Guo Bai used to come to Zhuangzi with his father, and his mind was not on farming at all, so he didn't know anything about farming before. At this time, after listening to Zhuangtou's narration, his brows couldn't help frowning: "You mean, we used to plant only one season of rice?" ”

When Zhuang Tou heard this question, he couldn't help but laugh and patiently explained: "Why don't you just plant a season?" This is the case every day. If the rice is harvested and then planted, the weather will be cold, and the seedlings will not grow at all. ”

Guo Bai frowned, flipped the book to the place he was reading, and pointed: "It is clearly said here that in his hometown, rice is grown for two seasons. Although this is a script, the author is not nonsense. Listen: Yang Fu of the Han Dynasty said in a book, 'Jiaozhi rice is ripe in summer and winter, and farmers plant it again at the age of one'. Planting at the age of one year means planting two crops a year. Although this is the south, Cochin should be a very southern place. But the book also quotes a sentence written by Zuo Si in the Western Jin Dynasty: 'The national tax is re-ripened rice'. The Wu capital here refers to our place. ”

Zhuangtou is a pure farmer, just because he has good ability and a hand in farming, so he was promoted as Zhuangtou by the head of the Guo family.

Illiterate people have a natural admiration for those who read. At this time, when he heard Guo Bai say that it was all said in the book, and more than one book mentioned that he could grow two crops a year, he hesitated and asked, "Is the book really saying that?" But I haven't heard anyone say that we can grow two crops of rice here a year. Why don't you discuss this matter with the master? If the old man also thinks it is feasible, let's try to take a few acres of land to plant two seasons next year? ”

Guo Bai also knows that most of the family's income depends on the income from the fields. Once the harvest in the field fails, the family's income is reduced by half. He didn't really believe the words in the book, and made fun of his own fields.

He nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go back and discuss it with the master." With that, he got up, and left with his head hanging down in frustration.

When Zhuang Tou saw that he came with great interest and left dejectedly, he had some thoughts in his heart.

Although he is a farmer, he also has his own survival wisdom.

Seeing that the old man is old, it is natural for Young Master Guo Bai, as the only son of the Guo family, to take over the housework. Mr. Guo likes farming, so when he has money, he buys land and fields. As the Guo family's fields increased, there were more and more people in the Zhuangzi, and the power of the Zhuangtou also increased. But if the family business is handed over to Young Master Guo Bai, Young Master Guo Bai is not interested in farming, but prefers to open a shop in the city to do business, and Zhuang Tou is worried that the Guo family's heavy will be transferred to the city in the future.

He is old, and it doesn't matter if he is the head of the village or not, whether he has a lot of power or not, but the Zhuangzi has so many mouths to eat, and everyone's life is sad. Although it is possible to go to the fields of other tenants to plant, it is not easy to meet a kind owner.

Therefore, he hoped that Young Master Guo Bai could maintain his interest in farming.

He stopped Guo Bai: "Young master, you go there to discuss with the master, and I will also inquire with someone here." If there is news, the villain will ask someone to tell you. ”

"Okay." Guo Bai nodded, raised his feet and got into the carriage.

Back at home, Guo Bai showed the script to his father with hope. At first, Master Guo looked at it as a book, but before he read it, he scoffed at what the book said. However, he had the same mind as Zhuang Tou, and it was rare to see that Guo Bai was interested in farming, so he reluctantly took the notebook and read it.

When he saw that the scriptures quoted above were justified and well-founded, he also hesitated and wondered: "Is there really such a thing?" It's just that why haven't I heard about it all along? ”

He put down the book: "Don't worry, I'll go to your uncle's house tomorrow and ask him to see it." ”

Guo Bai was puzzled: "How can my uncle know about farming?" ”

His uncle is a man, he is good at reading and writing, but he has always been careless about household chores, and it is estimated that he can't even distinguish between rice and wheat, so how can he know how to farm.

"Although he didn't know anything about farming, he had a lot of books there, so I asked him to help me find out if there was such a poem, and if it was really written in the poem."

Guo Bai nodded, picked up the book, and stuffed it into his father's hand: "This book is very beautiful, it tells the story of the protagonist's farming, Dad, you must like to read it, you might as well take a look." ”

Although Master Guo was not interested in the conversation, his son was filial, so he took the book and said, "Okay, Dad must read it." ”

After Guo Bai left, Mr. Guo planned to flip through the book casually, and wait for his son to ask about it, so he could deal with it, but although the book did not lose its literary brilliance, the words were straightforward, the plot was compact, and it was very attractive, and he saw it all of a sudden. By the time he had finished reading the whole book, it was already dark, and his wife had urged him to eat twice.

He put down his book, got up, and walked out.

"Where are you going? This meal has been heated twice, do you eat it or not? Mrs. Guo hurriedly asked at his back.

"I'm going to find my son." Old Man Guo went out without looking back, and went straight to Guo Bai's courtyard.

"Hey, wait, you can't go to him, you have to see your son and have someone call him." Mrs. Guo hurriedly asked someone to hold Mr. Guo.

Only then did Mr. Guo remember that his son was married, and his daughter-in-law was in the house, and it was not in accordance with the rules for him to break in like this.

He instructed his subordinates: "Go, call the young master." Then he turned around slowly and went back to the house to eat.

While eating, Guo Bai came and asked with a smile, "Dad, are you looking for me?" ”

As soon as Master Guo saw Guo Bai's smile, he became angry, pointed at him and said, "Did you mean it?" Hang your father with a book. Hurry up, bring the rest of the books, I'll read them after dinner. ”

Guo Bai saw that his father couldn't even take care of food when he read the book, and he went to look for him again, so he knew that his father was addicted to reading and wanted to read the second volume.

He spread his hands: "There is no second volume, the people in the bookstore said that the author has not written it yet." ”

Master Guo choked in his throat as soon as he took a bite of food.

Finally swallowed the rice, he said: "Let people go to the bookstore to guard, and buy it as soon as it is printed." ”

"Okay, well, you always tell me, my son will do it." Guo Baizheng has this intention, how can there be any reason not to agree. The book he liked was approved by his father, and the two had the same desire for a dialogue book, which made him feel so unhappy.

This night, the Guo family's father and son didn't sleep well. The next morning, Mr. Guo went to his uncle's house and asked the old uncle to help him check the poem.

Although Uncle Guo did not take the Jinshi examination, he read a lot of miscellaneous books, and there is a library building at home with a lot of books. When Mr. Guo mentioned the poem, he had some impressions, and instructed his son to take out a book from the high shelf, open it and read it for a while, and handed it to his nephew: "There really is." ”