Great Tang Idyll

Chapter 59 The officials and Farmers Share the Merits.

Zhang Xiaobao didn’t like to eat garlic, but Wang Juan liked to eat.
Later, the two people found that local people all loved garlic.
Some even asked firstly if there was garlic when they went to a restaurant.
If there has, they will stay here.
If not, they will go out for another restaurant.

During the New Year days, Wang Juan roasted some garlic.
After being roasted, the garlic was soft.
And it was slightly spicy, but it was more fragrant.
For good health, Zhang Xiaobao also tried a little with the persuade of Wang Juan, but after eating, Zhang Xiaobao found that he still didn’t like it.

Zhang Xiaobao felt better about garlic bolt.
He was willing to eat fried garlic bolt, and also the soup with garlic bolt, and even could get some raw garlic to grind teeth.

Under the proposal of Wang Juan, the two people came to their two special small yards.
There was a place to block with cloth.
The cloth was sent to protect the auspicious side last time.
When it was used up, it was not thrown, and Song Jinggong brought it back to use it.

Here is the place where the garlic is planted.
The garlic is peeled off and not planted in the soil.
Instead, it is placed in a shallow trough made of wood.
A small amount of fine sand is placed under the trough, and the garlic is placed in a petal.
The baffle, which is the sorghum stalk outside, was worn and then put on the water.

The garlic was planted a few days ago, and it sprouted in the past few days.
They placed a stove in the middle of the place, and the garlic seedlings grew a lot during one day.

“Well, you can eat it.
Cutting one tenth is enough for the villagers to drink soup at night, then add some eggs and put more ginger, and then the soup can help to remove the cold.
This group of people really don’t care about their health, the water is so cold and they composted and ploughed back and forth in the ground.
If they were not well maintained they will get sick when they are old.”

Wang Juan touched the garlic with her hand and said with emotion.
She was very satisfied with these farmers.
When Village was busy, they were rushing to work.
Today, more than 6,000 chickens were released, and the farmers followed the chickens and waiting them.
After the chickens had eaten worms which were buried in the soil, the farmers immediately used some water and good fertilizer in the ground and continued to plow the ground.

When she thought of the chickens, Wang Juan felt very happy.
The chickens were eating good foods.
She needn’t to worry that the chickens would not find buried worms.
Their claws was planing.
Not only the chicken ate well, but the worms were less, and the soil was more loose, and every chicken was bigger than they used to be.

In the winter, there are no worms to eat, and cockroaches are still breeding.
These chickens eat the fish and shrimps that Shi Liu used to get, and the powder that is ground into the bones and some other coarse grains.
It seems that more eggs will be laid in the next month, which is earlier than the last six mouth morning.

At that time , to give some eggs to Yin Tao for selection, the chickens are hatched to let the farmers raise the eggs, and in the autumn, there is no need to worry about eggs, and more chicken can be found on the table of the restaurant.

Zhang Xiaobao was tempted when he heard Wang Juan’s words.
After a while, he shook his head and sighed and said: “Unfortunately, there is no such technology to deal with oil.
There is no rubber tree here.
Otherwise, some water boots can be worn for them to play a big role.

When we have dinner at night, talk to them and then do not stop the fire for the kang (a heatable brick bed in North China).
When they go back in the evening, they should burn their feet with hot water., and let people ask the doctor to see the people who is not good, the people should treat it early.
”

“Well, I think it is OK, I can find two doctors, let them stay in village, the one is a medical doctor, the other is a medical animal.
When the baby cows were born, we secretly hide and raise, do not report, and then we can eat beef.”

Wang Juan also agreed and said a lot.

After the two people negotiated, one person took a small scissors and began to cut the garlic seedlings.
After a while, he cut out what he was going to eat today, and hugged the garlic seeds to the outside, and then asked other people send them to the place where do some cooks.
Then it is time to deal with those medicinal stones.

Zhang Xiaobao asked Er Niu and other two people who have finished their dinner, and said:” Er Niu, since the stones were pulled back by you, it is still handed over to you, and break the stone.
The other stones are piled up together.
And told us when you finished.”

” The little master, you can rest assured that this thing, we will do it for you.” Er Niu nodded, even if he still does not understand what the stone is to pull back.

After Er Niu and other to people left, Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan began to exercise, and the twilight also slowly descended.

The sun in the west hid under the mountain, leaving only the red sky of the sky where it changed with the wind.

In a workshop in the county town of Sanshui County, Song Jinggong and Zhou Xihu are waiting for the Cueved Plough be made, and when the number is enough, Song Jinggong will go to the county to find the county magistrate.
This time is very important.
If send it early, the workshop hasn’t made a few here, and they earn less, if send it late, once the spring ploughing past, the Cueved Plough will be used in the coming year.

“Be quick, the more you make, the more money you will get.
If you can make two thousand sets of plough before child time, I will reward you to eat supper at night.”

Zhou Xihu shouted at the busy two hundred people.
These people were blacksmiths and carpenters.
They were all from various places.
The number of masters was small.
Even the apprentices of these people were brought together to make this.
The people around the village who were doing spring tillage all hated a lot.
He pulled people out.
If others plowed, they could not find someone to repair.

This was also the idea that Zhou Xihu thought was good.
It was to let those villagers lack the plow.
Otherwise, who bought his plough.
Every time he thinks about this, he was satisfied to say it to Song Jinggong.

These craftsmen also known who Zhou Gongzi is, they wanted to get more money, and can not sin this master.
They were all doing their best, they did everything they known, the apprentice only knows the new plough, but didn’t know how much this plough is better than the usual plough.
It was nothing more than a plough’s bend, and the other one was straight.

But those old craftsmen were not like this.
They had done more things.
They can understand the benefits of looking at some new things.
When they were making it, they still sigh who is so smart and made such a plough, when the plough was used, the people who farm will have a lot of ease.

These old craftsman saw his apprentices who don’t know the benefits of the plow.
They just taught the apprentices when they were doing it.
They can also teach the apprentices by telling the structure of each place, and then explain what kind of effects there will have towards this arrangement.

The apprentices were wide-eyed and listening there, and the speed they work was not slow.
At last, when they knew that the Cueved Plough had so many benefits, they began to worship the people who made the plough.
Some couldn’t hold their heart’s curiosity and turned to Zhou Xihu.

In ordinary times, Zhou Xihu will never take care of this problem.
Today, Zhou Xihu was happy and had another sale.
When others asked, he will answer, but no matter how he answered he did not talk about Zhang village.
This is reminded by Song Jinggong.
Zhou Xihu did not know who made these things.

By the time of the evening, these craftsmen had really finished two thousand sets.
Zhou Xihu didn’t say anything, and immediately let people prepare the dishes, so that they should entertain the craftsmen.

Song Jinggong left at this moment, and came to yamun with another original the Cueved Plough.
He knocked on the door of the backyard and let the janitor go in.
The person watching the door was dozing off.
Seeing someone coming in the middle of the night, he wanted to refuse, and when he saw it clearly, it was Song Jinggong.
When he said nothing, he ran to inform, but the Grace told him that no matter when the Song master came, he would tell him.

When Song Jinggong entered the living room, the county magistrate Cheng Lingxiang had already dressed, sat there waiting with strong sleepy eyes , and the tea was also soaked.
When he saw Song Jinggong holing a heavy thing coming over today, he yawned curiously.
Asked:

“Zi Jin, what do you have to do to get something here in the middle of the night? Come, sit down and have a cup of tea, and it looks like you haven’t slept.”

Cheng Xianling let Song Jinggong sit on the chair next to the table.
The way of how to do this chair was told by Song Jinggong.
He used to sit on the wooden bench or a mat, it was not very comfortable.

“The grown-ups are like a torch.
When I arrived, you know that I am coming for the things I holding.
Grace, this is a kind of plough for arable land.
Because this is a curved shape, I call it the Cueved Plough.Use this plough to cultivate the land, it is more faster, and make people more relaxed.
Even if they are pulled by people, they will not be much worse than the straight plows that are pulled by livestock.”

Song Jinggong knows that he can’t be humble at this time.
Can village escape the danger of being reclaimed, can he get more benefits, the Cueved Plough will play a lot of roles.
He believes that County Magistrate Cheng will understand how much political performance this plough has been brought to him.

Sure enough, Song Jinggong’s voice just fell, and County Magistrate Cheng, who was still sitting there, suddenly stood up and staring at the plough which he had never seen before, and his voice trembled and asked:

“Is this true? Doesn’t it make me happy? Good guy, the use of people is not much slower than the livestock, then this is a great achievement, this credit…?”

“You shouldn’t be anxious, listen to me slowly.
Since Sanshui County has auspicious sign, you were trying your best to do for the people of Sanshui County.
You want the farmers in Sanshui County have a good harvest.
You are not comfortable with tea and can not eat rice well, and even thin yourself.

A gentleman shold continue to improve himself when he is healthy in nature, because of your efforts, finally, you thought, if you want to harvest in the fall, then you need to do the spring tillage and do well, you know that it is too late to work on the seeds, so I have to look for some areas for improvement from the arable land.

All things come to those who wait, your hair is a lot of white, finally thought, to understand the things in the arable land, you have to to find the talents to work on the ground, so you find a village.
Under your correction, the farmers in the village suddenly understood.

After a few days of pondering, I finally made the Cueved Plough that you wanted, and verified it in the field.
The farmers all praised you.
I promised the farmers to bring one to you, Grace, look at it, what else needs improvement? ”

Song Jinggong said a bunch of words in a mess, and then laughed at County Magistrate Cheng.