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

It was still the same old time, before dawn, the donkey cart leaving the village was full of people, trotting on the road.

The four adults on the cart were carrying two children. The children were holding huge bundles, swinging their legs happily, and stretched their heads to look at the small carriage that had just caught up with the donkey cart and was now not far away from them.

At first glance, the brown horse is well cared for. It is tall, muscular, and shiny. Its dark mane is braided into small braids, with delicate silver bells hanging from the ends. , making a slight "ding-ding" sound when walking.

The exquisite and compact carriage is made entirely of black and purple wood. The wheels make almost no sound when rolling, and bumping against stones will not cause the carriage to shake violently. Only the golden tassels hanging on the four corners sway slightly. The lattice windows on both sides of the carriage can slide left and right, but now the lattice windows are closed and covered with curtains.

Two female guards sat on the pedals in the front room, holding the reins to control the speed and direction of the horses. The carriage was surrounded by a circle of female guards, followed by two parallel rows of male guards.

The team is quite impressive.

The horse snorted dissatisfiedly and seemed to raise its legs to speed up, but was restrained by the female guard in charge of the reins. Then it could only snort and move forward slowly.

The donkey in front walked really slowly. The horse's legs were so long, but it could only follow the donkey cart with small steps!

So unwilling!

Because a carriage was closely chasing behind the carriage, a sense of oppression came over them. The people on the carriage also knew that the people in the carriage were of extraordinary status, so they did not dare to speak loudly for fear of annoying the nobleman.

The cart was not only full of people, but also a bag of rice. It was the ration prepared by Li's father for his youngest son. It contained a full hundred kilograms of rice. It was freshly milled rice that had just been harvested. It was used as food for Li Silang when he stayed at Ji Qingyue's house.

Before going out, Li Aniang kept giving instructions and secretly stuffed ten cents into Li Silang's face before going out.

The mother was worried when her son traveled thousands of miles away, and then she turned around and went back when she saw the person walking away.

Some people are worried and others are happy. Li Silang, who went to the county to study for the first time, has a different look. He is not sad but very excited. The melancholy of parting with his mother has long since flown to nowhere. He just looks at the distance. You can enjoy the mountain view for half a day.

When I go to the county, my parents will no longer be able to control me! !

The donkey-cart and the horse-drawn carriage seemed to be competing to see who was slower. Every step and step of the donkey made Ji Qingyue, who was sitting beside the cart, shake his eyelids up and down. He wanted to sleep but didn't dare to, for fear of being shaken when he closed his eyes. Fall off the carriage.

Li Erlang was carrying the painting and watching Ji Qingyue sometimes nodding and pecking at the rice, sometimes leaning back and waking up. He simply hugged Ji Qingyue's body as he was about to fall back again: "Yue Lang, you'd better sleep next to me."

Ji Qingyue leaned over in a daze.

At this time, the sun has not fully risen yet, and usually he is still in bed! Speaking of which, this is the first time that I have to get up early to go on my way. I have to get up at four in the morning before dawn to ride a donkey cart. Riding in this donkey cart is so hypnotic that I can't help but shake it. blur.

The dirt road is too small and can only accommodate a donkey cart or a carriage. Even if the donkey cart wants to, it is surrounded by farmland or ravines, and there is no place to avoid it.

Fortunately, the carriage behind did not rush, but deliberately followed behind slowly at a short distance. However, at this neither fast nor slow speed, it seemed that the guards guarding the carriage were moving at a slightly faster pace. Like taking a walk.

There were rumors that Li Yu was treated like a bully in the county, and some bad words were said about Li Aniang and the others. However, when Ji Qingyue brought Li Yu back, the rumors were self-defeating.

Ji Qingyue's kindness to Li Yu can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye. The clothes he wears and the food he eats are much better than if he stayed alone in a broken house.

Those who finally encountered Li Yu and Li Erlang working in the nearby fields quickly took the opportunity to come forward and say a few words, seemingly to defend Li Yu, but the next second they saw Ji Qingyue coming out of the fields. Standing up straight, the young master's face was flushed from the heat of working in the sun, and he was staring at the person who was just about to gossip.

Even the young master of the boss is helping Li Erlang and others work in the fields, what's wrong with a slave working with them!

Now the gossips suddenly fell silent.

Go, go, go, hurry up!

Ji Qingyue, who was in the field, looked at their hurried backs and took the water handed over by Li Erlang. He didn't understand: "Why did they leave just as they arrived?"

Li Erlang pursed his lips, saying that it would be better not to use this trivial matter to make Ji Qing more unhappy: "Who knows, maybe he is too busy."

On the donkey cart, the people traveling with him to the county looked at the carefree Li Silang and asked him if he really wanted to go to the county to study.

Dad Li nodded, touched his youngest son's head, and didn't say much.

The sun slowly rose, the warm sunshine shone on the body, and the dry and cool breeze blew gently. The people on the donkey cart gradually turned off their voices and fell asleep.

When the donkey cart slowly turned from the dirt road to the official road, there were more and more people along the road. There was a long queue of motorcades going in and out of the city, and the whole journey was very lively.

The autumn harvest had just ended, and the surrounding villagers came out to go to the market. For a while, the city gate was overcrowded day by day. Lu Lu did not line up according to the rules to wait for the inspection. The fact is that even if she had to line up honestly, the sharp-eyed officers and soldiers would have seen it from a distance. Her carriage was immediately sent to clear the aisle, allowing her to advance into the city.

When entering the city this time, Aunt Li paid more money for the driver in advance so that the driver could go faster. Now Ji Qingyue had about half an hour left when he arrived. After entering the city, Ji Qingyue went straight to his house.

As soon as I opened the door, as expected, a thin layer of sand had accumulated in the yard. The two rooms were not affected much because the doors and windows were closed tightly.

Before he could rest after entering the house, Father Li quickly took Ji Qingyue to buy gifts for the two children to become apprentices.

In short, Ji Qingyue bought exactly what Li Silang bought, and he bought what Li's father bought. It didn't take long for the two of them to come back with large and small bags of things.

When we got home again, the yard was already clean. Without Ji Qingyue's explanation, Li Erlang and Li Sanlang took two children to sweep away all the sand and soil in the yard. They also scrubbed every corner of the tables, chairs, benches, stoves and so on. .

But he still couldn't rest now. Ji Qingyue took out Li Yu's and his own household registration papers from the painting, and rushed to the academy to complete the registration before returning to the painting.

This time Li Erlang went with him, while Li Sanlang, after cleaning up the house, took the gifts prepared by Aunt Li and went back to the academy to find his wife to announce the good news.

Walking on the street, Ji Qingyue once again lamented that unlike July, there were especially many caravans at this time. When they walked through the streets of the Central Market, they felt like they were in a foreign country.

There were people speaking foreign languages ​​all around, many of them speaking Old English, which gave me a bit of a dream-like feeling of listening to English in modern times.

The geographical location of Shandan is very special. Compared with Ganzhou, which is three or four days away to the east, Hu merchants prefer to gather in Shandan to disperse their goods.

Dad Li explained: "Hu merchants entered the customs from the westernmost border and traveled for more than half a year to reach Shandan. The location of Shandan is really important. To the west is a narrow passage as long as a throat, and to the east is the prosperous Central Plains area. In other words , Yumenguan in Shazhou is the starting point of the throat, and this is the end of the throat. As long as the mountain is not broken, the peace of the royal court can be guaranteed. But as long as they enter the throat, it is not easy for Hu Shang to supply supplies. Shandan is almost their first A big supply depot.”

This is also a fork in the road, leading to various places in the Central Plains. A large number of caravans will pass through Ganzhou on their way to Chang'an.

Over time, Hu merchants entrenched themselves here and became a stubborn force here.

The northwest seems desolate, but it is the desert deep in the Throat. Don't think it is narrow just because it is called the Throat. In fact, it stretches out to countless fertile fields.

Ji Qingyue nodded repeatedly.

The excitement in the county was not only due to the gathering of businessmen. Every time he passed a place where people gathered, Ji Qingyue could hear the news about the upcoming arrival of the Uighur envoys. He heard that many people came all the way from the village every day to wait. "Welcome" these Huihe envoys.

The autumn harvest has come to an end, and there is a lot of free time.

The registration process for the two children was very smooth. After Shu Xiu registered as a disciple, they received two Bingchun Academy plaques with their names written on them. They would need to show this plaque every day in order to enter the academy.

The two children walked out of the academy happily and did not forget to thank the old man Sasao at the door.

You must know that this old man is the mountain chief of Bingchun Academy. He took Li Silang and Li Yu to teach and take exams. When they heard the professor calling the old man "mountain chief", the two children choked. Unexpectedly, the old man sweeping the floor at the door was the headmaster of the academy!

Today's apprenticeship ceremony is not a formal ceremony. It is enough to buy some wine, meat, tea and cakes and give it to the master of the academy. If you formally become a disciple of a certain gentleman, more etiquette is required, and the apprenticeship ceremony held is even grander and grander.

Ji Qingyue had all his time today, and he returned to painting almost as soon as he rushed home.

Playing with the heartbeat.

Dad Li didn't plan to stay in the county for a long time this time. Seeing that there was still time, he gave his youngest son a few words and then went to catch the donkey cart back to the village.

Ji Qingyue has completely handed over the spinning of cotton to Li A'nai and Li A'niang. Although Li A'weng had not finished the loom when he returned to the county, they made clear plans every day and did not need him at all. To intervene, just go back to the county to make preparations.

Spring plowing will start in April next year and the temperature will rise, which is a good time to plant cotton. Before then, we need to let people know the advantages of cotton and prepare enough seeds.

As Ji Qingyue finished harvesting the last crop of fields, he saw that thousands of kilograms of grain had been piled up in the granary. It was difficult for him to finish it all by himself.

He was the only labor force in the painting, and he couldn't grow more cotton. The crops withered faster after they matured, leaving no extra time.

After harvesting this batch of wheat and rice, Ji Qingyue did not continue to plant another batch, but gathered up the soil of the wheat field to form a ridge that was higher and wider than the ordinary vegetable patch. This height would not easily accumulate water. Next, plan the time to stagger the cotton on the hillside by half a month. This gap can be used as a controlled experiment.

Will there be any difference between the cotton planted in the painting and the cotton planted outside? People outside say that cotton is difficult to grow and it is easy to die. It is true. The more Ji Qing knows, the more he succeeds in growing cotton, it is not how good he is at farming. It is Huajing who has greatly raised the lower limit of growing cotton and created an environment free of pests and germs. During the planting period, It also seems to enhance various properties of the seeds.

Ji Qingyue came up with the idea of ​​enhancing attributes through observation. Aunt Li sowed the vegetable seeds he gave her. Although the vegetables that grew were not as high quality as the ones in the paintings, they were much better than those from other families. People who came to visit her all mentioned this. But they were all fooled by Li Aniang.

Whether the cotton seeds modified by the painting can bloom successfully in the real world remains to be tested. Now, for him, planting and picking cotton are not difficult. The most troublesome thing is getting the cotton seeds.

Removing cottonseeds is the most grueling job. There are several cottonseeds in a cotton flower, and the cottonseeds are stuck to the cotton wool. You have to buckle and pull to remove the cottonseeds.

Sometimes Ji Qingyue finished all the work in the fields and felt that there was no more work left and he did not want to get cotton seeds.

In addition to hiring help, there must be some tools that can improve the efficiency of removing cotton seeds.

In order to avoid removing seeds one by one, Ji Qingyue has been thinking for a long time about what kind of simple wooden tools he should use instead of removing seeds by hand.

Unlike the famous loom, at least to his knowledge, he had never heard of or seen such a manual machine. Since there was nothing to learn from, he could only rely on his own imagination.

There are five to eight hard seeds hidden in a cotton flower, as big as a woman's little fingernail.

Compared with many seeds of the same size, cotton seeds have a very outstanding characteristic. They are hard. If you do not hit them with tools, it is difficult to break the shell of cotton seeds with your hands or teeth.

Maybe you can take advantage of this trait.

Snow-white soft cotton fibers wrap around hard black cotton seeds. When removing the seeds, you need to remove the outer layer of cotton fibers and pick out the seeds inside.

Different from other methods of harvesting seeds, wheat and rice have to be pounded and beaten to make the seeds fall to the ground. When harvesting vegetable seeds, you can usually shake them or pull up the dry stems to get the seeds.

Ordinary slapping and crushing won't work. Can we change the direction of thinking? Instead of thinking about getting the seeds, we can pull out the cotton.

Thinking of this, Ji Qingyue felt like he was enlightened and clapped his hands hard.

Got it!

He immediately drew his inspiration into drawings and sketched out the general appearance, and the details could be adjusted slowly.

In fact, Ji Qingyue did not have nothing to draw from. He lived in modern times, received ever-changing things, and had the advantage of standing on the shoulders of historical giants.

The new machine draws on the principle of the noodle machine, using a small slit to pull the cotton fibers to the other side, leaving only the cotton seeds on this side.

With the experience of improving the loom, Ji Qingyue conceived the drawings of the seed extraction machine designed this time as a foot-operated seed extraction machine that can free his hands.

No matter how much you think, the most important thing is to practice.

It happened that Li Erlang was going to the carpenter's shop to collect his last share, so Ji Qingyue quickly asked him to help buy some wood, and he had to slowly figure out the details.

It was rare for the county magistrate to welcome a distinguished person to his home. After a servant came to report the matter, the magistrate did not bother to change his clothes and hurriedly took his wife out to greet him.

Lu Lu was dressed in a rare dress, and her bun was covered with hairpins. Even if she walked quickly, her steps would only sway slightly.

The phoenix hairpin on the head is particularly obvious on the black bun. The phoenix hairpin's spread tail wings are embedded with gems of different colors, shining brightly in the sun.

Lu Lu was followed by more than ten guards. The group of people were so aggressive that they forced the county magistrate and his wife who came out to greet them back to the main hall.

She is here to investigate.

The county magistrate also knew that he would not be able to escape. Without waiting for Lu Lu to ask questions, he dismissed the servants at home and knelt down in front of Lu Lu with his wife.

"Miss, have mercy! Miss, forgive me!!"