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

It wasn't until noon the next day that Li Erlang returned home from the county. He was carrying a big baggage on his back, occupying his entire back.

It can be seen that he bought a lot of things.

Li Jinniang came out to help. Looking at the baggage, it seemed that it was okay. She should be able to carry it: "Second brother, let me help you carry it."

Li Erlang didn't want his little sister to worry, so he took off his baggage and let her carry it. The short distance of a dozen steps from the courtyard door to the room seemed to make Li Jinniang feel at ease. She followed Li Erlang into the room. After putting down her baggage, she did not intend to go out immediately. Instead, she stood with her head down and picked her fingers, as if she had something to say.

"How is Aniang now?"

Li Jinniang: "After you, second brother, went out yesterday, my mother stayed in the room and refused to come out. She seemed to be crying. Last night, I heard that you went to the county, but she didn't say anything."

Li Erlang put the baggage in the suitcase and put it away. After hearing Li Jinniang's words, he was silent for a while, and finally sighed: "I will go and apologize to her later."

Li Jinniang lowered her head where she was, looking at her toes, and her voice sounded like she was crying: "Second brother, I heard it all... Aniang said that third brother should get married first."

Li Erlang was not surprised that his sister knew about this. Li Jinniang's room is in the main house. The layout is the same as that of the wing rooms. In the middle is the main room, where she usually eats, chats and warms herself. There are two rooms on the left and right, and two doors open into the main room. On the left is Li Aweng's room, on the right is Li Auntie's room, and Li Jinniang lives in a small single room at the end of the main room.

Li Jinniang can always hear what Li Aniang says when she comes in and out.

"Yeah." Li Erlang didn't react too much and just sat quietly on the kang. Li Jinniang felt distressed seeing Li Erlang like this. She couldn't tell which was harder, farming or studying, but she knew that her second brother wanted to study.

"Second brother..." Li Jinniang shouted and didn't know what to say. Instead, she lowered her head and let her tears fall to the ground.

"Stop crying, it's not beautiful if your eyes are swollen." Li Erlang stood up, touched his little sister's head, and said softly: "I'm going to see grandma. How about you go to the kitchen and bring me two lunches?" ?”

"it is good."

Li Erlang knocked on Aniang Li's door: "Aniang, it's me."

After a while, Aunt Li opened the door. The two of them talked for a while. I don't know what they said, but the quarrel seemed to have subsided.

Ji Qingyue knew nothing about what was happening outside. He was busy with the plan he had made last night. After getting up in the morning, he moved back the weeds left from the last mowing and cut some vines to make straw curtains.

The craftsmanship of the straw curtain is very simple. Just use vines to wrap the two ends of the wild grass and then trim the straw curtain to the same length.

Although it didn't seem difficult, Ji Qing struggled more and more as he worked on it, and the finished product really looked terrible.

The first one is just for practicing...

Ji Qingyue dismantled the messy straw curtain and woven it again. He slowly laid out the hay core neatly bit by bit and wrapped the two ends with thin vines.

This time he calmed down and finished the two straw curtains patiently. He found that his bent neck was already stiff. He quickly got up to move his body and hung up the newly made curtains. The two straw curtains just covered the thatched cottage. On the open side, although it is much darker in the thatched cottage, it feels much warmer.

In order not to be noticed by people outside the painting, the straw curtain is hung up during the day and put down again at night.

Very good, he was satisfied.

At this time, Li Erlang came in with rice: "Immortal, it's time to eat."

Ji Qingyue took the food from the feeding skillfully, and was surprised that he actually ate wheat rice and barbecue today! After Li Erlang fed him for a long time, he gradually learned about the food structure here. Various cakes are generally the staple food. The cakes are not flour cakes, but mixed flour cakes made of millet flour mixed with other flours. They can be steamed, fried, roasted, soaked, and boiled. How to eat them There are many. If you steam rice or cook porridge, millet is also used, and occasionally some soybeans and wheat are mixed in.

After eating porridge and pancakes for a long time, he had been thinking about eating dry rice for a long time. Now looking at a large bowl of wheat rice, and the roasted mutton with aniseed ingredients on top, Ji Qing took a big bite with increasing anticipation. As the wheat entered his throat, his expectation gradually turned to disappointment.

The wheat rice has a very rough texture. Even if there is mutton soup at the bottom, if you chew the rice while drinking the soup, it will still scratch your throat when you swallow it. The texture is not very good, at least it will not be easy for Ji Qingyue, who is used to eating fine grains, to swallow it.

Food is hard-earned and cannot be wasted.

Outside, Li Erlang was also eating, which made Ji Qingyue very surprised: "It's rare for you to bring me food at noon. What happened?"

Li Erlang: "Yesterday I went to the county to buy things. I just got home just now. I already missed lunch. I thought I wanted to eat too, so I just ate with you."

"Oh..." However, Ji Qingyue felt that it was not that simple. Li Erlang didn't seem to be in a very good mood, and there was a hint of depression in his words unconsciously.

"I have ordered the tools you want from the blacksmith shop, and the handles of the tools have been handed over to the carpenter in the village for help. I have almost bought other things." He took out the bag, "The other seeds mentioned by the immortal are white stacks. I still have to look for them in Hu Shang’s place. I’ve asked about other potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn, but no one has ever heard of them. I’m afraid it will take some time…”

Ji Qingyue waved his hand, and it was already good news that he had received cotton: "It's okay, I'm sorry to bother you."

"These are all the seeds that can be found in the store. I wrote down the names one by one and packed them into categories." Before handing them in, Li Erlang asked one more question: "Does the immortal know how to plant them?"

"Probably...they are all planted in the ground...?"

Li Erlang smiled and handed the baggage to Ji Qingyue.

Ji Qingyue opened the bag and took a look. There were not only some light clothes inside, which should be replacement inner clothes, equivalent to underwear, but also seasoning packets. What surprised him the most was the large packet of seeds.

I don’t know what kind of seeds there are.

"I feel ashamed to say that among the seeds I bought, I have only heard about some from storytellers in teahouses, and I don't know exactly how to plant them."

Ji Qingyue took out a bag of seeds and saw the labels on them. The more he read, the more excited he became. Compared with what Li Silang bought from the seller, the seeds he bought this time contained many more fruit seeds: bayberry, lychee, and loquat. , melon, cherry, grape...

He looked at the seeds and already drooled in advance, predicting that he would be able to live a fruit-free life in the future!

"Erlang?"

Li Erlang hadn't recovered his emotions yet, so he was stunned for a few seconds before responding: "Huh?"

"I heard you say you wanted to grow garlic before?" Ji Qingyue opened the seasoning paper package and found a head of garlic inside, and thought of what Li Erlang said before about growing garlic.

"Yes, but garlic is too expensive. A head of garlic costs ten cents. Even if I only plant half an acre of land, it still costs thousands of garlic. No one is willing to sell me so many seeds. Hu Shang and the local squire The landowners have united to supply the restaurant directly and will not sell it to ordinary farmers. Moreover, the method of growing garlic that I have figured out has not yet found anyone to discuss..."

Ji Qing became more and more certain that something had happened to Li Erlang. He didn't know that there was a lot of loneliness in what he said.

Ji Qingyue did not answer immediately, but paused. Li Erlang did not notice that the study became quiet.

He was very grateful to Li Erlang for helping him so much. He asked, "You seem unhappy today? Did something happen to you?"

Li Erlang held the empty bowl depressedly: "Well... Immortal, last night you said that we live on a ball. If that's true, wouldn't the people under the ball fall down?"

Ji Qingyue felt very relieved. It was rare for him to think to this extent and ask this question, which showed that he was really assuming that they lived on the ball. It seemed that he was slowly accepting this fact.

"Have you ever thought about what 'down' means?"

Li Erlang didn't understand, so he tried to say: "Heaven is above and earth is below."

"It is correct to say that, then for the people under the ball, their land is their 'under'."

Maybe he got through the bottleneck period that had been tormenting him last night, but now that he heard what Ji Qingyue said, Li Erlang felt that it was not so difficult to accept. "Huh? Why is this? Why on earth won't they fall?"

Ji Qingyue: "Why don't people jump to the sky when they jump? Why do things from high places fall to low places? Why can a small magnet pick up light pieces of iron but not heavy pieces of iron?"

Li Erlang really didn't know the answer, so he asked: "Why?"

"Because the ball is filled with something invisible and intangible - gravity."

"What?"

Ji Qingyue thought to himself: It is amazing to think that a person whose existence itself is anti-science is now explaining scientific phenomena to others.

"There is something inside the ball that people can't see, which invisibly grabs everything on the surface of the ball, such as water, animals, houses, people, rocks, soil, etc. Everything you can see or cannot see is caught, so people When you jump up, you will be pulled down in the end, and things at high places are pulled down. The heavier things are, the harder they are to be grabbed, so the small magnet can pick up thin pieces of iron but cannot pick up heavy pieces of iron."

"So it's more difficult for me to carry a bucket of water than half a bucket of water, just because of that thing called 'gravity' that's pulling me?"

Ji Qingyue nodded: "Yes, if there is no such thing, our world will cease to exist, and everything will be thrown away."

"Where will it go?"

"..." Ji Qingyue: "Promise me not to ask for now, okay? So do you know why the things under the ball don't fall down?"

Li Erlang was surprised again: "It's amazing..."

Ji Qingyue continued to add insult to injury: "Maybe we are the ones under the ball now?" Then he heard Li Erlang take a breath.

No longer teasing him: "It's very magical. When I first learned this knowledge when I was a child, I thought it was incredible."

Li Erlang showed a confused look: "Immortal, you know so much, your knowledge must be very deep, right?" Maybe the Immortal was a scholar before.

"This can indeed be said in some respects, but it is not comprehensive. I heard your brother talk about clear scriptures, clear laws, clear calculations and clear books when he was studying. What are those?"

Li Erlang: "Those are the four imperial examination directions established by the imperial court. Each person chooses one. Ming Jing is mostly a base for examination of classics. It is also the main examination subject for officials and scholars. Ming Fa tests on laws and Ming Suan tests on arithmetic. Mingshu examines classic calligraphy."

Ji Qing understood more: "Oh, we also run the imperial examination in the same way as you. The difference is that the subjects and directions we divide are much more detailed than yours. There are about thousands of subjects. As long as the students have the ability, they can choose one. Learn and specialize in one or more subjects.”

Compared with the statement that the earth is round, Li Erlang felt that what Ji Qingyue just said surprised him more. It was a surprise that he could actually imagine but subconsciously denied.

Is this possible?

"Sage, what did you choose?"

"I studied bridge design in civil engineering. People there jokingly call people who study this kind of engineering dogs civil engineering."

Li Erlang's emotion came to an abrupt end. The cognitive gap prevented him from understanding the joke that Ji Qingyue told. The bridges are nothing more than stone bridges, wooden bridges and rope bridges. These are usually drawings drawn by the government after sending people to inspect the local area, and then arrange for service personnel to build the bridges. If there are not enough manpower, they will recruit short-term workers from the local area. The Immortal seemed to draw blueprints, but the bellows drawings he drew before only had general outlines and numbers, which were rougher than those drawn by Wu Aweng. Why did he have to learn how to build bridges?

Ji Qingyue didn't want to go into details anymore. He hadn't found a new way out yet. With the professional knowledge he had learned in the past, he could only repair the wooden bridge under his feet.

After so many days, the wooden plank bridge seems to be reaching its limit, and the supporting wooden frame is crumbling. He planned to re-lay the foundation and put in new supports, and then lay the bridge deck. Otherwise, if he stood there one day, the wooden plank bridge would give him a chance to get wet.

Now Li Erlang felt that he had figured out Ji Qingyue's identity.

The immortal is young, but he has already become a scholar or even a Jinshi.

Juzi is a status obtained by students after passing the state examination. At the same time, they gain corresponding social status and are qualified to go to Chang'an to take the provincial examination. Those who pass the provincial examination are Jinshi, who can be assigned official positions by the court and have an iron rice bowl from then on. It can be said that the future is promising.

Unconsciously, Li Erlang chatted a lot with Ji Qingyue, and the melancholy in his heart was diluted a lot. He said goodbye to Qingyue before returning to the room to rest.

Ji Qingyue returned to the thatched cottage and carefully looked at the items in the baggage.

Two sets of soft silk linings, and Li Erlang also carefully bought him two pairs of socks, which was really thoughtful.

The bag also contained salt and some dried Sichuan peppercorns wrapped in oil paper, soy, vinegar and oil in small pottery bottles sealed with wax paper and yellow mud, and a head of garlic. The amount of sauce is not much, Li Erlang found it with all his heart.

The remaining packages contained seeds ranging from light to heavy. The more Ji Qing looked at them, the happier he became. He had only taken a rough look at it just now, but now he was taking a closer look. He opened the packages one by one, looked at them, connected the appearance of the seeds with their names, and wrote them down together.

He suddenly had so many seeds in his hand, so of course he had to plan carefully. Before the bellows was ready, he wanted to enrich the vegetable garden and prepare the land for sowing as soon as possible.

When paddy fields were opened before, only a small area was opened up. Now we need to open up as much land as possible to expand the planting of rice and the wheat seeds given by Li Erlang. We have not been able to plant them before. We will open up more land for the vegetable garden and arrange it together. Plant wheat.

As for fruit...

He hasn't decided where to plant it yet. He will go shopping tomorrow and find a good place to plan as his orchard!