It is always the easiest to make money, it is too difficult to start from scratch, Li Xiu thought for a long time and finally gave up the idea of building a greenhouse for a while, and decided to think of a way to make money with less investment and quick results, and it is not too late to build a greenhouse when he has a certain amount of savings.

However, although Li Xiu has more than a thousand years of knowledge than the Tang Dynasty, it is not easy to come up with a way to make money with almost no investment in a short period of time, so he lay in bed for a long time, and he came up with a lot of methods, but they are not suitable for him now, and in the end he is also a little irritable, so he simply got up from the bed, planning to go outside to change his mood, maybe he can come up with some good way.

At dusk, the mountains behind the yard are undulating, like a winding golden dragon in the sunset, in front of a slowly flowing river, there are a few migratory birds that do not need to migrate on the sparkling river surface are playing, when Li Xiu approached, the waterfowl were frightened, the wings quickly flapped the water, and finally flew into the sky against the sunset, which really responded to the sentence "Luoxia and the lonely bird fly together in the autumn water and the sky is one color".

Li Xiu admired the beautiful scenery that was rare in later generations, and his footsteps couldn't help but be brisk, unconsciously he came to the river, stepped on a small bridge made of a few logs to the opposite bank, next to the river bank is dozens of acres of fields belonging to Li Xiu, all of them are the best fields, and there are a lot of annual outputs, but unfortunately the situation in recent years is not good, natural disasters and man-made disasters continue, so Li Xiu and the tenants are not very easy to live.

After crossing the small bridge, there is a winding field road, and at the end of the path is the Li family Zhuangzi where Liu Laoda and his tenants live, and it is now dinner time, and the few houses in the village are smoking. Seeing this, Li Xiu suddenly had an idea, he wanted to see with his own eyes what Boss Liu and these tenants at the bottom of the Tang Dynasty usually ate?

As soon as the above idea appeared in Li Xiu's mind, it immediately grew like a weed. However, it was really inappropriate to visit empty-handed, so Li Xiu turned around and went home to pick up the grass carp he caught today, and then returned to the village to find the home of Boss Liu in his memory.

This is a small yard, surrounded by a fence as a courtyard wall, the gate is just a wooden shelf, a movable fence as a gate, there are only three thatched houses in the yard, there is a grass shed on the left as a kitchen, standing outside the yard, you can see Liu Boss and his mother-in-law are cooking in the kitchen, three children are playing in the yard, the oldest is eleven or twelve years old, the youngest is only three or four years old, as far as Li Xiu knows, Liu Boss originally had two sons, older than Li Xiu, but all died on the battlefield a few years ago, This situation was very common in the early Tang Dynasty, and almost every family died in the war.

"Uncle Liu!" Li Xiu shouted outside the door.

"Yo, why are you here?" Boss Liu saw Li Xiu outside the door, hurriedly put down the firewood in his hand and greeted him, and also very enthusiastically invited Li Xiu into the yard, in contrast, when Boss Liu's mother-in-law and several children saw Li Xiu, they all looked a little cramped, especially the eldest eleven or twelve-year-old girl, who ran into the house quickly with her younger brother in her arms.

"Uncle Liu, thank you for sending me food today, I just caught a fish today, so I sent it to you!" Li Xiu smiled and handed over the fish in his hand.

"Master, you are too polite, what kind of fish do you bring with me?" Although Boss Liu excused himself, he smiled very brightly, because Li Xiu was able to bring gifts to the door, which showed the importance he attached to him, so he didn't shirk after speaking, took the grass carp and handed it to his mother-in-law and said, "Go, boil the fish, and then let Su Niang go to get some wine, and I will drink ...... with the master."

"Uncle Liu, there's no need for wine, let's just talk a few words!" Without waiting for Boss Liu to finish speaking, Li Xiu hurriedly stopped him, in his previous life, he was very disgusted with the taste of wine, but sometimes he couldn't get rid of it for entertainment, and as a result, every time he drank wine, he would vomit a lot, and now he has traveled to Datang, he has made up his mind not to drink again, not to mention that it is a year of famine, the price of wine must be more expensive, and Liu Lao and everyone don't even have enough food for the winter, so they can't let him break the bank.

Boss Liu originally insisted on buying wine, but Li Xiu insisted on not letting it, which made him dispel this idea, and then the two sat down at the small table next to the kitchen to chat, and after a while, the mother-in-law of the Liu family cooked the fish and served it, but Li Xiu smiled bitterly in his heart, the cooking technology of this era of Datang is still very primitive, in addition to boiling is baking, cooking techniques such as stir-frying have not yet appeared, such as the fish in front of him, in fact, it is cooked in white water with salt, and there is no onion, ginger and garlic, and the fishy smell goes straight to the nose, Li Xiu didn't want to take a second bite of chopsticks.

In contrast, Boss Liu ate a few mouthfuls of fish in a row, and his face showed an expression of enjoyment, as if he was tasting a rare delicacy. At this time, the mother-in-law of the Liu family also beckoned the children to eat in the kitchen, and when these children saw the boiled fish in front of Li Xiu, they all showed greedy looks, but soon they were reprimanded by the mother-in-law of the Liu family, and then only dared to secretly glance at Li Xiu, and then lowered their heads like thieves.

Seeing this, Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh secretly, and had a deeper understanding of the hardships of the life of the people in the early Tang Dynasty, at this time the mother-in-law of the Liu family brought two bowls of rice up, and when Li Xiu saw the things in the bowl, his heart was even more twitched, because the bowl was a kind of porridge with black and yellow, exuding a taste that made Li Xiu both familiar and unfamiliar, in his previous life, he was also a child from the countryside, when he was a child, he remembered that someone fed pigs, that kind of pig food is this taste, and pig food is generally made of bran left over from grinding noodles, With the addition of some wild vegetables, it was almost no different from the bowl in front of him.

"Uncle Liu, do you usually eat these?" Li Xiu asked in a deep voice, thinking of the two bags of white flour that Boss Liu sent him before, and then looking at the bowl of pig food in front of him, his eyes couldn't help but feel a little sour.

"Hehe, this year is not good, I can stutter and thank God!" Boss Liu said with a sincere smile, with a little embarrassment in his smile, because Li Xiu was a rare guest, and he shouldn't have used these simple meals to entertain guests, but now it was getting late, and they had already cooked when Li Xiu came, so they could only wait for a while.

"Although there was a locust plague this year, didn't you grab some grain in the end, Uncle Liu, don't be too bitter about yourself and your family." Li Xiu thought that Boss Liu was reluctant to eat food, so he opened his mouth to persuade.

"The master has a heart, but although there is some food, there are still three months from now to next year, and after that, you will have to survive a spring famine, adding up to half a year, the little food at home does not dare to eat indiscriminately, it is to be kept for life-saving!" When Boss Liu said to the end, his face also showed a solemn look, he had survived countless famines in his life, and he had already accumulated rich experience, and in his careful calculation, every grain of grain had to be used on the blade.

"Uncle Liu, I think we can't just survive by hard work, we have to find a way to earn some money to improve the situation in Zhuangzi." Li Xiu sighed again when he heard this, and finally said what he thought in his heart, although he couldn't think of any good way to make money for the time being, but the way would come sooner or later, provided that he had to organize these tenants, otherwise it would be difficult for him to succeed alone.

Hearing Li Xiu's words, Boss Liu's honest face also showed an excited look, and he slapped his thigh and said: "The words of the master family have reached my heart, but we tenants have no knowledge, and we can't think of a way to make money, the master you are a scholar, you must be more knowledgeable than us people, and the master you have great kindness to us tenants, so as long as you say a word, no matter what we do!" ”

What Li Xiu was waiting for was Boss Liu's words, but although he had a lot of ways to make money, he didn't think of it for the time being when it was suitable for the current situation, which made him feel a little headache.

"Smack! Woo~" At this moment, suddenly there was a crisp slap in the kitchen next to him, followed by a child's cry, and then the angry scolding of the Liu family's mother-in-law, which made Li Xiu also turn his head in surprise, only to see that the youngest child of the Liu family was crying, with an obvious slap mark on his face, and the Liu family's mother-in-law was scolding while lying on the ground picking up something?

"Gua Po Niang, what is the noise, I didn't see that the master's house is here!" Boss Liu also glared at his mother-in-law at this time and scolded, after all, there are guests at home, and it is disrespectful to be so noisy.

"What's wrong?" Li Xiu also stood up at this time and took a few steps forward, only to see the mother-in-law of the Liu family lying on the ground picking up the soybeans one by one, and the crying child also had a few freshly chewed beans in his mouth, which made him seem to guess something for a moment?

"My brother steals soybeans!" At this time, the eldest girl named Su Niang opened her mouth to explain, she looked only eleven or twelve years old, but in Li Xiu's memory, Su Niang seemed to be thirteen or fourteen years old, and according to the customs of the Tang Dynasty, she was about to get married, but because of perennial malnutrition, she looked very thin, and her flat figure did not look like she was about to develop at all.

"Loser, give me a hard beating!" Boss Liu also angrily pointed at his son and scolded when he heard this.

"Uncle Liu, it's just a few soybeans, the child will eat it, don't be angry!" Li Xiu hurriedly persuaded him, and after speaking, he picked up his bowl of porridge, and put a few pieces of fish meat on it, and then sent it to the crying child, but the little guy immediately stopped crying, and his two dirty little hands picked up a bowl bigger than his face and ate it.

Li Xiu's face still has to be given, Liu Boss glared at his youngest son a few times, and then said to Li Xiu helplessly: "You don't know, the master, these soybeans are not my family's, but our five tenants have saved it with great difficulty, and it is not for people to eat, mainly for the only one in the Zhuangzi to raise the cow for fat, only in the autumn let the cow raise fat, the next year it will have the strength to work, other tenants believe me, so I handed over all the beans to me for safekeeping, if people know that my son steals the beans, it will be a shame to say it!" ”

Hearing Boss Liu's words, Li Xiu remembered that there is a cow in the Zhuangzi, for the Zhuang family, the life of the ploughing cow is more expensive than the life of the man, even if the person is hungry, the cow can not be starved, because the whole Zhuangzi people are pointing to this ploughing ox to work, so the food standard of the ploughing cow is higher than that of people, usually in addition to eating forage, but also to eat beans to supplement physical strength, and even eat eggs and other high-protein foods when working.

"Huh? Bean? I've got a way! Li Xiu suddenly had a flash of inspiration at this time, and thought of a feasible way to make a fortune, which made him overjoyed, and even almost jumped up with joy!