Li Chengmu looked at the scorching sun outside the house and immediately grimaced. If he had been in Gyeonggi before, he would never have thought of becoming a military general.
It's not because of anything else, it's just because the generals are out leading troops in battles, and it's so hard to go through wind and rain.
"Second cousin, are you serious when you say this?"
After hearing what he said, Xia He said with a serious face: "Of course I am serious. Fighting on the battlefield is every man's dream. If you agree to go to the military camp, I will follow you and train well and will never hold you back."
Xia Hu raised his eyebrows and said to Xia He: "It is your dream to fight on the battlefield, and your will does not represent all the men in the world. I was quite envious of the life I lived with my cousin. I had no worries about food and clothing since I was born, and
Countless servants are waiting on you. You have reached the end point that is difficult for ordinary people to reach without any effort. Do you think it makes people envious and jealous?"
The other brothers and sisters all nodded in agreement. They were just the opposite. They had been forced by their parents to learn literature and martial arts skills since they were born. All their efforts were just to make a living and support the family when they grow up.
People are more annoying than others!
Li Chengmu didn't understand their thoughts at all. He felt that apart from his background, he had nothing to envy.
He was still forced to exercise every day when he got up, just to survive longer in the troubled times that followed.
Let’s just say that in Gyeonggi, I had to get up early and study hard every day. Apart from sleeping, I was either on the way to the academy or attending classes at the academy, so I didn’t have much time to waste.
Xia Hu approached Li Chengmu and acted very close to him, "Cousin Mu, do you know? I have liked the feeling of making money since I was a child. When I was in school, I often sold small toys and trinkets to my classmates.
Every time you go in and out, you can make a lot of copper coins."
After listening to his brother's words, Xia He talked about his past embarrassing things, "Cousin Mu, you don't know, he used to be very hateful when he was a child. Every time he earned some copper coins, he would shake his wallet and listen to the sound of copper coins before going to bed. Not only was he noisy
When I went to bed, I told him, and he retorted: Why don't you like hearing the sound of copper plates so pleasant?"
"Haha." This was the first time Li Chengmu heard interesting stories about ordinary boys when they were young, and he couldn't help laughing.
After finally stopping his laughter, he asked Xia Hu, "Third cousin, what were you thinking at that time? Why do you have to shake a copper plate before going to bed?"
Xia Hu rolled his eyes at Xia He and sighed before speaking, "Cousin Mu, you don't know how uncomfortable it is to not hear the sound of the copper plate. That heart-scratching feeling is something you have experienced since you were a child.
People can't understand it. I can only sleep at night if I hear the sound of the copper plate, otherwise I just toss and turn and never sleep well."
"Haha." Li Chengmu laughed without caring about his image.
Xia He couldn't laugh or cry after hearing Xia Hu's words: "The sound of the copper plate can still hypnotize you!"
Xia Hu scratched his head and smiled shyly: "That's right."
Xia Hua, who is only six years old this year, sat aside and watched everyone chatting with wide eyes. She did not understand a word of what her brothers were talking about.
I finally understood the sentence, which seemed to mean sleeping.
She quickly slid off the chair, lay on Xia Hu's lap, and asked with her big eyes flashing: "Third brother, do you dream of making a lot of money when you go to bed at night?"
Xia Hu lifted Xia Hua, who was lying on his lap, onto his lap, smiled and nodded, "I've dreamed about it."
Xia Hua is the second uncle's youngest daughter and the only girl of her generation in the Xia family. Her brothers above her dote on her.
Xia Hua thought hard for a while, and under the eyes of her brothers who were expecting her to say something else, she asked: "Does the third brother have dreams about wanting to pee when he goes to bed at night, but he can't find a place to pee?
Finally, I finally found a place to pee, but suddenly woke up."
"When you woke up, you found that you had peed on the bed, right?" Xia Hu took over the conversation happily.
"Ah!" Xia Hua covered her mouth and pointed at Xia Hu with surprise, "It turns out that third brother also peed the bed!"
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A breeze blew by, causing the leaves outside the house to dance.
"Pfft! Hahaha."
Everyone burst out laughing.
Especially Xia Ba from the second room couldn't help laughing and slapped the table.
He pointed at Xia Hu, smiled without any image, and asked: "Haha. So third brother, you wet the bed too! You, you are about to marry a wife and you still wet the bed. Does your future wife know?"
Li Chengmu held his belly in his hands and almost burst out laughing, "Oh! These cousins from my maternal family are so funny."
He estimated that after this incident, Xia Hu would have a psychological shadow about bedwetting. He didn't know if he would dare to fall asleep on the wedding night?
Xia Hu's face turned red from holding back. He could not get angry at his youngest sister, so he could only transfer all his anger to Xia Ba.
I saw him glaring at Xia Ba: "Shut up! Xia Ba, if you dare to talk nonsense again, believe it or not, I will slap you!"
Xia Ba was so frightened by his roar that he immediately dared not say a word, but in his heart he thought that what he asked was the truth and there was nothing wrong.
Li Chengmu patted Xia Hu's shoulder and comforted him: "Don't take the child's words seriously. As long as we all believe that my cousin has never wet the bed, what they said as children cannot be taken seriously!"
"." Xia Hu turned his head and said word by word: "Thank you, cousin!"
Xia He seemed to hear the sound of grinding teeth, but he didn't want to touch Xia Hu's sensitive nerves at this time, so don't spray him!
Li Chengmu didn't seem to notice the strangeness of the voice. He smiled and waved his hand, "You're welcome, you're welcome. Today's incident has passed without a trace and everyone will forget it."
Xia He stroked his forehead, cousin Mu, could you please stop mentioning this matter all the time? He is really worried that the third child will go berserk!
As expected, Xia Hu was holding back his anger and said angrily: "I went to urge the boy who cut the melons, but he still hasn't sent melons after so long!"
I really can’t have a good conversation today!
Li Chengmu glanced at the dazzling sunlight outside and hesitated for a while, "It's too hot outside. Third cousin, don't worry. We'll be here soon."
"It's okay! I have rough skin and thick flesh, so I can withstand the sun!"
After Xia Hu finished speaking, he stomped out of the side hall as if the tiles on the ground had a grudge against him.
Xia He was sure that the person was gone, then he turned around and nodded at Xia Hua and Xia Ba, shaking his head helplessly: "You guys, try to avoid your third brother during this time."
"Haha. Ahem, actually third cousin is not as fragile as you think." Li Chengmu was in a relaxed mood, as if he hadn't deliberately made anyone angry just now.
Xia Di, who was three years older than Xia Hua, rubbed her sister's hair and said warmly: "Sister, don't talk about bedwetting in the future, otherwise everyone will know that you wet the bed in the future, how embarrassing!
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Xia Hua smiled: "I know, seventh brother."
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At Xia's Grange, the hot weather still cannot stop everyone's enthusiasm for doing things.
The men and women in Zhuangzi drove the buffaloes down to the paddy fields before dawn, preparing to plow the cleared fields again and make final preparations for the next rice transplanting.
Women also took advantage of the coolness of the morning and went down to the fields one after another, and the fields they went into were rice fields.
They bend over to pull rice seedlings in the paddy field. Before the men plow the field, they have to prepare enough rice seedlings so that they can transplant the rice seedlings after the men plow the field.
As the sun slowly rises, the elderly from each family carry meals to the fields to deliver meals to the laborers at home.
When Xia Jing arrived in a carriage, there were many villagers sitting on the roadside resting and eating.
The villagers who were resting and eating noticed the two-headed carriage and stood up one after another to make way for the carriage to pass.
Hongmei noticed the situation outside and said with emotion: "These villagers who escaped with us are really working hard to live."
Xia Jing looked outside and said: "The life that the people currently aspire to is a life without oppression, without having to move around, just being able to live and work in peace and contentment in a place with beautiful mountains and green waters. Perhaps in their hearts, the fatigue of life is not considered hard, and a family can
It’s suffering when people can’t stay together neatly.”
Xia Jing asked the carriage to stop and got out of the carriage.
The villagers noticed that Xia Jing got off the carriage and saluted her one after another.
Xia Jing stopped everyone from greeting each other, looked at the little girl who was eating steamed buns, and asked the family next to her, "Have you gotten used to your life since you came to Lingnan?"
Yong Gen wiped his mouth, put down his bowl and stood up politely, "Back to Princess, life in Lingnan is much better than in our hometown before. If you are not used to anything, get used to it."
As he spoke, he pointed to the steamed bun in his daughter's hand, "Let's talk about this steamed bun. If the princess hadn't taught everyone how to ferment flour with yeast, who would have thought of yeast if we were so stupid? We might still be stupidly eating dough pancakes to this day.
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Yeast was first used in the kitchen of the house. Later, Xia Jing noticed that the villagers in the farm were still eating dough pancakes, so she gave them two packets of yeast and taught them to remember to leave a little fermented dough every time.
Save it for next time.
Xia Jing smiled and nodded, looking at their breakfast today, which was simple grain porridge and steamed buns.
Yong Gen sincerely invited, "Princess, have you had breakfast? If not, I made a lot at my house in the morning, so you can go to my house to have some."
However, it was a bit embarrassing after all. After all, the food at home seemed too vulgar to the princess.
Xia Jing chuckled: "Thank you, we just came here after breakfast. You take your time and don't worry about us. I'll look around."
Yong Gen got out of the way with a silly smile, "You are busy, you are busy."
Zuo Jiuchuan trotted over in a hurry, wiped his sweat and said, "I have met the princess before."
Xia Jing nodded. At this time, she noticed that many of the villagers sitting in the fields eating breakfast had washed their hands in a hurry. Most of them had their trouser legs rolled up, and they didn't even have time to wash off the mud on their feet before sitting down.
There he ate heartily.
It can be seen that time is tight during the busy farming period and everyone is starving. In order to save time, we can only make do with one meal.
As she walked forward, she asked: "Are there enough cattle for farming? Have the base fertilizers been applied to the newly built paddy fields?"
Zuo Jiuchuan answered truthfully, "All paddy fields have more or less applied some base fertilizer. However, since everything here is new, although the fertilizer has been fertilized, there is still a gap in fertilizer. I hope that when the breeding industry in our farm gets on track, there will be
Improved.”
"The situation will improve, otherwise the retting pond under the breeding area would not have been built in vain."
Walking all the way to the breeding area, I saw many paddy fields that had been plowed. After the villagers had finished their breakfast, they should be able to start planting rice.
Zuo Jiuchuan looked at the loads of seedlings and his brows knotted with worry. They had never grown rice in the north before.
But this was the first time he had seen this method of rice transplanting. To be sure, he specifically consulted the local people and found out that rice was just sown in the fields with grain seeds.
But the princess asked him to pull out the good seedlings and then transplant them. Isn't this unnecessary and troublesome?
"Princess, these seedlings have all been pulled out and the mud on the roots has been washed away. Is everything okay?"
The seedlings are delicate. Don’t wait until the seedlings are planted and they are all dead, which will cause great losses.
Xia Jing gave him a funny look and said, "Don't worry, just do as I ask. Don't worry about this or that."
"That's good." Zuo Jiuchuan's heart dropped a little. He still couldn't completely relax until he actually saw the seedlings come alive.
Passing by a pond, Xia Jing noticed that there were many straight aquatic plants growing beside the pond.
She didn't recognize this plant, so she asked out of curiosity: "Guanshi Zuo, what is this plant? I saw it growing a lot beside the pond, why don't you get rid of it?"
Zuo Jiuchuan glanced at the plants by the water and explained: "The locals call this plant water candle, because it grows in the water and when it grows into ears, the ears look a bit like a candle. That's why it got this name."
Xia Jing asked curiously: "Oh, does this plant have other uses?"
Otherwise, how could a good pond tolerate its existence?
Zuo Jiuchuan relaxed and put a smile on his face, "I heard from the locals that after this kind of water candle is matured, it is dried in the sun, and its ears are peeled off and scattered, and it looks like cotton, which can be used to make quilts, pillows, etc.
of."
Xia Jing's eyes lit up, "You mean this kind of water candle can be used as cotton?"
Zuo Jiuchuan has never seen it with his own eyes, but has only heard about it from local villagers.
When he heard Xia Jing'er's serious question, he didn't know how to answer it.
He scratched his head and said, "It should be possible, but it may not be as warm as cotton, but for poor people, it's better than nothing. A quilt made of this kind of water candle can keep out the cold to some extent."
Xia Jing nodded. Since she knew about a new plant, she would wait until it matured to see the differences of this plant.
Zuo Jiuchuan caught a glimpse of a few mulberry trees growing sporadically on the roadside, and asked: "Princess, do we want to plant some more mulberry trees in the mountain stream?"
Planting more mulberries and hemp is a good suggestion. Xia Jing has nothing to object to. "You can arrange this matter. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are top of the list. This shows how important it is. If our farm can have a variety of varieties, let's do it."
In the breeding area, the chickens and ducks will be almost fully grown in another month. The piglets weigh about seventy or eighty kilograms. The adult cows have gone to the fields to plow the fields, and the calves are wagging their tails leisurely in the cow pens.
These poultry and livestock are in good spirits, which shows that the breeders have put a lot of thought into them.
"In a month or so, when the chickens and ducks come out of the cage, the farm will have income."
Zuo Jiuchuan smiled. Since the farm was built, money has been invested in it, and now it is about to produce output. How can he be unhappy?
"The farm has already produced output, but you just didn't pay attention. In the past few months, apart from clearing land, everyone has been twisting the collected flax into thread and weaving it into sacks. This is the output."
If it weren't for the busy women, Xia Jing would have to go out and buy a lot of sacks to hold grain during the autumn harvest.
Now that the women in the farm are doing it, they can save a lot of money.
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