The morning of early spring is still a little cool, but Zhang Bin's heart is hot, there is a shy little cloud in the backyard of the county government, and there is an idiot Chen Yingying in Dongmen Mountain, this day is really happy!

If it weren't for Zhang Cha and the others taking turns carrying a bag of rice, he really wanted to beat his horse and go straight to Dongmen Mountain, so that he could see Chen Yingying as soon as possible.

However, this Dongmen Mountain is not far from the county seat, even if it is moving slowly, it will not take long to rush over.

Zhao Yan still walked out of the village, and when he saw the rice and wind-blown meat brought by Zhang Cha and them, he couldn't help but ask, "Lord County Commander, who are you?" ”

Zhang Bin smiled and said: "This official is not here once or twice, there will be many days to come here in the future, eat you every day, no matter how big the family is, I am afraid that I can't hold it, you don't need to prepare meals in the future, we will bring things over by ourselves, just do it directly at Chen Zhi's place." ”

When Zhao Yan heard this, he was immediately embarrassed, it was his uncle Zhao Mu who was the east yesterday, and he didn't feel anything yet, but when he went back and counted it carefully, it scared him out of a cold sweat.

At this time, pork is not expensive, only two cents of silver a catty, and a chicken is only about five cents of silver, but it can't stand the county magistrate's entourage, and there are many people accompanying him, two meals, and the pig killed yesterday ate a small half, which is nearly two taels of silver, plus chicken, rice, and wine, and a meal is absolutely impossible without more than one or two silver.

It's nothing to eat a meal or two, but if you eat for a month or two, you can't stand it.

After all, he is not a squire like Zhao Mu, even if he can draw some money from the donated farmland, he can earn more than 100 taels of silver in a year, and if the county order comes to eat every day, within two months, his annual income will be gone!

Now hearing what the county magistrate said, he couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, but on the surface, he still pretended to regret and said: "Alas, the county magistrate, you really make the villain ashamed, otherwise, the villain asked the villain to make the pork left over from yesterday into wind-blown meat and send it to the Chen family, if the county magistrate comes over these days, there is no need to bring any more meat." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he said dispensably: "You don't need this, right?" ”

Zhao Yan insisted: "Yes, yes, Uncle Qian of pork has been out, how can the villain be embarrassed to keep it for himself." ”

Zhang Bin was really anxious to see Chen Yingying, where did he have time to talk to this goods, he nodded directly and said: "Okay, you first gather people to the mountain behind Chen's house, and when the official sees the place, you can dig directly." ”

When Zhao Yan heard this, he hurriedly nodded and went away, while Zhang Bin took everyone and hurried to Chen Zhi's house.

After getting along with each other yesterday, the villagers all know that this personable young man is the county magistrate of this county, and this county magistrate is gentle and elegant, has no arrogance at all, and has a good temper.

Therefore, along the way, the villagers did not avoid them anymore, but took the initiative to stand on the side of the road and bow down to say hello.

Outside the small courtyard of the Chen family, the three brothers and sisters of the Chen family were already waiting there, Chen Zhi looked at the rice and wind-blown meat that Zhang sent them, and he couldn't help but ask: "Lord County Commander, who are you?" ”

Zhang Bin directly turned over and dismounted, hugged Chen Xiuxiu in Chen Yingying's arms, and said with a smile: "This official can't eat white food here with you, so I brought something myself, and I want to trouble you to help make it." ”

I don't know whether it was intentional or not, when he went to hug Chen Xiuxiu, the big hand simply stroked from Chen Yingying's chest, and Chen Yingying immediately made a big red face.

Chen Zhi acted as if he hadn't seen it, and apologized vigorously: "Oh, Lord County Commander, I'm really sorry, the grass people's house is really, alas." ”

Zhang Bin shook his head directly and said, "Don't say so much, hurry up and take the things in, and then, go to the field with the official to have a look." ”

When Chen Zhi heard this, he hurriedly took the rice on Zhang Cha's shoulders and the wind-blown meat in his hands, so he carried the rice on his shoulders and the wind-blown meat in his hands, and ran into the house quickly.

Zhang Bin secretly winked at Chen Yingying, and then slowly walked to the experimental field behind the house with Chen Xiuxiu in his arms.

As soon as the group walked to the test field, Chen Zhi caught up from behind, and Zhang Bin asked directly: "Have you watered it in the morning?" ”

Chen Zhi hurriedly nodded and said, "It's been watered, it's been watered, but I don't know if it's appropriate." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he sent Chen Xiuxiu back to Chen Yingying's arms, squatted down and pulled away the straw, grabbed a small piece of soil below and pinched it in his hand, felt the humidity, and then nodded: "Well, almost, it's going to be hard for you these days, every morning around midnight, water these two acres of land, and when the seedlings inside come out, you don't have to water it so diligently." ”

Chen Zhi hurriedly shook his head and said, "It's not hard, it's not hard, this little thing is nothing." ”

Zhang Bin nodded, stood up directly, and just saw Zhao Yan hurriedly running over here, he immediately confessed: "Well, you guys are guarding here, be careful not to let chickens, dogs, or anything run in and turn over the straw on it, and the official will go to the back mountain to take a look." ”

After that, he took Xie Zhenggang and Wu Shiqi to greet Zhao Yan.

The reason why Zhang Bin asked him to gather people in the back mountain is to open more experimental fields, according to the standard of potato and sweet potato planting, generally nearly 300 catties of seeds are used for one acre of land, of course, that is the sowing amount of four or five thousand catties per mu, and he only requires a yield of 2,000 catties per mu, but there is no need to plant so densely.

Zhang Bin has already thought about opening another eight acres of land, plus the two acres that were opened yesterday, a total of ten acres, and the amount of seeds sown per mu is about 200 catties.

The potatoes and sweet potatoes are not very high requirements for soil quality, high sand content, more fluffy land is the best, Zhang Bin took a hundred people to go around the back mountain, let people dig pits everywhere to check the soil quality, and finally determined to open eight acres of mountain land next to a mountain stream, and at the same time dig a large storage pool in the middle of the stream, so that it is convenient to water it.

After arranging everything, Zhang Bin took Xie Zhenggang and Wu Shiqi back to Chen Yingying's house, it was not yet noon, and it was still early before dinner, so he simply ran to his room to record the precautions for choosing a place.

After doing all this, he remembered Chen Yingying again, just as their brother and sister were cooking in the kitchen, he confessed, and walked into the kitchen alone in a hurry, at this moment, he felt like a first brother who had just fallen in love, and his heart was stirring.

In the kitchen, Chen Zhi was burning the fire, Chen Xiuxiu was obediently sitting on the small bench next to him, stretching out his little hand to bake the fire there, and Chen Xiuxiu had just finished scooping the rice and got out of the pot, and was preparing to cook at this time.

Seeing the moving figure, Zhang Bin couldn't help but approach and said affectionately: "Yingying, what are you going to cook?" ”

Chen Yingying took a few pieces of air-dried meat that had been washed, blushed, and said embarrassedly: "Lord County Order, there is really nothing delicious in our family, except for the meat you brought, there is only pickles, I don't know if Lord County Order eats it." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he said with interest: "Oh, pickles, where is it, I'll taste it." ”

He didn't actually want to eat any pickles, but wanted to tease Chen Yingying.

Hearing this, Chen Yingying put down the wind-blown meat in her hand, took him to the corner of the kitchen, opened a large porcelain jar half a person high, pointed to it and said, "Lord County Order, it's inside, or you take it yourself, my hands are dirty." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, he leaned in and looked inside, that is, some green vegetables and radishes or something, all soaked yellow and yellow, slightly sour.

He pretended to pinch a radish strip from it and put it in his mouth to chew.

Well, it's very light, much lighter than what Aunt Xiaoliu did.

Pickles, pickles, if it's not salty, it doesn't feel so delicious.

He couldn't help but remind, "This salt is a little small, right?" ”

When Chen Yingying heard this, she said a little desolately: "Lord County Order, I know how much salt to put in it, but it's just such a big jar of water, if you want to mix salty water, at least two or three catties of salt must be put in it, we, we can't afford it." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, his heart sank, he couldn't even afford to eat salt!

He raised his eyes and looked around, it seemed that there was nothing else to eat except this jar of pickles, and he asked a little bitterly, "What do you eat every day besides pickles?" ”

Chen Yingying replied innocently: "There is also porridge, how can you eat enough just to eat vegetables." ”

When Zhang Bin heard this, his heart was sour, every day was porridge and pickles, day after day, year after year, how hard it was to live this day!

Once the drought breaks out and the military disaster comes, these civilians will probably have nothing to eat porridge and pickles, so how many people will starve to death!

For a moment, he felt a heavy responsibility fall on his shoulders.

No, he will never allow the starvation to be everywhere and the misery of the homeless.

The hundreds of millions of people of the Ming Dynasty are still waiting for him to save it, I am afraid that my life has been too comfortable these days, and I have forgotten the suffering of the people and began to indulge in beauty!

He stood up slowly and said heavily: "Pickles, serve more, I want to taste it well." ”

With that, he turned around indifferently and walked out.

Chen Yingying looked at his back, and inexplicably felt a sense of loss, what is wrong with the county magistrate, his eyes were full of eagerness just now, and he was a little embarrassed to see it, why did he suddenly become cold!