vrcanaries Chapter 106: Eating too much often gives rise to many delusions. People are greedy and their desires
Chapter 106: Eating too much often gives rise to many delusions. People are greedy and their desires
Looking at Xie Yi's back, Li Yuening smiled and said, "Your brother is quite scheming. His attempts to sow discord are too obvious."
"So find him something to do."
Li Yuening, "If I want to be listed here, I have to work hard to get this done. You are so mean, Xie Shi."
Xie Shi heard a hint of gloating in her tone, and raised his eyebrows and said, "Teach him a little lesson. If he tries to be clever when talking to me next time, it won't be so easy."
Among these brothers, only Xie Yi interacted with him the most, but it was just interaction. After more contacts, he got tired of testing him all the time, so Xie Shi simply straightened things out for him all at once.
Li Yuening nodded in agreement, "It's getting late, let's go put the grain into the granary."
Xie Shiliu stayed at home in white clothes and took Li Yuening to Xie's grain store. They went in through the back door. Li Yuening looked at the huge cellar with several wooden vats and scattered bamboo baskets next to them.
Li Yuening, "Why is there so little food?"
Xie Shi, "These are all old grains. This year's new grains have not been harvested yet."
Jinling produces rice twice a year, and the first season ends in May. It is only the end of February now, so there is still ten days left.
Li Yuening, "Then let's put in millet and wheat, and also some soybeans and mung beans?"
Xie Shi, "I want sweet potatoes too. They're very affordable."
"Okay." Li Yuening walked to the wooden vat in the barn and poured rice into it. This was rice with bran. Before eating, it had to be threshed by a rice huller to become light golden brown rice. The grain shop sold two kinds of rice: brown rice and polished rice.
If you want to eat white polished rice, you need to separate the rice from the bran, use a rice twisting machine to crush the rice, throw away the outer coat of the brown rice, and the remaining bran can be used as livestock feed. The process is complicated and the price is more expensive than brown rice.
The rice grains produced in the space are full and of much better quality than the remaining grains in the granary. Li Yuening picked up a few grains, and found that many of them were dry and empty.
"Do you think using the millet in the space as seeds can increase the yield?" Li Yuening clapped her hands and continued to pour rice into the next wooden jar.
Xie Shi also saw it and said, "We can give it a try. I'll find Lu Tian later and ask him to find a piece of land for experiment and comparison."
"Is it necessary to go through so much trouble? I thought I could use the seeds in the space just by saying so."
Xie Shi, "I have dealt with tenant farmers before. They are very stubborn. If I give them direct orders, they will most likely pretend to obey but actually disobey. They even eat the food that was reserved for seeds. It is better to let them see the truth."
“Wouldn’t it be better if food production increased?
Why is it so hard to accept?" Li Yuening didn't understand again.
Xie Shi said patiently: "For them, change means uncertainty. They cannot afford to give up their current output for an uncertain yield. Tenant farmers rely on the weather for their food. If they fail to get enough food in one season, they will go hungry for most of the year."
She had never farmed before, and the convenience of space prevented her from understanding the hard work of the tenant farmers, so she was destined to be unable to empathize with them.
After this explanation, Li Yuening immediately understood, "Oh, I understand. It's the same old saying. Only when you are full can you have the energy to study other things. But often when you are too full, you will have many delusions. People are greedy and their desires are hard to satisfy."
Xie Shi chuckled, "You are right to understand it this way."
Li Yuening was proud, "I'm very smart."
When Xie Shi saw her saying this, it seemed like there was a tail wagging behind him, and he immediately laughed out loud.
"Huh? What are you laughing at? Am I not smart?" Li Yuening glared.
Xie Shi nodded, "Well, you are the smartest girl I have ever met."
"You talk as if you've seen countless people." Li Yuening quickened her pace, and half an hour later, she filled the empty granary, and the two of them left the grain store.
Li Yuening asked: "Have you ever thought that the old man might use this batch of grain for other purposes?"
Xie Shi, "I have thought about it. I will tell Yu Cheng and the others in advance that no matter what, they must save enough food for the journey."
"They are the old man's confidants, not yours?" Will they listen to you?
Xie Shi, "It depends on which one they choose, hunger or loyalty?
I didn't ask them to betray the old man, I just made some adjustments. I believe they will be willing to do it. They have all been out in the open and will understand after a little guidance."
"You are quite confident." Li Yuening was not optimistic.
"If I want them to be useful to me, I have to give them opportunities."
Hearing this, Li Yuening gave a thumbs up and said, "You can compete with the old man for people, young man."
"It's a waste not to use what's already there. Besides, Grandpa is old, but Yu Cheng and the others are in their prime. People always have to leave a way out for themselves."
"If you succeed, I'll give you a big gift." Li Yuening encouraged.
"What gift?" Xie Shi was very interested.
Li Yuening raised a finger to her lips and made a hushing gesture before saying, "Keep it a secret, you'll know when the time comes."
Xie Shi looked at her mysteriously, "Okay." He looked up at the sky, "I'm going to the old man's house first, can you go back by yourself?"
"Don't you want me to accompany you?" Li Yuening asked.
"No need. You are not feeling well. You are already very tired today. Go back and rest." If the food in the space could only be obtained by Li Yuening herself, Xie Shi would not want to trouble her to make this trip.
"Okay, then be careful."
Xie Shih-hmmed, and the two separated, one walked out of the city, and the other returned to Xie's house.
Crossing the street, a group of people were screening portraits one by one. Li Yuening took a quick look and finally remembered what she had forgotten, Ye Meir.
I remembered her before eating the mutton, but forgot about her after eating the meat.
Seeing that she was about to be found, Li Yuening heard people nearby talking, "Whose concubine ran away? The master has put a lot of effort into finding her. You tell me, she is so favored, why would she run away?"
"That's right, if you don't even have the wealth and honor of Potian, what else do you want?"
Li Yuening opened and closed her mouth. These people were really good at making up lies.
Looking around, Li Yuening went to a small alley to avoid the searchers.
When she was about to pass through, there was a person blocking Li Yuening's way. To be exact, there was a person lying down.
With the idea that less trouble is worse than more, Li Yuening walked around the man, not wanting to have her skirt grabbed by him.
"Let go." Li Yuening's face turned cold.
"Help...save me." The man struggled to open his eyes a crack. His strong desire to survive made him ignore Li Yuening's murderous intent.
Seeing the man fainted, Li Yuening kicked the man away. Just as she was about to raise her foot, she found a totem on the man's wrist.
Li Yuening stepped back, leaned over and pinched the man's wrist with two fingers to look at him. The skull totem and his clothes looked very familiar.
I accidentally felt his pulse and said, "Tsk, tsk, such severe internal injuries. How come he's not dead?"
Li Yuening quickly left the place after putting it into space. Just as the corner of her clothes disappeared around the corner, several people landed from different directions. One of them said, "The tracking butterfly has lost its target here."
Another person said, "Damn it, he can't hide underground, search him!"
"Yes."
What Li Yuening didn't know was that her actions today had invisibly stirred up the situation in the martial arts world.