Chapter 259 260 Caught
Uncle Gu and the villagers with their eyes widened, and they pointed excitedly at the hills: "Madam, if we can really do it, we can open up all these dozens of hills. Are we still worried about not having enough food to eat?"
"Yes, as long as you work hard for a year and clear out the land, you won't have to pay taxes on the wasteland in the first few years, and everyone will have endless food in the future."
A villager asked: "Where does the water come from when growing rice and wheat?"
Li Yu smiled and said: "Dig a reservoir on the top of the hill. Go to the mountain and cut some thick bamboos. Open the bamboo joints and connect them. It's best to coat the bamboo pipes with tung oil to make them more durable."
Everyone understood immediately after hearing this, and they all gave Li Yu a thumbs up: "Madam, you are so smart. Are we starving while guarding Baoshan?"
"Remember, you must dig according to the terrain and build a barrier..." Li Yu smiled and told them Old Man Hu's method and experience of opening terraces.
They also went to dig fallen leaf fertilizer in the forest and told them the methods of retting. They were also taught how to use rotten vegetable leaves to raise earthworms and dry them and grind them into powder to feed chickens.
The villagers seemed to have opened up a new world, and everyone was very interested in what they heard. They all picked up their hoes and started working excitedly. They were all veterans of farming. After Li Yu's guidance, they were able to catch up quickly.
Li Yu stayed in the mountains for a day and watched them build terraces. After eating at noon the next day, he was ready to go down the mountain to go home. The villagers took the mountain goods they had saved and tried to give them to Li Yu. Jixiang looked at those Mushrooms and fungus, thinking that this thing would be a good thing to bring to Kyoto, smiled and said to them: "You can pick up more and dry them, I will collect them when the time comes."
"That's great! Thank you very much, Brother Jixiang."
Li Yu said to them before leaving: "After your land is opened, ask someone to come to the Yunzhou government office to apply for the title deed. I will ask someone to say hello. No one will make things difficult for you. You try to open as much as possible and I will give it to you." You provide new high-yielding rice seeds, and you will also have people teach you how to soak the seeds."
Uncle Gu said worriedly: "Madam, we know your good intentions, but we have no money to buy new rice seeds. We have always used the rice seeds we left behind, and the yield has never been good."
Li Yu thought for a while and said, "Let's do this! I will greet them and ask them to give you the rice seeds on credit first. When you thresh the millet, I will pay them back with the same price of millet."
The villagers felt as if they had been hit by a pie in the sky, and said excitedly to Guyu: "Gu Yu, what does your wife do? Is she sent by God to help us?"
Gu Yu remembered Li Yu's instructions and chuckled: "My wife is a good person, you will know it from now on!"
Everyone felt that they had seen hope again, and reluctantly sent Li Yu and the others to the woods on the mountain before stopping.
When going back, Li Yu took Guyu on a horse, and Jixiang rode in front to lead the way. At the beginning of the Youshi period, he came down the mountain. Jixiang said loudly to Li Yu: "Madam, let's hurry up, and we can still get there before the city gate closes." Go back to Yunzhou."
Li Yu responded: "Okay, then go straight to the inn, hitch the carriage and leave."
Seeing that there were few people in the town, Ji Xiang and Li Yu drove their horses quickly towards the inn at the head of the town.
When the innkeeper saw Li Yu and the others coming back, he winked at the waiter, who ran outside.
Jixiang entered the inn and said to the innkeeper: "Innkeeper, feed the horse some fodder, we have to hurry up."
"Okay." The shopkeeper told the waiter to add fodder to the horse. Ji Xiang paid the bill, took the bow to the livestock shed in the backyard of the inn, and loaded the bow into the carriage.
After a while, the young man took the horse and handed it to Jixiang, and helped him to harness the carriage. Several people got on the carriage, and Jixiang drove the carriage toward the outside of the inn.
As soon as they walked out of the inn, Zhong Bao and others with sledgehammers stopped in front of the carriage and shouted angrily: "Get off the people in the carriage, how dare you destroy me in Xingfu Town."
Pedestrians on the street hurriedly hid in the grocery store, whispering: "Oh! These foreigners are going to suffer again."
The shopkeeper of the grocery store shook his head and said, "Oh! It's such a nice town, not far from the capital city, but no one is taking care of it?" Everyone sighed in unison: "That's right! Why is there no one taking care of it?"
Jixiang pointed his riding crop at several people and said, "Get out of here! If you offend my wife, don't blame me for being rude."
"Hoho! See how rude you are." Zhong Bao looked at Ji Xiang with a playful smile, and said to Sledgehammer and others: "Go and drag the people out of the car." Sledgehammer and the other two gangsters headed towards the car. Jixiang rushed over and hit the sledgehammer with a riding crop. There was only a "pop" sound, and the sledgehammer was whipped with a bloody trace from his forehead to his chin. The other two gangsters put themselves on the rafters and tried to climb onto the carriage. After being kicked away by Ji Xiang, he fell to the ground with two bangs and bangs, raising dust all over the ground.
Ji Xiang pointed at a few people and said, "If you dare to come forward again, I won't be polite to you."
Li Yu said to Jixiang: "Jixiang, don't be nagging with him. A small town magistrate actually dares to allow his relatives to roam the countryside and take them all back to the government office."
"Come on, everyone, kill this reckless thing." Zhong Bao shouted loudly when he saw that several people were suffering a loss. He pulled out his dagger and rushed towards Jixiang with Brother Cai. Jixiang jumped up from the carriage and kicked it flying. Kicked towards the two of them, Zhong Bao dodged to avoid it, but Brother Cai couldn't avoid it and was kicked away and lay motionless on the ground.
"Sledgehammer, go back and call someone." Zhong Bao shouted loudly, and Sledgehammer covered his face and turned around and ran away.
Zhong Bao stabbed Ji Xiang with a knife, and Ji Xiang leaned back to dodge. The blade of the dagger cut through Ji Xiang's thin coat. Zhong Bao followed him with the dagger, and Ji Xiang spun around and kicked the dagger away from his hand.
"Brother Bao, let me help you." A ruffian got up from the ground and stabbed Jixiang in the back with a dagger.
"Brother Jixiang, be careful." Gu Yu exclaimed when he saw this, and the people in the shop opposite were so frightened that they spread their fingers and covered their eyes.
A thin-edged dagger slipped out of Ji Xiang's sleeve. In the blink of an eye, the thin blade stabbed the gangster's palm and kicked him to the ground. Zhong Bao got up and wanted to run, but Ji Xiang stopped him and knocked him to the ground. .
Guyu took the rope from the car and helped Jixiang tie up a few people. He carried them away and still in the car. Jixiang said to Li Yu, "Madam, what should I do if one of them escapes?"
"Ignore him, let's go." Li Yu lifted the curtain and said coldly to the trembling innkeeper who was standing aside: "Honor, since you know how to tip off the news, go tell Xingfu Town Zhencheng that these few The robber, Mrs. Ben, has taken her back to the Yunzhou Mansion Office."
The innkeeper heard that Li Yu called himself his wife and asked him to inform Zhen Cheng to go to the government office. Knowing that he could not afford to offend him, he stumbled to Li Yu, knelt down and kowtowed: "Madam, if I don't tell him that you have returned to the inn, , I can no longer open this inn, I still have a family in this town, please spare me!" The shopkeeper kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.