The Prodigal Son of Zhenguan

Not only the kitchen in the house was busy, but also the women in the village were busy, using their own pots to cook mung bean soup and sending it to the construction site.

Otherwise, working on the construction site under the scorching sun would easily cause heatstroke.

The young and strong laborers in the village worked on the construction site during the slack season, and some strong women also worked with them.

After all, you can earn a lot of money on the construction site in a day, and you don’t feel tired at all when you are so busy.

Even if you don’t feel sorry for outsiders, the villagers also feel sorry for their neighbors in their own villages.

Therefore, there was no shortage of mung bean soup on the construction site.

All kinds of expenses were paid by the owner, and they just put in some effort in the back.

Even so, there was still money to be made. Although it was not as much as working on the construction site, it was still a job that made money.

The whole village was busy.

Li Fu was at home, lying on a lounge chair under the shade of a tree with his four children. Xiao Tao brought some cut fruits.

Li Fu ate a big bite of watermelon.

This thing is called a cold melon now, and it is still a rare thing.

Li Fu collected the spitted watermelon seeds carefully and asked people to cultivate the melon seedlings in the greenhouse.

By the end of this month, we can find a piece of land to plant autumn watermelons.

I thought about this last year. I originally planned to plant it in April, and I could pick it when it was hot.

But when I thought of the locust plague, I gave up the idea. The locusts would harm it if I planted it, so I had to wait a little longer.

Xiao Tao was busy sending food from outside the yard to inside.

Various iced fruits, smoothies, and milk tea.

"Try it, this is something new in the house, milk tea." Li Fu said, "It's made from milk and tea leaves, it has the mellowness of milk and the fragrance of tea leaves."

When the children heard that there was something new, they were particularly excited and drank from the cups.

For the sake of their stomachs, the milk tea was served at room temperature.

After eating fruit, they also had to drink iced milk tea. I guess these four children had to have a toilet to prepare it for them.

Unfortunately, milk tea without pearls would lose half of its soul.

I don't know if there is cassava flour for making pearls now. If there is this thing, it can be cultivated to fill the stomachs of many people. It is the king of starch.

However, Li Fu vaguely remembered that all plants with high yields and easy to raise are imported products. It was not until Zheng He sailed to the West that these things in the Central Plains could be enriched.

Sweet potatoes, pumpkins, corn, potatoes, etc...

Li Fu thought, if it doesn't work, go to the south, find some local natives, go to the rainforest to find out if there is anything new, maybe some things are already there, but no one has discovered them, or they have discovered them but don't know if they are edible.

Just like cassava, if it is not handled properly, it can easily cause poisoning, dizziness, nausea, vomiting, etc.

In serious cases, people will have diarrhea, drooling, or even coma, and die after respiratory paralysis.

In this case, people know that this thing cannot be eaten, it is poisonous.

But the stems and leaves of cassava are different from the rhizomes.

The tubers of cassava are rich in starch, which can be eaten after grinding and precipitating, and after being cooked, they are non-toxic and filling.

The key is that the tropical area in the south seems to be not peaceful now.

Li Fu was calculating in his mind, even if it is not peaceful, he had to make it peaceful for the sake of this bite of food.

"Xiao Tao." Li Fu called softly.

"I'm here, my dear." Xiao Tao responded.

"Go and tell Lao Zhao to find me some books about the south, Lingnan, and the Southern Six Zhao. As long as they are about these two places, no matter if they are about records or anything, they are all needed, even if they are books about those weird things."

"Yes." Xiao Tao responded.

Why did my dear husband suddenly become interested in these two places?

These two places are not peaceful.

There is no need to say much about Lingnan. Those are the places where officials who have committed serious crimes are exiled.

As for the Southern Six Zhao, we know that the place is in chaos. There is no news about the others.

"Uncle Wang, if you want books about these places, there should be some in the palace." Li Chengqian said, "I'll write a letter to my father and ask him to help find them."

"That's fine." Li Fu responded, "This is a big deal."

It's not a big deal about food.

In life, food, clothing, housing and transportation are all big things.

"Big things?" Li Tai looked at Li Fu in confusion: "Uncle Wang, what big things can Lingnan and the Southern Six Zhao have? The emperor is far away over there. Lingnan is a little better, but that place is too hard. It has been a place of exile since ancient times.

I heard that the Southern Six Zhao have repeatedly rebelled against our Tang Dynasty, and the situation there is complicated, the biggest threat to the Tang Dynasty now is the Turks on the northern grasslands. "

"Yes, Uncle Wang, the book says that there are high mountains and dense forests over there. Even if we send troops, the chances of winning are not great, and there is miasma everywhere. Even if there is no war, people who go there will be invaded by poisonous miasma and die in vain." Li Chengqian was also puzzled.

Why did his uncle Wang suddenly become curious about that kind of place?

Li Lizhi leaned back in the chair, drinking milk tea, watching her brothers and Uncle Wang discuss Nanzhao.

What kind of place is that?

Why haven't I seen it in the book?

"Yes, as you said, there are high mountains and dense forests over Nanzhao, and miasma everywhere. Even the locals dare not explore that mysterious land too deeply." Li Fu said: "But it is precisely because of this that if there are any good things over there, people outside don't know at all."

"It delays things so much. ”

The four children didn’t understand what this could delay.

“That place, I only know, has the best golden nanmu and various precious woods. The Sui Dynasty built palaces by transporting wood from Lingnan to Chang’an, Luoyang and other places.” Li Ke said: “Uncle Wang built a house on the farm, could it be that he wanted the wood from Lingnan? "

Li Fu shook his head.

There is no shortage of wood or anything like that.

Although the wood in Lingnan is good, there is no need to go to great lengths to buy it. As long as you pay, there are plenty of merchants doing this business.

Send the wood directly to Chang'an from the high mountains and dense forests in Lingnan.

What he really wants are those novel plants to see which ones can be eaten in the future.

Make a contribution to the tables of the people of the Tang Dynasty and add some color to the vegetable baskets of the people of the Tang Dynasty.

If any of the things Li Fu wants are really found there, it will no longer be a fantasy to let most of the people of the Tang Dynasty have enough food.

Li Fu knows the grain output in the fields now. He has his own farm, and the people on the farm used to make a living by farming.

If there is a crop with high yield and durability, it is not an exaggeration to call it a good omen for the Tang Dynasty.