Meishan Su family, Su Yun is the most virtuous

Chapter 43 Beating
Su Yun looked at Zhou Zhan with a half-smile, until Zhou Zhan felt uncomfortable. He hurriedly bowed and admitted his mistake, saying, "Oh, Brother Su, I did something wrong. Can you forgive me this time? Look, the ground is leveled now, and the materials are ready. What do you think?"

Su Yun sneered, "On my blueprint, there are only a few tiled houses, but you have already built a small village. Do you think I am stupid?"

Zhou Zhan begged for mercy again and again: "I was wrong, I was wrong. I shouldn't have acted on my own. Please forgive me this time."

Su Yun was somewhat helpless and gave the blueprint to Zhou Zhan, who quickly pulled Su Yun aside and said, “It’s useless to just build a few tiled houses here.

If you build it like this, when you return to Bian Jing in the future, I will just renovate this place and it will become a very elegant manor.

If I open a restaurant by then, it will probably be quite popular, and I can get my money back, don’t you think?”

Su Yun nodded without comment and said, "Okay, Brother Zhou, I'll go take care of the things in the wasteland below."

With that said, he turned around and left.

Zhou Zhan couldn't help but sigh as he watched Su Yun and the other two turn around and leave.

When they reached the bottom of the slope, Su Shi whispered, "Isn't it just building a few more houses? It sounds like he paid for it. Why are you treating him like this?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "This time he dared to change my design, next time he will dare to go out and do whatever he wants in the name of uncle. This is a test of my bottom line. If I let him do this, I will be tamed by him slowly.

Although I am not an official, you are, uncle. Although I have contact with him, I cannot let him take the initiative. Many officials are corrupted step by step in this way. "

Su Shi looked at Su Yun deeply and said, "In fact, you are more suitable to be an official than me, oh, than most people. If you become an official, those slippery clerks below will not dare to play tricks in front of you."

Su Yun smiled and said, "My nephew just has a little understanding of the world and human nature, which is nothing."

Su Shi nodded and said nothing more.

Su Yun didn't take it seriously. If Su Shi asked him, he would say a few words. If Su Shi didn't ask, he wouldn't show off much.

Su Yun carefully observed the wasteland. It was estimated that a house had been built on this wasteland before, so it was not only covered with thorns, but also with rubble. It would take a lot of effort to turn it into arable land.

However, Su Yun did not back down in the face of difficulties. Instead, he felt a sense of excitement about the challenge.

Su Yun excitedly said to Su Shi: "Uncle, I have some ideas. First, we should set fire to the wasteland, burn the weeds and thorns first, and then buy some straw to burn the thick roots.

Then I borrowed a cow to turn the land over, sift it again to remove the sand and gravel, sprinkle it with lime and expose it to the sun for a while, then I could start planting some bean sprouts. After planting bean sprouts for a season to nourish the soil, I could plant whatever I wanted next spring."

Su Shi couldn't help but ask, "How come you know how to open up wasteland so well? Haven't you ever farmed before?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "It's not like I haven't seen this before, these are just child's play.

Uncle, you see, the land over there is low-lying, so it is relatively humid all year round. If it is reclaimed, it will become fertile paddy field and can be used to grow rice.

The land in the east is dry and barren, but it is perfect for growing jujube and chestnut trees. The ripe red dates are delicious when eaten raw, and they are also great for soaking in water and making soup after they are dried.

When the chestnut tree bears fruit, I will fry some chestnuts for you, uncle. I am good at frying chestnuts with brown sugar, which tastes sweet and fragrant. Everyone who has eaten it says it is delicious. There are some mulberry trees that can be planted over there. If you want to raise some silkworms, you can do that. I just don't know where to get some mulberry tree seedlings.

Also, if we could plant a field of bamboo, it would be a large green area. In the summer, it would be wonderful to listen to the sound of rain hitting the bamboo leaves.

I am just worried that the extremely strong bamboo shoots will run rampant underground and affect the growth of other crops, so I can’t plant them. But it doesn’t matter. I thought of planting them next to the house on the slope. As the saying goes, it is better to have no meat than to live without bamboo…”

Su Shi listened to Su Yun talking, his face glowing with joy from the bottom of his heart, and he thought to himself: A Yun loves farm life so much, and I don’t know what I have done. Will he blame me when he finds out about it in the future?

At this moment, Ah Hui, who was struggling in the thorn bushes, suddenly let out a scream. Ah Yun thought he was bitten by a snake, and suddenly panicked, and quickly stepped over the thorns to get over.

But Ah Hui said in surprise: "Ah Yun, there is a hidden well here!"

When Su Yun heard Ah Hui's voice, he immediately felt relieved, and then he became happy again. There might be water in the hidden well. The most important thing for reclaiming land here is whether there is water.

When I looked over, I saw that there was indeed a gurgling stream that had gathered into a small pool.

Su Yun took a look himself and said with a smile: "This is not a well, this is a mountain spring. Uncle, I will go up along this spring water to see what is going on above."

Su Shi smiled and said, "Let's go together."

The three of them followed the stream upstream and walked for a while before they found the source of the stream. It turned out to be a naturally formed pond on the mountain. The pond was ten acres square, and the water in it was sparkling.

Su Yun said happily: "With this pond, irrigation will be easy. I will find someone to use bamboo to dig it through and connect it to bring water over. Then we can plant whatever we want."

Su Shi was a little worried and said, "There is so much land here. It's probably impossible for the three of us to drive through it, right?"

Su Yun chuckled and said, "It's not that difficult. Just hire someone. There are a lot of people in Huangzhou who want to make money. Now is not the busy farming season, so a lot of people are idle."

Su Shi was speechless when he heard this: "Since you want to hire someone to open up wasteland for you, why bother to open up wasteland? Why not just buy a few acres of good land? Why do this?"

Su Yun shook his head and said, "How are they the same? Although I don't go to the fields myself, every step here is planned by me, which is equivalent to me opening up the land. I can also get happiness, and there is no pain of opening up the land, only the joy of opening up the land!"

This fallacy left Su Shi dumbfounded.

Su Yun smiled and said, "Uncle, you are uneducated people. There are always other people doing things for you. Why can't you understand this?"

Ah Hui asked curiously, "Ah Yun, how come scholars can have others do everything for them?"

Su Yun smiled and said, "Look at our Huangzhou governor Chen. He governs Huangzhou, but it is not him who governs Huangzhou. In fact, it is the clerks of Huangzhou who govern Huangzhou. Whether it is suppressing the people or collecting taxes, which one is done by Governor Chen?

Also, when scholars mount horses to command the army, do they have to pick up swords and go into battle themselves? Aren’t they the soldiers who are fighting? "

(End of this chapter)