Chapter 15
After drinking a jar of wine, everyone couldn't bear it. Everyone was used to drinking low-alcohol wine. Suddenly, they encountered such a high-alcohol one and were better than Xu Ping to drink it in big gulps.
Especially Li Zhang, he was already tilted aside and had no idea about the personnel.
Look at the evening, Xu Chang took Li Yonghe to settle down, and Li Zhang stayed in Xu's house and slept with him. The two of them had been having fun since childhood and had been sleeping on the same bed more often.
He took Li Zhang to the bed, and Xu Ping lay down beside him in his clothes, unable to sleep for a while, looking at the roof and thinking about his worries.
Li Zhang is different from Xu Ping before. He has a mature personality and never causes trouble. If it weren't for the fact that their previous generation had such a fateful relationship, they shouldn't have had any interaction.
Xu Ping was two years older. Seeing that Li Zhang was honest, he often teased him and often took him to do some embarrassing things. Time was too frequent, and Li Zhang became so mean in front of Xu Ping, not like in front of others. It was precisely this kind of friendship that the two talked about everything and were of different sizes.
Li Yonghe became an official, but his grade was not high. Although his family was not short of food and food, he still couldn't compare with Xu Ping's family. The yard had already resigned early and went home to retire. All the families of all the families were all relied on Li Yonghe's salary. The prices in Tokyo were expensive, so their family was not well-off. Fortunately, the yard had an ancestral house outside the West City, not far from the Xu Ping's restaurant. Their family would live, otherwise they would be even more embarrassing.
Li Zhang has been with Xu Ping since he was a child. He has been living in the Xu family for a long time, and he treats him as his family.
Xu Ping turned around, looked at Li Zhang who was sleeping beside him, and sighed. He was no longer the playboy he used to be, and I wonder if he could get along with this brother.
The next morning, Xu Ping woke up and woke Li Zhang up when he got up.
The guy looked around blankly and asked Xu Ping with no idea: "Brother, did I get drunk last night? Why don't you remember how I fell asleep?"
Xu Ping said angrily: "You are drunk like a pool of mud, and you can't move! It's only been so long since you haven't seen each other, why have you become so heavy?"
Li Zhang said embarrassedly: "I have grown faster in the past two years, which makes my brother laugh."
The two of them were just washing them. Li Zhang asked Xu Ping: "Why are there no one around my brother? I heard that your family is a little dilapidated, and it is not that far, right?"
Xu Ping said: "There is one named Xiuxiu. I asked her to go home to see her parents during the holiday."
Li Zhang said: "When will I be able to see you? It's because of the people around my brother. It's so embarrassing if I don't know you."
Xu Ping smiled and said, "Then you stay for two more days."
Li Zhang said: "I originally had to live for a few days. There are horses in Qijiyuan nearby. The forage farm can not be clearly checked in a short while. Dad will have to be busy for a while."
Xu Ping shook his head: "I really can't figure it out. Qianyuan Festival is a festival that is celebrated together in the world. How could Uncle Shi be sent out at this time? Forget it, let's have breakfast."
When the two came out, they met Xu Chang, and only then did they realize that Li Yonghe had already met his subordinates, crossed the river and checked the grassland and went to work for business. It would take two or three days to come back.
Xu Ping shook his head. This family really doesn't think that he is an outsider.
After breakfast, Xu Ping said to Li Zhang: "I want to go to study and class, are you going?"
Li Zhang shook his head: "I just need to read and recognize words. I will not attend the imperial examination, so I don't want to listen to those poems by Lin Xiucai."
Xu Ping didn't want to go, and felt aroused in his heart and said to Li Zhang: "Then I won't go either. Why not do this? Madam Lin wants to plant a few mulberry trees around her yard, so we will plant trees and tell the teacher that if you come to visit, you will not be in class in the past two days."
Li Zhang leaned close to Xu Ping and chuckled in a low voice: "You want to skip class, do you want me to help you fulfill your lie?"
These are all things that the two of them did so much before, looking at each other and smiling tacitly.
Xu Chang recruited all the shopkeepers and stood on the wheat field. They had already divided themselves. One class was dedicated to managing the orchard and vegetable garden chores, and Xu Chang was responsible for the class. Another class was Sun Qilang, and the other class selected was Gao Daquan.
This is a newcomer, and he can even convince the public. Xu Ping couldn't help but look up to him. But he didn't expect that the person below looked at Gao Daquan and pushed him out to force him to work more and not be lazy. Besides, he took more money than others, so he naturally had to bear it if he had something to do.
Let the tourists from all the villages stand in three rows, and Xu Ping named them according to the list. This is a formality, but it should not be careless. There will be strange things coming out if there is a little looser on the top and lower part. Xu Ping has a deep feeling about this.
After clicking the name, Xu Ping asked Xu Chang and his team to go on their own, and said to Sun Qilang: "Brother Qi, take your subordinates to harvest seeds. Remember, it is the kind of alfalfa that blooms purple flowers and the sweet milime. These two kinds are better, so don't let other seeds come in. There are also tart and purple locust, oh, and peanuts. If there are some, collect some, and go to Xu Duguan to discuss the price."
Sun Qilang said: "The little official told me that we will do our best. I just don't know what kind of constitution is, whether to buy it with cash or exchange it for food? Or let us go on credit? This requires the guarantor."
Xu Chang arranged his subordinates, but did not leave, and said to Sun Qilang: "What kind of guarantor do you want! Our Xu family is a first-class household here, and they will not believe it. If you just go, there are really people who don't believe it and come back and tell me!"
Xu Ping originally wanted to give them cash money, but when he saw Xu Chang speak, he stopped talking. But he didn't know that this was a hidden rule. The shopkeepers were all floating people, not particularly reliable, or if they had to, the owner would not give them cash money to do things. As soon as the money was obtained, there were many people who ran away after they were taken.
Xu Chang took Sun Qilang and his team aside and gave a careful order. Xu Ping said to Gao Daquan: "Your team follows me and go planting trees for Madam Lin's house. I don't need to say anything about this, you also know to be careful."
Everyone agreed.
Mulberry trees are the foundation of farmers. Unlike other tree species, they have to have seedlings in the farm, so there is no need to look for them outside.
Seeing Xu Ping busy, Li Zhang was wandering around alone. After a while, he came back, carrying two sweet sorghum trees on his shoulders and gnawing them in his hand.
Seeing Xu Ping bringing people to dig saplings, Li Zhang hurriedly came up and said, "Brother, it turns out that there is such a good thing in your farm! I have heard of Milo, but I have never seen such sweet things before. I am about to catch up with the sugarcane shipped from the south! Speaking of sugarcane, Grandpa Duan bought a few for me last year, and I still remember the taste!"
Grandpa Duan is the one who enters the inner yard. The old man likes children and keeps Li Zhang by his side every day.
Xu Ping saw Li Zhang's intoxicated look and said with a smile: "If you like it, cut a bundle for you when you leave. But this is not like sugarcane. It will change after being stored for two days. You have to eat it in time."
After crossing the Nanhe River, there was a pond not far to the east, and there was a place to raise mulberry seedlings, and there were hundreds of seedlings in all directions.
Because it is already summer and the branches and leaves are already lush, after choosing the seedlings, Xu Ping first asked Gao Daquan to take his people to take most of the branches and leaves. Dig deeper, be sure to bring more roots and soil.
This is sandy land, the soil layer is deep and soft, and it didn't take much time to take out more than twenty saplings. More than a dozen farmers took two or three trees per person, and carried it away.
When he returned to the gate of the yard, he saw Liu Xiaoyi driving a ox cart to deliver coal, and Xu Chang directed the unloading.
Seeing Xu Ping coming, Liu Xiaoyi sang: "The little official is here just in time. The stone carbon you want has been delivered. I heard that it was the little official who wanted to use it, but the wife specifically ordered that all the products they chose were of the same color."
Xu Ping saw that the ox cart was filled with large coal blocks, which were not dark in color and fluorescent, so he had to nod his head: "I'm sorry, Brother Xiaoyi."
These are really good coal, and I'm afraid they all have to reach the level of anthracite. But he originally wanted to make coal balls, but he didn't pay attention to the quality of coal. The more he broke, the better. After transporting the coal, he would have to work hard to break it.
After a few words, everyone turned west along the river and turned around the bend to make the new home of the Lin family.
Li Zhang put down the two sweet sorghum trees on his shoulder at the door, caught up with Xu Ping, and said, "It's gone for a long time, I'll go see my sister-in-law, too."
He called Lin Su Niang and sister-in-law because he was used to calling him accustomed to him, and no one paid attention to him.
Turning around the bend of the river and heading north, I can't walk far away and I see a small courtyard hidden in the bamboo forest. There are occasionally birds singing, and the environment is very quiet.
Xu Ping also admired Lin Wensi very much. It was only a few days before, and I don’t know where he found so many bamboos to plant here.
Lin Wensi's family has a two-story building facing the street in Tokyo. They rent it out to be a shop all year round, and it is not supported by the Xu family. Every inch of land in Bianliang in Tokyo is worth every inch, and there is such a real estate that is enough to have no worries about food and clothing.
When he arrived at the door, he saw the pink walls and black tiles of the courtyard. Li Zhang praised: "Siucai Lin is from Jiangnan. At first glance, he lived in the water town family."
A group of people were noisy, and they heard it inside. Su'er opened the door and saw that it was Xu Ping, and hurriedly said, "It turns out that it's a small official. You can wait a moment, I'll go in and spread it."
Li Zhang looked at Su'er in and asked Xu Ping: "Who is this? Why haven't you seen it before?"
Xu Ping said: "This is the personal female envoy Lin Niangzi's new appointment. Because she is from Suzhou, she is named Suer."
Li Zhang didn't say anything, and suddenly said after a while: "I often hear people say that Jiangnan is prosperous and all kinds of scenery are far better than the Central Plains. When will I go and see it?"
Xu Ping did not respond. People who traveled through time were always a little strange about Jiangnan. Who made the Song Dynasty unsuccessful, would make people have bad associations?
After a while, Su'er came out and said to Xu Ping: "The little official comes in to pay a visit to tea. Let's go and do your best. Tea will be sent to you later."
Gao Daquan looked at Xu Ping, and when he saw him nodding, he led everyone around to plant trees.
Li Zhang said with a bitter face: "Sister-in-law won't invite me in for a bowl of tea? I'm so lucky to see her from Tokyo."
Xu Ping cursed: "You are talking nonsense. Are you visiting her? Besides, she doesn't know you are here, so why would you mention you? Just follow me in!"
Li Zhang kept shook his head: "You are all a family, of course you can make sense no matter how you say it."
Following Xu Ping and Su'er into the yard.
Chapter completed!