Chapter 129: Cottonseed
Xu Ming picked up the paper full of large characters on Xia Zhi, but he didn't say the words 'can see people', stared at the ink on it for a long time, then put down the paper and turned his head to look at Xia Zhi who was standing next to the round table.
Maybe because of this period of busyness, Xia Zhi's little face has lost a lot of weight, and the whole person feels more refined, and she is more and more cute with two bags and heads. Xu Ming thought that after such a summer solstice grows up, he doesn't know who will be cheaper, it is a big loss.
"Grandpa, grandpa, what do you want?" Xia Zhi saw that Xu Ming had been looking at her with a strange look, and at first she endured it, but after the most Xu Ming's eyes became deeper and deeper, Xia Zhi finally couldn't help it, so she had to stretch out her hand and wave it in front of Xu Ming's eyes, and when she saw that it had no effect, she had to interrupt Xu Ming's thoughts.
"You bear child, what are you waving, say what's going on, I don't believe you'll drill me without anything!" Xu Ming slapped away Xia Zhi's small hand waving in front of him, pointed to the stool next to him, motioned for Xia Zhi to sit up, and said impatiently.
Speaking of the relationship between Xu Ming and Xia Zhi, it is getting more and more harmonious, and even the relationship between Xia Zhi and Lao Luo Tou is not as good as them. To say that Xia Zhi is respectful and filial to Lao Luotou, and the relationship between her and Xu Ming is not only a relationship between elders and juniors, but also a relationship between friends, so whether it is Xu Ming or Xia Zhi, it is very open in front of each other.
"Hehe...... look at what Grandpa said, my granddaughter always thinks about you, otherwise I wouldn't have asked my cousin to come over to deliver something!" How can it be so exaggerated, just the period of time when the embroidery village was opened, the summer solstice was busy before and after. Didn't have time to come. But she also asked Zhao Tian and Zhao Yang, who were out of school, to send food to Xu Ming. Every time she had something good. Quasi-the first to think of Xu Ming.
"Stumped you have nothing to do today?" Xu Ming squinted, with an expression that if you dare to say no, I will leave immediately.
"Hehe, godgrandpa, you really know your granddaughter too well, I came over today, I really have something to ask grandpa, hehe......"
Xia Solstice was forced to be helpless. I had to tell the story. In other words, this godfather is really too smart, this godgranddaughter hasn't come over for so long, shouldn't the first thing she think about should be to come and see her godfather, how can Xu Ming see at a glance that she is going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, this thought has been guessed, how will she live in the future!
"Say it!" Xu Ming floated out two words lightly, looking like it was really like this, and picked up the teacup to make an unfathomable look.
"That's it, I heard that many of the medicinal materials here are transported by caravans from the south. Isn't it? Xia Zhi looked at Xu Ming expectantly. Although she had long known that most of the medicinal materials in the three medical halls in Niangniang Town were transported from the south through caravans. But she still wanted to confirm with Xu Ming.
"Hey, there's no way, this area is full of mountains, and most of the people like to plow the fields, and few of them go into the mountains, which leads to the lack of medicinal herbs here in the north. There are few people who know medicinal materials, but unlike the south, I heard that there are special people who grow medicinal materials! ”
Speaking of medicinal materials, Xu Ming was melancholy, and he didn't know when the Dao began, the output of medicinal materials in the north became less and less, and even now the medical halls in the north have to rely on caravans to import medicinal materials from the south.
I'll go, the medicinal materials in the north are not less than those in the south, okay, who said that the north can't grow medicinal materials, hey, that is, she doesn't understand the habits of medicinal materials, otherwise plant more than a dozen acres of medicinal materials, according to the lack of medicine in the north, it will not be profitable.
However, Xia Zhi also thought in her heart that she was not here for medicinal herbs this time.
"Then godfather, you must know the people of the caravan!" Although Xia Zhi used a question, his tone was very affirmative. The joke makes the caravan pull medicine all year round, and if you don't know each other, then it's hell.
"What do you want to do, won't tell me you want to run a caravan?" Xu Ming looked Xia Solstice up and down with a suspicious look, thinking that just like this little radish head, he still wanted to run a caravan, and he would talk about it in a few years.
"Stop!" Xia Zhi was directly stopped by Xu Ming's gaze, "Grandpa, where do you want to go, I just want the caravan to bring me something from the south, and I want you to introduce a reliable caravan!" ”
Xia Zhi didn't know what Xu Ming thought, how could she run a caravan with her small body, even if she could do it, her aunt and father would not allow her to go, could it be that what she usually does is too mature, so that Xu Ming subconsciously feels like an independent adult?
"Oh~ I see!" Xu Ming obviously sent it away, and when he heard Xia Zhi's words before, he thought that Xia Zhi also wanted to run a caravan, thinking that this little girl would not let him help persuade Tian Laosi and his wife.
Fortunately, they just wanted the caravan to bring things from the south, which was understandable, and most of the little girls liked things from the south. Even if it's the same thing, the south one looks a little finer than the north one, and it's the most popular with some little girls and aunts.
"What do you want to bring, say it, it's about to enter the wax moon, and the caravan has to go to the south before the end of the year, tell grandpa, even if it's a New Year's gift from grandpa!" Although Xu Ming was very disdainful of what girls liked, Xia Zhi was his favorite godgranddaughter and a girl, so he ignored it.
"Really! That's great, Grandpa, I want cotton seeds, you also know that when Grandpa Ma went to the house to pull sweet potatoes, he gave my family a lot of land deeds, I wanted to try to grow cotton, but I heard Daddy say that cotton is a product of the south, so I wanted to ask the caravan, can you bring me some seeds back! ”
Yes, Xia Zhi wanted to plant cotton, and from the first time he came out of Jixiangbu Village, Xia Zhi decided that he must plant cotton in the north in the future. I don't know how the Dao Dawu Dynasty developed, how everything can be in the south, but not in the north. Especially cotton, I heard that some people used to plant in the north, but there was no harvest, and since then there have been rumors that cotton cannot be grown in the north.
"Uh~" Xu Ming thought to himself that the girl's favorite thing was cotton seeds, but after Xu Ming's embarrassment at the beginning, he was surprised.
"Why do you think of planting cotton, don't you know that there are people who have whimsically planted cotton in the north but failed, and they don't believe in evil after the most Lu Dao, and they are bankrupt and don't grow cotton, how can you guarantee that you can plant it?" Xu Ming was surprised at first, but after being surprised, he calmly said to Xia Zhi.
"First of all, I can't guarantee that I can grow cotton, and secondly, I can't guarantee that I can grow cotton, which doesn't mean I can't grow it. I've heard about someone planting before, but so what, it only shows that his method is incorrect, and it doesn't mean that cotton can't be grown in the north. ”
Xia Zhi said solemnly, and seeing that Xu Ming was listening seriously, he spoke again:
"Who can guarantee that one person can't grow cotton, the whole land of the north can't grow it, even if the whole north can't grow it, I don't think it's the problem of the land, but the wrong way of planting cotton. It's like a sweet potato, it still grows overseas, but why can we find it in the mountains, I believe that even if the seeds just got back from overseas, as long as we make unremitting efforts, we will always grow the sweet potatoes of our Wu Dynasty! ”
I have to say that Xu Ming was shocked at this moment, Xia Zhi's sentence 'As long as we make unremitting efforts, we will always grow sweet potatoes from our Wu Dynasty', which made him shocked. He looked at the little girl with a bun in front of him with a bun in his eyes, and he didn't know what was hidden in her small body, she actually had such energy, and when she said such a thing, Xu Ming had to admit that Ma Shang said that 'the summer solstice was born in the north and is a blessing to the north'.
If Xia Zhi knew Xu Ming's thoughts, he would definitely tell her that in this small body, there lived a soul in his thirties.
The weather is cold in the north, almost half of the year is in winter, far away, just say that the nearest Niangniang town is a hundred miles away, in winter, whether it is a poor family, or a rich family has to meow winter, there is no way cotton is transported from the south, the price is expensive, the average person can not afford it, can only hide at home and do not come out.
"Then ......" What are you going to plant, Xu Ming wanted to ask this sentence, but he didn't say it, and he didn't know what Lu Dao didn't ask, maybe he was shocked by Xia Zhi's words, maybe he didn't know where to start with Lu Dao.
However, Xia Zhi was anxious when she saw that Xu Ming didn't speak for a while, you must know that she came over with great hopes, if Xu Ming didn't agree, then her future plans weren't to stop.
"Grandpa, I really have carefully inquired about planting cotton, I heard Daddy say that in the past, that person was like planting rice, directly from April, and he used good good land, and it was directly sown, and even cotton seedlings did not grow after the worst!"
"Zhilu said that you still plan to plant cotton, are you not afraid that you will be like him, and there will be nothing left in the end?" Xu Ming is still a little suspicious, she is still a little sure of Xia Zhi's style of doing things, it is a battle that she is not sure of, she is full of confidence every time, and even now she is full of confidence.
"Afraid! But there are examples of previous failures, can I learn from them, from the predecessors I summed up three points, the first he may plant at the wrong time, the second is also possible cotton is also a dry crop, with good land is a waste of waste, the third may not be able to sow directly, with these three points I can slowly try not! "Hey, this is the experience of growing cotton in a previous life, and I don't believe that cotton can't be grown.
"Hey, it seems that we are old now, you say, how many cottonseeds do you want, I will go and say hello to the caravan tomorrow!" Xu Ming felt that it was really not good to be unconvinced, such a little girl actually said the truth.
"Hey...... It's better to be a grandfather, of course, the more seeds, the better, I also know those dry lands in my family, you can't all plant sweet potatoes, don't sell them and eat them all by then, they're all bad, so I want to try to grow cotton! Xia Zhi said to Xu Mingzuo, who was a little flattering.
"Okay, I know the way, let the caravan try to bring you as much as possible, but let's say that if you succeed, this skill will still be shared" Xu Ming thought that although he was no longer in the officialdom, he would better help his old friend, "Don't worry, the benefits of your family will be indispensable at that time!" ”
"That's really Xie Lu Xie Gan Grandpa, God Grandpa, you are my own grandfather!" The summer solstice dog's leg patted to the fart. (To be continued......)