Then, Cen Erniang and the master came out of the main room, walked through the winding corridor, and came to the small attic in the back courtyard. After entering the study room in the small attic, it was dictated by the master of the fortune operator, and Cen Erniang took a pen to record, and the master and apprentice spent four or five hours to record several agricultural books together.

The master of the fortune operator knew that Cen Erniang was interested in farming, so he silently listened to some books related to farming in his mind and asked her to record them for in-depth study in the future.

Master Bu Operator studied under the Hidden Cloud School, which has been inherited from the time of Jing Taizu and has a long history. It's just that because the disciples of the sect are extremely demanding, the number of disciples accepted is less and less from generation to generation, so that when it comes to the generation of the master of divination, he is the only one left.

According to the patriarch's codex, several patriarchs of the founding school seemed to have provoked a powerful enemy back then, and they were powerless to fight against it, so they had to hide their names and retreat to the world in order to save their lives. Carrying a handful of silver and cronies, they fled into the sparsely populated southwestern mountains.

The group walked through the mountains and rivers, and finally found an open valley with fertile soil in Suyang Town, Qingrong County. There is a hot spring in the middle of the valley, which is warm as spring all year round, the climate is pleasant, and there are no wild beasts roaming it, which is very suitable for living.

This is today's Cloud Valley.

Immediately, several founding patriarchs took their cronies to open the mountain and chisel stones, build their own brick kilns, use countless big trees in the valley, burn bricks and tiles, and work together to build houses in the valley, creating the Hidden Cloud School. And use the formation to hide the buildings of the Hidden Cloud Sect in the deep mountains and jungles, and not know about them.

Several patriarchs made up their minds to die in the cloud valley and not associate with outsiders. In order to live, they must be self-reliant, except for going out once a year to exchange salt and oil, and buying farming tools and iron tools. They all closed themselves up in the valley, and they personally worked with their cronies on the plains in the valley, cultivating the fields and supporting themselves.

In this way, from generation to generation, there are a few disciples who are proficient in farming. They integrate their farming experience and bring together the results of their own long-term experiments in the field. Written on bamboo slips. so that future generations can use it.

The southwest is rainy, mountainous and forested, and the land is mostly barren and mountainous, and the yield of crops is very low. Even if the wind and rain are smooth. Many peasant households have worked hard for a year and have not even been able to pay their taxes.

After recording the agricultural book, at dusk, the master of the fortune operator lit the lamp and made a pot of tea. Gossip with Cen Erniang over tea. He sued Sù Cen Erniang, the entire southwest region. At least one-third of the peasant households do not have enough to eat all year round. Especially in the event of natural disasters and locust infestations, the hungry people are all over the mountains.

Even if many farmers began to turn into hunters, thinking of making a fortune using the beasts and medicinal herbs in the mountains. Fill your stomach. However, the southwest mountains are steep, and the mountains are full of poisonous snakes and beasts, and the miasma is rampant, and the same is more dangerous than the same. There are only a few strong hunters with martial arts skills. to be able to bring things out of the mountains and retreat with their whole bodies. Ordinary farmhouse. I didn't dare to go deep into the mountains to find treasures();.

Master Bu Operatorzi said to Cen Erniang in a vicissitudes of tone: "Erniang, now I am the only one left in the Hidden Cloud Sect, you and Da Lang have just started, and they have not yet studied the classics in the door, so they are not real disciples of the Hidden Cloud Sect." Do you know that in my early years, my whereabouts were erratic, traveling all over the mountains and rivers of Dajing, and rarely stayed in the cloud valley. When I was over forty years old, I had an over-reputation outside, and I was burdened by fame, and I was pestered by the lackeys of some noble families of the world, so I returned to Yungu to take refuge. ”

"You don't know how tough those lackeys are! They actually followed my footsteps and found Qingrong County. He also asked the county magistrate to draw my portrait and sent people to look for me. At that time, the mask given to me by a friend of mine was destroyed, and I couldn't change my face, so I was forced to live in seclusion in the cloud valley. For a whole year, he lived on his own farming. It was a nightmare! Your master, I have never been so wolfy. ”

"What? Could it be that Master, you are not good at farming, you work hard for a year, the harvest is very small, and you can't fill your stomach? Cen Erniang asked with a smile: "Or, you have grown food, but you can't cook and eat?" Still, let yourself go hungry. She had been with Master Fortune for about 20 days, and knew that he was a staunch supporter of "Gentleman's Distant Cooking". Combined with what he called the "nightmare", it is not difficult to imagine how her master struggled to survive back then.

Master Bu Operator was seen through by Cen Erniang, and he laughed dryly twice, and said, "All of them, all of them." First, the grains, fruits, and vegetables grown by my hands are not very large; Second, the food I make is not liked by the watchdogs in the valley. Hehe......"

Cen Erniang ridiculed him: "It seems that your appetite is better than that of a dog!" Otherwise, I would have starved to death by now. ”

"......" Master Bu Operator directly pinched Cen Erniang's neck: "You poisonous tongue girl!" Don't know about Venerable Teacher? "I don't even understand how difficult people are, and I pick on other people's wounds and sprinkle salt. Master Bu Operator said in his heart: Cen Erniang, a dead girl, can live safely until now, and she hasn't been killed because of that mouth, it's really a blessing.

"Lion (Division)...... Tiger (Father) ...... Akira (put) ...... Hand ......" Cen Erniang rolled her eyes with a blue face.

The master of the fortune operator thought about asking her for a while, so he stopped, and said with a black face: "Wait until you listen to me, if you can't spit out ivory again, shut up and be dumb, don't bark and annoy people anymore." ”

"In the year in Cloud Valley, I thought a lot. With an advanced and complete agricultural book guide in my hands and a fertile field, I have gained very little from farming for a year. Isn't it even more difficult for the peasant households outside to rely on the barren land and pay agricultural taxes? ”

Cen Erniang saw that the master of the fortune operator had a solemn face and a low tone, and her heart sank. Then he continued: "After I was trapped in the valley for a year, that friend received a message I left for him, made a new mask, and sent it to me in the valley of clouds. I put on the mask that was fake and real and went out of the valley and wandered around the southwest, intending to pass on the agricultural books left by the patriarchs of the sect to the world. Teach them how to use the right time and place to farm: how to fertilize? Which solar term grows what crops? How to increase crop yield......"

Cen Erniang saw that the master of the fortune operator looked confused, and knew that his education of the farmers back then must not be smooth. So he asked him softly, "What is the result?" ”

Master Bu Operator smiled bitterly: "I don't know much about the knowledge recorded by the ancestors in the book, how can I persuade others to learn the method of farming from me?" I found more than 200 farming families in all parts of the southwest, and only three were willing to listen to my preaching and cultivate according to the method I said. ”

"But because I was not good at farming, they farmed according to the one-sided method I said, and the harvest that year was lower than in any previous year. As a result, I was taken as a charlatan and beaten out. In the southwest, the cultivation of bad people is a more heinous thing than murder. Because the farmer's harvest is not good, the whole family is ruined. ”

"Later, about seven or eight years ago, my reputation for destroying people and cultivating quickly spread, and I was chased and beaten by farmers everywhere, so I had to retreat to the cloud valley again. Cultivating the land in the valley, I plan to study those agricultural books thoroughly, grow good crops, and then go out to the mountains to teach people. (To be continued.) )