For five or six days in a row, You Miao wore coarse clothes and mingled with the tenants. Every meal was a family meal, and they ate together. The peasants built a hut by the field. Seeing You Miao and Li Zhifeng coming, they all stood up and smiled. They say hello.
After harvesting rice once, my whole body was covered with scars. I was covered in sweat in the dog days, my arms were cut with red marks, and my neck was bitten by insects. You Miao followed him around 200 acres of land, and his whole body was sunburned. peeled off a layer of skin.
Finally, all the land in the villa was harvested, and the farmers began threshing, dragging cattle and mules on the threshing field to crush the rice husks, which were then sent to be milled.
For the first harvest, the whole villa was like a grand festival. A water-powered mill was built beside the canal, and even mules were saved. Some farmers went down to the river to grind with large waterwheels, while others gathered along the canal and borrowed the use of swimming pools. Miao built the mill.
As soon as the rice seedlings were planted, You Miao kept asking how much he could collect and how much he could collect. He asked for more than three months, and everyone wanted to die until he finally weighed the brown rice and put it in one household at a time. You Miao breathed a sigh of relief when the rice bag Chaozhi moved on the scale in front of the villa.
"One hundred and forty-four catties per mu!
Great! "
You Miao said loudly:
"Your family has harvested the most early rice this year!"
Everyone around was in an uproar, all staring at the strong man enviously, and the strong man sighed:
"It's not easy, young master, get up early and work in the dark.
There are old and young in the family. "
"The yield per mu is more than 120 catties."
You Miao waved his pen and said to the tenants:
"I only charge you four cents for rent."
The tenants cheered loudly. You Miao had never mentioned this before, but now that I say this, some families are happy and some are sad, so the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. You Miao closed the book and laughed. :
"Don't be lazy, just cheer up, there is still a crop of late rice, and the grain has been put into the warehouse, so I'm thinking about it myself, and it's better to go back and build a house."
Bags of rice went into the granary. That night, You Miao closed the door of the granary. In total, there were 3,224 mu of land, and a total of 42,000 catties of grain were collected. He only paid the rent. , there are 20,000 catties, all of which were returned by the tenants in advance.
Still gratefully sent it to You Miao's house, sold all the rice, and got nearly 400 taels of silver.
It's not easy.
But before You Miao was about to sell the rice, she stored the grain first.
"It makes me feel at ease."
You Miao smiled.
"You are terrified."
Jojue said:
"Actually, this person should also be poor. Those who have never been poor live as if they are missing something."
On a midsummer night, with the sound of insects, You Miao and Qiao Jue sat under the big tree in the yard to enjoy the cool air. You Miao was really frightened, thinking that at the beginning of the year, a copper plate would have been broken into two pieces, and they had to rely on so many hundreds of taels to get it. Feeding thousands of people, he didn't want to do this again anyway.
Fortunately, the most difficult beginning has been overcome, and in a few days, the peanuts will be harvested, and Shenyuan has become a large oil extraction area.
Hundreds of acres of peanut fields can still be sold for one hundred taels of silver.
You Miao's abacus was rattling, and he finally had some money. He wanted to save all the food he grew at home, and he couldn't sell it for a few dollars anyway. The rapeseed and peanut fields were enough to supply Shen Yuan. annual expenses.
Thinking that he used to spend taels of silver in the capital, the silver was counted as 10 taels or 20 taels.
The farmers in the entire villa worked hard for a year to cultivate the land and sold all the food, but it was not enough for a month. You Miao couldn't help feeling emotional.
Li Zhifeng walked in from the outside and stood under the lantern with a letter in his hand. The bright red light of the lantern illuminated his handsome profile.
"Whose letter should I read?"
You Miao said:
"Anyone else write to you?"
Li Zhifeng said:
"yours."
He then handed over the unpacked letter, and You Miao took it, thinking that what Li Zhifeng would notice was mostly related to Quan Rong, and it should be Zhao Chao's letter.
In the world, only You Miao has no rules here, allowing the housekeeper to open the letter at will. At first glance, it was written by Zhao Chao.
The three princes accompanied the army to fight, and naturally there were a few staff around him, and the leader was Nie Dan. These You Miao could guess. Of course, Zhao Chao, the battle situation analyzed by Li Zhifeng a few months ago, will not wait for them to point out, but about the Quan Rong people Some of the rules, and the letter from You Miao helped him a lot.
The letter is still to talk about the battle situation first. In summer, there were heavy rains in Huyan Mar Mountain, and the Tianqi Dynasty army had been caught in the quagmire of the battle, and they could not advance or retreat. What was more troublesome was that the army salaries could not be paid. Zhao Chao’s letter was helpless. Couldn't help expressing the anguish of no one in the dynasty.
Now the imperial court is dispatching the annual salaries of the southern states of the Yangtze River in advance to support the Saibei army, and the rations and salaries are still unknown when they will arrive.
At the end, Zhao Chao talked about the imperial examination in a rather long paragraph - this year's township examination is imminent, so that You Miao must spend all her time studying and rushing to the examination, and if she enters the capital in the future, she can help herself to find out.
This letter should have been delivered to Jiangnan in April. There was a delay on the way, and this year's imperial examinations were advanced again. If these trivial matters were not considered, Zhao Chao's letter was indeed just right, but You Miao did not wait for him to remind him that he had already gone to the township examination. , At the beginning, I still had the heart of being a fool, but now I seriously think that a man is born in the world, he really has to do a good job, and he can't stay at home all the time.
A few days later, Jiangcheng House released the list. You Miao woke up in the morning and yawned. She sat in the hall and said to Li Zhifeng:
"You go to see the list today."
"Um."
Li Zhifeng brought the porridge, wiped his hands, and Youmiao added:
"By the way, let's see if my cheap big brother has mentioned it."
Qiao Jue was still in the backyard and didn't wake up. The two were eating when someone came outside.
"Oh, congratulations, young master!"
A woman grabbed a handkerchief, got out of the car at the entrance of Shenyuan, and ran in, shouting:
"congratulations!
Congrats to my nephew! "
Cheng Guangwu also just got up outside, and when he saw that this person was not following the rules, he became angry and shouted:
"How come there is so much shouting, you can break into Shen Yuan!
get me out! "
The old woman just urged repeatedly outside:
"My nephew!
The second master asked me to come over to congratulate you!
You are in the middle! "
You Miao glanced out, and Li Zhifeng looked at each other, both of them were dumbfounded. Li Zhifeng put down his chopsticks to go out, and You Miao said again:
"It's just right now, you don't have to go to Jiangchengfu for a trip."
Li Zhifeng said:
"I'll go get her a red seal."
You Miao froze, feeling a little smug in her heart, and sure enough, she was in the middle of the crowd. Now let's see what the old man has to say.
Just as Li Zhifeng went to get the money, the old woman shouted again from outside:
"Young master nephew knows Yuan!
This is our first trip to the Qiao family! "
When You Miao heard this, he immediately overturned the bowl and shouted like a dream:
"what
What did you say! "