Chapter 134: Hope(1/4)
A slender finger carefully stroked the tender green radish seedlings that had just emerged from the ground.
Zhao Qing squatted in front of the tender seedlings, with joy written all over his delicate face.
Rejoice that the seeds sown by your own hands have sprouted.
I'm glad that Chen Sheng is willing to take her out of the city for a walk.
Chen Sheng squatted beside her and looked at her silly smiling face, unable to stop the smile on his lips.
He also enjoyed her joy.
After a long time, he straightened up, looked at the vegetable garden around him that Zhao Qing had cultivated by himself, and said with a smile: "Sister, if you like to take care of these, I can order someone to build a house on this land. When the weather gets cold, use fire to raise it."
With the temperature in the house, we can eat fresh fruits and green vegetables in winter."
Zhao Qing raised her little face and looked at him, her bright eyes full of little stars: "Really?"
Chen Sheng nodded: "Of course it's true."
Lu Shu, a descendant of the farmer who was tending the fields on the side, straightened up and asked in surprise when he heard Chen Sheng's words: "Sir, you actually know how to sow summer crops in winter?"
Chen Sheng said "hmm" in a long tone, even more surprised than him: "Sir, have you ever heard of the off-season vegetable planting method?"
“How to grow vegetables out of season?”
Lu Shu chewed on the name and nodded with a simple smile: "It's quite appropriate... It is recorded in the classics passed down by my farm family, 'Grow green onions, leeks and rutabagas in winter, cover the veranda of the house, and burn the fire day and night, until the temperature is warm, it will grow.'
When the late king first came to the court, the patriarch offered this method to the eunuchs. Unfortunately, the officials in the court thought that this method was an out-of-time method that harmed the harmony of heaven and the four seasons.
"
Chen Sheng smiled and shook his head, and after gently saying "nonsense", he stopped commenting.
Let him fill the sky with immortals and Buddhas, let demons roam everywhere, and the rules of the world will be as unconstrained as they come!
Summarizing the laws, mastering the laws, and utilizing the laws are still the most correct path for human progress!
No rebuttal accepted!
It’s ridiculous that the Lord of Kyushu doesn’t even dare to produce out-of-season vegetables!
If Taipingdao doesn’t do it, who will?
"Sir, I have read through many classics passed down by my ancestors in the past few days, but I have not been able to find any record of the 'Yuan Shennong' you mentioned. Are you really not trying to deceive me again?"
Lu Shu seized the opportunity and raised the question that had been holding back for several days.
"I really didn't lie to you!"
As soon as Chen Sheng heard him mention this topic again, he couldn't help but sigh and said feebly: "What I said was really written by that old man."
In the past few days, in order to grow wheat and increase yields, Chen Sheng frequently exchanged agricultural techniques with the old man.
He has no knowledge of farming.
But of course he had heard of some of the well-known agricultural techniques such as composting, seedling raising, deep plowing, and even hybrid seedling selection, flower pollination, etc.
among these concepts.
Most of them are actually included in the existing knowledge system of farmers, but they only know what they are and don't know why, or they don't do enough.
For example, composting has very strict implementation procedures in the farmer's knowledge system. It is both plant ash and human and animal excrement... Chen Sheng didn't know whether it was scientific enough, but it looked like that anyway.
As for high-level agricultural knowledge such as pollination and cross-breeding, it is completely beyond the knowledge system of farmers.
At first, Chen Sheng just mentioned it casually.
Lu Shu only said "yes, yes" on the surface, but secretly sneered.
But in the following days, Lu Shu's state became more and more depressed, and his bright eyes slowly turned into panda eyes... But it was the knowledge that he scorned when he first heard it. When he looked back and thought about it, the more he thought about it, the more he felt it was useful.
The truth, but that knowledge was completely beyond the knowledge system he had learned, and no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't figure it out.
Of course, Chen Sheng also wanted to have an in-depth discussion with the old man about these advanced agricultural technologies.
Although this old man is not young, he is a simple-minded farmer who only focuses on the fields.
It sounds like a bit of a technical geek...
Dealing with such people is much easier than dealing with old foxes like Li Si.
If we can really hybridize excellent grain varieties and increase grain production, it will be a great merit for the blessing of human race for hundreds of generations!
But he himself is a layman who knows nothing.
What can he say?
But the more he said nothing.
The old man became more and more itchy and unbearable. He would come close to him whenever he had nothing to do, and would ask questions as soon as he caught someone to talk.
Lu Shu stared at him suspiciously for a long time, then suddenly said: "Is it possible that your master has a sect rule that cannot be passed on to others? If you don't dislike me for being old and despicable, please allow me to become my teacher!"
As he said that, he put down the hoe and bent his knees to kneel down.
Zhao Qing, who had been silent for a long time, was shocked. When he looked at Chen Sheng, the little stars almost formed a galaxy!
In this era, becoming a disciple is an extremely solemn and serious matter.
There are also very few things that require kneeling and worshiping.
You should know that even the red-coated soldiers who fanatically worshiped Chen Sheng and regarded Chen Sheng as a god could only kneel on the ground during the flag presentation ceremony...
There is gold under the man's knees. Kneel to the sky and kneel to the ancestors!
The rest of the people, even the emperor of the dynasty, only need to kneel down and worship him at a very few major ceremonies!
Chen Sheng was also startled by his actions, and hurriedly stepped up to support him: "Sir, you have no choice but to worship me as your teacher at your age, isn't that going to shorten my life?"
"Hey, the sage of Confucianism said that among all people, I must be my teacher. Although you are young, you care about the people and love the people like a son. With this virtue, when the little old man becomes your disciple, you will live up to the teachings and understanding given by your ancestors.
The grace of confusion!”
Lu Shu stubbornly brushed Chen Sheng's arms away. The two strong arms were as hard as two solid iron rods.
Not to mention that Chen Sheng couldn't stop it, his arm was so painful from the hiccups.
"Plop."
Lu Shu's knees fell heavily into the soil.
The young couple were stunned... Come on, come on, are you serious?
"Master, my disciple Lu Shu is polite!"
Lu Shu clenched his palms, said loudly and solemnly, and then knocked his head into the soil.
Chen Sheng's hand twitched.
But in the end nothing was done.
Because it's too late to do anything now...
This old man is knocked on his head!
As long as he doesn't plan to kill him now.
Then the master-disciple status is finalized!
I've only heard of people who take apprentices and force their heads to be pressed against cows without drinking water.
I didn't expect that when I became a disciple, there were also cows who refused to drink water and were forced to have their heads pressed.
He really is weaker than others and has no choice...
"Why."
Chen Sheng sighed helplessly and stepped forward to help this "old man", "Okay, let's talk about it after we get up!"
"Thank you, Master, for caring about your disciples, but why should you abandon the ceremony of becoming a master halfway?"
He stubbornly pushed Chen Sheng back and completed the apprenticeship ceremony to Chen Sheng.
Chen Sheng could only helplessly stand tall and watch him finish the apprenticeship ceremony, then take a step forward and bend down to help him.
But the moment he bent down.
A black figure dashed towards me at a distance of dozens of feet.
In two or three blinks, he crossed the open fields and appeared in front of Chen Sheng.
"My Buddha is compassionate."
The visitor clasped his hands together and bowed slightly: "Three laymen, this young monk is polite!"
Chen Sheng raised his face in disbelief and looked at the shiny bald head in front of him with a confused expression.
This unique shape.
This is a familiar slogan.
This is obviously a monk!
But where did the monks come from in Dazhou?
To be continued...