Infrastructure masters in the red building

Regardless of whether Grand View Garden and Taoyuan Village are real mirror worlds or not, the progress of Taoyuan Village is really not much slower than that of Grand View Garden in terms of building the "track".

In the next few days, the villagers spread out in the village, drying, peeling, trimming and planing the hemlock brought by waterway into "tracks" of uniform thickness.Jia Fang led another group of villagers to choose the site, survey, build foundations, lay wooden tracks... they were very busy.

What Jia Fang didn't expect was that using hemlock to build rails has another advantage compared to using bronze to cast copper rails in Beijing: the hemlock is hard and has a certain degree of toughness. It is easy to adapt to various landforms, and it is easy to disassemble. If one of the sections is broken, it can be used quickly after repairing, which is much more convenient than repairing copper rails.

The downside, of course, is that wooden rails are not as durable as copper rails.Based on the fact that Taoyuan Village experiences rainy seasons every summer and autumn, the rails made of hemlock may need to be replaced once a year—but even so, the calculated cost is far less than that of copper rails of the same length.

In addition to the wooden rails made of hemlock, Taoyuan Village also needs to be equipped with transport vehicles suitable for running on the wooden rails.The original wooden wheels in the village proved to be not strong enough at this time, and they were worn out after traveling on the wooden rails.So Jia Fang brought pre-made copper skins from the Grand View Garden, and covered the copper skins on wooden wheels for use, which greatly reduced the wear rate of the wheels.

On this day, Jia Fang and the old village head stood near the Xianliang Temple, chatting and looking at the wooden track in the village, which was first seen on a large scale.

These wooden rails connect the newly widened river, Taoyuan Village, and the Xianliang Shrine located outside Taoyuan Village.The newly built wooden track passed through the village. A group of half-grown children in the village stole the adults' car and drove out. You pulled me, I pulled you, and played along the track.

"Old Master Tao, I have been busy... reading in this Xianliang Temple these days and nights, and I don't want others to disturb me. If someone asks, I would like to ask you to explain it to everyone."

The village chief's surname is Tao, which Jia Fang only heard about two or three days after he discovered Taoyuan Village.There are more than 14 people in the village, most of whom are named Tao, Li, Zhao and Zhu.From time to time, there are intermarriages in the village with other villages, but in the past [-] years, no new households with foreign surnames have moved in.

Village head Tao hurriedly said, "Don't dare, dare not!"

When the village chief answered, Jia Fang stared into the other person's eyes, trying to see the other person's reaction clearly - he knew that his activities in Taoyuan Village were abnormal.In recent days, he lived in Jia's mansion in the morning and evening, and in Taoyuan Village during the day, running twice a day.

Like Jia Fang, who said he lived temporarily in Taoyuan Village, but "stayed" alone in the Xianliang Temple every morning and evening, and didn't meet people-over time, no one really suspected it?

Village head Tao's reaction was very clear: "The third master is a noble person, so naturally he can't compare to us peasants who only know the sunrise and work day in and day out. Besides, recently you are in the small room behind the Xianliang Temple every night. Study hard by the lamp, the light can't deceive anyone, everyone in the village can see it."

"Third Master, don't just care about us, Third Master should care about your own body and bones." The old village head said very sincerely.

That's it!

It turned out that he returned to the Grand View Garden through the Xianliang Temple every night, and there were lights in the hut behind the temple.

Jia Fang couldn't help but think of the lights he saw when he first came to Daoxiang Village. The lights of emotion would also appear in Xianliang Temple-and they also covered Jia Fang who appeared alternately on both sides, making all the villagers think that he was actually Live right behind Xianliang Shrine.

Jia Fang's mood was immediately relieved.

He took a deep breath and looked at the scenery of Taoyuan Village in front of him.This season is mid-spring, and the atmosphere in Taoyuan Village is warm, and the wild rhododendrons on the distant mountains have bloomed all over the mountains and fields.When the sun sets, the distant mountains are fiery red one after another.

But in Jia Fang's eyes: the wooden track has connected Qingfang River, Taoyuan Village and the Xianliang Temple behind him, forming the initial basis for external transportation.Taoyuan Village will soon get rid of the past of single production and almost isolated from the world, and begin... to embark on the road of diversified development.

Jia Fang also used this kind of rhetoric in front of Village Chief Tao, but he didn't know if the other party could understand what he meant.

"From now on, Taoyuan Village's transportation to and from the outside world will be much cheaper. Whatever the village needs, just go outside to buy it. If you can't buy it, just tell me and I will find a way."

"If there are good products in the village, you can also consider exchanging them with those outside the village. I think the dried rice flower fish is very good. When the salt merchants come, you can use the copper coins I brought you this time." Buy some, pickle more rice flower fish later, and try to sell them to other villages, so the women in the village need needles, thread, brains and so on, this money will be enough for them?"

"Except for the rice, the fish you catch, the pigs you feed, and the chickens you raise are all your own. I don't care if you eat them yourself or sell them outside."

Jia Fang kept encouraging Taoyuan Village to "develop a sideline business": high grain output is a great foundation, and the development of some sideline businesses will be the icing on the cake.

He drew a moving picture scroll for Village Chief Tao, even though Village Chief Tao had been the village chief for many years, he was also very excited by this prospect.

"Old Mr. Tao, in the next period of time, I will make arrangements to transport the grain from the village, hoping to use it wisely. This is the result of many years of hard work, and I will give you corresponding compensation later. , will not let you work in vain."

After Jia Fang finished speaking, he bid farewell to Village Chief Tao and went back to the Xianliang Temple by himself.

Village head Tao looked at the beautiful scenery in front of him, imagining the beautiful picture scroll Jia Fang had drawn for him, and couldn't help dancing, laughing and shouting loudly: "Folks, with Mr. Jia here, our Taoyuan Village is here!" ...Yes, good luck!"

After being happy for a long time, Village Chief Tao touched Jia Fang and told him that he wanted to transport the grain from the village.

"Oh, my good third master," the old village chief slapped the back of his head heavily, and turned around abruptly, "I forgot to tell you, there is a problem with the grain stored in the village..."

Jia Fang was long gone, but the lights in the Xianliang Temple were dimly lit.

The old village chief was stunned for a long time before he realized that Jia Fang had left—he scratched his head in frustration and muttered: "Look at my memory, why can't I remember to say this in front of the third master?"

"When the third master comes tomorrow, maybe I will forget about it."

Lai Da, the eldest follower of Duke Rong, returned to the capital day and night after leaving Taoyuan Village.

He was originally sent to Taoyuan Village by Jia Daishan, Duke of Rongguo, with the task of taking the copper coins allocated by Rongfu and registering the population changes of Taoyuan Village.At the same time, Rong Guogong also explained that Lai Da should take care of Jia Fang Taoyuan Village in advance.Lai Da guessed that the meaning of Rong Guogong should be to give Jia Fang the hundreds of hectares of land and more than 1000 people in Taoyuan Village.Moreover, Jia Fang will go to Taoyuan Village in person soon to take over these industries.

Lai Da didn't care about Jia Fang - after all, the other party was a teenager and the young master of the government.If Jia Fang wanted to travel from the capital to Taoyuan Village, he would not have to hug each other and travel around the mountains and rivers. It would take half a year to travel from north to south?

Unexpectedly, as soon as Lai Da arrived in Taoyuan Village, Jia Fang arrived behind him. He also handed in the booklet he was in charge of in public, refuted his authority in front of the villagers, stepped him into the mud, and stomped hard...

But most of these Lai are not afraid, he knows that his foundation is in Jia's mansion: as long as he can rush back to Rongguo mansion, rush to Rongguogong's side, and add fuel to Jia Fang's domineering performance of the third master Jia--

Isn't he just a bastard?What's so scary?

So Lai Da didn't dare to delay at all along the way, he hurried quickly, for fear of repeating the same mistakes, Jia Fang traveled faster than him, and went back to Duke Rong to complain first.

When he hurried back to the capital, he heard that Rong Guogong Jia Daishan had already been ordered to inspect the drought in the north and was not in the capital.

Lai Da breathed a sigh of relief—Mr. Rong is not here, and Jia Fang alone cannot be punished in the mansion.If it doesn't work, he still has the most talkative old lady in front of Mrs. Shi.

But as soon as Lai Da and Lai Shi breathed out, they felt something was wrong.

Lai Shi: "Who said that the third master has gone away? Isn't he in the mansion well?"

Lai Da: ...?

Lai Shi: "They also contracted some kind of garden repair project. I think the money is spent like running water. The wife is muttering all day long, wondering how much private money the master gave to the third master in private."

Lai Da: "Then... did I see a ghost?"

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Lai spat at her son and said, "It's so frightening to say such things in broad daylight."

Lai Da went to other managers to inquire again, and the answers he got were exactly the same.

No one else took it seriously, but the more Lai Da thought about it, the more something went wrong.He recalled the Jia Fang he met in Taoyuan Village, he was just like the third master Jia in the mansion, he was never insane, let alone daydreaming.

After finding out that Jia Fang was in charge of repairing the garden in the Grand View Garden in Ningfu every day, Lai Da mustered up his courage and planned to meet with his own eyes—whether it was true or false, whether it was a human or a ghost, you would know it when you met.

When Lai Da came to the Grand View Garden, before he had time to say hello to Jia Fang, Jia Fang had already raised his eyes and saw him, and greeted him with a pleasant smile: "Boss Lai, long time no see, you are... you are back to Beijing after finishing your errands!"

Lai Da stayed where he was, unable to move the nest at all.

——Did he really see the devil?

As a result, even Lai Da couldn't be sure whether the person he met in Taoyuan Village was the same person as the mild-mannered young man in front of him.

Could it be that he had a nightmare in the south?

But fleeing back to Beijing after this nightmare, it doesn't seem like he is being blamed.He, Lai Da, has always been lowly in front of his masters, acting like a small boy, and domineering only when he is far away from his masters.

This time, he didn't even do "Wei" and "Fu", so why did he "scare" himself back to Beijing?

Before Lai Da woke up, Jia Fang had already handed out a letter sealed with wax: "Guard Lai, there is something I need to trouble you to come over."

"Please send this letter to my father in Hebei, and please deliver it to the old man in person."