From the red building to penetrate the heavens

Chapter 66 Another World 2: Potato (two updates in one)

Zuo Yang was a talented woman. Whether it was music, chess, calligraphy and painting, the Four Books and Five Classics, or economics and political affairs, Zuo Yang could talk to her and often had great insights.

Miao Bi nodded first, "I think so too. It's better for outsiders not to get too involved in emotional matters."

"By the way, I came here today to tell you that I have prepared the shops and manpower you asked me to explore before. Do you want to go and take a look?"

Jia She's eyes lit up and he said happily: "Well, I'll go there after school tomorrow afternoon."

In addition to the 5000 taels of silver given by Liang Chongzhi, Jia She's current money also includes money earned from selling game animals, herbs, and pastry recipes over the years. He currently has more than 300 taels in savings.

Everything such as studying, taking exams, buying betrothal gifts, etc. all required money. Jia She felt that he could no longer sit on his hands and find a profitable disciple, so he asked his uncle Miao Bixian to help him find it.

The main reason is that Jia She is not familiar with the place in this city and is only a small scholar. It is not possible to find a really good shop in a dental shop.

The next day, Jia She went to see the shop and the manpower. After confirming that there were no problems, he took out the "Encyclopedia of Basic Pastries" bought from the system mall, found a few good-looking ones, copied them, and asked his subordinates to make them. Sell.

Due to the good location of the store and the backing of the Miao Zuo family, the usual gangsters did not dare to bully him at will. In addition, because the pastries were novel and delicious, the store brought a lot of income to Jia She in the first month of opening.

However, Jia She didn't put too much thought into this. He focused more on reading and calligraphy, studying chess, calligraphy and painting, and studying military strategies.

In ancient times, transportation was underdeveloped and it was difficult to manage business far away. In this case, why not make some money for half a year and leave it to Zhan Dashan and Zhan Dazhu when the family moved to the capital.

There are many other pastry recipes in the "Elementary Pastry Encyclopedia", and Jia She can also purchase other pastry recipes when he arrives in the capital.

Moreover, Jia She was also worried that Zhan Manliang, Zhan Daya and the others would delay their studies due to various reasons.If I could have such a steady stream of benefits, I believe it would be much better.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, at the end of October, Kang Shiping, who was sent by Liang Chongzhi to deal with the potato matter, also rushed over.

This was what Jia She and Ye Hehua had agreed upon. In order to avoid being robbed of their credit, it was necessary to find someone with weight to hold the line.

Guessing that the potatoes in Xing'an Village should be almost there, Jia She hurriedly asked for leave from his husband who was studying with him, and rode horses with Kang Shiping in a hurry. It took only seven or eight days to arrive at Qingyang Town.

After entering the city gate, Jia She suggested: "Brother Liang Cheng, it's getting late, why don't you rest in the town for a night?"

Kang Shiping shook his head and looked at the sky, and then thought about the distance between Qingyang Town and Xing'an Village. He nodded and said, "Okay, then the old man and the old lady will entertain you."

Jia She smiled heartily and said: "You're welcome, my grandparents would be so happy to see me taking my friends back."

After that, Jia She urged the panting horse and walked slowly towards the small courtyard in Qingyang Town. Kang Shiping followed slowly, passing by the restaurant, he stopped Jia She and packed two full meals. box out.

"I don't think your family had time to prepare for a sudden visit."

When Jia She heard this, a smile appeared on his face and he said loudly: "Thank you very much."

Although when he left home earlier, Jia She ignored the old couple's refusal and bought two wives to help with cleaning, laundry, cooking and sewing. However, there were many people living in the small courtyard, and they just wanted to have a meal. , which is also very labor-intensive.

"dong dong dong"

In the small courtyard, the women were busy working on dinner in the kitchen. Zhan Manliang and other children were doing homework in their respective rooms. Old Zhan was doing wood work on the porch in the front yard. Suddenly he heard a knock on the door and hurriedly opened the door. .

"Full warehouse!"

Seeing the person coming clearly, Lao Zhan was very happy and said, "Grandson, why are you back?"

Jia She held the horse's rope with one hand and hugged Lao Zhan's head with the other, "Sir, I'm back. How are you doing?"

"Okay, okay, how can I do anything wrong?"

After a brief exchange of greetings, Jia She let go of Lao Zhan's head, turned aside to let Kang Shiping go, introduced the two of them, and was then enthusiastically led into the house by Lao Zhan's head.

Just after passing the second gate, Lao Zhan shouted loudly, "Plum Blossom, Plum Blossom, come out quickly, the warehouse is full."

"Where? Where?"

After a while, Li Meihua rushed out of the kitchen and saw Jia She. She was overjoyed and said, "Mancang, you are back. Nai misses you every day. Nai can finally see you."

"Big brother."

"Brother, you are back."

Before Li Meihua finished speaking, Zhan Manliang, Zhan Mantian, Zhan Daya, Zhan Erya and four other brothers and sisters also ran out of the house, swirling around Jia She excitedly.

After escaping from famine, Jia She used his high force value and the Zhan family's never-ending strength to surpass Lao Zhan's influence in the Zhan family, and became the backbone of the Zhan family with his tough attitude.Especially the four younger ones, Zhan Manliang, worshiped Jia She as a hero. They were the closest to Jia She. Now they were very happy to see Jia She, whom they had not seen for almost three months.

Jia She also responded with a smile on his face, hugged each of them again, and kept saying words of concern.

After dinner and washing up, Liang Chongzhi's subordinate who had stayed in Qingyang Town to guard Tudou came to him.

In the study, Jia She sat silently listening to Kang Shiping's arrangements. Seeing that the magistrate of Linhui County, the magistrate of Qingyang Town and other local officials were all within the scope of Kang Shiping's plan, Jia She felt more at ease.

The Zhan family, Zhan Dashan, Zhan Dazhu and others all have to live here. If the officials on Tudou's side can't take any credit, then the Zhan family will suffer in the future.

In the early morning light of the next day, there was a knock on the door of the Zhan family. It turned out that Kang Shiping's subordinates brought Zhang Xiancheng and other local officials to join them.

When Zhang Xiancheng saw Jia She, he immediately raised his hands and said with a sweet smile: "When Yang Yu was selected as a scholar, when I saw the ranking and age, I knew that Yang Yu would be a successful person in the future, but I didn't expect that this day would come so unexpectedly. So early."

Jia She hurriedly bowed in return and said repeatedly: "Your Excellency, Miao Zan."

After Kang Shiping and others exchanged greetings, they saw that it was time to open the city gates as the sky turned bright, so he hurriedly said: "It's getting late, let's set off."

"Yes, then let's go." Zhang Xiancheng smiled flatteringly at Kang Shiping, turned around and hurriedly greeted his subordinates to get on the carriage.

Seeing this, Jia She got on his horse and walked leisurely in front of the team with Kang Shiping and his men.

There was no way, Zhang County Cheng and other officials could not ride horses, and it was difficult for Jia She and Kang Shiping to go to Xing'an Village before them.

Fortunately, carriages are always faster than walking. They set off at the beginning of Mao Shi and the group arrived at Xing'an Village before Shen Shi.Not long after entering the village, the children playing in the village discovered Jia She. One by one they ran towards Jia She in surprise, and the voices of "Brother Mancang" kept rising and falling.

Kang Shiping teased: "It seems that Yang Yu is very popular among the children."

Jia She glared at Kang Shiping, turned to greet the children one by one, and said: "I have something to do at the moment, you can go and play by yourself."

Zhan Xiaocao carefully touched the horse's head. Hearing this, he looked at the number of carriages slowly approaching behind Jia She, and said smartly: "Then do you want me to call the patriarch's uncle and the village chief's grandpa?"

Jia She looked back and said, "Well, go ahead and call them and ask them to go to the mountainous area to the west of my house."

"it is good."

Seeing that Zhan Xiaocao was about to leave, Jia She suddenly remembered that he had brought some cakes with him this time. He hurriedly stopped the person, turned around, took out a paper bag from the bag on the horse and handed it to Zhan Xiaocao, "Here it is." You can take some pastries and share them with your friends."

Zhan Xiaocao excitedly took the paper bag with both hands, grinned almost behind his ears, and said quickly: "Thank you, Brother Mancang." After saying that, he turned around and ran away quickly.

Seeing that the person was gone, Jia She turned to look at Kang Shiping and said politely: "Would you like to rest at my house first?"

Kang Shiping rolled his eyes at Jia She and said angrily: "You asked that little girl to go to the fields when the patriarch and village chief called her. How can we rest?"

Hearing this, the subordinates behind Kang Shiping couldn't help lowering their heads and laughing.

"I'm not worried about what you are worried about. Come on, let's go to the fields." Jia She said with a flattering smile.

In order to get more potatoes, Jia She and Ye Hehua told the public that they brought back all the potatoes they could find in the surrounding mountains. Therefore, they now planted more than an acre of potatoes.

When he arrived at the potato field, Jia She saw Zhan Dashan from a distance who was weeding and catching insects in the field. He hurriedly drove his horse over and said, "Second uncle."

Zhan Dashan squinted his eyes and saw that the person who came was Jia She, and immediately became happy, "Mancang, you are back. I think the potatoes in the field should be ripe, and I was thinking that if you don't come back, I will give them to you with your third uncle." Get up."

With that said, Zhan Dashan glanced at the formation behind Jia She and said timidly: "Did you bring those people? What do they do?"

Jia She nodded, "It's the county magistrate and the chief registrar of Qingyang Town. I'll bring them over to get potatoes from the fields."

Zhan Dashan pursed his lips. Although he didn't quite understand what was going on, he patted Jia She on the shoulder and said softly: "You are the most promising person in our family. My second uncle listens to you."

Jia She responded: "Okay."

Kang Shiping saw that Jia She and Zhan Dashan had almost finished talking, so he got off his horse and went to say hello to Zhan Dashan. After waiting some more, he got off the carriage at the end of the field, and the officials who could only come on foot hurried over. .

After a brief exchange of greetings, Kang Shiping asked his subordinate Tang Xinyong, who had been staying in Xing'an Village and silently guarding the potato fields, to go down to the ground and plant two potato seedlings to show to everyone.

"One, two, three, four, five, six, there can be six potatoes on one seedling." Master Zhou said in surprise.

Zhang Xiancheng went over it several times, pointed to a spot on the ground and said, "That's not all. Do you think there are two more in the ground?"

A sharp-sighted officer hurried forward and picked it up with his bare hands, "Sir, there are indeed two more."

Zhang County Cheng suppressed his excitement and waved his hand, "Go and dig a few more trees."

"Yes."

Following Zhang Xian Cheng's order, the five government servants also went forward to pull out the potato noodles. They either threw them away with their bare hands or kicked them with their feet to dig up the potato noodles. Tang Xinyong saw how rude they were and even more. Someone who was eager to show off took a hoe from the edge of the field and was about to hoe it. He suddenly became anxious and shouted loudly: "Be gentle, be careful. People in the field are using their hands to dig, and they are not allowed to kick with their feet, let alone use a hoe." , if you hurt the potatoes in the field, be careful what happens to you."

Tang Xinyong was Liang Chongzhi's confidant, and he watched the potatoes in the field grow from sprouted potato pieces to the fruitful crops they are today. He also watered, loosened the ground, pulled weeds, caught insects, and observed their habits. How can we bear the thought of them being so rude and not caring about the potatoes?

Zhang Xian Cheng glanced at Kang Shiping and saw that his brows were furrowed and his face was full of displeasure. He felt a little in his heart. The excitement of the idea subsided and he hurriedly shouted to the officials: "Did you hear that? What's going on? Come on, let’s see if I can spare you lightly.”

After hearing what Zhang Xiancheng said, the officials no longer dared to dislike the pickled dirt and started digging it with their hands.

After seeing that each potato seedling could indeed bear six or seven fruits, weighing one or two kilograms, Zhang County Prime Minister asked the officials to dig up a few randomly in the ground to see if it was the same.

Then, under Tang Xinyong's guidance, several government officials dug out a ridge of potatoes and came out.

"Oh my God, Lord County Magistrate, this is more than one stone (dàn, one stone is equal to 120 kilograms)." The official who helped him exclaimed.

Hearing this, everyone gasped in unison and rushed forward to take a look.

Kang Shiping couldn't calm down anymore. Even though Tang Xinyong had reported to him before and had been prepared in his heart, Kang Shiping was still shocked when he saw the amount being weighed.

Kang Shiping suddenly turned his head to look at Jia She, and said in a trembling voice: "Six ridges of land are equivalent to one acre, and one ridge of potatoes is far more than one stone. It's incredible, it's incredible."

"Yang Yu, you and Miss Ye have made a great contribution this time. Thousands of people have to thank you."

Zhan Dashan, who stood aside and watched silently for a while, and Zhan Dazhu, Zhan Daming and others who rushed over in a hurry, also realized what happened and what those potatoes represented. Their faces turned red with excitement. What's more, the veins on the back of the hands between the neck and the forehead are showing out.

"The warehouse is full~" The old patriarch's voice was trembling, and the hand holding Jia She's arm was shaking slightly.

Jia She patted the patriarch's hand, looked at the other villagers, and smiled reassuringly, "Chief, I will talk to you when this matter is settled."

The clan leader nodded repeatedly, "Okay, okay."

When the other villagers saw this and saw that there were still official officials present, they did not dare to speak.

Jia She turned around and bowed his hand to Kang Shiping, who returned the gesture without saying a word.

With the help of the villagers, all the potatoes from more than an acre of land were quickly dug out. One acre of land can produce nearly seven stones of potatoes. They were so surprised that they lowered their heads and shouted in low voices. They followed the sounds of joy and thanked the voice of heaven and earth. , the voices of thanks to the emperor's court, and the voices of thanks to Jia She can be heard endlessly.

The villagers in Xing'an Village were even more excited and cried bitterly. They still vividly remember the starvation they endured while fleeing famine two years ago, and they dare not forget it.

If there had been such a rich harvest of food two years ago, they would not have to be affected by drought and have to leave their hometowns, and their parents and elders would not have to starve themselves to death for the sake of their children and grandchildren.

Listening to the cries of sadness mixed with joy, Zhang Xiancheng couldn't help but sigh as he thought about the decree issued by the court to accept refugees and the backup household registration documents in the government warehouse.

(End of this chapter)