Dress up as a brother and speed up the advanced strategy

The northern mountain pass is close to the dry grassland, the mountain pass is steep, and the fork road is winding.

After leaving the mountain, the terrain is flat, there are few villages, and it goes deep into the northwest border. It should be a thousand hectares of bean fields.

The afternoon sun is dazzling here, like summer morning light.

Lu Jielin walked out of the official post with Liu Cuishan full of happiness.This official post is only one hall and two rooms plus a stove room, and the large stables are used for long-distance trek tolerance, and envoys change horses and add food.

There were no other visitors at this time, and firewood was piled on top of the beams in the kitchen.Burning soy milk and cooking bean dregs porridge for passing guests can also maintain the official post's annual expenses.

Outside the official post, after leaving the suburban road and turning to a side road, Lu Jielin leaned over and whispered, "You look so pretty with that big beard on your face!"

"If it wasn't for Sister Wanxin's face, I would beat you right now!"

"You are a famous person here, you have to cover up when you suddenly come alive. If I remember correctly, you have a lot of connections in this area, so be careful!" Lu Jielin's voice was extremely low, more gentle and magnetic. .

"Where are you taking me?" Liu Cuishan thought it was interesting to speak in such a low voice, so she kept it on purpose.

"Training will start tomorrow, let's go shopping today and do fieldwork, we're in the business!"

I have to say that Liu Cuishan felt warm when he heard the words "Our Bank" and "Field Investigation".It seems that no matter where they are or what they are doing, as long as two people can research, excavate, discuss, and deduce together, everything will be as silent as natural mountains and rivers, and as harmless as book theories.

Everything is like taking risks and arguing in the laboratory, and going home swaggeringly when you leave the laboratory.

Going home is a concern these days.At least, there are former classmates side by side.

Liu Cuishan quickly followed.He stumbled on a mound of soil propped up by Lao Gen and made a turn, but did not fall.But it aroused his interest in checking the roots of floating soil.

"It's not a tree root, it's a vine! Look!" Liu Cuishan pushed aside the soil loosened by the old vine, and groped along the vine, removing more clods of soil.

"Vines like an environment with plenty of water and air. Continue to search along the direction of the vines. There should be trickles or mountain streams."

"This section of vines actually grew into the soil! Is there not enough moisture in the air?" Liu Cuishan asked.

"No, go along the tail of the vines. Then, this direction is towards the border of the Song Kingdom. It is drier than here. These vines enter the soil first, and they may grow back. They are very tough and will go to the water. direction."

"Look back and grow! That pile of vines criss-cross back and forth, isn't it like a spider web in the plant world!"

"Well, you're right!" Lu Jielin tapped Liu Cuishan's head and said, "It's so long that it can help the plant retain more water or nutrients in the soil."

"Then here, is there not enough water or not enough nutrients?"

Lu Jielin stood up, looked around the old forest at Beishan Pass, and said, "This forest looks a bit simple, and there are not many tree species. Do you remember Professor Xue said that a complex forest can breed multiple species, so that water and soil restoration, repeated cycles, can To maintain a landform for a longer period of time is to maintain ecological stability. Simple forests, soil nutrients are not enough, insects and ants do not come, and forests become simpler. There is no organic debris of organisms, the soil is relatively less nitrogen, and there are more minerals. Thus……"

"It will loosen! This vine is man-made! It was planted for some reason!!"

Lu Jielin looked at Liu Cuishan, nodded, and couldn't help smiling.

Liu Cuishan began to carefully dig the soil along the vines, and sure enough, a large piece of vine roots criss-crossed back and forth!Feeling the rattan plate all the way to the intricate place, the soil began to get wetter, maybe the water source is near?

"Don't dig any more! In the past, I was afraid there was a source of water underground. How solid is the ground? We have to explore carefully before moving forward." Lu Jielin was very vigilant.

"Next time I have to bring a bamboo tube out, look down and tie it down, and I can cut out a rough idea of ​​what kind of soil is underneath."

"You really didn't learn for nothing!" Lu Jielin patted Liu Cuishan's head.

"Hey, I think the bamboo pot on your waist is very good, come and use it!"

"No! There is sparkling mineral water in it, you like it."

"Drink it all up!"

"No! I want to keep this pot."

"I see..." Liu Cuishan squinted at Lu Jielin.

"What are you looking at? Don't worry too much. Let's come out to explore, and don't make too much movement. There should be people living around here. This vine may be really special."

"You're right, this is really a good vine, look! It's just the main vine, so thick, plus other vines and roots, wow! It's grabbing the whole piece of soil! What kind of forest is this overhead? It's bent like a tunnel , let's go further, it seems very bright and open over there."

Lu Jielin stepped forward and grabbed Liu Cuishan's arm, Liu Cuishan patted him, and continued to walk forward.

The two are tall and slender, and they can only walk through the dense old forest on both sides with a slight bow.Following the vines on the ground, I finally came to a big rock.

Looking down, you can see the dense forest surrounding the North Pass; the edge of the mountain descends layer by layer, and the appearance of the forest is similar to the old forest that the two of them passed by just now.

Time seemed to disappear a bit, and the setting sun sprinkled orange red.

The two sat back to back on the rock, Lu Jielin took off the water bottle from his waist and handed it to Liu Cuishan.

"Where did you get your sparkling water? It's so delicious!"

Lu Jielin didn't answer, but just smiled.Liu Cuishan ignored her, raised her head and drank wildly.

When the evening wind blew in, both of them were a little dazed, leaning on each other's back, silently not wanting to speak.

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Back at the official post, Lu Jielin was going to live next door, but Liu Cuishan grabbed him by the arm and dragged him into the room where the two lived last night.

Xiaotong prepared clean clothes for the two of them, all of which were the simple farmhouse clothes that Lu Jielin had explained earlier; a bucket of hot water had been prepared in the room, and it was smoking.

Liu Cuishan took off her clothes and got into the barrel naked, immersing herself in the hot water.

Lu Jielin stood by the door, listening to the movement outside.

A lodger was talking with the official post boy.

Beishankou is an important road from Wu County to Song Dynasty, but it is not an official road.The official road is sealed off along the mountain pass, which is convenient for horses and gallops.

Most of the small official posts on this mountain are for businessmen and envoys who are convenient and do not need to travel.Most of the people who come to stay here have passed by this place.

The people outside spoke elegantly and softly, with a strange accent, but it was not obvious.It's a male voice.

He earnestly asked Xiaotong for the remaining room.The little boy asked if there is no soy milk and bean dregs porridge, how about some steamed stuffed buns and hot tea?

The male customer was a little surprised, and asked softly if the price of beans had changed.

Xiaotong smiled innocently, changing the taste and letting the kitchen produce different aromas is a good thing.

The male guest heard that it was interesting, so he asked softly, the official post is actually in charge of the boy alone?

The little boy smiled shyly, and only said that the adults were not here, and he had already told him to treat the guests well.

The male guest thanked him with a smile and retreated into the next room.

Liu Cuishan's head protruded from the barrel, and Lu Jielin picked up the cotton bag filled with tea leaves and gently brushed Liu Cuishan's back.Liu Cuishan splashed water on him, and Lu Jielin brushed his armpits and tickled him.

Both of them kept silent on purpose, their eyes flicked back and forth.

Soon, the two of them put together their clothes and went to bed, and fell asleep with their feet up.

At night, Lu Jielin heard a lot of sleepy talk, talking about the volcano exploding, the sky was red, Zhang Xi running fast and so on.

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Before the hour came, Lu Jielin dug Liu Cuishan out of the bed, urged him to wash up, put on his mustache, and eat breakfast.

In the breakfast, there is actually a green jade tofu soup!

"Sister Wanxin has come?" Liu Cuishan asked the boy.

Xiaotong said no, the soup was delivered quickly by the police.The child seemed to be about 12 years old, with a calm expression, gentle breathing and quick movements.

Lu Jielin and Liu Cuishan left the official post.The male guest in the next room seemed to be unmoved.

"Hey, what is induction training? Don't play me to death!"

"On the contrary, here, you have to learn to ride and shoot." Lu Jielin replied seriously.

"Aren't I highly skilled in martial arts?"

"I'm just guessing, I haven't actually seen you fight."

"You!" Now you can blow your beard and stare!

In the stables of the official post, the boy prepared two thin and short horses, which looked like they were used by peasants to pull carts.

Next to the two horses, there is a strong and tall gray horse. The saddle and buckle are all exquisite!It is owned by the male guest next door.

"So loud!"

Lu Jielin patted Liu Cuishan, who was aggrieved, and was about to help him onto one of the skinny pony horses, when Liu Cuishan pushed him away, jumped on the saddle, gave a hearty shout, swung his whip and walked away. go.

Lu Jielin: "..."

"Wait for me!" Lu Jielin caught up.

"Follow me, this way!" Lu Jielin said.

"So you're so good at riding!" Lu Jielin said.

Liu Cuishan didn't want to talk.I thought to myself, the first lesson of the police school is not to drive a police car but to teach equestrianism. Do you believe it?

"Then play hide-and-seek with me!" Lu Jielin said, whipping his horse and galloping towards the closed section of the mountain pass.

Going downhill requires micro-control of the horse's speed to avoid frightening the horse.

After entering the official road, Lu Jielin turned into the first fork and drove northward.

Pass several abandoned brick houses and barns, jump over collapsed wooden railings, and fly through a poplar forest.

Lu Jielin slashed through the wind and ran straight to the open grassland in the northwest.

At the same time, Liu Cuishan kept following the five horses, which was a safe distance for the horses.

The grassland doesn't seem to be all natural, there are some tall mounds, which seem to mark the boundaries of the land.

Further north, you can see patches of browned and dry soybean fields.

"It seems that I can't even shake you off, let alone hide and seek!" Lu Jielin said with a loud voice.

"What kind of job training is this?"

"Enough." As he spoke, Lu Jielin took out a leather bag from the saddle and threw it to Liu Cuishan.

"What the hell!" Liu Cuishan took it and found two bows and ten arrows in the leather bag.

"A spare pair, ten arrows, see how many you can hit!"

As Lu Jielin spoke, he ran all the way to the depths of the soybean field.The ten bean grass people arranged in advance, separated by a distance of ten feet, lined up in a row, which is very spectacular.

Lu Jielin turned around and said, "Horse racing and archery, let's see how good you are!"

Liu Cuishan frowned and asked loudly, "Demonstrate first, okay?"

"Look!"

Lu Jielin accelerated forward, a bow slanted out from his right shoulder, his right hand straightened, his legs clamped on the horse's back to control the speed, and his upper body stood up slightly.

Enter the shooting range, continue to accelerate, hold the arrow in the left hand, open the bow, and fill the bow!Aim and shoot!

Speed ​​up and shoot again!

Wait for the speed and shoot again!

The ten arrows shot into the left atrium of each Beancao man in a neat volley, impartially.

Wow, horse racing and archery, right?Liu Cuishan thought to herself, this is harder than the target of the police academy's annual examination!

"The left-handed bow is for you left-handed, I'm going to shoot from the other end!" Liu Cuishan opened his voice to counter the horse's wrong-handed Lu Jielin.

Lu Jielin immediately understood that if he ran in another direction, he could use his right hand to draw a bow.

Liu Cuishan went straight to the other side, busy with her hands, and didn't control the reins with both hands.

At the other end, a neat turn of the horse started to accelerate towards the return journey!

Instead of standing up straight, he bowed his back.The left hand picks up the crossbow formed by crossing two bows, and the right hand holds the arrow. The strength of the double-full bow makes the arrows spin sharply and whirring!

Accelerating while shooting with both bows, each arrow shot the whole head of the bean grass man!

Ten straw people, without exception.

Lu Jielin: "..."

"It's okay, the straw man is not strong enough, it's probably a child's hand strength. But..." Liu Cuishan's voice spread out in the wind, "Your skill like this can't be practiced overnight."

Lu Jielin was shocked.

Liu Cuishan didn't look directly at Lu Jielin, but looked around at an abandoned bean field and frowned.

"What's wrong with this bean field?"

"Early harvest! Come with me!"

Lu Jielin continued to lead the way, looking for a long road four horses wide, and running all the way west.

The scorching sun is getting hotter, and the smell of dry grass is in the air; the mountains in the distance are as flat as the earth, but a little higher than the ground, and it looks like it is far away.

The ground yellow grass rustled by the feet; after a long time, I saw a group of tall poplar trees gathered beside the field.

"Tricky! Let the horse rest for a while." Lu Jielin jumped off the horse, rubbed his waist, and moved forward slowly.

The sound of gurgling water gradually became clear, and Liu Cuishan also smelled a freshness that was rich in water vapor, spreading in the air.

There is a small stream among the clumps of poplars, and the water is very clear.Most of the stones at the bottom of the stream are round and bright, reflecting the stream water as if it is constantly flickering.

The two squatted at the edge of the water and scooped up the water. The cold water slid across the skin, refreshing the heart and spleen.

Looking along the upstream direction of the stream, it should be the melting ice and snow on the top of the mountain in the distance, piercing the mountain and encroaching on the rocks, all the way here.

This section of plain has a trickle of water and sunlight all year round, so it should be very clean.

"This water is too clean, there are no fish!" Liu Cuishan said.

"You are right. This is not good water for soybean fields. It is possible to harvest once a year or once every two years on land that has not been nourished for many years."

Lu Jielin carefully turned over the soil beside the water, and there were no earthworms.He walked into the soybean field and dug up one side. He found that the soil was dry and there was not much clay soil that could store water. Most of it was fine-grained, dry and sandy soil powder.

"So the soybean harvest failure is due to changes in soil quality?" Liu Cuishan sat under the poplar tree, folded the hem of the cotton clothes and shook them back and forth.

Lu Jielin had been busy in the bean field and didn't answer.

After a while, he came and sat down.With a pile of dried soybean branches and leaves under his armpit, he carefully weaved them.

One light and one dark, one outside and one inside, the intertwined dry branches quickly become a small fan.

Along the top of the head a few inches of poplar branches, intertwine them and gently embed them into the prepared square fan weave, and then tighten the bean branches left and right, up and down.It was easy to hold, and she shook Liu Cuishan gently.

Liu Cuishan looked carefully from the beginning to the end, and then glanced at the bean branch fan with Yang handle, and asked: "Is this soil poor because of growing soybeans? Or is it because of poverty that the soybean harvest has begun to fail?"

"I don't know either, but depending on the quality of the soil, it's poor. It's been a while." Lu Jielin said, shaking his hands lightly.

While thinking, Liu Cuishan watched the small fan go up and down extremely gently. He squinted his eyes, stared at Lu Jielin and said, "I really don't want to tell the truth, but it's hard for me not to think about you treating me like this." , you have something to ask of me. Or, you are trying to please me first, and you are afraid that something will be revealed to me in the future, and it will be difficult to explain it, solve it, or explain it. "

Lu Jielin smiled lightly, but didn't answer.

"Say, how long will this training last?"

"It seems that you are very good at riding and archery. Maybe you don't need to worry too much about you. This time, let's take a look at the current situation of the soybean fields in the Northwest."

"go on."

"Song State has a strong horse herding industry in the west and south of Zhou State's Northwest. If it is under human management, horses will not migrate by themselves, because they are all kept in captivity or grazed.

There is only one possibility, when the horses have to run away for some reason, the herders have to follow the horses to migrate.But it doesn't make sense, why can't the horses be driven back when they run away?

Borrowing grazing has also existed since ancient times, that is, borrowing the grasslands of neighboring countries to graze, and then driving cattle, sheep and horses back to one's own territory for the winter.Why this time, it will cause the horses to move eastward for many years?

Horse herding requires a large area of ​​grassland, the original soybean fields have shrunk, and soybean farmers have continued to move eastward.You see, this area stretches for tens of miles, and the soil is probably quicksand type, which is not fertile and difficult to harvest.That is to say, the soybean farmers who came here have encountered a bottleneck, and the annual production of soybeans is insufficient, and the situation is getting worse.

Now, I'm in two minds! "

"Say!" Liu Cuishan took the bean stick fan with a poplar handle and began to shake it lightly at Lu Jielin.

"First of all, it is about soybean farmers. Where can soybean farmers relocate? This land is not ideal for growing soybeans, unless there is a way to improve the soil quality. But if not, where else is suitable for growing soybeans?

Secondly, the horse herding business in the Song Dynasty moved eastward. Does that mean that a part of the space was actually freed up in the Song Dynasty, because the original horse herding business moved eastward, so what is the vacant land for? "

"Is there a way to enter the Song Kingdom to investigate?"

"I originally placed my hopes on Liu Cuicui, because he was the only one who could get in touch with the high-level officials of the Song Dynasty, and the relationship seemed to have always been very good. But now, he suddenly used this trick to get rid of his shell and left his cavalry in the Song Dynasty. .Why did he do this? I have to think about it, who wants Liu Cuicui to disappear the most?"

"Just Liu Cuicui herself!"

"........."

"Okay, I'm not making trouble!"

"I'm afraid these are all problems that must be solved first."

Liu Cuishan wanted to argue, but what does this have to do with his wanting to go home?

Seeing that Lu Jielin fell into deep thinking again, he decided not to interrupt yet, and continued to fan the wind gently.

"At present, this soybean field," Lu Jielin said with a long breath, looking ahead, "needs to be treated properly. I am worried that behind this scene, more problems will surface."

Lu Jielin took off the bamboo pot at his waist and handed it out, which was filled with cold sparkling mineral water.Liu Cuishan drank, her mind kept spinning.

The two quietly leaned against the poplar tree, Lu Jielin stared at the bean field in a daze.

Liu Cuishan looked at the fan in her hand, shook it, and gradually began to doze off.