A misty rain painting the hometown

The next day, I bought two more stoves from the township market, and set up a grass cowshed for the night watchmen to keep out the cold.In the afternoon, Wang Siyue from Wangcun, Wang Ziqiang, Li Ji from Licun, Li Wu, and Li Funian were hired as long-term workers to manage fields, fields, cattle, horses, pigs, and chickens together with Sangu.

October [-]th, the second anniversary of old Coulee.After the sacrifice, the sacrifices were divided into six parts, one for Sanlizheng each, three for Old Master Wang, Wang Qin, and eight orphans.

There are dense seedlings in the three acres of farmland, the leaves are green and the diameter is thick, and three or five branches are extended, and the diameter is one foot long.In autumn, Li Hong had already asked the villagers to transfer seven acres of large trees and cashew seedlings, and planted category signs on the ridges of the fields.

After Guji was free, he continued to draw on the detailed composition of Nanshan Guyuan Villa and the reconstruction plan of Huangyuan, and named it Changguyuan.

At the end of the year, two big fat pigs were killed and half of them, thirty big roosters, and five hundred tender eggs were given to the county government.Mrs. Wang, Lizheng, Jiang Qin's family divided the other half of the pig, ten big roosters and three hundred eggs each.In ancient times, eight people shared half a pig, five big roosters each, and 150 eggs for the New Year.The two pigs are put into the water, and the other half of the pork is washed and cooked with salt, cut up and baked hard, and sealed in an altar.

Wang Ziqiang recycles the slaughtered rooster feathers sent by the village, hangs them on the cowshed after drying them in the warehouse.

There are about 70 eggs a day, which have been kept for [-] days in a row, and I can’t finish them, so I send them to Gu, Li, and Wang’s family in the village, [-] eggs each for Gaoshou’s family over [-] years old, and children’s family under [-] years old. All entry and exit are accounted for, and the rest are all hatched chickens.

On New Year's Eve, there was a thick layer of snow.Early in the morning, Gu Ji went to the grass cowshed, milked two cows, boiled half a bucket of milk, added sugar, steamed two large pots of buns, and boiled more than 20 eggs.After calling Wang Qin, Li Hong ate the meal together with the ancient king Li Ba.

For lunch, Guji went back to the old Guli house to eat. Before that, he made lunch for eight people in the grass cowshed, and in the evening, he turned on the stove and made a soup pot.Li Hong paid eight people's wages, and Gu Ji took a 50 taels silver note to Li Hong, and made the full payment.

"You deserve what you deserve, and it will only increase in the future. Oh, I forgot, Aunt Li has twelve taels. I have troubled her for the past two years."

Seeing that the banknote was still on the table, Gu Ji said something, and drew another banknote to put on it. Li Hong froze, and immediately took the 60 taels of banknote and put it on, and the two went to their respective homes together.On the first day of junior high school, go to the grave.During the Lantern Festival, Gu Ji made glutinous rice balls stuffed with sesame seeds and ate them for eight people.

On the seventh day of the first lunar month, another [-] villagers were invited to reclaim the land for five days, a total of [-] mu, and applied grass ash and fertilizer for later use.

Gu Ji drew pictures of pruning shears, shovels, shovels, grafting knives and plow blades and went to the capital to find an iron workshop.I searched for Santiefang, and finally settled on Bailian Datiefang. The owner of the shop is 45 years old, copper-colored, with strong bare arms, and the inscription of Tiejing inscribed on the bulging meat.After looking at the five pictures, Tie Jingming was surprised.

"What are these for?"

"Plant trees. Can you do it? Each kind needs ten pieces, and a deposit of 20 taels can be paid in advance."

"Try it first, no need to pay a deposit for now. Pick it up in mid-February."

On February [-]th, after the courtyard examination was over, Gu Ji went straight to Bailian Blacksmithing Workshop.Tie Jingming sent someone to wait for him, and when he saw the person entered the shop, the shopkeeper immediately led him into the tea room.

"These tools are indeed very useful. This workshop does not charge you a deposit. Except for these ten sets of tools, Bailianfang bought these five pictures with a thousand taels of silver. From now on, only Bailianfang will sell them exclusively on the market."

Tie Jingming handed him a silver note of one thousand taels, took the book aside, and said something again.

"Brother, if there are new pictures sent to Bailianfang in the future, this workshop will never treat you badly."

Gu Ji glanced at the thousand taels silver note, picked it up casually, put it in his arms, and looked at the title of the book held by Tie Jingming.

"Do things tomorrow. Master Tiefang will make a lot of money if he has the heart."

"It's easy to say, I won't send my brother away, Tie Ming, pack ten sets of tools and give it to my brother."

After returning to Guzhong Village, Gu Ji called Wang Qin, and eight people from Gu Zhan went to the pomelo field to learn grafting in turn. For three consecutive days, more than ten trees were broken, and nine people barely got started.Gu Shuang, Mr. Wang and Wang Qin were all very happy when they learned that Gu Ji had been selected as a scholar at the beginning of March. white.At the end of the month, the nine people had mastered the grafting method.After drawing the pictures of the methods of grafting trees in spring and summer, he handed them over to Li Hong, and left another 300 taels of silver.

At the beginning of April, Gu Ji took the pigs to the water-sealed altar, drove a horse-drawn cart, collected beggars along the way, bought and changed laundry, and lived in a lower-class guest room in the county for cleaning.The car was full of eight people, and another carriage was rented. In Cangyue County, Gu Ji saw three beggars with a mouse face, a horse face, and a cake face, and put them in the cart together.

The journey was relatively slow. The three carriages took in a total of 24 beggars, all of which were sorted out. The food and drink in the carriages were not interrupted. In mid-June, half of the beggars were full of flesh, and they looked like human beings.

Went to the Falcon Market to buy sickles, axes, hatchets, wooden basins, and buckets, returned to Guzhong Village in the evening, sent two carriages away, and talked to Pei Fei, Mei Fang, Niu Jin, Wu Mugui, and Qin Hua The matter of their house laying a floor for 24 people.

That night, the long panel was also used as a dining table, and the 33 people ate to their fullest.Gu Ji only ate a big bowl of egg noodles with green vegetables in the carriage.They all went to the cowshed early in the morning. There were [-] big and small cows, a wild boar, and four badgers. They also plowed four acres of land at the mouth of the cesspit and planted various vegetables. The vegetables grew very well.

24 people first learned from Pei Fei and seven people worked for five days.Guji re-arranged. The 27 people took turns mowing the grass, feeding the cattle and horses, cleaning the cowshed, fertilizing, and cooking lunch.In their free time, all 29 people need to know how to read and write, learn to drive, and keep accounts.The four of Zhao Shu took turns buying and doing a good job of teaching.

Three days later, everything went smoothly, and I checked the account books. In addition to wages, food, and other expenses, there were 500 taels of silver left.It took only 200 taels of silver for two years, Gu Ji was very worried.

Gu Ji went to Laiming County, bought dry logs, hired fifty craftsmen, paid 120 taels in advance, rented five carriages, paid 20 taels of silver in advance, bought four new carriages, and still paid for the return. Guest Inn May, 400 taels of silver.Hired forty diggers and twenty porters, regardless of the food, the wages remained the same. Four rows of cowsheds were added to the four rows of cowsheds on the right side of the back slope, and eight rows of cowsheds were built on the left side and in front of each. Two vertical rows of workshops are built on the left side of the middle road, and two vertical rows of warehouses are built on the right side.Leave one gate and two alley gates.The carpenter made twenty tables, fifty buckets, basins, and four large tubs.

Gu Ji handed over all the big and small drawings to Gao Yu, the chief carpenter.Recalling one incident, Gu Jili went back to Caoying County, took eight banknotes, went directly to the capital, found ten money houses, exchanged nearly four hundred banknotes with a denomination of one hundred taels, and left the city from the dog hole in the south city wall in the evening. Yu Yinshi walked overnight to Guzhong Village, Jianan County, hid 4 taels of silver bills, cooked noodles and ate them, then moved to Xiangji, rented a carriage and went to Xiaoyue Inn in Beijing.

There were few people in the morning. When Jiji entered the guest room, there was no one in the lobby. When she came out again, she ordered a bowl of porridge, two steamed buns and eggs, and bought various autumn vegetables. Zhongcun, slept for a day and a night.

Early in the morning, I called Li Hong, talked in detail about the pick-up and drop-off, the restaurant, and invited thirty masons from the township to lay a wide stone road from the main road to the surrounding mountains on both sides according to the three contour lines, and dig stone pits according to the original stone pits. On the stone steps, a 1.2-meter small-mouth big belly stone cellar was opened on the other three walls. A thick wooden floor was built on the stone pit and a grass shed was built. All the sweet potatoes and self-dried vegetables purchased in August were also put into the cellar.The wages remain the same, no matter the food, the villagers are invited to continue to reclaim wasteland in their free time, plant vegetables, sweet potatoes, corn, soybeans, pumpkins, wax gourds, cucumbers, loofahs, fill them with ingredients in small quantities, and collect the seeds of various melons by category, old loofahs, gourds are all Dry it in the sun and put it in a cellar until one or two hundred acres of mountainside and foothills have been reclaimed.

Three days later, Gu Ji drew wooden plows, wooden rake frames, wooden shackles, upper and lower wooden beds, folding tables and stools, simplified accounting boards, topographic maps of terraced fields and 5000 taels of silver bills and handed them to Li Hong.

"In your free time, find Aunt Li to open a carpentry workshop. This is a 5000 tael silver note. I will take [-]% of it, and you will take [-]% to lead the disciples. The owner of the workshop is Aunt Li, and [-]% will take care of it. This is an iron plow blade."

Gu Ji took out the plow blade and pointed to the mouth of the plow in the picture.

"Well, we will implement this matter next year."

"It is necessary to build a large courtyard along the mountain wall. The wide road around the mountain should be moved outward as much as possible. The land on the mountain should take advantage of the situation to leave a ridge for step-shaped reclamation. The width of the ridge is only [-] centimeters."

Seeing people looking at the terraced field map with surprise on their faces, Gu Ji added another sentence.

"The height level needs to be measured. Let's talk about it. Maybe I'm here. But I'm going to the south in these two days. I will return in October and I will take off my clothes this year. When I leave, I will not say goodbye. The matter of the stone cellar is still very important, you must remember !"

On July 3th, Guji was traveling south all the way. He met a beggar on the road who was willing to get in the car to find a job without hesitation. He picked it up immediately. He only passed by the market and bought a big bag of food. After getting off the soapy mud, let him take a shower and hair, put on new clothes and get on the car, but the stream that used to be full of water became a shallow puddle, Gu Ji was a little puzzled.They picked up five more people along the way, and stayed in an inn in Lijin County, letting the inn take care of food and drink for two days.He went to the market to change his clothes, rented a car and went to Chenghe Wharf.In the evening, I went to the Daguiyuan from the Hualiuxiang alley, and entered the Meiyuan through the corridor.Put away the [-] taels of bank notes in the study, changed clothes and went out, Qingqiu was eating.

"Talk about New Year's Eve."

"It's all right on New Year's Eve. The young master Qiu Wei has been selected for the list. The young emperor will choose a male concubine in the first month of the next year. According to the Huguohou's intention, he will send a son. In September, the Huguohou wants to send Gu Ren to send the imperial physician to him." The young master is seeing a doctor."

"Good idea. It turns out I'm waiting here. Is it September? I'll go on a long trip tomorrow, and I'll be back before August [-]."

The next day, Gu Ji went to the inn in Lijin County, picked up five people, took the small road into Jiaoying County, and went straight to Xiniu Village in Laiming County on the Shangguan Road.

Arrived at Huangyuan on July 27, most of the fortifications were completed. Gu Ji handed in five beggars, 500 taels of silver bills, a copy of the labor required for procurement and construction, and Zhao Shu, handed over a blueprint to Gao Yu, and Gao Yu I felt a headache suddenly, but I had to grit my teeth to respond.The drawing originally intended to build a high stone foundation in the center and a wooden attic. The bottom is the accounting room, the guest room, and the toilet room. The middle is the ten principal rooms. The top is for viewing and leisure. Gate stone steps.

The next day, Gu Ji went to Laiming County with Zhao Shu to buy, while Gu Ji rented a carriage and went straight to Caoying County. On the night of August [-]th, Gu Ji returned to Meiyuan and slept until dawn.After thinking about it for a long time, he became more and more determined that he could not let his elder brother be a male concubine, he was the only legitimate son in the family.