Chapter 183: The Twisted Melon
"I don't lack women, I have too many things in my life, there are many things that are beyond the reach of others in a lifetime, I can easily get it by showing my gestures, but, I don't like this, people tend to ignore those things that are too easy to get, I think marrying a wife is not too casual, so I want to work harder to cherish this process and find a real suitable one."
Liang Chuan listened to it in his ears, and wanted to say that this buddy was too romantic, and he agreed with his words a little, only those things that cannot be obtained are precious, and those that are not easy to get will want to cherish them, this is indeed the truth. He wanted to interject two sentences, but Sun Houpu continued.
"The Sun family is loud, the blessing is long, and the surface looks bright, and this day is not as good as the day."
Liang Chuan vaguely smelled a different taste from these words, and he wanted to ask but felt abrupt. If you don't say I don't ask, I just stand quietly on the hillside and enjoy the caress of the spring breeze, very light and soft.
"This tea seedling is a golden egg, and it is also the king of Hades."
Liang Chuan's heart chuckled.
"The tea garden is like a piece of meat, a piece of delicious raw meat, it will attract very maggots, maybe you have nobles behind you to help, you will want to plant this golden gluttony, but just like our Sun family is now stormy."
"Isn't it, your family is still in turmoil? Isn't our small family a flat boat in the ocean? ”
"The bigger the piece of meat, the more people will be targeted, and this is the situation of our Sun family now."
"I didn't figure it out, did your family offend the big guys? So trembling. ”
"Now we're all the way."
"What wayman?"
Sun Houpu was shocked, he was stunned by this Liang Chuan's pretending to be innocent and ignorant, this kid is so shameless, the tea seedlings have been planted and he is still pretending not to understand, or he really doesn't understand.
It's hard to do it. He really doesn't know!
Then I'll hurt him! Sun Houpu's mind went blank, and he looked at this peer of his own age, reminding him of some past events that he didn't think were happy.
Sun Houpu tentatively asked a question that seemed like a stupid word: "Do you know that tea can't be sold?" ”
Silence, Liang Chuan buzzed, his head was knocked with a stick, and a smile barely squeezed out of his face: "Tea can't be sold?" Are you kidding me? ”
The mountain breeze blew in his ears, but Liang Chuan couldn't listen to any ear sounds, what a big joke, the Great Song Dynasty was full of people drinking tea, but the tea was not allowed to sell, I had never heard of it. So where did their tea come from, did they grow it at home, dare to love me to drink tea and eat chickens, and I have to grow tea trees and fatten chickens by myself.
It's over, Sun Houpu really can't see this person clearly now. He always thought that Liang Chuan was a master like Nanyang Wolong, a pair of eyes were not born but he could peep into the world, but he didn't even know about tea, did the people of the Great Song Dynasty still not know about this, no wonder he asked for a thousand tea seedlings with one mouth, can he drink it, it's really used to sell, it shouldn't be his own idea.
"Do you want us to go down the mountain, let's talk about this slowly on the way, we won't be able to explain it for a while." Sun Houpu is afraid of doing bad things with good intentions, A thousand tea seedlings are a trivial matter, but if you are not careful, after being targeted, a small thing will become a big trouble.
"I want to make this matter clear, I'm afraid that I accidentally broke the law of the Great Song Dynasty and didn't know it, and I turned around and helped others make wedding clothes!"
Tea, salt, iron, alum, wine and other items are subject to a monopoly system, the reputation of salt and iron wine is too big, Liang Chuan knows, but he doesn't know that even tea is controlled by the court, he thought that under the prevalence of tea in the Great Song Dynasty, it must be highly developed by the tea commodity economy, but he didn't expect that not only is it underdeveloped, but it also restricts the circulation of tea everywhere!
In this environment, the Sun family will get a mouthful of soup and eat a mouthful of oil, and the doorway and means are definitely not ordinary, and we must inquire more from Sun Houpu's mouth, otherwise the catastrophe will not be far away.
The tenant farmers of the Zheng family have regained their vigor in the past few days, the waterwheel has been turning for a few days, the sugarcane in the field has already been watered, and some river water is stored in the ditch, and when the water in the sugarcane field is dry, the ridge of the field will be broken and the water will be released. The water tanks of the waterwheels kept coming in, and a few tenant farmers thought about digging a pool at the edge of the fields, and the river had nowhere to flow, so it was wasted.
The water flowed back into the stream, but it hurt the rest of the village, He Baozheng and they knew each other, and they used the ditch they dug to divert a lot of stream water to water their own seedlings, but the others did not have this good luck, and the tenant farmers of the Zheng family said that they would not release the water.
A family wants water, and a hundred families follow suit, and the waterwheel is more than enough to irrigate their own land, and all the land has to be watered, so it is not enough. It is morally reasonable to release water, but there is no benefit at all, and if you turn back your own land is not enough to irrigate, the owner will blame it.
A waterwheel caused a huge sensation in this small place, and after several surrounding villagers heard that He Lu had a big water wheel, they didn't need to go to the stream to fetch water to water the ground, and their eyes were so hot that they wanted to bleed. If there is such a waterwheel, any of them will still grow wheat in the future, and the harvest will be much higher if they plant some rice.
Many people in the township took advantage of the fact that when the sun was huge at noon or when the sun went down in the evening, the tenant farmers of the Zheng family went home to cook and were not in the field, and secretly ran to the stream to observe what the Zheng family's waterwheel looked like. As soon as they approached the waterwheel that the Zheng tenant farmers regarded as their lives, refugees from northern Shaanxi would come from all directions, a group of more than a dozen people, so fierce that they thought they were going to destroy the waterwheel, each with a hoe and sickle in their hands, staring at the villagers angrily, ready to fight hard!
The folk customs of the border people in northern Shaanxi are quite domineering, the Qin soldiers of the Qin Emperor swept Liuhe, and the Yulin soldiers in the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, all of them played a ruthless role of blocking a hundred, pulling up a team, and they had the capital to compete for the world. Their characteristics are that the elderly and children should not be underestimated, men, women and children are all soldiers, you beat me one, my whole family goes into battle, pick up the kitchen knife and axe is to do it!
The villagers of the nearby villages of Xianshui, Chihe, and Lianqian were very curious about the waterwheel, and some of them had unclean hands and feet, so they came up to break the waterwheel, and Fan Dianyuan refused to let the waterwheel be damaged, and the gold was expensive. Coming and going, the tenant farmers and the villagers almost went off the beaten track many times, causing a fire.
Fortunately, with the eldest brother Fan Dianyuan's brain, he was calm enough to suppress it in time and control the scene, although the strong dragon was strong, he couldn't suppress the head snake, they finally settled down, and they couldn't stand the toss anymore. He also reported this situation to Zheng Ruoying several times, Zheng Ruoying also maintained a high-pressure situation, their Zheng family has not taken these villagers in their eyes, and his attitude is to try to maintain restraint, resort to force when necessary, and the Zheng family will support them in the back.
At this time, the cane seedlings require a lot of water, and the waterwheel makes the cane seedlings in the field full of vitality. Zheng Ruoying came to inspect the waterwheel the day after it was set up, and the tenant farmers thanked her for making such a good thing, looking at the sparkling water canal, she didn't expect the efficiency of the waterwheel to be so high.
After being happy, Zheng Ruoying carried a basket of newly picked loquat from Shufeng Township to thank Liang Chuan, although Liang Chuan is also a waterwheel made for his own career, but the superficial favor still has to be a look, and let people do this and that every day without showing it, and it can't be said.
The loquat in Shufeng Township is big and round, like a huge egg. When ripe, the flesh is as delicate as an orange-red, peeling off the skin, the flesh is sweet but not sour, and melts in the mouth. Now is the season when loquat is ripe, and there are many fruit farmers selling loquat in Fengshan Market, and a few loquat trees can add a lot of income to their families.
In this era, green vegetables and fruits are not like later generations to make people as treasures, but every villager has no oil and water in their stomachs, and the price of fruits is relatively low.
Zheng Ruoying saw Sun Houpu again, and her face full of joy instantly pulled down again, and the two of them reunited like strangers in the He Low Ancestral Hall. Sun Houpu had a warm smile on his face, standing quietly and looking at Zheng Ruoying, with a warm and high smile on his face that people couldn't refuse, on the other hand, Zheng Ruoying's face was frosty.
Zheng Ruoying wanted to put this annoying person aside, and deliberately chatted with Liang Chuan to make him retreat, who knew that Liang Chuan took the loquat sent by Zheng Ruoying, took a few and pulled Sun Houpu to the side, but put Zheng Ruoying aside, and talked about the tea matter.
Since she was a child, Zheng Ruoying has been surrounded by stars holding the moon, and she has never enjoyed the feeling of being treated coldly, but she didn't expect these two people to treat her like this.
Liang Chuan didn't have the heart to take care of this eldest lady's mood, so he asked Sun Houpu directly: "I have a lot of laymen and deficiencies in this aspect of tea, let's discuss it." ”
Sun Houpu glanced at Zheng Ruoying, he must be bored with his cold ass at this moment, so he could only say to Liang Chuan: "Where to start?" ”
Liang Chuan said: "Speak slowly from the beginning. Judging from Sun Houpu's background, Zheng Ruoying's choice of this offspring is undoubtedly the right bet, what their Zheng family is asking for is not such a wealthy family, so that the daughter of the Zheng family will not worry about the rest of her life.
Even a small snowflake on the cake to a big family is better than giving this big family business to a poor boy who has a pie in the sky, Zheng Yiqian has always had this kind of thought, since he knew that his daughter had thoughts about this wild boy in Fengshan, he was so anxious that he couldn't eat and sleep for a long time, and he had worked hard to plant flowers for twenty years, but he couldn't let a pig arch.
But Liang Chuan looked at these two people, how could there be a breath in his heart that he couldn't say, could it be that the twisted melon was not sweet?