Chapter 116

Xiao LIULANG hired the fastest carriage and arrived at Qingquan town at the end of August.

When passing by Tianxiang academy, Feng Lin first carried his luggage back to his dormitory. After he came out, he met President Li.

Premier Li was surprised to see him: "eh? Why so fast? Didn't you go to the local examination? You missed it or something? What about LIULANG? "

"Yes, yes! We came back after the exam! That... I'll talk to you in detail later. LIULANG is waiting for me outside. Goodbye, Dean! " Feng Lin grinned and ran away!

Who doesn't know that Xiao LIULANG is the treasure of President Li? If you don't slip fast, President Li can ask him if it's dark.

Feng linsou jumped into the carriage.

"What's the matter?" Asked Xiao LIULANG.

"Premier Li!" Feng Lin said, "don't be caught by him. You can't go home if you ask later."

Xiao LIULANG thought deeply, and urged the coachman to drive the carriage back to the village.

The money was settled as early as in the provincial capital, but the coachman followed them all the way. It was hard to be a coachman and a boy. Xiao LIULANG gave him another silver or two.

The coachman was flattered and went to bow his hands.

"Be careful on the way." Xiao LIULANG said.

"Ah! Thank you, young master Xiao The coachman got into the carriage happily.

What they do in this business is hard money. Although they have been out for more than a month, the money that really falls into their hands is only two or three Liang. With one or two of these, life at home will be much better next month!

Xiao LIULANG and Feng Lin go to the village.

When they left the village at the end of June, the late rice in the village had just been planted, just a few small rice seedlings, and now it has grown into a piece of green.

"Wow! The wheat in your village is growing well

This year, the climate is abnormal, the rain is scarce, and the farmland is dry. As a result, many crops are dead in the field. All the way from the provincial capital, they witnessed it with their own eyes and were shocked.

However, the crops in Qingquan village seem not affected by the drought, and they grow well.

"It's rice." Xiao LIULANG corrected him, but the same question flashed through his heart. Why did the crops in his village grow so well?

"Oh." Feng Lin answered and suddenly pointed to the front, "look! canal! It's not bad. You've dug canals in your village! It's just different when you change the lane! "

After Mr. Gu stepped down, a new Li Zheng was chosen in the village. His surname was Luo Er Shu. He was a relative of his family. It was said that he would soon come out with five clothes. However, because he lived close to him, the two families moved around a lot, so they were still close.

Rory doesn't care about the old man's culture, but he is a practical man. He will help any villagers in the village when they are in trouble.

But digging canals

It's not Xiao LIULANG who looks down on Luo Lizheng, but everyone in the neighborhood. After spending so long together, Xiao LIULANG still sees what Luo Lizheng can do.

He is a relatively conservative Li Zheng, who is not easy to build large-scale projects, and the village has no money to build large-scale projects.

"Ah! LIULANG One side of Feng Lin quack up again, "you see! waterwheel! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Am I blind? There are waterwheel in your village

Feng Lin Chang is so big that he has seen a water wheel only a few times.

The water wheel is a good thing. It can drain the water from the lower part to the higher part. It is the best way to irrigate the farmland.

However, water tankers are rarely seen in such small towns. Generally, the rich villages can arrange water tankers. They have seen water tankers several times on their way back from the provincial capital. However, due to the drought, there is no water in the ponds of their own villages, so water tankers have become furnishings.

Feng Lin was puzzled and said, "well, where did the water come from in your village?"

Xiao LIULANG's eyes went all the way along the canal to the back mountain of Luo Er Shu's house. He frowned and murmured, "did you lead the waterfall on the mountain?"

It's not an ordinary canal. It takes a lot of manpower and material resources to dig it out after crossing half a mountain. Not only that, but also need to be familiar with the mountain terrain.

"Oh! LIULANG is back! "

It's Aunt Zhang.

Aunt Zhang has just come out of Uncle Luo's house with a basket of wild fruits in her hand. She thinks her family will be lucky. She is the first person to see xiulang when she comes back from the exam!

"Aunt Zhang." Xiao LIULANG said hello.

"Aunt Zhang!" Feng Lin also said hello with a smile.

When Feng Lin always came to the village, Aunt Zhang already knew him. Aunt Zhang said with a smile, "I've come back. It's longer than last time! The provincial capital is far away

People in the countryside don't know about the days of examination and release. They don't know that Xiao LIULANG is actually the first foreign examinee to go home. He only thinks that he has left for one month more than the last time.

Xiao LIULANG didn't explain anything and said, "yes, the provincial capital is far away from the Fu city. It took more than half a month to arrive."

"I said Aunt Zhang looks like I'm really smart. "Well, I've been away from home for so many days. I'm thinking about my concubine. Hurry back. She's here!"

Today, Tianxiang academy is on holiday, but private school is not. Gu Xiaoshun went to the town to take care of her two babies. Gu Jiao works at home.

When Xiao LIULANG and Feng Lin enter the house, what they first see is not Gu Jiao, but a man dressed up by a farmer.

Both of them were stunned.

The man hears the movement of the door, turn round, Mou son a bright: "six Lang? Is this... Feng Xiucai? "

Feng Lin was stunned: "er... I am, you are..."

"Rory is right." Xiao LIULANG said hello.

Rory was scratching his head.

Feng Lin suddenly realized: "are you the new Li Zheng? You're really good at digging canals and making water trucks. You've revitalized the whole village's crops! "

Rory was stunned at first, and then said with a simple and honest smile: "Feng Xiucai said that he was wrong. I'm not the one who dug the canal, and I'm not the one who made the waterwheel!"

Feng Lin was surprised: "who are you?"

There is a guess in Xiao LIULANG's heart. He subconsciously looks at the back door of the hall. At this time, Gu Jiao enters the hall while wiping her hands.

When she saw Xiao LIULANG, she took a step.

She knew the time when the examination was over, and she also knew about the date when it would be released. She estimated that Xiao LIULANG would come back only after the release of the examination. Unexpectedly, it was so fast.

She was a little dazed.

Xiao LIULANG felt his heart tremble uncontrollably.

He looked away quietly and said hello to Rory.

Rory is in a fog. Didn't he say hello just now?

Looking at Xiao LIULANG, Gu Jiao unconsciously bent her lips: "how come she came back so soon? Not in the provincial capital for a few more days. "

"There's nothing interesting about the provincial capital," said Xiao LIULANG

Gu Jiao: "Oh."

Rory said with a smile: "just now I was talking about you. Feng Xiucai asked me if I dug the canal and made the water wheel. Ha ha, where can I have such skills?"

He said to Feng Lin, "it's jiaoniang!"

"Ah..." Feng Lin was stunned.

Gu Jiao opened a mountain to grow medicine, dug a fish pond, and when the water from the waterfall was introduced into the fish pond, he also dug a canal to reach the village.

The weather is dry and the waterfall on the mountain is much smaller, but it is enough to irrigate the farmland in the village.

Xiao LIULANG took a deep look at Gu Jiao.

"No? It's only two months since you left. Have you dug out the fish pond? " Feng Lin knows that Gu Jiao bought the mountain, but he didn't expect Gu Jiao to be so resolute.

Rory said to Gu Jiao: "by the way, I went to the carpenters in the village to make the wooden cart for threshing and yangguzi that you told us last time, but they didn't make it so quickly. They asked me to ask you, which kind of wood is better?"

Gu Jiao thought about it and said, "Korean pine, Aspen, toon and basswood are all OK. They have high hardness and are not easy to deform."

"Good! Then I'll go first! " As he said this, Rory turned his head and congratulated Xiao LIULANG and Feng Lin in advance, hoping that they would be on the local examination list.

"What kind of wagons for threshing and yangguzi?" Asked Feng Lin curiously.

Gu Jiao explained: "it's a cart that can separate grain from panicle, and sift out the Unfulfilled Grain, leaving only normal grain."

"And this stuff?" Feng Lin expressed doubts.

Although he couldn't tell the difference between the wheat field and the paddy field, he still knew about threshing.

It's all about grabbing a bunch of rice and smashing it on the ground with brute force. It takes a lot of trouble to smash it, but it may not be able to take off completely. If you don't take off the rice, you have to pick it carefully by hand.

When he was a child, he used to pick millet, half a copper plate a day.

As for the separation of chaff and good grain, it is usually to dry the grain first, and then select a windy day to raise the grain. A good Valley is heavy and falls to the ground; The chaff is light and will be blown aside by the wind.

After pounding rice, it is also used to separate rice and husk.

In principle, Gu Jiao's grain lifter is the same as Yanggu's, which can separate chaff, good grain, rice and husk, but it is more efficient, labor-saving and clean.

Originally, Rory didn't believe in such a useful thing. It can be seen that after Gu Jiao dug canals and made water tankers for the villagers, Rory believed in her ability and character.

In the evening, Gu Yan's three brothers got home.

Xiaojingkong's eyelids began to jump from noon. As soon as he came into the room and saw his bad brother-in-law, he finally understood why his eyelids had been jumping all afternoon!

He came into the room and looked at the bad brother-in-law with a serious face.

Well, not thin.

Jiaojiao should not worry.

He took Xiao LIULANG to the backyard and asked him to pick the dates from the jujube tree.

Xiao LIULANG looked up at the branch and said, "it's almost September. Where are the dates?"

Xiao Jingkong's eyes are fixed on Xiao LIULANG's head. He has strictly recorded the height of his bad brother-in-law before and can barely reach the first branch. Now the bad brother-in-law has surpassed the branch!

The bad brother-in-law has grown tall!

In fact, in the past two months, according to his close observation, not only bad brother-in-law has grown tall, but brother Gu Yan and brother Xiao Shun have also grown tall, even Jiao Jiao.

The only thing that hasn't changed in the family is him and his aunt.

Jiaojiao said that it was because he was still young.

But Gouwa is smaller than him. Gouwa has grown tall!

Xiaojingkong looks sad!

"What's the matter with you?" Xiao LIULANG looked at him and asked.

"Well, it's nothing. Don't talk about me." Xiao Jingkong sighed like an adult, looked up at Xiao LIULANG solemnly and said, "tell me about you! How was the exam? Is the subject difficult? Are you sure? If you don't win, your family will have to pay you again for three years! "

Xiao LIULANG didn't expect to avoid Dean Li, but he didn't avoid the little monk

What's the tone of big parents?

"You also know that they are tested every three years." Xiao LIULANG angrily and funny to his small cuntou, picked a jujube handed to his hand, "here, take it to play."

Xiaojingkong looks at the shriveled jujube in his hand and turns his mouth.

Who wants to play? immature!

Xiao LIULANG's family brought gifts, the old lady's is sesame sugar and soybean crisp.

Happy old lady!

Gu Jiao confiscates the sesame sugar, the soybean crisp can only eat one piece a day.

The old lady is not happy!

What he brought to Gu Yan was a round inkstone made of jade. He liked round things, especially those made of jade.

Gu Yan: "thank you, brother-in-law."

It's a set of nine links for little clearance.

Xiaojingkong took it with a haughty face, and said, "what is it? It's so childish." he turned around and hid in the room, secretly poking out the nine links!

Gu Xiaoshun was given a few pieces of high-quality wood carving materials. Now he has no shortage of tools. He is short of good wood to bring him disaster.

"Brother in law, what kind of wood is this? I haven't seen it Gu Xiaoshun weighed a piece of black wood in his hand and asked.

"Ebony." Xiao LIULANG said.

Ebony was not owned by Zhao state. It was transported from Qing state. They were lucky and met a caravan on the way.

Several people are very satisfied with their gifts.

Finally, it's Gu Jiao's turn.

Gu Jiaoxin said that she couldn't give her any more brushes this time. As a result, Xiao LIULANG didn't give her any more pens, but he gave her a stack of paper.

Gu Jiao

This is not the brown paper sold on the market, but the very expensive water pattern paper. Facing the light, curtain pattern, bamboo pattern or pattern will be displayed, so it is also called pattern paper.

Pattern paper process is complex, expensive, even the city did not sell, only to the provincial capital.

In the state of Zhao, sending pattern paper is about the same as sending flowers.

Red sleeves add fragrance.

However, Gu Jiao's smile gradually froze in the small face.

The old lady who had been confiscated of the sesame candy was all smiles.

There is a kind of romance, called LIULANG, that is very romantic!

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Feng Lin also brought something, a few large pieces of smoked donkey meat and a bottle of shaodao wine. Shaodao was given by the shop.

Gu Jiao hasn't drunk the ancient wine, and she doesn't smell too strong. She has tasted two mouthfuls, but she doesn't have any reaction at dinner. When she washes the dishes, the strength of the wine comes up.

Xiao LIULANG first sent Feng Lin to the village and then came back to take a bath for Xiao Jingkong. When he went to the kitchen to find Gu Jiao, Gu Jiao had already thrown half of the washing bowl into the pot and sat on the threshold of the back door of the main room.

She turned her back to Xiao LIULANG and looked at the starry sky.

Xiao LIULANG went over and said, "what are you looking at?"

Gu Jiao turned her head slowly, looking dull and wooden. Her small face was red, and her big eyes were wet and glistening.

Her appearance is not the same as the usual, but like a child in a moment, especially innocent.

"Look at the stars."

She said.

The voice is soft and waxy, with a little confused milk sound.

Xiao LIULANG took a deep breath, calmed down and said, "go back to the house. It's dark."

"No return." She shook her head and mumbled.

Well, small clearance is usually like this.

Have a drink and make yourself three years old.

Gu Jiao continued to look up at the stars.

"LIULANG." She spoke suddenly.