Song Kai stretched out his hand and plucked a dog's tail grass, held it in his mouth, and looked around with his eyes, if this is developed into a tourist area in the future, it will always make money.

Behind her, the young lady followed Song Kai a step away, and did not speak, her head was slightly lowered.

"Qing Niang," Song Kai said, and then laughed to himself, this title is too weird, it's okay to call other people so-and-so Niang, but today to call such a fourteen or fifteen child, and to call her "Niang", it's too unaccustomed.

"The young lady is here," the girl replied in a low voice.

"What's your name?" Song Kai was bored and chatted with the little girl.

"Young lady," the girl said.

"Uh...... I said your name, the big name," Song Kai emphasized.

"It's called Qingniang, my father's surname is Chen," Qingniang said with a straight look, and she didn't laugh, as if she was interviewing.

Song Kai waved his hand, it seemed that he could really only call her Qingniang, "Qingniang, you take me to the tea garden over there to have a look." ”

"Yes, Lang Jun," the young man and Song Kai turned a small road.

A middle-aged man walked towards him, first bowed slightly towards Song Kai, then crooked his mouth and smiled at Qing Niang, "Qing Niang, I'll go later...... Go to Uncle's, Uncle got a few bird eggs and gave you a long body. ”

Qing Niang said in a low voice: "Uncle Wang, hurry up and make up for yourself, wait for Qing Niang to go to Uncle Wang in the evening, Qing Niang has a peach wood heart, which can drive away evil spirits." ”

The middle-aged man crooked his mouth, "Uncle Wang is old, you don't need to make up for it, your peach heart can be given to Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang's mouth hurts crookedly." ”

The two of them were far away as they spoke.

Song Kai saw that the man was talking with his mouth crooked, so he smiled and said, "Why does he crook his mouth." ”

"Hui Langjun, Uncle Wang bumped into something unclean a few days ago, and he fell into evil," Qingniang said in a low voice.

"Oh, it turned out to be blown by the cold wind," Song Kai nodded, "What kind of person are you from the old man of the tea garden." ”

"Grandpa Ge's name is Ge Shou, he's okay," Qingniang was obviously very dissatisfied with Song Kai directly calling Ge Shou an old man, and pouted, but when she spoke, she was still polite, "If Grandpa Ge hadn't taken us in, we would all have been sold into slavery." ”

"Oh?" Song Kai was stunned and looked back at Qingniang, "What's the matter?" Tell me about it. ”

Qingniang bowed her head slightly, not daring to look at Song Kai's eyes, it seemed to be shy, or perhaps it was the politeness of ancient women, "Most of the people who work here are mortgaged and robbed by the rich man, and if there is no land, we have to rent those people's fields to plant, and many people are sold into slavery because they rent the fields and can't pay the rent." The tea garden and silkworm forest opened by Grandpa Ge are actually giving us a way to live. ”

Song Kai nodded, he really didn't expect that the hunchbacked old man Ge would have such a bodhisattva heart.

"Actually, this piece of mountainous land that Grandpa Ge bought has not been very profitable, and it is very difficult to feed so many of us," Qingniang knew a lot, perhaps thinking that although Song Kai was very rude, he was easy to contact, and after opening the chatterbox, he said, "Grandpa Ge's family used to have a lot of money, but after buying this mountain forest, he lost money year after year, and now he has sold all the houses in the city, and he and his son's family can only live here." ”

"How can it not make money?" Song Kai asked as he walked, "Tea or something, it's marketable, well, it's not a problem." ”

"It's all the bandits, and the damned robbers," the young lady scolded in a low voice.

"Aren't bandits the same as robbers," Song Kai laughed, thinking it was quite interesting, he could only see bandits in the game before, but now he really wants to contact them.

While the two were talking, they arrived at a tea plantation.

Song Kai looked at the planting technology of tea trees, and inquired, these tea trees are a little tall, although Song Kai does not know much about farm work, but he still understands the top cutting and pruning, he pointed to the tea trees and said: "In this way, the yield of tea will be low, and when it sprouts in spring, it is necessary to remove the top, so that the tea trees will not grow tall, but the yield will increase." ”

Qing Niang looked at Song Kai with a look of disbelieving.

Song Kai waved his hand, "Forget it, I have to sort out these things, it's useless to tell you, you children don't understand." ”

Qingniang pouted, very unconvinced, "Lang Jun, I am in charge of this tea garden and mulberry forest, I have followed Grandpa Ge since I was five years old, and when I first bought it here, I would have done this." ”

"What about your parents?" Song Kai asked casually.

"We're all sick and dying," the young lady looked away.

Song Kai sighed, stretched out his hand and wanted to touch Qingniang's head, but he couldn't help it, these days, girls are precocious, and they still attach great importance to male and female etiquette.

When you come out of the tea garden and go to the place where the tea is made, it is actually said to be made, but it is just to wash the picked tea leaves and dry them in the sun.

This is also a way to make tea, in later generations, this method of drying out of the tea, called white tea, Fujian and other real estate a little more, the rest of the tea to make white tea, the taste is too light, and a little astringent, not very popular.

Song Kai nodded, and just as he was about to go back, he saw the middle-aged man with a crooked mouth running over in a panic.

"Qing Niang, Qing Niang, it's not good, the silkworm baby is sick again!"

When Qingniang heard this, she was so anxious that she didn't care about sending Song Kai back, so she hurriedly followed Uncle Wang to the silkworm house in the distance.

Song Kai saw that Qingniang was in a hurry, so he also followed.

In addition to the tea plantation, the more important means of income here is to raise silkworms and sell silk.

The temperature of the silkworm room is a little high, and dozens of baskets are placed inside.

The crooked-faced man pointed to the basket in the northeast corner, and said distressedly: "Qing Niang, look." ”

Many silkworms in the basket died of stiffness.

Qingniang was almost crying, she shook her little hand and said, "Uncle Wang, let's quickly take out the sick silkworm baby, otherwise the other silkworms will also die." ”

Song Kai walked over and took a look, and it turned out that he was infected by Beauveria bassiana.

"Sell me these sick silkworms," Song Kai said suddenly.

The anxious Qingniang and the crooked-mouthed Uncle Wang were both stunned.

Uncle Wang honestly handed over a person and looked at Song Kai in amazement.

Qing Niang quickly reacted and said in a low voice: "Lang Jun is not joking, if you really pity us, just buy more tea." ”

Song Kai pouted, "I'm not kidding, by the way, where did the silkworm that died of illness go before?" ”

"Bury ...... buried, "Qing Niang looked at Song Kai, Song Kai was really not joking.

Song Kai spread his hands and said: "It's a waste, in fact, these sick and dead silkworms are a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, called zombie silkworms, and the effect is very good, oh, treat your Uncle Wang's crooked mouth, the effect is good." ”

Uncle Wang continued to stay where he was.

When Qing Niang heard this, her little face turned red and she stomped her foot, "Lang Jun! It's difficult, but we can't let you make fun of it! ”

“…… I'll tell you the truth," Song Kai said, touched his waist, took out the money bag, and said: "Here is three hundred Wen, which is considered a deposit, you can help put away these dead silkworms, forget the previous ones, if they died in the next few days, you will also dig them out and give them to me, I want them, the price is expensive." ”

Qing Niang took the money bag handed over by Song Kai, and she still didn't believe it, but looking at Song Kai's appearance, it didn't look like a joke.

"What are you doing! Take it out! These Beauveria bassiana bacteria are really contagious, and although I collect medicinal herbs, I can't ask for too much," Song Kai said.

Qing Niang and Uncle Wang agreed, and helped Song Kai collect the sick zombie silkworms into a basket.

"Lang Jun, aren't you really making fun of us? Can this thing really be used in medicine? Also, what's wrong with my Uncle Wang's face? The young lady was neatly busy and asked questions.

"Medically speaking, it is the wind and cold evil qi that invades the meridians, and if you treat it, you can use the medicine to dispel wind and stop spasmodic cold, and this white zombie silkworm is very good, but ah, peach wood is not good! Haha," Song laughed.

"Ahh No...... Isn't it a collision with evil? Uncle Wang crooked his mouth, laughed happily, smiled, half of his face was squeezed together, and it was even uglier.

"Of course not, oh, use these zombie silkworms, soak them in lime for half a night, then roast them dry over fire, grind them into powder after roasting, put them in your crooked nostrils, change the medicine every three hours, and it will be fine in less than two days," Song Kai took out a handful of zombie silkworms and handed them to Uncle Wang with a crooked face, and walked out of the silkworm room.

After getting the stiff silkworm, the young lady took Song Kai and walked back, looking back at Song Kai from time to time as she walked.

"Still suspicious of me?" Song laughed.

"Well," Qing Niang nodded subconsciously, and then quickly shook her head, "No, no, no, it's just ......"

"It's just" a few times, and nothing comes out.

Song Kai just smiled and didn't ask again.

As soon as the two of them returned to the wooden house, they saw five strong men in black standing outside, led by one person, who was more than one meter and four meters tall, short and fat, looking at Ge Shou standing at the door with disdain.

Seeing this, Qing Niang's petite body shrank behind Song Kai, and said nervously: "Yes...... It's the robbers. ”

"Huh?" Song Kai was startled, and his footsteps stopped, the robbers killed people without blinking, in case they moved, they would have to run away.

"Old man Ge, I really don't want to bother talking more, you say, how many times have the brothers come this month, it's really a hot day!" The stocky man pretended to wipe his forehead.

Ge Shou put on a smiling face, "Let Peng Er's family suffer, Ge is really sorry, sorry." ”

"Okay, don't say anything, our Taihu Gang has worked hard for the stability of your manor, we are in charge, and we have to arrange two brothers to come to you every day to inspect, for fear that another bandit will harass you, you say, it's not easy for us." Today, the protection fee of ten taels of silver, you are old, you have to give it, if you don't give it, the young lady, we really have to take it back to the cottage to be a maid. The short and fat second master laughed coldly.

Hearing this, Song Kai understood that these people were not bandits, but came to collect protection money. No wonder Qingniang called them robbers, the thieves still need to sneak in, these people are open robbers.