Hearing Mr. Lu's voice, Qing Shu, who was lying down to rest, got up and sent Qingyang out to invite Mr. to sit in the temporary study.

Qing Shu got his hair in a slightly messy bun, and then went over to see Mr. Lu.

Mr. Lu didn't care about Qingyang's presence, and actually teased Qing Shu, "Girl, you owe more and more favors to the boy." Mr. thinks that what the boy is asking for is just your personal promise. You! It's hard to get out of his palm anymore, haha......"

Qing Shu immediately stopped, "Sir, what nonsense are you talking about!" ”

Qingyang, who was a little mentally depressed, immediately lit up his eyes, "Sir, is Brother Yan back?" ”

Mr. Lu put away his jokes, "Since I went to the border gate, how can I come back in March and May!" ”

The light in Qingyang's eyes faded a little, and he was not very energetic.

Qing Shu reached out and touched his forehead, it was not hot, "If you are tired, go and rest, you don't have to accompany my sister." ”

"Not tired." Qingyang had no intention of going back to lie down.

Mr. Lu straightened his face and asked them to sit down, and then he got down to business, "Knowing that you are going to open up the wasteland and plant fruit trees, the boy Yan thought about the irrigation of the wasteland early. He couldn't stay here for long, so he entrusted some things to his husband. Now that the matter has been revealed, Mr. will not hide it. Mr. Song Xian Song, he is not an old friend of Mr., but a capable person invited by Yan Xiaozi to solve the water problem for you. ”

This news surprised Qingshu.

"Mr. Song's grandfather was an official in the Ministry of Industry and spent his whole life controlling waters. Mr. Song's uncle, a minor official in the Ministry of Works, died at the age of 39 while tending to the flooding Medai River. Mr. Song's father is now serving in the south and is leading the military and civilians to build water conservancy projects for the benefit of the people. Mr. Song did not like to be an official, but he learned a lot from his grandfather and uncle, so he applied it to digging ditches, building dikes, and diverting water to irrigate farmland. He has been in this business for more than 20 years and is now very famous. Although he has no official position, he is often asked to do things by the officials who control the water. ”

Qing Shu was still in a state of shock, Zhou Boyan actually invited a big man back for her thousands of acres of wasteland. It's crazy.

"Mr. Song has already seen the surrounding environment in general, and has already thought of a solution to the problem of irrigation of wasteland. He had to do a survey before he could make a concrete plan to dig the ditch. In short, you can open your land and plant your trees with peace of mind, and you don't have to worry about irrigation. ”

If you don't ask about some things, you will definitely not be able to sleep. So, Qing Shu couldn't help but throw out several questions at once, "Sir, it's okay to dig ditches with great fanfare just for a thousand acres of wasteland?" And where is the water source? I mean, where do you get water from to irrigate wasteland? Is it okay to do things like digging ditches without the consent of the government? There is also the cost, digging a ditch requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it definitely requires a large sum of silver. I don't know if there can be a good harvest in the wasteland, so it's worth it to spend so much silver? "Too much investment, in the end in exchange for a very low return, this is not what she wants.

Mr. Lu said, "At your young age, it is rare for you to be able to take these keys into account. Mr. Song has already checked that there is a river in Liangzhou, called Canghe, which is a tributary of the Meidai River. Its upstream flows through the barren slopes of Liangzhou, which is the barren land within the borders of Liangzhou that can be seen from standing in your wasteland. Because of the topography, without human intervention, the water of the Canghe River flowing there would not flow into the boundary of Huizhou even if it flooded. ”

"What Mr. Song means is to dig a ditch to divert the water of this Canghe River to the territory of Huizhou and irrigate my wasteland."

"If the water is successfully diverted, it will not only be your wasteland, but also the 50 acres of fertile land you have rented this year. If you wish, the people around you can benefit from it. ”

"Fire and water are merciless. It is true that the water of the Cangjiang River can be used to irrigate farmland, but when the Cangjiang River is flooding, what should be done if it attracts floods? ”

"Girl, you're too worried. In addition, Mr. Song will prepare a large water wheel for you to divert water. The waterwheel is a good thing, and it can be seen occasionally on the south side of the river, but we basically can't see it in the north. The waterwheel was to be built on the Cangjiang River. With it, in the dry season, when you need to irrigate the farmland, you can turn the waterwheel; In the rainy season, the farmland does not need to be irrigated, and you can stop the water wheel from turning. ”

Qingyang was curious, "Sir, what does the waterwheel look like?" How do waterwheels bring water into the ditch? ”

Mr. Lu waved his hand, "Water diversion, that's roughly what it is." The specific things, the details and the doorway, Mr. is a layman, so he naturally can't tell clearly. In short, girl, you just have to let go of the wasteland and plant fruit trees, and leave the matter of diverting water and repairing the canal to Mr. Song. The manpower and material resources required have been arranged, so you don't have to worry about it. After he finished what he had to say, he stood up, "Qingyang, since you are here, you must hold on to the end, and you must not give up halfway." Don't develop a cyclical temperament. ”

Qingyang stood up and said respectfully, "Mr. Xie's teachings, students must keep them in mind. ”

Mr. Lu was satisfied, and when he turned around, he saw the three little heads eavesdropping on the door frame, "You are the same, you have to stick to the end when you come." If anyone dares to give up halfway, the gentleman will punish you severely when you go back. ”

When the eavesdropping was discovered, Chen Qiaojiang, Hao and Luo Xiaorong pushed and shoved into the door, stood up obediently, and replied in unison, "The student remembers." ”

Mr. Lu then walked away with his hands behind his back.

Immediately, Chen Qiaojiang and the others rushed forward and surrounded Qingshu to inquire about the waterwheel.

A child is a child. There are things that I am interested in, and the ones who were wilting one by one just now have recovered to a state of being alive and kicking in a blink of an eye. Qing Shu couldn't answer their questions, so he instructed them to ask Mr. Song, an expert in this area. She didn't let them go empty-handed, and told Xiaoyu to fetch a bag of snacks for them to take.

I don't know how Mr. Song explained the waterwheel, before going to bed at night, Qingyang and the four of them had been discussing something in a whispered excitedly, and they didn't let Qingshu hear it. Qing Shu stared at them and lay down, and warned them to hurry up and go to bed, not to whisper again, then blew out the oil lamp and went back to his house to sleep.

The person was lying down, but she couldn't sleep for a while, thinking about digging a canal and thinking about Zhou Boyan. Zhou Boyan said that he was going to the border pass, but he didn't tell her which direction she was going to. I don't know if he's still on the way, or if he's already at his destination?

In the blink of an eye, it was the tenth day of the first month of March, and Qingshu and they had been staying in the wasteland for five or six days. In the afternoon, when the sun was in the west, the four of them completed the task of five tree pits a day. They cheered, threw the shovel in place, and lay down on the ground and could not get up.

Steward Ding, who was waiting on the side, stepped forward with a smile on his face, "Four young masters, it's cold on the ground, please get up quickly." The little one has already brought the carriage over, so can the young masters get into the carriage and lie down again? ”

The others lay still, only Qingyang stretched out his hand to Ding to manage things.

When Steward Ding saw this, he stretched out his hand to go over.

Qingyang grabbed Steward Ding's hand, sat up with the strength of Steward Ding, then stood up, patted the dust on his clothes and said, "You three, get up quickly and go back." ”

Luo Xiaorong grinned, stretched out his hand to Qingyang, and was then dragged up by Qingyang. After that, Hao.

Chen Qiaojiang lay on the ground and did not move, "Do you really have meatballs to eat at night?" ”

"Of course there is, my sister never lies." Qingyang said a little unhappily.

Luo Xiaorong pulled Qingyang's sleeve and dragged Qingyang to the carriage, "Brother, let's go back and eat meatballs." ”

At this time, Chen Qiaojiang was in a hurry, and hurriedly got up from the ground, and the dust on his clothes didn't have time to be beaten, so he ran to the carriage with his legs.

The carriage returned to the farmhouse in Sunjia Village, and as soon as it stopped, Chen Qiaojiang and the four of them jumped out of the carriage with cheers, and pulled each other to rush to the open door of the kitchen.

At this time, the aroma of fried meatballs wafted far away, causing the children near the left to swallow their saliva.

Next to the oil pot, Qing Shu, who was dressed in cloth and tied with an apron, squeezed out the round meatballs with his left hand, scooped them up with a spoon in his right hand, and then went down to the oil pot. She kept repeating this action, lowering one balls after another into the oil pot.

Xiao Juan took the fence and turned the balls that floated to the surface of the hot oil after being heated.

The small fish squatted on the ground and was responsible for controlling the fire.

When the oily surface was full of meatballs, Qingshu stopped and stood aside to watch.

Xiao Juan continued to turn the balls in the oil pot, and when the surface of the balls was evenly fried to golden brown, she quickly used the fence in her hand to take out the fried balls to control the oil.

Qingshu began to put meatballs into the oil pot again, and Xiaoyu also grasped the heat and added some firewood and grass to the stove pit little by little.

When Qingyang and the others rushed into the kitchen, Qingshu turned around and counted them down with a smile, "Look at you one by one, hurry up and go out, don't let the hot oil burn." Go out, go out, go wash your face and wash your hands, and there will be meatballs to eat immediately. ”

In front of Qing Shu, Qingyang, Hao and Luo Xiaorong have always been obedient and well-behaved children, the three of them shouted in their mouths that they knew, laughed and pulled each other out of the kitchen, and rushed to wash their faces.

Chen Qiaojiang took advantage of Qingshu's inattention, rushed to Xiaojuan's side, and grabbed a freshly out of the pot from the fence that was controlling the oil. He immediately screamed at the scald, and in Xiaojuan's nervousness and Qing Shu's reprimand, he got a chopstick from the stove, and skewered three balls onto the chopsticks without saying a word, and then escaped from the kitchen shouting for help when Qing Shu was about to fight.

Chen Qiaojiang was proud, and was about to bite the balls on the chopsticks, but he didn't want Qingyang and Luo Xiaorong to pounce on the left and right with a tacit understanding, and snatched the chopsticks of the balls in his hand in a few clicks. He shouted anxiously, but Qingyang had already thrown the chopsticks and the remaining two balls to Hao. He wanted to chase after him and grab it, but Qingyang and Luo Xiaorong hugged him tightly, and he couldn't break free for a while.

"Hao, you hurry up and eat one, and give the second one to Xiaorong to eat." Qingyang commanded in a very bossy manner.

Hao was really obedient, and after biting off a ball from the chopsticks, he handed the chopsticks to Luo Xiaorong's mouth.

"You three are too much! I finally managed to get it out of my sister's nose, and you, I'm not done with you. Chen Qiaojiang couldn't break free, so he could only protest loudly by pulling his neck.

At this time, Luo Xiaorong has already bitten off the second ball, and his cheeks are bulging very cute.

Hao handed the last one of the chopsticks to Qingyang's mouth. Qingyang opened his mouth to bite it down, ate it in a few clicks, and then pushed away Chen Qiaojiang, who was choking enough, shouted to run, and escaped from the yard with Luo Xiaorong and Hao.

Chen Qiaojiang shouted that he was going to beat them up, and went out after them.

Standing under the window and watching the excitement, Mr. Lu didn't have the consciousness of being a gentleman at all, so he actually asked Mr. Song next to him with a smile, "What do you think?" ”

"Which half-grown child is not naughty!" Song Xian came to such a sentence and stopped talking.

"Not that. A few days ago, when they came back from digging a tree pit, they would just lie staggered, all of them looking sluggish. Looking at it now, they still have the strength to fight and chase. It seems that they have become accustomed to the intensity of digging five tree pits a day, and they should add another one tomorrow. ”

"With a gentleman like you by his side, they will have a hard time." Song Xian sighed with emotion and shook his head.

Hearing this, Mr. Lu laughed proudly.

Guard Luo came from the side, "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint Mr., Miss said that she will take the young masters back to the house tomorrow." ”

"Shu girl, Shu girl, it's not right for you to do this." Mr. Lu actually walked outside the kitchen door to find Qingshu Theory.

What happened in the courtyard, Qing Shu naturally heard it. She was busy making meatballs, and she didn't have time to turn back, "Sir, if you have any grievances, just make a fuss about dinner." Go on a hunger strike or don't eat meatballs, just choose one! ”

Mr. Lu snorted, didn't say anything, and went back to Song Xian with his back.

After a while, all the meatballs were finally fried. Qing Shu wiped her sweat and walked out of the kitchen, leaving the rest to Xiaojuan and Xiaoyu.

"Yo, this is Miss Gu! Long true water spirit. Qian Saihua was dressed in bright red, and her face was smeared with thick rouge gouache, and she actually came uninvited, twisting her waist and entering the yard by herself.