Self-cultivation of male support

In this era, cotton is only used as a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, and its main function is to stop bleeding, and it is mainly used to treat hematemesis, hemorrhage from gold sores, metrorrhagia, and blood in the stool.

It grows naturally in the Western Regions, the yield is not high, and it is wild.

The seeds delivered to Shi Yan were all picked by the border generals with great effort. It's easy to say, but it's not easy when you think about it.

Few people in Beijing have seen cotton as a plant, so they know nothing about picking cotton. Fortunately, Wang An took the recipe given by his elder brother Yan, and after many days of research and experiments, he finally found the fastest and most labor-saving method. The method is given to the people who come to pick cotton.

As usual, Shi Yan drove the bullock cart, wrote and drew on the ground with a pen and paper, and drifted away after getting the data he wanted.

It has never been thought of before that cotton can have other functions.

When the first basket of cotton was delivered to Zhuangzi and placed in front of Shi Yan, Shi Yan finally remembered something he forgot.

"I even forgot that if you want to use cotton, you have to remove the seeds first. If you peel hundreds of acres of cotton by hand, you might lose your eyesight."

So Shi Yan locked himself in the study room, read a lot of materials, and finally managed to piece together a cotton seed removal machine that combines pedals and handle rotation to push each other to remove seeds.

After drawing the blueprint, Shi Yan called the chef Liu Quan: "Find a few craftsmen, I will pay double the wages, and let them stay up all night to make a few more machines for me.

By the way, first let me make one and show it to me. If it is suitable, I will continue to do it like this. "

Liu Quan seemed to have discovered something extraordinary, excitedly said: "Boss, I have never seen you so anxious!

Did you forget something and finally didn't arrange it in advance this time? "

Shi Yan rolled his eyes lazily, too lazy to talk to this fool.

Seeing that Shi Yan didn't speak, Liu Quan felt that Shi Yan had acquiesced, and was in a good mood to find a familiar craftsman to make this object for Shi Yan.

After Wang An led the people to finish picking the cotton, Shi Yan's cotton seed removal machine has passed the preliminary test and can be used.

So everyone who thought that after finishing the vote, they would never eat the cooking in Min'an Bo Zhuangzi received a new job - to remove seeds from cotton.

No one else knows this thing, and Shi Yan can barely use it, but the efficiency is definitely not high.

Only Liu Quan witnessed the birth of the machine, and was better at using it skillfully than Shi Yan.

Therefore, the burden of teaching everyone to use the cotton seed remover naturally fell on Liu Quan.

On the head, Liu Quanjiao was so enthusiastic that he didn't even bother to cook.

Shi Yan put forward a different opinion: "Anyway, take an hour to prepare the food before going!"

Liu Quan raised his chin, with an ugly face of a villain: "If you have the ability, you can teach it! Boss, if you can teach those idiots, I will obediently go into the kitchen and cook for you!"

Shi Yan was choked, to be honest, he was really not good at this stuff, so he could only eat the food cooked by the cook in the village.

The cook was moved to tears, and she felt that the highlight moment for the cook was finally coming.The uncle finally remembered that there is a serious cook in the village, so happy and congratulatory, I am so happy!

It never occurred to me that when Liu Quan let go, he would have countless legitimate reasons not to enter the kitchen, and put the burden of cooking for Shi Yan on the cook, while he himself followed Wang An in and out, busy up and down , tanned like a monkey, the whole person is not happy.

A sentence that I often say in front of Shi Yan is: "This is the life of a man! I won't go into the kitchen to cook after killing me!"

Shi Yan: "If you don't go in, don't go in."

Liu Quan was startled, he thought that Shi Yan was going to talk about his previous bet again, and he was already prepared in his heart to fight Shi Yan for a long time, but he never expected that Shi Yan would be so talkative this time.

Liu Quan stammered: "Boss, Boss, are you okay?"

Shi Yan lazily said: "Okay, just your brain, don't think too much, anyway, no matter what you do, I won't pay you, why not do it?

I see you are jumping around outside, you are three by one, you can do it!After all, I earned it! "

Liu Quan said indifferently: "Boss, are you stupid? I have food, drink, and housing. If I want to buy something, I will ask you to pay for it. I just want where can I spend my wages?"

Shi Yan was too lazy to talk to this bad thing, and drove him out, still a little puzzled in his heart: "I don't know if the cotton that is tossed out by the cotton seed remover is soft and comfortable when it pops out?"

But now I can't control so much. Seeing that after the beginning of autumn, the weather in the capital is gradually getting cooler.

Autumn has come, can winter be far behind?

At this time, it is time for cotton to come in handy!Get ready early.

So in the winter of Qingyuan 13th, when the first snow came, the three of Shi Yan wore warm cotton-padded clothes, cotton shoes, cotton socks, soft and comfortable cotton gloves, and put two fluffy cotton earmuffs on their ears. The eyelashes were still frozen, and the three of them walked outside, not afraid of the severe cold, swaggering, ten

So stupid.

Shi Yan realized later and realized that this kind of behavior was really stupid. Going outside to do nothing, wandering around meaninglessly, made Shi Yan feel that there was something wrong with himself who agreed to go out with Wang An.

So he went back to the house, packed the memorial he had prepared long ago and a whole set of cotton products, and sent them to the palace together.

After sending it away, he shouted to the two idiots in the yard: "Liu Quan, turn out the pot I asked you to prepare. The sheep head slaughtered yesterday was sliced ​​into pieces. Let's have a pot of fresh mutton today!"

When Liu Quan heard this, he didn't mind that Shi Yan let him into the kitchen again, and hurriedly called Wang An to help prepare it. The two of them had been coveting their boss' condiments for a long time, and watched the boss collect a lot of ingredients, saying that he was going to fry hot pot Primer.

Wang An did not forget to urge Shi Yan: "Boss, come quickly! All the condiments have been taken out and put away for you, just waiting for you to fry the bottom ingredients! Let Liu Quan learn a little bit by the side, and Liu Quan will come to us in the future. Done!"

Liu Quan was still struggling with the frozen mutton leg, and laughed out loud: "It's not like we haven't eaten the best mutton pot in Wuweiju, Beijing, so let's just do it!

Today I want to see how mysterious the boss is boasting that there are good things in the sky and nothing on earth! "

Shi Yan rolled up his cuffs with his hands, the master was full of posture, he seemed to be familiar with it, and ordered: "Light up the fire, this will let you two bumpkins experience the power of the thirteen spices of chili pepper!"

As Shi Yan's eighteen-flavored condiment entered the frying pan with a "thud", Liu Quan and Wang An deeply felt that a new world had been opened, and the previous stir-fried dishes became dull in retrospect. .

On the other side of the palace, the emperor had a quarrel with several ministers at noon because of snow disaster prevention. He was in a bad mood and didn't eat a few mouthfuls of lunch. He put on a big cloak and went for a walk outside the Hall of Supreme Harmony against the wind and snow. relax.

After just one cup of tea, his face turned blue from the cold, his legs and feet were stiff, and he had to go back to the Hall of Supreme Harmony to drink thick ginger soup to prevent the wind and cold.The emperor was very upset.

At this moment, the eunuch beside him smiled and held up a memorial: "Your Majesty, Min Anbo's note."

Everyone in the Hall of Supreme Harmony knows that the emperor attaches great importance to Min'anbo's papers, and every time Min'anbo submits papers, he will send some new and interesting things to the emperor. I think Min'anbo will not let His Majesty disappointment.

Sure enough, the emperor laughed out loud after reading the scriptures, and asked the eunuch, "Where are the things sent by Min Anbo?"

Immediately, the clever eunuch trotted to present the parcel sent by Shi Yan to the emperor.

before.

Seeing that it was a set of clothes, shoes and socks with fine stitching and a very simple style, and a pair of things that looked like fingers, the eunuchs and maids in the palace were still a little disappointed.

I think this is not Min Amber's level.

However, the emperor was very interested and urged the left and right: "Quickly, change for me, I want to change!"

Putting on cotton-padded clothes, cotton shoes and cotton socks, and cotton gloves and cotton earmuffs, His Majesty the Emperor had the aura that no one would love him once he wore the cotton-padded clothes. Regardless of the obstruction of the people around him, he walked out of the Hall of Supreme Harmony with two big strides and entered the Wind Palace. in the snow.

This time, His Majesty did not shrug his shoulders and hunchback, but walked with strides. After walking back and forth in the wind and snow for a few times, feeling a layer of sweat on his back, he strode back to the Hall of Supreme Harmony contentedly.

As soon as I entered, a court lady brought a strong ginger soup, asking His Majesty to keep out the cold, but His Majesty laughed and pushed the tray away: "No need! I'm not cold at all, and I'm sweating all over!"

The personal eunuch stepped forward and saw that it was indeed the case, he was touching His Majesty's palm, it was warm, not at all like a person who had been frozen in the wind and snow for less than half an hour, and he cried out in surprise.

His Majesty was overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "Let the minister of the Ministry of Industry come to the palace to see me immediately, and let the commander of the Yulin Army go out of the palace to visit Min'anbo's village in person, and get back the grain planting experience written by Min'anbo over the past year. Please, bring back a few sacks of cotton by the way, I want to see it with my own eyes!"

When the messenger left, the emperor remembered that Min'anbo had done a great job in silence, and he hadn't had time to confer the reward, so he waved his hand: "I remember that there are several Huangzhuang in the suburbs of Beijing. The one closest to Min'anbo Zhuangzi will be rewarded to Min'anbo!"

So when Shi Yan was halfway through eating the mutton hot pot, he instantly had three hundred acres of Zhuangzi on hand, which was still the kind that could be connected with the current Zhuangzi.

Liu Quan said excitedly: "Boss, it's all over now. We were worried just now that the sheep we bought this autumn had nowhere to go after giving birth. Now it's all over, just put the sheepfold over there! Perfect!"

Wang Andao: "But the boss also said just now that we will raise a group of ducks in the spring. Is three hundred acres enough?"

Shi Yan took a mouthful of fish balls in a bad mood, it was slippery and flattered, and he had the time to talk to the two of them: "You guys are so inflated!

Last year, the total amount of land in front of and behind the houses in Taohua Village was less than two mu, which could support the three of us.

Now, three hundred acres of land is not enough for you to toss about?I just want to know, who gave you the courage to look down on the three hundred acres of Zhuangzi rewarded by His Majesty? "

Liu Quan smiled and poured wine for Shi Yan: "Boss, you didn't say that, are we going to start large-scale farming next spring? I'm following your idea, and you still blame me? We don't take this A bully!"