It's February.

Jiangxi has recovered.

The brook is babbling and the grass is budding.

The farmer prepares for the plough early.

In some areas, farmers have driven their oxen down to plough the fields.

The snow melts at this time in Nanyang, and everything is full of life.

Zhu Wen and Li Keyong fought a big battle in Luoyang.

Li Yu sat on the mountain and watched the tiger fight, did not participate in the war, and neither side was offended.

However, Li Yu said that Li Yu visited the counties around Nanyang to check the preparation of farmland.

I came to a farmstead.

I met a farmer, young and strong, with two handfuls on his shoulders.

It looks like it's freshly built, and there's still traces of fire on it.

"This big brother, but this Zhuangzi is a person?"

Li Yu asked with a smile.

"yes."

The man stopped, looked at Li Yu carefully, and then suddenly realized that he slapped his thigh.

"Oh, it's you!"

"Why, do you know me?"

Li Yu was secretly happy in his heart, his popularity is so high, it seems that Nanyang under his governance still remembers me!

"Hehe, aren't you the kid who questioned King De on the river work!"

"Huh?"

Li Yu was confused by these words, recalled for a while, and then remembered that he met this person when he went to Hegong that year.

"Misunderstanding, big brother."

Li Yu hurriedly explained.

The man shook his hand and said magnanimously: "Don't get in the way, I believe you should have a new understanding of King De." ”

"In addition to settling you in life, what benefits did King De give you?"

"The benefits? That's a lot! ”

The man said proudly.

"King De gave me a daughter-in-law!"

"Huh? When? ”

"In the first month of this year, I married Liu Xiaoniang home."

“……”

At this moment, the door of a small thatched house creaked open.

Poke out a head.

The young man grinned when he saw it.

"Little lady, why did you come out, it's cold outside, hurry back."

"Brother Leper, I saw that you didn't come back, so I came out to see, you really came back."

That Liu Xiaoniang stepped out of the courtyard gate and walked in front of the leper head, and was about to get a new blow.

"Don't, be stretched out, cool."

"It's out of the way, you're tired of walking so far, right?!"

Liu Xiaoniang didn't even look at Li Yu on the side, only her husband in her eyes.

Li Yu grinned awkwardly.

"This is ......"

The leper scratched his hair and wanted to introduce him to Liu Xiaoniang, but he didn't know Li Yu's name.

"My surname is Li."

"This is Lee Sang-gong."

The leper said as he spoke.

"Lee Sang-ko."

Liu Xiaoniang hurriedly saluted.

"Li Xianggong, what's the matter with coming to my village?"

Only then did the old man remember to ask Li Yulai what he was doing?

"I just looked around and thought about doing some business."

"Oh, it's a merchant."

"Big brother, can I go to the house and drink some water?"

"Okay, come in."

Li Yu used the river water as an excuse to enter the homes of the displaced people.

Although the thatched house is simple, it is still warm.

The courtyard is not big, but it is clean.

Separated by a low fence, there are three big white geese chirping inside, as if they are hungry.

Liu Xiaoniang walked into the room first and boiled the water.

The leper accompanied Li Yu to sit in the house.

These are three thatched huts.

One is a stove room, where cooking and boiling water, and the other is a hall house, which receives guests.

A back room, which was their bedroom.

The room is even more simple, but there is a sense of life.

The hall has a high table and four small round stools.

Li Yu asked curiously, "Who made this object?" ”

"Hehe, that's what I'm messing up with."

While the two were waiting for the water, they chatted.

"We peasants are different from you."

"You take off your shoes and go to bed, but we who do farm work always have a lot of trouble taking off and putting on clothes, so we make the eucalyptus a few high, and we also sit on such a high stool, and we don't have to take off our shoes, just for convenience."

Li Yu didn't arrive first, and he, a traverser, hadn't invented tables, chairs and benches yet, so the common people spontaneously used them.

This may be the germ of the development of tables and chairs, which were not fully popularized until the Song Dynasty.

He pondered, and when he went back, he asked the craftsman to make a few tables of eight immortals, and the meal distribution system would be changed.

It's too hard to eat and talk, there are many people, and you have to shout when you speak.

"Big brother, how was last year's harvest?"

"It's okay, it's not comparable to the previous two years, after all, there is a drought."

At this time, Liu Xiaoniang boiled the boiling water and brought two cups.

The leper asked Li Yu to use water, and then said: "However, I am quite content with this." Others are still fleeing the famine, but I married a daughter-in-law, or Nanyang. ”

Well, Li Yu nodded, it seems that the people are at ease in production, everything is in order, and it is much better than other regions.

"I see that there are still white geese in the yard, do you have food to raise?"

"It's nothing to eat grass, and he can still pick up ears of rice in the rice field after the autumn harvest, and it can be regarded as not spoiling the grain."

Speaking of raising geese, the head of the leper is the way.

"At the beginning of the year, I raised ten white geese, and when I married my little lady, I ate seven, and now there are only three."

When the leper mentions marrying a daughter-in-law, his face is full of redness.

Although he still feels distressed when he thinks of eating seven geese, marrying a daughter-in-law has always been his most proud thing, so he is not so distressed.

"Raise ten more in the spring."

He was as high-spirited as a general, waving his hand to determine the direction of the development of the family farming industry.

Li Yu said goodbye, and the guards from afar gathered around.

"Let's go, let's go to the next Zhuangzi and have a look."

In this way, Li Yu paid a private visit to the villages around Nanyang.

The clock was fast into March.

The peach blossoms on both sides of the river are in full bloom, like a peach blossom avenue, following the river meandering down and going straight to Xinye.

In Nanyang City, the princess took the little prince to walk on the streets of Nanyang New Town.

The peach trees are all over the street, and the flowers are blooming.

Xiuniang and Bi Niang were leading the stroll, and Xiaocui and other maids and servants were holding King Deng and following behind the king.

The guards didn't want to disturb the princess's Yaxing, so they had to spread out far away from the front and back to prevent accidents.

"Sister, I didn't expect our Nanyang to develop so quickly."

"yes, it's only been a few years? Is there four years? ”

The embroiderer asked.

"Yes, this year is the fourth year."

Bi Niang waved her fingers and counted it, and then replied.

"Yes, it's been four years, and Yang Er Jue'er is three years old."

"yes."

The sisters no longer spoke, but walked silently under the peach tree.

A breeze blew and the petals fluttered and fell on their heads.

"Sister, it's so beautiful!"

Bi Niang happily pointed to the embroidery girl's bun.

"Really?"

The embroidery lady stroked her cheek with her hand and smiled.

"Uh-huh."

Bi Niang nodded.

The two girls are like the mother of a three-year-old doll, and they are still young girls at all.

Li Yu returned to Nanyang, and various official duties attacked, which made him annoyed.

It's just that the battle situation between Zhu Wen and Li Keyong made him pay special attention.

As soon as it entered February, Li Cunqiao took more than a dozen generals and ran to Luoyang with an army of 50,000.

Seeing this, Zhu Wen gathered a large army to rescue.

The two sides fought on the banks of the Yellow River.

You have been coming and going for more than a month, and the towns around Luoyang have been occupied by Li Keyong's army, and Luoyang City is still in the hands of Zhu Wen.

It's just that Zhu Wen is short of food and grass and can't hold on.

He has sent a letter to Li Yu, wanting to exchange more food.

Li Yu knew that if Zhu Wen really fell, then Li Keyong would inevitably target himself or Huainan.

It is also necessary to leave a weak Zhu Wen, and let him be his shield.

Or exchange another 100,000 stone of grain to Zhu Wen, so that Zhu Wen can resist with Li Ke for a long time.

If the drought eases this year, then Henan Province will be able to relieve some of the air.

Anyway, let them pinch them, and they can't be idle.

I have to give myself another two or three years to destroy them in one fell swoop.

"Someone, send 100,000 stone of grain to Luoyang."

"The end of the whole play