A village chief who does not want to be a village chief is not a good villager

The matter of Jianshun was decided in this way. There are still many vacant houses in the backyard of the store in the county seat. Even if Mrs. Jane and Zhang have two daughters to follow, she will not worry about having no place to live.

After the meal, Jian Ping left ten taels of silver for Jian Dazhu and Yang Shuxian, and agreed that someone would pick them up the day after tomorrow and go to the county town for fun, and by the way, he went to see where Jian Shun would work in the future.

Using the latter excuse, Jian Dazhu and Yang Shuxian finally agreed with Jian Ping's words.

Jian Ping turned around and informed Jian Meizhi, and as expected, on the third day Jian Meizhi hired a carriage to take Jian Dazhu, his wife and Jian Shun to the county seat.

Jian Shun put them directly in the store, while Jian Dazhu and his wife were accompanied by someone to take a good tour of the county.

When Jian Ping saw Jian Dazhu and his wife again in the next few days, seeing the unconcealable joy on the other's face, he knew that he did nothing wrong.

The matter of Jian's family has come to an end. After the watermelons in the field have matured in batches, the bamboo house in the bamboo forest has finally been built.

Five of them are separate small buildings, basically intended to be rented to those who are rich or famous.The remaining five buildings adopted the layout of the buildings of later generations, with five rooms on one floor and three floors in total.However, the bottom floor is a public space, a place for drinking tea and looking at the scenery, but there is no place for living.

The construction of the small building took 20 days, and during these 20 days, the people in Jian's Village were not usually busy.Busy to see the construction of the small building, busy with the work in his own field, and also busy going to Jian Dazhu's five-acre paddy field to see the condition of the fish fry.

At the end of September, Daxia Dynasty ushered in its hottest time of the year.Although it is ancient, it still has a lot in common with later generations during the hottest time period.

For example, although summer logically begins in June and ends in September.But the hottest time does start in September and end in November.

All the watermelons in the watermelon fields on both sides of the Jianping River were also sold out, earning a total of 4000 taels of silver.All of a sudden, Jian Ping, who became a small rich man again, bought a lot of melons, cut them into pieces, used them as seeds, soaked them in Lingquan, and planted them in the fields on both sides of the river again.

The melon in this time and space is actually the sweet potato in later generations.But even in later generations, there are still many places calling it melon.It’s not the kind of melon that also has a name called pear melon, but the kind of melon whose professional names are jicama and jicama.

When it grows up, it can have a melon the size of a football, which can be eaten as fruit after peeling.Sweet and delicious, suitable for all ages.

The only pity is that it cannot be used as a staple food, and the shelf life is not very long.

However, that was for ancient people.

In ancient times, people seldom planted jicama, and Jian Ping asked someone to go further north to buy these jicama.The main reason why people in ancient times didn't like to grow this kind of thing was because it couldn't be used as a staple food.The second reason is that only the fruit of this thing can be eaten, and the seeds, stems and leaves even contain highly poisonous things.

Under such circumstances, as long as there is one case of death or injury due to accidental ingestion, it is conceivable that no one grows this thing.

Jian Ping doesn't mind planting this, and naturally has his own reasons.First of all, this thing has medicinal value, and it might come in handy in the future.

Secondly, this stuff has a high sugar content, and it is the best material for squeezing sugar that Jian Ping can find at this stage.Although Jian An has learned how to squeeze sugar, he always buys some materials from the outside, which is not only small in quantity, but also troublesome. There is still a big gap between becoming a big workshop as Jian Ping imagined.

Of course there is the last reason, jicama can make a lot of delicious food, and Jian Ping really misses those delicious food.

Jian Ping got more than 4000 taels of silver from selling watermelons, and bought all the Jianjia Village and all the beach land across the river that he could take care of in one go.

The 400-acre river beach, almost all the people in Jianjia Village could see from the riverside belonged to Jian Ping.However, because it is a river beach, it was basically deserted land before, and the [-] mu of river beach land did not even cost [-] taels of silver.

Jian Ping planted all the [-] mu of river beach land with jicama in one go, waiting for a bumper harvest in three months.

For this reason, Jian Ping diluted all the hundreds of drops of Lingquan he had saved before and used them to soak the tubers cut out from these jicama to be used as seeds.

For the bumper harvest three months later, Jian Ping can be said to have spent a lot of money.

Time passed quickly, and when the fry in Jian Dazhu's rice field happily grew from the length of a finger to the width of a palm, Jian Ping finally welcomed the farmer sent by the county government.

The arrival of the farmer's son also indicates that most of the dry land crops in Jian's village are ready to be harvested.It was also at this time that the people in the village knew that Jian Ping had applied for the examination of a miscellaneous official.

Then, just when the farmer thought that the people in Jian's Village were going to be surprised by this, who knew that everyone in Jian's Village took it for granted and accepted it as a matter of course.

After all, from 66 to just being able to speak, everyone felt that there was no difficulty for Jian Ping to do this.

"The old man has not seen such a scene in so many years." The farmer stroked his beard with emotion, and looked at the whole Jian's village with emotion.

Jian Ping smiled, and stretched out his hand to guide the farmer to his house.The evaluation of this miscellaneous official is counted from the first harvest of the crops in Jian's Village to the completion of the summer harvest in the whole village.

Therefore, this period can be as long as ten days or as short as three or four days. The farmer and his party will live in Jian's Village.After all, if the inspectors didn't live in the village, who knows what the inspectors would do for their grades.

The farmer didn't come alone, he also brought four handymen and four yamen servants.The clerk who has no official position but belongs to the county government also brought four, which can be regarded as going all out.

After all, if this miscellaneous official succeeds in the assessment, he will be tied to their master's achievements in the future, so there is no room for peasants and others not to be serious.

"The summer harvest will start tomorrow in the village, and then we will have to trouble adults." Jian Ping cupped his hands at the farmer again.

And the farmer also quickly helped him up. "Sir, you don't dare to do this. This is a major event that benefits the country and the people. Naturally, we will not neglect it."

The farmer came here with the county magistrate, but he was in the name of the master.So for Jian Ping who has not yet had any official position, this farmer who is now regarded as an eighth grade master really deserves to be called 'adult'.

And even if Jian Ping passed the examination, he was only a ninth rank, and compared with the eighth rank, he was still a head lower than others.

This time, the farmer's group lived directly at Jian Ping's house.And those guest rooms that Jian Ping planned ahead of time are finally coming in handy now.

Fortunately, except for the farmer who needs a single room, the other four people can also live in one room.Jian Ping sighed again, fortunately, he had bad intentions at the beginning, and made the beds and the kang bigger.

Don't say that there are four people sleeping on the top, even if five or six people sleep sideways, they can still sleep.

When they arrived at Jian Ping's house, the farmer and others experienced the lush crops in Jian's village, and were shocked by the colorful courtyard of Jian Ping's house.

That is really dense, full of flowers in the garden.With Tian Wen's efforts, not to mention most of the ground has been taken, even most of the wall has now been taken.

The whole courtyard of Jane's family is like being in a sea of ​​flowers.And because Tian Wen planted a lot of mint and mosquito repellent at the foot of the courtyard wall, not even a single pest could be seen in the courtyard.

In a month's time, the flower shop in the left front yard of Jian's house has also been set up.A small shop with a length of five meters and a width of three meters contains many bamboo flower stands.

In a month, Tian Wen has transplanted many flowers from the yard into flower pots, and then put them in the shop.The whole shop was decorated in an extremely warm and beautiful way by Tian Wen.

Even a farmer who only cares about farming and mulberry on weekdays, after seeing Jian's courtyard and the small shop, he just wants to use the word 'beautiful' to praise this place non-stop.

I have to say that Jian Ping 'arranged' the temporary residence for Nong Fuzi and others, which made them very satisfied.

For the next five days, Farmer Zi and others were also busy in the fields of Jian's Village.Jian Ping gave the farmer a bamboo umbrella, which amazed the farmer and saved a lot of sun.

As for the others, because their hands were busy, I helped them get bamboo hats.Sour plum soup and even watermelon are enough on weekdays, so that a group of people who still have to run around in the scorching summer can finally feel much calmer.

Five days later, the farmer got a shocking answer.The crop harvest in Jianjia Village has more than tripled compared to the harvest recorded last year!

Jian Ping passed the assessment perfectly, and Nong Fuzi and others also witnessed the better life of the people in Jian's Village.

The tidy and beautiful farm village and the rich income made everyone in Jian's village have happy smiles on their faces.

The farmer said with emotion that he had not seen such a rich and happy place for many years, and then he returned to the county government office with the watermelon and spicy bamboo shoots sent by Jian Ping.

If you pass the assessment here, you still need to accept the final confirmation from the magistrate.When there is no problem with the county magistrate, he will send someone to pick Jian Ping up and accept his fate.

At that time, Jian Ping could be regarded as a real miscellaneous official.

On the second day after Nong Fuzi and others went back, the bamboo building built by Jian Ping finally welcomed its first guest!