Fight the Giants

  Chapter 840 It's half done

   Seeing Huo Xi questioning, Xiduo pursed her lips and quickly glanced at Mu Yan next to her.

  Huo Xi turned to see Mu Yan standing beside her with a stern face, smiled helplessly, and pushed him. Mu Yan looked down at her and took two steps away.

  Seeing that he didn't leave, Huo Xi had no choice but to smile at Xiduo and said, "It's okay, Shizi, he just looks serious, but in fact he is soft-hearted and not scary at all."

  Whether soft or not after birth, Xiduo doesn't know. But Shizi looked quite frightening to her. It's not that the prince is so scary, but just looking at it, um, it's so majestic that people dare not look at it.

Seeing Huo Xi's encouraging face, Xiduo said bravely, "Last year, I heard that Madam tried to grow grain for two seasons in Zhuangzi, and planted wheat immediately after the autumn harvest. Grandma secretly followed suit. Several neighbors They also planted together..."

   "Oh?" Huo Xi was a little surprised, "Your grandmother planted wheat along with it? After the autumn harvest? Is it done?"

   Xiduo grinned and nodded again and again, "It's done!" Speaking of this, she also talked more, and she didn't feel nervous anymore.

"The wheat has started to fill the oars these days. Grandma is very happy, and she finally breathed a sigh of relief. She stares at it every day more carefully than my siblings. I just don't know what to do next? I am afraid that the harvest will be reduced, and I am afraid of making mistakes. Rice planting later. So, so..."

  So I want her to ask Madam what to do next.

   But she hasn't seen his wife for a year. Waiting at the gate did not see Mrs. He dared not go up and knock on the door to ask for an audience. Finally got to see Mrs. Xiduo is very happy.

   "So your grandmother wants you to ask what's next?"

   Xiduo nodded repeatedly. Madam is really amazing, she didn't say anything, Madam knew what she wanted to say.

  Huo Xi smiled and praised: "Your grandmother is really amazing. She dared to use her own military field for experiments, and she is not afraid that she will lose the tax that cannot be paid for the guard."

   After the words fell, even Mu Yan turned his head and looked over.

  Xiduo became a little nervous again, she lowered her head and dared not look at the two of them.

Said softly: "It's all thanks to my wife's blessing. Last year, the family saved a few taels of silver to have the confidence. Grandma said, my brother is Yu Ding, and I have a job. Grandma alone can't plant much land. If you try If it fails, the family’s money can also be used to pay taxes, but if it succeeds, it will be able to harvest two crops of grain a year, with twice the result with half the effort, which is great.”

  Besides, since the family got better, my grandmother respected my wife very much. I heard that my wife personally instructed the people in Zhuangzi to try planting, so she followed suit. Said it would work. I also asked a few good neighbors to plant together.

   Sure enough, what Madam said is correct, and that's it. Grandma said that now that the oars are being filled, the next season of rice planting will not be delayed.

  Huo Xi was very pleased to hear that.

  Last year, I saw that the soldiers were owed military noon, and the family’s livelihood was difficult, so I was thinking about some solutions. In addition to opening workshops and solving some labor, I also want them to use their own military fields to grow some food to solve their food and clothing problems.

  But I didn’t dare to try it rashly. So they experimented in the garden.

  After the rice was harvested last year, people planted wheat in a hurry, and they are still filling the oars without harvesting. She can't guarantee how much the yield per mu will be, and whether the rice production will be reduced after harvesting and planting.

  Try it rashly. If the situation is worse than before, it will affect the livelihood of all the soldiers in the guard. If someone instigates it, it will be bad if something happens again.

   I am most afraid of an uproar in the military situation. If there is chaos, it will not end well.

   Unexpectedly, Xiduo's grandma was so courageous that she secretly followed her.

   "Tomorrow I will send someone to look at the fields planted by your grandmother and your neighbors. It will be the oar filling period. Wheat needs a lot of water. It must be watered frequently and topdressed in order to have a good harvest..."

   Xiduo wrote down one by one. Hearing that Madam will send people to check the fields tomorrow, she is very happy, her eyes are bright: "Grandma will be very happy if she finds out! I will tell her not to go anywhere tomorrow, just wait at home!"

   "Okay." Huo Xi nodded.

Looking at Xiduo in front of me, I still remember how she looked when I saw her for the first time... Looking at her now, she has grown taller, her face has flesh, and her dress is more energetic, and she is happy, "Your age You are still young, don't be greedy for work, you will not grow up if you are tired."

   Unexpectedly, Madam would still care about herself, Xiduo's heart was full.

   "Don't worry, ma'am. The work in the workshop is not tiring at all, and it's much easier than we do at home. The food here is good and full. Everyone is grateful to Madam."

  Everyone likes to work here, and she likes it too. Every day when I go to bed, I look forward to the early arrival of the next day. Like her, everyone is grateful, but they don't know how to express their gratitude.

  Looking at Huo Xi with reverence and gratitude, but also with some apprehension and uneasiness.

  Huo Xi couldn't help laughing, was he afraid that he wouldn't be able to send these half-grown children back?

  Although I am a half-grown child, there are several child laborers, but the world is like this. Children from poor and common people will help the family to earn copper coins if they can only walk. They can earn copper coins in the workshop without beating or scolding, which makes them relaxed and happy.

   "Okay, then do your best." A few words of encouragement.

   "Yes, Madam, don't worry, we will work hard!" Xiduo and the others breathed a sigh of relief.

  Huo Xi got a package of Dingsheng Cake from Grandma Xiduo, and someone gave her a reward, Xiduo declined but accepted it, thanked and thanked, and watched Huo Xi leave the workshop.

   "Very happy?" Mu Yan turned to look at her.

  Huo Xi nodded with a smile, "Happy." Seeing others live their lives with her help, there is nothing happier than this.

  Seeing her slightly smug look again, Mu Yan raised the corner of her mouth. As long as she is happy, he sees her happy, and he is also happy in his heart.

  Glanced at her belly, smiling.

Because of Xiduo's words, Huo Xi remembered the wheat planted in Deyuan last year, and lived in the village with Mu Yan for a few days. After watching the growth of the wheat, seeing the meticulous care of the farmer and the servants, he let it go. Heart, confessed a few words, the husband and wife returned home.

  Back to the mansion, Mu Yan received a secret letter sent by the emperor.

   After reading it, I was greatly relieved.

   "The emperor liked the piece of imperial green we gave him very much. He praised me for what I did in Yunnan, asked me to help Duke Qian guard the border, and said that I can do things cheaply."

   Do it cheaply? This is good. Mu Yan felt relieved. With these words of the emperor, his layout is more smooth.

  Huo Xi couldn't tell what was going on in his heart, "The emperor didn't say how long he wanted us to stay?"

  Mu Yan shook his head. Seeing that Huo Xi's face was calm, completely different from her own, she closed her eyes with joy. Walking over to her and hugging her, "Do you miss Qi'er again?"

  The emperor asked him to stay in Yunnan to assist in military affairs. But in this way, Xi'er can only stay with him in Yunnan.

  He knew that she wanted her son and relatives in the capital, and she wanted to go back. But he couldn't let her go back, he couldn't live without her by his side.

   "When I finish my two years of work, I will go back to Beijing, okay?"

  (end of this chapter)