"Growing grain, we can't always rely on trade to trade grain, then Quanzhou will not be able to develop." Zuo Xingyan was a little puzzled why Sun Feng asked such a question.

Who knew that Sun Feng listened to her words, not only did his brows not stretch, but showed a more helpless and depressed expression.

"Do you think I haven't thought about growing more food before?" Sun Feng raised his feet and walked to the window as he spoke, looking at the beach not far away, and his tone was heavy.

"At the beginning, I also thought about a variety of crops, so that the people on the island would not go hungry if the imperial court did not send food in time. But then I learned that the land on the island was not suitable for growing crops at all, and that even the easiest crops to survive had very low grain yields......"

As soon as Sun Feng said this, he seemed to remember that he was full of ambition to let the slaves plant, but the harvest was so small that he couldn't even recover the seeds.

It was also from then on that Sun Feng faintly had the idea of breaking the jar, and his actions became more and more violent and cruel.

"The rabbits in Quanzhou don't poop, let alone grow food, I advise you to dispel this idea." Sun Feng was also afraid that Zuo Xingyan would be disappointed in the end, so he kindly persuaded him.

"Since you said that the grain was planted and not produced, why is the southern district still engaged in planting?" Zuo Xingyan remembered that the Southern District seemed to be responsible for planting something, but she had never been to the Southern District, so she didn't know what was planted.

Sun Feng nodded, "The Southern District is indeed growing things, but not food, but herbs. ”

"Herbs?" This time, Zuo Xingyan was even more surprised.

There are still herbs growing on Quanzhou Island, but that thing doesn't seem to be of much use to Quanzhou, right?

"The herbs are not for the people on the island to eat, but are regularly taken to the other side to sell, which can be regarded as a profit for the island." Sun Feng explained calmly.

Only then did Zuo Xingyan understand, "What herbs are there?" ”

"Some of the more drought-tolerant herbs are not expensive varieties and don't sell much silver." The more Sun Feng spoke, the more sad he felt.

Why do you say that, you feel that Quanzhou is so shabby?

He's legged! What kind of life he has lived for so many years!

Sun Feng's heart inexplicably swelled with fire.

"Well, tomorrow I'll go and see the land that has been reclaimed on the island, and set aside a small piece of land for experimentation, and if I can grow food, you promise to let me open up the land, how about it?" Zuo Xingyan knew that he would persuade Sun Feng not to move for a while, so he proposed.

Sun Feng pondered for a while, "Then you can't ask others for help, everyone else has their own work to do, and they can't be delayed." ”

"Don't worry, I can do it myself." Zuo Xingyan patted his chest and reassured.

Jing Beihan on the side had long thought that Sun Feng was verbose, and kept talking to his wife, which affected the exchange of feelings between the two of them, okay!

"I'll help Yan'er, if General Sun has nothing else, please come back, Yan'er hasn't eaten yet." The meaning of Jing Beihan's send-off is already very obvious.

Sun Feng looked at the food that was no longer steaming, and touched his nose awkwardly, "Then I won't disturb the two of you." ”

With that, he turned around and strode away.

Zuo Xingyan finally ate her meal, and she gobbled it up, and only after there was no rice left in the bowl did she burp contentedly.

She doesn't care about her image anymore in front of Jing Beihan.

"Has Yan'er eaten enough?" Jing Beihan saw that Zuo Xingyan had eaten cleanly, afraid that she was not full, so he asked her while cleaning up the dishes and chopsticks.

Zuo Xingyan touched his belly, "It's full." ”

Jing Beihan was so cute by her behavior, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a gentle smile, "Then do you want to sleep for a while?" ”

"No, no, I'm really confused when I sleep again." Zuo Xingyan hurriedly waved his hand.

She also had to find a place where no one was there and get a reasonable reason for those seeds, otherwise she might conjure them out of thin air and arouse many suspicions.

Jing Beihan wanted to say something, but there was a sudden knock on the door, "Xingyan, Beihan, you guys are coming out soon, something is wrong!" ”

It seems to be Jing Jingnian's voice.

Jing Beihan went over to open the door, and saw Jing Jingnian panting, probably rushing all the way.

"Big brother, what's going on?" Jing Beihan let Jing Jingnian into the house.

Jing Jingnian shook his head, and after taking a breath of relief, he pointed to the direction of the thatched hut where the Jing family and the family lived, "My aunt is lost, and my father and mother are looking for it." ”

Aunt Jing lost it?

How could such a big person be lost?

Jing Jingnian seemed to know what Zuo Xingyan and the others were thinking, and briefly told the two about the conflict between the aunt of the Jing family and Jing Zhong.

"There are a lot of vicious people on this island, and if my aunt encounters them, I'm afraid it will be dangerous." Zuo Xingyan thought of the group of people he had seen in the Eastern District before, and got up directly and walked out, "Go find someone first." ”

No matter how the aunt of the Jing family behaves as a demon, in the end it is still the Jing family, although Zuo Xingyan doesn't care about the safety of the aunt of the Jing family, she doesn't want Jing Zhong and them to be anxious.

Find someone first, and then investigate her running away after finding it.

A few people ran quickly to the thatched hut to meet the Jing family.

After everyone met, they discussed the places where the aunt of the Jing family often went, and then began to act separately.

Jing Yannian, Zuo Xingyan, and Jing Beihan walked together, and he said that someone seemed to see the aunt of the Jing family running into the forest, but he was not sure if it was the aunt of the Jing family.

"Go first and look for it, if she does enter the woods, there will definitely be traces." Zuo Xingyan said, his eyes carefully paying attention to the weeds and branches growing around him.

A few people struggled through the roadless forest, which was full of waist-high weeds, and there seemed to be no sign of anyone walking on it.

Just when a few people were about to give up looking for it somewhere else, Jing Yannian suddenly sighed.

"Brother Han, sister-in-law, look over there." Jing Yannian's waist was stopped by two rattans, and he stretched out his arm with great effort to reach the rags on a branch.

It was a little bit closer, but unfortunately the rattan was too strong, and Jing Yannian couldn't break it with all his strength.

Zuo Xingyan couldn't help but laugh when he looked at this stupid boy and made his face flush.

She pulled away the weeds and stepped forward, raised her hand to break a branch beside her, and easily hooked the rag.

Jing Yannian's eyes widened, as if he had discovered a new continent, "Sister-in-law is so smart!" ”

Jing Beihan helplessly held his forehead, and turned his head not to look at the young man's stupid appearance, why didn't he find out that Yannian was so stupid before......

With the rag in his hand, Zuo Xingyan quickly determined that this was the uniform prison uniform fabric of the criminal slaves, and it had been scraped off recently.

"Auntie may have really entered the woods." Zuo Xingyan said.

Because Zuo Xingyan improved the lawn mower in the western area, the number of criminal slaves is much less, but most of the female dependents of the Jing family are still here, and most of the people who walk around the forest on weekdays are also these people.

In addition, Jing Yannian asked just now, except for the Jing family, the rest of the criminal slaves who worked in the Western District, no one was here after dinner.

"Keep looking inside, I guess she's inside." Zuo Xingyan raised his chin into the depths of the forest.

Just as the few people were about to continue walking, a scream suddenly came from the forest with no end in sight.