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Chapter 2 Li Kui is here

"It's done, it will start tomorrow, and you are fully responsible. I arranged for the butler Chao Fu to allocate grain every day, bury the pot and make rice, and manage three meals a day. Whoever comes to make a book of accounts will be distributed when the fish is collected in the future."

"Okay owner."

In Chao Gai's family, Chao Gai is the chief of the village, and he has nearly 500 households and nearly 3,000 people. It seems that outsiders have little power, but in this village, he is the only one.

When Chao Gai returned home, the housekeeper Chao Fu was taking people to count the rent collected, all kinds of food, and even chickens and ducks.

Chao Fu is not young, almost fifty years old, with gray hair, decent clothes, smart and capable.

"Uncle Fu, I just arranged for Dana to build the depression in the west of the village into a fish pond. From tomorrow on, you will arrange for someone to be responsible for cooking, and two meals will be enough. Work will start on the first day. Remember to be a sacrifice."

When Chao Fu heard that he put down his work, Chao Fu mentioned the construction of a fish pond the year before yesterday, but Chao Gai ruthlessly refused, on the grounds that fish are not worth much. This is an endless lake near Liangshan with 800-mile waters, and a well-connected port. The price of fish is low, and ordinary silver carp is only one or two cents. But fishing goods can satisfy hunger after all, and this is a good grain reserve in the years and years of famine.

"Don't worry, the owner of the house, I will make arrangements."

This is an era when the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. Ordinary people only eat a bite and wear a whole body. Rich families like Chao Gai are piled up like mountains of food, with tens of thousands of stones.

Chao Gai walked around the grain warehouse and couldn't help but shake his head. Thousands of stones of old grain had insects. In an era when chemical pesticides were not popular, insects were too common.

The grain was only stored for three years, and in the fourth year, it would have to be sold no matter how cheap it was. In fact, Chao Gai suffered a huge loss, so why not use this grain to raise pigs?

The fourth granary is very small, only as big as an ordinary house. This is the seed bank of the Chao family, and a heavy smell of dust is opened.

Sorghum, soybeans, wheat, oats, millet, etc. are all crops with low yields.

Chao Gai couldn't help but shook his head: "If only some sweet potatoes with simple management and easy to produce high yields, potatoes would be great."

Chao Gai closed the warehouse gate and planned to go to the cow shed to take a look. Suddenly, he heard a thump in the warehouse, which was the sound of something being played.

I quickly opened the door and was surprised to find that there were a large number of potatoes and sweet potatoes piled up on the ground of the warehouse. They were packed with woven bags, fifty kilograms per pack, so big, I don’t know how many kilograms.

I opened it and looked at the small pieces of seed potatoes, and the buds were intact.

Sweet potato seedlings are to cultivate sweet potatoes in a nursery, and then plant sweet potato seedlings after they are released.

As for potatoes, it is even more simple and crude. After the potatoes sprout in spring, cut the potatoes into several pieces and bury them in the soil and plant them.

Chao Gai is very proficient in planting technology, but there are no pesticides and fertilizers these days, so it is still a matter of whether it can be planted well.

After statistics, there were 5,000 kilograms of potatoes and 5,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes. A hundred acres of seeds were enough.

Although it is a little less, as long as you plant it well, this thing will spread quickly and you will be able to eat delicious sweet potatoes and potatoes in a few years.

Immediately, Chao Zhuang was called to bring more than a dozen people to store the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the vegetable cellar.

Chao Gai originally planned to go to the cow shed to take a look, but now he has cancelled his plan. This so-called Selected One system is very strange. He can only help with a lot of things.

Chao Zhuang beat the ashes on his body and followed Chao Gai out of the village again.

"Borrower, where are we going?"

"When I went to the fish pond construction site, Uncle Fu arranged to kill two pigs, and there would be a sacrifice before the start of the work."

The construction site has already been ready to stop working, and Chen Dana is still very proficient in these rules.

Pig heads, roosters, carp, these are always things.

Chen Dana had already called more than 200 people, a strong man.

A temporary shed was built, with a few large pots below.

Hundreds of kilograms of white pork on the table.

Chen Da took it over and bowed: "The owner of the manor, the sacrifice has ended, there are hundreds of pork left here, so please transport it back to the mansion."

Chao Gai smiled and said, "Da Na's joke, what kind of person do you think of me? Each of the strong men who work will take it home with one pound. The rest will be stewed here, so everyone will eat meat tonight."

After Chao Gai said that, everyone was shocked. It was rare to be able to eat food these days. Meat only has the luxury of ordinary people during the Chinese New Year and the holidays.

"Thank you, the owner."

Chen Dana and the men were very happy and went to work separately. As for the stewed meat, there were people arranged by Chao Fu to stew the meat here.

These days, pigs have grown for a whole year and are relatively large. Two pigs have nearly 400 kilograms of meat, divided into pieces, and the other one is divided into four large pots, cut into large pieces, and mix them with ginger, green onions, and large ingredients.

Stand the branches and stew the firewood.

Chao Xiong, who was in charge of private business in the village, came over and pointed to the west of the stream: "Brother, Li Er, Baozheng from Lijia Village, is here."

"Li Er? What are he going to do?"

Chao Gai looked west and Li Er and five or six people were slowly walking over.

It turns out that Chaojia Village and Lijia Village are bounded by this big stream, and Chaojia Village to the east is called Dongxi Village. Lijia Village to the west of the stream is called Xixi Village.

The conflict between the two villages was because of this stream and the rain surged in summer, and children drowned every year. People in Lijia Village thought there was something unclean in the stream, so they erected a stone tower of more than a thousand kilograms to the west of the stream to the east of the stream. Later, the two villages negotiated and placed the stone tower on the huge rock in the middle of the stream. This was considered to have learned about this matter, but the beams were formed.

Li Er came over with a few followers and bowed: "Chao Baozheng, I haven't seen you one day."

Chao Gai bowed: "Ah, it turns out it's Li Baozheng. I don't know what happened to come here today."

Li Er pointed to a man like an iron tower behind him: "This is a new farmer from my village, named Li Kui. I heard that Chao Baozheng had excellent martial arts skills, so I came to ask for advice."

When Chao Gai saw that Li Kui was indeed powerful, his body was like an iron tower, his head was like a bat, and his beard was as big as a steel needle. He looked like Zhang Fei from a distance, and Fan Kui from a close distance. When he looked closely, he turned out to be Li Kui.

This is a coincidence. How could Li Kui go to Lijiazhuang?

Chao Gai was secretly happy and was worried that he had few tough hands, so he gave him someone to him.

"Li Baozheng, there is no problem in the competition, we have to have a good start."

"You tell me, what's the lottery?"

"Just this farmer Li Kui. If I win, let him come to my farm to be a follower for me."

Li Kui laughed: "Hahaha, Chao Bao was just in a big tone. You can't beat me. I, Iron Niu, have an invincible opponent in a county. Not to mention humans, even the tigers in the mountains will run away when they see me."

The voice was loud like thunder, and the timid one was shocked to hear his words.
Chapter completed!
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