Li Daniu's family also came, his family's corn picked a lot of tender corn to sell, and now there is not much that can be picked, mainly to harvest corn stalks for cattle feed, and seeing that the ground of the Mo family next to him has grown a half-foot-high soybean seedlings, Li Daniu sighed.

There are talented people in the village, such as Mo Wenrui's family, compared to how to even promote the family, the fields are tenanted to the villagers, and they don't touch a single grass, Mo Shubai's grades are the best, but if you look at the land planted, it is better than the most experienced old farmers.

"Changfu, look at your Mr. Mo's place, you have to learn from him." Li Da Niu pulled Li Changfu over and let his son see the strong soybean seedlings, now in this weather, to grow such a good crop, you have to carry water to water, two acres of soybeans, how much effort does it take.

Li Changfu liked him very much about Mr. Mo, and he was dejected when he heard this, "Dad, I also want to learn from Mr. Mo, but he doesn't teach anymore, what can I do." ”

Shubai, who was discussed by the Li family, chopped the two loads of firewood that he picked up yesterday, walked out of the house, and went to the field to talk with the villagers, he intended to rent some land and plant sorghum seeds for another round, but the conditions were too harsh, he stayed away, and he was not a fool of money, he could let people slaughter and not know how to resist.

Finally walked to Li Da Niu, the two hit it off, Li Da Niu was afraid that the drought would continue, and he had no intention of planting another crop, and the Li family owed the Mo family a favor, so he just took this opportunity to pay it back, Shubai promised to rent the land, not to mention, but also to pay for his family's labor to help farm the land, which has two layers of income, no matter how it is calculated, it is a good deal for the Li family.

Speaking of rent, Li Daniu was a little embarrassed, and his old face turned red, "This, Xiao Xiucai, you see that your uncle's family's such good bean sprouts recipes are given to us for free, if it is usual, you take this land and plant it for two years, and the uncle has nothing to say, but this year the family is really famine, and the calf has to carry his daughter-in-law home a year ago, so this ......"

Shubai said, "Uncle Niu, no matter whose land you rent, I will get this money, we will each take what we need, it has nothing to do with the side, you don't have to think about it, if you agree, let's invite the village chief to be a witness, write a contract, and this matter will be settled, okay?" ”

"Okay, what, Changfu, you go and invite your uncle." Li Daniu shouted loudly, and when several families heard it, they all pouted secretly, needless to say, they also knew that Li Daniu rented the land to Mo Shubai, really, grab those copper plates with us, you are interesting.

With the support of the village chief, Li Daniu didn't care whether other people's families were red-eyed, wrote a contract on the same day, and the next day the whole family went out to prepare the land, this is Shubai listened to Li Niang's opinion, and engaged in the contract system, from land preparation to sowing to watering, all contracted to the Li family, no matter whether the Li family took five days or three days to complete, anyway, the Mo family paid one or two silver wages, plus two hundred yuan of food money.

The Li family didn't dare to say anything about this reward, for fear of jealousy, and now they can't find such a good job in Jinshui Town, Mo Xiaoxiu is a kind person, just as righteous as his father.

Li Daniu's dry land here is only three acres, the family went out early and returned late for three days, the sorghum was planted, and the water for watering the ground was pulled from Mojia, saving time and effort, but the well was also emptied on the day of watering.

The next day, the Li family was worried that the Mo brothers and sisters would have no water to eat, so they specially asked Jiang and Li Duoer to come over, and Li Niang took them to the well and let them see that there was more than a meter of water in it.

The sorghum seeds planted in the land of Li Daniu's family, Li Niang's name is Xiansan, which means the third generation of Xianzhuang seeds, and the original sorghum land in the backyard was planted with Xianyi, that is, the remaining half of the seeds.

The small piece of land in the backyard was planted by the Shubai brothers and sisters, and the land of Li Daniu's family was supervised by Shubai throughout the whole process, and he must be planted according to his instructions.

This planting method, as an old farmer, Li Daniu has a great opinion, the sorghum planting method passed down from generation to generation is to sprinkle three or five seeds in a nest, and then when the seedlings grow, you have to pick the ones that do not grow well to get rid of them.

The book is good, directly ask Li Da Niu to put a seed in a nest, this spacing should be widened, saying that this will save the seedlings in the future, and make Li Da Niu that big fire, and he will not wait for anyone in the agricultural time, in case a seed cannot grow, it will be too late to replant.

Shubai bites to death to plant like this, and said that no matter what it looks like, don't want the Li family to be responsible, Li Daniu has no choice but to do it, but he is very unhappy, after the two families settle the salary, he has to take time to come over every day to check the sorghum field, when one morning the ridges of the ground grow small seedlings, no seed is waste, he was relieved and returned to smile.

The work in the field is over, Shubai went to Jinshui Town, and after coming back, he frowned, at this time the food has risen by fifty percent, and refugees with yellow muscles and thin clothes can be seen everywhere, although the capital has not been closed yet, but the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division has ordered to refuse refugees to enter the city, Shuntianfu has built a refugee settlement point between the capital and Jinshui Town, boiling porridge every day, each person has a bowl of gruel per day, and people have no strength to make trouble.

Shubai received news from Wang Rin that the emperor had issued an edict to examine himself, and also ordered the government offices in the disaster areas to open warehouses to release grain, and all water sources were open to the people to take water for drinking.

Judging from the current situation, the news received is all good and positive, but Shubai can't shrink the shadow area in his heart when he thinks of Zhang Xin's words that day.

Speaking of Zhang Xin, Shubai still had to give him a thumbs up, on the second night after he returned to Beijing, another black-clothed killer came to climb the wall of Mo's house, and Zhang Xin arranged gray-clothed guards to ambush around the courtyard in advance, and this wave of black-clothed killers was wiped out without hurting their brothers and sisters.

In the middle of the night, two days later, a gray-clothed guard sent a letter from Zhang Xin over the wall, saying that he had already dealt with the matter, and there were no more accidents later.

Shubai was curious, he had searched carefully around the courtyard, but he didn't find any signs of Tibetans, did the gray-clothed guards have withdrawn? Or are they hiding too well? There is no way to know, but since then, the worm and sickle have been hidden in the bag that Shubai carries with him.

As for Li Niang, Shubai was very relieved, she got the fishskin short sword given by Zhang Xin, and she could hide from Xianzhuang at a critical moment, so in addition to telling her to be careful of Xianzhuang's comings and goings, Shubai next to her didn't care much about her.

On June 15, Shubai did not go to the town to catch the market again, because refugees were found to be active near Xiaowan Village, and in view of the ban of the imperial court, refugees could not be refused to come to the Jinshui River to get water, but the village chief Li organized the villagers to patrol day and night to prevent refugees from entering Xiaowan Village through the small bridge.