The flood-damaged villages were in ruins, and farmers built thatch and wood on top of the ruins to make them shelters.

Even so, farmers occasionally have a hopeful smile on their faces as they plow.

"The seedlings are growing well, if there is no water this year, maybe the family will not starve to death."

Their voices were uneasy and cautious, as if they feared that a little louder would scare away hope.

Li Bing also wanted to drag his newly recovered body to a few more places, but was stopped by Zhu Xiang.

"Now you hurry to Chengdu, it is more useful for them than to visit." Zhu Xiang said, "Although they will be happy to see you coming, the psychological comfort is far less than this year's harvest." ”

Li Bing said guiltily: "What Zhu Xianggong said is true. ”

Zhu Xiang patted Li Bing's shoulder and said, "When you are well, you will speed up." He glanced back at the peasants and withdrew his gaze.

Li Mu prepared the guards, slowly transported the baggage, and prepared a cavalry for a rapid march.

"The county guard is sick and Zheng'er is young, so we have to ride to Chengdu as soon as possible. The county warden who handed over the work to us can understand. Zhu Xiang said, "If necessary, you can use Zheng'er as an excuse." ”

Ying Xiaozheng hugged his arms and said, "Uncle, don't worry. "I'm good at acting.

Li Bing wanted to speak and stopped.

How old is Childe Masa? Are ordinary aristocratic children just enlightened at this age?

Li Mu sighed and said, "I will leave to escort the baggage and luggage, and you go first." Zheng'er, be careful. ”

Ying Xiaozheng raised his chin and said, "Teacher, you should tell your uncle what you said." ”

"Tell you both." Li Mu rubbed Ying Xiaozheng's head and said, "I'll wear your short sword well, when Zhu Xiang can't do it, you ......"

Zhu Xiang hurriedly took his nephew into his arms and hid him, and said vigilantly: "Li Mu, I warn you, don't teach your children indiscriminately!" Zheng'er is a little bigger, how can you teach him to hurt people! Are you a guard for a showmanship? ”

Guard: "......"

Li Bing wanted to speak again and stopped.

The two new friends are a little ...... about Gongzizheng's education? I hope I won't be like them in the future.

After the instructions were properly ordered, Zhu Xiang tied Zheng'er in front of him, changed to riding a horse with Li Bing, and arrived in Chengdu in only two days.

While riding, Li Bing glanced to the side at Ying Xiaozheng, who was snoring and sleeping in front of Zhu Xiang, and admired it.

No wonder there are rumors in Xianyang that the King of Qin has established the next three generations of kings. After meeting Zheng'er, how could an ordinary son get into the eyes of the king?

The original Shu County Guard was still preparing for a banquet to catch the wind and wash the dust, but when he saw Zhu Xiang and Li Bing actually coming on horseback, he was startled, and thought that he had committed something.

He pondered and pondered, and felt that he had done a good job as the county guard of Shu County, and he should not let the next county guard run to pick up the stall so impatiently.

Even if he would definitely hand over power cleanly, he felt a little uncomfortable.

But of course, he still pretended to have a warm expression on his face, and asked why Li Bing and Zhu Xiang were so impatient.

Li Bing coughed a few times and said, "I am infected with the wind cold, and I heard the old farmer say that it will rain in a few days, and I don't want to suffer this crime." It's more comfortable in Chengdu. ”

He motioned to the former county guard with his eyes and looked at the child in Zhu Xiang's arms.

Ying Xiaozheng hugged Zhu Xiang's neck, glanced back at the former county guard, and then buried his face in Zhu Xiang's arms.

Zhu Xiang said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry, my nephew is too tired from the journey to salute you." ”

Nephew...... The former county guard was stunned for a moment, then looked straight at Zhu Xiang's hair, and immediately understood Zhu Xiang's identity.

Who is Changpingjun's nephew, do you still need to think about it!

The former county warden broke out in a cold sweat. He only heard that Changping Jun was coming to Shu County to guide Nongsang, why did Gongzizheng also come?

"Ahem." Li Bing coughed a few times and reminded the former county guard, "I am infected with wind and cold, and I don't know what famous doctors ...... in the city."

The former county guard immediately came back to his senses, and he did not have the identity of Po Ying Xiaozheng.

He learned the "truth" from Li Bing's hints. It seems that Gongzizheng is young and unwell, so they hurried to Chengdu.

"Yes, yes, my family's worship is very powerful!" The former county guard immediately postponed the polite banquet for the time being, and hurriedly took Zhu Xiang and Li Bing back to the county guard's mansion.

Ying Xiaozheng is not sick, but he is a little sleepy.

However, the famous folk doctor enshrined in the county guard still said that Ying Xiaozheng occasionally felt the wind and cold, the journey was tiring, and the evil spirit entered the body, and he needed to recuperate.

Because Ying Xiaozheng is young, he can't take more medicine. The famous doctor prescribed some precious tonic herbs to make pills and feed them to the hens, and boiled the eggs laid by the hens into egg drop soup for Ying Xiaozheng to eat.

Although Zhu Xiang knew that there would not be much medicinal properties left in the eggs, he was still conservative and gave all the eggs to Li Bing, who was really weak.

Ying Xiaozheng held a steamed egg made of minced meat made of ordinary eggs: "Uncle, I am used to eating garlic, and the dish is not fragrant with garlic." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Let's eat it first, and then my uncle will give you fried gold, silver and garlic sauce, and put some in any dish." ”

Ying Xiaozheng ate steamed eggs with satisfaction.

Successfully appeased the former county guard, Zhu Xiang wanted to buy a house in the city, and Zhang Luo took care of his nephew.

Although Zhu Xiang did not reveal his identity, the wealthy businessmen in Chengdu had already learned of Changpingjun's arrival. For a while, the gift-givers almost broke the county guard's mansion, and they all wanted to give their best house to Zhu Xiang.

They knew that Zhu Xiang was frugal and might not accept it, and they also made a special explanation that they would let Zhu Xiang "borrow" it and take it back when Zhu Xiang left.

However, Zhu Xiang was very cautious in this regard because of his habits in his previous life. Even if his "borrowing" is not a bribe, but a "good story", he does not want to have a relationship with any rich businessman.

Zhu Xiang saw that there were too many people who sent the mansion, and he was afraid that if he went out to buy the mansion, he would also encounter a forced low-cost gift, and it would be very troublesome to shirk it, so he cheekily asked Li Bing for a separate courtyard of the county guard's mansion.

"Zheng'er and I are only two people, and we can't live in much of a place." Zhu Xiang said, "I just rubbed your house and lived." ”

Li Bing raised his forehead: "Do you remember that your nephew is Qin Gongzizheng?" It doesn't matter where you live, don't treat the politician badly. ”

Zhu Xiang was puzzled: "How can your words be similar to what Lian Weng often nags?" You don't know Lian Weng. ”

"If you're talking about Xinping Jun Liangong, I know him, but he doesn't know me." Li Bing couldn't help but complain, "What we said is similar because what we said makes sense!" ”

Zhu Xiang patted Ying Xiaozheng in his arms: "Zheng'er, how big of a house do you want to live in?" ”

Ying Xiaozheng said: "Xianyang Palace is so big." ”

Zhu Xiang looked at Li Bing: "Listen, we can't be satisfied with Zheng'er, so we can fit the house of my uncle and nephew." ”

Li Bing: "......" from Xianyang Palace to a house that can fit two people, the gap is too big!

"The former county guard bought a lot of houses, and I will buy them all. If you don't have enough money, you out. Li Bing knew that although Zhu Xiang was frugal, he was actually very rich.

Zhu Xiang lived in the King of Qin and ate the King of Qin, and ran to the Xianyang Palace to fight the Queen of Qin and had to take a few sheep back, and the King of Qin's rewards for him and Ying Xiaozheng were useless, and there was no need for Changping's taxes to support him.

"Okay, there's a hot spring villa, right? I remember the Shu people said that there are hot springs all over the mountains in Shu. Zhu Xiang, who had just said that he only needed one courtyard, immediately made a request, "Zheng'er, we will build a greenhouse next to the hot spring, so that you can eat fresh vegetables in winter." ”

Zhu Xiang once soaked in Sichuan Emei Mountain and Luofu Mountain hot springs, are below 1,500 meters, and the deep well was accidentally dug out during the exploration, and now there is no such technology.

However, there are many natural hot springs in the mountains of Sichuan, and "Qing Barnyard Banknotes" said that "Sichuan Guanwai hot springs are everywhere", and the local wealthy people in Shuzhong should have already used the hot springs.

After mentioning the hot springs, Zhu Xiang talked about the summer again.

There are more villas in Qingcheng Mountain, Emei Mountain, and he wants to take Zheng'er to live a comfortable life.

Ying Xiaozheng leaned on his uncle's arms, squinted his eyes and listened to his uncle's interest in how to enjoy life, and wanted to say a few ideas he saw in his dreams, but he thought that he couldn't be too arrogant, so he regretted giving up.

Li Bing held his forehead again. Just listening to Zhu Xiang's current words, he still thought that Zhu Xiang had come to Shu to swim in the mountains and rivers.

I don't know if Zhu Xiang has bought so many other villages, whether he has the opportunity to live. Isn't that a waste of money?

That's it, Zhu Xiang doesn't care, what does he care about?

However, after listening to Zhu Xiang talk about a better life in the future, Li Bing's heart felt a lot more relaxed.

"Okay, let's go to the hot springs together in winter." Li Bing said with a smile.

Zhu Xiang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the knot between Li Bing's eyebrows gradually subsided.

That's right. No matter how heavy the burden is, you must enjoy life and combine work and rest, otherwise you will crush yourself first before you finish the work.

Since entering Shu, Li Bing's brows have hardly been loosened, and Zhu Xiang looked at Jiaoxin.

Ying Xiaozheng, who squinted his eyes, took a sip of hot water and breathed a long sigh of relief.

He said that his uncle was an old hen character, and his uncle was still annoyed and angry, hum.

By the time Li Mu arrived, Li Bing had been working hard for several days.

Zhu Xiang also asked for files related to agriculture and mulberry in Shuzhong, holding heavy bamboo slips every day, feeling that his fitness effect was excellent.

He believed that the First Emperor must be a muscular man. Reading dozens of kilograms of bamboo slips every day, it is difficult not to become a muscular man.

"No, there are so many bamboos in Shuzhong, don't waste it if you don't use it to make paper!" Zhu Xiang rubbed his arm and said, "I won't look at it, I want to make paper first!" ”

Ying Xiaozheng rubbed Zhu Xiang's wrist while saying in an old-fashioned manner: "Uncle, it will take several months from making paper to copying. Uncle hasn't read paperwork for months? Why don't I turn over the bamboo slips and read them to you? ”

Zhu Xiang looked at his nephew's little arm, took a deep breath of the fragrance of bamboo slips, and continued to read the documents bitterly.

Li Mu wanted to run when he saw this, but was hugged by Ying Xiaozheng, who was a little short-legged but very agile.

Ying Xiaozheng raised his head: "Teacher......"

Li Mu: "......"

Li Mu: "Okay, I'll help." ”

So Li Mu also joined the case.

In the end, the three of them worked in the same house, and the documents they handled were gradually mixed, and the county guard of Shu County became a three-person share.

When it was another day of hard work, Li Mu couldn't bear to give up: "I want to be responsible for the defense of Shuzhong, farewell!" ”

Li Bing and Zhu Xiang pointed to Li Mu's fleeing back and scolded Li Mu for not being righteous enough.

Ying Xiaozheng shook his head with his hands behind his back, and sighed for a long time. The three elders are really naïve, can't they learn from themselves and be a little more mature?

The time soon entered July, the first crop harvest in Shuzhong, and the rainstorm season is approaching.

Li Bing prepared sandbags and gravel and waited for the battle.

The peasants' faces grew heavier and heavier as they looked at the clouds in the sky.

Chapter 83: Tianhe Waterfall Rain

The flood season in the Yangtze River basin is from late June to September, which is from late May to August according to the calendar of this era.

Today, millet is planted in most areas of the Chengdu Plain, and it begins to mature in August. Now in the middle of July, it is the time when the millet has already set ears and filled the grain, and you can expect a bumper harvest.