The sky was bright.

Li Xiao had already gotten up, he was afraid that he would wait for Wanniang to wake up and talk to him about taking a concubine again. Being nagged by his wife all day long to help with a small one, this is also the trouble of happiness.

When I got out of the room, I had already come over with cool well water.

The pine washbasin, which has not even been brushed with tung oil, is pure log style, bulky but simple.

The towel is a pure white linen, compared to the towels of later generations, the feeling of blind date with skin is much worse.

The toothbrush, under Li Xiao's suggestion, has been upgraded from a fresh willow branch to an advanced toothbrush with a wooden handle of pig's bristles. Although this toothbrush made of bristles is a bit hard, it is much more convenient than brushing your teeth every time you chew willow branches.

There is no toothpaste, salt is used.

Sprinkle a little salt and brush your teeth.

This is quite a luxury, toothbrushes are not expensive, the key is that the salt is expensive. Nowadays, many people still eat large pieces of salt, which contain a lot of impurities, which are not filtered and purified, and the color is also ugly. The salt used by Li Xiao was bought from the best well salt, and then the high-grade salt after filtering and purifying and decolorizing it many times was white and delicate, with a slight hint of cyan.

This kind of salt can only be enjoyed by noble families, and one liter of salt can be exchanged for at least one stone of rice. Li Xiao brushes the salt he uses to brush his teeth, and he can exchange it for a few stones of rice a month, which shows how extravagant it is.

But Li Xiao doesn't think anything, he has always felt that it is worth it to improve his quality of life.

Isn't money earned and spent? If you don't spend the money you earn, won't that person become a slave to the money? As long as he doesn't deliberately extravagant and wasteful, it's like the perfume he just developed, which is more expensive. But Li Xiao is not stingy at all.

Rubbing the towel, first wiped his face, wiped off the foam on his face after brushing his teeth, and then Li Xiao picked up a piece of soap and began to foam on his hands.

This soap is also a product developed by the way when making perfumes, and it is used to replace the expensive bath beans at home.

The bath beans at home were bought in a big pharmacy in Chang'an, not to mention the high price, and they were not very easy to use, and Li Xiao couldn't look down on them. In my spare time, I researched the soap, which is actually very simple and not complicated, but it takes a little effort.

The cost is still very low, at least compared to the high-grade bath beans mixed with many spices and medicinal herbs.

When making soap, you can also make some soap, soap to wash your face, wash your hands and take a bath, soap is used to wash clothes, it is very easy to use.

Apply soap bubbles to your face, massage your hands on your face for about five minutes, and then wash off.

Suddenly he was refreshed.

Touching the face that is not greasy at all, Li Xiao feels that the oil-removing effect of this soap is really strong, but it seems to be a little too strong, and it seems that it will hurt his face a little if he uses it for a long time.

After washing her face, the maid ring waiting next to her quickly and carefully picked it up and put it into a specially made wooden box, which has a special water filter under the box, which is indeed very practical.

"Ah Lang, the government sent Zhao Zhiman's family here, waiting for Ah Lang to receive it." The butler came to report.

Because Dr. Zhao now has to manage the medical hall on the street and the newly opened crude medicine shop, he is busy at both ends, so Li Xiao has found another person to serve as a housekeeper at home.

After all, now that the family has a big business, the new housekeeper is a distant relative of the Li family and a cousin of Li Xiao's mother, so Li Xiao has to call his cousin, surnamed Qian.

In his forties, he read some books, and his family is a landlord, but he is a concubine, and his family property has nothing to do with him.

Now that he has become a housekeeper in the Li family, it is appropriate.

Lao Qian is not tall, but he is quite chubby and round, his face is full of red light, and he arranges things quite well.

"Is Second Brother Zhao here? Come with me to meet you. ”

Li Xiao was released from prison yesterday, but Zhao Zhiman was not released. The emperor's decree was to give the Zhao family to Li Xiao as a slave, and today is the official handover.

The gate of Lijiazhuang.

An official of Dali Temple personally led the team, and there was a team of officers and soldiers, holding one hundred and thirty-eight members of the Zhao family, men and women, young and old. Although Zhao Gui, one of the Eight Pillars of the Kingdom, still has many descendants, at least Zhao Zhiman's branch is now all slaves.

Zhao Zhiman and his family were tied to ropes with their hands and feet, and they were strung together in a long string.

"Eunuch Li."

The official of Dali Temple stepped forward with a smile and said hello.

Li Xiao frowned, he knew that the other party was polite, but he really didn't like the title of eunuch.

You are a eunuch, and your whole family is a eunuch.

"Just call me Master Li, have you delivered it?"

"It's all here, Zhao Zhiman's family of one hundred and thirty-eight is here." The official took out a roster and handed it to Li Xiao for inspection.

"I signed it, so it's over?"

"Yes, yes, yes, these one hundred and thirty-eight slaves after signing and painting are all from Master Li. However, these people are all given by the emperor, and Master Li has to be strictly guarded, so don't lose them. ”

Li Xiao hurriedly signed and signed with an expressionless face and completed the handover procedures.

"Money steward."

"Alang, I'm here."

"Invite this king and the others to the village for tea, and treat them well."

"Okay." Lao Qian stepped forward with a smile and invited the king and his party into the village.

Li Xiao waited for them to leave, took a few steps forward, and came to Zhao Zhiman.

"Second brother, I've wronged you." Li Xiao stepped forward to help Zhao Zhiman untie the rope. "When you get here, you're home, and you don't have to worry about it in the future."

Zhao Zhiman's expression was a little sluggish, he looked at Li Xiao, and then at Li Jiazhuang, this is a place that makes him feel full of regret.

If he hadn't come here, there would have been no end up in the Zhao clan being reduced to slavery.

'San Lang, I was sorry for you before, and I brought troops to besiege the village, but not only did you ignore your past suspicions, but you also treated me like this, I really don't know how to express it. ’

"Who can be without fault? It's good to be able to change it for a while. The past is over, and we will look forward in the future, and when we get here, the second brother will treat him as his own home. ”

The Zhao family has one hundred and thirty-eight members, not all of them are Zhao family, his parents died early, so the elders in this line are also his father's concubines, then several brothers in his life, then his children and nephews, and the rest are actually slaves and maids of the Zhao family.

For those slaves and maids of the Zhao family, in fact, except for a little nervousness, it is nothing. Anyway, I was a slave everywhere, but I used to be a slave in the Zhao family, and the Zhao family's family rules were not bad, and I treated my subordinates well. Now that I have come to the Li family, I don't know how the Li family is.

But for the Zhao family, this is indeed a big blow. In the past, it was an aristocratic and wealthy family, but now it has become someone else's slave.

When they saw Li Xiao's attitude towards Zhao, they were surprised and full of joy.

Untied the rope, Li Xiao arranged Zhao Zhiman's family into the village.

The original servants of the Zhao family, who used to do errands in the Zhao family, have now arranged similar jobs. The remaining 20 or so members of the Zhao family, Li Xiao naturally couldn't treat them as slaves, so he specially asked people to clean up a courtyard for their family to live in.

"The house is also newly built, so I wronged you to settle there temporarily."

"San Lang, don't be so polite, I'm a slave given to you now, you arrange an errand for me."

'How can this work, you forget that we have drunk blood wine in Dali Temple before, we are righteous brothers, you come to me, that is, to the house. ”

Zhao Zhiman was both moved and guilty of Li Xiao.

"I don't have any other skills, that is, a horse and archery skill, but unfortunately it is impossible to go to the battlefield again in this life, otherwise, I will give you a car and escort in the future, and it can be regarded as doing my best." Zhao Zhiman said.

Seeing him insisting like this, Li Xiao was not easy to persuade.

"Then first wronged the second brother, train the family members in our village for me, train them to drive cars and ride horses, and then teach them some stick and fist kung fu."

"Yes." Zhao Zhiman nodded.

"Arrange an errand for the others, too." Zhao Zhiman pointed to his brothers, wives and concubines again.

Li Xiao is helpless, this person is a bit too rigid and serious.

In the end, I had to make some simple arrangements, let Zhao Zhiman's wife accompany Wanniang, and let his brothers follow the money housekeeper to do things, and reluctantly arranged.

This side has just been arranged, and Li Yuanfang is here.

Li Yuanfang is the deputy supervisor of the Quanzhi Corn Prison, and as soon as he arrived at work in the Yamen today, Sinong Siqing went to talk to him and asked him to hurry up and arrange for the trial planting of corn.

But Li Yuanfang didn't know how to grow corn, so he had to come to Lanxi to find Li Xiao.

Seeing that Zhao Zhiman was there, Li Yuanfang hurriedly called the second brother.

Zhao Zhiman just nodded, and then stepped aside.

"I'll just wait over there, and if something calls me, don't disturb your discussion." Zhao Zhiman left.

"Hey, Second Brother Zhao is too old-fashioned." Li Xiao said helplessly.

Li Yuanfang looked at his back and sighed, "Second Brother Zhao was the most respected figure among the Chang'an rangers back then, but I didn't expect it to end up like this now." ”

"Isn't there still us, I already wrote a plea for Second Brother Zhao yesterday."

I've written it too, but I don't think anything will come out of it for a while. ’

The two chatted for a few words, and Li Yuanfang explained his intentions.

"Actually, I've already started to try to grow corn, and I've also written some charters. You're here now, just in time to help me. ”

"Already planted?"

"Planted a little." Li Xiao picked up Li Yuanfang and walked out.

Corn is not like rice, basically it can be planted anywhere, and it can be planted in spring and summer, although it cannot be planted for two consecutive seasons, but it is still possible to plant one season of corn and one season of others. Corn is planted in the first half of the year, and wheat can be planted in the second half of the year. If you plant millet in the first half of the year, you can plant corn in the second half of the year.

Of course, corn can also be planted in those gaps, in any field, on the edge of any yard dam.

Li Xiao took Li Yuanfang and walked a few steps, and there was a courtyard in front of him.

Under the corridor around the courtyard, there are small ridges of soil, and branches are inserted on the sides to fence them.

"If you see the green seedling, it is the corn seedling, which has sprouted."

On the small earthen ridge surrounded by branches under the corridor, the small green seedlings are so tender and green.

"This is a corn seedling? Can it be planted in this house? ”

"Of course you can plant it, even on the windowsill, just a little soil, corn is the best." Li Xiao said with a smile.

It's good to plant patches of land, but it's also good to plant corn on the broken ground in the field. At best, we can only plant about 3,000 corns in an acre of land, but we can grow three or five or even a dozen of them at the head of the field.

A small amount adds up, and it is not a few.

Of course, the most important feature of corn is that it is drought tolerant and suitable for growing on mountain slopes where fertility is not high and lacking.

"How much is planted in this yard?"

"One hundred, I checked it just now, and all of them have emerged." Li Xiao said proudly.