Chapter 117, Water Shortage

"Ning Xianggong can be at home?"

When the sword dance was bright, and the bookish meaning was stronger, the three elders came to visit Ning Caichen.

The book is affectionate like an old man, and every blind date is sad and happy in the morning and dusk.

When the village elder came to visit, Ning Caichen had to greet him personally. It was Wang Lao who came, and among the three elders, he was the oldest.

"I don't know if the village elder is coming, please come in quickly. ”

Scholars can not accept the holy decree, but they cannot disrespect the three elders, which is a Chinese virtue and a tradition.

In peacetime, the three elders were also willing to talk to Ning Caichen. Talking to a reader is something to be proud of. Especially Ning Caichen's words (vernacular), they all understood them, unlike the Xiucai in the city, there were a lot of "Zhihu also", and after Xiucai finished speaking, they were also dumbfounded.

The words of the reader are so difficult to understand, and it has become a very face-saving thing to be able to chat with the reader. What's more, Ning Caichen is a great talent who is higher than a scholar and a showman.

Ning Caichen himself liked to chat with them. In the beginning, it was to better understand the world, this era, and now it is to understand humanity.

Only this time, the village elder didn't come to talk about the world. With a sad face, it was obvious that he had encountered something difficult.

"No, there's something the village wants to ask you for your idea. ”

"What's the matter?" Ning Caichen still invited him into the hospital and made tea.

Taking a sip of tea, he sighed. "Alas, this year's drought was severe, and the county was going to use it to repair the canal, but it ran into an unfortunate plague, and the county lord said that there was no money to repair the canal. But if you don't build a canal, you just said a few days ago that the rainwater that wets the ground will not grow crops that will not live. Did the show help repair the canal? Of course, the village will also pay for it. ”

After saying it in one breath, Wang Lao didn't dare to raise his head, feeling uneasy.

Ning Caichen never mentioned the repair of the water canal, and when he saw that Ning Caichen made a waterwheel, no one believed that Ning Caichen would build any water canal.

They didn't think of Ning Caichen buying a waterwheel at all, just because of the transition products with no money.

Xiaoqing stole two thousand taels, and Ning Caichen donated more than two thousand taels, he really didn't have that much money to repair the canal.

However, it was Ning Caichen who donated so much that Wang Lao dared to come to the door.

The construction of water conservancy was a kind of forced labor in ancient times.

And Ning Caichen, because of the original Ning Caichen's good exam, has entered the class of scholars who do not need to be forced into labor.

It is no wonder that the village elders are not easy to open their mouths when they ask for conscription to ask for conscription to be served.

"Elder Wang, is it so serious?" Ning Caichen knew that if he was not forced to do so, the village elders would not use his brains.

As village elders who were supported by feudalism, they were also the staunchest supporters of the feudal system. The fact that he was able to come to Ning Caichen meant that the matter was already extremely critical.

"Alas!" Wang Lao sighed. It's not that he doesn't want to say it, but he can't say it.

Just like Ning Caichen, the village elders are also the beneficiaries of the feudal system, and they should have supported Ning Caichen, a talented man, in the whole village, but now, ......

"Elder Wang, let's take a look. ”

Ning Caichen didn't ask any more, but after thinking about it for a while, he decided to get up and take a look in person.

"Hi. "Elder Wang responded. It's best if Ning Caichen can go, it's much better than he said.

It is rumored that Ning Caichen is a Su Shi Su Dongpo-style talent. They don't know that the literati refer to Ning Caichen's wild and uninhibited poetry like Su Dongpo, for them, Su Dongpo is a good official, and this is enough.

Maybe the literati remember Su Dongpo's good words, but the people always remember good officials.

Hangzhou, who would have thought that Hangzhou would be short of water.

No, no, there is no shortage of water. West Lake and canals are all short of water, but this field is very dry.

The rice in the south of the Yangtze River needs to be soaked in a large amount of small medium, and the water depth must be at least one palm, but the water in this field, Ning Caichen stretched out his hand and tried it, but it was only a finger. This is also the result of the farmers constantly pouring water into the fields.

The fields were so hungry and thirsty, Ning Caichen first thought of the drought, but he quickly rejected it. As soon as the drought comes out, the red land will not be just a lack of water.

But in this way, let alone a bumper harvest, it would be good if it didn't die, and the reduction in production was certain.

Ning Caichen thought of the drought, and he also thought of the Bai Suzhen sisters, maybe asking them to rain can also solve it.

Come to think of it, the same veto.

Not to mention how heavy the rain and movement will be for Bai Suzhen, just because this is not a simple white snake world, he has to be careful.

Not to mention the various immortal and Buddhist sects, even if they rob the dragon king's job, will it cause any big trouble, so they can't use this method.

"Elder Wang, the matter of digging the canal, I will not let the ministers go. Please let me know how much silver you need. ”

The village elders were just worried, and they hadn't calculated it yet, and as soon as Ning Caichen opened his mouth, he immediately went away with a sad face.

There are three kinds of rice: early rice, medium rice, and late rice, generally speaking, this early rice and medium rice do not have high requirements for lighting, and can be planted all year round, but because of this, the yield of this early rice is not large, and the real proportion of grain production is still on the late rice that needs more light energy.

As long as Ning Caichen is willing to contribute, he can catch up with the planting of late rice. As for the poor harvest of early rice, it is not a big deal compared to late rice.

Ning Caichen vaguely had the impression that the land in later generations did not seem to be planted with only one kind of crop, but mixed crops. This is said to make more efficient use of the fertility of the land.

But what to plant will make the land nourished by the body, which he has no impression of at all. What's more, the village elders have all spoken, and it is impossible for him to let them change to the ones they have not planted before, based on experimental data.

At this time, it is not experimental data, but shirk.

Does Ning Caichen still have silver?

He didn't.

Xiaoqing stole 2,000 taels, and donated more than 2,000 taels himself, plus the use of these words, repairing houses, buying cattle, and buying tools, he really has no silver.

Therefore, he had to go to the bookstore and receive the dividends from the bookstore in advance.

Boss Cui knew that Ning Caichen was going to do good deeds again, so he immediately brought the silver. "Boss, this is two hundred taels of silver. It's not that my little old man is corrupt, this is the account book. The owner's book sells well, but it is also the first few months. There are so many people who read here, and now that spring is approaching, there are not many scholars who come to buy miscellaneous books. ”

No matter how well the novel is written, it will always be just a miscellaneous book in Huaxia, which can be entertained, but no one will take it seriously. Not to mention this Song Dynasty.

Moreover, Ning Caichen also knows that the story of "The Legend of the White Snake" in this history is actually very niche, and it is only circulated in Suzhou and Hangzhou.

Although Ning Caichen sacrificed the final version in one go, it was difficult to resist the fate of miscellaneous books. If you buy it, you buy it. I didn't buy it, but after the spring, I borrowed it at most, and I rarely bought it again with money.

Without movable type printing, this book is really not cheap, and those who have spare money have to buy it early. The rest are either shy in their pockets, or they only read the books of the sages and sages, and don't care about miscellaneous books.

In other words, the profits of the White Snake are exhausted.

However, two hundred taels of silver is a lot, but it is definitely not enough to dig a canal.

What should I do? Looking for Bai Suzhen, are they borrowing?

"No, I'm not machismo, but I have silver, and Xiaoqing will be at peace. If there is no silver, then it is impossible to say that Li Gongfu's ass and eggs will bloom again. Ning Caichen firmly believes in this.

Xiaoqing is a fan of wealth.

Fortunately, Ning Caichen didn't know that this Xiaoqing had swallowed the silver in order to steal his silver. This is a form that ordinary snakes do not do.

If he knew this glorious history, then he would only have doubts about Xiaoqing: first, she had the bloodline of a gold-swallowing beast, and second, she was a money fan.

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