"What have I become?" Looking at himself in the mirror, Li Yaoer couldn't help but sigh.
She only got off the ship at noon yesterday, and it was only half a month since she returned to Lingao after completing agricultural extension work in Jeju Island.
"I'm going to be a model worker," she said on the boat. She volunteered to go to the Agricultural Committee to complain, and she even regretted it.
This Agricultural Committee seems to be harmonious, but in fact it is more cruel than when women are used as men and men are used as beasts. This makes it clear that both men and women are used as beasts. All the elders who work in the Agricultural Committee will
Business trips are common in all counties in Hainan, including Jeju Island, Shandong, Taiwan, North Vietnam... wherever the flag of the Senate goes, there are almost always senior members of the Council of Agriculture.
During the few months in Jeju Island, she was unable to cultivate ginseng as she had imagined - the latitude of Jeju Island was a bit low. She also had no time to travel around. As soon as she got off the ship, she devoted herself to potato promotion and seed potato detoxification.
. The latter is a major hurdle in potato cultivation. If no achievements are made, Jeju Island's potato cultivation industry will soon fall into a state of declining production.
Seed potato detoxification technology requires certain hardware and technology, which ordinary farmers cannot do. There is no such hardware foundation in Jeju Island. Therefore, Li Yaor can only adopt effective techniques that have been tested by the Committee of Agriculture, namely
Sexual reproduction is used to save seeds to avoid virus accumulation in seed potatoes caused by asexual reproduction. To this end, under her leadership, a special potato seed potato breeding base was established in Jeju Island.
It took her several months to work on these things, but she finally set up the system and returned to Lingao to reunite with her husband. She didn't even have to warm her bed, and she was sent to Hangzhou to guide sericulture production.
Li Yao'er felt that her hair was tied too tightly, and even her scalp hurt. She had never had the habit of braiding her hair, but now she had combed her hair with a pair of jasper hairpins, and she also wore a few fresh flowers on her hair.
Picked toi toi flowers.
She was wearing a sky-blue narrow-sleeved trousers and a water-red bijia. Li Yaoer had only seen this outfit in TV dramas, and once saw a Hanfu enthusiast wearing similar clothes in the park.
――If the person wearing the clothes is good-looking, the clothes will still look good.
She looked quite good-looking in her clothes. She dressed up after going ashore yesterday and looked pretty in front of the mirror for a while. But based on her limited knowledge, she knew that she was dressed like a girl - although modern people generally look young, but she is nearly three years old.
I still feel a little uncomfortable wearing this.
And last night, when I met and discussed matters with the indigenous "head" woman in charge of raising silkworms and reeling silk in the villa, the other party's attitude was that she obviously regarded herself as Zhao Yingong's concubine - in fact, the cover identity arranged by the Foreign Intelligence Service for her
This is also the case. Li Yao'er felt a little "humiliated". But if she really had to dress up as a lady, it would be inconvenient for her to do her work.
If you have to go to the fields to guide sericulture in person, it will obviously be difficult to approach the working people if your status is too honorable. If you are too ordinary, it will be difficult to convince the public. Whether it is the 17th century or the 21st century, status is always the most important attribute of a character. In comparison,
The half-slave and half-master status of "following the predecessors" is the most suitable for her to start her work.
It’s okay to suffer a little loss. He just wronged his husband-in-law. Li Yaoer thought that although it was necessary for revolutionary work, his husband-in-law would definitely be uncomfortable if he knew about it. He stayed in Jeju Island for several months and returned to Lingao for a reunion.
Not long after, I came to Hangzhou again. Forget it, how about increasing the number of maids by one more?
While he was thinking wildly, Furong, the first batch of "first-term students" whom Zhao Yingong took in for personal education after coming to Hangzhou, walked in. Her current public identity is Master Zhao's maid, but she is actually an administrative trainee at Hangzhou Station.
"Miss Li. Siniang Wang is already here. Do you want to call her in?"
"Ask her to come in." Li Yao'er said.
Yesterday, she met Wang Siniang in Zhao Yingong's inner house. Seeing this woman who was about the same age as herself kneeling and kowtowing in front of her, Li Yaoer was greatly shocked mentally. This woman was slightly older than her and already
With three children, her appearance is exquisite even by the standards of the 21st century. Kneeling at her feet like this, kowtowing does not count, and she has to wait for her to say "that's it" before she dares to stand up.
Whether in Lingao or Jeju Island, Li Yaoer was active in the "liberated areas" and rarely came into contact with the "original" indigenous people. Moreover, due to their strong entry into these places, the traditional concept of superiority and inferiority has been eliminated.
Breaking down, a new hierarchical order began to be established. Whether it was naturalized people or natives, everyone knew that the "chief" did not care about the old etiquette. Even if someone wanted to kneel down and kowtow, they would be stopped. But here, she is
Sitting down to receive the ceremony in a grand manner, you have to look like "this is how it should be".
This time and space is really terrible. Li Yaoer thought to himself that all the goodwill he had towards Ming Dynasty was gone.
After Wang Siniang came in, she kowtowed again as usual. Li Yaoer stood up and said politely, telling her "you don't have to be polite."
According to the arrangement they negotiated yesterday, today they are going to the mountains to find a suitable place to build a silkworm house.
"I have a lot to do with you today, fourth sister-in-law."
"Wherever it goes, this is the responsibility of the slaves. It is up to the labor girl to go and investigate in person." Wang Siniang said with a smile, "It's just that the girl's clothes are not suitable for going up the mountain. The slave has asked Butler Cai to prepare clothes for the girl.
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I immediately brought a set of clothes. Because I was going to many places without roads, these clothes were inconvenient and easy to wear. So what I prepared was a blue cloth skirt, a headscarf and a hat to protect my head from the sun -
―The same outfit as when she went up the mountain to pick tea.
Li Yaoer was dressed neatly, and Wang Siniang led the way up the mountain. She carried a satchel with her, which contained pens, paper, tape measure, level and thermometer, so that she could roughly survey the terrain and surrounding environment at any time.
The silkworm house has certain requirements for the surrounding environment, and the purpose of Li Yaoer's visit this time is not just to raise silkworms - she also wants to set up a silkworm breeding farm for the Agricultural Committee to prepare for the subsequent holding of the silkworm farmers' cooperative.
The Committee of Agriculture has set up a silkworm breeding farm in Hainan, but the storage and transportation conditions of silkworm seeds are relatively harsh. Silkworm seeds cannot be transported across thousands of miles, so silkworm seeds can only be cultivated locally.
Since it is a breeding ground, the conditions for the site are even more stringent. Fortunately, the huge Phoenix Mountain has plenty of places for her to choose from.
The two of them first walked a section of the stone mountain road, then gradually left the main road and headed towards the small road.
Most of these roads were gradually opened up after Zhao Yingong ran the villa. Most of them were small paths used by the slaves when they went to work. Most of them were unpaved and relatively narrow. The branches on both sides were dense and weedy, making it very difficult to walk along them.
It is best to build a sericulture farm on a sunny slope. Secondly, it should be surrounded by trees for shade and wind protection. Finally, for the convenience of work and life, it is best to have a water source nearby. In order to expand the scale in the future, the place should not be too small. It is limited by
With these conditions, there are not many places to choose from in Phoenix Villa.
Wang Siniang and Shen Da were originally sent by Cai Shi to walk around the entire Phoenix Villa and its surroundings to see if there were any suitable places for planting mulberry trees, tea trees and sericulture. So which places would probably suit this "Li"
She is well aware of the requirements of "girl".
She took Li Yao'er to climb mountains and through forests, and visited four or five places, but Li Yao'er was not satisfied and wanted to continue to see. Wang Siniang was somewhat impressed, seeing that Miss Li was also a person who could endure hardships.
, climbing mountains and walking through forests like this, even the younger girls in Zhuangzi said it was too much, but she didn't care, her movements were still flexible and vigorous, and her speech was crisp and clear, without the coquettishness that "people around her" often have.
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As the sun gradually approached the zenith, Wang Siniang took her to a slightly concave open space on the hillside. A mountain stream was flowing down the slope. Here, because the terrain was slightly flat, there was a pool of water between the rocks, not much larger than a bathtub.
The water pool is so clear that you can see the bottom of it.
"This is also a place. What do you think, girl?" Wang Siniang asked.
"Okay, it's really nice here." Li Yao'er nodded.
This is really a textbook sericulture land: it is on a sunny slope with good sunlight and ventilation. There are woods on the windward side, and there are many big trees that can block the sun. The whole land is about four or five acres in size, and most of them are
The slope of the place is very gentle, not exceeding 10 degrees, which is conducive to mountain drainage without hindering the construction of houses. There is also a water source.
"I also think that the girl will like this place." Wang Siniang was a little proud.
"Don't call yourself a slave when we are together." Li Yao'er said, "It's too intrusive."
"Girl, you are my master's subordinate. How dare a slave from the outer courtyard like you dare to talk nonsense like this?"
Li Yaoer sighed helplessly. She really didn't want to hear the words "Master's predecessors", and she couldn't deny it. So she had to change the topic:
"Fourth sister-in-law, you are a veteran of raising silkworms for many years. What do you think of raising silkworms here?"
"Of course the girl has no say in the place she chose." Although Wang Siniang felt that Miss Li's choice of place was a bit fussy - according to her standards for places, there are few places in Hangzhou that can raise silkworms. However, the surrounding environment here is excellent.
There will be no problem in raising silkworms.
Li Yao'er nodded, stepped on the big stone, took out a thermos with a rattan cover from his schoolbag, and poured a cup of hot tea into his bamboo water cup. He nodded to Wang Siniang again, "I'm here
There is tea, would you like some too?"
Wang Siniang thought that Mr. Zhao's taste was really different, and that Miss Li was really bold and forthright. Thinking so, she still had a smile on her face: "Thank you, miss. I have a bamboo kettle here."