imperial psychologist

Chapter 444 Keats Hall

"Yeah, because nothing can be grown." Bernongan replied.

Bai Yi glanced at the farmland on both sides. Although it was covered with heavy snow, he could still see the sharp stalks that sprang out from the field occasionally—it must have been harvested this season.

Bonong'an continued, "This area has the lowest terrain, and there is no way out for drainage. There was a period of time during the Tianqi period, and the south had been droughted for seven consecutive years. The low terrain, coupled with drought, made the depressions prone to salt damage.

"The land is hard, and the crops are planted, and the roots can't absorb fertilizer, so no one has been planting." Bonong'an said with a smile, "When I first came, it was because I said that I could grow this land that they didn't want to grow it. Willing to let me put the household into the village."

Bo Ling looked at Shino with some surprise, "It seems that he is indeed alive now."

"Yeah, it's actually not that difficult. Irrigation and drainage, silt release and anti-seepage. If you can't come up at the beginning, you can plant everything, and you have to keep limestone all year round..."

Bo Nong'an said as he walked, "I've been doing this for more than ten years. It's my luck. Since I lived in Pingjing, the weather here has been good. Look at it now."

He pointed to the boundary of the stele in the distance, which was the end of the field.

"These pieces of land are pretty good now, really good, and my grain payment this year almost catches up with the combined sum of several households in the village!" Bo Nong'an laughed.

Not far away, a farmyard could already be seen, and a fat woman was standing at the gate of the yard, and Bo Ling saw her waving to him.

She was wearing a dark green flowered jacket, her face and the tip of her nose were a little red, she was smiling, and her breath turned into white mist and dissipated in the air.

"This is your aunt!" Bernongan introduced with a smile.

"I heard you laughing again from afar." Bonong'an's wife, Fang Shi, glanced at the approaching Bonong'an with a bit of reproach, and then looked at Bai Ling and the others with a smile, "Did I tell you again? How did he farm the land so well?"

Bai Yi laughed, "We took the initiative to ask."

Bonong'an clicked his tongue, "I asked on my own initiative." Then he whispered, "...Besides, I'm really good at planting."

The food in the room was obviously prepared early in the morning, and it has been heated up several times by now.

As soon as Bo Nong'an entered the room, he bluffed and sat down at the dining table, calling Bo Ling and Bai Yi to come to the table.Bai Yi first followed his aunt to take the bamboo basket on his back to the kitchen, and Bai Ling was put on the table.

Two boys, one big and one small, stood waiting in the room, looking at Bai Ling and Bai Yi with some fear, and when they saw them coming in, they shrank behind the woman.

Bo Ling and Bai Yi originally thought he was the son of Bo Nong'an, but after careful questioning, they found out that he was already a grandson after a generation - Bo Nong'an's only son had found a job in Jiangzhou in the past two years. You can call it back at the end of the year.

The two children are usually taken care of by the daughter-in-law, but the daughter-in-law happened to return to her mother's house in the past two days, so there are only two of them left at home.

Bonong'an's house is different from other residents in the south. Their house is built with an earthen kang. No matter how cold it is outside, it will be warm as soon as you enter the house. This is obviously the configuration in the north.

"Hey, did Qian Sang also build an earth kang?" Bo Ling asked curiously.

"No, I learned this trick when I stayed in the north for a while." Bonongan said, "It's so good. One is that the heat from the stove for two meals a day will not be wasted, and the other is that the leftovers in the field The corn stalks are just enough to be used as firewood."

"Uncle still stayed in the north?" Bai Yi was surprised again.

"I've been there!" Bonong'an said, "Didn't your father also be there?"

"Oh, he is going to compile a medical book, so he needs to travel—"

"It's all the same," Bernongan laughed, "When we come out of Keats Church, we will go to more than a dozen state capitals first, so that we know that the things we have learned are not outdated, and there is something that needs to be changed. Correct, rectify and rectify...'Practice is the only criterion for testing truth'."

With two clear bangs, the chopsticks of Bai Yi and Bai Ling fell on the table at the same time.

The two brothers and sisters looked at Bo Nong'an together, their eyes boiling instantly.

Bonong'an was taken aback, "...what's wrong with you?"

Bai Ling took the first step to react, she lowered her head and smiled, "It's okay, I just think what Uncle said just now... makes sense."

"Yes, it makes sense." Bai Yi nodded, "Yes... who said that."

"The old master of our Keats Church should have passed away by now." Bonong'an said, "The old man was in water conservancy, and he taught most of my skills."

"Keats Hall... what is it for?"

Bo Nong'an froze for a moment, "Didn't Bai Shijun mention it to you?"

The siblings shook their heads at the same time, "No."

Bonong'an's expression froze for a moment, then he let out a soft "ahhh" and lowered his head to eat.

"Is...isn't it convenient to mention it?" Bo Ling asked.

"No..." Bo Nong'an picked up two chopsticks of rice, "Oh, don't worry about our adults' affairs, you children."

"I'm already twenty, uncle." Bai Yi said.

"You still know that you are twenty," Bo Nong'an frowned, "Have you married a wife? Have you given birth to a child? What do you think when you are twenty? Bai Shijun is always worried, he I didn’t tell you guys, but I ended up pouring bitter water on me all day and night...it’s annoying me!”

Bai Nong'an bombarded with cannons, and Bo Ling laughed beside her, but thinking about her unsettled marriage, she lowered her head and concentrated on eating.

Fang hurriedly put a few slices of meat into Bai Yi's bowl, "Your uncle has such a temper, otherwise he wouldn't be able to fight like that with your father a few days ago."

Bai Yi decided not to speak for the time being.

He didn't have much contact with this uncle, but how to put it, after a comparison, he suddenly felt that Bai Shijun was pretty good.

"So uncle and my father, why did they quarrel?" Bai Ling asked in a low voice, "... Bai Yi's marriage?"

"No way, I don't care about your marriage," Bernong'an said, looking back at his two grandsons, "but you two are not allowed to learn, do you hear? If you don't get married after twenty, the government will ask Capture those who go to jail!"

The two little boys nodded like garlic.

After this meal, Bo Ling almost understood why Bai Shijun often came to talk to Bo Nong'an.

He was indeed good at talking, and he was the one who led the conversation at the dinner table, but the most important thing was that Ban Nong'an didn't have any of the awkwardness with her, with Bai Yi, or with Bai Shijun.

Eat when you are hungry, get married when you are old, find a way to make it grow when nothing can be grown in the land, and the sickle in Bonong'an's hand is always cutting towards those specific problems.

Although this attitude can sometimes feel unreasonably rough, there are moments when it can really clear up a person's entanglement.

After the meal, Fang cleaned up the dishes alone. Bai Ling tried to help but was kicked out by the aunt. She sat at home and asked to see the canal of Banong'an, and Banong'an happily led the way.

After more than ten years of reinforcement and renovation, this canal is no longer as simple as it was at the beginning. In some key gaps, Bai Nong'an used bamboo chips and bricks to reinforce them.

Bo Ling sighed and praised all the way, Bo Nongan was very happy, and the laughter almost never stopped.

"Did my uncle learn all this at Keats Hall?"

"of course!"

"Is my father's medical skills also true?"

"Yes."

"So Keats Hall is a school?"

"No," Bo Nong'an waved his hand, "It's an orphanage in Qiansang's local area. If any family has a child and can't afford it, they will send it to our Keats Hall. But most of them are female dolls. In my class, there were only two boys, me and your father."

　Thank you Xiaohuge, the joy of ecstasy, and the monthly ticket of Pinellia Yaxiang~

　　Thanks to rquall, Xiaohuge for the reward~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)