After hearing her grandfather's question, Huo Xi nodded.
"Interplanting can bring more profits to the field. Firstly, we still make velvet flowers at home, which also needs silk. Secondly, if we use silk to pay taxes in the field, we can also save money. Although raising silkworms is also hard work and requires day and night care, the silkworm house
Being built indoors also saves my grandmother, aunt and two cousins from having to work in the wind and sun."
"If your grandma hears that you think about them at all times, I'm afraid she will shed tears again." Li Shimian looked at her with relief.
After saying that, he looked at the newly opened wasteland.
"When Taizu first established his dynasty, there were many wastes waiting to be renovated. In order to prevent famine, he also ordered the Ministry of Works to tell the people, 'Wherever there is space, plant mulberry, jujube and cotton. In case of bad luck, it can help with food and clothing.'"
What Sister Ning said about interplanting has the same effect but different approaches."
Li Shimian felt that what Sister Ning said about interbreeding was even more vivid.
Huo Xi smiled and said, "Grandpa, let's try some interplanting."
He also suggested: "The fifteen acres of land cleared this time should be recorded in the name of my cousin-in-law. She is a good citizen. Putting it in her dowry can also avoid some disputes. In the future, as her identity
It is convenient to hire long-term tenant farmers, hire people to help farm the land, or buy farm tools to work cattle."
Except for my grandfather, all the men in the family have to do hard labor, and the family has to turn in a lot of food every season. Only a few women in the family cannot come to such a place.
It is also inconvenient to hire people to farm as a refugee.
"Exactly. Thanks to Sister Ning for reminding me. When I get home, my grandfather will tell your cousin to ask her in-laws to take care of it." Sister Ning thinks of her family in everything, which makes Li Shimian deeply gratified.
I was happy but also a little sad.
He is such a good granddaughter, she deserves to have a better life. Although Sister Ning did not tell them, Mother Ma had already told them about her marriage being blocked, and the old wife couldn't help crying after hearing this.
It's all their family, and Xinrou and the two children have been affected.
"Grandpa?" Why did he suddenly become stunned?
"Ah? Ah, when you get older, it's easier to lose your mind." Li Shimian came back to his senses and smiled at her. Grandfather and grandson walked side by side on the slope.
"Sister Ning..."
"Um?"
"Your father's letter, your grandfather has read it to you..."
Huo Xi paused, pursed her lips, and said nothing.
Li Shimian saw it and sighed, "Sister Ning, in this life, you will encounter all kinds of obstacles. No matter how noble your status is, not everything will go as you wish. You will encounter all kinds of things.
Faced with various choices, sometimes in order to achieve the goal, we have to compromise, bow our heads, and even do something against our will."
He looked forward: "My grandfather was an old minister of the former dynasty. He was loyal and dedicated to the people. The current emperor exiled our family to this desolate and miasmatic place without freedom. My grandfather had resentment in his heart. But if he could pardon our family,
Even if my grandfather is allowed to crawl at his feet, kowtow to him, and say some words of praise, my grandfather is still willing."
His back was bent, and the great ambition he had when he entered the official career, "for the country, the country, and the people," seemed to be disappearing.
His death is not a pity, but his children, grandchildren, and family are still struggling...
If there is a glimmer of hope, he is willing to do anything he doesn't want to do and sacrifice his own life in exchange for the peace of his family.
"Sister Ning..." Li Shimian looked at Huo Xi with a serious look on his face.
"Regardless of whether your father knew about it and whether he allowed his family to do what they did to your mother, you have no other choice now. You must gain your father's trust and get his support. Otherwise, there is no hope for your brother and sister to return to the Zhang Mansion.
.”
Huo Xi lowered his head and gritted his teeth.
Li Shimian sighed: "Zhang Fu is a capable minister and a good general in the Wei Dynasty. The current emperor has great ambitions, and he still has a lot to do. The grassland people in the north are like thorns on his back, there are chieftains in the southwest, and there are troubles at sea."
There are pirates, and the dynasty is not stable. He has to rely on these capable ministers and generals. Zhang Fu's opinion is crucial."
Li Shimian looked straight at Huo Xi: "Zhang Fu said that you are direct blood relatives, but you are not the same. If he said that you are impostors, you are not."
Huo Xi suddenly shuddered after hearing this.
Both fists were clenched. Yes, in today's powerful society, she and Nian'er were still too insignificant. Wang was his biological mother. If he wanted to cover up this matter, she and Nian'er were neither.
Then her mother's revenge would never be avenged. Huo Xi burst into tears.
Li Shimian was extremely sad, so he stepped forward to comfort her and patted her back: "Don't be anxious, don't be anxious, we still have time, grandpa will help you." His daughter's revenge must be avenged, and the Zhang family must give it to them.
An explanation.
"Yeah." Huo Xi nodded.
Seeing that she didn't quite understand, Li Shimian continued to persuade her softly.
"The most important thing now is to help your brother get his identity back. Everything else is worth nothing. Some people have things that cannot be dealt with for the time being, so we can only let them go for now, even if they have to give in, and wait for the energy to be accumulated in the future.
Then annihilate them all in one fell swoop.”
"yes."
Li Shimian sighed, "Your mother is not the only one. In this exile village, many people's daughters who married outside their homes either committed suicide, were forced to commit suicide, or were divorced... Your mother is just one of them."
Thinking of his poor daughter, Li Shimian's heart ached.
"At that time, when the Yan army went all the way south, the people regarded the emperor in the capital as the orthodox and the Yan army as rebels, and they resisted fiercely. The Yan army destroyed the city and looted and massacred very seriously along the way. In the Central Plains, the people either killed or fled. The Yan army went all the way.
They went to the capital and slaughtered almost all the officials of the old dynasty. No one was spared who resisted even a little bit, and the implication was widespread. At that time, everyone was in danger. They were afraid of being implicated, and even their necks and heads would be in danger."
Li Shimian was still frightened when he recalled the old events. But his granddaughter was involved in these affairs in the court, and she could not be deaf and blind, and not know everything.
"It was only half a month from the time the Li family was imprisoned to being exiled. Your father was leading troops in the north at that time. Even though he was determined to exonerate the Li family, he probably didn't receive any news."
Li Shimian sighed: "Your father refused to listen to the family's decision to marry a girl from a military general's family, and he took a fancy to your mother, which troubled me for a long time. Back then, he treated your mother with sincerity..."
Huo Xi bit her lip and lowered her head in silence.
"Sister Ning, my grandfather told you these old things because he wanted to tell you that now the Zhang family is from Long Xunchen, your father Jian is in the heart of the emperor, and there is a noble concubine in the palace. Such a family cannot be head-on. Otherwise, your two siblings
Even if a person is broken into pieces, he will not be able to achieve his goal."
The mother of the imperial concubine cannot bear such a stigma. It's a pity that she can't do anything now and has to watch her two children endure all this.
Li Shimian didn't expect Huo Xi to figure it out all at once.
He just explained the current situation to her one by one. Now she and Nian'er are like eggs, and each other is like a hard stone. It is a big stupid move to hit an egg against a stone.