Husband and wife are hot on the kang

Yu Liangji's prescription for artificially cultivating white fungus won a generous reward, and then he wrote a letter to invite his son to be established. After the autumn harvest of the August Festival, there was no reply from the court.

He started to mutter: "What does this mean?"

Eunuch Liu asked to submit a letter to invite his son to be established, but now he has also submitted the memorial, why has there been no reply?

"During the Chinese New Year, I'll make another one!" Shi Hongda was not in a hurry, the establishment of a son is the inheritance of a family, with titles, clans, and property.

This is all a matter of prudence. The superior asked you to write a letter to ask for the establishment of a son, but they didn't say when they could give you a reply.

But you still have to go to the book!

After the autumn harvest, this year is another bumper harvest year!

And Shibalipu is a little bit more productive than other places, not too eye-catching, but it is more productive than others!

"Knowledge is power!" Yu Liangji looked cheerfully at the piles of granaries in his home.

The Hou Mansion has a surplus of food every year. At this time, the food is not very easy to preserve, and it is easy to get worms after more than two years. Therefore, the Hou Mansion cleans up the old grain every year, and some of them are sold to the winery to make wine, or to the Baba. home, feed the cows.

The remaining new grain is put into the granary, and it is enough to ensure that the granary has two years of grain reserves.

Just in time, Yu Xinghuai's letter from home also arrived.

It turned out that the child ran to the south and saw rice crops three times a year, saying that there are rice fields everywhere!

When he was at home, Yu Liangji and Shi Hongda also taught him farming, but they did less, but they must be able to.

This is the same as studying and practicing martial arts. Yu Liangji doesn't want to see his children's limbs not working hard and not distinguishing grains.

Every autumn, Yu Xinghuai will go to pick up autumn with his friends, picking ears of grain and wheat.

Moreover, Shi Hongda taught him how to cut millet and wheat by hand. When he arrived in the south, she went to cut rice with others!

As a result, I wrote a letter saying that I was too tired!

Because he didn't work for such a long time, when he returned to the resting place, he was so tired that he couldn't straighten up!

"How can this kid be so stupid? Can a novice with that kind of farm work not be tired!" Yu Liangji got angry halfway through the letter.

"He didn't do farm work for so long at home, because we two couldn't bear it. It's good to go out and do some farm work this time. Don't think that farming is so easy, and the hiring of people has to be done by the owner himself!" Shi Hongda will still follow him now. Even if Yu Liangji doesn't let him do more work, he will help.

But Yu Xinghuai is different. First of all, he is still young, only 15 years old. Yu Liangji doesn't want to use child labor, and this is his own nephew, so he doesn't have time to care. How can he watch him do farm work and suffer?Whenever he has done a little bit and become proficient, Yu Liangji will let him rest immediately!

To put it bluntly, I'm afraid it will melt in my mouth, and I'm afraid it will fall when I hold it in my hand!

Fortunately, Yu Liangji is still a little sensible, and he may be educated to become a talent. He has not missed any of his studies, martial arts and agriculture. He has learned what he should learn even if he is a little tired.

Besides, this child's study of literature and martial arts is the top priority. Farm work and so on, just want the child not to forget his roots, and not to grow into a person who does not work hard in limbs and does not distinguish grains from grains.

It's not that he is expected to cultivate the fields to support his family in the future!

After cutting the rice suddenly for a day, of course I am tired!

Yu Liangji wanted to write a letter to tell his nephew not to be stupid, to experience life as he experienced it, and not to tire himself out!

"What else did you say?" Shi Hongda asked him to read the letter quickly, and Yu Liangji has been muttering a bit endlessly lately.

Only then did Yu Liangji continue to look down.

The rice cutting was because he was tired, so he wrote it first, because he was too tired, his arm could not use his strength, and his writing was a little fluttering, mainly because he was afraid that my uncle and uncle Shi would dislike his writing, so I wrote it first to explain , and then I wrote that they crossed the sea to Dongying Mansion in April, where the cherry blossoms bloomed all over the mountains and plains, which was very beautiful, but unfortunately, they followed it from south to north, and only saw it for seven days.

"So short?" Shi Hongda was taken aback.

"The lifespan of cherry blossoms is only seven days. If you want to see the most beautiful falling flowers, you have to walk from south to north. They bloom and wither. They are very beautiful." Yu Liangji went there with his mentor in his previous life, but not to see them. Cherry Blossom, they want to see your research on matsutake. The thing is too delicate, and many people want to understand the artificial cultivation of matsutake. As a result, no one has studied it until he traveled through time.

But there is the most advanced place for matsutake research, they went to take a look, but after seeing them, they felt completely useless.

Because they are too precious matsutake, the place where they are planted is like a sterile room, with white flowers, and the planting has not been successful yet!

"What kind of broken flower is this?" It's only been seven days, and it's still beautiful?Shi Hongda was puzzled.

"The aborigines everywhere like them, and they would commit suicide by caesarean section!" Yu Liangji smeared the aborigines there very much.

Shi Hongda frowned when he heard this: "Are you stupid? Or are you short-sighted?"

"It's all there!" Yu Liangji sneered: "It's not safe there, and there are volcanic eruptions or tsunamis and earthquakes every now and then, but it is rich in silver."

Isn't that right, the time-traveling senior is definitely an angry youth. When Dongpu was merged into the territory, he went on a killing spree, and the killed Dongpu people were almost extinct.

The remaining ones that are not extinct are also used to mine mines, and they are only encouraged to give birth to daughters to marry in exchange for food. The sons can only be raised by themselves, and they still have to go to the mines when they are old. In just a hundred years, Dongying people have become like giant pandas exists!

And most of them are women!

"Even if it is rich in gold, that place is not safe for people!" Shi Hongda only likes a stable environment, that is to say, what he likes most is land, not sea.

After watching the cherry blossoms, I went back to the state capital in the south by the sea, and ate all kinds of fruits that are abundant there. Yu Xinghuai has never been out, and I have never seen coconuts. I have only heard of them and eaten canned coconut meat. , It's just that the canned food doesn't taste fresh.

I also ate mangoes. In fact, there are dried mangoes sold in recent years, but they are not fresh mangoes after all.

Especially some fruits that he has never seen before, such as durian, lotus mist, sapodilla, grapefruit, golden heart fruit, pineapple, lucuma, avocado, rambutan, custard apple, passion fruit, lemon, papaya , green orange, longan, pomegranate... .

He wrote everything he had eaten on it, and it was a pity that he could not bring fresh ones back, but he had already ordered canned food with them, and he would mail it back when he got it.

However, the postal route is not as fast as the letter, so it still needs to wait for two days.

"This little fool, the canned food tastes almost the same, it's so sweet, what can you do with it?" Shi Hongda felt sorry for hearing that, to be honest, he had never eaten those fruits before!

Yu Xinghuai stopped and walked, followed the big guys to see the scenery of the island, went to see the cherry blossoms, and picked up a crop of rice in autumn, and saw what the three-crop rice in a year looks like.

Luo Li talked a lot, and finally greeted the two of them with concern, and then wrote that he was going to Jiangnan Water Town, where he planned to spend the Spring Festival, which is said to be very interesting!

"Where is Jintong Temple?" Yu Liangji had never heard of it.

"It's the hometown of one of my comrades-in-arms. He is now the deputy general of the garrison in Shanhaifu in their hometown. He has the identity of Jinyiwei like me. The Jintong Temple is the most famous temple in their hometown. It is dedicated to Nezha, the great god of the Santanhaihui, is said to be the place where Nezha received incense." Shi Hongda still remembered that his colleague said that before he came out, his parents sent him to that temple and forced him to be imprisoned. For three days, let him have a taste of Nezha's celestial light.

In the end, everyone went to the battlefield together, and that guy was really lucky, and passed by Bingshi several times.

"Xinghuai wants to celebrate the New Year over there." Yu Liangji's tone was aggrieved.

"That's the south. The Chinese New Year may not be the same as ours, but it should be very interesting." Shi Hongda could only find words to comfort him.

Yu Liangji sniffed, still feeling aggrieved, why didn't he come back for the New Year?

After receiving Yu Xinghuai's family letter, Yu Liangji felt that his nephew was too tired. When he got up the next morning, Shi Hongda was afraid that he might have some thoughts or some small emotions. Full-bodied, I went to the No. [-] experimental greenhouse and picked a lot of white fungus again. After drying, I planted another crop of white fungus.

On August 25, Yu Liangji took a group of scholars to Fucheng to test for Juren.

All 83 scholars passed the exam!

Shibalipu once again held a running water feast, and after the running water feast, it was autumn hunting.

This year, Yu Xinghuai did not follow the autumn hunting, and Yu Liangji was not ashamed to carry a bow and arrow to make up the numbers. He followed Mr. Huang up the mountain, and when others hunted, they picked fungus. Although there are a lot of wild black fungus, they have already been picked up by women. Once, and they entered the deep mountains, they can pick up some more and go back.

In this hunt, Shi Hongda killed twenty foxes to make Yu Liangji happy, and made him a big fur coat, as well as many rabbits, and made a kang mattress with rabbit skins, which was very soft.

After the autumn hunting, it’s time to prepare for winter storage. Butler He and Chef Huang are so busy that their feet don’t touch the ground. Yu Liangji also points out things. He wants to pickle salty mushrooms. , I want to pickle some Sichuan pickles, Korean pickles, and Northeast pickles, which are good for rice and porridge in winter!

When it was frozen in October, everything was ready, and Shibalipu started to burn the greenhouse.

The flat peach and plum trees that Yu Liangji gave to the big guys finally produced fruit this year, and kumquats were planted in a large area, and some were also distributed. Yu Liangji simply sent them to Mr. Zhang's house in Zhangjia Village.

Kumquats grow fast, and they can grow and bear fruit in two years. They also have good meanings. They are used a lot during festivals, but they are not suitable for the taste of northerners. They only want auspiciousness.

After giving it to the Zhang family, Yu Liangji asked the big guys to take good care of the kumquats. This year, they didn't pick the fruit and sell them. They just sold the whole plant and recycled them after they were sold out!

The weather turned cold, and as soon as November arrived, two news came from the Zhang family:

Zhang Xingye's daughter-in-law of the Zhang family gave birth to a son, and Yu Liangji was asking the housekeeper to prepare a gift for him, when another news came: Zhang Xingwei's family had a daughter!

"I got pregnant as soon as I entered the door, and I gave birth as soon as I got pregnant. It's so fast!" Yu Liangji was very envious when he received the letter. He also watched the Zhang family grow up. After ten years, everyone got married and had children. !

"When Xinghuai comes back, we will marry him and have a son!" Shi Hongda thought that Yu Xinghuai would be seventeen or eighteen years old when he came back, so he was engaged.

"Ah?" Yu Liangji shook his head. He was seventeen or eighteen years old and was about to get married. Isn't it too early?

"Think about it, at least three years after Xinghuai came back, he will be eighteen years old, and he will definitely try. With the fame of Jinshi, he has become a tribute student, and the minimum is to study a subject in the Imperial Academy!" Shi Hongda He thought of a way to divert Yu Liangji's attention: "At that time, even if we don't get married, we have to get engaged!"

Find a niece and daughter-in-law for your nephew!

Seems interesting?

So Yu Liangji was happy: "You are right! You are right!"

Shi Hongda coaxed Yu Liangji well, and went out to Shibalipu the next day, contacted those parents who were out on a study tour, and went to the county town together, bringing a lot of things, since he knew Yu Xinghuai was celebrating the New Year there , nor do nothing.

Everyone has children over there, so they just sent things over there together. They don’t have thick clothes, because it’s very hot over there, so they can wear a sweater at most, and they can’t even wear a cotton coat!

But a lot of hometown specialties were mailed, and Steward He immediately packed three jars of pickled vegetables, one jar of spicy cabbage, one jar of sweet and sour garlic, and one jar of old sauerkraut.

On the other hand, Yu Liangji excitedly called Shan Matchmaker to discuss with her what kind of wife Yu Xinghuai should marry!

"My God!" Shan Matchmaker swiped her handkerchief, her eyes brightened, "Do you need to worry about it? Let the wind out, you can choose whatever you want!"

Yu Liangji also nodded his head as soon as his brain got hot. He didn't say anything, and the single matchmaker ran away in high spirits. At that speed, Yu Liangji thought he saw the Eastern God Deer !

Butler He went out with Master Shi, why do Mammy Cao and Uncle Xin think this is so unreliable?

As a result, Shi Hongda and the others didn't come back that night. When they came back the next day, they found that their guests hadn't stopped!

And the guests are all matchmakers dressed in eyebrow painting!

Yu Liangji was a little interested at first, but what the matchmakers said was either the daughter of the Li family village or the daughter of the Zheng family village, both from the village!

Besides, everyone didn't bring a portrait, not to mention, from time to time they asked whether it was for him or Shi Hongda?

I was not happy at that time!

Drive the matchmakers away!

After Shi Hongda knew about this, he laughed for a long time!

On the morning of the third day, okay, the matchmakers are just like crazy bees and butterflies, because they know, this time it's for Yu Xinghuai!

Who is Yu Xinghuai?

That is the future heir of the Hou Mansion!

Yu Liangji has turned his back on it a long time ago!

Knowing that he had done something stupid, he hid himself and asked Steward He to clean up the mess for him, but Steward He had no choice but to send the matchmakers one by one: "Even if our Marquis wants to do that, we have to wait for the young master to come back." !"

There was a lot of noise throughout the winter months, not to mention those who were getting married, the matchmakers provided the Hou Mansion with detailed information on all kinds of daughters, from the richest man in Fucheng to the daughters of the farthest Majia Village!

After the last wave of matchmakers were sent away, Steward He's voice became hoarse!

Mammy Cao hurriedly went to Liu village doctor to take some fat sea, mint leaves, honeysuckle and other things to soak in water for him to drink, and asked the kitchen to make some heat-clearing and moistening lung food for him to eat.

Uncle Xin changed eight thresholds of the Hou Mansion, all of which were trampled by the matchmakers...

"I don't know where they get so energetic in the winter!" Yu Liangji saw that his family had changed eight thresholds, and never mentioned the matter of seeing his wife for Yu Xinghuaixiang.

Shi Hongda fell on the kang and laughed for a long time!

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, the Hou Mansion killed fifteen big fat pigs!

Compared with the addition of three heads last year, there are two more families in Shibalipu!

When it was time to eat the pig-killing meal, everyone gathered together, and even the Yuwen county magistrate came, wanting to see the No. [-] experimental greenhouse.

Shi Hongda led him there, and Yuwen County Magistrate was accompanied by four or five people. Yuwen County Magistrate didn't introduce him, and Yu Liangji didn't ask, so Shi Hongda didn't ask any questions!

And Yu Liangji received everyone, in fact, it was the old village chief who talked and chatted together.

Yu Liangji once suggested that everyone should buy and sell whole kumquats this year and recycle them.

"The whole plant is sold, how do you recycle it?" The old village chief and the others didn't understand it after researching it for a month, because everyone was busy and didn't go to the Hou's mansion to ask, and they just asked at this moment.

"For example, we bought a pot of kumquats for 100 taels of silver. When they have eaten up the kumquats, it is useless and they can't support themselves. We will take back the kumquats and give them 20 taels of silver. We will wait until next year. Let's sell it again, if someone wants to keep them alive, then let's keep them!" Yu Liangji said: "Not everyone can raise kumquats well!"

By the time they figured out the skills to raise kumquats, he would have already replaced them with something else!

In the twelfth lunar month, I spent time discussing things and eating pig meat.

Soon it will be the New Year, but Yu Xinghuai is missing in the family, and Yu Liangji's mood is waning.

Early in the morning on the first day of the first lunar month, Shi Hongda and Yu Liangji were dug out of the bed!

"What are you doing?" Yu Liangji squinted his eyes and didn't want to get up.

"Happy New Year!" Shi Hongda hugged him and kissed him several times.

Yu Liangji: "...!"

Suddenly I was very touched, knowing that there is no child at home this year, so I woke him up early in the morning and told him Happy New Year!

"Well, Happy New Year!" Yu Liangji stretched out his arms to hug Shi Hongda, and rubbed his forehead with him.

Because Yu Xinghuai was not at home, it was inconvenient for Yu Liangji and Shi Hongda to go to Zhangjia Village too early, so they stayed at home very decadently until the sixth day of the first lunar month, when the Hou Mansion held a spring banquet.

After the fifteenth day, they picked a day when no one was entertaining guests, and the two of them went to the Zhang family easily. At that time, the fourth-generation baby of the Zhang family was already full moon.

Farmers don’t pay much attention to those things. On the third day, the full moon and the hundredth day, at most, eating something delicious is considered a celebration, and there are many things in the first month, so there is no time to do it.

Looking at the two soft little buns, Yu Liangji and Shi Hongda kept their distance, because they couldn't hug them, and they were afraid of getting hurt.

Just looking at it from a distance, it's extremely rare!

It made the Zhang family laugh a lot, but the old lady Zhang was sad: "It was not easy to raise a happy family back then, it was not easy!"

Yu Liangji also taught the Zhang family how to grow kumquats. This was originally prepared for Zhangjia Village. It can't be too difficult for Mr. Zhang's family. Give them one or two skills and let the people of Zhangjia Village think about it!

After eating at the Zhang family, we left, and the Zhang family didn't stay any longer, for fear that they had something to do. After all, it was the first lunar month of the New Year, and they often visited and entertained guests.

From the first month to the second day of the second month, the dragon raised its head.

Yu Liangji started to pack his things. This year's flat peaches are almost finished...

In March, after sweeping the tomb, they began to eat three meals to prepare for spring plowing, and Yu Xinghuai's letter from home arrived again!

This kid went to the field to plant rice seedlings this time!

Okay!

The feet were so soaked that they almost rotted!

Yu Liangji felt distressed after reading the letter!

"Can't he do something else!" Yu Liangji muttered distressedly while reading the letter.

"The child may be curious. He has never seen rice planting before!" Shi Hongda explained to Yu Xinghuai.

"Then you can't soak your feet!" Yu Liangji denounced loudly.

"Isn't it almost? I didn't say it was soaked!" Shi Hongda felt that the word "almost" was very useful.

"How close can it be? In places like the south, there are so many mosquitoes, and there are leeches in the rice fields! Blood-sucking leeches! Even poisonous snakes!" Yu Liangji became more and more worried as he talked!

"The rice fields are not deep mountains and old forests, and those things will be cleaned up in advance!" Shi Hongda could only try to comfort Yu Liangji: "If that is the case, people in the south will not be able to farm!"

After receiving this letter from home, Yu Liangji tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep at night. Shi Hongda was aroused by the tossing, and led him to exercise for half the night, and finally fell asleep in his arms contentedly.

As a result, Yu Liangji woke up the next day and went into the study after eating!

Because the child almost rotted his feet when transplanting rice seedlings, Yu Liangji thought about it and drew a blueprint of a manual rice transplanter. Since ancient times, rice transplanters have been used in China. Rice horses appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty. It is a special tool for pulling rice seedlings. , reducing the labor intensity of bending over.

It has been used until modern times, until the emergence of rice transplanters.

Rice transplanter is a kind of agricultural machinery for planting rice seedlings in rice fields.When planting, first take out several rice seedlings from the seedbed with mechanical claws and plant them in the soil in the field. In order to keep the angle between the seedbed and the ground at right angles, the front end of the mechanical claws must adopt an elliptical action curve when moving.The action is accomplished by means of a planetary mechanism of rotating or deforming gears, and the forward engine can drive these action machines at the same time.The rice transplanter must have non-slip wheels and floating design to travel on the soil.

If the transplanted seedlings are in pieces, the rice seedlings are taken out from a specific seedling box and planted mechanically.

Now Yu Liangji doesn't have an engine, even if he has an engine, he doesn't have gasoline!

So he changed the engine system to ox pulling, which is not good for horses. Horses cannot stay in the paddy fields for a long time, and their hooves will rot after a long time.

So it can only be buffalo, which will be used in the south of the Yangtze River. If the rice transplanter can be successful, together with the harvester, it will become a powerful agricultural tool!

Wherever Yu Xinghuai went, he wrote a letter and said something, and Yu Liangji made something out.

When he arrived in the south of the Yangtze River, Shi Hongda presented the water wheel driving device designed by Yu Liangji at that time.

When he arrived in the northwest, Yu Liangji figured out various storage methods and commercial values ​​of various grapes, raisins, cantaloupe and other crops.

When he arrived at the Yellow River, Yu Liangji wrote a strategy for harnessing the Yellow River for half a month!

Compared with Sheng Taizu's method, his method is more forward-looking. According to the harsh natural conditions in the Yellow River Basin, especially in the Loess Plateau, after some consideration, four plants are delineated, all of which are highly resistant to drought and easy to survive. plant.

They are pine and cypress trees, alfalfa, jujube trees and walnuts!

These four crops not only have excellent drought resistance and cold resistance, but also are suitable for growing in places with severe desertification, constant sandstorms, geological drought and water shortage, and have certain economic value.

In the past, he already had a good foundation for crossing the predecessors, and later he managed the Yellow River in this way, not to mention solving the century-old flood, it was almost the same.

What Yu Liangji meant was that we should not only consider environmental issues and ignore the issue of food. Of course, those people who can be relocated should relocate well. For those who are really hard to leave their homeland, the imperial court does not want to force them.

If you can't cultivate land, then raise livestock and poultry, and alfalfa will come in handy, and this thing is still very fertile.

In addition, everyone can also plant jujube trees and walnut trees, which can bring income and support themselves. There is no need for the court to spend a lot of money and food every year, and they can't take care of them for a while!

Until three years later, Yu Xinghuai won the Jinshi in the Beijing Central Examination.

On this day, the weather was sunny and sunny, and Yu Liangji had already written the cultivation method of black fungus, waiting to hand it over to Shi Hongda. As for when Shi Hongda would hand it in, that was his problem.

"Master Hou! My lord!" Steward He ran in scrambling, "Great joy! Great joy!"

"What's the matter?" Yu Liangji put down the things in his hands, and Shi Hongda directly closed the box.

There are a lot of things in this box, all of which are the research results of Yu Liangji who reported to the court from time to time, and Yu Liangji's invitation to seal the crown prince every now and then.

"The young master is back! The young master is back!" Steward He blushed with excitement: "The young master is Tan Hua Lang! The young master is Tan Hua Lang!"

Exploring flowers?

The third in the country!

Must have both talent and appearance!

Yu Liangji let the girl run out, Shi Hongda hurriedly grabbed him, and changed him into a pair of platform shoes. He was wearing slippers just now, so he wouldn't be afraid of being thrown away when he ran out!

After changing into suitable shoes for Yu Liangji, the two walked quickly to the gate together, just as Yu Xinghuai got off his horse, he was still wearing Tanhualang's clothes, bright red, with a bright red peony flower on his head .

"Uncle, Uncle Shi, Xinghuai is back!" Yu Xinghuai kowtowed three times on his knees!

Yu Liangji helped him up with tears in his eyes: "It's good to be back, it's good to be back!"

Shi Hongda looked at Yu Xinghuai who had grown up in front of him, and patted him on the shoulder happily: "Go, go home!"

"Well, go home!" Yu Xinghuai sniffed, looking at his uncle and uncle Shi without blinking.

After three years away from home, his dreams were filled with the figures of Uncle Shi and Uncle Shi.

Now, as a high school Tanhualang, he finally has the face to go home to meet his elder brother!

It was only when he went outside that he realized that many of the things his uncle taught him were so amazing and brilliant. Otherwise, how could he succeed in the imperial examination once every three years in the capital where there are so many talented people in the world?

Shi Hongda held Yu Liangji with one hand and Yu Xinghuai with the other. The family of three held each other's hands and entered the gate of the Hou Mansion. Behind him, Steward He ordered people to set off firecrackers to receive the people who came back with Tan Hualang.

With the sound of firecrackers, the sky is full of red and broken...