Datang all-rounder

Chapter 134

Waking up early in the morning, Wang Ke didn't let his wives go out, but told them mysteriously that he would follow him to his homestead in a while, and he had something good to show them today, but he never said what it was. The three girls were very curious, and they kept asking him while they were having breakfast.

Wang Ke just smiled and said nothing, as if he would not speak even if he was killed.

After dinner, the three daughters kept urging Wang Ke to take them there right away. Wang Ke deliberately dawdled for a long time before leaving the house, which made the women's appetites very high, and he wanted to go there sooner. Check out what's good.

When he came outside the village, Wang Ke didn't go into the courtyard, but went directly to his own field, and saw white cotton blooming on the cotton branches everywhere. At a glance, it looked like floating on the green grassland. Pieces of white clouds, the three women had never seen such a scene, they couldn't help cheering.

Nan Ping asked suspiciously: "General, how do you know that the cotton has bloomed, and how long will it take for it to bear fruit?"

Nanping's question was innocuous at the beginning, but as soon as the last sentence came out, Wang Ke fell into the field without falling into the field. The cotton is all cotton bolls, so how can it bear fruit again?

Seeing Wang Ke like that, Nanping asked strangely: "General, what's the matter with you? Could it be that what I said was wrong?"

Wang Ke shook his head and said: "Your words are not only wrong, but also very wrong. You don't understand the growth characteristics of this cotton at all."

Nan Ping slapped Wang Ke lightly with some embarrassment and said: "I don't know about this, the general just laughed at me. The general will tell me what's going on."

Wang Ke immediately explained the growth process of cotton in its entirety, and seeing that the three girls understood a little bit, she continued: "Didn't Uncle Wang from the village come to the house yesterday? He just came to tell me about the cotton in the field. Cotton is blooming, let me ask what to do now. I made arrangements yesterday, and Uncle Wang will organize people to pick it in a while. I brought you here early in the morning, just to let you see that the cotton is still growing on the ground What was it like to be here?"

Lan Ling looked at the cotton everywhere, and said with a blank face: "This thing is not edible, and it's all white, and the color is monotonous. What's the use of it?"

Before Wang Ke could speak, Dongyue said first: "Princess forgot, the general said long ago that this is used to make cloth, and it can also be made into blankets to cover and pad."

Lan Ling tilted his head and thought for a while before saying, "Have you said that? I don't remember."

Wang Ke knew that he couldn't explain clearly to her, so he didn't bother to speak, so he let Dongyue and Lanling mutter and talk non-stop.

Maybe it was Wang Ke and his group who drove over. The sound of the car let the people in the village know that they had arrived. Wang Ke and the others didn't stand for a while, and Uncle Wang brought the cotton farmers over. Wang Ke saw that they were here. There were not many people, so he frowned unconsciously. He felt that the cotton planted now is not too much. As long as there are more people, it can be picked in a few days. When will it be finished.

Uncle Wang saw that Wang Ke was displeased, and hurriedly asked: "Master, what's the matter, something upset you. Tell the old man, the old man will help you vent your anger!"

Wang Ke pointed to the people he brought and said, "Uncle Wang, why are there only these people? Is there no one in the village?"

Uncle Wang was stunned. He didn't know why Wang Ke was so unhappy because of the lack of people, so he had to answer honestly: "There are a lot of people in the village, but this cotton field is only planted by a few of them, and it is not necessary for them to pick it." If you ask someone else to come, you will have to pay the wages separately. The old man thought that it would not take a few more days, so he didn't call anyone else to come."

It was only then that Wang Ke realized that this Uncle Wang was saving money for himself. After all, this intention was good, and Wang Ke couldn't blame him, so he had to say softly: "Uncle Wang, this cotton is no better than other things. If you don’t take advantage of the sun these few days and pick it up and dry it, it will be useless. You’d better go back to the village and call some people.”

Uncle Wang said with some hesitation: "Master, I have to give money. If the master and wife know about it, will they call it an old man?"

Wang Ke smiled helplessly. He really couldn't understand why people at this time were so sincere and thought out of the owner's sake. Now that there was a ready-made thug in front of him, he was afraid that he would be scolded for doing something wrong.

Wang Ke looked at Uncle Wang, and said with a swearing look: "Uncle Wang, don't be afraid. If anything happens, I will take care of it. Parents won't blame you."

Just kidding, now Wang Ke is a person who keeps his word in the Wang family. Even Wang Si and Mrs. Wang will not disagree with his actions. As long as Wang Ke says it, it will be counted. What about that situation!

Seeing that Wang Ke was resolute, Uncle Wang handed over several farmers to Wang Ke, then turned around and went back to the village to call people.

Seeing that several farmers were holding cotton in their hands, Wang Ke did not delay. He first told them how to pick them, and repeatedly told them to be careful not to hurt their hands by the thorns on the cotton stalks when picking. hand.

The three girls heard it was interesting, and they also ran into the field one after another, trying to see how difficult it is to pick cotton. Wang Ke couldn't stop him, so he had to stand alone on the field ridge. He knew that it would take a while for the three girls will run back by itself.

It's strange to pick cotton with the delicate hands of the three of them on weekdays, and it's strange not to be pricked with blood on their hands.Sure enough, without much effort, the three women ran back one by one, and all three of them had blood on their hands.

Wang Ke shook his head, and said with a distressed expression: "I told you all, and I told you not to go, but I didn't listen. It's all right now, it's all bleeding, feel comfortable. Come up soon."

Lan Ling pouted and said: "The general knows that we are all like this, the general should hurry up and find a way to stop the bleeding for us."

Wang Ke almost fainted when he heard this. With such a small injury, is it still necessary to stop the bleeding?Just ignore it, and it will stop flowing after a while, so there is no need to make such a fuss.

But Wang Ke can't say this yet, after all, two of these three people are princesses, if Comrade Li Er finds out, then he will have to bear it himself.

At this moment, Uncle Wang also came with someone who was calling in the village. Seeing the three young ladies in such a state, it was too late to arrange for the farmers. He took out a piece of paper made by the Wang family and lit it with flint. , Press the burnt paper ashes to the place where the third daughter bleeds.

Among the three daughters, only Dongyue knew that this would stop the bleeding, so she stood there obediently and let Uncle Wang press paper ashes on the bleeding spot on her hand; Nanping and Lanling saw that they wanted to press the ashes on their hands They all kept shaking their heads and refused to take them out, and they were firmly behind their backs and refused to take them out. Even Dongyue and Uncle Wang said that it would be useless to break the sky.

Wang Ke looked at everything in front of him, just smiled and didn't speak.Go back to the car, find a Band-Aid in the storage box in front of the passenger seat, walk back and stick it on the three of them.

Wang Ke has been carrying this thing in his car for a long time. After all, when doing projects in later generations, the workers will inevitably get some small wounds. These band-aids are prepared by Wang Ke for the workers.After arriving in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Ke forgot to take out these things because he hadn't encountered such a thing on weekdays. Today, seeing the blood on the hands of the three girls, he remembered that he still had these things, and hurriedly took them out.

The three girls had never seen such a thing before, and they all looked curiously at the ones pasted on their hands, and then at the unused ones wrapped in paper. They kept asking Wang Ke, what exactly is this? Can not stop bleeding.

Wang Ke ignored them, and asked the first few farmers to teach the later farmers how to pick, and took Band-Aids from Nanping and the others, and distributed some to Uncle Wang, so that he would take care of the hands when he saw someone bleeding. Paste it in the same way.

After finishing these tasks, Wang Ke turned around and said to Nanping and the others: "This thing is called a Band-Aid, and it is used to stop bleeding when there is a small wound, but it won't work if the wound is large, so you have to use other methods."

Lan Ling looked at the Band-Aid in his hand and asked: "General, some of the characters on this are recognizable, and some of them are very similar to ours, but I don't know them."

Wang Ke looked over her head and immediately understood what Lanling meant. The characters she didn't know were the abbreviated characters in later generations.

Wang Ke couldn't explain this question clearly, so he had to say in general: "This is the writing of the Far West Country, which is somewhat similar to the writing of my Tang Dynasty."

Seeing what Wang Ke said, the three girls didn't think deeply about it, put away the band-aids, and looked at the cotton field again.

After watching for a while, Nan Ping turned his head to look at Wang Ke and asked, "General, how can this cotton be turned into cloth? Now we use hemp to weave cloth, all of which are made of hemp silk. The hemp silk is so long, but the cotton is so short, I can't weave if I want to."

Wang Ke said with a smile: "The cotton has to be dried after being picked. When it is completely dry, the seeds in it must be removed before it can be used. After that, it must be spun into thread before it can be used for weaving."

Looking at Nanping's bewildered face, Wang Ke said with a smile, "It's okay if you don't know now. When the cotton is all put away, I'll make a few more tools, and you will know how to do it."

As Wang Ke said, he thought to himself: "Of course you don't know, this Huang Daopo has not been born yet. But with me here, this weaving will have to appear in advance!"

Nanping and the others are used to Wang Ke's proficiency in these strange things (in fact, Wang Ke only knows a little bit, but for people at this time, they think he is very proficient.), seeing Wang Ke With a confident look, Ke glanced at him trustingly, and then looked at the field.Now they have another hope, looking forward to the cotton being harvested soon, so that they can see how the little flowers are turned into cloth.

As time passed, the baskets on everyone's backs were almost full. Wang Ke hurriedly asked Uncle Wang to spread a few mats on the edge of the field, and let the people with full baskets fall on them, and when work was over at night, Then send them back to the village together.

Uncle Wang said to Wang Ke in a low voice: "Master, when the old man went back to the manor to call for someone, he promised that each person would be given five dollars a day, which shouldn't be much."

Wang Ke looked at Uncle Wang and said, "What's so much? People in the village will be provided with a meal by the village at noon. No matter how hard they work, they have to eat enough to be strong."

Uncle Wang was a little anxious, and hurriedly said: "Master, five dollars is a lot, and it would be too much to take care of food."

Wang Ke pointed to the busy farmers in the field and said: "This is the people in our own farm. Isn't it just a meal, how much more can you get? Just do it like this. If there is anything, just say I arranged it. But I Let me make it clear first, you can’t just get some and get rid of it, you have to see Hun, do you know?”

When Uncle Wang heard this, he said with some embarrassment: "Could it be that the village has to kill a pig. They haven't grown up yet."

Wang Ke said impatiently: "I don't know how to buy it outside the village. What, pigs! Do we have pigs in our village?"

Wang Ke realized that he had been in Datang for so long, and he always ate beef and mutton. He thought it was because there were no pigs in his farm, so he didn't have the nerve to ask. After a long time, he forgot. After hearing about this matter, when Uncle Wang mentioned it today, he felt a little strange. There are pigs here, why didn’t he eat any pork, and didn’t even smell the smell, so now Wang Ke was very surprised and asked Uncle Wang .

Uncle Wang was very puzzled by Wang Ke's expression, but he didn't dare to ask. He just replied honestly: "Yes, they are all raised by farmers who sell them for two dollars at the end of the year to celebrate the New Year."

Wang Ke was so happy that he rubbed his hands together, and quickly said: "Go and buy some, we won't leave at noon, we will eat here, and I will make some dishes."

Just now Wang Ke asked Uncle Wang very loudly, and the three girls were all attracted by their conversation.Now, when Wang Ke said that he wanted to eat pork, Nanping and Lanling had never seen anything like a pig, but Dongyue couldn't take it anymore, and said with disgust, "How do you eat pigs, such dirty things."

Wang Ke said longingly: "You don't know, this pork is much tastier than beef and mutton. Watch me cook a few dishes later, so you don't swallow your tongues."

As soon as Wang Ke said this, several people thought about the delicious food made by Wang Ke, and no one thought about how dirty the pig was.

Wang Ke also stood there thinking about the pork dishes he had eaten, and after thinking about it, he showed the appearance of a pig brother, watching Uncle Wang shaking his head, he simply didn't look at it, and went to arrange lunch on his own meals to go.The food for this group of people is enough for him to worry about, if this delay continues, he doesn't know when he will be able to eat.

As soon as Uncle Wang left, Wang Ke couldn't concentrate on the cotton field anymore. He was always thinking about Uncle Wang buying back pork and making a dish of twice-cooked pork.

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Ke remembered that there is no watercress. This watercress needs to be made from soybeans. It seems that there is no soybeans yet. Even if there are, his own peppers have not been harvested, and it is too late to make them now. Forget it, let’s make braised pork , as long as there is something to eat!It seems that this watercress has to go to the Western Region businessman to get some seeds, and it will not be eaten until next year.

Thinking about it, Wang Ke unconsciously let out a sigh, causing the three daughters to look at him at the same time. Wang Ke hurriedly said why Uncle Wang hadn't come back yet, and it was almost noon.Only to cover up the past.

(End of this chapter)