After I became a general, I went back to my hometown to farm

Chapter 59 Preparations, Planting Watermelons

◎Send Gu Xin to a private school and buy a horse. The horse is so cute. ◎

The aftertaste of the Qingming Festival has not yet dissipated. From time to time, children still play with willow branches on the road, whether they weave them into willow rings, play with them as small whips, or cut off a short section and play it as a flute after polishing. It's a very popular game.

No, Gu Zeyu went to the field early in the morning to have a look, and then did some work, such as weeding, watering and so on. Li Hua was quite diligent. When he went, he saw that Li Hua was already observing the fruit trees and pruning. some branches.

Seeing him coming, Li Hua said hello, "Master, you're here."

Gu Zeyu hummed, and said, "I'm just here to see, you can do whatever you want, go get busy."

He himself went to the field where sweet potatoes and potatoes were planted.

It has only been planted for less than a month, so it is not too big. Gu Zeyu looked around by himself and saw that a lot of grass had grown, so he started to shovel the grass by himself. Fortunately, he came here today prepared and took the tools.

There is also a small shovel in this other world.

Gu Zeyu used it quite smoothly. He worked slowly by himself and was not in a hurry, but because the grass was tender, he shoveled a bunch of it in a short while.

In this way, Gu Zeyu worked for about two days before letting the grass in this field be shoveled.

After helping his waist, he straightened up, feeling back pain. Sure enough, this kind of land is not easy to do.

In modern mechanized production, farming is much more convenient. There are herbicides for weeding, chemical fertilizers for barren land, water belts for watering, or direct use of water pipes to cover the entire field, and intelligent control of temperature and humidity. .

But after traveling to this ancient time, I realized that it was very hard work when only manual farming was used.

However, this kind of harvest obtained purely by the hard work of hands makes people understand the preciousness of food. Food is not easy to come by, and it requires the careful care of farmers for a year.

When the autumn harvest comes, the joy of the harvest will make people more motivated, because hard work will really be rewarded, and heaven rewards hard work.

Gu Zeyu sat on the ridge of the field, thinking, and saw that he still had a piece of land that hadn't been planted, and lamented that he was too comfortable after returning to his hometown.

Half of his [-] mu of land is planted with wheat, and then there are a few scattered sweet potatoes, potatoes, and fruit trees on [-] mu of land.

The remaining half is bare, Gu Zeyu thought and thought, what should I plant?

It's early April now.

He thought of planting melons and beans again, but it was too troublesome, so he decided to plant melons without hesitation.

In fact, when he came to the other world, he thought that peppers, tomatoes, potatoes and other crops had not yet appeared. After all, they were also imported from abroad in modern times.

Who knows, there are all the crops that should be available here.

However, he was still taken aback when he saw watermelon for the first time in the military camp. After all, it is a fruit, and it is still sweet and very popular.

Because there are a lot of sandy land in Yucheng, after all, it is relatively barren and the land is sparsely populated, so it is very suitable for growing watermelons. At that time, some of the fields in the military camp were planted with watermelons. Of course, most of them were planted with food, such as wheat and corn. .

He thought, why don't we grow watermelons? We are in a hurry to plant them now. It happens to be harvested in summer. Although his land is yellow land, he can still grow them. Maybe the watermelons won't be very sweet, and there are very few sandy watermelons.

However, watermelon occupies a large area, and its length can take up to two meters, so harvesting is easy. Building a wheelbarrow and transporting watermelons will be very fast.

He made up his mind, so he wrote a letter and asked General Wei Yan for help again, hoping that he wouldn't find him annoying, because his land hadn't been properly arranged yet.

But this time, he didn't send the letter empty-handed, and there was a gift in the letter.

It's a blueprint. Although he has already disarmed and returned to the field, after all, he has served in the army for six years, and it is more related to the safety of Zhaoguo. He actually thought of this thing suddenly, and he doesn't know if it will be useful.

The blueprint is a combination of a machete and a straight knife. Gu Zeyu called it a machete. This thing is more suitable for fighting barbarians. Barbarians are good at using scimitars. If we don't pay attention, our soldiers will be killed.

However, most of the soldiers in Zhao State were not equipped with shields, so they could only block with straight knives, but the straight knives were not strong enough, and the battlefield was changing rapidly, and they might be defeated by the enemy with just one breath, and they could not escape death.

The machete is more conducive to close combat with the barbarians, but it uses more iron than the straight knife, so it is not easy to make.

He wasn't sure whether General Wei Yan would use this weapon, but he still sent him the blueprint. If it was used, it might damage the interests of some people, but it was none of his business, after all, he had already left the officialdom.

If General Wei Yan has the heart, he can try to make a few.

He briefly drew the shape of the machete on the drawing, and then wrote down its advantages and disadvantages, and then stuffed the drawing into the envelope, along with a piece of letter paper, on which he wrote his request for finding watermelon seeds.

He went to town, delivered the letter, and went home.

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Uncle Gu took Gu Xin home during Qingming. Gu Zeyu also went there and had a meal together, because he was still busy so he didn't bother him anymore.

He counted the days, today seemed to be the day when Gu Xin was going back to town to study, so he wandered around and transferred to the uncle's house.

Fortunately, everyone was there, and Gu Xin hadn't left yet.

Gu Zeyu asked his uncle: "Uncle, is Gu Xin going to a private school today?"

Uncle Gu said, "Yes, I'm leaving today."

Gu Zeyu said: "That's just right, let's go together, I happen to be going to town today."

He then greeted Gu Xin, Gu Yu and his aunt, and then the aunt joked with him: "I heard that you have invited brother Cheng to go outing for a few days, and even went to the county, Zeyu, I didn't expect You're pretty good at it, you understand my little brother's mind, it's your first engagement, I'm afraid you won't be able to switch roles."

In the eyes of the aunt, Gu Zeyu is a man who is not easy to get along with. Although he will smile at the villagers, he treats his relatives very well, thinks of them, and will send them something when he goes to the town to buy something.

But his aura alone is different from ordinary people, and he is not the same as the people in the village.

This engagement made him get what he wanted, and he made an appointment with his favorite brother.

But she was quite worried, fearing that boy Zeyu and Brother Cheng would not get along well. After all, his identity had changed, and Brother Cheng was his unmarried brother.But she was still worrying in vain.

Listen to Gu Zeyu's reply, "Brother Cheng and I have a good relationship. As for taking him out to play, that's a must. If others have it, he must have it." With a gentle smile.

The eldest aunt likes to hear that the two of them are living well, and keeps teaching Gu Zeyu the secrets of getting along with husband and wife.

And Gu Zeyu listened carefully, even Brother Yu listened carefully.

Uncle Gu just smirked directly. The two of them got along, and the aunt must have taught him some sweet times with him. It turned out that his wife always remembered it.

Only Gu Xin, wearing a scholar's robe, with a handsome face, is very bookish, he is tall and tall, listening to his cousin and his mother talking, he doesn't understand very well, with a confused face, he asked blankly: "Why are you all interested in this? I don't understand."

Gu Zeyu had almost heard it, so he replied: "Gu Xin, you are still young, and you don't have anyone you like, so you don't understand yet. When you like someone, you will understand." He felt that Gu Xin was still reading. , although he is 17 years old, in his eyes, he is still a scholar, and it is not appropriate to participate in this matter.

In modern times, this age is about the second year of high school, which is the age to work hard and study hard.

Gu Xin was very angry, why is he still young, he is at the age where he can get married, that is to say, he has no one he likes, and he is single.

Wait, Gu Xin suddenly thought, brother Yu is one year younger than him, how could he listen carefully.

He turned his gaze towards Brother Yu, and when Gu Yu saw his brother looking at him with suspicion, he knew that he might have been exposed, but he still pretended to be calm and asked his brother directly: "Brother, what are you looking at me for?"

Gu Xin saw that Brother Yu was not panicked at all, and asked him suspiciously: "Brother Yu, why do you like to hear about how husband and wife get along? It can't be——you have someone you like, right?"

Gu Yu raised his eyebrows, and still felt that it would not be good to expose this matter at this time, so he said: "Most people will be interested, just listen to it, but brother, you are really not enlightened. Nerdy."

Then pretending to be angry, he raised his eyebrows and said: "I won't tell you anymore, I'm going back to the house, I won't see you off after you leave, anyway, my cousin is here today, let him see you off."

Gu Xin couldn't stop him, scratched his head and said, "Let's go now, you won't be angry."

At this time, Gu Zeyu had almost chatted with his aunt, and understood that husband and wife should respect and understand each other, and don't hide anything, communication can solve the problem.

He originally thought that his aunt was a strange woman who understood marriage so clearly, but when he saw his aunt staring at Uncle Gu from time to time in the middle of her speech, he knew that this was true knowledge through practice.

The eldest aunt finally finished speaking, and she didn't know how many times she stared at the uncle.

The uncle didn't understand yet, so he kept smiling at her.

The eldest aunt was finally speechless, and went into the house with black lines all over her head to pack the dry food that Gu Xin was going to take to the private school.

Then he took the bag and handed it to the uncle ruthlessly, and said, "Hold it carefully, it's getting late, send Ah Xin to a private school, I'll wait for you at home."

Then he greeted a few people to go out, and Gu Xin also went out in a daze, and finally almost forgot to take the homework assigned by the teacher. It had already been written and was going to be checked and corrected by the teacher today.

Gu Zeyu watched what happened, smiled without saying a word.

Everyone got into the bullock cart today, but fortunately there were not many people today.

Plus three people could barely sit down.

Stumbling to the town, Gu Zeyu sighed again that it was not easy to travel by car, it was too bumpy.

After sending Gu Xin to the gate of the private school and saying goodbye, Gu Zeyu took his uncle to the horse dealer. Today he made up his mind and was going to buy a horse.

Uncle Gu has only bought cattle, and he doesn't know much about horses, so he just came here to see and see.

Gu Zeyu has worked in the military camp for six years, and he knows horses very well. He was fascinated by this handsome animal in modern times.

But at that time, due to limited conditions, I could only go to the racecourse to have fun.

Now, looking at all the smooth fur and strong horses, he was really confused, and finally chose a strong but docile bay red horse.

Probably just grown up, when Gu Zeyu stroked its neck and smoothed its fur, its bright eyes turned back to look at Gu Zeyu. Its innocent and pure appearance made Gu Zeyu fix it on the spot.

The author says:

Speaking of horses, creatures like horses are really likable, with their big eyes and human nature.