Chapter 0188: Drought Tolerance
The official position is not good, but the family background is good. And it will not be easily contaminated with right and wrong.
This is rare now, who has a girl, don't they all look forward to adding some chips to the family?
Therefore, Su Nancheng's gift won the heart of Zhou Shilang.
After giving the gift, he left first, no matter what he thought about, he didn't achieve it all at once.
What's more, Zhou Shilang is an old man, and the officialdom has been up and down for decades, he is not a young man like Luo Chuanxian.
When Sunan Cheng was with him, he was usually just close to him and wouldn't say anything.
It's good to keep the relationship going.
Coming out of the Zhou Mansion, Sunan Cheng was terribly hot.
"It's really hot this year, why don't you bring an umbrella?" Cheng Ming asked.
「…… Big man with an umbrella, are you afraid that I won't be laughed at?" Su Nancheng was speechless.
The master and servant got on the horse, and Cheng Ming smiled: "That's better than sunburning."
Sunan Cheng shook his head: "It's really weird weather this year. It's hot in the north, and it's raining in the south."
This kind of weather is not very strange, the north is drier than the south. But this year, it's just over that degree.
"Little one heard, some of the rivers have dried up." Cheng Ming sighed.
Sunan Cheng didn't speak, and the hot sun scorched the earth. But no matter how hot the capital is, after all, there is a moat around it.
The emperor lives here, and the people here are still much better off than elsewhere.
When I returned home, I saw Xia He and Haru Sakura waiting.
Sunan Cheng didn't care at first, and waited for tea before saying, "Wasn't it you last night?"
He asked Haru Sakura.
Chun Ying hurriedly said, "What Childe said is that by coincidence, when I got up this morning, Qiu Ju and Dongmei were sick together......
"What disease?"
"Hui Gongzi, it's just a little sunburned, and both of them have some gastrointestinal discomfort. Mother Hu at the back has seen it, and it won't get in the way. Some medicine was prescribed." Spring Sakura Road.
Of course, there is no doctor in this family, but Hu's mother is also a female doctor, so she specializes in treating people in the family.
"Let the dining room take care of them. You two are busy coming here? Isn't there a little girl, trained to come out and serve." Sunan Cheng Road.
"The son has little time at home every day, and the slaves and maids are not busy."
Su Nancheng nodded, drank tea, and went to see Dongmei.
Dongmei now lives in a room alone.
She was fine, but she was a little sunburned when she was drying things yesterday, and she had a little dizziness and diarrhea today.
Seeing that Sunan Cheng was coming, she panicked.
Because of it, my hair was messy, and my clothes weren't worn properly.
Su Nancheng smiled and hugged the person: "What are you nervous about?"
"The slave and maid are wrong to see you like this." Dongmei Road.
"What do you want so many rules to do in private? Okay, let me see?" Sunan Cheng looked at her face for a while: "Poor girl, why is she sick?"
Dongmei was embarrassed: "The slave is too weak."
"It's good to know, take care of it. I was going to call your brother today. I'll see you later."
"Yes, but what's the matter?" Dongmei was curious.
"It's nothing, if you have time today, I'll ask about Zhuangzi." Sunan Cheng touched her face: "Don't worry."
Dongmei nodded.
Su Nancheng saw that she didn't have much energy, so he said, "Let's go, it's rare to be empty today, take you to my house to raise it."
Dongmei hurriedly refused, she was not happy, she didn't say that the rules were unruly, and it was inconvenient in the past.
Sunan Cheng saw her like this, so he also gave up: "Then call Chun Tao to come and serve you."
Dongmei had no choice but to respond.
The little girl Chun Tao came over to serve.
Zhou Fu was close to noon, and in fact, someone had called him early in the morning, but Zhuangzi was not so close after all.
After saying goodbye, Sunan Cheng asked, "There is a big drought this year, and there have not been a few rains since the beginning of spring, how are the crops
Gone?"
Nowadays, soybeans, millet, millet, wheat, sorghum and so on are grown in the north.
Generally, they depend on the sky for food, and there is very little land that can be watered.
Sunan Cheng has two Zhuangzi, one of which can be irrigated, but only half of the land. The other Zhuangzi is completely up to God.
"Hui Gongzi, this year's harvest is not even half of last year's. The crops planted in the spring did not bud as usual. Although many good places specially asked people to carry water and water it, it was not enough. The seedlings were replenished several times. If it doesn't rain today, the nearby ditches will become shallower. The well water on the Zhuangzi is not easy to beat." Zhou Fu sighed.
Su Nancheng nodded: "If the sky is like this, I don't blame you for this." The food provided by the Zhuangzi is good."
Of course, Sunan Cheng and a few people don't eat these, but there are so many people in the family.
In fact, the Hou Mansion still raises Sunan Cheng now, but it won't raise so much. He lived outside by himself, and a group of people followed, all to eat. The supply given by the Hou Mansion was limited, and it was impossible to support so many people for him.
Of course, whether it is Su Nancheng's own income or other income, it must be no problem to support his family.
However, Zhuangzi is also part of the income.
"Zhuangzi is like this, so it can be seen that the land income of the entire north will be very poor this year." Sunan Cheng Road.
Look at your own house to know other people's homes.
There are still people in Zhuangzi who organize to carry water and water the ground, but other people do not have this condition at home.
They are still land on the plains, and if they are in the mountains, they will be finished.
After Zhou Fu said what happened to Zhuangzi, he was sent to see Dongmei. By the way, he left him to have a meal with Dongmei.
Su Nancheng was not in a hurry to eat lunch, but entered the study.
Asked Cheng Ming to grind ink and began to paint.
I only drew a pair of brushes, and the hour was not early.
"Childe, I'll paint after lunch." Cheng Ming said.
Su Nancheng nodded: "It'll be fine right away, let's ask someone to set the meal."
Although he is not a person who is very good at piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, he has also learned these since he was a child, so it is still easy to draw simple brushwork.
Cheng Ming went out to ask someone to set up a meal, and when he came back, Sunan Cheng said, "I will eat for a while."
"What is this that Childe drawn? I haven't seen it before." Cheng Ming looked at the thing, it was strangely shaped, it looked like some kind of skin on both sides, and there were one by one in the middle. There are tassels on top.
Sunan Cheng smiled: "This is called corn, I used to read the records in books, but we don't have it." Only available overseas. It's a very drought-tolerant crop, and these grains are good for grinding noodles or eating them directly, and they taste good."
"Really? Wouldn't it be good if we could get it?" Cheng Mingxi said.
Su Nancheng smiled and washed his hands with the basin brought by Chun Ying.
Sit at the dinner table.
"It's a good thing, but it's a pity that this thing is so easy to get? Go back and have someone send it to the south, and see if there are any ships from overseas in the coastal areas that are carrying these. I'll draw something else."
All he could think of were corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes that were more drought-tolerant.
After lunch, Su Nancheng began to continue painting.