vrcanaries Chapter 822 The Wind from the North
Chapter 822 The Wind from the North
Leeks, beets, rapeseed, peas, red beans and soybeans, the old man didn't care whether these things were planted in the same season or not, he just planted them all.
Zhou Guo frowned as he looked at the seeds and said, "Can they bear fruit? This isn't the time to plant soybeans."
The old man didn't even raise his head, and planted with great enthusiasm, "Who cares? If I can't eat the fruits, I can eat the seedlings. If I can grow vegetables on this land, I don't care if it bears fruit or not. If it doesn't work, I'll do what you do and turn it into fertilizer."
He didn't expect to be able to grow the same as at home, where the vegetables he planted were so delicious that he couldn't even finish eating them. It was good enough that he could grow any.
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "Master, you must come next year when we are planting rice on this land."
The old man nodded, "I would be here even if you didn't tell me. I can't be absent from such an important event."
Once the seeds were sown again, she went to several other counties.
"Master, according to the current progress, in another month, we will be able to open the gates like Song County."
Zhou Guo was very happy. "Not bad, not bad. You are not much slower than Song County. The key is that you have fewer people, but you can still work so fast."
Except for the piece of land similar to Song County, which is progressing a little slower and will not be opened until midsummer, the progress of other lands is similar.
If these lands can be completed this year, there will be a good harvest the year after, and many refugees will be able to have food to eat!
She felt she was moving quickly.
The magistrate of Song County was dressed in casual clothes. After looking at her plots of land, he said, "You have to lend me your people. The plots of land are not big. It will take two years to open them up. According to what you said, it will take the year after year to support people."
Seeing that he was more anxious than she was, Zhou Guo asked curiously, "What's wrong with you? What's irritating you? Didn't you say you'd take it slow at the beginning of the spring? Why are you so anxious now?"
Lord Yao frowned so hard that he could pinch a mosquito to death. He looked around and said, "You don't know, it is said that a large number of refugees will come from the north soon. You said that there is not much land in the north, and there is no way to accommodate so many refugees. I thought of you. If these lands are renovated, how many refugees can be accommodated?"
Zhou Guo was surprised, "How did you know?"
Lord Yao looked at her in silence.
Zhou Guo suddenly realized, "Yes, you are an official, you must have some inside information."
Lord Yao's face twitched, and he was about to say that this was not gossip, but serious news from official channels.
Zhou Guo said, "Do you know what the situation is like in the south? How is the fighting going? Why are there more and more refugees this year? Will there be more in the future? Tell me about it."
County Magistrate Yao stared at her in silence. Several times, he swallowed the words back when they were on the tip of his tongue. He thought to himself, how dare you ask me about such a thing? I'm just a small county magistrate. Don't you know to write a letter to your father and ask him?
Zhou Guo was frightened by his gaze and hesitated, "...Is this a top secret? Will you be beheaded if you tell it?"
Fortunately, County Magistrate Yao still had some sense and opened his mouth to say, "Others can't say it, but you can. There are wars everywhere in the south. Didn't your General Zhou go south to defend the emperor? After many obstacles, he finally arrived near the capital. Before he entered the city, the old emperor died. The second prince killed the crown prince and took the throne himself. As a result, the princes of other fiefdoms heard about it and went to the capital in the name of suppressing the rebels and supporting the Jin Dynasty."
He waved his hand, "In short, it's extremely chaotic. Nine kings gathered in the capital, one came to power today, and another died tomorrow. Add to that the uprisings in various places, and the people in the south are living in dire straits every day."
He looked up at the sky and sighed, "I wonder when the sky will clear up again?"
Zhou Guo looked up and saw that the sky was cloudless today, a rare good day.
She said, "I think in a few years this piece of blue sky in the north will drift away to the south. The wind from the north will blow all over the world, and then the sky will naturally become clear."
Lord Yao no longer looked at the sky, but stared at her with wide eyes, almost scared to death by her words!
Zhou Guo asked curiously, "Why do you look like that?"
It took Master Yao a while to find his voice, "You, you, you...what do you mean by this?"
"What do you mean?" Zhou Guo was stunned, thinking back to what he had just said, and then said: "I said that if the wind from the north blows all over the world, the sky will be clear, right? Isn't it true? Our north is so good now. If this wind blows all over the world, then the world will be stable and the sky will naturally be clear."
"You, you, you, you..." Lord Yao looked around and was so scared that he pointed at her and said "you" for a long time but couldn't say a word.
Finally, he said with great difficulty: "This, this, this...are you really capable of saying this?"
After saying this, I remembered that this child has a special identity, so it seems that it is not impossible to tell him.
Zhou Guo was puzzled and said, "I didn't say anything. Are you overthinking it? Don't think too much. I only said the literal meaning. There is no other meaning."
Lord Yao didn't believe it, holding his breath, but after a while he became curious and couldn't help asking, "You said this...what did your uncle say to you?"
Zhou Guo smiled and said, "What are you thinking about? I have already said that this is the literal meaning. You officials are like this. You think too much and want to dig out the eight generations of people's ancestors from their words. Sir, if you have this time, you might as well focus your energy on these salty and bitter lands. If these lands are improved, you will have political achievements, and your name will definitely be recorded in the history of the Great Jin Dynasty."
After saying that, she walked away with her hands behind her back, feeling somewhat guilty. As expected, too much talk leads to mistakes. She should talk less in the future.
If her uncle knew about this, would he beat her to death?
I hope Lord Yao can keep his mouth shut and never say that she said this.
Mr. Yao...
Lord Yao frowned as he looked at her from behind, muttering, "Am I really overthinking it? She doesn't look like she's lying, maybe she really means what she said?"
After a while, he said, "Well, it is true. Even if it is not true, it is true."
These words finally left a mark in Lord Yao's heart.
He thought that if the wind from the north could really blow all over the world, then the people in this world would be saved. If he followed Zhou Guo and did something, when the time came to evaluate his merits, he would definitely not be a county magistrate, right?
I had some thoughts in my heart, but I dared not tell anyone for fear of being beheaded.
At this time, Zhou Guo was busy following the old man, planting vegetables. If these vegetables could be grown, it would add more variety.
The old man whispered, "Aren't you afraid that he will tell others?"