I am old in the Han Dynasty

It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.

Li Zheng breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately said: "It's getting late, everyone should go back." The reason was that Xie Lang would say something surprising again.

Xie Lang accepted it as soon as he saw it, "We'll go back too. Xiaoqi is sleepy." He said and glanced at Li Zheng.

Li Zheng raised his hand and hurried away.

Xie Lang carried Xiao Qi, who had piercing eyes and didn't feel sleepy at all, back to the room.

Using a wooden stick to close the door, Xie Lang put Xiao Qi down, took the hot quilt roasted by the fire into the room, and came out with two slender sweet potatoes in his hand.

Before Xiao Qi could see clearly, Xie Lang threw the sweet potato into the charcoal fire.Then he turned to the kitchen and came out again, with an extra bowl in his hand, and handed it to Xiaoqi, "Peel off the shell and eat."

The child foolishly took it and stared at something in the bowl that he had never seen before.

Xie Lang didn't talk nonsense, he pinched one and threw the peeled shell into the fire, and put the kernel into the child's mouth.

The child tentatively opened his mouth, Xie Lang stuffed it in, "Is it delicious?"

"Delicious..." The child looked at the contents of the bowl again, then looked up at Xie Lang, waiting for Xie Lang's explanation.

Xie Lang wanted to laugh inexplicably, "This is called sunflower seeds. It is a kind of fruit on the flower. It is found on the eastern mountain." Speaking of the eastern mountain, Xie Lang remembered that the Han Dynasty was rich in products, tigers roamed everywhere, and monkeys were as numerous as dogs." Let’s go to the mountains some other day to see if there are any more.” Seeing him put the bowl on the ground, he took a sunflower seed and peeled it by himself, “If you can’t peel it, bite it with your teeth, don’t eat the outer shell, it hurts your stomach.”

The child had never eaten sunflower seeds, so he believed Xie Lang's nonsense.

Xie Lang saw that the child was eating seriously, so he hid in the kitchen and put a can of mountain spring water from the map of mountains and rivers, then found an iron rod to pick up the hemp rope on the top of the clay pot, and put it on the fire to cook.

Xiao Qi looked at him with wide eyes, his eyes were full of strangeness.

"Don't drink cold water in the future, if you drink too much cold water, you will have diarrhea."

The pot is not big, and it takes only one cup of tea to cook it.

Xie Lang poured water into the bowl, pulled out the sweet potatoes, let them dry for a while to dissipate heat, then peeled off the skin and handed it to Xiao Qi, "Eat it."

Xiaoqi didn't answer.

Xie Lang smiled and said, "I don't know how to eat it? Take a bite like me." After taking a bite, he asked Xiao Qi, "Do you want more?"

The child was young and didn't pay too much attention, so he took a big bite like Xie Lang, and couldn't help frowning.

"It's hot?" Xie Lang chuckled, "Eat it slowly." Then he peeled his sweet potato, "Is it delicious? If you can't finish it, throw the rest in the fire to destroy the body, and no one else will know."

Xiao Qi didn't know what it meant to destroy the corpse and wipe out the traces, but he knew why he did it. If people knew he would have nothing to eat.

But this also puzzled Xiao Qi, isn't he the only one in San Ye's family?

Xie Lang said: "What do you want to say?"

"Is there anyone else?" Xiao Qi asked in a very small voice, because she was afraid of being heard.

Xie Lang: "No. But people will ask. If I don't tell, people will say I'm stingy. If I tell, they will go to the mountains to look for sunflower seeds. If they look for this, we won't have anything to eat."

The child understands.But he couldn't finish eating and was reluctant to throw it away, so he ate more and more slowly, to buy his stomach some time to digest the food inside.

Xie Lang noticed that he was licking the sweet potato with his lips, so he threw the remaining bit into the fire, then turned to Xiao Qi, don't you want to throw it?

The child raised his hand and threw the sweet potato in.

Xie Lang saw that he couldn't wait to laugh, but the child was not familiar with him yet, so he didn't have the nerve to laugh at him.

Get up and go to the kitchen to get a basin of hot spring water, wash up with Xiaoqi and the others, then go back to sleep in the dark.

The next day, when it was daylight, Xie Lang got up and saw the child in the corner, wondering where the child came from.

After a while, when he came to his senses, Xie Lang slapped himself on the head, it was really broken by the gangsters in Shanhuangli.Isn't that child the grandson he adopted yesterday?

Xie Lang put the quilt on his body on the child's quilt, went out to wash his face, brushed his long hair casually, tied it up and cleaned the yard.

Then from the map of Jiangshan, some wheat straw with wheat grains was collected and put into the stone trough where the cattle ate, and some bean straw was thrown into the sheep pen, and then they went back to the main room to dig a scoop of wheat grains and sprinkled them in a corner of the courtyard.

When the grains of wheat fall to the ground, the chickens and ducks scramble to grab the food.

The courtyard became quiet, Xie Lang went to the kitchen to steam four sweet potatoes and two bowls of egg custard, and then went to ask Xiao Qi to get up for dinner.

Seeing the egg custard again, Xiao Qi couldn't help looking up at Xie Lang, the eggs were about to be eaten.

"There's no food at home, so we can only eat this." The Han Dynasty didn't have an iron pot and couldn't cook vegetables. Xie Lang wanted to make stew like Malatang, but he didn't do it because he was worried that half of the clay pot would crack.

Before going to bed last night, Xie Lang had made plans to water the eight mu of land behind the house and plant spring wheat, and he would make an iron pot.

Xie Lang handed Xiao Qi a spoon, "When someone asks you what you had for breakfast, you just say an egg and a piece of bread. If they ask you if you have any dishes, you say you cook them at noon."

Xiao Qi nodded her head, took a spoonful of egg custard, couldn't help squinting her eyes, then opened her eyes and looked at Xie Lang, it was more delicious than yesterday's.

Xie Lang studied psychology and saw that he was very satisfied, so he smiled, "Yesterday's one didn't put onions or oil. Today I put a little oil and onions." Peel off the sweet potato skin and hand it to him.

Xiao Qi held a spoon in one hand and a sweet potato in the other. He took a bite of the sweet potato and an egg. He hiccupped after eating, so he reluctantly put down the remaining half of the sweet potato.

Xie Lang was worried that it would get cold later, so he picked it up to eat again, raised his hand and threw it outside.

The duck came quickly, opened its long and flat beak and took it away.

The child got up and wanted to chase after him.

"There's more." Xie Lang grabbed him, "I'll do it at noon."

Xiao Qi stopped, sat back on the wooden pier and quietly waited for Xie Lang to eat, and went to Lizheng's house with him.

One big and one small arrived at Lizheng's house, and the courtyard of his house was already full of people.Seeing Xie Lang, they couldn't help standing up, including Li Zheng.

Xie Lang said with a smile, "Everyone sit down, there is no need to be polite."

"Who will salute you."

After the words fell, Xie Lang received a slap on the head.

Xie Lang endured and endured, so he didn't swing his fist, "Uncle, my head is still not healed." He gritted his teeth.

Xie Jianye hurriedly asked, "Does it hurt?"

"What do you think?" Xie Lang turned around angrily.

Xie Jianye was so embarrassed.

Xie Lang continued, "That's my uncle. If it were someone else, I would have beaten him all over the place." Before Xie Jianye could speak, he asked, "Did you tell them that I thought of a way to water the ground?"

Xie Jianye was even more embarrassed, "Yeah, I didn't say it, they kept asking."

"That's right, I was the one who asked." Seeing that Xie Lang frowned just now, Lizheng knew that Xie Jianye had hurt him, so he quickly smoothed things over, "Sanlang, tell me."

Xie Sanlang still had to go to Wen's house to buy blue bricks, but he didn't give a damn, "Dig a well."

"Is this what you said?"

I don't know who said a word, and everyone showed disappointment.

Xie Lang was not in a hurry, and said with a smile: "I haven't finished yet. I'm talking about Tao Jing."

"To tell you the truth, Saburo, we have thought about digging a well for a long time." Lizheng was also disappointed, "But pottery wells are too expensive. It's okay to find a place with water once, but if we can't find a water hole, it will take three days." It’s hard to drill a well.”

Xie Lang: "If you believe me, go choose a place to dig a well today and buy pottery rings, and we will start drilling the well tomorrow morning."

"You hit?"

Xie Lang followed the sound and saw that it was his elder brother Xie Dalang, who was Xie Jianye's eldest son, "I won't fight, let you do it, will you?"

Xie Dalang's expression remained firm, and he frowned and said, "What did you eat this morning? You speak so harshly."

It's not that Xie Lang's tone is bad, it's because as a family, even if Xie Dalang doesn't believe him, he shouldn't be the first to run on him, "You don't care what I eat." Turning to Li Zheng, "I said I have a way not to dig , you can also detect whether there is water in the ground, do you believe it or not?"

"How sure are you?" Li Zheng asked.

Xie Jianye said, "It's useless for a few percent of him."

"Uncle!"

This father and son were really born to overcome him.

Xie Jianye: "Your little one doesn't understand. The first two feet are easy to dig, but the bottom is difficult."

"How did you dig that pottery well in our village?" Xie Lang asked back.

Everyone subconsciously recalled that the man who drilled the well tied two ropes around his body, and then lowered the ladder made of hemp rope.The reason why I didn't pull it first was because I was worried about hurting the people in the well.

Thinking of this, everyone looked at Li Zheng, they can also use this method.

Li Zheng looked at Xie Lang's thin body and shook his head.

People were puzzled.

Li Zheng said: "Sanlang is too thin. I dug for a long time, and I was worried that he would not have the strength to climb up. Besides, instead of drilling one or two wells, at least six wells must be drilled."

"That's how it is." Jingli Zhengyi said, Xie Lang remembered that he was seventeen now, a young man, not thirty-seven, and could stun a tiger with one punch, "When you dig two to three feet deep, go deeper Let me dig, is this feasible?"

Of course not!

Even if he only digs the bottom ten feet, and the six wells are dug, his life will be gone.

Li Zheng turned to his youngest son, "Three feet deep, can you climb up?"

"It should be about the same." Lizheng's youngest son gave his father a good look, "I couldn't climb up, but you guys pulled me up and I came up."

Only then did Li Zheng turn to the other young men in the village, "Whoever goes down the well will dig first."

As soon as this remark came out, no one hesitated, and then let Li Zhengzheng do his job.

Saburo took the opportunity to say that he had something to go out for, and it would take an hour to come back.

Sanlang was not needed for weaving hemp rope or buying pottery rings, so Lizheng let him go about his own business.

Saburo waved at his uncle.

Xie Jianye didn't want to pay attention to him, so he pretended not to see him.

San Lang immediately covered the back of his head and moaned, "My head hurts so much."

Xie Jianye's face changed suddenly, he pushed him, and said angrily, "What's the matter?"

"Xiao Qi, come here." San Lang waved to the child who was standing quietly beside him, and walked out.

Going outside, Sanlang drew a picture on the ground, "Go back and make something like this. The top should be as sharp as a hoe. Then make a few iron rods this long, and then connect them. I don't have any iron in my kitchen. You first Use it, and pay me back when you earn money to buy it later.”

Xie Jianye understood what Xie Lang drew, and it looked like a shovel.But he didn't understand how to use it and how to make money.

"I won't tell you when it's done, you know how to use it." Xie Lang looked around and saw that everyone was in the yard, including his cousins, sisters-in-law and aunt, so he continued, "This will definitely reach the ground. Is there any water?"

Xie Jianye still didn't understand, he opened his mouth to ask something.

Xie Lang was the first to say, "If you don't do it, I'll do it myself later." It wasn't that he didn't want to explain, it was that he couldn't explain it, because what he drew was a Luoyang shovel, so he deliberately said, "The money you make at that time has nothing to do with you. "

"I haven't seen your money." Xie Jianye said angrily.

Xie Lang looked at him with a smile, "You haven't seen my money."

Xie Jianye choked immediately, wanting to slap him, if he didn't speak, he could choke to death.

"Uncle, is the cousin's dowry ready?"

According to the regulations of the Han Dynasty, if a girl is unmarried after the age of 15, she must pay taxes.Xie Jianye's little girl is a few months older than Xie Lang, she is seventeen this year, and has paid taxes for two years.

Although Xie Jianye loved money, he also loved his daughter, so he didn't dare to marry her off indiscriminately.At the end of last year, her marriage was finalized. Xie Jianye was worried that his daughter would be looked down upon by her in-laws and would be wronged by her in-laws, so he planned to save some money to buy her some decent dowry, so he set the wedding for this fall.

When Xie Lang said something else, Xie Jianye could still refute it. When he mentioned the dowry, Xie Jianye wanted to slap him again. When did this damn child learn to poke his heart.

Seeing his expression changing, Xie Lang was really amused, "I can't lie to you if I lie to anyone. You are always my uncle."

"Only relatives are easy to deceive, and they will not be defensive against you."