The happy time flew by quickly. After the cold spring in February, the weather was getting warmer, and the new year's spring plowing would begin soon.
The fact they got a big harvest after working with Shen Yanbei, this year everyone in Shenjia Village still followed Shen Yanbei's method of plowing. Li Zhiyuan also asked Shen Yanbei to help the people as much as he could. Shen Yanbei wasn't trying to hide it for himself, he informed villagers how to increase the germination rate of the seeds and make the seedlings stronger by soaking the seeds with boy urine mixed with water, and when raising seedlings, pick full seeds and soak them according to the method, which could increase the yield. Everyone followed his instructions without hesitation.
As for farming in the paddy field, villagers still used the mode of integrated rice, duck, and fish farming. While on dry land, they listened to Shen Yanbei's opinions by adopting alternate and interval planting methods to grow crops such as corn and beans.
People worked full of enthusiasm, with a happy smile on their faces, tirelessly planting.
While the people in Shenjia Village were working, many people from nearby villages came to watch. It was only because the county magistrate Li made a piece of information at the gate of the city, telling all the people in Dongjiang County that Shenjia Village was designated as a demonstration village for increasing rice production this year so that people who wished to increase their own grain production could go to Shenjia Village to observe and see for this season of farming. After the harvest last time, the method of increasing grain production was confirmed to be feasible, then the method of increasing grain production was made public.
As soon as this notice came out, the entire Dongjiang County was boiling!
The country was based on the people, and the people took food as the sky. Only when you filled your stomach could you do other things! So after receiving this news, people in the villages near Shenjia Village couldn't sit still, and they all came to take a look. Even several village chiefs brought gifts to Shen Dezhong's house to find out about the truth.
For a while, the people of Shenjia Village felt that there was a lot of light on their faces! The title of this demonstration village made them feel more proud than the qualification to hold social dramas!
You had to pay for social dramas, but once the grain production increased, the money went into your own pocket! It was more beneficial than getting those fake titles, dangling silver, and a full belly!
Shen Yanbei, the planting director of Shenjia Village, was naturally happy to see this scene. It was a good way to bulge up the money bag. It was unrealistic to keep wealthy just by yourself, it felt like him supporting the glory of the whole village!
"Xiānshēng, do you think it's alright?" Uncle Xu looked at Shen Yanbei eagerly, his tone was extremely respectful.
Shen Yanbei touched his nose and smiled embarrassedly. "It's okay, you have worked hard, Uncle Xu." In the past, people, especially unfamiliar people, usually called him Shen Xiucai. Since Shenjia Village had been a demonstration village, everyone changed how they called him. Whether they were from Shenjia Village or other villages, they called him Xiānshēng.
Oh my...
"Nothing hard! Not hard at all!" Uncle Xu chuckled with his hoe on his shoulder.
Uncle Xu was hired by the Shen Yanbei to grow the land this year. With the foundation of the previous cooperation, the land in Shen Yanbei now had always been taken care of by Uncle Xu and his two sons.
They witnessed firsthand how the crops in Shen Yanbei's lands grew up, and how the grown plants grow better and stronger than those of other people. They still clearly remembered the heavyweight of the grains every time they harvested a stubble of rice...
"What do you plan to plant this year?" Uncle Xu looked up and curiously asked about what they would do to the twenty-odd acres of dry land. This year, Shen Yanbei suddenly bought a lot of acres of high-quality dry land. After the land was prepared, they watered and fertilized according to Shen Yanbei's requirements, but there was no seeding. It wasn't until these few days that the sun was good, and Shen Yanbei asked them to bring farm tools to the fields.
"Plant something special." Shen Yanbei commanded several people to irrigate and scatter soil. Now his restaurant business was getting better and better, which made many dishes requiring a lot of chilies. So he had to buy land and plant a lot of them. Peppers were not like corn and soybeans which could be planted directly. The lands had to be sown and the seedlings had to be raised first, then transplant seedlings when they had grown to a certain extent. After that, we must take care of them carefully, pay attention to disease prevention, and use different methods when they grow to a certain level, and many more.
Taking out the sprout pepper seeds, Shen Yanbei showed several people how to plant them. "Remember to be careful not to damage the root system, and the soil should not be too thick when covering it."
"Yes!" Several people responded and took the seeds and started planting.
After all the seeds were planted, Shen Yanbei began to pay attention to weather changes and went to the fields where the seedlings were raised every day to detect the humidity of the soil and then gave appropriate watering. Six days later, pepper seedlings broke out one after another, and about half a month the pepper seedlings had their leaves...
During the period, the rice fields of the Shen's Family had been planted with seedlings. This time, Shen Yanbei still adopted the polyculture model, but instead of raising fish, he raised the loach instead.
Loach was not only delicious but also had a high nutritional value. It had the functions of nourishing the, replenishing qi, dehumidifying and relieving yellow, replenishing the kidney and yang. In the last year's harvest, the soils were already very rich in fish and ducks, which was suitable for breeding loach, which required high soil fertility.
The villagers couldn't help but look forward to seeing Shen Yan's new tricks again.
During the busy schedule, it was another year of Qingming.
Like last year, Shen Yanbei and Gu Changfeng went to pay respects to the parents of the original owner. The difference was that the prepared sacrifices were more abundant, and the mood of the two had also changed.
"Father-Mother, we come to see you." Shen Yanbei knelt in front of the grave and briefly mentioned the changes in Shen's Family over the past year. Finally, he said, "I am going to participate in Qiuwei this year. I hope my parents will bless me all the best from heaven!"
Uncle Shen Auntie Shen, I opened a restaurant in the county and Qingzhou last year. The business was pretty good, and I made a small amount of money. Now I have no worries about food and clothing. Right now, the villagers are following me in farming. I can be regarded as showing the face of Shen's Family. Now I look forward to this Qiuwei! Don't worry, I will strive for it!
Gu Changfeng, kneeling beside him, looked guilty. "My husband has been busy, but I have not been able to help. Please forgive me..." After that, his expression gradually became serious, and he said, "I will work hard to become a good wife. Please don't worry, father-mother."
For a moment, Shen Yanbei grabbed his hand and said softly, "What are you talking about? Sometimes a foot may prove short while an inch may prove long*. My wife is a master of martial arts, so even though you do not know much about farming and management, it's normal."
*Chǐ yǒu suǒ duǎn, cùn yǒu suǒ cháng: everyone has his strong and weak points.
Gu Changfeng pursed his lips and did not reply. Shen Yanbei's eyes gave a serious gaze. "What I am doing now is to make us live well which can make us do what we want without any worries. If what I do is just to make you feel unhappy because you feel you can't help me much, what's the meaning of what I have done then?"
"I hope that no matter what my wife will always be happy."
"You are my dream and the greatest motivation."
Gu Changfeng's pupils trembled, and Shen Yanbei smiled and said, "My father and mother's biggest wish is to see us in love and peace. Isn't it good for us to be like this?"
"Yanbei..." Gu Changfeng's eyes were a little hot.
"I am the head of the family. It is my responsibility to support the family. As long as you are responsible for the family's mood and harmony!" Shen Yanbei turned his head and said to Father Shen's and Mother Shen's tombstone, "Father and Mother, wait for the autumn. I'll come back to give you the good news again after Qiuwei."
Knocking his head and getting up, Shen Yanbei took Gu Changfeng home.
He had to have a thorough discussion with his wife about the matter they talked about just now so that his wife could deeply understand what he meant to him...
After the Qingming Festival, the intensity of sunlight and rainfall had increased, and that caused the pepper seedlings in the ground to finally be transplanted. The day before, the ground had been well-watered. It was the evening of the day when Shen Yanbei called Uncle Xu to help, and it took three days to plant all the ground.
Next, observe the survival rate of the pepper seedlings after transplantation, and replant them appropriately. After the pepper seedlings turned green, Shen Yanbei breathed a sigh of relief. The Qingzhou branch had a good business, and half of it was due to the popularity of peppers. But the consumption of peppers was too large, even if once harvest of chili peppers could be harvested three or four times, it was still in short supply.
It was too strenuous for him to produce it alone. After this time when the peppers were harvested and had enough seeds, he would teach the villagers how to plant them, and then buy them from the villagers!
After busying with the things in the field, Shen Yanbei put his mind back on reading. At this time, Su Qingze wrote a letter, saying that it was almost the time of the Dragon Boat Festival. There was a dragon boat race in Qingzhou and asked if they could come to watch the excitement.
Shen Yanbei pondered that Qiuwei was a few days after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and a few months away, so it was too early to go to Qingzhou. But he couldn't laugh or cry after reading the letter. It turns out that the young man deliberately mentioned the Dragon Boat Festival because he wanted to eat his dumplings!
In addition, the letter also mentioned a major event that was very important to the Su's Family-Prince of Jinyang, Zhao Mu, begged the current emperor to give the Liuyang County next door to Qinghe County as his fief! The emperor had agreed, so Prince of Jinyang would go to the fief with his family in these two months.
"Prince of Jinyang? Wángye?" Shen Yanbei raised his eyebrows. The original owner was just a scholar in a small village and he didn’t know the country’s upper-class divisions. He only knew that the wángye's status was precious, he was the emperor’s half-brother. There were 13 counties in Great Qi. Below the country was the state, below the state was the county, dividing a county into a fief for half-brothers, this emperor seemed really generous.
"Prince of Jinyang..." Gu Changfeng murmured in a low voice, and suddenly he was taken aback. His eyes flickered, and his hand on his side was also firmly clenched.
"The eighth day of September is the 60th birthday of the old lady of the Su's Family?" Shen Yanbei closed the letter. "It seems we have to stay in Qingzhou until September." In the beginning, Su Qingze invited them to Su's Family as a guest. Seeing his humble status, the old lady made a lot of criticism, But Su Qingze's parents treated them with courtesy. Now for the old lady's birthday, what kind of gift should he give?
"Wife, do you have an opinion about the gift?" Shen Yanbei asked Gu Changfeng, only to find that the man's lips were tight and his eyes were cold, it was a kind of anger that he had never seen before.
"Changfeng?" Shen Yanbei hurriedly called.
Hearing this, Gu Changfeng suddenly recovered, his cold eyes faded. He looked at Shen Yanbei blankly, "I..."
"I seem to remember something..."
Shen Yan frowned. "What do you remember?"
Gu Changfeng hesitated. "My amnesia seems related to Prince of Jinyang."
What? Shen Yanbei opened his eyes slightly, a little unbelievable. "Do you know Prince Jinyang?"
Gu Changfeng's eyes were gloomy. "I don't know, but I think I lost my memory because of Prince Jinyang!" The moment he heard the name, a voice suddenly appeared in his mind:
"Do not blame me!"
"If we have to blame someone, then blame yourself! You are so ugly but you still want to seduce Prince Jinyang!"
I'm all alone there QAQ
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