Tailuo saw Qingniu sneeze, and the chisel in his hand flew away, and he was immediately stunned. He came back to his senses when he heard www.biquge.info words, took a step back and said, "Childe, this may be the legendary psychic cow." ”

Xiao Jiu's eyes lit up: "Bull demon?"

Tailuo: "I don't know if it's a monster, I heard the elders say when I was a child, the genus of plants, trees, birds and beasts will also open the spiritual intelligence, and the so-called elves and monsters all come from this." I see that this cow is also showing signs of opening up its mind, so it's no wonder it seems to be able to understand you. ”

Xiao Jiu: "What did you just do?"

Tailuo: "We just wanted to brand it and put on the nose ring......" he recounted the strange thing just now.

Xiao Jiu: "Oh, you must have scared it!" Then he walked over and patted the cow's back as if to reassure him, "Da Niu, don't be afraid, just don't brand you and wear a nose ring." ”

What is the name of the big cow, why do you have to call the cow lord, the cow master, the cow king? But the green cow thought about it again, the big cow is the big cow, it doesn't matter. The servant asked, "What if it is lost without a mark?"

Xiao Jiu: "Uncle Tailuo doesn't say that it has spiritual intelligence, can it understand people's speech, then you can talk to it directly!" Then he turned to Qingniu and said, "Da Niu, you won't run away, you can understand what you want to do, right?" If you really understand, just nod and scream again." ”

Qingniu quickly nodded and shouted again. Tailuo Fang was just guessing, and when he saw that this was the case, he couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and the two child servants were already stupid.

Xiao Jiu jumped up excitedly and said, "You have all seen it, this time you have found a treasure!"

Tailuo let out a sigh of relief and said, "Childe is really a strange person, this is your blessing." ”

Qingniu also secretly let out a sigh of relief, and finally avoided branding and piercing his nostrils, and at the same time felt a little uneasy in his heart. It sneezed that just now, and it was really a little panicked and couldn't hold back, the dignified Demon King of the Transformation Realm, he was still afraid of this kind of small scene, it seemed that he still couldn't cultivate his heart at home.

Thinking about it carefully now, if Tailuo really wanted to brand it and wear a nose ring, it would have to endure it, and it would not use any magic magic to fool it. It was worried that the master would reprimand it at the moment, but it waited for a long time and there was no movement, either the master didn't bother with it, or the master didn't stay here.

After this incident, Qingniu glanced at Xiao Jiu, as a demon cultivator, he even felt that this child was very intimate. If it is really like what Tailuo said, he is a cow that has just opened his mind and wants to become a demon in ignorance, and if someone insists on forcibly branding it and piercing his nostrils, he may cause a big mess. And Xiao Jiu's approach has resolved the possible disaster.

The big cow brought back by Xiao Jiu is a strange cow, can understand people's words, does not need to be branded, wears a nose ring, drinks clean water on weekdays, eats fresh and tender grass, and occasionally eats better things like a war horse. But the preferential treatment of the big cow only stops there, Xiao Jiu and Tailuo can't provide it up, it still has to do the work that the cow should do.

Da Niu is simply too capable, not only strong, but also very obedient. In the following days, it would take Xiaojiu to the mountain every day, and Tailuo had concentrated the farmer's hands to cultivate the fields and build houses. During the slack time after the autumn harvest, weeds and shrubs are removed, and the fields are leveled while the soil is boiled every day on an earthen stove.

Stone is used to build the foundation of the wall, but the soil used to build the wall is a bit complicated, and it has to be boiled in water and then dried. At that time, if you want to make do, the building can be repaired very simply, and many processes can be simplified, but Xiao Jiu's meaning is to repair as carefully and carefully as possible, for long-term consideration.

The purpose of boiling soil is to remove impurities, sieve away all kinds of gravel and humus, obtain clean and uniform clay, and kill grass seeds, insect eggs and other substances that may be mixed in the soil. This kind of soil is left to dry, and then mixed with boiled hemp silk until it is like a cement shape, and it is filled between two erected slabs and tamped, which is the method of building a wall with slabs.

The floor of the house is also paved with this kind of soil to avoid insects and moss, and try to smooth and pat it as much as possible, and sometimes use fire to burn the surface once to make it slightly hardened. Buildings with conditions and more elaborate will even sprinkle sulfur and other materials under the wall foundation to prevent snakes and insects from burrowing.

By the beginning of spring of the following year, two courtyards have been built on the hillside, two farmers have been moved, and more than ten acres of paddy fields have been leveled, which can be cultivated for rice. Ditches have been dug to divert water, which not only irrigates the fields but also provides drinking water for the farmers. If necessary, more houses and more fields could be built in the future.

The houses and fields are easy to do, and the place chosen by Xiao Jiu is very good, and it doesn't take much effort, just spend more labor. But the 300-zhang long diversion ditch that came around from the other side of the hill was fortunately helped by big cattle, otherwise it would not have been completed this winter. Not only was the ox powerful, but it was also as light and agile as a goat, and it did the most in digging a ditch with a large plow.

With the house courtyard to live in, the paddy fields can already be cultivated, the main problems have been solved, as for the surrounding mountains are not in a hurry, beans and potatoes can be planted in the mountains and forests, and the place is big enough to raise some chickens and even pigs. Xiao Jiu originally planned to leave the cow in the mountains, but now that it is so strange, he continues to keep the cow in the other courtyard.

Anyway, the mountain is not too far away, and it is enough to set a car every day. Xiao Jiu participated in the whole process of opening up the mountain grange, and of course Tailuo couldn't let him do the rough work done by those servants, but Xiao Jiu was still willing to be there to join in the fun. For him, this is the play, and it is the most interesting game, and the servants have to be happy by the childe.

In the blink of an eye, another year has passed. The "mountain village" ushered in the harvest, not only rice production, but also a lot of mountain goods, a group of chickens, and a few pigs. The life of the farmers is much better, and of course Xiao Jiu's life is better, there are often eggs to eat, and there are people who kill chickens on good days, and in the winter they slaughter two pigs. In fact, this pig is not fat enough, but Tailuo and others are happy.

But in the past year, Xiao Jiu has been picking up cow ears every day, and he hasn't seen any white hair. Qingniu is also anxious, it is not worried about itself, what does the old man mean in his heart, why has Xiao Jiu been left to dry for so long without movement?

One of the important things that the Son of Heaven has done to educate the world is to implement a unified Chinese calendar. In the early years, Emperor Xuanyuan set the calendar, so that the people knew the year, the beginning of the year and the end of the year just before the beginning of spring, but also the festival that all the people celebrated, and later generations called the New Year. The end of the year is in the time of slack farming, in order to welcome a new round of spring farming, every household buys new clothes, and large families will also reward their servants.

The reward for the servants was usually cloth and the like, with occasional bits and pieces. This year's days are good, and according to the meaning of the son, Tailuo will reward him more generously than in previous years. Needless to say, the three child servants are the children of the farmers in the grange, but the maid Xiaoxia is a girl from a local village, and she usually gives some money.

Send your own girl to a large family as a maid, where she will be fed and clothed and raised, and when she sends it, she will get a sum of money, and when she is old enough to get married, the master's family will more or less pay a dowry, and the girl's parents will also get a dowry. This is the practice of many poor families, and there is a difference between selling oneself into slavery, and Xiao Xia was sent in this way.

Although Xiao Jiu's life is average, compared to a poor village like Xiao Xia, he is already a wealthy family. A maid like Xiao Xia, if she is old, if she is good-looking, she can do it, she may also become the master's concubine, and of course, it is more likely to be a child of a servant family. This can be regarded as internal storage, at least the dowry will not be wasted.

Xiao Xia is fifteen years old this year, and it is said that she has reached the age of marriage, but neither her parents nor Xiao Xia herself have ever mentioned this stubble. When she was first sent, she was just an inconspicuous little girl, maybe the life in the other courtyard was very good for her, and the little ninth prince was not difficult to wait, she had lived a relatively superior life over the years, and she was getting more and more beautiful.

If it is rationed to the children of the servant families in the Grange in the other courtyard, Xiao Xia's parents will definitely be unwilling, and Xiao Xia himself is unwilling. The best result is, of course, directly rationed to the owner of the other courtyard, so that the dowry is the most generous, and Xiao Xia's parents feel the most face-saving. But such a good thing is not easy, because the owner of the other courtyard is still young, only nine years old this year.

may be precisely because of these reasons that are not easy to say, although Xiao Xia has reached the age of marriage, her parents never mention this stubble, and the girl's family herself is of course even more difficult to say.

After the Chinese New Year, Xiao Xia often hid in the corner alone, secretly sighing and even quietly wiping her tears, as if there was something sad. Tailuo and the other three child servants were very busy on weekdays and didn't notice the situation, only Xiao Jiu, who was very curious about everything, found out.

That day, when everyone else went out, Xiao Xia sat alone in the house, making clothes with this year's new cloth, and was distracted again while doing it, and wiped the moist corners of his eyes with a sigh. At this time, I suddenly heard Xiao Jiu's voice say: "Sister Xiao Xia, what's wrong with you lately, is there something at home or something on your own mind?"

Xiao Jiu, who was playing outside, suddenly came back again, and Xiao Xia quickly got up and said, "No, I'm fine! Why didn't Childe go to the mountains today?"

Xiao Jiuyi pouted: "Sister Xiao Xia, don't lie to me! You have been frowning these days, often crying and sighing alone, I know everything." Since you went home once a year ago, and after you came back, you went home several times before and after the year, and every time you came back, you would secretly cry in a daze. Is there something going on at home?"

Xiao Xia said in a bit of a panic: "It's really nothing, Mrs. Murano's family, what big things can be? ”

Xiao Jiu: "It's not a family matter, it's your own business! Sister Xiao Xia, do you want to get married, and you feel that staying in another courtyard will delay you? If that's the case, I'll go tell Uncle Tailuo, and let him go to your parents to discuss and find a good family for you......

These words frightened Xiao Xia a lot, she waved her hand again and again: "No, no, no, childe, you must not do this, it's not like this, I don't have ...... at all"

Xiao Jiuyi spread his hands: "Then what do you say is going on!"

Xiao Xia finally told what happened, and it was really a family matter. In fact, she really wants to say it, but it's not easy to take the initiative to talk to anyone about this kind of thing, it's very uncomfortable to hold it in her heart, and deep down in her heart, she really hopes that someone can listen to it.