Chapter 487: Sending the God of Plague (Part 2)

The world is declining, and we, the older generation, can no longer stand it. Li Shi feels the same way as me. He said that he went hunting with the emperor, which was a very honorable feeling. He only said that he was on the back foot, and we were on the front foot.

I just left and didn’t meet each other. I was thinking about it when I heard that there was such an auspicious event in the royal hunting ground. This time

As for Chang'an, I came to see it in a hurry. Spring is blooming, which is the season of friendship and friendship. We are old acquaintances, and there are topics to talk about wherever we sit. Talking about obscure things makes me smile. This is interesting.

The first thing to blame was the old zombies who made a big fuss in the Hubu Yamen. Li Shi laughed so hard,

"Brother Li walked on the night road, right?" He pointed to the takin behind the fence, "My brothers have looked at each other face to face. We are nervous, but we are not afraid at all. Think about it, my younger brother is stupid and bold. But if

On the road, a takin is dressed as an old man in front of a household. That would be scary. Then don’t move around and just jump over."

Li Shi shook his hand and pointed at me with a smile, "This can't be nonsense. The old man has had a stroke for many years. It's a big deal if he can move his legs. No one dares to offend him. Some people scolded the emperor in front of Shunde Gate, and some scolded the uncle.

, he has long since died without a complete body.”

"That's it. The court doesn't know what it thinks. Don't offend whoever you offend. A few small coins and a few fake brochures. Speaking from my heart, Brother Li probably has a few acres of land in Longyou, right?" As he said,

He stood up and dusted off the dust on his body, and made a gesture of greeting to Li Shi, "It's clean, but the smell is too strong. I'll accompany Brother Li for a walk around the village. The flowers are red and the willows are green. It's the season to see the scenery."

Li Shi nodded. He walked back and forth by the lotus pond. The flower bones in the pond were swaying in the wind. Groups of ducks plunged into the water, dug out fish and shrimps to eat, and were not afraid of people. They swam under their feet, raised their wings and fluttered.

Both of them were covered in water.

The living objects aroused Li Shi's interest. He squatted by the pool, rolled up his sleeves, and dipped his hand in the water a few times. The word "good" was written on his face, looking comfortable.

"Knickknacks for a small place." He tore off a lotus leaf and threw it on the ground, then sat cross-legged by the pond. "Chang'an City is getting bigger and bigger. In the next few years, I don't know what it will develop into. I want to

It's a matter of circumstance. If you look for a farm, you have to come here. There are many good places in the city, but they are all fake. The money is piled up."

Li Shi nodded, "This is the truth. A good place comes with a good price. Only when I come to Wang's Village, I feel fresh. Nowadays, there are really not many places with a pure heart."

"Dad~" Jiujin came out of school and brought a group of soldiers with him, running down the slope while shouting. His schoolbag was hung behind his back like a kite and he was fanning. He didn't take a single step firmly and came to me in a hurry.

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"Are you playing with Hot Wheels?" Jiujin pulled him up and slapped him up and down a few times, "I'll see you soon, Uncle Li."

Here we are having a ceremony. The children are all snoring. Some are throwing away their schoolbags, some are taking off their clothes, and sitting down in the pit of lotus root, they are covered in mud. They are tossing around. From top to bottom, this Zhuangzi,

There are quite a few people who know me and are afraid of me

, No. I was actually covered in muddy water, and I was annoyed. I pointed at my bare butt in the pond and cursed a few times, turned around, picked up a big pebble, and threw it into the pond with all my strength. The splashed muddy water made the smelly child stagger.

.Pull Li Shi over. "Withdraw!"

"Brother Li is laughing. The stinky child is unruly, and the eldest son of my family is also wild."

"Very good." Only then did he realize that Li Shi also had a pebble in his hand. He was afraid that he wanted to imitate me and threw it, but he didn't have time to do it. Li Shi looked embarrassed, threw the pebble far away, and laughed at himself: "

This man has been lifeless for a long time. He just regained his childlike innocence and was pulled away by Zihao."

"No, there's a lot more fun here." He crossed the field in a few steps. He picked up a lump of mud and threw it into the forest. A group of sparrows rushed into the sky. They were so dense that they seemed small.

The wings fanned out the wind. Li Shi patted the dirt on his hands in boredom, leaned against a big rock, and said with a smile: "Zihao lives a leisurely life."

"It's fake. To be honest, how much leisure time you have is just pretending to show others, and you can't wipe your shit clean." He took out a few raw chestnuts from his arms, handed a few to Li Shi, and the two of them started to peel them clumsily.

"Don't be greedy when it comes to raw chestnuts. If you eat too much, you'll get upset." Li Shibian reasoned with me. He stuffed it into his mouth without even peeling the skin himself. While eating, he praised: "I saved it last autumn until now, and half a year later, it's still the same."

Fresh. Rare."

"You can save a lot." This is not unusual in the Wang family. Since the village is prospering in the third industry, including chestnuts and pomegranates, including lotus roots and water chestnuts, they bring the mud and store it in the cold cellar while they are fresh.

When to eat

I didn’t say anything bad happened when I waited for it. The Yun family, in particular, was so greedy that they emptied everything under the house. They hid a penny of lotus root in the spring, but they dared to sell it for ten pence with a shameless face. Over the years, to

Her family has a lot of property.

Ying couldn't stand it. There are teachers in agriculture who are afraid of being criticized for everything, especially a wealthy and unconvinced master like Ying. Under the guidance of experts, he dug out the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum along the slope with bricks and tiles. I

When it was built, my father and I went down for a walk. We went down in the morning and didn't come out at noon. We had to have lunch inside. I had known that the horses were coming.

Li Shi pointed at me and smiled, "That's too much. So, if you stuff it into the cellar, it will keep it fresh?"

With a silly smile, "I'm just a foodie. I don't know anything. I eat fresh ones and stale ones." As he said that, he took out two more walnuts from his pocket, one for each person. After picking up the stones, he smashed them open and was polite while eating.

, "Good stuff, brain supplement."

Li Shi was a careful person at first sight, unlike me, who smashed a brick to pieces as soon as he hit it. He used his skills to knock along the edge bit by bit, and peeled it off completely. He smiled and said: "Come here today.

To satisfy your craving, take out whatever things Zihao still has in your pocket, don’t line them up one by one.”

Wow——

It fell to the ground with the open pocket. As people get older, they need to nourish themselves more. Take kidney-tonifying and brain-tonifying products with you, and use them wherever you need them. For example, there is some red dates, which are aphrodisiacs.

It's quite interesting. Two big men were sitting on the ground, chatting while eating. Sometimes it was the Yun family, sometimes it was Xie Bao, sometimes it was how cool the royal garden was, sometimes it was how nice it would be to have cotton planted all over the Longyou border.

"Whether it's good or not, we have to walk for a few more years to see." Li Shi said calmly, breaking open half a pomegranate and scattering the seeds on the ground. "I didn't understand before that the imperial court didn't have the energy to take care of it. Once you pass the Yinshan Mountain, it will be clean."

It's desolate. Now that there are so many fertile fields suddenly appearing, those who have gone there first will be ignored, and those who want to enclose the land later, the court should make a decision."

"The land is huge." I disagreed, spit out a date core, and casually carved the outline of Longyou land on the ground. "Now, the reclamation of wasteland, logically speaking, has just begun. Can we support people and gain popularity?"

, it depends on what the land produces.

It's a good thing for the court to prepare for a rainy day. But you can't be too fussy about it. It sounds uneasy to say it now, but it's just because in the past, they were all big families and dignitaries. But without these people, ordinary people would not move their families to the barren land. The geography is just a medicine introduction.

That’s all.”

Li Shi did not deny it. He raised his head and asked, "How big is the Wang family in Longyou?"

He laughed, and did an arithmetic problem on the ground first, but it seemed that he hadn't figured it out yet, "I'll tell you the truth, Brother Li. When we were circling the land, I didn't dare to circle more. I rode carefully and ran for a day. The horse is not good, so others use fast horses.

There are people who run for a few days. It can be said that they are greedy. Nowadays

The land has not been cultivated. It is half raw and half cooked. Where will the manpower come from? That's it. The imperial court has announced that people will be rewarded. Who dares to buy labor. If you buy more, you will gossip more. If you buy less land, it will not be used by people.

"There is a strong wait-and-see atmosphere. Don't miss the spring planting."

Li Shi nodded, "I'm just here to talk to Zihao today. I also secretly acquired a few properties there, but I can't deal with them. There's no way to deal with them. The key is where the labor comes from."

He looked up at Li Shi, thought for a long time, and organized his words. "Border residents. It's hard to say on the table. People from all walks of life come from north to south. It's good to go to Longyou. After eating,

It's just a waste of effort. Speaking of which, it's much better than staying at home."

Li Shi didn't raise his head, touched his waist, and stared at a water chestnut, as if it were carved into a flower. "So, they are all refugees from outside Xinjiang, coming to Datang to make ends meet?"

"I'm afraid... not all of them. Turks, Tieles, beggars, poor families and poor families all ran towards Longyou."

"So, it's all voluntary?"

"I'm afraid that's not the case." Hehe giggled twice, "There must be one or two that are not."

Following me, Li Shi also laughed, "I'm afraid that's not the case. Zihao is proficient in arithmetic. If one person takes care of ten acres of land, how many people will be needed to fill up Longyou? If my calculation is not bad, the entire

Even if the Tubo people move here, it won’t be enough, right?”

"The Tubo people are not durable." He said without raising his head. After he finished speaking, he spilled the beans and quickly turned around, "How stupid."

Li Shi smiled and waved his hand, "Why did I hear that Tubo people die quickly?"

"That's because he is not accustomed to the climate. He has a doctor to take care of him. The doctor my family just sent has been worshiped for three generations. Human life is of paramount importance. Just because it is labor, you cannot treat it as a human being."

"That's right." Li Shi nodded, "But it's not a solution after all. If you want to make profits, you have to have connections. If you want connections, you have to have people's hearts. Nowadays, you can make up the numbers by pulling and pulling, but pulling

How many days does it take? It spreads out that the people of the Tang Dynasty are cruel and cruel. It is a bitter thing to say. But who knows, they live better here than at home." Li Shi stood up as he spoke, bending back and forth, "But

After all, when there are more people, there are more things to do.

Leaving one's hometown has the hardships of leaving one's hometown, and there is no reason why people shouldn't complain about it. Once you become a farmer, you have taken root. It is hard work to raise other people's land as your own. If we say this, how many people can be raised on as much land as possible?

Count. If our dynasty can really distinguish the inside and the outside, everyone will think of the truth and give them the land title of the people of the Tang Dynasty. The two descendants will farm in Longyou for generations. It is a good thing to spread it. It is also a good thing to deal with the court. What fun?

Why not?"

The truth of what you said is right, but I don't understand why I don't like it. The court is done, the labor is done, what will happen to my Wang family? You save people from the world, you Guanyin Bodhisattva, but your scissors of great kindness and compassion will cut off the foundation of Lao Tzu. This

No. But we can’t say no, but it’s difficult to organize. Then we just won’t talk.

"Zihao, tell me." Li Shi had no intention of letting me go. He followed me nonchalantly to ask for my opinion.

"It's impossible to say. If the court is good, then the people will be good. Only if the people are good is it really good." Rubbing his hands and baring his teeth, he said, "Everyone is good, everyone is good."

"So it seems that Zihao has an idea?" Li Shi stared at me with interest, smiling and waiting for me to continue.

"Actually, the court was right, and the principles were right. But the timing was wrong. Back then, when the reclamation land was established, no one expected that it would be like this. It's no wonder that they didn't think clearly at the time. But the wealthy and powerful families came to Long.

Going to the right, most of them have the idea of ​​​​serving their country. After passing the Yinshan Mountains and going forward a thousand and eight hundred miles, to be honest, I don’t even know what the prospects are. If you invest money, it’s about

Benefits. But at least at that time, I didn’t feel any distress at all. I was talking about the Tang Dynasty in my mouth, and I was thinking about the Tang Dynasty in my heart. Not to mention the money that the family could come up with. It would really ruin the whole family. As long as the imperial court can survive

"Okay, I am a prince with no regrets." I felt my tongue hurt after I said it. Thinking about this lie makes me blush. God wants to strike me with thunder at the right time, and I will never stand under the dark clouds again.

Li Shi said nothing, holding his breath and not knowing what to think, he peeled a chestnut and handed it to me.

"Now, it has achieved results. I am no longer worried as I was at the beginning. I rolled up my sleeves and prepared to work hard. No one would be stingy with the little money. Every acre of this wasteland is worth an acre; this popularity is just one more acre."

It doesn’t matter if it’s one or not

In terms of labor, as long as they come to Longyou, even those who buy illegally and illegally are really treated as the people of the Tang Dynasty. If they are not accustomed to the climate, they will suffer from epidemic diseases. But even Mr. Cheng is crawling among the dead.
To be continued...