Chapter 35: Thoughts
Swallows pecked the spring mud, catkins flying, carriages slowly walked in the wilderness, listening to the old cow mooing, the jubilant sound of children in the field made Wang Xiang feel the long-lost pastoral joy, no wonder there were so many virtuous people in the past dynasties who were far away from the temple and indulged in the countryside, they really knew how to enjoy life.
When the weather is sunny and the warm sun is shining on the earth, the tenants on the village are busy with spring ploughing, sowing seeds and hope for the year.
Li Zhi looked at the children chasing and frolicking in the fields with bare feet in amazement and envy, this kind of life was something he had never imagined, they didn't have to read and practice calligraphy, they could run and laugh freely regardless of their manners.
After the carriage stopped, Steward Wang, who had been waiting here for a long time, hurriedly stepped forward, followed by a thin, dark-skinned old man.
"Young Master."
"Hmm." Wang Xiang didn't ask Steward Wang to help him, jumped out of the carriage and asked, "Is the land all drawn?" β
Steward Wang nodded and said, "It's been marked, it's all good and good land, but it will take some days to finish plowing it all." β
"Take me to see the land first."
Steward Wang staggered half of his body and let the old man behind him introduce: "Uncle Yu is the old man in the village, and he is the most familiar with the land in the village, so let Uncle Yu take the young master to see the land, and the shopkeeper Huang of Baiwei Building asked me to talk about a wine tasting and price increase." β
Since Steward Wang "inadvertently" revealed the news that Hongfu Lou wanted to sell a wine exclusively under Wang Xiang's instructions, the shopkeeper Huang of Baiwei Lou couldn't sit still, and invited Steward Wang to eat at two ends in three days, and now he also offered to raise the purchase price of a wine tasting, and Steward Wang admired Wang Xiang more and more.
Looking at the younger and younger Wang Steward Wang Xiang smiled and said, "You go, I'll just take a look today." β
Yu Bo is a typical farmer, wooden, not good at words, a person in front of the silent lead, Wang Xiang leisurely followed behind, Li Zhi and Xiao Lori left and right talking and laughing, but Li Zhi's eyes always secretly looked at those chasing and frolicking children.
Li Zhi's absent-minded appearance made Xiao Lori very dissatisfied, although he usually thought he was always pestering himself, but when he saw that Li Zhi's mind was not on him, Xiao Lori was unhappy again, and immediately pouted and said: "Child, if you like them so much, go play with them, don't talk to me in the future." β
Seeing that Xiao Lori was angry, Li Zhi was anxious, and hurriedly said: "Sister Xiao Wu, I just have never seen them play like this, so I just looked at them twice, and I just didn't look at it." β
Hearing this, Little Lori asked curiously, "Then what do you usually do?" β
"Reading, practicing calligraphy, and sometimes practicing horseback riding and hunting."
"You can also hunt on horseback?"
"Of course." Li Zhi puffed up his chest and said, "I ride a horse much better than Wang Jian Cheng's ride. β
Wang Xiang glanced at Li Zhi dissatisfiedly, why do you have nothing to do with me.
"My father said that riding a horse and shooting hunted the world, and reading and writing ruled the world."
"You listen to your father so much?" Little Lori sneered: "Now the world is peaceful, where do you need to be peaceful." β
Li Zhi was speechless for a while, and defended: "Who said that the world is peaceful, a few days ago, the horse captain was injured by Gao Changjing's horse, I can help my father fight Gao Chang after I learn to ride a horse and hunt." β
"Ambitious."
Hearing Wang Xiang's praise, Li Zhi raised his head proudly, and Xiao Lori said disdainfully: "What about reading and writing to rule the world?" You are not the prince, what does it matter to you to rule the world. β
"I, I can help the prince's brother."
Little Lori approached Li Zhi with a sinister face and smiled: "Could it be that you want to be the prince?" β
Wang Xiang on the side was startled, this girl dares to say anything, if history has not changed, it is really Li Zhi who has become the prince.
Li Zhi also panicked when he heard Xiao Lori's words: "I, I never thought that you couldn't let others hear what you said." β
Xiao Lori looked at Li Zhi's nervous appearance and got closer and grinned: "I think you are much better than your prince brother, if you become the prince, I will be the crown princess for you, okay?" β
"I, I'm ......" Li Zhi looked at the big eyes of Little Lori close at hand, his face turned red, and he didn't know how to respond.
Wang Xiang really couldn't stand it anymore, so he pulled Xiao Lori and said: "Don't say these words again in the future, otherwise you will be punished for three days and not allowed to go out." If these words of little Lori are heard by someone who cares, she may cause something, and she doesn't know the seriousness of it if she doesn't reprimand her.
Li Zhi's palms were scared and sweaty, and he glanced at Wang Xiang gratefully, but heard Xiao Lori pouting dissatisfiedly: "I'm just talking casually, I won't marry him, if I want to marry, I will marry someone like my brother-in-law." β
Li Zhi's eyes when he looked at Wang Xiang immediately changed.
"Ahem......" Wang Xiang almost choked to death by his own saliva, and pretended to be serious: "This joke is not funny at all." β
Is it a joke? Li Zhigang breathed a sigh of relief, and Xiao Lori said with an aggrieved face: "It's not a joke, has my brother-in-law forgotten the bet with me that day?" β
Bet? Li Zhi became nervous again.
Wang Xiang's heart moved, remembering the bet he made with Xiao Lori in the backyard of the martial arts family that day, but at that time he thought that Xiao Lori was his fiancΓ©e, so he made that bet, but he didn't expect Xiao Loli to still remember it.
Seeing that Wang Xiang was stunned, Xiao Loli felt even more aggrieved: he really couldn't remember.
"You made a bet with me under the tree that day, saying that if you won the first place in the poetry club, I would be yours and yours...... Fiancee. Little Lori plucked up the courage to say this sentence, and her whole face turned red, and she lowered her head and didn't dare to look at Wang Xiang.
Wang Xiang felt speechless for a while, I, the person who won the bet, didn't ask you for gambling debts, why are the people who lose your bets so active?
"That...... Didn't I think you were your sister anymore? β
"Then you still hug me, my mother said that men and women don't kiss, if others know about me, how will they see people in the future."
Damn, I'm afraid of people, you know that you still said it, didn't you see Li Zhidu coming out of the in a hurry.
"Young master, when you arrive, there are ten acres of fertile land in front of you."
Hearing Yu Lao's words, Wang Xiang suddenly burst into tears, and had a feeling of escaping, and hurriedly left the shy little Lori and the messy Li Zhi stepped forward to hold Yu Lao's rough hand and said: "It's good, it's good, please talk to me in detail." β
Wang Xiang's enthusiasm made Yu Lao a little overwhelmed, and before he could speak, he was pulled forward by Wang Xiang.
Seeing that Wang Xiang was in the wilderness and ran away, Xiao Lori stomped her feet and followed far behind, Li Zhi cautiously walked to Xiao Lori's side and asked in a low voice: "Sister Xiao Wu, what's going on with your gambling contract with Wang Jiancheng?" β
"You have to take care of it!"
Li Zhi was very aggrieved in his heart, Wang Jiancheng and your sister are the bride and groom, and you and I are the best man and bridesmaid, and now the groom and the bridesmaid have a mysterious bet and secretly hugged the bridesmaids, how can I, the best man, be indifferent......
At this moment, His Royal Highness the King of Jin of the Tang Dynasty, the future His Majesty Gaozong, finally regained his wisdom and shrewdness, and sorted out the complex relationship between the characters clearly, but it was useless, and Xiao Lori didn't care about his grievances.
In his previous life and present life, Wang Xiang had never planted land, and he didn't know how big ten acres of land was, but when he saw a large piece of vacant land in front of him, he knew that ten acres of land was really not small.
Wang Xiang has a lot of things to grow, corn, peanuts, tomatoes, peppers, watermelons, strawberries...... At the beginning, I thought that I would have to grow my own food and fruits to escape the end of the world, so there are dozens of vegetable and fruit seeds purchased from the Internet, which need to be planted separately, and climbing plants such as grapes and tomatoes not only need to be planted separately, but also have to build wooden frames.
Hearing Wang Xiang say that there are dozens of things to be planted, Yu Bo is also dumbfounded, Yu Bo has planted a lifetime of land, to say that there are really few food crops and fruits and vegetables in the Tang Dynasty, he doesn't know, but he has never heard of those things that came out of Wang Xiang's mouth.
"Young Master, are you really edible?"
Wang Xiang said with a smile: "Not only can it be eaten, but it is also delicious, and when the seeds are harvested last season, I will send some seeds to everyone." β
Uncle Yu said: "The young master is kind, but the farmers have to grow grain in the field, but they don't dare to plant something casually like the young master." β
Although Zhenguan has ruled the world for ten years, the farmers are not rich enough to grow some messy things in the field, and the law of the Tang Dynasty stipulates that good land must be planted with grain, so even if farmers want to grow some vegetables and fruits, they can only plant in a small part of the barren land.
Wang Xiang smiled and didn't say much, but asked, "When can I grow things on these ten acres of land?" β
Yu Bo hesitated: "These days are the days of spring ploughing, and the farmers are busy plowing the land they rent, and I am afraid that it will take three or five days before they can help the young master plough these ten acres of land." β
Wang Xiang looked at the farmer who was cultivating the land in the distance and wondered: "I don't see much land in them, why does it take three or five days?" β
Uncle Yu said in his heart when he heard this: The young master is really not doing farm work, how can it be so easy to cultivate land, I am afraid that the good things he wants to plant will have to be like this, but it is a pity that these ten acres of fertile land, if you plant corn and wait until autumn, you can harvest more than ten stones of grain.
Sighing, Uncle Yu patiently explained: "Young master, ploughing is not easy, there are a total of eight ploughing cattle in the village, and the farmers are all used in turns, and three or five days is already considered fast." β
"No, I remember that it wasn't that hard to plow the land." In his previous life, when Wang Xiang went to a farmhouse for dinner, he personally tried to cultivate the land, and those farmers looked much stronger than him, so why was the speed of cultivating the land not as fast as his own?
Hearing Wang Xiang's tone, he seemed to suspect that the dealers were lazy, and Yu Bo hurriedly said: "Young master, the dealers don't dare to be lazy, you see that they are all working hard." β
Wang Xiang wondered in his heart: Is there a problem with the land of the farmhouse, just for show?
"Uncle Yu, let's go over and have a look." With doubts, Wang Xiang followed Yu Bo towards the land of a farmer.