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

After lunch, after taking Li Silang back to his room and applying medicine again, the three brothers went to the study to talk.

It's rare that all the brothers are around. Li Erlang laughed and joked about his younger brother: "Just now, the elder brother was applying the medicine, and the way Si Lang was begging to be replaced made me laugh to death."

Li Sanlang looked helpless: "Silang is also stubborn and refuses to ask no matter what."

Li Dalang felt that it was expected. If it were the three of them, the result would be the same. They all have the same stubborn temper.

The Li family's study is not big, but it is a rare blue-brick house in this neighborhood. From the wooden beams to the bricks and tiles, they are all made of the best materials.

After Li Sanlang went to the county to attend private school, the study room had been idle. Now it was Li Silang's turn to be enlightened and the study room could be used again. Otherwise, no one would be able to go in until it was cleaned.

The bookshelves were almost all handwritten manuscripts brought back by Li Sanlang. In order to read more and practice calligraphy, Li Sanlang consulted with his master. The master promised that he could copy as long as he did not sell the copied books.

For ten years, Li Sanlang studied and copied books at the same time, and he actually saved so much.

Li Sanlang put the few manuscripts he had just brought back on the bookshelf, and found the copybooks he had used before: "I just came back, and Silang pulled me to carry 'Sir' on my back. These are the copybooks we used before, and we will wait for the wounds to heal." , and asked him to practice calligraphy every day."

Several old copybooks were used by the brothers and sisters in turn, and now it was finally Li Silang's turn. Li Erlang couldn't help but sigh: "It's a pity that I was beaten by my father before I could teach Silang how to hold a pen."

Li Sanlang sorted the books and said, "Second brother, he has memorized the book for only a few days and he remembers the meaning very well. If it were us, and my mother-in-law broke the stick and pressed us, we might not be like Shiro. "

Li Erlang was confused: "I didn't teach him interpretation? When did the eldest brother teach him?" He looked at Li Dalang, and Li Dalang shook his head. He had been busy with the finishing work these days and had no time to teach his younger brother how to read.

Now all three of them became serious, and finally guessed: "Could it be that Jin Niang taught me this?"

Li Dalang immediately denied: "Jin Niang has been weaving with A Niang and the others these days, and has not had time to spend time with Shi Lang."

Li Erlang exclaimed: "Is it the person who asked Shilang to steal the cake again?"

When Li Sanlang heard this, he became serious: "Brother, brother, please tell me in detail, what is going on?"

What the three brothers discussed outside was clearly heard by Ji Qingyue in the painting, but now he had no time to listen carefully to their guesses. Instead, he squatted on the ground and looked at the newly discovered magic in front of him.

When the three brothers came in, Ji Qingyue was sitting in the thatched hut and resting. While eavesdropping on their conversation, he swayed his eyes casually. After scanning the ground at the door of the thatched hut, he immediately paused. The reason was not for other reasons but There were three or four new shoots two centimeters high on the ground under his feet!

Ji Qingyue can be sure that there was nothing here last night!

If you look closely, these new shoots look like they are coming out of the date pits!

The roots grow out of the core and drill into the ground tenaciously.

Are these jujube tree buds?

The more Ji Qing thought about yesterday, he did eat dates, and the date cores should have been spit out in front of the door.

Now it has sprouted!

Ji Qing jumped up excitedly when he discovered this secret and cheered silently!

This is a shocking discovery.

It’s already strange to see sprouts sprout overnight, but now these sprouts can grow several centimeters tall overnight, growing from scratch at a speed comparable to national infrastructure!

Ji Qingyue couldn't help but guess: Could it be that the land here has a special function of promoting the growth of plants? Will it also make the plants grow faster? If this were the case, the jujube cores spit out randomly would be able to sprout, and the crops that would be carefully cared for in the future would not die!

"Eh? Why is this painting so weird?" A sudden approaching voice from outside made Ji Qingyue shiver, and his blood suddenly cooled down by half.

He quickly lowered his breathing and paid attention to the movement outside: What did these brothers find?

"Look, did Shiro add color to the thatched cottage in the painting? Why is the color of the thatched cottage stained? Could it be mold?" Li Erlang observed carefully and immediately saw the difference in the painting.

There was no such painting at home when I came back from vacation last time, so Li Sanlang didn't know what the painting looked like originally, but he had learned painting and knew some of the things inside.

He stretched out his hand to touch the picture, touched it, twirled his fingertips, and thought carefully: "I thought it was mold, but upon closer inspection, it turned out not to be the case. It hasn't rained at all since the beginning of autumn, and it's not damp at all. How could it be moldy? Look at the old and new, this ink was not just painted on, it was painted at the same time as other places."

Li Erlang believed in his own eyes and memory: "How could it be... When the elder brother just hung it up, I could see clearly that it was all withered and yellow."

The three of them looked at it for a while, but still couldn't figure out the reason.

The biggest reason why they can't guess is that they don't dare to imagine that there is a person living in the painting.

In the end, it was natural to just give up.

Hearing that they no longer focused on the painting, Ji Qing breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look at the ugly thatched cottage. It turned out that the changes to the thatched cottage would appear on the painting. Drawing inferences, then if the open space in front of the thatched cottage was turned over …

In this case, the open space must not be moved.

Regarding the newly discovered date cores, Ji Qingyue decided to sit still and wait until tomorrow morning to see what these seedlings would grow into in a day.

Outside, the three brothers returned to the desk again. Li Dalang took out the money bag from his arms and pushed it in front of Li Erlang: "Erlang, I have saved some money here, you can take it."

Li Erlang was stunned for a moment, waved his hand and refused directly: "Brother, you saved this for Tuan Lang. You should use it for your sister-in-law and Tuan Lang. What can you do for me?"

"Your sister-in-law still has some. I heard that garlic, like wheat, has to survive the winter. It's not too late to prepare. Once the same amount of land is cleared, you can plant it."

Hearing what Li Dalang said, Li Erlang was no longer anxious, but said: "Brother, this is my first time to grow garlic. I haven't asked experienced farmers for advice, and I don't know whether the method I figured out is feasible. The most important thing is It’s because I haven’t found a way to sell it yet.”

Li Dalang watched his younger brother push the money bag back and said with a smile: "We are close to the customs and have prosperous trade. Everyone is familiar with garlic and parsley, but no one grows it around. Have you ever thought about why?"

"Of course I know." Li Erlang smiled proudly: "In the beginning, these spices were brought in from outside the customs by barbarians who came all the way from the customs. They specialized in the trade of nobles. They firmly controlled the sales route and refused to disclose the cultivation methods. Rare things are valued. When spices were popular, the price was once hard to buy, and spice seeds followed the rise. There are two reasons why no one grows spices. First, spice seeds are expensive and difficult to buy. Second, the spice business is controlled by barbarians. Selling spices privately will be punished by barbarians. People take revenge.”

Ji Qingyue nodded. It turns out that this is the case. Li Erlang is really brave.

Li Erlang looked at Sanlang: "Sanlang, can you calculate the price of a pound of rice for me?"

Li Sanlang smiled gently and confidently: "Why not."

Corn is measured in buckets on the market. A bucket is a unit of capacity, while a kilogram is a unit of weight. The two cannot be directly compared.

"Sanlang can just calculate it based on the previous price."

"Okay. A bucket of rice costs thirteen cents, and a head of garlic costs ten cents, right?"

"Correct."

Ji Qing became more and more amused when he heard how the three brothers could do arithmetic problems.

"One stone is ten buckets, one stone is one hundred and six kilograms, that is, one bucket is..."

Ji Qingyue calculated mentally: Ten point six pounds!

"Ten jins and nine taels and six cents." Li Sanlang continued: "Ten jins and nine taels and six cents cost thirteen cents, that is, one catty of rice costs less than two cents. Even cheaper, you can buy one cent of rice. The quality is extremely high. A head of high-quality garlic weighs four taels, four heads weigh one catty, that is, forty cents per catty of garlic."

Look, a pound of rice costs less than two cents, and a pound of garlic costs forty cents. It’s so outrageous.

"Now I don't know how many garlic seeds are needed per acre...I'm afraid it will take a lot..."

Ji Qingyue nodded inside. Ten point six kilograms equals ten kilograms, nine taels and six cents. So one kilogram here is not equal to ten taels, but sixteen taels.

Assuming the best situation, a head of garlic weighs four taels, so there are about four heads of garlic per pound. Each head of garlic has ten seeds. One acre of land is 660 square meters. Place one garlic seed every ten centimeters. Planting a row of 30 centimeters means that one garlic occupies an area of ​​0.03 square meters. One acre of land requires at least more than 20,000 garlic seeds, which is more than 2,000 heads of garlic.

Under optimal assumptions, growing one acre of garlic would cost more than 20,000 yuan to buy garlic seeds.

This is only the cost of the seeds, not counting other expenses, and it is not certain whether it will survive.

Judging from the price of one penny per catty of rice, I am afraid that the farmers here will not earn much money in a year. It is an eternal truth that the low price of grain hurts farmers.

The high investment discourages many people, so they can only grow corn honestly. People are satisfied if there is still a surplus of grain after a year.

Li Sanlang opened his mouth: "I can wait for two years..."

Before he could finish his words, Li Erlang shouted loudly: "No! Brother and I don't agree, and neither do my parents! I only said that I want to grow garlic, but I don't have to grow garlic." !You must never give up your studies for me!"

"Can……"

Li Erlang was annoyed: "You were enlightened at the age of six, and all the masters praised you for reciting lyrics, composing poems, and answers. Now you have read enough books to fill the study room, how can you waste all your efforts! You must not be affected by my random thoughts. If you keep talking nonsense about your studies, I will ask my father to beat your ass, just like Shiro!"

Li Erlang said with seriousness: "The most important thing is that garlic seeds are hard to find. It's okay if we buy one or two heads. If we buy ten or a hundred heads, Hu Shang will definitely not agree!"

The last sentence came to the point, and Li Sanlang shut up.

Li Erlang persuaded and threatened at the same time, fearing that his younger brother would suddenly become stubborn and stop studying. Once the trouble got to that point, he would definitely be beaten to death by his parents.

Fortunately, Li Sanlang didn't say anything about dropping out of school. He was afraid that Li Sanlang would continue this topic, so he quickly made an excuse: "You clean up the study first, and my eldest brother and I will go collect firewood." He pulled Li Dalang and ran out of the study.

In September, after the autumn harvest, everyone is free. People need to rest, and fields also need to rest. Fields that have experienced the autumn harvest will usually be left empty and no longer planted. They will be raised until the next spring. People will sow grass seeds or wheat seeds into the middle and lower fields, and they can be harvested in the next spring. .

Walking out of the study, Li Dalang patted his younger brother and told him not to worry. Li Erlang sighed and went out for a walk, while Li Dalang went back to his room to look for his wife and children.

Outside the yard is endless farmland. The land is not fertile. In the distance are rolling low slopes that have been cultivated into mulberry fields.

The Li family's house is some distance away from the village where they live. It takes more than a quarter of an hour to walk to the house closest to their home, and another half-quarter of an hour to get to the center of the village.

The reason why they build their houses in sparsely populated areas is to be closer to the farmland, so they don’t have to spend more time working in the fields every day.

"Xianglang! Where are you going!"

As he walked, Li Erlang heard someone calling him from behind. He turned around and saw that they were several cousins ​​from the same village who were related to each other. Looking in the direction, they seemed to be coming to the village as well. "Where are you going?"

"Going to the village, my father said that now that the autumn harvest is over, someone wants to kill the wild boars in the mountains to save the fields in the village."

Others chirped one sentence after another: "My field is at the foot of the mountain over there. Wild boars always run into my field, and they damage my family's crops."

"The clan uncle has already mentioned to Muramasa and Satsumasa that just now Muramasa asked Dad to go to the village to discuss catching wild boars. The uncles are going to form a team and find a day to go up the mountain to catch wild boars!"

Li Erlang was not interested in wild boars: "Oh. Officials will come to collect grain in a few days. Is your family ready?"

"Of course." When it came to harvesting grain, they were more curious about Li Erlang: "Xianglang, you just entered the account, and I don't know where the land was allocated. Now there is no idle land in Shangli Village. I'm afraid it will go to Xiali."

Li Erlang was also worried: "I just hope that we can concentrate more and give me two pieces of fertile land."

Every male who enters the account will be allocated one hundred acres of land by the government. In addition to a large part of these lands being wasteland, there is also a small part that has been cultivated by previous people. When those people get old or die, part or most of the land must be returned, and the state will redistribute the land to newcomers who have entered the account.

When they arrived at Muramasa's house, they found that the courtyard of Muramasa's house was full of people, all coming to watch the fun. Li Erlang and his father and mother were also there, watching Muramasa discuss pig hunting with several clan elders. thing.

In the crowd, those who wanted to take revenge on their farmland destroyed by wild boars volunteered to go up the mountain. Those who wanted to eat meat also came forward, and the scene suddenly became noisy.

"The price of meat has risen sharply recently. If we go up to the mountains to hunt a wild boar and come back, won't we have all the meat for the New Year?"

"I'll go too, my sons and daughters are all clamoring to eat meat!"

There are many people vying to go up the mountain, and no one seems to be afraid of wild boars. The reason why they are so confident is because they are all soldiers and are strong and healthy. They usually train or work a lot. When they gather together, they are still afraid of a group of beasts.

Dali law stipulates that all able-bodied men over twenty years old must join the army. When there is no war, the army is replaced every two years. Soldiers go to the camps under their jurisdiction for training. If not trained, they will work at home and farm. If there is no war, they must prepare their own weapons. At this time, they were about to meet the enemy. They immediately brought their rations, picked up their weapons and rushed to the gathering place. After forming the team, they immediately went to the battlefield to kill the enemy.

Now we just faced a few wild boars, and everyone was very excited. No one wanted to miss this hunting.

Dad Li was eager to give it a try. Just as he was about to raise his hand to sign up, Aniang Li scolded him softly: "After measuring the land, we will open up wasteland, and soon we will have to harvest fruits! Why are you going into the mountains at this time! Our family is not short of meat!"

Hearing what his wife said, Dad Li had no choice but to give up.

After a while, the village chief decided who would go up the mountain to hunt pigs, and then set the time to go up the mountain, two days after paying for the food. Finally, he told them to bring their weapons and gather in the village on time.