up the river and saw a small spring at the bottom of the mountain.

The farmer said: "There are many springs under this mountain. We used to come here to drink water when we were working."

"There are many springs, which means that the groundwater is rich and wells can be drilled."

Zhang Guanshi was pleasantly surprised when he heard the words: "This is a good idea! Second Master, you see, many seedlings on the ground are already dying. If we dig wells to irrigate now, there may be a harvest after replanting."

"This amount of well water is not enough to irrigate such a large area of ​​land. If the land is planted, it will cost money. There is no need to replant it. The well can continue to be drilled." Jia Lian ordered calmly.

Zhang Guanshi was very strange, since he didn't plan to replant, why did he need to dig a well? The second master was so tired from walking that his mind was dizzy?

Jia Lian turned around and summoned all the tenants in Xiaozaozhuang for questioning.

"Which of you has experience with herding?"

"Is there anyone who has raised more than ten livestock at the same time?"

"What are the symptoms of livestock disease?"

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After asking some questions, Jia Lian reluctantly selected three tenants from over a hundred tenants and appointed them as stewards.

"The rest of the people, if they want to show that they are striving for the top, they can raise their hands." Jia Lian glanced at the crowd with a cold face, exuding an oppressive aura.In this situation, many timid people dare not raise their hands.

Jia Lian kept the few young people who raised their hands sparsely, and planned to bring these people back to the mansion for training, while the rest of them had to be selected by the three newly appointed stewards.There are leaders and followers in the team, and these unambitious and honest farmers are very suitable to be followers.

"From now on, you will be divided into three groups. Each group will be led by a small steward, and they will independently complete the tasks assigned by me. After a while, I will come to inspect the results, and there will be a standard for consideration. Canceled, and the entire group banned."

The farmers were in an uproar when they heard the words, and they were all very nervous. They all thought that the so-called "banning" by Lian Erye meant that they would be kicked out of the village, and they all became afraid.

The three selected stewards were also under a lot of pressure, with cold sweat on their heads.

Without pressure, there is no motivation. These farmers used to work step by step without using their brains, which resulted in low production levels.Jia Lian's purpose is to put pressure on them, so that they have a sense of competition, so as to promote progress.

After Jia Lian assigned the specific task details to Zhang Guanshi, he ordered him to coordinate and supervise the whole process, "I will order people to bring all kinds of livestock over in a few days. Before that, you are responsible for leading people to build pig houses and pastures according to my requirements. , and digging wells.”

After Jia Lian went back, he saw the general layout of his farm and drew it, and asked someone knowledgeable to look at the drawings and continue to construct.Because the structure of the pig house is very simple and easy to describe, and the communication is not difficult, the workers quickly built it as usual.

Because most of the work is done by farmers, the overall cost is not very high.Besides, Mrs. Xing is now the housekeeper, so it's hard to say anything about Jia Lian when she first arrived, so no one cares about the account for the time being.

In fact, Mrs. Wang knew about Jia Lian's spending of money, but she had to tell Jia Zheng about it because she didn't want to quarrel with Jia's mother.Jia Zheng didn't want to deal with these vulgar things. Not only did he not care, but he complained that Mrs. Wang didn't know how to make trouble in front of the old lady.Mrs. Wang was so angry that she cried all day, and finally she could only write a letter to her sister to complain.Aunt Xue is a widow, and she also has a lot of heartache and bitterness in Jinling with her son and daughter.

As the sisters came and went, they kept in touch more frequently.