Chapter 10:

"Master Li, the place is here."
Near noon, Hekou Village finally arrived. The old man driving the car pulled the rope to stop the cow, then jumped off the rut and turned around. Shouted to the inside.
Seeing that the bullock cart had stopped steadily, Yuan Bao crawled down, and Li Cheng got off afterwards.
This way, I really sat stiff.
After arranging the clothes and asking Yuan Bao to pay for the car, Li Cheng looked up around.
This village is not small, it has just come all the way, and there are also villages nearby, not as large as Hekou Village.
Hekou Village is said to have a population of over one hundred households, so it was named because it is facing a small river.
There are rivers, waters and mountains, and the road into the city is not far and convenient because it is close to the official road.
The paddy fields are fertile and there are many forests and mountains, so the life here is good.
At least he doesn't look yellow and thin.
Hekou Village is a cluster of mixed surnames, with seven or eight castes, but more than half of the surnames are Li, so the village is led by Li.
The ancestors of Li's family were from Hekou Village, until Li Baode's grandfather's generation, because he was lucky enough to marry a city girl, the family of talents took root in the imperial city and settled in the city for several generations.
Only the ancestral hall and old house of the Li family are still here. Every year for the New Year, your family in the Li family still has to come back to worship the ancestors.
The current patriarch of the Li family, speaking of seniority, Li Cheng would call him the third grandfather, and the other party is the cousin of grandfather Li Chengze.
In ancient times, clan ancestral halls were highly regarded. Family relations generally do not stop.
Don't talk about it on weekdays, the New Year's Day is always a gift.
There are more than 100 households in Hekou Village, and the population should be around seven or eight hundred.
Because the surname Li accounts for half, now the village head of Hekou Village is also a person surnamed Li, the son of Grandpa Li Chengze.
Because of this, it is much more convenient for a person surnamed Li to be in Hekou Village, and no one dares to bully. It is more convenient to do anything.
This is the power of the clan.
The ancestral residence of Li's family here is a big house with a junior college entrance, which is much larger than the place where he lives in Beijing.
After all, it is in the village, and the land is not so valuable.
Although the Li family's house looks a bit old, it is not broken, and everything inside is neat.
The room was not dirty, it was cleaned up every other day.
This is because tenants hired by the Li family live here to help with house inspections.
They are a couple with an eight or nine-year-old son.
This tenant was formerly a foreigner, but later settled in Hekou Village.
The two had no house or land, so they could only serve as tenant farmers. Later, the old lady Sun looked pitiful, so she called people to the house, and asked them to stay in the outermost area and clean the house on weekdays.
Li Cheng came here and sent a message without asking someone in advance, Wudi came, and the couple who was unavoidable right now panicked.
Although the two knew that this was the young master of the master's house, the ones who had come over many years in the past were old lady Li and old master. Li Cheng's sudden appearance was really messy.
They all knew that Young Master Li was a promising man. In the spring of the year, they heard that he had passed the exam. With fame and fame, I married a lady from a big family again this month, which is really enviable.
In their eyes, this kind of person is already aloof, not dare to climb, let alone offend.
Over time, Li Cheng has adapted to the ancients' behavior of bowing and bowing to the ground.
The sudden kowtow of the couple can no longer give Li Cheng a headache. He calmly instructed Yuan Bao to wake people up, and then asked about something here.
Of course, I mainly asked about the 100 acres of mountainous land in Li's panic.
The husband and wife, the man is called Wang Hu, and the woman is called Wang Hu's.
They are all in their thirties, very honest, and speak with a different accent.
In front of Li Chengze, he responded very carefully.
But I'm not confused at all, asking what to answer.
Now it's midday, it's time for dinner.
The two of them probably also came back for lunch, otherwise they should be busy in the fields.
Before going out, the Sun family explained all the trivial matters one by one, and Yuan Bao was also very clever. He looked at the situation and took out a bunch of big money the size of his wrist and gave it to Wang Hu's family to cut some pork or kill it. Chicken, come here to eat neatly.
His young master hurried over in the morning and was hungry and tired.
Wang Hu’s family rubbed his hands, he kept his mouth a few times, and said, "Go now."
In response, he took the money carefully, and gave Li Cheng a pot of tea before he hurried down to the stove.
This man was quick and quick, and he served a table of food in less than half an hour.
There is a pot of chicken soup, a bowl of bacon steamed dried vegetables, a plate of green beans, a plate of fried young bamboo shoots, and a plate of scrambled eggs.
Li Cheng is alone, and there are only many at this table.
He asked Yuan Bao to sit down and eat. Yuan Bao shook his head quickly. He refused. Wang's family also wanted to eat. Naturally, he prepared a bite of Yuan Bao. Yuan Bao smiled and said that he would eat it.
But Li Cheng stopped, and he said: "Don't go to other people's family. If you look at their poor families, they will have a tight life. How can you eat it again? Even a bite of grain is food. Stop, you Just wait until I finish eating and then pick up the rest to eat. With such a table, do you think I can finish it?"
The words were not heavy, and Li Cheng still had a faint expression, but once he spoke, Yuan Bao was completely afraid to speak.
In my heart, I only feel that although the young master has a good temper and is gentle when he looks at him, it is also scary to let out a little bit of momentum around his body.
If you put your face down again, it might make your legs weaker.
Yuan Bao was obediently outside the house, and when Li Cheng was done, he really followed suit.
After putting down the bowls and chopsticks, the mouth still can't help the aftertaste, and it feels good to have oil in the mouth.
After lunch, Li Cheng asked Yuan Bao to follow him and took the things he bought from the city to the third grandfather of the patriarch.
If it was Li Baode who came back, he didn't have to go in person, but Li Cheng was a junior after all, and he rarely came to the countryside, so he should go there.
When Li Cheng arrived in the bullock cart, many people had seen it on the road, and the third grandfather had naturally heard about it.
Sure enough, Li Cheng came, and the three masters were very happy, but not surprised.
After talking with someone for a while and asking about the current situation at home, Li Chengcai got up and said goodbye.
He came here just to inspect the fields, so he didn't stay much.
The Li family’s current paddy field is only 100 acres, not a lot, so the land rent is still looking for the households in the past years to collect them. The past few years have grown well, and the grain harvest has been good. At the official autumn harvest season, all the grains in the fields have been harvested and put in the granary.
Don't worry too much.
After looking at a piece of land, Li Chengze realized that he seemed to be wrong before. He had been listening to the woodland and mountains from Li Baode's mouth before, and he mistakenly thought that the land was high or slope-shaped. Or the kind of hard soil with stones.
When I looked at it now, I realized that it was not the case at all.
Large tracts of land are actually flat, neither black soil nor hard soil. When I squatted down and twisted with my hands, I discovered that it was a kind of sandy texture, the soil was very loose and the soil layer was still deep.
When the soil was tentacle, Li Chengze thought of something.
watermelon.
Such soft sand and deep soil seems very suitable for growing watermelon?
Watermelon... Li Cheng searched his memory and found out that there was no such fruit as watermelon in this dynasty!
He wondered if it was called the name watermelon, so he thought about it again like a watermelon, and finally determined that there really is no watermelon in this place.
I have never seen the original body since I was young, and I have never eaten it.
Li Cheng frowned, recalling his country, when was the watermelon introduced? It seems to be five generations? Still Ming? Probably it was first introduced into Xinjiang from the Western Regions and then spread to the inland.
But this dynasty is different from his own history, and Li Cheng is a bit embarrassed, and he doesn't know if there are such things as watermelon seedlings here.
But there are also Western Regions here. Maybe, when will you find a Western Region merchant to find out.
If this large area of ​​land can really be grown into watermelons, it will be more than income in the future. The most important thing is that this is a new variety of fruit that will definitely be popular.
But now I think these are a little far away, and there is nothing about the watermelon seedlings.
But at any rate he knew the condition of this land. In the future, whether it is to grow watermelon or something else, it cannot be wasted.
The watermelon seedlings were cultivated in the spring and summer. This year it will not be possible. If you can really find melon seedlings, you can plant them next year. Seedlings can be cultivated in March and July. In early spring, you have to build a few small sheds.
However, even if there is a deal, it is not a project that can generate money immediately. This is true of the so-called near thirst.
Li Cheng inspected the river mouth and returned to the capital in the afternoon as an ox cart.
Entering the city, it seems to be lively all at once.
Li Cheng had long thought about it.
If you want fast money, you need capital investment. Li Cheng doesn't have capital. What he has to do now is to accumulate capital and earn the first pot of gold.
There is one sentence, if you have money, hundreds of projects will be automatically sent to you to make money. If there is no money, even if you have tens of thousands of ideas and projects, money will not come to you.
This is absolutely impossible.
Li Cheng has not forgotten that he is a scholar and a university professor. Maybe he can do something he has done.
Of course, the old profession he said was not about teaching, or he wanted to teach, and qualified students were not accepted here.
He means the pen.
Scholars, no matter what kind of scholars, can always write something with a pen.
Li Cheng had this idea a few days ago, but he has yet to examine the market.
Maybe you can write some novels and books, and there should be no shortage of market in any dynasty.
If you really decide to write, you have to study the style and characteristics of such local books.
This time of thinking about things passed quickly, and he got home in the blink of an eye.
After paying the fare. Li Cheng and Yuan Bao first applied to the east courtyard.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered, the Bai family came over and pulled Li Chengze and said, "Ze'er is back. Today, a person named Su came to our house. He said it was your good friend and gave you a copy. Post, I invite you to participate in what poetry meeting in the future." After that, he took out the post and handed it to Li Chengze.
Surname Su?
Li Cheng squinted his eyes for a moment, then opened the floral note and scanned it again.
"So it was him."
The name of the inscriber is Su Ziyan.
This is the person who asked the original body to rub his post to Mingdehou Mansion.
Li Cheng looked slightly sneered, and said to his heart that the many coincidences of the Hou Mansion might not be without conspiracy. It is possible that even the original body was a part of the design.
The original body's own mind is impure, and they don't know if they are used.
Li Cheng was not a stupid person. He had guessed as early as the day he crossed over. It was not innocent that his original body was smashed into the water to save people. It was just that there was no time to bother.
That's not bad, he doesn't look for it, people come first instead.
So, he really wants to go to the other party for a while