Self-cultivation of male support

Everyone followed the reputation and let out a few middle-aged men behind the crowd. When the village chief saw a man in a green shirt wearing a square scarf, he stepped forward to salute in surprise: "Yang Fucheng, why are you here?" ?”

The man known as Yang Fucheng did not answer, but pointed to a man in his forties with a slightly fat body and said: "This is Lord Zhizhou. Don’t worry, just walk around deliberately to understand the people’s sentiments.”

The biggest official the village head had ever seen was Yang Fucheng. When he heard that the man next to Fucheng was the Lord Zhizhou, he was shocked. He knelt down and kowtowed to Zhizhou a little too late.

The village head took the lead, and the rest of the unknown people also knelt down.

In and out of the courtyard, people knelt on the ground in an instant, and even the person who was digging potatoes on the ground threw away the shovel in his hand and lay down on the ground, not daring to look up.

It took a lot of effort to get everyone up, and finally got to the point, the village chief explained to Zhizhou with some trepidation: "Our Taohua Village has a new scholar who is preparing for the provincial examination next year.

I got a sack of strange seeds by chance, so I reclaimed a piece of land and planted them. It's just about to be harvested today, and everyone came to watch the fun. "

Zhizhou was said to be interested: "Strange seeds? Go and see!"

The village chief hurriedly asked the crowd to let Shi Yan out.

When Zhizhou saw Shi Yan's extraordinary demeanor, he immediately smiled kindly: "What a handsome young man! Is it something you planted? Show it to me!"

Shi Yan bowed and saluted: "My lord, wait a moment."

Then he picked up a few potatoes from the ground, took them to the well, rinsed them, put them in a wooden basin, and brought them to Zhizhou to see.

Zhizhou is not ignorant of farming, so the first question he asked was of course safety: "Can I eat it?"

In fact, the village head was so excited that he stuffed something into his mouth. If it was really poisonous, the village head might have died a long time ago.

It can only be said that Shi Yan has left a deep impression on the villagers in the past six months, and everyone subconsciously believes everything Shi Yan said.

The village is in a dilemma, he can't say: The villain has eaten two bites, and he is still alive and kicking, so he should be able to eat it?

Shi Yan took the initiative to say: "Yes, it is also food and vegetables, it can fill the stomach, and it contains a lot of starch."

Then, he took out a booklet from his sleeve and handed it to Zhizhou: "My lord, please take a look, this is the information that students have consulted and sorted out these days. The "Founding Years" of this dynasty once said that after Emperor Tai and Zu settled the world, had ordered to let go to sea

The businessman was looking for a plant called the potato.

Tai and Zu once said, this is the ultimate treasure. If I get this treasure in great honor, everyone in the world will have enough to eat. Why worry about the world being not peaceful?

This plant is as big as a baby's fist, its color is like loess, and its inside is as white as a cloud, or slightly yellowed. It can be cooked and eaten, and its yield is extremely high.

But soon after, war broke out along the coast, and the large-scale war lasted for three years, so the matter was left alone.

When the students saw this object by chance, they vaguely felt familiar. Later, after going home to check the information, they suspected that the object in front of them was the potato that Emperor Tai and Zu ordered to look for.

So I fumbled and planted, and there was a planting diary written by the students, when to water, when to fertilize, too much rain, and how the sun would be exposed. "

Zhizhou is also a man of erudition and talent. After being reminded by Shi Yan, he instantly remembered the historical records. During the founding of the country, such an incident did happen. It has a history of more than 200 years. Most people forget that period of history after reading it. .

Zhizhou was overjoyed, took the potatoes and recalled the contents of "The Chronicles of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", compared them one by one, looked carefully, and the more he looked, the more he felt that the thing in front of him was the treasure that Emperor Tai and Zu ordered to find.

No one can understand the excitement in his heart.

Shi Yan saw that Zhizhou seemed to be caught in some strange thoughts and couldn't extricate himself, so he took the initiative to propose to Master Zhizhou: "My lord, it was said in "The Chronicle of the Founding of the Country" that the yield of potatoes is extremely high, and a medium-sized field can produce fifty to eight shi per mu. Ten stones of grain, intensive cultivation, and fertile soil can produce about 130 stones of grain per mu.

Right now, the students are getting help digging the potatoes. Let's measure them and compare them before and after, so that we can be more sure whether the students' speculation is correct. "

In the Han Dynasty, a catty was approximately equal to 250 eight grams, and a stone weighed approximately 31 kilograms.During the Three Kingdoms period, a stone weighed about [-] kilograms.

However, the measurement method of this dynasty is different from that of the previous dynasty. One stone is converted into sixty catties.The usual yield per mu is three thousand catties, which is fifty shi.

When Zhizhou was reminded by Shi Yan, he woke up in an instant, put his slightly trembling hands into his cuffs, calmly smoothed the paper that had been crumpled too hard, breathed gently, and commanded the people who came behind him calmly. Servant: "Go, help dig together!"

The village chief jumped out hesitantly, and told the Zhizhou tremblingly: "My lord, the messengers have never done farm work, and I am afraid that the good food will be ruined if they do not know how to do it.

Why don't you leave it to the big guys in the village?

Those who are used to serving crops all year round have experience. "

When Zhizhou thought about it, what the village chief said was very reasonable: "Then there will be Lao Lao!"

The village head was overwhelmed, and he opened his mouth to order a few good farming methods: "Wang Erniu, Zhang Laosan, Li Mazi, Li Laosi...you guys, hurry up and get a shovel and a shovel at home." , come and help Li Xianggong dig potatoes, go and come back quickly! Don’t keep your lord waiting!"

After speaking, there was a sound outside the door, and the village chief jumped into the ground and helped the monks dig together.

The old man can see that this Li Xiucai is worthy of being a scholar with a lot of ideas. Farmers like them farm the land, where do they come from so many twists and turns.

However, Li Xiucai can pull out the founding emperor of the country by planting a field, and he even keeps a planting diary, which makes the Zhizhou adults look at him with admiration.

Tsk, it's impossible to say that Li Xiucai won the favor of Master Zhizhou, and their village can follow suit!

Among other things, it's just these potato seeds, shouldn't Taohua Village put some in their own bowl first?

The village chief thought very clearly, and other people in the village naturally had the same thoughts, so they looked at Shi Yan with more eager eyes, as if they could burn a hole in people.

The overly hot eyes made several guards brought by Mr. Zhizhou very nervous. Their hands were tightly held on the handle of the knife, and the veins on the back of their hands were bulging, for fear that these irrational villagers would suddenly rush up and hurt Mr. Zhizhou.

On the contrary, both parties were very calm.

After the best methods of farming in the entire Taohua Village were put into the ground, more than 400 potato plants planted in the front and back of Shi Yan's house were quickly dug out and piled up in the yard, forming a high hill, which made people's eyes warm.

Yang Fucheng had asked someone to find a measuring tool a long time ago. Without being reminded by others, he rolled up his sleeves and led others to weigh.

Shi Yan chatted with Master Zhizhou under the eaves, the more Zhizhou chatted, the more he found that the person in front of him was a man of extensive knowledge and a malleable talent, so he appreciated Shi Yan more and more.

"I see that your literary talents are outstanding, and your poems are also extraordinary. Why has your talent not been recognized in the state capital?" Zhizhou asked puzzled.

You know, these days, most of the scholars who have written excellent essays and poems are well-known outside the world. Even if the essay has seven points, it can be praised as nine points.

And Shi Yan had just articulated the words, and the allusions came out casually, his talent was already nine points, why didn't he have any reputation at all?

Shi Yan's face was a little ashamed, he gritted his teeth and told about what happened at home some time ago when he met Master Shang Zhizhou's puzzled look.

At the end, he said with a face of shame: "Students really don't know how to face such a thing.

For mothers and siblings at home, they can only seek help from elders in the clan.

Later, the elders of the family decided to break off my relationship with my mother and younger siblings. Even so, the student is still in a state of panic all day long. I really don’t understand why everyone in the family has changed after the father who loved the student passed away overnight. The face makes the students afraid from the bottom of their hearts.

In that case, the students really couldn't share the same yard with them and study quietly, so they gritted their teeth and rented a yard in Taohua Village near Fucheng. "

Zhizhou could see the confusion and pain in Shi Yan's eyes, and remembered his father's preference for concubine sons when he was a child. As a legitimate son, his mother died early, his natal family was invisible, and he was trembling at home, making a living under the hands of his stepmother.

Immediately there was a sense of sympathy.

Zhizhouxin said: There is no worst in this world, only worse. Compared with the people in front of me, I still have a family who loves me, and I have no worries about food and clothing at home. Not less in the dark to help me.

The person in front of me has biological parents, it is better not to have them. It is really pitiful to end up being a lonely family and a widow after being a cow and a horse for many years.

So the two chatted more speculatively.

At this moment, excited shouts came from the crowd: "Eighty stones! Eighty stones!"

Then Yang Fucheng shouted excitedly: "My lord! My lord! Eighty stones! Eighty stones!"

Zhizhou stood up abruptly, strode out, and asked loudly, "Where is the land? Where is the land?"

What he said was endless, but Yang Fucheng answered his question immediately: "My lord, I have measured it, and the humble official took people to measure it in person, eight parts of the land, front, back, left, and right, and the corners and corners add up. , less than an acre!"

Without waiting for Zhizhou to continue asking, Yang Fucheng said everything Zhizhou wanted to know in one breath: "According to the village chief, this is a newly reclaimed mountainous land and barren stalls this year. There are many underground rocks, and the land is easy to harden. not fat.

But Li Xiucai's younger brother is diligent and often waters and fertilizes, which can barely be regarded as a medium-sized field! "

Zhizhou was overjoyed: "Good! Good! Go to the yamen and bring a few people over to protect these potatoes!"

Shi Yan came out smiling and reminded Zhizhou: "My lord, although it has been preliminarily confirmed that the things the students planted are potatoes, the last and most important thing is still missing to be verified."

Zhizhou: "What?"

Shi Yan bowed and saluted: "My lord, the student is willing to try it in front of everyone to prove that this product is non-toxic and can be eaten with confidence!"

Zhizhou already had the bottom line in his mind. During the chat just now, he re-returned the "Founding Years" in Shi Yan's house, and studied it word by word, and he was [-]% sure of it.

But he was very satisfied with Shi Yan's caution.

Patting Shi Yan on the shoulder: "You don't need to try it alone, I trust you! Let's find a few aunts in the village who can cook, and I will accompany you to try it today!"

Shi Yan smiled and said to Zhizhou: "My lord, you forgot that Tai and Zu had people prepare all the recipes back then, but it's a pity that the dishes were not found later, so this matter was also forgotten by everyone..."

Zhizhou slapped his forehead suddenly: "Yes, there is a recipe for this thing!"

Shi Yan bowed: "It's the first time for the aunt in the village to make it. I'm afraid I can't understand the recipe. Why don't I let my elder brother cook it? First, my elder brother can read a few words and understand the recipe. Second, my family eats it three times a day. The meals are cooked by him and they are delicious!"

After this morning, the Taoist priest was numb.

The ghost knows that Shi Yan can plant such a vigorous planting in every field, and plant the treasures of the Tai and Zu emperors.

When he was a child, he also heard his family tell a story about it, and the whole family thought it was a fabricated story by the people. Hearing it amused him, but who knew it was true!