"It's true. Uncle Lu, there is no need for Liu Er to lie to you. ”

Lu Dachuan thought about it, and so did the secret way. You must know that the agriculture-based Tianqi Dynasty is actually not much different from the feudal dynasties in Li Junran's memory. Materials such as grain, ironware, salt, tea, gold, silver, copper (mines), and cloth were firmly in the hands of the official family (imperial merchants), and were not allowed to be sold privately as strategic materials.

Food is fundamental, not only do marches and wars require a large amount of military rations, but even ordinary people are afraid that they can't do without two meals a day. Therefore, the annual spring ploughing and autumn harvest, especially in the area south of the Yangtze River, as the main grain producing area of the Tianqi Dynasty, the imperial court also attaches great importance to it. Especially in this spring ploughing, the quality of rice planting determines whether there can be a good harvest this year. Although most of the households will use the previous year's self-retained seeds, they still go to the seed shop under the county government every two or three years to buy new rice seeds.

Although there has never been a dispute between Wu and Yue on the side of the Apocalypse Dynasty, a similar incident of no harvest of cultivated land due to seed problems has also happened in the previous dynasty. Therefore, in the early days of the Apocalypse Dynasty, the First Emperor ordered that the government be responsible for supervising the seed shops in each county and town, and severely punish those who manipulated rice seeds.

"I don't know this rice...... How many more? Lu Dachuan had never eaten such fragrant and glutinous rice, especially when he saw that his precious son was eating so fragrantly, he thought more and more about getting more if possible. Pitifully, since his family's treasure was rescued from those flowers, this person has suffered a great sin. Not only did their hands and feet give them a discount, but this person was also a lot thinner than before.

"What's that. I don't want it in vain, brother. Pay the money, brother, I'll pay double the price. ”

In the end, it is rich and rich, and Lu Dachuan opened his mouth to double the market price. This made everyone present chuckle in their hearts. You must know that the rice seeds sold in the seed shops in Yue Town and Qingshui Town are only 50% more expensive than ordinary rice. In the Apocalypse Dynasty, the rice sold by the rice shop was brown rice. Brown rice is light yellow rice in which only the coarse bran on the surface of the rice is stripped and the germ and inner skin are retained. If you remove another layer of rice husk, it will be ordinary white rice. Brown rice can be freshly processed into white rice in the rice shop.

Ordinary white rice is dead rice, while brown rice is live rice. This is because brown rice will sprout when the temperature is right as long as it is soaked in water for a period of time. That's why brown rice is also known as sprouted rice.

Now Lu Dachuan actually offered a high price as soon as he opened his mouth, is this the rhythm that has not given up?

"Dad, since Uncle Lu likes to eat, let's give some to Uncle Lu. Just now, I looked at Dabao, and it seemed that I liked to eat it. Li Junyang took Li Junran's hand. Walk towards the house. "Liu'er, let's go and move that rice out together, okay?"

"Oh."

Li Cuishi habitually patted the cotton clothes he was wearing, and said with a smile: "Brother Nian, Liu'er girl, be careful." ”

"Grandma. You can rest assured. There wasn't much rice either. I've got a lot of strength. ”

Li Junran followed Li Junyang into the house. As soon as he entered the door, Li Xu, who was supposed to be resting in the room, obviously heard the movement outside, so he frowned and couldn't help asking, "What does this Lu family master want to do?" Could it be that this Lu Mansion is still short of this bit of rice? ”

"Who knows. Anyway, I don't think I'll have any good intentions. If it weren't for the current Lu Dabao's injury, only Liu Er could heal it, I am afraid that he would have turned his face long ago. ”

"Not really. The old saying is not often said. What kind of master there is, what kind of slave there is. Look at the big housekeeper of the Lu Mansion, and then look at the young lady of the Lu family who I met on the street before...... "The more Li Xu thought about it, the more wrong it became, so he said to Li Junran, "Liu'er, we can't give this rice anything." ”

"Give, why don't you give?!" In this regard, Li Junran didn't think so, and the little girl still remembered that she had said before that she would help Lu Fu take stock of her belongings, "It's a big deal, we'll give you the processed rice." ”

"Liu'er, do you still have the rice we ate yesterday?"

"Yesterday?" Li Junran was stunned for a moment, and asked rhetorically, "Little brother, do you mean that bamboo rice?" ”

"Yes. Is there more? ”

"That bamboo rice is very nutritious." Li Junran understood what Li Junyang meant, but she was a little reluctant. Although the bamboo rice stored in the manor is eaten by their family of six with an open belly, even if it is ten catties a day, it is not a problem to eat for more than ten years. Of course, you can't eat as much as ten catties a day.

But this bamboo rice was brushed out by her using the manor BUG. The estate is divided into four seasons throughout the year, and for all crops, the difference between spring, summer and autumn is that the yield is not the same. In winter, most of the crops will wither because of the heavy snow on the farm. Perennial plants like ginseng have to buy additional props to protect them through the long winter, and to put it bluntly, they are throwing money down.

The so-called bamboo rice, also called bamboo, is actually the seed of bamboo. When the bamboo is about to wither and die, it will blossom and bear fruit, and the fruit is actually bamboo. The legendary phoenix is "not a sycamore does not live, and non-bamboo does not eat".

Previously, Li Junran took advantage of the withering of everything in the manor in winter, and at the end of the autumn season on the manor, after harvesting all the crops, he planted a large number of bamboos in the manor to force these bamboos to blossom and bear fruit. Of course, now this loophole has been noticed by a certain fat mouse, and half of the bamboo rice that was brushed before has been lost, not to mention, even the loophole has been filled.

Now Li Junran wants to continue harvesting bamboo, and can only obtain it randomly in the form of a by-product, just like the bamboo sunflower. To put it bluntly, you have to fight your face to see luck. The main production is also pitifully small.

As a result, Li Junran, who didn't care much about Zhushi, began to be stingy.

"I'm afraid I can't fool it." In terms of appearance, the bamboo rice produced by the manor is somewhat similar to those rice that has not been completely hulled, but this bamboo rice has a distinct fragrance, which is not found in rice.

"Try it. Let's take out some rice to test it out, and then take less of that bamboo rice. Li Junyang asked more, "Liu'er, that bamboo rice won't sprout." ”

"No, it won't." Li Junran is very sure of this.

"That's good. In case it sprouts. When you turn around and plant it in the ground, you won't be able to grow bamboo. Thinking of this, even Li Junyang covered his mouth and snickered.

"Mother, I'll send you back to the manor to rest." Li Junran also smiled, and when he saw that Li Xu had a faint tiredness on his face, he suggested so.

"It's okay." When they were eating together in the small hall next to the kitchen, Li Xu felt very tired. After eating, she made an excuse to go back to the house to rest. I can't stand the presence of outsiders outside, and the house is not warm, so it's not very comfortable to stay.

"Liu'er. Hello Lai, too, is a girl's family. Don't be alone with anyone in Nalu Mansion. When it was over, Li Xu said another word of advice uneasily.

"Mother, Liu'er can save it."

"You can save it. Brother Nian, you have to look at your sister next to you. ”

"Hey. The son wrote it down. Li Junyang on the side replied again and again. But in my heart, I didn't think so. I feel that my own mother is too underestimated by his little sister. My little sister is clever. Otherwise, when he gave Lu Dabao's little fat dun a medical treatment, he would not have deliberately left him in the house after all the scenes were cleared. Isn't this just to avoid suspicion?

In other words, this little is used to being arrogant in the academy on weekdays. It's rare to see him like this now, like an old hen with a plague. And this old one is not a good thing. Isn't it often said that "the upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked", and now that I think about it, it is not wrong to say it at all. Xiao Chubhubdun's father, Lu Dachuan, is not a good thing, the reason why he is so polite now, is just that he has a request for others, and for the sake of his only son, he has to swallow his breath and treat his family.

"Little brother, let's go out." Li Junran smuggled out two cloth bags, one large and one small, the big one contained about ten catties of rice, and the small one was filled with bamboo rice, at most it was only seven or eight taels. Anyway, too much is a waste. Li Junran handed over the big cloth bag to Li Junyang, and he carried the small cloth bag himself.

After Li Junyang took the big cloth bag, he took the lead out of the house and came to the dining hall next to the kitchen. There, Lu Dachuan was talking to Bao Zi's father, but anyone who was not blind could see that most of Lu Dachuan's thoughts were not on chatting. When Lu Dachuan saw the big cloth bag that Li Junyang was carrying in his hand, his eyes flickered obviously, although he didn't immediately get up and take the big cloth bag, but the speed of his speech was obviously a lot faster, and he was faintly a little excited.

"Uncle Lu, there is not much left in the house. Look, that's enough? Li Junyang didn't see the change in Lu Dachuan's expression, and directly put the big cloth bag in his hand on the Eight Immortals table in front of Lu Dachuan.

"Enough, enough. How many catties are here? ”

"About ten pounds."

Lu Dachuan, who was smiling all over his face, tore open the hemp rope tied tightly on the big cloth bag, perhaps because he was excited, or he rarely did similar things on weekdays, Lu Dachuan's movements seemed a little clumsy. When Lu Dachuan saw clearly that the bag full of white flowers was not the brown rice he had thought, his face, which was still full of bright smiles, suddenly stiffened there. Even Lu Dachuan himself didn't notice that there was a strong sense of questioning and dissatisfaction in his tone.

"What is rice? Who made you ......" To say that Lu Dachuan had also traveled south and north in the end, and had gained some insight outside, before he finished speaking, he realized that he was a little out of shape, so he hurriedly remedied, "What, didn't you say rice...... How did it turn into rice? ”

In fact, even Baozi's father thought that the big cloth bag that Li Junyang took out was filled with rice, and at this time, Lu Dachuan's face obviously changed, and he faintly realized something, but he couldn't say why.

Sure enough, there was a problem! Li Junyang's hand hidden under his sleeve couldn't help but clench into a fist.

"Uncle Lu, that's what Liu Er originally said." Li Junran fell a few steps behind Li Junyang, and lingered outside the house for a while, until he heard Lu Dachuan's voice with obvious dissatisfaction, and then walked in from outside unhurriedly.

"Uncle Lu, this ready-made rice, when you want to eat it when you look back, you can quickly wash it and simmer it directly in the pot. Dad was afraid that Liu Er would be greedy and wanted to eat, so now he has most of his pocket. ”

"No......" Lu Dachuan looked at the smiling immature little face in front of him, if he still doesn't understand what's going on, he has really lived for so many years in vain, "Then Uncle Lu is welcome." ”

"Grandma, Dad, Liu Er and the little brother just rummaged through the rice pockets in the house and found that the bag of rice seemed to be a little moldy." Before Li Junran's words fell, he handed the small cloth bag in his hand to his father. (To be continued......)