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Time flies.
It has been ten months since the two clans of Liu and Zhao died and completely withdrew from the stage.
In the past ten months, many festive events have happened in the Wang family. Sixth grandfather Wang Xiaohan's Lingtai Banquet was very lively. After that, it was the wedding of sister Wang Luoyi and Chen Fangjie.
In a few days, it will be his big wedding day again, Wang Shouzhe.
The Wang family can be said to be thriving day by day, with constant happy events.
This is the coming autumn harvest season.
Inside Fenggu Farm.
In thousands of acres of good fields, the rice grains that have been grouted to the middle and late stages are like waves in the sea, swaying up and down with the wind, which is very spectacular.
The tenant farmers are busy in the fields. They carefully serve the rice grains, supplement the fertilizers that should be fertilized, and identify those barnyard grasses in the rice grains that are misleading and slipping through the net.
Barnyardgrass and rice grass look very similar, and they can be regarded as the ancestor of rice grass. The ancestors optimized and cultivated barnyard grass from generation to generation, and only then did today's rice grains come into being. They grow savagely and are inexhaustible, competing with rice for valuable nutrients.
If it is not treated cleanly, it will definitely affect the grouting of rice grains.
The tenant farmers worked very hard, but this year's tenant farmers showed joy after hard work.
Just because this year, the owner's family got a new variety of rice from somewhere. It is said that half of the land in Fenggu Farm will be planted with new rice seeds.
In the past, the tenant farmers complained in private, fearing that the new rice varieties would not be suitable for the land, and if the harvest failed, it would also affect their share.
Fortunately, the host family is kind, and the tenants who promise to plant new rice seeds will be distributed at least according to the average income of previous years. If there is a good harvest, additional distribution can be made.
Planted this season.
The closer the grain filling period came, the more the tenant farmers discovered the strengths of the new rice species. Not only were the plants tall and straight, and they were not easy to fall over, but even the ears of rice were larger and more grainy than ordinary varieties.
Many of the tenant farmers are old farmers, and they know that if the situation continues unchanged, they will probably harvest an extra load of rice per mu this year, and the quality may be better.
Now the price of new rice is already slightly higher, even if it is calculated according to the original price, every 20 mu will have an extra dry gold profit! This income, but the pure extra income that puts aside taxes, fertilizers, cattle, labor, etc.
Evenly distributed to each tenant farmer's head, there can also be thirty big coppers! ! If there are good varieties of wheat, wouldn't it be an extra sixty coppers a year
How does this displease the sharecroppers
This extra income can be saved and used as a wife for the children in the future. Or send their children to learn a craft. After having a craft, not only will they not have to work hard in farming, but their income will be higher, and it will be much easier to marry a wife.
Many tenant farmers have already thought about the future, so that they can save enough money to buy enough farmland faster, so that their children and grandchildren can become self-employed farmers.
With this in mind, they became more motivated.
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at the same time.
At the head of the field, the energetic fourth grandfather Wang Xiaozhi said excitedly: "Shouzhe, the No. , earn a lot this year."
Now that the Wang family has plenty of meat, Wang Xiaozhi and other clan elders who used to live frugally are also ordered to supplement spiritual food, and even use Xiaopeiyuan Dan and practice diligently.
Therefore, Wang Xiaozhi looks very good this year, looking much younger. In this way, even if there is no hope of Lingtai state in this life, at least he can live a few more years in good health.
Wang Shouzhe didn't want these elders to work hard for the family all their lives, raising children from generation to generation, but at the age of 80 they couldn't walk, and their later life was bleak.
"Fourth grandpa, next year, change the land and replant it for the next season. If there is no problem, we will replant Wangshi No. 9 in an all-round way." Wang Shouzhe is also quite satisfied with the Wangshi No. 9 that he has carefully developed.
The reason why he was able to develop rice varieties came from his mysterious bloodline ability. When he found out that he could make the dead tree bloom in spring and the flowers bloom in an instant, he had already thought of giving birth to the elixir, the spiritual valley and so on.
Unfortunately, after some research, he found that he wanted to be simple.
Dead trees bloom in spring, but they can only be used on ordinary plants.
And they cannot be catalyzed in a very short time, because there is no supplement of nutrients, and the catalysis is too fast, which will consume their life potential and quickly wither.
For those spiritual valleys, spiritual plants, etc., of course, it is not without catalytic effect.
However, only one ear of white jade spirit rice is spawned. If it is spawned out of thin air in a very short period of time, the husk will be empty in the end.
If it is planted as normal and the nutrition is increased, it will take Wang Shouzhe more than ten days to make it finally mature and produce ears of white jade spirit rice.
And there is only one plant, and the cost performance is extremely low.
As for the elixir such as ginseng, let alone, ten days of hard work can at most make that ginseng one year longer. The role of birth can be called tasteless.
However, Wang Shouzhe estimated that it was because his mysterious blood was too low and too thin. If one day, the mysterious bloodline is awakened to the extreme, maybe it can really catalyze a hundred-year-old ginseng in an instant.
It's just that in the current situation, it is too tiring and uneconomical to give birth to a spiritual seed.
In the end, after thinking about it, instead of spawning spiritual seeds, it is better to improve ordinary rice seeds and wheat seeds first. So he built a lab and started small-scale catalytic rice seeding.
His bloodline ability has a great advantage over ordinary plants.
About one point of a greenhouse experiment field, as long as the nutrition in the experiment field can keep up. It only takes about a few days for him to make the rice seeds in this experimental field reach maturity and harvest.
So he decided to use his new abilities to grow rice seeds.
The original rice seed came from the Liu Zhao Liang family, whose production had been so reduced that it was unbearable to witness. With such a reduction in production, the rice that can still survive must be a part of the rice that is relatively high-quality in terms of insect resistance and disease resistance.
It's much easier to start from here.
Afterwards, he cultivated new varieties of rice from generation to generation. In his previous life, his knowledge of agronomy and breeding was little by little.
After spending half a year, he produced fifteen varieties of rice, each with its own advantages.
But in the end, he chose Wangshi No. 9, which has an "average" yield and is not very resistant to insects and diseases, as a variety for large-scale experiments.
The reason is also very simple. One of the biggest characteristics of the genetic mutation of this variety is that as long as the seeds are soaked in low-concentration salt water, the offspring will no longer be able to reproduce.
In layman's terms, only the Wang family can cultivate the first generation as the original seed, soak the seeds in low-concentration salt water, and then plant the seeds, that kind of food can only be eaten, and cannot be used as a good seed. .
This can effectively prevent the leakage of good seeds.
As far as Wang Shouzhe knows, many families with a long history or very powerful will cultivate fine seeds from generation to generation. They either have high yield or high quality.
These fine varieties are all treasured by themselves, and they are only used in their own farms. When they are sold to the outside world, they will be shelled. Because once sold as grain seeds, the entire variety has to spread out.
But Wang Shouzhe's No. 9 Wang family has no such scruples.
Wang Shouzhe thought about it.
Wang Xiaozhi said: "Shouzhe, I know you are concerned about this mass production. But you should go back quickly. You will get married in a few days. The whole family is helping you with the wedding. You can't go to the farmland again. Ran."
"I'm just taking a look, I'll be back, I'll be back." Wang Shouzhe said goodbye with a smile.
In fact, he also knew that the Wang family had been preparing for his big wedding for a long time. The wedding dresses were all made more than half a year in advance.
There is also the second brother, Wang Shouyi, who has commissioned various merchants to purchase some high-end ingredients from Longzuo County and even the surrounding areas more than half a year ago.
The rest of the family members have also been busy for a long time.
Moreover, at this time of year, many married daughters brought their sons-in-law and children back to Wang's main residence, both to celebrate and to help.
On the carriage back, Wang Shouzhe let out a foul breath. He also couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion, and before he knew it, he was going to get married!
What makes him most peculiar is that so far, he and the bride have never met.
Neither of them knew what the other looked like.
And so far, the two of them have only had two or three times to communicate with each other in small distances.
This is even more exaggerated than Wang Shouzhe's online love affairs on earth.
But in this world, this kind of marriage between the son of the family and the daughter of the family is very normal.
Before Chen Fangjie and his sister Wang Luoyi got married, they visited Wang's main house only once, and they didn't dare to run to the main house after that. He looked like he was afraid of being beaten to death by Wang Shouzhe after breaking the rules.
"Hehe~ But this kind of arranged marriage is also very good." Wang Shouzhe smiled, how troublesome it is to get married and fall in love for so many years on earth.
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A few more days passed.
Golden autumn in October.
Autumn is high and refreshing.
This is a harvest season, and it is also a season suitable for marriage.
This is also a very important season for Changningwei Shanyin Town.
Because in Shanyin Town, the Liu family of Shanyin has the status of covering the sky with one hand, and today, the day when they are married to their daughter-in-law in their boudoir is the day of their marriage.
To celebrate this great event, the Liu family has announced that all fertile land will be exempted from a family tax for this season's autumn harvest.
What a huge handwriting!
You must know that there are more than 70,000 mu of fertile land in the area under Liu's jurisdiction that needs to pay the family tax, and the reduced family tax alone is as high as more than 700 dry gold.
This is a happy event for most ordinary farmers. During the autumn harvest season, paying less than a dozen or so copper taxes is enough to allow them to live a full and prosperous year.
It can also be seen from this that the Shanyin Liu family's overall financial resources are strong, and it doesn't matter if they receive less than 700 dry gold. It is really not comparable to those ordinary families.
At the intersection of Shanyin Town's sphere of influence, there stands a gatehouse and a tower post. There is a stone plaque above the gatehouse with the word "Shanyin" written on it.
This is a line of defense and a checkpoint. A member of the Liu family and a team of family members are stationed in turns all year round. Anyone who enters Shanyin Town, especially those casual practitioners and traveling traders, will be questioned and registered.
This is also the difference between San'in and other nearby towns. It can prevent most fugitives from entering, and it can also make those criminals who want to commit crimes feel awe.
In this way, the crime rate in Shanyin has always been the lowest among Changningwei towns, and life is stable and orderly.
At the same time, in the large open space next to the gatehouse, members of the Liu clan have long been waiting here, and have built a sunshade, as well as a team of gongs, drums and suonas that are ready.
Chen time.
A large number of San'in civilians have gathered near the gate tower.
There are farmers, small businesses, handicraftsmen, and some basalt practitioners from low-level families, traveling merchants, and even a lot of casual cultivators and so on. Young and old, men and women.
They talked a lot, and looked outside the gatehouse from time to time, as if they were all looking forward to something.
"I heard that the groom is the young patriarch of the Ping'an Wang Clan? I don't know what he looks like, whether he is worthy of our Miss Ruolan."
"Brother, what year is this news from the old almanac? The bridegroom officer has long been the head of the Wang clan."
"Patriarch? How old is that? Ms. Ruolan, we are not going to renew the strings, are we?"
"How could it be a continuation!? Our Miss Ruolan is the eldest daughter of the dignified Liu family, and her status is extremely precious. I have heard that the groom is only nineteen years old, exactly the most sunny and handsome age, one year older than Miss Ruolan age."
"In terms of age and status, it's so-so. It's the Ping'an Wang family, who seems to be a small family in that remote corner south of Anjiang?"
"That's right, it seems that Ping'an Town has only been reclaimed for more than a hundred years. It is said that there are still fierce beasts in the jurisdiction that have not been eradicated."
"Ah~~ Don't we, Miss Ruolan, want to marry and suffer in that kind of poor and wild place? Isn't it very dangerous where there are ferocious beasts?"
In this world, many civilians were born and died in the same place.
If you live a lifetime and have the opportunity to go to the Acropolis to see and see, you are doing well.
Ping'an Town and Shanyin Town are separated by mountains and water. Ordinary people only hear some news from hearsay, so how can they really be well-informed.
On the contrary, there are some casual cultivators and foot traders who have traveled far and wide, and some of them can't see it. They say good things for Ping'an Town: "Ping'an Town is now in the hands of the Wang family, and the development is quite fast. Although it is not as good as Shanyin for the time being, it has great potential for future development. It’s huge. As for the appearance of ferocious beasts in the jurisdiction, it does happen occasionally, but because it’s next to the outer domain, it’s unavoidable.”
"Wang Shouzhe, the patriarch of the Wang clan, is a remarkable young handsome man. He is highly regarded in Ping'an Town, and he is worthy of your Miss Liu."
Following the rebuttals of the casual practitioners, some Sanyin civilians finally had some impressions of Ping'an Town and Wang Shouzhe.
But there are still many people who hold prejudices.
"Occasionally there are ferocious beasts, but that's not it. Miss Ruo Lan married to such a wild place, it's too hard."
"Wang Shouzhe? This name is so common. I don't know what he looks like. I hope he can be handsome and heroic. With the Yuanhui patriarch, he can do it in seven or eight years."
"How can it be compared with Master Yuanhui? It would be good for the groom to be half as good as Master Yuanhui."
All kinds of discussions continued.
Suddenly.
A few clever young men in the distance rushed back, their faces flushed, and they shouted excitedly: "Here, come, the Ping'an Wang family's wedding team is here, and the bridegroom official is here."
Instantly.
Everyone fell silent, stretched their necks and looked out the door.
Not long after, at the corner of the road, a welcoming team slowly appeared.
The leader of the team was a young man in a wedding dress with a big red flower ball hanging on his chest.
He wears a purple jade crown with hairpin tassels on his head, and a tight-fitting vermilion wedding gown. The wedding gown is embroidered with dragon patterns as the base. Vision.
There is a bag of ten thousand treasures hanging on the waist, implying that the husband’s family is rich and can make the bride’s life worry-free. This bag of ten thousand treasures is to be handed over to the bride, and it also means that the bride will be in charge of the finances in the future.
Wearing a jade sword and a small purple gold bow on the right hand side, it represents that the groom's family has a strong force and can protect his wife and children.
The head-turned cloud boots under the feet indicate the groom's wish to make progress step by step in the future and the family to grow and develop.
These dresses are all exquisite in this world.
This is the standard attire of the patriarch of the family, or the groom of the heir of the family. Neither the direct line of the family nor the second son can wear this kind of wedding dress.
"Hey, the groom is tall and straight, and his face is like a crown jade. He looks so handsome and heroic." A certain scholar praised, "During the ride, he is as calm as water, with a graceful posture, not bad."
"The bridegroom's wedding dress, from a distance, seems to exude traces of red and golden light. Could it be... the legendary golden fire double spirit silk robe?" a well-informed casual cultivator exclaimed.
"Brother, what is the Golden Fire Twin Spirit Silk Robe? Isn't it just a wedding robe? What's the point?"
"Hehe~ There are many kinds of silkworms in the world, such as ice silkworms, fire silkworms, golden silkworms, etc. But no matter what kind of silk silk clothes, the price is very expensive. A lady from an ordinary family has a silk silk handkerchief, It's a treasure." The casual cultivator talked eloquently.
"And the most suitable for making men's wedding dresses is the double-spirited silk gown that is dominated by fire-spirited silk and assisted by golden-spirited silk. These two kinds of silks are naturally ruddy or golden in color, making wedding gowns the most luxurious."
"But the wedding gown uses a lot of materials and is complicated to make, so the price is even more expensive. From the looks of the groom's official outfit, I'm afraid it won't be less than two thousand gold!"
"two thousand?"
Whether it is a commoner, a casual cultivator, or a foot trader, they are all on the verge of collapse.
That is a sky-high price!
The most important thing is that a man's wedding gown is only worn once in a lifetime... It costs two thousand dry gold to wear it once, which is too extravagant!
"Longzuo County, I have seen this kind of wedding gown. It was the kind of wedding gown that the patriarch of a certain family of heaven and man used when he married." Sanxiu was proud of his knowledge.
Is the groom official who can afford such a wedding gown an ordinary family
Almost everyone looked in awe of the groom's officer.
"Hey, don't just look at the wedding gown, look at the horse the groom is riding!" Another well-informed casual cultivator called out.
Follow his reminder.
Only then did everyone discover that the groom's official was riding an ordinary horse.
I saw that horse with a single horn on its head, its whole body was red like fire, and its four hooves were white like clouds. It was vigorous, vigorous, handsome and full of spirituality.
It walks lightly, as if it is flying on the clouds.
"This is... the legendary steed of the Myriad Gold Spirit Beast"
"Fire Steps on White Clouds!"
Seriously.
Robes of thousands of gold, horses of ten thousand gold, the son will marry the noble daughter!
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