Sujia Zhuangzi is different from Zhuangzi in the north. It does not have a surrounding wall, but it is like a farmhouse in central Sichuan, with two wings and a main room, and a large open dam structure in the middle.

However, it is much larger than the farmhouses in central Sichuan, and the house becomes a courtyard. There is a separate livestock yard for the pig pens, cowsheds and horse stables on the right side, a separate yard for the tool room and storage on the left side, and the living room in the middle is another separate yard.

There is a square paved with bluestones sandwiched between the three courtyards. On both sides of the square facing the main road are weird slides, sand pits, and some obvious things used for climbing and climbing. It seems to be a place for children to play.

There are stone locks and knife holders on the other side, with many whistle sticks and bamboo knives inserted on them. Some of them are obviously much shorter and thinner, and they seem to be for children.

At the end of the dam, by the well, Hachigong was organizing people to scald chickens, ducks and fish.

Seeing Zhang Dunli, Hachigong smiled and said: "Everyone and the consort are here. Isn't the city lively?"

Zhang Dunli met with Hachigong and said, "Gaiyuan is of course very lively. Even if I take you to the city to see it, you are not willing to go."

Hachigong said: "There is a lot of work in the countryside, and there is no free day. Are these your family members? Please come in quickly."

Empress Dowager Cao also wore simple clothes today and smiled at Hachigong: "I'm going to bother my brother today. My physique is really enviable."

Hachiko said: "It would be better if you move more and come back and forth into the house."

After walking through the courtyard gate, Zhao Xu's eyes lit up: "This is really a unique paradise."

From the current point of view of a large family in the Song Dynasty, the small courtyard is actually relatively simple. This courtyard was moved here by Su You in accordance with the courtyard regulations of Kelongli, Meishan. The window lattice and doors are all made of wood with varnish, and there is a lawn in the courtyard.

, some places are paved with rough round bluestone slabs, surrounded by a circle of corridors, and rooms next to the corridors.

The whole yard is very simple, but a few flower trees and some rock decorations make people very comfortable.

There is also a square fish pond in the middle of the yard, made of bluestone and with a wider edge, where you can sit.

The design is very unique. There is an opening at the bottom of the character Hui, and there is a small stone table in the middle of the character. People can walk inside the character and sit on the edge of the stone to play with the surrounding fish.

The water is very shallow, less than a foot, and there is nothing else except a thin layer of soft green moss at the bottom. The water is so clear that the goldfish in the sun seem to be swimming in the air.

"Hachi is really good at raising fish!" Zhao Xu praised.

This requires a filtering device to grow, but Zhao Xu didn't find out where the filter was.

At the bottom of the courtyard is the main room. Hachigong invited everyone to sit in the main room. There were no maids, but a man came over to refill the tea for everyone.

Zhao Xu noticed that the man was missing two fingers on his left hand.

After the tea was served, Hachigong said: "I, the village man, can't understand the tea soup made by the nobles in the city. I only have loose tea at home. Don't make fun of me."

Empress Dowager Gao picked up the tureen, scraped it gently, and a scent of tea came out: "Is this the wild green of Jingshan Mountain in Lingxiao Peak, Yuhang County, central Zhejiang?"

Empress Dowager Cao smiled and said: "This is my niece, she is a master of tea ceremony."

Hachigong turned around and took down a tin can from the shelf: "Since I know it, I'll give it to you. I don't even know what Mingrun made."

"I just drink home-made tea. I pick it on the back mountain. The leaves are soaked. Mingrun's tea tastes gone after three times of watering. It's really troublesome to change the tea leaves several times a day."

Gao Taotao couldn't help but smile: "Thank you so much, Hachigong."

Zhao Xu was also happy, and he probably knew why the girl always had something to take when she came: "Hachigong, your yard is beautiful, but there are too few people to help you."

Hachigong said: "If you can move by yourself, just move by yourself. Youwa and Wei'er will let me do whatever they want outside. No one dares to touch them in this small courtyard. I am a lonely old man and I don't have much place to order others. Every morning

Just get up and sweep the floor and apply plaster, and I'll do the work with the flat pot."

"It looks quiet now, but it will still be lively when spring comes. The children in the academy will come back and talk about what practices they are doing and what credits they are earning. I am not afraid that no one will accompany us, grandfather and grandson."

Zhang Dunli explained to Zhao Xu: "The Royal Institute of Technology has engineering practice courses, which are the rules set by Su Mingrun. For example, lathes and metalworking are carried out in some in-house workshops in Zhengzhou; while field soil measurement, agricultural technology and agricultural machinery, etc., are taught everywhere.

Zhuang internship."

"This is also a base, and many new crop research is carried out here."

Zhao Xu thought of the crops outside Zhuangzi: "Bagong, there are many vegetables outside Zhuangzi, but we don't even recognize them."

Hachiko said: "I heard that many of them are brought from overseas. The ones you don't recognize are roughly cabbage, cauliflower, red rapeseed, green rapeseed, and carrots that I like to eat in flat cans."

"If you ask me, thick-skinned vegetables are the best. The leaves can be peeled and grown in a circle. They can be harvested many times a year. One acre of vegetables, combined with some feed, is enough to feed more than thirty pigs.

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Zhao Xu couldn't sit still when he talked about this. He stood up and said, "Hachigong, go and see the pigs you raise?"

"Brother!" Empress Dowager Gao and Empress Dowager Cao stopped them at the same time.

Zhao Xu said: "China has been based on agriculture since ancient times. Hagong's method can make everyone in the world eat meat. Isn't it a huge merit? Hagong, let's go and take a look."

Hachigong said: "Since I want to see it, brother, I will take you there. You are right. Every family in our village raises big fat pigs. However, we killed many of them a year ago and the new pig babies have not yet been born."

Come down, the circle is a little empty..."

When Hachigong led Zhao Xu to the livestock yard, Zhao Xu saw the big fat pig in the pigsty: "Hachigong, this is what you said...a little empty?"

The pigsty is surrounded by fences, and several extremely ugly big pigs are groaning there.

There are a few half-sized pigs in the fence next to them, and those pigs look better.

Hachiko was very partial and used a ladle to shovel a ladle of dry ingredients from the silo and added it to the big pig's trough, making the half-sized pigs on one side groan in excitement.

Hachigong looked at the big pigs he raised as if they were treasures: "These are lion heads brought from Sichuan. They are all for breeding. Look, a few sows are pregnant again."

Zhao Xu couldn't tell at all, but he nodded anyway.

After carefully wiping a few grains of feed scattered on the fence into the trough, Hachigong said happily: "When spring comes, the village will have students and pigs, and then it will be lively."

Zhao Xu: "..."

"After the piglets come down, they are castrated and then fed. They slowly grow meat. Every family in Zhuangzi can get one or two piglets. One pig weighs more than 150 kilograms in ten months..."

"A gentleman said that raising castrated pigs is unkind, but forget it. My family has seen clearly: I know how to make the people eat good meat, but why are the people unable to eat it because of etiquette? That is to use etiquette.

Trick people! Pig and Mr. are happy, what should people do?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but want to laugh. Those high-ranking officials in the court should come to this pigsty to receive education, and Hachigong. Sir, they are also human beings. It is a bit too much to separate them from humans and put them together with pigs.

The pig pen was cleaned very clean, with feces and urine leaking underneath. The cow pen seemed to be cleaned and soiled every day, and there was a smell, but it was not serious.

Zhao Xu looked at Hachigong's eyes as he looked at the big pigs: "I probably know why Huangzhuang's pigs can't keep up with you..."

There is also a pigeon house on the barn. Hachigong introduced: "Those were made by students and children. They took them to Zhengzhou to post letters for fun, but the eggs are eaten in our flat cans..."

Zhao Xu was like a curious baby. After seeing the fat pigs, he also looked at the warehouses and farm tools. He was not generally interested in the mud mills, stone mills, silk reeling machines, textile machines and other tools in the watermill.

The Su family's hydraulic machinery, except for the mud mill for beating rice and the stone mill for grinding rice, is mostly metal machinery, painted with anti-rust paint, and the bearing parts are coated with a thick layer of petroleum jelly mixed engine oil. A hydraulic workshop is full of

The beauty of modern industrial machinery.

A few peasant women were making soy milk here, and Hachigong said: "These equipment are easy to use, but you have to make a lot of them at one time to make them worthwhile, so everyone in the village works together to start the machine. To make tofu, every household eats tofu and makes dried tofu.

When reeling and spinning, we reel and spin together, and when we beat rice, we beat rice together.”

Returning to the courtyard, Zhao Xu asked, "Where is Mingrun's study?"

Hachigong said: "The study in this courtyard is just for furnishings, and the children's studies are in the small building at the back."

Zhao Xu said: "Eight Master, will you show me?"

Hachigong said: "I can't get in, I have to have a sign from the Ministry of War Yamen."

Zhao Xu thought for a moment: "Forget it, let's go to Mingrun's study."

When the two returned to the courtyard, they saw that several women were already having fun in the study. They gathered together to look through a large picture album.
Chapter completed!