Chapter 142: Hurry back and dig out the river

The afternoon sun is warm, expelling this spring cold, and the clouds in the sky are leisurely.

In the small pavilion of the artificial lake in front of the water and clouds, an old man and four young people sat together, and from time to time there was the sound of recitation, as well as the old man's deep explanation.

Xiaohong was idle, chasing the fluffy, leading some ducks and geese to run here to graze, and the lake reflected the wooden building, reflecting the figure of the ducks and geese.

"Okay, that's all for today, go back and see, if you can come over next time." The old man closed the book and said to Zhang Xiaobao, Wang Juan, Liu Er, and his granddaughter.

"Okay Grandpa Bi, let's go for a walk and eat something by the way." Zhang Xiaobao also closed the small notebook, and he and Wang Juan had been taking notes all the time, so that they could go back and read it slowly.

"Grandpa, I don't understand what you're saying." The old man's granddaughter saw that everyone else seemed to have gained, but she didn't understand what it meant at all, and was a little anxious.

The old man patted his granddaughter's head and said, "Xin'er is not in a hurry, learn slowly, when I taught you in the past, you didn't learn, and now I see that others have learned, are you in a hurry?" ”

Xin'er nodded, looked at Liu'er and said, "I used to think I was smart, but then I met Sister Liu'er, and Sister Liu'er knows so many things, and she will finish it if she doesn't learn it." ”

"It's good to know how to learn, it's too late, go, walk around with grandpa." The old man got up, Zhang Xiaobao and others also walked out, now the corridor has been repaired and connected to the pavilion, who said that you can't repair things in winter, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can also build.

Everyone walked out, Liu Er walked respectfully beside Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, now she can no longer see the thin and weak appearance when she first arrived here, she has grown a little taller, and she is carefree all day long, she doesn't need to take care of her younger brother anymore, Zhuangzi arranged someone to take care of it.

She just needs to study on time with the master who invited her alone, good food, fun, and good sleep, after Bi Shangshu came over, she followed a classmate, Bi Shangshu is better than the master invited no matter what, full of talent.

The five of them walked in the direction of the mountain, and by this time, the grass had already drilled out of the soil, revealing small green shoots that would grow in a few days.

From time to time, there are small swallows flying back from the south, chirping in the sky, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan live in the house there is a swallow's nest, just in the lattice above the door frame, specially opened a small hole next to it to connect to the outside, convenient for swallows to enter and exit, otherwise, swallows will wait for someone to open the door before flying in and out.

There are also swallows under the eaves to make a nest, such people in the happy, but also envy those swallows into the house, every hot day, see people open the door to sit at the door to watch the swallows in and out, I hope that the swallows under the eaves can also enter.

The group walked towards the mountain, Liu Er and Xin'er were bouncing around the old man's side, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were much more stable, and followed step by step, looking at the fields next to them from time to time, a thriving scene.

When the five people saw that they had reached the foot of the mountain, they finally had two people from the seedling protection team to accompany them here, and they saw that they thought they would turn back, but they didn't expect that the five people were going up the mountain, so they naturally had to send someone to protect them.

"I heard that there is a spring in this mountain, isn't it small?" The old man looked at the mountain in front of him and asked Zhang Xiaobao.

Zhang Xiaobao replied affirmatively: "Yes, there are several springs, the largest one, raising things, I don't know if the shrimp and crabs will be stupid in winter and don't know how to drill into the hole, waiting for the spring ploughing to be busy, let people repair the pavilion over there, and someone will come here to play in the summer, just to go over and have a look." ”

The old man squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then asked, "The place where things are raised in the mountains is not under the control of your two families, is it?" ”

"No, if someone wants to take it, let it out, my mother said, now it's a little bit of a cheap advantage." The old man is used to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's intelligence, and Zhang Xiaobao doesn't hide too much when he speaks, like a little adult.

The old man didn't say anything this time, continued to walk forward, waited for half an hour, stood on the top of the mountain, and saw the puddle of water below, the old man said: "In the future, we will be neighbors, give me this land, two thousand acres, I will tell the old man to return to his hometown, this little bit of affection can still be given by the emperor." ”

Hearing the old man's words, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan's eyes lit up, a good thing, Zhuangzi has one more person in charge, others have to think clearly before they come to provoke, and the people of Zhishi are not easy to mess with, Li Xun will leave if he has a fief when he is big.

"Grandpa Bi, you won't be in your hometown anymore? If you live here, you say where you want, I will tell my family to build a house for you there, you can't live in the mountains, and then your land will be produced, and we will help sell it, and we will make half of the money. ”

Zhang Xiaobao looked around, trying to find a suitable place to live and build a house for the old man.

The old man laughed, "You little baby, why do you want to share the output of my field with you?" Who let you raise it? I'll just think it's a wild shrimp and crab, well, and I'll send someone to guard it when I get back in a while, so that no one will sneak it away and throw it in the pond. ”

Zhang Xiaobao looked serious, looked at the pond below, and said: "Grandpa Bi, don't bother your people, I'll just help, but this place where the water is blocked is repaired by my family, otherwise, Grandpa Bi will sell shrimp and crabs to my family at that time, and my family will find a way to sell them, and Grandpa Bi will save a lot of trouble." ”

Zhang Xiaobao knew that the old man was joking with them, and he was willing to talk more with the old man, so how much money did the shrimp and crab have? He didn't care, and neither did the old man.

A gust of wind came out, the old man took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, and asked, "Then where do you say it should be sold?" ”

"Grandpa Bi, you agreed to help my father, right?" Zhang Xiaobao did not answer, but asked rhetorically.

"Promised, can I still lie to you, this little baby? Hehe, tell me quickly, if you sell it, where will you sell it? The old man was stunned when he heard Zhang Xiaobao's words, and he didn't know what this shrimp and crab sale had to do with his father's imperial examination.

Zhang Xiaobao coughed and said: "Sold to Shui Yunjian, the business of some of our family's subordinates is settled separately and recorded separately, and the things in the mountains and water cannot be directly taken to the restaurant."

The shrimp and crab here are not so good, if you want to make a good dish and sell it, then make simple dishes, and some green vegetables and the like, you have to make at least 20 kinds, including cold dishes, hot dishes are fried in a big pot, and a pot is enough for hundreds of people to eat, and the shrimp and crabs here are just right. ”

"If you fry it in a big pot, it won't taste as good as usual, right? Xiaobao, do you still want to make money? The old man thinks that Xiaobao is not stupid, how can he come up with such an idea.

"Grandpa Bi, are you sure you're going to help my father?" Zhang Xiaobao asked again.

"Sure, little baby, say it quickly, hehe!" Zhang Xiaobao made the old man happy.

Zhang Xiaobao said: "These things are used for lunch boxes, fried in advance, and others will eat quickly, so you don't have to wait, wait for the river of Grandpa Bi's nephew to be connected, then this side will ......." ”

Zhang Xiaobao said what he had just said to Wang Juan, the old man didn't feel anything at first, he was stunned when he listened to it, he helped Zhang Xiaobao's father, and he took the Zhang family to suffer a loss after connecting the river as a condition in exchange, so he didn't suffer a loss, he promised Zhang Xiaobao to suffer a loss.

The big pot of rice made is specially sold to the boatmen who sail the ship and those who are not wealthy, the big pot is fast, a pot can produce a lot, that meal earns half a penny, and after a long period of business, so many people eat, it is not a small amount.

"Xiaobao, is this what you came up with?" The old man asked.

"Well, I'm the smartest, I can do anything." Zhang Xiaobao replied with his chest straight.

"Little baby, lie to the old man, do you and Juan Juan return to Zhuangzi and someone else will teach you?" How could the old man believe it.

"No, absolutely not, it's just that we're smart." Zhang Xiaobao denied it.

"Okay, smart, it's definitely not that someone usually talks to you about these things, the old man is not in a hurry, there will always be a day to meet." The old man was even more sure that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan had another person teaching, and that person was teaching all about this kind of thing, so Zhang Xiaobao could think of it when he met him.

Through the observation of the past few days, he found that Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are smarter than Liu'er, and they are definitely not the kind of people who take one corner and do not oppose the three corners, as long as others teach them, they can use them when they encounter similar things.

Thinking of the people who taught behind the two of them, the old man sighed, since people didn't want to meet, they could only wait, touched Zhang Xiaobao's head, and said: "Little liar, trick me into helping you for nothing, hehe." ”

"Yes." Wang Juan made a noise over there, nodded violently, then shook his head again, and said, "It's a big liar." ”

"Hahahaha." The old man laughed heartily.

Zhang Xiaobao doesn't matter, what about liars? The liar who does things for the people is a good liar, and he picked up a mushroom from under a tree, a frozen mushroom, and this season is just when the frozen mushroom comes out, and he wears it with a straw stick, and says:

"Grandpa Bi, your nephew has also taken a lot of advantage, learn it, you can also learn this, don't think that you can't make much money, it is estimated that you can make a penny, making and selling box lunches need people and things, so that people who have nothing to do can earn more, and some locally produced things don't have to be taken out."

The old man also thought of this, it seems that this river is really not connected, good things that are beneficial to the people, even if there are difficulties, they have to be done, not to mention that there are no difficulties.

"Xiaobao, Juanjuan, when I go back in a while, I will tell your family that you must dig the river quickly, dig it a day earlier, and you can do something for the people a day earlier, and I, the old man, can also do something for the imperial court."

The old man no longer regards this as a trivial matter, it was originally to give his nephew some benefits, but now it is more than that.