"What have I become? [No pop-up novel website]" Looking at himself in the mirror, Li Yaoer couldn't help but let out a long sigh.
She only got off the boat at noon yesterday, and it was only half a month since she returned to Lingao after completing agricultural extension work in Jeju Island.
"I want to be a model worker." She said this on the boat. I volunteered to go to the Agricultural Committee to complain, and even regretted it.
This Agricultural Committee seems to be harmonious, but in fact the money mouth used by men is more cruel than when women are treated like men and men are treated like beasts - this clearly shows that both men and women are treated like beasts. It is common for the elders who work in the Council of Agriculture to go on business trips to various counties in Hainan, including Jeju Island, Shandong, Taiwan, North Vietnam... wherever the flag of the Senate goes, there are almost always the elders of the Council of Agriculture.
During the few months she spent in Jeju Island, she was unable to cultivate ginseng as she had planned - the latitude of Jeju Island was a bit low. There was no time for sightseeing, so as soon as we got off the ship, we devoted ourselves to potato promotion and seed potato detoxification work. The latter is a major hurdle in potato cultivation. If no achievements are made, Jeju Island's potato cultivation industry will soon fall into a state of declining production.
Seed potato detoxification technology requires certain hardware and technology, which ordinary farmers cannot do. There is no such hardware foundation in Jeju Island. Therefore, Li Yaor can only adopt effective techniques that have been tested by the Committee of Agriculture, namely Sexual reproduction is used to save seeds to avoid virus accumulation in seed potatoes caused by asexual reproduction. To this end, under her leadership, a special seed potato breeding base was established in Jeju Island.
It took her several months to work on these things, and finally she finally set up the system and returned to Lingao to reunite with her husband. It's true that he didn't even warm the bed, and he was sent to Hangzhou to guide sericulture production.
Li Yaoer felt that his hair was tied too tightly, and even his scalp hurt. She never had the habit of braiding her hair. Now the maid had her hair combed with a jasper hairpin, and she also wore a few freshly picked tortoise flowers.
He was wearing a sky-blue narrow-sleeved t-shirt and a water-red armor. Li Yaoer had only seen this outfit in TV dramas, and once saw Hanfu enthusiasts wearing similar clothes in the park - if the person wearing the clothes is good-looking, the clothes will still look good.
She looks pretty well dressed. After landing yesterday, I got dressed up and looked pretty in front of the mirror for a while. But based on her limited knowledge, she also knew that this outfit was a girl's outfit - although modern people generally look at it delicately, people who are nearly thirty years old are still a little uncomfortable wearing this outfit.
And last night, I met and discussed matters with the indigenous "head" woman in charge of raising silkworms and reeling silk in the villa. The other party's attitude was that she obviously regarded herself as Zhao Yingong's concubine - in fact, this was also the cover identity assigned to her by the Foreign Intelligence Service. Li Yaoer felt a little "humiliated". But if you really have to dress up as a lady, it's not convenient for you to do your work.
He has to go to the fields to guide silkworm raising. His status is too high and it is obviously difficult for him to get close to the working people. If it is too ordinary, it will be difficult to convince the public. Whether it is the 17th century or the 21st century. Identity is always the most important character attribute. In contrast, the half-slave and half-master status of "following the predecessors" is the most suitable for her to start work.
It’s okay to suffer a little loss, but he just wronged his husband-in-law. Li Yaoer thought that although it was necessary for revolutionary work, his husband-in-law would definitely feel uncomfortable if he knew about it. I stayed in Jeju Island for several months, and not long after returning to Lingao for reunion, I came to Hangzhou again. Forget it, how about increasing the number of maids?
While he was thinking wildly, Fu Rong, the first batch of "first-term students" who had been taken in for personal education after Zhao Yingong came to Hangzhou, walked in. Her current public identity is Master Zhao's maid. In fact, he is an administrative trainee at Hangzhou Station.
"Miss Li, Siniang Wang is already here. Do you want to call her in?"
"Ask her to come in." Li Yao'er said.
Yesterday she met Wang Siniang in Zhao Yingong's inner house. Seeing this woman, who was about the same age as him, kneeling and kowtowing in front of him, Li Yaoer was greatly shocked mentally. This woman was slightly older than she was, already had three children, and her appearance was exquisite even by 21st century standards. Just kneeling at his feet like this, kowtowing didn't count, and he had to wait for her to say "that's it" before he dared to stand up.
Whether in Lingao or Jeju Island, Li Yaoer was active in the "liberated areas" and rarely came into contact with the "original" indigenous people. Moreover, because of their strong entry into these places, the traditional concept of superiority and inferiority has been broken, and a new hierarchical order has begun to be established. Whether they are naturalized citizens or indigenous people, they all know that if the "chief" is not interested in old times, he must have a set of etiquette. Even if someone wants to kneel down and kowtow, they will be stopped. But here, she was sitting and receiving the ceremony in a grand manner, and she had to look like "this is how it should be".
This time and space is really terrible. Li Yaoer thought to himself that any good impression he had on Daming was gone.
After Wang Siniang came in, she kowtowed again as usual. Li Yaoer stood up and said politely, telling her "you don't have to be polite."
According to the arrangement they negotiated yesterday, today they are going to the mountains to find a suitable place to build a silkworm house.
"I'll help you today. Fourth sister-in-law."
"Wherever it goes, this is the responsibility of the slaves. But the labor girl has to go and investigate in person." Wang Siniang said with a smile, "It's just that the girl's clothes are not suitable for going up the mountain. The slave has asked Butler Cai to prepare clothes for the girl. .”
Now get a set of clothes. Because there are many places where there are no roads, this kind of clothes is inconvenient to wear and easy to get torn. So what she prepared was a blue cloth skirt, a headscarf and a hat to protect her from the sun - the same outfit she wore to pick tea in the mountains.
Li Yao'er was dressed neatly, and Wang Siniang led the way up the mountain. She carries a shoulder bag with her, which contains pens, paper, tape measure, level and thermometer, so she can roughly explore the terrain and surrounding environment at any time.
The silkworm room has certain requirements for the surrounding environment, and the purpose of Li Yaoer's visit this time is not just to raise silkworms - she also wants to run a silkworm breeding farm for the Committee of Agriculture. Be prepared to hold the silkworm farmers' cooperative in the future.
The Committee of Agriculture has set up a silkworm breeding farm in Hainan, but the storage and transportation conditions of silkworm seeds are relatively harsh. Silkworm seeds cannot be transported across thousands of miles, so silkworm seeds can only be cultivated locally.
Since it is a breeding site, the conditions for the site are even more stringent. Fortunately, there are plenty of places for her to choose from in the huge Phoenix Mountain.
The two first walked a section of the stone mountain road, and then gradually left the main road and headed towards the small road.
Most of these roads were gradually opened up after Zhao Yingong ran the villa, and most of them were small roads taken by the slaves when they went to work. Most are unpaved and relatively narrow. The branches on both sides were overgrown and weedy, making it difficult to walk among them.
It is best to build a sericulture farm on a sunny slope. Secondly, it should be surrounded by trees for shade and wind protection. Finally, for the convenience of work and life, it is best to have a water source nearby. In order to expand the scale in the future, the place cannot be too small. Limited by these conditions, there are not many places to choose from in Phoenix Villa.
Wang Siniang and Shen Da were originally sent by Cai Shi to walk around the entire Phoenix Villa and its surroundings to see if there were any suitable places for planting mulberry trees, tea trees and raising silkworms. So she has a good idea of which places can meet the requirements of "Miss Li".
She took Li Yao'er all the way up mountains and through forests, and visited four or five places, but Li Yao'er was not satisfied. Still have to keep watching. Wang Siniang was a little impressed. She saw that Miss Li was also a person who could endure hardships. Even the younger girls in Zhuangzi couldn't bear to climb mountains and forests like this. She didn't care, her movements were still flexible and vigorous, and she spoke even more happily. Crisp and crisp, not at all the coquettish look that "people around me" often have.
As the sun gradually approached the zenith, Wang Siniang brought her to a slightly concave open space on the hillside. A mountain stream was flowing down the slope. Because the terrain was slightly flat, a pool, not much larger than a bathtub, had accumulated among the rocks. The pool was crystal clear to the bottom.
"This is also a place. What do you think, girl?" Wang Siniang asked.
"Okay, it's really nice here." Li Yao'er nodded.
This is really a textbook land for sericulture: it is on a sunny slope with good sunlight and ventilation. There are woods on the windward side, and there are many big trees around that can block the sun. The entire land is about four to five acres in size. The slope in most places is very gentle, not exceeding 10 degrees, which is conducive to mountain drainage without hindering the construction of houses. And there is water.
"I also think that the girl will like this place." Wang Siniang was a little proud.
"Don't call yourself a slave when we are together." Li Yao'er said, "It's too foreign."
"Girl, you are my master's subordinate. How dare a slave from the outer courtyard like me dare to talk nonsense about you and me?"
Li Yaoer sighed helplessly. She really didn't want to hear the words "Master's predecessors", and she couldn't deny it. I had to change the topic:
"Fourth sister-in-law, you are a veteran of raising silkworms for many years. What do you think of raising silkworms here?"
"Of course the girl has no say in the place she chose." Although Wang Siniang felt that Miss Li's choice of place was a bit fussy - according to her standards of place, there were few places in Hangzhou that could raise silkworms. However, the environment around this place is excellent, so there will be no problem in raising silkworms.
Li Yao'er nodded, stepped on the big stone, took out a thermos with a rattan cover from his schoolbag, and poured a cup of hot tea into his bamboo water cup. He nodded to Siniang Wang again, "I have tea here, would you like some too?"
Wang Siniang thought that Mr. Zhao's taste was really different, and that Miss Li was really bold and forthright. Thinking this, he still had a smile on his face: "Thank you, girl. I have a bamboo kettle here." (To be continued...)
