No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

Li Erlang and Li Yu started cleaning the village. Fortunately, there was a well drilled in the village, which was right next to the kitchen in the backyard. It was naturally more convenient to get water than in the county.

The two of them were busy until evening, until Ji Qingyue made dinner and called them in the painting.

There are not many people eating today. Whenever Ji Qing wants to save time, he makes rice bowls or clay pot rice, which is simple, convenient and delicious.

No, today I made eggplant minced pork rice bowl with tofu and fish soup. It looked like there were only two people in the room, but in fact there were three people, enjoying their first meal in Zhuangzi.

Zhuangzi has a front yard, two entrance courtyards and a backyard. It is a standard three-entry courtyard house. The two courtyards have a standard square layout, with the main house and the east and west wings each equipped with two wing rooms. The main room in the second courtyard is a study, and the left and right wings are guest rooms. Ji Qingyue and the others live in the main room in the third courtyard.

In the front yard, that is, as soon as you enter the yard, there is a row of reverse-seat houses. If there are male servants in the family, let them live in the reverse-seat house. The backyard is a granary, a utility room, a back room and a separate kitchen. The hood is a row house set up for the residence of maids. There is also a back door in the backyard, through which food is usually brought in and out.

Zhuangzi said it was not too big, but there were quite a lot of rooms, and weeds grew in the cracks between the bricks, making it particularly troublesome to clean. Li Erlang and Li Yu worked hard all afternoon, and they understood this deeply.

The scroll was hung on the wall of the main room. Ji Qingyue sat in a chair on the bridge and ate: "Erlang, who do you think is targeting me?"

Li Erlang's thoughts were brought back to the moment when he saw the house in a mess. At that time, he had the intention to kill. "I don't know either. Yue Lang doesn't go out much on weekdays, and he doesn't have much interaction with outsiders. If it is true that the guards guessed that he was supplying goods to Tai'an Building to make others jealous, it seems a little unreasonable. .”

When Ji Qingyue heard about it, they all came to him and made his place look like that. Could it be aimed at him?

"I can't explain the twists and turns clearly. I just have an intuition that this matter is not that simple." Li Erlang thought a lot while cleaning and sorted out many possible situations. He listed the possibilities one by one. : "After that battle, everyone in the county knew that Yue Lang supplies Tai'an House, where Tai'an House is, and those who can eat at Tai'an House are either rich or expensive, and the ingredients used are carefully selected. Yes, the vegetables that can be grown in the northwest are just a few kinds, and the variety and quality are far inferior to those grown in Yue Lang. Therefore, most of Tai'an House's suppliers are in the south, and fresh vegetables, seafood, and japonica rice... are not picked up locally because of the supply issue. It seems unreasonable to be jealous of a vegetable vendor like Goelang."

Hearing Li Erlang's words, Ji Qing felt more and more reasonable and asked, "So the other restaurants are jealous of Tai'an House and did this in order to cut off Tai'an House from getting the goods from me?"

Li Erlang pondered for a moment: "The possibility is not very likely. It is not a secret that the shopkeeper of Tai'an House sells fresh vegetables to the rich and powerful people in the county. Although it seems that Yue Lang has some intentions of relying on the mountains, this is the fact. There seem to be very few people who have the courage to put Tai'an Tower and the powerful at a disadvantage."

Ji Qingyue: "So, they are not here to target me?"

"If we really want to target Yue Lang, this method is too childish..."

Splashing blood, stabbing villains... are all meant to intimidate and intimidate, and have no actual meaning. If you really want Ji Qingyue to be unable to supply goods and cut off the business of Tai'an Building, directly attacking Ji Qingyue is the most permanent way. Failure to do so today will arouse Ji Qingyue's warning, which will affect the Tai'an Tower and the powerful people behind him. It will be difficult to take action again.

Unless, the person they want to deal with is not Ji Qingyue.

This intimidating threat was more likely aimed at him, Li Erlang.

Li Erlang, who came to this conclusion, did not say it explicitly, but changed the topic: "Although I don't know the purpose, I probably know how the thief conceals his purpose."

Li Yu and Ji Qing became more energetic after hearing this: "How?"

The two men's questioning made Li Erlang proud, and he smiled: "Yue Lang Yulang, who do you think can walk around freely in the city during curfew time?"

The first thing that came to Ji Qingyue's mind was the sound of bangs: bang-bang-

Li Yu: "Watchman? There are also soldiers patrolling the city!"

"Yes, but there is another kind of person who can also walk around at night. Even if they carry buckets of blood, they will not arouse the suspicion of the soldiers patrolling the city."

Everything was explained so clearly that Ji Qingyue also understood: "Are you talking about Ye Xianglang?"

Li Erlang nodded: "Yes, only by pretending to be Ye Xianglang will he not be suspected by the soldiers patrolling the city. This explains how the bucket with blood was brought in."

Ji Qingyue and Li Yu immediately admired Li Erlang very much. They had already thought of this. He was indeed a man with good eyes and a flexible mind!

"As long as the officers go to the city patrol soldiers to inquire, maybe they can get some useful clues."

Li Erlang made an agreement with Ji Qingyue to leave the house viewing to him. If the house in the alley is not sold, it can be rented to others after it is cleaned up, and he can still collect a little rent every month.

The two dogs at home guard the yard day and night, surrounded by flat land. Farmers in the field can hear the dogs barking.

For this reason, Li Erlang specially found three tenants and asked them to pay attention to Zhuangzi's movements.

Two days later, the time came to the last day of February. In the morning, Li Erlang drove the donkey cart to Shiliting in the west. He found a secluded place to park the cart. Then he and Ji Qingyue took over the baskets of vegetables from The picture scroll was carried out on the donkey cart.

The police officer who came to Tai'an Building to inquire heard about Ji Qingyue's experience, so shopkeeper Qin specially sent a steward to pick up the goods in person. By the way, he invited Ji Qingyue to sit in the building and talk about the inside story involved.

Ji Qingyue quickly came out of the painting, opened the curtain of the carriage, and nodded in agreement. If Shopkeeper Qin didn't ask him, he would ask Shopkeeper Qin.

Li Erlang and Ji Qingyue came to Tai'an Building, and the steward took them to shopkeeper Qin's study to settle last year's outstanding payment together.

Straight to the point, shopkeeper Qin didn't waste any words: "Two days ago, the police officer suddenly came to inquire, so I asked the people below to investigate together, and it turned out that Hu Shang was involved."

Hu businessman?

Ji Qingyue was confused. When had he ever interacted with Hu Shang?

Suddenly, he looked at Li Erlang as if enlightened.

Li Erlang looked like he had known about it for a long time. This was just a drunkard's intention.

Shopkeeper Qin also looked at the tall young man next to Ji Qingyue. He had already shown his sharpness at a young age. It would be difficult for someone who had not been trained in the military camp to develop such a sharp aura.

He was not surprised at all when he heard that the matter was related to Hu Shang. He should have guessed it.

"On the day Mr. Ji Lang reported the case, my people followed the officers to the city defense station and interviewed the city patrol soldiers. Following the clues they got, they easily found the person who poured the night fragrance that night."

Anyone who goes out at night must apply and register with the county government, and will be stopped if they encounter soldiers patrolling the city. If you are familiar, you can scan your face, but if you are unfamiliar, you must check the documents. If you are walking around at night without official documents, you will go to jail if you are caught. Therefore, it did not take much effort for the police officer to find out the location of Ji Qingyue from the soldiers patrolling the city. The watchman and Ye Xianglang walked around at what time.

Shopkeeper Qin continued: "We followed Ye Xianglang and found that he used to walk around the area where Hu merchants gathered, but he appeared in Xicheng on the night of the accident, saying that he was on duty for Ye Xianglang in Xicheng overnight." He paid special attention when he spoke. Li Erlang's expression showed that when he learned that Hu Shang's power might be behind it, he immediately asked someone to investigate Ji Qingyue and found that his relationship was simple and even a little mysterious, but there was indeed no conflict of interest with Hu Shang.

Just when shopkeeper Qin thought that Ji Qingyue was still affected by Tai'an Tower, his subordinates reported Li Erlang's incident.

On the surface, there is indeed no conflict of interest between Hu Shang and Ji Qingyue, so this threat is aimed at Li Erlang, and Ji Qingyue is only implicated because of his close relationship with Li Erlang.

The source of the conflict seems to be Hu Suan, and further down the line it is Li Erlang who takes the lead in provoking Hu Shang to control Hu Suan's status.

In Hu Shang's view, Li Erlang's planting of garlic was more unforgivable than directly robbing their money.

"This is indeed Hu Shang's usual tactic, threatening and intimidating people who touch their interests. If they don't listen, they will commit crimes." Shopkeeper Qin had already reminded him, but Li Erlang seemed to be thinking and did not realize what this sentence revealed. Horror meaning.

After all, he was a young man, so he didn't know that Hu Shang's underhanded methods were hard to guard against.

Shopkeeper Qin looked at Ji Qingyue, hoping that he would take it seriously and not affect the transaction between them.

Hu Dian must never give up.

Li Erlang thought of something, his expression relaxed, and he clasped his hands in thanks: "Thank you, shopkeeper, for letting me know!"

Ji Qingyue followed Xie to shopkeeper Qin and left Tai'an Building with Li Erlang.

Rather than pursuing Hu Shang's matter, the two of them first went to the bank.

Ji Qingyue took out some money from the painting, made up two hundred taels, deposited it in the bank, and handed the "flying money", which was the deposit certificate, to Li Erlang, asking him to use it to buy a house.

When paying, you can't carry dozens or hundreds of pounds of money around.

Because it was related to Hu Suan and Hu Shang, Ji Qingyue was very worried, but Li Erlang thought it was nothing and smiled: "When I knew that their target was not Yue Lang, I immediately relaxed a lot. You know, my family and Qing Everyone in my uncle's family is capable of fighting, but if they try hard, it's not certain who will hit whom."

Seeing that Ji Qingyue was still worried and refused to sit in the carriage, but rolled up the curtain and sat behind him, Li Erlang shook his head gently, waved his rattan whip and made a sound in the air. After hearing this, the donkey realized Boost.

"Besides, I have Feng Suo Grain Store behind me. If Manager Zhang and the host lady retreat, it will be even harder for the Hu merchants to shake off the power, and it will be impossible for the grain store to continue operating in the northwest."

In the shopping mall, it is common to compete for profits, annex resources, and expel peers. If you retreat under the slightest threat, how can you make money and go to Chang'an?

Li Erlang sent Ji Qingyue to the gate of the county government: "I'll go find Manager Zhang to discuss countermeasures. I'll be back in an hour."

"Okay." Ji Qingyue was pressed for time and had a lot to do. After meeting the county magistrate, he still had to meet with the tenants. He only had this little time to go out, and he had to plan how to use it when there were more things to do.

Of course, the affairs that the county magistrate has to deal with are not trivial. Large and small matters such as crop supervision, tax collection, cases, city defense, and even neighborhood quarrels all need his personal review. When he heard the officer below saying that Ji Qingyue asked for an audience, he remembered two things. The recent theft case and the cotton matter involve cotton, so it would be better to determine it earlier.

Ji Qingyue waited in the meeting hall for a while. Fortunately, the county magistrate came not long after. Maybe there was no court hearing today. Hong Yu walked quickly into the meeting hall wearing regular clothes.

The servant quickly served another cup of tea, then immediately closed the door and exited.

Hong Yu could be considered as taking some time out of his busy schedule. He handed Ji Qingyue a booklet: "In it is a method of growing cotton that I asked my friends in Liangzhou. You can go back and see if there is any merit. In March I I will go down to supervise the plowing and see how you are doing."

Ji Qingyue took the brochure and said, "Thank you, sir. I have one thing to ask. I am in charge of the fields. How about the textiles that you are responsible for? Cotton can be picked in about October or November."

Seeing Ji Qingyue's confidence, Hong Yu smiled and said: "What kind of good seed makes you so confident that you can successfully grow cotton in one go?" He thought for a while: "After the supervisor came back, I sent people to start building the weaving workshop. It looks like ...Do you have any requests to make?"

"Yes, my lord. I hope that your lord can consider building the first weaving workshop in Shangli Village, and allow a few people to enter the cloth workshop. They are all skilled in technology and can teach the weaver girls how to spin thread and weave cloth."

Hong Yu thought for a while: "I can agree to all of these, but you need to hand over to me the drawings of the machines used for textiles."

"No problem, I will sketch it out and give it to you when I get back."

Hong Yu: "If I'm not here, just give the drawings to my wife, and she will be in charge of all matters in the cloth workshop."

Ji Qingyue: "Yes."

The meeting hall was silent for a few seconds, and Hong Yu took a sip of tea: "There was a case of breaking into a private house two days ago. The person who reported the case wrote your name. I thought I was mistaken. Your house in Xicheng was splashed with water. The county government is still investigating, do you know who you have a grudge with?"

Hong Yu saw Ji Qingyue shaking his head and nodding honestly: "Today I heard from the shopkeeper of Tai'an Building that Hu Shang did it."

The county magistrate put down his tea cup and muttered: "We have found out that this destruction is not aimed at you, but at the battle between Hu Shang and Fengsuliangxing. The Li Changxiang next to you is the first one to be beaten. .”

"Sir, I have one more thing to say!" Ji Qingyue became more determined and wanted Hong Yu to take action. Even if he didn't help them deal with the Hu merchants, he would also impose some restrictions on the Hu merchants to prevent them from making the market worse: " Sir, today Hu Shang's felt is still a commonly used fabric by the common people. If cotton becomes popular on a large scale, Hu Shang will be even more impatient and I don't know what he will do."

Hong Yu smiled: "Don't worry, do everything slowly and step by step. Even if I am the county magistrate, I have to follow the local rules. I will know what to do only after I understand the rules."

Ji Qingyue took a deep breath and drank tea to cover up his thoughts. It turns out that the county magistrate had already planned it, and he was just gesticulating.

After a while, the county magistrate gave up and went to work. Ji Qingyue stopped staying and left the county government office led by his servant.

I didn't expect to chat with the county magistrate so quickly. It's great to work with someone who talks about things without making any obfuscation.

It was still some time before the appointment with Li Erlang. Ji Qingyue visited the surrounding shops, replenished the inventory of seasonings, and bought some daily necessities before returning to the tea stall in front of the county government to wait.

The owner of the tea stall actually still had an impression of Ji Qingyue. When he saw him coming, he served tea enthusiastically. "Alang, are you here again?"