The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Chapter 153 Selling Seeds

It's a chilly spring, if you don't fall, you will get a cold for half your life.

When the Huang family rushed over, they heard passers-by say that a brother had fallen into the water, which frightened them to death.

Walking over to take a look, my elder brother was standing on the side of the road with a pale face, but the servant of the Cheng family kept thanking the faceless person next to him.

The man waved his hand indifferently and quickly disappeared into the crowd. The Huang family couldn't find a savior, so they could only take their frightened brother back.

After returning home, the Huang family brother first became anxious, and then was frightened by the cold wind blowing by the Nujiang River.

Coincidentally, the one who rescued Huang's brother today was actually a new doctor from the hospital. When this doctor was treating Huang's brother, the two saw each other for some reason.

This dramatic turning point made Lin Xiazhi dumbfounded, but he could clearly see that what Cheng Luanjing said had been artistically processed by himself.

It's only been two days, and the Huang family's brother is still sick, how can he see each other with the new doctor in the medical center.If the Huang family found out that the new doctor had no wife, they thought that the Huang family's brother had "lost" his innocence after being rescued by the doctor, and they wanted to marry the Huang's brother to the new doctor.

No matter what happened to the brother of the Huang family, Lin Xiazhi just listened to it as a story. He was not familiar with that brother, so he would not pay too much attention to him.

"Brother Xia, in fact, my second brother is usually very clean and self-sufficient, and he won't be ambiguous with other brothers. Don't worry." After talking about the Huang family brother, Cheng Luanjing looked at Lin Xiazhi's face and replaced it. His second brother said good things.

"I didn't say anything, why are you so nervous, and why did you explain it specifically, is there something I don't know?" Lin Xiazhi deliberately frightened Cheng Luanjing.

"Oh, it's all right." Cheng Luanjing immediately changed the subject, "Brother Xia, I'll show you my new manuscript. I've already written that Niu Lang and Zhi Ge'er are married in the mortal world. Shouldn't it be arranged in heaven?" Did anyone find them?"

Cheng Luanjing's words have been written several times, and he made some changes based on Lin Xiazhi's original description.

Cowherd passed the examination as a scholar, and after returning home to announce the good news, he rushed to the county to study.

At this time, Brother Zhi had already discovered that there was a problem with the cloth he wove, and he quietly went down to earth, and met the Cowherd on the road.

Brother Zhi is fascinated by the prosperity of the mortal world. Everyone in Heaven has lived for tens of thousands of years, and everyone is very boring. , couldn't help falling in love with him, so he fabricated the identity of an orphan without father and mother.

Niu Lang was attracted by Zhi Ge'er's appearance. After getting in touch with Zhi Ge'er, he felt that Zhi Ge'er was kind and beautiful, and secretly liked him in his heart.

Niulang was also an orphan, so they became righteous brothers and settled down in the county town together.

Cowherd studied hard at Hanchuang in the county town, and Zhigeer exchanged the cloth he wove for money, and lived a splendid life.

Even if Zhigeer deliberately hides his clumsiness, his fairy weaving skills from the sky quickly aroused the competition of noble husbands. He tried not to expose himself, for fear of causing trouble to them.

Niulang is clever and hardworking, and soon made a name for himself in the colleges in the county.

Just when Cowherd passed the examination, Zhi Ge'er's beauty caught the attention of the county magistrate, and he wanted to take Zhi Ge'er into the backyard as a servant.

Niulang and Zhigeer didn't know it, they were immersed in the happy event of Zhongju and preparing for their marriage, and they didn't know that the county magistrate was playing Zhigeer's idea.

Now Cheng Luanjing has written about their worship, but he is still tangled in the subsequent arrangements.

The story of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl has almost become another story in Jing Ge'er's pen, combined with the real situation of Jingguo, it looks as if it is true.

Lin Xiazhi occasionally gave him an idea and asked Cheng Luanjing to add details.

Lin Xiazhi actually doesn't have much talent for thinking about stories, thanks to the explosion of information in his previous life, he has watched enough TV dramas and so on, so he can always come up with useful things in his mind.

After Cheng Luanjing returned from the Lin residence, he continued to write the rest.

Cheng Fulang secretly took the script written by Cheng Luanjing and showed it to other husbands. Those husbands didn't know that it was written by Cheng Luanjing, and asked Cheng Fulang to take out the content behind it. It was too uncomfortable to see half of it hanging.

Cheng Luanjing hadn't finished writing it yet, so Cheng Fulang had no choice but to shirk that the author hadn't finished writing it yet, and he wanted to get everyone's opinions out of the manuscript.

After hearing Cheng Fulang's words, those Fulang brothers all clamored to see the author, and would not let Cheng Fulang go home if they didn't see the author. Seeing everyone's attitude, Cheng Fulang was secretly happy. It seemed that the children's writing was popular.

Cheng Luanjing doesn't know these things yet, he is immersed in the new plot, biting the pen and thinking about how to write it.

The weather is getting warmer, and there are still about [-] days before spring plowing. The promotion of high-yield varieties of the Lin family has been put on the agenda by Lin Xiazhi.

In addition to preparing the seeds, Lin Xiazhi also asked Lin Huzi to write a planting summary, which included the entire process from germination to harvest, as detailed as possible.

Lin Huzi has no education, and after reading so many books, he can't write those literary things. His planting summary is written almost like speaking, which is easy to understand.

Lin Xiazhi just wanted such simple content. There are not many literate farmers. If it is made particularly complicated, how can these content be promoted.

After Lin Huzi finished writing, Lin Xiazhi watched and added a little content, writing a full page of high-yield rice and high-yield soybeans.

Lin Xiazhi took them to the book printing house and asked someone to typeset them, and then printed [-] copies of each type, intending to give them as manuals with the seeds.

The price of printing books is not cheap, at least [-] copies are printed, and the higher the quantity, the lower the unit price.

Like Lin Xiazhi's request, printing a page costs one penny, not counting the price of paper, one thousand pages cost one tael of silver, and counting the money to buy paper, there is no five taels of silver that cannot be taken down.

The boss of the book printing shop asked Lin Xiazhi what he was printing this paper for, but Lin Xiazhi didn't hide it, and said that he got this paper and distributed it for free to those who bought the Lin family's seeds.

Not to mention Lishui County, Lin Xiazhi is the only one in Jingguo. No one has done this before. The boss of the printing shop couldn't help but persuade Lin Xiazhi not to waste money.

Although the boss opened a book printing shop, his ancestors were also farmers, so he knew something about these things.

The rice seeds are okay and can be sold at a price, but the soybeans will definitely lose money.

Farmers basically don't know a single big character, so it's a waste to send them beautifully printed "instructions".

The boss of the book printing shop was also kind. Lin Xiazhi didn't blame him for talking too much, and still insisted that the boss print a thousand copies of each kind for him.

After Lin Xiazhi went back, he figured it out that it was indeed a bit expensive to print the instructions, mainly because the paper was too expensive.

Although the rice paper can be passed on for a long time if it is well preserved, it is not necessary to use finely made rice paper for the instructions he wants to print.

Apart from the frighteningly expensive rice paper, straw paper is the only thing that is cheap. The surface of straw paper is too smooth, and things printed on it will be rubbed off if you are not careful, which is even more inappropriate.

Lin Xiazhi wondered if he could consider improving the papermaking process to reduce the cost of paper.

What was said in the history class that Cai Lun improved papermaking, and what materials did he use?

The papermaking business couldn't be done well for a while, so Lin Xiazhi first took the seeds and the printed instructions to Jufulou and talked with Cheng Wenliu about the seeds.

"Brother Xia, your family's seeds have a high yield, why do you set the price the same as ordinary seeds?" Cheng Wenliu is a businessman, and his consideration is naturally to make more money. Looking at Lin Xiazhi's price, he knows that something is not right.

It's not just Cheng Wenliu, but everyone else can't figure it out, because the better the seeds on the market, the more expensive they are.

But doing something for the poor working people in this time and space is the goal Lin Xiazhi set for himself. He can't come here for nothing with his golden finger. improve.

At this point, he hopes that Cheng Wenliu, as his future partner, can understand him and support him. If he wants to make money, he can use other methods.

Thinking of this, Lin Xiazhi told Cheng Wenliu about it seriously: "I never thought about making money from these seeds."

Never thought about making money?Cheng Wenliu frowned, why do business if you don't make money?

"I took the seeds out and sold them in the granary, hoping that these high-yield seeds would be popularized and change the situation of farmers not having enough to eat." Lin Xiazhi continued.

Cheng Wenliu was surprised, it was the first time he knew that Brother Xia had such a great idea.

Seeing Cheng Wenliu's surprised look, Lin Xiazhi felt that he might have said himself too lofty, whether he had frightened Cheng Wenliu.

Without waiting for Cheng Wenliu to say anything, Lin Xiazhi asked him an unrelated question: "Is the rice my family gave you better than ordinary rice last time?"

"The rice your family gave you last time?" Cheng Wenliu recalled under Lin Xiazhi's reminder, "There is such a thing."

The rice that the Lin family gave at that time did have a special fragrance, which made people unable to stop eating.

"Not only rice, but also soybeans." Lin Xiazhi said with a smile, "The soybeans that my family makes fermented bean curd are the same batch of soybeans at that time."

With the gradual popularity of tofu in Lishui County, soy milk began to be added to everyone's table, and the Cheng family was no exception.

At the end of August, the Lin family sent a batch of beans over. The soy milk made by the Cheng family’s beans was very mellow. After cooking it for the first time, Brother Jing drank three bowls gluttonously. to drink.

"My family's seeds are divided into high-yielding and good-tasting ones. I only sell the high-yielding ones. I can keep all the good-tasting seeds and only plant them for my own family." What Lin Xiazhi said meant that he He is not truly impartial, he also has his own little thoughts.

Lin Xiazhi understood Cheng Wenliu as soon as he said this. Even so, he still admired Xia Geer's courage. He fixed the price in this way, not only the loss of white money, but also the pressure of his peers.