Chapter 110

The party crossed several ridges and came to the field where Le Ge'er was.

Yu Qingze introduced them to Grandpa Chang and Jiabao. They don't know the county magistrate yet. Le Ge'er stood up and saluted the three adults.

Lord Cai hurriedly said, "don't be polite. It's not in the Yamen. Let's keep busy."

Jiabao came over and shouted, "adoptive father."

"Hey." Lord Cai answered happily. Looking at Jiabao's sweat, he wiped it for him and asked, "are you tired?"

Jiabao shook his head, smiled and said, "OK. That adoptive father, I'll be busy first. We'll finish cutting this field in the morning. "

"OK, go." Lord Cai replied.

Looking at Jiabao's cutting now, adult Cai sighed: "I haven't seen him for a few months. I'm more and more sensible."

Yu Qingze replied with a smile, "yes, now it's the small accounting room in the store. It's capable."

Lord Cai laughed, and then asked, "do you have any extra cutters? Let's cut it, too. "

Yu Qingze raised his eyebrows and said in surprise, "are you going too?"

Lord Cai nodded and asked, "why don't you think I will?"

"No, I'll get the knife." Yu Qingze touched his nose, went to the box of grain he had cut, took his own, and then went to the dung dustpan at the head of the field and came over with two spare ones.

Yu Qingze gave the one he had used to Lord Cai, "this one has been used. Be sharp."

Lord Cai handed it to Luo Mingda.

Luo Mingda was stunned and pointed to himself, "me?"

Lord Cai nodded and said, "try it. You are the parent official of Tongshan. You have to know how the people under your rule live and work. Experience it. Come on."

With that, Lord Cai couldn't help but put the grain cutter into lominda's hand.

Lominda:

"My Lord, why don't I come? Lord Luo has never done this..." the county magistrate said quickly.

"Don't worry, this is yours." Lord Cai handed the county magistrate another cutting knife.

County Magistrate:

"Well, let's go." Lord Cai took off his robe and handed it to his entourage. Then he rolled up his sleeves and was ready to fight.

Seeing that the magistrate had gone to cut, luomingda and the county Cheng had to take off their robes, learn from Lord Cai, roll up their sleeves and walk to Daohe.

"Shall I show you?" Yu Qingze asked.

"You show them both." As soon as Lord Cai said this, he squatted down directly, and then cut with the grain cut by Yu Qingze. The action was quite like that.

Seeing that Lord CAI was all right, Yu Qingze turned to look at Luo Mingda and the county magistrate.

Lominda handed the cutting knife in his hand to him.

Yu Qingze smiled and showed them again.

After that, Luo Mingda frowned and squatted down, imitating Yu Qingze's appearance, grasping the grass stump with his left hand and exerting himself with his right hand.

Brush——

The first time, it wasn't all cut. He frowned again and tried again. This time he cut it off, but he tried too hard. He stepped back and almost sat down.

However, looking at the cut grass stump, Luo Mingda hummed and smiled, and then moved on to the next stump

Yu Qingze looked at it on the side, smiled, and warned: "Sir, you can put some more knives down."

"Oh, so?" When Luo Mingda heard the speech, he stuck his knife to the ground and cut a stump of grass.

"Well, yes, that's about it."

I heard that three adults were going to cut grass. Jiabao and Chang Hao secretly looked here and smiled.

Yu Qingze walked over and gently gave each of them a brain collapse. He said, "look, cut it."

They touched their foreheads and smiled, then cut them.

However, they stopped looking, but other villagers in the nearby field were watching curiously. It's strange that adults in the city come to the fields to cut crops.

Two of CAI's entourage hugged the three adults' clothes to Mr. Sun, then went to Jiabao and Chang Hao, took the cutting knife in their hands, and squatted down to cut them.

Jiabao and Chang Hao looked at the two big brothers of the guard and cut much faster than them. They went to the field, poured water and drank, and sat on the ridge to have a rest.

It's still early now. Before noon, Yu Qingze thought about the lunch. There are six more men, and the food at home is not enough.

He went over and discussed with Grandpa Chang. At that time, he had to buy a fish from the uncle by the river, and then kill a chicken. With the original dishes at home, it should be almost the same.

Lord Cai cut for about a quarter of an hour, squatted tired, stood up and moved.

Yu Qingze walked over and said, "my Lord, I'll come."

Lord Cai handed the knife to Yu Qingze and said, "come on. I cut too slowly. "

Yu Qingze took the knife and whispered to Cai Dahan while cutting: "Sir, you're not afraid of master Luo's temper?"

Lord Cai squatted down, sighed and whispered, "his father wrote to me and asked me to take care of it. Alas, his nature is not bad. He is used to playing and never thinks about business."

Yu Qingze sighed at the speech, and then said, "you brought him here to let him experience it?"

Lord Cai shook his head and said, "Oh, this is by the way. I read Wei'er's letter and said that when he came to play before, Chang Hao told him that you got some new crops and a foot thresher. I just wanted to have a look. The people live too hard. If there is any way to increase food production and income and let them eat enough, I want to try. Mr. Sun is the person I found in Yunzhou who has ideas in this regard, so I brought him. "

Upon hearing the speech, Yu Qingze said, "I see. I'll show you when I get back. One of them, called ground eggs, has been planted in the north. With success, we can also plant them here. We have planted them for a season. I wanted to plant another season. When I planted more potatoes, I mobilized the villagers to plant them together. This thing is very full, and it is mainly harvested in winter and spring. After harvest, it can almost be planted, which can be connected with rice transplanting in spring. "

When Lord Cai heard the speech, he said happily, "that means that there can be a variety of seasons in the field?"

"Yes." Yu Qingze nodded and said, "it seems that the survival rate of this thing is OK. It can be cooked, steamed or simmered like sweet potatoes. It tastes good. I'll make it for you at noon."

"That's great!" Lord CAI was so excited that he stood up and said, "cut it quickly. After cutting, let's go back and have a look. I'll talk to Mr. Sun first. "

Then he went to find Mr. Sun.

With the help of Lord Cai's two attendants, cutting the grain is much faster.

Luo Mingda and Xian Cheng didn't cut fast. Of course, Yu Qingze didn't expect them, so after about two quarters of an hour, Yu Qingze asked Jiabao and Chang Hao to take over the two adults' cutting knives.

Lominda stood up, his hands dirty, especially the right hand holding the knife, with mud on his knuckles. However, he turned and looked at the small piece of rice he cut behind him. Although he put it in a bit of a twist, he inexplicably had a sense of achievement. What's going on?

He smiled, raised his arm and wiped the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve.

"My Lord, there is water in the ditch at the head of the field. You can wash it." Yu Qingze reminded me.

Lominda and county Cheng went to wash their hands.

The seven minute field was cut off before noon. The party cleaned up and went home.

After entering the house, luomingda and Xian Cheng found that Yu Qingze's house was really big, much better than some houses in the city, and without those winding paths, flower beds and rockeries, the yard looked particularly spacious in the middle.

"Hey, boss Yu, what's that?" The county magistrate pointed to the yard and asked.

On the right side of the yard, there are three plants in more than thirty pots. The highest row, under the green branches and leaves, is full of strings of red and green fruits, round and particularly beautiful. In the remaining two rows, some are still seedlings, some branches and leaves grow very high, and small yellow flowers bloom.

"That's persimmon. A brother brought it back from the south. We don't have it yet. We planted the two rows of short fruitless ones ourselves. " Yu Qingze explained.

Because he was afraid that it would be difficult to manage the seeds outside, the children would pick the red fruits when they saw them. Grandpa Chang also brought the seeds to the pot to plant them. Then when the tomatoes are ripe, Grandpa Chang collects the seeds and tries to plant them in one or two pots. The more you plant, the more pots there are.

"Hey, I know this. There are seeds in the garden of the imperial palace. The red one is very beautiful." Lominda looked at the persimmon and said happily.

Yu Qingze smiled and said, "I'll fry a plate later for you to taste."

Luo Mingda was surprised and asked, "can you eat this?"

Yu Qingze nodded and said, "I can eat it. It tastes very good."

Mr. Sun and Mr. Cai went to the tomato and looked like it.

When he heard that the taste was good, Luo Mingda's eyes lit up. He leaned over and picked up the tomato and smelled it. He said, "no one eats it in the capital. It's all for viewing. It's still edible."

"Yes, you can eat." Yu Qingze smiled and said to Lord Cai, "Lord Cai, I'll take you to see the eggs."

"OK, OK, let's go." When Lord Cai heard the speech, he took several people to follow Yu Qingze to the storage room behind him.

Yu Qingze took out a small basket of potatoes, showed them, and told them the benefits of this thing.

Lord CAI and Mr. Sun discussed it again.

"I heard there are several other vegetables?" Lord Cai asked.

"Yes, I'll take you to the field after dinner."

After showing them the potatoes, Yu Qingze went to the kitchen for lunch. Lord CAI and Mr. Sun were discussing around the tomatoes and potatoes in their hands. The county magistrate followed them and listened to them.

Lord Cai saw lominda sitting in the room drinking tea leisurely, so he called him over and asked him to listen.

Luo Mingda, who didn't have enough to eat and work in the morning and was cooing with hunger:

Fortunately, Jiabao brought some plates of snacks, and Chang Hao brought them a stool again. Young master Luo was satisfied and listened to them while sitting and eating snacks.

The county magistrate looked at him eating snacks one by one and kindly reminded him, "Sir, don't eat too full. I'll have lunch later."

With such a reminder, LuoMing stopped eating snacks at Dayton. Yu Qingze cooked this noon. I have to keep my stomach for delicious food.

Lord Cai shook his head when he saw this. Then, while discussing with Mr. Sun, he asked Luo Mingda's views from time to time, forcing him to listen carefully to what they said and answer from time to time.

At this time, Luo Mingda knew that Lord Cai came to Niutou village for these new crops, not for the dishes made by Yu Qingze.

He listened to Mr. Sun and Mr. Cai imagine how much food and income the new crops can increase for the farmers, how many people can eat and how many people can avoid starvation. He couldn't help sitting up straight slowly and his expression became more and more serious

When Jiabao said he could have dinner, Luo Mingda was surprised. Why did he listen to it unconsciously?

He took a big breath and immediately got up to wash his hands by the well.

Finally we can eat!

Lunch is naturally very rich, and there are several dishes that have not been seen in the restaurant. Like chicken stewed mushrooms, potato stewed chicken, pickled fish, scrambled eggs with tomatoes, hot and sour shredded potatoes, and other home-made dishes.

A big table full of fragrance.

Mr. Sun and Lord Cai's two attendants had never eaten the dishes cooked by Yu Qingze. After the first bite, they couldn't care to talk to Lord Cai anymore, and they all buried themselves in eating.

Young master Luo Mingda was not polite either. He ate happily and contented. He secretly said in his heart that he was lucky to keep his stomach.

After lunch, as a walk after dinner, Yu Qingze took Lord CAI and his party to the field again. It was the end of September, and the sun was not so big. It was not too hot.

In the field, Grandpa Chang sowed three kinds of vegetables in July. Now the cabbage has grown very well. It is estimated that it will almost begin to knot soon; Cauliflower has begun to bear small balls; Dutch beans are also lush.

Yu Qingze showed them cauliflower, cabbage and Dutch beans one by one, and introduced them to the characteristics and benefits of these three dishes. Lord CAI and Lord Sun couldn't help nodding and said straight.

After reading the new crops, Lord Cai discussed with Yu Qingze and Luo Mingda and wanted Yu Qingze to cultivate seeds. At that time, the seeds will be purchased in the name of the county government, and then distributed to farmers to promote planting.

At the beginning, Luo Mingda didn't understand why he wanted to buy it in the name of the county government. The county magistrate whispered an explanation in his ear. When it comes to promotion, it has achieved results. The lives of farmers have improved and there are no more people starving to death. This is even a great achievement of the county government.

Luo Mingda listened, realized, and nodded in agreement.

Yu Qingze also agreed, but he also put forward conditions that demonstration planting must be done first in Niutou village.

For this point, Lord CAI and Luo Mingda have no opinion, and the three parties have reached an agreement.

It was settled. In the afternoon, Lord CAI and his party appreciated the magic of stepping on the thresher and were all amazed.

Mr. Sun even wants to take it down and have a look.

After the discussion between lord CAI and Mr. Sun, Lord Cai asked Yu Qingze whether he could present the rice bed and the invention of the foot thresher to the imperial court for the benefit of the people.

Yu Qingze listened, pulled Lord Cai aside and asked, "can this be your political achievement?"

Lord Cai did not hide it from him and said directly, "I just presented it as a discoverer. The imperial court has set up special rewards in this regard. If it is confirmed to be useful by the Ministry of household and the Ministry of work, the holy master will give rewards to the producers according to their contributions. Of course, there must be some light on the side of the government. If the holy master is happy, he is estimated to get some rewards. He will certainly get some points in the assessment of the Ministry of officials at the end of the year. "

Hearing the speech, Yu Qingze said, "the rice bed was made last year. Many businessmen have taken it to the north. I don't know if it's still useful? However, I still have a drawing of the windmill, but the village head's house hasn't made it yet. It's used to separate the chaff from the rice. It's very useful. "

"Oh? Is it? Can you show me? " Lord Cai asked.

Yu Qingze drew a picture for him directly on the ground and said it briefly. Finally, he said, "I have to discuss this matter with the village head's family, because I promised to cooperate with them before. I have to ask their opinions."

Lord Cai nodded understandingly and said, "OK, you can discuss with them. But I hope it can be extended to the whole country. And it will take us some time to submit it. You can sell it during this time. Besides, you made this thing, and you can do it here. The imperial court doesn't promote it so fast. Don't worry about it. "

Yu Qingze nodded and said, "OK, I'll discuss it with the village head in the evening. How many days are you staying in Tongshan? "

Lord Cai said, "I'll go back to Yunzhou the day after tomorrow. I'll go to the county government to see the situation tomorrow. If you discuss the results, go to the county government to find me."

"OK."