"You've been busy lately, do you want to take a break?" Lu Yan felt sorry for her and reached out to hold her hand.
"I'm not tired, and I don't do anything every day. Now there are people doing all the work at home, so I only talk now." He Yunxi did not withdraw his hand, but rested his head on his shoulder, "Actually, I'm a little bit
I want to open a hot pot restaurant first. The temperature is not high now, so it is more suitable for eating hot pot. But with more than one thousand taels of silver, I can only buy one shop, and all the subsequent items will not work. Hot pots used to be all over the streets in our area.
, it’s really nostalgic.”
Lu Yan heard her nostalgia for her past life and held her hand harder: "There will be many memories of you here in the future."
"Yeah. Actually, it's good to open a seasoning workshop. With more seasonings, I can also make some dishes from my previous life, which are just memories." He Yunxi said, "When Xiaowu and Xiaoliu's birthdays are over, I will go back to organize spring plowing.
Already."
"Want to go back to Wangjiacun?"
"Um."
"The snow has melted, and there won't be any more heavy snow later. It's time to prepare for spring plowing." Lu Yan said, "But just let others do the spring plowing. You don't have to go back, right?"
"We have to go back to the fertile land first, and then we have to raise pepper seedlings, both in Wangjia Village and Lijia Village. This nursery is no small matter." He Yunxi said, "Of course, I won't be in the village all the time. I will come back to see when I have time.
of."
"Then we will go back and help you when we have time."
"OK."
"Are these peppers drought tolerant?" Lu Yan asked.
"It is considered a relatively drought-tolerant crop." He Yunxi said, "If the weather is normal, peppers should be able to cope with it. I just don't know how serious the drought is and when it will be relieved."
"Mid-August."
"Um?"
"The wandering Taoist priest said that the drought will start in March and last until mid-August, with no rain at all." Lu Yan said.
"From March to August, this is when crops grow and mature. If it doesn't rain for a few months, the crops will definitely dry up long ago." He Yunxi said.
"Yes. But the water conservancy has been repaired, so it should be fine." Lu Yan said.
In the last life, the water in Luohe River and Yanjiang River completely dried up by the end of July. Many people died of thirst before and after that. This year, three more reservoirs have been added. I believe that people suffering from severe drought will stock up on water in advance.
There will definitely not be as many deaths in this life as in the previous life.
As far as he knows, Luo Zixuan has reported to the prefect that there may be a severe drought in Luohe Prefecture next year, and has found someone to spread the gossip privately. If the prefect does not take action, capable people will also stock up on their own.
Shuitun grain.
After all, this is the severe drought predicted by the wandering Taoist priest who predicted the cold disaster!
The cold disaster has come true, and a severe drought should also come.
In particular, it won't rain since March, and by April at the most, everyone will have some movement.
Moreover, Luo Zixuan taught everyone how to store ice before. It is not possible for every household to have an ice cellar, but it seems that every village has dug at least one.
It can be said that this winter is the busiest winter for the people of Yanjiang City. While repairing water conservancy, they also need to build ice cellars to store ice.
The more people who store ice and water, the greater the hope of survival when the time comes.
"Speaking of which, sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn are high-yielding and drought-tolerant crops, but it seems that they don't exist in your dynasty yet." He Yunxi said, "If we can find this, many people will not go hungry."
"Sweet potato potatoes? How productive are they?"
"I have seen on the Internet before that the yield of sweet potatoes can reach 5,000 to 6,000 kilograms per mu. The productivity in this era is poor, and it should be 3,000 to 4,000 kilograms." He Yunxi said, "For potatoes, the general yield is between 3,000 and 3,000 kilograms."
Five thousand kilograms, corn is one thousand kilograms to two thousand kilograms. In comparison, soybeans yield four to five hundred kilograms per mu, wheat yields eight hundred to one thousand kilograms per mu, rice yields six hundred to eight hundred kilograms per mu, and the yields of sweet potatoes and potatoes
It’s more than doubled.”
Lu Yan was shocked when he heard there was such a crop: "What do sweet potatoes and potatoes look like?"
He Yunxi described it to him. Fearing that his description would not be vivid, he also used charcoal to draw sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn, and colored them with Lu Yan's paint.
Lu Yan looked at the three paintings she had drawn and said: "I have never seen the sweet potatoes and potatoes you mentioned. They should not be available in Daliang. But there is corn. I have seen people growing it, but the yield is not as high as you said."
So high."
"Is there corn?"
"It's somewhat similar to what you drew, but not as full." Lu Yan said.
"Then do you know where this corn is? You can get some seeds and take a look." He Yunxi said.
"In Jinbei Prefecture, which is adjacent to the north of Luohe Prefecture, there are plantings in some places. But the yield is not high, and there are fewer and fewer people planting it." Lu Yan said, "If you want seeds, I can ask someone to find them."
"Then find someone to bring some back, and ask others how they grow it."
"Okay. I'll have someone look for it tomorrow." After Lu Yan said that, he turned his attention to the paintings of sweet potatoes and potatoes. He went through his past life memories to make sure he had never seen this before.
He Yunxi saw him staring at the two paintings and frowning, and comforted: "In my previous country, these two crops did not exist in ancient times. They were all recovered from overseas later. I heard that there are people in Daliang who are also engaged in maritime business.
, maybe you can ask if they have seen it before."
"There are indeed people doing maritime business now, among which the Min family in Jiangnan has the largest business. I will ask someone when I have time later to see if anyone has seen it."
"good."
After a while, He Yunxi felt sleepy and got into his bed to sleep. Lu Yan also lay down in his bed, thinking about sweet potatoes and potatoes, and couldn't fall asleep for a long time.
He had seen too many tragic scenes in his previous life. At that time, he could not protect himself and was filled with hatred, so he did not have too deep feelings. Now that he had relived his life, looking back on the previous scenes, he still felt that they were too tragic.
There are mountains of corpses and corpses, and people dying of hunger are everywhere.
If there were such a high-yielding crop...
When He Yunxi woke up in the morning, Lu Yan was no longer there, the quilt had been folded and put back in the closet, and the kang next to him was only as warm as the kang itself.
I looked up and saw that the three paintings I drew last night on the table were gone.
"This is the first time I've seen him so anxious." He Yunxi yawned, got dressed and stood up.
When she was having breakfast, she told Mrs. Liu about going to the Yamen and asked Mrs. Liu if she wanted to go with her. Mrs. Liu refused: "I made an agreement with Mrs. Jin to go out today."
"Then let Mother Zhao and Luo Fu follow mother."
"Just ask Mother Zhao to follow you. Luo Fu will still be with you." Mrs. Liu said.
Seeing Mrs. Liu's insistence, He Yunxi agreed, planning to meet the right one later and buy two dedicated people to serve Ms. Liu.
Knowing that Luo Zixuan would be busy in the morning, He Yunxi went to the Yamen and went to see Wang Yuyan. It wasn't until Luo Zixuan was done that he went to talk to him about buying the land.