Beloved Plantation King

Ji Yuebai's personality is very lively, Yin Peinan and Zuo An have known this before.When there is no danger, Ji Yuebai is very talkative and can talk about anything.

Yin Peinan and Zuo An had gone on missions with Ji Yuebai three times before, and because Ji Yuebai had good eyesight, he was often sent out to collect mutated plant specimens at that time.

But now, Yin Peinan feels that Ji Yuebai can talk better than in his previous life.

Ji Yuebai stood in front of the stove with his waist up, watched the water drops lift the bean curd sticks, and sighed: "So the bean curd sticks are made this way? It's quite simple. I thought making bean curd sticks was very complicated. I used to go to the countryside When I was young, I saw the villagers making handmade sweet potato flour, but it was complicated, and it required a lot of effort to stir and leak the flour. I tried it, and I was so tired."

Yin Peinan nodded and said, "This is fairly simple, but you have to master the heat."

Ji Yuebai looked eager to try, and asked Shuizhu, "Sister Shuizhu, can I try?"

Shuizhu nodded, and handed him the long bamboo chopsticks.

Ji Yuebai picked up the chopsticks and imitated the way the water droplets did just now, gathered the layer of skin on the surface of the soybean milk, then picked it up, and put it on the bamboo pole above to drain.

The movement is not too fast or slow, and it is quite calm.

Zheng Wenhao asked Yin Peinan: "What is this? You made it?"

Yin Peinan nodded and replied: "This is a good thing, very nutritious, I made it for you to taste at noon, and you can bring some back to your parents to taste."

"Row."

Yin Peinan said again: "I'm going to buy more of this thing and sell it, and the price will be higher. But the demand in the county town is definitely not big, and there are probably not many people who are willing to buy and eat it. In the future, if there is a lot of it, it will have to be sold. Go to other bigger cities, other county capitals and so on. I just want to discuss with you, let's start a small business together."

"what business?"

Yin Peinan told Zheng Wenhao about his and Zuo An's plans.

Then he said to him: "Didn't you say before that most of the tea and rice by-products in the county are controlled by the Lin family? How about we just set up a rice and agricultural by-products shop?"

Zheng Wenhao was thinking.

Yin Peinan said again: "Have you tried it? The rice we produce must be better than the ones in the Lin family's rice shop. And I have already told the people in the village that their rice, including soybeans, peanuts, etc. , Anyone who uses my seeds will be sold to me first. When there are more people, we will give priority to receiving them. At that time, I will tell them how to make yuba, and we will collect them and sell them exclusively Outside, you should be able to make a fortune."

There are so many people raising ducks in the village. Next year, the method of raising ducks in rice fields will spread. It is estimated that more people will raise ducks. By then, there will be more ducks, and how to sell them will be a big problem.

If the duck eggs cannot be sold, the farmers will lose a lot.

That's why Yin Peinan and Zuo An wanted to open an agricultural and sideline product store.

In Yin Peinan and Zuo An's concept, in addition to rice, peanuts, soybeans, cotton and their by-products, there are also by-products of ducks and duck eggs.

Peanuts can be squeezed for peanut oil, soybeans can be made into yuba, duck eggs can be made into salted duck eggs, that is, ducks, which can be sold now, eggs can be kept for laying, and smoked duck can also be made into cured duck.

But they have no contacts, no good sales channels, no footholds in various places, and they don't have so much time to travel, so they want to cooperate with the Zheng family.

Zheng Wenhao was a little moved when he heard it, but there was one more question to consider.

He said: "I'll discuss this with my father when I go home. You know, the Zheng family and the Lin family have different businesses. We mainly focus on gold shops and cloth shops, while their Lin family mainly focuses on tea and rice grains. The two The family has always maintained a balance in the county without violating the water in the well. If we make rice grains, the future of the two families will definitely not be so easy."

"Well, I understand this, you go back and discuss it with your uncle." Yin Peinan said again: "For so many years, the two of you have been equal, so it's time to make a move."

It is. ”

Zheng Wenhao said with a smile: "I am very willing to move."

Yin Peinan thought of another thing, and said: "By the way, didn't you say that the young master of the Lin family will participate in Chunwei next year? If he wins, he will be honored by the time, and he will definitely overwhelm you."

Zheng Wenhao nodded, and said with a solemn face: "My father was also worried about this issue. Before he won the exam, his family had a faint pressure on us, so my father always wanted me to take the imperial examination. Unfortunately, I really didn't This piece of material."

Yin Peinan asked, "Do you have a high chance of winning the exam this time?"

Zheng Wenhao scratched the back of his head and said, "I don't know. It depends on luck."

"Then is there any hope that the young master of the Lin family will pass the exam next year?"

Zheng Wenhao thought for a while, and said: "I'm not very clear. I heard that his family is actively helping him with relationships, and I want to find someone to give him some advice. However, I find it difficult."

Yin Peinan said: "It's better to prepare."

"Yes." Zheng Wenhao sighed.

In Xinping City, the Zheng family is actually richer than the Lin family, and is considered the richest man in Xinping County.But because the Zheng family has no official relatives, the closest one is the county magistrate Liu Shangzhi.

And there is a younger brother in the Lin family who married into an official family in Fucheng. Although he is only a small official, he already has face in the county.Moreover, the boss of the Lin family won the Juren prize the year before last, so in the past few years in this county, other aristocratic families have faintly followed the Lin family's lead.

The two discussed for a while, and it was time to make lunch.

Because there were six or seven more people, Yin Peinan took the basket and went to the field to pick vegetables again.Zheng Wenhao brought some meat dishes, but the side dishes were not enough.

Zuo An took out the vegetables he brought back to choose, and Ji Yuebai also dragged a small stool and sat at the door of the kitchen to help choose vegetables.

The two chatted while choosing dishes.

Zheng Wenhao also got a wooden basin to choose beans on the side, glanced at Ji Yuebai from time to time, and felt that this little brother was completely different from what he was on the road before.

The unreasonable, unforgiving, and arrogant look before has completely disappeared. Now this little brother has a lively personality and is also very polite.

Even in the kitchen of this farmhouse, he didn't show any distaste or incompatibility, he wasn't coquettish at all, he even picked up the bean curd sticks by himself, and helped Zuo An choose vegetables, he looked quite skilled, not like a rich man at all. The appearance of a little brother raised by others.

Zheng Wenhao murmured to himself, is it really like what Ah Nan said, he was so anxious because he couldn't find the way before?

He glanced at it from time to time, and Ji Yuebai naturally noticed it. He looked back openly and asked, "What do you think I am doing?"

Zheng Wenhao touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed.But, is this little brother so bold?He also directly asked the man this kind of question.

Ji Yuebai said again: "Young Master Zheng? I'm sorry I was on the way before, I was a little angry."

Zheng Wenhao naturally didn't care too much about the fact that the other party's younger brother was so frank. He didn't care about it at first, so he said, "It's okay."

Ji Yuebai glanced at him and asked, "I heard from you that you just finished the provincial examination? Are you sure you will pass the exam?"

Zheng Wenhao was a little surprised, he also noticed that he took part in the provincial examination?Zheng Wenhao shook his head indifferently, and said, "I see it hard."

Ji Yuebai asked curiously, "Why aren't you sad at all?"

Zheng Wenhao said with a smile: "What's the matter? I know how much I have. Besides, I'm not interested in reading, it's not that material."

"Then what are you interested in?"

"I want to learn to do business."

The two chatted one sentence at a time, while Zuo An listened to them, talking to them from time to time, leading them to talk more.

Zhao Xiu'e and the others also came back from the field. When they heard that there were guests, they hurried to work, and caught a chicken and a duck to kill.

When Uncle Wang and Ji Yuebai's guards saw it, they also got up to help, lighting the fire, slaughtering, and plucking hair.

Brother Ning and Zuo Baoying came back soon after.They now go to school by themselves and come back after school by themselves, without adults picking them up.

When I came back, I saw Zheng Wenhao first.Ning Ge'er had a sweet mouth, jumped over happily, and shouted: "Brother Wen Hao, are you back?!"

Every time Zheng Wenhao came, he never forgot to bring some snacks, candies, etc. for the two little guys. Ning Geer was the happiest Zheng Wenhao came over, as soon as he saw him, he knew there was something delicious.

"Yes." Zheng Wenhao patted Brother Ning's head, and said to him: "I brought you candy and snacks. They are on the table in the main room. Wash your hands and eat."

"Wow, there are delicious ones! Thank you Brother Wenhao! Sister Yingying, let's go eat candy~" Brother Ning happily went to wash his hands with Zuo Baoying.

Looking at it, Ji Yuebai sighed to Zheng Wenhao: "You are quite popular with children."

Zheng Wenhao smiled and said: "It's best to coax the children." Bring some food and play, and he will think you are very good.

Ji Yuebai shrugged, he didn't think so.It's hard to coax a child to cry, okay?

The two little guys had been in class all morning, and they were already starving. After washing their hands, they rushed to the main room and went straight for snacks.

When the two of them brought over a piece of dim sum and ate it, they realized that there were many strangers in the house whom they had never seen before, and it seemed that they were not the ones Wen Hao had brought here before.

Brother Ning dawdled beside Zuo An, squatted down, looked up at Ji Yuebai, and asked Zuo An: "Brother, who is this good-looking brother?"

Zuo An took a look at Ji Yuebai and said with a smile: "This good-looking brother is brother and my friend, called Ji Yuebai. Do you remember the persimmon cake from Qingzhou before, he gave it to us. Your name is Brother Yuebai Just fine."

"Oh, I remember the persimmons are delicious." Brother Ning nodded, remembering that brother said that most of the persimmons were given by others, so it turned out to be this good-looking brother.

He felt that Brother Yuebai was a bit of a mouthful, so he tilted his head and thought about it, and asked Ji Yuebai: "Brother Yueyue, okay? Brother Yueyue sounds nice."

The children said that he was good-looking, which won Ji Yuebai's heart, and he said happily, "It's ok."

Brother Ning called out sweetly: "Brother Yueyue!"

"Hey." Ji Yuebai responded with a smile.

Brother Ning looked at Zheng Wenhao, and asked again: "Brother Yueyue, are you also a friend of Brother Wenhao?"

"No, we didn't know each other before," Ji Yuebai shook his head, looked at Zheng Wenhao, and said again: "However, we know each other now."

Brother Ning nodded as if understanding, and said, "So that's the case, I thought you were brother Wen Hao's fiancé."

Ji Yuebai was embarrassed, and looked at Zheng Wenhao embarrassedly, and found that the other party was also looking at him, so he quickly looked away, and said a little shyly: "No, we didn't know each other before. Why do you think so?"

Brother Ning replied: "Because you are good-looking, Brother Wen Hao is also good-looking. Brother Wen Hao has never come with anyone before, I thought you came together."

"..." Ji Yuebai couldn't laugh or cry.

Zuo An patted him on the shoulder and scolded him with a smile: "Little slippery boy, why do you know everything?"

Ning Ge'er smiled and replied: "Brother, you are good-looking, and my brother is also good-looking. Just look at the two of you and you will get married."

The adults were amused.

Unexpectedly, Brother Ning is still a face control.Zuo An took the opportunity to educate him: "Getting married is not only based on whether the other person is good-looking or not, but also depends on whether you like it or not, you know? Good looks are useless, especially for men. If you only look for looks when looking for a partner in the future, But you will suffer."

Brother Ning was not convinced, and said: "But I don't like it because I don't look good, what should I do?"

Ji Yuebai smiled and said: "It's easy to handle, then choose the one you like from the good-looking ones, won't it be enough?"

Ning Geer clapped his hands happily and said, "Yes, yes, yes, it looks good and I like it, that's good."

The crowd laughed.

At noon, Zheng Wenhao ate the stewed duck with bean curd sticks and liked it very much.

I really think the taste of yuba is good.

Others also find it delicious.

After eating, I rested for a while.

After the sun was less shining in the afternoon, Ji Yuebai said to go to their fields to have a look.

Of course Yin Peinan and the others agreed.

Taking advantage of Zuo An to get the straw hat, Yin Peinan asked Ji Yuebai in a low voice: "Are you still ruthless?"

Ji Yuebai liked Zuo An in the past, although he knew that they were completely hopeless now, and he gradually let go of it, but after a long time, he saw him suddenly, and his mood hadn't adjusted for a while.

He was also a little guilty, and asked, "...how can I?"

Yin Peinan looked at him like a fool, and reminded: "Don't be so clingy to the captain, he is my wife."

Ji Yuebai was also speechless: "...I've known you two, I'm a brother now, could it be that I want to cling to you?"

Yin Peinan: "..."

Zuo An took out the straw hat, saw the two people staring at each other, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Yin Peinan took the straw hat in his hand and said, "It's all right, my dear, I'll send it."

A few people set off, they walked in front, Ji Yuebai's servants and guards followed at a distance.

Yin Peinan deliberately put his arms around Zuo An's waist, and walked close to him.

Ji Yuebai secretly rolled his eyes when he saw it.What a show, cheapskate!

Zheng Wenhao thought Ji Yuebai hadn't seen it much, he was curious about what the crops looked like, and wanted to see something fresh.Unexpectedly, when he arrived in the field, he realized that this was not the case at all.

"It's growing well." Ji Yuebai looked at the rice in Yin Peinan's field that was already in the middle of filling, nodded and said: "It is indeed better than the rice in the previous village. Why is the rice here so late? Didn't it mean that the rice from before was used?" Are there any seeds?"

Ji Yuebai asked, pointing to the rice in the next field that was still at the end of earing.

Yin Peinan explained: "Our previous first season harvested ten days earlier than theirs."

"Oh, that's it." Ji Yuebai looked at the field full of fishing nets and bamboo fences, and said with a sigh: "There is an upper limit to the problem of increasing production. If it reaches a certain level, it will not be possible to increase it so fast."

Yin Peinan asked: "What?"

Ji Yuebai glanced at Zheng Wenhao, and said: "There is not enough fertilizer. Just relying on ducks and seeds alone cannot increase production to an ideal level. Without chemical fertilizers, the fertility of the soil will become less and less after a long time. production will be reduced.”

Zheng Wenhao asked, "What is chemical fertilizer?"

Ji Yuebai: "...a kind of fertilizer. You don't understand this even if you tell me, so don't ask." Even if you ask, I don't know how to tell you that we all came here through time travel.

Zheng Wenhao touched his nose, well, he really doesn't know how to farm.But, "How do you know?"

Ji Yuebai: "...I read a lot!"

Zheng Wenhao, who doesn't like reading: "...Okay."

Ji Yuebai stared at him: "Why did you follow me to the field?"

Zheng Wenhao: "You are all here, so I'll come and take a look."

Ji Yuebai: "..." If you follow, then we won't be able to talk a lot, can we?

Ji Yuebai winked at Yin Peinan, telling him to send Zheng Wenhao away quickly.

Yin Peinan had already tried it before, so she said to Ji Yuebai with lip language: "It's okay."

Ji Yuebai sighed lightly, forget it, I guess the eldest young master wouldn't understand.

Then, Zheng Wenhao deliberately pulled Yin Peinan to the back and asked him, "Is this really the young master of the Ji family in Qingzhou Prefecture?"

Yin Peinan nodded: "Yes."

Zheng Wenhao was surprised: "How does he know how to farm?"

Yin Peinan whispered: "He doesn't really know how to farm."

"Huh? Then you still ask him so many questions."

Yin Peinan explained: "Although he doesn't know how to farm, he reads a lot of books. How can he treat these trees and grass?

Let the land have nutrients. These are very familiar, and these things are helpful for our farming.got it? "

"Oh..." Zheng Wenhao suddenly realized: "Is he so powerful?"

Yin Peinan nodded: "Well, it's very powerful." "Ji Yuebai graduated with a Ph.D. at the age of 25. He obviously studied plant ecology. When the end of the world came, he directly transferred to study plant genetics and mutated plants. You said he was not very good.

Fertilizers are indeed a big problem.Zuo An thought for a while and asked, "Is there a way to avoid or solve it?"

Ji Yuebai thought for a while and said, "Let's use crop rotation."

"Crop rotation? Do you want to rotate crops in the fields too?" Yin Peinan asked.

Ji Yuebai didn't have such a good attitude towards Yin Peinan. He rolled his eyes at him and said, "Didn't I tell you before that it's not good to plant the same crops continuously in a field, because it is easy to cause diseases and insect pests. Although the field The situation is better, but now there are no fertilizers and pesticides, so we should avoid them as much as possible.”

"Then what should we plant?" Yin Peinan scratched his head and said, "If the field needs to rotate crops, other crops don't have a more suitable cycle than rice. Can't they all be planted for a whole season?"

Ji Yuebai said: "It doesn't have to be just one season, the soybean crop can be rotated once a season. It can also be rotated throughout the year, one or two fields every year, and a few years is a cycle. Improve the soil structure, and the stems and leaves of those crops after crop rotation can also be used as green manure.”

"Speaking of green manure, wait a minute." Ji Yuebai walked a few steps on the ridge of the field, bent down to pinch a weed, and said to them when he came back: "Green manure is a good thing. If you make good use of it, it can improve soil fertility and prevent soil nutrients from growing." Drain. Have you seen this thing before? Grass seed, scientific name milk vetch, is a good green manure crop.”

Yin Peinan looked at the little green grass and said, "During winter, I saw purple flowers blooming in many fields, right?"

Ji Yuebai nodded and said: "Yes, this is it. Farmers spread this green manure in autumn to overwinter and use it to fertilize the fields. When plowing the fields in the next spring, they can be plowed directly in the fields. This is the most convenient green manure. "

Yin Peinan scratched his head. He used to be surprised that such things were spread in large areas in the field, didn't they absorb all the nutrients?It turns out that it can be used as fertilizer.

He said: "I thought this was grown wild, so it was a specially sowed seed?"

"Well, not only this kind, but also many other green manure plants, but this one is the most common."

"I see, we will collect more." Yin Peinan asked again: "When did you spread it?"

Ji Yuebai thought for a while and said, "I remember that it is usually about half a month before the rice matures."

"Okay, I remember, besides this, is there anything else that can be used as green manure?"

Ji Yuebai said: "There are a lot of them. Mousegrass, sweet potato, and broad beans are all good. Oh, cowpea vine leaves are also good. In winter, you can also sprinkle some radishes in the fields. The radish vines can also fertilize the fields. There are many more. Used as retting compost..."

Yin Peinan was a little confused: "Wait, what does rat thatch look like? What does sweet potato look like? The name here may be different from what you said, and I don't even know what kind it is."

Ji Yuebai: "..."

So, Ji Yuebai took Yin Peinan and the others to identify the rat thatch and so on, and told them how to make manure and compost...

Zheng Wenhao followed behind them with a dazed expression.

Why does Ji Yuebai, a young man from a rich family, seem to understand better than Anan and the others?

Although he doesn't understand these things, Zheng Wenhao somehow feels that the little brother is very powerful, and it seems that Ah Nan and his brother-in-law are listening to him.

This is really strange.

After walking around, they came to the wasteland.

Yin Peinan introduced to Ji Yuebai: "This piece, that piece and the cotton over there are all ours, and these two small hill bags are also ours."

Ji Yuebai looked like a leader inspecting, he looked at the piece under his feet and still threw it

The field of peanut vines, looked at the land of other people's houses next to it, and said, "You guys... this ability is so convenient."

Look, there are many weeds in other people's land in the first year of land reclamation, but their land is very clean with a few scattered trees.

Yin Peinan and Zuo An laughed, it was indeed very convenient, after weeding the grass three times with the power, there was basically nothing left.If it wasn't for the cover-up, they could have done it all at once.

Yin Peinan asked: "Then is it possible to sow grass seeds in this field to make green manure?"

Ji Yuebai was surprised and asked them: "Don't you grow other things here in winter?"

Zuo An replied, "They are going to plant winter radishes."

"Then grow radishes." Ji Yuebai said, "Radishes can also be used as green manure, as I just said."

Yin Peinan said again: "According to the interplanting you told us before, next year, can Xiaoshanbao be able to interplant soybeans and peanuts?"

A few people walked to the foot of the hill, and the walnut tree had grown to a height of one meter.

Before, because of fear of soil erosion, the grass outside the planting pit was not completely removed, but now some of it has spread into the planting pit.

Looking at the wide distance, Ji Yuebai nodded and said, "Yes, but don't get too close to the saplings. It's also okay to bury the green manure directly into the soil around the tree. Fruit trees are different from other wild tree species in that they need a lot of fertilizer. of."

After walking around on the small mountain bag, several people were sweating all over. After going down the mountain, they went to the side of the connecting tube to wash their hands and faces with water to cool off.

"It's going to be so hot." Ji Yuebai rolled up his sleeves and moved towards the spout, splashed a handful of water on his face while snorting, and sighed loudly: "Damn, it's finally cool!"

Zheng Wenhao was dumbfounded: "..."

This little brother is too bold, isn't he?And say dirty mouth!

Zuo An tugged at Ji Yuebai's sleeve, and gave him a wink to draw his attention, there is still someone there.

Ji Yuebai raised his head, looked at Zheng Wenhao's dumbfounded look, and burst out laughing: "Why? Haven't you seen it before?"

Zheng Wenhao nodded blankly: "...I've never seen it before."

Which big family's younger brother is not gentle, coquettish and shy?As for Ji Yuebai, he is obviously quite cute, but look at the way he washed his face just now, how can he be more bold and unrestrained than these guys?

And all day today, when Zheng Wenhao saw him, he was arrogant and unreasonable at first, but he finally regained his little brother's appearance.Then in the afternoon, I go to the fields, climb mountains, teach people to recognize grass, and teach people to compost. How can I look like a little brother from a big family?

Is this better than a peasant household?

How can one person have so many faces?

Zheng Wenhao thinks he is quite interesting, he is different from other brothers he has seen.

Hearing his answer, Ji Yuebai smiled and said: "See you now." As he spoke, he didn't use a handkerchief, and directly wiped his face with water.

The little brother's face was flushed, his lips were red and his teeth were white, his hair and eyebrows were wet from washing his face, and his eyelashes were moist. Under the sunlight at dusk, he looked particularly crystal clear and moving.

Zheng Wenhao couldn't help being a little dumbfounded.

Needless to say, Bo Geer is really pretty.

Ji Yuebai wiped his face and looked up again, and saw Zheng Wenhao staring blankly at him, paused for a moment, he pursed his lips and smiled and turned sideways.

Yin Peinan nudged his wife and gave him a wink.The two looked at each other and smiled knowingly.