Lanxi, Lijiazhuang.

Li Xiao looked at the fish pond that had almost dried up, and said helplessly to Zhang Cong and Liu Garlic, "This year, this fish can't be raised, and this water is gone, so just call a few people down to touch the fish and shrimp inside, and you can eat two meals." ”

The fish can't live without water, and it can't live if you don't touch the little fish and shrimp inside, so it's better to just touch it and feast on it.

The villagers are busy fighting drought and disaster relief, but Li Xiao is quite leisurely.

He was also a landlord with a net worth of thousands of acres, but the land was distributed to others for planting, and he kept 25 acres of land for his own family, and Li Xiao also distributed it to other tenants for planting.

"Say hello to the tenants who originally planted our land, and say that this year's situation is special, and the land has not been tenanted to them, so this summer's rent will not be collected, and in order to apologize, after we have collected the land rent issued by the township covenant hall, we will take out 10% of it to supplement the tenants who originally planted our land, which can be regarded as making up for their losses."

The young man Zhang Cong asked puzzledly, "What loss can they have, they don't have to farm the land, and we don't confiscate his rent, how can there be any food for them." ”

"A little bit of food, for us, is just a drop in the bucket, dispensable, but for them in a disaster year, it may be the food for life. Even if it is to accumulate some yin virtue, it is also to thank them for their hard work in planting our land in the past. ”

took off his long shirt and belt, Li Xiao didn't care about his image, and directly wore a pair of big-legged pants and went barefoot. The trousers were pulled up high, and a strip of cloth was tied to the thigh, and only a small coat was worn on the upper body, and the cuffs were also pulled up high.

The fish pond, which should have been full of water, was now covered with dry and cracked mud, like tiles in the pond, and there was only a small puddle of water in the middle of the pond, but it was knee-deep.

Many fish and shrimp swing in the water from time to time.

Li Xiao took Zhang Onion and Liu Garlic without using any nets, walked directly into the water, and stirred it vigorously, and the water immediately became turbid.

After a while, the fish and shrimp in the water began to float.

"The fish is up, just in troubled waters."

Li Xiao smiled and touched the fish with his hands, the fish lacked oxygen in the muddy water, and they scrambled to float up and breathe, which was just convenient for Li Xiao and a few of them, and they just fished with their hands.

Many fish are still fry, Li Xiao sighed a little pity, originally raised for a year, you can become a big fish, take the barrel to Chang'an to sell live fish, it must be profitable.

But now, I can only catch these fry, which are just right-looking.

"It's a pity, San Lang, why don't we have someone pick up some water from the Blue Creek to fill this pond and keep these fry." Liu Garlic said.

"You can't do such a thing, this kind of cannibalism will provoke criticism and even scolding."

If from some points of view in the later generations, Li Xiao had money and someone in his family, then Li Xiao asked people to fetch water from the nearby Lanxi River to fill this fish pond to keep their own fish, which is beyond reproach, and it has nothing to do with other people's affairs, and it does not harm the interests of other people.

Things that are neither illegal nor moral, can certainly be done.

But this idea does not work in this day and age.

What is cannibalism?

This is a concept put forward by Mencius, which means that a society is chaotic and undistinguishable. Taking food that was meant to be eaten by the poor who had no food to eat was taken to the animals, and it was said that this was an act that brought chaos to the hearts of the people and destroyed the world.

When people can't eat enough, you rich people still have to keep pets and feed animals with grain, which is to lead animals to eat people.

This kind of behavior was very criticized in ancient times, but in modern times, in fact, no one cares about leading beasts to eat people, countless people have pets, and even few people are really hungry.

Even if you don't eat a full meal, it has something to do with me, what does it matter to me to raise my own cats and dogs with my own money?

It's like countless people are paying more and more attention to pets, even higher than people, which was unthinkable in ancient times.

So in fact, today's society is not only the best era, but also the worst era, everyone is chasing money, materialistic desires, and even the ethics of Gangchang are confused, but this is also a very good era, at least there is no turmoil, no hunger.

Nowadays, there is a shortage everywhere, and everyone is busy carrying water to fight drought and protect crops, and even fight for some water, killing people.

Li Xiao wants to let people carry water to irrigate his fish pond and keep a few fish?

If this kind of thing is really done, it is estimated that you will be scolded to death.

It's better not to do this kind of thing, even if these fry are a pity, and the loss may be more than the harvest of dozens of acres, it is not suitable to do.

After a while, Li Xiao had already touched several catties of fish, all of which were not big fish, the largest ones were only the size of a palm, and many of them were only the size of a finger, or even the size of a straw heart.

"Take the palm-sized stew soup, the finger-sized ones are directly dried, these grass roots are big, go back and wrap some flour and fry them, the taste is the best, your sister-in-law is now pregnant and has no appetite for anything, but I like to eat this fried fish, you catch more." Li Xiao said with a smile.

Far ashore.

Li Zhen accompanied her sister-in-law Wanniang, who had been pregnant for nearly five months, and her belly was obviously bulging. Compared with the various discomforts during the first period of pregnancy, she has now entered a stable period, morning sickness is gone, nausea and insomnia are gone, and the only thing is that her appetite is not very good.

"Brother, the county government's Liu envoy is here, you go back to entertain you." Li Zhen shouted from above.

Li Xiao was feeling energetic, and when he heard that Liuxian was coming, he was a little reluctant to go ashore.

"San Lang, you go to entertain the county order, we stay and touch the fish, we must touch more small fish." Zhang Cong said with a smile.

"Well, be careful when fishing, beware of snakes in the water."

"If there is a snake, you can add a meal and stew a snake soup for your sister-in-law to eat."

The vestibule of the Li family compound.

Liu Xian Ling sat there drinking tea, today he didn't bring a lot of people with great fanfare, so he brought two staff members and a few officials, a group of only five or six people, and he didn't even wear official uniforms.

Under normal circumstances, the county magistrates would not leave the county seat to go to the countryside, not because they were unwilling, but because the imperial court generally did not require them to go to the countryside.

There are only a few official officials in the county, and they have almost everything to take care of, and they can't be busy. The imperial court was also worried that the county order going to the countryside would bring a burden to the people, and they were afraid that they would increase the trouble for the people in the fishing and meat townships.

Today, Liu County Ling came directly to the Li family.

He knew that all these miracles in Lanxi Township were caused by Li Xiao.

Capture the thief first capture the king, shoot the man first shoot the horse, it is enough to come directly to Li Xiao.

"This Li Jiazhuang and Li Family Compound, I really don't know if I don't come, I was shocked when I saw it, it was better than the Lantian County Ya."

Liu Xian Ling sighed, not that Li Xiao's family is very magnificent, but the planning is extremely neat, and the village is very clean, cleaner than the county seat.

Walking on the village road, you can even hear the sound of reading aloud from the academy in the east of the village.

"Seeing the appearance of Lijiazhuang, I immediately believed in the miracle of Lanxi Township, this Lijiazhuang is a miracle."