Chapter 2 I Am Not Short of Food

The Taiwei was full of curiosity about this Zhuangzi. A powerful young man suddenly appeared next to Huangzhuang. It was incredible.

Yes, it's awesome in his opinion.

Because it is also wheat, the ones grown by Huangzhuang are not as good as those grown by Li Yizhuangzi.

The maturity period is obviously about ten days behind, and Li Yizhuangzi's wheat grows stronger.

The varieties are the same.

What went wrong?

With this in mind, he looked at the eunuch beside him.

The eunuch didn't pay much attention to Zhuangzi next to him before. His mind was more on the palace and he wanted to go back.

Now seeing the growth situation of Li Yizhuangzi's wheat, he was also a little confused.

The eunuch naturally understood that the wheat on Li Yizhuang's farm would be harvested first.

I understand better the difference.

Ten days earlier means a lot less risk.

Once the wheat reaches maturity and encounters heavy rain, the early harvest will be finished or even finished in the sun.

Those harvested late will either have reduced yields and the grains will not be full, or they will have to wait for the wheat to germinate after being exposed to rain.

"Lieutenant, I...I..." The eunuch was anxious, how to explain?

"Follow the same example next year." The eunuch, Li Chengqi, chose to forgive him.

But the eunuch felt bitter in his heart, meaning that he would not be able to go back this year.

If you are in charge of an imperial estate, how can you have the right to go back and serve the emperor? For example, Gao Lishi.

"Call me Li...Da later. You speak in a lower voice." Li Chengqi ordered.

"Yes, Tai... Li Da." The eunuch quickly suppressed his voice and made his voice less sharp.

In this regard, he envied Gao Lishi. He also lacked something. Why did Gao Lishi speak with a strong voice?

As they talked, the two came to the place where garlic was grown. It was a big piece of land, one hundred acres.

A group of people bent over and scattered garlic cloves.

Some people used poles to carry garlic cloves in earthen baskets and carried them to the fields.

Soon Li Chengqi found Li Yi in the crowd, because Li Yi's temperament was different from others, even if they were both working.

He looked at the ground, which was wet, and stepped in.

The eunuch grinned, gritted his teeth and followed in, his shoes suddenly getting wet.

"Li Yi?" Li Chengqi stood next to Li Yi and asked.

Li Yi looked up: "Ah, it's me."

"Brother Li Xian invites you." Li Chengqi clasped his fists.

"My dear friend, please." Li Yi returned the greeting with a pair of clay hands.

"Brother Li Xian, why do you grow garlic in wetlands?" Li Chengqi asked, expressing his doubts.

He knows that when planting garlic, he plants it first and then fills it with water.

"It's cool and the ground is short of fertilizer. Soak it in water and let it dry in the sun for two days. The ground temperature will rise and the soil will be moist and warm. This is how you should plant garlic in spring in the north."

Li Yi introduced the situation.

In Chang'an, the land is not fertile enough.

If you mix fertilizer into the soil and then irrigate it, you need to pay attention to the temperature when growing garlic.

Therefore, the wet sowing method should be used for spring planting in the north. Water-soluble fertilizer is first used, and the temperature rises after sun exposure, and then garlic seeds are planted.

It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone.

This is called scientific planting.

"When the weather is cold and the water is cold, should we soak it in the sun first and then plant it?"

Li Chengqi thought he knew how to farm, but when he asked a question, he realized that he didn't understand it.

"Exactly." Li Yi nodded and started to add garlic cloves again.

"What happens next?" Li Chengqi knelt down to ask for advice. He found it interesting.

"For top-dressing, garlic is the most difficult to grow and has high fertilizer requirements. If there is drought, top-dress with water fertilizer; if it rains, top-dress with dry fertilizer."

Li Yi answered casually, how simple it is, why bother asking?

Li Chengqi felt that he was being looked down upon. He took a deep breath and changed the topic: "When the farm is in recession, will there be enough food?"

Li Yi looked up at him: "Is there Zhuangzi?"

"Yes." Li Chengqi answered truthfully.

According to the spacing, Li Yi continued to sprinkle garlic cloves.

At the same time, he said: "Whether food is enough depends on how much you eat. If you eat too much, of course it will not be enough."

"Then you won't be hungry if you don't eat?" Li Chengqi said in his heart, aren't you talking nonsense?

"Whether you are hungry or not depends on how much fat and water there is in your stomach. People who always eat meat will eat less food. People who always eat meat and fat will also eat less food. Or not?"

"Yes!"

"There is no shortage of oil in our farm, so we have enough leftover food to last until the harvest." Li Yi introduced without hiding anything.

He is also very willing to tell the other party that if the other party listens and follows the instructions, his life span will be increased.

Li Chengqi felt that he understood, Li Yi was rich, and nodded: "See how Li Xian's brother bought a lot of meat and oil in the village?"

Li Yi shook his head: "There's not that much meat oil, I'll use soybean oil."

"Soybean oil? Which bean? Is there oil in the beans?" Li Chengqi understood, but was even more confused.

"There are soybeans. After pressing the oil, you can still make tofu, but the tofu is not very delicious. If you don't want to make tofu, you can steam it with bean cakes."

Li Yi said with a smile.

"The beans are smelly, can they produce oil? Is the oil smelly?" Li Chengqi discussed in depth.

"The disadvantage of cooking with soybean oil is that it is fishy, ​​especially if it is cooked with raw oil. However, we can use sauce or chopped green onions to stir-fry it."

Li Yi is in a good mood, it's good that the other party is curious.

Maybe I can still sell soybean oil later.

If the other party is powerful enough, just tell them the method of extracting soybean oil.

Then the other party provides oil and water to many people and earns his own life.

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It's noon, so everyone goes back to the restaurant to eat without anyone else delivering food.

Li Chengqi shouted to Li Xiandi one after another to follow him.

The maid who stayed behind to do the work prepared the meal.

Put a lot of soybean oil in a large pan and fry the scallion pancakes.

Bean cake made from fried beans and spread with sauce.

Stir-fried bacon with garlic sprouts, wild vegetable and egg soup.

There are also last year's dried vegetables marinated in shrimp paste and small pickles with pork skin.

The man who had been working all morning was not polite and ate with open cheeks.

"Brother Li Xian, are you giving them this?" Li Chengqi was surprised. Isn't this life so good?

"Ah, how can you have the strength to work if you don't eat?" Li Yi was surprised and thought to himself, are you short-sighted?

"Where's the bran?" The eunuch understood what the boss meant and asked in a low voice.

"We feed the pigs and chickens, otherwise where would we get the eggs?" Li Yi looked over, meaning, are you stupid too?

Listening to the three people talking, the tenant farmers and the people who were bought involuntarily puffed up their chests, feeling proud.

With the proprietor here, even if he is not busy on weekdays, there will be two meals a day without the smell of oil.

Now I work, I eat three delicious meals a day, that’s enough.

Li Yi didn't care. He was used to it. He used to be the boss of a small company.

Is it okay if employees don’t eat well?

In order to take care of the young female employees, he also bought a milk tea machine and ingredients, allowing the employees to learn how to make it and drink it as they pleased.

Then some employees became proficient in the operation and resigned to sell milk tea.

Where can I go to explain this kind of thing?

Li Chengqi ate the cakes and dishes made with soybean oil and thought they were good, so he asked: "Is the oil made from beans?"

"Yes, actually, the oil-pressed bean cakes are steamed with wild vegetables, mixed with sauce, and go well with wine."

Li Yi talked about his experience, saying that the oil from soybean cake cannot be squeezed out completely with current technology, but it can be eaten.

"How?" Li Chengqi asked the key question.

The eunuch coughing under his breath reminded the boss, don't ask, it's his craftsmanship.

Being able to produce oil from beans is a skill that can be passed down from family to family.

"After I finish planting the garlic in the next two days, I'll squeeze it for you and you'll know after you take a look."

Li Yi doesn't care, as long as it can increase his life span, he is willing to find someone to promote it.

When he thought of promotion, he thought of soy sauce, which must make money.

So he took the initiative to invite: "Why don't you eat laowan together tonight? It's stuffed with garlic sprouts, eggs, and dried shrimps. It's called a delicacy. Boil it and eat it."

Li Chengqi was tempted. He had never eaten boiled prison balls before, they were all steamed.

So when I continued to plant garlic in the afternoon, a group of silent people came, dressed as farmers.

They helped and quickly finished planting garlic, and then Li Chengqi showed how to squeeze soybean oil.

He felt that he should help his brother. If beans could produce oil, then many people could eat oil and eat less food.

He knows about oil and water.

More than a hundred new people joined the team, and a hundred acres of garlic were planted before dark.

Seeing that the sun was still so high, Li Yi quickly ordered his maid to cook, and everyone who came had to eat.

The male slave took a short break and then went to help.

Today we all eat Lao Wan together. The garlic sprouts are not enough, so we should replace them with wild vegetables and add more eggs.

Make another tofu soup so that the helpers can't be hungry.

If it weren't for the plowing after the wheat harvest, Li Yi would have killed a cow.

Just pay a small amount of money for the cow that fell to death, and the government will not pursue it.

This is actually quite unreasonable. The cow belongs to you, so why is it illegal to kill it? Is there a fine for accidental death?

The people Li Chengqi called looked on and saw that the people in Li Yizhuang were still so happy after working extra hard.

They couldn't understand that as tenants, they could just rent fields and farm, but they still had to do other work for the proprietor?

The key is to add extra work, and the ten tenants are not angry.

Then when they saw a group of children, wearing the same clothes, lining up and singing songs they had never heard before.

They are all confused. What's going on?

"The sun is shining in the sky, the flowers are smiling at me, and the birds are saying morning, morning, morning, why are you carrying your little schoolbag?"

"I go to school and am never late every day. I love learning and working. When I grow up, I want to make contributions to the Tang Dynasty."

The children were singing songs, their little faces were flushed, and they could not tell any of the dishes.

"Dad, Mom..." The children came over, scattered and ran towards their parents.

Now the person who was ordered to come over to help understood.

The proprietor of our village makes the same clothes and schoolbags for the children of the tenant farmers, and they study for free.

Make sure there is a pen, sharpener, paper and inkstone in your schoolbag.

Judging from the looks on the children's faces, there must be no shortage of food. UU reading www.uukanshu.net

Looking at the child's clean appearance, he is clearly the child of a wealthy family.

Then they watched the children greet their parents, and then ran to stand in front of Li Yi.

"Brother proprietor, thank you!" The children saluted with clasped fists, imitating adults.

Li Yi smiled kindly: "Did you learn well today?"

"Learn well~~" the children shouted together.

"Then tonight each person will have a dried fish and go back and smash it to eat." Li Yi said loudly.

"Okay" "There is dried fish to eat again" "Brother the proprietor is the best"

The little children cheered.

They shouted and dispersed, went back to put away their school bags and change into peasant clothes.

They were jumping up and down, still humming.

"Young man, I carry my schoolbag to school. I'm not afraid of the sun or the wind and rain. I'm just afraid that my teacher will scold me for being lazy, uneducated, and unable to see my parents..."

Li Chengqi watched and listened, trembling all over.

What he felt was a kind of power, a majestic power, a power that made his heart surge.

He breathed hard, tried his best to adjust his mentality, and asked Li Yi: "What is dried fish?"

"Dried fish, with the bones, internal organs, head and tail removed, steamed and then dried. When eating, use a small wooden hammer to smash it until it becomes soft and use it as snacks."

Li Yi introduced him, saying that he was slandered.

Li Chengqi wondered: "Wouldn't it be better to just give them meat?"

Li Yi smiled and shook his head: "The children are not short of meat. They like to smash the fish themselves. Things that are obtained for nothing are not delicious to eat."

Li Chengqi's heart trembled again, getting something for nothing and not enjoying the food?

I see, no wonder I always feel bored and always want to have some fun.