Now that the ban on one bucket of food per person has been lifted, there is no need to store food in Seifuji Temple. Zuo Shaoyang took Miao Peilan to Qingfeng Temple to find Abbot Zhikong and took out the remaining fifty buckets of grain. These grains are really still hidden in the belly of the Buddha, but I don't know why the officials and soldiers searched for food at the beginning, why they couldn't find it, presumably there are organs inside, and Zuo Shaoyang is not good to ask.

After the grain was transported back, Zuo Shaoyang asked Xiao Yunfei where he was. Abbot Zhikong smiled but didn't answer, just said that he just let him do what Xiao Yunfei asked. Zuo Shaoyang had no choice but to insert another branch in front of the temple. But Xiao Yunfei never came to see him.

In the evening, Zhao Sanniang and Uncle Cai from the grocery store opposite came to Zuo Shaoyang to say goodbye, and now the price of grain sales has dropped to 1,500 Wen per bucket, although it is still very high, but gritting their teeth has been able to bear it temporarily, they have lined up to buy food in the afternoon, and now they are ready to go home, the two repeatedly expressed their gratitude, and then went back with the weak child.

Then, with the support of Huang Qin, Sang Xiaomei came to find Zuo Shaoyang.

In the past few days, due to the normal diet, in addition, Sang Xiaomei was specially added ginseng broth, and she was given duck eggs to eat alone, Sang Xiaomei was already very good, but she was so thin that her chin was pointed and her cheeks were deep, which made people feel distressed.

Sang Xiaomei smiled reluctantly and said, "Now that we can buy food, we want to move back in." ”

"Do you still have any money at home?" Zuo Shaoyang asked, "Don't be a thing, don't lie!" ”

Sang Mu sighed on the side and said: "Young Master Zuo, in the past two months, before you helped us, all the money in the family had been used to buy food, and it had already been spent. Where is the money to buy food? ”

Sang's mother's words can be believed Yicheng is already an overestimate, so Zuo Shaoyang ignored her and said to Sang Xiaomei: "It's better to stay for a few more days, and go back when someone drinks tea." ”

Sang Xiaomei smiled reluctantly: "You asked us to help you open a teahouse, not to enjoy the blessing, now open the door, there may not be many people coming, but if you don't open the door, no one will come to drink tea." ”

"That's right, okay. When you go back, I will still give you food every day according to the old rules, until you can afford to buy food when the teahouse has income. ”

Sang Mu asked nervously, "What about us?" Young master, I'm my little sister's mother, can you give us something to eat too. ”

Zuo Shaoyang finally looked at her: "I'm sorry, I said it, you robbed my little sister of the food at the beginning, and she almost died, I won't take care of you anymore, I was going to send you out to escape these days, but now I don't have to flee, so I still won't take care of you anymore." Xiaomei is the shopkeeper I invited, and I want to take care of her, but I have no obligation to take care of you. And you are so vicious to my little sister, I don't want to take care of you. Go on your own! Uncle and Brother Sang can continue to live in the tea shop, and I will also bring them food, but without your share, you are not allowed to live in my tea shop anymore! Otherwise, I'll report to the police! ”

Sang Mu cried and begged with a sad face: "Young master, please, the old man is a lot older, sleeping outside, I'm afraid that I won't live long, I know it's wrong, you can forgive me for this!" ”

Sang Xiaomei knelt down sadly: "Childe ......"

"What are you doing!" Zuo Shaoyang pulled her up, "If you have something to say, get up." ”

"There are no parents in the world who are not, she is my mother in the end, and I ask my son to spare her mother for the sake of her old age and frailty, and dare not pray for her to eat, just to let her have a place to live, so that she will not live on the streets, otherwise, the little sister can't bear it, and it will be difficult to sleep and eat."

Zuo Shaoyang sighed: "Okay, it's rare for you to be filial, I'll let her live in the tea shop." I know that if I don't give her food, she will try her best to get it from you, so I just give it all together. ”

Zuo Shaoyang turned to Sang's mother, Sang's father and Sangwazi: "From today on, I will hire you as a tea shop buddy, including food and accommodation, and my uncle and Brother Sang will have two hundred wen a month, -- as for you," Zuo Shaoyang said to Sang's mother in a cold voice, "Food and shelter, but there is no monthly salary, if you want to do it, you will stay, and if you don't want to do it, you will leave." ”

The three of them were overjoyed and agreed to be willing.

Zuo Shaoyang said again: "I emphasize one last time: I will not tolerate anyone who makes trouble in my tea shop again, not only to dismiss and drive him out, but also to report to the official to investigate and hold him accountable!" This time I did what I said, and it was useless for anyone to ask for it! ”

Zuo Shaoyang's words were said by looking at Sang's mother, and Sang's mother said with a bitter face: "Young master, don't worry, we can survive, it's all thanks to you, the old body is not a person who doesn't know what to do, you saved our family's life, and gave most of the income of the tea shop to the little sister and daughter-in-law. ”

"That's good, if what you say is true, after a while, when the income is good, I may pay you."

"Thank you, young master!"

Sang Xiaomei's family said goodbye and left.

By now, all the people supported by the Zuo family have all their food, and they have gone home, and Guizhitang has returned to peace.

Last time, the Zuo family received an additional 50 buckets of rice seeds from the official army, and they could get 30 buckets of rice according to the proportion of 60%. Coupled with the remaining fifty buckets of rice noodles hidden in Qingfeng Temple, as well as the fifty buckets of rice noodles given by the general, the Zuo family now has a total of 130 buckets of grain. There are 16 people in the Zuo family who need to spend, including the Zuo family, the Qu family, and the Miao family. It can last for at least four months. I believe that the price of grain will be cheaper at that time than now, and if you buy some more grain, it should be enough to eat until the autumn harvest.

In the evening, Xiao Yunfei finally came, and the two went to the two-story building behind Qingfeng Temple to eat and drink. Zuo Shaoyang asked him how he "convinced" Ouyang Tingshi to change his mind, and Xiao Yunfei only said: "There are many ways to make a person change his mind, as for what method I used, this is a little secret, and I can't tell you." You may find out one day. ”

Zuo Shaoyang was helpless, so he had to stop asking.

In the past two days, tens of thousands of soldiers of Feng Li and Xue Wanche went into battle, using various blades, ploughing all the cultivated land in Hezhou that had not been prepared and sowing seeds. This is good news for those tenants, because after two months of famine, they have struggled back from the line of death, their bodies are extremely weak, and they cannot fully recover their physical strength in a short time, and in the case of the extreme shortage of ploughing cattle, they cannot afford to undertake such heavy physical labor as ploughing. So the tenants, including the Li brothers, were very happy.

However, Hezhou had a small number of people, and before the war, only about 30 percent of the fields were cultivated. Nearly 10,000 people died in this great famine, including a large number of laborers, which made the shortage of labor even more serious, so although the soldiers turned over the land and sowed the seeds, except for Zuo Shaoyang's land, most of the fields of the rest of the landlords' families were still unrented. Many landlords had already starved to death in this famine, and the fields were left uninherited, and they became new abandoned land.

Fortunately, in the early Tang Dynasty, rice was seeded on dry land, and irrigation was carried out only after the emergence of seedlings, and there was still nearly a month before the rice seedlings needed to be irrigated. If God can make a heavy rain and help with the watering, it will save trouble.

All the fertile land of Zuo Shaoyang's family has been rented out, so they don't have to worry about it, just wait for the rent to be collected in the autumn. They only need to take care of the twenty acres of land they have left behind.

General Feng Li's tens of thousands of troops completed ploughing and sowing in two days, and on the third day, they left Hezhou.

Hezhou, which was turned upside down, suddenly became deserted after the official army and the rebels who were recruited left. There are a lot less people in the city than before. Although the imperial court sold grain, there was also fertile land to rent and cultivate, and the officials and soldiers even helped to plough the land, and sowed the seeds without spending anything, but after two months of famine, those who could eat were the first to starve to death, and most of those who could eat were strong laborers, and many of those who survived were the old, young, sick and disabled who lacked the ability to work. In this way, many people left, and naturally it was a lot more deserted.

Although these fields have been ploughed and sown with rice seeds, if no one cultivates and weeds them, the rice seeds will grow along with the weeds, and eventually they will be flooded by the weeds, and the nutrients in the fields will be deprived of the nutrients and the yield will be greatly reduced. Without irrigation, rice would die of thirst. Even if the rain is smooth and the autumn harvest is smooth, there is a harvest more or less, but there is no labor to rush to harvest, I am afraid that it will eventually rot in the field, and even the rice seeds will not be harvested.

Now we can only hope that what the general said is that the idea of disarming the soldiers and returning to the field can become a reality as soon as possible.

These days, there are very few patients who come to the pharmacy to see a doctor, and it is rare to have a few in a day. This gave Zuo Shaoyang a lot of time to take care of the farm work in the field.

After drying the rice seeds for two days, Zuo Shaoyang began to select the seeds.

Before drying the seeds, he has soaked the seeds in water for the primary selection, fished out the deflated seeds floating on them, and then dried the seeds. After drying the seeds, they are selected again with salt water, and the relatively large floating force of the salt water is used to float away the seeds, diseased grains and light grains. After rinsing with water, soak the seeds with their own solution for disinfection, which can eliminate germs inside or on the surface of the rice, and can greatly reduce pests and diseases at the seedling stage. After finishing, take it out and put it in the grass for warm water germination, and then dry it after the tip of the bud is slightly exposed. Then the seedlings can be grown.

This modern seed prefabrication method is the same as the basic process of seeds in the early Tang Dynasty, with only three additional processes: drying, selection and disinfection. So Miao Peilan looked familiar and unfamiliar, and after listening to his explanation, she felt very novel.

The next seedling raising is something Miao Peilan has never seen at all.

(To be continued)