Aunt Li finished her dinner and hurriedly left home with a jar in her arms into the night.

Li Erlang explained that Ji Qingyue found out that there was another child in their family, and Aniang Li was going to deliver chicken soup.

Fortunately, doctors were invited from the county during the day. Unexpectedly, they started to work before nightfall. Mrs. Li Liu quickly sent her daughter and two young sons to call Li Aniang.

Grandma Li and her party packed their things and hurried to the old house.

As soon as they arrived at the old house, they heard the doctor say that the fetus in the mother's belly was too big, making it difficult for the mother to give birth.

In the end, the doctor administered medicine and acupuncture to assist the delivery, and Mrs. Wen was so busy that she was sweating, and finally heard the baby's cry.

Po Wen came out with the child in her arms and said happily with a smile: "Mother and daughter are safe!"

Now everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The safety of mother and daughter is the best result!

Grandma Li quickly hugged the child, while Grandma Li wrapped a wedding gift for her sister-in-law and gave it to Granny Wen. Everyone happily surrounded the child.

Li Aweng arranged for the doctor to rest in his old house for one night, and asked Li Erlang to send him back to the county in person early the next morning.

Doctor Zhang received the consultation fee and wedding money, and both the mother and the child were safe. He felt relieved and nodded in agreement.

After cleaning up, Mrs. Li Liu came out and took the baby in. It was not good for them to stay here, as it would affect Ping Niang (the mother)'s rest, so Li A Niang suggested going back to get chicken soup, leaving Li A Nai to watch alone.

The group went home happily, but unexpectedly bumped into Ji Qingyue.

After Aniang Li went out, there were still a group of people sitting in the room, and Tuan Lang climbed on top of her without fear of death.

The child was soft and very easy to touch. Ji Qingyue couldn't help but pinch his fat face. Seeing this, Li Silang also stretched his face over: "Brother Ji, my face is also easy to touch!"

Hey, you can’t indulge in playing with your baby.

Li Erlang asked about what happened in the county yesterday. In fact, Ji Qingyue himself was not very clear about it: "I had an adventure in the painting and felt it deeply. I think it was because of this that the real fairy in the painting was willing to let me out. "As he spoke, he stretched out his right hand and showed everyone his palm.

The originally dark red mole has faded a lot and turned brown.

From this, Ji Qingyue guessed: "I may not be able to stay outside for long. Maybe I will go back when the color of the mole on my palm turns black."

Li Erlang asked: "Will you come out again?"

"I don't know..." Seeing Li Erlang's slumped face, Ji Qingyue smiled: "But I think I will still come out."

Li Silang sat in Ji Qingyue's arms and cheered, and Li Tuanlang followed suit.

"Ahem." Li Aweng, the old man at home, cleared his throat, and everyone immediately calmed down. Li Aweng looked at Ji Qingyue: "Son, we are all very happy to have you living at home. I know that you are pure and kind in nature, but outsiders don't know, so think about it. What should I do?"

This is to the point.

People in the village are very afraid of strangers appearing. Once they encounter a stranger, they will definitely check them until their identity is confirmed.

At present, Ji Qingyue is still a criminal. Even though he has a household registration and is over 20 years old, he has no record of serving in the military. No matter how he looks at it, he will be jailed.

Now it was Ji Qing's turn to become more embarrassed. Just because he came out didn't mean he could go out. He was still thinking of helping Li Erlang and others farm to pay for their food, but now their plan was ruined.

However, what bothered him the most was the assassination. If he had stayed in the northwest, he would never have been able to prevent the assassination.

Yes, Ji Qing wanted to save the emperor more and more.

In his opinion, the emperor was not incompetent.

I heard from Li Yu five years later that the emperor destroyed Buddhist temples, took back a lot of land, and persuaded the bandits to surrender. One of the conditions was that the bandits who had not committed human lives could forget the blame and get the land as long as they went down the mountain. There were many other small things. Policy, Li Yu could clearly feel that life was indeed getting better during that period.

But then the emperor was suddenly assassinated, and everything came to nothing. The situation took a turn for the worse and became worse and worse.

Ji Qingyue guessed that the biggest reason for the assassination was that he encountered the roots of vested interest groups.

In Li Yu's words, the emperor who later ascended the throne seemed to have done nothing, and there was also a powerful minister. That person seemed to be named Lu?

Ji Qingyue needed a stable society to develop his power, so it was better to have a capable monarch who could restrain the forces from all directions than an incompetent emperor who was restrained by the forces from all directions.

He can retreat, but these people in the Li family have no choice but to retreat.

We need to plan and develop towards the capital.

But now, he can't even get out of the courtyard door outside.

"Don't worry, old man, I will be careful and will not walk out of this courtyard door."

After receiving Ji Qingyue's answer, Li Aweng felt relieved and nodded: "If there is an opportunity in the future, you can ask someone to go to the county to apply for a household registration. Then you only need to pay more money and make up for the owed taxes. It’s okay now.”

Ji Qingyue showed an expression of surprise, he didn't expect it to be like this!

Li Erlang added: "It's just that the cost is too huge. Without a hundred taels, I might not be able to get the people below to help."

Oh, remember, he doesn't have a tael of silver now.

Wait a minute.

During the conversation, Ji Qingyue unexpectedly learned that tomorrow was Li Erlang's birthday!

He quickly asked: "What's the date tomorrow?"

"Seventeen."

"Tomorrow is actually your birthday!" Ji Qingyue was shocked but also felt lucky at the same time, "Fortunately, I made it in time."

When Li Erlang heard this, he raised his eyebrows and said happily: "Did Yue Lang prepare something?"

Ji Qingyue wanted to save the surprise until the last minute: "What do you think?"

Li Silang hugged Ji Qingyue and acted coquettishly: "Brother Ji, do I have one too?"

"When is your birthday?"

He flattened his lips: "It won't be until August..."

Suddenly, Ji Qingyue suddenly felt a familiar wave of dizziness coming over him. He quickly pushed Li Silang and Li Tuanlang in his arms to Li Erlang next to him. Before Li Erlang could speak, everyone was so frightened that they exclaimed.

Ji Qingyue disappeared.

No matter how fantastical it is, it can't compare to seeing it with your own eyes.

Ji Qingyue suddenly fell backwards, like water droplets falling, falling to the ground and exploding, turning into a ball of black mist, and finally disappeared.

Li Erlang rushed to the study with Tuan Lang and his younger brother in his arms, and heard Ji Qingyue's voice coming from the painting: "I'm fine, you don't have to worry."

Just as he thought, the time to stay outside was limited. "Erlang, what time is it now?"

"It's Xu time now, we should have been back at Shen time just now..."

In this way, he came out for about two hours, four hours?

Ji Qingyue looked at the dark palms and realized that he could only stay for four hours? So when is the next time you go out?

He pinched the root of his nose tiredly: "Erlang, could you borrow a flint and steel?"

Nowadays, in this kind of weather, you can sleep without burning the kang. As long as you block the passage between the furnace and the kang to prevent the heat from passing to the bottom of the kang, you can continue to use the kitchen.

After Ji Qingyue took a shower, he changed out of all his dirty clothes and lay comfortably on the bed. He felt so comfortable and thought that it would be great to be back here.

The next day was April 17th, Li Erlang's seventeenth birthday, a little closer to the age of twenty when he would join the army.

I heard from Li Erlang that usually they don't celebrate birthdays. They usually only make a bowl of noodles or a bowl of laowan to celebrate. What they have to do is still the same as usual.

On this day, Li Erlang's family went out to work early in the morning, and Ji Qingyue was the only one left at home. Because he went to bed early last night and got up early today, he quickly got up to see the cotton plant.

During the week I left, although the cotton seedling had grown about one meter high, it looked wilted, yellow, and malnourished.

This is the first time Ji Qingyue has seen the magical land be defeated.

It's not a failure, it can only be said to be a setback. At least the seeds have sprouted and sprouted. However, the seedlings are wilting and not growing well. I wonder if they will produce cotton.

The key is that he can't find the reason.

Planting is nothing more than affected by water, soil, temperature, and sunlight. On days when the temperature is relatively constant, the soil is the same soil. He changes other factors as much as possible to see what affects the growth of cotton.

He transplanted the cotton to the hillside next to the brick house, where he planted some fruit vines and fruit tree seeds, which have now sprouted and grown slowly.

On this hillside, as long as the sun rises, you will almost be exposed to the sun, but there is relatively little water.

After transplanting the cotton, come back tomorrow to see how the cotton turns out.

The fish in the stream like to swim under the waterfall, where the water flow is relatively fast, and they like to stay there.

Since raising fish upstream, Ji Qingyue has to go to the waterfall every time he gets water for drinking, which is a bit troublesome.

He lamented again that it would be great if there were bamboos, which could divert water from the waterfall for water storage and irrigation.

Rice, which also needs water, will grow very well as long as the temperature is right, so there is no need to worry about it at all.

He cleared out all the land in the backyard and used it to grow more vegetables. He expanded the open space in front of the hut to 400 square meters and planted two batches of wheat at staggered times.

Today, I spent another busy day in painting. When I heard the sound of Li Erlang coming back, Ji Qingyue hurriedly moved the birthday gifts he had prepared to the bridge.

Li Erlang was obviously thinking about what Ji Qingyue said yesterday. After returning home, he went directly to the study.

Seventeen is not a full birthday, and it is a busy time at home, so everyone can simply say "Happy Birthday", but Ji Qingyue seems to attach great importance to birthdays, and has prepared something for him.

He came to the painting excitedly: "Yue Lang, I'm back!"

What have you prepared for me?

The mole on Ji Qingyue's palm was still black, and others could not get out, so they could only hand the gift to Li Erlang through the barrier. "When we have birthdays there, friends will give gifts. You reach out and take them. The gift I gave you is a bit heavy."

This was the first time Li Erlang heard this. If they were not celebrating a grand birthday, most people would not celebrate it, let alone give gifts.

He obediently stretched out his hand and placed it in front of the painting, "Okay, Yue Lang can hand over the things to me."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Erlang suddenly felt a heavy weight in his hand, and he almost didn't catch it and threw the thing to the ground.

He thought it would be heavy, but he never thought it would be so heavy that he couldn't hold it with both hands.

Suddenly there were a lot of things on the ground. Li Erlang took a closer look and took a breath. These were garlic braided into a large bunch!

"There are two more bundles, please reach out and pick them up."

So there were three big bundles of garlic in the study.

Ji Qingyue calculated more and found that there were about a thousand heads of garlic in the three bundles of garlic, which was more than 100 or 200 kilograms. It should be enough for Li Erlang to plant half an acre of land. "You said you wanted to try growing garlic."

Li Erlang didn't react for a while until Aniang Li came over to call him. Before he could speak, he saw the extra things in the study. Although he knew where they came from, he was still shocked when he saw them. "This, this...what's going on?"

Ji Qingyue: "Hello, aunt, these are garlic seeds that I have saved for a long time. I originally wanted to give them to Erlang sometime, but I didn't expect that it happened to be his birthday. Fortunately, I gave them to him as a birthday gift to thank him for taking care of me. "

He knew the current embarrassment of the Li family, but it was impossible to give him money directly. Giving him a lot of money in return was a very good way to repay him.

Li Erlang felt Ji Qingyue's feelings, and he accepted it happily without any hesitation: "Thank you Yue Lang for the gift. I am very happy!"

In the main room, things were different from what Ji Qingyue had imagined. The atmosphere in which the family celebrated Li Erlang's birthday was not as joyful as imagined, and everyone at the dinner table was somewhat silent.

There was a bowl of wheat rice on the table in front of Li Erlang, with some fresh fish dipped in sauce specially placed in it.

With Ji Qingyue not present, Aniang Li could finally ask: "Erlang, those nonsense..."

"Auntie, I want to plant some."

Li Aniang is not stupid: "How can we tell outsiders about the origin of these garlic? Do we have to grow it secretly?"

Li Erlang had a plan in his mind. He held his mother's hand and said firmly: "No, we have to do it openly..." Li Erlang was so anxious that just when she was about to open her mouth to refute, she felt her hand being held by her son, so she closed her mouth. , and heard Li Erlang continue: "We can't grow this garlic by ourselves. Now we don't want to grow it with the people in the village, but we need to find a boss to protect it for us."

The small-scale peasant economy is very fragile. Not to mention natural disasters, as long as it is maliciously attacked, it is difficult to fight back. In addition to growing wheat, rice, millet and other ordinary crops, ordinary farmers cannot afford to grow economic crops even if the land is suitable. First, the cost is too high, which alone has restricted too many people; second, the cultivation of these crops Everything from sales to sales is tightly controlled. If ordinary people want to compete, it may seem feasible in the short term, but in the long run, it will be difficult to win.

Therefore, they also need to find a backer, and this step may involve giving up a large part of their profits.

And this must be done immediately.

"Aniang, I will go to the county tomorrow."

Aniang Li saw that Erlang had already made a decision, so it would be foolish to try to dissuade him. Moreover, Erlang did this all for the sake of his family. She could not keep holding him back without knowing what was good for him.

Then the family discussed growing garlic, and Li Aweng planned to ask Jin Niang to take Si Lang and Yu Lang to clear out half an acre of land.

Although he had never found a way to obtain garlic seeds before, Li Erlang had long been determined to grow garlic. He quietly collected many methods of growing garlic, and also found some information to plan the candidates for his boss in advance.

Unexpectedly, Yue Lang prepared so many garlic seeds for him, so that his plan could be implemented!

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