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After breakfast, Wu Liu proposed to leave: "The matter of Huangjianao Village still needs to be dealt with, and the movements of all parties must be closely monitored, I want to leave for a while, you can stay here with peace of mind, although you can mention food and clothing to the steward, if you want to go out, wait for Lang Zhong to see it, and confirm that it is okay to go." ”

Shen Miao nodded, he could see the importance of the matter of Huangjian Ao Zhuang to Wu Liu, and saving him was just incidental, so he said, "You are busy with you." ”

"Be careful yourself." Wu Liu commanded and left.

The little girls were cleaning the patio, and they were afraid that Shen Miao would be bored, so they asked one of them to come up and say to Shen Miao: "Childe, do you want to put a chair in front of the porch, this building is the highest in the village, and you can see a lot of places." ”

Shen Miao thought about it, and couldn't move around for the time being, so she sat down for a while to look at the surrounding situation, and then agreed: "Find me a thicker piece of clothing." ”

"Hmm." The little girl agreed to open the closet, found a thick cloak, and because she had never seen this thing, she asked Shen Miao unconvinced, "Childe, is this okay?" Like a quilt. ”

Shen Miao couldn't help but smile and corrected: "This is called a cloak, not a quilt." ”

The little girl nodded: "Can that work?" ”

"Absolutely." Shen Miao nodded, and the little girl ran over happily, tiptoed to drape Shen Miao, and moved a chair made of bamboo, put a cushion on it, and prepared to help Shen Miao over.

Shen Miao just had a pain in her chest, except for the inconvenience of getting up, the rest of the time was fine, so she said to the little girl: "I walk slowly by myself and move my muscles and bones." ”

The little girl hurriedly refused: "No, my father said that it would take a hundred days to break his muscles and bones, but my son was only the next day, so he couldn't leave." ”

Shen Miao couldn't help but laugh again, she was really a little ghost, and hurriedly explained: "This is different. ”

The little girl couldn't understand, and she refused to withdraw her outstretched hand, so Shen Miao had to follow her wishes, let her slowly help her out, and asked the little girl with a smile after sitting firmly: "What's your name?" ”

"My name is Da Niu, and I am the eldest in the family, so I call it that." The big chick said with a smile.

The little girls below also heard the voice on the second floor, and said one after another: "Childe, my name is Xiaohua, when my mother gave birth to me, the wildflowers next to the house bloomed, and my father gave me this name." ”

"Childe, my name is Ah Zhu, and there are bamboos next to our house, so my mother took it."

"Childe, my name is Duo'er, my mother always says that I am a little bull, so I am called Duo'er, but I have a sister behind me, and she is called Duoduo."

The little girls smiled heartily and said simple but actually a little sad names, Shen Miao listened carefully, remembered them one by one, and recognized all four little girls. The big girl is the tallest, the small flowers are more beautiful, Azhu is a little thin, and Duoer is the most lively.

The four little girls were very diligent with their hands and feet, and in a short time they finished cleaning the patio and began to carry buckets and wipe the pillars and railings.

Shen Miao stopped them: "It's been raining for the past few days, and it's useless to wipe it." ”

"No way!" The four girls shook their heads in unison, pointed to the carved cracks in the railings and said, "Look, there's a lot of dust in here, you must wipe it." ”

Shen Miao had no choice but not to dampen their enthusiasm, and instead cast her eyes into the distance.

The scenery in the distance makes him feel familiar, green mountains and green waters, clouds and mist, cuckoo spring, ploughing oxen ploughing, close to the valley rain, it is the season of pulling seedlings and planting seedlings, the field of raising seedlings is a piece of emerald green, the field of preparation for planting has been piled up with field mud, and the spring rain overnight injects sufficient water into it.

It's a good time to be busy.

The good times are hard to hide the weirdness, just like this other village, four little girls clean a small patio, and there are surprisingly many people in the field, there are as many as six or seven people working at the same time in an acre of field, and there are many children standing on the ridge.

More people and less land! It's such a waste of manpower, especially in a season like this.

Shen Miao sighed, since she was idle and bored, she thought of some solutions to play!

The most convenient way to solve this problem is to let the farmers go back to their original residences, but Wu Liu said that the taxes outside the village are heavy, and the people dare not go back. If you don't go, you can only provide as much land as possible for farmers to cultivate, but the terrain here is dominated by mountains and forests, and most of the land available for cultivation is a plain, and the area is not large. If the plain area is not enough, then the only way to ask for land is to go to the mountains, and the general method is to build terraces in the mountains.

Huh! Speaking of terraces, he didn't pay attention to it just now, but now he finds something strange, there are no terraces here? Is it blocked by a mountain?

Shen Miao then asked the little girls, and after the little girls asked what the terraces looked like, they shook their heads in unison and said no.

Shen Miao became more and more strange, there are terraces in Huangjianao Village, why are there no here?

In addition to the strange fact of the terraced fields, the area of tea and mulberry trees planted here is also low, and although these cannot be preserved, they can generate high profits and bring good income, which can be exchanged for food storage.

Shen Miao was thinking about it, when the big girl interrupted him: "Childe, Duo'er went to get porridge, where do you want to eat?" This way? Or go back inside? ”

"That's it." Shen Miao smiled and said.

The big girl hurriedly beckoned Xiaohua to go to the house to move a table, Duo'er went upstairs with the food box, and put the food in the box on the table, a small pot of lean meat and green vegetable porridge, with a dish of moldy tofu.

The porridge was stewed just right, the fragrance was overflowing, and it was appetizing, and the little girls couldn't help but take a sip.

Shen Miao hurriedly greeted: "Come on, come on, not together." ”

"No, no, no." The little girls shook their heads in unison, "We've all eaten, and we've eaten a lot." ”

"Yes, yes, and the son eats thin, but we eat dry today." Xiaohua said with a smile.

"Such a big white-flour steamed bun, it's the first time I've eaten one by myself." Doer gestured to a big novel.

The eldest girl also nodded: "In the past, you could only eat one during the New Year's holidays, and you had to share it with your younger brothers and sisters, but today it is one for each person." ”

"Aunt Zhang in the kitchen specially served us pickles, and there is meat in the pickles." Ah Zhu probed at the top of the stairs and followed to add.

Shen Miao was sad for a while, and she was happy to be like this when she ate a white-flour steamed bun, and the life of the farmers in the village was really difficult. He remembered Fang Cai's thoughts again, originally just thinking about it, but did not decide to take action, but now he had the idea of trying to solve it. At the very least, let these little girls eat dry staple food for every meal!

But how, exactly?

Shen Miao thought while eating, field trips were inevitable, he couldn't go out for the time being, so he could only make preparations first, and at the same time learn some information that could be obtained by dictation, such as what crops are usually planted? What's the climate like? What about precipitation? Wait a minute. This information can be asked to these little girls, or to other people in the village.

Shen Miao made up her mind, started to act after eating the porridge, first set a few directions, and began to ask questions to the little girls, the little girls had no reservations, they tried to say what they knew, and those who didn't know said that they didn't know very well, or what it might be, and those who didn't know honestly said they didn't know.

When it was over, the little girls were also full of enthusiasm and said that there were some things they could help to ask other people in the village, and Shen Miao sent them to ask.

As a result, in the evening, the steward came in person and asked Shen Miao euphemistically: "I don't know why the prince inquired about the affairs of the village?" ”