Zuo Shaoyang dug the surface fertilizer of a piece of land planted with flowers and plants in the back garden to the side and piled it up, leveled the site, and then asked Miao Peilan to dig a few handfuls of pond mud from the lotus pond of the old house, and surrounded a rectangular frame in the open space, and then picked up fine river sand from the river beach and spread it in the frame, sprayed water on it with a watering can, and then spread the fertile soil that had been turned over to the side before, leveled it, and then sprayed water with a watering can until the surface layer of water no longer seeped down. Then use fine bamboo to make a greenhouse.

After the seedbed is ready, the seeds can be sown, and then covered with thin silk that transmits light well and is not easy to breathe, in order to raise the temperature and promote germination. When the seedlings grow to one heart and two leaves, they can be thrown, and the seedlings will take root in the paddy field on their own.

According to Zuo Shaoyang's requirements to raise seedlings, Miao Peilan made the second monk confused, but it has been said that it will be carried out strictly according to Zuo Shaoyang's requirements, so although it is inexplicable, Zuo Shaoyang's requirements have been completed one by one.

Zuo Shaoyang's seedling raising surprised Miao Peilan, and the turning of the ground surprised her even more.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, rice was planted directly on dry land, while Zuo Shaoyang was ploughed in paddy fields. After the rebels in Zhao'an ploughed the land, the 20 acres were not sown according to Zuo Shaoyang's requirements, because Zuo Shaoyang had to re-plough deeply. Of course, this is all done at the same time as the selection and breeding of seedlings.

Originally, Zuo Shaoyang had already designed a winch plough for manpower ploughing the field, but the general gave his family two ploughing oxen, so he didn't need a winch plow.

The land of other tenants has been ploughed by the army, and the important surnames and related technologies for deep ploughing only appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and the early Tang Dynasty did not know enough about this, so the ploughing of the soldiers was already okay for ordinary tenants, but it was not enough for Zuo Shaoyang.

He had to plough again with oxen in the fields that the soldiers had ploughed. This method is called intertillation and is a technique commonly used in deep tillage before the advent of modern machinery. Plough first with manpower, then plough with oxen.

Before plowing the field, water had to be stored to soak the field, and the carpenter Li Dazhuang had already made an elevated cylinder car for highland watering according to Zuo Shaoyang's requirements.

This morning, the sun was shining and the spring breeze was slow.

The four Li brothers helped Zuo Shaoyang and Miao Peilan carry the waterwheel to the stream next to the field and assemble it, and then put it in the turbulent stream.

When it was assembled, it was already noon, and the Li brothers and Miao Peilan were stunned to see the waterwheel turn on its own under the impact of the water, lift the water to a high place and dump it, and then guide the water along the bamboo tube diversion pipe to soak in the twenty acres of fertile fields under the barren slope.

Li Dazhuang said: "I knew that there was such a method, why did we bother to carry the burden of water to water the ground!" ”

Li Erzhuang also said: "Yes, if we had known about watering like this, our family could have grown at least ten acres of land!" ”

Zuo Shaoyang smiled: "Don't you already know now?" ”

"That's right, the field rented by our family can also be framed according to Zuo Gongzi's waterwheel, and the irrigation will be labor-saving!"

Zuo Shaoyang said: "Your field is next to ours, and when you need to irrigate, our side has already finished irrigating, and we can use bamboo pipes to lead it to your side." At this time, you can first put the water diversion pipe rack, rest the required farm tools, and then it is time to cultivate and weed when the seedlings are out. ”

Li Sanzhuang said with a smile: "Zuo Gongzi is so good at farm work? ”

Li Sizhuang said: "Third brother, you're not talking nonsense, you're not good at it, how can you build such a good waterwheel." ”

"Being able to build a waterwheel does not mean that you know how to do farm work, a carpenter can build a delicate big boat, but a carpenter may not know how to do farm work."

"Huh!" Li Sizhuang said: "The eldest brother is also a carpenter, don't you laugh at the eldest brother for not knowing farm work?" When I watched my eldest brother farming, you didn't know where it was, right? ”

Li Sanzhuang sneered: "I don't know where it is, and you don't know where it is!" ”

"I'm not here, but my eldest brother is here......"

Li Dazhuang listened to them getting farther and farther away, waved his hand and said, "Okay, what are you talking nonsense?" Annoying! It's noon, go back to eat, and go up the mountain in the afternoon to cut bamboo and set up a water pipe! ”

The two stopped arguing, and the group walked back.

At this time, a few people came from behind along the ridge and carried a person through the board door. The first two were carrying the door panel, one was a middle-aged woman, the other was a half-grown child, and the one in the back was an old man with gray hair. Carrying a middle-aged man on the door panel. The old woman in front of her shouted anxiously: "A few people, borrowed and borrowed." ”

Looking back, these people were full of anxious looks, the middle-aged man lying on the door panel was as big as a bucket, and it was a terrible purple red, and there were dots of spots, both eyes were squeezed into a slit by the swollen facial skin, and the lips were swollen like two large sausages, turning out, slightly open mouth, and the neck was swollen to the point that the head was almost big. The two hands kept scratching on the face. The back of the hand, cheek and other places were scratched with blood, and the skin in many places had ulcerated and died. Moans of pain came out of his mouth, and he kept churning and struggling on the door panel.

Zuo Shaoyang and the others hurriedly stood under the ridge and got out of the way.

Li Sizhuang probed his brain and said, "Ouch, how did this person become like this, swollen like a big buffalo." ”

"Is it good to look like a winter melon, the big buffalo has horns in its head, does he have it?" Li Sanzhuang sneered.

"I'm talking about a buffalo with a big belly like his head, can't I?"

"Of course not, how can there be a stomach compared to a head."

Li Dazhuang glared at the two fiercely, and the two stopped talking.

Zuo Shaoyang looked at this person and hurriedly asked, "He's sick!" Where are you going? ”

"See a doctor in the city." The old woman said as she walked forward, "Go find the left model of Guizhi Hall!" ”

Li Erzhuang said happily: "Then don't stop quickly!" Our son is what you call a role model! ”

When those people heard this, they hurriedly stopped, and the white-haired old man behind him looked Zuo Shaoyang up and down in surprise: "That's right, it's Zuo Model, I didn't pay attention to it, put it down!" Hurry up and put it down! ”

The three of them hurriedly put the door panel on the ridge, and the half-grown child also recognized Zuo Shaoyang: "You are a model of Zuo, I saw you ride a big horse on the street last time!" ”

Listening to why it was so awkward, Zuo Shaoyang thought to himself, squatted down to check on the patient, and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Li Sizhuang, who was behind him, usually talked the most, and shouted: "You still need to ask, it must have been a hornet's sting, -- the third brother was stung by a hornet last time, and his face was so swollen." ”

Li Sanzhuang said: "Don't talk nonsense, if the hornet sting is like this, won't he die of pain?" At that time, I was only stung by a few wasps, and I screamed in pain, he was swollen like this, how many wasps must be stung? He died of pain a long time ago, and now look at him, just humming, and not crying out in pain. ”

"If you don't cry out about pain, it won't hurt? Last time, our mother had a stroke, and she didn't shout or scream, could it be that she was very comfortable? ”

"You're a troublemaker! Mother, can you compare it to this? Mother, that's sick, and the pain is too much to say! ”

"You said it wasn't a hornet sting, so why did you say his face was swollen like this?"

"How do I know this, I know that I am no longer Langzhong," Li Sanzhuang said, "It may be that I am hungry, when we were hungry some time ago, weren't we also swollen, so swollen that my hands, feet and face were like a dough cake, and I pressed a concave ......!" ”

"That's not right!" Li Sizhuang said, "We are hungry and swollen in vain, and it is much lighter than his, he is so swollen that it catches up with the pig's head, and it seems that it is still itchy, we don't itch when we are hungry and swollen." ”

Li Sanzhuang knew that his brother was right, but he was unwilling to admit defeat, so he said, "Then you say, what's going on with him?" ”

"I've heard that this is what happens when you encounter dirty things."

"Touching something dirty? Why don't you say he's ghostly? ”

"Hey! It could really be a ghost......! ”

Li Dazhuang scolded: "Is it okay for you two to say a few words?" Zuo Gongzi is going to see a doctor! ”

The two of them didn't say anything.

Just now, the two of them chattered non-stop, and the voice was loud, and the patient's family couldn't answer Zuo Shaoyang's words, and finally they stopped talking, and then they were free, and the old woman said: "This is my son, this morning, I don't know what's wrong with him, his face, neck, and hands are swollen like this, and Aunt Liu in the village said that he collided with the mountain god and saw something that shouldn't be seen......"

Li Sizhuang smiled: "How is it?" I said I met a ghost! - Auntie, have you asked someone to exorcise the ghosts? ”

The old woman replied: "I didn't have time, Aunt Liu was invited to go and dance." ”

Li Sizhuang wanted to ask why the family that invited the big god to dance the god invited the fairy girl to dance the god, but when he saw the eldest brother Li Dazhuang glaring at him fiercely, the Li brothers were more afraid of this big brother, so they quickly shut up.

Zuo Shaoyang asked, "This big brother, how did you get swollen?" Can you tell me? ”

The man muttered his swollen and purple mouth and said with difficulty: "I don't know what's going on...... I got up early and went up the mountain, and soon it started to swell, and then I ...... and became like this......"

Zuo Shaoyang pondered, judging from the onset process and symptoms, it was obvious that the possibility of swelling due to hunger could be ruled out, and when he saw that he kept scratching, he asked, "Do you feel itchy on your body?" ”

"It's very ......, it's still itching when it's scratched......"

Itchy and puffy skin, could it be an allergy? Zuo Shaoyang thought to himself and asked, "What are you doing on the mountain?" ”

"Dig wild vegetables and eat ......"

"Isn't it possible to rent land? Why don't you rent it? ”

The old woman next to her saw that her son was swollen and had trouble speaking, so she replied: "Our family has rented three acres, and the government only gives three buckets of grain on credit. ”

"Why don't you take more credit?"

"It is said that there is not much grain in the yamen, and more credit is not allowed, and only one bucket of rice is allowed on credit for one acre of land, and at most one household can only get ten buckets on credit."

Zuo Shaoyang wanted to ask why he didn't rent a few acres of land to plant, but when he saw their family, the old and the young were small, and this middle-aged man was very single, but he was afraid that it would be very difficult to plant these three acres of land. Where else can there be many varieties, so he turned to the man and asked, "Have you ever come up into a sumac tree when you went up the mountain in the morning?" ”

(To be continued)