Breeding Mermaid Cubs

"Lang Jun, the notice has been posted."

Wang Qingye put down the teacup: "Not only post the notice, but also spread the news. Many people are illiterate and afraid they won't see it."

Zhou Zhu said: "Don't worry, I have asked the people below to do it, and I guess it will be effective later."

Wang Qingye nodded. He released the news about buying slaves, and asked Zhou Zhu to set up a stall for two gentlemen to guard. Refugees who got the news could go to the stall to sign up. If all aspects are suitable, they can negotiate the price right away. Signed the deed.

It's not that his servants are in a hurry to buy. It will be March soon, and the weather will warm up. At that time, it's time to weed and plow the land and sow seeds. The earlier the people are identified, the earlier they can be cultivated.

"I went for a walk in person. Most of the land in our hands is willing to sell, and some who refuse to sell have raised the price a little bit. I made a total of 180 land at present. mu of land, including [-] mu of fertile land and [-] mu of ordinary land.”

Wang Qingye said with satisfaction: "Very good. Then, did you go to see how the construction of Zhuangzi is going?"

"The ceiling has already started. I asked the construction master. According to Mr. Lang's request, it should be completed in four or five days."

"Nowadays, Zhuangzi doesn't need to build a big building. It is mainly used to dry and store grain, and it can also be used as a residence for servants. If it is needed as soon as possible, it will not be a problem to spend more money."

Wang Qingye had planned for a long time. When he bought the land last year, he started to build houses. It is expected that people who plow the land will have a place to stay when they start farming in spring. Thanks to the early start of construction, the place where I live is no problem at all, and it could have been completed, but this year I have a new idea and let some expansion.

"By the way, when the time comes, Zhuangzi will definitely have to be managed by capable people. Do you have a suitable candidate?" Wang Qingye said: "I think so, we need two managers, one who can read and keep accounts Yes, and the other one is good at farming, so we can supervise each other and work more diligently together.”

Zhou Zhu thought for a moment and said: "If you want to say that you can read and keep accounts well, I think the accountant of Jiangchunlou is not bad. He has been working since the restaurant opened, and he has been diligent in the past few years, but he can give an opportunity for advancement."

Wang Qingye showed a smile: "Speaking of which, I intercepted Mr. Chen at the gate of the academy. He originally wanted to devote himself to teaching in the academy, but his family was poor, and the monthly money given by the academy was not much, so he had no choice but to do it later. Mr. Accountant. He is careful and able to manage people. He is a suitable candidate. You can choose a day to talk to him, and when the time comes, you agree to let someone come to see me again.

"Okay." Zhou Zhu said again: "I don't know who is in charge of farming, but Mr. Lang has a favorite candidate in his heart."

Hearing this, Wang Qingye glanced at Zhou Zhu with a smile: "You must have an idea in your mind, so let's take a look?"

Zhou Zhu smiled a little embarrassedly: "I want to recommend a relative of my own."

"If you can do things, why bother with this relationship."

"It's a brother from my aunt's family. He is two years older than me. He is a mature and practical man. He has been living in the village and farming. His family doesn't have much land, only two or three acres, but under the hands of my cousin, it is no worse than four or five acres. People with acres of land have little food, so it is definitely impossible for him to manage accounts, but he is very good at farming."

"My aunt remarried with my cousin. Nowadays, my uncle doesn't have much land, and I have a son and a daughter. My aunt and uncle brought up another son. Just listening to this family is difficult. I After all, my aunt still misses my cousin, and she came to me several times to find an errand for him, fearing that he would have a difficult life in the future."

Zhou Zhudao: "This is my plan, first let him do things with Zhuangzi, but don't give him the authority to manage affairs, wait until after the autumn harvest, and see how he behaves before making a decision, how good is that? "

Wang Qingye chuckled: "You think it's so appropriate, what's wrong?"

After lunch, Wang Qingye and Zhou Zhu went to the stall to see how the servants were buying. From a distance in the carriage, Wang Qingye saw a long queue: "I didn't expect so many people to come."

Zhou Zhu said: "It should not only be refugees, but also some people around our Xiacheng. Maybe they heard that the Wang family bought servants, and some came here because of their reputation."

"I got the news late. I don't know if there are still people waiting for Master Wang's house here."

"I don't know, but I saw that many people have already signed the deed, and many of them were signed by the whole family. It should be a lot of people. But the selection is also strict. They will ask about everything, and they will also ask what they are good at."

"Come on, I used to be a village woman, what am I good at."

"Then why are you still here to join in the fun? If you have the time, it's better to look elsewhere. I know a few words."

When Wang Qingye got out of the carriage, he saw the people in the back waiting anxiously. He walked to the stall, and the two Mr. Zelu got up and saluted him.

"How many people are there now?"

Mr. Zelu handed over all the proper deeds to Wang Qingye. He counted them, and within half a day, there were already 15 people, but there were still children in their teens, which probably belonged to the whole family. bought.

"What are you good at, report them one by one."

"Sir, I, I am strong."

Hearing the stammering answer, Wang Qingye raised his head and glanced at the person. He was a somewhat simple and honest farmer. He asked about his past address before, but his answer was smooth. When he asked what he was good at, he stumbled. Maybe there was nothing wrong with him. Special skills, and met the first two who can write and recognize accounts, and feel that they have no advantage.

"Strength? Tell me more about it!"

Mr. Zelu's face was stern, and the man dared not speak.

Wang Qingye raised his hand to signal Mr. Selectu to stop asking, and instead asked the man gently: "Are you a farmer who planted crops before?"

"Exactly, sir."

"Very well, how many acres of land have you managed before? What have you planted?"

Speaking of crops, the man has a lot of self-confidence: "Returning to my husband, I used to grow rice and soybeans, and I can grow seasonal vegetables, I have raised fish, I have raised chickens and ducks, and I have burned winter charcoal."

"There are quite a few people who will meet, record it."

The man's eyes lit up, and the first two who could read were left behind. He thought that the Wang family only kept those who could read, but he didn't expect to be retained as well. Seeing that Wang Qingye was easy to talk, he boldly said: "Mr. Let my daughter-in-law stay too, she can also plant crops and do needlework well."

"Sound hands and feet, healthy body can be recorded together."

The man happily thanked him again and again, and the people behind him hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I can also grow crops."

"I can also plant and slaughter, sir!"

Wang Qingye raised his hand and said: "Everyone, please be safe and don't be impatient. Listen to my instructions now. In the past, those who planted crops in the countryside came to my left, and those who did things in the city or other places came to my right. .”

There was a commotion among the crowd, and then the two teams lined up, and Wang Qingye said in a low voice to Mr. Zelu: "The main thing is to choose those who are good at planting and farming, and the others can be used as alternatives. You can line up and eliminate some, and let them say what they are good at. Choose from them and sign up to twenty more."

"Yes."

The selection was based on Wang Qingye's requirements, so that the difference between good and bad can be seen at a glance, and it saves the trouble of asking one by one, and it also saves the selection of candidates at the front, so that the better quality of the latter is left behind.

In this way, the efficiency is also much higher, but all the people were selected within an hour, and Wang Qingye stayed behind to gather the people together and made simple arrangements.

"At present, all of you are in the Wang family, and I, Wang Qingye, will be the real master in the future. As long as you do things honestly and treat the Wang family as your own home, I, Wang Qingye, will never treat you harshly, and life will be better. Yes. At present, everyone has taken the money, and they will finish everything they have to do. Tomorrow, they will report to Wang's house at Chenshi, and arrange work and accommodation one by one."

"All obey the master's orders."

A group of people replied in unison, and those who were ready to do something knelt down and kowtowed, and someone led everyone to kneel down.

Wang Qingye nodded with his hands clasped behind his back. He looked like a master of the family. Although there were many servants in the family, they were bought in threes and twos at a time. It was the first time he bought such a large number of servants. There are still some gratifications more or less.

He called everyone to get up, coughed dryly again and said, "I'll just call you Langjun from now on."

Besides, the old master is really called old, and he is not a person who is sad about his age. He is often teased by the people in the live broadcast room and Mian Shu, and he has begun to pay attention to these details.

After finishing these things, he turned around and went to the dried fruit shop.

"Hawthorn, raisins, and dried mangoes." Wang Qingye ordered some next to each other: "There are also candied fruit. By the way, take more dried mangoes."

"Yes, yes." The shopkeeper of the dried fruit shop was very attentive, and personally picked dried fruits for Wang Qingye: "Mr. Lang has not been here for a long time."

"I don't like to eat these snacks. The ones who ate before are not at home, so I buy less."

The shopkeeper understood: "Mr. Lang really knows how to love people."

Wang Qingye put down the money and smiled. The little boy at home insisted on avoiding him and staying in the sea, and he gave in to him. He was a little angry and didn't go to Muhai for three or four days to see if this guy would do it. come back by yourself.Unexpectedly, five days passed in a flash, and there was no sign of him at all. Today, he wants to see what tricks this guy is up to.

He used the big boat at home, and asked people to drive the boat to the reef, and ordered the people on the boat not to cast nets for fishing after anchoring.

The silver bells jingled, and the sound of a small bell was melodious and lonely in the sea breeze. After shaking the bell for a while, Wang Qingye threw a lot of dried fruits down. The building was very high, and the dried fruits fell and were blown. It took a while for them to fall into the sea, so Wang Qingye sat down on the small table in the bow of the boat and took a few sips of sake.

"Lang Jun, are you going to spend the night on the big boat tonight? Just picked up a few nets of sea fish, very fresh."

"Choose some to cook." Wang Qingye watched the movement in the sea: "Boil some shrimp and dip them in vinegar to eat."

"Yes."

After the boy entered the cabin, Wang Qingye stood up from the table, lay down on the railing of the boat and buried his head in the sea, a group of fish came to the place where the dried fruit was sprinkled just now, and they ate the dried fruit with their mouths wide open. .Seeing this, Wang Qingye sighed, could it be that Mianshu is not in this sea area?

If this is not the case, why is there no sign of the cub after ringing the bell and throwing food.

Wang Qingye lay in front of the railing for a long time. Seeing that the fish had eaten up all the dried fruit, he threw a handful in angrily, repeating this process several times.

"Lang Jun, are you feeding the fish?"

Hearing the sound, Wang Qingye picked up the bag and buckled it upside down, and simply dumped all the dried fruits into the sea, out of sight and out of mind.

The evening wind lifted the broken hair from the side of the man's face, the boy was surprised and surprised, why did the gentleman get angry when he was feeding the fish.

He whispered: "The shrimp is cooked."

Wang Qingye sat back on the low table. During a fishing moratorium, he raised the green shrimps to be plump and huge, and they were very pleasing when they were cooked red. He twisted the heads of the shrimp and peeled off the shells. Dip it in, the shrimp meat is full of umami, and the meat is plump.

The sunset is like fire, the fisherman sings late, and eating shrimp at the bow of the boat is a very pleasant thing, but it is a pity that the good shrimp meat falls into the mouth but there is no taste.

Wang Qingye was agitated, originally thinking that he would make a fuss when he came here every day, but he didn't realize that the fish wasn't in the Muhai at all, boredom was boredom, he couldn't help worrying again, would Mianshu There will be physical problems.But the cub went back to Xiacheng and was jumping up and down in front of him every day, and it didn't seem that his body was uncomfortable. If there was, he would have discovered it long ago.

He stayed up all night at sea, and returned to the city at dawn the next day, planning to wait two more days for the agreed time before making a decision.

The servants selected yesterday were waiting at the gate of Wang's house early in the morning. When Wang Qingye returned to the house, they were all there before the hour.

He didn't delay much, and directly led the people to Zhuangzi to resettle them.

Single men and women live in separate courtyards, and families are divided into courtyards according to population, one courtyard for more people, and two households for fewer people.Because the exclusive courtyard is more spacious than ordinary servants, the monthly salary is slightly lower than that of other servants.

In addition to the stable monthly money, two taels for men and one tael or five for women, the more you work, the more you get.After completing the prescribed farming work every day, those who voluntarily work on farming will be rewarded with monthly money.

As for how much work should be done every day, Wang Qingye asked Chen Guanshi and Qin Mian, who was recommended by Zhou Zhu, to make a rough outline first, and he finally decided.

These days, he first helped the construction team to finish repairing the Zhuangzi together, and bought some farming tools, etc. Wang Qingye didn't do it himself, and handed it over to Chen Guanshi.

"I left this place in your hands. I don't need to say more about the payment. Steward Chen has been responsible for such a long time. You know the rules of the Wang family."

When Chen Ling first got the news that the Wang family wanted him to manage a Zhuangzi outside the city, he thought that Zhou Zhu was joking when he was drunk, but soon he called him to the Zhuangzi to familiarize himself with the environment. Happy and worried, I'm afraid that the Wang family will be disappointed if I can't do this big job, but I don't want to miss such a good opportunity.

After thinking about it several times and discussing it with my wife all night, I decided to continue the errand.

"Don't worry, Mr. Lang, I will definitely remember every account clearly, and the people in Zhuangzi will take good care of it."

"I don't worry about Mr. Chen."

After Yu Chen Lingxian finished speaking, Zhou Zhu brought his cousin over again. He was a tall, black and strong man, and he knew at a glance that he had worked hard before. Dull, with the appearance of being able to bluff the people under his command.

Whether it was for the sake of his own business, or because of Zhou Zhu's recommendation, he had a good account with Chen Lingxian.

After some trivial tossing, it was already sunset when he got home, and he was also very sleepy. He fell into bed and fell asleep, and even had a nightmare all night. Sometimes he dreamed that Mianshu's family came to him again to arrest him. She also dreamed that Mianshu was injured and was stuck in the sea and couldn't swim anymore, and what was very outrageous was that she dreamed that Mianshu was holding a little milk baby carved in pink and jade and said it was his child.

Wang Qingye woke up from the nightmare, sweating profusely.

Seeing the clear sky outside the window, it must have been three shots in the sun.

Wang Qingye was lying on the bed, looking at the pearl curtain hanging in front of the bed, he hooked it with his fingers, and remembered Mianshu lying on the bed at night, reading a small book, while picking up pearls with his fish tail.

His fish!But don't run away, you haven't eaten yet, it's really a loss.

"Lang Jun, are you awake? A servant from the Tang family came to deliver a letter, and Fourth Young Master Tang asked you to come and have a gathering."

"Tell him I'm not free, don't go."

"My maidservant is going to call back now, hot water is called for you, do you want maidservant to serve you?"

"No need, I'll do it myself." Wang Qingye got up, went straight to take a shower, and after breakfast and lunch, he went straight to the Muhai Sea, where he squatted on the sea until the fish came back.

After going for three days in a row, Wang Qingye was fried like ants on a hot pan for three days at sea. After counting the days, Mianshu had already gone for ten days, and the appointment was clearly set for six or seven days. This guy was in the sea. Can't remember the time yet.

Wang Qingye prepared some necessities for entering the sea, left the building at night, took a small boat to the center of the sea, and prepared to go to the sea to find out the situation.

He first anchored the fishing boat, took off his heavy spring clothes, and prepared to go down the anchor line, and stretched his bare feet into the sea. Before all the people entered the sea, his ankle suddenly tightened, and his intuition told him that it was not a cramp. Just as the leg was about to exert strength, there was a sudden crash on the sea: "It's me, you want to kick?"

"You still know how to come back?"

A piece of dim yellow fishing lights were crushed on the sea surface, Wang Qingye looked at the water-stained fish cub in front of him, with long silver-white hair sticking to his cheeks, and heaved a sigh of relief.

"Little goodbye is better than a newlywed."

Mian Shu swam to Wang Qingye with a smile: "I have prepared a gift for you."

Wang Qingye squinted at him: "What gift? Are you picking pearls again?"

Mian Shu shook his head, and inadvertently stuffed something into his arms. He was still holding the rope with one hand, while the other hand subconsciously hugged the thing in his arms. After a closer look, he opened his eyes slightly: "This? What? Egg?"

The shell is as white as snow and as smooth as jade. It is larger than an ostrich egg and weighs at least four or five catties.

Mian Shu tenderly touched the egg shell cherishingly: "This is the mermaid egg I carefully selected for you. The shell is so fine, it will definitely be a very beautiful baby when it hatches."

Wang Qingye was shocked. He had heard Mianshu say that there were abandoned mermaid eggs in the mermaid tribe, but he just listened to them at that time. He never thought that Mianshu actually went to find one.He felt a little hot holding the egg for a while.

"Don't you like children very much? What's the matter, don't you like mermaid babies?"

"Of course not." Wang Qingye looked at the egg that was so white that there was no trace of blemish, and wanted to touch it, but his other hand was occupied: "How do I hatch this? I have no experience in hatching eggs. I have to put Hatch in the sea or on the shore? If you don’t take good care of it, what if you can’t hatch?”

Mian Shu hugged the egg back to her arms, and put her chin on the tip of the mermaid egg: "Forget about being stupid. Mermaid eggs need to be soaked in water, and they have to be taken to the sunny shore to bathe in the sun every now and then to keep warm. It hatched easily."

Wang Qingye touched the mermaid egg with his hands, it was as smooth as a soft tail, Xu Shi just picked it up from the sea, it was very cool to the touch, but not as cool as the mermaid's body temperature.

Mian Shu rubbed the little white egg with the side of her face. Originally, she ran back, fearing that she might not find the mermaid eggs near the edge of the mermaid palace, but she didn’t expect that it would be easier to find the abandoned mermaid eggs far away from the mermaid palace. And found such a good one.

At that time, the little white egg was placed on the open sea without shelter, which was very dangerous. If sea sharks and some carnivorous fish passed by, the mermaid egg would definitely be gone.He fell in love with this mermaid egg immediately, and after finding it, he turned back to Mu Hai directly, without any plan to find another egg.

"If you don't want to raise it, then I'll send it back."

Wang Qingye looked at Mianshu's eyes downcast, and grabbed his arm: "Nursing!"

"Really?"

Suddenly Mian Shu's eyes sparkled again, and he wagged his tail happily.

"Well, it's good for us to have a child. If we can hatch it with our own hands, it's our own."

After getting an affirmative answer, Mian Shu happily kissed the egg: "I gave birth!"

Then he handed the egg to Wang Qingye's mouth: "You kiss me too."

Wang Qingye's eyebrows twitched, and according to Mianshu's intention, he buried his head and kissed the eggshell lightly, his eyes were soft, and there was a smile on his face: "We gave birth."

The two of them carefully carried the little white egg onto the boat, and put it on a stable place. The warm yellow fishing lamp covered the little white egg with a layer of gold, exquisite and beautiful like a big gem.

Mian Shu was so tired that he lay down on the fishing boat, but he didn't forget to carefully circle the egg with his hands. He didn't stop for a moment during the ten days, because he was afraid that Wang Qingye would be anxious waiting for him at home. I thought I would be able to come back in seven or eight days, but I was afraid of hurting my eggs in a hurry, so I slowed down all the way, and my return was delayed.

Wang Qingye rubbed his soft hair: "It's okay, just come back. If you are tired, take a good rest and sleep, and leave the eggs to me for safekeeping. I see that the lotus lake at home is well lit and full of water. When the time comes, I will keep the eggs there, and I can watch them at any time, and after ten days and a half months, I will bring them to the sea to soak with you, and a healthy baby mermaid will surely be hatched by then."

Mianshu heard that Wang Qingye's arrangement was very appropriate, and also looked forward to the days of hatching cubs in the future, and slowly fell asleep.

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