Chapter Seventy-Five: The Mulberry Tree
Zhao Qianqian pointed to a large piece of flat land in front of him: "It's built here, but when I make a plan for this mountain first, after it's done, you can just do it according to my plan."
"What does building a house have to do with a brick kiln?" Fan Chen asked
"Burn bricks and tiles, and the houses we build are to be built with bricks, as for how to make bricks and how to burn them, when you have built the brick kiln, I will tell you."
Talking too much now will make them dizzy, so it's better to let them finish one step and then give them a plan for the next step.
Zhao Qianqian continued: "In addition to bricks and tiles, wood is also needed, and wood needs to be dried, Ling Feng now needs to arrange some people to go to the mountain to cut down trees for later construction, each size of the size, I will make a list for you, you just need to follow the list to arrange."
The houses in Qingyun City are all small, each room is not big, the light is not good, and it is made of wood, which is too dangerous, and once there is a fire, it will be uncontrollable.
Many houses are dilapidated and cannot be repaired after a long time, and when there is strong wind and rain, the house is like the outside of the house, full of water, and it is not easy to dry, and the furniture becomes damp and easy to break, and people are easy to get sick when they live in this environment.
"The house we live in now is good, right? Where can't you withstand the wind and rain?" Fan Chen asked.
"Your house is lived in by the county master, and it is all painted, rain-resistant, and not easy to soak, while the people's homes are not painted.
As soon as Fan Chen heard this, Fan Xian made his ears callous, and he hurriedly shouted: "Okay, do what you say."
Zhao Qianqian said: "You take the time to inquire around the city, if there is a house to buy, as long as someone wants to sell, you can buy there, it is best to buy it in pieces, so that we can plan in a unified manner in the future."
The more Ling Feng and Fan Chen listened, the more they didn't understand, the woman in front of him had too many things in her head, he couldn't reach them, and he didn't want to use her brain to think about what she said, just do it.
Zhao Qianqian said to Ling Feng: "Except for the place where the house is built, the rest of the land is planted with wheat and rapeseed, don't waste it."
As the three of them walked, Zhao Qianqian pointed to a tree and asked Ling Feng, "Have you found that kind of tree on the mountain?"
Ling Feng looked in the direction pointed by Zhao Qianqian, remembering that he found a whole piece of this tree on Beishan a few days ago, and the leaves were about to fall off.
Ling Feng patted his head: "Look I forgot about this, there is a big piece of this kind of tree on the back mountain of Beishan, we haven't cultivated that piece of land, I'm afraid it's useful."
This discovery made Zhao Qianqian very happy, and she was worried that there were no mulberry seeds, and with this mulberry tree, her silk dream could be realized.
Ling Feng said, "I'll take you to see it tomorrow."
Zhao Qianqian looked at the time, almost just after Shen, Dongshan used to be very close, and it would be another day to run back and forth tomorrow.
"Don't wait for tomorrow, it's still early today, it's almost here anymore, let's go now, let's go back first if there is anything to do, if we go back late, our sister and brother will find a carriage."
Fan Chen would not leave the siblings alone, so he asked the coachman to drive the carriage to the foot of the North Mountain, where he waited for them.
Ling Feng will report to Zhao Qianqian every day on the situation on the mountain, the wheat and rapeseed in the West Mountain and the North Mountain have been planted, and recently Ling Feng has led people to build ridges and repair canals every day, and it is expected that it will take about ten days in the West Mountain, and then it will be the North Mountain.
The wheat and rapeseed planted on the north mountain have grown into a green patch, which makes people feel comfortable to look at, only the reserved fields and ditch blanks crisscross and crisscross, which looks a little messy, but it also looks like a different scenery.
Ling Feng took Zhao Qianqian to the back mountain of the North Mountain, and the back mountain was indeed full of mulberry trees, the leaves were bare, and a thick layer of mulberry leaves was spread on the ground.
That's a lot of money.
Zhao Qianqian couldn't hide the excitement in his heart: "You arrange a few people to collect the seedlings in the mulberry forest and plant them on the edge of each field, so that there are not only mulberry leaves to pick, but also to stabilize the slope and not be prone to landslides, such as
There are enough fruit seedlings, we will plant one at the foot of the mountain, and in the future there will be mulberry fruit, which can be sold and brewed."
Wild mulberry trees grow too densely and need to be cut off to ventilate and the leaves will be large.
Thinking that Fanchen was still waiting at the bottom of the mountain, the sister and brother did not stay on the mountain, and after confirming that it was a mulberry tree, they went home.
Halfway through, I heard a groan: "Ouch! Anyone?"
The siblings were stunned, and searched in the direction of the sound, and found a woman lying in a ditch, her trousers rolled up above her knees, and there was a gash on her knees like an open mouth, and she was bleeding.
The woman lowered her head and groaned on her knees, but did not come any closer.
"Are you alright?" Zhao Qianqian asked.
Hearing someone ask, the woman raised her head with joy in her heart, and saw that it was the two of them as if she had seen a savior, and a flash of surprise flashed in her eyes, but it soon disappeared again, just two and a half old children, and it was estimated that she couldn't pull her.
The woman sighed and said, "Well, I fell from above, and my leg was broken, and now I can't stand up, and you two are afraid that you won't be able to help me."
"Sister-in-law Chen? You're Sister-in-law Chen!"
Zhao Qianqian recognized this person as Sister-in-law Chen, who rented a house to her, and was the old maid of the landlord of the house they live in now.
Sister-in-law Chen was stunned for a moment, and then immediately recognized Zhao Qianqian: "It's Miss Zhao, why did you come here?"
"Oh, let's take a look at the mountain."
The foot hurt so badly that Sister-in-law Chen didn't ask in detail.
Zhao Qianqian replied and Ling Feng jumped down the ditch and helped Sister-in-law Chen up.
The ditch is less than a meter deep, but the grass on the edge of the ditch grows well, and now it is dry, and the grass on both sides of the ditch falls together, and if you don't look closely, you really can't tell that there is a ditch underneath.
Sister-in-law Chen didn't notice that there was a ditch below, stepped on the air, and hit the stone with her knees.
Zhao Qianqian asked, "Can your feet be strong?"
Sister-in-law Chen tried to exert herself on her injured foot, but as soon as her foot touched the ground, she sweated in pain.
"Ouch! No, I can't use my strength at all, I'm afraid I'll break!"
Fortunately, the ditch was not deep, and the sister and brother didn't have too much effort to help Sister-in-law Chen up.
Zhao Qianqian tore off a piece of clothing from Ling Feng's body and wrapped Sister-in-law Chen's feet, the wound had stolen goods, and it had to be cleaned before it could be medicated.
Sister-in-law Chen couldn't walk at all, Zhao Qianqian turned around to carry it, Ling Feng took the lead, don't look at him is only fourteen years old, his strength is not small, Sister-in-law Chen is small, only seventy or eighty pounds, Ling Feng is not difficult to carry it.
Zhao Qianqian was not hypocritical, lifted Sister-in-law Chen's back basket and followed behind.
"Sister-in-law Chen, I remember that your family lives at the foot of Dongshan, are you looking for something when you go to Beishan?" Zhao Qianqian asked.
Sister-in-law Chen said: "My daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, and the family can't afford to buy medicine, I went to the mountain to find some motherwort soup for her to drink, and there is no more after the reclamation on the East Mountain, I looked for some in Beishan a few days ago, and I thought about finding some more today, I never thought that I didn't find motherwort, and I broke my leg, I was fortunate to meet your sister and brother, otherwise I am afraid that I will die on this mountain!"
Zhao Qianqian said: "What are you talking about, don't worry, your injury won't kill you."
Recently, Ling Feng has been working in the mountains, he has been used to walking mountain roads, and he often carries a little thing back, and now Sister-in-law Chen on his back also affects the speed of walking, and the time of a stick of incense will be at the foot of the mountain.
Fan Chen had just walked around and had just returned to the carriage when they arrived.
Seeing that Ling Feng had carried someone, Fan Chen hurriedly asked the coachman to step forward to help help him get on the horse.
Sister-in-law Chen is also a person who has seen the world in Qingyun City, and when she looks at the clothes of mortals, she knows that she is either rich or expensive.
Look at the carriage again, although it is not luxurious, but it is not affordable for small households, it is covered with clean blankets, and there is a small table with a pot of tea and a few teacups on it, and a piano on the seat directly opposite.
Sister-in-law Chen hesitated, but still didn't go up, and said, "Miss Zhao, you see that my muddy body will stain this son's carriage, can you please help me run and ask my family to come here to pick me up, I'll wait here."
"You're hurt
It's so serious, the wound needs to be treated as soon as possible, otherwise it will be infected, this is Fan Gongzi, he is a warm-hearted person, don't care, you go up first, we will send you back."
Zhao Qianqian gave Fan Chen a look as he spoke, and Fan Chen walked over and raised the curtain: "Don't worry so much, my carriage is not as important as your legs."
As they spoke, they helped Sister-in-law Chen into the carriage.
The basket was placed in the place where the coachman sat in front, and a guqin was placed horizontally inside, and the four of them could only sit facing each other in it.
Zhao Qianqian helped Sister-in-law Chen sit on the side and asked some parents about the short things.
Sister-in-law Chen's family are all croppers, and her two sons are farming at home, and there are many mice, insects and birds in the mountains, and they have eaten up all the food they planted, so they don't grow much crops.
I usually collect firewood in the mountains, weave some straw mats to sell, and raise some chickens and ducks in the river, which add up to make do with it.
The eldest son got married last year, and the daughter-in-law gave birth to a big fat boy this year, and the younger son hasn't said anything about his family yet.
Dongshan was reclaimed by Ling Feng and them, and the villagers who planted the land in front of them, as long as they didn't plant much, didn't let them give up their land.
The villagers thought that the land they occupied was theirs, so Sister-in-law Chen regretted why she didn't occupy more land in the first place.
"Ouch, you don't know, our mountain was bought by a rich man, and we knew that someone was going to buy crops there, and we should have occupied more land in the early years, but now that it has been bought by the rich man, we can't think of more."
Zhao Qianqian just let out a faint "oh" and didn't say anything.
Fan Chen said, "Sister-in-law Chen, doesn't it know that the rich man bought that mountain, and all the fields on that mountain, as well as every grass and tree on the mountain, are hers? Didn't anyone tell you to move out?"
Sister-in-law Chen said, "We have lived there for decades, and the land we planted is ours, so how can we say that the rich man belongs to us?"
Zhao Qianqian closed his eyes and recuperated, no matter how they argued, Ling Feng was not happy in his heart: "Then my father has lived in Qingyun City for decades, why didn't he say that the house in the city was his?" They didn't let you move out because they saw that you were pitiful, but don't get cheap and sell well!"
Although Ling Feng had just saved her, it was related to the family's accommodation and livelihood, and Sister-in-law Chen was desperate to win or lose.
She cleared her throat: "Little brother, although you just saved me, I shouldn't have called you off, but my family still has to live on those lands, and they can still cut some firewood on the mountains to sell, but now they can't cut firewood, if the land and houses are gone, where will our family live?"
"Where do you fall in love, and what does it matter to others?" Ling Feng was unhappy, took their land, and didn't let him move out, she took it for granted that it was her family's.
"Do you have a title deed?" Fan Chen asked as usual.
Sister-in-law Chen was stunned for a moment, she didn't hear the head of the house talk about it, and immediately said, "We have been living there for decades, can't we still be worthy of a title deed? Anyway, whoever dares to let me move out, I will go to the county magistrate to complain, if the county magistrate does not speak for me, I will go to my old lady, I have served him and her for so many years, I have to remember me a little kindness, as long as she comes forward to see who dares to let me move out?"
Hearing this, Zhao Qianqian asked, "Who are you in the old lady?"
Sister-in-law Chen looked stunned: "My old lady is the mother of the current imperial city and the prince of the country! It's the Qingyun Academy in this city, which was also opened by our master!"
Ling Feng rolled his eyes: "Look at what you can bear, I thought it was your mother?"