Su Baiyi's thatched house is not far from the east gate of Guide Mansion, and Wu Degui's home is further east than Su Baiyi, fortunately, the distance is not too far, the two walked all the way, and it took almost half a pillar of incense to arrive.

Far away from the city gate, the hustle and bustle of the city gradually faded. Winding country lanes, flanked by leafy locust trees, provide shade to passers-by.

Outside the street trees, there are fields with white flowers that have just harvested wheat, and they have not yet had time to plant autumn crops, but there are still many people in the fields who have begun to plough and plow.

Seeing this situation, Wu Degui's face was secretly sad.

He is a good farmer who is diligent and thrifty, good at governing his family, and in the Ming Dynasty, where scholars and doctors are rampant, it is indeed not an easy thing to keep the more than ten acres of land handed down by his ancestors. In the past, at this time of year, he always had a share of those toiling figures in the field, but this year, he could only watch others work happily in the field.

"Sick, alas......" If it weren't for the serious illness of my mother-in-law when she gave birth, alas......

Wu Degui shook his head, took a deep breath and skimmed his face, and continued to walk east with Su Baiyi. Beyond a shady and dense woods, on the highest part of a high hill in the east, there were scattered six or seven peasant households, one of which was his home.

It's remote enough, and if you make a plastic greenhouse here, you should be able to hide it for a while.

Su Baiyi looked at the terrain here and nodded slightly.

However, even if it is well hidden, as soon as those out-of-season vegetables are on the market in winter, I am afraid that the secret will not be kept.

But it doesn't matter, he has a little friendship with Zhou Shipu, one of the Seven Emperors of the Ming Dynasty, in case the local government or Jinyiwei comes to find trouble, this old man should not sit idly by.

"Family, come out, Mr. Su is here!"

Outside a fence wall, Wu Degui shouted inside.

Then the dilapidated door of the thatched hut was opened, and out of the black hole came a thin black woman, holding a baby wrapped in cloth, and walked out of the door.

Behind the woman, four or five children followed, the eldest was a boy, fifteen or sixteen years old, followed by two girls, who looked to be fourteen or fifteen, and the last one was no more than knee-high, bare-bottomed with a thin body, and staggered to the end, babbling as if he could not speak.

It seems that Wu Degui's family is still living a relatively tight life.

Now that there is no land, there is really no way to live.

Su Baiyi, who has seen the living conditions of the people in the 21st century, and the life scene of the people in the Ming Dynasty, felt a faint pain in his heart, and strengthened his determination to help Wu Degui.

His ability to do so alone is limited, but he can help one by one.

"Quick, this is Mr. Su, hurry up and salute Mr."

The woman was dealing with a scholar for the first time, and she didn't know how to salute, so she simply knelt on the ground with the child in her arms, and kowtowed to Su Baiyi twice.

Su Baiyi hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, looked at her swarthy face and looked at the children behind her, shook her head gently, and sighed slightly.

As Wu Degui said, outside the bamboo wall of the Wu family's fence, there is a rectangular piece of land, next to the bamboo wall, which was sorted out by Wu Degui, and some sundries were planted on it, and there were a few green pumpkins that had grown, and the leaves and vines were coiled on the ground, and then rushed to the not high fence wall, making a green coat for the bare bamboo poles.

Near the pumpkin field, there are beans and cucumbers, and what surprised Su Baiyi even more was that the tomatoes, which had just been introduced to the Ming Dynasty for less than a hundred years, miraculously grew in Wu Degui's vegetable garden.

"Sir haven't seen it, this is a wolf peach!" Wu Degui's face was colorful, walked into the plot with a length and width of six or seven meters, pointed to the tomatoes and said: "This is not our Ming thing, I heard that it was passed from the West, in the spring, our eldest girl brought some seeds from their mother-in-law's house, saying that it was ripe red like persimmons, delicious!" ”

"Since it's from the West, when it matures like a persimmon in the future, it's called a tomato, a wolf peach or something, it's not good, it sounds like it's poisonous." Su Baiyi looked at the tomato seedlings in front of him, some of them had already bloomed small pale yellow flowers, and some of them had produced blue-white fruits the size of pigeon eggs, and his eyes became softer.

Tomatoes, a plant with both fruit and vegetable properties, became popular in later generations, almost to the extent that the people of the Celestial Empire did not know how to cook without it, and now in the Ming Dynasty, in most cases, it is only cultivated as an ornamental plant.

Only a poor family like Wu Degui would try this kind of poisonous thing with their mouths.

"Okay, good, in the future, it will be called tomatoes, this name, it sounds cultured!" Wu Degui looked at Su Baiyi with a smirk.

Su Baiyi turned around and took a step on the Wu family's miscellaneous land, and had a general plan for the plastic greenhouse.

"Here!" Walking to the southernmost end of the miscellaneous land, Su Baiyi drew a straight line on the ground with a tree branch, "Pull a mud wall here, two and a half meters high, oh no, it's as tall as a person and a half." ”

Afraid that Wu Degui didn't know how tall it was, Su Baiyi also specially folded a section of branches as a standard.

"After this mud wall is pulled up, then connect the original two walls of your house to form a large courtyard, and the original mud wall of your house is too low, so you need to increase the height, and make it as high as this.

After the mud wall is pulled up, the bamboo fence can be removed. The original position of the bamboo fence, and then pull a mud wall, it is still so high. ”

Su Baiyi roughly estimated that it constituted a rectangular closed body, with a width of about sixteen or seventeen meters and a length of about forty or fifty meters, and the combined area should be about six or seven hundred square meters, the standard of the Ming Dynasty, more than one acre.

This acre of land is covered with plastic greenhouses, and some out-of-season vegetables such as cucumbers and tomatoes are planted in it in winter, and when they are ripe, they are transported to the homes of those nobles in Guide Mansion, which can easily allow Wu Degui to feed his family.

"This ......" After Wu Degui heard this, he still had some doubts: "Just pull a wall?" ”

Su Baiyi wanted to explain, but he was afraid that the more he explained, the more chaotic it became, after all, the concept and thinking of the people of the Ming Dynasty were very different from those of later generations, if he was told to plant cucumbers in winter now, it would be hard to determine whether he would be sprayed on the face by Wu Degui.

"Do you believe me?"

"Huh?" Regarding Su Baiyi's sudden question, Wu Degui was only stunned for a second, and immediately raised his hand and said: "Letter, of course believe, Mr. asked me to pull the wall, I, I will, no, the disciple will pull the wall!" ”

After the test of the weather forecast, Wu Degui's trust in Su Baiyi has reached the point of blind obedience.

Just kidding, a person with the same ability as Zhuge Kongming of the Three Kingdoms and Liu Gong of this dynasty, who knows astronomy and geography, will lie to me as an honest little people?

"Well, it's good to believe it, and I won't let you down when the time comes! It's just that this wall is not easy to pull, it's June, you have to do it before August! ”

It is too late to cultivate seedlings in August.

Moreover, don't look at the lack of much work on this wall, it is a big project for an ancient person who can only solve everything manually.

As soon as Wu Degui did it himself, eighty percent of them would be tired and lie down.

"Don't worry!" Regarding Su Baiyi's request, Wu Degui smiled honestly and showed two rows of yellowish teeth, and said with a smile: "I, our eldest family, and the eldest girl's family, can come over to help when the time comes, and it will be completed in less than August." ”

"I can do it too!" The woman holding the child looked at Su Baiyi and replied timidly.

"That's good, that's good!"

Someone to help is naturally much faster, but the wall is the first step of the plastic greenhouse, and the bamboo pole skeleton must be established later, as well as the laying of plastic thin, and the cultivation of the simmering shed, there is still a lot of work.

Su Baiyi explained a few more words, and by the way, told Wu Degui to prepare more bamboo poles for making skeletons, and then said goodbye and left.

Wu Degui's family repeatedly asked Su Baiyi for dinner, but he refused.

"Then, sir, I heard that the apprentice will send some bundles to the master, and the disciple will go to the city tomorrow to cut two pieces of meat for you to make up." Wu Degui was a little embarrassed, his face was red as if he was drunk.

"No need!" Su Baiyi walked back, and waved his hand behind without looking back: "Put it here first, and when you grow cucumbers and tomatoes in winter, you can use these things to bind!" ”

"Hey, hey, good!"

Wu Degui bowed down to send Su Baiyi away, watched him drift away, his figure gradually disappeared into the woods, and after a long time, he suddenly thought of something and said, "Hey, at home, what did Mr. say just now?" Winter? Growing cucumbers? ”