Professor Li’s Married Life Chapter 10:
“Young Master Li, the place is here.”
At noon, Hekou Village finally arrived. The old man who drove the cart pulled the rope to stop the cattle, jumped off the rut and turned around. Shouted inside.
Seeing that the ox cart had stopped steadily, Yuan Bao also climbed down, and Li Cheng got down after him.
During this journey, I really sat so stiff.
After arranging his clothes and asking Yuan Bao to pay for the car, Li Cheng raised his eyes to look around.
This village is not small. I just came all the way, and there are also villages nearby, which are not as large as Hekou Village.
Hekou Village is said to have a population of about a hundred households, and it was named so because it is next to a small river.
There are rivers, water and mountains, and because it is next to the official road, the road to the city is not far and convenient.
The paddy fields are fertile, and there are many forests and mountains, so life here is good.
At least it doesn’t look sallow and emaciated.
Hekou Village is populated by mixed surnames, with seven or eight surnames, but more than half of them are surnamed Li, so the village is headed by the surname Li.
The ancestors of the Li family were from Hekou Village, until the generation of Li Baode’s great-grandfather. Fortunately, he married a girl from the city, so the family took root in the imperial city, and settled in the city for several generations.
Only the ancestral hall and old house of the Li family are still here. Every year during the Chinese New Year, your family members of the Li family still come back to worship their ancestors.
The current patriarch of the Li family, in terms of seniority, Li Cheng calls him the third grandfather, and the other party is Li Chengze’s cousin.
In ancient times, the clan ancestral hall was very important. There is usually no break in contact between clan relatives.
Don’t talk about it on weekdays, but you have to go to the ceremony on New Year’s Day.
There are more than one hundred households in Hekou Village, and the population should be around seven or eight hundred.
Because the surname Li accounts for half of the people, the head of Hekou Village is also the surname Li, the son of the third grandfather Li Chengze.
Because of this, it is much more convenient for people surnamed Li to live in Hekou Village, and no one dares to bully them.
This is the power of the clan.
The ancestral house of the Li family here is a large courtyard with juniors, which is much larger than the place where they live in Beijing.
After all, it is a village, and the land is not that valuable.
Although the house of the Li family looks a bit old, it is not broken, and everything inside is neat.
The house is not dirty, it is cleaned every now and then.
This is because the tenants hired by the Li family live here to help look at the house.
It is a couple with an eight or nine-year-old son.
This tenant used to be a foreigner, and later settled in Hekou Village.
The two had no house or land, so they could only be tenant farmers. Later, the old lady Sun saw that people were pitiful, so she recruited people to look at the house, let them live in the outermost part, and clean the house on weekdays.
Li Cheng came here and didn’t ask someone to deliver a message in advance, so he came here suddenly, and the couple who couldn’t help being hurt at the moment were in a panic.
Although the two knew that this was the young master of the master’s family, in previous years, it was Mrs. Li and the elder who came here more often. Li Chengze’s sudden arrival made people flustered.
They all knew that Young Master Li was a promising man. In the spring of the first year, they heard that he had passed the examination as a scholar. With fame and fame, I married a young lady from a rich family this month, which is really enviable.
In their eyes, this kind of person is already superior, and they dare not climb high, let alone offend them.
After a long time, Li Cheng has adapted to the ancient behavior of kowtowing and kneeling.
The sudden kowtow of the husband and wife can no longer give Li Chengze a headache. He calmly ordered Yuan Bao to wake up, and then asked about things here.
Of course, the main question is about the one-hundred-acre mountain land of the Li family.
This couple, the man is called Wang Hu, and the woman is called Wang Hu’s family.
They are all in their thirties, very honest, and speak with a different accent.
He was very cautious when answering in front of Li Chengze.
However, I am not confused at all, so I will answer whatever I ask.
It’s noon now, and it’s time for dinner.
These two probably also came back for lunch, otherwise they should be busy in the fields.
Before going out, Mrs. Sun has explained many trivial matters one by one, and Yuan Bao is also very clever. Seeing the situation, he took out a bunch of big money the size of a wrist from his pocket, and gave it to Wang Hu’s family, and asked her to cut some Pork or kill a chicken, and eat them neatly.
His young master got up in the morning and rushed over. He was hungry and tired.
Wang Hu’s family rubbed their hands together, heyed a few times, and said, “Let’s go now.”
In response, he took the money carefully, served Li Chengze another pot of tea, and hurried down to the stove.
This man was nimble and quick at work, and within half an hour, a table of food was served.
There is a pot of chicken soup, a bowl of bacon and dried vegetables, a plate of green beans, a plate of fried bamboo shoots, and a plate of scrambled eggs.
Li Chengze is alone, no matter how you look at this table, there are only many people.
He asked Yuan Bao to sit down and eat, but Yuan Bao shook his head quickly, and refused to do anything, since the Wang family also wanted to eat, so naturally he prepared a bite of Yuan Bao, Yuan Bao said with a smile that he would go to eat.
But Li Cheng stopped him, he said: “Don’t go rubbing against others, you just look at their poverty, life must be tight, so how can we eat again, even a morsel of food is food. Forget it, you wait until I finish eating and then pick up the rest, do you think I can finish eating at such a table?”
The tone of these words was not serious, and Li Chengze still had a calm expression on his face, but once he spoke, Yuan Bao didn’t dare to make a sound at all.
In my heart, I just feel that although the young master has a good temper and looks gentle, but the aura of his whole body is just a little bit scary.
If you let go of your face again, it may make people’s legs weaker.
Yuan Bao obediently waited outside the house, waiting for Li Cheng to finish eating, and he really followed suit.
After putting down the bowl and chopsticks, I couldn’t help but aftertaste, I felt that the taste of oil in my mouth was so good.
After lunch, Li Cheng asked Yuan Bao to follow him, and took the things he bought from the city to the patriarch’s third grandpa.
If it was Li Baode who came back, there is no need to go there in person, but Li Cheng is a junior after all, and he rarely comes to the countryside, so he should go there.
Li Cheng was seen by many people on the road when he came in a bullock cart, and the third grandpa naturally heard about it.
Sure enough, Li Chengze came over. The third master was very happy, but not surprised.
After talking with others for a while, and asking about the recent situation at home, Li Chengcai got up to leave.
He came here to inspect the fields, so he didn’t stay any longer.
The current paddy field of the Li family is only 100 mu, which is not a lot, and the land rent is still the same as that of previous years. The past few years have been good, and the grain harvest has been good. Now it is the official autumn harvest season, and the millet in the fields has been harvested and put in the granary.
Don’t worry too much.
After looking at the land again, Li Cheng realized that he seemed to be wrong. He had been hearing about woodland and mountain land from Li Baode before, so he mistakenly thought that the land was on a high terrain or a **** shape, or the kind of ground with hard soil and gravel.
When I look at it now, I realize that’s not the case at all.
Large tracts of land are actually flat, neither black soil nor hard soil. I squatted down and twisted it with my hands, only to find that it is a sandy texture, the soil is very loose, and the soil layer is still deep.
When the soil touched his hands, Li Chengze thought of something.
Watermelon.
So soft sand and deep soil seem to be very suitable for growing watermelons?
Watermelon… Li Cheng searched his memory, and then found that there was no such fruit as watermelon in this dynasty!
He thought again, whether it was called watermelon, so he thought about it again according to the appearance of watermelon, and finally confirmed that there is really no such species of watermelon in this place.
The original body has never seen or eaten since childhood.
Li Cheng frowned, recalling his own country, when was watermelon introduced? It seems to be five generations? Or Ming? It was probably first introduced into Xinjiang from the Western Regions, and then spread to the inland.
But this dynasty has a different history than his own, and Li Cheng is a little embarrassed, and he doesn’t know if there are such things as watermelon seedlings here.
But there are also Western Regions here, maybe, when will I find a Western Region businessman to inquire about it.
If this large piece of land can really be grown into watermelons, it will be a big income in the future. The most important thing is that this is a new variety of fruit, and it will definitely be popular.
But it’s a bit far away now, the watermelon seedlings are gone.
But at any rate, he knows the situation of this land. Whether it is planting watermelon or other things in the future, it cannot be wasted.
Watermelon seedlings are cultivated in spring and summer. This year it will not be successful. If you can find melon seedlings, you can plant them next year. Seedlings can be cultivated in March, July, and early spring. shed.
However, even if there is a success, it is not a project that can generate money immediately. The so-called distant water can’t solve the near thirst.
Li Cheng observed and inspected the river mouth, and returned to the capital in the afternoon in an ox cart.
After entering the city, it seemed that it became lively all at once.
Li Cheng had already thought far ahead.
If you want a project with fast money, you need capital investment. Li Cheng doesn’t have capital. What he has to do now is to accumulate capital and earn the first pot of gold.
Isn’t there a saying that if you have money, thousands of projects will be automatically sent to you to make you money. If you don’t have money, even if you have thousands of ideas and projects, money won’t come to you.
This is the end of the story.
Li Cheng has not forgotten that he is a scholar and a university professor, maybe he can do something in his old profession.
Of course, the old line of work he mentioned does not refer to teaching, but even if he wants to teach, there are no qualified students here.
He refers to the pen.
A scholar, no matter what kind of scholar he is, can always write something with a pen.
Li Cheng had this idea a few days ago, but he has yet to investigate the market.
Perhaps I can write some stories and novels. There should be no shortage of entertainment reading materials in any dynasty.
If you really decide to start writing, you have to study the style and characteristics of such local readings.
Thinking about it, the time passed quickly, and I arrived home in the blink of an eye.
After paying the fare. Li Cheng and Yuan Bao went to the east courtyard first.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered, Mrs. Bai came over, pulled Li Chengze and said, “Ze’er is back. A man surnamed Su came to our house today. He said he was your friend and gave you a gift. I wrote a post, inviting you to some poetry meeting in the future.” After finishing speaking, he took out the post and handed it to Li Chengze.
Is your last name Su?
Li Cheng squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then opened the post and scanned it.
“It turned out to be him.”
The name of the signer is Su Ziyan.
This is the person who asked Yuanshang to go to Mingdehou’s mansion with his post.
Li Cheng sneered slightly, thinking, the many coincidences in the Hou Mansion may not be without conspiracy, maybe even the original body was part of the design.
The original body had an impure mind and didn’t know it was being used by others.
Li Chengze was not a fool, he had already guessed on the day when he crossed over, that the original body was not innocent when he was forced into the water to save someone. Just didn’t have time to think about it.
That’s good, if he doesn’t look for it, people will come to him first.
So, he really wants to meet each other for a while