After getting the reply from the village chief, the Tian family began to discuss the matter of pregnancy and seedlings in the evening. There are thousands of acres of seedlings in Tianjia Village, Tian Family, Tian Chrysanthemum Family, and Tian Family's daughter-in-law's mother's family, and how to get so many seedlings down is a problem.

said that there are good things, of course, thinking about their own people, so Li asked Tian Juhua to wait until about March 20 to pull seedlings at Tianjia's house. Tian Meihua has some savings this year because of the help of the Tian family, and she originally planned to buy some fertile land and plant a double-cropping rice, which is better than Liu Tiezhu going up the mountain to hunt all day long. It's a pity that I entrusted someone, but there has been no news.

Discuss the specific plan, the next day the Tian family will do a lot of work, the first is to set up a shed on the open space on the right side of the Tian family, at the same time, two days before the summer solstice, let Zhao Tian and Zhao Yang bring a message to Xu Ming, saying that the shed began to be set up in the past two days, let Ma Shang hurry up to send people, this work must be learned from scratch, first of all, this shed can not be wrong, this is like building a house and laying the foundation.

Sure enough, within two days, Xia Zhi's greenhouse had not yet been half built, Ma Shang personally led people over, and paid the Tian family room and board fees, saying that it was going to trouble the Tian family during this period of time, and he couldn't take advantage of the Tian family in vain. Marchand smiled at this time.

Marchand brought eight people with him, and I heard that these eight people came from different towns, and they were all under the unified jurisdiction of Marchand. Now the Tian family is spacious and can accommodate eight people. The Li family arranged eight points in the room next to him and Lao Luotou, two people in one room, and they lived very comfortably. After all, the oldest of the eight people who came was forty years old, and the youngest was only in his twenties. It's all men. It is also inconvenient to live in the yard of several daughters-in-law. Eight people eat and drink with the Tian family every day. Do the work.

This year, the Tian family has experience, and there is no need for the little hairy baby of the summer solstice to point fingers next to them, a few people followed the Tian family for two days, the greenhouse has been built, and in mid-February, the Tian family will put the seeds in the field. In fact, the summer solstice decided to plant seedlings so early, firstly, the weather warmed up early this year, and secondly, I wanted to teach everyone early, and it was not too late for a few people to go back to plant seedlings in early March. The province will be delayed for another year. As for her family's seedlings, they didn't delay anything.

Eight people get up early every day and follow the four brothers of the Tian family behind them, and even the four brothers of the Tian family are on duty, and they also follow the rotation at night. Lao Luo Tou knew their thoughts, and instructed Li to let a few children send food to the greenhouse every day, and since then, the eight people have not been out of the greenhouse until the end of February. The seedlings have grown a lot, and a few people have come out of the greenhouse. packed up and said goodbye to the Tian family and returned to Niangniang Town.

Xia Zhi didn't know how Lu Dao and a few people went back to tell Ma Shang, and when Xiao Wang went to Tian's house to sell fish and vegetables in March, he brought a lot of things, saying that it was Ma Shang's thank you gift to the Tian family. Xia Zhi didn't think much about it, and asked Tian Laosi to move their things home, and she took Xiao Wang to fish and cut vegetables. After sending Xiao Wang away, Xia Zhi returned to the house and was dumbfounded, Ma Shang gave a lot of thank-you gifts, just that cloth is enough for each person in the Tian family to make a dress, not to mention some snacks, game and even wealth addiction oil and salt or something.

Xia Zhi has to say that Ma Shang's thank you gift to the Tian family is very real, mostly some daily necessities.

"This, wouldn't it be inappropriate for us to receive so many thank-you gifts from the county magistrate like this!" While Wang was packing up his things, he asked Boss Tian next to him. So many things can only be bought with dozens of taels, and the Tian family has never confiscated such a heavy gift.

"Uncle, it's okay, Grandpa Ma just wants to thank our family, if the double-cropping rice is spread, it will not only benefit the people, but Grandpa Ma will also be promoted and make a fortune! At that time, it won't be this county, maybe it's our entire county. Compared to these, we are light to receive some thank-you gifts! "When Xia Zhi entered the door, he heard Wang's inquiry.

"Really? But the county magistrate also gave you a land deed of hundreds of acres a year ago, and this is giving so many gifts, how can we return the gifts in the future! The Wang family felt that they were still not at ease, and felt as if the Tian family owed Ma Shang a few thousand taels of silver.

"Hey! Auntie, no one bought those hundreds of acres of land at all, and I can't wait for someone in the yamen to buy all the dry land and mountainous land, so that they can also benefit the yamen. So those hundreds of acres of land are not expensive at all, only a few dozen taels of silver! ”

When Xia Zhi learned that Ma Shang had bought the hundreds of acres of dry land for a few dozen taels, he was also taken aback. But then I thought about it, there were no dry crops in this era, and the dry land was basically a wasteland, and no one was willing to buy it. However, at this time, seeing that the Wang family was a little apprehensive, Xia Zhi only said the former.

"That's right! I don't even want that wasteland to give me, and no one will buy it! Wang nodded, feeling that what Xia Zhi said made sense, who wants that wasteland, there is no water and no land can be planted.

By the middle of March, the seedlings had grown a lot, and during this period of time, the people of Tianjia Village were a lot more honest, and the Zhilu Daotian family was busy with the pregnancy of seedlings, and no one bothered them from time to time. The weather has warmed up, and the ice on the road has begun to melt, and Xia Zhi plans to gather people in the next two days to open up her hundreds of acres of land at the foot of Shili Mountain.

But before that, she went to the carpenter and gave him a drawing she had drawn by hand. The carpenter who saw it was excited, for a carpenter veteran like him, he could see at a glance that this was a pumping thing, and the carpenter asked Xia Zhi if he could sell him the drawings, but Xia Zhi didn't ask for the carpenter's money, and directly asked him to make twenty waterwheels for the Tian family.

That's right, the summer solstice to the carpenter's drawings is to tread the water wheel, saying that farmers are not willing to dry land, one is that there are no dry crops, and the other is that it is easy for water to flow to a low place, and it is very difficult to go from a low place to a high place.

Now she will step on the water wheel to make it, just to solve this problem, the pedal water wheel has three crossbars, one is for people to sit on, one is for people to grasp, the bottom one is for people to step on, the front and rear ends are installed a log, the left and right feet step on in turn, the log will turn, there is a long water tank behind him. When Xia Zhi borrowed Zhao Tian and Zhao Yang's brushes and paper to draw drawings, Tian Laosi was shocked, and Lao Luotou treated the drawings as if they were treasures.

You must know how many fields in the north can be used as soon as the waterwheel comes out. Xia Zhi also knew the importance of the waterwheel, and after she finished drawing the drawings, she said that Zhao Tian wrote, and handed over the role of the waterwheel to Xiao Wang along with the drawings, and asked him to bring it to Xu Ming, and then transfer it to Ma Shang. Of course, Zhao Tian has only learned words for nearly two months now, and some simple words can still be written, but complex ones can't, so Xia Zhi tried to make it as simple and easy to understand as possible, and at the same time ease Zhao Tian's work, and strive to let Ma Shang understand the role and importance of the waterwheel.

And the drawings handed over to the carpenter were redrawn by her. Xia Zhi didn't know the expression of Lu Dao Ma Shang when he received the drawings, but from the next day, Xiao Wang pulled another cart of gifts, and he knew that Lu Dao Ma Shang must be very satisfied with the drawings of Xia Zhi. As for how Marchand finds someone to make a waterwheel, she can't control it, she still manages her own hundreds of acres of land first.

In fact, Xia Zhi didn't know what to do, when Xu Ming received Xiao Wang's drawings, he was shocked when he saw the pictures on the white paper. Of course, it's not how beautiful Xia Zhi's painting is, on the contrary, Xia Zhi is unstable with a brush, and the straight line is tortuously drawn by her, which is simply eighteen bends of the mountain road, so you can imagine how ugly the whole picture is. Xu Ming was shocked that Xia Zhi was able to come up with such a wonderful idea, and he saw every step clearly, which made it clear at a glance, which also showed that Xia Zhi had a thorough understanding of the role of the waterwheel, and even took into account the idea of encouraging farmers to open more dry land.

Xu Ming had to admire Xia Zhi's cleverness, he had such an idea at a young age, you must know that the success of this waterwheel in Ludao Dao will benefit the people not as many as a field village or a Niangniang town, but thousands of people. Thinking of this, Xu Ming couldn't sit still and immediately handed over the things around him to the medicine boy, and went to the county magistrate's mansion to find Ma Shang with the drawings and usage.

Not to mention what kind of expression Xu Ming had when he handed over the drawings to Marchand, but after Marchand understood the role of the drawings and the waterwheel, and thought that most of the dry land in the north could be used, he began to mutter about the cunning of the summer solstice, and then he figured out that it was no wonder that the summer solstice wanted to buy hundreds of acres of dry land. I think he was very surprised when he knew that Xia Zhi was going to buy dry land on the summer solstice, and felt that Xia Zhi was a child after all, and he had to buy it regardless of whether it was useful or not, at that time he thought that after all, he was Xu Mingzhi's goddaughter, so Xia Zhi also called him grandpa, so he paid for the field and gave it to Xia Zhi as a gift.

He didn't think that Xia Zhi still had this hand, I am afraid that Xia Zhi already had an idea in his heart, and this waterwheel would not be able to come up with it for a while, otherwise she would not be so decisive to buy those hundreds of acres of wasteland. But when this waterwheel is born, I'm afraid that the dry land will not be so cheap even if he comes forward with the county order, and Xiao Xia Zhi has taken a big advantage. At this time, he completely forgot that if he didn't buy dry land on the summer solstice, there would be no waterwheels coming out.

Saying that Ma Shang is really right, Xia Zhi has been thinking about dry land and waterwheels since he came to Tianjia to know that this Dawu Dynasty has no one to plant dry land, and it was because her family was poor before, she was bent on making money, so she pressed this matter to the bottom of her heart. It wasn't until last year that she was ready to buy the sandy land next to the Houcun River, passing by Shili Mountain, seeing that wasteland, and feeling that the time was ripe to consider the waterwheel. That's why I made a temporary decision to buy the hundreds of acres of wasteland.

Now she feels that she should make a waterwheel, and when hundreds of acres of fields are opened, she will just use the waterwheel, and then the seedlings can also go to the ground. (To be continued......)