"Before and after the rain in the valley, order melons and plant beans" knew that the farming time did not wait for anyone, Li Shimin left Sunjiazhuang for a few days, it happened to be the last solar term of spring, and he called a few children to find Sun Laohan with the seeds sent by Duyiti.

Sun Laohan knew that Xiao Zheng and several people were nobles, so he called his two sons to come out to see him, Xiao Zheng and his party were very polite, afraid that the old man would be frightened after knowing the identities of several people, and Xiao Zheng did not tell him his identity directly.

Lou Shide and Li Chengqian brought some preserved fruits and candy to Sun Laohan's little grandson, which made the children very happy, and after a while, several children played together.

Xiao Zheng told the old man to set aside a few acres of land to plant something, and handed the old man two silver dollars to say that it was rent, which frightened Sun Laohan's son, and a silver dollar sold this piece of land to have a surplus, and hurriedly waved his hand and did not dare to ask for it, and was accepted by Xiao Zheng dead and alive.

Waiting to explain the intention and tell the old man that someone will come over to install a few waterwheels in a few days, Sun Laohan's dry face was full of tears, of course he knew what the waterwheel was, but a village couldn't afford to raise money, and with water, the harvest of these fields was settled.

Let the men put the oxen on the plough, and the acre of land will soon be turned up soft and sunken, flattened with an iron rake, and several children have been called to each with a small hoe, and after digging a small hole, the seed is sprinkled. Sun Laohan's family was originally from a farmer's family, and seeing Xiao Zheng's somewhat clumsy appearance, he couldn't help but come over to help, Xiao Zheng was not polite, and sprinkled all the seeds in less than half a day.

was busy until noon, and took out the prepared food for Sun Laohan and his family to eat together, and looked up to see that the pear blossoms were already blooming like snow in the sky. After giving lessons to those people, when they were fine, they took the children to smell the flowers and hug them, and they were unconsciously relaxed, and they saw Xiao Zheng and a group of children leisurely.

"Uncle's cow is so strange, it looks so strong but it doesn't work," said Sun Laohan's little grandson, pointing to the five flowers.

"That's my uncle's mount, and I can't pull a cart just for eating," Xiao Zheng said to the little guy with a smile.

"Noble, you are born to enjoy a blessed life, and your family's livestock are more comfortable than the people of the old Han family, which cannot be compared," Sun Laohan patted his little grandson and said.

"Old man, you can't say that, although everyone is born with a different family background, but everyone must have the opportunity to enjoy happiness, the key is to work hard, if a court makes everyone can't see hope after working hard, then there is no need to exist. Although you suffered during the Great Cause years, you can't continue to suffer after you arrive in the Tang Dynasty, it depends on your little grandson and their efforts," Xiao Zheng pointed at Li Chengqian after finishing speaking.

"Don't worry, Master, we will let everyone in Datang have clothes and meat to eat in the future, and they will not suffer again," Li Chengqian replied very arrogantly.

"You little guy, your tone is not small," Sun Laohan said with a smile.

Before leaving, he said to Sun Laohan that he would wait for a few days for the waterwheel to be safe, don't forget to water and weed the planted crops, and come back to see it after a while, Sun Laohan said with a smile: "The old man has no other skills, but he has really never served anyone in terms of farming, and you can rest assured that this land is taught to the old man to take care of it, and it is far worse than the old man."

Everyone laughed out loud when he said this......

After the training of Taifu Temple and Li Sanniang's account room, more than a month has passed in a blink of an eye. With a few children came to Sun Laohan's house, the old grandson was very moved when he saw Xiao Zheng and others arrive, Xiao Zheng walked a few days and came over a group of craftsmen to set up a few waterwheels, and now all the land on the west side of the official road can be watered, which makes the people in the whole village grateful to Xiao Zheng and others, and they are also very envious of Sun Laohan to meet such a nobleman.

When I arrived at the more than one acre of land where the seeds were sown, I saw a shack built on the edge of the field. Sun Laohan explained with a smile that since this kind of seed was sprinkled, the nobleman spent a lot of money to install a waterwheel in the village, and the people of a village could not repay it, for fear of hurting the things planted by the nobleman, and the people of the village took turns to watch, and there was no break during the day and night, which also made Xiao Zheng very moved.

Looking at the seedlings that grew more than half a foot tall, Xiao Zheng finally distinguished this crop, the four crops are carrots, spinach, pumpkin and alfalfa, which are all good things.

Let Sun Laohan and a few old farmers help, and carefully help to divide the seedlings that grow into other acres of idle fields. After finishing his work, he wiped his hands and said to Sun Laosun: "Old man, you must help me take care of these things, these crops are of great use to my Datang."

"Don't worry, my old man's crops are not good at serving, and he will have no face to live in this world," Sun Laohan and several old people said with a smile.

Seeing the pear grove next to him, he asked, "Old man, why don't you prune and loosen the soil in that pear orchard?" ”。

"What? Pruning and loosening? The old man doesn't understand this, you don't know, you don't know, half of this pear tree is a pear tree, the fruit is sour, and some of the pear trees are not big fruit, this is all harvested by the sky, and it can be sold for a few dollars."

In this way, Xiao Zheng took Sun Laohan over and looked at the tree that had just sprouted and spit out leaves, and said: "Old man, I will teach you a way to ensure that the fruit will be big and sweet this year, if something goes wrong, I will cover all the losses of your old man."

After speaking, he walked to the pear orchard, asked people to find scissors, turned Gong Ruoyi's dagger over, found a pear, cut the rootstock at the grafting part, and then cut a vertical split in the middle after cutting the injured surface. Cut a section with about three or four buds from the pear tree, cut a long inch of shaved surface on each side of the lower part, insert the scion into the rootstock split, and finally wrap the interface with a cloth strip, and tell the old man to water from time to time to keep the stubble moist.

"Master, are you treating the pear tree?" Xiao Changning and Li Tai asked curiously.

"This method is called grafting, for example, this pear tree, the apple is our coffin, you can also use this method, after using this method, you can make the fruit tree resistant to cold and waterlogging, so that the tree can resist diseases and insects, etc., and the fruit is still big."

"Then the old man, thank you, the rest of the little old man has also learned, thank you for your advice," Sun Laohan said with a deep salute.

"Don't worry, old man, I promise that the fruit this time will be more than one circle larger than the fruit on the original tree, and I will lose all if I lose."

After listening to this, Sun Laohan hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Where does the noble man say, you put a waterwheel on the old Han Zhuangzi, and the livelihood of the Zhuangzi is guaranteed, don't say that these more than ten acres of pear trees, you just cut him down, and the old man doesn't need you to do it yourself."

After teaching the grafting technique to a few old men, he saw that the sun was already noon, and followed Sun Laohan to the Zhuangzi, and sure enough, there was no difference from other Zhuangzi in the Tang Dynasty, and it was still a thatched roof, but fortunately, it was spring at least to make people see a kind of anger.

Sun Laohan Zhang Luo took his son to find a few coarse porcelain bowls and boiled some hot water and brought them over, Xiao Zheng and a few children were not polite, and brought the food they brought over and called Sun Laohan's family to have a happy meal.

After eating far away, he began to look at the courtyard wall of Sun Laohan's house, and Xiao Zheng paid attention to it as soon as he entered, but he didn't have a chance to speak.

"Old man, where did you get the stones for building your yard?" Xiao Zheng asked Sun Laohan.

"Nobleman, you are talking about these white stones in the yard, less than a mile back from this village, there are some in the mountain, it turns out that there are stonemasons in the village who want to transport him over and carve something to sell for money, but I didn't think that this thing is too brittle, and it will break when it is chiseled, and finally I found that it was useless to pull a little from the mountain to build a circle wall, and I couldn't do anything else."

"Okay, old man, load a car for me when I go back and pull it back," Xiao Zheng said with a twinkle in his eyes.

"That's no problem, other people don't have it in the village, this mountain is everywhere," Sun Laohan said with a smile.

While the two were talking, Sun Erniu, the second son of Sun Laohan, who was looking at the crops in the field, ran over and said, "Nobleman, Aye, go over and take a look, someone wants to rob our family's waterwheel!" ”。