After the sun went down, Fengshan became peaceful again. The shapes of the mountains in the distance were still vaguely visible, but the color of the mountains was only thick ink. The white clouds retreated to the mountain peaks, and the tired birds and crows returned to their nests on the branches. The unknown small insects that had been planted began to appear, and in the grass and on the field ridges, the sounds of insects and frogs could be heard.
Fan Dianyuan and Lao Ma were sitting on the edge of the field beside the sugar cane field. The spring night was a bit chilly, and the mountain breeze made people forget the heat of the sun during the day. In the channel beside the field ridge, a cool stream of water was slowly flowing from the south stream to the sugar cane fields on all sides.
The two of them were enjoying the gentle evening breeze and soaking their feet in the cool water, not to mention how comfortable they were. In the past few days, I was no longer busy running back and forth to the bank of Nanxi River to fetch water for farming. Instead, I was digging aqueducts in the ground with a hoe.
The water wheel lived up to expectations and played its huge role. It was like an old ox that could not be fed with fodder and did not need to be whipped. It kept rotating all day long, and the stream water was continuously drawn up from the stream and flowed to The water in the water tank and then into the canals in the ground nourish the hundreds of acres of land.
Fan Dianyuan and the others were busy digging trenches during the day. According to Liang Chuan, the water diversion channel should reasonably reduce the area and lead to the shortest distance to all the sugar cane fields. This can reduce the transpiration of water on the ground and reduce unnecessary waste. loss.
The sugarcane field itself is made up of rows and rows, with deep ditches in the middle and high soil cover. Sugarcane crops are prone to lodging. If the soil is not buried deep, a typhoon in summer can destroy these hundreds of crops. All acres of sugarcane land have been harvested.
If there are ditches and ridges in the sugar cane field, water can flow into the sugar cane field if water is diverted there. When the water seeps into the ground, the sugar cane can be used for irrigation, which saves a lot of effort.
After three full days of work, the aqueduct that could cover the entire sugar cane field was finally dug. The soles of their feet felt the coolness of the stream. Neither of them could believe it was true.
Fan Dianyuan made two taels of sorghum roasted rice today, which cost him a lot of money, but he was happy. Next to it was a plate of fried fish. This fish was a thank-you gift from Liang Chuan to Ma Dan, who helped Liang Chuan look after the fish basket every day. Northerners don't like to drink fish soup. They often cook the soup for horse eggs, and then fish out the fish and add vegetables to eat.
There is no need to add any seasoning to the snow-white fish soup. Just add a few grains of coarse salt and a few green onions. The taste is quite rich, but adults are just not used to it. Not to mention how long it had been since Ma Dan drank the fish soup, his formerly shriveled body now looked very good, and his flesh seemed to have grown a lot. It seemed like an illusion, and Ma Dan felt that his carrot head had grown taller.
The dry-fried fish meat and skin are slightly burnt, with a little coarse salt stuck to it. After the fish meat is fried thoroughly, the earthy smell will be much weaker. The salty taste in your mouth is very comfortable, and then you take a bite of inferior quality. Sorghum wine, although not a good wine, is better than nothing.
After a day of farm work, soaking your feet, blowing in the evening breeze, eating fish, and drinking two ounces of wine, every pore on your body seems to be moaning with joy. The wine can relieve fatigue, and the low alcohol content makes the muscles thoroughly The ground relaxed.
The two of them picked up the thick porcelain wine bowl and took a small sip, letting the wine linger in their mouths for a while before slowly swallowing it into their stomachs, unwilling to let it go. This wine is a bit bitter, but the throat is full of the lingering fragrance of grain. .
The two looked at each other and smiled.
"Lao Fan, we are really lucky. We did not die in the war-torn northwest, nor did we die on the way to escape famine. We still have food to eat when we come to Xinghua. Haha, life is much better now than in the past."
"Ancestors bless us. Our lives should not be cut off. After suffering so much, it's time for us to change our fortunes."
"The land in our hometown can't even produce three ounces of wheat, but everyone is still rushing to plant it. People here can't grow rice, and they don't even care about wheat. The land is simply left there, preferring to grow something useless. The crops are not used to grow food. The sugar cane grown here is very sweet, but it cannot be used as food. Do you think it’s strange?”
Fan Dianyuan took a sip of wine and thought for a long time. Hey, Lao Ma has been confused all his life. How could he know the ways of these southerners. These southerners are very smart. How many people in the north can think of running a waterwheel like this without manpower?
Planting sugar cane? I'm afraid it's not as simple as eating or selling. My boss, big and small, is like a god in the sky. He has countless businesses at home, so he will do business at a loss? She bowed her head to Liang Chuan and didn't know how long his head was and how he could come up with so many ideas.
"Old Fan, what are you thinking about? Come on, drink!"
Lao Ma pulled Fan Dianyuan out of his thoughts and continued to tell him: "Danwa told me something. He said that He Lu will open a school soon, and he can let the children go to school for free. The one who brings fish to Danwa every day, Liang Chuanlang. Tell me, where in the world can such a good thing happen!"
Fan Dianyuan thought for a while and said: "If this is false, forget it, we have nothing to lose, but if it is true, we must cherish it. We don't have the conditions to support our children to study, so we can only wrong the children. But when others give us opportunities, we have to seize them. Danwa is more promising than you, and we can’t be like you, scraping mud in the fields all our lives. It’s because of the blessings of our ancestors that generations of mud-legged people can still write pens. "
Fan Dianyuan thought for a while and then said: "We must be able to make money by growing sugar cane, otherwise the eldest lady would not condescend to stick her head in the ground every day. Wouldn't it be comfortable to embroider at home and enjoy the scenery? Let's take a closer look in the future. If this way If it works, we can plant it in a few years!"
"Lao Fan, your words are true. Carrying water these days almost killed us. My baby can't bear this hardship. Mr. Liang Chuan from Helu is really a kind man. He runs a school for free. What do you want?"
Fan Dianyuan also couldn't figure out Liang Chuan. He had heard a lot of anecdotes about this man. It was said that half of the villagers in Helu were working under him, and he seemed to have a share in the sugar cane field he planted. It's not just the eldest daughter of the Zheng family, he can kill a tiger and his literary talent is also very good. Is it a good deed for a person to set up a school for everyone to study?
Is there really anyone in this world who would work hard to live for others?
The two of them were eating fish and couldn't figure out the joints. The wine bowls came and went, feeling the coolness of the spring night and cherishing the peace of this moment. I used to feel satisfied just to be alive and have enough to eat, but now I still want to send my child to study, haha.
After Sun Houpu returned home, he couldn't wait to order his assistants to collect a thousand tea seedlings in the fields. A thousand of the best tea seedlings were better than the snow. These were all good tea seedlings introduced from Jianzhou. His own tea farmers passed by Improved and cultivated tea trees that are most suitable for the Changkeng environment!
This tea seedling is suitable for growing in pits but not necessarily suitable for Xinghua. The feng shui and soil quality of the two places are quite different. The most suitable one is in Jianzhou. The one I have on hand has also been improved. The taste is still much worse than Jianzhou tribute tea. Therefore, their Changkeng Sun family's business is booming, but they still take a low-end route.
He knew that Liang Chuan was not a fuel-efficient person. He looked like a country bumpkin on the surface, but a country bumpkin wouldn't write such wonderful pairs and put them in the store for people to challenge. What he is most worried about is that Liang Chuan is actually an unborn master hiding in the mountains. Masters drink tea a lot. It is better for him and others to fool Liang Chuan with some inferior goods. It is better to show the beauty of adulthood and be satisfied. He has everything he wants, and besides, he has to fight for the people he likes. .
A thousand tea seedlings or a woman he likes, he still knows which is more important. No matter how much money you have, you can't buy a beloved person. .
Liang Chuan also didn't expect that the young master of the Sun family's big tea merchant would be so impatient. He calculated the distance and found that as soon as the rich young man came home, he would pack up the tea seedlings and go back to the house without even having a full night's sleep. Fengshan came back in a hurry. How many years had he been single? He was in such a hurry. . That girl Zheng Ruoying is so attractive in their eyes, so many people want to take advantage of her.
Zheng Ruoying happened to be in Fengshan, because Liang Chuan really helped him solve the problem of indoctrination in the sugar cane fields, which was incredible. But Liang Chuan had given her enough surprises, so many that she had become numb, and she had become accustomed to the accidents caused by Liang Chuan. If Liang Chuan couldn't come up with anything new, then she felt that there must be something wrong with Liang Chuan.
She was very happy that Liang Chuan helped him solve the problem, but she didn't like seeing Sun Houpu again.
The feeling Sun Houpu gave him was too strong. She could clearly feel this man's desire for her, and she could even see a burst of strong love in his eyes. She admitted that Sun Houpu was the most outstanding among her many admirers and blind daters over the years, and he was also the richest. His family background and appearance were not bad, and it could even be understood that she was a 'high climber'. Logically speaking, she had been looking forward to this. The appearance of a person. However, when this person appeared now, she felt restless, wanted to escape, and wanted to resist.
Sun Houpu passed by Fengshan again. He noticed the huge waterwheel, which scooped up water from the stream and sent it to the fields continuously. His tea fields were all stepped and there was no need for this kind of waterwheel. But he knew at a glance how important this big guy was to farmland.
The feeling it gave him was shock.
Shocked, he made a prompt decision and offered Liang Chuan a bigger favor. He asked his tea farmers to help plant all the thousand tea seedlings. Now he only needed Liang Chuan to provide a location.
Liang Chuan didn't know what kind of medicine this guy was selling in his gourd, but his philosophy of life was that if you are upright, you should not be afraid of slanting shadows. When soldiers come, there will be generals to stop them. When water comes, there will be villages. When problems come, they will be solved one by one. That is, don't be afraid of the problems you haven't encountered yet. .
The barren mountain behind Liang Chuan's house has long been wanted to be developed. With ready-made labor and agricultural production materials, why not do it!
