Husband and wife are hot on the kang

"Sure enough, it's a drought, but it's just a bit late, isn't it?" Yu Liangji looked up at the autumn tiger outside, and the temperature was as hot as July.

And it is very dry. Fortunately, there is a river on their side, so there is no shortage of water.

Fortunately, there was this river, which kept it moist. Although it didn't rain, the crops had to mature.

On August [-]th, everyone had a lively time, because the locusts were defeated and the crops were saved. Many people's mooncakes were printed with locusts!

Ms. Huang also specially squeezed small locust-shaped mooncakes, only the size of a palm, which were warmly welcomed by the children in the village.

Yu Liangji also likes to eat it, because the moon cakes are filled with fresh fruit pulp, which is very fragrant and not greasy at all.

After August [-]th, the autumn harvest began.

Shopkeeper Gu came early, with a lot of big carriages, and the autumn harvest was very smooth, because they were all Chinese cabbage, just shovel them down with a shovel and load them into the carts.

Yu Liangji was guarding the ground himself, and Shi Hongda built him a small house, which could be moved, so as not to expose him to the sun.

Shopkeeper Gu brought a lot of people over, weighed them, loaded them into the carts, and then took them away, as well as the garlic, and collected them together. The cabbage was taken away here, and the money was settled there.

"Is this cabbage not bad?" Yu Liangji looked at the fresh and juicy Chinese cabbage loaded into the car, not to mention how happy he was, what a bumper harvest!

It is not easy to have a good harvest in the year of the locust plague!

"Pretty good!" Shopkeeper Gu smiled.

The cabbage in the Hou Mansion was the last to be collected. When paying the bill, Butler He frowned: "Is it too much money?"

Although their Houfu is a wealthy family, they can't bully anyone at will, it's not necessary!

"No, just the right price!" Shopkeeper Gu said: "The price of cabbage has increased, and the price of garlic has also increased. I have told the villagers."

Otherwise, the people in Shibalipu would be like them, unwilling to take advantage of others. These people had backbone when they had no money, and now they have even more backbone. He still told the old village chief!

"There was also a plague of locusts in Liaodong Mansion. It turned out that we were not as lucky as us. Let alone cabbage, they didn't even have food there, and the imperial court had to allocate funds for disaster relief. After we collected this batch of cabbage and garlic, we also wanted to buy it." They were transported there for disaster relief, as well as some chili peppers that I had preserved in the Liaodong Mansion. A lot of grain has been transported there." Gu shopkeeper told Yu Liangji: "I will go to Zhangjia Village to buy now."

"Oh, let's go!" Yu Liangji sent shopkeeper Gu away, and sighed to Shi Hongda: "It's really not easy!"

"He's making money!" Shi Hongda didn't comment on this, and returned to the Hou Mansion with his people.

Yu Liangji wrote a thesis on resisting locusts. He can't write a memorial, but he can write a thesis. From biological discussions to plants, birds are natural enemies of all kinds of insects. Beneficial birds must be protected, and there are planting spots from time to time. Garlic is used for disinfection and sterilization, and there is a large number of chickens, ducks and geese.

Don't underestimate poultry, they can kill many bugs just by walking on the mountain, as long as they don't peck vegetables, leaves and crops, they can feed them whatever they want!

Yu Liangji also had to design various conditions for raising poultry one-stop, including catching locust larvae and feeding them to chickens from a young age. When the chicks grow up, they will be able to remember the taste of locusts. Ten locusts, a hundred chickens can eat a thousand locusts, and there are at least three to five hundred chickens in a village...

Shi Hongda didn't read his thesis, so he just put it away and sent it out. After the Grand Palace in the capital received it, he opened it to see the thickness, and the emperor laughed!

"Your Majesty is in a good mood?" Eunuch Liu was happy when he saw His Majesty smiled.

Ever since the Eight Hundred Miles Memorial of the Locust Plague came up, the emperor hadn't really smiled happily for a long time.

"The memorial of Qingfenghou." The emperor shook the memorial in his hand: "I can see it at a glance."

"Marquis Qingfeng's memorial?" Eunuch Liu looked at the pile of memorials and asked, "Why didn't the slaves think there was anything special?"

"But you don't know? He wrote memorials, and he wrote a lot of them, and he spoke clearly and logically. It's enough words for a small book." The emperor smiled and shook his head: "This one is the same. .”

Every time we talk about serious things, there is such a thick memorial. Every year when we present congratulatory gifts, the memorial is written in a neat and orderly manner. It looks like the kind that someone has polished it up. out something.

His Majesty the Emperor opened it and began to look at it seriously. Eunuch Liu glanced at the cover. It was indeed the memorial of Qing Fenghou. Qingfenghou basically does not give memorials on weekdays. If Eunuch Liu had not been paying attention to him, it is estimated that the new servants would not know about it. Among them is the Marquis of Qingfeng!

Shibalipu is currently busy with the autumn harvest, and by the way, I will collect my own tax and food. Fortunately, the children in Shibalipu are striving for success. There are not too many scholars who pass the exam. There are many people who are tax-free at home. There is a family with two scholars, and all the land in the family is tax-free and has surplus, so it is given to people in the village who do not have tax-exempt quotas.

In this way, Shibalipu needs to pay a lot less tax.

However, they planted garlic and cabbage, which still needs to be bought.

At this time, a new order was suddenly issued from above, tax exemption!

Tax exemption for this year!

You don't have to pay taxes!

Keep it for yourself or sell it!

However, although Shibalipu does not have to pay taxes, they still need to buy some rations to come back, because their taxes and rations are not much!

"Why don't you go to shopkeeper Gu and tell him that our village needs to buy a lot of grain, rice flour, corn and sorghum, and he will definitely help!" Yu Liangji simply suggested to the old village head to go to shopkeeper Gu.

After all, they are in business, better than them.

Among the students taught by the tutor back then, several were big bosses who later established companies. Whenever the tutor had any problems, he would ask the students for help.

Those students who became bosses would agree every time, because they were often supported by their leaders in the enterprise.

The tutor is a person who protects his shortcomings and is also a dedicated scholar. Once his students have achieved something, they will say hello to him, and when he has something to do, he will help.

So don't look at their Agricultural University as working on crops, in fact they have achieved a lot.

"Is it okay? It won't be too much trouble, right?" The old village head felt a little troublesome.

"No, he can't wait for it!" Shi Hong said: "They buy good things from us every year and sell them to make money, so what are you afraid of if they bother you once?"

"Okay, but our village is a little too small. Let's add Zhangjiacun? I heard that their village also grows garlic and cabbage!" The old village head already knew that Zhangjiacun had changed the village head and patriarch.

Even Xiao Xinghuai's first uncle and second uncle were changed, and the previous grievances were wiped out, and they will get along well and support each other in the future.

The old man was very open-minded.

"That's good, it's cheaper if there are more people." Yu Liangji hurriedly asked someone to deliver a message to Zhangjiacun.

Sure enough, the two villages needed to buy food for the winter, so the old village head took Zhang Tiezhu, the new head of Zhangjia Village, to shopkeeper Gu, and ordered the food and briquettes needed by the two villages.

Then I came back, and then the old village chief and Zhang Tiezhu started counting what the villagers needed to buy, because they didn't grow too many things, and there was a serious shortage of all kinds of autumn vegetables here!

But everyone has a vegetable shed in winter, so you just need to buy some eggplant and beans and make them dry.

As for the pickles, everyone can only figure it out for themselves. If you don’t have any this year, you should make less. Isn’t there still next year!

At the end of August and the beginning of September, Yu Liangji took the children from the village to the county seat to take the entrance examination for children.

Among the 32 children who went this time, there were eight 13-year-old children, and one of them was Yu Xinghuai!

"Don't be nervous, my uncle is waiting for you outside." Yu Liangji adjusted the collar of the child: "Everyone, don't be nervous, the head of the mountain is outside."

"I know the head of the mountain!" There are only twelve children in the Kaowunke, eight of whom are 13 years old.

"Understood, uncle." Yu Xinghuai smiled: "It will come out soon!"

"Well, let's go!" Yu Liangji stood there, watching the children enter the examination room.

Shi Hongda had already come over from the other side, where Wu Tong had a test, and he just sent the child in the door and came over.

"Go to the teahouse over there and wait." He dragged the man towards the teahouse.

"En." Yu Liangji turned his head three times at every step, a little reluctant to part.

There are many people who move with him!

Even though it was just a small test for children, there were quite a few people, especially those in their teens.

Yu Liangji worriedly followed Shi Hongda into the teahouse. Shi Hongda had booked a box early on, and the people who followed them all went back to the house in the East District and waited.

What Shi Hongda ordered was black tea, and the waiter brought out a teapot and cups, and a pot of boiling water, which was kept burning on the charcoal stove next to it, ready to make tea at any time.

When the dried fruit came up, Shi Hongda laughed, and Yu Liangji turned around and laughed too!

It turned out that the dried fruit was licorice apricot, which was well preserved, and it looked like it was from Shibalipu!

In addition to licorice and apricots, there are dark plums, raisins, and dried sand fruits, two of which are local, and two of which are imported from other places. The desserts are Kaixiao and sesame cakes.

It goes well with black tea.

"Sit down and drink some tea and eat some snacks, and they will come out in a while." Tong Sheng's trial only lasts half a day, about four hours, and it is enough.

"Tell me, can Xiao Xinghuai pass the exam?" In the past two years, Yu Liangji has been paying attention to changing his words. He can't always call him Baobao, the child is already grown up.

After a year he will be 14 years old.

"The child is so smart, you taught him to grow up, don't you know? It must be fine!" Shi Hongda comforted him: "I have confidence in him, and he ranks among the best in every exam!"

"That's in the school." Yu Liangji was worried: "Some children study well on weekdays, and the exams are also good. If they can enter the real examination room, they will perform abnormally."

"That's someone else's child, not our family's Xinghuai!" Shi Hong couldn't laugh or cry, although Xiao Xinghuai could barely protect himself by force at most, but he was absolutely smart.

Mr. Huang has already accepted him as a closed disciple in private, and he likes him very much.

The child is also very popular in the village. Yu Liangji has brought him to the county town many times, and he has also been to Fucheng many times. The guards of the house speak highly of him. the young master.

Yu Liangji taught his children very well. He was neither timid nor domineering. He is very smart, loves to learn, and is active in sports. When he was young, his body was weak, but now he is a healthy boy.

Shi Hongda is at ease with the child, but Yu Liangji always treats the child as a baby.

"Yeah, your child is the best." Yu Liangji took a sip of hot tea, then stood by the window holding the teacup.

This teahouse is always full at this time of year, because the Gongyuan is the nearest to this teahouse, and from here you can see the door ridge on the gate of the Gongyuan. heart.

Four hours is hard for Liangji, it’s like a year, drinking tea all the time caused him to run to drain the water frequently after two hours, Shi Hongda lay on the table and laughed: “What you know is the child’s exam, but those who don’t know think it’s your exam? Did you say that you were also nervous and anxious to urinate when you took the exam?"

Yu Liangji rolled his eyes angrily, during his exam?How did he know if the original host was in a hurry to urinate during the exam?