Beloved Plantation King

Although the Zhu Mansion's purchase has passed this time, it has reminded Yin Peinan and Zuo An.

Everything has two sides, good and bad.

It is indeed a great honor for their yuba and salted duck eggs to be conferred as tributes. There is no doubt that their products will gain greater popularity and bring more profits.

But at the same time, it will also bring great risks and disadvantages.

To be conferred as a tribute, it must be offered every year according to the regulations, or it must be purchased by the imperial merchants.The former is mandatory, and there is no right to refuse.The latter one will be more or less exploited and squeezed by the imperial merchants.

Moreover, according to previous historical records, there are many stories of local officials wantonly oppressing local people for tribute.

The loss of profit is considered light, and there are not a few people who lost their lives because of it.

If it is in modern times, if there are any products on the state banquet and become special products for the state banquet, the advantages will definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

However, this is ancient times, the market order is very chaotic, and the rights and interests of small traders cannot be effectively protected. It can be said that the market is in the hands of a few powerful families.

He has no power or power, so he can only be bullied by others.

This time, Zhu Fanshan failed. Yin Peinan and the others were lucky enough to survive this crisis. This is luck.But the next time there will be Li Fanshan and Zhang Fanshan, it is not certain whether there will be such luck at that time.

The two thought about it all the way.

"Master Yin, Mrs. Yin, I'm home now, so I'm going home now." Uncle Wang sent Yin Peinan and Zuo An home, turned his horse around and prepared to go back.

Yin Peinan hurriedly said: "Uncle Wang, it's almost noon, shall we go back after lunch?"

Uncle Wang waved his hand and said, "No need, no need, I'm going back now just in time for lunch at the mansion."

Zuo An interjected: "Uncle Wang, it's not too late, why don't you go back after eating?"

Uncle Wang smiled and said: "I won't eat. In the morning, the other carriage in the house went out with the master to inspect. In the afternoon, the lady and the young master are going to the dim sum shop to see the wedding cakes. I have to go back to pick up the lady and the young master."

When the two heard that it was for Zheng Wenhao's marriage, they didn't force them to stay.Yin Peinan said: "Since that's the case, then we won't keep you. I'm going to trouble Uncle Wang for a while, thank you."

"Master Yin is polite. Then I will return now."

"Okay, Uncle Wang, go slowly."

The two returned home, Zhao Xiu'e and the others went to the field and hadn't come back yet, and it was almost noon, so the two of them didn't go to the field again. After a short rest, they started to pickle salted duck eggs.

Yin Peinan poured the yellow mud into the basin, then poured in salt and water, started to stir, and said while stirring, "I don't know what will happen to Li Da when he goes back. Will Zhu Fanshan let him go?"

Zuo An was cleaning the duck eggs with clean water, and replied after hearing the words: "It may be troublesome, but he will definitely not dare to do business with us in the future."

Yin Peinan sighed, and said: "In ancient times, there is no power, no power, and even a small business is not easy to do."

"Yeah." Zuo An paused for a moment, raised his eyes and said to Yin Peinan: "Pei Nan, I thought about it, we should not take the route of the capital in the future."

Yin Peinan paused his hands mixing yellow mud, looked sideways at Zuo An, and said: "The problem is in the system. Even if there is no Zhu family, we may encounter other big families, as long as they are bigger than the Zheng family, That's risky."

Zuo An shook his head slowly, and said: "We can minimize the risk as much as possible. After all, the big local families are not as overbearing as the Emperor Shang, and they will still have some scruples."

Yin Peinan sighed and said, "It's not a good thing to be conferred as a tribute."

Zuo An also sighed, and said, "Yes. I regret bringing yuba and salted duck eggs to Mr. Qian."

Yin Peinan comforted: "My dear, don't think too much, it's inevitable. Yuzhu will spread to the capital sooner or later, sooner or later."

Zuo An looked at Yin Peinan, and said slowly: "There may be more in the future."

they are now

The taste of the things being planted is much better than the existing ones.The food in the palace is the best. If the food they grow spreads, they will be awarded as tributes at some point.

They are little ordinary people with no power and no power, but they can't compete with other rich and powerful imperial merchants.

However, it can’t be because of this reason that it can’t be planted, can it?Not to mention anything else, they themselves are unwilling to eat food with rough taste for the rest of their lives.

Yin Peinan shook his head and said: "This problem won't be solved for a while, let's see it at that time. My dear, don't worry, the big deal is that we will make the method of yuba salted duck eggs public and let everyone do it. At that time, Huangshang will choose If there are more, it doesn’t necessarily have to be ours.”

Since they can't gain more power than the imperial merchants, they should expand the scope of the imperial merchants' selection of tributes, which is probably what they can do at this stage.

Zuo An sighed, that's all.

The seedlings in the fields are ready to be planted, and everyone is busy.

This year, Yin Peinan's family has increased their fields by ten acres. In addition to the several acres of fields for sugarcane and soybeans, there are also several acres of rice fields.

They used a relatively large field to experiment with fish farming in rice fields.

Fish farming in rice fields does not require fences, but pits need to be dug.

Dig a deeper and larger pit near the outlet of the paddy field or in the middle of the field as a small fish pond.Dig a few ditches around the paddy field with a width and depth of at least [-] cm, and dig a cross-shaped ditch in the middle to communicate with the small fish pond. There is room for movement.

The excavated mud is used to widen and heighten the field ridges to prevent fish from escaping during heavy rains.Fences should be prepared at the water outlets of rice fields and small ponds to prevent fish from slipping away.

After the seedlings turn green, you can release the fry.

This is the first time to experiment with fish farming in rice fields, and the villagers are all concerned.They have already tasted the sweetness of the method of raising ducks in the rice fields, and now they admire Yin Peinan and Zuo An, and they are very curious to see them tinkering with new things.

Yin Peinan and the others had a lot of fields. After the other villagers finished planting the fields, Yin Peinan and the others invited some villagers to help.

The field for fish farming is the last to transplant rice seedlings.

Before planting the seedlings, Yin Peinan told everyone: "There are ditches around and in the middle, which are very deep and reach knees. Be careful not to step in and fall."

A villager asked puzzledly: "Pei Nan, what are you doing digging such a wide ditch? It's a waste. I feel that I can still plant a stalk of rice. There are still two rows in this big circle. At least I can collect more by then." Dozens of catties of millet."

Yin Peinan replied: "This ditch is very useful."

"What's the use?"

"When the time comes to dry the fields, the fish can go to the ditches and ponds without affecting the fields."

"Oh, so that's the case!" The villagers suddenly realized, and praised: "It's because you are thoughtful."

Another villager asked: "Ah Nan, this fish is not the same as a duck, but it eats the leaves of grass seedlings. Can it really be raised?"

Ji Yuebai specifically explained this before.

Yin Peinan replied: "Yes, when the seedlings turn green and grow taller, the leaves are already out of the water, and the fish will not be able to eat the leaves."

The villagers admired: "Hey, only your family dares to do this."

Anyway, let them use a field of rice to test whether fish can be raised in the rice field, they dare not.

This paddy field is very large, with one mu and three centimeters, and the harvest will be three to four hundred catties of rice.They didn't dare to take this risk. If they failed, the fish would eat all the leaves of the seedlings, and it would be too late.

Yin Peinan smiled and said: "There is always a first time in everything. What if it succeeds? At that time, fish can also be sold for money, right?"

"That's true."

A villager over there came over with seedlings and said, "Hey, have you noticed that this field ridge has only been widened for a few days, and it is already very hard, similar to the old field ridge below. Look, I picked a It’s okay to step on the seedlings.”

Yin Peinan glanced at Zuo An, and said with a smile: "We worked so hard to get it right before!" In fact, Zuo An quietly came to reinforce it with supernatural powers at night, otherwise how could the newly pasted ridges be so fast? It's solidified.

Because Zuo An was pregnant, Zhao Xiu'e and the others didn't allow him to go to the field, so he had to help pull the rice planting rope and pour water.

Some helpless depression.

There are many people and great strength, and finally the field was planted in half a day.

Yin Peinan and the others treated everyone to a meal as a thank you.

After finishing their work in the field, within two days, the whole family needed to go out to drink wedding wine at Yin Peinan's second uncle's house.

The cousin of Yin Peinan's second uncle's family gave birth to a fat boy last month, and it's the full moon.

They went early, and when they arrived, there were not many guests at the second uncle's house, and most of them were people from the village who helped with the full moon banquet.This is also just right, while there are still few guests, the family can catch up on the old days.

When they arrived, they went to see their cousin husband and baby first.

My cousin's husband is in good health and got out of bed immediately after confinement.The baby was still asleep, so they walked lightly into the room to have a look.

In the family, only Yin Peinan was a man, and it was not easy for him to go into his cousin's husband's room, so he chatted with his second uncle and the others outside, and when the baby woke up, he took it out and looked at it.

In the room, the baby was wrapped in a swaddle, small, pink, and sleeping soundly.When falling asleep, the little mouth sucks from time to time, not to mention how cute it is.

"Wow, the baby is really small." Ning Ge'er lay on the head of the bed and exclaimed at the pink and tender baby.

Zuo An felt the same way, but when he saw the little baby, he still felt very touched and soft in his heart.A little angel came to the world.

Shuizhu replied, "You were younger than him when you were born."

Brother Ning was surprised: "Really? Am I so young?"

Zhao Xiu'e looked at it and said with a smile: "Brother Ning, you were less than six catties at that time, and the baby weighed about seven catties."

Brother Ning refused to accept, "It's only a catty short."

Zuo An smiled and patted Ning Ge'er's head, and replied, "Little baby is only a catty short." Stronger babies still have stronger body immunity.

"Really?" Brother Ning looked at Zuo An and asked, "Brother, when the baby in your belly is born, how much will he weigh? Is there seven catties?"

Zuo An couldn't help laughing, and said, "I don't know, I won't know until the baby is born."

Brother Ning said excitedly: "Then I think there must be! My nephew is not only seven catties, but eight catties, nine catties and ten catties!"

The crowd laughed.

"What eight catties, nine catties and ten catties! Don't talk nonsense!" Zhao Xiu'e patted Brother Ning's head with a smile, and said, "It really weighs nine catties and ten catties, your brother-in-law will suffer."

Brother Ning is just a curious baby, upon hearing this, he immediately asked, "Oh, why?"

Zhao Xiu'e replied: "It is very hard to give birth to such a big baby." And it is dangerous.

After listening to it, Zuo An blushed as he thought about how to give birth.

Fortunately, Zhao Xiu'e changed the subject: "Oh, this kid looks really good, just like his father when he was a child."

Brother Ning looked at him and said, "I think Xiao Cong is more like my second cousin."

Shuizhu laughed at him: "You haven't seen what your second cousin looked like when he was young, so what do you know?"

Ning Geer pouted: "It looks like now."

Just as he was talking, the little baby moved his mouth, and started crying before he opened his eyes.

"Wow—" The cry was loud and full of breath.

Brother Ning opened his eyes wide: "Sister, it's too bad, you woke up the baby."

Water Drop poked him and said, "Obviously you are louder, okay?"

Zhao Xiu'e asked, "Are you hungry?"

"It should be, I slept for a long time." The cousin husband picked up the baby and said to Zhao Xiu'e: "Auntie, help me

Give me a hug, I'll go to the kitchen to adjust the rice milk. "

My brother has no milk after giving birth, but they have a food that replaces milk called rice milk, which can be ground into powder and brewed with warm boiled water for the baby to drink.

However, this rice milk is not as nutritious as human milk, so if a brother from a wealthy family gives birth to a child, he will still find a wet nurse for the child if he can.

"Okay, okay, you go. I'll hug our baby." Zhao Xiu'e took the baby skillfully and began to coax the baby.

"Oh, good baby, you can drink rice milk soon, don't cry."

Brother Ning looked at the baby crying and blushed, and said, "It's so red, it's so pitiful."

After a while, my cousin's husband came back with rice milk.

Fearing that the baby would choke on crying, he just used a spoon to dip some rice milk onto the baby's mouth and touched it. The baby noticed something to eat, and immediately stopped crying.Only then did the cousin's husband skillfully use a small wooden spoon to scoop up rice milk to feed the baby.

The baby's instinct is to suck, so feeding with a wooden spoon is actually very inconvenient, it is easy to spill, and if you are not careful, the baby is easy to choke.But there is no way, my brother has no milk to feed.

Zuo An stood aside and watched carefully, learning how to feed the baby, and his baby will also be fed in the same way.

It would be great if there is a feeding bottle, put it directly into the baby's mouth, and the baby can suck it by itself.

Zuo An never thought that one day he would worry about a baby bottle.

He hasn't figured it out yet, the cousin's husband over there has already finished feeding.Newborn babies don't eat much, but they are fed many times a day.

After patting the full burp vertically, Zhao Xiu'e changed her position to hold the baby again.

It was rare for the full baby to not continue to sleep, and his dark eyes stared straight at Zhao Xiu'e who was closest to him.

"Hey, little treasure, are you full? Your eyes are so wide open, aren't you refreshed?" Zhao Xiu'e teased the little baby, and her cousin went to the kitchen to put the bowls.

Brother Ning looked at the baby, leaned over and asked, "Mother, can I hug the baby?"

"No, how can you hug? The baby is just born, don't scare you." Zhao Xiu'e refused Brother Ning's innocent request without hesitation.

"Huh?" Brother Ning was hit.

Zhao Xiu'e glanced at Zuo An and asked him, "Xiao An, do you want to hug the baby?"

"Ah? Me, me?" Zuo An didn't expect to be called by name. He quickly waved his hands and said, "No, no, I've never held a baby before, and I don't know how to hold a baby." Such a small and fragile life, It feels like it's going to break if you touch it.

Zhao Xiu'e replied: "There will always be a first time."

Zuo An: "...I don't want it anymore, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold it steady and the baby will fall."

The cousin just came in, and said with a smile: "No, cousin, you should give birth in a few months, just learn it. We will teach you."

Zuo An looked at the little baby, his innocent appearance was really cute that day, like a little angel.

He pursed his lips and said, "...Okay, okay."

He walked over and stretched out his hand, not knowing how to put it away, and asked nervously, "...how should I hug it?"

"Brother-in-law, don't be nervous, it's fine." The cousin-in-law smiled and said, "Come and sit down, keep your left hand like this, raise it up a little bit, and later my aunt will put it directly on your arm, and you can use the bend of your arm Hold the baby, let his head rest on your arm, don't let him tilt his head up, and don't shrink his neck, just hold it with your right hand. It's very simple."

Zuo An sat on the edge of the bed, swallowed nervously, his body became stiff.

To hold a baby.

He adjusted the posture according to his cousin's husband, and then saw that Zhao Xiu'e had changed the baby to his right hand, stretched his arms, and put the baby in his arms facing each other.

Zuo An only felt his arms sink, a heavy and soft little thing was already in his arms, he subconsciously put his hands into his arms, and hugged him a little tighter, for fear that he might accidentally drop the baby

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The baby is so soft, it feels like it has no bones. If you hold it a little heavier, you are afraid of hurting him, but if you hold it lightly, you are afraid of being unstable.

Zuo An didn't know how to handle this moment.

When he looked down, a pair of big black eyes were staring at him.

Zuo An: "..."

Zuo An blinked, looking at these black and white eyes, he was immediately attracted.

"... Hello, baby." Zuo An couldn't help raising the corner of his mouth, and greeted the baby.

It's a pity that the little baby looked straight at him without any extra expression.

Zuo An wanted to tease him like Zhao Xiu'e did just now, but when he wanted to say something, he suddenly didn't know what to say, so he could only yell again.

"Baby……"

The little baby continued to look at him quietly.

For a moment, big eyes looked at small eyes, four eyes looked at each other, and they were speechless.

After watching for a while, Zuo An really didn't know what to say to the baby, so he raised his head and talked to his cousin's husband to resolve the embarrassment, and asked, "He's so cute. Have you chosen a name yet?"

The cousin's husband saw that Zuo An was not used to it, and said with a smile: "Not yet, I have thought of a few names, and his grandfather said that he needs to find someone to calculate the horoscope, and then choose a good name based on the horoscope."

"Oh, it's time to choose one."

While the two were talking, the little baby suddenly exerted strength and felt a bit of a struggle.

Zuo An was startled by his stretching, and subconsciously hugged the baby tightly.

"Wow-"

"What, what's wrong with this? It's fine, why are you crying?" Zuo An was blinded.

The cousin's husband stretched out his arms to hug her, and said with a smile, "It's all right, I guess it's papa."

Zuo An: "...Poppa?"

The cousin husband nodded and said with a smile: "He, he urinates quietly, and if he makes money like this, he's just pooping."

Zuo An admired him immensely: "...you are amazing, you know that."

"When you give birth and take care of you for a long time, you will know."

Zuo An watched his cousin's husband put the baby on the bed, then unwrapped the baby, and pulled off the diaper to see that it was poop.

"Ouch, gold has been produced." Zhao Xiu'e smiled and asked, "Would you like to wipe it off? I'll fetch some warm water?"

"Okay, thank you, aunt."

Brother Ning saw it, opened his eyes wide and pinched his nose and said, "Wow, stinky~"

"What's stinky, the baby is still drinking rice milk, and the poop is not smelly. Come out, don't get in my way." Zhao Xiu'e took Ning Geer out, and called out Zuo Baoying and Shuizhu up.

Zuo An wanted to see how to change the baby's diaper, so he stayed.

Wen Yi originally wanted to stay and help, but later found that his cousin's husband was very quick and didn't need his help at all.

When Zhao Xiu'e brought warm water, the cousin's husband wiped the baby's butt, changed the diaper, wrapped it in swaddling clothes, and turned into a sweet-smelling little angel again.

Zuo An stared blankly.

Zhao Xiu'e hugged the baby and coaxed her, while her cousin's husband took out Lababa's diaper and spray bottle.

"How about Xiao An, have you seen it?" Wen Yi asked Zuo An.

Zuo An shook his head: "It seems to be okay, but when the time comes to actually operate it, it must be in a hurry."

Zhao Xiu'e smiled: "Being a father for the first time is like this. But don't worry, it won't take half a month, I guarantee you can do it with your eyes closed."

Zuo An sneered, not confident.

The baby fell asleep quickly after changing the diaper. Zhao Xiu'e put him back on the bed and fell asleep, and they went out.

Yin Peinan saw Zuo An coming out, pulled him outside under the tree, and asked, "I just heard Brother Ning say that you are holding the baby?"

"En." Zuo An nodded, with a strange light in his eyes, he smiled and whispered to him: "Small, soft, like the same size. His eyes are so dark and cute, very similar to his cousin.

When he wakes up, take him out and show you. "

Seeing his daughter-in-law's excited expression, Yin Peinan whispered, "Our baby must be cuter."

"Of course." Zuo An thought for a while, but he still couldn't imagine what the baby would look like, but he still narrowed his eyes with a smile. The baby he gave birth to must be the cutest.

After a pause, he said again: "It would be great if there is a B-ultrasound, so I can see the baby's appearance in advance."

Yin Peinan put his arm around Zuo An's shoulder and said, "Just treat it as a surprise for us. Do you think he will be born more like you or me?"

Zuo An carefully looked at Yin Peinan's face, thought about it seriously, and then said: "If it's a boy, it's better to be more like you; if it's a little brother or a girl, it's better to be more like me." Bar."

Yin Peinan saw that his daughter-in-law looked more natural when she brought up the baby and gave birth, and she was very happy in her heart, feeling that her daughter-in-law was more and more accepting of the fact that she was pregnant.

"I wish he was a little more like you, boy or girl," he said.

Zuo An looked at him in surprise and asked, "Why? Don't you want your baby to be like you?"

Yin Peinan put his arms around him and said, "Why do I look like my baby? It's good to look like you, good-looking, and smart. And I know you gave birth to me at a glance."

"..." Zuo An raised his eyes and gave Yin Peinan a supercilious look, and said angrily, "Oh, you still want someone else to give birth to you?!"

"How is that possible!" Yin Peinan yelled at her injustice, and immediately hugged her daughter-in-law tightly to show her loyalty: "I only have children with you."

Zuo An squinted at him and said, "You know, there were a lot of news in the past, saying that men are most likely to cheat when their wives are pregnant. You, pay attention."

Yin Peinan raised his hand and swore: "The conscience of heaven and earth, I, Yin Peinan, only love Zuo An. Whether it's mind or body, it belongs to him alone."

Seeing his seriousness, Zuo An couldn't help laughing: "All right, I'll trust you for now."

Before Yin Peinan was finished, Zuo An suddenly said, "By the way, go back and practice how to change the baby's diaper."

Yin Peinan: "...It's still early, and it's enough to practice a month in advance. Why do you say this suddenly?"

Zuo An: "I just watched my cousin's husband's operation, and I think I may not be able to do it. The baby is really soft, and I'm afraid I'll pinch him lightly or hard. So, you should do it. "

Yin Peinan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, nodded and said: "It's not so fragile, our baby is very strong."

Zuo An just looked at him: "Are you practicing?"

Yin Peinan: "...Practice. I will practice immediately when I get back. I will change the baby's diaper later."

Zuo An was satisfied.

Yin Peinan touched his nose helplessly and smiled.

The pregnant woman is the biggest, and everything the pregnant woman says is right.

Moreover, his wife and children had to be pampered by himself.

The author has something to say: this is for the 7th and 8th.