☆, Chapter 62: Bring Liu Ya to our home!
The first person to advise was Chen Xiuxiu: "Brother Zhao, I know you don't want people to look down on you, and you don't want people to say that your whole family depends on Liuya for support, but no one in the Great Liang Kingdom has ever grown autumn rice before, which means it definitely can't be grown. If you plant it, it's a waste of time. Why don't we plant something else?"
Nothing is more practical than growing rice.
Chen Xiuxiu's mother had always disliked Zhao Yunjing and didn't want her daughter to associate with him. After he publicly announced a few days ago that he was Zhou Mujiao's fiancé, Chen's mother disliked Zhao Yunjing even more. At this moment, she said sarcastically, "Let him plant! Let him plant! When he doesn't harvest a single grain of rice, he'll know he's wrong! When that happens, people from all over the villages will laugh at him!"
Uncle Zhao thought the same way. In order to embarrass him, when others talked about Zhao Yun Jing, they would hit them and say, "If our Yun Jing wants to plant, he can definitely plant it! If you don't want to plant, then don't plant, don't block others!"
After returning home, the whole family held a meeting and unanimously concluded that Zhao Yunjing had been driven mad by Young Master Chen and his group, and was eager to make a name for himself, which was why he wanted to plant rice in this season.
However, Uncle Zhao hesitated for a moment: "Big brother, second brother, didn't they say that the third brother's family has a change of fortune? They can even raise fish now, and the vegetables by the house are growing so well. The chickens and ducks are all big and fat. Maybe they can really grow the autumn rice. Why don't we follow them and plant one or two acres?"
“If you want to plant it, you plant it yourself. I’m not going to suffer for nothing,” Uncle Zhao said, pursing his lips.
After thinking for a moment, she said, "I think the one who will change our fortune is not the Zhao family, but the sixth daughter of the Zhou family! The embroidery shop is run by the sixth daughter, and those young masters and gentlemen come to her for help. Even the third son and his wife work for her. All the money is in the sixth daughter's pocket. What does the Zhao family have to do with this?"
Uncle Zhao got excited: "Then, if Liuya came to our house, wouldn't our family also become rich?"
Uncle Zhao immediately denied it: "Impossible. That girl's indenture is in Yun Jing's hands. She's now part of the Third Brother's family. How could she possibly come to our house?"
"Isn't it enough that the indenture is in Yun Jing's hands? Yun Jing is a member of the Zhao family, and that girl is also a member of the Zhao family. Since they are members of the Zhao family, we can definitely use it!"
"Then you go and ask them for it yourself, Second Brother, and see if they'll give it to you," Uncle Zhao said in a low voice. "I think that girl and Yun Jing are both very strange. Haven't you noticed? Everyone who opposes them and tries to take advantage of them ends up being unlucky."
Uncle Zhao's words stirred up some painful memories for the Zhao family. Everyone shuddered and dared not have any more designs on Zhou Mujiao. They secretly hoped that Zhao Yunjing would plant all the fields and then harvest not a single grain of rice. Only then could they finally vent their anger.
Chen Xiuxiu's father was the village head, so his perspective was naturally different from his wife and daughter. When he heard that Zhao Yunjing was going to plant autumn rice, he came over to inquire: "Yunjing, how much profit do you expect from planting this autumn rice?"
"No plan has been made."
"Isn't it too frivolous to plant something without any planning?"
Zhao Yunjing smiled and said, "We people of the Great Liang Kingdom didn't know how to grow rice from the beginning. The first person to grow rice didn't dare to say how much success he had before he got a harvest. If we hadn't tried because we didn't have any chance of success, we people of the Great Liang Kingdom would probably still be eating tree bark, wild vegetables, and grass roots."
The village head thought for a moment and said, "What you said makes sense, but if you manage to grow it, you have to teach the villagers how to grow it. If you don't manage to grow it, then just pretend I didn't say anything."
Zhao Yunjing smiled but didn't say anything. He turned around and went to get the seeds. When the seeds sprouted and he sowed them in the field, he found that Chen Xiuxiu was also sowing seeds.
Chen Xiuxiu smiled at him: "Brother Zhao, I don't earn as much money as Liu Ya, but I can work with you in the fields. I'm not afraid of hardship or dirt, I don't need to wear so many pretty clothes, and I won't have close relationships with men outside. I will only stay with you."
Zhao Yunjing originally didn't want to pay attention to her, especially since he had already confessed his feelings to Zhou Mujiao, so he should stay even further away from Chen Xiuxiu. However, he couldn't help but retort to Chen Xiuxiu's words.
“I’m with Gillian Chung not so she can work the land and suffer with me. She can wear beautiful clothes, she can earn money without lifting a finger, just by talking, and she can associate with men outside because they are her employees, and they are all working for her. Are you not afraid of hardship or dirt because you don’t like comfort or beautiful clothes? No, it’s because you are not Gillian Chung and you don’t have Gillian Chung’s abilities.”
Chen Xiuxiu was brought to tears again by Zhou Mujiao's words. She ran up to Zhou Mujiao and snorted, "Zhou Liuya! Don't think you're so great! One day I'll surpass you!"
After finding out exactly what Zhao Yunjing had said to her, Zhou Mujiao laughed rather unkindly.
She recalled a famous quote from the internet:
Why didn't you go to Tsinghua University? Was it because you didn't like it?
Zhao Yunjing had already made someone cry, so Zhou Mujiao thought that Xiuxiu would definitely not talk to him anymore. However, she underestimated Xiuxiu's deep affection for Zhao Yunjing. After crying all night, she came out to Tianshi on time the next day and smiled brightly at Zhao Yunjing.
Zhao Yunjing was balding, and seeing that Zhou Mujiao had less to do lately, he dragged her to the fields with him. Along with the children, the family divided the tasks and competed to plant rice seedlings and catch loaches, making it a lively affair.
On the other hand, Chen Xiuxiu was all alone and desolate. Originally, Chen's mother didn't want to pay attention to her daughter, but seeing her like this, she couldn't help but feel sorry for her and pulled the village head to go down to the fields with her.
The Zhao family planted rice seedlings in all their paddy fields, and the whole family worked together, taking five or six days to complete the task.
"It's so hot!"
Eighteen sat in front of the house drinking water, looking as if he were steaming, wishing he could roll around in the river.
Summer has finally arrived, and the sun is getting stronger every day. Even if you do nothing but sit in front of the house, you can still break out in a sweat.
Zhou Mujiao misses modern air conditioning, Wi-Fi, and watermelons. Wi-Fi is out of the question, and watermelons are tropical fruits. Taohua County is located in the north of the Central Plains, and the soil and climate are not suitable for growing watermelons. She has plans to grow watermelons, but her business plans are just beginning, and she needs to expand beyond Taohua County first.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Only by taking each step steadily can you go faster and further.
As for air conditioning, there's no way to develop or manufacture it here, but it shouldn't be too difficult to make a few bowls of ice to cool down.
The method of ice making in the royal family of the Great Liang Kingdom was very simple. In winter, officials would lead people down into the river to chisel off the ice blocks and then transport them to ice cellars for storage. When needed, they would come down to retrieve them. However, in summer, ice blocks were rare and luxurious items, and even in the royal palace, not everyone was entitled to use them.
But where is Zhou Mujiao going to find ice in the middle of summer?
Zhou Mujiao loved reading popular science books. She had just seen a method for making ice before. After eliminating all the impossible options, she chose to make it with saltpeter.
Making ice with saltpeter is a simple and easy process; the key is finding saltpeter.
Zhou Mujiao slapped Shiba's head: "Come on, let's go into the mountains with your sister!"
"Going into the mountains to find something good to eat?"
"Find something that will make 18 sleep comfortably every night!"
Is that something cool?
"yes."
"What does it look like? Is it fragrant or smelly?"
"White or gray, neither fragrant nor smelly."
After thinking for a moment, Shiba pulled her to the big tree on the hillside in front of the house: "Sister Jiaojiao, is this it?"
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