That night, a steamed fat chicken came to the table, and You Miao's eyes turned green. Li Zhifeng lined up the tender parts of the chicken thighs, chicken thighs, and tender parts, and let You Miao eat first, the breasts, the chicken buttocks, Pick out the back, etc. After that, the ones with many bones and those that were not tender were packed and taken out, and two taels of wine were made, and a bucket of rice was given to two craftsmen.
You Miao said, "You also come to eat."
Li Zhifeng sat down at the table, You Miao put the chicken leg into his bowl, Li Zhifeng ate it, and he would eat whatever You Miao gave him. On the chair, Li Zhifeng gave him another cup of tea and went to clean up the tableware.
You Miao thought that life is really beautiful. When I lived in the capital, I used to eat and drink all the time, but the chicken tastes better than today's. People really need to be hungry before they can eat.
Li Zhifeng said, "I found a cellar in the backyard kitchen."
You Miao said in shock: "What's in it? It can't be a dead person."
Li Zhifeng said: "Eighty jars of good old wine."
You Miao: "!!!"
Li Zhifeng said, "Take it out and try it?"
You Miao said: "Forget it, I'm full, this wine is definitely not easy, will you take me to see it?"
Li Zhifeng led You Miao in, and found that there really was a wine cellar in the underground of Shenyuan, and it was all excellent champion red! After hundreds of years, it has now become a mellow wine. You Miao secretly said that it is worth it. These 80 jars of wine are all valuable treasures that will have to be used to entertain guests in the future.
After drinking the tea, You Miao went in to sleep and did not take a bath. In the middle of the night, when he heard Li Zhifeng watering outside, he said, "Come in and sleep."
Li Zhifeng took a cold shower, came in lightly, got into the bed, and slept with You Miao in his arms, You Miao thought that this guy is really hard.
For several days, Li Zhifeng carried a hoe to open the canal in the morning, but You Miao didn't have the strength to dig. He called Li Zhifeng several times not to go, but Li Zhifeng left without a word. You Miao couldn't find anything to do for him, so he left him alone.
In the morning, Youmiao got up early and patrolled around Shenyuan. Starting from the front of the main room, the house was repaired little by little. The doors and windows were removed, and a layer of the surface was planed under the sun, waiting to be painted with new paint. Zhang Er came to read a book early in the morning, and You Miao asked him to look after him, while Li Zhuang’s daughter-in-law came to Shenyuan with a basket of eggs and said to help the young master cook. You Miao knew that Li Zhuang mostly went back and said, no Must go. He asked her to temporarily stay in Shenyuan to help work and make lunch.
Since moving to Shenyuan, Youmiao has only eaten twice a day. Recently, he has gradually started to get up early, and he was very hungry at noon. So he packed two cans of the meal made by Li Zhuang's wife, rode on a horse, and took him to the highlands. Go up and plan to eat with Li Zhifeng.
Li Zhuang was standing on a pile of mud, watching Li Zhifeng dig the canal. It took five days to dig the canal. Now that the canal has opened more than ten feet, You Miao is completely exhausted.
"It's time to eat!" You Miao brought the meal over. Li Zhifeng had been tanned a little over the past few days, his face was covered in mud, he climbed out of the canal, sat beside the soil, and sighed.
Li Zhuang smiled and said, "While I was talking, the young master came."
You Miao complimented him, saying, "Your wife's cooking is delicious."
Li Zhifeng took the earthenware pot and opened it. It was filled with bacon and bamboo shoots. Below was a large pot of rice. He devoured it immediately. As he ate, Youmiao said, "Just ask someone to help you, don't stay there. It's not over yet."
"If you don't have enough strength," Li Zhifeng said, "there will be less and less. You have to practice martial arts even if you don't dig soil. It doesn't matter."
Li Zhuang squatted beside Kener and said with a smile, "It takes too long to drive alone."
You Miao said, "I'll think of a way to see if I can hire a few people after the spring."
The three were talking when You Miao shared half of his meal with Li Zhifeng. Li Zhifeng was also starving and thirsty. After discussing it, if you don't leave, just follow the young master to farm the land."
You Miao laughed and said, "That's good, why did you change your mind?"
Li Zhuang shook his head helplessly and said, "Now Yangzhou is not easy to beg for food, and I can't find a job. I originally wanted to go to my brother-in-law, but my brother-in-law just offended an official a while ago and was beaten. The family opened a grocery store, and now I don’t invite anyone, I’m afraid I’ll have to eat free food for a few months, and people will pick noses and eyes."
"Isn't that the truth?" You Miao said, "It's better to live with your own hands than to rely on others."
Li Zhuang said: "If the young master hadn't come, who would want to live in the villa for the rest of his life! No one cares about the harvest, there is a drought, there is a flood, and no one talks about opening a canal. Every year, the time is set for Biyu Villa. Come to someone to collect rent, no matter what your harvest is, whether it sells well or not, it will always be life and death.”
You Miao said, "Since Jiangbo Villa is given to me, of course I won't leave you alone, just rest assured."
Li Zhuang smiled and said: "That's right, knowing that the young master is a good person, he also said that he would give Zhu Tang a share of the rent..."
You Miao was amused, the news spread very well, and he said: "It's all the same, you guys will follow suit, and Liang Bo's side will also drop, anyway, everyone's rent is the same, you all pay the rent to me, just give it to me. Well, I'll keep it, I can't pay it in time, it's okay to delay it for a few days, I don't need to sell my wife and pay for my daughter... I'm a good talker."
Li Zhuang smiled and nodded again and again. You Miao knew about the scriptures. These four tenants all knew that they were not mean landlords. Except for Zhang Er who wanted to study and go to Beijing to take the exam and could no longer farm, the other three should not leave.
You Miao's mind was not on the plots of land in Li Zhuang and the others, and he could not receive any money. How to quickly wrap up these wasteland is serious, but to open up wasteland and plant, you must have water, and to have water, you must have waterwheels and canals... After a long time, I finally came back to the problem of waterwheels.
It's really hard to beat a hero with a penny... There are many rich businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River. Either give up the land, go to Yangzhou to pick up a few rich people, ask them to borrow some money, and coax them to pay to help solve this canal and waterwheel. Take the land as an exchange, and hire a few long-term workers to help them farm? This idea is okay, but I don't know how many people are willing to pay. You Miao suffers because he is too young. People in business are as old as You Dechuan. He went to someone else's house and looked like a child. Yes, the weight of speaking is naturally lighter.
Just when he was thinking about this, someone came from outside the villa, Li Zhifeng got up and took a look, and whistled in the distance, like a messenger.
The visitor turned over and dismounted, bowed and said, "Young Master You, I'm sorry, the last commander, Tang Hui, expedited 800 li in the capital, and sent the letter all the way down. I ordered it to be handed over to you in person."