Villager of Daming

Chapter 922 Mysterious Story About Cave Dwellings

Everyone now knew that they were going to Qingyuan County in the south tomorrow, and they were really busy. It felt like the team was running around when they got to a place, and they were not idle at all.

Everyone looked back and forth, yes, no one will go to Qingyuan County officials to look for them in the future.

Magistrate Guo and other officials were worried, fearing that His Highness the King of Jin would suddenly ask about matters in Qingyuan County.

Two days ago, I thought I could handle the questions and answers, but it turned out that the team's behavior was down to the lowest level, including what the people generally eat, plant, raise, and the surrounding rivers and so on.

Including helping to introduce where the peaches are good in Jinci Town, and getting some branches for grafting. When the peaches there come out in autumn, don't forget to plant saplings.

Next, apricot trees and different plums are grafted, and after they bear fruit, large and sweet apricot plums are selected and planted.

How to prune and branch grapes, how to bury them during the winter to best facilitate their growth in the coming spring, and how to sweeten sour grapes by adding eggshells. It’s called scale fertilizer.

That is to say, as long as the problem is solved, it must be specific. If you ask about the situation in Qingyuan County now, you don’t know! I can only give a general idea, but it obviously cannot satisfy Your Highnesses.

Fortunately, Zhu Fan didn't expect to get any detailed information about a certain place from them, so he called the chiefs of several villages over to chat about anecdotes.

For example, if a child's cry is heard in a well, there may be a giant salamander in it, and the other side of the underground river is connected to a large, stable slow-flow area.

Usually accompanied by caves, what can caves do? Grow mushrooms and medicinal materials. The water in some caves is too hard for people to drink. It is most suitable for the growth of annual herbs, which grow quickly and produce more minerals.

If perennial plants are planted, it is easy for heavy metals to accumulate and cause harm to people. This is what Xiaqiu Village said.

As a result, when Zhu Fan started talking about this kind of thing, the village chiefs were stunned. Their eyes widened with curiosity on their faces, as if they were listening to a fairy tale.

"There is a stream in some places, and people in the stream cannot drink it. But the fruit trees growing next to it produce sweeter fruits than other similar fruit trees.

If the core of this fruit is planted elsewhere, the fruit will become normal again. It is said that the stream was inspired by the gods.

Then we will look for phosphate rock and even find feldspar mining areas with high potassium and low sodium. A mixture of the two will be good.

That's what you said! Don't always ask us to say, we are not here to tell stories, we want to listen to stories. "

Zhu Fan realized something was wrong while he was talking. He said a few words, but you didn't answer a word? Is this king here to tell you a story?

"Your Highness, forgive me. Common people are addicted to it. It's so interesting and strange. It makes sense and is very simple. Your Highness is indeed a scholar."

The person who greeted me first yesterday smiled and flattered me, showing that I had learned.

Others nodded. What seemed to be a mysterious thing became clear as soon as I explained it. Your Highness is amazing!

"Then think about it quickly. We don't need you to explain it. You can just tell us and we can guess by ourselves."

Zhu Fan waved his hand, indicating that he should stop complimenting him. It was common knowledge that his knowledge was inferior to that of the children in Xiaqiu Village.

The village chiefs had no choice but to think hard about the various stories they had heard since childhood, including the story about a beautiful woman knocking on the door at night at the widower's house, whose child ran into a tree about ten feet high, and the key to that child. Only two years old.

There was also a faint blue light seen in the tomb in the middle of the night, and someone was chatting.

Thirty years ago, someone walked around a place at night until dawn, and disappeared for many days after drinking too much. Then he suddenly came out and said he had a dream, and was taken to the underworld. The judge said he was not guilty and gave him Put it back.

When I was a child, there was a big willow tree at the end of the village. When there was a drought, it would bleed and it would turn into sperm. Later, it was taken away by the God of Thunder. A big thunder came down and the willow tree caught fire.

It turned out that there was a small stream, and fish came out of the spring at the source. The fish was fresh and tender, and not fishy at all. "Now that I think about it, the fish came out of the underground river, right? Then it stopped coming out of the water."

The director who told this story thought of the story of the giant salamander told by Zhu Fan, and felt that the two were very similar.

"Remember where you are? You can dig around and see if there is an underground river there. Even if there is, if it is not a giant salamander, it should be connected to other lakes.

And big fish can't get out, only small ones. I don't know if the big fish in the lake over there can get in.

If it cannot get out from other places, the fish will not be able to see anything and will eventually either turn into a special fish or starve to death.

Write it down first, and let’s keep thinking, anything is fine, we are not afraid of listening to ghosts and gods. "

Zhu Fan knew that water sources were the most important. If the underground river was relatively high and flowed through areas without water, he could dig it out to lead a small river and plant drought-tolerant crops in the uncultivable areas.

The village chiefs were encouraged not to be afraid of saying the wrong thing, and to tell more mysterious things, including stories about themselves who were frightened by adults when they were disobedient, and they also told stories to the children.

The lunch was not over until after two o'clock, and the village chiefs did not return to the village. They stayed here to accompany the villagers working and had another meal in the evening.

The villagers who had no work to do here went back to find things to do, such as cleaning up the yard or collecting some firewood.

If there are fruit trees on the mountain, there will also be other trees, including wattle. You can find dry branches to take home, or you can cut off the branches that are in the way and drag them home to dry.

Vitex is used to make fences or to weave baskets. Ordinary baskets have been used for a long time and will not be repaired if there is leakage at the bottom. It is better to weave new ones. The repaired ones are not only heavy, but also easy to fall apart at any time.

The prince and others went back to rest, and the chief continued to follow Hanhan into the tent to ask about things about tomorrow.

Dinner was relatively late in the evening, and the people were not in a hurry. Everyone was waiting for the food to be ready. It was still fish tonight, and I was told that there would be fried and dried fish for everyone to share and take home.

The key is that people are willing to look at electric lamps. The light of electric lamps is relatively stable and does not swing around like candles, torches, and oil lamps.

"It's relatively hot for people living in cave dwellings at this time, right? Although cave dwellings are warm in winter and cool in summer."

Zhu Xi's own fiefdom had cave dwellings, as did Taiyuan Prefecture and Datong Prefecture. The people had no money to burn bricks and tiles, so they dug holes in the sticky soil slopes to live.

Some even dig directly down to a high place, digging a big pit. In the pit is a large yard, with houses dug around the center, and a well in the middle.

When it rains, the rainwater flows into the well, and everyone draws water from that well. They are not afraid of flooding because it is located at a high location.

Now he wanted to know if it was really that comfortable.

"His Royal Highness the King of Qin was joking, there is no such thing as warmth in winter and coolness in summer. It's just better than being outside in the sun. It's damp in summer! The cave house gets damper as you go inside, and it's airtight.

Summer is easy, wear less clothes when it's hot, there is a well outside, and you can get water to take a shower, but winter is the worst thing, it's cold!

When you light a fire inside, you won't want to come out because of the cold. You have to wear thick clothes inside, weave hay into mats, and block the cave entrance. "

Wang Shitong, the county magistrate, shook his head. How could it be warm in winter and cool in summer? If it was so good, why wasn't the yamen placed in a cave dwelling?

(End of this chapter)