Chapter 25: The Harvest
"I've been in Tianshui County for two months, the grain I planted should be ready to be harvested, Brother Shi, you have nothing to do anyway, why don't we go and harvest grain together, with these grains, the people will be much better off this winter."
"Grain? What grain? ”
Shi Le and the old man were stunned, what kind of food will be harvested in this winter?
"Okay, old man, you just wait here, little stove, call the three of them, let's go and collect the grain together."
Shile didn't know why, but he got up and walked out with the others.
Zhang Xingsan and the others pushed five bought wooden carts, and the group walked out of the city.
"Isn't this His Royal Highness the County King? How? Went to the river to dig fish to eat? ”
The soldiers on the city gate shouted loudly when they saw Liu Yuetian.
In the past two months, Liu Yuetian and these soldiers have been familiar with him, originally these soldiers were still a little hostile to him, but seeing that this young man is easy-going, sometimes when he walks around the city, he meets children and gives him some copper plates, and after a long time, this hostility will naturally disappear, especially the news that Liu Yue Tiantiantang, a county king, often goes to the river to catch fish and eat, and the news spreads throughout Tianshui County, and many soldiers laugh at him about it.
"Yes, after this heavy snowfall, the fish in the river will be out of food, and this is a good time to catch fish."
Liu Yuetian didn't care, and the group went out of the city without hindrance.
Heavy snow closed the road, this road more than ten miles down the crowd is already full of sweat, but the small stove Zhang Xingsan and others are very excited, the master is under the guidance of the "immortal", he planted ten acres of rice by the river, half a month ago has grown to more than five feet high, more than five feet high rice they have never heard of, now it is about to be harvested, and I don't know how much grain can be laid.
Soon the people came to the place where the food was grown.
This riverside tidal flat has been completely covered by heavy snow, but elsewhere under the heavy snow is frozen silt, and a position is protruding as a whole, as if the heavy snow is covered with a thick quilt, more than seven feet high, seven feet is already equivalent to the height of an ordinary woman, Liu Yuetian is only about one meter eight, that is, a little more than eight feet, and the height of seven feet has reached his shoulders.
"Come, let's do it together and see our bumper harvest."
Liu Yuetian came to the front and raised his hand to sweep the snow off the top, revealing the rice below.
"It's .........!"
The scene in front of him completely stunned Shi Le, not to mention him, even Xiao Luzi and Zhang Xingsan, who were convinced of Liu Yuetian, also stood on the spot.
This is indeed rice, Zhang Xingsan these people are all from poor backgrounds, since they were children, they have been farming with their parents, and they can naturally recognize what rice looks like, and the general rice is about four feet high when it matures, and this is the rainy season, but they have never seen more than seven feet of rice, which is simply a rice tree.
I saw that the stem of the rice plant in front of me was three times thicker than ordinary rice, and the ears of rice on it were full of full of rice, as many as four ears, and this rice could make a bucket of grain.
"Impossible, impossible!"
Shile couldn't believe his eyes, he rubbed the ground into the rice, and swept the thick snow with his hands, and soon large swaths of rice were exposed, each one full of grains.
"It's a miracle! It's a miracle! ”
Shile knows the importance of food, in the year of the catastrophe, grain is more important than silver and gold, and now this piece of rice is planted in this area, and the production capacity per mu reaches ten stones, which is ten times more than ordinary farmland, if all farmland is planted with this kind of rice, then where is there famine in the world?
"Your Highness, Your Highness, what kind of rice seed is this?"
Shi Le took Liu Yuetian's hand and asked eagerly.
"Shile, this is a rice seed handed down by immortals, only my master can grow it, and others can't get it."
"What? Rice seeds handed down by the immortals? ”
Shile didn't believe in any immortals, but if it wasn't for the rice seeds handed down by the immortals, how could there be such a yield?
"Okay, let's all work, this is ten acres of land, there should be a hundred stones of grain, everyone hurry up, it can almost be harvested before dark."
At the sound of the order, more than two dozen people were busy, although it was very cold, but everyone was full of energy, and after three hours, the five wooden carts were stacked with ears of rice.
One hundred stone of grain, that is, the weight of 10,000 catties, five wooden carts each fully loaded 2,000 catties, and a group of people were dragged and pulled, and it took an hour and a half to complete the road of more than ten miles.
It was now completely dark, the temperature had dropped dramatically, everyone was back in the house, and the gates were about to close.
"Who? Oh, it's Your Highness! What is this? ”
Several guards found that everyone was coming and hurriedly stepped forward, but they were stunned when they saw five carts of grain, but they didn't care, there was a market a few miles outside the city of Tianshui County, it was the largest market within a radius of dozens of miles, and there were many people doing business there every day.
"I just bought some food and came back, a few people have worked hard, let's take these copper plates and buy some food!"
Liu Yuetian waved his hand, and Xiao Lu took out a cloth bag from his arms, which was bulging with hundreds of money, which was worth a soldier's salary for a month.
"Haha, then thank you, Your Highness, you can buy more food in the future, and we can get cheaper."
The leading soldier took the sack and waved happily as the crowd entered the city.
When they returned to their residence, Xiao Stove and the others did not care about resting, and hurriedly began to cook, using freshly laid rice, and soon, the strong aroma filled the whole house.
Liu Yuetian looked at Shi Le, the other party's eyes were staring at the rice bowl in his hand, until now he couldn't believe that this was real rice, and then carefully took a mouthful of white rice and put it in his mouth, and his mouth was suddenly full of fragrance, and his saliva couldn't stop flowing down.
"Well, it's really fragrant, this rice is much more fragrant than what you planted, come, Brother Shi, let's have a drink."
Liu Yuetian raised his glass and said.
"Your Highness, you ...... What a man of God! ”
Shi Le was completely convinced by Liu Yuetian at this moment, sighed again and again, and then raised his wine glass and took a sip.
"With this food, the people will be better off this winter."
Liu Yuetian said while eating food.
"What? Your Highness, are you going to give this food to the poor? ”
Schler asked.
"We can't eat this hundred stones of grain, and the rest will naturally be given to the poor, although there is not much food for those thousand families, but it can also make them wrap their stomachs."
"Your Highness, you are really a benevolent and righteous person, and I will toast you for these poor people."
"Shiler's loyalty to the host has been increased to sixty, and the host has been increased by five hundred merit points."
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