scientific farming

After returning from Yangmeilin, the waterwheel incident in Pingxi Village has been concluded.

The position of the waterwheel still needs to take into account most of the fields in the village. As for the few village households whose fields are really remote and the number of acres is not worth the money to build the waterwheel, some grain is provided every year from the village sacrificial field, which is considered useless. Compensation for water trucks.After all, the money to build the waterwheel was paid by the imperial court, so there is no reason to leave any common people behind.

Of course, those who want to build waterwheels with their own money can also do so.

It's just that now only two members of the Ministry of Industry, Wailang, can build waterwheels, and they must choose local craftsmen to teach them how to make waterwheels. If they want to build them privately, they have to wait behind the court.

Although Song Wen and Ah Er can also build waterwheels, Song Wen is the main responsible official and does not need to start.And Ah Er is not a member of the imperial court, let alone serve the imperial court.

In this way, when choosing craftsmen to learn waterwheels, when building the first waterwheel in Pingxi Village, it is necessary to arrange the craftsmen properly so that the first batch can be taught as soon as possible.When the first batch of craftsmen who can build waterwheels are taught, Song Wen will be able to set off for other places.

The carpenters in Pingxi Village want to learn, and they are not limited.This is an act of farming in Italy. Of course, the more people there are, the better.

These matters, Song Wen also directly threw it to the magistrate of Shaoyuan County, after all, it is a place under his jurisdiction, and the selection of candidates must be a little tricky.Song Wen understood those twists and turns in his heart, as long as it wasn't too much, he could teach him.

These things were settled, and Song Wen talked to Li Zheng about making bayberry wine.Pingxi Village is not the only village that has red bayberry, it can be said that there are all nearby villages.According to Song Wen's intention, he asked Lizheng to call all Lizheng from the surrounding villages, and he taught them together.

There is also a matter of selling wine-you can't sell wine if you are a farmer, and you have to pay high taxes on wine, but Dali didn't restrict the farmers to brew some and drink it at home.

So what Song Wen meant was that the village made it, and if he wanted to sell it, he would take it all.Of course, officials ordered by the imperial court were not allowed to engage in business, so Song Wen pushed this matter to Xiao Lue.Xiao Lue wrote a letter directly to the capital, asking Gou Tou to take over the matter.The red bayberry wine is collected here, and Ada will be in charge for the time being.

Red bayberry wine has a brewing method of smashing red bayberries and then fermenting, but what Song Wen wants to sell is not only the wine, but also the appearance.So the bayberry wine he makes is to soak the bayberry and sugar directly into the white wine, aiming to ensure that the bayberry is still "fresh" when the bayberry wine is made.

Baijiu is colorless, and after soaking bayberry, it will brew a faint red color, which seems to be absent.Pour the red bayberry wine into the wine glass made of very exquisite materials, shallow fine wine, a bayberry flower floating in it...

Just thinking about it, Song Wen felt that a wealth of money was just around the corner!

Song Wen simply asked Li Zheng to buy a jar of white wine and a jar of rice wine.Baijiu is used to brew red bayberry, and Lizheng will not do it until the other villages are notified.Therefore, after the two jars of wine were delivered, he opened the jar of rice wine first and tasted it.

The wine brewed by the villagers is less refined, and the ingredients are honest and rough, so it tastes different from the bought wine.After tasting the taste, Song Wen was a little dissatisfied and wanted to drink egg wine.

This eggnog is very simple.

Boil the home-brewed rice wine, then beat a well-stirred egg into the boiling rice wine, and stir quickly.The recipe is simple, but the main thing to pay attention to is the amount of egg shreds and the control of egg shreds.If the eggs are not stirred evenly enough, or if the stirring is not timely after adding the wine, the eggs will become flakes and not silky, or egg whites will appear, or it will not be possible to make eggnog, but eggnog instead. Affect the taste of the wine, the latter is directly ruined a pot of good wine.

Served with eggnog, the best is fried small yellow croaker, crispy.If it is the season of eating crabs, crabs are served with wine, fat crab paste, and rich crab roe, which is also a pleasure.

As Song Wen thought about it, his eyes fell on the children.Because of the friendship of picking red bayberry, these three or five children became Song Wen's followers, and their parents were also happy that they were Song Wen's followers, and they came to the door happily to complain, saying that they were bothering, but they took their children away. That is to say nothing.

Now that I have raised it myself, I can always order it around.Song Wen simply waved his hand and led a group of children down the stream to fish for small fish.

There are no big fish in the stream in Pingxi Village, but there are especially many small fish with the size of a finger.On weekdays, children in the village take a dustpan and scoop it into the stream, and they can get three or five.There are no snacks in the village, forcing the children to be good at fishing.

Song Wen directed the children to catch small fish for him, and he took Xiao Lue to move rocks and look for crabs.

The crabs in the stream are all hidden under the rocks. People need to remove the rocks one by one, and then they can see the crabs fleeing quickly mixed into the sand. At this time, it is a test of eyesight.

Song Wen took Xiao Lue to move the stone, and seeing Xiao Lue turning over seriously, he suddenly became dishonest.Not being honest, looking for it by himself, and only paying attention to the movements on Xiao Lue's side.

Xiao Lue is serious about his work, he has never experienced this kind of thing like rolling up his trouser legs, stepping barefoot in the stream, moving stones to find crabs, he has a bluffing serious face, his eyes are full of light.If the light fell into the stream, it would sparkle!

He moved a big rock away, pressed it quickly with his hands, and came up with a handful of sand, and a crab's foot protruded out of it.The crabs in the stream are small to begin with, not to mention they haven't grown up yet, so the clamps don't hurt at all.Xiao Lue directly shook the sand, leaving only the crab in his palm.

"Look!"

Xiao Lue covered the crabs that were running wild in his palms with both hands, and walked up to Song Wen in a few steps, as if covering a treasure, only willing to leak a small corner from his fingers to present the treasure to Song Wen.

His eyes were really bright, Song Wen suddenly lost his previous dishonesty, and now he had other dishonesty thoughts, his heart was touched, and he raised his face and kissed his eyebrows directly.

The sky is bright and the sun is still in the stream where people come and go.Xiao Lue was only stunned for a moment, he was very concerned about Song Wen's reputation, so he suddenly retreated, but he let go of his hands, the crab fell to the ground, and fled away!

When did deserters appear in the hands of the general? !Even at this time, it is impossible.With a sudden short body, the crab fell into Xiao Lue's hands again. Following the squatting posture, he raised his hands covered in mud and sand, and held them up for Song Wen to show, smiling innocently: "Catch it again." Already!"

Song asked: "..."

How can a gentleman give up halfway?He immediately squatted down and waved at Xiao Lue, motioning Xiao Lue to lean over.

Xiao Lue didn't know the law of the close to the black, and thought that Song Wen wanted to see the crab he was holding, so he went over attentively, and both of them squatted to get closer to see the crab.Song Wen shot quickly, pressed his head down, and kissed his brow and eyes very resoundingly.

Although Xiao Lue's reaction was extremely fast, and his attack was a killer move, how could he attack Song Wen.Just for a moment, he swayed his body almost invisibly, and then he didn't move.Unexpectedly, a more presumptuous one came!

He retreated at the same time, both of them moved quickly, the crab fell to the ground, and was directly crushed by Xiao Lue's palm supporting the ground under the force of his retreat.

"Someone."

Song Wen smiled and said, "Oh."

Xiao Lue: "..." Decided to be on guard against Song Wen, for the sake of Song Wen's reputation, he must not be allowed to act foolishly.Fearing that Song Wen's kiss would not be enough, he turned sideways and showed Song Wen the squashed crab under his palm, "It's squashed!"

At this moment, Song Wen finally remembered the bad intentions he had prepared before, and it didn't prevent him from continuing.He stretched out his hand to poke the crab that was flattened by Xiao Lue's palm, and said seriously: "The shell of this crab is soft, it is made of cow dung, so it cannot be eaten."

The sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar are the seasons when crabs have soft shells, and it will not be until September when the crabs really grow.In modern times, Song Wen went to the countryside to move rocks into the water to find crabs. He was often lied to by people saying that soft-shell crabs were made of cow dung. Now he came to lie to Xiao Lue.

"Cow dung?" Xiao Lue dropped the crab silently, and swung his palms in the stream.

Song Wen was afraid that Xiao Lue would not believe him, so he pointed to the cows not far away that the villagers led to the stream to drink water and said: "When the villagers come back from the fields, they will come to the stream with hoes to wash, and the cows will also be led to the stream to drink water. It is inevitable that the cow dung will end up in the stream, and after a long time, the cow dung will turn into soft-shelled crabs."

Xiao Lue's expression was a little hard to describe at the moment.

Song Wen snickered secretly, turned around quickly, raised the corners of his mouth, and said in a normal voice, "So we need to find crabs with hard shells. I'll look for them here, and the general will go over there."

Xiao Lue looked around, thinking that he had just caught a crab that had turned into cow dung, and suddenly he didn't want to look for the crab at all.

From the corner of his eyes, Song Wen saw Xiao Lue standing still, with no expression on his face, but his brows were deeply drawn, as if he didn't want to take a step, the villain in his heart was so happy that he turned somersaults.

The children over there are fishing for small fish with a dustpan.Two adults were playing, no, when one Master Song was playing, there were quite a few in such a short while.When fried, it can serve a full plate.Pi Haier carried the bucket, jumped over in a few steps, and held up the wooden bucket to show Xiao Lue: "General, we caught so many small fish!"

Picking red bayberry failed to become a husband before, and Pi Boy thought that the husband who caught small fish would be fine, anyway, he is the general's husband, and the whole village, no, the whole town, and the whole county would all envy him!

Pi Haier looked at Xiao Lue eagerly, waiting for him to say that he wanted to learn.

Helplessly, Xiao Lue was deceived by Song Wen, saying that the soft-shell crabs were made of cow dung, and now he felt that the whole stream was full of cow dung. Cow dung grew up!

Now looking at the little fish in the bucket, his eyes are subtle.Fortunately, he is used to keeping a calm expression, Pi Hai'er, a child, really can't see anything, he only thinks that the general is checking his ability, and he even tries his best to lift the barrel higher!

"Well, not bad!" However, Xiao Lue praised him, then quickly turned around and walked to the shore.

Pi Haier's shoulders suddenly collapsed when he picked up the bucket.

Song Wen, who had been staring at the movement here, laughed heartily, making Xiao Lue and the children stare at him in a daze.

For crabs, Xiao Lue definitely won't catch them, and he won't eat them if he catches them.Song Wen went over and saw that there were enough small fish in the bucket, so he yelled at the children to go back to the Song family's yard and fried small fish for them.There was something to eat, and Pi Haier immediately became happy again.

Fried small fish needs to be marinated with rice wine, then coated with a layer of starch or cornstarch, fried first, and then fried again, the small fish is very crispy, even the bones can be chewed. up.People in the village are reluctant to use oil, but Song Wen is very willing. There are no potatoes or corns here, so there is no starch or cornstarch. He simply wraps them in flour and fry them until golden.

Another pot of egg wine was boiled, which was also golden, with strands of egg on top, and the wine had a strong aroma.

Song Wen, Xiao Lue, Ah Da, Ah Er, and Ah Mian, several adults sat around the stone table in the yard, on the stone table was a plate of fried small fish, and they drank egg silk wine with great relish.

Surrounded by three or five children holding small bowls, half a bowl of fried fish was placed in the bowls, and they also relished it.

As soon as Xiao slightly raised his eyes, he saw that Song Wen was gentle, his eyes were slightly squinted, and his whole body was stretched out, like a cat in the palace stretching its waist after getting enough sun on the wall.Xu Shi felt his gaze, and Song Wen turned his head to look back, with a gentle smile in his eyes and all over his body.

Holding the wine bowl, Xiao Lue suddenly felt that there was a piece of emptiness in his chest.

The soldiers don't see the blade, they are already dry bones under the skirt.