As the owner of the house, Liang Chuan naturally went to Zhao Fafa's place from time to time. Zhao Fafa would go back to the He family's ancestral hall to sleep for several nights. The cold air and dew in the thatched hut were too heavy. Zhao Fafa was old and could not withstand the cold and wind. Besides, sleeping in the thatched hut was not the way to treat a master chef. This group of Luocheng masters are really role models in respecting their posts and loving their work. Although they are always watching from the side, the supervisors of the recruitment do not give orders. The work depends entirely on the self-discipline and consciousness of these people.
Over the next few days, dozens of workers on the new house started working at the same time. The foundation of the house had all been dug, and brick laying had even begun. The construction period was progressing quite smoothly. Several masters did not come back to the ancestral hall for lunch at noon, and they all cooked and ate together with their apprentices. Apart from taking a short break after eating, they devoted the rest of the time to the tight construction period, which makes people admire their dedication.
Yi Niang bought a large piece of wild boar meat, and Liang Chuan asked Yi Niang to cut it and cook it at noon, leaving half of it for drinking when Zhao Fafa and the others came back at night. Zhao Fafa and the others were so dedicated that even Liang Chuan admired them and he was not a stingy person either. From time to time, Liang Chuan would ask Yi Niang to buy some wine and put on a table of food and wine to reward these masters.
Respect between people is mutual. Everyone saw Liang Chuan's politeness to the masters. Other owners were stricter in building houses than in prisons, so they were afraid of any mistakes. The master Liang Chuan just let a young man take charge of this matter, not to mention dictating their work and asking for stars and moons. They really let their hands and feet go freely.
This little boss would treat them to meat and wine from time to time. There was no ostentation at all. The masters just ate whatever they had at home. The master was rich and treated them with great courtesy, which made several Luocheng masters feel highly respected. . The purpose of the people of Luocheng is to repay nothing but to complete the master's house conscientiously. Others give us peaches and plums, and we repay them with gold and silver.
Three days later, Zheng Ruoying returned to Fengshan with more than 20 carts of black sugarcane seedlings, as if he were a king in the world. He Lu people had an illusion that He Lu no longer had the lifelessness of the past. It seems that something is changing and becoming rich and lively.
After running around for days, Zheng Ruoying wore the clothes of a clerk, her fair skin a little dulled by the sun. She traveled to the docks and markets in Qingyuan County, and finally bought all the sugarcane seedlings. Although the price of the seedlings is not expensive, because farmers in Qingyuan rarely grow this crop, there are not many sugarcane seedlings for sale in the market. After being bought by Zheng Ruoying at one time, the seller asked Zheng Ruoying if he wanted more. , Zheng Ruoying said that no matter how much they were shipped, the next batch of sugarcane seedlings was already on the way.
Everyone in He Lu looked at such a big battle, including the master from Luocheng. Everyone was shocked by the girl's attitude. They only saw a very handsome young boy with so many carriages. The goods went to find Liang Chuan, and they were happy from the bottom of their hearts. Liang Chuan's big move made them feel proud. How can ordinary people make such a big move? It was as if I was building a house for my master, and my face became brighter.
Brother Zhao didn't even recognize this rich lady who drove a carriage a few days ago, but Liang Chuan recognized it at a glance. It turned out that Liang Chuan had seen Zheng Ruoying and her in Zheng Ji Grocery Store in Fengshan. Cousin Zheng Ruoying and the two of them dressed up as men, and I had seen this kind of dressing up on TV a lot. I could tell what style I wanted at a glance, so I couldn't tell the difference between male and female.
The place is not big enough, and more than twenty horse-drawn carriages are neatly lined up on the weedy village road in Helu. The very short lengths of the sugarcane seedlings are piled neatly on the horse-drawn carriages. Zheng Ruoying jumped down from the carriage and walked up to Liang Chuan as if she wanted to take credit. Liang Chuan saw the dust on the face of this rich young lady and was stained with sweat. He smiled bitterly and said: "Miss, you are really spending a lot of money, so you don't care about your own image. , in just a few days, you really bought so many sugarcane seedlings.
Zheng Ruoying wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief and said to Liang Chuan: "Of course, you, Mr. Liang, look down on this small business, but I regard this as my life! The things on each car are There are about a thousand sugarcane seedlings. The tenants who have planted sugarcane at home said that if they plant a few hundred sugarcane in this acre, there will be a lot of harvest. We have collected all the sugarcane seedlings today. There are still many more at the port of Qingyuan County. The sugarcane seedlings are on the road, and by then the nearly two hundred acres of land will be planted with sugarcane, enough for you to make sugar!"
Liang Chuan put down the ax in his hand and said with a smile: "Just insert it?"
Zheng Ruoying looked at Liang Chuan with a bad smile on his face and thought to himself, is there anything wrong with this? What bad things are he thinking about every day? They put the sugar cane in the ground and it will grow back the next year without any effort.”
Liang Chuan shook his head and said: "It doesn't matter if you plant a little sugar cane, but we will need to use these sugar canes to make sugar in the future. The higher the yield of sugar cane, the more sugar we can make. , if you want to achieve this effect, you must carry out refined management of sugarcane planting!”
Zheng Ruoying heard such a novel term for the first time, and it must be a term unique to Liang Chuan's hometown. Now that he is going to do something big, he must ask clearly: "What does refined management mean?"
Liang Chuan said: "Just like when your tenant farmers cultivate paddy fields, they must plow the fields in which season, when to sow the seeds, when to transplant the rice seedlings, the depth and spacing of the rice seedlings, how often to weed and remove insects, and the management must be quite strict. Fine, by the same token, sugarcane planting should also achieve this effect, this is fine management."
Zheng Ruoying was stunned when she heard what Liang Chuan said. She originally thought that she could grow sugar cane, buy the sugar cane seedlings and insert them into the ground. She didn't expect that there were so many different things, and the tenant farmers in the family would not understand them. What depth spacing and where to find professional sugarcane farmers now? "
Zheng Ruoying looked at the sugarcane seedlings that she had spent a lot of money to transport back, and she began to feel anxious. When her eyes were panicked, she suddenly saw the look in the eyes of the mountain man in Liangchuan who had a clever plan, please come and beg me. .
"Sir, since you can speak such profound words, you must be proficient in this. Our offensive and defensive alliance is clearly written in black and white. At the moment, I don't have a single capable person here who can guarantee that I can grow sugar cane well. I really don’t know what’s going on, and I’m afraid that I’ll miss something important between us. You... do you really want me to be so embarrassed?”
The running around in the past few days has been extremely hard for her as a daughter. She has a strong nature and will not give in easily. How come she encountered Liang Chuan who was always trying to eat turtles? In addition to the hard work of the past few days, if it weren't for the grievance in her heart. The important matter that concerns her life has already erupted like a flood. Now Liang Chuan, a bad guy, wants to use some tricks to hide it. Under Zheng Ruoying's mixed feelings, the little girl's emotions are coming again, and she is resentful. His eyes were about to explode.
Liang Chuan looked at this rich lady with tears in her eyes and was about to shed tears again. With so many people watching, he would not be able to misunderstand why he was embarrassing others! He said hurriedly: "Yes, yes, don't shed tears every now and then. I know there is an agreement between us, and I didn't say I don't care."
Zheng Ruoying wiped her red eyes and looked at Liang Chuan hatefully. You have to make yourself so embarrassed every time before you take action! Not manly at all!
Liang Chuan didn't want to see her jealous and shed tears, so he continued: "Miss Zheng, you didn't understand even if I told you about growing sugar cane. Go and invite all the good crops from your house, and finally let a few In the future, I will be responsible for bringing sugar cane here. It is quite troublesome to manage the sugar cane field. I will tell them the details one by one and they can manage it from now on. But you'd better listen along and listen to it, so as not to do what they do in the future. If I’m wrong, or I’ve forgotten something, you can also tell me next to me. After all, it’s your family’s property, and if you don’t know anything about it, you’ll suffer a big loss.”
Zheng Ruoying strongly agrees with Liang Chuan's statement. There are many wealthy families who, because their young descendants do not know how to operate and manage, allow their servants to do whatever they want. In the end, good properties are ruined and nothing is left. They still foolishly think that This evil servant is doing good things. Liang Chuan's idea was the most reliable. Zheng Ruoying was at best the manager of their family's tenant farmers, but she really didn't know anything about farming.
The land in Helu is slightly yellow, and the land is too thin to be as yellow and green as the clay in the paddy fields, so the crops in the land are not very fat. But compared to the dry land in the north, this kind of land can still be considered thin. ? Liang Chuan led Zheng Ruoying directly to the fields and bowed to them. Zheng Ruoying knew Liang Chuan's intentions and specifically asked Lao Cai to call two old tenant farmers, Shuan Zhu and Xiang Lu.
In the early years, this old tenant farmer was also a customer who had deserted from the army in the north. Because he had no land to farm, he had no choice but to work under the Zheng family and cultivate the Zheng family's land. The Zheng family does treat these tenants well. The owner will never let these poor people share the burden, but the relationship between the tenants below is relatively tense.
Tenant farmers are also divided into gangs. Fellow villagers and relatives often form several small groups, and then crowd out people outside other circles. Two old farmers, Shuan Zhu and Xiang Lu, are both good at farming. Although the south is full of paddy fields, After growing rice for a season or two, I know what the temperament of southern millet is. How could it be that there were so many monks and so little rice, and the two of them were honest, the tenant farmers were so crowded that there was no paddy field for two people to cultivate, and the poor family still had to eat and drink, and the owner had no land to plant, and the harvest on the dry land was too low. , planting it is not enough to pay taxes.
