With the advancement of the season, the time has also come to July, Jiangning has also entered a long rainy season, at this time, the whole sky is gray, in the drizzle, the buildings in the city seem to be stained with wisps of silver, looking at the garden mansion outside are shrouded in the rain curtain, but there is also quite a leisurely meaning of how many buildings in the smoke and rain.

Cao Yi read quietly in the study, from time to time he lifted the pen and sat on the book with some marks, or recorded some important things separately, and the red sleeves picked up the room lightly on the side, and saw that the ink in the inkstone was almost gone, so he came over to grind some ink, and found that the lights in the room were a little dim, so he lit the oil lamp to facilitate the child's reading, and found that Cao Yi's teacup was out of water, so he carried the kettle and added some hot water.

Red Sleeves was originally Mrs. Gao's personal maid, and it has been five years since she entered Cao's Mansion, and later because Mrs. Gao favored Cao Yi, she gave Red Sleeves to the latter, and she is seventeen years old this year. He has long black hair like silk satin, slender phoenix eyebrows, a pair of eyes like stars and bright moon, a delicate nose, a slightly dizzy pink cheek, dripping cherry-like red lips, a flawless melon seed face that is shy and affectionate, a tender snow skin complexion, a light body, and refined and elegant. In terms of modern aesthetics, it is a rare beauty, Cao Yi sometimes feels that even if there is nothing to do in this life, it is also a kind of life luck to hold an inkstone in green clothes and read with red sleeves.

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"Childe, it's time" Red Sleeves looked at the missing engraved copper kettle, then looked at the sky outside the window, and walked over to remind.

"Okay." Cao Yi put down the brush in his hand and stood up, and it was a little wet and cold outside Jiangning after it had rained in the evening, and the red sleeves immediately stepped forward to serve and put on Cao Yi's cloak.

From Qingyun Pavilion through the long corridor, you will arrive at the gate of the courtyard of Mrs. Gao's Wenshu Garden. A delicate and vulgar girl is waiting in the rain with an umbrella, wearing a tender yellow shirt, light as a chrysanthemum, elegant and beautiful, so that the whole picture has an unusual poetic feeling.

At this time, the woman also saw Cao Yi, squatted and blessed, and whispered: "Son, Mrs. is already waiting in the main hall." ”

This woman's name is Qingzhao, and she and Red Sleeves originally took care of Mrs. Gao's daily life together, and they were both big girls, but Mrs. Gao loved her son, so she arranged Red Sleeves over.

Cao Yi nodded at her, strode towards the courtyard, and when he walked into the main hall, he saw Mrs. Gao sitting upright at the table.

"Mother, I'm here." Cao Yi bowed and said.

Mrs. Gao nodded, and asked Cao Yi about today's study status, which books he read, and what things he did. The two big maidens stood aside, serving the two masters from time to time.

Chatting and chatting somehow talked about this rainy season, since entering June, it has been raining for more than a month, according to previous years, I am afraid that it will fall again in August.

"It has been raining for several days, and we are afraid that this year's harvest of our Cao family's tenants is not very good, and I don't know how much rations will be left at the end of the year, and how many people will starve to death...... Ay! Mrs. Gao worships the Buddha all day long, after all, she has a good heart, and she can't help but sigh when she thinks of the consequences of the rain for this month.

Before, Cao Yi didn't care about anything at home, but this year, with the change of mentality that he wants to integrate into this world, he has also begun to slowly get in touch with some industries at home. At least I know that there are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, several houses in prosperous areas, and dozens of shops at home......

Cao Yi remembered that he had seen farmers farming in the countryside outside Jiangning before, and it was true that the level of agricultural technology was low, and he found that they were still planting millet, whose scientific name is chestnut, that is, modern millet, which is not very suitable for planting in Jiangning, which often has a rainy season, and according to the soil nature and climate conditions of Jiangning, wheat and rice should be planted.

Since he came from the future of the 21st century, had a higher education in college, and in the era of extremely advanced information, although he did not pay specific attention to how to farm, even if he only had occasional contact with relevant information, it was enough for him to become an expert in agricultural cultivation in this era.

So after eating, Cao Yi locked himself in the study, and according to the current level of craftsmen of the Great Yan Dynasty combined with future memories, he spent a night drawing the craftsmanship of the seedling horse, keel overturning, and treading plow. On the second day, he instructed the carpenters in the palace to quickly make a copy of these farm tools, and at the same time asked the housekeeper to send people to Hangzhou in the south to buy a large number of wheat and rice seeds.

Half a month later, the wheat and rice seeds purchased from the south had been transported from Hangzhou to Jiangning, and the next step was to persuade the tenants to give up the current millet planting and plant wheat and rice instead. For the people of this era, wheat and rice have not yet been widely planted, let alone the future wheat and rice intercropping method. However, Cao Yi is very aware of the advantages of wheat and rice intercropping, and in one season, it is equivalent to harvesting two crops.

When Cao Yi asked those tenants to replant, many tenants were quite reluctant or even resistant to planting, and people always had a suspicious and distrustful attitude towards the unknown, not to mention that this year's harvest itself was not very good, and after paying it to the master's family, it was not yet known how much surplus grain was left in their own family.

In the end, Cao Yi had to move out of the main family, and forcibly let the tenants use half of the fields to interplant wheat and rice. The field that has not been replanted has been raised from five to two liters per mu, and the replanted field is to be collected again in the next year. If the harvest is good, the same two liters per mu can be paid in the next year.

It took several days to get the tenants to sign off and agree to spend half of their fields on wheat and rice. At the same time, the host family also rented them free horses, keel dumpers, treadmills and other farm tools, taught them how to use them, and also informed them of various natural fertilizer manufacturing and use methods.

For nearly a month, Cao Yi, the son of the Cao family, ran to the cultivated land outside Jiangning City every once in a while, which naturally caused the discussion and ridicule of many families in Jiangning City:

"I haven't seen Cao Duba for more than half a year, it is said that he has recovered from his illness, and he has been reading the books of sages at home, but he actually read how to farm, and he can teach those tenants who have been farming for generations to farm, you say it's ridiculous?"

"The gentleman cooks far away, but he has to cultivate closely, in my opinion, only Cao Yi and Cao Gongzi can really be called the true gentleman of Jiangning!"

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This kind of positive ridicule, slander behind the scenes, and chewing tongue words are circulating at a hurricane-like speed in the upper circles of Jiangning City, and another "glorious deed" of Cao Yi and Cao Gongzi has been known, discussed and ridiculed.

This time, even Cao Yi's mother, Mrs. Gao, brought it up while eating, warning him that he should focus on his studies at the moment and do what a scholar should do is the right way.

But then again, the reason why every time Cao Yi does something out of the ordinary that is different from his identity, it can be known and spread by others, is often that some boring second ancestors see Cao Yi's carriage going out, so they hang far behind, to see where the son of the Cao family is going to do stupid things today, so that he can come back and talk to people after tea and dinner, and grasp the first-hand conversation.

As the weather becomes clearer, Cao Yi has to instruct his tenants on how to apply fertilizer, telling them that they need to sprinkle organic fertilizer into the field before transplanting, then use the keel to turn over the water to irrigate the land, and then use the pear to turn the field deeply, turn the fertilizer into the bottom layer of the soil, and at the same time turn the bottom soil to the top of the rice field, because only in this way can the soil fertility increase in an all-round way.

Of course, the source of organic fertilizer is nothing more than the collection of chickens and ducks, human and animal manure plus dead branches and leaves, etc., and the use of compost and manure to make it, so there is naturally a relatively heavy smell in the air.

Therefore, the second ancestors who are following behind today are all covering their noses and jumping to scold Cao Yi for being a sage and insulting Sven. Liu Baiqing showed a sneer on his face, and said softly to Cao Yi: "Childe, you said that those people were sick, and we didn't force them to come over, we didn't go but scolded you, and no one stopped them from letting them go!" ”

"Who knows about the things of the readers?" Cao Yi pursed his lips.

Liu Baiqing savored this sentence carefully, and laughed out loud, "Childe, you can also be regarded as a scholar." ”

"I only know words, but I'm not a reader, don't you see those readers scolding me for insulting Sven and disdaining to be with me?" Cao Yi said seriously......

Indeed, Childe's behavior now is not at all like a scholar, and it is a little incomprehensible? Liu Baiqing secretly wondered in her heart.