After getting accustomed to the cries of birds, beasts and insects, the family slept much better, fell asleep not long after dark, and slept until dawn, and naturally woke up. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I have to say that the world before the industrial age is indeed more suitable for human habitation." Liu Yao stretched his waist and said to his wife and daughter energetically.

"Yes, indeed. However, it would be perfect if there were all kinds of supplies and medical treatment that modern civilization has brought with it. Yao Ying was in a good mood, because Mei Xiang had replaced the work of making breakfast in the morning, not only did she no longer have to deal with the difficult firewood stove, but her breakfast was no longer the same for thousands of years.

In fact, the Mei family sometimes turns on the fire in the morning to make the day's lunch. When most people go to work in the fields, it is a waste of time to go home to cook and eat, and they usually go to the fields with lunch, eat around eleven o'clock, rest for a while while it is hot at noon, continue to work in the afternoon, and go home when it is dark. After all, Hainan is a tropical region, so you can't cook it the night one day and wait until noon the next day, so you need to cook it in the morning. Now Mei Xiang is nothing more than making more in the morning, and making breakfast for the Liu family a little evenly, which does not add much workload, and brings rich changes to the Liu family's breakfast.

There was a sound, and Liu Man, a bed-lying molecule, also got up early, and it seemed that he had really slept enough. Liu Man grinned and asked, "What are you eating for breakfast today?" ”

Suddenly, there was a sound of grass and trees shaking and wings flapping outside the wall, and following the sound, I saw a few birds flying down from the branches of the trees above the courtyard wall.

"What kind of bird is that? So big! Yao Ying asked curiously.

Mei Xiang happened to come over with breakfast, and replied softly with a smile: "Mrs. Hui, that's our chicken." ”

"How do chickens get up trees? Still flying so well? ”

"That's what chickens are." Mei Xiang replied amusedly.

"Is this the kind of chicken we ate the other day that tastes so good?" Liu Man hurriedly asked. As a foodie, she has always regarded actively understanding the source of good food as one of the essential qualities.

"Yes. Isn't that what chicken tastes like? What else could it taste like? Mei Xiang said strangely.

"Some of the chickens are not tasty. For example, laying hens that have been raised for a long time. Yao Ying hurriedly ended the topic, lest Liu Man say something.

Seeing Mei Xiang go away, Liu Yao explained: "Chickens are indeed like this. It is the people who have bred varieties that grow more quickly and can grow meat with very little feed, which replaces this breed that can fly and taste but does not grow fast enough and is not efficient enough. ”

"I don't want those fast-growing breeds! It's delicious! Liu Man protested.

"But the conversion rate is not high. That is to say, a pound of grain may only grow three taels of meat on it, and it may grow half a pound on modern varieties. ”

"Three taels of delicious meat is enough!" Yao Ying also joined the protest. She has an almost pathological concern for food safety, and she is very satisfied with the fact that the world is full of green food. "You've brought high-yielding chickens, right? Don't take it out! ”

"Don't worry, I didn't bring it. Eggs are too heavy to be cost-effective. ”

Today's task is to design the house you want to build. Yao Ying and Liu Man squatted on the ground with a piece of red brick and made a list of running water, sewers, toilets, and showers......

Liu Yao also squatted on the ground, making his own list, and under the item of "site selection", geological stability, biological disasters, native people, bandits, water intake, transportation, etc., and the list of site selections was also material, technology, labor and other items. Halfway through writing, Liu Yao stood up and pondered, raised his eyes and saw that Yao Ying and Liu Man had already written about trampolines and tree houses, and hurriedly stopped: "I said, if you continue to write it, you will write it on TV and the Internet, do you still want to write Taobao." ”

"Oh, I miss Taobao so much." Yao Ying stood up and stretched her sore waist.

"I love the world. Although I can no longer play on my phone. "In the original world, Liu Man was basically a mobile phone controller." I still miss my teachers and classmates a little. Liu Man also put down the broken bricks and raised his eyes to look at the sky, a little lost.

As he was talking, he heard a loud commotion coming from the courtyard outside. The world is very quiet, and when there is no noisy nature, you can even hear your own heartbeat, so the sound of the argument is very harsh, which makes people nervous all of a sudden.

Liu Yao threw down the broken bricks and hurried over, only to see a thin back figure walking out of the gate and walking away with a group of officials. Mei Xianzhuo stood in the courtyard huffing, stamping his feet with hatred.

Liu Yao hurriedly stepped forward to inquire, and learned that the person who came was ordered by Wang County to check the new acres of land and Dingkou who had fled here to escape from forced labor. Mei Xianzhuo frowned and explained, counting Dingkou and measuring acres of land and collecting taxes are also considered normal, but these Dingkou were originally registered, and now that they have moved here, they will inevitably be apportioned repeatedly. Although it is appropriate to take on labor wherever you are, if you come to your hometown and ask for labor, it is often not clear what to do. And the matter of measuring acres of land is even more flexible, either the land number will be set more, or the tax amount will be set high, anyway, it will be done.

This county magistrate Wang can't eat in this county, and he doesn't dare to bully the natives, and he probably won't let go of Liu Yao, an outsider. Speaking of which, the so-called wandering Dingkou means that a few people who help plant sweet potatoes and corn live in the homes of villagers in Meijia Village, and they will go back after planting this season. If you have to take it seriously, it is obvious that you are looking for fault, and the same is true for the so-called inventory of new acres of land. The person who came adhered to the meaning of the county order and had a very tough attitude, so he quarreled without saying a few words, and left a few cruel words.

Liu Yao thought relatively simply, and said: "Since it is a matter that the government should take care of, the imperial grain and national tax, let's handle it according to the rules." These dingkou are all registered, and there is also a source for labor, so it will be fine to find out. As for the new acres of land, it will be reported to him as it is. ”

"Sir, it's so confused. This Wang County Order is obviously not well-intentioned, you handle it according to the rules, he is in the middle of it. Those who have served hard labor say that they can't find the documents, and the new acres of land have one and five, what should you do? ”

"yes, there's such a thing." Liu Yao didn't know what to do.

"I've already asked someone to ask the warden about this. He's one of our own. It's nothing more than bargaining, drag it out until the autumn harvest, and you can pass it with a little bit. It's just that your harvest is much less. Mei Xianzhuo said bitterly.

"It's good to be peaceful, it's better to have more than less. It's not a matter of spending money to fix it. Liu Yao replied lightly.

"You want to be peaceful, but people don't want to. Do you know why I quarrel with him? He said that the place is not peaceful, and in the future, all logging and mining, burning bricks and building houses must first report and obtain permission. Mei Xianzhuo said angrily.

"Is there a rule to follow?" Liu Yao asked with a frown.

"No, it's just that it didn't say that you can do what you want to do when you want to open a mine and log wood."

"That's not possible! Let me tell you, it is feasible if there is no prohibition in the law. This head can't be opened by Wang Ruoxi for us. Liu Yao said firmly.

"You're happy to pay for it, and if you don't let you do things, you'll jump. You're such a funny guy. There is another thing, that is, your rice seeds are too conspicuous, Wang Xianling thought to himself that you don't know how much you have earned here. Sun Zhenggang has been talking about this for a long time, let's go to your field and take a look. ”

Liu Yao went back to the house and called Liu Man, and walked with Mei Xianzhuo and his party to the field, explaining along the way that the good seeds, fertilization at all costs, and proper field management finally convinced him that this was significantly higher than ordinary rice, and that tillering (several forks of a seedling). The more bifurcations, the more ears of rice, the greater the yield. A few more seedlings is not a spell.

Before he reached the field, Lao Gao greeted him. A few days ago, he had built a simple shed on the edge of the rice field and watched it day and night. Before the group reached the rice field, they saw that the contrast was really strong. In the lower paddy fields, the native rice varieties are planted first, and the rice plants are so small that you can see the water surface in the paddy fields. The rice fields with miraculous rice seeds planted on the high ground are already green, and the water surface is completely obscured. Mei Xianzhuo looked at this miraculous rice, asked if there might be a double in yield, and the yield per mu would be 6-7 hundred catties, rubbed his hands excitedly and turned in circles, and then frowned contemplatively, and called Sun Zhenggang: "Your old Zhao will come here to build a shed immediately, and then tell Li Jiangong, call him and you, and Lao Gao, stay here tonight, don't go back." Someone must be sent to guard it here, and people must be sent to keep an eye on the entrance of the village, and the first idle people are not allowed to enter the village, and the second is not allowed to come to the fields. Sun Zhenggang nodded and went without saying a word.

Liu Yao also felt the need to send someone to guard here. Good rice seeds are easy to steal. He thought for a while and said, "Why don't we live here as a family and watch it, we don't need so many people." If you have an old man, just build a bigger shed. You can leave me two short knives. Liu Yao said lightly.

Mei Xianzhuo glanced at Liu Yao, "Are you okay?" He replied: "No, Li Jiangong must come over." ”

"Who is this Li Jiangong?"

"In our village, we usually sell salt outside. I can play very well. ”

"What do you want someone to beat? The thief saw someone here and went back, right? Could it be that you still rob it? As for stealing, the grain here is stored for two or three days, except for a few hoes, which is a few of us ourselves. What is there to steal? ”

"It's not just a robbery. Besides, people are valuable things. Tie up your children and extort a few dozen taels of silver and ten rice plants, will you give it or not? ”

"Huh? And such a thing? That's what the bandits did! Are there bandits here? ”

"When am I going to tell you that there are no bandits here?" Mei Xianzhuo said angrily. "If your family is here, you'll have to put more people here to be safe, but I can't give you any more, we have to boil salt. So I'll arrange for a few more people to be here, and your family can't stay here, it's more dangerous. When the harvest is in this season, you can hire a few more long-term laborers and build houses here to keep it. ”

As soon as he heard about boiling salt, Liu Yao had a score in his heart. He grinned, "Boiling salt? It's good to boil salt. So, take me to boil the salt first, and I'll get the men to guard the rice fields and build the houses. ”

Looking at Mei Xianzhuo's suspicious and hopeful eyes, Liu Yao didn't explain more, and beckoned Liu Man to see if there were still so many fish in the canal as before.

On the way back to the village, the group talked about Li Jiangong's skills, what jumped out of the house and crossed the ridge, what a few people couldn't get close, he was a martial arts master. Liu Yao was also very interested, and asked how this person couldn't usually see it.

"He, with a few people in Qiongzhou and Guangzhou, sell salt! Usually come and go in a hurry, a lot of silver is brought back, and then the salt is picked out, the road back and forth is not smooth, and it will definitely not work without a little effort. By the way, he also admired Mr. very much, and said that the money for salt was more than three times more. Sun Zhenggang replied.

"Such a capable person, next time I will be closer and closer." Liu Yao said happily.

"Calling Li Jiangong to guard the rice field, he doesn't know what to think." The executives muttered to the sidelines.

"What do you think? Isn't such a good rice seed worth more than a salt pan? "Sun Zhenggang has been farming all the time, and he has a particularly high opinion of excellent rice varieties.

"I also think Li Jiangong will be willing. This rice seed is truly priceless. It's worth more than your pair of pearls. Mei Xianzhuo said happily. Looking back at the green rice fields, he shook his head and said worriedly, "This thing can't be kept." When the wind goes out, someone will definitely come to grab it. If we plant everywhere, where can we keep it? ”

Speaking of value, Liu Yao fell into deep thought. looked at the farmers around him who looked like high-rollers, and asked Mei Xianzhuo: "Have we ever been attacked here?" ”

"I fought with the people of Fork River Village. At that time, I was still young, and my father was the leader here, and the Huang family was the leader over there. They all want the land in Fork River Village, where the two rivers meet, and the ground is flat and watery. Later, it was the Huang family who won. I heard you've been to Fork River Village? ”

"Yes, there is more land than in our village. Can't we beat them? ”

"It's hard to say, there aren't many more people in their village than us. That time, three people from each village were sent to fight, and the winner of two wins. We won a game against Li Jiangong. In fact, there is no need to work hard, where can you not live? We're not bad in the water. ”

"Have you ever worked hard?"

"Actually, you have to plan to work hard every time to stop fighting." Mei Xianzhuo looked back at the rice field, then turned his head to look at Liu Yao, and said slowly.