When Jiang Sanlang saw the scene, he was even more surprised than Chunniang.
Although he knew that his daughter could take things out of thin air, he didn't know there was such a place and that he and his wife could come in.
"Baoer, you can bring people in, but have you told anyone about this?" Jiang Sanlang was still worried about his daughter's recklessness.
Although Zhou Wuchang was her master, he was different from herself and her wife.
That person was not the one who raised Yingbao, so it is impossible for him to think about Yingbao wholeheartedly.
Moreover, Jiang Sanlang could see that Zhou Wuchang was a man of deep thoughts and didn't care about the lives of villagers like him at all.
"No, I told Master that I can only collect objects, not take living things." Yingbao naturally couldn't completely trust Master.
But it is true that the master offended Pei Shixian in order to vent his anger.
Pei Shixian is a sinister person. If he says anything in front of the emperor, my master will probably be killed by him first.
Firstly for herself, and secondly to repay her master, Ying Bao had no choice but to resort to this desperate measure, allowing her master to show his miracles and compete with Pei Shixian.
Jiang Sanlang was relieved, "That's good."
So the couple, led by their daughter, toured the cave, paddled the gourd boat to the glowing ball, and climbed to the top along the gourd vine ladder made by Yingbao.
Then Jiang Sanlang and his wife were shocked again.
The swaying peonies, hollyhocks and honeysuckle exude a subtle fragrance.
The peach trees, pear trees, apple trees, mandarin oranges, lychees, longans, grapes, etc. are in full bloom. Some of the fruit trees have already borne fruit, while others still have unripe green fruits.
There is a clear spring in the middle of the fruit trees, hidden in a melon field.
Jiang Sanlang estimated that this piece of land was about five or six acres, not smaller than the land below.
That's a bit strange.
This ball of light doesn't seem that big when you look at it from below, but it appears different when you get up there.
Jiang Sanlang also saw some daily necessities and a lot of grains here.
I guess the little girls use it to make juice and brew wine.
Seeing that there were still a lot of picked fruits in the basket on the ground, Jiang Sanlang and Chunniang decided to help their daughter make a batch of fruit wine first.
"There are not enough jars here. I will buy some more tomorrow."
Jiang Sanlang checked them one by one and said, "Buy a few more wooden barrels and large water tanks." He wanted to raise some fish and shrimp in the water tanks to see if they could survive.
Yingbao: "Okay, Dad and Mom, if you guys need anything else, we can buy it together later."
Jiang Sanlang waved his hand, "I see, you go and rest first, we'll call you when we're done."
There is a small bamboo bed here, with bedding on it. Next to the bed are several large wooden boxes, which are probably the daughter's private rooms.
Yingbao lay on the bamboo bed, resting her head on the pillow, tilted her head to look at her busy parents, and fell asleep unknowingly.
When I woke up, I saw my parents were still busy.
"Dad, Mom, you guys go back and have some rest." Dad and Mom didn't know how long they had been busy. They actually cooked several pots of fruit and put them all in pots to dry.
Jiang Sanlang and Chunniang were indeed tired, so they left the cave under the guidance of their daughter.
He suddenly appeared outside and Jiang Sanlang and his wife were unable to react for a moment.
It was already dark outside. If it weren't for the lantern lit under the eaves, Jiang Sanlang would not have known that he had come out.
He left his daughter's room with his wife, quietly went to the eaves to extinguish the lantern, and then returned to the room to rest.
In the following days, every evening, Jiang Sanlang and Chunniang would go to the cave to busy themselves. Later, they simply let their daughter go out by herself and go in to pick them up when the time came.
During the day, Yingbao planted kudzu vines around the village, and hired a few stonemasons to go to the distant mountains to mine stones, and transported them back to the village to build a stone pagoda.
Zhou Wuchang and his disciples did not leave either. They usually took their eldest disciple for strolls and visited other villages.
Mr. Wu worked as a temporary teacher in the village school, teaching children in the advanced classes.
In a blink of an eye, it was October, and Jiang Jie entered the county school and officially became a student.
Since he had just passed the college entrance examination this year, he did not have to take the annual examination and directly became a student on government stipend. He also received his first stipend and four taels of silver.
Jiang Jie gave the rice from the granary and the fish, meat, and vegetables distributed by the county government to his aunt. He went back to the specialty shop to eat every day and came back to stay overnight.
One day, he saw Chen Changping. The two of them just glanced at each other and then turned and left.
Yingbao has been very idle these days because the weather is too cold and gloomy, which is not suitable for planting saplings. Even if she covers them with dead leaves, the vine seedlings will not grow.
There are now many unfamiliar faces at the market outside Dongchen Village.
Some of them were from nearby villages, while others were refugees.
The refugees living in the old village became homeless again because of a flood.
Fortunately, they were smart and fled their homes when it rained heavily. Some of them went to Beishan, while others returned to the market in Dongchen Village and hid under the thatched hut built by Jiang Sanlang, and barely escaped the disaster.
After that, these people became much more obedient and did not dare to go against Dongchen Village. They looked for work everywhere during the day and lived in thatched huts in the market at night.
But now it is winter and snow is about to fall. The thatched hut with drafts everywhere can't keep out the cold at all.
So several refugees found Chief Chen and asked him to let them build a hut on the south slope to keep out the cold. Chief Chen was naturally not happy about it.
But Sun Lizheng was slow to pay attention to these refugees, and the county government seemed to have forgotten these victims and did not offer any solution.
Finally, Patriarch Chen and Jiang Sanlang discussed and decided to mark out a piece of wasteland a little further away from the market to build houses for the refugees.
However, before the house was built, they were given a verbal agreement that they were not allowed to steal or do anything detrimental to Chen Village. Otherwise, the house would be taken back and they would be asked to leave.
The refugee was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately nodded in agreement.
This is the richest village in the entire Chuanhe Town. If we can take root here, we will be able to live a good life in no time.
So, before the snow fell, Jiang Sanlang took a group of villagers to help these people build houses.
In order to save time and materials, these houses were built in a row, with twelve rooms in each row, and three rows in total.
Jiang Sanlang didn't care how many people there were in each household, he just gave each household two rooms.
None of the refugees dared to say anything, for fear of angering Muramasa and having him drive them away.
After repeated disasters, the refugees realized that if they wanted to stay and live, they must abide by the rules here.
After the houses were divided, Jiang Sanlang pointed to the soapberry trees surrounding the village and said, "If you want to make money, there are many soapberries on the trees. Go pick them and someone will buy the peeled soapberry rice."
My daughter told me that specialty shops can buy soapberry rice and soapberry, and if they are of good quality, they will give a good price. As long as these refugees are diligent, the money from selling soapberry rice can fully survive the winter.
When the refugees heard that the village allowed them to pick soapberries, they were overjoyed and hurried to thank Jiang Sanlang.
They have lived here for some time and know that these soapberry trees were planted by the little fairy boy of Muramasa's family and are the private property of Muramasa's family.
Muramasa actually asked them to pick soapberries and said that someone would come to buy them. How could they not be grateful
Then Jiang Sanlang said, "When you pick the soapberries, don't break the branches."
"Of course." The leading refugee said, "We must be careful."
Jiang Sanlang: "I'll take you to cut some bamboo poles later, and you can use them to pick the fruits."
The soapberry tree is very tall, and has many poisonous thorns on its trunk, so it is difficult to get close to it, so you have to use a long bamboo pole to reach it.
Just split one end of the bamboo pole a little bit and use a tree stick to support it.
When picking soapberries, use the split end to poke the root of the soapberry and twist it, and the soapberry will be twisted off.
As long as the bamboo pole is long enough, the ones growing on the top of the tree can be twisted down.
This is how the village children pick fruits from the top of the trees.