The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Chapter 123

Liu Chunhua took the remaining 20 taels of silver back to his room and hid it away. His heart was pounding, and he calmed down after a while. Today, he had to keep this matter in his heart and couldn't say it.

Cheng Wenliu sent someone to tell Lin Xiazhi about Uncle Lin, so that he would be prepared and beware of Uncle Lin in the future.

Only Lin Xiazhi knew about this matter, and he didn't want to worry his family, so he didn't say it.

However, Lin Chengzu paid attention to the affairs in the village. Brother Xia disappeared the day before, and Uncle Lin was taken away by the government the next day. He couldn't find out what happened, so he had to think about it.

Lin Chengzu approached Lin Xiazhi to tell him about it, and Lin Xiazhi told him the truth.

Lin Chengzu in the main house had long since given up, and his heart was still chilling after hearing Lin Xiazhi's words.

Today I heard that old man Lin vomited blood and was lying on the bed. Lin Chengzu didn't want to go there at all, but his father, Lin Huzi, as old man Lin's child, had to respect the old man.

So Lin Chengzu sealed two taels of silver, and took a chicken to the main house to see old man Lin.

Not knowing what old man Lin was thinking, he glanced at Lin Chengzu and didn't speak.

On the other hand, Miao Lin took the money and the chicken happily. You must know that Miao Lin has been coveting the money from the Lin family for a long time, but the old man has always strictly ordered them not to have any contact with the Lin family, so he can only sneak there occasionally. Ask for money, but dare not say anything.

Lin Chengzu came here just to deliver these things, so many people watched along the way, not afraid that someone would say that they were not filial, he just cared about Old Man Lin and left.

After returning from the county seat, Lin Xiazhi was thinking about the refugees at home.These refugees are not treacherous people, except for those who follow Lord Bao to do bad things, most of them are still willing to work, but they don't trust their origins, so they dare not hire them at will.

On the way Lin Xiazhi was kidnapped that day, he saw many refugees in ragged clothes, starved and emaciated, and looked very pitiful.

Lin Xiazhi is not a sympathetic person, but he is not a hard-hearted person either. It's fine if he doesn't see it. He has seen these people suffer so badly, and wonders if he can do something for them.

Not only this year's locust plague, these farmers who rely on the fields for food, as long as they encounter some natural disasters and man-made disasters, those with a little wealth can barely survive, and those with poor families can only sell their sons and daughters.

Take Linjia Village as an example. The county seat with its docks is considered a wealthy village in Jingguo. When the villagers encounter a famine, they can only sell their children and daughters, and they can only tighten their stomachs.

Lin Xiazhi has a golden finger to select seeds, so should he promote those high-yielding varieties and crops in the future, and scientific planting methods should also be popularized.

Some crops can adapt to almost all environments, but there are still differences in different regions, and measures should be adapted to local conditions and seasonal conditions.

He had vaguely thought about this before, but he hadn't thought about it deeply. After seeing the life of the refugees, these were taking shape in his mind.

It's just that the Lin family's influence is small now, and what he can do on the premise of protecting himself is limited. He has to think about how to do it.

Considering that the beans at home are about to mature, the whole twelve acres,

Can it be used?

When the beans were planted, Lin Xiazhi had already thought about it. When the beans matured, he would hire people from the village to harvest them. Anyway, he would hire people, or try to hire those refugees.

It's just that the refugee status cannot be guaranteed, so how to hire them with confidence is a problem.

Lin Xiazhi didn't know enough about many things in this dynasty, and Brother Xia didn't have any of them in his memory. Since Lin Xiazhi was going to do something, he naturally had to ask someone he knew for help, and that innocent young man was naturally Cheng Wenliu.

Early in the morning, Lin Xiazhi asked Lin Chengzu to drive him to Jufulou in a donkey cart. As soon as something happened two days ago, Lin Chengzu was naturally worried. Lin Xiazhi assured him again and again, saying that he was only in Jufulou After staying and absolutely not going out, Lin Chengzu reluctantly agreed.

Lin Chengzu took Lin Xiazhi over there, and handed him over to shopkeeper Tong, asking him to help him look after this younger brother who didn't let him worry.

The Dong shopkeeper of Jufulou also knew about Lin Xiazhi being tied up before, and thinking of the young master's order to him, he agreed wholeheartedly.

Although he was still a little worried, Lin Chengzu could only keep Lin Xiazhi. He couldn't stare at Lin Xiazhi all the time or keep him at home. It was so tight that he ran out and couldn't find it by himself, so it's better to put him in a relatively safe place.

After Cheng Wenliu got the news that Lin Xiazhi was coming, he put down what he was doing and rushed to Jufulou immediately.

Looking at the rare beads of sweat on Cheng Wenliu's forehead, Lin Xiazhi knew that he probably ignored his appearance in order to rush over, and he had a subtle feeling for Cheng Wenliu in his heart.

In fact, Cheng Wenliu did this on purpose to make himself seem to have made a small mistake. He had been acting personable in front of Lin Xiazhi before, so perfect that he could hardly make mistakes, but that would make Lin Xiazhi feel distanced from him, and would not close.

No, he made himself a little embarrassed in order to rush over to see Lin Xiazhi, and Lin Xiazhi softened his attitude towards him visible to the naked eye, and this sacrifice was very worthwhile.

"Master Cheng, I'm here because I want to ask you a few questions." Lin Xiazhi waited for Cheng Wenliu to clean himself up before speaking.

Upon hearing Lin Xiazhi's words, Cheng Wenliu made an aggrieved look: "Brother Xia, you said you were willing to give me a chance, why are you still calling me so unfamiliar?"

"Strange? Isn't it always like this before?" Lin Xiazhi didn't feel anything wrong at all.

"You see, I always call you Brother Xia, but it's different if I don't call you Young Master Lin." Cheng Wenliu was just talking nonsense.

When he and Lin Xiazhi first met a year ago, the Lin family was still poor, so how could they be called young masters?

Lin Xiazhi didn't care much about addressing each other, but seeing Cheng Wenliu's expression, he felt a little guilty in his heart, as if he had bullied him.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiazhi felt a little strange again, and frowned.

Cheng Wenliu looked at Lin Xiazhi's expression, and suddenly realized that he seemed to be pretending too much, and quickly interrupted Lin Xiazhi's train of thought: "Brother Xia, why don't you call me Brother Liu from now on, that's what Brother Jing calls me. "

Brother Liu?Still love my brother!Doesn't it look disgusting to call it so nasty?

Hearing Cheng Wenliu's words, Lin Xiazhi got goosebumps all over his body, and quickly shook his head to get rid of the strange feeling: "Can Brother Jing be the same as me? That's your own brother, we have nothing to do with each other. "

Hearing Lin Xiazhi say it's okay, Cheng Wenliu's heart thumped, this was shooting himself in the foot: "Then why don't you change it to Brother Wenliu, this way the head office will be fine."

Lin Xiazhi looked at Cheng Wenliu suspiciously, and Cheng Wenliu quickly adjusted his expression to make himself look innocent and aggrieved, so as not to look too much.

After struggling for a while, Lin Xiazhi said hesitantly, "Okay, Brother Wenliu."

"Brother Xia." Cheng Wenliu's depression finally subsided when he heard that Lin Xiazhi was willing to change his name, and talked to him about something serious, "Just now you said that you want to discuss with me?"

"It's your fault, I almost forgot the business." Lin Xiazhi gave him a blank look.

Maybe beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Cheng Wenliu felt that Lin Xiazhibai's eyes were pretty, so he leaned over like a dog and said, "It's okay, it's okay, I just reminded you."

Cheng Wenliu's appearance made Lin Xiazhi look at him twice in disgust, so that Cheng Wenliu had to sit back in a well-behaved manner, feeling wronged in his heart, and would not let him come any closer.

Cheng Wenliu's small actions made Lin Xiazhi feel like a mirror in his heart, and he actually didn't dislike Cheng Wenliu's breath.

Although there was no objection in his mind, he was still not so quick to accept it in his heart, so he turned back and said the purpose of his coming.

"What! You actually want to hire those refugees to work in your house?" Cheng Wenliu almost couldn't keep his composure and jumped up. Brother Xia was tied up by those refugees. How dare you be so bold!

"Why are you so excited? Didn't I say I came to discuss it with you, and I didn't want to do it right away." Lin Xiazhi was a little guilty at first, but after seeing Cheng Wenliu's excitement, he felt confident again.

"I'm not worried about you. For those refugees who left their homes, the imperial court has their own way to settle them, so don't meddle in it." Cheng Wen Liuliu persuaded him earnestly, hoping that Lin Xiazhi would give up this idea.

The Cheng family also took in some refugees to work, and the refugees moved south just to have enough to eat, and they were relatively honest in their work, but he couldn't guarantee that all the people they recruited were the same as the ones their family recruited, in case there was another Leopard Lord What about that?

"Do you know why they became refugees? What happened to the north?" Lin Xiazhi didn't answer Cheng Wenliu's words, but instead asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

The Cheng family and the county magistrate are relatives by marriage, so they can naturally know a lot of news that others don't know. Cheng Wenliu didn't hide it from Lin Xiazhi: "I heard that it was caused by the locust plague. In May, the locust plague hit the north, and the crops were not yet grown. Eat clean."

"So that's the case. Do you know how to get rid of locusts?" Lin Xiazhi asked.

I used to live in the era of the flood of pesticides, and locust plagues have become a thing of the past. I have basically never heard of locust plagues anywhere. Lin Xiazhi has heard that locusts can be eaten, and when he catches them and roasts them, they taste crunchy.

"What else can I do? After the news reaches the capital, the emperor can only offer sacrifices to the heavens and pray for the locust disaster to pass soon." Cheng Wenliu shook his head.

"Has anyone tried to catch locusts and eat them?"

"How can insects be eaten? Everyone catches the locusts and beats them to death. The locusts are migratory, and there is no way to catch them all. One scourge is a large area."

In fact, Lin Xiazhi has never eaten locusts, so he can't guarantee the taste of locusts. Moreover, Jiangning County has not had any locust plagues in recent years. How can he know the taste of locusts as a brother who has never traveled far, so he can only stop talking about eating them. locust.