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Xie Lang's eyes lit up, "That's a good idea."

"I didn't joke with you." Liu Che said seriously.

Xie Lang smiled and said, "They don't understand. Ducks don't know how to look up."

"I don't understand that you catch them, why do they still know how to hide?" Liu Che pointed at the white body of the duck, "Don't you feel panicked?"

Xie Lang shook his head honestly, "If you don't tell me, I won't remember it."

"You, forget it. The ducks are so frightened by you that they won't lay eggs or nest, and you will stop." Liu Che said, turning to his guards, "Let's go."

Xie Lang led Xiao Qi to send him outside the small village, and took the chestnuts to Xie Jianye's house.Didn't take his words seriously at all.Gein ducks don't understand the sorrow of a rabbit and a fox.

Xie Chun'e and San Lang's cousin couldn't wait for him and were planning to go back.It was a relief to see him come.Without allowing Xie Lang to sit down, Xie Chun'e asked, "The eldest son of the Wang family has left?"

Xie Lang nodded, "Just left."

"Is there something wrong with his visit this time?" Yao Guizhi said, "I see that his complexion is not very good. The Second Young Master also didn't come, is there a conflict between the brothers?"

Xie Lang shook his head, "They're fine. It's about the court, I'm not ashamed to ask. I can't help if I ask, and I'll add to his troubles." After a pause, "He came to tell me something."

"What's the matter?" Yao Guizhi asked.

Xie Lang: "Grow more cotton."

"The imperial court wants cotton?" Xie Chun'e asked.

Xie Lang nodded, "Right now, there are few cotton growers, and you can sell as much as you grow. You can still sell it at a high price. After two years, when you grow more cotton, it will be difficult to make money from farming."

"No more sweet potatoes?" Xie Chun'e asked again.

Xie Lang thought about it, "You are not afraid of the wheat freezing to death, so plant some winter wheat. Harvest it in May next year, and it is just right to plant sweet potatoes. Even if the court doesn't want it, you can still pull it to the city and sell it to the nobles in the city. Or cut it into slices and dry it in the sun. Prepare for famine."

Yao Guizhi turned to Xie Jianye, "Why don't we plant two acres of winter wheat? Sanlang, are you Zhongdong wheat or spring wheat?"

"Can't plant it now?" Xie Lang's cousin suddenly said, "It's so cold, it won't grow even if it's planted."

The winter here is cold, but it gets cold suddenly in late November.Xie Lang always feels that it can still grow now, because the winter wheat he planted was planted in October, "So I'll let you try it. If you don't worry about wasting food, you can plant half an acre of land."

"We planted two acres. We will plant it tomorrow." Yao Guizhi said, "I remember one year when your wheat was planted and it didn't take long for it to frost. The wheat didn't die." Looking at Xie Jianye, seeing that he didn't make a sound, Yao Guizhi continued Said, "Wheat's life is hard."

Xie Chun'e: "I can't be the master. Go back and persuade my parents-in-law to plant half an acre."

"It's fine if your parents-in-law don't want to plant it." Xie Lang said with a smile, "My family has a lot of land, so next year I will plant eight acres of spring wheat, three acres of cotton and three acres of spring sweet potatoes."

Yao Guizhi hurriedly asked, "Don't you grow all cotton?"

"Xiaoqi and I are too busy with six acres of land." Xie Lang said, "You all grow cotton, but you don't have time to help me tidy it up."

This is true.Cotton is planted at the same time and blooms at about the same time.When the cotton is opened, it must be harvested.Otherwise, it will not be easy to sell if it is too large to be stained with broken leaves, or if it catches up with cloudy and rainy weather.

Xie Lang went on to say, "The money from selling sweet potatoes this year is enough for us to use for two or three years, and I'm not short of money for the three mu of cotton." He handed the chestnuts in his hand to several people, "It's still hot."

Yao Guizhi took it and found that there was no water on it, "How did you do it?"

"The small stones found by the river, washed and heated, put on them to bake." Xie Lang said.

Yao Guizhi: "No wonder you are so busy."

"Second brother gave too much, Xiao Qi and I don't know how to eat." Xie Lang stood up as he spoke, "Xiao Qi, should we play here or go home with me."

The child pointed to the next door, "I want to play over there."

"Go." Xie Lang turned to Yao Guizhi, "The stables haven't been cleaned yet, I have to go back and tidy up."

Xie Chun'e also stood up, "It's getting late, let's go back too."

Xie Sanlang's cousin nodded, and the two of them followed Xie Lang out of Xie Jianye's house and went back to their respective homes.

The next day, Liu Che asked the palace servants to fry chestnuts, and when Xie Jianye and Yao Guizhi were busy plowing the fields, Xie Lang led Xiaoqi up the mountain.

He and Xiaoqi pick up chestnuts, while Brother Hou, Huzi and Xiaolang go hunting.

Although those three don't understand human language, they also know how to do what they can.

Xie Lang picked up half a box of chestnuts and led Xiao Qi to wait at the foot of the mountain for a while. The golden monkey returned with a chicken in its left hand and a rabbit in its right.

Xie Lang stood up and said with a smile, "Not bad!" and led Xiao Qi to the village.

Entering the village from the east is the closest, Xie Lang didn't go around, and went directly to the east of the village.

The people in the village are no strangers now, they glanced at the three and asked Xie Lang, "I heard there will be a plague next year?"

"Who did you hear that from?" Xie Lang stopped, "I said it's possible, it's possible. It's even more impossible. How did you say it must be there? Did that woman Qian Xiaohua say it?"

The person who asked the question shook his head again and again, "I was wrong. It is possible. How can I prevent it?"

"I don't know. I'm not a god." Xie Lang said, "I can only clean the livestock pen frequently, kill the chickens and ducks, and minimize the loss."

"Eldest Prince Wang can't do anything?"

Xie Lang asked back, "Who has a solution for this kind of thing? The emperor?"

The emperor can't help it either.

Xie Lang: "Don't think that I know a lot, just pretend that I know everything. I don't know more, you just don't know. Also, the price of cotton next year will be about the same as this year. It may not be the case the year after."

"What do you mean?"

Xie Lang waved his hands, leading Xiao Qi to go west, "Think for yourself."

Xie Lang closed the door when he got home.As he expected, it didn't take long for someone to knock on the door.Xie Lang pretended not to hear, cleaned up the things caught by the three dogs and hung them under the vine, cooked a pot of egg soup, Xiao Qi and the three dogs drank it before going to sleep.

The person guarding the door of his house saw that his courtyard was quiet, realized that he was asleep, sighed helplessly, and went to find Xie Jianye.

Xie Lang didn't tell Xie Jianye about the plague, so Xie Jianye naturally didn't know what to ask.

When the villagers saw Xie Lang, they didn't even tell his uncle. Although they were unwilling, they could only accept this fact.However, some people do not believe in evil.

The next day, after Xie Lang took the animals out after dinner, Xie Jiankang, the former head of the village, came.

Xie Lang didn't speak, just looked at him with a smile.

Xie Jiankang felt very uncomfortable when he saw him, and asked anxiously, "You really can't do anything?"

"Yes." Xie Jianye was overjoyed.Xie Lang said, "Come here, Young Master Wang, I will ask him to take you to see His Majesty, and ask His Majesty to ask the sorcerers around him."

Xie Jiankang was so embarrassed, "The warlocks around His Majesty have a way. There will be no locusts in summer."

"You still know? Locusts can only rely on chickens and ducks. What can I do about the plague?" Xie Lang gave him a blank look, then turned back to the house with the dung basket in hand.

Seeing this, Xie Jiankang pondered at the door for a while, and when he got home, he asked his son to send the family's chickens and ducks to the big wine shop in the city, and sell as much as he could.However, Brother Xie Bowen, Xie Erlang and Xiaoqi's two uncles also did the same.

Small restaurants sell at most one or two a day.Big wine shops sell a lot, but these few chickens and ducks can't hold up.As a result, by New Year's Eve, only [-]% of the chickens and ducks in Xie Jiankang's house in Qianli had been sold.

Xie Lang observed carefully and found that there were only a handful of people who killed two chickens on New Year's Eve, and they didn't force them to eat more.

In mid-February, when the weather became warmer, Xie Lang took the ox and carried the plow down to try to plow the field.Finding that it was okay, Xie Lang plowed all fourteen mu of land in his family.

Worried about the cold spring, Xie Lang hadn't planted the plow, and it took another half a month before Xie Lang planted the wheat, sweet potatoes, and cotton.

Xie Jianye has a large family, Xie Dalang and Xie Erlang are busy with their land, Yao Guizhi and Xie Jianye help Xie Lang grow sweet potatoes and cotton.

When planting cotton, Yao Guizhi chatted with Xie Lang, "You said a few years ago that there might be a plague this year, but there hasn't been any now. The villagers should laugh at you."

"I said it was possible, but I didn't say it would definitely happen." Xie Lang said.

Yao Guizhi: "It must be in their mouths."

"Let them make jokes." Xie Lang said, "How many more do you have in your family?"

Yao Guizhi: "Your sister is married, and there are only me and your uncle at home. I can't finish eating the eggs, and I can't sell them for much money. I just keep four ducks and four chickens. I heard that your family only Are there ten left?"

Xie Lang nodded, "Separate the chickens, ducks and donkeys."

"Can it be transmitted to donkeys?" Yao Guizhi asked hurriedly.

Xie Lang: "Everyone can be infected. By the way, I went to the medical clinic in the city two days ago to ask, and they also said to drink more ginger soup, eat more things made of beans, and eat more lean meat. When the body is healthy, it is not easy to be infected."

Xie Lang said before that he should eat more things made of beans.Yao Guizhi didn't ask why, "Is it fish or mutton?"

"Fish." Xie Lang said.

The next day, Yao Guizhi killed another chicken and a duck, and called his two sons to eat with them.

People in the village are reluctant to eat like her, but Yao Guizhi's family's chickens and ducks are almost gone, so why not?The villagers couldn't help muttering, is there really a plague?

Regardless of whether it is true or not, every household killed two chickens that day.When the land was planted, two more were killed.

This year can be described as good weather.Before Xie Lang planted the crops, it rained.The crops were planted and it rained again.

Xie Lang didn't care about the heavy rain during the Qingming Festival. However, when the rain stopped, there were more coughing and sneezing people in the village.Xie Lang immediately asked Master to suspend the class, and wait for his notice when the class will start.

Not only did Xie Lang detain Xiao Qi and the three animals at home, he didn't even take the animals out.However, he didn't stay at home.Because he is the head of the village, he wanders around the village every day after dinner.

Xie Guang who was wandering around couldn't help asking, "Uncle Sanlang, what are you looking at?"

"I saw that someone's chickens and ducks were sick, and they were reluctant to throw them into their stomachs, so they were locked at home, so as not to come out and harm other people."

Xie Guang's expression changed drastically, "Plague?"

"Aren't your chickens and ducks sick?" Xie Lang asked back.

Xie Guang shook his head without thinking, "No."

"Sanlang, come in and take a look."

Qin Hong's voice came from the room.Xie Lang's complexion changed suddenly, and he strode in, "Are you sick?"

"Probably not, but it looks a bit like it." Qin Hong pointed to the slumped chicken in the corner, "Good day today, the other chicken is cooing, is it trying to get sick?"

Xie Lang made a prompt decision, "It's burnt. Catch the chickens and ducks and put them in cages, clean them up and sprinkle a layer of lime before putting them in." Worried that she would be reluctant, "So as not to infect the livestock."

Qin Hong's family had a donkey. Hearing this, he immediately asked Xie Guang to catch the chicken, Xie Bowen to find the cage, and she went to rummage for the lime.

When Xie Lang was busy with his family, he broke the chicken's head, and asked Xie Guang to carry the firewood, and they carried the chicken to the cemetery to burn.

On the way there, Xie Lang didn't forget to tell the villagers, "If you find someone's chickens, ducks and livestock are sick, come and tell me immediately. If you don't report it, I'll drive him out of the silkworm farm after the incident is over."