Chapter Ninety-Three: Harvest
As soon as the autumn wind rises in August, although the autumn tiger is a little hot, it has revealed a trace of coolness in the morning and evening.
Xiao Zheng's baby son Xiao Lu has been eating, drinking, and sleeping all day long, and the rest is to cry twice to report safety, Xiao Lu inherited Jin'er's complexion, and his skin is white and pink, and now in addition to eating and sleeping, Xiao's mother is reluctant to put it down.
Because his mother's milk is sufficient, this little guy has changed almost every day, and finally became a white and tender little fat man in more than two months, and Jin'er has also become much plumper under Xiao Zheng's meticulous care.
When he got up in the morning, Xiao Zheng watched the child's snorting sound when he was eating milk, and he looked at the little guy intently.
"Is this stuff that good? If you put it in your mouth, you can't bear to spit it out."
"That's it, you haven't seen enough yet, do you want to eat?" Jin'er asked Xiao Zheng playfully.
"I, where can I grab something to eat with my son, is it sweet?" Xiao Zheng said weakly.
"I won't give you anything sweet," Jin'er said, covering her corset.
I had to swallow my saliva embarrassedly and said: "Materia Medica: Shuyun: replenish the five internal organs, make people fat and white." Treat the pain of the eyes and tears, relieve the poison of the liver and beef, and take it with thick soy sauce".
Through the window, seeing that the weather was good today, I pulled a big family and called a few children out of the city and went straight to Sunjiazhuang. Jin'er also didn't go out for more than two months, and she was very happy when she came out, Xiao Lu also stared at the two big eyes and looked around curiously.
When I arrived at a few acres of land where I farmed, I saw through the fence that Sun Laohan was busy leading the people, and there were more guards on the periphery.
When I asked the guards, I found out that after Li Shimin understood the role of these crops last time, he issued an order to strengthen the protection of these crops, and no one could touch them, and he also named and said that even Xiao Zheng could not eat them casually.
Damn, is Lao Tzu so greedy?
This time, I really wanted to pick a few pumpkins and pinch some cabbage for Jin'er to improve the food, but as soon as the forbidden army was dispatched, Sun Laohan and his gang had to work in the field and enter and exit with waist cards.
Fortunately, the head of the guard still knew Xiao Zheng, and after going in with him, he only warned him not to pick things in the field and then didn't say anything.
After coming out to the pear orchard, Sun Laohan picked a basket full of pears and sent them to Xiao Zheng for a while, and said happily: "Grandpa, the grafting technique you taught the little old man is simply amazing, this pear is too big, the old man weighed it, the largest one is more than two catties, most of them are about half a catty, the old man dares to pat his chest and say that this is the best pear in Chang'an, this pear will definitely sell at a good price this year, the little old man picked a few big ones, you try it first."
"Master, it's so sweet!" Li Chengqian bit down and shouted.
After taking a bite, I felt that this pear was really good, so I said to a few children: "Then you can eat more, and when we go back to bring some, Master will make autumn pear paste for you, and when the autumn and winter seasons change, it will reduce lung dryness, and it will be a good thing to reduce fire and cough and moisten the lungs, and you can usually drink it as sugar water."
Several families played happily for a day, the weather was cool, and the Mid-Autumn Festival was just around the corner.
After the tenth day of August, there was a kind of food called moon cakes suddenly appeared in the Shangyingzhou Pavilion on the side of the Qujiang River, after the exquisite packaging box was opened, several different flavors made people have an endless aftertaste after eating, but the price was still as expensive as ever, saying that it was only after the Mid-Autumn Festival was supplied after the festival and then no longer sold, and for a time it attracted the official to spend countless money and make a lot of money.
On August 15, the early dynasty was dispersed, and Li Shimin did not pat his ass and leave, but took the civil and military officials out of the Tonghua Gate of Chang'an City and galloped directly to Sunjiazhuang.
It turned out that there were no farmers on the crowded construction site, and the autumn harvest was imminent, and nothing was more important than the autumn harvest.
The construction site has already been closed, and the people have all gone back to harvest their crops. However, the wide road surface has been formed, and the stones have not yet been paved, but the pavement of lime mixed with loess is smooth like a mirror, and when you look up, the road more than ten zhang wide is like a giant dragon stretching into the distance and there is no end in sight, and Li Shimin's heart is happy.
"When you pave this road with a stone, I imagine how magnificent it will be," Li Shimin said, pointing to the distance with a horsewhip.
"Let's go!" Li Shimin shouted, and the horse rushed out along the official road.
Sunjiazhuang, Wannian County Commander Dai Xuan and Sun Laohan accompanied Li Chengqian and a few children to wait there for a long time, and saw a large group of officials wearing red and purple coming from a distance and bowed down.
The Ministry of Rites set up the incense sacrifice, and after Li Shimin worshiped the god of agriculture, he led everyone to the fenced field and walked the pumpkin field.
Looking up, the smallest pumpkin in the field is half a foot in diameter, and some pumpkins that have hung fruit early can't be stopped by twenty catties, and these melons are either exposed on the surface or hidden under the melon leaves.
"Can I pick this thing?" Li Shimin asked Xiao Zheng with some concern.
"Absolutely! Please ask the saint to pick first," Xiao Zheng arched his hand at Li Shimin and said.
Li Shimin looked at the pumpkins all over the ground, then looked at the melon vines with burrs, shook his hand and looked at Xiao Zheng and said, "How to pick this thing?" ”
I really couldn't stand the appearance of this guy's dirt buns, called a few children, found a basket, and found the largest one in the melon field, stepped on the melon seedlings with his feet, hugged the pumpkin and twisted it down, and the ministers trembled in their hearts.
Then let's do it, measure an acre of land, one by one the pumpkins were carefully moved out by the soldiers, Qin Qiong and Niu Jinda and some generals also joined the team of picking melons, and then Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji also followed, hugging the pumpkins one by one and smiling from ear to ear.
In an hour, there were seven or eight piles of pumpkins on the ground, which was still Xiao Zheng told everyone that it could still grow until the frost fell and did not let the monarch pick the small ones.
Picked a big pumpkin out, Xiao Zheng borrowed a knife from the forbidden army and chopped it down, the golden melon flesh is very thick, and it is no different from that of later generations, take out the inside of the melon pulp and wash it with water to use it as seeds in the next year, and the melon flesh can be eaten.
After the five children used a basket to carry over two pumpkins and weigh them, one thirty catties and one twenty-five catties, and weighed the pumpkins of one acre of land one by one, Xiao Changning made everyone's faces twitch a little when he reported the output of 6,000 catties, and the ministers were stunned for a while.
"The saint has just ascended the throne and opened the new year, and this agricultural product has appeared in the world, which shows that my emperor Deze can produce this auspicious rui in the world, and there are such crops in my Tang Dynasty in the future, and the minister congratulates His Majesty" Fang Xuanling was the first to cry and knelt down, and followed the hundred officials to kneel.
"Haha, all the ministers are flat!" Li Shimin is happier than holding his own baby in his arms.
"To have today's prosperity, these children have also made a lot of contributions, and I am very gratified," Li Shimin patted the little heads of several babies and said.
Hearing Li Shimin's praise, Li Chengqian's children had their chests straightened, and they couldn't help but want to laugh when they saw it.
In addition to being happy, Li Shimin made another speech, which is nothing more than the credit of everyone that such a good crop has appeared, and we will definitely create a better tomorrow with me.
Seeing that everyone was present, Xiao Zheng stretched out his hand and took out a piece of paper from his arms and shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, in the spring of this year, some of you have an agreement with a million yuan of gambling money, and at that time, it was limited to fifteen stones. Now you have also seen that this pumpkin yields 6,000 catties per mu and 50 stones per mu, and I have won in the next year, and in the autumn, I will also collect money according to the list."
After Xiao Zheng finished speaking, he shook the gambling contract in his hand.