Qin Yue looked at Li Yan with a deep gaze, "Young lady, you are very thoughtful!"
Li Yan smiled helplessly, "Young Master, you didn't see that. The refugees who were resettled in our village, those children were obviously only a few years older than me, but I saw the calm look in their eyes. There was no hope or expectation in them, only endless numbness. I just injected a glimmer of possibility into their ordinary lives."
In this era, it is extremely difficult for women to live a stable life, obeying their fathers at home and their husbands after marriage. If they can have a skill to rely on, and can rely on what they learned in childhood to persevere when they are in desperate situations, it will not be a waste of her current arrangements.
Qin Yue thought of his own childhood, which was no different from these children's. He closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, his expression had returned to normal. He smiled and said to Li Yan, "I have a few cloth shops in the south, and one of them employs embroiderers. I'll write a letter and ask them to send someone over!"
"Thank you so much, Mr. Qin!" Li Yan thanked him happily. She hadn't expected this matter to be resolved so easily.
Qin Yue waved his hand nonchalantly. To him, this was just a matter of words, and it was indeed not worth mentioning compared to the ice-making method that Li Yan told him.
Li Yan took a sip of tea and then asked, "Young Master just said he had something to tell me. What is it?"
"Oh, that's what you said last time about growing rice in Rongcheng. I wonder if it's possible in other places in the north?"
"If you want to grow rice in other parts of the North, the most important thing is not to have a shortage of water."
"What if I go to the Central Plains?"
Li Yan was stunned. "Compared to the dry and rainy northwest, where only a few places have suitable conditions for planting, the Central Plains is obviously more suitable."
"Sir, do you want to go to the Central Plains and give it a try?"
Qin Yue nodded. The Central Plains had just suffered from a flood, and a large amount of land was idle. He got the news that as long as someone was willing to reclaim and plant crops, the land would be very cheap. He planned to arrange for people to collect some land and try to plant rice next year.
Li Yan obviously thought of this. It is obviously impossible to feed the soldiers by just guarding her own piece of land. In addition to purchasing and storing as much as possible, another thing to do is to cultivate and plant crops.
It’s a pity that she doesn’t have much money now, otherwise she would like to go to the Central Plains to buy a small farm.
Looking at Li Yan who was lost in thought, Qin Yue waved his hand in front of him and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
"Oh, I think your idea is great. The Central Plains is warmer than here, and more suitable for growing crops. It's a pity that my potatoes haven't reached harvest season yet. If they were planted in the Central Plains, we could have two harvests a year, and August would be just the right time to plant!"
Qin Yue couldn't help but become interested after hearing this, "What are potatoes? If they can be planted, isn't now a good time?"
"It's the round thing I asked you for when we first met."
Qin Yue recalled the scene of their first meeting, and then he remembered with difficulty that it was the emperor who ordered Eunuch Xiao Xia to bring this food as a reward for his father, saying that this thing was a tribute from a foreign country.
Thinking of this, Qin Yue's excited heart cooled down in an instant. He really had no idea.
Li Yan looked at his expression and knew that she had guessed correctly. Qin Yue didn't have this thing either.
"It's a pity. The temperature here is so low that we can only grow one crop a year. If we bring it to the Central Plains, we can grow two crops a year. I heard this crop is also very productive, with an acre of land yielding over 3,000 kilograms!"
"What!" Qin Yue stood up from the stool in surprise, "Is the yield per mu really that much?"
Thinking about the land now, without pesticides or fertilizers, Li Yan thought for a moment and said, "If it's not 3,000 kilograms, 2,000 kilograms is fine."
Compared with the output of two or three hundred kilograms, this output is already astonishing!
Qin Yue believed that the person in front of him was not deceiving him. Since she could make ice cubes out of saltpeter, he no longer regarded the girl in front of him as an ordinary peasant girl.
Seeing Qin Yue's regretful look, Li Yan couldn't help but say, "Why don't you go ask the general? If this thing was originally stored in the cellar, maybe it can still be grown!"
When Qin Yue heard this, he couldn't sit still and wanted to go to the camp to find out.
Seeing this, Li Yan stood up and said goodbye. The purpose of her trip was achieved, and she just had to wait for Qin Yue to send the embroiderer over!
Li Yan returned to the shop and helped her brother press noodles for a while. Not long after, her cousin came over and said, "Let's go, little uncle will take us back!"
Li Yan stopped what she was doing and said, "Brother, please give my mother a message. I won't be going home tonight. I'm going to my uncle's house!"
"Okay, go slower on your way!"
Lin Feng was waiting outside the shop in his carriage. Seeing the visitor, he smiled and said, "Your aunt would definitely be very happy to see you."
"Is it my eldest aunt who is happy, or my youngest aunt?"
Lin Feng nodded Li Yan's head and scolded with a smile: "You mischievous ghost, you are so happy!" Well, after the two of them sat down, he waved the carriage to the college to pick up his nephew.
Lin Yan was very happy to see that his cousin was also going home. They talked and laughed along the way and soon arrived at the Lin family's house.
As soon as Li Yan entered the room, her aunt, who had heard the noise, was the first to see her. She put down the rabbit fur scarf she was sewing and came over with a smile on her face. "Girl, why didn't you tell me in advance that your cousin was coming? I could have prepared food in advance."
Li Yan greeted her aunt, "We're all family, there's no need to go to so much trouble."
At this time, my aunt-in-law came out of the rabbit cage in the yard, carrying a fat white rabbit, and said, "Sister-in-law, why don't we stew the rabbit tonight?"
Lin Feng took the rabbit from his wife's hand first and went to clean it up.
"Uncle, the weather is hot, so you can just have some cool mixed vegetables for dinner. There's no need to go through so much trouble!" Li Yan advised.
Of course, no one would listen to Li Yan's words. "If you want to eat some cold dishes, your aunt will make them for you tonight!"
He then instructed his daughter, "It's rare for your sister to come home, so you should talk to her." After that, he took his younger brother and sister-in-law to the kitchen to get busy.
"Sister, let's go feed the rabbits!"
As soon as Li Yan entered the door, she saw dozens of rabbits raised in the corner of the courtyard wall. Some were big, some were small, and their fur was all white and gray.
Domestic rabbits are not afraid of people. Li Yan walked up to the rabbit cage and picked up some vegetable leaves to tease them. The rabbits just moved closer to the cage, and as soon as their pink little mouths touched the leaves, they kept moving, which looked very cute.
"Is this rabbit easy to raise?"
Lin Qing nodded. "We didn't originally have so many rabbits. The rabbits my uncle bought are already pregnant. This litter is much bigger. The least is four, and the most is more than ten. Isn't this what you see now!"
Li Yan couldn't help but sigh, this rabbit's reproductive ability is really strong!
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