Sure enough, he saw Zhu Ying waving to a guard next to the carriage and asking in a low voice, actually trying to find out about this place.
When Zhu Ying heard that this place was not far from her "fiancé's" home, her eyes flickered, and it was clear that she had firmly remembered it in her heart. Then she stared at the beautiful boy for several more times. At this moment, Zhu Gongquan knew that he had been angry for nothing.
When Zhang Shou saw the incomparably beautiful girl gesturing to the driver to drive on, he was about to lower the curtains, but suddenly she seemed to remember something, smiled at him, and waved goodbye. He couldn't help but smile and waved to her as well.
When he met a beautiful and reasonable lady, his mood, which had been suddenly ruined, unknowingly improved.
He naturally didn't know that Zhu Ying, who had lowered the curtains and sat back in her original seat, was pressing her chest, her face beaming with joy.
This trip to the countryside was worth it! Even if she couldn't solve the marriage arranged by her father, she could always use this excuse to come out in the future!
Of course, if this marriage is settled, she can also come here to stroll around without any scruples in the future and enjoy the unparalleled beauty!
Zhang Shou did not take this small encounter seriously. After the uninvited guests left, he put on his bamboo hat and heard the tenants happily say that they would continue to grow rice next year. Only then did he walk back with satisfaction.
It was exciting to read books about time travel, but when Zhang Shou came over, he discovered that it would be terrible if it was his turn.
But fortunately, although this is the countryside, he was not born into an ordinary farm family that had to work hard in the fields all day to feed himself. His family had a two-courtyard house with three servants to take care of the inside and outside. Among them, Ah Liu never said a word, while Old Liu looked at a door that was never visited by any guests. His gossipy daughter-in-law Aunt Liu often said that all the fields nearby belonged to him.
And this neighboring area… is said to be as high as thousands of acres! Although the land owned by him seems not quite commensurate with his current life, and even a little suspicious, it did not prevent rice advocate Zhang Shou from initially planning to vacate part of the land to grow rice.
Therefore, after visiting and discovering that the nearby water system was abundant, he first persuaded his mother, Mrs. Wu, to pay the tenants to dig canals to irrigate the land, and then began to try to grow rice, first using rice-fish symbiosis to improve the soil environment, and in the past two years, artificial selection of seeds. It's a pity that immigrants like crayfish have not been introduced at this time, so it's a foolish dream to want to raise shrimp in rice fields.
When he occasionally wants to eat high-protein foods, he can only satisfy his cravings with high-protein foods such as loach and eel.
As for sericulture... the north is not suitable for raising mulberry silkworms, and in terms of scale it cannot compete with the silk weaving industry in the south of the Yangtze River; as for tussah silkworms, they are a northern specialty and are not picky about taste, eating leaves of all oak trees, camphor trees, cypress trees, maple trees, poplar trees, etc. Wu originally raised some, and under his encouragement, he expanded the scale of breeding in the village.
Of course, in addition to rice, after diverting water to irrigate the fields, he also opened up a part of the cotton field and planted cotton. The current yield is not high. As for fruits and vegetables, they have all the varieties they should have these days. As for grafting, there are no good varieties for the time being. With his little theoretical knowledge, he is still at the stage of asking old farmers to explore...
There are some farm tools suitable for rice fields. Because there are not enough oxen for plowing, the village blacksmith made some tools such as hoes and weed claws according to his instructions, which are quite useful.