Chapter 90: Spring
Last night was still cold, sleeping covered with a thick quilt, curled up in a ball when I couldn't help but complain in my heart about how spring is not coming soon, and when the morning dawned, I got up and pushed open the door to see, but I was pleasantly surprised to see that some of the originally bare branches actually bloomed some green shoots, the wind was still blowing slightly, but I could no longer feel the cold, looking into the distance, I found that the withered yellow ground, overnight seemed to be covered with a mottled blanket with some green.
The snow has been melting these days, and yesterday you could still see the white of the east and the west, but this morning, only the top of the mountain is still covered with snow, and the rest of the place, the snow has melted without a trace.
Spring, under the expectation of countless people, has finally arrived.
After finishing the morning class, Li Ze finished washing under Xia He's service, and finally took off the bloated jacket on weekdays, put on a new jacket, and greeted the warm glow of the morning sun, Li Ze was in a good mood.
A few pear trees outside the courtyard wall are full of white flowers, and in response to that sentence, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom like a night of spring breeze.
The maids and women in the yard shouted and pulled up the rope, propped up the pole, moved the bed cotton wool quilt out of the house, shook it and dried it on the rope, and on the pole, the color in the yard became richer.
Next to the sink, the washers lifted buckets of clear water from the well and poured them in, surrounded by piles of winter clothes, the sound of scrubbing, the sound of hammers, the sound of rinsing water, and the happy laughter of the mothers-in-law, colliding with each other in the yard, and finally forming a rich picture of life.
This made Li Ze like it very much.
The cook hurriedly walked back from outside with a small basket, and when she saw Li Ze, she said happily: "Childe, the Tsubaki tree outside has sprouts, I went to pick some, does Childe want to use him to fry eggs, or eat it cold?" ”
"Let's salad, it's fresher." Li Ze smiled and said kindly.
"Okay, yesterday Uncle Tu sent freshly picked shiitake mushrooms, and before dawn, I boiled green vegetables and shiitake mushrooms and lean porridge for my son, and then mixed a Tsubaki tree bud cold, and boiled a stone egg."
"Eating like this, I'm afraid I'll grow a fat man!"
"When Childe is growing up, he can't lose it, he has to eat it if he can." The kitchen smiled and said as he walked briskly in the direction of the room, his steps were extremely fast, and there was no shadow in an instant.
Li Ze stood in place and compared his height, his current self is about 1.75 meters tall, in this family, he should be considered a big tall, and Tu Lichun and a few of them are taller than himself, but like these people in the inner courtyard, they are basically old people who have served themselves for more than ten years, these people see their own kind side on weekdays, and subconsciously regard themselves as a boy who has not yet grown up.
Xia He was also directing a few little girls to dry the clothes and bedding in their rooms, and enclosed a place with a gauze tent to dry those clothes inside, which fully accepted the massage of the sun and avoided the invasion of some insects.
Slowly paced to Xia He, who was busy, looking at Xia He's delicate face from the side, his face was slightly red, and there were a few fine beads of sweat on the tip of his small and delicate nose, Xia He has never been a person who only moves his mouth and does not use his hands, and has been following Li Ze to learn accounting knowledge for a long time, so that she is not only extremely meticulous in doing things, but also organized.
"After breakfast, let's go out for a walk and go green!" Li Zedao.
Xia He, who was concentrating on his work, was taken aback, and turned his face to see Li Ze, "Childe, I haven't come up with the question you gave me last night?" I was about to have breakfast, so I moved a chair and basked in the sun to think about it again! ”
"Don't worry, those things, under normal circumstances, you won't touch them. Originally, it was just for you to develop and develop ideas, let it go slowly, and think slowly. Li Ze said with a smile: "But a good schedule like today, there are really not a few days in a year, and if you miss it, you will have to wait for next year." But next year's today will not be this year's today, if you miss it, there will be no more. ”
Xia He's eyes widened, "Childe is so good at talking, he confused me." As long as the son likes to go, Xia He will accompany him. ”
"Okay, after dinner, let's go to the surrounding villages first, and then go to Qingshantun to have a look." Li Ze snapped his fingers and said happily.
Hearing this, Xia He hurriedly dragged a small servant over and asked him to go to Tu Lichun to arrange horses and guards.
The first stubble of newly grown Tsubaki sprouts is not only delicious, but also appetizing, Li Ze not only ate a plate of cold Tsubaki sprouts, but also swept away the porridge with green vegetables and mushrooms and lean meat that the cook had boiled for an hour, which made the kitchen smiling on the side. For her, Li Ze ate all the food is the biggest compliment to her.
After eating breakfast and leaving the inner courtyard, Tu Lichun, who received the notice, had already prepared properly, knowing that Xia He would also follow, so he deliberately found a docile pony, and the saddle was covered with a soft cushion, Li Ze picked Xia He up, put it on his side, and jumped on the horse himself, holding Xia He's horse reins in his hand.
Li Ze's actions made Xia He blush, although she was a woman, she could also ride a horse, she didn't think that Li Ze would come to this trick, Tu Lichun and the others just didn't see it, and turned over on their horses to protect the two in the middle.
Although it is a township, but because Li Ze is there, so the road is very well repaired, on weekdays, everyone will put away the burned cinders, hammer them into fine particles, and sprinkle them along the road, so that although the snow has just melted, the road is not muddy. Over the years, this black and white road has become a rural scene, especially when the crops on both sides of the road grow, and this road embedded in a piece of greenery is even more attractive.
When Gongsun Changming was still living in Zhuangzi, he was very fond of this road, and when he was fine, he always liked to walk back and forth on this road.
The peasants are actually more sensitive to the arrival of spring than the people in the Zhuangzi. When Li Ze was still eating his breakfast with relish, the farmland outside was already in full swing.
This year is a little different from previous years.
In previous years, the tenants were all doing their own work, but this year, Childe requisitioned all the young men for military training, even though the tenants were worried that they would not be able to complete the spring ploughing, but there was no other way to think of it, originally prepared for the rest of the people to suffer a little more, and did not want Childe to come up with a new idea.
Of course, if you want to join the Yee Hing Society, is there anything to say about this? Over the years, they have followed the son, and their days are the sesame blossoms, and the more they pass, the more they have a head.
In the spring ploughing season, Gongzi still has to train troops, there must be something, but the people in this area are used to believing in Li Ze and obeying Li Ze's orders, but they don't delve into it, at most, they just probe each other in private.
Gathering all the big cattle and plough tools, Tu Lichun and the stewards of the outer courtyard divided the young and strong people into small groups to help with spring ploughing, seeing the plough tools turning up the black fertile soil under the pull of the oxen, horses and mules, and watching the earthworms drill around in it, Li Ze was very happy.
The land, the root of everything.
With the cooperative organization of Yixing Society, this year's spring ploughing is much faster than in previous years. After several days of work, one day will be done in a sluggish way, the young and strong will finish all the laborious work, and the rest of the sowing and harvesting will be left to the old and weak women and children at home to complete, these days, even the school in the Zhuangzi is on vacation, although those boys can't do heavy work, but at this time go home to start, sprinkle seeds, but can still do.
Along the way, there is a busy scene everywhere.
"Childe, this cooperative's idea is good, we can save at least half a month's time here this year." Tu Lichun said with great interest. "This will have more time to train the troops, and when the spring sowing is completely over, I want to take them to a long-distance training, run around the entire county of Wuyi, and gather the government soldiers from other places along the way for some general assembly."
"How is Yang Kai's promotion of cooperatives in the county?" Li Ze nodded in agreement with Tu Lichun's opinion, now he was more concerned about whether Yang Kai could do things smoothly, if this matter went well, he could use the organization of the Yixing Society to completely control the whole county of Wuyi in his hands.
"How could it not go well?" Tu Lichun said with a smile: "Or maybe it was the hanging beating and expulsion of the former county lieutenant county Cheng that gave Yang Kai a great stimulus, and now he is doing things vigorously and resolutely!" Breaking the county order, destroying the door order Yin, now Wuyi, who doesn't know the domineering of Yang Kaiyang's county order? No matter what happens to Yang County's order in the future, he will not suffer the loss in front of him now, what he says, what will he do! ”
"Please let God easily send God, let our Yixing Society take root, and let him take root. Tian Bo, you should take this matter as a top priority, cooperate closely with Yang Kai, and implement it in accordance with the regulations I gave you. ”
"Don't worry, Childe." Tian Bo nodded, although he still hasn't figured out what kind of organization this Yixing Society is in the end, but since Childe attaches so much importance to it, of course he has to be careful to handle his errands.