"Amitabha, Eleven Lang, you did the right thing."

After being silent for a while, the monk Shanzhi suddenly spoke, which startled Ye Chang.

Ye Chang turned his face, the monk was serious, and there was a faint luster on his ugly face.

"What's wrong?" Ye Chang was a little puzzled, he rarely saw this reckless monk like this.

"Save people's lives, win the seventh-level floating slaughter, although you and I were assassinated outside Chang'an City, but we are all safe and sound, but the assassins killed and injured several people." The monk clasped his hands together and said: "Since this is the case, our old grievances are not deep, and saving this mother and son today is also a true cause and effect......

The monk talked about cause and effect, which was originally a normal thing, but when he said it directly, it made Ye Chang a little ridiculous. This reckless monk, drinking wine and eating meat to kill living criminals, all the rules and precepts except for women, he almost all of them are guilty, he talks about this cause and effect, it is basically a bull's head and a horse's mouth.

Moreover, Ye Chang didn't care too much about cause and effect.

What he cares about is his strength, but after all, his strength is insufficient, his status is insufficient, and his wealth is incomplete.

"The general trend of the world is mighty, and now the general trend has not yet been achieved, so there is a sense of overstretched everywhere." Ye Chang sighed in his heart, saving Yuan Zai's wife, on the one hand, he was really ruthless, on the other hand, he was also forced by the times, and now he does not have the ability to compete with Wang Zhonghei head-on.

If you can resolve the contradiction with Yuan Zai, of course, it is the best, if not, the evidence at hand can also protect yourself, and you will not be threatened by Wang Zhongji for the time being.

"However, the tongs are the treasure you saw in your dreams?" The monk asked again.

He was really strange, how could Ye Chang even know about having children, if it was really what he saw in his dream, wouldn't the gods in the sky also have to have children?

This question is difficult to answer, but Ye Chang thought about it for a while, remembered something, and said with a smile: "I saw the immortal in a dream who gave a Han surnamed Guan Yuan in Shaanxi, and the Guan Yuan entered the same dream with me." ”

The monk believed it to be true, and wondered in his heart when he would go to Guanlong, and then inquire if there was a person surnamed Han who had also dreamed of immortals.

Not long after Ye Chang returned to Wolong Valley, Yuan Zai came here again, but on this trip, one was to send the doctor and Wen Po back, and the other was to thank him. At this time, his expression had regained his composure, he was talking, laughing, feasting, and very close to Ye Chang, as if the previous discord between the two had never happened at all. The so-called knowing people and faces but not knowing their hearts, what he really thinks in his heart, Ye Chang can't judge, and all he can do is to be more vigilant.

Time flies, January time, fleeting, in the blink of an eye, autumn has faded, winter is coming. Xiuwu is rich in chestnuts, and at this time it is the season when chestnuts are on the market, and Ye Chang's dishes have more chestnut roast chicken. On the surface, he lived a very leisurely life, but in fact, he compiled books on natural mathematics one after another, and Zhang Xiu always had a sneak peek at each compilation, and after reading it, he scratched his ears and cheeks, urging him to add more.

This guy is tied up by Ye Chang, he is not a teaching talent, but it is still okay to teach children simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. What made Ye Chang most nerve-wracking was to help him change his habits and use symbols, numbers and abacus instead. For Zhang Xiu, the former of these two things is not uncommon - the so-called Arabic numerals are actually Tianzhu numbers, and his uncle and his party are tantric monks, so they are not too unfamiliar with Tianzhu numbers. But at the beginning of the abacus, he really felt that it was not as easy to use as the abacus, until Ye Chang silently wrote out the abacus mantra in his memory and forced him to memorize it proficiently, so that he was given a new textbook to read, and he reluctantly accepted it.

In addition, what Ye Chang did was to go around every day.

After September, when the weather turned cooler, Ye Chang wondered how long the autumn crabs could be eaten, and walked from Busan to the village with his hands behind his back, and when he arrived at the entrance of the village, he saw a person smiling at him with a salivating face.

Neem, his titular uncle.

Now Ye Neem has no status in the village at all, although the Ye clan gave him a few acres of thin land to barely survive, but the family is extremely dilapidated, and even his two concubines have been sold by him.

"Eleven Lang." Seeing Ye Chang's gaze sweeping over, Ye Melia greeted with a smile on his face, and arched his hand to Ye Chang.

Because he was beaten by the Liu family, his leg is now a little lame, Ye Chang looked at him and saluted: "Uncle." ”

With just a greeting, Ye Chang continued to walk towards the village.

Ye Neem opened his mouth behind him, wanting to call him, but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't know how to say it for a while.

When Ye Chang was calculated, it seemed that he still remembered it vividly, but in just one year, things had come to this point. Ye Neem only felt that his mouth was full of bitterness, and he stood at the head of the village in a daze, and did not make any movement for a long time.

Ye Chang walked to the Ye family's old mansion step by step.

Compared with the Wolong Valley, which is under construction, and the research institute that is under construction, there is no change in the old house, and there is hardly any movement except for the addition of a fire kang last year

"Uncle, uncle, what about the slingshot you promised me?"

As soon as he saw the door, his nephew Cinu ran over and shouted excitedly.

"Well, that's not it." Ye Chang took out a slingshot and handed it to him.

Cinu immediately threw Ye Chang down, and took Xiao Niang all over the yard to find his target, first hitting the branches in the yard, and then going to hit the birds, of course, with his current eyesight, it is still difficult to shoot the birds.

Ye Chang looked at his nephew with a smile, feeling that this kind of cheerfulness was contagious to him.

Life, you can't always intrigue all day long, watching the happy growth of the younger generations like this should be the mainstream of life.

Ci Nu hit a few projectiles in a row, but they didn't hit, and immediately ran back with a shout and handed the slingshot to Ye Chang.

"Uncle, you call me to see, you call me to see"

This kind of cow tendon slingshot is still somewhat powerful, the slave giving force is small, it can't be fully opened, and it's normal to miss the shot. Ye Chang took it in his hand, picked up a round projectile, looked around, and felt that there was no suitable target, and happened to see a pottery bowl placed on the side of the courtyard wall as a flower bowl.

He pulled the slingshot, took aim for a moment, and fired.

With a "bang", the pottery bowl shattered, and the soil inside was splattered, and the flowers that were originally planted also fell into the soil.

Ye Chang stuck out his tongue, and the slave and the little lady next to him also stuck out their tongues: "It's troublesome."

Handing the slingshot to the slave, Ye Chang said solemnly: "You only said that the cat broke the pottery bowl, remember?" ”

"Hmm." Cinu and Xiao Niang also nodded solemnly, and Xiao Niang also added: "Cats are not well-behaved"

However, a faint fragrance came, which made Ye Chang turn his head, and saw his sister-in-law standing in front of the moon gate in the backyard, looking angry and funny.

Seeing the three of them looking at each other, Fang Shi stretched out his voice and asked, "Who broke my pottery bowl with flowers?" ”

"It's a cat." The little lady is the most protective of her uncle, so she hurriedly replied: "It wasn't my uncle who hit me with a slingshot, my mother didn't beat my uncle."

"It's stupid, you said it," the slave was in a hurry.

Ye Chang stroked his forehead with his hand and sighed. The little lady stared at her round and watery eyes, with a childish expression: "I didn't say it, I didn't say it"

"That's what you just said......"

"I didn't say it, I really didn't say it, I really didn't say that my uncle hit it with a slingshot...... Wow" The little lady was anxious to defend herself, and then Yu Crisp cried.

Ye Chang picked her up and said with a smile: "Don't cry, don't cry, the little lady didn't say anything, and the mother didn't know that Uncle Lu Dao broke her pottery bowl with a slingshot, I don't believe you asked your mother."

Although Xiao Niang is small, she also feels that it seems a little wrong to ask like this, so she draws Dada and ignores Ye Chang. Ye Chang saw her crying sadly, and suddenly softened, and said, "Brother is not well-behaved, let's stop playing with my brother...... Go, give you slaves to play by yourself"

"Uncle eccentric" Ci Nu pouted, and then ran away with a slingshot.

"Not only teach the kids to hit things with slingshots, but also teach them to lie, Eleven, you're getting worse and worse."

Taking over the little lady from Ye Chang's arms, Fang's eyes were cold, staring at Ye Chang, she was a little majestic, and she was no longer the gentle little sister-in-law she was at the beginning.

In the past year, the family's business has been booming, and although the family's house has not been renovated, the population has increased. Not to mention the two more people, I also invited a few families in the village to do chores. More importantly, merchants who come and go to Wolong Valley, all who want to buy paper and books have to go through Fang's hands.

It can be said that the Fang family is the Ye family's god of wealth, and if he has money in his pocket, he has confidence in his heart, and when he speaks, it is different.

"Sister-in-law, forgive your sins, forgive your sins" Although Ye Chang apologized, he didn't have much apology on his face.

If he doesn't teach, won't the child be naughty and not lie? He once taught his son, but it has been passed down through the ages, but why haven't he heard of any virtues that have been handed down from his son?

It is obviously wrong to educate children and suppress them, and guidance is the right way.

"You, you, are always bent on deviant." The Fang clan knew him very well, and sighed, not expecting him to change.

"That's what my sister-in-law said." Ye Chang didn't refute either.

"You sluggish temperament, don't make it in front of me, if you feel bored, just these days, there are seven or eight big families come to propose, how about I arrange a blind date?"

"Sister-in-law spare her life." Ye Chang raised his hands and said.

"Hugh is out of shape, I mean really." Fang's nagging was also quite powerful: "Set the family affairs first, and then you can do a happy event next year, if you have a big family, if you don't marry a wife and have children earlier, who will inherit it in the future?" ”

"There are slaves and little mothers, in the future, little mothers will be a little rich women, if someone marries a little lady, tsk......"

Hearing Ye Chang turn the topic to the innocent-looking little lady, Fang Shi glanced at him fiercely again. She sighed: "When it comes to business, you don't have a proper shape, let's say, what are you doing today, you can't come here to send a slingshot"

Although the old mansion still reserved a small courtyard for Ye Chang, Ye Chang almost never came back to live, and he usually stayed in Wolong Valley. And the Fang clan generally doesn't go to Wolong Valley because of their widowhood, since Ye Chang is here, he must have something to discuss with her.

"I came to find my sister-in-law because I had something to discuss with my sister-in-law." Ye Chang frowned: "I can't make up my mind in my heart, my sister-in-law will help me take a closer look." ”

"You say it's what it is."

"I'm going to send someone to Jiangnan to buy a house and buy land."

"Jiangnan?" Fang asked in surprise.

For them, Jiangnan is a far place, and it is far less prosperous than the Central Plains of Guanzhong.

Although after the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasty, Jiangnan is now widely populated, but in the hearts of ordinary people, it is still far from prosperity and civilization.

"Well, there are many people in the Central Plains and little land, if you want to accumulate grain, you can only go to the Jiangnan area."

The Central Plains has always been the core of the essence of the Chinese Empire, but after the Three Kingdoms and the Jin Dynasty, Jiangnan also began to develop. Today, the grain in the Jianghuai region has become an important pillar of the empire's taxation, and Hangzhou and other places in the east of the Yangtze River are becoming more and more prosperous.

On the other hand, Jiangnan West Road, although the Han people continue to open up wasteland and cultivate fields, the potential has not been explored.

"Extensive Grain Accumulation...... How much grain are you going to store? Fang asked.

"The more the merrier, just in case you need it." Ye Chang hesitated, of course he couldn't say that the world would be in chaos after more than ten years - he had been in Datang for a long time, and found that many contradictions in Datang had been deeply rooted, even if there was no Anshi Rebellion more than ten years later, there would be other turmoil. Therefore, he spoke: "Sister-in-law should know about Yuan Zai's invitation to me." ”

"Now that forceps have been reported, from now on, there will be fewer women with difficult births, and the population will grow faster. Most babies who would have died in childbirth have grown up. In this way, after a decade or two, the population will multiply, and if the increase in food cannot keep up, it will be a catastrophe. ”

The relationship between population growth and food growth is a very simple truth, Fang Shi understood it when she heard it, she was stunned for a moment, and then said: "How can this be?"

Ye Chang also sighed.

"Eleven Lang, although you go to help that Yuanzai, I don't agree with it, but this forceps is really a move to benefit all living beings, and it should be a great merit, why is this so?"

"Misfortune and blessing are relied upon, and blessing and misfortune are lurking."

As soon as Ye Chang's words came out, Fang Shi was speechless.

On the occasion of Li Tang, with Lao Tzu as his ancestor, the "Tao Te Ching" was even the subject of the imperial examination, and Fang was familiar with the scriptures and history, how could he not understand the meaning of this sentence.

"Still, Eleven Lang, you still want to be bad." After pondering for a while, Fang said again.

"Oh, why does my sister-in-law think that."

"You have no one available now, even if you go to Jiangnan, don't you have to go yourself?" Fang asked.

Ye Chang nodded, that's for sure, the stakes are high, if he doesn't go by himself, how can he be relieved.

"Now the Central Plains goes to the south of the Yangtze River, it is through the canal and waterway, and it also takes one to two months, and a trip back and forth is half a year.

This is a big problem, the canal is the most convenient, but the speed of water transportation is slower, if you ride a fast horse, with the help of the developed post road of the Tang Dynasty, it is faster to go to the south of the Yangtze River. But even so, two or three months back and forth is required.

"You went to Chang'an two times ago, although you made arrangements, but the things at home are still delayed a lot, even if your sister gives birth, you haven't come back." Fang scolded Ye Chang slightly: "Last time, you also said that it is estimated that you will go to Mengzhou for a while......

"That's the spring of the coming year, and I'll only go when the people sent by the eldest princess Yuzhen come. The eldest princess of Yuzhen promised to lend me two manors in Mengzhou for three years, and these two manors have ten thousand acres of fertile land. Ye Chang had to interject to interrupt her complaining.

"Ten thousand acres of fertile land" Fang's eyes suddenly shot a blazing light.