The purchasing department did not expect that the young master of the You family would come to the door in person, so he was startled, You Miao sweated, and ordered Mu Yan to weigh the rice seeds, and with his sleeves on his back he said helplessly: "Just shove these people into my villa without saying a word. , I'll have to come to your door someday to thank the prefect."
The procurement department official laughed, and You Miao shoved a broken piece of silver into his hand using the empty dang of the handle. After understanding the procurement, he personally took Mu Yan to choose the one.
You Miao went to the market to buy six water buffaloes, pulled two carts, and drove the cart back to Jiangbei, talking and laughing with Mu Yan like two children. , I had to rest on the road for a night. When I returned to the villa after noon the next day, Li Zhifeng also came back and said with a frown, "Why don't you stay and leave?"
"I went to buy grain." You Miao said, "I'm out of money, I'm out of money, are your plows ready?"
Li Zhifeng said: "It's all stored in the backyard warehouse."
You Miao held the water buffalo and kept shouting, rubbing the head of the buffalo and letting it drag him away. It was very fun. Li Zhifeng watched from the side. After a while, one of the cows hit the other, and the two started fighting. Li Zhifeng said. : "Don't fight."
With one hand, Li Zhifeng was able to pull out the horns that were touching each other with just his strength. You Miao couldn't help but be speechless.
Qiao Jue also came back. As soon as he entered the house, he was so frightened that he said, "Miaozi! What's going on at home? It's like going to a market."
You Miao didn't know whether to laugh or cry. The whole Shen Yuan was only built at this point, and it became a mess again. Six cows were crowded in the front yard, and plows were piled up in the back yard. There was almost nowhere to go.
A group of children were playing in the water under the courtyard porch. It was cold and cold, and they rolled up their trousers and went out to fish. You Miao was so cold when he saw it, he shouted: "Don't make trouble! Be quiet!"
The children were not afraid of him at all, and they all ran away hahaha.
It took You Miao a lot of effort to settle down. When he returned to the main room, he was completely paralyzed. Li Zhifeng was still dispatching things to Cheng Guangwu outside, so he probably had to be busy for a while.
The lights in the hall are brilliant, and Qiao Jue has just come back and has been helping non-stop, this will finally be able to take a breath, come in to wash his face, settle accounts, plan the plate, and say, "This is all done at one time, it's enough."
"Yes." You Miao said weakly: "It's just that so many people come at once, and there is no place to live."
Qiao Jue said: "I found the beekeeper for you, and he will come here in February. The rapeseeds are all in the warehouse. I saw that you bought grain seeds. After ten days, you will have people ploughing and planting the fields. Forget it, I'm afraid that in the first season, the land will be too fertile, and there will not be enough fat to grow much food."
"It's enough to have enough to eat." You Miao said, "I don't have much to ask for, Li Zhifeng! Li Zhifeng!"
While talking, You Miao saw the two children picking flowers outside, so he was furious, took the board and went out to fight, shouting, "I'll take your unruly little beasts!"
The child screamed and ran away. You Miao chased after him a few steps. Seeing that the two urchins were hiding behind Li Zhifeng, Li Zhifeng shook his head helplessly and said to the other half-aged teenagers, "Come in tomorrow to work."
The three thirteen- or fourteen-year-old boys lined up and nodded hastily. Li Zhifeng turned around and followed You Miao into the hall, and then ordered Cheng Guangwu to set the meal.
Li Zhifeng said: "Three people were recruited to serve the uncle, brothers Jiamuyan Mufeng and Guangwu, there are six people."
You Miao said, "Hey, there are only three of us, but we need six to serve."
Qiao Jue said with a smile: "You have never seen a big family, inside and outside, to serve a master, but you have to support twenty or thirty servant girls."
You Miao doesn't pay much attention to the things next to her. Although she likes to be lively, this house is too lively. She is exhausted by the tossing. At night, she falls asleep as soon as her head touches the pillow, but Qiao Jue is very busy. It was almost four o'clock, and the lights in the bamboo sea were still on.
You Miao's dreams are all about his waterwheel, clear waters and green mountains, and endless fertile fields.
When I woke up the next day, there were people outside the door again. They were still homeless people who came to ask for a living. You Miao was tired and said, "Let them wait outside."
Qiao Jue ate too early and said, "I'll go get rid of it."
Qiao Jue is an expert. As soon as he is done with things, he brushes them a few times, and he is organized and settled in less than half an hour. Although Yangzhou Mansion's intention was to let You Miao choose people to stay, and tell them to go back if they didn't like it, but You Miao felt sorry for the people who fled, and in the end even the lonely and widowed elderly also accepted them. The first person selected the land, and it was not easy to manage the east and west. You Miao circled the land with his own handwriting. One family temporarily planted 20 to 30 acres of land. He went out to three thousand acres of land, which accounted for half of the entire villa, and started spring ploughing.
Some of the peasants came to borrow cattle, some came to borrow ploughs, and they all dispersed at once. The spring was very good. Cheng Guangwu took a few servants to sprinkle rapeseeds on a 50-acre plot of land behind Shenyuan. You Miao watched for a while, then turned on his horse and walked slowly along the road.
It is sunny in spring. On both sides of the long road in the villa, there are all farmers who are cultivating. The first few are already cultivating seedlings. Looking around, the whole Jiangbo Villa looks like a small village and town that is self-contained.
The canals extend in all directions, coming and going vertically and horizontally, like cobwebs covering the farmland.
February is gone in a flash, and the days of March and April are warmer again. Youmiao visits the villa twice a day, and he really doesn’t have a penny. The remaining twenty taels of silver that Qiao Jue gave him, he still has to eat. Harvest only last month.
You Miao also thinks of a dyeing workshop, building a silkworm house, and doing whatever it is fun to do. However, he has no money, so he has to do this first. He flips through the book every day. They went to take care of their rapeseed field with Li Zhifeng.
As soon as spring arrives, the rape blossoms bloom all over the mountains and plains. In late spring, the beekeepers live in the villa. Half of the rape flowers are planted on the 400 acres of land that goes straight down the hills from the back of the Shenyuan Garden. Cheng Guangwu took the whole villa with him. The people in the house are in charge, and half of them let the tenants come to help workers take care of it every day.
In the late spring of April, when more than 2,000 mu of rice fields grew lusciously green, You Miao dropped the book and was very bored.
Li Zhifeng was starting the stove and turning the charcoal fire to boil water, and said, "Isn't it a good idea to let you idle? I'm tired when I'm busy with something."
You Miao held a book in one hand, moved her shoulders, and said, "I don't feel comfortable sitting at home and reading every day. Just find something for me to do."
Li Zhifeng said, "I have nothing to do."
You Miao is no better than Li Zhifeng. When Li Zhifeng has nothing to do, he sits under the eaves in a daze. He sits for a day, but You Miao is naturally restless and says, "Let's go out for horseback riding."