Chapter 112 - Pingchu Five Years Spring

After a daze, Fu Tian reacted, with a bright smile on his face, ran two steps quickly, and plunged into Chu Xiangtian's arms.

Chu Xiangtian hugged him, pressed the person to his chest, and rubbed his beard and chin on his cheek and neck casually, "I missed you."

Fu Tian was a little itchy by his beard, shrank his neck but didn't avoid it, and looked up at him with bright eyes, "I miss you too."

When he saw this, Chu Xiangtian felt that it was worth it to come back day and night.

The two entered the house holding hands. Chu Xiangtian was covered in dust, and wanted to hold Fu Tian intimacy for a while, but he was pushed to the bathroom. "You have to take a shower first. You have already ordered the kitchen to prepare food."

Chu Xiangtian was holding his wrist, and his cocooned thumb gently moved and rubbed his wrist in circles, "Along with me?"

Fu Tian's face was hot, and he wanted to get away from his hand. "Mother also said that he would catch the wind for you."

Chu Xiangtian pulled his wrist into his arms, with his chin resting on his neck, the big bear embraced him like a little bear and walked forward, "Little don't win the newlyweds, my mother will understand."

Fu Tian had something to say, but he was held up by his waist and sat on the edge of the bathtub. The steamy man blushed and his heart beat. Fu Tian grabbed his shoulders to stabilize his body and kicked him. Let me down."

Chu Xiangtian lowered his head against his forehead. The noses of the two were close together, rubbing affectionately. Chu Xiangtian's fingers gently traced the outline of his cheek, "Don't you want me?"

Fu Tian instinctively curled up his shoulders, trying to shake his head, a bit contrary to his intentions, and finally lowered his eyes and grunted like a mosquito.

Chu Xiangtian smiled, his lips moved down his forehead and easily covered his lips.

The breath blended and the water was rippling, and the two of them were so excited that they were lingering for a long time before they came out of the bathroom after changing two buckets of water.

Fu Tian's legs were a little weak, and Chu Xiangtian came out holding him, put on clothes for the embarrassed young master, and then Chu Xiangtian took care of himself again.

Fu Tian's cheeks were still red, and he was rubbing his face vigorously, trying to keep his face from being so hot. Chu Xiangtian put on his clothes and saw this scene dumbfounding.

He stretched his hands to hold, and kissed each cheek left and right, "Okay, it's not red anymore."

Fu Tian: "..."

He said angrily: "Am I a three-year-old child?"

Chu Xiangtian smiled and pulled him out. He thought about it seriously, "In my heart, I can't wait to hold him in my arms every day."

The bandit suddenly began to talk about love, Fu Tian was stunned, snorted and stopped talking.

Chu Xiangtian smiled and went to the main hall with him.

The kitchen was ready to receive the wind banquet. Fu Youqin came earlier. Seeing Fu Tian changed his clothes, he didn't say anything. He coughed slightly and let them sit down and eat.

***

Soon after Chu Xiangtian returned from Zhenwu County, he entered October.

The weather in October was still hot, and it was not much different from the weather in August and September. The water level of Fengshui dropped one foot visible to the naked eye. Posts on disaster reports from various places have been sent up one after another.

The courtroom was also quarrelsome. Some people felt that this was a sign of a catastrophe and should be prepared early. Some people felt that this was unfounded worry, but it was because the weather was extremely hot. In previous years, there have been such hot times and nothing happened.

The emperor knew it in his heart for a long time, and he ignored the noisy court and sent the approval letter for tax relief to various places.

Fu Tian has been busy for a while, and all the fields in Sifang Town have been harvested. He specifically explained before that all the grains planted with new rice seeds, except for the amount he will plant next year, are stored.

He has been busy dealing with the food exchanged from the Zhuangzi of Zhou Chuanqing, Wei Yang and Nie Erdong these two days.

Fu Tian gave all of the three new rice seeds from Sifang Town. When the three ordered Zhuangzi to plant them, they didn't expect the new rice seeds to be so powerful, but in September and October. After harvesting, I asked a lot about it and discovered that when all the villages were affected by the weather to some extent, the fields where the new rice seeds were planted were not affected, but the yield was higher than usual.

This makes the stewards happy. Unlike the young masters who don't understand farming, they can see the value at a glance. If Zhuangzi is replaced with new rice seeds, the benefits are unimaginable. How much more food can there be!

Zhou Chuanqing and the others were surprised when they heard the news, they also vaguely realized the importance of it, and they came to the door to inquire about the situation.

Fu Tian told them the reasons he had compiled before, and proposed to replace them with ordinary grain for the extra grain grown from new rice seeds.

Except for the rice seeds left on the farms, the rest of the grain will be sold in exchange for cash according to the treatment of previous years. However, this year is a special situation. Some sensitive ones have already noticed something and started hoarding grain. .

Zhou Chuanqing and the others have no problem. After all, the rice seeds were originally sent by Fu Tian, ​​and it is okay to return the extra rice seeds to him. What is even more curious is that Fu Tian seems to have foreseen the disaster that has just emerged.

Chu Xiangtian had discussed this issue with Fu Tian a long time ago. All of Fu Tian's puzzling behaviors can be explained when the drought breaks out, and they will inevitably draw attention to him. After thinking about it, I decided to push this matter to the "superior".

Faced with three pairs of curious and inquiring eyes, Fu Tian slowly said: "Chu Xiangtian told me that it happened that an old farmer on Zhuangzi found a new rice seed and offered it. I just took advantage of the trend."

Several people looked at Chu Xiangtian again, and Chu Xiangtian deliberately hung them for a while before saying: "A few years ago I met an expert. The expert said that starting this year, there will be a drought for three years. I originally didn't believe it, but later All the signs correspond to the prophecies. If you don't believe it, you must believe it."

Except for Fu Tian, ​​everyone else looked at him with ineffable words, "When did you believe in these gods and ghosts?"

Chu Xiangtian spread his hand, "I don't believe it, but his predictions are all right. Make preparations early just in case. I have also told the emperor about this."

Reminiscent of the recent events in the court and the attitude of the emperor. They finally figured out the truth.

Wei Yang and Nie Erdong looked at Chu Xiangtian jealously, "How can any good thing make you catch up?"

Chu Xiangtian embraced his arms and looked at his friend with a look of gaze, "This is probably the difference between me and you."

Wei Yang & Nie Erdong: "..." Damn, shameless.

Zhou Chuanqing seemed to have thought of something. He glanced at Fu Tian who was smiling, and smiled. For the first time, he did not join the ranks of Chu Xiangtian, the winner of Criticism Life.

After returning from the Hou Mansion, the three Zhuangzi all sent all the extra grains to the Hou Mansion. The others didn't know what they were doing, and they all watched curiously.

Fu Tian sent all these rice seeds to the newly opened shop. Xiao Qiao and Chang Xi took charge of the shop, but because the rice shop did not sell rice, only rice seeds, the business in the shop was not booming, and the two of them have been very leisurely recently.

Seeing Fu Tian delivered the rice seed, he happily harvested it. As a result, when he heard that it was still the rice seed, his expression suddenly halted, and both of them didn't understand why Fu Tian had smashed the new rice seed. .

Fu Tian was still smiling, "I will be busy in a while."

Xiao Qiao always felt that his words had profound meaning, but he couldn't guess it, so he could only answer it half-believingly. Only Chang Xi still stupidly said: "If you want me to say, everyone in this place doesn't keep their own rice seed. Why do you want to pay for someone else's?"

Xiao Qiao gritted his teeth and stepped on him severely.

Chang Xi's painful face was distorted, realizing that he had said something wrong, and closed his mouth aggrieved.

Fu Tian didn't care, he still smiled, "Of course it's because our rice plants are good." As for what a good way, when there are more people who plant it, they will naturally know.

***

After October, it's time to enter winter, but this year's climate is extremely abnormal. Seeing that it's entering winter, there hasn't even been a single snowfall, the warm sun is hanging high, and the fox fur coat is kept. You don't need to take it out, a thicker cotton robe is enough to resist.

This is the case in Qingyang. The south would only get hotter in the future. Fu Tian wrote to Sifang Town. Li Qingnian wrote back, saying that the winter of this year is not much worse than the late summer of previous years.

The old farmers are all worried that such abnormal heat may cause a bad harvest next year.

It is said that Ruixue is a good year. Even if there is almost no snow in the south, the experienced farmers know that if the winter is not cold, the next spring will be infested by insects.

Seeing that it is about to enter the twelfth lunar month, no one is happy, and they are all worried about their lives next year.

Li Qing believes that the price of rice has slowly risen, and many people are robbing and hoarding rice. The rice shops in Nanming County, Xingdong County either closed directly, or raised the price to an ridiculous degree. The merchants were sensitive to what they were and began to hoard.

Things that Fu Tian had seen reappeared one after another. First, the people looted and the price of food soared. Then the following year, the weather became worse, the severe drought and the plague of locusts and locusts, many people had no harvest, and they could only rely on the storage of food. Today, when the stock of food has been eaten up and the food cannot be bought, the real troubled times will begin.

Fu Tian sighed deeply and wrote back to Li Qingnian, asking him to close the door temporarily. It is best to go back and rest for a while to avoid the craze of grabbing food.

Even if they have food, they are willing to help the people, but they cannot take it out at this time. The drought has just begun to show, and the fields have just been harvested. Many people have enough food in their homes. They are now buying food out of fear and want to stock up more. Most of them are not really food-deficient people. There is no need to disperse one's own food stocks now.

Li Qingnian received his reply and felt it made sense, so he talked to a few familiar shopkeepers and gave the shopkeepers a holiday, and the shop closed back to Sifang Town to prepare for the New Year.

After the warm November, in December, there was finally a breath of winter, but the cold weather still could not dissipate the restlessness in everyone's hearts, and most people ushered in their worries about next year New year.

The New Year in the fifth year of Pingchu has inexplicably added a lot of tension. The common people dare not even eat a little more rice in their homes, so they can save them and hide them carefully in their cellars.

It is rare for the palace to have no banquets this year. Although the palace did not specifically reduce the cost, some unnecessary banquets were also cancelled. The message from the palace made the families of Qingyang City smell unusual. Follow the frugality.

The spring of the fifth year of Pingchu came very early. Qingyang City had only two snowfalls throughout the winter. The snow was not heavy. It fell on the roof, the ground, and even melted before it was too late to pile up. In February, the weather was fine. It's hot.

The exceptionally hot weather last year continued into this year, and it is still getting worse.

But what should be done is still to be done. After the beginning of spring, the people reclaimed the fields and bred seedlings, and only discovered that the water level of Fengshui had dropped a lot when it was irrigated.

According to the news from the south, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. Since the beginning of spring, there has not been a single rain.

Fu Tian looked serious, and wrote to Li Qingnian to help promote the new rice seed. The people didn't need to spend money to buy it, just exchange the same amount of grain.

Most people in Xingdong County and Nanming County knew about Fujia Mipu. At this time, the good reputation Fujia Mipu had accumulated came into play. Li Qingnian sent someone to place the bred seedlings in the rice shop for the people to watch. Many people came after hearing the inquiries. Some people hesitated, so they went back and tried to raise the seedlings by themselves. When I found out that the seedlings I bred out did grow better than my own, I was too busy to exchange my own rice seeds for new ones.

The new rice seeds of Fu Jia Mipu were passed on from one generation to another. Not only did the people in the two counties change them, but many people in the neighboring counties heard the news and brought rice to change.

In Qingyang city far from the south, Fu Jia Mipu did not accumulate the reputation of the two counties, so it could only be dominated by the royal family.

The emperor first commended Kanglehou with an imperial decree. He praised him for his youthful achievements and offered new rice varieties with higher yield and more survivable. After a long series of praises for Kanglehou, he attached great importance to the new rice varieties. It describes the various benefits of the new rice varieties, as well as the benefits of family and country. The final imperial edict said: Huangzhuang will lead by example and replace new rice seeds in the beginning of this year. The imperial decree implicitly and implicitly implied that the official family should lead the people.

All the officials and princes who heard the news sent people to the Kanglehou Mansion to inquire about the news.

Kangle Hou Mansion was very crowded for a while.

But this is Fu Tian's purpose. If Qingyang City wants to say who has the most land in Zhuangzi, it must be the most under the name of these aristocratic families. If you want to expand the reputation of new rice varieties, let ordinary people follow the trend and replace them with new rice varieties. It is best for these people to start the battle.

So they conspired to act in such a play.

Sure enough, as they expected, after the imperial decree came down, each family sent people to inquire about the situation. In addition, Zhou, Wei, and Nie had already tried planting, and these three had a close relationship with the Houfu. With higher credibility, many people immediately decided to switch to new rice seeds.

Fu Tian sent them all to Fujia Mipu in West Market.