Song Chen and Liufu were discussing the matter of rice planting, and now that it was Qingming, it was time to start planting rice. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Qian Ming had already arranged for people to raise seedlings before the Zhuangzi was just completed, and now they have grown to the extent that they can be planted.

The scope of Baiyun Mountain they bought is more than 1,000 acres, and more than 20 acres of the mountain are used to build Zhuangzi, and there are hundreds of acres of fruit forests around Zhuangzi, and then the paddy fields at the foot of the mountain and the terraced fields reclaimed on the slopes of the mountain, how to say it in total, there are probably more than 900 acres, except for dozens of acres of water diversion that are not so convenient for planting soybeans, peanuts and yams, the remaining more than 800 acres are paddy fields.

Previously, it was only breeding, so Qian Ming only hired more than ten long-term workers, but if he wanted to plant all these lands during the Qingming Festival, these little manpower would obviously not be enough.

With so much land, it would take at least 80 people to plant it, and the nearby villages could hire short-term laborers, so it would be no problem to plant all of them. However, after the rice field is planted, there will be a lot of follow-up work in the future, such as weeding and loosening the land.

However, the nearby villagers have their own land, and there is no way to hire long-term workers, according to the meaning of Liufu, they want to go to Lily of the Valley City and buy about 20 young and middle-aged laborers to come back, so that it is more secure than hiring long-term workers.

If you want to pick up the people who do the work, Lukfook is more proficient. He first hired more than 50 short-term workers, and divided them equally among the long-term workers who had been hired to lead them to work, all this was arranged, and when the workers were already working in the fields, he took the time to go to Lily of the Valley City.

He set off at the right time, and only returned to Zhuangzi when he was in the middle of the year, but he went very smoothly, and when he came back, he brought twenty men in his prime, four of whom were still dragging his family, adding up to twenty-eight people, and invited five carriages to pull people back.

These are all refugees who fled from Yiguo to Dalan, and they have just arrived in Lily of the Valley City, otherwise, they would have been picked up by others. Yiguo discovered a large amount of iron ore in the territory a few years ago, and the whole country was very rich with this, so he didn't pay any attention to the recruitment of the Eagle Country, but he didn't expect Feng Qingyuan to find an excuse a year ago, and directly sent a large army to attack them. Yiguo is a small country, and the army of the whole country is not as much as a city in the Eagle Country, where can it resist, and finally it was destroyed, and the original people were ruined and fled one after another.

Among these twenty middle-aged men, sixteen of them were lone soldiers, but they did not expect that when they were fighting the front line, the rear was outflanked by the Eagle Kingdom, and their families were slaughtered. They were chasing soldiers on the way to protect the monarch to escape from Yiguo, and they originally wanted to fight to the death with the people of the Eagle Country, but anyway, kill one Pingben, kill two to earn! But their king advised them to stay in the green hills, not afraid of running out of firewood. The country of Yi has been destroyed, if even they are martyred, then the bloodline of the country is completely broken. Only then did he escape all the way, but on the way, the monarch was exhausted and finally fell ill and died. In order to avoid the pursuers of the Eagle Country, they fled into Dalan.

At present, rice seedlings have been planted, and those who need to hire people to do the work have already hired enough manpower, and some short-term workers still give priority to hiring Dalan people, so they have not been able to find work. I had no choice but to discuss selling my body. It happened to be heard by the passing Lukfook, so he directly negotiated the price and conditions with them. At least the four people with their mothers and sons were also from Yiguo, and they were in a similar situation to the previous people, and Liufu took pity on them and bought them.

After Liufu asked these people to clean up and clean up, he took everyone to the courtyard of Sanmen the next day to see Song Chen and Su Miao.

Those people saw that the two masters were so young, and they were even more apprehensive in their hearts, at such a young age, if they were not extremely powerful characters, how could they have such a delicate housekeeper. That Miss Su looked at it with a smile that made people feel at ease, but although Song Gongzi had no expression on his face, his eyes that were so sharp that he seemed to be able to see through everything still made them involuntarily hold their minds.

In fact, before coming over, Luofu had already told them that these two masters were generous, but after all, these people were sold into slavery when they were desperate, and finally there was hope that they could settle down after having a place to stay, for fear that there would be some kind of misfortune and people would be driven out and displaced.

In fact, Song Chen only heard that these people had been soldiers before, and he was afraid that they would not obey Liufu's discipline, so he gave them a dismount, and when he saw that they were all a little cowering, he knew that the sharp energy on their bodies might have disappeared in the long run.

"What's your name?" Su Miao asked.

Those people all looked at Liufu, and the latter said: "If you go back to Miss Su, according to the rules of Dalan, you and Song Gongzi are waiting for you and Song Gongzi to give you a name!" ”

Su Miao looked at Song Chen, and the latter waved his hand: "No need, just call back to your original name!" "The destruction of Yiguo is already very sad, and it can't be that people can't even keep their original names.

Song Chen's words were obviously unexpected by those Yiguo people, it seems that the big housekeeper is really right, this young master looks cold-faced, but his heart is still soft, and he knelt down to thank him for his grace at the moment.

Song Chen frowned and said, "Neither Miss Su nor I like this, you can usually stand and salute and talk back." In addition, don't call us 'master' one by one, just call us the same as the big butler. Name it, all of you! ”

Twenty-eight people gave their names in turn, four children were all about six or seven years old, three boys and one girl. It should have been an innocent age, but after experiencing the collapse of the country and the collapse of the family, maybe it was due to the living environment, maybe it was the ears and eyes of adults, and their eyes had vigilance and panic that did not match their age.

Song Chen said to Liufu: "The children are still young and can't work, tomorrow you can ask if there is a private school in the nearby village, and send them all to school!" "Dalan's private school also accepts female students.

"We can all work, we won't eat rice!" The boy named Wei Shu'an had the courage to retort.

Su Miao touched his head: "I know you can work, but you should be in school at your age, anyway, your father and mother can already support you if they work." If you study hard, you can learn more skills and earn more money in the future, so that you can be filial to your parents! ”

Wei Shu'an thought about it, felt that Su Miao was reasonable, looked at his father and mother again, and saw that although they had tears in their eyes, they were smiling, so they stopped talking.

At this time, Xiao Bai, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, rushed in and yelled at Song Chen and Su Miao. In the morning, Song Chen and Su Miao promised that they would go to the mountains today, but they haven't set off yet!

The people in the courtyard who had never seen Xiaobai were all frightened, but they had already formed an abnormal vigilance, and they turned their backs to Song Chen and Su Miao at the first time, and they formed a protective circle. Luofu patted one of the overreacters: "Don't be afraid, Xiaobai was raised by Song Gongzi and Miss Su...... It understands human nature and doesn't hurt anyone! ”

Su Miao glared, and Xiaobai obediently lay on the ground, his mouth whining, as if he was complaining about his grievances.

When everyone saw this mighty white lion make such a humane move, they began to believe that it might really be as Leofish said.

"Okay, after breakfast, you can arrange the people to go down to the field!" Su Miao told Liufu, "Song Gongzi and I took Xiaobai to the mountain, and we won't come back for lunch." When it is almost six o'clock in the hour, you arrange for four or five men to go to the junction of the mountain and help carry the prey. ”

The next seven or eight consecutive days are the time for seed rushing. After Song Chen and Su Miao entered the mountain on the first day, they stayed in Zhuangzi on the next day to receive the second batch of grain sent by Lin Jiu, and then took Xiaobai for three consecutive days and hit a lot of prey, so that everyone in Zhuangzi feasted their stomachs.

A few days later, the second batch of grain was also sent from the side of Gladiolus City.

The rice has been completely planted, and two light rains in a row are just enough to replenish the seedlings with moisture. After the weather cleared, Song Chen and Su Miao walked in the fruit grove that had begun to sprout, looking up at a scene of clear weather and beautiful weather, Su Miao began to have some doubts in her heart: "Ah Chen, this looks quite smooth and rainy, it shouldn't be likely that the harvest will fail, right?" ”

"It's hard to say." Song Chen also looked at the sky, "This field has just been planted!" It will take two and a half months until the rice is fully ripe and ready to be harvested! Who can guarantee that the days ahead will always be smooth? Even if there is a harvest in this first season, but what about the second season? After all, this abnormal weather will eventually reflect on the harvest. ”

"That's too." Su Miao thought about it and agreed, "Master, he has eaten more salt than the rice we eat!" He hadn't seen anything before, probably because he had seen a similar phenomenon before, so he was so vigilant this time. Anyway, let's just hurry up and collect the grain! ”

The rice was also planted, and the grain harvest was smooth, Song Chen and Su Miao stayed in the Zhuangzi every day, and they went to the mountains more often, but they didn't go hunting. Su Miao she entered the mountain a few times, and found that there were often hunters on the periphery of the mountain, and from time to time there were some people who painted some medicinal materials to sell, but in the place inside, there were still a lot of medicinal materials, she went in from time to time to see, can she find some rare varieties, once they walked almost to the deepest depths, and she really found a ginseng field, the oldest one in the center looked at that year has been two hundred years, and the surroundings are full of her ginseng and grandson, the big one is also a hundred years old, and the youngest is already fifty years old. Su Miao directly dug up the oldest plant, and said that after drying, she would send it to Lin Jin and Xiao Jingyu. In addition, she has also dug up more than a dozen trees in the past hundred years, and told Song Chen that she could give them to Tang Tairu and Lao Jingwang. (To be continued.) )