Chapter 217

Asking someone to take charge of the theater is a decision made by Ah Xing after careful consideration during this period of time. (Vertex Hand Hit)

The theater comes into contact with a lot of people every day. There are many rights and wrongs, and I don't know how many rumors about her in the past two years alone. In the past, she was alone and never took these gossips to heart, but now that she has decided to be with Shen Yuanfeng, she has to think about the other party. Shen Yuanfeng is a member of the third grade, and he will become close to him in the future, and he will inevitably be involved in these rumors, even if Shen Yuanfeng believes her and doesn't mind, he will lose face in the court. A man's face is extremely important no matter what era it is.

Now that the theater is on the track, even if she doesn't sit in the line, it can run normally, and she can write some new plays for the theater every once in a while at most, as long as she can find a capable person to take charge of the theater, she can keep the theater thriving.

Shen Yuanfeng was naturally happy when he heard her decision, but what he thought in his heart was: "That's fine, in this way, Ah Xing won't have too much contact with Rong Zheng in the future!" For Rong Zheng, although Shen Yuanfeng knew that Ah Xing had no intention of him, but when he thought of that face that was more beautiful than a woman dangling in front of A Xing, he felt uncomfortable! Ah Xing's decision, he raised his hands in agreement!

The next day. As soon as it was dawn, Ah Xing got up.

After having breakfast with everyone, the Chen sisters took Li Yin and them to look around the Zhuangzi. Although Shen Yuanfeng didn't want to be separated from Ah Xing, he also knew that Ah Xing was doing serious things, and it was really not good for him to follow aside, after all, the two of them had not yet become married, and they were too close in front of everyone, so it was inevitable that they would be gossiped about, he didn't care, but he still had to consider Ah Xing's reputation.

After everyone left, Ah Xing summoned all the stewards in the study and listened to their reports on the situation in the Zhuangzi this winter.

Ah Xing asked the tenant manager Wang, "How many tenants are there in Zhuangzi today?" ”

Steward Wang bowed his head and replied: "There are 106 tenants, about 300 people", Steward Wang was afraid that Ah Xing would not understand, and explained in detail, it turned out that some of the tenants were one person, and some were dragged here with their families. A farmer in the prime of life can cultivate about three to five acres of land, and after receiving the harvest and the landlord's share, the rest can barely feed the family.

Steward Wang continued: "This year, after we released the news, the tenants were more active than in previous years, and they entered the farm very early, so it was just in time for the sowing period, and now the wheat seedlings in the field are growing quite well, and it is expected that there will be a good harvest this year!" ”

When Ah Xing heard the word Mai Miao, her face flushed slightly, and she remembered that she recognized Mai Miao as a leek yesterday. She glanced at the stewards in front of her, thinking that she was guessing whether they knew about it, but she was afraid that she would be underestimated in her heart when she knew!

What the stewards were thinking at this time was: This tenant is more active than in previous years, most of them are due to the higher share promised by Ah Xing, this year it will be a bumper harvest depending on the weather, and if the harvest of one mu exceeds three stones, it will be divided into one percent, does the third lady really plan to do this? That's a lot of losses!

Ah Xing then listened to the reports of the other stewards, the purchase of the steward's tael of silver for the repair of the ploughing oxen, tools, and tenants' farmer's houses, the steward of the farmland, about the sowing of crops and the main varieties of sowing, and other trivial matters, which were reported for an hour.

Ah Xing was dizzy to hear it, she didn't understand a lot of professional terms, she didn't understand a lot of jargon, she couldn't hear a lot of the situation reported by the stewards, she didn't know anything about farming, and now I know that managing a farm is really not a simple thing, of course. Unless you let go of the people below to do it, you will ignore everything and toss with the people below, but in this way, the people below will see that the master is easy to bluff, and sooner or later they will have different intentions, and they will rely too much on others, and sooner or later they will be controlled by these people!

This is not Ah Xing's character, she doesn't understand, but she can learn, although she won't become an agricultural expert in the short term, but at least, she must be able to understand their words! At least she had to know what was going on in the field!

Although she didn't understand their report, she didn't show it at all on the surface, she snorted lightly, and said, "Okay, everyone, let's go to the field and have a look!" ”

Ah Xing came to the field with a steward. At this time, there were not too many people in the fields, and occasionally in some fields, there were farmers applying fertilizer, and there was a foul smell of human and animal manure in the air, and some stewards couldn't help frowning and covering their noses.

Steward Zhou saw that Ah Xing was still standing still, so he said, "Third Miss, the smell here is extremely bad, please ask Third Miss to go back to the front yard first!" ”

Ah Xing knew that if she made any disgust and disgust, she would definitely be recognized by these people as a squeamish rich lady. was despised by this group of people, so although the smell did make her a little disgusted, she still said with an unchanged face: "It doesn't matter, as a farmer, can't I still smell the smell of manure?" ”

After saying that, he walked forward with his head held high. The stewards who covered their noses put down their hands embarrassedly, looked at Ah Xing's back, and couldn't help but show a look of admiration in their eyes.

A cadre of people walked in the field, and there were patches of green seedlings in the world, and through the explanation of Steward Zhou on the side, Ah Xing learned that some of these green seedlings were wheat and some were sorghum.

Although Ah Xing is an agricultural idiot, she also knows that this is the north, most of it is dry land, and wheat is generally grown, and only in the south is rice is grown.

Only, why not plant corn? I saw on TV that the north is also a patch of cornfield!

Thinking about it, Ah Xing raised her question to Steward Zhou: "Why doesn't Steward Zhou plant corn?" The corn harvest seems to be good, too! "And it's nutritious and sweet.

Who knew that the people around him were stunned, and Steward Zhang, who was in charge of the fields, said strangely: "Third Miss, what is corn?" ”

Everyone else looked at A-Xing. A puzzled expression.

This time it was A-Xing's turn to be stunned, could it be that there is no corn here? Come to think of it, I haven't seen corn in this world for so long.

Ah Xing thought about it carefully, and remembered that it was mentioned in a book in her previous life that corn and potatoes were introduced from the Philippines during the Ming Dynasty.

Ah Xing couldn't help but get excited, if this was the case. If she can introduce these crops to her farm and plant them successfully, won't she make her farm famous all over the country! And it can bring considerable benefits!

Ah Xing immediately decided that after going back, she must contact those merchants who do overseas trade to see where these varieties are introduced abroad.

The stewards around saw that Ah Xing was excited for a while, solemn for a while, and his eyes were shining for a while, and he felt more and more that his master was unfathomable!

At this moment, a man dressed in a short shirt and dressed as a farmer approached them.

These people's clothes are the most old, but they are very neat, and their faces and hands are very clean, and it seems that they have been specially cleaned up.

The person in front was an old man with a wrinkled face, and Ah Xing saw him and quickly lowered his head.

This man is the old farmer who laughed at her yesterday for recognizing wheat as a leek. He was followed by more than a dozen croppers, and next to him was a little boy about ** years old holding the corner of his clothes.

The old farmer walked up to the stewards with the farmers, bowed respectfully, and said, "I heard that the owner of the village has come to the village today, and I have come to meet him." ”

As he spoke, his eyes searched for people who looked like the owner of the village among the group of stewards. Other farmers also looked at them with their eyes open. These people used to be farming in other Zhuangzi, because they heard that the conditions of this Zhuangzi were more lucrative, so they turned here, but after they fell, they didn't hear the steward here mention this matter again, which made their hearts panic, weren't they being deceived? Today, when I heard that the owner of the village came to the village, I waited here early and wanted to ask the owner in person.

Steward Zhou stepped aside, so that Ah Xing was completely exposed to everyone, and said, "This is the owner of the village." ”

The farmers couldn't help but be stunned when they saw that the owner of the farm was a delicate little girl, and one of them pointed to A Xing, with a look of surprise on his face: "This little girl is actually the owner of the farm?" Everyone looked at each other, and there was no sound for a while.

So the original conditions were also proposed by this little girl? What does the little girl know? I'm afraid it's just a joke for a while, and I can't count! But even if they can't count, they won't be able to leave this year, the seeds have been planted, the seedlings have grown, and they are waiting for the harvest to live.

At this time, the old man in front also recognized A-Xing. He exclaimed, "It's you!" Then he gave his hand: "Yesterday, the villain didn't know the owner, if the villain was offended, please don't care!" ”

The little boy beside him listened to the old man's words, glanced at Ah Xing, and asked the old man loudly: "Grandpa, is it the owner of the village who you said yesterday that you recognized wheat as leeks?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Ah Xing's face suddenly turned red, and the stewards around her looked at her with a strange look, and the surrounding farmers couldn't help laughing, and sighed in their hearts at the same time: It turns out that Miss Fugui, who doesn't know anything, bought Zhuangzi to play, it seems that those conditions are also what she casually said to play! But they are nobles, even if they really don't count, they can't do anything, they have to rely on his land to eat this year, it's not okay to offend her!

When the old man heard Xiao Tong's words, he hurriedly covered his mouth and said hurriedly: "Don't talk nonsense!" Quickly call the owner and kowtow to the owner! Then he looked at Ah Xing again, his expression was full of humility and apology: "The child is not sensible, the owner of the village should not worry about him!" As he spoke, he was going to kowtow to Ah Xing according to the child and apologize.

The little boy was unhappy when he heard his grandfather say this, "Grandpa, I didn't talk nonsense, it was the owner of the village who recognized the wheat as a leek!" ”

The smile on the farmer's face next to him was deeper, and some even turned their heads because they couldn't help laughing, and the stewards next to him looked at Ah Xing's eyes with a faint hint of mockery, as if to say, they didn't even know wheat, and they dared to buy a farm?

It looks like it's pretty powerful, and it's pierced, and it turns out to be an embroidered pillow!

Seeing everyone's expressions, Ah Xing made up her mind, no matter what, she must not be underestimated by these people today!

He immediately stepped forward and walked up to the little boy, pulled him up and forced him to the ground by his grandfather, and then said to him: "Child, I don't know wheat, but I know corn, I know potatoes ......" She raised her head and looked at these people: "Do you know this? ”

The peasants were asked, and their expressions were as stunned as those of the stewards before.

The old man looked at Ah Xing suspiciously, and said, "Owner, the villain has been planting all his life, and he has never heard of these things you said!" ”

Ah Xing smiled: "It's not, the world is so big, there are thousands of things, there are some I don't know, and there are some you don't know, what's so strange about this!" I don't know about wheat, but I know what you don't know about corn and potatoes, and you know that corn is sweet and fragrant, and the yield of potatoes is surprisingly high, and you can produce more than three stones per acre of land! ”

One of the farmers couldn't help but say, "Owner, I've never heard of what you said, you're not fooling us!" ”

Ah Xing looked at him and said, "What do I ask you to do, after a while, I will find a way to introduce these two kinds of grain into the farm, and seeing is believing when the time comes!" You must know that these two things are not available in the Tang Kingdom, and if they are really successfully planted, they are much more valuable than wheat sorghum! ”

Ah Xing's words made everyone's hearts warm, and they felt that although the owner of the village was a daughter's family, he was more knowledgeable than men. The stewards saw that Ah Xing was so confident, and the contempt for her just now because of the old man's words was a little lighter.

When the farmers saw that the farmer was kind, they mentioned the matter on their minds, after all, the corn and other things that the farmer said were still nothing, and the crops in the field were real.

"Owner, what you said before would give us 40% if you yield 3 stones per mu, and 50% if you yield 4 stones per mu, but really?"

Speaking of this, the farmers' eyes were wide and round as they looked at Ah Xing, and the stewards next to them also stared at her, but their expressions were different. Steward Zhou secretly pulled the corners of Ah Xing's sleeve, Ah Xing turned around, and Steward Zhou whispered in her ear: "Third Miss, I can't agree, today must be a bumper harvest year, it is very possible to produce three stones per mu, don't cheap these people in vain!" They have nowhere to go this year, and even if we regret it, they can't do it! ”

The farmers on the other side watched them bite their ears and couldn't help frowning, they were really going to regret it! It seems that rhetoric is the most unbelievable!

Ah Xing frowned when she heard Steward Zhou's words, she turned her head to look at the farmers and said, "Of course it's true!" She smiled lightly, smiling like a flower: "I know that this year will be a bumper harvest year, everyone will have a good harvest, then, everyone will work harder, and strive to achieve a yield of four stones per mu, I wish everyone would share fifty percent with me!" If you don't worry, I can make a note with you! ”

When the farmers heard Ah Xing say this, they immediately rejoiced, and with an extra 10% income, everyone can have a good year this year!

The old man in front of him shook Ah Xing to the end: "Thank you for the kindness of the owner!" We will do our best to grow the best crops to repay the owner! ”